Hacker News

Pi 1.0 Shimano Bicycle Museum Review How Singapore's government-run dating service works Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform SvelteKit 3 Pi Durable Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026) Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake To grieve, or not to grieve? Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines

Bleeping Computer

Fortinet warns of critical FortiMail flaw exploited in zero-day attacks Autonomous AI agents tried to hack US, Canadian government websites Microsoft says threat actors are ahead in the early AI race Police dismantle KillSec ransomware gang allegedly led by 16-year-old The Day-One Hole in Zero Trust Architecture Kiteworks patches max severity code injection vulnerability Microsoft enables Windows settings backup by default for orgs Hackers stole Pentagon personnel records of over 3 million people Metamask discloses security incident affecting its infrastructure Russian state hackers use new RedFlick technique to push malware DIVD says Zammad zero-days enabled AI-driven network breach Over 543,000 valid credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories CISA warns of critical pre-auth RCE flaw in MikroTik RouterOS Cisco warns of new SD-WAN zero-day exploited in attacks AI's Third Wave: Coworkers Break the Security Model That Worked for Agents

Ars Technica

Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search Florida cops say they don't know who owns 11 unpermitted Flock cameras Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant. Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves "An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features Paramount/WBD merger conditions give the public "virtually nothing," judge is told Trump administration takes Musk’s side in fight over EU tech rules

Slashdot

Russian-Owned Snooping Software Used By US Secret Service Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot To Get Into Locked Phones Pentagon Creates 'Autowarcom' to Expand AI and Drone Capabilities FTC Is Investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and Other AI Companies Over Product Risks Hackers Stole Millions of US Military Personnel Records During Months-Long Data Breach Singapore Pilots a Government-Built Dating Service Trump Administration Launches New AI-Powered 'America.gov' Website Dutch Police Arrest 'Reformed' Hacker In Shiny Hunters Investigation 500K Facial Recognition Scans at UK Stations Yield Zero Arrests, One False Positive Florida Invokes Extinction Fears In Legal Bid To Halt OpenAI Development TikTok to Pay Alabama $100 Million, Limit Teen Use In First State Settlement Apple Faces $5.7 Billion Patent Infringement Verdict Over iPhone And Apple Watch Haptics China and the US Say They've Agreed to Start Talks About AI Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis

Events

The Verge

Suspected ShinyHunters leader arrested in the Netherlands AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready Nvidia says its new AI safety platform can contain rogue agents within ‘milliseconds’ OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’ Muse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki

Cipher Brief

Exactly how could AI kill humans? Nasrallah is Dead. Hezbollah’s Social Lifeline is Not. BLUF: Russian Strategic Culture Drives its Callous and Brutal Actions How the Intelligence Community Can Shape AI Trust With New Terminology The Coupang Breach and the Danger of Punishing the Headline Number The Houthis Took the Red Sea Coast. How Did Washington Miss It? AI Is Coming to the Counter-Drone Fight Trump’s Rejection of Iran Offer Highlights Another Big Problem NATO Can’t Count Its Way to Maritime Superiority Iran’s Regime Is Weaker Than It Looks A warning about ‘model welfare’ Navigating a More Uncertain World: Lessons from CIA’s Red Cell When Threats Move Faster Than Institutions AI Is Coming for the Chain of Command Putin Is Testing the West’s Resolve

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026) Lindsay Owens's "Gouged" (29 Sep 2026) Priceful (28 Sep 2026) Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026) Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs (22 Sep 2026) The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) Textured (18 Sep 2026) On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026) How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026) But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026) LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026) Anti-vax/anti-trust (09 Sep 2026) How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026)