Hacker News

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime The Amazon Tax Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet Composable Tests Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk Fairphone is now officially available in the United States Splitting a Git Commit Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People

Bleeping Computer

Your Controls Block Known Attacks. What About the Behavior? Microsoft tests faster Windows File Explorer, new context menu CISA: Windows Task Host flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs Microsoft confirms outage affecting search in Microsoft 365 apps Microsoft starts removing WMIC tool used by cybercriminals Hacker claims 3.6 million Azure account records stolen from major companies Pokémon Center data breach exposes customer info, cancels some orders Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide Certighost and the Privilege Hiding in Your Certificate Authority Windows Server 2022 reaches end of mainstream support in 60 days Philips and GE investigating Clop ransomware data theft claims French tax authority data breach affects 678,000 individuals Microsoft working on Defender patch for ShieldBreak zero-day SafePal data breach impacts 39,798 customers, stolen info for sale Anthropic confirms Claude is down in major outage affecting multiple services

Ars Technica

As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books Meta can't stop states' $1.4 trillion lawsuit from going to trial Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, isn't filling empty Democratic seat Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution

Slashdot

Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction OpenAI Ditches Recall-Style Screenshot Surveillance For Friendly Keylogging EFF's Position on Flock Camera Database Searches: 'Get a Warrant First' - and Police Use Should Be Restricted By Law Amazon's New User Agreement Seeks To Curb Class-action Suits Bipartisan 'Uprising' Against Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against Big Tech and Surveillance? Flock's 'Creepy Cameras' Remain Major Threat to Privacy Despite Small Recent Changes, Warns ACLU Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party Flock Announces Changes Amid Backlash Over Its License Plate Reader Network France's Top Court Blocks Social Media Ban For Under-15s Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and 'Sensitive' Drones Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them

Events

The Verge

OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore The fight over Flock and other ALPRs The Trump admin will start letting private firms launch international cyberattacks Meta adds AI screening to detect WhatsApp scams Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’ ‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt

Cipher Brief

The Return of the Essential Art: Electronic Warfare and the Lessons of the Russia-Ukraine War Where Did Venezuela’s Oil Billions Go? Open-Source Intel Makes U.S. Troops an Easier Target for Iran Inside Iran’s New Wartime Leadership The Dollar's Next Battlefield Isn't a Country. It's Code. It is in the U.S. interest to Support Democratic Legitimacy in Venezuela It’s Time For The President To Level With The American People on Iran The Biggest AI Models Are Not the Biggest Threats How About Equipping Local Law Enforcement with a Better Anti-Drone Arsenal? How Ukraine Is Changing the Way the U.S. Army Fights The Houthis’ External and Internal Crises Converge: Can a Tactical Solution Fix a Strategic Problem? America, North Korea, and the Search for Peace There Will be Unseen Costs to be Paid over the War in Iran. Who is Weighing Them? BLUF: The US Must Lead in Gray Zone Activity Why the Iran War Remains Strategically Adrift

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

IP can't save you from AI (18 Aug 2026) Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture' (17 Aug 2026) Capital formation (14 Aug 2026) Model collapse (12 Aug 2026) Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026) The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026) Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026) Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026) Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026) Post-American compute for a post-American Internet (04 Aug 2026) Dualism (03 Aug 2026) Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026) Better to beg forgiveness (31 Jul 2026) The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026) Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global (29 Jul 2026)