Hacker News

What will enter the public domain in 2026? Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf] India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard Tom Stoppard has died Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions Notes on Bhutan Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025) Arcee Trinity Mini: US-Trained Moe Model Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020) Tested: 1981 Datsun 280ZX Turbo (1981) Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI Google unkills JPEG XL? AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads The Penicillin Myth Shrinking While Linking Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026 John Giannandrea to retire from Apple A Bus Ride and the (At Least) 3x UX FAILs Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs Dark Corners of Unicode (2015) Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) A vector graphics workstation from the 70s Durin is a library for reading and writing the Dwarf debugging format

Bleeping Computer

Glassworm malware returns in third wave of malicious VS Code packages SmartTube YouTube app for Android TV breached to push malicious update Microsoft says new Outlook can't open some Excel attachments Retail giant Coupang data breach impacts 33.7 million customers When Hackers Wear Suits: Protecting Your Team from Insider Cyber Threats ShadyPanda browser extensions amass 4.3M installs in malicious campaign Google deletes X post after getting caught using a ‘stolen’ AI recipe infographic Police takes down Cryptomixer cryptocurrency mixing service Japanese beer giant Asahi says data breach hit 1.5 million people Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out Man behind in-flight Evil Twin WiFi attacks gets 7 years in prison Microsoft: Windows updates make password login option invisible

Ars Technica

Supreme Court hears case that could trigger big crackdown on Internet piracy OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide Tech firm’s new CTO gets indicted; company then claims he was never CTO Landlords’ go-to tool to set rent prices to be gutted under RealPage settlement DOGE “cut muscle, not fat”; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts Tech company CTO and others indicted for exporting Nvidia chips to China Keep your receipts: Tech firms told to prepare for possible tariff refunds Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification Trump revives unpopular Ted Cruz plan to punish states that impose AI laws Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it Faced with naked man, DoorDasher demands police action; they arrest her for illegal surveillance Meta wins monopoly trial, convinces judge that social networking is dead Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump’s university attacks US may owe $1 trillion in refunds if SCOTUS cancels Trump tariffs “How about no”: FCC boss Brendan Carr says he won’t end news distortion probes US spy satellites built by SpaceX send signals in the “wrong direction”

Slashdot

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers To Build Its Surveillance AI Korea's Coupang Says Data Breach Exposed Nearly 34 Million Customers' Personal Information New York Now Requires Retailers To Tell You When AI Sets Your Price Two Former US Congressmen Announce Fundraising for Candidates Supporting AI Regulation 'Crime Rings Enlist Hackers To Hijack Trucks' What Happens When You Kick Millions of Teens Off Social Media? Australia's About to Find Out US Patent Office Issues New Guidelines For AI-Assisted Inventions Apple Asks Indian Court to Block Antitrust Law Allowing $38 Billion Fine Greek Cybercrime Unit Shuts Down IPTV Pirates, 68 End Users Face Fines OpenAI Says Dead Teen Violated TOS When He Used ChatGPT To Plan Suicide Texas Buys $5 Million In BTC ETF As States Edge Toward First Government Crypto Reserves Warner Music Group Partners With Suno To Offer AI Likenesses of Its Artists Google Maps Will Let You Hide Your Identity When Writing Reviews CISA Warns Spyware Crews Are Breaking Into Signal and WhatsApp Accounts Trump Launches Genesis Mission, a Manhattan Project-Level AI Push

Events

The Verge

The VPN panic is only getting started Signal’s secure message backups arrive on iOS Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data The FCC is rolling back steps meant to stop a repeat of a massive telecom hack Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT Cloudflare shows internet outages aren’t a matter of if — but when X launches Chat, its new encrypted DMs Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats

The Cipher Brief

‘Mind-Blowing’ Pentagon Overhaul Will Reshape Acquisition A Real Life Example of Russian Information Operations The U.S. Needs to Restore Deterrence Credibility Against Putin Destroying Boats, Killing Crews, Escalating Risks: The Venezuela Gambit The Delhi Blast and Pakistan’s Proxy War: Why Another Clash Looks Likely Information Warfare The New Frontline Do Oil Sanctions Still Work? The Human Algorithm: Why Disinformation Outruns Truth and What It Means for Our Future Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory I Was Cheney's CIA Briefer: This is the Dick Cheney I Knew

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings Normie diffusion and technophilia O Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" Cooking in Maximum Security Boss preppers The long game Disney lost Roger Rabbit The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury