Hacker News

NetHack 5.0.0 Videolan Dav2d Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase more than 7-fold in last 10y Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws Unsigned Sizes: A Five Year Mistake Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction Do_not_track Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights Ti-84 Evo Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary Also-RANS: Asymmetric Numeral Systems for Entropy Coding Zugzwang Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans Welcome to Hell Developer Artemis II Photo Timeline New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi SFO Gate Explorer

Bleeping Computer

ConsentFix v3 attacks target Azure with automated OAuth abuse Microsoft tests modern Windows Run, says it's faster than legacy dialog Edu tech firm Instructure discloses cyber incident, probes impact 15-year-old detained over French govt agency data breach Story retracted Criminal IP and Securonix ThreatQ Collaborate to Enhance Threat Intelligence Operations Microsoft fixes Remote Desktop warnings displaying incorrectly Microsoft now lets admins choose pre-installed Store apps to uninstall Windows 11 KB5083631 update released with 34 changes and fixes US ransomware negotiators get 4 years in prison over BlackCat attacks New Bluekit phishing service includes an AI assistant, 40 templates Romanian leader of online swatting ring gets 4 years in prison FBI links cybercriminals to sharp surge in cargo theft attacks April KB5083769 Windows 11 update causes backup software failures What Happens in the First 24 Hours After a New Asset Goes Live

Ars Technica

Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines Women sue the men who used their Instagram feeds to create AI porn influencers US falls below Ukraine in press freedom as global autocracy takes hold Elon Musk's 7 biggest stumbles on the stand at OpenAI trial Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex More than half of all Polymarket "long shot" bets on military action pay off ABC can beat Trump FCC's license threat if owner Disney is willing to fight New Sam Bankman-Fried trial would be huge waste of court’s time, judge says Attempt to repeal Colorado's right-to-repair law fails Sam Altman is “the face of evil” for not reporting school shooter, says lawyer Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Kimmel joke offends Trump and first lady Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles Musk and Altman face off in trial that will determine OpenAI's future Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism" FCC: Router ban includes portable hotspots, but not phones with hotspot features Soldier won $410K in Polymarket bets on timing of Maduro capture, US alleges Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf Trump administration attempt to gut Endangered Species Act hits roadblock

Slashdot

Pentagon Reaches Agreements With Top AI Companies, But Not Anthropic The California Government Is Coming For Your E-Bikes Musk Concludes Testimony At OpenAI Trial US Senators Ban Themselves From Prediction Markets Trading New Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability Enables Root Access On Major Distros French Prosecutors Link 15-Year-Old To Mega-Breach At State's Secure Document Agency DOJ Sues Cloudera For Deliberately Excluding American Workers From Tech Jobs Elon Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Him, Clashes With Company's Attorney New Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Would Be Huge Waste of Court's Time, Judge Says Colorado's Anti-Repair Bill Is Dead Musk Testifies OpenAI Was Created As Nonprofit To Counter Google Google and Pentagon Reportedly Agree On Deal For 'Any Lawful' Use of AI Supreme Court Hears Case On How To Label Risks of Popular Weed Killer Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Head To Court Supreme Court Reviews Police Use of Cell Location Data To Find Criminals

Events

The Verge

Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours Attack of the killer script kiddies Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cybersecurity agency Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked Rockstar Games says hack will have ‘no impact’

The Cipher Brief

Britain’s Antisemitism Crisis Is Now a National Security Threat CIA Deaths Expose Fragile U.S.-Mexico Security Ties Houthi's are Positioned to Close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait Pakistan’s Terror Landscape Continues to Threaten South Asia From Chernobyl to Ukraine: The Enduring Cost of Kremlin Lies Why the Navy’s Next Battleship Faces Major Hurdles Pyongyang’s Bet: Nuclear Growth and Great Power Support America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War The Dangerous Trade of State Secrets Half Measures and Maximum Risk in Iran

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus How not to ban surveillance pricing Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe" The enshittification multiverse Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" A free, open visual identity for enshittification The It's not a crime if we do it Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed" Comrade Trump