Hacker News

De-Brainrot Vacations bzip3 Keep Our Servers Running Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics Splash-free urinals (2025) Live map of public transport in Belgium Simple Is Not Small Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices Impedance Matching (2017) Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32 Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

Bleeping Computer

BigBear Microsoft 365 phishing service bypassed MFA at 258 organizations Mathspace discloses data breach affecting over 1 million people Trezor data breach impact now reaches 81,000 customers ChatGPT can now connect to your personal apps to mimic writing style Hackers exploit new MikroTik RouterOS flaws to hijack routers ConnectWise warns of new ScreenConnect flaw without patch N-able patches max severity N-central flaw amid ongoing attacks ChatGPT Astra is now rolling out to $20 Plus subscription Attackers conceal phishing lures using invisible Unicode characters Over 5,400 hacked sites serve ClickFix payloads stored on the blockchain OpenAI admits it didn't disclose rogue AI wiki hijacking incident IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers Critical Citrix NetScaler auth bypass now leveraged in attacks Microsoft says some users can’t open the Teams desktop client 39 New Methods That Compromise Passkey Authentication

Ars Technica

Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo Supreme Court urged to let states regulate sports bets on prediction markets Trump’s 100% tariff on drones will be disaster for the US, critics warn 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

Slashdot

Bitcoin-based Liquid Network Says $320 Million Withdrawn in Hack US Military Disables Ad Trackers On Devices To Protect Troops Flock Offered Webinar Teaching Cops How to Surveil 'No Kings' Protesters UN Votes To Encourage Map Projections More Accurately Reflecting the True Size of Continents To Promote Grand Theft Auto 6, Mayor Might Transform Miami into 'Vice City' Hundreds More Flock Cameras Removed in the US This Week. Flock Caught Repackaging Traffic Data Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings Apple Sued For $2.7 Billion Over App Tracking Transparency Rules Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling 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'

Events

The Verge

Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki DJI’s new robovac can climb obstacles, vacuum quietly, and claims much improved privacy 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

Cipher Brief

A Former CIA Station Chief on Kyiv Under Drone Siege The New Economics of Warfare: David vs Goliath The Nuclear Umbrella is Bent, Not Broken The Cost of Squandering America’s Reputation 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

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026) Google skates (05 Sep 2026) Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026) Preparing for a post-Trump internet (03 Sep 2026) Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026) The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026) How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026) 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)