The US cybersecurity agency had to create its own incident playbook during the incident, the agency revealed

The US cybersecurity agency had to create its own incident playbook during the incident, the agency revealed

💥 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,CISA,cybersecurity,us government 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The US federal cybersecurity agency CISA said it had no response plan in place for how to handle a cybersecurity incident in May, after an investigative journalist notified the agency that a contractor had publicly disclosed sensitive keys and credentials to access US government systems. CISA, the homeland security unit tasked with defending federal networks and helping protect critical infrastructure, revealed Friday in a postmortem that its employees "had to spend time building... [a playbook] During the early stages of an incident.” The agency…
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Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its former employees have stolen trade secrets “for the benefit of OpenAI.” “This case is about Apple’s former employees stealing Apple’s trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI. Apple brings this suit to put a stop to it,” the lawsuit says. Apple statement In a statement to 9to5Mac, an Apple spokesperson said: “At Apple, our teams are constantly developing breakthrough technologies to create the best…
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Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash

Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash

✨ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,TC,Instagram,Meta,social media 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Meta has pulled the plug on a controversial feature that allowed users to edit photos from public Instagram accounts using artificial intelligence. The feature, which was rolled out earlier this week alongside a host of other AI tools, "failed to hit the mark" and is no longer available, according to the company. Earlier this week, Meta announced Muse Image, a new AI image generator created by its dedicated AI unit known as Meta Superintelligence Labs. Meta promoted one feature that allowed individuals to create…
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Einstein’s relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

Einstein’s relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown University chemists have provided direct evidence that upends the textbook explanation of how triple chemical bonds work in heavy elements. In a study published in Science, the researchers show evidence that when atomic nuclei are sufficiently heavy, the principles described in Einstein’s theory of relativity change the structure of triple bonds — blurring the lines between the two separate types of bonds involved in textbook triple bonding. Using a technique called photoelectron spectroscopy, the Brown team showed bonds created by…
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GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps · TryAI

GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps · TryAI

💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Our last build-off hit the Hacker News front page, and the comments did not hold back. Fair enough, a lot of it was good feedback. So we took it, and with GPT-5.6 landing in three tiers (Sol, Terra, Luna) and Meta surprise-dropping a coding model (Muse Spark 1.1), we ran the whole thing again, bigger: twelve models, four apps, five attempts each. What we changed based on your feedback: You wanted open-weights models in the mix. So we added GLM-5.2, Qwen 3.7 Plus, DeepSeek V4…
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Bluesky interim CEO Tony Schneider steps down ‘interim’

Bluesky interim CEO Tony Schneider steps down ‘interim’

💥 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Social,Bluesky,Elon Musk,social media,toni schneider,Twitter,X ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In March, Bluesky's longtime CEO, Jay Graber, stepped down from that position to become the company's chief innovation officer. Graber was immediately succeeded by Tony Schneider, the founding CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress and Tumblr. Schneider, who has led the company as interim CEO for the past four months, is now stepping down from his "interim" position and becoming its permanent CEO. “I'm four months into my role as interim CEO at Bluesky, and it's time for a refresh,”…
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Software Engineer – SDK at Moss

Software Engineer – SDK at Moss

💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: We built Moss because Voice AI breaks when retrieval is slow. Most retrieval infrastructure was not built for real-time reasoning. It adds latency, breaks context mid-conversation, and becomes the bottleneck just as an AI product needs to feel instant. Moss is the real-time semantic search layer for conversational AI. We deliver sub-10ms retrieval directly in the browser, at the edge, on-device, or in the cloud, without making teams stitch together a slow retrieval stack. We are backed by YC and run in production for teams…
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Apple is suing OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Apple is suing OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

💥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,TC,Apple,OpenAI,trade secret theft 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Apple filed a lawsuit on Friday against OpenAI over allegations of trade secret theft and breach of contract. The iPhone maker alleges that this misconduct, which it says reveals a pattern of theft from OpenAI employees who previously worked at Apple, was directed by senior leadership at OpenAI, including chief hardware officer Tang Tan. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses Tan of using secret Apple project codenames during the OpenAI hiring process, asking job…
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An update on the scraper situation [LWN.net]

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! By Jonathan CorbetJuly 10, 2026 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…
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New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices | New York

New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices | New York

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: New York City has adopted a new rule that bans companies from using deceptive subscriptions to trap customers into paying for gym memberships, streaming services and other recurring charges, the city’s consumer protection office said.The new rule, which will start on 1 October, promises hefty fines and aggressive enforcement for violators. Companies that do not provide a simple way to cancel could pay $525 per user subscription, back fees and additional fines.The city is also targeting so-called “junk fees” that raise the final price…
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