Hacker News

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners Claude: System Prompts Rhombus 1.1 is now available Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of "Solar Realms Elite" SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence Applying a photosynthetic process to treat "dry eye" Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome How do I permanently disable Google Photos pop-up prompt to backup my photos?

Bleeping Computer

SafePal data breach impacts 39,798 customers, stolen info for sale Anthropic confirms Claude is down in major outage affecting multiple services Large-scale DDoS attacks disrupted Threema secure messaging service New AmnesiaStealer macOS malware hijacks browser sessions via remote control New Evooo1Bot Linux botnet turns routers into traffic relay nodes How Anthropic plans to watermark Claude's AI-generated text Hackers arrested over €30M bank fraud exploiting service provider flaw Hackers exploit macOS Screen Sharing flaw to deploy Monero miner The Modern Attack Chain: Rethinking Google Workspace Security in the Age of AI Max severity SAP Commerce Cloud flaw now targeted in attacks Shell investigates 'potential incident' after Clop data theft claims RingCentral data breach exposed info of 1.6 million accounts Data analyst sent to prison for stealing data, extorting employer Apple sends new ‘Threat Notification’ alerts over mercenary spyware attacks Ukraine shuts down 94 fraudulent call centers, seize millions in cash

Ars Technica

Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books Meta can't stop states' $1.4 trillion lawsuit from going to trial Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, isn't filling empty Democratic seat Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?

Slashdot

Bipartisan 'Uprising' Against Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against Big Tech and Surveillance? Flock's 'Creepy Cameras' Remain Major Threat to Privacy Despite Small Recent Changes, Warns ACLU Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party Flock Announces Changes Amid Backlash Over Its License Plate Reader Network France's Top Court Blocks Social Media Ban For Under-15s Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and 'Sensitive' Drones Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them Trump Administration Enlists Private Companies To Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups US Tries to Override New York Gambling Laws, Orders Kalshi to Keep Operating China-Linked Hackers Used AI To Run First-Ever 'Autonomous' Cyberattack On Taiwan German Advocacy Group Lodges Criminal Complaint Over Meta AI Glasses US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers Freenet Creator Ian Clarke Shares Progress on Its New Decentralized Network A Data Breach At Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Is Rippling Across Banks, Retailers, Steam Gamers, and Beyond

Events

The Verge

OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore The fight over Flock and other ALPRs The Trump admin will start letting private firms launch international cyberattacks Meta adds AI screening to detect WhatsApp scams Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’ ‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt

Cipher Brief

It is in the U.S. interest to Support Democratic Legitimacy in Venezuela It’s Time For The President To Level With The American People on Iran The Biggest AI Models Are Not the Biggest Threats How About Equipping Local Law Enforcement with a Better Anti-Drone Arsenal? How Ukraine Is Changing the Way the U.S. Army Fights The Houthis’ External and Internal Crises Converge: Can a Tactical Solution Fix a Strategic Problem? America, North Korea, and the Search for Peace There Will be Unseen Costs to be Paid over the War in Iran. Who is Weighing Them? BLUF: The US Must Lead in Gray Zone Activity Why the Iran War Remains Strategically Adrift The New Fault Line: Israel and Turkey on a Collision Course Iran Is “Counting Coup” On The United States AI Summaries Are Susceptible to Manipulation — and That's Both a Business and a National Security Problem Investing in the Next Arsenal of Democracy Winning the Peace: The Democratic Dilemma of Limited War

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Capital formation (14 Aug 2026) Model collapse (12 Aug 2026) Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026) The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026) Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026) Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026) Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026) Post-American compute for a post-American Internet (04 Aug 2026) Dualism (03 Aug 2026) Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026) Better to beg forgiveness (31 Jul 2026) The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026) Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global (29 Jul 2026) Discernment (28 Jul 2026) How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump) (27 Jul 2026)