Hacker News

SimCity, but with Permits Voxtral 3 DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs What shall I teach my son? SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case On AI writing Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed IKEA – 3D Guide

Bleeping Computer

PHP warns admins of two critical flaws, emergency patches coming tomorrow Zeabur shutting down after second security breach in two months OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol is dramatically better at migrating legacy code DHS bans DeepSeek products across US federal civilian agencies CJIS v6.1 Compliance: 5 Practical Priorities for Agencies Hacker gets 8 years for stealing $3.3 million from taxpayers Windows Server 2025 gets support for quick machine recovery OVHcloud CLI releases backdoored on GitHub to steal developer secrets Ahold Delhaize: Cyberattack affects services across US and Europe Revolut outage disrupts online banking operations worldwide Nikkei discloses third data breach in a month, 1.8M records exposed WordPress SEO plugin Rank Math compromised to backdoor websites Hackers hijack AOMEI update servers to secretly spread malware Bullhorn takes staffing platform offline to contain cyberattack OpenCode hack exposes API keys amid AI distillation attacks

Ars Technica

Meta drops the word "train" from its commercial TOS after AI backlash TP-Link tries to appease Trump admin with pledge to assemble routers in US Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs Accused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI says Florida DMV hacked after police dept insecurely stored login info Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax” Schools across US protest FCC plan that could disconnect kids from Internet Georgia man sues Flock, sheriff's office over alleged ALPR-fueled retaliation Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room

Slashdot

DHS Lied About Why It Wanted To Search Activist's GrapheneOS Phone Meta Muse Exposes Users' Personal, Business Secrets When They Share Conversations US Bans DeepSeek From Government Use TP-Link Moves to Assemble Routers In the US Following Import Ban Trump DHS Officials Asked CISA To Secretly Aquire and Hack a Voting Machine Florida DMV Hacked After Police Dept Insecurely Stored Login Info New Video Game Law Proposed: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It' Planned UK Data Center Delayed Until 2030s Over Power Grid Delays. Microsoft Pulls Out More Details on Arrested Saudi OpenAI Employee, Who is Seeking Release on Bail Saudi OpenAI Employee's Arrest Revives Fears US Tech Companies Are Hiring Spies Does a Universal Basic Income Bring Long-Term Changes? Court Agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility MapQuest Shows Location of Flock (and Other ALPR) Cameras Personal Data for Millions of California Students Stolen in Massive Breach Will New Documentary Make Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes More Sympathetic?

Events

The Verge

Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find AI chats on the web Chrome will now show a warning before you visit ‘suspicious’ sites A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents An Israeli firm is sending spyware through online ads, researchers say Your secrets aren’t safe with this cute robot toy — they’re on Chinese servers ready to be hacked Microsoft and Japan took down a cybercrime network behind over a billion scam messages Android is using AI to suss out scammers in Google Messages Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is alarming deja vu The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots

Cipher Brief

The U.S. Army’s Pacific Strategy Depends on Allies The Hidden Risks of AI-Powered Intelligence What a Russian Hybrid Attack Might Look Like Muhammad bin Salman’s Humbling and the Return of the Ottomans The Day We Cannot Choose How Far Should the U.S. Go to Defend Saudi Arabia? Who Really Makes Decisions in Tehran? The Soviet Roots of Russia’s Modern Disinformation War Europe’s Changing Politics and the Future of U.S. Leadership What Beijing Calls Open, Washington Should Call an Operation Washington Cannot Outsource Saudi Security to the Mecca Pact The Next War of Attrition is in Yemen The Pentagon’s Drone Revolution Starts With Soldiers America’s Military Has a GPS Problem Subterranean Warfare - An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner

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