Hacker News

Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024) Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones Show HN: Phage Explorer A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived Ashcan Comic Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent An anecdote about backward compatibility Moltbook YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers HTTP Cats Disrupting the largest residential proxy network My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Edition) Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010) Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023) Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf] Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon Designing a Passively Safe API The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video] The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice International Collection of Tongue Twisters (2018) P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train Declassifying JUMPSEAT: an American pioneer in space I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video] Coding Is When We're Least Productive Code is cheap. Show me the talk How to explain Generative AI in the classroom Self Driving Car Insurance Roots is a game server daemon that manages Docker containers for game servers

Bleeping Computer

Crypto wallets received a record $158 billion in illicit funds last year Microsoft to disable NTLM by default in future Windows releases Operation Switch Off dismantles major pirate TV streaming services Microsoft fixes Outlook bug blocking access to encrypted emails Windows 11 KB5074105 update fixes boot, sign-in, and activation issues Microsoft links Windows 11 boot failures to failed December 2025 update Hugging Face abused to spread thousands of Android malware variants Ivanti warns of two EPMM flaws exploited in zero-day attacks Google disrupts IPIDEA residential proxy networks fueled by malware Match Group breach exposes data from Hinge, Tinder, OkCupid, and Match Marquis blames ransomware breach on SonicWall cloud backup hack Not a Kids Game: From Roblox Mod to Compromising Your Company Aisuru botnet sets new record with 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack New Microsoft Teams feature will let you report suspicious calls France fines unemployment agency €5 million over data breach

Ars Technica

Comcast keeps losing customers despite price guarantee and unlimited data She'll mess with Texas: Nurse keeps mailing abortion pills, despite Paxton lawsuit County pays $600,000 to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security States want to tax fossil fuel companies to create climate change superfunds SpaceX sends list of demands to US states giving broadband grants to Starlink Angry Norfolk residents lose lawsuit to stop Flock license plate scanners US cyber defense chief accidentally uploaded secret government info to ChatGPT Meta blocks links to ICE List across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads TikTok users “absolutely justified” in fearing MAGA makeover, experts say Supreme Court to decide how 1988 videotape privacy law applies to online video “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial “Wildly irresponsible”: DOT's use of AI to draft safety rules sparks concerns TikTok explained why some US creators are seeing posts with "0 views" EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Grok's sexualized deepfakes Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue" TikTok deal is done; Trump wants praise while users fear MAGA tweaks Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk's chosen court Meta wants to block data about social media use, mental health in child safety trial

Slashdot

White House Scraps 'Burdensome' Software Security Rules Former Google Engineer Found Guilty of Stealing AI Secrets For Chinese Firms Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account County Pays $600,000 To Pentesters It Arrested For Assessing Courthouse Security Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations FBI Seizes RAMP Cybercrime Forum Used By Ransomware Gangs French Lawmakers Vote To Ban Social Media Use By Under-15s US Cyber Defense Chief Uploaded Sensitive Files Into a Public Version of ChatGPT Amazon is Ending Its Palm ID System for Retail, Amazon One, as It Closes Physical Stores Apple Sued by App Developer Over its Continuity Camera US Government Lost More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Last Year SoundCloud Data Breach Impacts 29.8 Million Accounts Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video Amazon To Pay $309 Million To US Shoppers In Settlement Over Returns

Events

The Verge

WhatsApp’s new ‘lockdown’ settings add another layer of protection against cyberattacks Gmail’s spam filter and automatic sorting are broken Ring can verify videos now, but that might not help you with most AI fakes 1Password is introducing a new phishing prevention feature Sony, Anker, and other headphones have a serious Google Fast Pair security vulnerability Instagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send all those password reset emails Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message Ring’s Mobile Security Trailer provides 360-degree coverage anywhere

The Cipher Brief

America’s Intelligence Satellites are Proliferating: Their Protection is Not, With Exceptions The 2026 National Defense Strategy: No Surprises but Plenty of Mandate China’s Stunning Military Purge – and What It Means For Taiwan Signs of Trouble from Venezuela's Regime Could Be Subtle at First Inside Trump’s New ‘Board of Peace’ Russia’s War Economy Lifeline: Inside the Sanctions Evasion Network They're Coming for Our Kids: How Extremists Target Children Online The Next FATF Test: Can the West Demand Results from Pakistan? Russia is Targeting Civilians in Ukraine Loosening the Gordian Knot of Global Terrorism: Why Legitimacy Must Anchor a Counterterrorism Strategy

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Threads' margin is the Eurostack's opportunity Disenshittification Nation Carney isn't a hero Trump and the unmighty dollar The petty Google's AI pricing plan AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" Social media without socializing The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification Catch this!