Hacker News

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates Web Search API How to save a life without knowing CPR Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 Incident with Actions The Future of Mathematics Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016) Our approach to EU text provenance rules Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort Apple and a hacker's future Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

Bleeping Computer

Rejetto HFS servers now actively scanned for critical RCE flaw IQVIA fined $7.8 million for failing to properly anonymize health data Denmark population registry data breach affects 8.8 million people New Dell System Update flaw lets hackers gain root privileges South Korea probes bank breaches amid suspected AI-powered attacks tenfold CE: Our free Identity Governance tool just got 2 new features Alleged dev of Ploutus ATM malware appears in US court after arrest OpenAI will show visual ads in ChatGPT while you generate images Microsoft: Windows KB5124010 update crashes some games and apps Google halts open-source bug bounty program amid AI spam surge Citrix patches NetScaler SAML zero-day exploited in attacks Anthropic asks Claude users to share voice data for AI model training Google Gemini could soon get full access to your Mac’s files, apps and the web ShinyHunters hacker reportedly detained in Jordan, aiding FBI Danish university DTU breach exposes data of up to 200,000 people

Ars Technica

Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search Florida cops say they don't know who owns 11 unpermitted Flock cameras Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant. Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves "An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws

Slashdot

Meta Rushed To Fix Muse 'VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch Norway Plans Temporary Ban on Smart Glasses Anthropic Reports Florida Woman's Claude 'Diary' Threat to Law Enforcement Huawei and Qualcomm Struck a Broad Multi-Year Patent Licensing Deal FBI Detains Teenager Linked to Group That Stole Data on 5,000 FBI Employees Radio Broadcasters Support America's 'AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act' San Francisco's Car Crime Has Plunged. How Much Credit Does Flock Deserve? US Bank Regulator Sued Over Crypto Firm Charters by Community Bank Advocates Three EU Officials Not Sold on Europe's Homegrown Alternative to Microsoft Teams Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras President Trump Doxxes Senator's Cellphone in Push For Permanent Daylight Saving Time California's Governor Wants Worker Protections from AI. But FSF Thinks Kill Switches are 'Dangerous Precedent' US Judge Rules Flock Search Was Mass Surveillance. Bernie Sanders Proposes 'Ban Flock Act' New Mexico Wants Meta To Pay $40 Billion In Penalties For Cambridge Analytica Scandal Apple Tightens macOS 'Full Disk Access' Controls As AI Agents 'Substantially' Increase Risk

Events

The Verge

Suspected ShinyHunters leader arrested in the Netherlands AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready Nvidia says its new AI safety platform can contain rogue agents within ‘milliseconds’ OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’ Muse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki

Cipher Brief

The Pentagon’s 2027 Drone Problem Iran Calls Itself the Victim, Its Record Tells Another Story Exactly how could AI kill humans? Nasrallah is Dead. Hezbollah’s Social Lifeline is Not. BLUF: Russian Strategic Culture Drives its Callous and Brutal Actions How the Intelligence Community Can Shape AI Trust With New Terminology The Coupang Breach and the Danger of Punishing the Headline Number The Houthis Took the Red Sea Coast. How Did Washington Miss It? AI Is Coming to the Counter-Drone Fight Trump’s Rejection of Iran Offer Highlights Another Big Problem NATO Can’t Count Its Way to Maritime Superiority Iran’s Regime Is Weaker Than It Looks A warning about ‘model welfare’ Navigating a More Uncertain World: Lessons from CIA’s Red Cell When Threats Move Faster Than Institutions

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Scrutinized (05 Oct 2026) Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026) Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026) Lindsay Owens's "Gouged" (29 Sep 2026) Priceful (28 Sep 2026) Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026) Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs (22 Sep 2026) The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) Textured (18 Sep 2026) On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026) How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026) But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026) LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026)