Hacker News

Audacity 4.0 Pre-Release of Polars 2.0 The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive Invisible Companies Muse Spark 1.3 Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber What I Learned from My Mom (1941-2026) 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX Fish Bad, Sugar Good and Other Medieval Ideas About Food Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016) Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business The Computer Museum of America reclamation project Holden's Lightning Flight Intrusive Linked Lists

Bleeping Computer

Microsoft says KB5120998 Windows update resets desktop settings Plex warns users to patch security vulnerabilities immediately Microsoft Teams, Outlook fail to launch on ARM-based Windows PCs Hackers exploit Sangoma Switchvox flaw to deploy reverse shells WordPress backup plugin flaw exposes millions of sites to takeover attacks Hackers exploit critical JFrog Artifactory flaw to forge admin tokens Ransomware protection for MSPs: A 6-point checklist for faster recovery Dropbox accounts breached through Lenovo email verification flaw Microsoft Defender flags legitimate Google search links as malicious US charges Russian for infecting 80,000 freelancers with malware Sality botnet infrastructure dismantled in joint global takedown SonicWall warns of actively exploited SMA1000 zero-day flaws Hackers abuse Faronics Deploy admin tool to install ScreenConnect Aesto Health says data breach affects over 9.5 million patients Critical Langflow flaw exploited to steal OpenAI and AWS keys

Ars Technica

Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blocking Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed" “Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead. Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Slashdot

Google Defeats US Bid to Force Ad Tech Sale FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways California Lawmakers Greenlight Solar Panels You Can Plug Into the Wall Trump Tells FCC To Punish Journalist For Calling His Election Results 'Mixed' FTC Sues Amazon, Accusing the E-Commerce Giant of Misleading Advertisers Kalshi Dishes Out Its First-Ever Lifetime Ban to George Santos California's Age Verification Bill Passes with Linux Exemption Intact Gamescom Crime Spree? Three Exhibitors Report Their Laptops Were Stolen Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage? States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules

Events

The Verge

Microsoft is enabling a Windows 11 security feature that can hurt gaming performance The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility Florida blocks Flock cams on state highways Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA VI leaks Meta glasses are a workplace menace OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what? OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore

Cipher Brief

Blowing up Boats: The Numbing Effect of Repetitive Illegality The Vatican’s Quiet Intelligence Diplomacy America Is Buying an Army It Cannot Command The Cultural Roots of Strategic Surprise and Resilience: the Israeli case of October 2023 The Growing Cost of Keeping U.S. Submarines Idle Ukraine Is No Longer the Country Russia Thought It Was What Six Years as an Iran Hostage Taught Me About the Regime Lebanon’s Hezbollah Finance Crackdown May Be Designed to Fail Foreign Spies Don’t Need to Hack You Anymore Modernizing the Aircraft Carrier—By Returning to 20th-Century Technology? Hyping Nuclear Threats Is Counterproductive It’s Time to Reengage North Korea China’s Research Espionage Threat Is Hiding in Plain Sight Beyond Military Interoperability: The Coalition Challenge of Limited War The Return of the Essential Art: Electronic Warfare and the Lessons of the Russia-Ukraine War

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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