Hacker News

Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title Backing Up Spotify Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed Big GPUs don't need big PCs Go ahead, self-host Postgres Anthropic: You can't change your Claude account email address I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) Claude in Chrome Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal OpenSCAD is kinda neat MIRA – An open-source persistent AI entity with memory Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power I wrote a code editor in C and now I'm a changed man Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Support Engineer (Remote/US) Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less agressive You have reached the end of the internet (2006) X-59 3D Printing Why do people leave comments on OpenBenches? Approaching 50 Years of String Theory Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study Skills Officially Comes to Codex TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components CSS Grid Lanes Mathematicians don't care about foundations (2022) Detailed balance in large language model-driven agents Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does

Bleeping Computer

RansomHouse upgrades encryption with multi-layered data processing Microsoft confirms Teams is down and messages are delayed Nigeria arrests dev of Microsoft 365 'Raccoon0365' phishing platform Microsoft 365 accounts targeted in wave of OAuth phishing attacks New UEFI flaw enables pre-boot attacks on motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, ASRock Over 25,000 FortiCloud SSO devices exposed to remote attacks Criminal IP and Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR integrate to bring AI-driven exposure intelligence to automated incident response Denmark blames Russia for destructive cyberattack on water utility New critical WatchGuard Firebox firewall flaw exploited in attacks FTC: Instacart to refund $60M over deceptive subscription tactics Windows 10 OOB update released to fix Message Queuing (MSMQ) issues University of Sydney suffers data breach exposing student and staff info Clop ransomware targets Gladinet CentreStack in data theft attacks

Ars Technica

How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade Instacart agrees to refund subscribers $60 million in FTC settlement ByteDance confirms TikTok will be controlled by US owners School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn’t an error. Man sues cops who jailed him for 37 days for trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil FCC chair scrubs website after learning it called FCC an “independent agency” Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says Twitter comeback bid draws lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X Corp US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s “pro-petroleum” moves “A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans 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

Slashdot

Flock Executive Says Their Camera Helped Find Shooting Suspect, Addresses Privacy Concerns Pro-AI Group Launches First of Many Attack Ads for US Election Google Sues SerpApi Over Scraping and Reselling Search Data YouTuber's Livestream Appears On White House Website Judge Hints Vizio TV Buyers May Have Rights To Source Code Licensed Under GPL Mass Hacking of IP Cameras Leave Koreans Feeling Vulnerable in Homes, Businesses MIT Grieves Shooting Death of Renowned Director of Plasma Science Center Senate Confirms Billionaire Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman As New NASA Chief FCC Chair Suggests Agency Isn't Independent, Word Cut From Mission Statement Google Sues Alleged Chinese Scam Group Behind Massive US Text Message Phishing Ring Breach At South Korea's Equivalent of Amazon Exposed Data of Almost Every Adult 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

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

What Would Follow a Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation? Anti-Semitism is a National Security Issue: It’s Time to Treat it Like One 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?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance Happy Public Domain Day 2026! 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