Hacker News

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations Swift 6.4 Released Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations Giving up on smart rings The CSS Zen Garden dream shipped A Man Archiving Pirate Radio Station Kool FM 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough Closing the IPv6 First-Packet Gap with Grand Sony's First Computer – The SMC-70 from 1982 [video] Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 Let's make quality the norm again

Bleeping Computer

CenterPoint Energy confirms customer data stolen in cyberattack BambooToken malware controls Windows and Linux systems via MQTT Hackers target WordPress sites via third-party WooCommerce plugin What Zero-Day Response Should Be in the Post-Mythos Era CISA: Critical VMware RCE flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs Suspected Black Axe gang leaders face cybercrime charges in the US Microsoft confirms KB5002914 Excel update breaks copy and paste Cisco patches Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks Microsoft releases emergency Windows updates to fix RDS failures Japan's Digital Agency says VPN flaw exposed 246,000 personnel records Homebrew 7.0.0 gets built-in GUI, better security controls Twitch extension with 30K installs exposes users’ OAuth tokens Hackers hijack HBO Max Reddit account to push malware in ClickFix ads Hackers target exposed Vite dev servers to steal AWS, Azure secrets Why Patch Automation Needs Brakes, Not Just an Accelerator

Ars Technica

Trump EPA moves to wipe out climate rules for power plants OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat Trump's forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google Kimmel's ABC show won't air interview with Democrat because of Trump FCC threats 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

Slashdot

Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg' No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage 220 Million Traveler Records Exposed In Vietnam-Linked APIS Leak California's Gig Drivers Just Secured Collective Bargaining Power with Newly Certified Union Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter - For Filming Them in Public Sam Bankman-Fried, Former Crypto Billionaire, Appeals His Conviction To the US Supreme Court LG Responds to TV Spying Allegations US Legislators Complain About Secretive British Court and Apple Encryption UK Government Rejects 'Kill Switch' Idea For Dangerous AI California Governor Signs Laws Protecting Kids From Risks of Social Media, AI Chatbots Latest Apple Watch Can Grab Snippets of Conversation Without Both Speakers' Consent Android Rolling Out Passkey Transfers Between Password Managers ABC Show Won't Air Interview With Democrat Because of FCC Threats Anthropic Reveals Fourth Likely Crime Committed By Its AI Google's Revived Nuclear Power Plant Gets $1.9 Billion Loan From US Government

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

We Are In An Unpredictable War Of Attrition Can America’s All-Volunteer Force Survive the Next War? Setting Terms with America’s Tech Giants Not the Destroyer of Worlds: Why Compute is Humanity’s Most Vital Defense When Policy and War Collapse Into One: Fighting in the Sixth Domain The Compute We Cannot Power Reflect, Remember, Renew 25 years after 9/11. Whatever happened to mass-effect terrorism? Twenty-Five Years Later, Remembering 9/11 The Battle for Decision Autonomy, The New Front in Strategic Competition China’s Challenge to Western Alliances Russia’s AI Blueprint Exposes an Authoritarian Playbook 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?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026) But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026) LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026) 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)