Hacker News

The end of the kernel Rust experiment Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance Dependable C Django: what’s new in 6.0 Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C? Handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain When a video codec wins an Emmy Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter 10 Years of Let's Encrypt Writing our own Cheat Engine in Rust Post-transformer inference: 224× compression of Llama-70B with improved accuracy Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation Are We over the "Jaws Effect?" So you want to speak at software conferences? The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly Show all your application error using Cloudflare Error Page Kaiju – General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor Operando interlayer expansion of curved graphene for dense supercapacitors Distributed ID Formats Are Architectural Commitments, Not Just Data Types 'Source available' is not open source (and that's okay) Agentic AI Foundation OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending

Bleeping Computer

SAP fixes three critical vulnerabilities across multiple products Windows PowerShell now warns when running Invoke-WebRequest scripts Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5071546 extended security update Microsoft December 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 57 flaws Fortinet warns of critical FortiCloud SSO login auth bypass flaws Windows 11 KB5072033 & KB5071417 cumulative updates released Ivanti warns of critical Endpoint Manager code execution flaw Maintaining enterprise IT hygiene using Wazuh SIEM/XDR Spain arrests teen who stole 64 million personal data records North Korean hackers exploit React2Shell flaw in EtherRAT malware attacks Ransomware IAB abuses EDR for stealthy malware execution Microsoft investigates Copilot outage affecting users in Europe Ransomware gangs turn to Shanya EXE packer to hide EDR killers

Ars Technica

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 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

Slashdot

Netflix Faces Consumer Class Action Over $72 Billion Warner Bros Deal Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Locally-Hosted Wireless Security Cameras? Congress Quietly Strips Right-To-Repair Provisions From US Military Spending Bill 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

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

Inside the Pentagon IG’s Findings on Signalgate 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

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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 Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings Normie diffusion and technophilia O