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Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes

Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem, while the rest of a zone and region kept humming

OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy

French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn’t seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime

OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy

French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn’t seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding

Article URL: https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987863 Points: 113 # ...

Incremental – A library for incremental computations

Article URL: https://github.com/janestreet/incremental Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987822 Points: 105 # Comments: 17

Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?

Given the expansion of the fed/state/local/corporate surveillance net, do you find yourself expressing yourself less freely on the internet than you did five years ago? Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country Co...

Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.

I wore Meta's $499 prescription Ray-Bans for 6 weeks: They're stylish but not for me

Meta's Ray-Ban Blayzer Optics are made specifically for prescription eyeglass wearers with a lightweight, stylish design.

Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief

Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain

FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to ...

Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation

The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.

Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

Article URL: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-project-leadership-changes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986091 Points: 115 # Comments: 49

Exposed Server Reveals AI-Assisted Phishing Toolkit Behind WebDAV Malware Campaign

A malware operator left its delivery server wide open, and Rapid7 pulled down the whole toolkit: 1,048 files spanning lure templates, filename-spoofing tests, execution experiments, droppers, builder ...

Firefox 153 released with buil-in containers, QR Code generator + more

Mozilla has released Firefox 153 with built-in containers, QR code generation and more quick actions in the address bar. This is the final “monthly” stable release before Mozilla shifts to...

Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned

The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.

DA: Cop covered bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his iPhone—but other cams caught him

Pennsylvania cop charged with oppression and obstruction.

Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims

IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake

Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round

California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.

AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical

An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral

Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.

Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid

Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy

Want to add Android Auto to your old car? Here are two ways - including one that's under $20

If you feel like you're missing out on Android Auto by having a vehicle with no screen, here's your chance to fix that.

Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states

Judge grants restraining order, saying merger "likely to violate antitrust laws."

The Galaxy Card Is Samsung’s Answer to the Apple Card

Directly added to your Samsung Wallet account, it’s yet another cash-back credit card, this time tailored for Samsung stans.

The FDA Says It Didn't Apologize to Supplier Linked to Diarrhea Outbreak, Actually

The agency stressed that the July 17 voluntary recall from Taylor Farms still stands. The supplier has been linked to the ongoing cyclospora outbreak.

AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that le...

Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents

Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged

The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches

The Trump administration is asking the Space Force to do a lot. This will require more launches.

The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches

The Trump administration is asking the Space Force to do a lot. This will require more launches.

I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs

Article URL: https://numerlab.org/2025/07/20/bashumerate-enumerator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984270 Points: 102 # Comments: 76

Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco

Article URL: https://vincentwoo.com/3d/grace_cathedral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984254 Points: 110 # Comments: 22

HollowGraph Malware Hides C2 and Stolen Files in Microsoft 365 Events Dated 2050

A newly discovered espionage implant has been using a hijacked Microsoft 365 calendar as its command channel, planting operator instructions and smuggling out stolen files as attachments on calendar e...

Fans Flocked to World Cup Host Cities—Causing 80 Percent of the Tournament’s Emissions

The latest estimates reveal that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions from large-scale events such as the FIFA World Cup stem from spectators traveling to host cities.

X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort

X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.

OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US Be?

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.

AT&T loses key ruling in bid to stop offering basic phone service in California

AT&T suffers setback but will keep asking court and FCC to preempt state rules.

Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

Even Mild Sleep Deprivation May Lead to Weight Gain

A recent study suggests that not getting enough sleep increases the risk of weight gain, and thus of conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

Article URL: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983382 Points: 112 # Comments: 39

⚡ Weekly Recap: WordPress RCE, SonicWall 0-Days, AI Service Attacks, SharePoint 0-Day and More

A single request should not be able to do this much. But this week, small inputs led to code execution, memory loss, stolen keys, and disabled security tools. The paths were often simple: exposed syst...

Estée Lauder discloses data breach via Oracle E-Business flaw

Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is notifying customers of a data breach after hackers exploited a flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite that the company used for human resources (HR) operations. [...]

SonicWall SMA1000 flaws exploited as zero-days to push custom malware

Two recently disclosed SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities were exploited in zero-day attacks for weeks, allowing threat actors to install custom malware on vulnerable VPN appliances. [...]

Hackers steal $23.7 million in crypto from Ostium in off-chain attack

The Ostium trading platform announced that an attacker stole $23.75 million from its liquidity provider vault last week, after compromising off-chain infrastructure used to feed prices into the protoc...

Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over

Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley's Hound Dog to...

The FCC is planning to retroactively ban disguised DJI gadgets

Last October, we told you how the FCC had given itself the power to retroactively ban gadgets that have already received its approval to be imported and sold in the United States. Now, the FCC's getti...

Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

Article URL: https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982681 Points: 107 # Comments: 41

Agent swarms and the new model economics

Article URL: https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982535 Points: 102 # Comments: 43

RIP bargain bin: The price impact of Sony's disc-free PlayStation plan

Used discs are often cheaper than even deep digital discounts.

The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash

OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly

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