Hacker News

Exfiltrate Your Weights Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8 Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier English: A vs. An Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors RSA-896 Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern Brood War Bench Telling a Computer to Do Things Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago? Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals Measure internet censorship AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

Bleeping Computer

BragJack attacks hijack AI browser agents through malicious extensions North Korean WaterPlum hackers infected 30,000 devices worldwide ShinyHunters hacks Clop leak site, threatens to extort ransomware gang Viral AI actress' hotline face-scans every caller, watches their mood Gyazo server flaw exploited to steal 23.6 million user records Fake LastPass Authenticator GitHub repos push new Rapuncel infostealer Secure enterprise sharing with access reviews for Microsoft 365 Microsoft Teams will let admins block custom file extensions Webinar: Which Google Workspace security controls actually matter? Microsoft fixes bug behind ‘Defender Antivirus is turned off’ alerts New Check Point flaw lets hackers execute code with root privileges Microsoft fixes broken copy and paste for Excel 2016 users New RatHat Android malware uses AI to automate device control OpenAI details more cases of AI agents taking unauthorized actions Brevo supply-chain attack injected ClickFix scripts on customer sites

Ars Technica

FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious" Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history” Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plants Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in them California may gut state net neutrality law to comply with Trump admin demand It’s OK to tell ICE their actions will haunt them, judge rules in speech fight Lawmakers target Flock cameras with a threat to highway funding “Filmmaker” suing PassThePopcorn may be banned user out for revenge Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract 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

Slashdot

Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump's 'AI Force' Proposal Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees Will California Gut Its Net Neutrality Law to Comply with Trump Admin Demands? Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Fails Spectacularly, Despite Hundreds of Millions in Industry Lobbying 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

Events

The Verge

Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI 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

Cipher Brief

How America Appeased Putin Will Physical AI Underpin the Reindustrialization Win that Western Allies Need? How China Is Building an Architecture of Control Across the Heart of Asia Dark Transits are a Stopgap not a Solution The Houthis’ Coastal Gambit 65 Billion Barrels Is Only the Beginning The Bells are Ringing Again, and This Time Sweden is Inside the Alliance 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?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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