Hacker News

Two billion email addresses were exposed You should write an agent Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model Game design is simple Swift on FreeBSD Preview The Learning Loop and LLMs Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud Blame Wi-Fi drivers for printer (mDNS) discovery issues LLMs encode how difficult problems are Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring C++: A prvalue is not a temporary The Parallel Search API FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk Eating stinging nettles I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs Writing Advice Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale Springs and Bounces in Native CSS Show HN: TabPFN-2.5 – SOTA foundation model for tabular data Auraphone: A simple app to collect people's info at events Show HN: See chords as flags – Visual harmony of top composers on musescore I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced Supply chain attacks are exploiting our assumptions Show HN: Dynamic code and feedback walkthroughs with your coding Agent in VSCode How often does Python allocate? Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up' IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products

Bleeping Computer

AI-Slop ransomware test sneaks on to VS Code marketplace How a ransomware gang encrypted Nevada government's systems Continuous Purple Teaming: Turning Red-Blue Rivalry into Real Defense ClickFix malware attacks evolve with multi-OS support, video tutorials Critical Cisco UCCX flaw lets attackers run commands as root Sandworm hackers use data wipers to disrupt Ukraine's grain sector Gootloader malware is back with new tricks after 7-month break Hyundai AutoEver America data breach exposes SSNs, drivers licenses CISA warns of critical CentOS Web Panel bug exploited in attacks Windows 11 Store gets Ninite-style multi-app installer feature SonicWall says state-sponsored hackers behind September security breach UK carriers to block spoofed phone numbers in fraud crackdown

Ars Technica

Elon Musk wins $1 trillion Tesla pay vote despite “part-time CEO” criticism AT&T falsely promised “everyone” a free iPhone, ad-industry board rules Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI DHS offers “disturbing new excuses” to seize kids’ biometric data, expert says Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents Real humans don’t stream Drake songs 23 hours a day, rapper suing Spotify says Trump on why he pardoned Binance CEO: “Are you ready? I don’t know who he is.” Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost YouTube denies AI was involved with odd removals of tech tutorials FCC to rescind ruling that said ISPs are required to secure their networks AT&T sues ad industry watchdog instead of pulling ads that slam T-Mobile Man finally released a month after absurd arrest for reposting Trump meme Trump admin demands states exempt ISPs from net neutrality and price laws TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use” FCC Republicans force prisoners and families to pay more for phone calls ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, lawmakers say Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial If things in America weren’t stupid enough, Texas is suing Tylenol maker

Slashdot

Cloudflare Tells US Govt That Foreign Site Blocking Efforts Are Digital Trade Barriers The Louvre's Video Surveillance Password Was 'Louvre' Google Removed 749 Million Anna's Archive URLs From Its Search Results Data Breach At Major Swedish Software Supplier Impacts 1.5 Million Ex-Cybersecurity Staff Charged With Moonlighting as Hackers DOJ Accuses US Ransomware Negotiators of Launching Their Own Ransomware Attacks Australians To Get At Least Three Hours a Day of Free Solar Power - Even If They Don't Have Solar Panels Spotify Sued Over 'Billions' of Fraudulent Drake Streams Google Removes Gemma Models From AI Studio After GOP Senator's Complaint Manufacturer Remotely Bricks Smart Vacuum After Its Owner Blocked It From Collecting Data Woman Wrongfully Accused by a License Plate-Reading Camera - Then Exonerated By Camera-Equipped Car Daylight Saving Time: Still Happening. Still Unpopular FCC To Rescind Ruling That Said ISPs Are Required To Secure Their Networks Austria's Ministry of Economy Has Migrated To a Nextcloud Platform In Shift Away From US Tech Amazon To Block Piracy Apps On Fire TV

Events

The Verge

Hackers threaten to leak ‘woke’ University of Pennsylvania student data AI browsers are a cybersecurity time bomb WhatsApp can now use passkeys to secure your backups Chrome is about to show even more safety warnings ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS Wyze’s budget-friendly video doorbell gets a six-month battery Ledger’s new Nano is meant to be more than just a crypto wallet Ring’s Battery Doorbell Plus has returned to its October Prime Day price

The Cipher Brief

Trump’s Trip Was a True “Pivot” to East Asia Former GCHQ Chief: Cybersecurity, AI, and the New Age of Multilateral Defense A New Frontline: How Digital Identity Fraud Redefines National Security Threats Why Are There No U.S. Offensive Cyber Unicorns? Trump’s Latest Military Campaign Tests the Limits of Presidential War Powers Ukraine’s Long-Range War: How Drone & Missile Strikes Are Taking the Fight Deep Inside Russia The U.S. Role in a Multipolar World - and the Dangers of Isolationism Countering the Kremlin’s Five Most Effective Narratives About Ukraine How the U.S. Can Stay Ahead of China in Space The Sahel’s Terror Surge Signals a New Front in Global Security

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works" There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech The internet was made for privacy When AI prophecy fails Raymond Biesinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off" Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach' The mad king's digital killswitch