Hacker News

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis EMiX: Emulating Beyond Single-FPGA Limits The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64 The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021) Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10 Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals Charity – Categorical programming language (1998) England Runestones How to Write to SSDs [pdf] The sigmoids won't save you I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan Research on mildew contamination affecting the sound quality of analog tapes Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image The Zulip Foundation Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake Erlang/OTP 29.0 ASCII by Jason Scott Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"

Bleeping Computer

Funnel Builder WordPress plugin bug exploited to steal credit cards Microsoft Exchange, Windows 11 hacked on second day of Pwn2Own Popular node-ipc npm package compromised to steal credentials Avada Builder WordPress plugin flaws allow site credential theft Microsoft backpedals: Edge to stop loading passwords into memory Inside the REMUS Infostealer: Session Theft, MaaS, and Rapid Evolution Microsoft to automatically roll back faulty Windows drivers Microsoft warns of Exchange zero-day flaw exploited in attacks TeamPCP hackers advertise Mistral AI code repos for sale Hackers exploit auth bypass flaw in Burst Statistics WordPress plugin Cisco warns of new critical SD-WAN flaw exploited in zero-day attacks OpenAI confirms security breach in TanStack supply chain attack Windows 11 and Microsoft Edge hacked at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 18-year-old NGINX vulnerability allows DoS, potential RCE Cyber-Enabled Cargo Crime: How Cybercrime Tradecraft is Used to Steal Freight

Ars Technica

Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption Desperate Trump taps "Tim Apple," Jensen Huang, Elon Musk to attend Xi summit FCC angers small carriers by helping AT&T and Starlink buy EchoStar spectrum Foiled plot tried to sneak 49 lbs of cocaine into Australia via Xerox printers AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat—but peers won't snitch Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar Twin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being fired “Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says eBay rejects GameStop's $56B offer: "Your proposal is neither credible nor attractive" After banning foreign routers, FCC says existing ones can get updates until 2029 Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water, and nobody noticed for months Sony's failed war against Internet piracy may doom other copyright lawsuits The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys ABC refuses to capitulate to Trump admin, fights FCC probe into The View

Slashdot

Bitwarden Scrubs 'Always Free' and 'Inclusion' Values From Its Website Bill To Block Publishers From Killing Online Games Advances In California Congress Introduces Bill To Permanently Block Chinese Vehicles From US Musk Accused of 'Selective Amnesia', Altman of Lying As OpenAI Trial Nears End OpenAI Trial Wraps Up With 'Jackass' Trophy For Challenging Musk Man Who Stole Beyonce's Hard Drives Gets Five-Year Sentence Meta Employees Launch Protest Against Mouse-Tracking Tech At US Offices Sam Altman Testifies That Elon Musk Wanted Control of OpenAI Instructure Pays Canvas Hackers To Delete Students' Stolen Data Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Testifies In OpenAI Trial GM Secretly Sold California Drivers' Data, Agrees to Pay $12.75M In Privacy Settlement The EU Considers Restricting Use of US Cloud Platforms for Sensitive Government Data Fiber Optic Cables Can Eavesdrop On Nearby Conversations Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data On the Open Web Pentagon Begins Releasing New Files On UFOs

Events

The Verge

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 A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help

The Cipher Brief

Sustaining Decision Advantage: The Case for Analytic Tradecraft Reform The Bear and the Dragon: The Threat of Sino-Russian Opportunism and Intelligence Miscalculation A Bridge Too Small: Why $49 Billion Can’t Fix a $1.5 Trillion Problem The Nuclear Arms Race Is Accelerating — and the U.N. Looks Increasingly Powerless The Pakistani General Running Washington’s Backchannel to Tehran Congress Faces a Growing Blind Spot in the Pentagon’s Expanding Budget Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U.S. Decision Systems When a Charismatic and a Machiavellian Meet Why June Is the Oil Market’s Point of No Return The New Extremist Recruitment Funnel Starts With Children

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

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 Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox Lee Lai's "Cannon" Bubbles are REALLY evil In praise of vultures