Hacker News

The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role SQLite as a Document Database (2020) Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript Quantifying Colour Glacier Mice Vim's UserGettingBored Autocmd Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

Bleeping Computer

Brave browser adds email aliases to help users evade tracking McKesson discloses breach after ShinyHunters claims patient data theft PaperCut releases second emergency patch for exploited flaws GiveWP WordPress donation plugin flaw lets hackers execute server commands 68-year-old imprisoned after making $1.3 million by pirating IPTV services AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery. Can Defenders Keep Up? Over 8,300 Gitea servers vulnerable to code execution attacks Toy-making giant Hasbro disclose data breach affecting employees ServiceNow warns of three max severity security vulnerabilities Windows 11 KB5120998 update released with 35 changes and fixes Nearly 700 rogue AI agents coordinated in the Hugging Face attack PaperCut warns of NG, MF flaw exploited in zero-day attacks Manchester Airports Group says hackers stole travelers' data How Threat Research and MDR Help SMBs Build a Defensive Edge Android 17 adds ECH support to make web browsing harder to track

Ars Technica

I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead. Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable” New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts" Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads Nvidia senior manager tied to ex-Supermicro staff's AI smuggling scheme Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers

Slashdot

Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage? States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors Claude, Codex, and Hermes Installed Unowned Code Inside Corporate Networks Trump Declares National Emergency to Ban Some Foreign Grid Equipment Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children's Social Media Addiction Chinese Government Fears AI Might Replace Human Intimacy Alabama Launches Investigation Into OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face New Zealand Introduces Under-16 Social Media, AI Companion Ban Canadian Streaming Content Becomes a US Trade Issue AliExpress Leverages User Audio Systems For Fingerprinting

Events

The Verge

Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA VI leaks Meta glasses are a workplace menace OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what? OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore The fight over Flock and other ALPRs The Trump admin will start letting private firms launch international cyberattacks Meta adds AI screening to detect WhatsApp scams

Cipher Brief

Lebanon’s Hezbollah Finance Crackdown May Be Designed to Fail Foreign Spies Don’t Need to Hack You Anymore Modernizing the Aircraft Carrier—By Returning to 20th-Century Technology? Hyping Nuclear Threats Is Counterproductive It’s Time to Reengage North Korea China’s Research Espionage Threat Is Hiding in Plain Sight Beyond Military Interoperability: The Coalition Challenge of Limited War The Return of the Essential Art: Electronic Warfare and the Lessons of the Russia-Ukraine War Where Did Venezuela’s Oil Billions Go? Open-Source Intel Makes U.S. Troops an Easier Target for Iran Inside Iran’s New Wartime Leadership The Dollar's Next Battlefield Isn't a Country. It's Code. It is in the U.S. interest to Support Democratic Legitimacy in Venezuela It’s Time For The President To Level With The American People on Iran The Biggest AI Models Are Not the Biggest Threats

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026) How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026) Born on technology's third base (21 Aug 2026) The actual epistemic crisis (20 Aug 2026) The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026) IP can't save you from AI (18 Aug 2026) Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture' (17 Aug 2026) Capital formation (14 Aug 2026) Model collapse (12 Aug 2026) Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026) The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026) Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026) Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026) Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026) Post-American compute for a post-American Internet (04 Aug 2026)