HN Daily - June 12, 2026

Friday roundup: If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort — the AI-slop pushback that owned the front page "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" — the cultural pressure to outsource thinking New CRISPR technique selectively shreds cancer cells, including previously undruggable cancers Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to spyware — probably to poison AI classifiers WASI 0.3 lands with async, sockets, and unified streams Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine Republik Twenty one zero-days disclosed in FFmpeg — CCTV, ingest, and transcoding pipelines exposed Bonus: Renault is shipping electric motors with no rare earth metals