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Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig Tell HN: Merry Christmas Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL Asterisk AI Voice Agent Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator Online Book: Exploring Mathematics with Python Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash When Compilers Surprise You Qntm's Power Tower Toy Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS Keystone (YC S25) is hiring engineer #1 to automate coding Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together The dawn of a world simulator How I Left YouTube A faster path to container images in Bazel I'm returning my Framework 16 The port I couldn't ship Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021) My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions Quake's Player Speed (2017) Show HN: A local-first, reversible PII scrubber for AI workflows The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago Avoid Mini-FrameworksBleeping Computer
OpenAI is reportedly testing Claude-like Skills for ChatGPT Fake MAS Windows activation domain used to spread PowerShell malware Microsoft Teams to let admins block external users via Defender portal MongoDB warns admins to patch severe RCE flaw immediately FBI seizes domain storing bank credentials stolen from U.S. victims Microsoft rolls out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 WebRAT malware spread via fake vulnerability exploits on GitHub Malicious extensions in Chrome Web store steal user credentials Microsoft Teams strengthens messaging security by default in January Cyberattack knocks offline France's postal, banking services Italy fines Apple $116 million over App Store privacy policy issuesArs Technica
How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade Instacart agrees to refund subscribers $60 million in FTC settlement ByteDance confirms TikTok will be controlled by US owners School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn’t an error. Man sues cops who jailed him for 37 days for trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil FCC chair scrubs website after learning it called FCC an “independent agency” Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says Twitter comeback bid draws lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X Corp US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s “pro-petroleum” moves “A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans Utah leaders hinder efforts to develop solar energy supply Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won Ukrainians sue US chip firms for powering Russian drones, missiles Trump tries to block state AI laws himself after Congress decided not to Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licensesSlashdot
Apple To Allow Alternative App Stores For iOS Users In Brazil Italy Tells Meta To Suspend Its Policy That Bans Rival AI Chatbots From WhatsApp China Is Worried AI Threatens Party Rule US Bars Five Europeans It Says Pressured Tech Firms To Censor American Viewpoints Online Inside Uzbekistan's Nationwide License Plate Surveillance System John Carreyou and Other Authors Bring New Lawsuit Against Six Major AI Companies Judge Blocks Texas App Store Age Verification Law LimeWire Re-Emerges In Online Rush To Share Pulled '60 Minutes' Segment FCC Bans Foreign-Made Drones Over National Security, Spying Concerns Welcome To America's New Surveillance High Schools Spotify Says 'Anti-Copyright Extremists' Scraped Its Library In 2025 Scammers Have Stolen $835M from Americans Using Fake Customer Service Numbers The U.S. Could Ban Chinese-Made Drones Used By Police Departments Trump Admin to Hire 1,000 for New 'Tech Force' to Build AI Infrastructure Flock Executive Says Their Camera Helped Find Shooting Suspect, Addresses Privacy ConcernsEvents
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Dozens of Flock AI camera feeds were just out there Google’s turning off its dark web monitoring service that scoured data breaches for your info Pentagon’s Signalgate report finds Pete Hegseth violated military policies The VPN panic is only getting started Signal’s secure message backups arrive on iOS Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data The FCC is rolling back steps meant to stop a repeat of a massive telecom hack Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPTThe Cipher Brief
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A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance Happy Public Domain Day 2026! America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses Federal Wallet Inspectors Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AIArchive