Hacker News

Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' Coursera to combine with Udemy How SQLite Is Tested A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images Tell HN: HN was down Notes on Sorted Data FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Founding Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability AI will make formal verification go mainstream AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating alpr.watch Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems No Graphics API Announcing the Beta release of ty Learning the oldest programming language (2024) I created a publishing system for step-by-step coding guides in Typst Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter TLA+ Modeling Tips Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions GPT Image 1.5 Ford Has Steered Its Former EV Truck and Plant Plans in to a Ditch Modern SID chip substitutes [video] Thin desires are eating life Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

Bleeping Computer

Cisco warns of unpatched AsyncOS zero-day exploited in attacks Sonicwall warns of new SMA1000 zero-day exploited in attacks Critical React2Shell flaw exploited in ransomware attacks Your MFA Is Costing You Millions. It Doesn't Have To. Microsoft asks admins to reach out for Windows IIS failures fix Cellik Android malware builds malicious versions from Google Play apps GhostPoster attacks hide malicious JavaScript in Firefox addon logos Amazon disrupts Russian GRU hackers attacking edge network devices Texas sues TV makers for taking screenshots of what people watch Hackers exploit newly patched Fortinet auth bypass flaws Cyberattack disrupts Venezuelan oil giant PDVSA's operations The Hidden Risk in Virtualization: Why Hypervisors are a Ransomware Magnet Microsoft to block Exchange Online access for outdated mobile devices

Ars Technica

Twitter comeback bid draws lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X Corp US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s “pro-petroleum” moves “A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot Texas sues biggest TV makers, alleging smart TVs spy on users without consent Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans Utah leaders hinder efforts to develop solar energy supply Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won Ukrainians sue US chip firms for powering Russian drones, missiles Trump tries to block state AI laws himself after Congress decided not to Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales “makes no sense,” experts say Supreme Court appears likely to approve Trump’s firing of FTC Democrat Court: “Because Trump said to” may not be a legally valid defense ICEBlock lawsuit: Trump admin bragged about demanding App Store removal Elon Musk’s X first to be fined under EU’s Digital Services Act ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was “God’s assassin,” DOJ says Republicans drop Trump-ordered block on state AI laws from defense bill

Slashdot

FCC Chair Suggests Agency Isn't Independent, Word Cut From Mission Statement Google Sues Alleged Chinese Scam Group Behind Massive US Text Message Phishing Ring Breach At South Korea's Equivalent of Amazon Exposed Data of Almost Every Adult Texas Sues TV Makers For Taking Screenshots of What People Watch SoundCloud Confirms Breach After Member Data Stolen, VPN Access Disrupted Russian Ban On Roblox Gaming Platform Sparks Rare Protest Like Australia, Denmark Plans to Severely Restrict Social Media Use for Teenagers 'Investors in Limbo'. Will the TikTok Deal's Deadline Be Extended Again? Repeal Section 230 and Its Platform Protections, Urges New Bipartisan US Bill Trump Ban on Wind Energy Permits 'Unlawful', Court Rules Firefox Survey Finds Only 16% Feel In Control of Their Privacy Choices Online Chinese Whistleblower Living In US Is Being Hunted By Beijing With US Tech Ukrainians Sue US Chip Firms For Powering Russian Drones, Missiles US To Mandate AI Vendors Measure Political Bias For Federal Sales Russian Hackers Debut Simple Ransomware Service, But Store Keys In Plain Text

Events

The Verge

Google’s turning off its dark web monitoring service that scoured data breaches for your info Pentagon’s Signalgate report finds Pete Hegseth violated military policies The VPN panic is only getting started Signal’s secure message backups arrive on iOS Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data The FCC is rolling back steps meant to stop a repeat of a massive telecom hack Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT Cloudflare shows internet outages aren’t a matter of if — but when

The Cipher Brief

What Would Follow a Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation? Anti-Semitism is a National Security Issue: It’s Time to Treat it Like One How the U.S. Military’s Top Officer is Looking at the World’s Hotspots Winter is Coming to Ukraine as it Faces a New Kind of War and Uncertainty About a Key Ally The Cipher Brief's Recommended Reads for the Holidays Echoes of 1940: Learning from an Ally at War and Preparing the U.S. for the Next Fight Russia is Waging a Sabotage Shadow War on Europe Why an Unmanned Mission May be Most Effective in Venezuela America’s Antibiotic Weakness Is a National Security Blindspot Can Europe Survive the New Multipolar World?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Happy Public Domain Day 2026! America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses Federal Wallet Inspectors Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI A year in illustration