Hacker News

Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA How we lost communication to entertainment Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure Floor796 2025 was the year Xbox died Project Vend: Phase Two Gpg.fail Text rendering hates you (2019) Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi Immer – A library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++ Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English Clock synchronization is a nightmare Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32 7- and 14-segment fonts "DSEG" OrangePi 6 Plus Review Toll roads are spreading in America The Dangers of SSL Certificates Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales? Say No to Palantir in the NHS Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early '90s (2024) Mruby: Ruby for Embedded Systems Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 [video] Exe.dev Splice a Fibre Pre-commit hooks are broken

Bleeping Computer

OpenAI's ChatGPT ads will allegedly prioritize sponsored content in answers Fake Grubhub emails promise tenfold return on sent cryptocurrency Trust Wallet confirms extension hack led to $7 million crypto theft ChatGPT’s new formatting blocks make its UI look more like a task tool Google will finally allow you to change your @gmail.com address OpenAI is reportedly testing Claude-like Skills for ChatGPT Fake MAS Windows activation domain used to spread PowerShell malware Microsoft Teams to let admins block external users via Defender portal MongoDB warns admins to patch severe vulnerability immediately FBI seizes domain storing bank credentials stolen from U.S. victims

Ars Technica

How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade Instacart agrees to refund subscribers $60 million in FTC settlement ByteDance confirms TikTok will be controlled by US owners School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn’t an error. Man sues cops who jailed him for 37 days for trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil FCC chair scrubs website after learning it called FCC an “independent agency” Bursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says 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

Slashdot

Apple To Allow Alternative App Stores For iOS Users In Brazil Italy Tells Meta To Suspend Its Policy That Bans Rival AI Chatbots From WhatsApp China Is Worried AI Threatens Party Rule US Bars Five Europeans It Says Pressured Tech Firms To Censor American Viewpoints Online Inside Uzbekistan's Nationwide License Plate Surveillance System John Carreyou and Other Authors Bring New Lawsuit Against Six Major AI Companies Judge Blocks Texas App Store Age Verification Law LimeWire Re-Emerges In Online Rush To Share Pulled '60 Minutes' Segment FCC Bans Foreign-Made Drones Over National Security, Spying Concerns Welcome To America's New Surveillance High Schools Spotify Says 'Anti-Copyright Extremists' Scraped Its Library In 2025 Scammers Have Stolen $835M from Americans Using Fake Customer Service Numbers The U.S. Could Ban Chinese-Made Drones Used By Police Departments Trump Admin to Hire 1,000 for New 'Tech Force' to Build AI Infrastructure Flock Executive Says Their Camera Helped Find Shooting Suspect, Addresses Privacy Concerns

Events

The Verge

Dozens of Flock AI camera feeds were just out there 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

The Cipher Brief

Modeling the Earth with AI is Now a Strategic Intelligence Imperative Why the ‘Double Tap’ Incident Matters Far Beyond a Single Strike The Push and Pull Between Washington and Beijing in the South China Sea This is Perhaps Ukraine’s Most Dangerous Time What It Means Now that Fentanyl is Designated a “WMD” Trying to Impose a Loser’s Peace on Ukraine Is a Dead End X’s Location Feature Exposes a Real Problem, but Does Not Fix It We Need More Than Just a Command Shakeup in the U.S. Military A Blueprint for Next-Generation Defense Production 2025: 10 Events That Changed the World

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance 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