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Australia to double maximum penalty for platforms in breach of social media ban

Children under the age of 16 have been prevented from 10 key social media platforms in Australia since December 2025.

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Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

The article provides a guide for selecting a public DNS resolver, featuring an interactive tool that filters options…

Show HN: Starglyphs - A constellation puzzle game based on Euler paths

I am a big Dragon Age fan and sunk hundreds of hours into Inquisition.

Instagram is testing more ways to customize ‘Your Algorithm’

Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content.

Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC

This article provides a technical guide for isolating X11 applications like web browsers using LXC (Linux Containers) on…

'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Meta executive whose memoir "Careless People" contains damaging allegations about CEO Mark…

Show HN: Kiso, an open-source publishing engine for Open Knowledge Format

Kiso is an open-source publishing engine that converts Open Knowledge Format (OKF) bundles into static websites…

SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype

Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.

Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work

A month ago there was a wave of posts and tweets about engineers walking around cafes and parks with their MacBooks…

Mojo programming language will become open-source soon

A Farmer Arrested for Going 5 Seconds over His Time Limit at Data Center Meeting

Claremore, Oklahoma resident Darren Blanchard was arrested and charged with trespass after speaking approximately five…

IP Crawl: living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

IP Crawl is a web platform that catalogs and displays publicly accessible webcams discovered through internet…

The Card That Made the Apple II Serious

The Videx VideoTerm, introduced in 1980, was a crucial expansion card that enabled the Apple II to display 80 columns of…

"No, I swear I wrote this."

As AI-generated content becomes increasingly indistinguishable from human writing and AI detectors prove unreliable, the…

Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

A developer created "Town Square," a small interactive feature that displays other current visitors on a website as…

Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for Multigres

Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join…

Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers

# Summary Mark Zuckerberg is pursuing an aggressive legal campaign against whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of…

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

An anonymous GitHub account has published a repository containing proof-of-concept exploits for dozens of undisclosed…

Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on

Following the release of Claude Mythos—an AI model hyped as a game-changer in cybersecurity capable of automated…

Like a Bouncer at a Bookstore: Texas' App Store Accountability Act

SpaceX Joins the Nasdaq 100 on July 7: What It Means for the Market

SpaceX will officially join the Nasdaq 100 on July 7, 2026, just three weeks after its June 12 stock market debut.

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OpenRA

OpenRA has released a new playtest featuring random map generators for Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, and Dune 2000, along…

Nox Metals (YC S25) Is Hiring SWE

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on

New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S.