Hacker News

Dave Farber has passed away DoNotNotify is now Open Source Why E cores make Apple Silicon fast Matchlock: Linux-based sandboxing for AI agents Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding (AI) Slop Terrifies Me SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023) Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser (JS) LLMs as the new high level language The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025) Software factories and the agentic moment A11yJSON: A standard to describe the accessibility of the physical world Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos Speed up responses with fast mode Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly uLauncher Stories from 25 Years of Software Development Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010) First Proof Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version LineageOS 23.2 In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers

Bleeping Computer

State actor targets 155 countries in 'Shadow Campaigns' espionage op Payments platform BridgePay confirms ransomware attack behind outage Germany warns of Signal account hijacking targeting senior figures DKnife Linux toolkit hijacks router traffic to spy, deliver malware CISA warns of SmarterMail RCE flaw used in ransomware attacks EDR, Email, and SASE Miss This Entire Class of Browser Attacks EU says TikTok faces large fine over "addictive design" Man pleads guilty to hacking nearly 600 women’s Snapchat accounts Flickr discloses potential data breach exposing users' names, emails CISA orders federal agencies to replace end-of-life edge devices Spain's Ministry of Science shuts down systems after breach claims Ransomware gang uses ISPsystem VMs for stealthy payload delivery Microsoft to shut down Exchange Online EWS in April 2027 Italian university La Sapienza goes offline after cyberattack Romanian oil pipeline operator Conpet discloses cyberattack

Ars Technica

Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case EU says TikTok needs to drop "addictive design" "ICE Out of Our Faces Act" would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites FBI stymied by Apple's Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist's iPhone Judge gives Musk bad news, says Trump hasn't intervened to block SEC lawsuit "Capture it all": ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters X office raided in France's Grok probe; Elon Musk summoned for questioning Upset at reports that he'd given up, Trump now wants $1B from Harvard Russian drones use Starlink, but Ukraine has plan to block their Internet access Court orders restart of all US offshore wind construction Judge rules Department of Energy's climate working group was illegal DOJ released Epstein files with dozens of nudes and victims' names, reports say ICE observer says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face FCC aims to ensure "only living and lawful Americans" get Lifeline benefits Comcast keeps losing customers despite price guarantee and unlimited data She'll mess with Texas: Nurse keeps mailing abortion pills, despite Paxton lawsuit County pays $600,000 to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security States want to tax fossil fuel companies to create climate change superfunds

Slashdot

Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private White House Scraps 'Burdensome' Software Security Rules Former Google Engineer Found Guilty of Stealing AI Secrets For Chinese Firms Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account County Pays $600,000 To Pentesters It Arrested For Assessing Courthouse Security Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations FBI Seizes RAMP Cybercrime Forum Used By Ransomware Gangs French Lawmakers Vote To Ban Social Media Use By Under-15s US Cyber Defense Chief Uploaded Sensitive Files Into a Public Version of ChatGPT Amazon is Ending Its Palm ID System for Retail, Amazon One, as It Closes Physical Stores Apple Sued by App Developer Over its Continuity Camera US Government Lost More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Last Year

Events

The Verge

Substack data breach exposed users’ emails and phone numbers OpenClaw’s AI ‘skill’ extensions are a security nightmare Google Cloud’s customer chief returns to Microsoft as head of security Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China OpenClaw: all the news about the trending AI agent WhatsApp’s new ‘lockdown’ settings add another layer of protection against cyberattacks Gmail’s spam filter and automatic sorting are broken Ring can verify videos now, but that might not help you with most AI fakes

The Cipher Brief

Xi Jinping Tightens Grip as China’s Military Purge Deepens From Secrets to Sensors: Why Open Source Data Must Drive Modern Intelligence The Kremlin Files: Russian Double Agents and Operational Games EU Takes Aim at Tehran: IRGC Terror Listing Opens New Front in Europe’s Iran Policy Should Western Tech Giants Partner With Pro-Hamas Network Al Jazeera? Inside the $35 Billion Plan to Track Hypersonic Missiles from Space The U.S.-China Economic Cold War Is No Longer Silent Greenland’s Worth a Fight and Russia’s Trying to Start One Export Controls Backfire: The China Innovation Paradox The Rise of China's Strategic Soft Power and its Global Impact

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

End of the line for video essays Luxury Kafka All laws are local Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World" Michael Swanwick's "The Universe Box" Stock swindles Threads' margin is the Eurostack's opportunity Disenshittification Nation Carney isn't a hero Trump and the unmighty dollar