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Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026) Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit Magic eye tubeBleeping Computer
Hackers abuse Faronics Deploy admin tool to install ScreenConnect Aesto Health says data breach affects over 9.5 million patients Critical Langflow flaw exploited to steal OpenAI and AWS keys Hackers push malicious Virtualizor update in BGP hijacking attack Novocure data breach affects more than 1,400 cancer patients Why Even the Best Edge Security Still Misses High-Risk Sessions Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange servers vulnerable to hijack attacks Five Venezuelans plead guilty to ATM jackpotting attacks in US Recently patched PaperCut zero-days used in data theft attacks Cronos blockchain restarts after $74 million Tectonic exploit Microsoft warns of TerminalFix attacks deploying reverse tunnels Massive Microsoft 365 outage causes auth issues, service failures OpenAI confirms ChatGPT outage as users report errors Chinese Fire Ant hackers turn Cisco routers into spying platforms File servers are here to stay. Here’s how to manage them securelyArs Technica
FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed" “Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead. Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable” New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts" Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election adsSlashdot
Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways California Lawmakers Greenlight Solar Panels You Can Plug Into the Wall Trump Tells FCC To Punish Journalist For Calling His Election Results 'Mixed' FTC Sues Amazon, Accusing the E-Commerce Giant of Misleading Advertisers Kalshi Dishes Out Its First-Ever Lifetime Ban to George Santos California's Age Verification Bill Passes with Linux Exemption Intact Gamescom Crime Spree? Three Exhibitors Report Their Laptops Were Stolen Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage? States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors Claude, Codex, and Hermes Installed Unowned Code Inside Corporate NetworksEvents
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Florida blocks Flock cams on state highways Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA VI leaks Meta glasses are a workplace menace OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what? OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore The fight over Flock and other ALPRs The Trump admin will start letting private firms launch international cyberattacksCipher Brief
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