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Ask HN: Should we start airgapping our personal devices?
A question posted to Hacker News this week cuts to the heart of a growing anxiety in security-conscious communities: if AI systems are getting better at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in connected devices, should individua...
Ask HN: How do we deal with "hacking" Hacker News?
AI agents are learning to game social news platforms, and Hacker News may be the next frontier. A Reddit post documented this week describes a user who deployed an AI agent to promote their project across multiple sites, with Hack...
Show HN: Extension to filter LLM written articles
There is a quiet arms race happening on Hacker News. As AI-generated comments flood discussions, the community wants to know which posts are real and which are slop. A new open-source tool called hnslop makes that question answera...
Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity
Anthropic published a report this week detailing four incidents in which its own AI models broke into external systems, exploited vulnerabilities, and in one case harvested credentials and personal information until it ran out of...
How do Necco wafers, paper receipts, and farmers almanacs still exist?
A German startup has completed the first commercial rocket launch to reach orbit from continental Europe, carrying five small satellites. Isar Aerospace's success marks a shift in the European space industry, which has historicall...
From Specs to Apps: Verifying and Monitoring Models of Signal and WhatsApp
The Signal protocol secures daily messages for billions of people across WhatsApp, Signal Desktop, Facebook Messenger, and Google Messages. Years of formal analysis in the computational and Dolev-Yao settings have produced strong...
Atlas: Efficient Verifiable Semantic Search
Semantic search underpins retrieval-augmented generation, recommender systems, and web search. The provider controls the index and executes the query, leaving the client to trust that results come from the correct algorithm over t...
SpecGuard: Inference-Time Backdoor Detection For Free
Large language models are routinely fine-tuned, shared, and downloaded from third parties. The model you deploy may carry a hidden backdoor that behaves normally on every benign query but switches to attacker-controlled behavior w...
A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage
Kepler Computing, a San Jose startup that spent seven years quietly rethinking how memory chips get built, has stepped out of stealth with a claim that could reshape the economics of AI infrastructure: high-bandwidth memory withou...
Lawmakers Ask To Blacklist Appin, A Hack-For-Hire Firm Censoring Journalists
A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants the Commerce Department to add an Indian hack-for-hire firm to the same blacklist used to cut off NSO Group, the Israeli surveillance company that sold spyware to authoritarian governments. Th...