Hacker News

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure Faking a JPEG jank is C++ Preliminary report into Air India crash released A software conference that advocates for quality Dict Unpacking in Python Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video] Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper Activeloop (YC S18) Is Hiring AI Search and Python Back End Engineers(Onsite,MV) Monorail – Turn CSS animations into interactive SVG graphs Apple vs the Law Show HN: RULER – Easily apply RL to any agent Repaste Your MacBook Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024) Introduction to Digital Filters '123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's job applicants At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says Pa. House passes 'click-to-cancel' subscription bills In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels I'm done with social media – Or: why I have a blog now LLM Inference Handbook The ChompSaw: A benchtop power tool that's safe for kids to use OpenFront: Realtime Risk-like multiplayer game in the browser Million Times Million I'm more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I've built since Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses

Bleeping Computer

'123456' password exposed chats for 64 million McDonald’s job applicants Exploits for pre-auth Fortinet FortiWeb RCE flaw released, patch now WordPress Gravity Forms developer hacked to push backdoored plugins NVIDIA shares guidance to defend GDDR6 GPUs against Rowhammer attacks The zero-day that could've compromised every Cursor and Windsurf user CISA tags Citrix Bleed 2 as exploited, gives agencies a day to patch Windows 11 now uses JScript9Legacy engine for improved security Russian pro basketball player arrested for alleged role in ransomware attacks PerfektBlue Bluetooth flaws impact Mercedes, Volkswagen, Skoda cars FBI's CJIS demystified: Best practices for passwords, MFA & access control Four arrested in UK over M&S, Co-op, Harrods cyberattacks Microsoft Authenticator on iOS moves backups fully to iCloud

Ars Technica

Trump’s DOJ seems annoyed about having to approve T-Mobile’s latest merger Cops’ favorite AI tool automatically deletes evidence of when AI was used T-Mobile follows orders from Trump FCC, ends DEI to get two mergers approved Everything tech giants will hate about the EU’s new AI rules Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t. Verizon’s request to lock phones supported by police, opposed by users Linda Yaccarino quits X without saying why, one day after Grok praised Hitler Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” Court nullifies “click-to-cancel” rule that required easy methods of cancellation Mike Lindell lost defamation case, and his lawyers were fined for AI hallucinations As California faces court battles, states scramble to save their climate goals Trump and Congress finalize law that could hurt your Wi-Fi US may get its own glitchy version of TikTok if Trump’s deal works out Judge: You can’t ban DEI grants without bothering to define DEI xAI data center gets air permit to run 15 turbines, but imaging shows 24 on site Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court Paramount accused of bribery as it settles Trump lawsuit for $16 million FCC chair decides inmates and their families must keep paying high phone prices Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, 4chan, and Telegram, docs show

Slashdot

Russian Basketball Player Arrested in France Over Alleged Ransomware Ties Qantas Confirms Data Breach Impacts 5.7 Million Customers German Court Rules Meta Tracking Tech Violates EU Privacy Laws Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Accusing Apple of Taking Bribes To Avoid Competing With Visa and Mastercard Swedish Bodyguards Reveal Prime Minister's Location on Fitness App McDonald's AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data To Hackers Court Nullifies 'Click-To-Cancel' Rule That Required Easy Methods of Cancellation The Military Might Finally Win the Right To Repair Georgia Court Throws Out Earlier Ruling That Relied on Fake Cases Made Up By AI X Says It's 'Deeply Concerned' About India Press Censorship Fubo Pays $3.4 Million To Settle Claims It Illegally Shared User Data With Advertisers Samsung and Epic Games Call a Truce In App Store Lawsuit Drones Used by California Cities to Patrol for Illegal Fireworks and Issue Fines Police Department Apologizes for Sharing AI-Doctored Evidence Photo on Social Media Will FaceTime In IOS 26 Freeze Your Call If Someone Starts Undressing?

Events

The Verge

The Columbia hack is a much bigger deal than Mamdani’s college application Activision pulls Call of Duty game after PC players are hacked AT&T now lets you lock down your account to prevent SIM swapping attacks Tinder’s mandatory facial recognition check comes to the US Microsoft Authenticator is ending support for passwords Hundreds of Brother printer models have an unpatchable security flaw How vulnerable is critical infrastructure to cyberattack in the US? Windows is getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death after 40 years

The Cipher Brief

The Neoprime Club: Silicon Valley and The Rise of Defense Disruptors How Trump Can Be the Winning President in Ukraine Getting Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping As Nukes Spread, Robust Missile Defenses Must Rise The Real Impact of a Nuclear Bomb As Taiwan Launches Military Drills, a Pressing Question for Washington U.S. Cyber Defense Starts with Defining Standards and Driving Collaboration Expert Q&A: What to Watch for at the Trump-Netanyahu Meeting Can President Trump Get a "Big, Beautiful" Deal in the Middle East? To Counter China, Reform U.S. Intelligence for the Digital Age

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor Tessa Hulls's "Feeding Ghosts" How much Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity Bill Griffith's 'Three Rocks' Surveillance is inequality's stabilizer What's a "public internet?" Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth The case for a Canadian wealth tax Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers'