Hacker News

John Ternus to become Apple CEO Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64 GitHub's fake star economy We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090 ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing F-35 is built for the wrong war Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated Kefir C17/C23 Compiler All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027 Modern Rendering Culling Techniques OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on "prompt relevance" Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys Bloom (YC P26) Is Hiring Anatomy of High-Performance Matrix Multiplication (2008) [pdf] Jujutsu Megamerges for Fun and Profit 10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026 Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding Writing string.h functions using string instructions in asm x86-64 M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan WebUSB Extension for Firefox Sauna effect on heart rate We accepted surveillance as default Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it Show HN: Docker Compose for VM's I learned Unity the wrong way The Work Runs on Different Maps

Bleeping Computer

China's Apple App Store infiltrated by crypto-stealing wallet apps The Gentlemen ransomware now uses SystemBC for bot-powered attacks Seiko USA website defaced as hacker claims customer data theft Microsoft: Teams increasingly abused in helpdesk impersonation attacks The backup myth that is putting businesses at risk British Scattered Spider hacker pleads guilty to crypto theft charges Microsoft tests Windows Explorer speed, performance improvements Microsoft pulls service update causing Teams launch failures Microsoft releases emergency updates to fix Windows Server issues Vercel confirms breach as hackers claim to be selling stolen data Apple account change alerts abused to send phishing emails NIST to stop rating non-priority flaws due to volume increase Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution Microsoft Teams right-click paste broken by Edge update bug NAKIVO v11.2: Ransomware Defense, Faster Replication, vSphere 9, and Proxmox VE 9.0 Support

Ars Technica

US opens refund portal to start paying back Trump's illegal tariffs Man with @ihackedthegovernment Instagram account tells judge, “I made a mistake" Ad firms settle with Trump FTC over claims they boycotted conservative media Jury finds Live Nation/Ticketmaster is illegal monopoly that overcharged fans FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why It's Tax Day, and no one knows how to file for prediction market winnings Apple chooses Amazon satellites for iPhone, years after rejecting Starlink offer NZXT agrees to let customers keep their rental PCs in class-action settlement Your tech support company runs scams. Stop—or disguise with more fraud? IBM folds to Trump anti-DEI push, admits no misconduct but pays $17M penalty Californians sue over AI tool that records doctor visits Report: US demands Reddit unmask ICE critic, summons firm to grand jury Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord Trump-appointed judges refuse to block Trump blacklisting of Anthropic AI tech Police corporal created AI porn from driver's license pics First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest LinkedIn scanning users' browser extensions sparks controversy and two lawsuits Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites How our digital devices are putting our right to privacy at risk To beat Altman in court, Musk offers to give all damages to OpenAI nonprofit

Slashdot

Former Palantir Employee Running For Congress Unveils 'AI Dividend' Plan Trump Administration Begins Refunding $166 Billion In Tariffs NSA Using Anthropic's Mythos Despite Blacklist Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant Old Cars 'Tell Tales' by Storing Data That's Never Wiped US Congress Fails to Pass Long-Term FISA Extension, Authorizes It Through April 30 20-Year-Old Enters Prison for Historic Breach, Ransoming of Massive Student Database US Government Now Wants Anthropic's 'Mythos', Preparing for AI Cybersecurity Threats Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies Gazing Into Sam Altman's Orb Could Solve Ticket Scalping Newly Unsealed Records Reveal Amazon's Price-Fixing Tactics 'TotalRecall Reloaded' Tool Finds a Side Entrance To Windows 11 Recall Database Google, Pentagon Discuss Classified AI Deal EU Age Verification App Announced To Protect Children Online Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI

Events

The Verge

Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked Rockstar Games says hack will have ‘no impact’ PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default Claude Code leak exposes a Tamagotchi-style ‘pet’ and an always-on agent Okta’s CEO is betting big on AI agent identity PSA: Hackers can raid iOS 18 with an infected link Iran-linked cyber attack targets US medtech giant Stryker Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger get new ways to protect users from scams

The Cipher Brief

Trump, Iran, and the Stress Test of Western Alliances An FBI Perspective on FISA Section 702 Why Greenland is the Linchpin of the Golden Dome The Most Dangerous Extremist Movement in America Has No Ideology The Trump-Xi Summit: A Chance to Change the Global Narrative What Iran Is Learning from Russia’s War and Why the U.S. Should Be Concerned Copy of Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It’s All in the Execution Avoiding Another 9/11: 3 Key Reasons to Reauthorize Section 702 The Navy is changing the way it does business and its still pretty pricey The Case for Reauthorizing Section 702

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Comrade Trump Georgia's voting technology blunder Tiktokification shall set us free A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers Rights for robots In praise of Austerity creates fascism Don't Be Evil Canny Valley and Creative Commons Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender"