Hacker News

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 GLM-5.3-Flash Kusama Yayoi Dies at 97 Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2 Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane Laion Big Video Dataset Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022 An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications Stripe acquires Clerky Zohran and the Short Link Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

Bleeping Computer

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 Hackers target Microsoft SharePoint RCE chain with PoC exploit FBI disrupts proxy network enabling Chinese espionage operations Snowflake ends service-account passwords. Now comes the hard part Ubiquiti patches three max severity security vulnerabilities Microsoft tests new privacy controls for Windows 11 desktop apps Hackers now exploit critical Gitea flaw in code injection attacks LACMA data breach last year exposed social security and medical data Hackers abuse npm mirrors to host phishing redirect pages AnonyMousKIT PhaaS uses voice AI agents to phish iPhone passcodes Massive DDoS attack disrupts Norway’s government digital services Hospital operator Nutex Health says data stolen in cyberattack

Ars Technica

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 Disney sues FCC and its chair, escalating fight against Trump's chief censor As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine

Slashdot

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 Flock is Secretly Building a Powerful New Prompt-Based AI Tool for Police Firefox Announces Free VPN and 'Startpage' Search Engine Rolling Out to Android, iOS - Plus GeForce NOW Support

Events

The Verge

Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA 6 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?

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Cory Doctorow

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