Hacker News

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration GPT-6 Astra Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer IBM Bob .name Termination Getting Started with AT Protocol The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI Elevator of the Year Winner Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region Ok, but does it scale?

Bleeping Computer

IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers Critical Citrix NetScaler auth bypass now leveraged in attacks Microsoft says some users can’t open the Teams desktop client 39 New Methods That Compromise Passkey Authentication New CrowdStrike 'FalconFlank' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges Exchange Online outage causes email delays, 'Server busy' errors Google warns of new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in attacks French hospital fined €500,000 after breach exposes data of 727,000 Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules HPE patches critical ArubaOS-CX remote code execution flaw Microsoft: KB5120998 mouse reset bug affects only non-English PCs OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down ahead of 'Astra' model launch Anthropic confirms Claude is down, multiple models affected Critical Elementor Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites Your Employee’s Password Appeared in an Infostealer Log. Now What?

Ars Technica

Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo Supreme Court urged to let states regulate sports bets on prediction markets Trump’s 100% tariff on drones will be disaster for the US, critics warn Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blocking Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed" “Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead. Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Slashdot

Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings Apple Sued For $2.7 Billion Over App Tracking Transparency Rules Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling Google Defeats US Bid to Force Ad Tech Sale FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways California Lawmakers Greenlight Solar Panels You Can Plug Into the Wall Trump Tells FCC To Punish Journalist For Calling His Election Results 'Mixed' FTC Sues Amazon, Accusing the E-Commerce Giant of Misleading Advertisers Kalshi Dishes Out Its First-Ever Lifetime Ban to George Santos California's Age Verification Bill Passes with Linux Exemption Intact Gamescom Crime Spree? Three Exhibitors Report Their Laptops Were Stolen Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court

Events

The Verge

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 Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA VI leaks Meta glasses are a workplace menace OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what? OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

Cipher Brief

The New Economics of Warfare: David vs Goliath The Nuclear Umbrella is Bent, Not Broken The Cost of Squandering America’s Reputation Blowing up Boats: The Numbing Effect of Repetitive Illegality The Vatican’s Quiet Intelligence Diplomacy America Is Buying an Army It Cannot Command The Cultural Roots of Strategic Surprise and Resilience: the Israeli case of October 2023 The Growing Cost of Keeping U.S. Submarines Idle Ukraine Is No Longer the Country Russia Thought It Was What Six Years as an Iran Hostage Taught Me About the Regime Lebanon’s Hezbollah Finance Crackdown May Be Designed to Fail Foreign Spies Don’t Need to Hack You Anymore Modernizing the Aircraft Carrier—By Returning to 20th-Century Technology? Hyping Nuclear Threats Is Counterproductive It’s Time to Reengage North Korea

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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