Hacker News

Google is dead. Where do we go now? GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder Hacking Washing Machines [video] ManusAI Joins Meta Stranger Things creator says turn off "garbage" settings Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99% UNIX Fourth Edition The Signature Flicker The future of software development is software developers Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything AI is forcing us to write good code MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025 Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts Parsing Advances Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024) I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year Static Allocation with Zig Streaming compression beats framed compression Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind” When someone says they hate your product 100x (YC S22) Is Hiring a Front End Engineer Show HN: Euclidle – Guess the Coordinates in N‑Dimensional Space Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017) Vitest Browser Mode Guide Geology of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need A production bug that made me care about undefined behavior Stanford Lecture: Dr. Don Knuth – Adventures with Knight's Tours [video]

Bleeping Computer

Chinese state hackers use rootkit to hide ToneShell malware activity Coupang to split $1.17 billion among 33.7 million data breach victims Hacker arrested for KMSAuto malware campaign with 2.8 million downloads Trust Wallet says 2,596 wallets drained in $7 million crypto theft attack The Real-World Attacks Behind OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 ChatGPT finally rolls out Thinking time toggle on mobile Romanian energy provider hit by Gentlemen ransomware attack Former Coinbase support agent arrested for helping hackers Korean Air data breach exposes data of thousands of employees Microsoft Copilot is rolling out GPT 5.2 as "Smart Plus" mode Fortinet warns of 5-year-old FortiOS 2FA bypass still exploited in attacks Exploited MongoBleed flaw leaks MongoDB secrets, 87K servers exposed Hacker claims to leak WIRED database with 2.3 million records

Ars Technica

How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade Instacart agrees to refund subscribers $60 million in FTC settlement ByteDance confirms TikTok will be controlled by US owners School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn’t an error. Man sues cops who jailed him for 37 days for trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil FCC chair scrubs website after learning it called FCC an “independent agency” Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says Twitter comeback bid draws lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X Corp US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s “pro-petroleum” moves “A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans Utah leaders hinder efforts to develop solar energy supply Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won Ukrainians sue US chip firms for powering Russian drones, missiles Trump tries to block state AI laws himself after Congress decided not to Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses

Slashdot

Challenges Face European Governments Pursuing 'Digital Sovereignty' Apple To Allow Alternative App Stores For iOS Users In Brazil Italy Tells Meta To Suspend Its Policy That Bans Rival AI Chatbots From WhatsApp China Is Worried AI Threatens Party Rule US Bars Five Europeans It Says Pressured Tech Firms To Censor American Viewpoints Online Inside Uzbekistan's Nationwide License Plate Surveillance System John Carreyou and Other Authors Bring New Lawsuit Against Six Major AI Companies Judge Blocks Texas App Store Age Verification Law LimeWire Re-Emerges In Online Rush To Share Pulled '60 Minutes' Segment FCC Bans Foreign-Made Drones Over National Security, Spying Concerns Welcome To America's New Surveillance High Schools Spotify Says 'Anti-Copyright Extremists' Scraped Its Library In 2025 Scammers Have Stolen $835M from Americans Using Fake Customer Service Numbers The U.S. Could Ban Chinese-Made Drones Used By Police Departments Trump Admin to Hire 1,000 for New 'Tech Force' to Build AI Infrastructure

Events

The Verge

Ubisoft shuts down ‘Rainbow Six Siege’ servers following hack Dozens of Flock AI camera feeds were just out there Google’s turning off its dark web monitoring service that scoured data breaches for your info Pentagon’s Signalgate report finds Pete Hegseth violated military policies The VPN panic is only getting started Signal’s secure message backups arrive on iOS Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data The FCC is rolling back steps meant to stop a repeat of a massive telecom hack

The Cipher Brief

The World Leaders to Watch in 2026 Modeling the Earth with AI is Now a Strategic Intelligence Imperative Why the ‘Double Tap’ Incident Matters Far Beyond a Single Strike The Push and Pull Between Washington and Beijing in the South China Sea This is Perhaps Ukraine’s Most Dangerous Time What It Means Now that Fentanyl is Designated a “WMD” Trying to Impose a Loser’s Peace on Ukraine Is a Dead End X’s Location Feature Exposes a Real Problem, but Does Not Fix It We Need More Than Just a Command Shakeup in the U.S. Military A Blueprint for Next-Generation Defense Production

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance Happy Public Domain Day 2026! America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses Federal Wallet Inspectors Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI