Hacker News

OpenBSD 7.9 Released New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing Hanoi's humble beer glass and the memory of a nation I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert An Apple (II) for Teacher Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language Peter Neumann has died Polypad CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised Colonization of Venus Click (2016) Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub Anthropic acquires Stainless The lasting influence of Netscape Time PyTorch Landscape 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries The last six months in LLMs in five minutes We let AIs run radio stations Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust

Bleeping Computer

New Shai-Hulud malware wave compromises 600 npm packages 7-Eleven confirms data breach claimed by the ShinyHunters gang Critical Microsoft Vulnerabilities Doubled: From Exposure to Escalation Webinar: The hidden bottlenecks in network incident response Microsoft confirms patching issues in restricted Windows networks INTERPOL ‘Operation Ramz’ seizes 53 malware, phishing servers SHub macOS infostealer variant spoofs Apple security updates 5 Steps to Managing Shadow AI Tools Without Slowing Down Employees Leaked Shai-Hulud malware fuels new npm infostealer campaign Grafana says stolen GitHub token let hackers steal codebase Microsoft testing adjustable taskbar, Start menu in Windows 11 Microsoft confirms Windows 11 security update install issues Exploit available for new DirtyDecrypt Linux root escalation flaw Hackers earn $1,298,250 for 47 zero-days at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 New Windows 'MiniPlasma' zero-day exploit gives SYSTEM access, PoC released

Ars Technica

Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves Lake Tahoe residents lose energy supplier to data center boom Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption Desperate Trump taps "Tim Apple," Jensen Huang, Elon Musk to attend Xi summit FCC angers small carriers by helping AT&T and Starlink buy EchoStar spectrum Foiled plot tried to sneak 49 lbs of cocaine into Australia via Xerox printers AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat—but peers won't snitch Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar Twin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being fired “Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says eBay rejects GameStop's $56B offer: "Your proposal is neither credible nor attractive"

Slashdot

FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers Nintendo Tries To Obtain Touchscreen-Specific Patent On Monster Capturing Elon Musk Loses Lawsuit Against OpenAI The US Is Betting On AI To Catch Insider Trading In Prediction Markets Small Town Fights Over Flock's AI-Enhanced Network of License Plate-Reading Cameras California Law Limits 'Recycling' Logo in New Attack on Plastic Waste Bitwarden Scrubs 'Always Free' and 'Inclusion' Values From Its Website Bill To Block Publishers From Killing Online Games Advances In California Congress Introduces Bill To Permanently Block Chinese Vehicles From US Musk Accused of 'Selective Amnesia', Altman of Lying As OpenAI Trial Nears End OpenAI Trial Wraps Up With 'Jackass' Trophy For Challenging Musk Man Who Stole Beyonce's Hard Drives Gets Five-Year Sentence Meta Employees Launch Protest Against Mouse-Tracking Tech At US Offices Sam Altman Testifies That Elon Musk Wanted Control of OpenAI Instructure Pays Canvas Hackers To Delete Students' Stolen Data

Events

The Verge

Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is becoming ‘unmanageable’ due to AI bug reports Canvas owner reaches ‘agreement’ with hackers to secure stolen data OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers Canvas is online again after ShinyHunters threaten to leak schools’ data A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives

The Cipher Brief

Inside the FBI’s New Push to Track Leaks and Monitor Employees Roses, Trees, and Power: The Symbolism Behind the Trump-Xi Summit The administration needs a better relationship with the Vatican Sustaining Decision Advantage: The Case for Analytic Tradecraft Reform The Bear and the Dragon: The Threat of Sino-Russian Opportunism and Intelligence Miscalculation A Bridge Too Small: Why $49 Billion Can’t Fix a $1.5 Trillion Problem The Nuclear Arms Race Is Accelerating — and the U.N. Looks Increasingly Powerless The Pakistani General Running Washington’s Backchannel to Tehran Congress Faces a Growing Blind Spot in the Pentagon’s Expanding Budget Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U.S. Decision Systems

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

There's no such thing as "age verification" Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire No one wants a permanent gerontocracy Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm A fascist paradigm 2024 Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox Lee Lai's "Cannon" Bubbles are REALLY evil