Hacker News

Email is tough: Major European Payment Processor's Emails aren't RFC-Compliant Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024) The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass The missing digit of Stela C Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it “Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks Using an engineering notebook Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025) Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists How to make a living as an artist Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78 HeyWhatsThat Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module Hologram v0.7.0: Milestone release for Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative RISC-V Vector Primer Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass NetNewsWire Turns 23 Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system Clay Christensen's Milkshake Marketing (2011) America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out Lance table format explained with simple animations The other Markov's inequality

Bleeping Computer

AMOS infostealer targets macOS through a popular AI app Fake AI Chrome extensions with 300K users steal credentials, emails Google says hackers are abusing Gemini AI for all attacks stages Apple fixes zero-day flaw used in 'extremely sophisticated' attacks Windows 11 Notepad flaw let files execute silently via Markdown links Microsoft Store Outlook add-in hijacked to steal 4,000 Microsoft accounts Crazy ransomware gang abuses employee monitoring tool in attacks Police arrest seller of JokerOTP MFA passcode capturing tool Proactive strategies for cyber resilience with Wazuh LummaStealer infections surge after CastleLoader malware campaigns Microsoft releases Windows 11 26H1 for select and upcoming CPUs New Linux botnet SSHStalker uses old-school IRC for C2 comms North Korean hackers use new macOS malware in crypto-theft attacks Malicious 7-Zip site distributes installer laced with proxy tool Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5075912 extended security update

Ars Technica

Trump orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site After Republican complaints, judicial body pulls climate advice Trump FCC investigates The View, reportedly says "fake news" will be punished Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case EU says TikTok needs to drop "addictive design" "ICE Out of Our Faces Act" would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites FBI stymied by Apple's Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist's iPhone Judge gives Musk bad news, says Trump hasn't intervened to block SEC lawsuit "Capture it all": ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters X office raided in France's Grok probe; Elon Musk summoned for questioning Upset at reports that he'd given up, Trump now wants $1B from Harvard Russian drones use Starlink, but Ukraine has plan to block their Internet access Court orders restart of all US offshore wind construction Judge rules Department of Energy's climate working group was illegal DOJ released Epstein files with dozens of nudes and victims' names, reports say

Slashdot

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Discord Tries To Walk Back Age Verification Panic, Says Most Users Won't Need Face Scans ByteDance Suspends Seedance 2 Feature That Turns Facial Photos Into Personal Voices Over Potential Risks Autodesk Takes Google To Court Over AI Movie Software Named 'Flow' Discord Will Require a Face Scan or ID for Full Access Next Month After Six Years, Two Pentesters Arrested in Iowa Receive $600,000 Settlement Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private White House Scraps 'Burdensome' Software Security Rules Former Google Engineer Found Guilty of Stealing AI Secrets For Chinese Firms Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account County Pays $600,000 To Pentesters It Arrested For Assessing Courthouse Security Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations

Events

The Verge

Microsoft fixes Notepad flaw that could trick users into clicking malicious Markdown links Microsoft is keeping Secure Boot alive with Windows updates Substack data breach exposed users’ emails and phone numbers OpenClaw’s AI ‘skill’ extensions are a security nightmare Google Cloud’s customer chief returns to Microsoft as head of security Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China OpenClaw: all the news about the trending AI agent WhatsApp’s new ‘lockdown’ settings add another layer of protection against cyberattacks

The Cipher Brief

Autonomy on the Battlefield Standing Up to a Spy: My Run-In with Aldrich Ames Russia’s Promises of Security Lead to Ukraine's Frontlines After New START: America Weighs a New Nuclear Strategy The Former Head of NSA on the Future of U.S. Cybersecurity Xi Jinping Tightens Grip as China’s Military Purge Deepens From Secrets to Sensors: Why Open Source Data Must Drive Modern Intelligence The Kremlin Files: Russian Double Agents and Operational Games EU Takes Aim at Tehran: IRGC Terror Listing Opens New Front in Europe’s Iran Policy Should Western Tech Giants Partner With Pro-Hamas Network Al Jazeera?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world The Nuremberg Caucus The Epstein class and collapse porn End of the line for video essays Luxury Kafka All laws are local Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World" Michael Swanwick's "The Universe Box" Stock swindles