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UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A "Car Wash" test with 53 models The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras Ladybird adopts Rust Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app 'Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity: Ancient DNA study Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel A simple web we own Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran Hadrius (YC W23) Is Hiring Designers Who Code Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 Generalized Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Families of Hypotheses [pdf] Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go Show HN: Fostrom, an IoT Cloud Platform built for developers The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard What Is a Centipawn Advantage?

Bleeping Computer

Microsoft says bug in classic Outlook hides the mouse pointer Ad tech firm Optimizely confirms data breach after vishing attack When identity isn’t the weak link, access still is CISA: Recently patched RoundCube flaws now exploited in attacks Arkanix Stealer pops up as short-lived AI info-stealer experiment Predator spyware hooks iOS SpringBoard to hide mic, camera activity Amazon: AI-assisted hacker breached 600 Fortinet firewalls in 5 weeks Japanese tech giant Advantest hit by ransomware attack CISA: BeyondTrust RCE flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks Data breach at French bank registry impacts 1.2 million accounts Why the shift left dream has become a nightmare for security and developers PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months Mississippi medical center closes all clinics after ransomware attack FBI: Over $20 million stolen in surge of ATM malware attacks in 2025 Ukrainian gets 5 years for helping North Koreans infiltrate US firms

Ars Technica

AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links Supreme Court blocks Trump's emergency tariffs, billions in refunds may be owed Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was "meant for greatness"—then came psychosis Verizon acknowledges "pain" of new unlock policy, suggests change is coming Lawsuit: EPA revoking greenhouse gas finding risks “thousands of avoidable deaths” Inside the DHS forum where ICE agents trash talk one another Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat Warner Bros. rejects Paramount again but asks for "best and final offer" EU launches probe into xAI over sexualized images Best Buy worker used manager’s code to get 99% off MacBooks, cops say ByteDance backpedals after Seedance 2.0 turned Hollywood icons into AI “clip art” Michigan antitrust lawsuit says oil companies hobbled EVs and renewables Aided by AI, California beach town broadens hunt for bike lane blockers Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say

Slashdot

Telegram Disputes Russia's Claim Its Encryption Was Compromised Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums DNA Technology Convicts a 64-Year-Old for Murdering a Teenager in 1982 Pro-Gamer Consumer Movement 'Stop Killing Games' Will Launch NGOs in America and the EU America's Peace Corps Announces 'Tech Corps' Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries US Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Global Tariffs How Private Equity Debt Left a Leading VPN Open To Chinese Hackers New York Drops Plan To Legalize Robotaxis Outside NYC US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere California's New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves OpenClaw Security Fears Lead Meta, Other AI Firms To Restrict Its Use IRS Loses 40% of IT Staff, 80% of Tech Leaders In 'Efficiency' Shakeup Mark Zuckerberg Grilled On Usage Goals and Underage Users At California Trial EPA Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda

Events

The Verge

The AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster Texas is suing TP-Link over its ties to China Microsoft fixes Notepad flaw that could trick users into clicking malicious Markdown links Microsoft is keeping Secure Boot alive with Windows updates Substack data breach exposed users’ emails and phone numbers OpenClaw’s AI ‘skill’ extensions are a security nightmare Google Cloud’s customer chief returns to Microsoft as head of security Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China

The Cipher Brief

Killing Mencho Tracing the Evolution of Russian Hybrid Warfare Alliances, Ukraine, and China’s Growing Challenge Washington’s Venezuelan Gamble: The Old Guard’s Continued Grip on Power Defending the Homeland: Pentagon Shifts Strategy on Drone Threats How Cuba's Infrastructure Crisis Is Opening the Door to Foreign Intelligence Networks Media Literacy Isn’t Enough Anymore From the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Precedent Problem in U.S. Inside the High-Stakes U.S. Pressure Campaign on Iran Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U.S. Decision Systems

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Deplatform yourself A perforated corporate veil Six Years of Pluralistic What's a "gig work minimum wage" The online community trilemma Trump antitrust is dead Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world The Nuremberg Caucus The Epstein class and collapse porn