Hacker News

CODA: Rewriting Transformer Blocks as GEMM-Epilogue Programs Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart The surprising story behind the first British person in space Slumber a TUI HTTP Client Cleve Moler has died Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD Show HN: KVBoost – chunk-level KV cache reuse for HuggingFace, 5–48x faster TTFT Was my $48K GPU server worth it? Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics Using Kagi Search with Low Vision The death of the brick and mortar toy store The Hardware Lottery Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) Tristan Davey's Punch Card Archive Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored Flipper One – we need your help Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods Deciphering the Hashihara Castle Town Map Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police Google's Antigravity bait and switch Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot

Bleeping Computer

Google accidentally exposed details of unfixed Chromium flaw Apple blocked over $11 billion in App Store fraud in 6 years Inside a Crypto Drainer: How to Spot it Before it Empties Your Wallet Chinese hackers target telcos with new Linux, Windows malware Max severity Cisco Secure Workload flaw gives Site Admin privileges Police seize “First VPN” service used in ransomware, data theft attacks Flipper One project needs community help to build open Linux platform Microsoft warns of new Defender zero-days exploited in attacks GitHub links repo breach to TanStack npm supply-chain attack Ukraine identifies infostealer operator tied to 28,000 stolen accounts Hackers bypass SonicWall VPN MFA due to incomplete patching Grafana breach caused by missed token rotation after TanStack attack Identity Alone Isn't Enough: Why Device Security Has to Share the Load Drupal critical update to fix bug with high exploitation risk Exploit released for new PinTheft Arch Linux root escalation flaw

Ars Technica

AT&T sues California in attempt to shut off old phone network Zillow loses thousands of listings in fight over “hidden” homes Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats Minnesota prohibits prediction markets, promptly gets sued by Trump admin Man jailed for posting Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement China banned RTX 5090D V2 while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was visiting FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants "data in near real time" Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves Lake Tahoe residents lose energy supplier to data center boom Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption Desperate Trump taps "Tim Apple," Jensen Huang, Elon Musk to attend Xi summit

Slashdot

AT&T Sues California In Bid To Stop Offering Traditional Phone Service Trump Calls Off AI Executive Order Over Concern It Could Weaken US Tech Edge US To Award $2 Billion To Quantum Companies, Take Equity Stakes GitHub's Internal Repos Breached Via Employee's Use of Malicious VS Code Extension Anna's Archive Hit With Global Domain Takedown Order Yearslong Fight Over Users' Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban Prediction Markets CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys On Github FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers Nintendo Tries To Obtain Touchscreen-Specific Patent On Monster Capturing Elon Musk Loses Lawsuit Against OpenAI The US Is Betting On AI To Catch Insider Trading In Prediction Markets Small Town Fights Over Flock's AI-Enhanced Network of License Plate-Reading Cameras California Law Limits 'Recycling' Logo in New Attack on Plastic Waste Bitwarden Scrubs 'Always Free' and 'Inclusion' Values From Its Website

Events

The Verge

GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is becoming ‘unmanageable’ due to AI bug reports Canvas owner reaches ‘agreement’ with hackers to secure stolen data OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers Canvas is online again after ShinyHunters threaten to leak schools’ data A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower

The Cipher Brief

A Tale of Two Straits: Sweden and Denmark are in a Position of Power Over Russia Iran's Digital War Machine Targeting U.S. Infrastructure Proscribing the IRGC Will Make Britain Safer The Limits of Human Oversight at Machine Speed Intelligence at the Speed of Relevance: Rethinking the Intelligence Cycle for the AI Era Moscow and Beijing’s shadow war: How Russia and China are keeping Iran lethal Inside the FBI’s New Push to Track Leaks and Monitor Employees Roses, Trees, and Power: The Symbolism Behind the Trump-Xi Summit The administration needs a better relationship with the Vatican Sustaining Decision Advantage: The Case for Analytic Tradecraft Reform

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Shopping isn't politics There's no such thing as "age verification" Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire No one wants a permanent gerontocracy Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm A fascist paradigm 2024 Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox Lee Lai's "Cannon"