Hacker News

Qwen3-Max-Thinking Television is 100 years old today MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format What "The Best" Looks Like Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries Exactitude in Science – Borges (1946) [pdf] OSS ChatGPT WebUI – 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio Gen The Adolescence of Technology The mountain that weighed the Earth Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc. The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen OracleGPT: Thought Experiment on an AI Powered Executive After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month Find 'Abbey Road when type 'Beatles abbey rd': Fuzzy/Semantic search in Postgres First, make me care Text Is King The browser is the sandbox Blade Runner Costume Design (2020) TSMC Risk QMD - Quick Markdown Search Transfering Files with gRPC Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you' Runjak.codes: An adversarial coding test Vibe coding kills open source DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3 LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra

Bleeping Computer

Cloudflare misconfiguration behind recent BGP route leak EU launches investigation into X over Grok-generated sexual images Nearly 800,000 Telnet servers exposed to remote attacks 6 Okta security settings you might have overlooked Hackers can bypass npm’s Shai-Hulud defenses via Git dependencies CISA says critical VMware RCE flaw now actively exploited ChatGPT Temporary chat feature is getting a much-needed upgrade 1Password adds pop-up warnings for suspected phishing sites Microsoft investigates Windows 11 boot failures after January updates Microsoft releases emergency OOB update to fix Outlook freezes Sandworm hackers linked to failed wiper attack on Poland’s energy systems Konni hackers target blockchain engineers with AI-built malware ShinyHunters claim hacks of Okta, Microsoft SSO accounts for data theft Malicious AI extensions on VSCode Marketplace steal developer data CISA confirms active exploitation of four enterprise software bugs

Ars Technica

Data center power outage took out TikTok first weekend under US ownership EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Grok's sexualized deepfakes Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue" TikTok deal is done; Trump wants praise while users fear MAGA tweaks Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk's chosen court Meta wants to block data about social media use, mental health in child safety trial Judge orders stop to FBI search of devices seized from Washington Post reporter Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS Trump FCC threatens to enforce equal-time rule on late-night talk shows Spotify won court order against Anna’s Archive, taking down .org domain Zuck stuck on Trump’s bad side: FTC appeals loss in Meta monopoly case Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones Netflix to pay all cash for Warner Bros. to fend off Paramount hostile takeover Elon Musk accused of making up math to squeeze $134B from OpenAI, Microsoft Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply Calif. counters FCC attack on DEI with conditions on Verizon/Frontier merger Mother of one of Elon Musk’s offspring sues xAI over sexualized deepfakes ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself

Slashdot

Richard Stallman Was Asked: Is Software Piracy Wrong? Washington State May Mandate 'Firearm Blueprint Detection Algorithms' For 3D Printers US Congress Fails to Repeal 'Kill Switch' for Cars Mandate Hollywood Tries To Take Pirate Sites Down Globally Through India Court California Becomes First State To Join WHO Disease Network After US Exit Justice Department Opens Criminal Probe Into Silicon Valley Spy Allegations TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users White House Labels Altered Photo of Arrested Minnesota Protester a 'Meme' Toronto Man Posed as Pilot To Rack Up Hundreds of Free Flights, Prosecutors Say South Korea Launches Landmark Laws To Regulate AI Epic and Google Have a Secret $800 Million Unreal Engine and Services Deal Nvidia Allegedly Sought 'High-Speed Access' To Pirated Book Library for AI Training FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch On You Spotify Lawsuit Triggered Anna's Archive Domain Name Suspensions HAM Radio Operators In Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty

Events

The Verge

Gmail’s spam filter and automatic sorting are broken Ring can verify videos now, but that might not help you with most AI fakes 1Password is introducing a new phishing prevention feature Sony, Anker, and other headphones have a serious Google Fast Pair security vulnerability Instagram says it fixed the issue that let someone send all those password reset emails Betterment’s financial app sends customers a $10,000 crypto scam message Ring’s Mobile Security Trailer provides 360-degree coverage anywhere Reolink made a local AI hub for its security cameras

The Cipher Brief

Loosening the Gordian Knot of Global Terrorism: Why Legitimacy Must Anchor a Counterterrorism Strategy Iran at the Breaking Point: How Afghanistan and Iraq Still Inform U.S. Strategy The Kremlin Files: Russia’s Way to the Gray Zone The Long Arc Of American Power New Reports Reveal Years of Unaddressed Osprey Safety Risks The Coast Guard's Mission in the Gray Zone The Country’s First ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Chief: Influence Is the New Battlefield What U.S. – China Cooperation Means for the World Remembering Aldrich Ames and the Lives He Destroyed Ruling Venezuela with a 2,000 Mile Hammer is Not Likely to End Well

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Trump and the unmighty dollar The petty Google's AI pricing plan AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" Social media without socializing The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification Catch this! How the Light Gets In It's not normal Sorry, eh