Hacker News

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room Gemini 4 Argon Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts Redesigning source control at Anthropic Apple HomeView Thunderbird for iOS 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker Firefox Enterprise PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome New Apple TV 4K We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model

Bleeping Computer

OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting spy device in office Ghostscript flaw lets hackers hijack servers via PDF uploads Anthropic warns self-replicating AI could spread to your smart devices Microsoft October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 1,411 flaws, 3 zero-days Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5126657 extended security update Microsoft: Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro reached end of support UK Housing Ombudsman Service investigates 'security incident' Windows 11 KB5127648 & KB5126653 cumulative updates released TFG London cyberattack disrupts systems at Hobbs and Whistles retailers Ivanti warns of Connect Secure zero-day exploited in attacks Docker Hub flaw let attackers impersonate users, tamper with images The MFA Gaps Attackers are Still Exploiting SAP warns of maximum severity OAuth2 SSRF security flaw Norway fines Microsoft ad firm $9.6 million over Grindr data sharing Yandex confirms service outage as users lose access to cloud files

Ars Technica

Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think. Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist TP-Link problems in US grow amid FCC router ban and four state lawsuits Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift Trade group crunches numbers on Trump’s impossible push for 100% US-made tech Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth

Slashdot

Disney Offers $20 Million For Character.AI Assets As Startup Files For Bankruptcy Ledger Confirms Spy Chip Implant Behind Wallet Crypto Thefts FBI Arrests Canadian Cybersecurity Expert In ShinyHunters Hacking Case Hackers Heat French Supermarket Fridges, Sparking Fires and Spoiling Food Should We Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock? A College Told Flock to Remove Its Cameras. The Company Refused. US Agency To Rewrite Rules To Finally Address Vehicle Headlight Glare AI Execs Game Out 'Political Revolt' after a Catastrophic AI Event OpenAI Disrupts Two AI-Enabled 'False Front' Influence Operations That Included Seven Fake Journalists Another Woman Sues Flock For Mistaken Crime Accusation By Police - and for Surveillance AI Surveillance Startup Flock To Cut Several Hundred Jobs Amid Backlash, Sources Say Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties In France US Bars Microsoft, Adobe, and Major IT Firms From Green Card Program Campus Censorship Wars, 25 Years After a Slashdot Q&A Cable Lobby To Sue Trump FCC Over Repeal of National TV Ownership Cap

Events

The Verge

The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects A Trump Mobile breach may have exposed data of more than 3,600 people Suspected ShinyHunters leader arrested in the Netherlands AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready Nvidia says its new AI safety platform can contain rogue agents within ‘milliseconds’ OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’ Muse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent

Cipher Brief

America’s Military Has a GPS Problem Subterranean Warfare - An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner The Sanctions We Cannot Afford What Beijing Calls Open, Washington Should Call an Operation How Ukraine’s Ground Robots Are Changing the Battlefield The Next Drone Won't Have a Radio Link, Our Intelligence Enterprise Needs to Plan for That Now The Future of Iran Lies Beyond the Regime How War Starts: A Warning from the Korean DMZ How America Wins the AI Race With Open Source Unique Risks of AI Adoption in Developing Economies Hegseth’s Vision for a New American Military Election Security: Keeping Our Disagreements Our Own The Pentagon’s 2027 Drone Problem Iran Calls Itself the Victim, Its Record Tells Another Story Exactly how could AI kill humans?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Bundestrojaner (13 Oct 2026) How labor rights rescued Ultima from a monopolist (12 Oct 2026) Thwarted (09 Oct 2026) Disloyalty (07 Oct 2026) Swapping money for expertise (06 Oct 2026) Scrutinized (05 Oct 2026) Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026) Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026) Lindsay Owens's "Gouged" (29 Sep 2026) Priceful (28 Sep 2026) Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026) Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs (22 Sep 2026) The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) Textured (18 Sep 2026) On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026)