Hacker News

Introducing System One Models and Jev Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol An Update on Wayback Machine Access Jean-Pierre Serre is 100 years old today Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month Chopping up books when they're physically too big WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes Vibe Coding is the new Internet Dating?

Bleeping Computer

Acronis warns of actively exploited flaw in its cPanel backup plugin Malcious Admin Menu Editor Pro plugin backdoors 1,500 WordPress sites CenterPoint Energy confirms customer data stolen in cyberattack BambooToken malware controls Windows and Linux systems via MQTT Hackers target WordPress sites via third-party WooCommerce plugin What Zero-Day Response Should Be in the Post-Mythos Era CISA: Critical VMware RCE flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs Suspected Black Axe gang leaders face cybercrime charges in the US Microsoft confirms KB5002914 Excel update breaks copy and paste Cisco patches Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks Microsoft releases emergency Windows updates to fix RDS failures Japan's Digital Agency says VPN flaw exposed 246,000 personnel records Homebrew 7.0.0 gets built-in GUI, better security controls Twitch extension with 30K installs exposes users’ OAuth tokens Hackers hijack HBO Max Reddit account to push malware in ClickFix ads

Ars Technica

“Filmmaker” suing PassThePopcorn may be banned user out for revenge Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract Trump EPA moves to wipe out climate rules for power plants OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat Trump's forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google Kimmel's ABC show won't air interview with Democrat because of Trump FCC threats Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus. NIH to use part of its budget to pay for Department of Defense research Supreme Court forces TV stations to sell more election ads at steep discounts

Slashdot

Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg' No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage 220 Million Traveler Records Exposed In Vietnam-Linked APIS Leak California's Gig Drivers Just Secured Collective Bargaining Power with Newly Certified Union Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter - For Filming Them in Public Sam Bankman-Fried, Former Crypto Billionaire, Appeals His Conviction To the US Supreme Court LG Responds to TV Spying Allegations US Legislators Complain About Secretive British Court and Apple Encryption UK Government Rejects 'Kill Switch' Idea For Dangerous AI California Governor Signs Laws Protecting Kids From Risks of Social Media, AI Chatbots Latest Apple Watch Can Grab Snippets of Conversation Without Both Speakers' Consent Android Rolling Out Passkey Transfers Between Password Managers ABC Show Won't Air Interview With Democrat Because of FCC Threats Anthropic Reveals Fourth Likely Crime Committed By Its AI Google's Revived Nuclear Power Plant Gets $1.9 Billion Loan From US Government

Events

The Verge

Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki DJI’s new robovac can climb obstacles, vacuum quietly, and claims much improved privacy Microsoft is enabling a Windows 11 security feature that can hurt gaming performance The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility Florida blocks Flock cams on state highways Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA VI leaks Meta glasses are a workplace menace OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what? OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

Cipher Brief

We Are In An Unpredictable War Of Attrition Can America’s All-Volunteer Force Survive the Next War? Setting Terms with America’s Tech Giants Not the Destroyer of Worlds: Why Compute is Humanity’s Most Vital Defense When Policy and War Collapse Into One: Fighting in the Sixth Domain The Compute We Cannot Power Reflect, Remember, Renew 25 years after 9/11. Whatever happened to mass-effect terrorism? Twenty-Five Years Later, Remembering 9/11 The Battle for Decision Autonomy, The New Front in Strategic Competition China’s Challenge to Western Alliances Russia’s AI Blueprint Exposes an Authoritarian Playbook The Gulf Bought Its Air Defense From Kyiv. We Sold Them The Radar. Pakistan’s New Military Order Is a Warning for Washington Are We Ready for AI Warfare?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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