Hacker News

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library Maladaptive Frugality I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940 Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac I built a Game Boy emulator in F# Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw" How an oil refinery works OpenWarp Reverse Engineering SimTower New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges You can beat the binary search Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file The Hearts of the Super Nintendo 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home Full-Text Search with DuckDB I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search Does Postgres Scale? The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

Bleeping Computer

New Bluekit phishing service includes an AI assistant, 40 templates Romanian leader of online swatting ring gets 4 years in prison FBI links cybercriminals to sharp surge in cargo theft attacks April KB5083769 Windows 11 update causes backup software failures What Happens in the First 24 Hours After a New Asset Goes Live New Linux ‘Copy Fail’ flaw gives hackers root on major distros Critical cPanel and WHM bug exploited as a zero-day, PoC now available Police dismantles 9 crypto scam centers, arrests 276 suspects Official SAP npm packages compromised to steal credentials Popular WordPress redirect plugin hid dormant backdoor for years Hackers exploit RCE flaws in Qinglong task scheduler for cryptomining Hackers arrested for hijacking and selling 610,000 Roblox accounts cPanel, WHM emergency update fixes critical auth bypass bug European police dismantles €50 million crypto investment fraud ring Learning from the Vercel breach: Shadow AI & OAuth sprawl

Ars Technica

US falls below Ukraine in press freedom as global autocracy takes hold Elon Musk's 7 biggest stumbles on the stand at OpenAI trial Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex More than half of all Polymarket "long shot" bets on military action pay off ABC can beat Trump FCC's license threat if owner Disney is willing to fight New Sam Bankman-Fried trial would be huge waste of court’s time, judge says Attempt to repeal Colorado's right-to-repair law fails Sam Altman is “the face of evil” for not reporting school shooter, says lawyer Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Kimmel joke offends Trump and first lady Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles Musk and Altman face off in trial that will determine OpenAI's future Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism" FCC: Router ban includes portable hotspots, but not phones with hotspot features Soldier won $410K in Polymarket bets on timing of Maduro capture, US alleges Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf Trump administration attempt to gut Endangered Species Act hits roadblock US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it’s “slander.” Apple stops weirdly storing data that let cops spy on Signal chats Lawsuit: Nintendo is getting tariff refunds—its customers should get them instead

Slashdot

Musk Concludes Testimony At OpenAI Trial US Senators Ban Themselves From Prediction Markets Trading New Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability Enables Root Access On Major Distros French Prosecutors Link 15-Year-Old To Mega-Breach At State's Secure Document Agency DOJ Sues Cloudera For Deliberately Excluding American Workers From Tech Jobs Elon Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Him, Clashes With Company's Attorney New Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Would Be Huge Waste of Court's Time, Judge Says Colorado's Anti-Repair Bill Is Dead Musk Testifies OpenAI Was Created As Nonprofit To Counter Google Google and Pentagon Reportedly Agree On Deal For 'Any Lawful' Use of AI Supreme Court Hears Case On How To Label Risks of Popular Weed Killer Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Head To Court Supreme Court Reviews Police Use of Cell Location Data To Find Criminals Right-to-Repair Laws Gain Political Momentum Across America Bank Robber Challenges Conviction Based on His Cellphone's Location Data

Events

The Verge

GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours Attack of the killer script kiddies Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cybersecurity agency Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked Rockstar Games says hack will have ‘no impact’ PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default

The Cipher Brief

Britain’s Antisemitism Crisis Is Now a National Security Threat CIA Deaths Expose Fragile U.S.-Mexico Security Ties Houthi's are Positioned to Close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait Pakistan’s Terror Landscape Continues to Threaten South Asia From Chernobyl to Ukraine: The Enduring Cost of Kremlin Lies Why the Navy’s Next Battleship Faces Major Hurdles Pyongyang’s Bet: Nuclear Growth and Great Power Support America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War The Dangerous Trade of State Secrets Half Measures and Maximum Risk in Iran

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

How not to ban surveillance pricing Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe" The enshittification multiverse Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" A free, open visual identity for enshittification The It's not a crime if we do it Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed" Comrade Trump Georgia's voting technology blunder