Hacker News

The universal weight subspace hypothesis Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far Manual: Spaces Modern Walkmans Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1 The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023) Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices AMD GPU Debugger Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms IBM to acquire Confluent Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables Luarrow – True pipeline operators and elegant Haskell-style function compositio OSHW: Small tablet based on RK3568 and AMOLED screen Scientific and Technical Amateur Radio Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros Cassette tapes are making a comeback? AI should only run as fast as we can catch up Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams Using Floating Point Numbers as Hash Keys (2017) The web runs on tolerance Latency Profiling in Python: From Code Bottlenecks to Observability Microsoft Download Center Archive A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos

Bleeping Computer

Ransomware gangs turn to Shanya EXE packer to hide EDR killers Malicious VSCode extensions on Microsoft's registry drop infostealers FinCEN says ransomware gangs extorted over $2.1B from 2022 to 2024 Poland arrests Ukrainians utilizing 'advanced' hacking equipment Google Chrome adds new security layer for Gemini AI agentic browsing How Agentic BAS AI Turns Threat Headlines Into Defense Strategies OpenAI denies rolling out ads on ChatGPT paid plans Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers React2Shell flaw exploited to breach 30 orgs, 77k IP addresses vulnerable New wave of VPN login attempts targets Palo Alto GlobalProtect portals Barts Health NHS discloses data breach after Oracle zero-day hack FBI warns of virtual kidnapping scams using altered social media photos

Ars Technica

ICEBlock lawsuit: Trump admin bragged about demanding App Store removal Elon Musk’s X first to be fined under EU’s Digital Services Act ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was “God’s assassin,” DOJ says Republicans drop Trump-ordered block on state AI laws from defense bill FCC boss Brendan Carr claims another victory over DEI as AT&T drops programs India orders device makers to put government-run security app on all phones Supreme Court hears case that could trigger big crackdown on Internet piracy OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide Tech firm’s new CTO gets indicted; company then claims he was never CTO Landlords’ go-to tool to set rent prices to be gutted under RealPage settlement DOGE “cut muscle, not fat”; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts Tech company CTO and others indicted for exporting Nvidia chips to China Keep your receipts: Tech firms told to prepare for possible tariff refunds Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification Trump revives unpopular Ted Cruz plan to punish states that impose AI laws Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it Faced with naked man, DoorDasher demands police action; they arrest her for illegal surveillance

Slashdot

Cold Case Inquiries Stall After Ancestry.com Revisits Policy For Users 193 Cybercrims Arrested, Accused of Plotting 'Violence-As-a-Service' Nvidia Can Sell H200 Chips To China For 25% US Cut Taiwan Cries Censorship As Government Bans Rednote Meta Pledge To Use Less Personal Data For Ads Gets EU Nod, Avoids Daily Fines Could America's Paper Checks Be On the Way Out, Like the Penny? Google Must Limit Its 'Default Search' Contracts to One Year, Judge Rules Woman Hailed As a Hero For Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses On Subway Could Netflix's Deal for Warner Bros. Fall Apart? India Reviews Telecom Industry Proposal For Always-On Satellite Location Tracking The New York Times Is Suing Perplexity For Copyright Infringement Contractors With Hacking Records Accused of Wiping 96 Government Databases Republicans Drop Trump-Ordered Block On State AI Laws From Defense Bill Microsoft Faces New Complaint For Unlawfully Processing Data On Behalf of Israeli Military Russia Blocks Roblox, Apple's FaceTime

Events

The Verge

Pentagon’s Signalgate report finds Pete Hegseth violated military policies The VPN panic is only getting started Signal’s secure message backups arrive on iOS Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data The FCC is rolling back steps meant to stop a repeat of a massive telecom hack Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT Cloudflare shows internet outages aren’t a matter of if — but when X launches Chat, its new encrypted DMs

The Cipher Brief

What China’s ‘World-Class Navy’ Means for the U.S. and Asia Putin Sees “Useful Meetings”, the U.S. Should See a Trap Set for Inexperienced Negotiators The Strategic Failure on North Korea’s Nuclear Rise Second Strike, No Survivors: The Legal and Political Questions Around Trump’s Narco-Boat Killings The Kremlin's Kill List: Inside a Culture of State-Sponsored Murder ‘Mind-Blowing’ Pentagon Overhaul Will Reshape Acquisition A Real Life Example of Russian Information Operations The U.S. Needs to Restore Deterrence Credibility Against Putin Destroying Boats, Killing Crews, Escalating Risks: The Venezuela Gambit The Delhi Blast and Pakistan’s Proxy War: Why Another Clash Looks Likely

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI A year in illustration All the books I reviewed in 2025 Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings Normie diffusion and technophilia O Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance"