Hacker News

A flawed paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times Doom has been ported to an earbud A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012) Bridging the Gap Between PLECS and SPICE Nango (YC W23, Dev Infrastructure) Is Hiring Remotely The Rebirth of Pennsylvania's Infamous Burning Town A Lament for Aperture I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet BU-808: How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries (2023) Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study Hands-On with Two Apple Network Server Prototype ROMs Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials Back to Bellevue Sony Data Discman UN Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy' Show HN: AutoShorts – Local, GPU-accelerated AI video pipeline for creators Challenges and Research Directions for Large Language Model Inference Hardware Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux Two Weeks Until Tapeout Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)

Bleeping Computer

1Password adds pop-pup warnings for suspected phishing sites Microsoft investigates Windows 11 boot failures after January updates Microsoft releases emergency OOB update to fix Outlook freezes Sandworm hackers linked to failed wiper attack on Poland’s energy systems Konni hackers target blockchain engineers with AI-built malware ShinyHunters claim hacks of Okta, Microsoft SSO accounts for data theft Malicious AI extensions on VSCode Marketplace steal developer data CISA confirms active exploitation of four enterprise software bugs US to deport Venezuelans who emptied bank ATMs using malware Hackers exploit critical telnetd auth bypass flaw to get root What an AI-Written Honeypot Taught Us About Trusting Machines Microsoft: Outlook for iOS crashes, freezes due to coding error Hackers get $1,047,000 for 76 zero-days at Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 Fortinet confirms critical FortiCloud auth bypass not fully patched Okta SSO accounts targeted in vishing-based data theft attacks

Ars Technica

Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue" TikTok deal is done; Trump wants praise while users fear MAGA tweaks Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk's chosen court Meta wants to block data about social media use, mental health in child safety trial Judge orders stop to FBI search of devices seized from Washington Post reporter Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS Trump FCC threatens to enforce equal-time rule on late-night talk shows Spotify won court order against Anna’s Archive, taking down .org domain Zuck stuck on Trump’s bad side: FTC appeals loss in Meta monopoly case Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones Netflix to pay all cash for Warner Bros. to fend off Paramount hostile takeover Elon Musk accused of making up math to squeeze $134B from OpenAI, Microsoft Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply Calif. counters FCC attack on DEI with conditions on Verizon/Frontier merger Mother of one of Elon Musk’s offspring sues xAI over sexualized deepfakes ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself Six months later, Trump Mobile still hasn’t delivered preordered phones US government to take 25% cut of AMD, NVIDIA AI sales to China

Slashdot

Hollywood Tries To Take Pirate Sites Down Globally Through India Court California Becomes First State To Join WHO Disease Network After US Exit Justice Department Opens Criminal Probe Into Silicon Valley Spy Allegations TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users White House Labels Altered Photo of Arrested Minnesota Protester a 'Meme' Toronto Man Posed as Pilot To Rack Up Hundreds of Free Flights, Prosecutors Say South Korea Launches Landmark Laws To Regulate AI Epic and Google Have a Secret $800 Million Unreal Engine and Services Deal Nvidia Allegedly Sought 'High-Speed Access' To Pirated Book Library for AI Training FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch On You Spotify Lawsuit Triggered Anna's Archive Domain Name Suspensions HAM Radio Operators In Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty AI Company Eightfold Sued For Helping Companies Secretly Score Job Seekers Ireland Wants To Give Its Cops Spyware, Ability To Crack Encrypted Messages Snap Settles Social media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of Landmark Trial

Events

The Verge

Gmail’s spam filter and automatic sorting are broken Ring can verify videos now, but that might not help you with most AI fakes 1Password is introducing a new phishing prevention feature Sony, Anker, and other headphones have a serious Google Fast Pair security vulnerability Instagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send all those password reset emails Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message Ring’s Mobile Security Trailer provides 360-degree coverage anywhere Reolink made a local AI hub for its security cameras

The Cipher Brief

Loosening the Gordian Knot of Global Terrorism: Why Legitimacy Must Anchor a Counterterrorism Strategy Iran at the Breaking Point: How Afghanistan and Iraq Still Inform U.S. Strategy The Kremlin Files: Russia’s Way to the Gray Zone The Long Arc Of American Power New Reports Reveal Years of Unaddressed Osprey Safety Risks The Coast Guard's Mission in the Gray Zone The Country’s First ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Chief: Influence Is the New Battlefield What U.S. – China Cooperation Means for the World Remembering Aldrich Ames and the Lives He Destroyed Ruling Venezuela with a 2,000 Mile Hammer is Not Likely to End Well

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The petty Google's AI pricing plan AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" Social media without socializing The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification Catch this! How the Light Gets In It's not normal Sorry, eh A winning trade war strategy for Canada