Hacker News

Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled Transformers Explained Visually What Sun got wrong Attention is all you have CBP suspends all personal prescription importation Oct 22 Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader? The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Divide by Depth for Instant 3D Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization Grok 4.7 Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions? AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

Bleeping Computer

BigCommerce alerts merchants of data breach linked to Ribon apps CISA alerts of active exploitation of three Linux kernel flaws WordPress Click2Shell flaw lets hackers execute PHP on the server Microsoft to retire Microsoft 365 Companion apps in December Google fined €403 million over location data privacy violations Microsoft fixes broken Excel copy and paste for all Office users FBI's CJIS v6.1: What Security Teams Need to Know. Microsoft reminds admins to migrate Entra ID users to passkeys Microsoft: September updates break File History backup feature Malicious npm packages evade install-script defenses at runtime Researchers escape OpenAI Codex sandbox to run commands on host BragJack attacks hijack AI browser agents through malicious extensions North Korean WaterPlum hackers infected 30,000 devices worldwide ShinyHunters hacks Clop leak site, threatens to extort ransomware gang Viral AI actress' hotline face-scans every caller, watches their mood

Ars Technica

Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants California settles lawsuit against Paramount/Warner merger, angering advocates FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious" Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history” Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plants Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in them California may gut state net neutrality law to comply with Trump admin demand It’s OK to tell ICE their actions will haunt them, judge rules in speech fight Lawmakers target Flock cameras with a threat to highway funding “Filmmaker” suing PassThePopcorn may be banned user out for revenge Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract Trump EPA moves to wipe out climate rules for power plants OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out

Slashdot

Australia Considers Smart Glasses Ban in Government Workplaces, While 70 People Sue Meta Over Unknowing Data Collection North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State' To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump's 'AI Force' Proposal Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees Will California Gut Its Net Neutrality Law to Comply with Trump Admin Demands? Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Fails Spectacularly, Despite Hundreds of Millions in Industry Lobbying Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg' No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage 220 Million Traveler Records Exposed In Vietnam-Linked APIS Leak California's Gig Drivers Just Secured Collective Bargaining Power with Newly Certified Union Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter - For Filming Them in Public

Events

The Verge

Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki DJI’s new robovac can climb obstacles, vacuum quietly, and claims much improved privacy Microsoft is enabling a Windows 11 security feature that can hurt gaming performance The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility Florida blocks Flock cams on state highways Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA VI leaks Meta glasses are a workplace menace

Cipher Brief

The Authority We Cannot Keep Heads They Win, Tails They Win: The CMMC Trap and the Way Out How America Appeased Putin Will Physical AI Underpin the Reindustrialization Win that Western Allies Need? How China Is Building an Architecture of Control Across the Heart of Asia Dark Transits are a Stopgap not a Solution The Houthis’ Coastal Gambit 65 Billion Barrels Is Only the Beginning The Bells are Ringing Again, and This Time Sweden is Inside the Alliance We Are In An Unpredictable War Of Attrition Can America’s All-Volunteer Force Survive the Next War? Setting Terms with America’s Tech Giants Not the Destroyer of Worlds: Why Compute is Humanity’s Most Vital Defense When Policy and War Collapse Into One: Fighting in the Sixth Domain The Compute We Cannot Power

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) Textured (18 Sep 2026) On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026) How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026) But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026) LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026) Anti-vax/anti-trust (09 Sep 2026) How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026) Google skates (05 Sep 2026) Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026) Preparing for a post-Trump internet (03 Sep 2026) Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026) The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026)