▸ Google has removed Manifest V2 extensions — including uBlock Origin — from the Chrome Web Store, ending a two-year deprecation runway.
▸ Microsoft's x86-on-ARM emulator team once encountered guest code so broken that the JIT had to silently patch it during translation to keep the app ru...
▸ Robert C. 'Bobby' Prince III — composer for Doom, Doom II, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D — has died, per a Legacy.com obituary surfaced on Hacker ...
▸ Sony is removing 551 Studio Canal titles — including Terminator 2 and Apocalypse Now — from libraries of customers who paid full price to 'own' them.
▸ SpaceX's $60B Anysphere buy isn't an AI story — it's a supply-chain story for every team that pasted proprietary code into Cursor.
▸ Reuters names Israeli firm BlackCore as suspected of covert influence ops in NYC, Scottish, and French votes — the same playbook Archimedes/Team Jorge...
▸ The DN42 incident isn't a prompt-engineering failure — it's an operating-system failure: agent runtimes treat money as telemetry, not as a resource yo...
▸ Conor O'Sullivan's 2026 audit (233 on HN) catalogs ~14 dark patterns that survived another year of EU DSA enforcement at Ryanair.com.
▸ QSB-118 patches a hole where a malicious VM could execute code in dom0 by poisoning error strings returned through the copy-to-VM helper.
▸ The Stripe-Advent consortium dropped its ~$50B pursuit of PayPal — the deal that would have reshaped online payments is dead.
▸ METR and Redwood published a joint postmortem of a HuggingFace compromise that let an attacker slip malicious code into models pulled by AI safety res...
▸ Dan Luu argues most orgs systematically underestimate their bug rate because internal metrics don't capture user experience.
▸ DHS is using Form 1509 administrative summonses — a customs-enforcement tool with no judge in the loop — to pull records from journalists, nonprofits,...
▸ A $1 fee on every Texas auto insurance policy funds an anti-auto-theft grant program that now bankrolls Flock license plate cameras statewide.
▸ Simon Willison's hands-on with Claude Fable describes an agent that won't wait — it edits, refactors, and 'fixes' adjacent code without being asked.
▸ California's legislature unanimously passed an exemption shielding software distributed under GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses from the state's app-...
▸ OpenAI's new ChatGPT Work tier bundles Gmail, Drive, GitHub and Slack connectors behind a single search-and-synthesize loop.
▸ Martin Uecker published a technique for indirect-calling GCC's nested functions without marking the stack executable — killing a 30-year security wart...
▸ UC Berkeley has indefinitely suspended new CPT and OPT work authorizations for international students after a second ICE enforcement threat.
▸ vphone-cli uses Apple's own Virtualization.framework to boot a virtual iPhone on Apple Silicon Macs — no jailbreak, no private entitlements leak, just...