Hacker News

Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux Kitty 0.50 Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers Jelly Sheet Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts) Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot The lost malloc() The Internals of PostgreSQL C++26 Disapproved Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels

Bleeping Computer

Hackers use n-day exploits in zero-click attacks on iOS, Android devices Hackers hijack cPGuard autoupdate to deploy backdoor, steal data WorkOS says attacker used ARTEX AI to breach internal sales app Binance says fake job interview led to $6.3 billion crypto heist Google: LLMjacking attacks rack up $1 million in cloud AI charges Barracuda warns of critical flaws allowing root access to devices Gartner Predicts SOCs Will Have 50% More Engineers Than Analysts by 2028 UK school estate hit by 3AM ransomware in suspected AI-assisted attack Police seizes over 100 servers in investment scam crackdown Google adds new $250,000 Cloud VRP reward for Root-in-Cloud bugs Harvard University data breach exposed info of 851,000 accounts Chinese hackers use ARTEX AI in automated attacks against 200 orgs Fintech platform Sageworks taken offline after suspected cyberattack Google disrupts million-device XCPE Android malware botnet, bans TV box maker BTCPay Server warns of hot wallet crypto thefts on outdated instances

Ars Technica

California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms Trump wanted to give No Kings no air. Then, Meta suspended its Instagram. EPA throws in the towel on policing air pollution from factory farms Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine Trump ignored intel on China’s Nvidia spy to protect company’s stock, report says Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws Florida county won’t investigate sketchy Flock cameras removed by mystery owners "No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses US officials want Section 702 renewed before damaging court ruling goes public Musk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink terms with deadly drone strikes Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops

Slashdot

Democrats Take Control of US Congress As Voters Reject Trump's Republicans EU Court Advisor Warns Google AI Chatbot May Breach Copyright Rules Study Claims Vizio Simply Ignores 'Smart' TV Spying Opt Out Requests The New York Times Sues Brave Web Browser For AI Scraping, Bypassing Paywalls Bad Flock Info Leads Police To Tow Wrong Car, Then Towing Company Totals It College Students are Pushing Colleges to 'De-Flock' America's Clocks Are Still Falling Back Tonight Despite Trump's Daylight Saving Push Flock Reinstalled Its Cameras After Another City Canceled Its Contract Two US Senators Raise Privacy Concerns About Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Meta Settles Another Social Media Addiction Case Just Before Trial Thousands of 'Ghost Students' Use AI to Steal Millions In Student Loans, DOJ Says GM Reaches $220 Million Settlement Over Selling Drivers' Private Data Trump's CTFC Steps In to Defend Kalshi As Utah Brings Criminal Charges Against Execs Bank of America Kindly Asks That You Don't Share Your Password With Your AI Assistant Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers

Events

The Verge

One of Google’s Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet More European supermarkets are getting their freezers hacked Binance hackers stole $6.3 billion in record-breaking crypto heist A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web 1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today

Cipher Brief

BLUF: The Next AI Problem for Intelligence Is Not the Model, It's the Manager Fire Base Australia: Can America’s Southern Base Sustain a Pacific War? The Coming Age of Robotic Warfare The Hidden Cost of America’s War With Iran The Command We Must Start The Cipher Brief’s 10th Threat Conference: Optimism, Urgency, and the Imperative to Act The Kids are Alright: U.S. Soft Power, Aid, and Youth in Africa F-35 Fallacy: Jets Alone Will Not Save Us The U.S. Military Has Much to Learn From Ukraine The Terms We Must Set The Thirteenth Mile: This Is What Gray Zone War Looks Like The Intelligence Community’s Missing Discipline We’re Losing the Cognitive Space Race Russia Never Left the International Financial System. It Built a Way Back In. Turkey Has Outsourced Its Censorship to American Companies

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Cory Doctorow

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