Hacker News

Sshole OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base Residential proxies detected on White House network Awesome repositories are no longer awesome Lemmings CSS Animation A thousand fewer paths to root Images 2.6 Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out Partial Operator Precedence Spreading Liquid with Three.js Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability A new Go API for JSON GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research

Bleeping Computer

GhostMap Android flaw lets malicious app trigger persistent boot loop Vercel rolls out new protection against stolen session cookie attacks Zyxel fixes zero-day exploited to hack nearly 1,000 network switches DreamHost confirms data breach exposed FTP logins and webmail sessions Cyberattack disrupts blood storage refrigeration systems in France NIKKE PC game launcher hacked to spread remote access, data-stealing malware mSecure password manager hack prompts password reset warnings Google Calendar phishing campaign hijacks sessions, bypasses MFA SonicWall warns of unpatched flaws in end-of-life GMS software US charges two Canadians accused of hacking US universities CISA flags WordPress RCE flaw as actively exploited in attacks Hackers use n-day exploits in zero-click attacks on iOS, Android devices Hackers hijack cPGuard autoupdate to deploy backdoor, steal data WorkOS says attacker used ARTEX AI to breach internal sales app Binance says fake job interview led to $6.3 billion crypto heist

Ars Technica

Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech” After Texas' blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? Ted Cruz aims to stack FCC with Republicans before Democrats take Senate control California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms Trump wanted to give No Kings no air. Then, Meta suspended its Instagram. EPA throws in the towel on policing air pollution from factory farms Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine Trump ignored intel on China’s Nvidia spy to protect company’s stock, report says Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws Florida county won’t investigate sketchy Flock cameras removed by mystery owners "No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses US officials want Section 702 renewed before damaging court ruling goes public

Slashdot

3M To Pay Over $7 Billion To Settle 'Forever Chemical' Groundwater Claims Vietnam Jails Pirate Football Streamers For Up To a Year Axon Sued Over AI-Powered License Plate Reader Network French Blood Banks Hit Alongside Cyberattack On European Supermarkets Democrats Take Control of US Congress As Voters Reject Trump's Republicans EU Court Advisor Warns Google AI Chatbot May Breach Copyright Rules Study Claims Vizio Simply Ignores 'Smart' TV Spying Opt Out Requests The New York Times Sues Brave Web Browser For AI Scraping, Bypassing Paywalls Bad Flock Info Leads Police To Tow Wrong Car, Then Towing Company Totals It College Students are Pushing Colleges to 'De-Flock' America's Clocks Are Still Falling Back Tonight Despite Trump's Daylight Saving Push Flock Reinstalled Its Cameras After Another City Canceled Its Contract Two US Senators Raise Privacy Concerns About Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Meta Settles Another Social Media Addiction Case Just Before Trial Thousands of 'Ghost Students' Use AI to Steal Millions In Student Loans, DOJ Says

Events

The Verge

One of Google’s Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet More European supermarkets are getting their freezers hacked Binance hackers stole $6.3 billion in record-breaking crypto heist A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch PHP: The three little letters wreaking havoc across the web 1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today

Cipher Brief

In Its Race to Field AI, The Pentagon’s Testing Can’t Keep Up The Missing Dimension of Cyber Preparedness BLUF: The Next AI Problem for Intelligence Is Not the Model, It's the Manager Fire Base Australia: Can America’s Southern Base Sustain a Pacific War? The Coming Age of Robotic Warfare The Hidden Cost of America’s War With Iran The Command We Must Start The Cipher Brief’s 10th Threat Conference: Optimism, Urgency, and the Imperative to Act The Kids are Alright: U.S. Soft Power, Aid, and Youth in Africa F-35 Fallacy: Jets Alone Will Not Save Us The U.S. Military Has Much to Learn From Ukraine The Terms We Must Set The Thirteenth Mile: This Is What Gray Zone War Looks Like The Intelligence Community’s Missing Discipline We’re Losing the Cognitive Space Race

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Cory Doctorow

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