Hacker News

Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES Local AI needs to be the norm Traces Of Humanity Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer YC's Biggest Scandals What's a mathematician to do? (2010) Eight More 8-bit Era Microprocessors (2024) Idempotency is easy until the second request is different Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes Space Cadet Pinball on Linux Shunting-Yard Animation The One Dollar Counterfeiter Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem Think Linear Algebra (2023) Task Paralysis and AI Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only) 9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring The River Otter's Remarkable Comeback I’ve banned query strings GitHub is sinking The locals don't know SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites We see something that works, and then we understand it

Bleeping Computer

Hackers abuse Google ads, Claude.ai chats to push Mac malware Police shut down reboot of Crimenetwork marketplace, arrest admin JDownloader site hacked to replace installers with Python RAT malware Fake OpenAI repository on Hugging Face pushes infostealer malware NVIDIA confirms GeForce NOW data breach affecting Armenian users Why More Analysts Won’t Solve Your SOC’s Alert Problem Trellix source code breach claimed by RansomHouse hackers CISA gives feds four days to patch Ivanti flaw exploited as zero-day Zara data breach exposed personal information of 197,000 people Former govt contractor convicted for wiping dozens of federal databases New Linux 'Dirty Frag' zero-day gives root on all major distros Canvas login portals hacked in mass ShinyHunters extortion campaign New TCLBanker malware self-spreads over WhatsApp and Outlook New PCPJack worm steals credentials, cleans TeamPCP infections Australia warns of ClickFix attacks pushing Vidar Stealer malware

Ars Technica

The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys ABC refuses to capitulate to Trump admin, fights FCC probe into The View Court rules Trump's 10% tariff is just as illegal as the tariff it replaced Elon Musk faces criminal probe in France after ignoring summons in X case DHS can’t create vast DNA database to track ICE critics, lawsuit says Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI founders to start AI unit inside Tesla Court strikes down FCC anti-discrimination rule opposed by Internet providers Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good Report: SpaceX IPO gives Musk unchecked power and forbids investor lawsuits OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury Character.AI sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license Trump SEC lets Musk settle $150 million Twitter lawsuit for $1.5 million DHS abuses 1930s customs law in attempt to get data on Canadian from Google Canadian election databases use "canary traps"—and they work GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it'll pay for it Musk’s “World War III” threat in Twitter lawsuit haunts him at OpenAI trial Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines Women sue the men who used their Instagram feeds to create AI porn influencers US falls below Ukraine in press freedom as global autocracy takes hold

Slashdot

GM Secretly Sold California Drivers' Data, Agrees to Pay $12.75M In Privacy Settlement The EU Considers Restricting Use of US Cloud Platforms for Sensitive Government Data Fiber Optic Cables Can Eavesdrop On Nearby Conversations Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data On the Open Web Pentagon Begins Releasing New Files On UFOs Sam Altman Had a Bad Day In Court 60% of MD5 Password Hashes Are Crackable In Under an Hour LinkedIn Profile Visitor Lists Belong to the People, Says Noyb Sam Altman's Management Style Comes Under the Microscope At OpenAI Trial Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Plaintext In RAM Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement Brockman Rebuts Musk's Take On Startup's History, Recounts Secret Work For Tesla Apple Agrees To Pay iPhone Owners $250 Million For Not Delivering AI Siri US Government Warns of Severe CopyFail Bug Affecting Major Versions of Linux OpenAI President Discloses His Stake In the Company Is Worth $30 Billion

Events

The Verge

Canvas is online again after ShinyHunters threaten to leak schools’ data A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours Attack of the killer script kiddies Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cybersecurity agency

The Cipher Brief

Two Fronts, One War: Why Ukraine and Iran Are Part of the Same Fight Getting Our Adversaries Out of Cuba Should be our Immediate Goal Corporate Cybersecurity Is the New Frontline of National Security Russia’s Victory Day Parade Signals Anything But Victory The Last Undefended Perimeter Inside the Pentagon’s High-Stakes Nuclear Overhaul From Socialist Surge to Regional Realignment- Latin America’s Pink Tide Is Receding Human vs. Machine: Operational Realities from Ukraine’s Frontline Why Abu Dhabi Walked Away from OPEC After Nearly 60 Years That Other Nuclear Nightmare: North Korea Sounds New Alarms

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox Lee Lai's "Cannon" Bubbles are REALLY evil In praise of vultures The three armies fighting for the post-American world Demand destruction vs fuel-superseding infrastructure The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus How not to ban surveillance pricing Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe" The enshittification multiverse