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Show HN: Hammermind – Game-ready pixel art and audio files from a single prompt

Hacker News - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 10:55am

Generate graphics and audio for game development. Graphics include pixel-art sprites, icons, HUD kits, and parallax backgrounds. Audio includes voice lines, sound effects, and music — all from a text prompt. Assets export engine-ready for Unity, Godot, and GameMaker. Available via MCP server (works with Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) or REST API. Pay-as-you-go per art asset.

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Remote work is bad for you

Hacker News - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 10:48am
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Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 “abruptly disabled” after US gov. ban

Malware Bytes Security - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 10:32am

Anthropic has been ordered by the US government to cut off its newest Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for fear of abuse by adversaries.

Reuters reports that Anthropic said it will “abruptly ​disable” its most advanced AI models for all users after the US government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing national security ‌concerns.

Officials reportedly believe a jailbreak could turn Fable 5 and Mythos 5 into vulnerability-discovery tools for adversaries, so Anthropic says it is disabling them worldwide rather than try to nationality‑filter access, since it is virtually impossible to verify every user’s nationality.

In a statement on its website, Anthropic says:

“The letter did not provide specific details of its national security concern. Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or “jailbreaking” Fable 5. We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities all appear relatively simple, and we have found that other publicly-available models are able to discover them as well without requiring a bypass.”

Mythos 5 is the non-public full version, which is currently used only by government agencies and selected corporate partners to harden their systems. Fable 5 is a Mythos-class model that should supposedly be safe for general use.

It makes sense to me that if Fable 5 is easy to jailbreak, that it should fall under the same restrictions as Mythos 5. However, Anthropic maintains that it has built-in safeguards that mean queries on some topics will instead receive a response from the next-most-capable model, Claude Opus 4.8. 

The relationship between the US government and Anthropic had shown signs of easing in parts of the US government after tensions over military use, surveillance, and autonomous weapons. In March, defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated the San Francisco-based company a “supply-chain risk to national security.”

To understand the nature of the argument, it is necessary to understand that Mythos 5 is described in multiple reports as particularly effective at identifying software vulnerabilities, including long‑standing bugs in complex, legacy systems such as those in banking and other critical infrastructure. Many view this as dual‑use: great for defense hardening, but catastrophic in the wrong hands.

In recent updates from major software vendors like Microsoft and Google, we’ve seen a growth in numbers of patched vulnerabilities after the vendors began using AI-guided search for new vulnerabilities in their own software. We also know that Mozilla found over 270 Firefox vulnerabilities with the aid of Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos model. 

What this means

In the wrong hands these vulnerabilities could definitely do a lot of harm. So, it looks like it will take some time before regular consumers and developers will gain access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 entirely. However, existing Anthropic models (older Claude variants) remain available.

For home users who were simply chatting with Claude or using it to help with basic scripting, the change will mostly show up as “this specific version is unavailable” rather than a broader AI blackout.

Removing a high‑end vulnerability‑finding model from broad circulation increases the effort required for less‑resourced cybercriminals to automate discovery of complex bugs in consumer‑facing software and services only by so much. There are other models available on the black market that might be just as effective. And for most cybercriminals, turning a vulnerability into a method they can utilize in an exploit is much more relevant.

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Deepfake porn sites are going offline (re-air) (Lock and Code S07E12)

Malware Bytes Security - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 10:32am

This week on the Lock and Code podcast…

If you weren’t taking deepfakes seriously before, it’s too late now to ignore them.

According to new research from Malwarebytes, one in three people who use AI every day said it’s okay to generate pornography of people without their consent.

Nearly 10 years ago, “deepfake” technology provided hobbyists and film editors with artificial intelligence (AI) tools to swap the face of one person onto the body of another. In its infancy, this technology brought silly film experiments like swapping Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible with Keanu Reeves. Today, this same technology produces something far more harmful—fake nude images of teenagers.

On the Lock and Code podcast today with host David Ruiz, we are re-visiting an interview from 2024, in which we spoke with a lawyer named David Chiu about his lawsuit against 16 deepfake nude generation websites.

The websites named in that lawsuit often needed just one image of a person to generate fake pornography. And while nearly everyone has at least one image of themselves online, even if they had hundreds, the path towards deletion is somewhat understood—start by deactivating and deleting popular social media accounts. But for teenagers today, raised mostly online, and who share images directly with friends and boyfriends and girlfriends and exes, it’s likely impossible to remove every visual trace of themselves. Also, they shouldn’t have to face this problem alone.

The Lock and Code podcast frequently discusses structural problems that require individual management. You have to skirt corporate data collection. You have to find the automated license plate readers in your hometown. You have to review every single message you get with a certain antagonism, to guard yourself against scams.

So, it’s rare to encounter a solution that benefits more than one person.

Chiu serves as the City Attorney for San Francisco, which means his department can file a lawsuit on behalf of not just the people of San Francisco, but also California, and that’s what his team did in going after the deepfake websites.

Since then, Chiu’s department has shut down 10 deepfake nude websites, and it received a settlement agreement from a company called Briver LLC to no longer operate any website that creates nonconsensual deepfake pornography.

And, as California goes, so goes the nation.

In May of last year, the Take It Down Act became effective as law in the United States, which criminalizes “revenge porn” and AI-generated nonconsensual intimate imagery. The law is not perfect but so far it is being used as intended. Last month, two men in the US were among the first to be charged with violating the Take It Down act for allegedly creating deepfake nudes that, according to the AP, “included both celebrities as well as private women, including recent high school graduates.”

Today, we revisit our conversation with San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu about the important fight against deepfake porn and the clear threat that his department found against the public.

“At least one of these websites specifically promotes the non-consensual nature of this. So, and I’ll just quote, ‘Imagine wasting time taking her out on dates when you can just use website X to get her nudes.'”

Tune in today to listen to the full conversation.

Show notes and credits:

Intro Music: “Spellbound” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Outro Music: “Good God” by Wowa (unminus.com)

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Fox to Buy Roku for $22B, Creating a Streaming Powerhouse

CNET Feed - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 10:30am
Fox says Roku will continue to operate independently.
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Anthropic Pulls Claude Fable and Mythos AI Models After Feds Claim Jailbreak

CNET Feed - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 10:23am
The AI developer finds itself in another conflict with the Trump administration over regulation.
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Chinese Hackers Target Medical, Military, and AI Research in North America

Security Week - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 10:07am

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group has been tracking the cyberespionage group as UNC6508 since early 2025.

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Show HN: ThreadPage – Discord Alternative, but Forums

Hacker News - Mon, 06/15/2026 - 10:02am

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