Hacker News

Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms Pirating the Pirates 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser World Labs Is Joining AMD Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously? It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC Sonnet 5.5 Best of British Design

Bleeping Computer

Japan's Keio confirms ransomware attack disrupted business systems Times Car confirms data breach affecting 6.6 million user accounts Dutch police confirm arrest in ShinyHunters hacking investigation Over 16,000 Supabase databases expose PII, passwords, auth tokens JadePuffer agentic AI attacks target Azure, destroy cloud resources 80,000+ Organizations Had AI Logins Stolen: From Shadow AI to LLMjacking Bitget resumes Bitcoin withdrawals after $387.5 million crypto heist US soldier gets 70 months in prison for extorting 10 tech, telecom firms CISA orders feds to patch exploited Citrix flaws by Wednesday OpenAI is preparing “o,” an always-on ChatGPT assistant that could handle email Citrix confirms two NetScaler RCE zero-days exploited in attacks Cloudflare fixes Containers cross-tenant flaw exposing customer data Anthropic turns Claude into an AI marketplace with 2,000+ plugins and connectors ShinyHunters uses WAF bypass trick in Oracle PeopleSoft attacks Claude Opus 5.5 uses 95% fewer em dashes, but its answers are getting longer

Ars Technica

Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features Paramount/WBD merger conditions give the public "virtually nothing," judge is told Trump administration takes Musk’s side in fight over EU tech rules New York defies Trump admin, asks court to shut down Polymarket gambling New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real Trump’s China rivalry and “AI race” delusion may endanger US, experts say Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash Cities across US oppose Trump FCC plan to preempt local broadband rules Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting Trump’s sneaky plan to gut Endangered Species Act draws from 1995 Scalia dissent Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants

Slashdot

TikTok to Pay Alabama $100 Million, Limit Teen Use In First State Settlement Apple Faces $5.7 Billion Patent Infringement Verdict Over iPhone And Apple Watch Haptics China and the US Say They've Agreed to Start Talks About AI Meta Made 43M Misleading Statements, New Mexico Jury Finds, Including on Its Cambridge Analytica Response Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed 'Super Intelligence' in US Documents Australia Considers Smart Glasses Ban in Government Workplaces, While 70 People Sue Meta Over Unknowing Data Collection North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State' To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump's 'AI Force' Proposal Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees

Events

The Verge

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 Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki DJI’s new robovac can climb obstacles, vacuum quietly, and claims much improved privacy

Cipher Brief

NATO Can’t Count Its Way to Maritime Superiority Iran’s Regime Is Weaker Than It Looks A warning about ‘model welfare’ Navigating a More Uncertain World: Lessons from CIA’s Red Cell When Threats Move Faster Than Institutions AI Is Coming for the Chain of Command Putin Is Testing the West’s Resolve The Nations That Don’t Appear on the Map The Military’s Race to Operationalize AI The Authority We Cannot Keep Heads They Win, Tails They Win: The CMMC Trap and the Way Out How America Appeased Putin Will Physical AI Underpin the Reindustrialization Win that Western Allies Need? How China Is Building an Architecture of Control Across the Heart of Asia Dark Transits are a Stopgap not a Solution

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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) How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026) But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026) LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026) Anti-vax/anti-trust (09 Sep 2026) How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026) Google skates (05 Sep 2026) Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026)