Hacker News

Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents Anthropic expands partnership w Google and Broadcom for multiple GW of compute Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted? A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates What being ripped off taught me HackerRank (YC S11) Is Hiring The anatomy of SMS delivery: from request to carrier Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game Agent Reading Test Show HN: Anos – a hand-written ~100KiB microkernel for x86-64 and RISC-V Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart The Last Quiet Thing The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok Eighteen Years of Greytrapping – Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? Show HN: Docking – Extensible Linux dock in Python Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder? SOM: A minimal Smalltalk for teaching of and research on Virtual Machines Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company"

Bleeping Computer

German authorities identify REvil and GangCrab ransomware bosses New GPUBreach attack enables system takeover via GPU rowhammer Disgruntled researcher leaks “BlueHammer” Windows zero-day exploit Microsoft fixes Classic Outlook bug causing email delivery issues Microsoft removes Support and Recovery Assistant from Windows Microsoft links Medusa ransomware affiliate to zero-day attacks Drift $280M crypto theft linked to 6-month in-person operation CISA orders feds to patch exploited Fortinet EMS flaw by Friday Why Simple Breach Monitoring is No Longer Enough Traffic violation scams switch to QR codes in new phishing texts New FortiClient EMS flaw exploited in attacks, emergency patch released Hackers exploit React2Shell in automated credential theft campaign Axios npm hack used fake Teams error fix to hijack maintainer account Device code phishing attacks surge 37x as new kits spread online LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data

Ars Technica

Sports bets on prediction markets ruled to be "swaps," exempt from state laws “The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders don’t trust CEO Tech companies are trying to neuter Colorado’s landmark right-to-repair law Elon Musk insists banks working on SpaceX IPO must buy Grok subscriptions Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says SpaceX tries to convince FCC that Amazon put satellites into wrong altitude Amazon is trying to buy Globalstar to compete with SpaceX's Starlink Did Nazis escape on a UFO? Dev who asked the question just built the official White House app. Musk loves Grok’s “roasts.” Swiss official sues in attempt to neuter them. Trump defunding of NPR and PBS blocked by judge, but damage is already done Starlink satellite breaks apart into "tens of objects"; SpaceX confirms "anomaly" Sweaty, glassy-eyed Tiger Woods blames cell phone use for his car crash OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says Costco sued for seeking refunds on tariffs customers paid Judge halts Nexstar/Tegna merger after FCC let firms exceed TV ownership limit Authors' lucky break in court may help class action over Meta torrenting Trump convenes "God Squad" to override Endangered Species Act, up oil production Judge irate as defendant joins by Zoom while driving—then lies about it

Slashdot

OpenAI Calls For Robot Taxes, Public Wealth Fund, and 4-Day Workweek To Tackle AI Disruption Germany Doxes 'UNKN,' Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab Russia's VPN Crackdown Caused Bank Outages, Telegram Founder Says Crooks Behind $27M in 'Refund' Scams Busted By YouTube Pranksters After Being Lured to Fake Funeral America's CIA Recruited Iran's Nuclear Scientists - By Threatening To Kill Them Amazon Must Negotiate With First Warehouse Workers Union, US Labor Board Rules Netflix Must Refund Customers For Years of Price Hikes, Italian Court Rules Tech Companies Are Trying To Neuter Colorado's Landmark Right-to-Repair Law Penalties Stack Up As AI Spreads Through the Legal System Perplexity's 'Incognito Mode' Is a 'Sham,' Lawsuit Says EPA Flags Microplastics, Pharmaceuticals As Contaminants In Drinking Water Mount Everest Climbers 'Poisoned' By Guides In Insurance Fraud Scheme UFC-Que Choisir Takes Ubisoft To French Court Over the Crew Shutdown Top Brussels Official Urges Europeans To Work From Home, Drive Less As Energy Crisis Deepens Australia Readies Social Media Court Action Citing Teen Ban Breaches

Events

The Verge

PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default Claude Code leak exposes a Tamagotchi-style ‘pet’ and an always-on agent Okta’s CEO is betting big on AI agent identity PSA: Hackers can raid iOS 18 with an infected link Iran-linked cyber attack targets US medtech giant Stryker Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger get new ways to protect users from scams Anthropic makes last-ditch effort to salvage deal with Pentagon after blowup CISA is getting a new acting director after less than a year

The Cipher Brief

A Declining Demand for Strategic Intelligence? U.S. and Israeli cases While the U.S. Focuses on Iran, Russia and China See Strategic Gain New Presidential Executive Order Targets Transnational Cybercrime Why a War in the Middle East Is Hitting Australians at the Petrol Pump Why the ‘Day After’ Is The Most Important Day in the Iranian Conflict Taking a Stand on Adversaries’ Influence in the Western Hemisphere Iran Is Building the Disinformation Architecture of the Future Can the U.S. Win the Critical Minerals Competition? Iran Exposed a New Reality for U.S. Air Power How Close the Iran War Came to a Nuclear Disaster

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages EU ready to cave to Trump on tech It's extremely good that Claude's source-code leaked Trumpismo vs minilateralism State Dems must stop ICE from stealing the midterms Market participation is exhausting The cost of doing business Goodhart's Law vs "prediction markets" Understaffing as a form of enshittification Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment