Hacker News

Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer Coursera to combine with Udemy I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell The State of AI Coding Report 2025 AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps? Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design [audio] A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images My payment agent is named George, not stripe-agent Tell HN: HN was down Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT Show HN: High-Performance Wavelet Matrix for Python, Implemented in Rust The Number That Turned Sideways Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion How SQLite is tested Fast SEQUENCE iteration in Common Lisp Opencoil – appropriating inductive charging pads in the wild (2020) [video] Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor Show HN: I built a fast RSS reader in Zig Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review Inside PostHog: SSRF, ClickHouse SQL Escape and Default Postgres Creds to RCE The World of OCR (C. 1960) [video] A look back: LANPAR, the first spreadsheet Explaining the Widening Divides in US Midlife Mortality: Is There a Smoking Gun? Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Founding Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking Learning Fortran (2024)

Bleeping Computer

Zeroday Cloud hacking event awards $320,0000 for 11 zero days France arrests suspect tied to cyberattack on Interior Ministry Amazon: Ongoing cryptomining campaign uses hacked AWS accounts WhatsApp device linking abused in account hijacking attacks Cisco warns of unpatched AsyncOS zero-day exploited in attacks Sonicwall warns of new SMA1000 zero-day exploited in attacks Critical React2Shell flaw exploited in ransomware attacks Your MFA Is Costing You Millions. It Doesn't Have To. Microsoft asks admins to reach out for Windows IIS failures fix Cellik Android malware builds malicious versions from Google Play apps GhostPoster attacks hide malicious JavaScript in Firefox addon logos Amazon disrupts Russian GRU hackers attacking edge network devices

Ars Technica

Man sues cops who jailed him for 37 days for trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil FCC chair scrubs website after learning it called FCC an “independent agency” Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says Twitter comeback bid draws lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X Corp US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s “pro-petroleum” moves “A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans Utah leaders hinder efforts to develop solar energy supply Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won Ukrainians sue US chip firms for powering Russian drones, missiles Trump tries to block state AI laws himself after Congress decided not to Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales “makes no sense,” experts say Supreme Court appears likely to approve Trump’s firing of FTC Democrat Court: “Because Trump said to” may not be a legally valid defense ICEBlock lawsuit: Trump admin bragged about demanding App Store removal

Slashdot

MIT Grieves Shooting Death of Renowned Director of Plasma Science Center Senate Confirms Billionaire Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman As New NASA Chief FCC Chair Suggests Agency Isn't Independent, Word Cut From Mission Statement Google Sues Alleged Chinese Scam Group Behind Massive US Text Message Phishing Ring Breach At South Korea's Equivalent of Amazon Exposed Data of Almost Every Adult Texas Sues TV Makers For Taking Screenshots of What People Watch SoundCloud Confirms Breach After Member Data Stolen, VPN Access Disrupted Russian Ban On Roblox Gaming Platform Sparks Rare Protest Like Australia, Denmark Plans to Severely Restrict Social Media Use for Teenagers 'Investors in Limbo'. Will the TikTok Deal's Deadline Be Extended Again? Repeal Section 230 and Its Platform Protections, Urges New Bipartisan US Bill Trump Ban on Wind Energy Permits 'Unlawful', Court Rules Firefox Survey Finds Only 16% Feel In Control of Their Privacy Choices Online Chinese Whistleblower Living In US Is Being Hunted By Beijing With US Tech Ukrainians Sue US Chip Firms For Powering Russian Drones, Missiles

Events

The Verge

Google’s turning off its dark web monitoring service that scoured data breaches for your info Pentagon’s Signalgate report finds Pete Hegseth violated military policies The VPN panic is only getting started Signal’s secure message backups arrive on iOS Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data The FCC is rolling back steps meant to stop a repeat of a massive telecom hack Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT Cloudflare shows internet outages aren’t a matter of if — but when

The Cipher Brief

What Would Follow a Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation? Anti-Semitism is a National Security Issue: It’s Time to Treat it Like One How the U.S. Military’s Top Officer is Looking at the World’s Hotspots Winter is Coming to Ukraine as it Faces a New Kind of War and Uncertainty About a Key Ally The Cipher Brief's Recommended Reads for the Holidays Echoes of 1940: Learning from an Ally at War and Preparing the U.S. for the Next Fight Russia is Waging a Sabotage Shadow War on Europe Why an Unmanned Mission May be Most Effective in Venezuela America’s Antibiotic Weakness Is a National Security Blindspot Can Europe Survive the New Multipolar World?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Happy Public Domain Day 2026! America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses Federal Wallet Inspectors Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI A year in illustration