Hacker News

hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate Scrap Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is NetBSD and My Life (2005) ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs Hister – A private, full content search index that you control RF Cafe How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt A Friendly Introduction to Racket typ.ing English ↔ Claudish Translator ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential?

Bleeping Computer

Hackers infect Android car head units with proxy botnet malware Named Pipes Under Attack: Securing Windows Interprocess Communication New SynkLoader malware pushed in Microsoft Teams phishing campaign Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts Microsoft blames Windows gaming issues on RGB lighting devices Is Online Privacy Possible? How Digital Identities Can Help Microsoft rolls out Classic Outlook theme for New Outlook users CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited TrueConf Server flaws Microsoft patches max severity code execution, privilege escalation flaws Hackers abuse FTP server banners to deliver new Windows malware SickKids data breach exposes employee and job applicant info Hackers poison arrayref Rust crate to push infostealer malware Critical Elementor Pro bug exposes WordPress sites to RCE attacks How MSPs can catch phishing attacks email filters miss Citrix urges admins to patch new NetScaler flaws as soon as possible

Ars Technica

Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers Personalized pricing is “abhorrent,” but FTC limits may increase costs, critics say As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies Disney sues FCC and its chair, escalating fight against Trump's chief censor As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals

Slashdot

Flock is Secretly Building a Powerful New Prompt-Based AI Tool for Police Firefox Announces Free VPN and 'Startpage' Search Engine Rolling Out to Android, iOS - Plus GeForce NOW Support Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges Man Dressed As Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council Voters Aren't Waiting For November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data Whistleblower Arturo Bejar Leads Testimony In Landmark Trial Against Meta Music Publisher Round Hill Files $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Suits Against Suno, Anthropic Disney, ABC Sue FCC Over Threats to Broadcast Licenses Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction

Events

The Verge

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 The fight over Flock and other ALPRs The Trump admin will start letting private firms launch international cyberattacks Meta adds AI screening to detect WhatsApp scams Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’ ‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts

Cipher Brief

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 Where Did Venezuela’s Oil Billions Go? Open-Source Intel Makes U.S. Troops an Easier Target for Iran Inside Iran’s New Wartime Leadership The Dollar's Next Battlefield Isn't a Country. It's Code. It is in the U.S. interest to Support Democratic Legitimacy in Venezuela It’s Time For The President To Level With The American People on Iran The Biggest AI Models Are Not the Biggest Threats How About Equipping Local Law Enforcement with a Better Anti-Drone Arsenal? How Ukraine Is Changing the Way the U.S. Army Fights The Houthis’ External and Internal Crises Converge: Can a Tactical Solution Fix a Strategic Problem? America, North Korea, and the Search for Peace

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Born on technology's third base (21 Aug 2026) The actual epistemic crisis (20 Aug 2026) The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026) IP can't save you from AI (18 Aug 2026) Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture' (17 Aug 2026) Capital formation (14 Aug 2026) Model collapse (12 Aug 2026) Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026) The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026) Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026) Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026) Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026) Post-American compute for a post-American Internet (04 Aug 2026) Dualism (03 Aug 2026) Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)