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Noctua publishes official 3D CAD models for its cooling fan lineup
Noctua has made official 3D CAD models of its cooling fans available through its website, giving engineers and integrators authoritative geometry to work with i
OpenAI traces the origin of 'goblins' — AI-generated artifact memes
OpenAI published a post titled 'Where the goblins came from,' apparently tracing the lineage of a recurring class of AI-generated visual artifacts that have tak
OpenAI's Codex system prompt bans GPT-5.5 from mentioning goblins
OpenAI's recently open-sourced Codex CLI repository on GitHub includes a base instruction file for GPT-5.5 that twice forbids the model from talking about "gobl
Qinglong scheduler RCE chain mines crypto on exposed Chinese dev servers
Two authentication bypass flaws in Qinglong, a self-hosted task scheduler with strong adoption among Chinese developers, are being chained for remote code execu
Roku's bargain Howdy streaming service hits 1M subs on a diet of older catalog titles
Antenna estimates Roku's Howdy SVOD service has crossed one million subscribers six months after its August launch, with roughly 300,000 sign-ups in the first m
Simon Willison ships LLM 0.32a0 alpha
Simon Willison has tagged a new alpha release of his LLM command-line tool, version 0.32a0. The post is a release marker on his weblog pointing at the in-progre
TeamPCP hits SAP npm packages, exfiltrating dev and CI credentials via GitHub dead-drops
Four official SAP npm packages — @cap-js/sqlite, @cap-js/postgres, @cap-js/db-service, and mbt — were trojanized with a preinstall script that pulls down the Bu
Troy Hunt's tongue-in-cheek 'Robophobia Equality Policy' for AI support bots
Hunt's Weekly Update 501 centers on a satirical 'Robophobia Equality Policy' he drafted for Have I Been Pwned's AI support bot, Bruce. The policy is a parody of
Ukrainian trio arrested for hijacking 610,000 Roblox accounts in $225K scheme
Lviv police arrested three Ukrainian nationals — aged 19, 21, and 22 — for compromising more than 610,000 Roblox accounts between October 2025 and January 2026,
Vect 2.0 Ransomware Functions as a Wiper Due to Broken Crypto Design
Vect 2.0, a ransomware strain currently being tracked by researchers, fails at its core function: it cannot reliably decrypt files even when victims pay. A desi
Webinar pitches automated exposure validation as answer to AI-accelerated attacks
The Hacker News is promoting a webinar centered on automating exposure validation, framing it as a necessary response to attackers who are weaponizing AI to com
Why Zig bans LLM contributions: contributors matter more than code
The Zig project enforces one of the strictest anti-LLM policies in major open source: no AI-generated issues, pull requests, or bug tracker comments, including