Hacker News

The Tulip Creative Computer Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025 Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work Apple Creator Studio Scott Adams has died Text-based web browsers Legion Health (YC S21) Hiring Cracked Founding Eng for AI-Native Ops Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011 Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home Git Rebase for the Terrified TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 Everything you never wanted to know about file locking (2010) Postal Arbitrage Show HN: SnackBase – Open-source, GxP-compliant back end for Python teams The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video] Indifference is a power The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode Mozilla's open source AI strategy Dilbert's Scott Adams Dies Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf] Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024) Robotopia: A 3D, first-person, talking simulator The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025) Chromium Has Merged JpegXL Anthropic has made a large contribution to the Python Software Foundation Implementing a web server in a single printf() call (2014) Show HN: AI in SolidWorks

Bleeping Computer

Betterment confirms data breach after wave of crypto scam emails Convincing LinkedIn comment-reply tactic used in new phishing Target employees confirm leaked code after 'accelerated' Git lockdown Hacker gets seven years for breaching Rotterdam and Antwerp ports Facebook login thieves now using browser-in-browser trick CISA orders feds to patch Gogs RCE flaw exploited in zero-day attacks 'Bad actor' hijacks Apex Legends characters in live matches University of Hawaii Cancer Center hit by ransomware attack Target's dev server offline after hackers claim to steal source code Apple confirms Google Gemini will power Siri, says privacy remains a priority Hidden Telegram proxy links can reveal your IP address in one click Spanish energy giant Endesa discloses data breach affecting customers Microsoft is retiring the Lens scanner app for iOS, Android Prevent cloud data leaks with Microsoft 365 access reviews

Ars Technica

Paramount sues WBD over Netflix deal. WBD says Paramount’s price is still inadequate. Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule Judge: Trump violated Fifth Amendment by ending energy grants in only blue states Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines UK probes X over Grok CSAM scandal; Elon Musk cries censorship Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. SpaceX gets FCC permission to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing Wi-Fi advocates get win from FCC with vote to allow higher-power devices Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent” Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory” Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more. Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs Ørsted seeks injunction against US government over project freeze The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology”

Slashdot

Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans EPA To Stop Considering Lives Saved By Limiting Air Pollution Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages Supreme Court Takes Case That Could Strip FCC of Authority To Issue Fines More US States Are Preparing Age-Verification Laws for App Stores Italy Fines Cloudflare 14 Million Euros For Refusing To Filter Pirate Sites On Public 1.1.1.1 DNS Lawsuit Over OpenAI For-Profit Conversion Can Head To Trial, US Judge Says Illinois Health Department Exposed Over 700,000 Residents' Personal Data For Years French Court Orders Google DNS to Block Pirate Sites, Dismisses 'Cloudflare-First' Defense Samsung Hit with Restraining Order Over Smart TV Surveillance Tech in Texas Google and Character.AI Agree To Settle Lawsuits Over Teen Suicides California Lawmaker Proposes a Four-Year Ban On AI Chatbots In Kids' Toys Founder of Spyware Maker PcTattletale Pleads Guilty To Hacking, Advertising Surveillance Software Congressman Introduces Legislation To Criminalize Insider Trading On Prediction Markets An AI-Generated NWS Map Invented Fake Towns In Idaho

Events

The Verge

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 Ugreen is expanding into AI-powered smart home surveillance Anker adds features and style to its smart home security You can unlock SwitchBot’s first deadbolt smart lock with your face Two cybersecurity employees plead guilty to carrying out ransomware attacks

The Cipher Brief

Iran’s Crumbling Revolutionary Facade: How Today’s Protests Could Reshape the Region in 2026 Trump’s Power Doctrine: A $1.5 Trillion Military, Greenland Ambitions, and a World Ruled by Force Now Comes the Hard Part in Venezuela Maduro and Noriega: Assessing the Analogies How China Built AI Dominance on Stolen American Silicon After Maduro’s Removal, the U.S. Faces Its Hardest Test Yet in Venezuela Agentic AI and the “Human-in-the-Loop” Luxury in Modern Defense The Kremlin Files: Russia, the Modern Surveillance State Iran’s Supreme Leader Should Listen to the People The U.S. Says it Will “Run” Venezuela. What Will That Mean?

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Sorry, eh A winning trade war strategy for Canada Predistribution vs redistribution bunnie's piggyback hack Where did the money go? Writing vs AI Code is a liability A world without people The Post-American Internet A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance