Hacker News

Apple I Advertisement (1976) Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf] MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML) Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work Amiga Unix (Amix) 1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap The Book of PF, 4th edition A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc. VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code List animals until failure Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned A web server on a single floppy disk The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video] In praise of –dry-run Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions 'Right-to-Compute' Laws May Be Coming to Your State This Year

Bleeping Computer

Exposed MongoDB instances still targeted in data extortion attacks New Apple privacy feature limits location tracking on iPhones, iPads OpenAI says you can trust ChatGPT answers, as it kicks off ads rollout preparation OpenAI is retiring famous GPT-4o model, says GPT 5.2 is good enough U.S. convicts ex-Google engineer for sending AI tech data to China Cloud storage payment scam floods inboxes with fake renewals Mandiant details how ShinyHunters abuse SSO to steal cloud data Researcher reveals evidence of private Instagram profiles leaking photos 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

Ars Technica

ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face FCC aims to ensure "only living and lawful Americans" get Lifeline benefits 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

Slashdot

China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private 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

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!