Chrome’s zero-day Whac-A-Mole continues with fifth exploited bug of the year
Google has fixed its fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026, and this one earned its finder a $55,000 bounty. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-11645, is an out-of-bounds memory access bug in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Google confirmed that the vulnerability...
Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emerge-career/jobs/v0S1AEG-founding-growth-marketer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459968 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers
Orbital founder Euwyn Poon built 250,000 scooters at Spin. Now he wants to launch 10,000 space data centers.
Motorola Razr Ultra review: Too much for too little
Motorola Razr Ultra review: Too much for too little Go to Source The Moto Razr Ultra is a top-notch flagship flip phone that's marred by a $200 price hike that isn't fully justified.
Fusion energy is suddenly flush with cash. Troy Carter knows that won’t be enough
The plasma physicist Troy Carter leads the U.S. fusion energy program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It’s one of science’s hottest and most humbling pursuits: trying to understand plasma, the superheated, electrically charged gas at the heart of stars—and, since...
New Memory Frequency Record Edges Closer to 14GHz at Computex 2026
Less than 500MHz to go.
Pentagon adds Alibaba and Baidu to list of firms linked to Chinese military
Pentagon adds Alibaba and Baidu to list of firms linked to Chinese military Go to Source The Defense Department has released an updating list of companies linked to the Chinese military, and it now includes Alibaba and Baidu.
Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models
University of Toronto researchers have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven computer worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight large language model to reason its way through a network, generate tailored attack strategies for each target it encounters, and...
Chrome V8 Zero-Day CVE-2026-11645 Exploited in the Wild – Patch Now
Google has released security updates to address 74 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-11645 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as an out-of-bounds memory access in...
When can I download iOS 27? iPhone update timeline as beta and general release dates near
Yesterday, Apple unveiled the next major version of the operating system that will power the iPhone. The operating system, iOS 27, was revealed at the company’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference in Cupertino, California. But compared to previous versions, iOS 27...
Over 100 NPM, PyPI Packages Hit in New Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attacks
The most recent variants of the self-propagating attacks are named Miasma and Hades. The post Over 100 NPM, PyPI Packages Hit in New Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Hidden Security Risk in Modern Networks: The Work Between Tools
Organizations have more visibility than ever. Growing tech stacks provide greater coverage, and network security teams are increasingly adopting AI and automation to help with routine tasks and reduce manual effort. But the same challenges persist. Outages still last...
France probes compromise of gov messaging platform after account hijack
French officials are investigating a compromise of the government’s encrypted messaging service Tchap after attackers hijacked an account and gained access to public chat rooms. The incident came to light on June 7 when France's National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI)...
EU Unveils Tech Sovereignty Package and Chips Act 2.0
The EU introduces its Technological Sovereignty Package, including Chips Act 2.0, to boost AI, cloud infrastructure, and semiconductor independence. The post EU Unveils Tech Sovereignty Package and Chips Act 2.0 appeared first on TechRepublic.
The Winners of the 2025 Obfuscated C Code Contest
One of the most exciting challenges available to any software developer is that of writing brilliantly working code that’s so obtuse, so indecipherable, and opaque, that even its own author would struggle to grasp its inner workings after returning to it a year later....
Will AI Kill the Bug Bounty Industry?
Anthropic's Mythos is accelerating vulnerability discovery to machine speed, forcing the bug bounty industry and offensive security teams to adapt to a future where finding flaws is no longer the hard part. The post Will AI Kill the Bug Bounty Industry? appeared first...
OpenAI Adds Lockdown Mode to Stop ChatGPT From Leaking Your Data
OpenAI's Atlas browser was found to be particularly susceptible to prompt injection attacks in 2025.
The startup that tried to fix food waste—and got hit by a disinformation campaign
A few years ago, if you walked down the produce aisle in any major supermarket in the U.S., you might have seen a sticker on avocados or lemons that said “Apeel.” The label wasn’t from a grower, but from a company designed to fight food waste; by adding a food-safe,...
Papa Johns is closing stores: See a list of doomed locations for 2026 as the pizza chain reduces its footprint
More than three months after it announced plans to close hundreds of restaurant locations this year, Papa Johns International appears to have already made significant reductions to its national footprint. The pizza delivery and takeout chain has shuttered dozens of...
Making Graphics Like it’s 1993
Article URL: https://staniks.github.io/articles/catlantean-3d-blog-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459294 Points: 19 # Comments: 1
Kyndryl showers execs with shares while staff ponder redundancy packages
Timing, as we noted previously, is everything. Now hard-pressed tech services biz Kyndryl is dishing out shares worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to execs in the middle of a redundancy program – and some staff are not amused. According to SEC filings made on June...
For workers with a chronic illness, returning to the office can be the hardest part
The workplace has a recovery problem. Most organizations know what to do when employees get sick. There are policies for leave, benefits for treatment, and a growing awareness around burnout. But when employees return, the support disappears, and that’s a mistake....
The iPhone’s Last Stand
Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2026/the-iphones-last-stand/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459001 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Five ways to be the most valuable person on your team (they’re not what you think)
Most people assume that being the most valuable person on a team means delivering the most. The best outputs. The deepest expertise. The highest score on whatever performance metric the org has decided matters this year. That framing is incomplete in a way that costs...
Zaspa Earns a 50 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Private, Secure Baby Tracker
In this interview, Zaspa creator Siarhei Petrashka explains how he built a privacy-first, account-free baby tracker app. He discusses how the app stands out in a saturated market, how he leverages AI (OpenAI and Qdrant) safely without exposing user data, and how he...
What Developers Should Understand Before Deploying TanStack Start to Cloudflare Workers
It is easy to talk about a web app through its visible features. The homepage. The editor. The upload flow. The account screen. The dashboard. The generated result that appears after a user clicks a button. Those parts matter, but they are not the only parts I check...
As AI Automates Tasks, Human Expertise Becomes Infrastructure
Most debates about AI still begin with fear, which is easy to understand. Jobs being cut, budgets moving, companies trying to make AI spending work. Companies reduce headcount as investment moves toward AI. Goldman Sachs economists estimated that AI contributed to...
Running Two LLMs on a Mini PC Sounds Great Until the Benchmarks Arrive
If you've been following my stuff, you know I'm all about squeezing maximum value out of minimal hardware. Mini PCs, home labs, self-hosted everything. So naturally, when I got my hands on a UM790Pro with 96 GB of DDR5, my first thought was: can I run two LLMs...
How Open-Source Projects Can Respond to Unauthorized App Store Resellers
This article explores the challenges of unauthorized resale in open-source software, particularly under permissive licenses like MIT. It evaluates licensing changes, community monitoring, platform enforcement, branding strategies, and other approaches to help...
How to Refactor Legacy APIs into Cloud-Native Services Without Downtime
Zero-downtime API refactoring fails most often not because the wrong pattern was chosen but because the system's implicit behavioral contracts were not mapped before the migration began.