Hacker News

I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator) Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation Last fifty years of integer linear programming: Recent practical advances How to Build Conscious Machines The Many Sides of Erik Satie SIMD-friendly algorithms for substring searching (2018) Writing a Truth Oracle in Lisp Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs Endometriosis is an interesting disease Solidroad (YC W25) Is Hiring SSHTron: A multiplayer lightcycle game that runs through SSH Texting myself the weather every day Me an' Algernon – grappling with (temporary) cognitive decline TimeGuessr Filedb: Disk-based key-value store inspired by Bitcask Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video] Implementing Logic Programming Self-Adapting Language Models "Language and Image Minus Cognition." Leif Weatherby on LLMs Mollusk shell assemblages as a tool for identifying unaltered seagrass beds The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman The international standard for identifying postal items If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) What Is Open Source? Whatever Happened to Sandboxfs?

Bleeping Computer

Google links massive cloud outage to API management issue Discord flaw lets hackers reuse expired invites in malware campaign Microsoft: KB5060533 update triggers boot errors on Surface Hub v1 devices Microsoft confirms auth issues affecting Microsoft 365 users Victoria’s Secret restores critical systems after cyberattack Cloudflare: Outage not caused by security incident, data is safe Trend Micro fixes critical vulnerabilities in multiple products Google Cloud and Cloudflare hit by widespread service outages Graphite spyware used in Apple iOS zero-click attacks on journalists Password-spraying attacks target 80,000 Microsoft Entra ID accounts Microsoft Edge now offers secure password deployment for businesses GitLab patches high severity account takeover, missing auth issues

Ars Technica

Biofuels policy has been a failure for the climate, new report claims Trump’s FTC may impose merger condition that forbids advertising boycotts How to draft a will to avoid becoming an AI ghost—it’s not easy “Two years of work in two months”: States cope with Trump broadband overhaul Hollywood studios target AI image generator in copyright lawsuit Musk’s threat to sue firms that don’t buy ads on X seems to have paid off Trade war truce between US and China is back on FCC threat to revoke EchoStar spectrum licenses draws widespread backlash DOGE wins at Supreme Court; conservative majority ends limits on data access NIH scientists publish “Bethesda Declaration” rebuking Trump admin Ex-FCC Chair Ajit Pai is now a wireless lobbyist—and enemy of cable companies Estate of woman who died in 2021 heat dome sues Big Oil for wrongful death Ted Cruz bill: States that regulate AI will be cut out of $42B broadband fund OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs “indefinitely.” Here’s who’s affected. DOGE used flawed AI tool to “munch” Veterans Affairs contracts Reddit sues Anthropic over AI scraping that retained users’ deleted posts “In 10 years, all bets are off”—Anthropic CEO opposes decadelong freeze on state AI laws FCC Republican resigns, leaving agency with just two commissioners OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats Lawsuit: DOGE, HHS used “hopelessly error-ridden” data to fire 10,000 workers

Slashdot

Stolen iPhones from an Apple Store Remotely Disabled, Started Blaring Alarms The Meta AI App Is a Privacy Disaster Researchers Confirm Two Journalists Were Hacked With Paragon Spyware Apple Previews New Import/Export Feature To Make Passkeys More Interoperable CISA Loses Another Senior Exec More Than a Dozen VPN Apps Have Undisclosed Ties To China Deere Must Face FTC's Antitrust Lawsuit Over Repair Costs, US Judge Rules 23andMe Says 15% of Customers Asked To Delete Their Genetic Data Since Bankruptcy Disney, NBCU Sue AI Image Generator Midjourney Over Copyright Infringement WhatsApp Moves To Support Apple Against UK Government's Data Access Demands Pirate Site Visits Dip To 216 Billion a Year, But Manga Piracy Is Booming YouTube Will 'Protect Free Expression' By Pulling Back On Content Moderation Could UK Lawyers Face Life in Prison for Citing Fake AI-Generated Cases? How False UFO Stories Were Created - Sometimes Deliberately - by the US Military Russian Spies Are Analyzing Data From China's WeChat App

Events

The Verge

How to secure your phone before attending a protest LexisNexis leaked social security numbers and other personal data of over 364,000 people Signal says no to Windows 11’s Recall screenshots 19-year-old student to plead guilty to huge school database hack Coinbase says ‘rogue’ support agents helped steal customer data Android launches new protections against phone call scammers How to turn on Lockdown Mode for your iPhone and Mac Leaked document reveals more about Eufy’s first smart display

The Cipher Brief

The Attack that Knocked Back Iran’s Nuclear Program China Wants Our Hearts. Literally. Chinese Industrial Espionage: What Happens in the Netherlands Doesn’t Stay in the Netherlands U.S. Support for Ukraine Would be Cheap at Twice the Price How Long Can Ukraine Fight? A Closer Look at the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ on Defense Spending China’s ‘Leap Forward’ in Drone Weapons The President’s Path to the Right Side of History Why Al Qaeda Refuses to Die The Many Parts of Trump's Golden Dome Missile Defense Plan

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Farewell America is a scam AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers Who Broke the Internet, Part IV Drinkslump linkdump Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline Who Broke the Internet? Part III Plinkpump linkdump Trump's CFPB kills data broker rule