Hacker News

7.1 Earthquake in Japan About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6 Our position on open-weights models Google's Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era How to Survive Boiling Water A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review Golang Maps: how Swiss Tables replaced the old bucket design Fast Remediation Is the New Trust Model (JFrog and OpenAI Zero-Day Findings) Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts ASRock 4U16X-GNR2 packs 8 B300 GPUs, demands liquid cooling Vehicle Motion Cues I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore Which Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test? PyTorch: A Reference Language

Bleeping Computer

Over 24,000 exposed server BMCs leak password hash via decades-old flaw Data breach at medical billing firm MCBS affects 1.26 million people Hackers target US firms in FastJson RCE zero-day attacks Arista patches VeloCloud Orchestrator zero-day exploited in attacks New Dysphoria DDoS botnet spreads to 200k devices worldwide New Certighost PoC exploit lets attackers hijack Windows domains Apple sued over fake App Store crypto wallet app stealing $1.8M in Bitcoin Coca-Cola confirms data theft in Fairlife ransomware attack Ernst & Young data breach claimed by ShinyHunters extortion gang Shadow AI agents are multiplying. Here's how to find and secure them. GitHub, PyPI add time-based defenses against supply chain attacks Steam forum ClickFix attacks infect gamers with XMRig cryptominers Malicious sites use JavaScript to build malware in browser memory ShinyHunters data leaks fuel $2,000 sextortion email scam OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide

Ars Technica

Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months “Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win 5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template Big Tech accused of stonewalling European social media researchers Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states' lawsuit moves toward trial RFK Jr.'s handpicked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses Judge rebuffs Trump admin demand for phone records from NYT reporters AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems Google hit with $1 billion in fines as EU braces for Trump battle ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out

Slashdot

A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months 2.1 Million People View Leaked 'Odyssey' Bootleg on X 'Inside the Dystopian World of Germany's Free Speech Crackdown' Apple's Smart Glasses Delayed, As Engineers Consider Privacy Concerns Google's Anti-search-scraping Lawsuit Dismissed Typo-Squatting Scammers Con South Carolina Town Out of $545K Trump Threatens New Tariffs Against EU Over Google Fine OpenAI's Rogue Agent Went Unnoticed For a Week Instagram Is Now Banning Pickup Artists, Pranksters Who Use Meta Glasses Paramount Agrees to Postpone Warner Bros. Merger Until June 2027 US Accuses American of Allegedly Wiping His Phone Using a 'Duress' Password During Border Search Google Adds Selfie Video As a Log-In Option Oracle Signs 10-Year Software Contract With Pentagon Worth Up To $7 Billion OpenAI Says Its AI Models Acted On Its Own In An 'Unprecedented' Hack France Becomes First European Country To Ban Social Media Access For Under-15s

Events

The Verge

Google now lets you sign in to your account using a selfie video OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos Microsoft’s biggest ever patch Tuesday lets you hold off updating for longer Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House The FBI built a small town to simulate cyberattacks Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban

Cipher Brief

The Audience Is a Machine: Our Future Information Environment Is Iran Controlling the Gulf Conflict? We've Seen Autonomous Warfare and We're in Trouble The $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Without a Strategy Ankara's Charm Offensive Should Not Buy Back the F-35 25 Years After 9/11, the Next Global Shock Could be Worse Winning Battles, Losing Strategy: Why Military Superiority No Longer Guarantees Victory Cold War 2.0 Will Be Won by Private Capital The Pentagon Built a Faster Engine, Nobody Built the Steering The West Must Tell Russians the Truth About the War A Master List of Espionage Targets, Suspected Spies, and Potential Recruits Afghanistan Lost the Cognitive War Before It Lost the State Washington’s Spy Ring and Paine’s Democracy Inside the $87.6 Billion Iran War Supplemental America’s Military Plans Depend on Infrastructure It Doesn’t Secure

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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