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#59 Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt: Friend and Enemy
Article URL: https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/59-hans-kelsen-and-carl-schmitt-friend-and-enemy/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876589
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Hospitals use AI to find more things to bill for. Insurers use AI to deny them.
Article URL: https://twitter.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2104266774766039301
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876581
Points: 2
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OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
DC Health Agency Exposes 400,000 Beneficiary Records
The Medicaid IDs and other information of Medicaid and DC Healthcare Alliance beneficiaries were exposed.
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Google Warns of ShinyHunters’ Fresh Oracle PeopleSoft Campaign
The extortion group has modified its exploit in new attacks targeting the PeopleSoft vulnerability CVE-2026-35273.
The post Google Warns of ShinyHunters’ Fresh Oracle PeopleSoft Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
New Mexico Jury Finds Facebook Liable for Deceiving Users About Privacy Protections
A New Mexico jury has found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the platform.
The post New Mexico Jury Finds Facebook Liable for Deceiving Users About Privacy Protections appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog
The platform combines open source software and a reference system design to keep AI agents within set boundaries.
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The concept of an AI kill switch – a means to terminate out-of-control agents – sounds dramatic, but security leaders are now starting to talk openly and pragmatically about why they are needed and how to use them
Northern Ireland journalist subject to unlawful communications surveillance seeks damages from police in High Court claim for data protection breaches and harassment
An as-yet undisclosed zero-day vulnerability has prompted managed file transfer provider Kiteworks to tell users to preemptively switch off their servers
Kiteworks Urges Server Shutdown, Finds Advanced Forms Vulnerability
The company says the measure was precautionary and that it has no evidence of Kiteworks or customer systems being compromised.
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FBI agents’ blood tests and doctors’ notes surface after breach
BBC News reports it has seen samples of stolen FBI agents’ medical examinations. The “fitness-for-work” reports identify FBI agents by name and address, and reveal even more personal details. They include blood and urine test results and doctors’ notes mentioning high cholesterol, blood in the urine, and even a shellfish and banana allergy.
As we reported last week, extortion group ShinyHunters claims to have breached the FBI. After reportedly taking over ransomware group Clop’s leak site, ShinyHunters says it attacked the FBI to punish the agency for spreading what it calls false information about the group.
The BBC’s findings raise the stakes: The alleged theft includes highly sensitive medical records, not just staff identity and contact data. ShinyHunters shared samples with journalists as proof of its claims.
The BBC states:
“The samples shared with journalists appear genuine and include names, addresses, phone numbers, badge numbers, job titles and information about spouses.”
ShinyHunters claims it accessed several systems, including FBI MedLink, which stores medical records, and FBI BEAST, which handles background checks on employees and applicants, but the FBI has not confirmed these claims. The FBI has acknowledged an incident affecting FBIJobs-related systems and says it is investigating whether its own environment or a third-party provider was compromised.
The group’s stated demand remains non-financial: It wants the FBI to retract or remove a May advisory that ShinyHunters calls false and defamatory. It says it will release the data within five days if its demands are not met.
The cybercriminals also raised the number of affected people. ShinyHunters nows claims to hold sensitive information on around 60,000 current and former FBI staff. Medical histories could make affected people vulnerable long after the immediate incident: Unlike a stolen password, a medical record cannot be changed.
What to do if you’re affectedThe FBI has not yet confirmed what information was accessed or who was affected. If you are a current or former FBI employee, a relative of one, or have applied for an FBI job:
- Check the FBI’s advice. Every breach is different, so check FBI.gov for updates and follow any specific advice it offers.
- Change your password. If you have an FBI Jobs account and reuse its password elsewhere, change it on those other accounts. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you.
- Enable two-factor authentication (2FA). If you can, use a FIDO2-compliant hardware key, laptop, or phone as your second factor. Some forms of 2FA can be phished just as easily as a password, but 2FA that relies on a FIDO2 device can’t be phished.
- Watch out for impersonators. Cybercriminals may contact you posing as the FBI, another government agency, or someone you know. Verify the identity of anyone who contacts you.
- Take your time. Phishing attacks often impersonate people or brands you know and use themes that require urgent attention, such as missed deliveries, account suspensions, and security alerts.
- Set up identity monitoring. This can alert you if your personal information is found being traded illegally online and help you recover afterward.
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Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network
Article URL: https://nine.ch/en/blog/ddos-attack-august-2026-postmortem/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875401
Points: 1
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Large Scale Threat Actor Attribution from Infostealer Logs
Article URL: https://blog.glazer.ee/posts/large-scale-threat-actor-attribution-from-infostealer-logs/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875388
Points: 2
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Google: AI-Assisted Rewrites of C/C++ Dependencies to Rust
Article URL: https://bughunters.google.com/blog/scaling-memory-safety
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875362
Points: 2
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Personal Continuity Plans (Digital Legacy)
Article URL: https://ripe92.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/sessions/103/7PEF7V/#robert-kisteleki
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875357
Points: 1
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Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/27/big-ais-content-problem-take-the-work-keep-the-money/5299007
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875347
Points: 1
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LLMs in Professional Software Engineering
Article URL: https://knorpelsenf.me/posts/semantic-translation
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875344
Points: 2
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Can Life Be Explained by Physics? (Featuring Prof. Brian Cox) [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-vm3ZWnMWk
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875334
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