Hacker News

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf] Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models Using any C++ library in Godot 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 Percent Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017) The systems that no one will test Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops Software occlusion culling in Block Game Pirating the Pirates

Bleeping Computer

Vietnamese man charged in $16 million 'pig butchering' crypto scam Kiteworks patches critical flaw, brings customer systems online Apple patches CoreGraphics zero-day flaw exploited in attacks Japan's Keio confirms ransomware attack disrupted business systems Times Car confirms data breach affecting 6.6 million user accounts Dutch police confirm arrest in ShinyHunters hacking investigation Over 16,000 Supabase databases expose PII, passwords, auth tokens JadePuffer agentic AI attacks target Azure, destroy cloud resources 80,000+ Organizations Had AI Logins Stolen: From Shadow AI to LLMjacking Bitget resumes Bitcoin withdrawals after $387.5 million crypto heist US soldier gets 70 months in prison for extorting 10 tech, telecom firms CISA orders feds to patch exploited Citrix flaws by Wednesday OpenAI is preparing “o,” an always-on ChatGPT assistant that could handle email Citrix confirms two NetScaler RCE zero-days exploited in attacks Cloudflare fixes Containers cross-tenant flaw exposing customer data

Ars Technica

Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features Paramount/WBD merger conditions give the public "virtually nothing," judge is told Trump administration takes Musk’s side in fight over EU tech rules New York defies Trump admin, asks court to shut down Polymarket gambling New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real Trump’s China rivalry and “AI race” delusion may endanger US, experts say Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash Cities across US oppose Trump FCC plan to preempt local broadband rules Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting

Slashdot

TikTok to Pay Alabama $100 Million, Limit Teen Use In First State Settlement Apple Faces $5.7 Billion Patent Infringement Verdict Over iPhone And Apple Watch Haptics China and the US Say They've Agreed to Start Talks About AI Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed 'Super Intelligence' in US Documents Australia Considers Smart Glasses Ban in Government Workplaces, While 70 People Sue Meta Over Unknowing Data Collection North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State' To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump's 'AI Force' Proposal Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees

Events

The Verge

AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready Nvidia says its new AI safety platform can contain rogue agents within ‘milliseconds’ OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’ Muse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki DJI’s new robovac can climb obstacles, vacuum quietly, and claims much improved privacy

Cipher Brief

AI Is Coming to the Counter-Drone Fight Trump’s Rejection of Iran Offer Highlights Another Big Problem NATO Can’t Count Its Way to Maritime Superiority Iran’s Regime Is Weaker Than It Looks A warning about ‘model welfare’ Navigating a More Uncertain World: Lessons from CIA’s Red Cell When Threats Move Faster Than Institutions AI Is Coming for the Chain of Command Putin Is Testing the West’s Resolve The Nations That Don’t Appear on the Map The Military’s Race to Operationalize AI The Authority We Cannot Keep Heads They Win, Tails They Win: The CMMC Trap and the Way Out How America Appeased Putin Will Physical AI Underpin the Reindustrialization Win that Western Allies Need?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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