Exact Sciences – 10,869,543 breached accounts
In July 2026, Exact Sciences (now owned by Abbott Laboratories) was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group claimed to have obtained data from the company's cancer diagnostics business, which they later published publicly. The breach...
TeamPCP Linked To Redis Attacks Dating Back To 2020 And Later Supply Chain Campaign
A new analysis has uncovered that the threat actor tracked as TeamPCP has been active on the cybercrime scene as far back as 2020, indicating the group has been compromising internet-facing infrastructure for years before training their sights on the software supply...
Wrist Welcomes Wii Nunchuk As Gloriously Ergonomic Macropad
[John Dingley] spends a lot of time editing videos, and as many of us know, when it comes to repetitive tasks the more ergonomic the better. Keyboard shortcuts exist for common video editing functions, but [John] found that the vast majority of his work needed only...
3.8 Million Impacted by Unlimited Technology Systems Data Breach
Hackers stole personal, medical, and health insurance information from a company’s data center. The post 3.8 Million Impacted by Unlimited Technology Systems Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Critical Vulnerabilities Patched With Chrome 151 Update
The browser refresh eliminates over two dozen memory safety bugs, including critical use-after-free flaws. The post Critical Vulnerabilities Patched With Chrome 151 Update appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees
ON CALL Welcome to another edition of On Call, the reader-contributed column The Register runs each Friday to share your tech support stories. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Darwin," who once worked as a sysadmin for a Wall Street law firm – the sort of...
I’ve succesfully compiled Netscape 3.0.2 on a 64 Debian
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/netscape/comments/1ve7wkm/ive_succesfully_compiled_netscape_302_on_a_64/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206262 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day
Article URL: https://community.frame.work/t/framework-data-breach-discussion/83939 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206130 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money
Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/anthropic-ceo-reportedly-worried-hires-160000647.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206115 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware
Article URL: https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-open-source-malware Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205790 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Court orders Meta to pay an additional $567 million in New Mexico child safety case
A judge has ruled that Meta is a public nuisance and has to pay fine that will go towards funding state programs.
A 3D Printed Cycloidal Gearbox
A 3D Printed Cycloidal Gearbox Go to Source Stepper motors are undeniably useful, but sometimes they need a bit of gearing to help perform their task. [Gjhudson2008] has a compact gearbox for NEMA 17 or 23 steppers that is mostly 3D...
Lines of code. 1,596 BTC gone
Article URL: https://onekey.so/anzen/coldcard-entropy-failure/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205595 Points: 5 # Comments: 3
California’s AI transparency law doesn’t solve the first-impression problem
California’s new AI transparency law took effect this week, but it defines “transparency” in a way that may not help many consumers. The law, which passed in 2024, sets up a robust transparency infrastructure for AI-generated content, but it does not guarantee that...
‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec
Cloudflare chief financial officer Thomas Seifert has run the numbers on internet traffic trends and predicted that human-generated packets will soon account for a trivial amount of overall traffic. The internet-grooming company has previously predicted that...
China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks’ products
China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) has conducted a review of Palo Alto Networks’ products. The regulator’s announcement of its review says it’s needed “to ensure the safe and stable operation of critical information infrastructure, prevent cybersecurity risks and...
Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money
Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money Go to Source Article URL: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/obviously-doge-did-not-save-money/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204510 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
NASA’s Just Prolonged Voyager 2’s Science Mission With a Big Bang
Letting go is hard, especially when it concerns an irreplaceable space probe like the two Voyagers. Fortunately JPL engineers have managed to pull off a ‘big bang’ switch on Voyager 2, involving two heaters and another device that was kept on to keep providing...
How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era
The 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USS), which takes place next week in Baltimore, Maryland, hit an all-time high for paper submissions. While some of that increase has been aided by the availability of AI tools, those managing the conference say abuses were minimal...
New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human
Article URL: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/louisiana/2026/07/28/is-new-orleans-using-ai-to-answer-911-calls-instead-of-human-dispatchers-impacts-emergencies-crime/91065014007/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204546 Points: 11 #...
Show HN: Whisper transcribes 70-year-olds more accurately than 20-year-olds
Article URL: https://github.com/Kayvan-Zahiri/asr-age-gap Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204388 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-media-8ba5aab7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204352 Points: 15 # Comments: 2
OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400
Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker.
Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters
Author here.Background, for anyone who hasn't followed this fight: IBM's iron–sulfur SQD results (Sci. Adv. 2025) are one of the flagship "quantum computers are useful for chemistry now" claims, and a published critique (arXiv:2501.07231) argues the quantum samples...
Rubidium Frequency Standard Explained
You’ve probably heard of rubidium frequency standards, which are used where you need an extremely accurate time or frequency reference. [IMSAI] guy has a good explainer video about what’s actually going on inside one of these standards. Much of the basic idea also...
OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300-$400
Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker.
Google open-sources an AI model it says can help with earlier hurricane warnings
WeatherNext can deliver a 15-day forecast predicting storms' track and intensity.
GitHub Actions suffers second-longest major outage in its history
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/br0l2tvcx85d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203184 Points: 23 # Comments: 2
Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2
Pokémon Emerald ported to the RP2350 microcontroller. No emulator, 60 fps HDMI output. Recompiled from ARMv4T to Cortex-M33 and the Game Boy Advance's video hardware is reimplemented in software on the second core. Comments URL:...
Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned
Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-nepalese-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203105 Points: 10 # Comments: 1