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The Llama 4 herd North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover Setup QEMU Output to Serial Console and Automate Tests with Shell Scripts (2019) Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think? We are still using 88x31 buttons Dynamic Register Allocation on AMD's RDNA 4 GPU Architecture Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++ Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos' What If We Made Advertising Illegal? A Vision for WebAssembly Support in Swift You Don't Have Time Not to Test Open Source Coalition Announces 'Model-Signing' to Strengthen ML Supply Chain Rich Text, Poor Text (2013) Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer Identifying a defective RAM IC on laptops with soldered memory Loader's Number Emulating an iPhone in QEMU Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Applied AI Engineers Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly (2024) The Importance of Fact-Checking Jumping Spiders Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us The blissful Zen of a good side project NASA's Project Scientist Faces Painful Choices as Voyager Mission Nears Its End Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative Tracking the international space station with an Arduino OpenVertebrate Presents a Database of 13,000 3D Scans of Specimens Show HN: OCR pipeline for ML training (tables, diagrams, math, multilingual) Database Protocols Are Underwhelming

Bleeping Computer

Coinbase to fix 2FA account activity entry freaking out users WinRAR flaw bypasses Windows Mark of the Web security alerts Port of Seattle says ransomware breach impacts 90,000 people PoisonSeed phishing campaign behind emails with wallet seed phrases Australian pension funds hit by wave of credential stuffing attacks Europcar GitLab breach exposes data of up to 200,000 customers OpenAI's $20 ChatGPT Plus is now free for students until the end of May Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet Hunters International shifts from ransomware to pure data extortion Microsoft starts testing Windows 11 taskbar icon scaling CISA warns of Fast Flux DNS evasion used by cybercrime gangs Ivanti patches Connect Secure zero-day exploited since mid-March

Ars Technica

Judge calls out OpenAI’s “straw man” argument in New York Times copyright suit EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network NJ teen wins fight to put nudify app users in prison, impose fines up to $30K Critics suspect Trump’s weird tariff math came from chatbots Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says Vast pedophile network shut down in Europol’s largest CSAM operation Not just Signal: Michael Waltz reportedly used Gmail for government messages DOGE staffer’s YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity “Chaos” at state health agencies after US illegally axed grants, lawsuit says FTC: 23andMe buyer must honor firm’s privacy promises for genetic data DOGE accesses federal payroll system and punishes employees who objected Even Trump may not be able to save Elon Musk from his old tweets France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk’s crosshairs FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. Elon Musk’s X has a new owner—Elon Musk’s xAI Ex-FCC chairs from both parties say CBS news distortion investigation is bogus EU will go easy with Apple, Facebook punishment to avoid Trump’s wrath Trump can’t fire us, FTC Democrats tell court after being ejected from office

Slashdot

Makers of Rent-Setting Software Sue California City Over Ban OpenAI's Motion to Dismiss Copyright Claims Rejected by Judge Trump Extends TikTok Deadline For the Second Time AI Avatar Tries To Argue Case Before a New York Court Massive Expansion of Italy's Piracy Shield Underway Microsoft, Amazon Execs Call Out Washington's Low-Performing 9-Year-Olds In Tax Pushback Vast Pedophile Network Shut Down In Europol's Largest CSAM Operation Global Scam Industry Evolving at 'Unprecedented Scale' Despite Recent Crackdown Alleged Deel Spy Confesses To Coordinating with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz Substack Says It'll Legally Defend Writers 'Targeted By the Government' Donkey Kong Champion Wins Defamation Case Against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst FTC Says 23andMe Purchaser Must Uphold Existing Privacy Policy For Data Handling Arkansas Social Media Age Verification Law Blocked By Federal Judge UK's GCHQ Intern Transferred Top Secret Files To His Phone Google To Pay $100 Million To Settle 14-Year-Old Advertising Lawsuit

The Verge

NSA director fired after Trump’s meeting with right-wing influencer Laura Loomer Trump adviser reportedly used personal Gmail for ‘sensitive’ military discussions Gmail is making it easier for businesses to send encrypted emails to anyone Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design Vivaldi bundles Proton VPN into its web browser The Atlantic releases strike group chat messages Trump officials planned a military strike over Signal – with a magazine editor on the line Alleged Snowflake hacker agrees to be extradited to the US

Cory Doctorow

How the world's leading breach expert got phished End-stage capitalism What's wrong with tariffs Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined Private-sector Trumpism #RedForEd rides again in LA Big Tech and "captive audience venues" Reality-Based Communities The AOC-Sanders anti-oligarch tour is all about organizing Why I don't like AI art

Bruce Schneier

Friday Squid Blogging: Two-Man Giant Squid Troy Hunt Gets Phished Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity Rational Astrologies and Security Cell Phone OPSEC for Border Crossings The Signal Chat Leak and the NSA Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Werewolf Hacking Group AIs as Trusted Third Parties A Taxonomy of Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks and Mitigations AI Data Poisoning