Hacker News

Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021 What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? The Feminist Was a Spy List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou Who People Talk to When They're Struggling iPhone Duo DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Stockfish 19 Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? Shopify acquires Tailwind What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening Object storage is all you need

Bleeping Computer

Microsoft says September updates fix mouse settings reset issues CISA: WatchGuard RCE flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks Microsoft fixes bug that wiped Windows desktop settings Trezor warns users of email provider breach, phishing attacks Cisco confirms CVE-2026-20079 Secure FMC flaw exploited in attacks AdaptHealth confirms 4.1 million people exposed in July cyberattack Skullcandy Dime 3 earbuds expose users to Bluetooth hijacking US says Chinese firms extracted billions of tokens from frontier AI models Veradigm warns of patient data breach after ransomware gang claims attack MFA's Weakest Link: Account Recovery Is the New Attack Path Over 36,000 exposed Plex servers vulnerable to recent flaws Man gets 15 years for extorting women with AI-generated porn videos New Microsoft Defender 'ShieldCrash' zero-day grants SYSTEM access Google warns of new Chrome zero-day bug exploited in attacks Microsoft adds age-awareness APIs that can tell if users are children, teens, or adults

Ars Technica

Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus. NIH to use part of its budget to pay for Department of Defense research Supreme Court forces TV stations to sell more election ads at steep discounts “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo Supreme Court urged to let states regulate sports bets on prediction markets Trump’s 100% tariff on drones will be disaster for the US, critics warn Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blocking Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed"

Slashdot

Anthropic Reveals Fourth Likely Crime Committed By Its AI Google's Revived Nuclear Power Plant Gets $1.9 Billion Loan From US Government LG TVs Caught Spying Even When Offline or On Standby Secretive DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits, Pulling Them Over Switzerland's Federal Government Tests Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft on 3,000 Computers Bitcoin-based Liquid Network Says $320 Million Withdrawn in Hack US Military Disables Ad Trackers On Devices To Protect Troops Flock Offered Webinar Teaching Cops How to Surveil 'No Kings' Protesters UN Votes To Encourage Map Projections More Accurately Reflecting the True Size of Continents To Promote Grand Theft Auto 6, Mayor Might Transform Miami into 'Vice City' Hundreds More Flock Cameras Removed in the US This Week. Flock Caught Repackaging Traffic Data Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars Bernie Sanders Proposes Artificial Superintelligence Ban Amid Rogue AI Hackings Apple Sued For $2.7 Billion Over App Tracking Transparency Rules Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling

Events

The Verge

Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki DJI’s new robovac can climb obstacles, vacuum quietly, and claims much improved privacy Microsoft is enabling a Windows 11 security feature that can hurt gaming performance The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility Florida blocks Flock cams on state highways Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA VI 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

Cipher Brief

Russia’s AI Blueprint Exposes an Authoritarian Playbook China’s Challenge to Western Alliances The Gulf Bought Its Air Defense From Kyiv. We Sold Them The Radar. Pakistan’s New Military Order Is a Warning for Washington Are We Ready for AI Warfare? The AI We Cannot Deploy — And What Is at Stake Q&A with former CIA Operations Officer James 'Mad Dog' Lawler Inside Trump’s Massive Venezuela Oil Deal A Former CIA Station Chief on Kyiv Under Drone Siege The New Economics of Warfare: David vs Goliath The Nuclear Umbrella is Bent, Not Broken The Cost of Squandering America’s Reputation Blowing up Boats: The Numbing Effect of Repetitive Illegality The Vatican’s Quiet Intelligence Diplomacy America Is Buying an Army It Cannot Command

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Anti-vax/anti-trust (09 Sep 2026) How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026) Google skates (05 Sep 2026) Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026) Preparing for a post-Trump internet (03 Sep 2026) Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026) The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026) How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026) Born on technology's third base (21 Aug 2026) The actual epistemic crisis (20 Aug 2026) The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026) IP can't save you from AI (18 Aug 2026) Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture' (17 Aug 2026) Capital formation (14 Aug 2026) Model collapse (12 Aug 2026)