Hacker News

WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale Compression is prediction Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard Mojo 1.0 Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining Making holograms with a pen plotter Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo Retire the Abstractions Grok Bot Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025) Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux

Bleeping Computer

Google says Chrome cuts 7 billion unwanted Android notifications a day to fight abuse DeadLock ransomware uses blockchain to resist infrastructure takedown Sandworm hackers target IT pros with trojanized WireGuard VPN client Cisco warns of ASA and FTD VPN flaw exploited to crash devices Delta probes Wi-Fi deauth attack on flight carrying DEF CON attendees Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5120249 extended security update Microsoft August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 400 flaws, 3 zero-days Windows 11 KB5121003 & KB5120240 cumulative updates released Wesco confirms security incident after ExfilSquad claims data theft Mozilla updates GPG signing key for Firefox releases after exposure Vague Task, Total Access: When AI Delegation Becomes a Security Risk DDoS attacks over 1 Tbps surged fivefold in the second quarter CISA: Microsoft SharePoint flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks Cisco warns of high-severity ClamAV flaws with public exploits US and South Korea warn of Gunra ransomware targeting govt agencies

Ars Technica

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 Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed? Trump is losing his war on wind power X wants to keep suing advertisers, asks 5th Circuit to overrule district judge Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets Trump killed the Digital Equity Act but US was forced to bring part of it back Tom DeLay helped create TV ownership cap—he says Trump FCC has no authority to repeal it OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal" Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters

Slashdot

Freenet Creator Ian Clarke Shares Progress on Its New Decentralized Network A Data Breach At Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Is Rippling Across Banks, Retailers, Steam Gamers, and Beyond How Accurate Are Flock's AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras? Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta's Smart Glasses Flock Accused of Reactivating Its Cameras Without Notifying a Town California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By Police After Mistaken Flock Alert - Twice Trump Administration To Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion To Halt US Wind Projects Framework Notifies 'All Customers' of a Data Breach Via Compromised Metabase BI Service Trump Orders New 15% Tariff On Key Material For Solar Panels, Microchips Court Orders Meta To Establish $567 Million Fund To Abate Harms To Youth 'Tower Dump' Warrants Ruled Unconstitutional

Events

The Verge

‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt Ring upgraded its peephole doorbell camera to 2K Anthropic says Claude accidentally hacked real companies too Google is working on Chrome updates that don’t require restarts Ariana Grande is suing the hackers who’ve been leaking her songs and videos for years Google now lets you sign in to your account using a selfie video OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

Cipher Brief

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 The New Fault Line: Israel and Turkey on a Collision Course Iran Is “Counting Coup” On The United States AI Summaries Are Susceptible to Manipulation — and That's Both a Business and a National Security Problem Investing in the Next Arsenal of Democracy Winning the Peace: The Democratic Dilemma of Limited War America Needs a New North Korea Strategy The Sovereign AI Tokenomics Trap What Congress Found Inside the Iran War Spending Bill The Audience Is a Machine: Our Future Information Environment

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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