Hacker News

Local LLM App by Ente My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music Antimatter has been transported for the first time Goodbye to Sora VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines Building a coding agent in Swift from scratch Flighty Airports Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller VNDB founder Yorhel has died In Edison’s Revenge, Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC Apple Business Miscellanea: The War in Iran Microbenchmarking Chipsets for Giggles I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job Apple Just Lost Me Arm AGI CPU Why I forked httpx Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV Algorithm Visualizer Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML You can run a DNS server (2025) Fun with CSF firmware (RK3588 GPU firmware) Ubuntu wants to strip some of GRUB features in 26.10 for security purposes Show HN: DuckDB community extension for prefiltered HNSW using ACORN-1 Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains

Bleeping Computer

Citrix urges admins to patch NetScaler flaws as soon as possible Paid AI Accounts Are Now a Hot Underground Commodity Kali Linux 2026.1 released with 8 new tools, new BackTrack mode TP-Link warns users to patch critical router auth bypass flaw Manager of botnet used in ransomware attacks gets 2 years in prison PTC warns of imminent threat from critical Windchill, FlexPLM RCE bug Popular LiteLLM PyPI package backdoored to steal credentials, auth tokens FCC bans new routers made outside the USA over security risks Firefox now has a free built-in VPN with 50GB monthly data limit Microsoft fixes bug causing Classic Outlook sync issues with Gmail Zero Trust: Bridging the Gap Between Authentication and Trust HackerOne discloses employee data breach after Navia hack Infinite Campus warns of breach after ShinyHunters claims data theft Yanluowang ransomware access broker gets 81 months in prison Dutch Ministry of Finance discloses breach affecting employees

Ars Technica

Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was “inevitable” on its apps Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models All of DOGE’s work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds Intuit beats FTC in court, ending restrictions on "free" TurboTax ads As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school Mining the deep ocean DOGE goes nuclear: How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator Jury finds Musk owes damages to Twitter investors for his tweets Trump FCC lets Nexstar buy Tegna and blow way past 39% TV ownership cap FBI started buying Americans' location data again, Kash Patel confirms Afroman keeps trolling cops after winning “Lemon Pound Cake” defamation case Musk’s tactic of blaming users for Grok sex images may be foiled by EU law Coal plant forced to stay open due to emergency order isn't even running Cloudflare appeals Piracy Shield fine, hopes to kill Italy's site-blocking law Users hate it, but age-check tech is coming. Here's how it works. Apple can delist apps "with or without cause," judge says in loss for Musi app Arizona indicts prediction market Kalshi for running illegal gambling operation Trump's plan to shut down weather and climate center triggers lawsuit

Slashdot

Hong Kong Police Can Demand Passwords Under New National Security Rules Intuit Beats FTC In Court, Ending Restrictions On 'Free' TurboTax Ads Trump Administration To Pay French Company $1 Billion To Stop Offshore Wind Farms Bipartisan Bill Seeks To Ban Sports Betting On Prediction Market Platforms Tech Leaders Support California Bill to Stop 'Dominant Platforms' From Blocking Competition EFF Tells Publishers: Blocking the Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, But It Will Erase The Historical Record Millions Face Mobile Internet Outages in Moscow. 'Digital Crackdown' Feared Firefox Announces Built-In VPN and Other New Features - and Introduces Its New Mascot Officer Leaks Location of French Aircraft Carrier With Strava Run White House Unveils National AI Policy Framework To Limit State Power Work From Home and Drive More Slowly To Save Energy, IEA Says DOJ Charges Super Micro Co-Founder For Smuggling $2.5 Billion In Nvidia GPUs To China Rogue AI Triggers Serious Security Incident At Meta Rapper Afroman Wins Defamation Lawsuit Over Use of Police Raid Footage In His Music Videos Walmart Wins Patents To Give Algorithms More Sway Over Prices

Events

The Verge

PSA: Hackers can raid iOS 18 with an infected link Iran-linked cyber attack targets US medtech giant Stryker Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger get new ways to protect users from scams Anthropic makes last-ditch effort to salvage deal with Pentagon after blowup CISA is getting a new acting director after less than a year NATO says iPhones are secure enough to handle classified data The AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster Texas is suing TP-Link over its ties to China

The Cipher Brief

Trump Is Getting His Way in Caracas — But It’s Complicated While Washington Looks to Iran, Putin Gains Ground National Security Starts at Home — Not on the Battlefield The Quiet Expansion of Trump’s War on Cartels When Deepfakes Become Doctrine NATO’s Fractures Are Not Its End Zelensky Plays His Hand Iran’s Long Record of Terror and a Long-Delayed Response America’s Drone Future The Next Battlefield Is Perception, Not Territory

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The cost of doing business Goodhart's Law vs "prediction markets" Understaffing as a form of enshittification Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher Tools vs uses Corrupt anticorruption Three more AI psychoses AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit Ad-tech is fascist tech