Hacker News

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license Appearing productive in the workplace Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing The bottleneck was never the code Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem Inkscape 1.4.4 Show HN: Hallucinopedia A Theory of Deep Learning Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC Ted Turner has died Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX Following the Text Gradient at Scale Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software What makes a good smartphone camera? SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition Virtual violin produces realistic sounds Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI Growth Toolkit Programming Still Sucks Going Full Time on Open Source

Bleeping Computer

Hackers abuse Google ads for GoDaddy ManageWP login phishing Critical vm2 sandbox bug lets attackers execute code on hosts New Cisco DoS flaw requires manual reboot to revive devices DAEMON Tools devs confirm breach, release malware-free version Why ransomware attacks succeed even when backups exist MuddyWater hackers use Chaos ransomware as a decoy in attacks Webinar: Why network incidents escalate and how to fix response gaps Palo Alto Networks warns of firewall RCE zero-day exploited in attacks New stealthy Quasar Linux malware targets software developers Instructure hacker claims data theft from 8,800 schools, universities DAEMON Tools trojanized in supply-chain attack to deploy backdoor Student hacked Taiwan high-speed rail to trigger emergency brakes FTC to ban data broker Kochava from selling Americans’ location data The EOL Blind Spot in Your CVE Feed: What SCA Tools Miss Vimeo data breach exposes personal information of 119,000 people

Ars Technica

Court strikes down FCC anti-discrimination rule opposed by Internet providers Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good Report: SpaceX IPO gives Musk unchecked power and forbids investor lawsuits OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury Character.AI sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license Trump SEC lets Musk settle $150 million Twitter lawsuit for $1.5 million DHS abuses 1930s customs law in attempt to get data on Canadian from Google Canadian election databases use "canary traps"—and they work GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it'll pay for it Musk’s “World War III” threat in Twitter lawsuit haunts him at OpenAI trial Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines Women sue the men who used their Instagram feeds to create AI porn influencers US falls below Ukraine in press freedom as global autocracy takes hold Elon Musk's 7 biggest stumbles on the stand at OpenAI trial Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex More than half of all Polymarket "long shot" bets on military action pay off 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

Slashdot

Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Plaintext In RAM Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement Brockman Rebuts Musk's Take On Startup's History, Recounts Secret Work For Tesla Apple Agrees To Pay iPhone Owners $250 Million For Not Delivering AI Siri US Government Warns of Severe CopyFail Bug Affecting Major Versions of Linux OpenAI President Discloses His Stake In the Company Is Worth $30 Billion White House Considers Vetting AI Models Before They Are Released 16% of Parents Help Their Children Bypass Online Age Checks, Study Finds. One 15-Year-Old Just Uses a Fake Moustache Roblox Blames Age-Verification Rollout for Lowered Growth. Stock Tumbles 22% South Africa's Draft AI Policy Withdrawn Due to 'Fictitious' AI-Generated Citations Smuggled Starlink Terminals are Beating Iran's Internet Blackout Pentagon Reaches Agreements With Top AI Companies, But Not Anthropic The California Government Is Coming For Your E-Bikes Musk Concludes Testimony At OpenAI Trial US Senators Ban Themselves From Prediction Markets Trading

Events

The Verge

Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help 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

The Cipher Brief

Russia’s Victory Day Parade Signals Anything But Victory The Last Undefended Perimeter Inside the Pentagon’s High-Stakes Nuclear Overhaul From Socialist Surge to Regional Realignment- Latin America’s Pink Tide Is Receding Human vs. Machine: Operational Realities from Ukraine’s Frontline Why Abu Dhabi Walked Away from OPEC After Nearly 60 Years That Other Nuclear Nightmare: North Korea Sounds New Alarms Britain’s Antisemitism Crisis Is Now a National Security Threat CIA Deaths Expose Fragile U.S.-Mexico Security Ties Houthi's are Positioned to Close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

In praise of vultures The three armies fighting for the post-American world Demand destruction vs fuel-superseding infrastructure The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus How not to ban surveillance pricing Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe" The enshittification multiverse Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" A free, open visual identity for enshittification The