Hacker News

Sharing AI progress in mathematics Reasons to Dislike AI Coding Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps Decisions API is in public beta The art of defusing a second world war bomb Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer Mistral Large 4 ESP32-C3 Adblock EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model What is Codemode The cost of lies: A Mineserver story Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI The Legend of the Paper Crane La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)

Bleeping Computer

Ninja Forms plugin flaw exploited to hack WordPress sites Hackers exploit 32 zero-days on first day of Pwn2Own Ireland Atlassian warns of critical file-access flaw in Jira, Confluence ASOS confirms data breach after “HACKED” in-app notifications Fake ChatGPT, Gemini Sites steal advertising accounts, MFA codes How to secure RMM software: 8 controls MSPs should test Wikimedia: Rogue OpenAI agents behind unauthorized Wikipedia edits Nikkei discloses breaches of employees’ Microsoft, Google email accounts Engineer sentenced for locking over 3,000 devices on employer network OpenAI is adding invisible watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU Rejetto HFS servers now actively scanned for critical RCE flaw IQVIA fined $7.8 million for failing to properly anonymize health data Denmark population registry data breach affects 8.8 million people New Dell System Update flaw lets hackers gain root privileges South Korea probes bank breaches amid suspected AI-powered attacks

Ars Technica

Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search Florida cops say they don't know who owns 11 unpermitted Flock cameras Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant. Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves "An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump

Slashdot

Cable Lobby To Sue Trump FCC Over Repeal of National TV Ownership Cap Texas City Demands $2 Million For Public Records On Flock Usage Hackers Steal 8 Million Citizens' Records From Danish Government Database Meta Rushed To Fix Muse 'VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch Norway Plans Temporary Ban on Smart Glasses Anthropic Reports Florida Woman's Claude 'Diary' Threat to Law Enforcement Huawei and Qualcomm Struck a Broad Multi-Year Patent Licensing Deal FBI Detains Teenager Linked to Group That Stole Data on 5,000 FBI Employees Radio Broadcasters Support America's 'AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act' San Francisco's Car Crime Has Plunged. How Much Credit Does Flock Deserve? US Bank Regulator Sued Over Crypto Firm Charters by Community Bank Advocates Three EU Officials Not Sold on Europe's Homegrown Alternative to Microsoft Teams Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras President Trump Doxxes Senator's Cellphone in Push For Permanent Daylight Saving Time California's Governor Wants Worker Protections from AI. But FSF Thinks Kill Switches are 'Dangerous Precedent'

Events

The Verge

A Trump Mobile breach may have exposed data of more than 3,600 people Suspected ShinyHunters leader arrested in the Netherlands AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready Nvidia says its new AI safety platform can contain rogue agents within ‘milliseconds’ OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’ Muse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI

Cipher Brief

How America Wins the AI Race With Open Source Hegseth’s Vision for a New American Military Unique Risks of AI Adoption in Developing Economies Election Security: Keeping Our Disagreements Our Own The Pentagon’s 2027 Drone Problem Iran Calls Itself the Victim, Its Record Tells Another Story Exactly how could AI kill humans? Nasrallah is Dead. Hezbollah’s Social Lifeline is Not. BLUF: Russian Strategic Culture Drives its Callous and Brutal Actions How the Intelligence Community Can Shape AI Trust With New Terminology The Coupang Breach and the Danger of Punishing the Headline Number The Houthis Took the Red Sea Coast. How Did Washington Miss It? AI Is Coming to the Counter-Drone Fight Trump’s Rejection of Iran Offer Highlights Another Big Problem NATO Can’t Count Its Way to Maritime Superiority

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Swapping money for expertise (06 Oct 2026) Scrutinized (05 Oct 2026) Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026) Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026) Lindsay Owens's "Gouged" (29 Sep 2026) Priceful (28 Sep 2026) Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026) Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs (22 Sep 2026) The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) Textured (18 Sep 2026) On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026) How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026) But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026) LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026)