Hacker News

The AI Aesthetic Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner" The American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay (2024) Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free CodePen 2.0 UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up Bad Apple but It's Traceroute Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

Bleeping Computer

Anthropic's Claude breached 3 orgs, uploaded PyPI malware during tests South Korea fines telco giant KT $39 million for customer data breach JetBrains warns of critical TeamCity remote code execution flaw Amazon links Debug, Chalk NPM supply-chain attacks to North Korean hackers VMware fixes three critical flaws allowing auth bypass, VM escapes Google says AI helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs in two releases ShinyHunters claims Brinks Home breach, threatens to leak stolen data Microsoft Teams vishing attacks lead to Chaos ransomware attacks Analog Devices discloses data breach, says operations unaffected After the Break-In: What Attackers Do Once They're Already Inside Russian hackers exploit Exchange OWA zero-day for long-term mailbox access Anthropic confirms Claude is down worldwide Cisco warns of FMC static credential flaw exploited in zero-day attacks Health-ISAC warns of rising ShinyHunters data theft attacks on healthcare OpenAI agent used exposed credentials at 4 services in Hugging Face breach

Ars Technica

Musk went to “war,” sought jail time for X ad boycotts—but case ends with a whimper Comcast store punished low sales by smashing pies in workers' faces, lawsuit claims Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong? eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands Judge blocks first state law that would have banned prediction markets Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months “Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win 5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template Big Tech accused of stonewalling European social media researchers Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states' lawsuit moves toward trial RFK Jr.'s handpicked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses

Slashdot

ABC Accuses FCC of 'Attempted Censorship' Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel Comcast Store Punished Low Sales By Smashing Pies In Workers' Faces, Lawsuit Claims Who Wins and Who Loses After US Bans Foreign Robots? Russia Charges Telegram Founder Durov With Facilitating Terrorism More Than 30 Minnesota Water Systems Targeted In Cyberattack Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots AI-Found Bugs Aren't Proving Any Easier to Exploit Despite the Hype eBay Reaches $56 Million Settlement With E-Commerce Newsletter Writers It Terrorized In 2019 Judge Blocks First State Law That Would Have Banned Prediction Markets DEF CON Bans Meta-Style 'Pervert Glasses' GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search Tons of Peoples' Claude Chats and Creations Are Exposed On Google A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months 2.1 Million People View Leaked 'Odyssey' Bootleg on X

Events

The Verge

Google is working on Chrome updates that don’t require restarts Ariana Grande is suing the hackers who’ve been leaking her songs and videos for years Google now lets you sign in to your account using a selfie video OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos Microsoft’s biggest ever patch Tuesday lets you hold off updating for longer Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House

Cipher Brief

Winning the Peace: The Democratic Dilemma of Limited War America Needs a New North Korea Strategy The Sovereign AI Tokenomics Trap What Congress Found Inside the Iran War Spending Bill The Audience Is a Machine: Our Future Information Environment Is Iran Controlling the Gulf Conflict? We've Seen Autonomous Warfare and We're in Trouble The $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Without a Strategy Ankara's Charm Offensive Should Not Buy Back the F-35 25 Years After 9/11, the Next Global Shock Could be Worse Winning Battles, Losing Strategy: Why Military Superiority No Longer Guarantees Victory Cold War 2.0 Will Be Won by Private Capital The Pentagon Built a Faster Engine, Nobody Built the Steering The West Must Tell Russians the Truth About the War A Master List of Espionage Targets, Suspected Spies, and Potential Recruits

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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