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Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack

Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, 16 July 2026, for the 2024 hack of Transport for London. The attack left 148 TfL systems inoperable and forced all 27,000 of the transport authority's employees into an office to get their passwords reset in person. Both the NCA and the CPS put TfL's losses and recovery

World · Al Jazeera

Eleven killed in Algeria orphanage fire

Eleven people were killed and 19 injured after a fire tore through an orphanage in Algiers.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Google is better than Apple at playing the AI regulations game

Today, the European Union ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android, the open-source operating system that powers billions of devices worldwide. The demand is hardly surprising. It may look like a defeat on paper for Google, which has spent years resisting exactly this kind of access, but it is a regulatory […]

Business · CNBC Technology

Grocery sales, United earnings, Anthropic's IPO prep and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Roblox will let people use AI to make games on their phone

Roblox is about to let people make games with AI right inside its mobile app, which could make a platform that's already filled with content of questionable quality feel even more overloaded. The company has embraced AI with open arms, including a preview of an ambitious take on AI world models similar to Google's Project […]

World · Al Jazeera

Ex-CEO of Italian motorway sentenced to 12 years for Genoa bridge collapse

In all, 32 convicted and 25 acquitted or cleared by statute ‌of limitations over 2018 Morandi bridge disaster.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning

Article URL: https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936880 Points: 219 # Comments: 162

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

OnePlus confirms shutdown in the US and Europe, ending months of speculation

OnePlus promises to continue supporting the phones it has already released.

World · Al Jazeera

US to impose new 25 percent tariffs on some Brazilian imports

Beef, coffee, and rare-earth materials escaped US tariffs amid trade tensions with Brazil over alleged unfair practices.

World · Al Jazeera

Trump limits length of visas for students, exchange visitors, journalists

New rule ends open-ended stays and requires extensions after fixed visa periods for students and foreign media.

World · Al Jazeera

How can Argentina and Messi beat Spain and Yamal to defend World Cup?

Despite Lionel Messi's presence, Argentina enter the 2026 final as underdogs to Spain and their starlet Lamine Yamal.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.

"We will likely have similar concerns and discussions when China fields its Starlink-like constellation."

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Decoy Font

Article URL: https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936584 Points: 609 # Comments: 141

World · Al Jazeera

Vance says Israeli campaign tried to sway US opinion against Iran diplomacy

The US vice-president also said he faced 'vicious' personal attacks over his diplomatic outreach to end war.

World · Deutsche Welle

Monaco assassination plot takes a new turn

A woman suspected of plotting to assassinate a Ukrainian-Cypriot businessman in Monaco has been found dead in Ukraine. Two men with ties to Ukraine's intelligence services have now been brought into custody.

AI · The Decoder

Germany puts Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity under media law in first-of-its-kind ruling

German media regulators say Google's AI Overviews are Google's own content, not neutral search results, and that they crowd out regular links. The regulators have issued their first rulings against Google and Perplexity under the country's State Media Treaty. Both companies have one month to appeal. The article Germany puts Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity under media law in first-of-its-kind ruling appeared first on The Decoder .

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M

Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.

Business · CNBC Technology

Nvidia unveils new AI model and expands Japan’s physical AI ecosystem

Nvidia announces new AI model, Cosmos 3 Edge, and expansion of its physical AI ecosystems in Japan.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936451 Points: 326 # Comments: 161

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

Article URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936426 Points: 692 # Comments: 153

Developers & Open Source · Hugging Face Blog

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval

Hugging Face Blog published: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed Ranks #1 Overall on RTEB, Advancing Agentic Retrieval

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search. Google first revealed Gemini Notebook - then called Project Tailwind - in May 2023 before widely releasing […]

AI · TechCrunch AI

Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

AI · OpenAI News

Why teens deserve access to safe AI

Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and expert partnerships.