Hacker News

AWS Finally Built Its Own AWS Emulator Why are we still working this hard? Tim Peters has died A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter AWS Emulator and the engineer's job when agents write the code Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG Gemini Decisions API IBM Quantum Nighthawk Demonstrates New Levels of Speed and Quality Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72h Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2 Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming?

Bleeping Computer

Maersk confirms data breach as WhiteArmor ransomware demands $5 million Hackers use AntiFox AI agents in AWS credential-theft attacks eBPF Rootkits: Why Underground Actors Are Taking Notice N-able releases security hotfixes for zero-day vulnerabilities Microsoft fixes audio issues caused by September security updates CISA flags Cisco BroadWorks flaw as actively exploited in attacks Microsoft fixes Exchange sign-ins broken by Windows Server updates Railway breach leads to $740,000 in fraudulent AI charges Japanese furniture giant Nitori says hackers stole 37.6M customer records Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5131096 extended security update Hackers exploit trusted AWS access to breach multiple cloud environments Microsoft November 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 1,235 flaws, Outlook zero-day Windows 11 KB5132061 & KB5131087 cumulative updates released Critical Xen Orchestra auth bypass flaw exploited to hijack VM servers Binance warns of iOS flaw that could leak crypto wallet secrets

Ars Technica

T-Mobile illegally imposed 50 GB cap on low-income home Internet plan, NY says Trump admin loses fight to spy on random journalists’ LinkedIn DMs Democrats oppose plan to stack FCC with Republicans, plan probes of Chairman Carr Man who lost $308,000 on sports bets sues Kalshi for offering illegal gambling Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem FAA to finally ditch floppy disks in what it calls "historic" tech upgrade “Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang summoned by Congress over Chinese espionage concerns Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder. Kalshi court losses pile up as judges refuse to block state gambling laws Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech” After Texas' blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? Ted Cruz aims to stack FCC with Republicans before Democrats take Senate control California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms

Slashdot

Court Says Trump Can't Use Leaks To Justify Spying On Journalists' LinkedIn DMs New York Launches Nation's First State AI Testing Program Trump Backs Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Amid Chinese Spy Affair Investigation Aaron Swartz Would've Been 40 Today. His 'Legacy Lives On' Says FSF Mexico's Senate Approves ISP Rules To Disconnect Persistent Online Pirates Chainalysis Says Breach Exposed Credentials For All Customers Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Summoned By Congress Over Chinese Espionage Concerns FAA Phases Out Floppy Disks From Air Traffic Control Applebee's Exposed Customers' Personal Data After Leaving Database Password In App Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House? 3M To Pay Over $7 Billion To Settle 'Forever Chemical' Groundwater Claims Vietnam Jails Pirate Football Streamers For Up To a Year Axon Sued Over AI-Powered License Plate Reader Network French Blood Banks Hit Alongside Cyberattack On European Supermarkets Democrats Take Control of US Congress As Voters Reject Trump's Republicans

Events

The Verge

The US is winning the AI race. Jensen Huang could have blown it AI broke the cybersecurity world. What’s next? Just about anyone can rent access to White House IP addresses One of Google’s Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet More European supermarkets are getting their freezers hacked Binance hackers stole $6.3 billion in record-breaking crypto heist A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web

Cipher Brief

What Russia, China, Iran and North Korea Saw in America's Elections Reinventing Intelligence To Operate At Machine Speed What Congress Can Learn From Vietnam About the War in Iran Startups Are Now on the Front Lines The Command We Must Fund China's Return to One-Man Rule In Its Race to Field AI, The Pentagon’s Testing Can’t Keep Up The Missing Dimension of Cyber Preparedness BLUF: The Next AI Problem for Intelligence Is Not the Model, It's the Manager Fire Base Australia: Can America’s Southern Base Sustain a Pacific War? The Coming Age of Robotic Warfare The Hidden Cost of America’s War With Iran The Command We Must Start The Cipher Brief’s 10th Threat Conference: Optimism, Urgency, and the Imperative to Act The Kids are Alright: U.S. Soft Power, Aid, and Youth in Africa

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