Hacker News

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models CSS-Tricks has a new owner Anthropic S-1 The Git Forge for Agent-Human Collaboration SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller Diamond Transistor Pharo 14 Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024) Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale Colorfigures Partyline: A group voice application for Reticulum, built on LXST Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model Stalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the Planet

Bleeping Computer

Critical 'HTTP2Shell' Brotli vulnerability triggers emergency patches Microsoft releases emergency .NET patches for critical Brotli flaw When an AI Agent Is the Incident, the Identity Record Is the Evidence Chinese man extradited for role in $36 million cryptocurrency scam Kali Linux 2026.3 released with 6 new tools, desktop updates PHP2Shell security flaws now sucessfully exploited in the wild AI coding agents hijacked using AGENTS.md file in Downloads folder BlackX UEFI bootkit exploits Baton Drop flaw to bypass Secure Boot Abandoned Popcorn Time app exposed millions of devices to RCE attacks Microsoft Teams to get AI-powered, context-aware phishing detection Microsoft: Windows Server 2016 reaches end of support in January Quest Diagnostics confirms data breach exposed patient records PHP shares mitigation for new RCE vulnerability with no patch You gave your AI agent access, but who is giving it orders? HPE patches eight max severity RCE and auth bypass AOS flaws

Ars Technica

Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops Knicks sent employees fake offer of championship rings in phishing test: Report The reactor meant to showcase nuclear’s comeback keeps hitting problems Comcast loses more customers, claims other ISPs' cheap prices are "irrational" Meta shocked by $25B fine after N.M. refused to join multistate settlement UN says we're going to blow past 1.5º warming, offers a "now what?" answer FCC chair warns media not to run the "fake polls" Trump keeps complaining about Report: Musk ordered Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, then blamed it on Trump Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash TP-Link tries to appease Trump admin with pledge to assemble routers in US Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs 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

Slashdot

Amazon Deforestation Fell To Lowest Level Since 1988 - And Silva Wins Reelection Google Says Gmail and Photos Data Shared with AI Search Could Be Used for Targeted Ads America's Defense Department Is Building an 'Elite New Tech Sabotage Agency' California Cities Pull the Plug On Data Centers After State Regulations Don't Scale Up Fast Enough Ex-Police Officer Kept Using Flock Five Years After Leaving the Force Greece Enacts Social Media Ban For Kids Under 15 UN Says Breaching 1.5C Warming Limit Is 'Imminent and Unavoidable' Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List Google Staff Resign In Backlash Over Its AI Contracts With Military More Than 1.5 Million Canadian Crime Stoppers Tips Leaked Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion for Deceiving Users About Privacy On Facebook Judge Orders Meta To Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting Anna's Archive, Libgen DHS Lied About Why It Wanted To Search Activist's GrapheneOS Phone Meta Muse Exposes Users' Personal, Business Secrets When They Share Conversations US Bans DeepSeek From Government Use

Events

The Verge

Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web 1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system A critical PHP vulnerability may take websites down today Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find AI chats on the web Chrome will now show a warning before you visit ‘suspicious’ sites

Cipher Brief

The Terms We Must Set The Thirteenth Mile: This Is What Gray Zone War Looks Like The Intelligence Community’s Missing Discipline We’re Losing the Cognitive Space Race Russia Never Left the International Financial System. It Built a Way Back In. Turkey Has Outsourced Its Censorship to American Companies Technology Is Outrunning the Way We Fight Hybrid Threats: Why Awareness Must Transcend Individual Cyberattacks America's Counter-Drone Authority Is Real, The Capacity Isn't Yet The U.S. Army’s Pacific Strategy Depends on Allies The Hidden Risks of AI-Powered Intelligence 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?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Sovereign citizens, but for news (26 Oct 2026) Critique and writing (23 Oct 2026) Adversarial interoperability is a team sport (21 Oct 2026) The death of history's most successful publisher (20 Oct 2026) The technopolitics of ad-tech (19 Oct 2026) Israeli ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware" (17 Oct 2026) Load-bearing (16 Oct 2026) Expedia amazoned hotel rooms (15 Oct 2026) Bundestrojaner (13 Oct 2026) How labor rights rescued Ultima from a monopolist (12 Oct 2026) Thwarted (09 Oct 2026) Disloyalty (07 Oct 2026) Swapping money for expertise (06 Oct 2026) Scrutinized (05 Oct 2026) Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026)