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• White House security staff warned Starlink is a security risk. Starlink satellite connections in the White House bypass controls meant to stop leaks and hacking.
• Dropbox CEO slams return-to-office mandates, compares them to outdated malls and theaters
• Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’
• Klarna boss: AI will lead to recession and mass job losses
• ‘We’re going to be covering the entire city with drones:’ San Francisco Police Department accepts billionaire’s $9.4M gift
• Palantir’s Collection of Disease Data at C.D.C. Stirs Privacy Concerns
• FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems - Windows 95 also being phased out
• Bill Atkinson, pioneering early Apple engineer, dies at 74
• Sam Altman says AI chats should be as private as ‘talking to a lawyer or a doctor’, but OpenAI could soon be forced to keep your ChatGPT conversations forever
• Satya Nadella says Microsoft profits from every ChatGPT use
• AI could unleash 'deep societal upheavals' that many elites are ignoring, Palantir CEO Alex Karp warns
• Meta’s AI has been mistakenly banning users on Facebook and Instagram with no way to contact a human that can help
• Nvidia Secures 92% GPU Market Share in Q1 2025
• A new report indicates Intel's latest Battlemage GPUs are a total failure and AMD's gaming graphics market share fell to just 8% but overall graphics cards sales are up
• Japan telecom giant NTT Docomo to end own emoji after 26 yrs
• Republicans are barreling toward remaking the internet | Kids online safety reform was one of the most bipartisan issues in Washington. That might be changing under Trump
• UK firm achieves first commercial tritium breakthrough for fusion fuel
• Canadian universities grapple with evaluating students amid AI cheating fears
• Researchers convert old phones into 'tiny data centers' — deploy one underwater for marine monitoring
• Chinese hackers and user lapses turn smartphones into a 'mobile security crisis'

Hacker News

• The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
• Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
• Joining Apple Computer (2018)
• and (2020)
  Gaussian integration is cool
  Administering immunotherapy in the morning seems to matter. Why?
  Binfmtc – binfmt_misc C scripting interface
  Show HN: Let’s Bend – Open-Source Harmonica Bending Trainer
  How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025
  Efficient mRNA delivery to resting T cells to reverse HIV latency
  Focus and Context and LLMs
  Panjandrum: The 'giant firework' built to break Hitler's Atlantic Wall
  Cheap yet ultrapure titanium might enable widespread use in industry (2024)
  Building an AI server on a budget
  Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)
  Startup Equity 101
  How Much Energy Does It Take to Think?
  Launching the BeOS on Hitachi Flora Prius Systems (1999)
  Futa – A functionally useless AI terminal assistant
  My first attempt at iOS app development

  The Verge

  • Xbox Games Showcase 2025: all the news and trailers
  • Final Fantasy XVI is out on Xbox right now, and FF7 Remake is coming too
  • Double Fine’s next game, Keeper, turns you into a walking lighthouse
  • Gears of War: E-Day is coming in 2026
  • Persona 4 is getting a remake
  • Pokémon studio’s action RPG Beast of Reincarnation launches in 2026
  • Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience
  • This is how Microsoft is combining Windows and Xbox for handheld PCs
  • Vivo’s telephoto extender makes the world’s best phone camera better
  • The Verge’s favorite summer gear for 2025

  ArsTechnica

  • Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally
  • New adventures await the crew in Strange New Worlds S3 trailer
  • Cybercriminals turn to “residential proxy” services to hide malicious traffic
  • The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod nervous system
  • Estate of woman who died in 2021 heat dome sues Big Oil for wrongful death
  • Anti-vaccine quack hired by RFK Jr. has started work at the health department
  • Anthropic releases custom AI chatbot for classified spy work
  • Nintendo Switch 2’s faster chip can dramatically improve original Switch games
  • Ted Cruz bill: States that regulate AI will be cut out of $42B broadband fund
  • Millions of low-cost Android devices turn home networks into crime platforms
  • Our first impressions after 48 hours with the Switch 2
  • Simulations find ghostly whirls of dark matter trailing galaxy arms
  • A Japanese lander crashed on the Moon after losing track of its location
  • What to expect from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference next week
  • Cambridge mapping project solves a medieval murder
  • Startup puts a logical qubit in a single piece of hardware
  • GOP intensifies war against EVs and efficient cars
  • OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs “indefinitely.” Here’s who’s affected.
  • DOGE used flawed AI tool to “munch” Veterans Affairs contracts
  • 2025 Acura ADX review: A crossover that balances budget with spirit

  Bleeping Computer

  • New Mirai botnet infect TBK DVR devices via command injection flaw
  • Malware found in NPM packages with 1 million weekly downloads
  • Malicious npm packages posing as utilities delete project directories
  • Microsoft shares script to restore inetpub folder you shouldn’t delete
  • Tax resolution firm Optima Tax Relief hit by ransomware, data leaked
  • Kettering Health confirms Interlock ransomware behind cyberattack
  • New PathWiper data wiper malware hits critical infrastructure in Ukraine
  • Critical Fortinet flaws now exploited in Qilin ransomware attacks
  • Police arrests 20 suspects for distributing child sexual abuse content
  • Google’s upcoming Gemini Kingfall is allegedly a coding beast
  • ChatGPT prepares o3-pro model for $200 Pro subscribers
  • FBI: BADBOX 2.0 Android malware infects millions of consumer devices

  Lobsters

  • A Low-Impact Keybase Impersonation Issue on Lobsters
  • Ditching HAProxy (in my homelab)
  • 105 vibe-coded tools
  • Bill Atkinson Dies From Cancer at 74
  • xq: Query XML data using XPath
  • Pijul - Elpe. Yaks big. Razors bigger
  • Getting started with Qt, without the nonsense
  • The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
  • Shell scripting in C
  • Too Many Open Files
  • How can one write blazing fast yet useful compilers (for lazy pure functional languages)?
  • A plan for SIMD
  • Pocket to linkhut
  • If Virtual Threads are the solution, what is the problem? (2023)
  • MCP vs API
  • What next after vibe coding
  • Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest
  • Simulating Time With Square-Root Space
  • Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?
  • How PieFed federates "flair" on posts and comments