Hacker News

"Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI" JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can It Game? Caltrain shows why every region should be moving toward regional rail Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows How will the miracle happen today? See it with your lying ears The (likely?) cheapest home-made Michelson interferometer How Markdown took over the world QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source) Ragdoll Mayhem Maker – a physics-based level editor for my indie game Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth Amiga Pointer Archive Replit (YC W18) Is Hiring The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux Deno has made its PyPI distribution official Show HN: Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage Design duality and the expression problem (2018) Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression TextMaze

Bleeping Computer

Anthropic: Viral Claude “Banned and reported to authorities” message isn’t real ChatGPT tests a new feature to find jobs, improve your resume, and more Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot Hackers target misconfigured proxies to access paid LLM services Illinois Department of Human Services data breach affects 700K people Email security needs more seatbelts: Why click rate is the wrong metric Illinois man charged with hacking Snapchat accounts to steal nude photos Trend Micro warns of critical Apex Central RCE vulnerability CISA retires 10 emergency cyber orders in rare bulk closure Gmail's new AI Inbox uses Gemini, but Google says it won’t train AI on user emails New China-linked hackers breach telcos using edge device exploits FBI warns about Kimsuky hackers using QR codes to phish U.S. orgs xAI teases major Grok upgrade, hints at Grok Code CLI VMware ESXi zero-days likely exploited a year before disclosure

Ars Technica

Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing Wi-Fi advocates get win from FCC with vote to allow higher-power devices Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent” Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory” Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more. Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs Ørsted seeks injunction against US government over project freeze The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology” Lawsuit over Trump rejecting medical research grants is settled DOGE did not find $2T in fraud, but that doesn’t matter, Musk allies say NJ’s answer to flooding: it has bought out and demolished 1,200 properties US can’t deport hate speech researcher for protected speech, lawsuit says China drafts world’s strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence Big Tech basically took Trump’s unpredictable trade war lying down SPEED Act passes in House despite changes that threaten clean power projects

Slashdot

Italy Fines Cloudflare 14 Million Euros For Refusing To Filter Pirate Sites On Public 1.1.1.1 DNS Lawsuit Over OpenAI For-Profit Conversion Can Head To Trial, US Judge Says Illinois Health Department Exposed Over 700,000 Residents' Personal Data For Years French Court Orders Google DNS to Block Pirate Sites, Dismisses 'Cloudflare-First' Defense Samsung Hit with Restraining Order Over Smart TV Surveillance Tech in Texas Google and Character.AI Agree To Settle Lawsuits Over Teen Suicides California Lawmaker Proposes a Four-Year Ban On AI Chatbots In Kids' Toys Founder of Spyware Maker PcTattletale Pleads Guilty To Hacking, Advertising Surveillance Software Congressman Introduces Legislation To Criminalize Insider Trading On Prediction Markets An AI-Generated NWS Map Invented Fake Towns In Idaho NYC Wegmans Is Storing Biometric Data On Shoppers' Eyes, Voices and Faces Vietnam Bans Unskippable Ads The Nation's Strictest Privacy Law Goes Into Effect Anna's Archive Loses<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.Org Domain After Surprise Suspension Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shut Down After 58 Years

Events

The Verge

Ring’s Mobile Security Trailer provides 360-degree coverage anywhere Reolink made a local AI hub for its security cameras Ugreen is expanding into AI-powered smart home surveillance Anker adds features and style to its smart home security You can unlock SwitchBot’s first deadbolt smart lock with your face Two cybersecurity employees plead guilty to carrying out ransomware attacks Ubisoft shuts down ‘Rainbow Six Siege’ servers following hack Dozens of Flock AI camera feeds were just out there

The Cipher Brief

Agentic AI and the “Human-in-the-Loop” Luxury in Modern Defense The Kremlin Files: Russia, the Modern Surveillance State Iran’s Supreme Leader Should Listen to the People The U.S. Says it Will “Run” Venezuela. What Will That Mean? I've Tracked Terrorist Networks for Decades. I've Never Seen Anything Like 764. Venezuela’s Key Takeaways for the World High Risk in Venezuela—To What End? Human Agency in a Technology-Mediated World After Venezuela, What Is Next in 2026? Venezuela was a Surprise. What Could be Next?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

bunnie's piggyback hack Where did the money go? Writing vs AI Code is a liability A world without people The Post-American Internet A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance Happy Public Domain Day 2026! America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses