Hacker News

At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions Java Hello World, LLVM Edition Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein Relies on Open Source and Saves Millions The Anatomy of a macOS App Using LLMs at Oxide Three-year-old forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video] Building a Toast Component Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015) GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches The past was not that cute How the Disappearance of Flight 19 Fueled the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle What even is "literate programming"? (2024) Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern Discovering the indieweb with calm tech Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler (yes) Dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers while promising low prices Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018) Locks in PostgreSQL Perl's decline was cultural Patching Pulse Oximeter Firmware Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023) Autism's confusing cousins Zebra-Llama – Towards efficient hybrid models OMSCS Open Courseware

Bleeping Computer

React2Shell flaw exploited to breach 30 orgs, 77k IP addresses vulnerable New wave of VPN login attempts targets Palo Alto GlobalProtect portals Barts Health NHS discloses data breach after Oracle zero-day hack FBI warns of virtual kidnapping scams using altered social media photos A Practical Guide to Continuous Attack Surface Visibility EU fines X $140 million over deceptive blue checkmarks Cloudflare blames today's outage on React2Shell mitigations Pharma firm Inotiv discloses data breach after ransomware attack Critical React2Shell flaw actively exploited in China-linked attacks Cloudflare down, websites offline with 500 Internal Server Error Hackers are exploiting ArrayOS AG VPN flaw to plant webshells NCSC's ‘Proactive Notifications’ warns orgs of flaws in exposed devices Predator spyware uses new infection vector for zero-click attacks

Ars Technica

Elon Musk’s X first to be fined under EU’s Digital Services Act ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was “God’s assassin,” DOJ says Republicans drop Trump-ordered block on state AI laws from defense bill FCC boss Brendan Carr claims another victory over DEI as AT&T drops programs India orders device makers to put government-run security app on all phones Supreme Court hears case that could trigger big crackdown on Internet piracy OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide Tech firm’s new CTO gets indicted; company then claims he was never CTO Landlords’ go-to tool to set rent prices to be gutted under RealPage settlement DOGE “cut muscle, not fat”; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts Tech company CTO and others indicted for exporting Nvidia chips to China Keep your receipts: Tech firms told to prepare for possible tariff refunds Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification Trump revives unpopular Ted Cruz plan to punish states that impose AI laws Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it Faced with naked man, DoorDasher demands police action; they arrest her for illegal surveillance Meta wins monopoly trial, convinces judge that social networking is dead

Slashdot

Could America's Paper Checks Be On the Way Out, Like the Penny? Google Must Limit Its 'Default Search' Contracts to One Year, Judge Rules Woman Hailed As a Hero For Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses On Subway Could Netflix's Deal for Warner Bros. Fall Apart? India Reviews Telecom Industry Proposal For Always-On Satellite Location Tracking The New York Times Is Suing Perplexity For Copyright Infringement Contractors With Hacking Records Accused of Wiping 96 Government Databases Republicans Drop Trump-Ordered Block On State AI Laws From Defense Bill Microsoft Faces New Complaint For Unlawfully Processing Data On Behalf of Israeli Military Russia Blocks Roblox, Apple's FaceTime EU Hits Meta With Antitrust Probe Over Plans To Block AI Rivals From WhatsApp Microsoft 'Mitigates' Windows LNK Flaw Exploited As Zero-Day 'End-To-End Encrypted' Smart Toilet Camera Is Not Actually End-To-End Encrypted OpenAI Loses Fight To Keep ChatGPT Logs Secret In Copyright Case After AI Push, Trump Administration Is Now Looking To Robots

Events

The Verge

Pentagon’s Signalgate report finds Pete Hegseth violated military policies The VPN panic is only getting started Signal’s secure message backups arrive on iOS Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data The FCC is rolling back steps meant to stop a repeat of a massive telecom hack Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT Cloudflare shows internet outages aren’t a matter of if — but when X launches Chat, its new encrypted DMs

The Cipher Brief

Putin Sees “Useful Meetings”, the U.S. Should See a Trap Set for Inexperienced Negotiators The Strategic Failure on North Korea’s Nuclear Rise Second Strike, No Survivors: The Legal and Political Questions Around Trump’s Narco-Boat Killings The Kremlin's Kill List: Inside a Culture of State-Sponsored Murder ‘Mind-Blowing’ Pentagon Overhaul Will Reshape Acquisition A Real Life Example of Russian Information Operations The U.S. Needs to Restore Deterrence Credibility Against Putin Destroying Boats, Killing Crews, Escalating Risks: The Venezuela Gambit The Delhi Blast and Pakistan’s Proxy War: Why Another Clash Looks Likely Information Warfare The New Frontline

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI A year in illustration All the books I reviewed in 2025 Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings Normie diffusion and technophilia O Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" Cooking in Maximum Security