Claude Used to Automate Exploitation and Data Theft Across Multiple Victims
Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI)...
Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection
Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve. The operation has been attributed to a cyber espionage group it...
This Machine Makes 35mm (Almost) Film
The revival in film photography has brought a range of specialist films to tempt the experimenter, as well as increased the popularity of loading your own cartridges. But perforating the film from blank stock has always been beyond the reach of home gamers. Now [Jon...
Where should Apple go after the iPhone Duo? Bring on smaller and larger foldables
Come on Apple, just keep following in the footsteps of Samsung, ASUS and so many other foldable makers.
HuggingFace: Security.txt
Article URL: https://huggingface.co/security.txt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659245 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
New York thoracic surgeon: “For many patients 9/11 is not over”
Article URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/11/sept-11-25th-anniversary-ground-zero-exposure-cancer-moment-of-silence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658819 Points: 11 # Comments: 3
Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he’s back in control after CEO ouster
In a Slack message seen by TechCrunch, Matt Mullenweg told Automattic employees he’s back in control of the company, days after its board put him on leave. Automattic has not yet confirmed the apparent reversal.
Why Bullshit Jobs Are (Finally) Dying [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QecDVkcGPxY Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658370 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Higher prices can’t crimp server sales as AI drives demand
While high memory costs have hurt PC shipments, the server market continues to grow as AI infrastructure spending spreads beyond hyperscalers to corporate and government buyers. According to market intelligence firm IDC, the second quarter was a bumper one for the...
Britain’s technology brief is now everyone’s job and nobody’s responsibility
OPINION "Where do we put digital government? You know, all those billions we spend on consultants and legacy systems?" "Oh, that! Put it with sports and tourism. And something we're calling 'place'." It might be a fictional conversation between a SpAd* and a...
EU’s Cyber Resilience Act starts the 24-hour vulnerability clock
Manufacturers selling products with digital elements in the EU must now report actively exploited vulnerabilities to cybersecurity authorities under the Cyber Resilience Act's mandatory reporting rules. The reporting duties set out in Article 14 of the CRA became...
Ukrainian lawyer’s second career as a Conti coder earns him 4 years behind bars
A Ukrainian lawyer who wound up coding malware for the Conti ransomware gang has been sentenced to four years in a US prison. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, 44, pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to commit wire fraud over his role in Conti, the Russia-linked...
Union body tells UK government workers must get a say before AI clocks in
Britain's biggest trade union body wants workers to have the right to negotiate over AI before employers decide which parts of their jobs to hand over to machines. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called on the government to give workers more say over how AI is...
In Other News: InjectEave Attack, SIM Swapper Sentenced, Glasswing Findings Review
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Invisible Unicode slips past phishing filters, US puts $10 million bounty on Iranian cyber official, military ties of Chinese hacking group QTFY. The post In Other News: InjectEave Attack, SIM Swapper...
Chamilo 3.0 – open-source LMS with native MCP server (PAuth2.1)
Article URL: https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/releases/tag/v3.0.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658472 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Show HN: ClaudeStatsBar: your session is 486k deep and nothing told you
Article URL: https://github.com/Field-Logic-Ltd/ClaudeStatsBar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658328 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
Re-Engineering YouTube for the Living Room: Bringing “Chrobalt” to RDK
Article URL: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/re-engineering-youtube-for-the-living-room-bringing-%E2%80%9Cchrobalt%E2%80%9D-to-rdk.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658302 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
If coding is solved, what now?: Measuring the sloppiness of code
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/measuring-code-sloppiness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658311 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
This Week in Security: It’s Patch Tuesday Again, TVs Spying, Supply Chain Worms Return, Prolonged Hack Impacts, Stolen IDs
Several times this summer, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, the monthly roundup of major security patches for Microsoft products, has included record-breaking numbers of security fixes. The August 2026 patch set actually seemed to catch up. Was this a sign of the bug...
Your Critical Vulnerabilities Might Not Be Your Biggest Risk
Security teams have become exceptionally talented at finding vulnerabilities. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to optimizing the process for determining which of those vulnerabilities actually create a path to compromise. A critical vulnerability may look alarming...
Houthis ‘take control’ of key island in global shipping route
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cmd683p01eljt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658299 Points: 26 # Comments: 4
Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time
Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rising-diesel-prices-consumer-impact/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658192 Points: 15 # Comments: 8
Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
Over past couple months I noticed that HN feed is almost exclusively AI or AI-adjacent news. Meanwhile the legitimately, broadly-hacker stuff gets left out for the most part.I noticed that because the things I find genuinely interesting that I post here now get zero...
Maersk is testing a giant spinning cylinder to cut fuel use on cargo ships
On a cargo ship packed with 8,700 shipping containers, there isn’t much room for anything else. But in a new test aboard one of its vessels, Maersk is making an exception for a giant rotor sail—a spinning cylinder 10 to 12 stories tall that harnesses wind to help...
Scammers target hundreds of thousands of crypto owners after Trezor confirms data breach of email provider
This is the second data breach affecting a company that hardware crypto wallet maker Trezor relies on.
U.S. marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks
Americans are commemorating the 25th anniversary of 9/11, remembering the shock, the dead and the sweeping consequences of the al-Qaida attacks on symbols of U.S. might and prosperity.Friday’s milestone anniversary will bring memorial rituals — wreath-laying,...
O’Charley’s store closures: See a list of locations where the casual dining chain has shuttered restaurants
Another restaurant chain has closed locations. This time it’s the American casual dining chain O’Charley’s Restaurant & Bar, which is owned by Cannae Holdings Inc. And according to multiple media reports, the closures happened nearly out of the blue. Here’s what...
Bose QuietComfort Headphones (2nd gen) review: Upgraded in all the right places
Ultra-level features and a few design tweaks highlight the updates on the second-gen QuietComfort Headphones.
Remember Hong Kong
Article URL: https://www.thenextmove.org/p/remember-hong-kong Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657361 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Moonshot serves Claude instead of Kimi and collects exchanges for model training
Article URL: https://twitter.com/DavidAgranovich/status/2098168522862215449 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656698 Points: 7 # Comments: 0