▸ A security researcher registered abandoned e164.arpa subdomains and started receiving ENUM lookups for phone calls, including numbers at U.S. military...
▸ Anna's Archive says AI firms are buying up rare books, cutting the spines off to feed sheet-fed scanners, and pulping what remains — often the only co...
▸ Google won the auction for Spirit Airlines' customer database — names, itineraries, loyalty data — after the airline liquidated, and cited AI training...
▸ Bloomberg reports Stripe is nearing a $7B+ acquisition of OpenRouter — up from a $1.3B round just months ago.
▸ Aaron Swartz faced 35 years and $1M in fines under the CFAA for downloading JSTOR articles; Meta torrented 81.7TB of pirated books to train Llama and ...
▸ depthfirst.com disclosed 21 zero-days in FFmpeg — the codec library quietly embedded in nearly every video pipeline on the internet.
▸ A 2001 MIT paper by Repenning and Sterman is back on HN (243 points) — it explains why firefighters get promoted and preventers get fired.
▸ Mullvad's analysis frames mass surveillance as a competition between Western democracies — UK, France, Sweden, EU — each pushing the boundary of what'...
▸ Oak is a new version control system pitched as a Git replacement, optimized for AI agents working in parallel on partial clones.
▸ Gergely Orosz's 576-point HN post documents Meta's PSC turning into a forced curve where ~10% must be labeled 'Below Expectations' regardless of actua...
▸ A bearblog essay titled 'Jobs and Software Is Fucked' cleared 168 points on Hacker News, the latest in a string of front-page posts diagnosing the sof...
▸ A trending GitHub issue (#29045) on anthropics/claude-code reports Claude Desktop silently spins up a background VM with no UI to stop it.
▸ A new survey pegs the average knowledge worker at 6+ hours/week supervising, correcting, and re-prompting AI — a line item nobody put on the ROI deck.
▸ ESA's Genesis-precursor measurements show GPS interference is roughly an order of magnitude more widespread than prior ground-based estimates suggeste...
▸ MusicDecoy (614 on HN) is the latest in a long line of micro-utilities fixing Apple's deliberate UX choices for free.
▸ A researcher pulled the STM32 firmware off a deactivated Cricut Maker, patched the activation check, and turned an e-waste paperweight back into a wor...
▸ A viral HN post (324 points) argues the 'code was never the hard part' talking point is a rhetorical trick to justify replacing engineers with LLMs.
▸ Apple is bumping MacBook and iPad prices mid-cycle, blaming a NAND and DRAM spot-market spike rather than tariffs or a new SKU.
▸ Peoria, Illinois is converting land donated for a public park into a 400-acre hyperscale data center site, breaking a 1950s-era deed promise.
▸ Niantic spun out Vantor to license its Visual Positioning System — built from a decade of player-uploaded AR scans — for GPS-denied drone navigation.