Hacker News

Language Models Need Sleep Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale The Ballad of TIGIT Don't Subscribe So Casually C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead "Camera View" Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union Using AI to write better code more slowly Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence Opaque Types in Python DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier What Color is Your Function? (2015) Are we self-sovereign PKI yet? Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs. Frontier labs Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works Incident with Actions and Pages How do you build a semiconductor company on something that's free? Ferrari Luce Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify' Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died Exposing Critical Vulnerabilities in CBSE's On-Screen Marking Portal

Bleeping Computer

How Varonis Atlas integrates Claude Compliance API for AI governance Microsoft Defender can now automatically isolate hacked endpoints Webinar: Too many tools are slowing network incident response CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Drupal vulnerability Microsoft: Domain Controller lookup may fail on Windows Server 2016 7-Eleven data breach exposes personal information of 185,000 people Anthropic’s restricted Claude Mythos model may be coming to Claude Code FBI warns of Kali365 phishing service targeting Microsoft 365 accounts Ghost CMS SQL injection flaw exploited in large-scale ClickFix campaign Laravel Lang packages hijacked to deploy credential-stealing malware Italy disrupts CINEMAGOAL piracy app that stole streaming auth codes Netherlands seizes 800 servers of hosting firm enabling cyberattacks Former US execs plead guilty to aiding tech support scammers Trend Micro warns of Apex One zero-day exploited in the wild Drupal: Critical SQL injection flaw now targeted in attacks

Ars Technica

Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI US's big bet on quantum computing may not be entirely legal China’s shark finning could lead to US seafood sanctions Trump FCC asks public to comment on whether ABC's The View is a news show Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe" Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn't provide end-to-end encryption Marketer that claimed it could tap devices for ad targeting will pay $880K settlement Trump abruptly cancels EO signing event after top AI firm CEOs declined to go The $58,000 TV bill: When DirecTV sued O.J. Simpson for piracy AT&T sues California in attempt to shut off old phone network Zillow loses thousands of listings in fight over “hidden” homes Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats Minnesota prohibits prediction markets, promptly gets sued by Trump admin Man jailed for posting Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement China banned RTX 5090D V2 while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was visiting FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants "data in near real time" Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees

Slashdot

California Moves To Exempt Linux From Upcoming Age-Verification Law California Executive Order Directs Businesses and State Agencies to Prepare for AI-Driven Workforce Disruption Is America Closer to Ending Daylight Saving Time? Tech CEOs Call for a Universal Basic Income. But What are the Alternatives? NTSB Wants PDF Removed After It Exposed Final Cockpit Audio From UPS Crash Trump Mobile Exposed Customers' Personal Data, Including Phone Numbers and Home Addresses Venmo Redesign Makes New Users' Posts Friends-Only by Default A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide AT&T Sues California In Bid To Stop Offering Traditional Phone Service Trump Calls Off AI Executive Order Over Concern It Could Weaken US Tech Edge US To Award $2 Billion To Quantum Companies, Take Equity Stakes GitHub's Internal Repos Breached Via Employee's Use of Malicious VS Code Extension Anna's Archive Hit With Global Domain Takedown Order Yearslong Fight Over Users' Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban Prediction Markets

Events

The Verge

Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’ GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is becoming ‘unmanageable’ due to AI bug reports Canvas owner reaches ‘agreement’ with hackers to secure stolen data OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers Canvas is online again after ShinyHunters threaten to leak schools’ data

The Cipher Brief

AI, Autonomous Weapons, and the Pentagon’s $55 Billion Bet on Future War Remembering the Americans Who Made Ukraine’s War Their Own DHS Has Become Central to American Strategy, But Its Strategy Has Not Caught Up The G-2: Takeaways from Trump's Trip to Beijing Sweden and Denmark are in a Position of Power Over Russia Iran's Digital War Machine Targeting U.S. Infrastructure Proscribing the IRGC Will Make Britain Safer The Limits of Human Oversight at Machine Speed Rethinking the Intelligence Cycle for the AI Era How Russia and China are keeping Iran lethal

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble No honor among Shopping isn't politics There's no such thing as "age verification" Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire No one wants a permanent gerontocracy Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm A fascist paradigm 2024