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Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
OpenRA
Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers
Blogging can just be stating the obvious
If you can't hold it, you don't own it
IP Crawl: living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models
"No, I swear I wrote this."
What Would C. S. Lewis Have Thought of AI?

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June 28, 2026

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838 points · binyu · comments

# Summary The community consensus is that most of the claimed 0-days are either false positives, already-known bugs, low-severity issues requiring pre-existing access, or AI-generated noise rather than genuine critical vulnerabilities. Reviewers suggest the repository is likely LLM-generated output lacking proper validation and responsible disclosure practices.

OpenRA

748 points · tosh · comments

# Summary OpenRA is widely praised as a well-balanced and feature-rich remake of classic RTS games (Red Alert, Command & Conquer, Dune 2000) that successfully modernizes the originals while maintaining their essence. The community appreciates EA's tolerance of the project and expresses nostalgia for the original games, though some wish for support of later titles like Red Alert 2 and Tiberian Sun.

Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers

705 points · HotGarbage · comments

# Summary The discussion criticizes Meta's aggressive legal tactics against whistleblower Frances Wynn-Williams, with commenters attributing Zuckerberg's behavior to ego, pettiness, and fear of worse revelations, while debating the legality and ethics of NDAs, binding arbitration, and the company's surveillance of her activities.

Blogging can just be stating the obvious

465 points · Curiositry · comments

# Summary Blogging about obvious topics has significant value because different people learn at different times and appreciate different perspectives; what's obvious to one person is new and helpful to another, making repetition and restatement an important part of how knowledge spreads through society.

If you can't hold it, you don't own it

449 points · cemdervis · comments

# Summary The discussion emphasizes that true ownership requires unrestricted control over content—whether physical or digital—without DRM, remote revocation, or dependency on external servers; however, even physical media now often requires internet connectivity and licensing agreements, making the real issue vendor control rather than the medium itself.

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

303 points · arm32 · comments

# Summary The discussion centers on the serious privacy concerns raised by IP Crawl, with commenters divided between those appalled by the voyeuristic access to people's private spaces (bedrooms, bathrooms, homes) without consent, and those arguing the site simply exposes existing security negligence that tools like Shodan already make available. Many note the ethical distinction between users accidentally misconfiguring their cameras and a platform actively aggregating and showcasing these streams to voyeurs.

AI / Machine Learning

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models

246 points · bogdiyan · comments

# Summary Users are skeptical of claims that Asian AI startups' models match "Mythos" performance, citing lack of independent benchmarks, high costs, and suspicions that Fugu is merely an orchestrator routing to existing models rather than a true competitor. The discussion emphasizes the need for third-party verification and questions whether these startups have genuine technological breakthroughs or are just marketing hype.

"No, I swear I wrote this."

16 points · artursapek · comments

# Summary The discussion explores the challenge of proving human authorship in an age of AI writing, with commenters debating whether AI detectors are reliable, whether "proof of work" systems like keystroke recordings are practical solutions, and questioning whether surveillance-based verification is worth the effort given that humans can simply transcribe AI text anyway.

What Would C. S. Lewis Have Thought of AI?

10 points · RickJWagner · comments

# Summary The discussion reflects concerns that C.S. Lewis would be troubled by AI, particularly regarding its potential to simulate or misrepresent humanity and his own work, with commenters citing his writings on ethics and human dignity as relevant to modern AI concerns.

Neural Image Compression with Gemini 3

9 points · wholenote · comments

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'Once you have a machine think and write for you, you're cooked as a species'

9 points · devonnull · comments

# Summary This comment uses the Matrix's Agent Smith monologue to argue that once AI thinks and writes for humans, humanity loses agency and becomes obsolete—suggesting AI represents an evolutionary replacement rather than a tool.

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