Hacker News

NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry Show HN: Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics Building a TUI is easy now Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action Font Rendering from First Principles Gradient.horse Adventures in Neural Rendering The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling gRPC: From service definition to wire format Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission Monosketch What dating apps are optimizing. Hint: It isn't love The Blurred Line Between Video Calling and Live Streaming Software An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened I'm not worried about AI job loss How did the Maya survive? Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills WolfSSL sucks too, so now what? Advanced Aerial Robotics Made Simple CSS-Doodle The wonder of modern drywall Faster Than Dijkstra? Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles Sandwich Bill of Materials New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf] Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video]

Bleeping Computer

Fake job recruiters hide malware in developer coding challenges Claude LLM artifacts abused to push Mac infostealers in ClickFix attack Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Tiffany fined $25 million over data breaches Turning IBM QRadar Alerts into Action with Criminal IP CISA flags critical Microsoft SCCM flaw as exploited in attacks Microsoft fixes bug that blocked Google Chrome from launching Russia tries to block WhatsApp, Telegram in communication blockade Bitwarden introduces ‘Cupid Vault’ for secure password sharing Critical BeyondTrust RCE flaw now exploited in attacks, patch now Microsoft: New Windows LNK spoofing issues aren't vulnerabilities Romania's oil pipeline operator Conpet confirms data stolen in attack Odido data breach exposes personal info of 6.2 million customers WordPress plugin with 900k installs vulnerable to critical RCE flaw AMOS infostealer targets macOS through a popular AI app Fake AI Chrome extensions with 300K users steal credentials, emails

Ars Technica

Aided by AI, California beach town broadens hunt for bike lane blockers Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say EPA kills foundation of greenhouse gas regulations Trump FTC wants Apple News to promote more Fox News and Breitbart stories US consumers, business pay 90% of tariff costs, says Federal Reserve Trump orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site After Republican complaints, judicial body pulls climate advice Trump FCC investigates The View, reportedly says "fake news" will be punished Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case EU says TikTok needs to drop "addictive design" "ICE Out of Our Faces Act" would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites FBI stymied by Apple's Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist's iPhone Judge gives Musk bad news, says Trump hasn't intervened to block SEC lawsuit

Slashdot

Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback Ring Cancels Its Partnership With Flock Safety After Surveillance Backlash WP Engine Says Automattic Planned To Shake Down 10 Hosting Companies For WordPress Royalties With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Discord Tries To Walk Back Age Verification Panic, Says Most Users Won't Need Face Scans ByteDance Suspends Seedance 2 Feature That Turns Facial Photos Into Personal Voices Over Potential Risks Autodesk Takes Google To Court Over AI Movie Software Named 'Flow' Discord Will Require a Face Scan or ID for Full Access Next Month After Six Years, Two Pentesters Arrested in Iowa Receive $600,000 Settlement Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private White House Scraps 'Burdensome' Software Security Rules Former Google Engineer Found Guilty of Stealing AI Secrets For Chinese Firms Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says

Events

The Verge

Microsoft fixes Notepad flaw that could trick users into clicking malicious Markdown links Microsoft is keeping Secure Boot alive with Windows updates Substack data breach exposed users’ emails and phone numbers OpenClaw’s AI ‘skill’ extensions are a security nightmare Google Cloud’s customer chief returns to Microsoft as head of security Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China OpenClaw: all the news about the trending AI agent WhatsApp’s new ‘lockdown’ settings add another layer of protection against cyberattacks

The Cipher Brief

From the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Precedent Problem in U.S. Inside the High-Stakes U.S. Pressure Campaign on Iran Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U.S. Decision Systems A Path to Understanding Autonomy in Defense Technology Standing Up to a Spy: My Run-In with Aldrich Ames Russia’s Promises of Security Lead to Ukraine's Frontlines After New START: America Weighs a New Nuclear Strategy The Former Head of NSA on the Future of U.S. Cybersecurity Xi Jinping Tightens Grip as China’s Military Purge Deepens From Secrets to Sensors: Why Open Source Data Must Drive Modern Intelligence

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Trump antitrust is dead Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world The Nuremberg Caucus The Epstein class and collapse porn End of the line for video essays Luxury Kafka All laws are local Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World" Michael Swanwick's "The Universe Box"