Hacker News

Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache Small Models Have Arrived 507 Mechanical Movements Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring back end engineers Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal Gemini-3.5-Transcribe Microduck Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab Select * from Internet.blogposts The turbulent AI era is here Show HN: IndexFlow – Open-source indexing infrastructure built with Rust We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer

Bleeping Computer

Nearly 700 rogue AI agents coordinated in the Hugging Face attack PaperCut warns of NG, MF flaw exploited in zero-day attacks Manchester Airports Group says hackers stole travelers' data How Threat Research and MDR Help SMBs Build a Defensive Edge Android 17 adds ECH support to make web browsing harder to track Australia arrests alleged TeamPCP hackers behind supply-chain attacks Microsoft rolls out fix for Windows 11 crashes, gaming issues Webinar: How Google Workspace breaches happen and what to do next Carhartt data breach exposes information of 12.9 million accounts CISA orders feds to patch Citrix NetScaler RCE flaw by Saturday ATF confirms “major incident” after recent Qilin breach claims Critical Avada WordPress theme flaw enables zero-click RCE New GPUThor attack defeats NVIDIA ECC protection for root access Meta agrees to $18 billion settlement over teen social media harms Boston Scientific says cyberattack disrupted operations globally

Ars Technica

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 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

Slashdot

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 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

Events

The Verge

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 scams

Cipher Brief

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 Threats How About Equipping Local Law Enforcement with a Better Anti-Drone Arsenal?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026) How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026) Born on technology's third base (21 Aug 2026) The actual epistemic crisis (20 Aug 2026) The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026) IP can't save you from AI (18 Aug 2026) Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture' (17 Aug 2026) Capital formation (14 Aug 2026) Model collapse (12 Aug 2026) Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026) The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026) Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026) Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026) Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026) Post-American compute for a post-American Internet (04 Aug 2026)