Hacker News

Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source Decoy Font The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning Mathematics of Data Science NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook Show HN: Mojibake – a low-level Unicode library written in C Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning 'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20 Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)

Bleeping Computer

New ClickLock macOS malware traps users into revealing login password Coca-Cola says Fairlife ransomware attack halts US dairy production Claude Chrome extension flaw lets malicious extensions trigger AI actions New OkoBot framework deploys 20 payloads to steal data, crypto AI Agents Broke the Security Playbook. Here's What Replaces It. 23andMe to pay $18 million in new genetics data breach settlement Scattered Spider members behind TfL hack get five years in prison Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro reach end of support in 90 days CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Oracle flaw by Saturday Russian hackers trojanize WebEx, Zoom apps to push Starland malware New Spirals ransomware encrypts victim network in under 24 hours Dutch police bust investment fraud ring stealing over €100 million Zoom warns of critical account takeover vulnerability Google Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, malware botnet operator AsyncAPI npm packages infected with credential-stealing malware

Ars Technica

T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users. Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets States sue to block Paramount/WBD merger that was approved by Trump admin Colorado will decide whether a "right to natural gas" is added to state constitution Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta Judge doesn't like Elon Musk settlement with SEC, but says court can't block it OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

Slashdot

1Password Lets Claude Use Credentials Without Exposing Passwords Book Publishers Sue Google For Copyright Infringement Over Gemini AI Training FCC Plans To Repeal 39% TV Ownership Cap Google and Epic Cancel Settlement; Third-Party App Stores Coming To Google Play House Votes For Permanent Daylight Saving Time Iran Abused Mobile Networks' Vulnerabilities To Locate US Military In Middle East Lawsuit Claims Meta's Layoff Decisions Were Made By AI, Not Humans Google DeepMind Calls For US To Spearhead AI Standards Body StubHub, CEO Hit With 'Deceptive Practices' Class Action Over Mass Scalping US Government Warns That Russia State Hackers Are Coming After Your Router States Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Bros Merger, Defying DOJ Apple Reportedly Agreed to Intel Chips To Avoid White House Tariffs Cloudflare Precursor Watches Your Mouse and Keyboard To Decide If You Are Human Facial Recognition in UK Shops Will Soon Instantly Alert Police About Offenders Orbital Datacenter Plans Need an Environmental Review, FCC Told

Events

The Verge

Microsoft’s biggest ever patch Tuesday lets you hold off updating for longer Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House The FBI built a small town to simulate cyberattacks Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet Valve is phasing out physical Steam gift cards due to scammers Hackers likely hijacked over 20,000 Instagram accounts with Meta’s AI chatbot

Cipher Brief

The Pentagon Built a Faster Engine, Nobody Built the Steering The West Must Tell Russians the Truth About the War A Master List of Espionage Targets, Suspected Spies, and Potential Recruits Afghanistan Lost the Cognitive War Before It Lost the State Washington’s Spy Ring and Paine’s Democracy Inside the $87.6 Billion Iran War Supplemental America’s Military Plans Depend on Infrastructure It Doesn’t Secure Trump’s Dangerous Bet on Pakistan’s Army Chief America’s Export Controls Are Becoming a Strategic Liability The Front Line of the AI Race Runs Through Your Company's Chat Logs Iran: On Negotiating with Criminal/Terrorist Organizations, States, and Other Entities The Continued Myth of Russia’s Imminent Collapse: Lessons from Prigozhin’s Mutiny Three Years On An Outlook for What’s Next in Iran War Beyond Evo: Bolivia and the Erosion of State Authority in Latin America After the Intelligence Cycle: A New Schema for AI-Native Intelligence Analysis

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Cory Doctorow

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