Night update, generated 2026-07-20.
23 new stories since Lunch.
Sources: Hacker News, Slashdot
HN: 482 points, 264 comments (discussion)
> Since the hack, officials restored their website and posted a message announcing they are rebuilding the agency's entire network from scratch. Even if the hacker claims they deleted backups, the agency appears to have had an offline copy, otherwise things would have gotten really messy over the co...
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Sources: Hacker News
HN: 647 points, 561 comments (discussion)
The lesson of the last 50 years of the computer and software marketplace is that free and low-end eventually wins. - PCs destroyed minicomputers. Mainframes survive, but serving a much tinier portion of the market than they used to. - PC office productivity software destroyed expensive professional ...
Sources: Lobsters
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Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 549 points, 112 comments (discussion)
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 434 points, 244 comments (discussion)
The point missing in the article is that, in order to enter the US, one needs to give the US Govt their photo and fingerprints ("biometric data") anyway. There are two options: visa-free with the biometric data passing on the wire (no hassle), or visa (a major hassle) and biometric data passing in t...
Sources: Lobsters
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Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 355 points, 202 comments (discussion)
There is no evidence that $500k has been paid or would be paid for an exploit like this one. Given that the article says that prompts are modified like they are holy scripture, perhaps sell the prompt for $500k. The author works for https://www.assetnote.io/ , which has AI products for automated sca...
Sources: Lobsters
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Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 212 points, 224 comments (discussion)
The open weight, open architecture releases of the past several days has me more convinced that ultimately, the winner will be whoever burns their models to ASICs fastest. The LLMs themselves are capable of doing some aspects of chip design as evinced by the K3 press release. Furthermore, the front...
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register