Hacker News

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models It's getting harder to focus every day Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey Flux 3 Plants vs. Zombies for PlayStation 2 3GPP Version 19 Latest Airbus Single Aisle Aircraft Innovations Codeberg Divides WebGPU Unleashed: A Practical Tutorial Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist, married to wait, what? Em dashes are fucking amazing

Bleeping Computer

Microsoft blames massive Microsoft 365 outage on maintenance bug Chick-fil-A data breach affects more than 13,000 customers Slopsquatting, Phantom Domains, and HalluSquatting Are the Same AI Attack Europol flags 4,340 URLs for removal in 'The Com' crackdown Man gets six years for hacking 750 women's Snapchat accounts Clop ransomware targets Windchill, FlexPLM in data theft attacks New Dolphin X malware uses AI to rank high-value targets Australian energy provider Origin says data breach exposes client data Fake Claude app promoted by Bing ads pushes SectopRAT malware Russian hackers exploit Zimbra zero-click flaw for email theft Hackers abuse Notepad++ plugins to stealthily install malware Microsoft 365 outage affects Teams, SharePoint and other services FedRAMP Rev5 Is Ending: What the 20x Transition Really Requires EU fines Google $1 billion for search, app store antitrust violations New RefluXFS Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges

Ars Technica

AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems Google hit with $1 billion in fines as EU braces for Trump battle ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out DA: Cop covered bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his iPhone—but other cams caught him Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states AT&T loses key ruling in bid to stop offering basic phone service in California AliExpress hit with record $625M fine after failing to make EU-ordered fixes San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users. Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds

Slashdot

Google Adds Selfie Video As a Log-In Option Oracle Signs 10-Year Software Contract With Pentagon Worth Up To $7 Billion OpenAI Says Its AI Models Acted On Its Own In An 'Unprecedented' Hack France Becomes First European Country To Ban Social Media Access For Under-15s Judge Approves $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement Over Pirated Books Used To Train Claude AT&T Loses Key Ruling In Bid To Stop Offering Basic Phone Service In California Judge Pauses Paramount-Warner Bros Merger Hackers Are Exploiting Recently Patched WordPress Bugs, Putting Millions of Websites at Risk New Free Speech Concern: When AI Chatbots Won't Criticize Leaders from Repressive Regimes California's 'Truth in Recycling' Law Blocked by Judge France Orders ISPs to Block Access to Polymarket How Microsoft's 'Little Workaround' Created a Major Threat to America's Defense Department Next UK Prime Minister Drops Digital ID Scheme FBI Arrests Man Accused of Using Steam Games To Drain Victims' Crypto Wallets Apple Sends Legal Letters To Dozens of OpenAI Employees

Events

The Verge

Google now lets you sign in to your account using a selfie video OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos Microsoft’s biggest ever patch Tuesday lets you hold off updating for longer Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House The FBI built a small town to simulate cyberattacks Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban

Cipher Brief

Is Iran Controlling the Gulf Conflict? The Arsenal of Autonomy: Doctrine and Industry Recommendations for the Age of Autonomous Warfare The $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Without a Strategy Ankara's Charm Offensive Should Not Buy Back the F-35 25 Years After 9/11, the Next Global Shock Could be Worse Winning Battles, Losing Strategy: Why Military Superiority No Longer Guarantees Victory Cold War 2.0 Will Be Won by Private Capital The Pentagon Built a Faster Engine, Nobody Built the Steering The West Must Tell Russians the Truth About the War A Master List of Espionage Targets, Suspected Spies, and Potential Recruits Afghanistan Lost the Cognitive War Before It Lost the State Washington’s Spy Ring and Paine’s Democracy Inside the $87.6 Billion Iran War Supplemental America’s Military Plans Depend on Infrastructure It Doesn’t Secure Trump’s Dangerous Bet on Pakistan’s Army Chief

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