Hacker News

Things to know when you get cancer OpenCode 2.0 Tiny Little Office Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents Do dentists know what they're doing? Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years Show HN: Ito – Build Terminal UIs in Lua The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360 The Double Headed Stack Allocator Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

Bleeping Computer

Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks FBI raids DPRK IT worker laptop farms in Texas, US nationals arrested Ledger asks sellers across Asia to halt sales after supply-chain attack Cisco patches new Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks Microsoft fixes VPN issues caused by September Windows updates The Blind Spots of Agentic Pentesting and How to Close Them Global takedown hits network behind 1 billion phishing messages CISA warns admins to immediately fix Ivanti flaw exploited as zero-day Hirudo Android malware replaces banking apps to evade security checks Microsoft: Recent Windows updates may trigger Remote Desktop failures OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting spy device in office Ghostscript flaw lets hackers hijack servers via PDF uploads Anthropic warns self-replicating AI could spread to your smart devices Microsoft October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 1,411 flaws, 3 zero-days Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5126657 extended security update

Ars Technica

Schools across US protest FCC plan that could disconnect kids from Internet Georgia man sues Flock, sheriff's office over alleged ALPR-fueled retaliation Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think. Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist

Slashdot

Schools Across US Protest FCC Plan That Could Disconnect Kids From Internet Eight US States Sue OpenAI, Claiming ChatGPT Harms Young Users Google Is Silently Linking Your Phone Number Across All Signed-In Accounts FBI Arrests Saudi OpenAI Employee For Planting Recording Device In Conference Room Disney Offers $20 Million For Character.AI Assets As Startup Files For Bankruptcy Ledger Confirms Spy Chip Implant Behind Wallet Crypto Thefts FBI Arrests Canadian Cybersecurity Expert In ShinyHunters Hacking Case Hackers Heat French Supermarket Fridges, Sparking Fires and Spoiling Food Should We Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock? A College Told Flock to Remove Its Cameras. The Company Refused. US Agency To Rewrite Rules To Finally Address Vehicle Headlight Glare AI Execs Game Out 'Political Revolt' after a Catastrophic AI Event OpenAI Disrupts Two AI-Enabled 'False Front' Influence Operations That Included Seven Fake Journalists Another Woman Sues Flock For Mistaken Crime Accusation By Police - and for Surveillance AI Surveillance Startup Flock To Cut Several Hundred Jobs Amid Backlash, Sources Say

Events

The Verge

Microsoft and Japan took down a cybercrime network behind over a billion scam messages Android is using AI to suss out scammers in Google Messages Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is alarming deja vu The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects 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’

Cipher Brief

The Pentagon’s Drone Revolution Starts With Soldiers America’s Military Has a GPS Problem Subterranean Warfare - An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner The Sanctions We Cannot Afford How Ukraine’s Ground Robots Are Changing the Battlefield The Next Drone Won't Have a Radio Link, Our Intelligence Enterprise Needs to Plan for That Now The Future of Iran Lies Beyond the Regime How War Starts: A Warning from the Korean DMZ How America Wins the AI Race With Open Source Unique Risks of AI Adoption in Developing Economies Hegseth’s Vision for a New American Military 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?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Bundestrojaner (13 Oct 2026) How labor rights rescued Ultima from a monopolist (12 Oct 2026) Thwarted (09 Oct 2026) Disloyalty (07 Oct 2026) 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)