Hacker News

Dopamine Fracking 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse? APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs Cannibalism The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony Playing with Vision Embeddings Richard Scolyer Has Died Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring 1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision Tiny hackable CUDA language model implementation Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023) Show HN: I Derived a Pancake Do agents.md files help coding agents? A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm Man-Computer Symbiosis J. C. R. Licklider (1960) How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014) Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs (2024) Trusted Computing Frequently Asked Questions (2003) LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948

Bleeping Computer

Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack Hands on with Intelligent Terminal, an AI-powered Windows Terminal C0XMO botnet spreads via DD-WRT router flaw, kills rival malware Silent Ransom Group targets law firms with fake IT support calls Critical Everest Forms Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites Suspicious Polyfill login prompts pop up on Toshiba, Muji websites CISA: Hackers now exploit SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to crash servers Chinese APT deploys new malware to keep access to hacked networks Dark web Nemesis Market vendor gets 26 years for selling drugs Over 900 US gas station tank gauge systems exposed to attacks What 2026 DBIR Confirms: Attacks Are Living in the Browser Cisco warns of unpatched SD-WAN zero-day exploited in attacks Brave Software releases Origin for a paid, bloat-free browsing experience Hola Browser for Windows compromised to deliver cryptominer Credit card theft campaign abuses Stripe to host stolen payment info

Ars Technica

School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic "We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches Trump's DOE restarts energy rebate program with dumb conditions Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman after multiple ChatGPT-linked murders Environmentalists turn out in force to oppose Trump coal ash rollbacks Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC DOJ sues states that rejected ICE requests for undercover license plates

Slashdot

A San Francisco Burglar Escaped in a Robotaxi - and Police Still Can't Find Him Police Sued After Imprisoning Innocent Man Placed Near Violent Crime By Flock License Plate Reader Black Market Tinkerers on Facebook Marketplace Offer to Hide 'Recording Lights' on Meta Smartglasses The Gamer-Rights Group Fighting to Make the Industry Stop Killing Games (Servers) Reddit Ads Impersonate BBC and The Guardian to Push Fake AI Investment Schemes Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders And Sam Altman Are All Talking About Public Ownership In AI Teen Social Media Bans Risk Strengthening Big Tech's Dominance, Warns Bluesky Exec Criticisms Rise Before Vote on America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Utah Residents Sue Officials Over Kevin O'Leary Data Center Plan GOV.UK Goes Dutch On Payments As It Dumps Stripe Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration On Federal Regulation of Telecom Companies Meta Workers Can Opt Out of Workplace Tracking for Up to 30 Minutes Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System European Parliament Ditches Google For French Search Firm Russian Spy Agency Says Foreign Spies Turned Officials' Smartphones Into Surveillance Devices

Events

The Verge

Benn Jordan longs for the days of tech that didn’t spy on you Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name Microsoft is threatening legal action for disclosing exploits Gemini for Google Home can now use your cameras to trigger automations Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’ GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft

The Cipher Brief

Alex Younger: An Unusually Likeable Human Being, And A Spy Remembering Alex Younger: The Intelligence Chief Who Shaped a Generation Can the Pentagon’s New Innovation System Deliver? Why the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose Intelligence Partners Radical Empathy: The Counterintuitive Skill That Made Me Better at Everything Else China’s Uneasy Partnerships With Russia and North Korea From Terror Networks to Hybrid Threats: A Partner Approach to a Growing Threat Put the Next Generation to Work: Digital Transformation Has Only Just Begun Invisible Conflict: Defending Against Hybrid Non-Kinetic Warfare Deterrence Is Not Enough in the Age of Synthetic Asymmetry

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Criticizing the everything machine Refining humanity Delusion as a service The tedious power of storytelling Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' Carneyism without Carney Hold on for dear life AI and a world without migrants The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble No honor among