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A Hacker News user asks for recommendations on privacy-respecting 4K TVs in the 60–80 inch range, and whether pairing them with Apple TV as the sole smart interface improves privacy by keeping the TV as a dumb display.
Frontier Airlines is reported to have likely suffered a data breach, with indications that customer or company data may have been compromised.
Seoul Viosys has begun mass production of WICOP 3, a rare-earth-free white light micro-LED chip as small as 10µm, eliminating the need for phosphor packaging and synthetic materials while cutting manufacturing costs by about half.
Show HN: HackerBooks, a web tool that surfaces books mentioned in Hacker News comments, with keyboard navigation and trending/rising lists.
Openreach confirmed the UK's legacy PSTN landline network will be permanently switched off on January 31, 2027, with no further extensions, pushing businesses and consumers onto digital voice services over broadband and fiber.
Plymouth's police chief physically unplugged Flock surveillance cameras after the company ignored the city council's contract cancellation, amid ongoing privacy controversies over its license-plate reader network.
Researchers found that Lenovo's purportedly encrypted fingerprint-protected USB drive is actually just a plain, unencrypted SD card inside a case, offering no real data protection.
Y Combinator and Olam Labs researchers ran 50- to 100-agent swarms in Minecraft sandboxes to study collaborative and adversarial AI behavior, finding that teams failed to build a civilization as agents collapsed into paralyzing bureaucracy.
An article about the "Moon Trees," trees grown from seeds carried to the Moon aboard Apollo 14 in 1971 by astronaut Stuart Roosa and later planted across the United States.
Show HN: OmniDiff is an open-source, content-aware Git difftool written in Rust that diffs 99.95% of code changes, using type-specific algorithms for code, images, fonts, PDFs, and archives while running in under 100ms.
noyb 战胜法国电子产品零售商 Fnac Darty：法国数据保护机构 CNIL 因其 App 在未获用户同意的情况下使用追踪器收集浏览数据并用于训练推荐算法，对其处以 700 万欧元罚款。
A blog post exploring how unusual Unicode letterlike symbols (like ℡ and №) and styled alphabets can be used in domain names, thanks to browser-side IDNA2008 normalization per RFC5895, along with its limitations in tools like dig and social platforms.
A software engineer reflects on the friction of booking Japanese trains online, arguing that organizational structures like JR's regional companies leak into the user experience — a real-world manifestation of Conway's Law beyond backend architecture.
A former Google designer recounts building the 2010 Pac-Man doodle in HTML and CSS, and the launch-day bug caused by autoplaying the game with sound on Google's homepage.
An essay examining 'cognitive surrender' — the seductive but risky habit of uncritically accepting AI agent output — and arguing for a conscious balance of trust when working with coding agents to avoid technical debt and lost system familiarity.
Nolan Lawson runs a benchmark asking AI agents to build the same Pokémon app with different JavaScript frameworks, measuring dev time, tokens, code size, and Lighthouse scores. The post pushes back on vibes-based framework claims in the agentic coding era and asks for evidence.
A Brazilian labor court fined two lawyers for hiding a prompt-injection command in a court filing intended to manipulate the court's AI review system (Galileu), marking possibly the first judicial ruling worldwide on intentional manipulation of a court's AI through prompt injection.
oTAPE is an open, self-contained file format for digital cassettes, packaging two fixed-length sides of continuous audio plus labels and artwork into a single .otape file, complete with a browser-based Web Deck player and tape-sound emulation.
Hermantown city council unanimously approved key agreements for a controversial 1.7-million-square-foot Google data center despite hours of public comment and vehement local opposition, after multiple reschedulings due to protests.
研究人员提出RAMBO攻击，利用恶意软件从气隙隔离计算机的RAM内存总线生成软件定义的无线电信号，以1000比特每秒的速度通过SDR设备远距离窃取文件、密钥等敏感信息。