Hacker News

Muse Spark Open New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing Neural networks are clean What I Self-Host E Ink Kaleido 4 Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware Jev meets the Trolley Problem Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999) Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend

Bleeping Computer

Hackers exploit Collabora RCE flaw to backdoor Nextcloud servers Android gets AI defenses against messaging scams, fake calls Hackers hijack D-Link, Ubiquiti devices to resell your stolen bandwidth Fake Arch Linux packages push malware with root privileges Is AI pentesting as good as a human pentester? Microsoft: Windows Server 2022 reached end of mainstream support Police arrests 95 suspects in international CSAM crackdown action Microsoft fixes bug causing Windows black screens, Explorer crashes UK Legal Aid Agency: Hackers stole records dating back to 1978 Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks FBI raids DPRK IT worker laptop farms in Texas, US nationals arrested Ledger asks sellers across Asia to halt sales after supply-chain attack Cisco patches new Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks Microsoft fixes VPN issues caused by September Windows updates The Blind Spots of Agentic Pentesting and How to Close Them

Ars Technica

Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax” Schools across US protest FCC plan that could disconnect kids from Internet Georgia man sues Flock, sheriff's office over alleged ALPR-fueled retaliation Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think. Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches

Slashdot

Flock CEO Defends Surveillance Tech Amid National Backlash Amazon Launches New Bee 'Personal AI' Devices That Listen to Conversations Schools Across US Protest FCC Plan That Could Disconnect Kids From Internet Eight US States Sue OpenAI, Claiming ChatGPT Harms Young Users Google Is Silently Linking Your Phone Number Across All Signed-In Accounts FBI Arrests Saudi OpenAI Employee For Planting Recording Device In Conference Room Disney Offers $20 Million For Character.AI Assets As Startup Files For Bankruptcy Ledger Confirms Spy Chip Implant Behind Wallet Crypto Thefts FBI Arrests Canadian Cybersecurity Expert In ShinyHunters Hacking Case Hackers Heat French Supermarket Fridges, Sparking Fires and Spoiling Food Should We Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock? A College Told Flock to Remove Its Cameras. The Company Refused. US Agency To Rewrite Rules To Finally Address Vehicle Headlight Glare AI Execs Game Out 'Political Revolt' after a Catastrophic AI Event OpenAI Disrupts Two AI-Enabled 'False Front' Influence Operations That Included Seven Fake Journalists

Events

The Verge

Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents An Israeli firm is sending spyware through online ads, researchers say Your secrets aren’t safe with this cute robot toy — they’re on Chinese servers ready to be hacked Microsoft and Japan took down a cybercrime network behind over a billion scam messages Android is using AI to suss out scammers in Google Messages Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is alarming deja vu The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects A Trump Mobile breach may have exposed data of more than 3,600 people Suspected ShinyHunters leader arrested in the Netherlands

Cipher Brief

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 America’s Military Has a GPS Problem Subterranean Warfare - An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner The Sanctions We Cannot Afford How Ukraine’s Ground Robots Are Changing the Battlefield The Next Drone Won't Have a Radio Link, Our Intelligence Enterprise Needs to Plan for That Now The Future of Iran Lies Beyond the Regime How War Starts: A Warning from the Korean DMZ How America Wins the AI Race With Open Source Unique Risks of AI Adoption in Developing Economies Hegseth’s Vision for a New American Military Election Security: Keeping Our Disagreements Our Own

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