Hacker News

AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You Type Punning in C and C++ AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0? Can gzip be a language model? Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It? MiMo v2.6 Spymarks, Not Watermarks 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game" Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B Video games inspire great UX (2019) Transformers Explained Visually Attention is all you have I said no and Apple said yes A font that reads what you wrote What Sun got wrong

Bleeping Computer

D-Link warns of max severity zero-day bug in DIR-822A routers New Windows Defender zero-day blocks Microsoft antivirus updates CISA orders feds to patch Zyxel flaw exploited for data theft BigCommerce alerts merchants of data breach linked to Ribon apps CISA alerts of active exploitation of three Linux kernel flaws WordPress Click2Shell flaw lets hackers execute PHP on the server Microsoft to retire Microsoft 365 Companion apps in December Google fined €403 million over location data privacy violations Microsoft fixes broken Excel copy and paste for all Office users FBI's CJIS v6.1: What Security Teams Need to Know. Microsoft reminds admins to migrate Entra ID users to passkeys Microsoft: September updates break File History backup feature Malicious npm packages evade install-script defenses at runtime Researchers escape OpenAI Codex sandbox to run commands on host BragJack attacks hijack AI browser agents through malicious extensions

Ars Technica

Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants California settles lawsuit against Paramount/Warner merger, angering advocates FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious" Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history” Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plants Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in them California may gut state net neutrality law to comply with Trump admin demand It’s OK to tell ICE their actions will haunt them, judge rules in speech fight Lawmakers target Flock cameras with a threat to highway funding “Filmmaker” suing PassThePopcorn may be banned user out for revenge Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract Trump EPA moves to wipe out climate rules for power plants OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out

Slashdot

Australia Considers Smart Glasses Ban in Government Workplaces, While 70 People Sue Meta Over Unknowing Data Collection North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State' To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump's 'AI Force' Proposal Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees Will California Gut Its Net Neutrality Law to Comply with Trump Admin Demands? Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Fails Spectacularly, Despite Hundreds of Millions in Industry Lobbying Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg' No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage 220 Million Traveler Records Exposed In Vietnam-Linked APIS Leak California's Gig Drivers Just Secured Collective Bargaining Power with Newly Certified Union Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter - For Filming Them in Public

Events

The Verge

Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki DJI’s new robovac can climb obstacles, vacuum quietly, and claims much improved privacy Microsoft is enabling a Windows 11 security feature that can hurt gaming performance The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility Florida blocks Flock cams on state highways 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

Cipher Brief

The Military’s Race to Operationalize AI The Authority We Cannot Keep Heads They Win, Tails They Win: The CMMC Trap and the Way Out How America Appeased Putin Will Physical AI Underpin the Reindustrialization Win that Western Allies Need? How China Is Building an Architecture of Control Across the Heart of Asia Dark Transits are a Stopgap not a Solution The Houthis’ Coastal Gambit 65 Billion Barrels Is Only the Beginning The Bells are Ringing Again, and This Time Sweden is Inside the Alliance We Are In An Unpredictable War Of Attrition Can America’s All-Volunteer Force Survive the Next War? Setting Terms with America’s Tech Giants Not the Destroyer of Worlds: Why Compute is Humanity’s Most Vital Defense When Policy and War Collapse Into One: Fighting in the Sixth Domain

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs (22 Sep 2026) The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) Textured (18 Sep 2026) On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026) How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026) But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026) LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026) Anti-vax/anti-trust (09 Sep 2026) How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026) Google skates (05 Sep 2026) Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026) Preparing for a post-Trump internet (03 Sep 2026) Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026)