Hacker News

Simple self-distillation improves code generation Show HN: TurboQuant-WASM – Google's vector quantization in the browser Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta German men 18-45 need military permit to leave country for longer than 3 months Some Unusual Trees Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw Show HN: A game where you build a GPU Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens Components of a Coding Agent Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165 The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years The most-disliked people in the publishing industry OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability iNaturalist Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas The smallest ELF executable (2021) Run Linux containers on Android, no root required What life looks like on the most remote inhabited island Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly F-15E jet shot down over Iran Big-Endian Testing with QEMU

Bleeping Computer

Device code phishing attacks surge 37x as new kits spread online LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data Hims & Hers warns of data breach after Zendesk support ticket breach Die Linke German political party confirms data stolen by Qilin ransomware Evolution of Ransomware: Multi-Extortion Ransomware Attacks Microsoft still working to fix Exchange Online mailbox access issues Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot Microsoft now force upgrades unmanaged Windows 11 24H2 PCs CERT-EU: European Commission hack exposes data of 30 EU entities Claude Code leak used to push infostealer malware on GitHub Drift loses $280 million as North Korean hackers seize Security Council powers Residential proxies evaded IP reputation checks in 78% of 4B sessions Adversaries Exploit Vacant Homes to Intercept Mail in Hybrid Cybercrime New Progress ShareFile flaws can be chained in pre-auth RCE attacks Medtech giant Stryker fully operational after data-wiping attack

Ars Technica

Elon Musk insists banks working on SpaceX IPO must buy Grok subscriptions Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says SpaceX tries to convince FCC that Amazon put satellites into wrong altitude Amazon is trying to buy Globalstar to compete with SpaceX's Starlink Did Nazis escape on a UFO? Dev who asked the question just built the official White House app. Musk loves Grok’s “roasts.” Swiss official sues in attempt to neuter them. Trump defunding of NPR and PBS blocked by judge, but damage is already done Starlink satellite breaks apart into "tens of objects"; SpaceX confirms "anomaly" Sweaty, glassy-eyed Tiger Woods blames cell phone use for his car crash OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says Costco sued for seeking refunds on tariffs customers paid Judge halts Nexstar/Tegna merger after FCC let firms exceed TV ownership limit Authors' lucky break in court may help class action over Meta torrenting Trump convenes "God Squad" to override Endangered Species Act, up oil production 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

Slashdot

Netflix Must Refund Customers For Years of Price Hikes, Italian Court Rules Tech Companies Are Trying To Neuter Colorado's Landmark Right-to-Repair Law Penalties Stack Up As AI Spreads Through the Legal System Perplexity's 'Incognito Mode' Is a 'Sham,' Lawsuit Says EPA Flags Microplastics, Pharmaceuticals As Contaminants In Drinking Water Mount Everest Climbers 'Poisoned' By Guides In Insurance Fraud Scheme UFC-Que Choisir Takes Ubisoft To French Court Over the Crew Shutdown Top Brussels Official Urges Europeans To Work From Home, Drive Less As Energy Crisis Deepens Australia Readies Social Media Court Action Citing Teen Ban Breaches US Paves Way For Private Assets To Be Included In 401(k) Retirement Plans OkCupid Settles FTC Case On Alleged Misuse of Its Users' Personal Data Judge Allows BitTorrent Seeding Claims Against Meta, Despite Lawyers 'Lame Excuses' New Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges Rivian and Lucid Win Right to Sell Their EVs Directly to Buyers in Washington State Apple Now Requires Device-Level Age Verification in the UK. Could the US Be Next?

Events

The Verge

PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default Claude Code leak exposes a Tamagotchi-style ‘pet’ and an always-on agent Okta’s CEO is betting big on AI agent identity 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

The Cipher Brief

Why a War in the Middle East Is Hitting Australians at the Petrol Pump Why the ‘Day After’ Is The Most Important Day in the Iranian Conflict Taking a Stand on Adversaries’ Influence in the Western Hemisphere Iran Is Building the Disinformation Architecture of the Future Can the U.S. Win the Critical Minerals Competition? Iran Exposed a New Reality for U.S. Air Power How Close the Iran War Came to a Nuclear Disaster Telling China's Story Well: The PRC's Strategic Narrative as an Instrument of National Power The Chalk Mark Still Matters: Russian Espionage Handling in the Modern Era Blockade by Permission: How Iran Determines Who Gets Through Hormuz

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

EU ready to cave to Trump on tech It's extremely good that Claude's source-code leaked Trumpismo vs minilateralism State Dems must stop ICE from stealing the midterms Market participation is exhausting 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