Hacker News

Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware Patching 68K Software – SimpleText Mr Tiff This Day in 1988, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Internet within 24 hours Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It By the Power of Grayscale Whole Earth Index Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator Singing bus horns in West Sumatra Launch HN: Plexe (YC X25) – Build production-grade ML models from prompts Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future? BlackRock's Larry Fink: "Tokenization", Digital IDs, & Social Credit Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not What is a manifold? Narco-sub carrying 1.7 tonnes of cocaine seized in Atlantic Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results Optimizing Datalog for the GPU Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not Zip Files All the Way Down (2010) Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent Customize Nano Text Editor Precompiled headers and why Squid won't be using them (2023) Reverse-engineered CUPS driver for Phomemo receipt/label printers SocketAddrV6 is not roundtrip serializable

Bleeping Computer

Hackers exploit WordPress plugin Post SMTP to hijack admin accounts Apache OpenOffice disputes data breach claims by ransomware gang Malicious Android apps on Google Play downloaded 42 million times Microsoft removing Defender Application Guard from Office Data breach at major Swedish software supplier impacts 1.5 million Media giant Nikkei reports data breach impacting 17,000 people Police arrests suspects linked to €600 million crypto fraud ring The Top 3 Browser Sandbox Threats That Slip Past Modern Security Tools Russian hackers abuse Hyper-V to hide malware in Linux VMs Windows 10 update bug triggers incorrect end-of-support alerts Hackers exploit critical auth bypass flaw in JobMonster WordPress theme Hacker steals over $120 million from Balancer DeFi crypto protocol Fake Solidity VSCode extension on Open VSX backdoors developers

Ars Technica

US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents Real humans don’t stream Drake songs 23 hours a day, rapper suing Spotify says Trump on why he pardoned Binance CEO: “Are you ready? I don’t know who he is.” Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials FCC to rescind ruling that said ISPs are required to secure their networks AT&T sues ad industry watchdog instead of pulling ads that slam T-Mobile Man finally released a month after absurd arrest for reposting Trump meme Trump admin demands states exempt ISPs from net neutrality and price laws TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use” FCC Republicans force prisoners and families to pay more for phone calls ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, lawmakers say Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial If things in America weren’t stupid enough, Texas is suing Tylenol maker Senators move to keep Big Tech’s creepy companion bots away from kids Python plan to boost software security foiled by Trump admin’s anti-DEI rules Australia’s social media ban is “problematic,” but platforms will comply anyway Trump’s UCLA deal: Pay us $1B+, and we can still cut your grants again Trump and Republicans join Big Oil’s push to shut down climate liability efforts

Slashdot

Ex-Cybersecurity Staff Charged With Moonlighting as Hackers DOJ Accuses US Ransomware Negotiators of Launching Their Own Ransomware Attacks Australians To Get At Least Three Hours a Day of Free Solar Power - Even If They Don't Have Solar Panels Spotify Sued Over 'Billions' of Fraudulent Drake Streams Google Removes Gemma Models From AI Studio After GOP Senator's Complaint Manufacturer Remotely Bricks Smart Vacuum After Its Owner Blocked It From Collecting Data Woman Wrongfully Accused by a License Plate-Reading Camera - Then Exonerated By Camera-Equipped Car Daylight Saving Time: Still Happening. Still Unpopular FCC To Rescind Ruling That Said ISPs Are Required To Secure Their Networks Austria's Ministry of Economy Has Migrated To a Nextcloud Platform In Shift Away From US Tech Amazon To Block Piracy Apps On Fire TV Denmark Reportedly Withdraws 'Chat Control' Proposal Following Controversy 10M People Watched a YouTuber Shim a Lock; the Lock Company Sued Him. Bad Idea. You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details

Events

The Verge

Hackers threaten to leak ‘woke’ University of Pennsylvania student data AI browsers are a cybersecurity time bomb WhatsApp can now use passkeys to secure your backups Chrome is about to show even more safety warnings ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS Wyze’s budget-friendly video doorbell gets a six-month battery Ledger’s new Nano is meant to be more than just a crypto wallet Ring’s Battery Doorbell Plus has returned to its October Prime Day price

The Cipher Brief

Why Are There No U.S. Offensive Cyber Unicorns? Trump’s Latest Military Campaign Tests the Limits of Presidential War Powers Ukraine’s Long-Range War: How Drone & Missile Strikes Are Taking the Fight Deep Inside Russia The U.S. Role in a Multipolar World - and the Dangers of Isolationism Countering the Kremlin’s Five Most Effective Narratives About Ukraine How the U.S. Can Stay Ahead of China in Space The Sahel’s Terror Surge Signals a New Front in Global Security Putin’s Strategic Failure: How the Ukraine War Is Eroding Russia From Within Inside Xi Jinping’s Military Purge: Loyalty, Power, and Taiwan From the Caribbean to Jalisco, Trump Takes Aim at Cartels — But Will He Strike the Kingpins?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech The internet was made for privacy When AI prophecy fails Raymond Biesinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off" Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach' The mad king's digital killswitch The AI that we'll have after AI Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall!