Hacker News

Simple Sabotage Field Manual [pdf] What came first: the CNAME or the A record? Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025) Understanding C++ Ownership System Graphics In Flatland – 2D ray tracing [video] Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners Show HN: A creative coding library for making art with desktop windows From Nevada to Kansas by Glider Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode Sending Data over Offline Finding Networks CSS Web Components for marketing sites (2024) Show HN: Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) There's a hidden Android setting that spots fake cell towers Bypassing Gemma and Qwen safety with raw strings A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth A Brief History of Ralph San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age – study GLM-4.7-Flash Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results Show HN: GitClassic.com, GitHub circa 2015 without JS & AI Iterative image reconstruction using random cubic bézier strokes Folding NASA Experience into an Origamist's Toolkit (2024) Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees Robust Conditional 3D Shape Generation from Casual Captures Flux 2 Klein pure C inference

Bleeping Computer

New PDFSider Windows malware deployed on Fortune 100 firm's network UK govt. warns about ongoing Russian hacktivist group attacks Hacker admits to leaking stolen Supreme Court data on Instagram Jordanian pleads guilty to selling access to 50 corporate networks Ingram Micro says ransomware attack affected 42,000 people OpenAI hostname hints at a new ChatGPT feature codenamed "Sonata" New OpenAI leak hints at upcoming ChatGPT features Microsoft releases OOB Windows updates to fix shutdown, Cloud PC bugs CIRO confirms data breach exposed info on 750,000 Canadian investors Google Chrome tests Gemini-powered AI "Skills" Google Chrome now lets you turn off on-device AI model powering scam detection Credential-stealing Chrome extensions target enterprise HR platforms Malicious GhostPoster browser extensions found with 840,000 installs

Ars Technica

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 Six months later, Trump Mobile still hasn’t delivered preordered phones US government to take 25% cut of AMD, NVIDIA AI sales to China FBI fights leaks by seizing Washington Post reporter’s phone, laptops, and watch US gov’t: House sysadmin stole 200 phones, caught by House IT desk Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE critics Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month Starlink tries to stay online in Iran as regime jams signals during protests 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.

Slashdot

WhatsApp Texts Are Not Contracts, Judge Rules in $2M Divorce Row More US States are Putting Bitcoin on Public Balance Sheets Acer Sues Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, Alleging Infringment on Acer's Cellular Networking Patents Two More Offshore Wind Projects in the US Allowed to Continue Construction What Happened After Security Researchers Found 60 Flock Cameras Livestreaming to the Internet Supreme Court May Block Thousands of Lawsuits Over Monsanto's Weed Killer Biggest Offshore Wind Project In US To Resume Construction Judge Orders Anna's Archive To Delete Scraped Data Trump Wants Tech Companies To Foot the Bill For New Power Plants Supreme Court Hacker Posted Stolen Government Data On Instagram Iran's Internet Shutdown Is Now One of the Longest Ever Italy's Privacy Watchdog, Scourge of US Big Tech, Hit By Corruption Probe Pentagon Purchases a Device Allegedly Linked To Havana Syndrome Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans

Events

The Verge

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 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

The Cipher Brief

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 Russia Signals Minimal Desire for Peace Why Labeling Muslim Brotherhood “Chapters” as Terrorist Groups Is Problematic Uber Krysha: How Russia Turns Crime into Power—and Poison Iran’s Crumbling Revolutionary Facade: How Today’s Protests Could Reshape the Region in 2026

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Social media without socializing The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification Catch this! How the Light Gets In It's not normal Sorry, eh A winning trade war strategy for Canada Predistribution vs redistribution bunnie's piggyback hack Where did the money go?