Hacker News

Ben Lerner's Big Feelings Vercel April 2026 security incident Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) A Brief History of Fish Sauce Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons The Bromine Chokepoint Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction Knitout and Kniterate 3 Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks) Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 Swiss AI Initiative (2023) 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors The RAM shortage could last years Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024) Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language Sudo for Windows (2024) Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) A Common MVP Evolution: Service to System Integration to Product (2017) Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

Bleeping Computer

Vercel confirms breach as hackers claim to be selling stolen data Apple account change alerts abused to send phishing emails NIST to stop rating non-priority flaws due to volume increase Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution Microsoft Teams right-click paste broken by Edge update bug NAKIVO v11.2: Ransomware Defense, Faster Replication, vSphere 9, and Proxmox VE 9.0 Support Payouts King ransomware uses QEMU VMs to bypass endpoint security Grinex exchange blames "Western intelligence" for $13.7M crypto hack Inside an Underground Guide: How Threat Actors Vet Stolen Credit Card Shops Webinar: From phishing to fallout — Why MSPs must rethink both security and recovery CISA flags Apache ActiveMQ flaw as actively exploited in attacks Microsoft: Some Windows servers enter reboot loops after April patches Man gets 30 months for selling thousands of hacked DraftKings accounts Recently leaked Windows zero-days now exploited in attacks Operation PowerOFF identifies 75k DDoS users, takes down 53 domains

Ars Technica

Man with @ihackedthegovernment Instagram account tells judge, “I made a mistake" Ad firms settle with Trump FTC over claims they boycotted conservative media Jury finds Live Nation/Ticketmaster is illegal monopoly that overcharged fans FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why It's Tax Day, and no one knows how to file for prediction market winnings Apple chooses Amazon satellites for iPhone, years after rejecting Starlink offer NZXT agrees to let customers keep their rental PCs in class-action settlement Your tech support company runs scams. Stop—or disguise with more fraud? IBM folds to Trump anti-DEI push, admits no misconduct but pays $17M penalty Californians sue over AI tool that records doctor visits Report: US demands Reddit unmask ICE critic, summons firm to grand jury Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord Trump-appointed judges refuse to block Trump blacklisting of Anthropic AI tech Police corporal created AI porn from driver's license pics First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest LinkedIn scanning users' browser extensions sparks controversy and two lawsuits Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites How our digital devices are putting our right to privacy at risk To beat Altman in court, Musk offers to give all damages to OpenAI nonprofit Tankers passing through Strait of Hormuz will have to pay cryptocurrency toll

Slashdot

Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant Old Cars 'Tell Tales' by Storing Data That's Never Wiped US Congress Fails to Pass Long-Term FISA Extension, Authorizes It Through April 30 20-Year-Old Enters Prison for Historic Breach, Ransoming of Massive Student Database US Government Now Wants Anthropic's 'Mythos', Preparing for AI Cybersecurity Threats Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies Gazing Into Sam Altman's Orb Could Solve Ticket Scalping Newly Unsealed Records Reveal Amazon's Price-Fixing Tactics 'TotalRecall Reloaded' Tool Finds a Side Entrance To Windows 11 Recall Database Google, Pentagon Discuss Classified AI Deal EU Age Verification App Announced To Protect Children Online Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI Live Nation Illegally Monopolized Ticketing Market, Jury Finds Anna's Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight California Ghost-Gun Bill Wants 3D Printers To Play Cop, EFF Says

Events

The Verge

Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked Rockstar Games says hack will have ‘no impact’ PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default Claude Code leak exposes a Tamagotchi-style ‘pet’ and an always-on agent Okta’s CEO is betting big on AI agent identity PSA: Hackers can raid iOS 18 with an infected link Iran-linked cyber attack targets US medtech giant Stryker Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger get new ways to protect users from scams

The Cipher Brief

An FBI Perspective on FISA Section 702 Why Greenland is the Linchpin of the Golden Dome The Most Dangerous Extremist Movement in America Has No Ideology The Trump-Xi Summit: A Chance to Change the Global Narrative What Iran Is Learning from Russia’s War and Why the U.S. Should Be Concerned Copy of Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It’s All in the Execution Avoiding Another 9/11: 3 Key Reasons to Reauthorize Section 702 The Navy is changing the way it does business and its still pretty pricey The Case for Reauthorizing Section 702 Is the U.S. lagging when it comes to drone warfare superiority?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Georgia's voting technology blunder Tiktokification shall set us free A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers Rights for robots In praise of Austerity creates fascism Don't Be Evil Canny Valley and Creative Commons Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" Process knowledge