Hacker News

MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings I’m joining OpenAI I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship Building SQLite with a small swarm picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found 1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop Audio is the one area small labs are winning JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals I gave Claude access to my pen plotter Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout (2021) EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear Databases should contain their own Metadata – Use SQL Everywhere Hard problems in social media archiving Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices Error payloads in Zig Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state I fixed Windows native development

Bleeping Computer

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 Snail mail letters target Trezor and Ledger users in crypto-theft attacks Fake job recruiters hide malware in developer coding challenges Claude LLM artifacts abused to push Mac infostealers in ClickFix attack Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Tiffany fined $25 million over data breaches Turning IBM QRadar Alerts into Action with Criminal IP CISA flags critical Microsoft SCCM flaw as exploited in attacks Microsoft fixes bug that blocked Google Chrome from launching Russia tries to block WhatsApp, Telegram in communication blockade

Ars Technica

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 Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites FBI stymied by Apple's Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist's iPhone Judge gives Musk bad news, says Trump hasn't intervened to block SEC lawsuit

Slashdot

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 China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private

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

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 The Former Head of NSA on the Future of U.S. Cybersecurity Xi Jinping Tightens Grip as China’s Military Purge Deepens From Secrets to Sensors: Why Open Source Data Must Drive Modern Intelligence

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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 Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World"