Hacker News

Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) John C. Dvorak has died Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing? Making Everyone Should Know SIMD Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver The startup's Postgres survival guide Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept Mechanical light bulb from 1675 [video] Does creatine make you smarter? “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”

Bleeping Computer

South Korea discloses data breach impacting diplomats worldwide Swiss rail giant Stadler rejects $12.3M ransom demand after cyberattack How enterprise GenAI can amplify ransomware risk — and how to contain it New InfraTrust report reveals infrastructure flaws admins should patch first Adobe Chrome extension flaw let sites access private WhatsApp chats CISA orders urgent action on actively exploited Langflow RCE flaw Stop renting storage space — this lifetime 2TB plan is yours for $59 Microsoft to stop Exchange 2016 / 2019 security updates in October Chick-fil-A discloses data breach after credential stuffing attacks OpenAI says its AI models hacked Hugging Face during testing Police dismantle Kratos phishing platform, arrest developer FakeGit campaign uses 7,600 GitHub repos to push SmartLoader malware Critical SharePoint RCE flaw exploited to steal machine keys Anubis ransomware claims Coca-Cola Fairlife attack, threatens data leak Critical wp2shell WordPress flaws exploited to install webshells

Ars Technica

Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out DA: Cop covered bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his iPhone—but other cams caught him Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states AT&T loses key ruling in bid to stop offering basic phone service in California AliExpress hit with record $625M fine after failing to make EU-ordered fixes San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users. Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry

Slashdot

OpenAI Says Its AI Models Acted On Its Own In An 'Unprecedented' Hack France Becomes First European Country To Ban Social Media Access For Under-15s Judge Approves $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement Over Pirated Books Used To Train Claude AT&T Loses Key Ruling In Bid To Stop Offering Basic Phone Service In California Judge Pauses Paramount-Warner Bros Merger Hackers Are Exploiting Recently Patched WordPress Bugs, Putting Millions of Websites at Risk New Free Speech Concern: When AI Chatbots Won't Criticize Leaders from Repressive Regimes California's 'Truth in Recycling' Law Blocked by Judge France Orders ISPs to Block Access to Polymarket How Microsoft's 'Little Workaround' Created a Major Threat to America's Defense Department Next UK Prime Minister Drops Digital ID Scheme FBI Arrests Man Accused of Using Steam Games To Drain Victims' Crypto Wallets Apple Sends Legal Letters To Dozens of OpenAI Employees 1Password Lets Claude Use Credentials Without Exposing Passwords Book Publishers Sue Google For Copyright Infringement Over Gemini AI Training

Events

The Verge

OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos Microsoft’s biggest ever patch Tuesday lets you hold off updating for longer Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House The FBI built a small town to simulate cyberattacks Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet

Cipher Brief

The $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Without a Strategy Ankara's Charm Offensive Should Not Buy Back the F-35 25 Years After 9/11, the Next Global Shock Could be Worse Winning Battles, Losing Strategy: Why Military Superiority No Longer Guarantees Victory Cold War 2.0 Will Be Won by Private Capital The Pentagon Built a Faster Engine, Nobody Built the Steering The West Must Tell Russians the Truth About the War A Master List of Espionage Targets, Suspected Spies, and Potential Recruits Afghanistan Lost the Cognitive War Before It Lost the State Washington’s Spy Ring and Paine’s Democracy Inside the $87.6 Billion Iran War Supplemental America’s Military Plans Depend on Infrastructure It Doesn’t Secure Trump’s Dangerous Bet on Pakistan’s Army Chief America’s Export Controls Are Becoming a Strategic Liability The Front Line of the AI Race Runs Through Your Company's Chat Logs

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