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This is what some of the world’s largest malware banks look like stacked up like hard drives

This is what some of the world’s largest malware banks look like stacked up like hard drives

๐Ÿš€ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Security,cybersecurity,infographic,malware โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The malware research group vx-underground, which says it has the largest collection of malware source code, said in a post on X that its data archive amounts to about 30 terabytes. Bernardo Quintero, founder of VirusTotal, an online service that scans files for malware across multiple antivirus engines simultaneously, said his service has about 31 Petabyte Of the malware samples contributed by users so far. (A petabyte is about 1,000 times larger than a terabyte.) Either way, that's a lot of data. For context,…
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Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing

๐Ÿš€ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I wanted to try codex after 5 months of claude code max subscription. And then I went back to my previous projects on claude design only to realize I don't have access to them anymore.This is a first. I never lost access to any of my past sessions because I unsubscribed in any of the LLM apps.I actually wanted to try out codex previously, but had similar experience with my credits. They gave extra credits equivalent to my montly subscription price, with some time…
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Notion has just transformed its workspace into a hub for AI clients

Notion has just transformed its workspace into a hub for AI clients

๐Ÿš€ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Enterprise,AI agents,Notion โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Notion, the maker of productivity software, is entering the age of agents. In a live-streamed product announcement on Wednesday, the company, known for its collaborative note-taking app, introduced a new platform for developers that extends the capabilities of custom AI agents, communicates with external agents, and allows teams to build multi-step automated workflows that can pull data from any database. By building an orchestration layer โ€” a system that coordinates AI work across multiple tools and data sources โ€” Notion positions itself as more…
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Meta wonโ€™t let you block its AI account on Threads

Meta wonโ€™t let you block its AI account on Threads

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Meta announced on Tuesday that itโ€™s testing a Threads feature that lets users tag a Meta AI account to get answers to questions or context about a conversation on the platform. If youโ€™ve spent any time looking at replies on X as of late, this new feature sounds a lot like Metaโ€™s take on people tagging xAIโ€™s Grok. But, as reported by Engadget, Threads users quickly discovered that you canโ€™t block the new Meta AI account, and they arenโ€™t happy about it.Meta has invested…
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Geothermal startup Fervo Energy raises 33% in IPO boosted by demand for AI data centers

Geothermal startup Fervo Energy raises 33% in IPO boosted by demand for AI data centers

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Climate,Fervo Energy,geothermal,geothermal energy,IPO ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Geothermal startup Fervo Energy saw its market valuation surpass $10 billion in its public market debut, a surge driven by demand for artificial intelligence data centers โ€” and the energy that can power them. Fervo raised $1.89 billion in a large initial public offering on Wednesday, which initially valued the company at about $7.6 billion. Demand for Fervo shares was so great that the company and its bankers increased the supply several times, selling an additional 14.6 million shares while raising the price…
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Princeton faculty mandate proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 years of precedent

Princeton faculty mandate proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 years of precedent

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: All in-person examinations at Princeton will be proctored starting July 1, representing the most significant change to the honor system since it was established in 1893. The faculty passed a proposal requiring instructor supervision at Mondayโ€™s faculty meeting, with one opposing vote. The historic vote was the culmination of months of deliberation within the administration and student governing bodies about how to address increasing concerns over academic integrity violations, including the proliferation of AI usage. The proposal cleared a full faculty vote as the…
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Musk’s xAI startup runs nearly 50 gas turbines without inspection at its data center in Mississippi

Musk’s xAI startup runs nearly 50 gas turbines without inspection at its data center in Mississippi

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Climate,air pollution,data centers,Elon Musk,natural gas,xAI โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Elon Musk's xAI company operates nearly 50 natural gas turbines at its data center in Mississippi, power plants that are not currently regulated by the state due to a loophole. The power plants are considered "mobile" by the state of Mississippi because they are erected on flatbed trailers, allowing them to evade air pollution regulations for one year. The NAACP, which filed a lawsuit on behalf of residents in the area, says uncontrolled emissions from the turbines worsen air quality…
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Back in my day we hacked with style: a sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s tools

Back in my day we hacked with style: a sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s tools

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Gather around, children. Put down your Rust-compiled eBPF probes, your Sigma rules, your billion-dollar EDR consoles. Sit on this pile of old floppy disks and let me tell you a story. A story of a time when a 56k modem was a weapon of mass destruction, when your entire operational infrastructure was a Windows 98 machine with a sticky residue on the keyboard, and when the most sophisticated command-and-control channel available to you was a chat room full of teenagers arguing about Linkin Park. Ai…
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Anthropic’s Kat Wu says that in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are

Anthropic’s Kat Wu says that in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are

โœจ Read this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,agents,Anthropic,Cat Wu,Claude,claude code ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: With the technology industry's singular focus on AI models, Anthropic has had an exceptionally good year. The company may soon overtake its main rival, as it looks to raise tens of billions of dollars in a funding round that would put its value at about $950 billion (OpenAI was valued at $854 billion in a March round), and business customers are increasingly voicing their preference for Cloud over ChatGPT. Anthropic recently overtook OpenAI among business customers, quadrupling its market share since May 2025,…
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Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers

Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers

โœจ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Lake Tahoe doesnโ€™t know where its power will come from after next ski seasonโ€”and itโ€™s a major problem for the 49,000 residents who call the region home. The Sierra Nevada tourist hubโ€”home to ski resorts, lakeside casinos, and roughly 25 to 28 million annual visitorsโ€”is facing an energy crisis with a familiar culprit: the data centers powering the AI boom. NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied the bulk of Lake Tahoeโ€™s electricity for decades, told Liberty Utilitiesโ€”the small California company that services the…
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