Hacker News

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon Why Japan has such good railways Optimizing Ruby Path Methods Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower Modern Common Lisp with FSet State of Kdenlive Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design Michael Rabin has died NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind Metatextual Literacy PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors Amiga Graphics Archive 80386 Memory Pipeline UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) Show HN: SmallDocs – Markdown without the frustrations Fuzix OS

Bleeping Computer

Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution Microsoft Teams right-click paste broken by Edge update bug NAKIVO v11.2: Ransomware Defense, Faster Replication, vSphere 9, and Proxmox VE 9.0 Support Payouts King ransomware uses QEMU VMs to bypass endpoint security Grinex exchange blames "Western intelligence" for $13.7M crypto hack Inside an Underground Guide: How Threat Actors Vet Stolen Credit Card Shops Webinar: From phishing to fallout — Why MSPs must rethink both security and recovery CISA flags Apache ActiveMQ flaw as actively exploited in attacks Microsoft: Some Windows servers enter reboot loops after April patches Man gets 30 months for selling thousands of hacked DraftKings accounts Recently leaked Windows zero-days now exploited in attacks Operation PowerOFF identifies 75k DDoS users, takes down 53 domains ZionSiphon malware designed to sabotage water treatment systems New Microsoft Defender “RedSun” zero-day PoC grants SYSTEM privileges Hackers exploit Marimo flaw to deploy NKAbuse malware from Hugging Face

Ars Technica

Man with @ihackedthegovernment Instagram account tells judge, “I made a mistake" Ad firms settle with Trump FTC over claims they boycotted conservative media Jury finds Live Nation/Ticketmaster is illegal monopoly that overcharged fans FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why It's Tax Day, and no one knows how to file for prediction market winnings Apple chooses Amazon satellites for iPhone, years after rejecting Starlink offer NZXT agrees to let customers keep their rental PCs in class-action settlement Your tech support company runs scams. Stop—or disguise with more fraud? IBM folds to Trump anti-DEI push, admits no misconduct but pays $17M penalty Californians sue over AI tool that records doctor visits Report: US demands Reddit unmask ICE critic, summons firm to grand jury Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord Trump-appointed judges refuse to block Trump blacklisting of Anthropic AI tech Police corporal created AI porn from driver's license pics First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest LinkedIn scanning users' browser extensions sparks controversy and two lawsuits Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites How our digital devices are putting our right to privacy at risk To beat Altman in court, Musk offers to give all damages to OpenAI nonprofit Tankers passing through Strait of Hormuz will have to pay cryptocurrency toll

Slashdot

Old Cars 'Tell Tales' by Storing Data That's Never Wiped US Congress Fails to Pass Long-Term FISA Extension, Authorizes It Through April 30 20-Year-Old Enters Prison for Historic Breach, Ransoming of Massive Student Database US Government Now Wants Anthropic's 'Mythos', Preparing for AI Cybersecurity Threats Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies Gazing Into Sam Altman's Orb Could Solve Ticket Scalping Newly Unsealed Records Reveal Amazon's Price-Fixing Tactics 'TotalRecall Reloaded' Tool Finds a Side Entrance To Windows 11 Recall Database Google, Pentagon Discuss Classified AI Deal EU Age Verification App Announced To Protect Children Online Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI Live Nation Illegally Monopolized Ticketing Market, Jury Finds Anna's Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight California Ghost-Gun Bill Wants 3D Printers To Play Cop, EFF Says Audit Finds Google, Microsoft, and Meta Still Tracking Users After Opt-Out

Events

The Verge

Rockstar Games says hack will have ‘no impact’ PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default Claude Code leak exposes a Tamagotchi-style ‘pet’ and an always-on agent Okta’s CEO is betting big on AI agent identity PSA: Hackers can raid iOS 18 with an infected link Iran-linked cyber attack targets US medtech giant Stryker Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger get new ways to protect users from scams Anthropic makes last-ditch effort to salvage deal with Pentagon after blowup

The Cipher Brief

An FBI Perspective on FISA Section 702 Why Greenland is the Linchpin of the Golden Dome The Most Dangerous Extremist Movement in America Has No Ideology The Trump-Xi Summit: A Chance to Change the Global Narrative What Iran Is Learning from Russia’s War and Why the U.S. Should Be Concerned Copy of Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It’s All in the Execution Avoiding Another 9/11: 3 Key Reasons to Reauthorize Section 702 The Navy is changing the way it does business and its still pretty pricey The Case for Reauthorizing Section 702 Is the U.S. lagging when it comes to drone warfare superiority?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Georgia's voting technology blunder Tiktokification shall set us free A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers Rights for robots In praise of Austerity creates fascism Don't Be Evil Canny Valley and Creative Commons Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" Process knowledge