Keir Starmer is resigning as UK prime minister. Here’s who will likely succeed him
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Monday that he will resign, forced out by his own party after missteps and mistakes soured voters’ goodwill for a prime minister who won a landslide election victory two years ago on a promise of steady leadership and...
Instagram for TV is now available on Samsung TVs in the US
Instagram's TV app is expanding to Samsung TVs in the US, half a year after it launched for Amazon Fire TV devices.
29-Year-Old Squid Proxy Bug ‘Squidbleed’ Can Leak Cleartext HTTP Requests
A heap over-read in the Squid web proxy can leak another user's cleartext HTTP request, including any credentials or session tokens it carries, to anyone already allowed to send traffic through the same proxy. The bug traces to a 1997 FTP-parsing change and is still...
Canadian utility fesses up to data breach, but key details remain off-grid
A Canadian power utility says customer data may have walked out the door during a security incident, but isn't yet saying whether the intruders got anywhere near the systems responsible for keeping the lights on. London Hydro, which distributes electricity to more...
Nvidia Halos
Article URL: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-trust-center/halos/autonomous-vehicles/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630220 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Walmart’s Prime Day sale is here: Up to 50% off laptops, TVs, smart glasses, and more
Beat the Prime Day rush: Walmart's massive rival sale is here, with great deals on 4K smart TVs, Apple tech, and laptops live now. Shop the best discounts.
Instagram looks to take on streaming services with longer-form, episodic and live formats for its TV app
Instagram is coming for streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video as it sets its ambitions for living room viewing.
MSYS2 and the No-Fuss Way to Get More GNU Into Your Windows
As great and streamlined as the Windows desktop experience is, one area where it’s at best disappointing and at worst rage-inducing is when it comes to its command line interface (CLI) offerings. In Windows 9x/ME this could be excused by the fact that it was...
As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains
Long have we known that technology speeds up everything, and it's no different with British prime ministers. In the last ten years, the UK has gone through six prime ministers; it took 34 years to get through the previous six. Nonetheless, Sir Keir Starmer had hoped...
Pledging Another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation
Article URL: https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630020 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
The founder conference built for growth: TechCrunch Founder Summit pass rates increase June 26
Save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 by June 26, 11:59 p.m. PT. Designed for founders first on November 4 in Boston. Register here.
Microsoft tells Windows users to get ready for 26H2 – unless they’re on 26H1
Microsoft has issued a stark warning for Windows users everywhere: "Get ready for Windows 11, version 26H2." Unless, of course, you're running Windows 11 26H1, in which case 26H2 will not be offered and you'll have to wait for a later upgrade path. 26H2, due for...
WhatsApp’s “End-to-End Encryption” Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History
Article URL: https://medium.com/%400xaxgb/whatsapps-e2e-encryption-is-the-biggest-lie-in-tech-history-and-i-can-prove-it-mathematically-46ebdffeb319 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629727 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Lucid Motors’ new CEO cuts 18% of staff to ‘simplify the company’
The company is also eliminating a production shift at its Arizona factory to align "production plans with anticipated demand."
Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint
After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said that it has raised $320 million for its latest fund which will see it expanding its presence in the United States.
Klue hack results in data breach at several cybersecurity firms
Huntress, HackerOne, Jamf, Recorded Future, and Tanium are among the cybersecurity companies that had data stolen following an earlier breach at market research firm Klue.
window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world
Article URL: https://steveharrison.dev/showdirectorypicker-opens-up-a-whole-new-world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629387 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won’t Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers
Article URL: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1154/why-drawing-tablet-brands-wont-collaborate-on-linux-floss-drivers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629064 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
Google Sets Sept. 30 Deadline for Android Developer Verification in Four Countries
Google has set September 30, 2026, as the day it begins enforcing Android developer verification in the first four countries, and the major device-maker app stores are in from the start. On that date, certified Android phones in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and...
Decades-Old Squid Proxy Flaw ‘Squidbleed’ Can Expose User Data
Squidbleed, discovered with the aid of Claude Mythos Preview, has been described as a Heartbleed-style vulnerability. The post Decades-Old Squid Proxy Flaw ‘Squidbleed’ Can Expose User Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New OXLOADER Loader Uses Malicious Google Ads to Deliver CastleStealer
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that delivers CastleStealer by means of a previously unreported malware loader dubbed OXLOADER. According to Elastic Security Labs, the campaign leverages malicious Google Ads as a starting point to...
Becoming a dad changes men’s brains
Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-becoming-a-dad-changes-mens-brains/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629356 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Brazil probes emergency warning system after nationwide rogue alert
The Brazilian National Secretariat for Civil Protection and Defense (SEDEC) and Federal Police (PF) are investigating a suspected hack of the country's emergency alert system after an unauthorized "extreme" alert pinged devices across the country. Defesa Civil...
Manticore Search 27.1.5: Auth, sharding, conversational and faster vector search
Article URL: https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-search-27-1-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628328 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
I replaced my AirTags with this ball-shaped tracker for a week, and it’s better in key ways
The Ugreen FineTrack 2 has several unique features that set it apart from competing trackers.
Amazon just dropped the Meta Quest 3S to the lowest price in months
The Meta Quest 3S is the brand's mid-range VR headset, and the one I'd recommend to most people. Right now it's on sale for Prime Day.
Getty Images stock is skyrocketing today thanks to a surprise deal with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI
Shares in Getty Images Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GETY) are surging in premarket trading this morning—up nearly a staggering 150% as of the time of this writing—after the stock photography giant announced an unexpected deal with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. Here’s what you need...
⚡ Weekly Recap: Browser Bugs, EDR Killers, TV Botnet, OpenBSD Flaw, Android Trojan, and More
It’s Monday again. This week’s threat list looks painfully familiar: abused integrations, fake tools, poisoned websites, ransomware crews trying to shut down security tools, and mobile malware asking for way too much control. The annoying part is how little of this...
Stop Your Legacy Infrastructure from Hijacking Your AI Agents
Earlier this month, I spoke at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit about a blind spot most security programs are still not accounting for - how attackers are circumventing AI security programs by using legacy infrastructure to hijack AI agents. AI...
Microsoft accidentally kills epic Outlook email threads
Microsoft has managed to break a very basic Outlook function – the ability to include the previous email in a reply. The issue, which afflicts Outlook for Mac, was introduced in version 16.110, build 26061317, which rolled out to users last week. Before the update,...