Hacker News

Anthropic acquires Bun AI agents break rules under everyday pressure IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024) Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19 Paged Out Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025 Understanding ECDSA OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic Learning music with Strudel Amazon launches Trainium3 Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs All Sources of DirectX 12 Documentation Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer All about automotive lidar School cell phone bans and student achievement What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? (2024) Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music Delty (YC X25) Is Hiring 100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite Python Data Science Handbook Practical Intro to Operational Transformation Addressing the adding situation

Bleeping Computer

Korea arrests suspects selling intimate videos from hacked IP cameras FTC settlement requires Illuminate to delete unnecessary student data ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations dissapeared for users Shai-Hulud 2.0 NPM malware attack exposed up to 400,000 dev secrets Microsoft Defender portal outage disrupts threat hunting alerts Cybercrime Goes SaaS: Renting Tools, Access, and Infrastructure North Korea lures engineers to rent identities in fake IT worker scheme Google fixes two Android zero days exploited in attacks, 107 flaws Fake Calendly invites spoof top brands to hijack ad manager accounts Microsoft: KB5070311 triggers File Explorer white flash in dark mode University of Pennsylvania confirms new data breach after Oracle hack Windows 11 KB5070311 update fixes File Explorer freezes, search issues

Ars Technica

India orders device makers to put government-run security app on all phones Supreme Court hears case that could trigger big crackdown on Internet piracy OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide Tech firm’s new CTO gets indicted; company then claims he was never CTO Landlords’ go-to tool to set rent prices to be gutted under RealPage settlement DOGE “cut muscle, not fat”; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts Tech company CTO and others indicted for exporting Nvidia chips to China Keep your receipts: Tech firms told to prepare for possible tariff refunds Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification Trump revives unpopular Ted Cruz plan to punish states that impose AI laws Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it Faced with naked man, DoorDasher demands police action; they arrest her for illegal surveillance Meta wins monopoly trial, convinces judge that social networking is dead Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump’s university attacks US may owe $1 trillion in refunds if SCOTUS cancels Trump tariffs “How about no”: FCC boss Brendan Carr says he won’t end news distortion probes

Slashdot

San Francisco Will Sue Ultraprocessed Food Companies Apple To Resist India Order To Preload State-Run App As Political Outcry Builds Trump Administration To Take Equity Stake In Former Intel CEO's Chip Startup Supreme Court Hears Copyright Battle Over Online Music Piracy Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers To Build Its Surveillance AI Korea's Coupang Says Data Breach Exposed Nearly 34 Million Customers' Personal Information New York Now Requires Retailers To Tell You When AI Sets Your Price Two Former US Congressmen Announce Fundraising for Candidates Supporting AI Regulation 'Crime Rings Enlist Hackers To Hijack Trucks' What Happens When You Kick Millions of Teens Off Social Media? Australia's About to Find Out US Patent Office Issues New Guidelines For AI-Assisted Inventions Apple Asks Indian Court to Block Antitrust Law Allowing $38 Billion Fine Greek Cybercrime Unit Shuts Down IPTV Pirates, 68 End Users Face Fines OpenAI Says Dead Teen Violated TOS When He Used ChatGPT To Plan Suicide Texas Buys $5 Million In BTC ETF As States Edge Toward First Government Crypto Reserves

Events

The Verge

The VPN panic is only getting started Signal’s secure message backups arrive on iOS Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data The FCC is rolling back steps meant to stop a repeat of a massive telecom hack Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT Cloudflare shows internet outages aren’t a matter of if — but when X launches Chat, its new encrypted DMs Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats

The Cipher Brief

Second Strike, No Survivors: The Legal and Political Questions Around Trump’s Narco-Boat Killings The Kremlin's Kill List: Inside a Culture of State-Sponsored Murder ‘Mind-Blowing’ Pentagon Overhaul Will Reshape Acquisition A Real Life Example of Russian Information Operations The U.S. Needs to Restore Deterrence Credibility Against Putin Destroying Boats, Killing Crews, Escalating Risks: The Venezuela Gambit The Delhi Blast and Pakistan’s Proxy War: Why Another Clash Looks Likely Information Warfare The New Frontline Do Oil Sanctions Still Work? The Human Algorithm: Why Disinformation Outruns Truth and What It Means for Our Future

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

All the books I reviewed in 2025 Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings Normie diffusion and technophilia O Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" Cooking in Maximum Security Boss preppers The long game Disney lost Roger Rabbit