Hacker News

GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple Four Column ASCII (2017) 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is Rethinking High-School Science Fairs Rise of the Triforce Rendering the Visible Spectrum Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser Poor Deming never stood a chance Undo in Vi and Its Successors A deep dive into Apple's .car file format What your Bluetooth devices reveal Visual introduction to PyTorch Elephant trunk whiskers exhibit material intelligence Xbox UI Portfolio Site Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name Ghidra by NSA DBASE on the Kaypro II Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents? Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary State of Show HN: 2025 Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse Neurons outside the brain Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files Turing Labs (YC W20) Is Hiring – Founding GTM Sales Hacker PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf]

Bleeping Computer

Poland arrests suspect linked to Phobos ransomware operation Ireland now also investigating X over Grok-made sexual images Washington Hotel in Japan discloses ransomware infection incident Eurail says stolen traveler data now up for sale on dark web Man arrested for demanding reward after accidental police data leak Infostealer malware found stealing OpenClaw secrets for first time Passwords to passkeys: Staying ISO 27001 compliant in a passwordless era CISA gives feds 3 days to patch actively exploited BeyondTrust flaw Google patches first Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year Canada Goose investigating as hackers leak 600K customer records New ClickFix attack abuses nslookup to retrieve PowerShell payload via DNS Windows 11 KB5077181 fixes boot failures linked to failed updates CTM360: Lumma Stealer and Ninja Browser malware campaign abusing Google Groups Pastebin comments push ClickFix JavaScript attack to hijack crypto swaps One threat actor responsible for 83% of recent Ivanti RCE attacks

Ars Technica

Best Buy worker used manager’s code to get 99% off MacBooks, cops say ByteDance backpedals after Seedance 2.0 turned Hollywood icons into AI “clip art” Michigan antitrust lawsuit says oil companies hobbled EVs and renewables Aided by AI, California beach town broadens hunt for bike lane blockers Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say EPA kills foundation of greenhouse gas regulations Trump FTC wants Apple News to promote more Fox News and Breitbart stories US consumers, business pay 90% of tariff costs, says Federal Reserve Trump orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site After Republican complaints, judicial body pulls climate advice Trump FCC investigates The View, reportedly says "fake news" will be punished Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case EU says TikTok needs to drop "addictive design" "ICE Out of Our Faces Act" would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition

Slashdot

EU Parliament Blocks AI Features Over Cyber, Privacy Fears Samsung Ad Confirms Rumors of a Useful S26 'Privacy Display' India's New Social Media Rules: Remove Unlawful Content in Three Hours, Detect Illegal AI Content Automatically Sam Bankman-Fried Requests New Trial in FTX Crypto Fraud Case Your Friends Could Be Sharing Your Phone Number with ChatGPT Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback Ring Cancels Its Partnership With Flock Safety After Surveillance Backlash WP Engine Says Automattic Planned To Shake Down 10 Hosting Companies For WordPress Royalties With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Discord Tries To Walk Back Age Verification Panic, Says Most Users Won't Need Face Scans ByteDance Suspends Seedance 2 Feature That Turns Facial Photos Into Personal Voices Over Potential Risks Autodesk Takes Google To Court Over AI Movie Software Named 'Flow' Discord Will Require a Face Scan or ID for Full Access Next Month After Six Years, Two Pentesters Arrested in Iowa Receive $600,000 Settlement Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers

Events

The Verge

Microsoft fixes Notepad flaw that could trick users into clicking malicious Markdown links Microsoft is keeping Secure Boot alive with Windows updates Substack data breach exposed users’ emails and phone numbers OpenClaw’s AI ‘skill’ extensions are a security nightmare Google Cloud’s customer chief returns to Microsoft as head of security Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China OpenClaw: all the news about the trending AI agent WhatsApp’s new ‘lockdown’ settings add another layer of protection against cyberattacks

The Cipher Brief

Defending the Homeland: Pentagon Shifts Strategy on Drone Threats How Cuba's Infrastructure Crisis Is Opening the Door to Foreign Intelligence Networks Media Literacy Isn’t Enough Anymore From the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Precedent Problem in U.S. Inside the High-Stakes U.S. Pressure Campaign on Iran Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U.S. Decision Systems A Path to Understanding Autonomy in Defense Technology Standing Up to a Spy: My Run-In with Aldrich Ames Russia’s Promises of Security Lead to Ukraine's Frontlines After New START: America Weighs a New Nuclear Strategy

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

What's a "gig work minimum wage" The online community trilemma Trump antitrust is dead Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world The Nuremberg Caucus The Epstein class and collapse porn End of the line for video essays Luxury Kafka All laws are local