Hacker News

God Sleeps in the Minerals Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008) Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012) Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic How do Wake-On-LAN works The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring Founding AI Engineers Do you even need a database? Fix monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity in chair Forcing an inversion of control on the SaaS stack Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Costasiella kuroshimae – Solar Powered animals, that do indirect photosynthesis Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight Wacli – WhatsApp CLI Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16 We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video] Metro stop is Ancient Rome's new attraction Pretty Fish: A better mermaid diagram editor Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis The tiniest e-reader in the world, and you can build one yourself AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you CRISPR takes a bold leap toward silencing Down syndrome's extra chromosome Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code MIT Radiation Laboratory Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing

Bleeping Computer

Signed software abused to deploy antivirus-killing scripts Microsoft pays $2.3M for cloud and AI flaws at Zero Day Quest CISA flags Windows Task Host vulnerability as exploited in attacks Rolling Networks: Securing the Transportation Sector Microsoft: April updates trigger BitLocker key prompts on some servers Microsoft fixes bug behind Windows Server 2025 automatic upgrades Microsoft adds Windows protections for malicious Remote Desktop files Crypto-exchange Kraken extorted by hackers after insider breach Over 100 Chrome Web Store extensions steal user accounts, data Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5082200 extended security update McGraw-Hill confirms data breach following extortion threat Windows 11 cumulative updates KB5083769 & KB5082052 released Microsoft April 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 167 flaws, 2 zero-days Fake Ledger Live app on Apple’s App Store stole $9.5M in crypto Microsoft rolls out fast-track to reinstate Windows hardware dev accounts

Ars Technica

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 Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russia's military What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords? SCOTUS overturns 5th Circuit ruling that told ISP to kick pirates off Internet Sports bets on prediction markets ruled to be "swaps," exempt from state laws

Slashdot

California Ghost-Gun Bill Wants 3D Printers To Play Cop, EFF Says Audit Finds Google, Microsoft, and Meta Still Tracking Users After Opt-Out Google Faces Mass Arbitration By Advertisers Seeking Billions FBI Raids Texas Home of Man Suspected of Firebombing Sam Altman's SF Mansion Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators Booking.com Hit By Data Breach Maine Set To Become First State With Data Center Ban Sam Altman's Home Targeted a Second Time, Two Suspects Arrested Botched IT Upgrade Ended Liquor Sales for the Entire State of Mississippi Judge Pauses Arizona's Prosecution of Kalshi, Bars Arizona from Regulating Prediction Markets US Demands Reddit Unmask ICE Critic, Summons Firm To Grand Jury To Fill Air Traffic Controller Shortage, FAA Turns To Gamers EU Parliament Fails To Renew Loophole Allowing Tech Firms To Report Abuse Suspect Arrested for Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman's Home FBI Extracts Suspect's Deleted Signal Messages Saved In iPhone Notification Data

Events

The Verge

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 Anthropic makes last-ditch effort to salvage deal with Pentagon after blowup

The Cipher Brief

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? The Strategic Realignment: Iran, China, and the Great Power Contest Why Australia Needs a National Spy Museum America’s AI Strategy Is Fighting the Last War America’s Drone Strategy Has a Supply Chain Problem Drones Are Changing Warfare And America Isn’t Ready How the Iran War Is Reordering the World, Second and Third-Order Effects

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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 Switzerland's Goldilocks fiber Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages EU ready to cave to Trump on tech