Hacker News

.NET (OK, C#) gets union types It's time to talk about my writerdeck CA declares state of emergency as fire crews race to contain toxic chemical leak My two-part desk setup (2025) On The <dl> (2021) Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality Don't Roll Your Own Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says Hengefinder: Finding When the Sun Aligns with Your Street New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980 Polsia raised $30M; source map: fake ARR, dead users, god-mode over your company We reduced a real Node.js production Docker image from 1.2GB to 78MB Sales and Dungeons: Thermal Printer Ttrpg Utility z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket 80386 Microcode Disassembled PHP's Oddities The Art of Money Getting Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles (2022) Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers -​-dangerously-skip-reading-code Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby A self-powered computer in actual credit-card size (~1mm thick) Highest Random Weight in Elixir Oura says it gets government demands for user data Lisp in Vim (2019) Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order

Bleeping Computer

Laravel Lang packages hijacked to deploy credential-stealing malware Italy disrupts CINEMAGOAL piracy app that stole streaming auth codes Netherlands seizes 800 servers of hosting firm enabling cyberattacks Former US execs plead guilty to aiding tech support scammers Trend Micro warns of Apex One zero-day exploited in the wild Drupal: Critical SQL injection flaw now targeted in attacks Why Chargebacks are Just One Piece of the Fraud Puzzle Ubiquiti patches three max severity UniFi OS vulnerabilities US and Canada arrest and charge suspected Kimwolf botnet admin Google accidentally exposed details of unfixed Chromium flaw Apple blocked over $11 billion in App Store fraud in 6 years Inside a Crypto Drainer: How to Spot it Before it Empties Your Wallet Chinese hackers target telcos with new Linux, Windows malware Max severity Cisco Secure Workload flaw gives Site Admin privileges Police seize “First VPN” service used in ransomware, data theft attacks

Ars Technica

China’s shark finning could lead to US seafood sanctions Trump FCC asks public to comment on whether ABC's The View is a news show Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe" Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn't provide end-to-end encryption Marketer that claimed it could tap devices for ad targeting will pay $880K settlement Trump abruptly cancels EO signing event after top AI firm CEOs declined to go The $58,000 TV bill: When DirecTV sued O.J. Simpson for piracy AT&T sues California in attempt to shut off old phone network Zillow loses thousands of listings in fight over “hidden” homes Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats Minnesota prohibits prediction markets, promptly gets sued by Trump admin Man jailed for posting Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement China banned RTX 5090D V2 while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was visiting FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants "data in near real time" Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots

Slashdot

Is America Closer to Ending Daylight Saving Time? Tech CEOs Call for a Universal Basic Income. But What are the Alternatives? NTSB Wants PDF Removed After It Exposed Final Cockpit Audio From UPS Crash Trump Mobile Exposed Customers' Personal Data, Including Phone Numbers and Home Addresses Venmo Redesign Makes New Users' Posts Friends-Only by Default A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide AT&amp;T Sues California In Bid To Stop Offering Traditional Phone Service Trump Calls Off AI Executive Order Over Concern It Could Weaken US Tech Edge US To Award $2 Billion To Quantum Companies, Take Equity Stakes GitHub's Internal Repos Breached Via Employee's Use of Malicious VS Code Extension Anna's Archive Hit With Global Domain Takedown Order Yearslong Fight Over Users' Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban Prediction Markets CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys On Github FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

Events

The Verge

GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is becoming ‘unmanageable’ due to AI bug reports Canvas owner reaches ‘agreement’ with hackers to secure stolen data OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers Canvas is online again after ShinyHunters threaten to leak schools’ data A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower

The Cipher Brief

DHS Has Become Central to American Strategy, But Its Strategy Has Not Caught Up The G-2: Takeaways from Trump's Trip to Beijing A Tale of Two Straits: Sweden and Denmark are in a Position of Power Over Russia Iran's Digital War Machine Targeting U.S. Infrastructure Proscribing the IRGC Will Make Britain Safer The Limits of Human Oversight at Machine Speed Intelligence at the Speed of Relevance: Rethinking the Intelligence Cycle for the AI Era Moscow and Beijing’s shadow war: How Russia and China are keeping Iran lethal Inside the FBI’s New Push to Track Leaks and Monitor Employees Roses, Trees, and Power: The Symbolism Behind the Trump-Xi Summit

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Shopping isn't politics There's no such thing as "age verification" Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire No one wants a permanent gerontocracy Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm A fascist paradigm 2024 Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox Lee Lai's "Cannon"