Everyone has encountered unnecessary company swag—from branded pens to an endless supply of canvas tote bags. But babies born July 2 through the end of the year may receive a surprising branded moment: a Freedom 250 Social Security card. At a glance, the commemorative...

Beneficial State Bank is in a bind. As a certified B Corporation, the Oakland, California-based community development bank is built around social justice, climate accountability, and financial success without funding fossil fuels or private prisons. Artificial...

The narrative around artificial intelligence and work has followed a predictable arc: AI takes over tasks, humans lose jobs, and companies save money. It made intuitive sense. It also turns out to be more complicated than anyone anticipated. The real story emerging in...

The Whole Problem Starts With This Animation The animation below is not showing fake progress. The industry has genuinely become very good at killing the stupid hallucinations: the obvious mistakes, the embarrassing answers, the screenshots everyone loves to mock....

Most teams that deploy MCP servers test them once, watch the agent call the right tool with the right arguments, and move on. That single successful run becomes the mental model for how the integration behaves forever. But schemas change. A field gets renamed, a...

A reproducible 2026 cost model across AWS, Azure, GCP, and a sovereign regional provider, and where the money actually goes. n Every GPU cloud comparison I read stops at the same number: dollars per GPU-hour. It is the number on the pricing page, the number in the...

Exploring unconventional programming paradigms reveals a treasure trove of performance optimizations that mainstream languages often overlook.

On June 12, the US Commerce Department forced Anthropic to shut down its two most powerful AI models — Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — citing a vague export control directive. Two weeks later, on June 26, the Trump administration partially reversed course: Mythos 5 is now...

There is a specific kind of developer frustration that comes with Amazon scraping. You spend an afternoon writing a clean scraper, it works beautifully in testing, you run it on Monday morning against a list of 200 product pages, and somewhere around page 8, you start...

AI coding agents reason over a context window and a pile of statistical priors. They thrive on conventional, explicit, locally-readable code and fail on clever indirection, metaprogramming, and hidden magic. Cleverness is context you forgot to write down. Every...

June 2026 showed AI geopolitics shifting from model performance to control over access, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and national capacity.

Working Smarter: What and How to Automate in the AI Era Automation is no longer just about rigid, rule-based triggers. Artificial Intelligence has transformed the concept of "saving time" into deploying an autonomous digital workforce. However, handing over tasks...

I lost about $8,000 in my first year of trading. At the time I thought I was learning. Looking back, I was just funding someone else’s returns. That’s the part nobody tells you. When you’re new and you lose, the money doesn’t vanish. It moves. It goes to the person on...

AnimaYume is an anime-focused text-to-image diffusion model built for character art, fan content, visual novels, and stylized illustration.

MiCA is forcing every crypto company in Europe to look trustworthy. Most are about to make the same mistake. n Lately the same brief keeps landing on my desk, just worded differently each time: we don't want to look like crypto anymore. It comes from payment...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences brought in $150.5 million from the Oscars and related activities in fiscal 2025. A single Best Picture Oscar campaign can run into the tens of millions, with some campaigns reaching $25 million to $30 million. FIFA...

On July 1st, Sid Shurman, Senior Director of Sony Interactive Entertainment Content Communications, announced that PlayStation will no longer produce physical discs for games released on PlayStation consoles. Specifically, the change will commence in January of that...

Parking is usually treated as a small inconvenience, the kind of everyday frustration people complain about briefly and then forget. But inside residential communities, universities, and private properties, parking is not a side issue. It is a system of access,...

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AI geopolitics is shifting due to controlled frontier model access.

Medical technology giant Medtronic is notifying more than 3.8 million individuals that their personal and medical information was compromised in a recent data breach. The incident occurred in April 2026, when the infamous extortion group ShinyHunters accessed the...

Prosecutors say 19-year-old Peter Stokes was a member of Scattered Spider, the hacking group linked to more than 100 network intrusions and over $100 million in ransom payments. The post Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker Extradited to US appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Gen Zers might not want to be too quick to blame AI—or their lack of AI skills—for their employment struggles. According to new research, a general shortage of job openings is the primary reason.Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis analyzed labor conditions...

The European Union's proposed environmental rating system for datacenters may be amended in response to lobbying from IT industry heavyweights, making it easier to offset greenhouse gas emissions using clean energy certificates. According to the Financial Times, the...

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/alibaba-ban-claude-code-workplace-over-alleged-backdoor-risks-source-says-2026-07-03/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772443 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called PamStealer that employs a series of clever tricks to infect systems and siphon sensitive data. The stealer, discovered by Jamf Threat Labs, is distributed as a compiled AppleScript (.scpt)...