Hacker News

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats Bulk Orders Surge at Used Bookstores in Japan; 50 Tons Sent to U.S. Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy The mystery animal on an ancient god's head OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech Jev in 25 Lines of Python The Curious Power of Punctuation Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol Show HN: An atlas of system designs with interactive architecture diagrams Tokens too cheap to meter

Bleeping Computer

Placeholder domain used in dev docs now serves ClickFix attacks New RemControl Android banking malware targets users in Europe and Canada Check Point warns of hackers exploiting Security Gateway VPN RCE flaw Hackers start exploiting critical WordPress flaw for code execution Malicious AI agents steal 600K credit cards, infect 100+ sites with skimmers InfraTrust report warns network management systems under attack How One Kubernetes YAML Can Hand Over a GCP Organization Arista patches actively exploited VeloCloud Orchestrator zero-day Microsoft: September Windows updates break Always On VPN connections Ryuk ransomware member sentenced to 24 months in prison F5 patches BIG-IP APM zero-day flaw exploited in RCE attacks Rogue external MFA providers can steal passwords during logins Sweden fines Miljödata $183,000 over breach affecting 2.2 million Chinese hackers exploit WordPress, Zyxel flaws to steal govt data ShinyHunters claims FBI hack, data theft in PeopleSoft zero-day breach

Ars Technica

Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash Cities across US oppose Trump FCC plan to preempt local broadband rules Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting Trump’s sneaky plan to gut Endangered Species Act draws from 1995 Scalia dissent Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants California settles lawsuit against Paramount/Warner merger, angering advocates FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious" Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history” Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plants Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in them California may gut state net neutrality law to comply with Trump admin demand It’s OK to tell ICE their actions will haunt them, judge rules in speech fight Lawmakers target Flock cameras with a threat to highway funding

Slashdot

Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed 'Super Intelligence' in US Documents Australia Considers Smart Glasses Ban in Government Workplaces, While 70 People Sue Meta Over Unknowing Data Collection North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State' To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump's 'AI Force' Proposal Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees Will California Gut Its Net Neutrality Law to Comply with Trump Admin Demands? Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Fails Spectacularly, Despite Hundreds of Millions in Industry Lobbying Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg' No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage 220 Million Traveler Records Exposed In Vietnam-Linked APIS Leak

Events

The Verge

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI 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

Cipher Brief

When Threats Move Faster Than Institutions AI Is Coming for the Chain of Command Putin Is Testing the West’s Resolve The Nations That Don’t Appear on the Map The Military’s Race to Operationalize AI The Authority We Cannot Keep Heads They Win, Tails They Win: The CMMC Trap and the Way Out How America Appeased Putin Will Physical AI Underpin the Reindustrialization Win that Western Allies Need? How China Is Building an Architecture of Control Across the Heart of Asia Dark Transits are a Stopgap not a Solution The Houthis’ Coastal Gambit 65 Billion Barrels Is Only the Beginning The Bells are Ringing Again, and This Time Sweden is Inside the Alliance We Are In An Unpredictable War Of Attrition

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs (22 Sep 2026) The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) Textured (18 Sep 2026) On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026) How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026) But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026) LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026) Anti-vax/anti-trust (09 Sep 2026) 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)