Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
Multiple Red Hat Cloud Services npm Packages Compromised to Deploy Credential-Stealing Malware
A significant supply chain attack on June 1, 2026, targeting over 30 official packages under the @redhat-cloud-services npm scope.
Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of putting profit over safety
Florida seeks to hold Altman personally liable, accusing OpenAI of marketing ChatGPT as safe while concealing that it could drive users toward harm.
Ohio suspends tax break for data centers needed to power AI
Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots. The move by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine comes as the industry is under pressure to pay the full costs of the vast network of its computing warehouses needed to power AI. The size of Ohio’s tax break skyrocketed, dwarfing previous projections, as opposition to data centers is sweeping through cities, suburbs and towns there. It's prompted lawmakers to form a committee to study the impact. DeWine’s office cited the rising utilization of the tax break and the state Legislature’s new research undertaking to declare a “pause.”
Microsoft says it will not pursue security researchers after zero-day backlash
Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC \ Anthropic
Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission
This quickly became one of my favorite talks from Corey | IaCConf 2026 Keynote: AI Speaks Terraform Like a Tourist
In this IaCConf 2026 keynote, Corey Quinn (author of Last Week in A...
Domain Expertise Has Always Been the Real Moat | Aaron Brethorst
Personal website for Aaron Brethorst - Seattleite, technology leader, photographer, transit enthusiast, erstwhile non-runner.
CIFSwitch: a non-universal Linux local root vulnerability
Harnessing LLMs into composing complex, multihop vulnerability chains
1,000 Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag is Worse Than Ever
Today, I loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned. Reflecting on that milestone number, I pondered how to mark the occasion in writing, and what immediately came to mind was a very simple question: why is it still needed? Especially considering the emergence of privacy regulations
Rust Moves to Restrict LLM Use in Contributions After Months...
The Rust project is moving toward formal rules on LLM use in contributions after months of internal debate over maintainer burden, code quality, and c...
Nvidia unveils RTX Spark Superchip for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 – new platform promises to turn Windows into an agentic AI OS with Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 128GB unified memory
Over 30 laptops and 10 desktops coming this fall with "the most efficent platform ever built"
Nvidia Has a Plan to Put Its Chips in Personal Computers
The world’s most valuable company is chasing Intel and Apple as it tries to bring A.I. agents to laptops and desktops.
Microsoft Security Response Center on X: "Over the past several days, we have been listening to the conversation around coordinated disclosure and the relationship between security researchers and vendors. We recognize that this relationship is both critical and, at times, fragile. We deeply value the security community," / X
Dell Uses Intel Wildcat Lake To Deliver Their Cheapest XPS 13 Ever
Dell is using Computex to announce their new XPS 13 that comes at their lowest price ever of $599 USD for students and $699 for everyone else
Amid data center protests, a billionaire and the Trump administration see a foreign plot
Claims by a billionaire TV star and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that China and overseas propaganda drive American protests against data centers are based on scant evidence.
Burnout Recovery, Step by Step: The Operating Mode That Holds When Energy Is the Bottleneck - LifeHack
Burnout recovery is not rest. It is the operating mode you switch into, and the four things you do every week until your nervous system trusts you again.
AI Has Made Memory Chips More Valuable Than Oil
Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix are cheap despite their $1 trillion valuations if long-term contracts stabilize the sector.
G7 Agrees On Shared Language Around Open-Source AI, Open Weights AI
Ahead of the 52nd G7 Summit being held in Evian, France next month, the recently conducted G7 Digital and Technology Ministers’ Meeting came to agreement on shared language around open-source AI and on the importance of open-source in AI.
I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200
I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn't fit in a normal motherboard, macgyvered the fan with jumper wires, and now I'm running a model that ties with Claude Sonnet 4.6 on benchmarks, all for £200.
Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation | TechCrunch
A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing software.
chopratejas/headroom: Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 60-95% fewer tokens, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.
Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 60-95% fewer tokens, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server. - chopratejas/headroom
Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It’s Cracking.
The billionaire philanthropist was once ranked the world’s most admired man—but the revelations of his Jeffrey Epstein ties are eroding efforts to burnish his reputation.
Knuckle: Flatcar Container Linux for the Home | Bluefin
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Illinois Legislature passes historic AI bill that would require third-party safety audits
The measure would go beyond legislation in California and New York regulating America’s largest AI companies. It still needs the governor’s signature.
The $950 Steam Deck Apparently Isn't Too Expensive, As it Sold Out in Under 24 Hours
Valve recently raised the price on the Steam Deck, making the handheld gaming PC cost up to $949 for the 1TB OLED model. While that's a massive $300 increase over its original price, the Steam Deck is once again sold out.
Mistral launches Industrial Engineering AI with Airbus, BMW and EDF as headline customers
Mistral has formally launched Mistral for Industrial Engineering with Airbus, BMW, EDF and CMA CGM as launch customers, anchoring its physical-AI commercial strategy.
Percona celebrates 20th birthday with new foundation — and a goat cake
Percona turns 20 with a rebrand, a new MySQL nonprofit called OurSQL Foundation, and a strategic pivot back to database services over DBaaS platform ambitions.
The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida
New Glenn was due to play a starring role in NASA's Artemis Program.
IBM to invest $10 billion for large-scale quantum computer by 2029
IBM said on Thursday it plans to invest more than $10 billion in quantum computing over five years as it aims to build by 2029 the first large-scale quantum computer capable of running complex calculations reliably and without errors.