Hacker News

Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac World's biggest RC A380 [video] Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025) Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth The Road to a Billion-Token Context DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019) A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life Southwest Headquarters Tour Let's Buy Spirit Air US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024) Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors A desktop made for one Introduction to Atom New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons Text-to-CAD The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions

Bleeping Computer

They don’t hack, they borrow: How fraudsters target credit unions Progress warns of critical MOVEit Automation auth bypass flaw Webinar: Why MSPs must rethink security and backup strategies CISA says ‘Copy Fail’ flaw now exploited to root Linux systems Microsoft confirms April Windows updates cause backup failures Instructure confirms data breach, ShinyHunters claims attack Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha Telegram Mini Apps abused for crypto scams, Android malware delivery Critrical cPanel flaw mass-exploited in "Sorry" ransomware attacks ConsentFix v3 attacks target Azure with automated OAuth abuse Microsoft tests modern Windows Run, says it's faster than legacy dialog Edu tech firm Instructure discloses cyber incident, probes impact 15-year-old detained over French govt agency data breach Story retracted Criminal IP and Securonix ThreatQ Collaborate to Enhance Threat Intelligence Operations

Ars Technica

Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines Women sue the men who used their Instagram feeds to create AI porn influencers US falls below Ukraine in press freedom as global autocracy takes hold Elon Musk's 7 biggest stumbles on the stand at OpenAI trial Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex More than half of all Polymarket "long shot" bets on military action pay off ABC can beat Trump FCC's license threat if owner Disney is willing to fight New Sam Bankman-Fried trial would be huge waste of court’s time, judge says Attempt to repeal Colorado's right-to-repair law fails Sam Altman is “the face of evil” for not reporting school shooter, says lawyer Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Kimmel joke offends Trump and first lady Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles Musk and Altman face off in trial that will determine OpenAI's future Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism" FCC: Router ban includes portable hotspots, but not phones with hotspot features Soldier won $410K in Polymarket bets on timing of Maduro capture, US alleges Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf Trump administration attempt to gut Endangered Species Act hits roadblock

Slashdot

16% of Parents Help Their Children Bypass Online Age Checks, Study Finds. One 15-Year-Old Just Uses a Fake Moustache Roblox Blames Age-Verification Rollout for Lowered Growth. Stock Tumbles 22% South Africa's Draft AI Policy Withdrawn Due to 'Fictitious' AI-Generated Citations Smuggled Starlink Terminals are Beating Iran's Internet Blackout Pentagon Reaches Agreements With Top AI Companies, But Not Anthropic The California Government Is Coming For Your E-Bikes Musk Concludes Testimony At OpenAI Trial US Senators Ban Themselves From Prediction Markets Trading New Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability Enables Root Access On Major Distros French Prosecutors Link 15-Year-Old To Mega-Breach At State's Secure Document Agency DOJ Sues Cloudera For Deliberately Excluding American Workers From Tech Jobs Elon Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Him, Clashes With Company's Attorney New Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Would Be Huge Waste of Court's Time, Judge Says Colorado's Anti-Repair Bill Is Dead Musk Testifies OpenAI Was Created As Nonprofit To Counter Google

Events

The Verge

Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours Attack of the killer script kiddies Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cybersecurity agency Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked Rockstar Games says hack will have ‘no impact’

The Cipher Brief

From Socialist Surge to Regional Realignment- Latin America’s Pink Tide Is Receding Why Abu Dhabi Walked Away from OPEC After Nearly 60 Years Human vs. Machine: Operational Realities from Ukraine’s Frontline That Other Nuclear Nightmare: North Korea Sounds New Alarms Britain’s Antisemitism Crisis Is Now a National Security Threat CIA Deaths Expose Fragile U.S.-Mexico Security Ties Houthi's are Positioned to Close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait Pakistan’s Terror Landscape Continues to Threaten South Asia From Chernobyl to Ukraine: The Enduring Cost of Kremlin Lies Why the Navy’s Next Battleship Faces Major Hurdles

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Demand destruction vs fuel-superceding infrastructure The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus How not to ban surveillance pricing Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe" The enshittification multiverse Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" A free, open visual identity for enshittification The It's not a crime if we do it Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed"