Hacker News

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra Black hole singularity is a surface not a point Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality Dolly Parton has died Nitter project received cease and desist When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python – Seth Larson Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases Clara (YC P26) is hiring a growth engineer to bring AI doctors to market

Bleeping Computer

Hackers abuse npm mirrors to host phishing redirect pages AnonyMousKIT PhaaS uses voice AI agents to phish iPhone passcodes Massive DDoS attack disrupts Norway’s government digital services Hospital operator Nutex Health says data stolen in cyberattack From Fake Workers to Account Recovery: The Growing Identity Verification Risk Microsoft PowerToys adds Alt+Tab-style switching for an app's windows WhatsApp adds stronger two-step verification, multiple passkeys Hackers breached over 270 Zimbra servers in ongoing attacks Police arrests dozens of suspects in global cybercrime crackdown Unpatched Calix flaw lets hackers bypass NAT to expose internal devices Hackers target WordPress sites in miniOrange auth bypass attacks TikTok reaches $400M settlement with US over COPPA violations ReliaQuest confirms failed data-theft attack after ShinyHunters breach Microsoft Teams now lets admins block external bots from meetings South Korean startup platform breach exposes key management failures

Ars Technica

Nvidia senior manager tied to ex-Supermicro staff's AI smuggling scheme Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers Personalized pricing is “abhorrent,” but FTC limits may increase costs, critics say As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies Disney sues FCC and its chair, escalating fight against Trump's chief censor As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers

Slashdot

Canadian Streaming Content Becomes a US Trade Issue AliExpress Leverages User Audio Systems For Fingerprinting SEC Investigating Near-Implosion of AI Hedge Fund Trump Admin Moves to Impose More Than $100K Fee For H-1B Worker Visas SCO Successor Xinuos Asks Court to Rehear Its Claims Against IBM/Red Hat Over Project Monterey Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers' Content Slovakia Finds Russian Backdoor In Traffic Speed Cameras Defamation Suit Demanding Elsevier Retract Paper Heads Closer To Trial Flock is Secretly Building a Powerful New Prompt-Based AI Tool for Police Firefox Announces Free VPN and 'Startpage' Search Engine Rolling Out to Android, iOS - Plus GeForce NOW Support Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges Man Dressed As Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council Voters Aren't Waiting For November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces

Events

The Verge

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 The fight over Flock and other ALPRs The Trump admin will start letting private firms launch international cyberattacks Meta adds AI screening to detect WhatsApp scams Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’ ‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts

Cipher Brief

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 Where Did Venezuela’s Oil Billions Go? Open-Source Intel Makes U.S. Troops an Easier Target for Iran Inside Iran’s New Wartime Leadership The Dollar's Next Battlefield Isn't a Country. It's Code. It is in the U.S. interest to Support Democratic Legitimacy in Venezuela It’s Time For The President To Level With The American People on Iran The Biggest AI Models Are Not the Biggest Threats How About Equipping Local Law Enforcement with a Better Anti-Drone Arsenal? How Ukraine Is Changing the Way the U.S. Army Fights

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Cory Doctorow

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