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Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says

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Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

Phorion has detected a backdoor in the official Claude Code for VS Code extension bundle on the Cursor Marketplace that drops a persistent SSH backdoor across macOS, Linux, and Windows. This write-up …

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Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises

In my previous blog posts, Azure’s Weakest Link? and Azure’s Weakest Link - Full Cross-Tenant Compromise, I gave an overview of the severely insecure architecture behind API Connections in Azure, a part of Azure Logic Apps, and an instance of a full cross-tenant compromise using these inherent flaws. Now I am back with some more vulnerabilities in this system, each giving the same primitives to the attacker. In total, the vulnerabilities here netted me a cool $200,000. I also held a talk detailing this at Blue Hat Asia 2026, and when the recordings are out, I will add a link here. TL;DR API Connections allow anyone to fully compromise any other connection worldwide, giving full access to the connected backend. This includes cross-tenant com

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The federated code forge

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Bunny CDN Security Incident

bunny.net's Status Page - Security update regarding one of our infrastructure providers.

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AO3 Down for Maintenance

Welcome to Organization for Transformative Works's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

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Northflank Breached

Northflank Status

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Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots

Policymakers should resist treating anonymity as something wrong in and of itself, argue Lila Bailey and Tess Vartanian.

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My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

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Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights

An NES CPU compiled into the weights of a stock Qwen3.5 model - dbreunig/nesformer

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The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it

'We have been at the edge of the ice. We have seen it happening. And we are witnesses to a rapidly changing archaeological landscape,' write the glacial archaeologists. Finds from the Viking Age are becoming scarce, while 6,000-year-old arrowheads are now emerging from the melting ice.

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AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them

When AI handles 95% of your incident response, do you get worse at handling the 5% that actually matters?

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An Arrogant Way of Killing (2016)

A journey to understand how a real-estate agent in the Philippines became the target of a criminal mastermind.

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Tree-mounted machines connect to web app to let users knock on wood remotely

knock on wood is an internet-connected device that lets users perform the superstition remotely when no wood is nearby.

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Jules Verne's Lost Novel

Jules Verne’s lost novel got the machines of 1960 right. He never imagined that Paris would keep its poets

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Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

Procedurally generated Delft-blue floral page margins for LuaLaTeX, with plants and visitors sampled from genomes and a TikZ library that also draws them under pdfLaTeX - kevinraymond/florilegium

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Infinite Mac: BeOS

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A Pickpocket's Guide to New York

Preparing to play a petty thief in a new movie, John Turturro learned the moves—“reefing the kick” among them—from Apollo Robbins, and observed how much stealing has in common with acting. Michael Schulman reports.

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Building an AI-native engineering org

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Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man

Patrick Stewart's most famous character showed a generation of youth a complex character who strived to do what was right.

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On this day

Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says

Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises

The federated code forge

Bunny CDN Security Incident

AO3 Down for Maintenance

Northflank Breached

Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots

My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights

The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it

AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them

An Arrogant Way of Killing (2016)

Tree-mounted machines connect to web app to let users knock on wood remotely

Jules Verne's Lost Novel

Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

Infinite Mac: BeOS

A Pickpocket's Guide to New York

Building an AI-native engineering org

Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man

On this day

Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.

The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized

Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.

Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.

JS Air Flight 201 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 21 aboard.

U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.

China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.

The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.

Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.

Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly.

Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.

André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.

Tropical Storm Thelma causes flash floods in the Philippine city of Ormoc, killing more than 4,900 people.

Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.

USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao, China; the first US naval visit to China since 1949.

The Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.

The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).

Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.

Suez Crisis: British and French paratroopers land in Egypt after a week-long bombing campaign.

After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.

Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.

The three-day anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania commence.

World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.

World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.

Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.

World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.

King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.

Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.

After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.

George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

In New Zealand, 1600 armed volunteers and constabulary field forces led by Minister of Native Affairs John Bryce march on the pacifist Māori settlement at Parihaka, evicting upwards of 2,000 residents, and destroying the settlement in the context of the New Zealand land confiscations.

Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.

American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.

American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to death. Thirty-eight are ultimately hanged and the others reprieved.

Founding of the Free University of Brussels by Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen.

Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.

Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.

French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.

The Treaty of Fort Stanwix is signed, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.

Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.

Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England.

Second Battle of Panipat: Fighting begins between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and the forces of the Muslim emperor Akbar.

The Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.

Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.

Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba in the Battle of Qantish.

On this day

Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.

The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized

Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.

Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.