Hacker News

Where the goblins came from Craig Venter has died Zed 1.0 Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig Copy Fail The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans Cursor Camp Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies Creating a Color Palette from an Image OpenTrafficMap HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function Laws of UX A Grounded Conceptual Model for Ownership Types in Rust Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design Mike: open-source legal AI Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials We need a federation of forges Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL Ghostty is leaving GitHub How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]

Bleeping Computer

Official SAP npm packages compromised to steal credentials Popular WordPress redirect plugin hid dormant backdoor for years Hackers exploit RCE flaws in Qinglong task scheduler for cryptomining Hackers arrested for hijacking and selling 610,000 Roblox accounts cPanel, WHM emergency update fixes critical auth bypass bug European police dismantles €50 million crypto investment fraud ring Learning from the Vercel breach: Shadow AI & OAuth sprawl GitHub fixes RCE flaw that gave access to millions of private repos CISA orders feds to patch Windows flaw exploited as zero-day Microsoft says backend change broke Teams Free chat and calls Broken VECT 2.0 ransomware acts as a data wiper for large files Hackers are exploiting a critical LiteLLM pre-auth SQLi flaw Video service Vimeo confirms Anodot breach exposed user data US reportedly charges Scattered Spider hacker arrested in Finland Checkmarx confirms LAPSUS$ hackers leaked its stolen GitHub data

Ars Technica

ABC can beat Trump FCC's license threat if owner Disney is willing to fight New Sam Bankman-Fried trial would be huge waste of court’s time, judge says Attempt to repeal Colorado's right-to-repair law fails Sam Altman is “the face of evil” for not reporting school shooter, says lawyer Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Kimmel joke offends Trump and first lady Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles Musk and Altman face off in trial that will determine OpenAI's future Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism" FCC: Router ban includes portable hotspots, but not phones with hotspot features Soldier won $410K in Polymarket bets on timing of Maduro capture, US alleges Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf Trump administration attempt to gut Endangered Species Act hits roadblock US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it’s “slander.” Apple stops weirdly storing data that let cops spy on Signal chats Lawsuit: Nintendo is getting tariff refunds—its customers should get them instead Tabloid reports linking 10 missing and dead scientists spur FBI probe New court ruling blocks many of the government's anti-renewable policies Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie Investors lost billions on Trump’s memecoin. Another gala won’t fix that.

Slashdot

Elon Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Him, Clashes With Company's Attorney New Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Would Be Huge Waste of Court's Time, Judge Says Colorado's Anti-Repair Bill Is Dead Musk Testifies OpenAI Was Created As Nonprofit To Counter Google Google and Pentagon Reportedly Agree On Deal For 'Any Lawful' Use of AI Supreme Court Hears Case On How To Label Risks of Popular Weed Killer Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Head To Court Supreme Court Reviews Police Use of Cell Location Data To Find Criminals Right-to-Repair Laws Gain Political Momentum Across America Bank Robber Challenges Conviction Based on His Cellphone's Location Data Privacy Advocate Accuses US Government of Investing in AI-Powered Mass Surveillance 40 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster, More Countries Are Turning To Nuclear Power Trump Fires All 24 Members of America's National Science Board Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Isn't Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill

Events

The Verge

GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours Attack of the killer script kiddies Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cybersecurity agency Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked Rockstar Games says hack will have ‘no impact’ PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default

The Cipher Brief

CIA Deaths Expose Fragile U.S.-Mexico Security Ties Houthi's are Positioned to Close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait Pakistan’s Terror Landscape Continues to Threaten South Asia From Chernobyl to Ukraine: The Enduring Cost of Kremlin Lies Why the Navy’s Next Battleship Faces Major Hurdles Pyongyang’s Bet: Nuclear Growth and Great Power Support America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War The Dangerous Trade of State Secrets Half Measures and Maximum Risk in Iran The Pentagon’s $54 Billion Bet on Autonomous Warfare

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe" The enshittification multiverse Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" A free, open visual identity for enshittification The It's not a crime if we do it Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed" Comrade Trump Georgia's voting technology blunder Tiktokification shall set us free