Hacker News

OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber Advertise in ChatGPT "Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa An Engineer's Guide to USB Type-C [pdf] Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting Recreating the math behind the first stealth aircraft Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored The Birth of Prolog (1996) 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling

Bleeping Computer

Police dismantle Kratos phishing platform, arrest developer FakeGit campaign uses 7,600 GitHub repos to push SmartLoader malware Critical SharePoint RCE flaw exploited to steal machine keys Anubis ransomware claims Coca-Cola Fairlife attack, threatens data leak Critical wp2shell WordPress flaws exploited to install webshells Closing the Identity Gaps in Critical Infrastructure Security US seizes over 1,000 websites in FIFA World Cup piracy crackdown Critical Palo Alto VPN bug now exploited by Qilin ransomware gang Microsoft shares manual fix for WSUS sync delays and timeouts Windows LegacyHive zero-day flaw gets free, unofficial patches Estée Lauder discloses data breach via Oracle E-Business flaw SonicWall SMA1000 flaws exploited as zero-days to push custom malware Hackers steal $23.7 million in crypto from Ostium in off-chain attack Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity hit by sandbox escapes JadePuffer agentic attacks now target AI model data with ransomware

Ars Technica

Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out DA: Cop covered bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his iPhone—but other cams caught him Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states AT&T loses key ruling in bid to stop offering basic phone service in California AliExpress hit with record $625M fine after failing to make EU-ordered fixes San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users. Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry

Slashdot

Judge Approves $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement Over Pirated Books Used To Train Claude AT&T Loses Key Ruling In Bid To Stop Offering Basic Phone Service In California Judge Pauses Paramount-Warner Bros Merger Hackers Are Exploiting Recently Patched WordPress Bugs, Putting Millions of Websites at Risk New Free Speech Concern: When AI Chatbots Won't Criticize Leaders from Repressive Regimes California's 'Truth in Recycling' Law Blocked by Judge France Orders ISPs to Block Access to Polymarket How Microsoft's 'Little Workaround' Created a Major Threat to America's Defense Department Next UK Prime Minister Drops Digital ID Scheme FBI Arrests Man Accused of Using Steam Games To Drain Victims' Crypto Wallets Apple Sends Legal Letters To Dozens of OpenAI Employees 1Password Lets Claude Use Credentials Without Exposing Passwords Book Publishers Sue Google For Copyright Infringement Over Gemini AI Training FCC Plans To Repeal 39% TV Ownership Cap Google and Epic Cancel Settlement; Third-Party App Stores Coming To Google Play

Events

The Verge

Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos Microsoft’s biggest ever patch Tuesday lets you hold off updating for longer Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House The FBI built a small town to simulate cyberattacks Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet Valve is phasing out physical Steam gift cards due to scammers

Cipher Brief

The $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Without a Strategy Ankara's Charm Offensive Should Not Buy Back the F-35 25 Years After 9/11, the Next Global Shock Could be Worse Winning Battles, Losing Strategy: Why Military Superiority No Longer Guarantees Victory Cold War 2.0 Will Be Won by Private Capital The Pentagon Built a Faster Engine, Nobody Built the Steering The West Must Tell Russians the Truth About the War A Master List of Espionage Targets, Suspected Spies, and Potential Recruits Afghanistan Lost the Cognitive War Before It Lost the State Washington’s Spy Ring and Paine’s Democracy Inside the $87.6 Billion Iran War Supplemental America’s Military Plans Depend on Infrastructure It Doesn’t Secure Trump’s Dangerous Bet on Pakistan’s Army Chief America’s Export Controls Are Becoming a Strategic Liability The Front Line of the AI Race Runs Through Your Company's Chat Logs

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