Hacker News

Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948 LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games Win16 Memory Management Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025) Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4× Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski (Audio Interview) Public Domain Image Archive How Long Does It Take for a QQuickItem to Become Visible? My Software North Star The best relationships are all-encompassing. Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models There's no escaping it: an exploration of ANSI codes Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time Biohub releases a world model of protein biology Arithmetic Without Numbers – How LLMs Do Math

Bleeping Computer

C0XMO botnet spreads via DD-WRT router flaw, kills rival malware Silent Ransom Group targets law firms with fake IT support calls Critical Everest Forms Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites Suspicious Polyfill login prompts pop up on Toshiba, Muji websites CISA: Hackers now exploit SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to crash servers Chinese APT deploys new malware to keep access to hacked networks Dark web Nemesis Market vendor gets 26 years for selling drugs Over 900 US gas station tank gauge systems exposed to attacks What 2026 DBIR Confirms: Attacks Are Living in the Browser Cisco warns of unpatched SD-WAN zero-day exploited in attacks Brave Software releases Origin for a paid, bloat-free browsing experience Hola Browser for Windows compromised to deliver cryptominer Credit card theft campaign abuses Stripe to host stolen payment info DentaQuest data breach exposed info of 2.6 million accounts UN food agency discloses breach affecting 600,000 Gaza households

Ars Technica

School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic "We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches Trump's DOE restarts energy rebate program with dumb conditions Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman after multiple ChatGPT-linked murders Environmentalists turn out in force to oppose Trump coal ash rollbacks Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC DOJ sues states that rejected ICE requests for undercover license plates

Slashdot

Reddit Ads Impersonate BBC and The Guardian to Push Fake AI Investment Schemes Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders And Sam Altman Are All Talking About Public Ownership In AI Teen Social Media Bans Risk Strengthening Big Tech's Dominance, Warns Bluesky Exec Criticisms Rise Before Vote on America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Utah Residents Sue Officials Over Kevin O'Leary Data Center Plan GOV.UK Goes Dutch On Payments As It Dumps Stripe Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration On Federal Regulation of Telecom Companies Meta Workers Can Opt Out of Workplace Tracking for Up to 30 Minutes Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System European Parliament Ditches Google For French Search Firm Russian Spy Agency Says Foreign Spies Turned Officials' Smartphones Into Surveillance Devices Trump Signs AI Executive Order Asking Companies To Give Government Early Access To Models Adafruit Pauses Blog After Demand Letter From Flux.ai's Lawyers The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid Hackers Simply Asked Meta's AI To Take Over High-Profile Instagram Accounts

Events

The Verge

Benn Jordan longs for the days of tech that didn’t spy on you Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name Microsoft is threatening legal action for disclosing exploits Gemini for Google Home can now use your cameras to trigger automations Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’ GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft

The Cipher Brief

Alex Younger: An Unusually Likeable Human Being, And A Spy Remembering Alex Younger: The Intelligence Chief Who Shaped a Generation Can the Pentagon’s New Innovation System Deliver? Why the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose Intelligence Partners Radical Empathy: The Counterintuitive Skill That Made Me Better at Everything Else China’s Uneasy Partnerships With Russia and North Korea From Terror Networks to Hybrid Threats: A Partner Approach to a Growing Threat Put the Next Generation to Work: Digital Transformation Has Only Just Begun Invisible Conflict: Defending Against Hybrid Non-Kinetic Warfare Deterrence Is Not Enough in the Age of Synthetic Asymmetry

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Criticizing the everything machine Refining humanity Delusion as a service The tedious power of storytelling Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' Carneyism without Carney Hold on for dear life AI and a world without migrants The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble No honor among