Hacker News

eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business What's Getting Pwned Crystal 1.22.0 Is Released What Is Gridifcation Jailbreaking the Switch 2 Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms VMMouse for NT 3.x: QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf] Security Disclosure The painter behind Manhattan’s Gilded Age interiors

Bleeping Computer

Machine speed attacks require machine speed detection and response Amazon says PHP2Shell exploitation began 4 days before patches GitLab warns of new max severity code execution vulnerability Authorities disrupt nearly 11,000 cybercrime networks in Africa Google Chrome adds Gemini-powered scam detection, warns users of ClickFix attacks Japan's Onamae Desktop Cloud hacked, up to 27,000 servers affected Lazarus hackers use post-quantum cryptography for malware delivery CISA: Hackers chain Plex flaws in Plex2Shell attacks to breach servers OpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about it PHP ships emergency patches for critical PHP2Shell flaws ClickFix has never been bigger, and AI tools are its most convincing lure yet Microsoft PowerToys adds CursorHide, Button Lock mouse tools Microsoft says October updates didn’t actually fix VPN issues CISA: SafePay ransomware hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs Stolen UpdraftCentral keys used to backdoor WordPress sites

Ars Technica

UN says we're going to blow past 1.5º warming, offers a "now what?" answer FCC chair warns media not to run the "fake polls" Trump keeps complaining about Report: Musk ordered Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, then blamed it on Trump Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash TP-Link tries to appease Trump admin with pledge to assemble routers in US Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs Accused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI says Florida DMV hacked after police dept insecurely stored login info Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution

Slashdot

More Than 1.5 Million Canadian Crime Stoppers Tips Leaked Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion for Deceiving Users About Privacy On Facebook Judge Orders Meta To Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting Anna's Archive, Libgen DHS Lied About Why It Wanted To Search Activist's GrapheneOS Phone Meta Muse Exposes Users' Personal, Business Secrets When They Share Conversations US Bans DeepSeek From Government Use TP-Link Moves to Assemble Routers In the US Following Import Ban Trump DHS Officials Asked CISA To Secretly Aquire and Hack a Voting Machine Florida DMV Hacked After Police Dept Insecurely Stored Login Info New Video Game Law Proposed: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It' Planned UK Data Center Delayed Until 2030s Over Power Grid Delays. Microsoft Pulls Out More Details on Arrested Saudi OpenAI Employee, Who is Seeking Release on Bail Saudi OpenAI Employee's Arrest Revives Fears US Tech Companies Are Hiring Spies Does a Universal Basic Income Bring Long-Term Changes? Court Agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility

Events

The Verge

1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system A critical PHP vulnerability may take websites down today Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find AI chats on the web Chrome will now show a warning before you visit ‘suspicious’ sites A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents An Israeli firm is sending spyware through online ads, researchers say

Cipher Brief

Hybrid Threats: Why Awareness Must Transcend Individual Cyberattacks America's Counter-Drone Authority Is Real, The Capacity Isn't Yet The U.S. Army’s Pacific Strategy Depends on Allies The Hidden Risks of AI-Powered Intelligence What a Russian Hybrid Attack Might Look Like Muhammad bin Salman’s Humbling and the Return of the Ottomans The Day We Cannot Choose How Far Should the U.S. Go to Defend Saudi Arabia? Who Really Makes Decisions in Tehran? The Soviet Roots of Russia’s Modern Disinformation War Europe’s Changing Politics and the Future of U.S. Leadership What Beijing Calls Open, Washington Should Call an Operation Washington Cannot Outsource Saudi Security to the Mecca Pact The Next War of Attrition is in Yemen The Pentagon’s Drone Revolution Starts With Soldiers

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Adversarial interoperability is a team sport (21 Oct 2026) The death of history's most successful publisher (20 Oct 2026) The technopolitics of ad-tech (19 Oct 2026) Israeli ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware" (17 Oct 2026) Load-bearing (16 Oct 2026) Expedia amazoned hotel rooms (15 Oct 2026) Bundestrojaner (13 Oct 2026) How labor rights rescued Ultima from a monopolist (12 Oct 2026) Thwarted (09 Oct 2026) Disloyalty (07 Oct 2026) Swapping money for expertise (06 Oct 2026) Scrutinized (05 Oct 2026) Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026) Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026) Lindsay Owens's "Gouged" (29 Sep 2026)