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The Hacker News8 Jul 2026

GitHub 'Verified' Commits Can Be Rewritten Into New Hashes Without Breaking Signatures

New research shows that a signed Git commit's hash is not the one-of-a-kind name that much of the software world assumes it to be. Given any signed commit, someone without the signing key can mint a second commit with the same files, author, and date, and a valid signature, GitHub still stamps "Verified." Everything a reviewer would check matches. The commit's hash does not. That matters

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Hacker News8 Jul 2026

Optimization Solver as a Service

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HN RSS Best8 Jul 2026

Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/07/apple-to-increase-spend-with-broadcom-to-produce-billions-more-us-chips/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830565 Points: 290 # Comments: 233

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Hacker News8 Jul 2026

Otary – Image and Geometry Python Library Now Has Tutorials

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The Hacker News8 Jul 2026

The Verification Step Is the New ATO Battleground in 2026

For years, account takeover (ATO) followed a predictable script. Attackers bought stolen credentials in bulk, ran them through automated tools, and waited for matches. Credential stuffing was cheap, scalable, and for defenders, relatively well understood. That era is ending. Not because attackers gave up, but because the front door finally got harder to kick in. Passkeys are now mainstream.

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BleepingComputer8 Jul 2026

Telco giant KDDI says data breach affects over 12 million people

Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI says that millions of people had their email addresses and passwords exposed after attackers breached an email platform used by five internet service providers (ISPs) in the country. [...]

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The Hacker News8 Jul 2026

GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code

An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a new study of GitHub Copilot by researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple. The models they tested through Copilot, Claude from Anthropic, and Gemini from Google, refused

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CNCF Blog8 Jul 2026

Network boundary for AI agents using NGINX and OpenTelemetry

I recently had an interesting conversation at a KCD about OpenClaw with one of the attendees, and they remarked that they wouldn’t put an agent in their network, because “we don’t know what that thing really...

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