Hacker News

Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world I design with Claude more than Figma now Public Domain Image Archive How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting Biohub releases a world model of protein biology Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser Moving beyond fork() + exec() Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs An Ohio Valley 100k-Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight – Radio World My Software North Star Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers The circus freaks of open source Show HN: TakoVM – Isolated model and tool execution used by enterprises Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? Show HN: Free animated icon library for Vue Unicode Fonts and Tools for X11 Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk PaceVer (an alternative to SemVer, for mobile apps)

Bleeping Computer

Critical Everest Forms Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites Suspicious Polyfill login prompts pop up on Toshiba, Muji websites CISA: Hackers now exploit SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to crash servers Chinese APT deploys new malware to keep access to hacked networks Dark web Nemesis Market vendor gets 26 years for selling drugs Over 900 US gas station tank gauge systems exposed to attacks What 2026 DBIR Confirms: Attacks Are Living in the Browser Cisco warns of unpatched SD-WAN zero-day exploited in attacks Brave Software releases Origin for a paid, bloat-free browsing experience Hola Browser for Windows compromised to deliver cryptominer Credit card theft campaign abuses Stripe to host stolen payment info DentaQuest data breach exposed info of 2.6 million accounts UN food agency discloses breach affecting 600,000 Gaza households New IronWorm malware hits 36 packages in npm supply-chain attack Hackers Are After the Gaps in Your Vulnerability Program: Here's Their Playbook

Ars Technica

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic "We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches Trump's DOE restarts energy rebate program with dumb conditions Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman after multiple ChatGPT-linked murders Environmentalists turn out in force to oppose Trump coal ash rollbacks Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC DOJ sues states that rejected ICE requests for undercover license plates FBI says Google engineer used internal search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket

Slashdot

Teen Social Media Bans Risk Strengthening Big Tech's Dominance, Warns Bluesky Exec Criticisms Rise Before Vote on America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Utah Residents Sue Officials Over Kevin O'Leary Data Center Plan GOV.UK Goes Dutch On Payments As It Dumps Stripe Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration On Federal Regulation of Telecom Companies Meta Workers Can Opt Out of Workplace Tracking for Up to 30 Minutes Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System European Parliament Ditches Google For French Search Firm Russian Spy Agency Says Foreign Spies Turned Officials' Smartphones Into Surveillance Devices Trump Signs AI Executive Order Asking Companies To Give Government Early Access To Models Adafruit Pauses Blog After Demand Letter From Flux.ai's Lawyers The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid Hackers Simply Asked Meta's AI To Take Over High-Profile Instagram Accounts Florida Sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, Accusing Them of Putting Profit Over Safety Botnet of More Than 17 Million Devices Dismantled

Events

The Verge

Benn Jordan longs for the days of tech that didn’t spy on you Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name Microsoft is threatening legal action for disclosing exploits Gemini for Google Home can now use your cameras to trigger automations Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’ GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft

The Cipher Brief

Alex Younger: An Unusually Likeable Human Being, And A Spy Remembering Alex Younger: The Intelligence Chief Who Shaped a Generation Can the Pentagon’s New Innovation System Deliver? Why the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose Intelligence Partners Radical Empathy: The Counterintuitive Skill That Made Me Better at Everything Else China’s Uneasy Partnerships With Russia and North Korea From Terror Networks to Hybrid Threats: A Partner Approach to a Growing Threat Put the Next Generation to Work: Digital Transformation Has Only Just Begun Invisible Conflict: Defending Against Hybrid Non-Kinetic Warfare Deterrence Is Not Enough in the Age of Synthetic Asymmetry

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Criticizing the everything machine Refining humanity Delusion as a service The tedious power of storytelling Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' Carneyism without Carney Hold on for dear life AI and a world without migrants The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble No honor among