Hacker News

Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers OpenBSD 8.0 Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator MiniMax M3.1 Flash DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs Weball: Play Katamari on Websites An ad-free Android TV I built a drone with only one motor [video] Wine ported to OpenBSD It's still ok to enjoy programming Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

Bleeping Computer

Nikkei discloses third data breach in a month, 1.8M records exposed WordPress SEO plugin Rank Math compromised to backdoor websites Hackers hijack AOMEI update servers to secretly spread malware Bullhorn takes staffing platform offline to contain cyberattack OpenCode hack exposes API keys amid AI distillation attacks Microsoft fixes game, app crashes caused by recent Windows update Inside the Underground Market for Know Your Client Services F5 releases out-of-band patches for critical NGINX vulnerabilities Microsoft fixes classic Outlook bug that hid Copilot buttons Microsoft: October Windows Server updates break Exchange sign-in, mail flow Hackers exploit SiteGuard WAF flaw to run commands as admins Hackers breach Microsoft 365 tenants via ConnectWise supply-chain attack Drupal patches critical RCE flaws, warns exploits may emerge soon Critical BlockStrap flaw lets hackers run code on Magento servers Targeted ads installed Candiru spyware in zero-click attacks

Ars Technica

Accused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI says Florida DMV hacked after police dept insecurely stored login info Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax” Schools across US protest FCC plan that could disconnect kids from Internet Georgia man sues Flock, sheriff's office over alleged ALPR-fueled retaliation Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech

Slashdot

TP-Link Moves to Assemble Routers In the US Following Import Ban Trump DHS Officials Asked CISA To Secretly Aquire and Hack a Voting Machine Florida DMV Hacked After Police Dept Insecurely Stored Login Info New Video Game Law Proposed: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It' Planned UK Data Center Delayed Until 2030s Over Power Grid Delays. Microsoft Pulls Out More Details on Arrested Saudi OpenAI Employee, Who is Seeking Release on Bail Saudi OpenAI Employee's Arrest Revives Fears US Tech Companies Are Hiring Spies Does a Universal Basic Income Bring Long-Term Changes? Court Agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility MapQuest Shows Location of Flock (and Other ALPR) Cameras Personal Data for Millions of California Students Stolen in Massive Breach Will New Documentary Make Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes More Sympathetic? Police Seize Robot that Sexually Assaulted Teen Girl Flock CEO Defends Surveillance Tech Amid National Backlash Amazon Launches New Bee 'Personal AI' Devices That Listen to Conversations

Events

The Verge

A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents An Israeli firm is sending spyware through online ads, researchers say Your secrets aren’t safe with this cute robot toy — they’re on Chinese servers ready to be hacked Microsoft and Japan took down a cybercrime network behind over a billion scam messages Android is using AI to suss out scammers in Google Messages Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is alarming deja vu The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects A Trump Mobile breach may have exposed data of more than 3,600 people

Cipher Brief

What a Russian Hybrid Attack Might Look Like Muhammad bin Salman’s Humbling and the Return of the Ottomans The Day We Cannot Choose How Far Should the U.S. Go to Defend Saudi Arabia? Who Really Makes Decisions in Tehran? The Soviet Roots of Russia’s Modern Disinformation War Europe’s Changing Politics and the Future of U.S. Leadership What Beijing Calls Open, Washington Should Call an Operation Washington Cannot Outsource Saudi Security to the Mecca Pact The Next War of Attrition is in Yemen The Pentagon’s Drone Revolution Starts With Soldiers America’s Military Has a GPS Problem Subterranean Warfare - An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner The Sanctions We Cannot Afford How Ukraine’s Ground Robots Are Changing the Battlefield

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