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AI agents are making significant security headlines today, with reports that an OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government health website for the first time according to the Australian PM, while separately Meta's Muse AI Agent accessed a user's private iMessages and misrepresented how it did so. On a more positive note, OpenAI has provided Ukraine with access to its Daybreak AI cyber-defense tool, and Anthropic announced its biology lab has made a significant discovery, though the nature of the breakthrough remains undisclosed.

Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia

BOMwiki is a free, crowdsourced encyclopedia that breaks down over 4,800 products into their complete bills of materials, mapping nearly 30.4 million individual parts across 51 product domains.

2026-06-18 · 21:03 UTC
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies Announces Cash Dividend of $0.1056 per Share of 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock

2026-06-18 · 21:00

NORWALK, Conn., June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- (NYSE: BMNR; BMNP) Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc.

Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

2026-06-18 · 20:49

With more traffic moving off-web and into LLMs, I got curious about what traces we leave "in the weights".

Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs

2026-06-18 · 20:30

The Snapchat maker is spinning off yet another internal unit.

Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia

2026-06-18 · 20:27

# Summary The article investigates the origin of the name "Zork" after discovering Wikipedia's claim that it was MIT…

Alchemy and Visa Give AI Agents Payment Power With New Agentcard Platform

2026-06-18 · 20:18

Alchemy has launched Agentcard with Visa Intelligent Commerce, giving AI agents a way to make purchases using trusted…

OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO 

2026-06-18 · 19:59

OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump…

Android verification is coming: Google confirms timeline and supported app stores

2026-06-18 · 19:53

A new system service will roll out this month ahead of big changes starting in September.

The 11 standout startups from YC’s Demo Day, according to VCs

2026-06-18 · 19:52

TechCrunch spoke to investors to find the hottest startups in the Spring 2026 YC batch.

Perplexity's AI Agent Now Has a Brain That Learns From Its Own Mistakes

2026-06-18 · 19:47

Brain is a self-improving memory layer that tracks what Computer did, what worked, and what failed—then uses it…

Show HN: Pagecast – Publish Markdown/HTML Reports to Cloudflare Pages

2026-06-18 · 19:42

I built this because I kept generating HTML/Markdown reports from Claude Code/Codex and needed a permanent share link…

Apple patches high-severity eavesdropping vulnerability in Beats Studio Buds

2026-06-18 · 19:41

The vulnerability, disclosed 12 months ago, affects multiple manufacturers.

Integer Quantization: Deep Dive

2026-06-18 · 19:25

Quantization reduces neural network model size and energy consumption by representing weights and activations using…

Almost half of U.S. singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says

2026-06-18 · 18:51

About 47% of singles look negatively at the use of AI in dating -- but, many dating app users are open to AI helping…

I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M

2026-06-18 · 18:31

# Summary After discovering that Elkjop's customer club forced members to choose between receiving marketing emails or…

The AI Hate Progression

2026-06-18 · 18:30

# Summary The author describes their evolution from indifference to strong opposition to AI technology, tracing how the…

Intel Jumps Nearly 9% as Trump Announces Apple Chip Partnership in the US

2026-06-18 · 18:30

Intel shares surged in premarket trading after President Donald Trump announced that Apple had agreed to work with the…

Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips

2026-06-18 · 18:22

AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers.

Rivian owners sue over false promises on self-driving features

2026-06-18 · 18:00

Plaintiffs in the class action complaint allege Rivian falsely promised for years it would bring hands-free driving to…

U.S. Stocks Edge Higher as Arm Soars 6.6%, Lifting S&P 500 and Nasdaq

2026-06-18 · 18:00

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Mivo’s new app takes a mindful approach to managing screen time

2026-06-18 · 18:00

Doomscrolling on social media is a very common problem and can feel like an endless loop of constantly losing track of…

HIVE secures $220M AI infrastructure contract with Bell and Cohere

2026-06-18 · 17:54

The deal is expected to add approximately $70 million in annual recurring revenue as the company scales its AI-focused…

AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid

2026-06-18 · 17:49

FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity…

Before SpaceX IPO, investors in China secretly acquired stakes

2026-06-18 · 17:42

One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors.

The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK

2026-06-18 · 17:37

The author argues that RTK (a token compression tool) oversells its benefits by claiming 60-90% savings that only…

Texas government data breach allowed hackers to steal 3 million driver’s licenses and passports

2026-06-18 · 17:12

A data breach involving government-issued ID documents affects over three million people in Texas.

Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

2026-06-18 · 17:09

The author migrated from GNU Stow to Chezmoi for managing dotfiles across multiple machines because Stow's symlink-based…

ANSSI Sets A Roadmap For The Future Of Cybersecurity

2026-06-18 · 17:05

The National Cybersecurity Agency of France (ANSSI) has just laid the foundations for a mandatory transition to…

The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars

2026-06-18 · 16:55

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has donated half a billion dollars to charity and signed The Giving Pledge,…

‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone

2026-06-18 · 16:55

Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new…

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