Hacker News

Cloudflare Flagship Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs That Methyl Methacrylate Tank I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline A few interesting modern pixel fonts A history of obituaries in American newspapers From Rust to Ruby IBM Confidential: System/360 File Organization [video] The worst job interview I ever had A portentous reunion Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop Tunecat: Simple Internet Radio Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift TSDuck: Open-source toolkit for MPEG-TS analysis and manipulation Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud” Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth game C array types are weird The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023) Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down The Steinwinter Supercargo Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail without the mail server Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country Sonny Rollins, jazz saxophonist, has died Where does next-token prediction leave us? What color is your function? (2015) The real cost of owning a home Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs

Bleeping Computer

KnowledgeDeliver flaw exploited as a zero-day to install web shells Charter confirms data breach after ShinyHunters extortion threat How Varonis Atlas integrates Claude Compliance API for AI governance Microsoft Defender can now automatically isolate hacked endpoints Webinar: Too many tools are slowing network incident response CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Drupal vulnerability Microsoft: Domain Controller lookup may fail on Windows Server 2016 7-Eleven data breach exposes personal information of 185,000 people Anthropic’s restricted Claude Mythos model may be coming to Claude Code FBI warns of Kali365 phishing service targeting Microsoft 365 accounts Ghost CMS SQL injection flaw exploited in large-scale ClickFix campaign Laravel Lang packages hijacked to deploy credential-stealing malware Italy disrupts CINEMAGOAL piracy app that stole streaming auth codes Netherlands seizes 800 servers of hosting firm enabling cyberattacks Former US execs plead guilty to aiding tech support scammers

Ars Technica

Is Peter Thiel the target of Pope Leo's Gandalf quote? An investigation. Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI US's big bet on quantum computing may not be entirely legal China’s shark finning could lead to US seafood sanctions Trump FCC asks public to comment on whether ABC's The View is a news show Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe" Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn't provide end-to-end encryption Marketer that claimed it could tap devices for ad targeting will pay $880K settlement Trump abruptly cancels EO signing event after top AI firm CEOs declined to go The $58,000 TV bill: When DirecTV sued O.J. Simpson for piracy AT&T sues California in attempt to shut off old phone network Zillow loses thousands of listings in fight over “hidden” homes Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats Minnesota prohibits prediction markets, promptly gets sued by Trump admin Man jailed for posting Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement China banned RTX 5090D V2 while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was visiting FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants "data in near real time" Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers

Slashdot

Netherlands Blocks US Takeover of Vital Digital Supplier California Moves To Exempt Linux From Upcoming Age-Verification Law California Executive Order Directs Businesses and State Agencies to Prepare for AI-Driven Workforce Disruption Is America Closer to Ending Daylight Saving Time? Tech CEOs Call for a Universal Basic Income. But What are the Alternatives? NTSB Wants PDF Removed After It Exposed Final Cockpit Audio From UPS Crash Trump Mobile Exposed Customers' Personal Data, Including Phone Numbers and Home Addresses Venmo Redesign Makes New Users' Posts Friends-Only by Default A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide AT&T Sues California In Bid To Stop Offering Traditional Phone Service Trump Calls Off AI Executive Order Over Concern It Could Weaken US Tech Edge US To Award $2 Billion To Quantum Companies, Take Equity Stakes GitHub's Internal Repos Breached Via Employee's Use of Malicious VS Code Extension Anna's Archive Hit With Global Domain Takedown Order Yearslong Fight Over Users' Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial

Events

The Verge

Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’ GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is becoming ‘unmanageable’ due to AI bug reports Canvas owner reaches ‘agreement’ with hackers to secure stolen data OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers Canvas is online again after ShinyHunters threaten to leak schools’ data

The Cipher Brief

AI, Autonomous Weapons, and the Pentagon’s $55 Billion Bet on Future War Remembering the Americans Who Made Ukraine’s War Their Own DHS Has Become Central to American Strategy, But Its Strategy Has Not Caught Up The G-2: Takeaways from Trump's Trip to Beijing Sweden and Denmark are in a Position of Power Over Russia Iran's Digital War Machine Targeting U.S. Infrastructure Proscribing the IRGC Will Make Britain Safer The Limits of Human Oversight at Machine Speed Rethinking the Intelligence Cycle for the AI Era How Russia and China are keeping Iran lethal

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble No honor among Shopping isn't politics There's no such thing as "age verification" Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire No one wants a permanent gerontocracy Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm A fascist paradigm 2024