Hacker News

GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities Gemini 3.7 Flash Why Books Don't Work: Constructivism over Transmissionism (2021) Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast Hello, me. It's been a while Bluesky Protocol Services Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE DeepSeek Harness developer preview Spaghettifying DRAM The Library of Ashurbanipal (2025) Mistral OCR 4.1 Understanding is the new bottleneck Choose Boring Technology (2015) Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory NP-overrated

Bleeping Computer

Apple sends new ‘Threat Notification’ alerts over mercenary spyware attacks Ukraine shuts down 94 fraudulent call centers, seize millions in cash Akira hackers disable EDR with Safe Mode, steal data but fail to encrypt Hackers breach govt webmail while running parallel crypto fraud Microsoft patches LegacyHive Windows zero-day vulnerability AI 'watermark removers' flood the web. Almost none can prove they work. Critical VMware vCenter RCE flaw exploited for reverse SSH access Trezor discloses data breach affecting nearly 14,000 customers Who Vets AI’s Code? The Scale Challenge Facing Open Source Ingestion White House taps security firms for offensive hack-back operations WhatsApp rolls out new feature that flags potential scam messages "City-Forum" data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceNow portals Android malware combo takes out loans and relays victims' credit cards Hackers exploit critical Adobe Commerce flaw to hijack customer accounts Hundreds of fake Chrome VPN extensions route traffic through a proxy

Ars Technica

Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books Meta can't stop states' $1.4 trillion lawsuit from going to trial Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, isn't filling empty Democratic seat Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed? Trump is losing his war on wind power X wants to keep suing advertisers, asks 5th Circuit to overrule district judge

Slashdot

Trump Administration Enlists Private Companies To Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups US Tries to Override New York Gambling Laws, Orders Kalshi to Keep Operating China-Linked Hackers Used AI To Run First-Ever 'Autonomous' Cyberattack On Taiwan German Advocacy Group Lodges Criminal Complaint Over Meta AI Glasses US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers Freenet Creator Ian Clarke Shares Progress on Its New Decentralized Network A Data Breach At Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Is Rippling Across Banks, Retailers, Steam Gamers, and Beyond How Accurate Are Flock's AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras? Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta's Smart Glasses Flock Accused of Reactivating Its Cameras Without Notifying a Town California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By Police After Mistaken Flock Alert - Twice

Events

The Verge

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 Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’ ‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt Ring upgraded its peephole doorbell camera to 2K Anthropic says Claude accidentally hacked real companies too

Cipher Brief

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? How Ukraine Is Changing the Way the U.S. Army Fights The Houthis’ External and Internal Crises Converge: Can a Tactical Solution Fix a Strategic Problem? America, North Korea, and the Search for Peace There Will be Unseen Costs to be Paid over the War in Iran. Who is Weighing Them? BLUF: The US Must Lead in Gray Zone Activity Why the Iran War Remains Strategically Adrift The New Fault Line: Israel and Turkey on a Collision Course Iran Is “Counting Coup” On The United States AI Summaries Are Susceptible to Manipulation — and That's Both a Business and a National Security Problem Investing in the Next Arsenal of Democracy Winning the Peace: The Democratic Dilemma of Limited War America Needs a New North Korea Strategy

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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) Dualism (03 Aug 2026) Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026) Better to beg forgiveness (31 Jul 2026) The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026) Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global (29 Jul 2026) Discernment (28 Jul 2026) How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump) (27 Jul 2026) Apple's robo-repo (25 Jul 2026)