Hacker News

Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon 2025 was the third hottest year on record Why There's No Single Best Way to Store Information Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center? An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello' The Dilbert Afterlife East Germany balloon escape ClickHouse acquires Langfuse Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city 16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them The Resonant Computing Manifesto The Olivetti Company – By Bradford Morgan White Cloudflare acquires Astro US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence High-Level Is the Goal 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases Show HN: I built a tool to assist AI agents to know when a PR is good to go FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch Architecture for Disposable Systems LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

Bleeping Computer

ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads OpenAI says its new ChatGPT ads won't influence answers StealC hackers hacked as researchers hijack malware control panels Black Basta boss makes it onto Interpol's 'Red Notice' list China-linked hackers exploited Sitecore zero-day for initial access Verizon starts issuing $20 credits after nationwide outage Microsoft: Windows 11 update causes Outlook freezes for POP users Hackers now exploiting critical Fortinet FortiSIEM flaw in attacks Cisco finally fixes AsyncOS zero-day exploited since November Microsoft: Some Windows PCs fail to shut down after January update Google now lets you change your @gmail.com address, rolling out ChatGPT is now more reliable at finding and remembering your past chat Gootloader now uses 1,000-part ZIP archives for stealthy delivery Grubhub confirms hackers stole data in recent security breach

Ars Technica

Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply Calif. counters FCC attack on DEI with conditions on Verizon/Frontier merger Mother of one of Elon Musk’s offspring sues xAI over sexualized deepfakes ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself Six months later, Trump Mobile still hasn’t delivered preordered phones US government to take 25% cut of AMD, NVIDIA AI sales to China FBI fights leaks by seizing Washington Post reporter’s phone, laptops, and watch US gov’t: House sysadmin stole 200 phones, caught by House IT desk Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month Starlink tries to stay online in Iran as regime jams signals during protests Paramount sues WBD over Netflix deal. WBD says Paramount’s price is still inadequate. Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule Judge: Trump violated Fifth Amendment by ending energy grants in only blue states Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines UK probes X over Grok CSAM scandal; Elon Musk cries censorship Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. SpaceX gets FCC permission to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites

Slashdot

What Happened After Security Researchers Found 60 Flock Cameras Livestreaming to the Internet Supreme Court May Block Thousands of Lawsuits Over Monsanto's Weed Killer Biggest Offshore Wind Project In US To Resume Construction Judge Orders Anna's Archive To Delete Scraped Data Trump Wants Tech Companies To Foot the Bill For New Power Plants Supreme Court Hacker Posted Stolen Government Data On Instagram Iran's Internet Shutdown Is Now One of the Longest Ever Italy's Privacy Watchdog, Scourge of US Big Tech, Hit By Corruption Probe Pentagon Purchases a Device Allegedly Linked To Havana Syndrome Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans EPA To Stop Considering Lives Saved By Limiting Air Pollution Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages Supreme Court Takes Case That Could Strip FCC of Authority To Issue Fines More US States Are Preparing Age-Verification Laws for App Stores

Events

The Verge

Sony, Anker, and other headphones have a serious Google Fast Pair security vulnerability Instagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send all those password reset emails Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message 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

The Cipher Brief

The Country’s First ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Chief: Influence Is the New Battlefield What U.S. – China Cooperation Means for the World Remembering Aldrich Ames and the Lives He Destroyed Ruling Venezuela with a 2,000 Mile Hammer is Not Likely to End Well Russia Signals Minimal Desire for Peace Why Labeling Muslim Brotherhood “Chapters” as Terrorist Groups Is Problematic Uber Krysha: How Russia Turns Crime into Power—and Poison Iran’s Crumbling Revolutionary Facade: How Today’s Protests Could Reshape the Region in 2026 Trump’s Power Doctrine: A $1.5 Trillion Military, Greenland Ambitions, and a World Ruled by Force Now Comes the Hard Part in Venezuela

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification Catch this! How the Light Gets In It's not normal Sorry, eh A winning trade war strategy for Canada Predistribution vs redistribution bunnie's piggyback hack Where did the money go? Writing vs AI