Hacker News

Tesla Roadster Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins FLUX 3 Image Klein Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console Waymo in Toronto eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear You could have invented transformers from memory Wireless magnetic millirobots that deliver medicine inside the beating heart C++26: The New Debugging Header Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio How the Claude Code team does code review 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets

Bleeping Computer

Critical BlockStrap flaw lets hackers run code on Magento servers Targeted ads installed Candiru spyware in zero-click attacks Employees using personal ChatGPT at work? Here's what IT admins need to do Burger King Japan data breach exposes 11 million customer records Microsoft: October Windows update may break Smart App Control BAE Systems cyberattack disrupts US federal court operations BeyondTrust patches zero-day exploited in attacks since August Hackers exploit Collabora RCE flaw to backdoor Nextcloud servers Android gets AI defenses against messaging scams, fake calls Hackers hijack D-Link, Ubiquiti devices to resell your stolen bandwidth Fake Arch Linux packages push malware with root privileges Is AI pentesting as good as a human pentester? Microsoft: Windows Server 2022 reached end of mainstream support Police arrests 95 suspects in international CSAM crackdown action Microsoft fixes bug causing Windows black screens, Explorer crashes

Ars Technica

“thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax” Schools across US protest FCC plan that could disconnect kids from Internet Georgia man sues Flock, sheriff's office over alleged ALPR-fueled retaliation Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think. Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

Slashdot

Police Seize Robot that Sexually Assaulted Teen Girl Flock CEO Defends Surveillance Tech Amid National Backlash Amazon Launches New Bee 'Personal AI' Devices That Listen to Conversations Schools Across US Protest FCC Plan That Could Disconnect Kids From Internet Eight US States Sue OpenAI, Claiming ChatGPT Harms Young Users Google Is Silently Linking Your Phone Number Across All Signed-In Accounts FBI Arrests Saudi OpenAI Employee For Planting Recording Device In Conference Room Disney Offers $20 Million For Character.AI Assets As Startup Files For Bankruptcy Ledger Confirms Spy Chip Implant Behind Wallet Crypto Thefts FBI Arrests Canadian Cybersecurity Expert In ShinyHunters Hacking Case Hackers Heat French Supermarket Fridges, Sparking Fires and Spoiling Food Should We Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock? A College Told Flock to Remove Its Cameras. The Company Refused. US Agency To Rewrite Rules To Finally Address Vehicle Headlight Glare AI Execs Game Out 'Political Revolt' after a Catastrophic AI Event

Events

The Verge

Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents An Israeli firm is sending spyware through online ads, researchers say Your secrets aren’t safe with this cute robot toy — they’re on Chinese servers ready to be hacked Microsoft and Japan took down a cybercrime network behind over a billion scam messages Android is using AI to suss out scammers in Google Messages Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is alarming deja vu The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects A Trump Mobile breach may have exposed data of more than 3,600 people Suspected ShinyHunters leader arrested in the Netherlands

Cipher Brief

How Far Should the U.S. Go to Defend Saudi Arabia? Who Really Makes Decisions in Tehran? The Soviet Roots of Russia’s Modern Disinformation War Europe’s Changing Politics and the Future of U.S. Leadership What Beijing Calls Open, Washington Should Call an Operation Washington Cannot Outsource Saudi Security to the Mecca Pact The Next War of Attrition is in Yemen The Pentagon’s Drone Revolution Starts With Soldiers America’s Military Has a GPS Problem Subterranean Warfare - An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner The Sanctions We Cannot Afford How Ukraine’s Ground Robots Are Changing the Battlefield The Next Drone Won't Have a Radio Link, Our Intelligence Enterprise Needs to Plan for That Now The Future of Iran Lies Beyond the Regime How War Starts: A Warning from the Korean DMZ

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