Hacker News

Openrouter is joining Stripe A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement OpenLogi Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams Extensible Software in the Age of LLMs How Kubernetes Probes Work Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam PostgreSQL for Everything Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027 Microgpt in pure C hits 10M tps on Apple m5 Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful

Bleeping Computer

Hackers compromise 14,500 Dahua web cameras in 35-day campaign US warns of AI-powered attacks on Siemens PLCs in critical infrastructure US charges Iranian hackers over $3.4 billion intellectual property theft Password spraying attacks surge 155x as hackers exploit MFA gaps Microsoft fixes known issue causing Windows Defender crashes Critical RCE flaw in Windows IKE Extension now actively exploited Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro reach end of support in 2 months CISA: Medusa ransomware hit over 500 critical infrastructure orgs Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector Clop created custom web shell for Windchill data theft attacks Your Controls Block Known Attacks. What About the Behavior? Microsoft tests faster Windows File Explorer, new context menu CISA: Windows Task Host flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs Microsoft confirms outage affecting search in Microsoft 365 apps Microsoft starts removing WMIC tool used by cybercriminals

Ars Technica

Disney sues FCC and its chair, escalating fight against Trump's chief censor As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books Meta can't stop states' $1.4 trillion lawsuit from going to trial Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, isn't filling empty Democratic seat

Slashdot

Disney, ABC Sue FCC Over Threats to Broadcast Licenses Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction OpenAI Ditches Recall-Style Screenshot Surveillance For Friendly Keylogging EFF's Position on Flock Camera Database Searches: 'Get a Warrant First' - and Police Use Should Be Restricted By Law Amazon's New User Agreement Seeks To Curb Class-action Suits Bipartisan 'Uprising' Against Flock Cameras: a Larger Fight Against Big Tech and Surveillance? Flock's 'Creepy Cameras' Remain Major Threat to Privacy Despite Small Recent Changes, Warns ACLU Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party Flock Announces Changes Amid Backlash Over Its License Plate Reader Network France's Top Court Blocks Social Media Ban For Under-15s Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and 'Sensitive' Drones

Events

The Verge

OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what? OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore The fight over Flock and other ALPRs The Trump admin will start letting private firms launch international cyberattacks Meta adds AI screening to detect WhatsApp scams Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’ ‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses

Cipher Brief

The Return of the Essential Art: Electronic Warfare and the Lessons of the Russia-Ukraine War Where Did Venezuela’s Oil Billions Go? Open-Source Intel Makes U.S. Troops an Easier Target for Iran Inside Iran’s New Wartime Leadership The Dollar's Next Battlefield Isn't a Country. It's Code. It is in the U.S. interest to Support Democratic Legitimacy in Venezuela It’s Time For The President To Level With The American People on Iran The Biggest AI Models Are Not the Biggest Threats How About Equipping Local Law Enforcement with a Better Anti-Drone Arsenal? How Ukraine Is Changing the Way the U.S. Army Fights The Houthis’ External and Internal Crises Converge: Can a Tactical Solution Fix a Strategic Problem? America, North Korea, and the Search for Peace There Will be Unseen Costs to be Paid over the War in Iran. Who is Weighing Them? BLUF: The US Must Lead in Gray Zone Activity Why the Iran War Remains Strategically Adrift

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026) IP can't save you from AI (18 Aug 2026) Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture' (17 Aug 2026) Capital formation (14 Aug 2026) Model collapse (12 Aug 2026) Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026) The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026) Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026) Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026) Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026) Post-American compute for a post-American Internet (04 Aug 2026) Dualism (03 Aug 2026) Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026) Better to beg forgiveness (31 Jul 2026) The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026)