Hacker News

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB I think we might lose public key cryptography Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? The value of not getting to the point (2015) AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy Theranos.world A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501) I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days Show HN: Free open source Adobe Lightroom alternative, completely local with AI ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments

Bleeping Computer

FBI disrupts Chinese hacking tools used to breach critical infrastructure Ransomware attack disrupts Japan's IDCF Cloud used by govt clients Low-cost Android phones ship with residential proxy malware FakeGit malware campaign returns with 17,610 malicious GitHub repos Cisco warns of critical flaws allowing Nexus switch takeover OAuth grants pile up faster than you can review them. Here's how to keep up. Uranium crypto exchange hacker convicted for stealing $53 million Microsoft Teams to get support for third-party deepfake detection tools ASOS links data breach to social engineering attack, credential theft Owner of Empire cybercrime market gets 40 years in prison Samsung Galaxy S26 hacked three more times at Pwn2Own Ireland Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments FBI: Ongoing FortiBleed attacks lock out FortiGate VPN admins Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries Microsoft Outlook to block MSIX attachments starting November

Ars Technica

Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist TP-Link problems in US grow amid FCC router ban and four state lawsuits Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift Trade group crunches numbers on Trump’s impossible push for 100% US-made tech Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search Florida cops say they don't know who owns 11 unpermitted Flock cameras

Slashdot

Campus Censorship Wars, 25 Years After a Slashdot Q&A Cable Lobby To Sue Trump FCC Over Repeal of National TV Ownership Cap Texas City Demands $2 Million For Public Records On Flock Usage Hackers Steal 8 Million Citizens' Records From Danish Government Database Meta Rushed To Fix Muse 'VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch Norway Plans Temporary Ban on Smart Glasses Anthropic Reports Florida Woman's Claude 'Diary' Threat to Law Enforcement Huawei and Qualcomm Struck a Broad Multi-Year Patent Licensing Deal FBI Detains Teenager Linked to Group That Stole Data on 5,000 FBI Employees Radio Broadcasters Support America's 'AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act' San Francisco's Car Crime Has Plunged. How Much Credit Does Flock Deserve? US Bank Regulator Sued Over Crypto Firm Charters by Community Bank Advocates Three EU Officials Not Sold on Europe's Homegrown Alternative to Microsoft Teams Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras President Trump Doxxes Senator's Cellphone in Push For Permanent Daylight Saving Time

Events

The Verge

A Trump Mobile breach may have exposed data of more than 3,600 people Suspected ShinyHunters leader arrested in the Netherlands AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready Nvidia says its new AI safety platform can contain rogue agents within ‘milliseconds’ OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’ Muse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI

Cipher Brief

The Future of Iran Lies Beyond the Regime How War Starts: A Warning from the Korean DMZ How America Wins the AI Race With Open Source Unique Risks of AI Adoption in Developing Economies Hegseth’s Vision for a New American Military Election Security: Keeping Our Disagreements Our Own The Pentagon’s 2027 Drone Problem Iran Calls Itself the Victim, Its Record Tells Another Story Exactly how could AI kill humans? Nasrallah is Dead. Hezbollah’s Social Lifeline is Not. BLUF: Russian Strategic Culture Drives its Callous and Brutal Actions How the Intelligence Community Can Shape AI Trust With New Terminology The Coupang Breach and the Danger of Punishing the Headline Number The Houthis Took the Red Sea Coast. How Did Washington Miss It? AI Is Coming to the Counter-Drone Fight

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Disloyalty (07 Oct 2026) Swapping money for expertise (06 Oct 2026) Scrutinized (05 Oct 2026) Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026) Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026) Lindsay Owens's "Gouged" (29 Sep 2026) Priceful (28 Sep 2026) Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026) Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs (22 Sep 2026) The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) Textured (18 Sep 2026) On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026) How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026) But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026)