Our article "Fighting the AI scraper bot
scourge", published in early 2025, discussed the problem of widespread
scraping of web sites in search of training data for large language models
and related projects. This activity overwhelms sites with traffic. Over a
year after that article is published,âŠ
News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.
agrupados por: evidence · openai · times · york
Your location history, your political views, your financial situation â your phone has inferred all of it, from data you didn't know you were providing
Hey HN! I made Orbit, an iOS app that allows you to see the satellites, planets, and constellations above you in AR, on a 2D map, and on a 3D globe.
The app includes more than 15,000 objects tracked by CelesTrack, together with their pass predictions, descriptions, and detailed orbital data.
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Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Abnormal AI sued by Anthropic, AssuranceAmerica data breach affects 7 million people, NSA brings back TAO.
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Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out agâŠ
Russian air defense forces shot down 519 Ukrainian drones overnight on July 6, striking targets across more than 20 regions of Russia, occupied Crimea, and the Sea of Azov, the Defense Ministry said. The total number of drones launched in the attack is unknown; the ministry reported only those interâŠ
agrupados por: ukrainian · drones · regions · strike
Turkeyâs health ministry has fined more than 100 obstetrician-gynaecologists for carrying out cesarean sections, suspending them from duty and forcing them to undergo training.
The country has the highest rate of C-section births among the OECDâs 38 nations, according to the last available data fromâŠ
Toxic smoke from the 15-hectare fire has forced residents from their homes, with environmental monitors recording hazardous air quality in surrounding neighborhoods
Russia is in the grip of a gasoline crisis that developed in just a month, and there is no telling when it will end. Ukraine has continued to batter Russian infrastructure with drones, above all the countryâs oil refineries. Officials are withholding information about how badly Russiaâs refineries hâŠ
Data: FactSet; Chart: Matt Phillips President Trump's threat to "cut off all trade" with Spain was immediately a market event â at least in Europe.Why it matters: Well into Trump's second term, foreign investors aren't totally dismissing the president's trade threats, even if the legal authority, thâŠ
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U.S. President Donald Trump plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the NATO summit in Ankara and then call Russian President Vladimir Putin, informed sources told the Reuters news agency.
Researchers found that a single dose left persistent changes to the genomes of neurons, a discovery that could have implications for treating addiction.
Nature, Published online: 10 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02167-3Central conclusions rarely change when biomedical preprints go on to be published in journals.
Bitcoin miner TeraWulf is reportedly seeking $3.5 billion in debt financing led by Morgan Stanley for its Kentucky data center campus leased by AI company Anthropic.
Last May, EFF reported that a sheriffâs office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. ALPRs are promoted as tools for keeping communities safe by finding missing persons and locating stoâŠ
A threat actor has been targeting organizations spanning multiple sectors with voice-based fake security requests that prompt Microsoft 365 users to enroll a new Entra passkey with an aim to carry out data extortion attacks.
The threat actor, tracked by Okta under the moniker O-UNC-066, has deployeâŠ
agrupados por: enrollment · entra · microsoft · passkey
Researchers ran 281 of the most popular free VPN apps on the Google Play Store through a new testing system and found that many fail at the basics people install a VPN for, i.e., keeping their traffic private and secure.
The apps flagged with at least one problem have been installed more than 2.4 bâŠ
Most enterprises assume their asset inventory is close enough to accurate. The evidence suggests otherwise. According to a survey of over 600 security leaders in the 2026 Axonius Actionability Report, only 45% of organizations consolidate their asset and exposure data into a single view, and every dâŠ
Researchers at firmware security firm Binarly have found six new flaws in U-Boot, the small program that starts up hardware as varied as home routers, smart cameras, and the management chips inside data-center servers.
Four of the bugs can crash a device. The other two could let an attacker who sliâŠ
Unknown threat actors compromised the Injective Labs SDK project's GitHub repository and leveraged it to publish a malicious package on the npm registry to steal cryptocurrency wallet private keys and mnemonic seed phrases.
The compromised version, @injectivelabs/sdk-ts@1.20.21, came embedded with âŠ
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of sustained cyber espionage activity against several Pakistani law enforcement organizations undertaken by suspected China- and India-aligned threat actors between February 2024 and April 2026.
"At Balochistan Police, the compromised assets includedâŠ
Anthony Albanese will deliver a landmark speech on AI this week as MPs are torn between attracting datacentre investment and protecting the rights of creativesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen Anna Funder stood before a pack of journalists at Parliament House earlier thâŠ
Plans to build a NZ$3.5bn datacentre in Makarewa in the countryâs south has drawn concern about electricity and water use, and potential noise pollutionPeople living near the site of New Zealandâs first planned AI datacentre are calling for more transparency about the project, especially about how tâŠ
Baek, a 35-year-old manager at the South Korean semiconductor titan SK Hynix, was enrolled in Sunoo, a matchmaking company based in Seoul, a year ago. In a move typical of anxious South Korean parents, his mother signed him up, hoping to find a good wife for her son. Lately, says Baek (who asked to âŠ
Tras el informe del Grupo de Trabajo sobre la DetenciĂłn Arbitraria de las Naciones Unidas, la defensa del expresidente peruano Pedro Castillo presentĂł un recurso de hĂĄbeas corpus para solicitar su libertad. Walter Ayala, abogado de Castillo, pidiĂł al Tribunal Constitucional que deje sin efecto todasâŠ
The flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to craft a GitHub Issue in an org's public repository and then silently pull data from its private repos, too.
Data visualizations are the bridge between user and data.But building AI agents that can generate visualizations reliably can be very tricky:- simple chart specs can be reliable, but generated charts are often of low quality due to reliance on system defaults;
- complex chart specs with explicit deâŠ
The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have exposed a strategic reality that military planners are only beginning to confront: In a data-centric age, digital infrastructure has become part of the battlespace. Data centers and cloud regions are now the digital backbone of military power and economicâŠ
Building a shortlist for an AI SOC evaluation can be tough. SIEM, SOAR, and pureplay AI SOC vendors are all saying the same thing. But behind the identical label sit very different products, from chat assistants bolted onto a legacy SIEM to agent platforms that run detection, triage, investigation, âŠ
Data: U.S. Census; Note: Data for Hawai'i and Alaska starts in 1955 and 1957, respectively; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios VisualAmerica's state governments now run on two very different tax engines: income in many coastal and professional-class states, and consumption in much of the Sun Belt and low-tax-gâŠ
Data: Pew Research Center; Chart: Danielle Alberti/AxiosLatino voters aren't just splitting over President Trump. They're divided over how being Latino shapes their identity in America, according to a new Pew Research Center report.Why it matters: This is a deeper fracture than a typical partisan diâŠ
The grudging release of previously undisclosed mortality data from the Kruger National Park offers a rare glimpse into how elephants are dying. But the numbers reveal something else: how little the public knows about the decisions made in managing one of the worldâs most important elephant populatioâŠ
Minister of Basic Education Siviwe Gwarube has announced the completion of all pit-toilet eradication projects identified in the 2018 Sanitation Appropriate for Education (Safe) Initiative audit. However, civil society groups and non-profit organisations warn that an outdated 2018 database and unpubâŠ
According to data collected by The Israel Womenâs Network (IWN) and presented in the âGreat Womenâs Survey 2026," at least 900,000 women have experienced violence from a partner or relative.
La presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy RodrĂguez, enviĂł una carta al monarca de Reino Unido, Carlos III, para pedir la liberaciĂłn del oro "retenido" en el Banco de Inglaterra. SegĂșn declarĂł la mandataria, el objetivo es usar esos recursos para financiar la reconstrucciĂłn del paĂs y la respuestaâŠ
Un juez de Manhattan autorizĂł el pago de una indemnizaciĂłn multimillonaria a la escritora y columnista Elizabeth Jean Carroll en cumplimiento de un veredicto civil de 2023, en el que un jurado declarĂł culpable al mandatario estadounidense, Donald Trump, de abusar sexualmente de ella en 1996 y difamaâŠ
agrupados por: abuso · sexual · difamación · millones · ordena · pagar
Hi Hacker News, Iâm Yahia. I built Context.dev (https://www.context.dev/) to make it really easy to integrate web data into your products and agents.Hereâs a demo video: https://www.tella.tv/video/build-faster-with-context-dev-api...Since itâs an API, here are the docs: https://docs.context.dev/quicâŠ
Devthropology is a passion project built on top of GitHub pull data. The name is a play on developer anthropology. Pull request data can be cut a lot of ways. The functionality has been built out of curiosity as I want to see different insights into codebases that I work on. Some of the data is typiâŠ
Hackers accessed the institutionâs internal network and deleted two drives containing employee, student, and university data.
The post Mount Royal University Confirms Data Stolen in Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
agrupados por: attack · confirms · mount · royal · university
American insurance company AssuranceAmerica has disclosed a data breach impacting nearly 7 million drivers after attackers gained access to its systems earlier this year. [...]
agrupados por: breach · data · million · kddi · telco
Chinese tech industry experts say the rapidly increasing use of AI tokens is giving rise to a token-based economy, with the tiny units underpinning artificial intelligence services evolving beyond a technical metric and into the basis for delivering and pricing AI services.
âThe [Chinese] digital ecâŠ
A Stanford University-led team including two Chinese researchers said they built the first general-purpose biomedical AI agent capable of working alongside human scientists, taking on complex tasks that once required groups of specialists.
Jure Leskovec, a Stanford computer science professor who supâŠ
Gasoline prices in Russia rose 2.1 percent in the week of June 30 through July 6, while diesel fuel climbed 3.4 percent, according to the latest weekly data from Rosstat, Russiaâs state statistics service.
Yandex Go and Yandex Zapravki have added data on lines and fuel availability at gas stations, the company said in a press release cited by state news agencies.
Your grandfather appears in the SS files? What that might mean, how you can continue your research and who was even allowed to join the Nazi organization in the first place: You'll find answers to the most important questions here.
An independent group examined official documents from Myanmar ports, leaked bank documents and open-source data to chart the network that supplies Myanmar with jet fuel.
Scientists have created a silicon chip that can write dozens of DNA sequences simultaneously using electricity and water-based enzymes, offering a cleaner alternative to conventional DNA manufacturing. The breakthrough could eventually support portable DNA-writing devices and even massive DNA data sâŠ
Nature, Published online: 08 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10622-4This Review examines the opportunities and challenges introduced by new datasets and computational techniques in urban crime research, and outlines future directions for leveraging these advances effectively.
Nature, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02057-8Passwords, GPS coordinates and private conversations have all been found in the metadata and source files of millions of preprint submissions.
Bitcoin Magazine
Bull Bitcoin Files Landmark Legal Challenge to Annul Franceâs DAC8 Crypto Data Surveillance Rules
The filing marks the first major legal challenge to DAC8 in the EU. Bull Bitcoin warns that forced consolidation of user data undermines both privacy and the regulationâs own tax-colleâŠ
Industry data shows trading activity and market value accelerating as crypto companies and traditional financial institutions expand tokenized equity initiatives.
The Premium Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Super Bundle is a twelve-course digital toolkit designed to take you from coding novice to AI architect. The curriculum breaks down complex data science concepts into actionable steps, guiding you through hands-on projects using Python, data analyâŠ
Civil rights groups like the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) have noted how Elon Muskâs Colossus xAI data centers in Memphis disproportionately pollute the air in minority neighborhoods. A joint lawsuit by SELC, Earthjustice, and the NAACP filed last April argued that Musk and friends didnââŠ
The Essential MATLAB and LabVIEW Mega Bundle has 9 courses to help you improve your skills in programming and visualization. Youâll learn the basics of each and then go through hands-on courses building apps, learning about data analysis and visualization, and more. Itâs on sale for $30. Note: The TâŠ
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swiftâs wedding guests. Labels included âLGBTQIA,â âDO NOT HOST,â and low to high ârisk.â
Thousands of new fossil-fuel power sources are quietly firing up across the state to power the AI boom, thanks to a regulatory loophole, leaving residents feeling blindsided.
In this wholly sponsored Soap Box edition of the podcast Patrick Gray chats with Damien Lewke, the CEO and founder of Nebulock, about the future of threat hunting and detection.
Damien spent a decade in the EDR and MDR space before founding Nebulock in 2024. It started off as an AI-powered threat hâŠ
Varonis reported the flaw to Google in late 2025 and it has been addressed, but it reminds defenders to take a fresh look at their AI Infrastructure security.
A recent EvilTokens campaign targeting businesses across the US and Europe is exposing a new email security blind spot. This âghost phishingâ technique keeps the malicious page hidden until it decrypts and comes to life inside the victimâs browser.
For security leaders, the risk is clear: traditionâŠ
Sophos looked at a week of its own endpoint data and found that AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex are setting off detection rules written to catch human intruders.
The agents are not malicious. They just do a lot of things that, to a behavioral engine, look exactly likeâŠ
Datadog Security Labs is warning of "several overlapping campaigns" that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub API.
"Operators rely on automated scraping tooling with custom or legitimate-sounding user agents, leveraging GiâŠ
A cryptomining incident highlights how AI gateways can provide access to AI models, cloud infrastructure, and identity and access management (IAM) data.
A new data-extortion group called Helix is using identity-focused tactics such as voice phishing (vishing), device code phishing, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) abuse to steal data from SharePoint environments. [...]
Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOnSecurity reported this week that a CISA contractor intentionally published AWS GovCloud keys and a vast trove of other agency secrets on a public GitHub accountâŠ
Durante años, el Banco de Inglaterra se ha negado a liberar unas 31 toneladas de oro venezolano que se encuentran en sus bĂłvedas. Una larga batalla legal iniciĂł en tribunales britĂĄnicos cuando el Gobierno de NicolĂĄs Maduro quiso acceder a ellas para atender la pandemia del Covid-19, pero le negaron âŠ
La decisiĂłn del mandatario estadounidense, Donald Trump, de dar por terminado el memorando de entendimiento con IrĂĄn y reanudar los ataques marca el inicio de una nueva etapa del conflicto: el centro de gravedad deja de ser el programa nuclear iranĂ para concentrarse en el control del estrecho de OrâŠ
Changes to the methodology underneath the Federal Reserve's go-to inflation measure are on track to make the numbers look a couple of ticks better later this year.Why it matters: The changes are entirely defensible on technical grounds and should make the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price IndeâŠ
The use of AI has brought about a profound shift in how telecoms operators assess their networksâ capacity not only to carry a lot of data, but to ensure its reliable delivery.
SARS auto-assessments may make tax filing easier, but experts warn that missing information, incorrect third-party data or ignored assessments could cost you refunds or trigger penalties.
Moving from isolated, technical data to a continuous risk lifecycle can help organizations align security controls with actual business consequences.
The post The Shift Toward Business-Aligned Risk Management appeared first on SecurityWeek.
According to preliminary data, a Ukrainian drone hit the cooling tower of the second power generating unit under construction at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant 2
When a mainland Chinese research vessel spent three days last month conducting an oceanographic survey in the Philippine Sea east of Taiwan, state media portrayed the mission as another example of Beijingâs expanding civilian maritime governance.
However, experts highlighted the dual-use nature of oâŠ
Huawei Technologiesâ coming smartphone processor is on track for a performance boost, without the need for more advanced processing nodes or lithography technology, according to new production data unveiled by the firm.
Using Huaweiâs LogicFolding architecture, the Kirin 2026, a mobile processor setâŠ
Russian forces struck Kyiv with ballistic missiles and drones in the early hours of July 6. According to data from the Ukrainian Air Force command, a total of 68 missiles of various types and more than 350 drones (including decoy drones) were launched against Ukraine. Kyiv was the primary target. AiâŠ
Conversations about the kernel's filesystem implementations often involve a
layer called "iomap", but relatively few people can reliably say what iomap
actually is. That is just the kind of gap that LWN exists to fill. In
short, iomap handles the mapping between data in the filesystem space
(identâŠ
On this weekâs show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the weekâs cybersecurity news.
They cover:
Mini Shai-Hulud and the TanStack compromise using Github Actions
Instructure pays Canvas elearning platform data extortionists
More Linux privilege escalation 0days!
CISA helâŠ
Researchers found a flaw in Opera GX, the gaming-focused version of the Opera browser, that let a malicious website silently install a browser add-on and use it to lift specific data from the pages a victim visits.
In a proof of concept, they reconstructed a signed-in user's full Gmail address fromâŠ
Researchers at Shandong University have shown a fast new way to pull data off computers that are cut off from every network. The technique, called TrojPix, tweaks on-screen pixels in ways the eye cannot see, so that the video cable carrying them radiates a faint radio signal a nearby receiver can deâŠ
A suspected China-nexus threat activity cluster has been observed targeting Indian taxpayers, tax professionals, and corporate finance teams to deliver a remote access trojan designed to steal sensitive data from compromised hosts.
The multi-stage campaign, codenamed Operation DragonReturn by SeqriâŠ
Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Chart: Danielle Alberti/AxiosAmericans are spending less time hanging out than they were 20 years ago â and the trend cuts across every generation, Axios' Erica Pandey writes from new American Time Use Survey data.Why it matters: It's a fundamental shift in theâŠ
A menos de un año de las elecciones presidenciales en Francia, la sentencia por malversaciĂłn que la justicia emitirĂĄ el 7 de julio contra Marine Le Pen y otros miembros de AgrupaciĂłn Nacional podrĂa definir si la lĂder polĂtica podrĂĄ presentarse como candidata. A la espera del fallo, AgrupaciĂłn NaciâŠ
A U.S. government entity paid about $1 million to keep stolen files from being leaked, according to a new case study by Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC, built on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left.
The odd part: the group that took the money calls itself Kairos, butâŠ
Bureau of Meteorology says cityâs mean temperature reached 16.1C, surpassing the previous record of 15.7C set in 1991Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSydney has officially experienced its hottest June since records began, after a winter month of spring-like warmth.While earâŠ
El Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil decidiĂł mantener a Jair Bolsonaro en prisiĂłn domiciliaria por deterioro de su salud, prorrogando la medida tras el vencimiento del plazo inicial de 90 dĂas. El exmandatario, condenado a 27 años de cĂĄrcel por delitos relacionados con intento de golpe de Estado, sâŠ
ASPEN, Colo. â Colorado's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, defended data centers, touted oil and gas rules and bemoaned climate change in a recent interview in this mountain town.Why it matters: Colorado has long been a microcosm of the nation's debates on energy, AI and the effects of a warming plâŠ
With the U.S. hosting the World Cup, there have been plenty of anecdotes about a booming tourism economy in host cities â Scotland fans drinking Boston bars out of beer, for example.But no World Cup hiring bump is evident in the June employment data.By the numbers: Leisure and hospitality employmentâŠ
Data: U.S. Drought Monitor; Map: Erin Davis/Axios VisualsFirework associations expect a massive boom in backyard fireworks this July 4, a surge that collides with dry conditions and a blistering heatwave that could drastically increase the risk of fires.Why it matters: Climate change is increasing tâŠ
Vulkan 1.4.356 is out today and it's interesting for the lone new extension debuting: VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types. The VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types is for enabling the Open Compute Project's Microscaling MX data types to help with machine learning workloads with Vulkan...
In April, ShinyHunters accessed the companyâs corporate IT systems and stole patientsâ personal and medical information.
The post Medtronic Data Breach Impacts 3.8 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity experts have called on authorities to impose fines on firms that suffer data breaches after the personal information of more than 1 million people linked to a leading Hong Kong appliance distributor was maliciously encrypted.
They made the comments on Friday, a day after the cityâs priâŠ