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Waymo partners with Toyota to bring autonomous driving to personal vehicles Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself Bamba: An open-source LLM that crosses a transformer with an SSM Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon I use zip bombs to protect my server Path Isn't Real on Linux China's Clinical Trial Boom It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle Performance optimization is hard because it's fundamentally a brute-force task ArkFlow: High-performance Rust stream processing engine Modern Realty (YC S24) Is Hiring Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices Programming languages should have a tree traversal primitive Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data Firefox tab groups are here Show HN: An MCP server for understanding AWS costs Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (2010) Finding paths of least action with gradient descent (2023) The last masters of Afro-Colombian machete fencing Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail Show HN: An interactive demo of QR codes' error correction Show HN: AgenticSeek – Self-hosted alternative to cloud-based AI tools Show HN: Flowcode – Turing-complete visual programming platform LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo A single line of code cost $8000 AirBorne: Wormable zero-click remote code execution (RCE) in AirPlay protocol We need more optimistic science fiction Try Switching to KagiBleeping Computer
Grinex exchange suspected rebrand of sanctioned Garantex crypto firm Microsoft: Windows Server hotpatching to require subscription Hackers ramp up scans for leaked Git tokens and secrets France ties Russian APT28 hackers to 12 cyberattacks on French orgs Apple 'AirBorne' flaws can lead to zero-click AirPlay RCE attacks SK Telecom cyberattack: Free SIM replacements for 25 million customers Microsoft fixes Outlook paste, blank calendar rendering issues CISA tags Broadcom Fabric OS, CommVault flaws as exploited in attacks Google: 97 zero-days exploited in 2024, over 50% in spyware attacks Marks & Spencer breach linked to Scattered Spider ransomware attack Hitachi Vantara takes servers offline after Akira ransomware attack VeriSource now says February data breach impacts 4 million people Over 1,200 SAP NetWeaver servers vulnerable to actively exploited flawArs Technica
FCC urges courts to ignore 5th Circuit ruling that agency can’t issue fines Montana’s Republican legislators fight back after successful youth climate lawsuit Trump’s National Climate Assessment: No funding and all authors cut loose Trump’s hasty Take It Down Act has “gaping flaws” that threaten encryption DOGE could help Musk firms avoid $2.3B in government penalties, Democrats say Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark Mike Lindell’s lawyers used AI to write brief—judge finds nearly 30 mistakes FBI offers $10 million for information about Salt Typhoon members Thermal imaging shows xAI lied about supercomputer pollution, group says Report: TP-Link’s low router prices probed in criminal antitrust investigation Comcast president bemoans broadband customer losses: “We are not winning” Trump orders Ed Dept to make AI a national priority while plotting agency’s death New Android spyware is targeting Russian military personnel on the front lines FCC Democrat slams chairman for aiding Trump’s “campaign of censorship” AI secretly helped write California bar exam, sparking uproar Trump is “desperate” to make a deal—China isn’t, analysts say Apple and Meta furious at EU over fines totaling €700 million Zuckerberg stifled Instagram because he loves Facebook, Instagram founder says Taxes and fees not included: T-Mobile’s latest price lock is nearly meaningless Harvard sues to block government funding cutsSlashdot
New York Lawmakers Reach Deal On 'Bell-To-Bell' School Cellphone Ban OIN Marks 20 Years of Defending Linux and Open Source From Patent Trolls India Court Orders Proton Mail Block On Security Grounds Fired Disney Employee Gets 3 Years in Prison For Hacking and Changing Menus Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show Milwaukee Police Consider Trading Millions of Mugshots For Free Facial Recognition Access 23andMe Requiring Potential Bidders To Affirm They Will Uphold Data Privacy Could a 'Math Genius' AI Co-author Proofs Within Three Years? 'Read the Manual': Misconfigured Google Analytics Led to a Data Breach Affecting 4.7M US Attorney for D.C. Accuses Wikipedia of 'Propaganda', Threatens Nonprofit Status Government Censorship Comes To Bluesky Employee Monitoring App Leaks 21 Million Screenshots In Real Time New Jersey Sues Property Management Software Firm RealPage, Says Collusion With Landlords Drives Up Rents Draft Executive Order Outlines Plan To Integrate AI Into K-12 Schools WhatsApp Blocks People From Exporting Your Entire Chat HistoryEvents
The Verge
AirPlay security flaws could help hackers spread malware on your network Signalgate: Pete Hegseth’s problematic passion for groupchats WhatsApp now lets you block people from exporting your entire chat history Beware of this sneaky Google phishing scam Trump administration decides to fund CVE cybersecurity tracker after all The CVE program for tracking security flaws is about to lose federal funding 4chan’s ‘cesspool of the internet’ is down after apparently being hacked Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few daysThe Cipher Brief
The U.S. Tries to Halt a Shipbuilding Crisis Assessing the Dangers of a ‘New Nuclear Age’ Space: A Final Frontier for National Security? OPINION: Assessing the State of our National Security Can the CIA and U.S. military stop the Mexican cartels? 20 Years Later, Assessing the Value of the ODNI Leveraging AI in ‘No-Fail Mission’ for U.S. Intelligence The ODNI, 20 Years After Its Creation: Reflections From the First Director The Pathways to a New U.S.-Iran Nuclear Deal One Month Into U.S. Campaign, Assessing Damage to the HouthisBlogs
Cory Doctorow
Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you The enshittification of tech jobs Every complex ecosystem has parasites Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People' More Everything Forever Trump's FTC opens the floodgates for tariff profiteering Against transparency Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case Trump fought the law and Trump won Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairsArchive