Hacker News

Show HN: Algorithmically Finding the Longest Line of Sight on Earth Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure Thought-Terminating Cliché Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT Art of Roads in Games Vouch Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-compliant auth implementation for Cloudflare Workers Offpunk 3.0 LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming and Lazy Evaluation Tessellation Kit (2016) Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear Nobody knows how the whole system works Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017) Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler Quartz crystals More Mac malware from Google search Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 – Ready for Testing Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2 The Little Bool of Doom (2025) GitHub Agentic Workflows Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder Dave Farber has died

Bleeping Computer

BeyondTrust warns of critical RCE flaw in remote support software Men charged in FanDuel scheme fueled by thousands of stolen identities Microsoft: Exchange Online flags legitimate emails as phishing European Commission discloses breach that exposed staff data New tool blocks imposter attacks disguised as safe commands State actor targets 155 countries in 'Shadow Campaigns' espionage op Payments platform BridgePay confirms ransomware attack behind outage Germany warns of Signal account hijacking targeting senior figures DKnife Linux toolkit hijacks router traffic to spy, deliver malware CISA warns of SmarterMail RCE flaw used in ransomware attacks EDR, Email, and SASE Miss This Entire Class of Browser Attacks EU says TikTok faces large fine over "addictive design" Man pleads guilty to hacking nearly 600 women’s Snapchat accounts Flickr discloses potential data breach exposing users' names, emails CISA orders federal agencies to replace end-of-life edge devices

Ars Technica

Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case EU says TikTok needs to drop "addictive design" "ICE Out of Our Faces Act" would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites FBI stymied by Apple's Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist's iPhone Judge gives Musk bad news, says Trump hasn't intervened to block SEC lawsuit "Capture it all": ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters X office raided in France's Grok probe; Elon Musk summoned for questioning Upset at reports that he'd given up, Trump now wants $1B from Harvard Russian drones use Starlink, but Ukraine has plan to block their Internet access Court orders restart of all US offshore wind construction Judge rules Department of Energy's climate working group was illegal DOJ released Epstein files with dozens of nudes and victims' names, reports say ICE observer 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

Slashdot

After Six Years, Two Pentesters Arrested in Iowa Receive $600,000 Settlement Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers 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

Events

The Verge

Substack data breach exposed users’ emails and phone numbers OpenClaw’s AI ‘skill’ extensions are a security nightmare Google Cloud’s customer chief returns to Microsoft as head of security Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China OpenClaw: all the news about the trending AI agent 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

The Cipher Brief

The Former Head of NSA on the Future of U.S. Cybersecurity Xi Jinping Tightens Grip as China’s Military Purge Deepens From Secrets to Sensors: Why Open Source Data Must Drive Modern Intelligence The Kremlin Files: Russian Double Agents and Operational Games EU Takes Aim at Tehran: IRGC Terror Listing Opens New Front in Europe’s Iran Policy Should Western Tech Giants Partner With Pro-Hamas Network Al Jazeera? Inside the $35 Billion Plan to Track Hypersonic Missiles from Space The U.S.-China Economic Cold War Is No Longer Silent Greenland’s Worth a Fight and Russia’s Trying to Start One Export Controls Backfire: The China Innovation Paradox

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The Epstein class and collapse porn End of the line for video essays Luxury Kafka All laws are local Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World" Michael Swanwick's "The Universe Box" Stock swindles Threads' margin is the Eurostack's opportunity Disenshittification Nation Carney isn't a hero