OceanLotus Hits Vietnam Investors With SPECTRALVIPER in FireAnt Attack
The Vietnam-aligned threat actor known as OceanLotus has been attributed to two distinct campaigns that targeted domestic entities and stock investors with a backdoor known as SPECTRALVIPER. The campaigns involve a prolonged cyber espionage operation aimed at a...
Buying a school laptop? 4 things I’d consider first (and my top 10 picks)
Your laptop can make or break or time in college, so you want to make sure you get the right one. Here's what to consider.
Nottingham Uni says student records raided after ShinyHunters claims cyberattack
The University of Nottingham has confirmed a cyberattack on its student record system after the ShinyHunters crew claimed to have stolen tens of gigabytes of data from the Russell Group institution. "The University of Nottingham has been the victim of a cyber incident...
Anthropic’s new AI model is powerful, dazzling—and about to get really expensive
Anthropic’s eye-poppingly powerful new model, Fable, is worth testing while you still can. Built by the company behind the Claude chatbot, Fable is the publicly safe version of Mythos, the model Anthropic deemed too dangerous to release just two months ago. To make it...
Keeping AI Documentation Clean With the Narrowest-Scope Rule
Abstract: This paper formalizes the "Narrowest-Scope Rule" (NSR), a governance principle for maintaining the integrity of the contract-style-comments (CSC) Triumvirate. NSR provides a deterministic heuristic for artifact selection during system updates, ensuring that...
The best time-tracking software of 2026: Expert tested
We tested Toggl Track, Timely, 7pace, QuickBooks Time, and ActivityWatch to find the best time-tracking tools for freelancers and remote teams.
Anthropic backtracks on policy that ‘sabotaged’ researchers’ work
Anthropic is walking back a hidden policy that researchers say sabotaged their work.
Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles
Article URL: https://vale.rocks/posts/game-console-browsers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487897 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Siddhish Sutaria and Jolly Shah: Shaping Embedded System Evolution
Siddhish Sutaria, Staff Software Engineer at Apple, and Jolly Shah, Staff Software Engineer at Google, are at the nexus of intelligent embedded engineering. Sutaria’s work drives innovations in audio processing and embedded ML for widely used devices such as Apple...
University of Nottingham Confirms Breach After Hackers Leak Data
The ShinyHunters hacker group has taken credit for the attack, leaking more than 450,000 email addresses and other information. The post University of Nottingham Confirms Breach After Hackers Leak Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
UK Treasury still deciding whether to show up to £1.7B ERP program it agreed to fund
The UK Treasury will not say whether it will join the government's £1.7 billion finance and HR transformation strategy until December despite funding the program for five years. Savings from the so-called Matrix cluster of the shared service strategy are contingent on...
How to avoid a common leadership trap
Below, Aiko Bethea shares five key insights from her new book, Anchored, Aligned, Accountable: A Framework for Transcending Bullsh*t and Transforming Our Lives and Work. Aiko has held executive roles in government, philanthropic, nonprofit, and private sectors,...
Apple’s new watch software won’t run on some of its older models
Apple just wrapped up its annual round of WWDC announcements, and, as usual, there wasn’t any new hardware. That is not really the point of WWDC, which stands for Worldwide Developers Conference and—occasional curveball like the Vision Pro aside—tends to focus on...
YouTube expands direct messaging to the US
YouTube is testing DMs in its mobile app, and US is now part of the experiment.
Amit Kumar Padhy Showcases Enterprise Agentic AI Architecture at Data Summit 2026
Boston, MA: Data Summit 2026 brought together data, AI, and enterprise technology leaders in Boston for a program that reflected a major shift in the industry: artificial intelligence is moving beyond experimentation and into production-scale architecture,...
AI The Truly Environmentally Friendly Way
A common complaint about the rise of commercial AI services is that they are power-hungry and thus damage the environment. If this concerns you then [Squeezlabs] has the solution, in the form of an AI powered by a handcrank. The guts of the system is a Raspberry Pi 5...
100,000 computer simulations picked this country to win the World Cup
In times past, when we wanted to know which team would win the World Cup, we had to turn to seers with crystal balls, use divination via tea leaves, or hope for Paul the Octopus to tell us what would happen. But modern data science can provide a better alternative. As...
Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/macos_27_golden_gate_removes_the_dumb_icons_from_menu_items Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487435 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Every employee’s password was stored in a single Excel file
PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly screed where we highlight those who did not do the deed of securing their systems. If someone left their passwords or their access exposed, we will be writing about them here. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping...
Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/cheap-iranian-drone-downed-25-million-us-army-helicopter-maybe-by-chance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487165 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
Microsoft Patches Exploited Exchange Server Vulnerability
The company warned about zero-day attacks exploiting the Exchange Server vulnerability CVE-2026-42897 on May 14. The post Microsoft Patches Exploited Exchange Server Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Article URL: https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487029 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
OpenAI says fake accounts from China tried to turn Americans against data centers
OpenAI has published a report detailing how China-linked influence campaigns against data centers used ChatGPT.
Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger
Article URL: https://github.com/vanyapr/makaroshki Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486944 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
GitHub to Disable npm Install Scripts by Default to Stop Supply Chain Attacks
GitHub has announced what it said are "breaking changes" coming to npm version 12, one of which turns off install scripts by default to combat software supply chain threats. The changes aim to combat attack techniques that abuse the "npm install" command to trigger...
AI Data Centers Need a Bring Your Own Power Mandate
AI data centers are straining local grids. Here’s why hyperscalers should follow a Bring Your Own Power mandate.
Validation, Docs, tests, and database schemas from one source of truth
Article URL: https://github.com/justhamade/triadjs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486577 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/openai-mulls-slashing-prices-ahead-of-competition-from-anthropic-wsj.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486486 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Process 4 Billion Pixels Per Second from 16 DIY Cameras for the Best V-Tubing Rig Ever
[Dennis] is on YouTube with his channel “Made By Dennis,” but for the record he is a maker, not a V-tuber. On the other hand, his latest project– creating a profesisonal-level tracking rig with DIY IR cameras and a whole lot of moxie–does mean he’s now equipped to...
Why being lazy is a superpower
There’s an art to doing nothing and I have spent years trying to perfect it. Some people master the violin, others train to run marathons. I have dedicated my early forties to the delicate balance of achieving maximum results with minimal effort. In fact, my entire...