Hacker News

The $8 Linux Computer (2022) Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7 Libghostty 1.0 Running a law firm on Free software British Library Legal deposit and web archiving How Long Can Life Wait? Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside console.log Building the NBC News Big Board Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production ToothPaste Tasfer: a text editor drawn on a 2D canvas A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost Show HN: Spindle – a full-featured, type-safe web framework for OCaml 5

Bleeping Computer

Hackers pull off $133 million French bank heist via service provider CTM360 Exposes Fake Gift Card Scams Exploiting Trusted Brands SonicWall warns of new SSL-VPN MFA bypass flaw exploited in attacks Runaway AI hacking agent behind WorkOS breach after escaping sandbox OpenAI's new GPT-6 Cyber AI finds 81 Firefox flaws, 948 Linux bugs Fake security tools on GitHub push backdoors and infostealers QNAP says hackers breaching NAS devices in Plex2Shell attacks Veeam warns of Software Appliance boot failures on AMD EPYC hosts IMSI vs IMEI: What Your Phone Broadcasts and Who Can Read It Chainalysis says breach exposed credentials for all customers D-Link warns of multiple zero-days in DGS-3130 Series switches MetaMask says recent attack didn't affect wallet infrastructure FBI, CISA warn of cyberattacks targeting refrigeration systems Fake OpenAI, SpaceX events used to steal Microsoft, Google accounts Nearly 1.5 million exposed secrets targeted in new revocation program

Ars Technica

FAA to finally ditch floppy disks in what it calls "historic" tech upgrade “Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang summoned by Congress over Chinese espionage concerns Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder. Kalshi court losses pile up as judges refuse to block state gambling laws Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech” After Texas' blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? Ted Cruz aims to stack FCC with Republicans before Democrats take Senate control California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms Trump wanted to give No Kings no air. Then, Meta suspended its Instagram. EPA throws in the towel on policing air pollution from factory farms Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine

Slashdot

Mexico's Senate Approves ISP Rules To Disconnect Persistent Online Pirates Chainalysis Says Breach Exposed Credentials For All Customers Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Summoned By Congress Over Chinese Espionage Concerns FAA Phases Out Floppy Disks From Air Traffic Control Applebee's Exposed Customers' Personal Data After Leaving Database Password In App Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House? 3M To Pay Over $7 Billion To Settle 'Forever Chemical' Groundwater Claims Vietnam Jails Pirate Football Streamers For Up To a Year Axon Sued Over AI-Powered License Plate Reader Network French Blood Banks Hit Alongside Cyberattack On European Supermarkets Democrats Take Control of US Congress As Voters Reject Trump's Republicans EU Court Advisor Warns Google AI Chatbot May Breach Copyright Rules Study Claims Vizio Simply Ignores 'Smart' TV Spying Opt Out Requests The New York Times Sues Brave Web Browser For AI Scraping, Bypassing Paywalls Bad Flock Info Leads Police To Tow Wrong Car, Then Towing Company Totals It

Events

The Verge

AI broke the cybersecurity world. What’s next? Just about anyone can rent access to White House IP addresses One of Google’s Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet More European supermarkets are getting their freezers hacked Binance hackers stole $6.3 billion in record-breaking crypto heist A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web 1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them

Cipher Brief

China's Return to One-Man Rule In Its Race to Field AI, The Pentagon’s Testing Can’t Keep Up The Missing Dimension of Cyber Preparedness BLUF: The Next AI Problem for Intelligence Is Not the Model, It's the Manager Fire Base Australia: Can America’s Southern Base Sustain a Pacific War? The Coming Age of Robotic Warfare The Hidden Cost of America’s War With Iran The Command We Must Start The Cipher Brief’s 10th Threat Conference: Optimism, Urgency, and the Imperative to Act The Kids are Alright: U.S. Soft Power, Aid, and Youth in Africa F-35 Fallacy: Jets Alone Will Not Save Us The U.S. Military Has Much to Learn From Ukraine The Terms We Must Set The Thirteenth Mile: This Is What Gray Zone War Looks Like The Intelligence Community’s Missing Discipline

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine's "Against Tech Oligarchy" (07 Nov 2026) Without CDA 230, Facebook will own the internet forever (05 Nov 2026) The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app (04 Nov 2026) Separable (03 Nov 2026) Autodoxing (02 Nov 2026) Formalities (31 Oct 2026) Agents vs ecommerce (28 Oct 2026) History is something you do (27 Oct 2026) Sovereign citizens, but for news (26 Oct 2026) Critique and writing (23 Oct 2026) 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)