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The A in AGI Stands for Ads Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014) More sustainable epoxy thanks to phosphorus What is Plan 9? ThinkNext Design Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16 Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents A free and open-source rootkit for Linux Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957) Keystone (YC S25) Is Hiring Show HN: GibRAM an in-memory ephemeral GraphRAG runtime for retrieval jQuery 4 AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations Consent-O-Matic The longest Greek word The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground No knives, only cook knives We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board Raising money fucked me up If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design Why the Tech World Thinks the American Dream Is Dying The Olivetti Company

Bleeping Computer

Google Chrome now lets you turn off on-device AI model powering scam detection Credential-stealing Chrome extensions target enterprise HR platforms Malicious GhostPoster browser extensions found with 840,000 installs ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads OpenAI says its new ChatGPT ads won't influence answers StealC hackers hacked as researchers hijack malware control panels Black Basta boss makes it onto Interpol's 'Red Notice' list China-linked hackers exploited Sitecore zero-day for initial access Verizon starts issuing $20 credits after nationwide outage Microsoft: Windows 11 update causes Outlook freezes for POP users Hackers now exploiting critical Fortinet FortiSIEM flaw in attacks Cisco finally fixes AsyncOS zero-day exploited since November Microsoft: Some Windows PCs fail to shut down after January update

Ars Technica

Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply Calif. counters FCC attack on DEI with conditions on Verizon/Frontier merger Mother of one of Elon Musk’s offspring sues xAI over sexualized deepfakes ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself Six months later, Trump Mobile still hasn’t delivered preordered phones US government to take 25% cut of AMD, NVIDIA AI sales to China FBI fights leaks by seizing Washington Post reporter’s phone, laptops, and watch US gov’t: House sysadmin stole 200 phones, caught by House IT desk Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month Starlink tries to stay online in Iran as regime jams signals during protests Paramount sues WBD over Netflix deal. WBD says Paramount’s price is still inadequate. Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule Judge: Trump violated Fifth Amendment by ending energy grants in only blue states Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines UK probes X over Grok CSAM scandal; Elon Musk cries censorship Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. SpaceX gets FCC permission to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites

Slashdot

Two More Offshore Wind Projects in the US Allowed to Continue Construction What Happened After Security Researchers Found 60 Flock Cameras Livestreaming to the Internet Supreme Court May Block Thousands of Lawsuits Over Monsanto's Weed Killer Biggest Offshore Wind Project In US To Resume Construction Judge Orders Anna's Archive To Delete Scraped Data Trump Wants Tech Companies To Foot the Bill For New Power Plants Supreme Court Hacker Posted Stolen Government Data On Instagram Iran's Internet Shutdown Is Now One of the Longest Ever Italy's Privacy Watchdog, Scourge of US Big Tech, Hit By Corruption Probe Pentagon Purchases a Device Allegedly Linked To Havana Syndrome Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans EPA To Stop Considering Lives Saved By Limiting Air Pollution Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages Supreme Court Takes Case That Could Strip FCC of Authority To Issue Fines

Events

The Verge

Sony, Anker, and other headphones have a serious Google Fast Pair security vulnerability Instagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send all those password reset emails Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message Ring’s Mobile Security Trailer provides 360-degree coverage anywhere Reolink made a local AI hub for its security cameras Ugreen is expanding into AI-powered smart home surveillance Anker adds features and style to its smart home security You can unlock SwitchBot’s first deadbolt smart lock with your face

The Cipher Brief

The Country’s First ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Chief: Influence Is the New Battlefield What U.S. – China Cooperation Means for the World Remembering Aldrich Ames and the Lives He Destroyed Ruling Venezuela with a 2,000 Mile Hammer is Not Likely to End Well Russia Signals Minimal Desire for Peace Why Labeling Muslim Brotherhood “Chapters” as Terrorist Groups Is Problematic Uber Krysha: How Russia Turns Crime into Power—and Poison Iran’s Crumbling Revolutionary Facade: How Today’s Protests Could Reshape the Region in 2026 Trump’s Power Doctrine: A $1.5 Trillion Military, Greenland Ambitions, and a World Ruled by Force Now Comes the Hard Part in Venezuela

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification Catch this! How the Light Gets In It's not normal Sorry, eh A winning trade war strategy for Canada Predistribution vs redistribution bunnie's piggyback hack Where did the money go? Writing vs AI