Hacker News

alpr.watch 40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity FVWM-95 Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners on March 2026 Sega Channel: VGHF Recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and More) Rust GCC back end: Why and how The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer free Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Senior Enterprise AES Too Fast to Think: The Hidden Fatigue of AI Vibe Coding AIsbom – open-source CLI to detect "Pickle Bombs" in PyTorch models Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People Full Unicode Search at 50× ICU Speed with AVX‑512 A brief history of Times New Roman Debug Mode for LLMs in vLLora Show HN: Interactive Common Lisp: An Enhanced REPL SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image Show HN: A real-time 4D fractal explorer in the browser using WebGPU Show HN: Zenflow – orchestrate coding agents without "you're right" loops A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces Put a ring on it: a lock-free MPMC ring buffer Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling I don't think Lindley's paradox supports p-circling Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on The biggest heat pumps Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders Bonsai: A Voxel Engine, from scratch ArkhamMirror: Airgapped investigation platform with CIA-style hypothesis testing AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded

Bleeping Computer

Texas sues TV makers for taking screenshots of what people watch Hackers exploit newly patched Fortinet auth bypass flaws Cyberattack disrupts Venezuelan oil giant PDVSA's operations The Hidden Risk in Virtualization: Why Hypervisors are a Ransomware Magnet Microsoft to block Exchange Online access for outdated mobile devices European authorities dismantle call center fraud ring in Ukraine SoundCloud confirms breach after member data stolen, VPN access disrupted Google is shutting down its dark web report feature in January Askul confirms theft of 740k customer records in ransomware attack New SantaStealer malware steals data from browsers, crypto wallets PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data Ongoing SoundCloud issue blocks VPN users with 403 server error 700Credit data breach impacts 5.8 million vehicle dealership customers 2025’s Top Phishing Trends and What They Mean for Your Security Strategy

Ars Technica

Utah leaders hinder efforts to develop solar energy supply Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won Ukrainians sue US chip firms for powering Russian drones, missiles Trump tries to block state AI laws himself after Congress decided not to Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales “makes no sense,” experts say Supreme Court appears likely to approve Trump’s firing of FTC Democrat Court: “Because Trump said to” may not be a legally valid defense 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

Slashdot

Texas Sues TV Makers For Taking Screenshots of What People Watch SoundCloud Confirms Breach After Member Data Stolen, VPN Access Disrupted Russian Ban On Roblox Gaming Platform Sparks Rare Protest Like Australia, Denmark Plans to Severely Restrict Social Media Use for Teenagers 'Investors in Limbo'. Will the TikTok Deal's Deadline Be Extended Again? Repeal Section 230 and Its Platform Protections, Urges New Bipartisan US Bill Trump Ban on Wind Energy Permits 'Unlawful', Court Rules Firefox Survey Finds Only 16% Feel In Control of Their Privacy Choices Online Chinese Whistleblower Living In US Is Being Hunted By Beijing With US Tech Ukrainians Sue US Chip Firms For Powering Russian Drones, Missiles US To Mandate AI Vendors Measure Political Bias For Federal Sales Russian Hackers Debut Simple Ransomware Service, But Store Keys In Plain Text The Data Breach That Hit Two-Thirds of a Country Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers Hollywood Director Found Guilty of Blowing $11 Million Netflix Budget on Crypto and Ferraris

Events

The Verge

Google’s turning off its dark web monitoring service that scoured data breaches for your info 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

The Cipher Brief

How the U.S. Military’s Top Officer is Looking at the World’s Hotspots Winter is Coming to Ukraine as it Faces a New Kind of War and Uncertainty About a Key Ally The Cipher Brief's Recommended Reads for the Holidays Echoes of 1940: Learning from an Ally at War and Preparing the U.S. for the Next Fight Russia is Waging a Sabotage Shadow War on Europe Why an Unmanned Mission May be Most Effective in Venezuela America’s Antibiotic Weakness Is a National Security Blindspot Can Europe Survive the New Multipolar World? Inside the Pentagon IG’s Findings on Signalgate What China’s ‘World-Class Navy’ Means for the U.S. and Asia

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses Federal Wallet Inspectors Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane 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