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German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol

Rheinmetall published open-source documentation for onboardapi, its Battlesuite middleware linking weapon system sensors and software via the DDS standard.

German defense contractor Rheinmetall released documentation and interface libraries for onboardapi, a C++ middleware with Java, C#/.NET, and Python wrappers for communication between sensor systems and software components in its Battlesuite connected weapon system. The library uses the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard with XTypes and XCDR2 encoding for low-latency publish-subscribe data exchange and backward compatibility.

Hacker News · AI · 1h agoOtherHN 46↑ · 4 comments

Iran war has cost on average $246M per day in its first five months

CBO estimates the U.S.-Iran war cost the Pentagon $38.1 billion through Aug. 1, averaging $246 million per day since February.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the U.S. war with Iran cost $38.1 billion through Aug. 1, averaging $246 million daily, with munitions replacement making up more than half. The conflict has consumed up to two-thirds of U.S. missile-defense interceptors, and rebuilding inventories could take at least five years. CBO projects the war will raise year-over-year PCE inflation by 0.5 percentage points by Q1 2027, with U.S. crude topping $106 per barrel. A parallel Pentagon inspector general report documented damage to hundreds of buildings across eight Middle Eastern countries and the loss of dozens of aircraft including F-15Es and an F-35A.

Hacker News · security · 2h agoOtherHN 20↑ · 6 comments

WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages

Hacker News highlights WangNet, a 1.8 MB zero-dependency library adjudicating the fictional Numberwang game in 11 languages; no security relevance.

A Hacker News post links to the GitHub repository GraafHenk/numberwang, a 1.8 MB zero-dependency project that adjudicates the fictional comedy-game Numberwang across 11 programming languages. The post gathered 41 points and 13 comments. It is a humorous side project with no cybersecurity or AI research relevance.

Hacker News · AI · 3h agoOtherHN 41↑ · 13 comments

Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit

A Reddit post shared to Hacker News alleges Google copied an open-source reinforcement learning codebase and removed the original engineers' names.

A low-engagement Hacker News submission links to a Reddit post in r/reinforcement learning claiming Google copied open-source code and stripped attribution from the original engineers. The Hacker News thread has 21 points and zero comments, and no technical or legal details are included. This is a licensing/attribution dispute, not a security issue.

Hacker News · security · 5h agoOtherHN 21↑ · 0 comments

US military confirms it launched space weapons into Earth’s orbit

US Air Force Secretary Troy Meink confirmed the first acknowledged deployment of US space-control weapons in orbit, amid suspected Chinese and Russian counterspace programs.

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink stated the military now operates 'on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force,' without specifying types, functions, or quantities. The disclosure follows long-standing suspicions that China operates spacecraft able to damage other satellites and US Space Force claims Russia is developing a satellite designed to carry a nuclear weapon. The US had previously disavowed satellite destruction due to orbital debris risks.

TechCrunch · Security · 5h agoOther

Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable

Florida prosecutors cut three felonies to misdemeanors after admitting a 3D-printed Flock decoy camera destroyed by a man was worth under $200.

Charges against Evan Meyer, who knocked down and destroyed an Oviedo Police Department 3D-printed decoy Flock camera with garden shears, were reduced from three felonies to two second-degree misdemeanors. The state's new filing values the damage at $200 or less and adds petty theft under $750. The department had deployed fake Flock camera shells on poles to catch would-be vandals.

404 Media · 7h agoOther

A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet

Viral trend sees modders run the MaleCNS v1.0 fruit fly connectome in Minecraft, games and virtual environments after its HHMI/Google release.

HHMI Janelia Research Campus and Google Research released MaleCNS v1.0, a complete connectome of an adult male Drosophila's roughly 166,700 neurons, complementing the 2024 female FlyWire map. Online modders quickly emulated the brain to play Minecraft, Doom and Beat Saber and perform other tasks, drawing millions of views. The connectome is intended as a resource for neuroscience and AI research and is not capable of sentience.

404 Media · 7h agoOther

Show HN: The bottom 50% of U.S. households are short after essentials (BLS data)

Show HN project models how bottom-50% U.S. households have little or nothing left after essentials, using BLS survey data.

A Show HN submission presents an interactive model of U.S. household cash flow built from BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey quintile data (2000–2024) and Federal Reserve Distributional Financial Accounts net-worth figures. It illustrates that lower-income groups have minimal surplus after essentials, with user-adjustable tax, childcare, and investing scenarios. The content is unrelated to cybersecurity or AI.

Hacker News · security · 7h agoOtherHN 24↑ · 16 comments

A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO'

EFF found police ran 19,000-camera Flock license-plate searches with joke justifications like 'LMAO' across 1,558 cities.

An EFF analysis of Flock Safety ALPR search logs found officers entering jokes and gibberish as search reasons, including a Lake County, Indiana officer who searched 19,000 cameras across 1,558 cities citing 'LMAO', plus over 6,300 searches across 30+ agencies justified only as 'TBD'. Flock replaced the free-text reason field with pre-populated categories in late 2025, which EFF called a loss for transparency. The network has grown beyond 120,000 cameras and received a public endorsement from President Trump.

Hacker News · AI · 8h agoOtherHN 72↑ · 20 comments

Discover how to take your startup from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Promotional article for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 session on scaling startups from prototype to production, October 13-15 in San Francisco.

TechCrunch promotes its Disrupt 2026 event at Moscone West, October 13-15, expecting 10,000+ attendees and 250+ sessions. A highlighted Real World AI Stage panel features founders from MBRYONICS (space optical communications), Bedrock Robotics (autonomy, ex-Waymo) and Foxglove (robotics infrastructure, ex-Cruise) discussing moving prototypes into production.

TechCrunch · AI · 8h agoOther 4 sources

Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers

US benchmark Treasury yields pushed past 5%, reaching 2008-era highs and rattling stocks; off-topic finance news.

A Reuters report carried on Hacker News (56 points, 23 comments) on global bond markets: US benchmark yields moved beyond 5%, hitting levels not seen since 2008 and raising borrowing costs. The story is general macro-finance news with no cybersecurity or AI relevance.

Hacker News · AI · 8h agoOtherHN 56↑ · 23 comments

This doorbell camera lets a human security guard watch your front door

SimpliSafe launches a $199.99 Video Doorbell Series 2 combining on-device AI with live monitoring agents through its Active Guard subscription.

SimpliSafe's new wired Video Doorbell Series 2 costs $199.99 and offers 2K resolution, 10x zoom, two-way audio, and a built-in siren. Its Active Guard Outdoor Protection feature, starting at $49.99 per month, uses AI analysis plus live agents who can view triggered footage and speak to deter intruders. The feature is opt-in and agents only see live footage when the armed system triggers. Ring offers a comparable Virtual Guard service at $99 per month.

The Verge · AI · 9h agoOther

Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite

Capsule bundles web apps with local SQLite data into portable single .capsule files shareable without cloud services or accounts.

Capsule is a Show HN project that packages an entire app (HTML UI, media, schema, and SQLite data) into one portable .capsule file that can be shared via messaging or email. It is offline-first, requires no cloud or accounts, runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and supports AI-driven iteration via prompts or MCP tools. The item is off-topic for a security dashboard.

Hacker News · security · 9h agoOtherHN 22↑ · 6 comments

Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance

Hacker News thread (54 points) discusses Australia seeking a deeper alliance with the EU, aligned with Canada.

A Hacker News submission linking to a Reddit worldnews article reporting that Australia is 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks a deeper EU alliance. The item is geopolitical news with 54 points and 30 comments, containing no cybersecurity or AI content.

Hacker News · AI · 9h agoOtherHN 54↑ · 30 comments

Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device

Hobbyist project turns a $20 MF800 4G hotspot into a pocket Linux texting device using a Clicks keyboard and SHARP memory display.

The author documents repurposing a $20 MF800 4G hotspot, reflashing it with Linux via the openstick project, and pairing it with a Clicks Keyboard and Adafruit SHARP Memory Display on a custom adapter PCB. The write-up covers Android device-tree extraction, PCB trimming, power management, and wiring. It is a maker/hardware project with no security or AI relevance.

Hacker News · AI · 9h agoOtherHN 44↑ · 3 comments

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

Hacker News post showcases an e-ink frame that identifies bird songs and renders them as 1800s-style illustrations.

A Show HN post (81 points, 22 comments) links to a GitHub project for an e-ink picture frame that listens for birdsong, identifies the species, and draws them as vintage 1800s-style illustrations. It is a hobbyist hardware/software project with no security or AI research relevance.

Hacker News · AI · 10h agoOtherHN 81↑ · 22 comments

On the NSA’s Supercomputer from the 1960s

Bruce Schneier blog post recounts the NSA's 1960s supercomputer; historical cryptography trivia with no current security impact.

The Schneier on Security blog entry discusses an NSA supercomputer from the 1960s. The article body contains only biographical boilerplate and site navigation, with no actionable threat, vulnerability, or research detail. It is historical security content, not current news.

Schneier on Security · 12h agoOther

CSS-Tricks in Limbo

CSS-Tricks sits inactive under DigitalOcean ownership while the company pledged $3M to Omarchy and cut infrastructure donations.

CSS-Tricks has been inactive again after DigitalOcean fired its team in February 2023, briefly revived it with editor Geoff Graham in June 2024, and then went silent. Meanwhile, DigitalOcean pledged a $3,000,000 donation to Omarchy, led by David Heinemeier Hansson, and ceased $50 monthly payments to GNOME and Flathub infrastructure. The author argues the publication's neglect reflects a lack of care rather than resource constraints.

Hacker News · AI · 15h agoOtherHN 58↑ · 7 comments

Meta Introduces ZGateway: A Stateless Proxy Tier That Unifies ZippyDB Traffic and Handles Over 1 Billion Operations Per Second

Meta's ZGateway stateless proxy tier unifies ZippyDB key-value traffic, handling over 1 billion operations per second.

Meta introduced ZGateway, a stateless proxy tier between client applications and ZippyDB, its most widely used key-value store, handling over 1 billion operations per second. The proxy carries about 40% of ZippyDB traffic at roughly 6% computational overhead and cuts per-host connection counts by 97-98%, with total persistent connections dropping about 19x. Features include per-tenant admission control, read-through caching, cross-region failover, and Discriminant Load Shedding, which isolated 6 of roughly 1,350 tenant buckets during a controlled overload above 90% CPU. Meta states the system is not deployable outside the company; the value lies in the design patterns.

MarkTechPost · 18h agoOther

ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, September 15th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10094, (Tue, Sep 15th)

SANS Internet Storm Center's daily Stormcast podcast episode listing for September 15, 2026, with no substantive content provided.

This is a routine daily Stormcast podcast announcement from the SANS Internet Storm Center for Tuesday, September 15, 2026. The item text contains only licensing and copyright information with a link to the podcast episode. No specific security news, vulnerabilities, or incidents are described.

SANS Internet Storm Center · 20h agoOther 5 sources

I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information

Personal essay argues information craving, not smartphones, drives compulsive browsing; author blames engagement-tuned algorithms and short-form content.

The author reflects on decades of compulsive platform use, from forums to Instagram and Reddit, concluding the addiction is to information discovery itself rather than devices. The essay criticizes personalized recommendation algorithms as designed to capture eyeballs for seconds rather than enable learning. It ends with a wish for the death of short-form hook-oriented content, favoring fragmentation instead.

Hacker News · security · 23h agoOtherHN 40↑ · 11 comments

Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS

Show HN post shares a tool for running macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI pedalboard on macOS; unrelated to cybersecurity or AI.

A Hacker News Show HN submission (42 points, 5 comments) presents a project for creating macros triggered by a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI foot pedalboard on macOS. The item has no relevance to security or AI topics tracked by the dashboard.

Hacker News · AI · 23h agoOtherHN 42↑ · 5 comments

Apple parental controls in iOS 27 let kids ask before opening new websites

Apple's iOS 27 overhauls parental controls with Ask to Browse website approvals, contact approvals, scheduled Screen Time budgets, and expanded Communication Safety.

Apple shipped redesigned child-safety tools on September 14, requiring iOS 27, iPadOS 27, or macOS 27 plus a mandatory Child Account (via Family Sharing) for children under 13. Ask to Browse routes new Safari website requests to a parent's Messages for approval, and new contacts require approval across Phone, FaceTime, and Messages. Time Allowances replaces rigid per-app caps with daily category budgets, while Communication Safety now blocks gore and violent content and extends checks to live FaceTime calls. All devices in a Family Sharing group must be updated for the Screen Time features to function.

Help Net Security · 1d agoOther

What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?

Simon Willison shares a Lobste.rs comment listing software engineering blog posts that influenced his career thinking.

A personal comment on Lobste.rs citing influential blog posts, including Joel Spolsky's 'The Law of Leaky Abstractions' and Will Larson's 2018 piece 'Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt'. The content is general software engineering opinion with no security or AI relevance.

Simon Willison · 1d agoOther

NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust

Neomacs is a GPU-accelerated Emacs implementation written in Rust; its Hacker News launch thread drew 42 points and 51 comments.

Neomacs is a GPU-accelerated reimplementation of the Emacs editor built in Rust, published at neomacs.org. A Hacker News discussion about the project gathered 42 points and 51 comments. It is a general developer-tooling release with no direct security or AI relevance.

Hacker News · AI · 1d agoOtherHN 42↑ · 51 comments

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bruce Schneier posts his personal schedule of upcoming conference talks through October 2026.

Bruce Schneier published a list of upcoming speaking engagements, including an online League of Women Voters event on September 22, CanSecWest 2026 in Vancouver, a talk at Bentley University on October 6, and ATTENTION: Democracy, Rebuilt in Montreal on October 21. A previously listed Elevate Festival talk was canceled.

Schneier on Security · 1d agoOther

Watch astronaut Christina Koch and Google’s James Manyika discuss space, technology, and discovery.

Google's Dialogues series features NASA astronaut Christina Koch discussing space exploration, robotics, and AI with James Manyika.

Google published a conversation between NASA astronaut Christina Koch and James Manyika, Senior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society, as part of its Dialogues on Technology and Society series. Koch discusses her 328-day ISS mission, the first all-female spacewalk, the Artemis II lunar mission, and the role of AI and robotics in space exploration. The content is general-interest and carries no direct security relevance.

Google · AI · 1d agoOther

DevFest is back

Google announced DevFest 2026, its community-led developer conference, running October 1 through December 31 across 115 countries.

Google's DevFest 2026 runs October 1 through December 31, with more than 800 Google Developer Group events planned across 115 countries. The 2026 theme is 'Build, Secure, Scale: Developers and Builders in the Agentic Era'. Sessions include hands-on work with Gemini, Google AI Studio, Google Antigravity, Google Cloud, Firebase, Android, Flutter, Angular and Web MCP.

Google · AI · 1d agoOther

Principles for Fast Tokio Applications

Developer blog post enumerates performance principles for Rust Tokio async applications, covering scheduling latency, yielding, batching, and blocking work.

The post distills RustConf Unconf discussions into best practices for fast Tokio applications. It covers diagnosing real problems via metrics like schedule latency histograms, yielding to improve latency fairness in pipelined request handling (up to 10x latency reduction), and batching blocking work such as tokio::fs operations. The content is general software performance engineering, not cybersecurity or AI.

Hacker News · AI · 1d agoOtherHN 41↑ · 9 comments

Fighting for the Future of Libraries (With Jennie Rose Halperin)

404 Media podcast interview with Library Futures director Jennie Rose Halperin on libraries and censorship.

Emanuel Maiberg hosts Jennie Rose Halperin, executive director of the nonprofit Library Futures, for a podcast conversation about advocacy for a fair digital future for libraries. Topics include censorship and other issues facing libraries and their communities. The episode is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube, with extended versions for paid subscribers.

404 Media · 1d agoOther

My Health Insurance Denied My Cancer Treatment. I Emailed the CEO

Personal essay describes insurer denying breast cancer treatment until the author emailed the CEO threatening publicity.

A writer recounts her insurer denying a milder chemotherapy recommended by her oncologist during breast cancer treatment, only approving it after she emailed the CEO requesting a quote for a future essay. The piece situates her experience within broader public anger over claim denials, referencing the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting and national reaction. It contains no cybersecurity or AI content.

Hacker News · security · 1d agoOtherHN 21↑ · 17 comments

A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup offering fun music apps without any AI prompting

Ex-Spotify innovation head raised a $5.5M pre-seed for A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, building non-AI music-play apps like bop.

A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, founded by former Spotify head of innovation Máuhan M Zonoozy, raised a $5.5M pre-seed round from Mantis VC, SV Angel, BoxGroup and others. The startup deliberately avoids AI-driven song generation and instead ships small interactive music apps including an iOS mixer called bop. The story is consumer startup funding news with no security or AI research relevance.

TechCrunch · AI · 1d agoOther 2 sources

WhatsApp’s New Restricted Chat Feature Locks Conversation on Your Primary Phone

WhatsApp is developing Restricted Chat to keep selected conversations off linked devices, Web, and desktop sessions in Android beta 2.26.36.5.

The feature, spotted in WhatsApp Android beta version 2.26.36.5, is under development and not yet enabled for testers. Restricted Chat would stop protected conversations syncing to WhatsApp Web, desktop clients and secondary phones, extending the existing Advanced Chat Privacy controls on a per-chat basis. No public release date has been announced.

Cyber Security News · 1d agoOther

SDR–; open source SDR with a patchable signal graph, Rust DSP, web UI

Hacker News post showcases SDR--, an open-source software-defined radio application with a patchable signal graph, Rust DSP core, and web UI.

A GitHub project called SDR-- (Newspicel/sdrminusminus) presents an open-source software-defined radio tool featuring a patchable signal graph, DSP implemented in Rust, and a web-based UI. The item only contains the Hacker News listing (40 points, 4 comments) with no article body. It is general-purpose RF/signal tooling with no stated security focus.

Hacker News · AI · 1d agoOtherHN 40↑ · 4 comments