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BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
Article URL: https://xcancel.com/josefprusa/status/2054602354851254330 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245862 Points: 15 # Comments: 1
LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin CVE-2026-48172 Exploited to Run Scripts as Root
A maximum-severity security vulnerability impacting LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin has come under active exploitation in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-48172 (CVSS score: 10.0), relates to an instance of incorrect privilege assignment that an attacker could abuse to run arbitrary scripts
Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/22/experience-found-baby-subway-now-26-year-old-son Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245571 Points: 71 # Comments: 14
Drupal Core SQL Injection Bug Actively Exploited, Added to CISA KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Drupal Core to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-9082 (CVSS score: 6.5)
Towards Speed-of-Light Text Generation with Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models
Towards Speed-of-Light Text Generation with Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models
Navy green lights seven MUSV marketplace submissions to advance to prototype phase
The Navy did not reveal which companies’ designs were selected to advance.
Friday Squid Blogging: Regulating Squid Fishing in the South Pacific
The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) needs to regulate squid fishing in the South Pacific. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
Space Force accelerating work to operationalize on-orbit logistics tech
The Space Force is planning to host two on-orbit demonstrations in 2027 to advance the technology and inform future plans to create a space-based logistics enterprise. The post Space Force accelerating work to operationalize on-orbit logistics tech appeared first on DefenseScoop.
The Pentagon’s $54 billion bet on autonomous warfare
With new DAWG initiative, the DOD is attempting to fix a historically slow-moving, broken acquisition pipeline.
US Marine Corps tests using helicopter as mobile drone command center
During the test, troops launched a Neros Archer FPV drone from the ground before transferring control to operators aboard a helicopter orbiting miles away.
USDA would get more AI grants, research, farmer education under new Senate bill
The bipartisan legislation, sponsored by Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., would make American farmers more competitive on the global market. The post USDA would get more AI grants, research, farmer education under new Senate bill appeared first on FedScoop.
Loitering munitions, launched effects had strong presence at SOF Week 2026
“The [Rogue 1] Block 2 upgrade leverages user feedback to greatly enhance performance, resilience, and operational capability, all while maintaining existing form-factor,” a Teledyne FLIR statement read.
DOD wants nearly $30 billion to modernize its AI supercomputing arsenal in fiscal 2027
“The White House’s AI Action Plan, released last year, outlines the importance of establishing robust AI infrastructure,” an official said. The post DOD wants nearly $30 billion to modernize its AI supercomputing arsenal in fiscal 2027 appeared first on DefenseScoop.
Gabbard to resign as director of national intelligence, citing husband’s health
Her exit marks the end of a 16-month tenure overseeing the nation’s spy agencies.
Catch up on the Dialogues stage at Google I/O 2026.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai in conversation on the I/O 2026 Dialogues stage
House lawmakers seek more AI transparency from the SBA
The House Small Business Committee advanced a bill requiring the SBA to deliver an annual report on its AI use, weeks after the GAO revealed issues with the agency’s inventory compliance. The post House lawmakers seek more AI transparency from the SBA appeared first on FedScoop.
Specialization Beats Scale: A Strategic Variable Most AI Procurement Decisions Overlook
Specialization Beats Scale: A Strategic Variable Most AI Procurement Decisions Overlook
CISA Security Leak
Crazy story: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said t
SOCOM begins fielding new battlefield biometrics system
Reveal Technology’s Identifi platform allows operators to collect fingerprints, facial scans, iris data and voice recognition in the field.
Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Veterans Affairs
What GAO Found In May 2025, GAO identified 29 priority recommendations for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Since then, VA has implemented two of those recommendations. In May 2026, GAO identified an additional 3 priority recommendations, bringing the total to 30. GAO is highlighting the f
FSFE intervenes against Apple before EUCJ for the second time
Article URL: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260519-01.en.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233939 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-apple-ai-graduation-speech-2026-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233563 Points: 33 # Comments: 6
Kimwolf DDoS Botnet Operator Arrested in Canada Over DDoS-for-Hire Attacks
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with allegedly operating a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Kimwolf. In tandem, Jacob Butler (aka Dort), 23, Ottawa, Canada, has been charged with offenses related to the develo
Sovereignty can’t be vibecoded: Why Europe must physically build to ensure resilience
Amid debates over budget and policy, Europe must prioritize building the physical infrastructure required to sustain technological and defense capabilities at scale, argue Elin Hammarberg and Carina Zaring.
CISA Adds Exploited Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One Vulnerabilities to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-
Temporal Contrastive Transformer for Financial Crime Detection: Self-Supervised Sequence Embeddings via Predictive Contrastive Coding
arXiv:2605.21490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the Temporal Contrastive Transformer (TCT), a representation learning framework designed to capture contextual temporal dynamics in sequences of financial transactions. The model is trained using a self-supervised contrastive objective to
SOLAR: A Self-Optimizing Open-Ended Autonomous Agent for Lifelong Learning and Continual Adaptation
arXiv:2605.20189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the remarkable success of large language models (LLMs), they still face bottlenecks while deploying in dynamic, real-world settings with primary challenges being concept drift and the high cost of gradient-based adaptation. Traditional fine-tu
Teaching Language Models to Forecast Research Success Through Comparative Idea Evaluation
arXiv:2605.21491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As language models accelerate scientific research by automating hypothesis generation and implementation, a new bottleneck emerges: evaluating and filtering hundreds of AI-generated ideas without exhaustive experimentation. We ask whether LMs can lear
Tool-Augmented Agent for Closed-loop Optimization,Simulation,and Modeling Orchestration
arXiv:2605.20190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Iterative industrial design-simulation optimization is bottlenecked by the CAD-CAE semantic gap: translating simulation feedback into valid geometric edits under diverse, coupled constraints. To fill this gap, we propose COSMO-Agent (Closed-loop Optim
Commerce announces $2 billion in quantum computing incentives for nine companies
Awardees IBM and GlobalFoundries announced new business ventures as a result of the expected infusion of federal dollars. The post Commerce announces $2 billion in quantum computing incentives for nine companies appeared first on FedScoop.
General Atomics resumes drone-wingman flights after mishap
An investigation by the Air Force and the defense contractor led to a software change.
Boots on the moon needed to beat ‘belligerent’ China: Mitchell Institute
“[F]uture American space security is at risk. China’s military-led human space flight progression is positioning the People’s Liberation Army to achieve strategic advantage in lunar access, infrastructure, and resources,” Kyle Puma, Mitchell Institute senior resident fellow f
Army plans to launch marketplace to streamline US weapons exports to allies
Unmanned aerial systems and counter-drone technologies will be the first capabilities available on the forthcoming FMS Marketplace. The post Army plans to launch marketplace to streamline US weapons exports to allies appeared first on DefenseScoop.
DOT considers taking humans out of the AI loop
The agency is weighing the risks of unintended consequences along with the potential pitfalls of having workers become a “limiting factor,” per a top technology leader. The post DOT considers taking humans out of the AI loop appeared first on FedScoop.
Facing growing threats, Army hosts Defense Critical Infrastructure summit to boost installation crisis response
“This is a no-fail mission and a national security imperative, but the threat is real, persistent and growing,” Brandon Pugh, principal cyber advisor to the secretary of the Army, told reporters Thursday. The post Facing growing threats, Army hosts Defense Critical Infrastructure summit to boost ins
The US Navy is full speed ahead on building a laser fleet
Operation Epic Fury may have strengthened the case for laser weapons, but the U.S. Navy’s dream of putting one on every ship may take longer than expected.
Key Army efforts pinned to lawmakers’ taste for a new reconciliation bill
White House puts funding for munitions, industrial development in precedent-breaking request.
macOS Kernel Memory Corruption Exploit
A group used Anthropic’s Mythos AI model to help find a kernel memory corruption vulnerability and exploit on Apple’s M5. News article.
Turkey to buy 100 one-way explosive naval drones for swarm attacks
Turkey eyes an arsenal capable of taking out enemy ships with unmanned systems.
Federal Research: Agencies Should Better Manage Anticipated Publishing Cost Increases Amid Shift to Public Access
What GAO Found In 2022 The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directed federal agencies to make research results freely accessible to the public immediately when published. In response, seven of the nine agencies GAO reviewed issued updated plans or policies. The Department of Transport
Artificial Intelligence: A Framework to Assess U.S. Competitiveness and Inform Policy Options
How to Use the Framework GAO’s framework is a method for assessing AI capabilities and capacity in the U.S. and its competitiveness. A nation’s competitiveness in AI is how well it develops or deploys AI technologies compared to other nations. Policymakers may be interested in knowing how the U.S.
When Identity is the Attack Path
Consider a cached access key on a single Windows machine. It got there the way most cached credentials do - a user logged in, and the key stored itself automatically. Standard AWS behavior. No one misconfigured anything or violated a policy. Yet that single key, which was easily accessible to a mino
Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results
Article URL: https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220105 Points: 78 # Comments: 66
No Slop Grenade
Article URL: https://noslopgrenade.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219992 Points: 27 # Comments: 2
Defense Business Brief: Hybrid sky drones; Amphibs; Mobile data centers and a bit more
Defense Business Brief: Hybrid sky drones; Amphibs; Mobile data centers and a bit more
9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333 (CVSS score: 5.5), is a case of improper privilege management that could permit an unprivileged local user to disclose sensit
GraphDiffMed: Knowledge-Constrained Differential Attention with Pharmacological Graph Priors for Medication Recommendation
arXiv:2605.20188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recommending safe and effective medication combinations from electronic health records (EHRs) is a core clinical AI problem, yet it remains difficult because patient trajectories are long, noisy, and clinically heterogeneous. Existing methods typicall
Neural Estimation of Pairwise Mutual Information in Masked Discrete Sequence Models
arXiv:2605.20187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding dependencies between variables is critical for interpretability and efficient generation in masked diffusion models (MDMs), yet these models primarily expose marginal conditional distributions and do not explicitly represent inter-variab
F-35, F-15 may take A-10’s combat-search-and-rescue role: USAF chief
Warthog retirements have been delayed as officials look for a replacement platform.
Lack of counter-drone tech to cover troops patrolling the southern border a ‘concern’ for NORTHCOM commander
“It presents us a different challenge. We have a lot of fixed and movable counter-UAS capabilities, but not really anything that would follow a patrolling soldier, and that’s a concern of mine,” Gen. Gregory Guillot said. The post Lack of counter-drone tech to cover troops patrolling the southern bo
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