▸ Rocket Lab is acquiring Iridium, taking control of a 66-satellite LEO constellation, globally allocated L-band spectrum, and ~$830M of recurring reven...
▸ A 'sensible refactor' in Linux 6.9 (May 2024) caused `cryptsetup luksSuspend` to silently stop wiping disk encryption keys from RAM.
▸ Kate Adamala's lab at Biotic built a synthetic cell — 'SpudCell' — that grows and divides, the milestone that had stalled the field for a decade.
▸ YouTube is rolling out automatic AI-generated content labels, no creator self-disclosure required.
▸ Quandri's engineering team argues MCP servers are an unnecessary abstraction — agents that write code and hit APIs directly are faster, cheaper, and m...
▸ Blue Origin's New Glenn upper stage suffered an anomaly during a static fire at LC-36, with debris visible on NSF's live feed.
▸ Canada is buying Saab GlobalEye AEW&C aircraft instead of Boeing's E-7 Wedgetail, citing trade-war risk and US export dependency.
▸ Mark Jason Dominus's HN post reframes code review as knowledge transfer, not bug hunting — and the reframing has an awkward corollary.
▸ Dan Luu's essay catalogs distributions that bunch suspiciously around human-set cutoffs — marathon times under 4hrs, batting averages above .300, surg...
▸ Immich v3.0.0 marks the first release the project itself calls production-ready — the 'expect breaking changes' banner is gone.
▸ A researcher found Claude Code silently injects hidden system-prompt markers whose content varies with your ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and system timezone.
▸ Citizen Lab confirms an MEP on the European Parliament's spyware committee was hacked with Pegasus — the investigator became the target.
▸ OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom silicon, designed with Broadcom and fabbed at TSMC — inference-only, not training.
▸ Anthropic's next-gen 'Mythos' model is being released only to U.S. organizations the federal government has pre-vetted — no public API, no individual ...
▸ F-Droid published an advisory that Play Store apps are impersonating F-Droid client builds and shipping spyware to users who think they're getting the...
▸ Virginia's SB 854 bans the sale of precise geolocation data outright — not just requires opt-in, but prohibits the transaction entirely.
▸ Three repos trending on GitHub in the same week — pi-dynamic-workflows (547), openbrief (356), and make-pages-interactive (329) — all bet on workflows...
▸ A proposed White House rule would let political appointees override peer review on federal research grants across NIH, NSF, DOE, and DARPA.
▸ California's AB 3D printer surveillance bill would force manufacturers to log serial numbers, owner identities, and material purchases into a state re...
▸ UK's Online Safety Act, EU's age-verification pilot, and a dozen US state laws now require platforms to verify user age — which in practice means veri...