Hacker News

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker Breaking the spell of vibe coding How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database Instagram's URL Blackhole Amsterdam Compiler Kit IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption Discord: A case study in performance optimization 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications Launching Interop 2026 A header-only C vector database library The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming Descent, ported to the web OpenAI should build Slack Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist? Unicorn Jelly Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB Flood Fill vs. The Magic Circle Windows NT/OS2 Design Workbook A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016) An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened Vim 9.2 Fun with Algebraic Effects – From Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations A method and calculator for building foamcore drawer organisers Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed YouTube as Storage

Bleeping Computer

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 Bitwarden introduces ‘Cupid Vault’ for secure password sharing Critical BeyondTrust RCE flaw now exploited in attacks, patch now Microsoft: New Windows LNK spoofing issues aren't vulnerabilities Romania's oil pipeline operator Conpet confirms data stolen in attack Odido data breach exposes personal info of 6.2 million customers WordPress plugin with 900k installs vulnerable to critical RCE flaw

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

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 White House Scraps 'Burdensome' Software Security Rules Former Google Engineer Found Guilty of Stealing AI Secrets For Chinese Firms Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says

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

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" Michael Swanwick's "The Universe Box"