Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that's installed on about 100,000 sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS score: 5.3), is a medium-severity information disclosure flaw that can...

A user filed a support ticket on a Wednesday afternoon. Our customer-facing agent had recommended the wrong subscription tier confidently, politely, with a detailed breakdown of why it was the right choice. The user had followed the recommendation and was now on a...

The incident had been open for fifty-three minutes when someone finally said what everyone was thinking: We have all the data; we just can't connect it. The payment service was throwing intermittent errors — not enough to trip the availability SLO, but enough that a...

French President Emmanuel Macron urged the world’s wealthy democracies to work together on regulating advanced AI systems. The post French President Urges US to Share Cutting-Edge AI and Democracies to Cooperate on Regulation appeared first on SecurityWeek.

One word: Whoa. A wise reader of these ramblings recently stumbled onto a discovery that still has me doing a double-take. It’s a seemingly secret website that lets you watch any YouTube video ad-free anytime—without paying a dime. It sounds too good to be true, I...

There’s no shortage of scams trying to get us to turn over our login information, payment details, or other critical data. But recently, bad actors online seem to be refocusing their attention on Apple users. First, it was the “iCloud storage is full” scam. Now...

The Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni legal fight is primarily a Hollywood “he said, she said” story, but as a founder, it should be read as a cautionary tale about what can happen to your company if you lose public favor. Before their feud with Baldoni, Blake Lively and...

The Stop Killing Games movement was dealt a blow this week after the European Commission decided not to propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they are no longer commercially available. Users of licensed software that depends on online...

By now we’re all used to single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi Zero, but it’s likely we’ve all been frustrated at times by the number of support components required to use one. This becomes ever more annoying out in the field away from a handy HDMI, USB...

Britain has raised its drone commitment to Ukraine to 150,000 this year and will send air defense missiles and radars as part of a £752 million aid package to help the country defend against Russia. The drones and air defense systems were announced this week at a NATO...

Article URL: https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606619 Points: 5 # Comments: 2

Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/its-quite-a-bit-more-than-we-expected-satellite-reveals-immense-scale-of-gps-signal-tampering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606271 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

I’ve built leadership programs at Amazon, Microsoft, and other companies. One mistake I often see is thinking that knowledge flows only from the top down. Senior leaders teach, junior employees learn, and expertise moves in just one direction. Traditionally, knowledge...

If you work full-time, a significant chunk of your week is bound up with your work life. Not only are you engaged eight or more hours a day, but you’re likely to think about things going on at work even when you’re doing other things. So, while your job doesn’t need...

How fast can you count to a million? It would probably take you a while. A computer could certainly do it faster. Indeed, the The National Museum of Computing figured it could actually prove to be a simple but useful benchmark for comparing computers over many eras...

Article URL: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/wiki/XLibre-XServer-25.2-Changes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605778 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it’s a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests for arithmetic – like summing 1 and 1 – and pass it on to a dedicated calculator application, even if...

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/09/how-to-feed-a-dictator-film Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605301 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://investors.zillowgroup.com/news-and-events/news/news-details/2026/A-record-242-US-cities-now-have-starter-homes-that-cost-1M/default.aspx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605208 Points: 19 # Comments: 2

Article URL: https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/hey-n00b-we-didnt-hire-you-to-complete Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604851 Points: 16 # Comments: 2

French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.

Article URL: https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1157571/Iran-imposes-mandatory-insurance-on-ships-transiting-Strait-of-Hormuz-with-fees-likely-to-follow Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604584 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/19/spacex-retirement-savings-elon-musk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604186 Points: 53 # Comments: 19

The Epson HX-20 is sometimes referred to as an early laptop computer. It’s a little odd in its form factor, and in its storage, relying on a microcassette drive to store data. It can be problematic to keep these tapes and drives going after so many decades, so [Andrew...

Maybe there will even be more interest in the invention and use of more advanced algorithms and data structures that use less memory? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604232 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

HP's Omen gaming laptop has dropped to $1,599, making it a great early deal for gamers on a budget.