Hacker News

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber A Note from LWN Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong? Mistral now trains on user input by default, except on enterprise tier GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle Exit the Cave A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards AI Policy Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982 Poisson Disk Sampling Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them

Bleeping Computer

Hackers exploit critical JFrog Artifactory flaw to forge admin tokens Ransomware protection for MSPs: A 6-point checklist for faster recovery Dropbox accounts breached through Lenovo email verification flaw Microsoft Defender flags legitimate Google search links as malicious US charges Russian for infecting 80,000 freelancers with malware Sality botnet infrastructure dismantled in joint global takedown SonicWall warns of actively exploited SMA1000 zero-day flaws Hackers abuse Faronics Deploy admin tool to install ScreenConnect Aesto Health says data breach affects over 9.5 million patients Critical Langflow flaw exploited to steal OpenAI and AWS keys Hackers push malicious Virtualizor update in BGP hijacking attack Novocure data breach affects more than 1,400 cancer patients Why Even the Best Edge Security Still Misses High-Risk Sessions Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange servers vulnerable to hijack attacks Five Venezuelans plead guilty to ATM jackpotting attacks in US

Ars Technica

FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed" “Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead. Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable” New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts" Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads

Slashdot

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses Florida Bans Flock Cameras From State Highways California Lawmakers Greenlight Solar Panels You Can Plug Into the Wall Trump Tells FCC To Punish Journalist For Calling His Election Results 'Mixed' FTC Sues Amazon, Accusing the E-Commerce Giant of Misleading Advertisers Kalshi Dishes Out Its First-Ever Lifetime Ban to George Santos California's Age Verification Bill Passes with Linux Exemption Intact Gamescom Crime Spree? Three Exhibitors Report Their Laptops Were Stolen Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage? States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors

Events

The Verge

Microsoft is enabling a Windows 11 security feature that can hurt gaming performance The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility Florida blocks Flock cams on state highways Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA VI leaks Meta glasses are a workplace menace OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what? OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore

Cipher Brief

Blowing up Boats: The Numbing Effect of Repetitive Illegality The Vatican’s Quiet Intelligence Diplomacy America Is Buying an Army It Cannot Command The Cultural Roots of Strategic Surprise and Resilience: the Israeli case of October 2023 The Growing Cost of Keeping U.S. Submarines Idle Ukraine Is No Longer the Country Russia Thought It Was What Six Years as an Iran Hostage Taught Me About the Regime Lebanon’s Hezbollah Finance Crackdown May Be Designed to Fail Foreign Spies Don’t Need to Hack You Anymore Modernizing the Aircraft Carrier—By Returning to 20th-Century Technology? Hyping Nuclear Threats Is Counterproductive It’s Time to Reengage North Korea China’s Research Espionage Threat Is Hiding in Plain Sight Beyond Military Interoperability: The Coalition Challenge of Limited War The Return of the Essential Art: Electronic Warfare and the Lessons of the Russia-Ukraine War

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026) The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026) How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026) Born on technology's third base (21 Aug 2026) The actual epistemic crisis (20 Aug 2026) The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026) IP can't save you from AI (18 Aug 2026) Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture' (17 Aug 2026) Capital formation (14 Aug 2026) Model collapse (12 Aug 2026) Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026) The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026) Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026) Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026) Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026)