Hacker News

Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels The state of the kernel Rust experiment GPT-5.2-Codex Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming scenes How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how? Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem Telegraph chess: A 19th century tech marvel Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop Lite^3, a JSON-Compatible Zero-Copy Serialization Format Great ideas in theoretical computer science The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation [video] Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn) Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features T5Gemma 2: The next generation of encoder-decoder models Delty (YC X25) Is Hiring an ML Engineer Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies – what was the cost? I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years (2016) Meta Segment Anything Model Audio Two kinds of vibe coding FunctionGemma 270M Model SMB Direct – SMB3 over RDMA – The Linux Kernel Documentation How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

Bleeping Computer

Windows 10 OOB update released to fix Message Queuing (MSMQ) issues University of Sydney suffers data breach exposing student and staff info Clop ransomware targets Gladinet CentreStack in data theft attacks New password spraying attacks target Cisco, PAN VPN gateways US seizes E-Note crypto exchange for laundering ransomware payments NIS2 compliance: How to get passwords and MFA right France arrests Latvian for installing malware on Italian ferry HPE warns of maximum severity RCE flaw in OneView software Microsoft: Recent Windows updates break RemoteApp connections Zeroday Cloud hacking event awards $320,0000 for 11 zero days France arrests suspect tied to cyberattack on Interior Ministry Amazon: Ongoing cryptomining campaign uses hacked AWS accounts WhatsApp device linking abused in account hijacking attacks

Ars Technica

School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn’t an error. Man sues cops who jailed him for 37 days for trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil FCC chair scrubs website after learning it called FCC an “independent agency” Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says Twitter comeback bid draws lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X Corp US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s “pro-petroleum” moves “A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans Utah leaders hinder efforts to develop solar energy supply Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won Ukrainians sue US chip firms for powering Russian drones, missiles Trump tries to block state AI laws himself after Congress decided not to Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales “makes no sense,” experts say Supreme Court appears likely to approve Trump’s firing of FTC Democrat Court: “Because Trump said to” may not be a legally valid defense

Slashdot

Judge Hints Vizio TV Buyers May Have Rights To Source Code Licensed Under GPL Mass Hacking of IP Cameras Leave Koreans Feeling Vulnerable in Homes, Businesses MIT Grieves Shooting Death of Renowned Director of Plasma Science Center Senate Confirms Billionaire Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman As New NASA Chief FCC Chair Suggests Agency Isn't Independent, Word Cut From Mission Statement Google Sues Alleged Chinese Scam Group Behind Massive US Text Message Phishing Ring Breach At South Korea's Equivalent of Amazon Exposed Data of Almost Every Adult Texas Sues TV Makers For Taking Screenshots of What People Watch SoundCloud Confirms Breach After Member Data Stolen, VPN Access Disrupted Russian Ban On Roblox Gaming Platform Sparks Rare Protest Like Australia, Denmark Plans to Severely Restrict Social Media Use for Teenagers 'Investors in Limbo'. Will the TikTok Deal's Deadline Be Extended Again? Repeal Section 230 and Its Platform Protections, Urges New Bipartisan US Bill Trump Ban on Wind Energy Permits 'Unlawful', Court Rules Firefox Survey Finds Only 16% Feel In Control of Their Privacy Choices Online

Events

The Verge

Google’s turning off its dark web monitoring service that scoured data breaches for your info 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

The Cipher Brief

What Would Follow a Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation? Anti-Semitism is a National Security Issue: It’s Time to Treat it Like One How the U.S. Military’s Top Officer is Looking at the World’s Hotspots Winter is Coming to Ukraine as it Faces a New Kind of War and Uncertainty About a Key Ally The Cipher Brief's Recommended Reads for the Holidays Echoes of 1940: Learning from an Ally at War and Preparing the U.S. for the Next Fight Russia is Waging a Sabotage Shadow War on Europe Why an Unmanned Mission May be Most Effective in Venezuela America’s Antibiotic Weakness Is a National Security Blindspot Can Europe Survive the New Multipolar World?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance Happy Public Domain Day 2026! America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses Federal Wallet Inspectors Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI