Hacker News

There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him Prism A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks SVG Path Editor Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found Rust’s Standard Library on the GPU Parametric CAD in Rust Doing the thing is doing the thing Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company Time Station Emulator Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores AI2: Open Coding Agents AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me) Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC) Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video Notes on starting to use Django Extremophile molds are invading art museums Show HN: Fuzzy Studio – Apply live effects to videos/camera I got 14.84x GPU speedup by studying how octopus arms coordinate Show HN: I wrapped the Zorks with an LLM Hypercubic (YC F25) Is Hiring a Founding SWE and COBOL Engineer Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son How many chess games are possible?

Bleeping Computer

OpenAI's ChatGPT ad costs are on par with live NFL broadcasts Fortinet blocks exploited FortiCloud SSO zero day until patch is ready Chinese Mustang Panda hackers deploy infostealers via CoolClient backdoor WinRAR path traversal flaw still exploited by numerous hackers Nike investigates data breach after extortion gang leaks files Critical sandbox escape flaw found in popular vm2 NodeJS library US charges 31 more suspects linked to ATM malware attacks From Cipher to Fear: The psychology behind modern ransomware extortion Over 6,000 SmarterMail servers exposed to automated hijacking attacks Have I Been Pwned: SoundCloud data breach impacts 29.8 million accounts New malware service guarantees phishing extensions on Chrome web store New ClickFix attacks abuse Windows App-V scripts to push malware Microsoft patches actively exploited Office zero-day vulnerability Cloudflare misconfiguration behind recent BGP route leak EU launches investigation into X over Grok-generated sexual images

Ars Technica

TikTok users “absolutely justified” for fearing MAGA makeover, experts say Supreme Court to decide how 1988 videotape privacy law applies to online video “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial “Wildly irresponsible”: DOT's use of AI to draft safety rules sparks concerns TikTok explained why some US creators are seeing posts with "0 views" EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Grok's sexualized deepfakes Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue" TikTok deal is done; Trump wants praise while users fear MAGA tweaks Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk's chosen court Meta wants to block data about social media use, mental health in child safety trial Judge orders stop to FBI search of devices seized from Washington Post reporter Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS Trump FCC threatens to enforce equal-time rule on late-night talk shows Spotify won court order against Anna’s Archive, taking down .org domain Zuck stuck on Trump’s bad side: FTC appeals loss in Meta monopoly case Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones Netflix to pay all cash for Warner Bros. to fend off Paramount hostile takeover Elon Musk accused of making up math to squeeze $134B from OpenAI, Microsoft

Slashdot

US Government Lost More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Last Year SoundCloud Data Breach Impacts 29.8 Million Accounts Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video Amazon To Pay $309 Million To US Shoppers In Settlement Over Returns Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption China Hacked Downing Street Phones For Years TikTok Alternative 'Skylight' Soars To 380K+ Users After TikTok US Deal Finalized California Tech CEO and EV Pioneer Arrested, Accused of Murder Google Settles $68 Million Lawsuit Claiming It Recorded Private Conversations Richard Stallman Was Asked: Is Software Piracy Wrong? Washington State May Mandate 'Firearm Blueprint Detection Algorithms' For 3D Printers US Congress Fails to Repeal 'Kill Switch' for Cars Mandate Hollywood Tries To Take Pirate Sites Down Globally Through India Court California Becomes First State To Join WHO Disease Network After US Exit Justice Department Opens Criminal Probe Into Silicon Valley Spy Allegations

Events

The Verge

WhatsApp’s new ‘lockdown’ settings add another layer of protection against cyberattacks Gmail’s spam filter and automatic sorting are broken Ring can verify videos now, but that might not help you with most AI fakes 1Password is introducing a new phishing prevention feature Sony, Anker, and other headphones have a serious Google Fast Pair security vulnerability Instagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send all those password reset emails Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message Ring’s Mobile Security Trailer provides 360-degree coverage anywhere

The Cipher Brief

An Update on Venezuela, Post Maduro Apprehension Inside Trump’s New ‘Board of Peace’ Russia’s War Economy Lifeline: Inside the Sanctions Evasion Network They're Coming for Our Kids: How Extremists Target Children Online The Next FATF Test: Can the West Demand Results from Pakistan? Russia is Targeting Civilians in Ukraine Loosening the Gordian Knot of Global Terrorism: Why Legitimacy Must Anchor a Counterterrorism Strategy Iran at the Breaking Point: How Afghanistan and Iraq Still Inform U.S. Strategy The Kremlin Files: Russia’s Way to the Gray Zone The Long Arc Of American Power

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Carney isn't a hero Trump and the unmighty dollar The petty Google's AI pricing plan AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" Social media without socializing The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification Catch this! How the Light Gets In It's not normal