Hacker News

Don't YOLO your file system Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial Make macOS consistently bad (unironically) Sports Betting Is Everywhere, Especially on Credit Reports Improving Composer through real-time RL LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most Anatomy of the .claude/ folder Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting Velxio 2.0 – Emulate Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi 3 in the Browser Nashville library launches Memory Lab for digitizing home movies ISBN Visualization Telnyx package compromised on PyPI The Future of SCIP Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS certificate on a Brother printer with Certbot DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked Explore the Hidden World of Sand Meow.camera Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors Building FireStriker: Making Civic Tech Free ‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms Embracing Bayesian methods in clinical trials Type Construction and Cycle Detection People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account Desk for people who work at home with a cat Capability-Based Security for Redox: Namespace and CWD as Capabilities Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it? Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer Should QA exist? Hold on to Your Hardware

Bleeping Computer

Backdoored Telnyx PyPI package pushes malware hidden in WAV audio Fake VS Code alerts on GitHub spread malware to developers Agentic GRC: Teams Get the Tech. The Mindset Shift Is What's Missing. European Commission investigating breach after Amazon cloud account hack Anti-piracy coalition takes down AnimePlay app with 5 million users Windows 11 KB5079391 update rolls out Smart App Control improvements Dutch Police discloses security breach after phishing attack Ajax football club hack exposed fan data, enabled ticket hijack CISA: New Langflow flaw actively exploited to hijack AI workflows UK sanctions Xinbi marketplace linked to Asian scam centers TikTok for Business accounts targeted in new phishing campaign WhatsApp rolls out more AI features, iOS multi-account support Inside a Modern Fraud Attack: From Bot Signups to Account Takeovers Coruna iOS exploit framework linked to Triangulation attacks Russia arrests suspected owner of LeakBase cybercrime forum

Ars Technica

Judge irate as defendant joins by Zoom while driving—then lies about it AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec Hegseth, Trump had no authority to order Anthropic to be blacklisted, judge says DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email was hacked Senators want US energy information agency to monitor data center electricity usage Elon Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal Spotify seeks $300M from Anna's Archive, which ignores all court proceedings OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT Meta, YouTube must pay $3M to woman who got hooked on apps as a child Supreme Court rejects Sony's attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet 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

Slashdot

European Commission Investigating Breach After Amazon Cloud Account Hack Austria Plans Social Media Ban For Under-14s Iran-Linked Hackers Breach FBI Director's Personal Email Popular LiteLLM PyPI Package Backdoored To Steal Credentials, Auth Tokens California Bill Would Require Parent Bloggers To Delete Content of Minors On Social Media Judge Blocks Pentagon's Effort To 'Punish' Anthropic With Supply Chain Risk Label Apple Gives FBI a User's Real Name Hidden Behind 'Hide My Email' Feature Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use Reddit Takes On Bots With 'Human Verification' Requirements Supreme Court Sides With Internet Provider In Copyright Fight Over Pirated Music Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case Meta Loses Trial After Arguing Child Exploitation Was 'Inevitable' 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

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’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It’s All in the Execution Why the ‘Day After’ Is The Most Important Day in the Iranian Conflict From Kyiv’s Skies to the Persian Gulf: How Ukraine’s Drone Technology Is Reshaping Global Defense Why Hasn’t Iran Buckled Under U.S.-Israeli Pressure? Romania Pays the Cyber Price for Backing Ukraine. Where is the EU? 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

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