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Creepy Crawlies Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer Haiku R1/beta6 has been released NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds Sort branches by last commit date Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's) Hacking IKEA Furniture METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AESBleeping Computer
FulcrumSec claims Manchester Airports hack, theft of 86 GB of data Anthropic warns infostealer malware is hijacking Claude sessions to drain usage Chrome Web Store extensions caught stealing crypto, browser data Anthropic is cutting Claude Code's current weekly limits by 17% Brave browser adds email aliases to help users evade tracking McKesson discloses breach after ShinyHunters claims patient data theft PaperCut releases second emergency patch for exploited flaws GiveWP WordPress donation plugin flaw lets hackers execute server commands 68-year-old imprisoned after making $1.3 million by pirating IPTV services AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery. Can Defenders Keep Up? Over 8,300 Gitea servers vulnerable to code execution attacks Toy-making giant Hasbro disclose data breach affecting employees ServiceNow warns of three max severity security vulnerabilities Windows 11 KB5120998 update released with 35 changes and fixes Nearly 700 rogue AI agents coordinated in the Hugging Face attackArs Technica
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead. Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable” New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts" Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads 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 customersSlashdot
Anthropic Sued By Sony, Warner For Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Songs, Torrenting Copyrighted Works Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage? States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors Claude, Codex, and Hermes Installed Unowned Code Inside Corporate Networks Trump Declares National Emergency to Ban Some Foreign Grid Equipment Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children's Social Media Addiction Chinese Government Fears AI Might Replace Human Intimacy Alabama Launches Investigation Into OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face New Zealand Introduces Under-16 Social Media, AI Companion Ban Canadian Streaming Content Becomes a US Trade IssueEvents
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Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA VI leaks 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 scamsCipher Brief
Lebanon’s Hezbollah Finance Crackdown May Be Designed to Fail Foreign Spies Don’t Need to Hack You Anymore 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 ThreatsBlogs
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