Hacker News

Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing suspended USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons Your TV can see through walls How hard is it to check for whitespace? Locating the source of a mysterious beep Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes Horible public key tricks Ultorg: The User Interface for Relational Databases ClickHouse Acquires Xata Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics

Bleeping Computer

Hackers now exploit critical Barracuda ESG flaws to gain root access Turla hackers use new Cereal malware to spy on govt Exchange servers Google patches eighth Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year Fireworks AI discloses new breach after cloud provider hack Vanderbilt University hit in BYOD ransomware attack, data theft claimed SEGA newsletter data breach exposes 2.2 million email addresses N-able takes cloud platform offline after 30+ "zero-days" published York University breach exposed personal information dating to 2007 France blames Iranian hackers for supermarket attacks that sparked fires Russian cloud firm Beget rebuilds from scratch after data wiper attack Binance denies data breach after alleged ShinyHunters claims Hackers exploit SSHole OpenSSH flaw to breach Linux systems The Biggest Threat to Your GRC Job Isn’t AI. It’s Ignoring AI. FBI agent stole $2.5 million in crypto from hackers under investigation US bans MEXC crypto exchange over sanctions evasion, cybercrime links

Ars Technica

Man who lost $308,000 on sports bets sues Kalshi for offering illegal gambling Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem FAA to finally ditch floppy disks in what it calls "historic" tech upgrade “Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang summoned by Congress over Chinese espionage concerns Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder. Kalshi court losses pile up as judges refuse to block state gambling laws Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech” After Texas' blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? Ted Cruz aims to stack FCC with Republicans before Democrats take Senate control California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms Trump wanted to give No Kings no air. Then, Meta suspended its Instagram. EPA throws in the towel on policing air pollution from factory farms Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job

Slashdot

Trump Backs Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Amid Chinese Spy Affair Investigation Aaron Swartz Would've Been 40 Today. His 'Legacy Lives On' Says FSF Mexico's Senate Approves ISP Rules To Disconnect Persistent Online Pirates Chainalysis Says Breach Exposed Credentials For All Customers Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Summoned By Congress Over Chinese Espionage Concerns FAA Phases Out Floppy Disks From Air Traffic Control Applebee's Exposed Customers' Personal Data After Leaving Database Password In App Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House? 3M To Pay Over $7 Billion To Settle 'Forever Chemical' Groundwater Claims Vietnam Jails Pirate Football Streamers For Up To a Year Axon Sued Over AI-Powered License Plate Reader Network French Blood Banks Hit Alongside Cyberattack On European Supermarkets Democrats Take Control of US Congress As Voters Reject Trump's Republicans EU Court Advisor Warns Google AI Chatbot May Breach Copyright Rules Study Claims Vizio Simply Ignores 'Smart' TV Spying Opt Out Requests

Events

The Verge

AI broke the cybersecurity world. What’s next? Just about anyone can rent access to White House IP addresses One of Google’s Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet More European supermarkets are getting their freezers hacked Binance hackers stole $6.3 billion in record-breaking crypto heist A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records 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

Cipher Brief

The Command We Must Fund China's Return to One-Man Rule In Its Race to Field AI, The Pentagon’s Testing Can’t Keep Up The Missing Dimension of Cyber Preparedness BLUF: The Next AI Problem for Intelligence Is Not the Model, It's the Manager Fire Base Australia: Can America’s Southern Base Sustain a Pacific War? The Coming Age of Robotic Warfare The Hidden Cost of America’s War With Iran The Command We Must Start The Cipher Brief’s 10th Threat Conference: Optimism, Urgency, and the Imperative to Act The Kids are Alright: U.S. Soft Power, Aid, and Youth in Africa F-35 Fallacy: Jets Alone Will Not Save Us The U.S. Military Has Much to Learn From Ukraine The Terms We Must Set The Thirteenth Mile: This Is What Gray Zone War Looks Like

Blogs

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