Hacker News

I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system Playa Phone The safest job from AI may be writing Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference Tmp.0ut, Vol. 5 Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company No country for mediocre mathematicians Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Exchange Online outage causes email failures, auth issues OpenAI confirms ChatGPT outage as users report errors Chinese Fire Ant hackers turn Cisco routers into spying platforms File servers are here to stay. Here’s how to manage them securely Berlin confirms data theft after Rhysida ransomware attack claims Microsoft says Windows 11 KB5120998 update resets mouse settings Nigerians extradited to US for sextortion, deaths of two teens Microsoft asks users to ignore 'Antivirus is turned off' errors FulcrumSec claims Manchester Airports hack, theft of 86 GB of data Anthropic warns infostealer malware is hijacking Claude sessions to drain usage Chrome Web Store extensions caught stealing crypto, browser data Anthropic is cutting Claude Code's current weekly limits by 17% Brave browser adds email aliases to help users evade tracking McKesson discloses breach after ShinyHunters claims patient data theft PaperCut releases second emergency patch for exploited flaws

Ars Technica

ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead. Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable” New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts" Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads Nvidia senior manager tied to ex-Supermicro staff's AI smuggling scheme Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says

Slashdot

California's Age Verification Bill Passes with Linux Exemption Intact Gamescom Crime Spree? Three Exhibitors Report Their Laptops Were Stolen Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage? States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors Claude, Codex, and Hermes Installed Unowned Code Inside Corporate Networks Trump Declares National Emergency to Ban Some Foreign Grid Equipment Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children's Social Media Addiction Chinese Government Fears AI Might Replace Human Intimacy Alabama Launches Investigation Into OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face

Events

The Verge

Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA VI leaks Meta glasses are a workplace menace OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what? OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore The fight over Flock and other ALPRs The Trump admin will start letting private firms launch international cyberattacks Meta adds AI screening to detect WhatsApp scams

Cipher Brief

Ukraine Is No Longer the Country Russia Thought It Was What Six Years as an Iran Hostage Taught Me About the Regime Lebanon’s Hezbollah Finance Crackdown May Be Designed to Fail Foreign Spies Don’t Need to Hack You Anymore Modernizing the Aircraft Carrier—By Returning to 20th-Century Technology? Hyping Nuclear Threats Is Counterproductive It’s Time to Reengage North Korea China’s Research Espionage Threat Is Hiding in Plain Sight Beyond Military Interoperability: The Coalition Challenge of Limited War The Return of the Essential Art: Electronic Warfare and the Lessons of the Russia-Ukraine War Where Did Venezuela’s Oil Billions Go? Open-Source Intel Makes U.S. Troops an Easier Target for Iran Inside Iran’s New Wartime Leadership The Dollar's Next Battlefield Isn't a Country. It's Code. It is in the U.S. interest to Support Democratic Legitimacy in Venezuela

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Cory Doctorow

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