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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• Trail of Bits▲ 204

SAML: A fractal of bad design

SAML, the XML-based authentication protocol that birthed the SSO industry, is fundamentally flawed due to XML complexity, canonicalization issues, enveloped signatures, and design ossification, making it vulnerable to signature wrapping attacks and parser differentials that persist despite decades of awareness. Organizations should migrate to OpenID Connect (OIDC), which avoids these pitfalls through simpler JSON-based design, detached signatures, and agile evolution.

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• Waymo▲ 82

Transit rewards (Waymo pays you to take the train)

Today, Waymo is excited to announce our transit rewards program, which we will initially offer in the San Francisco Bay Area, with future cities to follow. This first-of-its-kind initiative rewards riders with Waymo Cash when they connect their Waymo rides with public transit and use their Visa card.

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• OpenAI▲ 1381

GPT-6 Sol and Luna

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• Bloomberg▲ 547

Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

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• 404 Media▲ 529

'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

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• Unreal Labs▲ 154

Unreal Agent

We’re sharing Unreal Agent — an agent harness that delivers up to 40% cost savings compared to Codex on production workloads and coding/science benchmarks, without any negative performance…

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• Artificial Analysis▲ 267

Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

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• FoxScript▲ 259

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

A modern IDE and 64-bit runtime for Visual FoxPro 9 applications: the same language, rebuilt on Electron, React and a Rust virtual machine in WebAssembly.

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• Obscura▲ 107

Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity

Privacy first VPN. Two-party relay and no logs. No email needed. Block ads, trackers, malware. Available on iOS, macOS, Android, Windows, and Linux.

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HN — Best of the Week

hnrss.org13 items
• Anthropic▲ 1390

Claude Opus 5.5

Claude Opus 5.5 leads in agentic coding and knowledge work, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads.

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• OpenAI▲ 1376

GPT-6 Sol and Luna

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• TechRadar▲ 677

Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

iOS users are complaining that Apple is placing ‘ads’ for its own products on their iPhones.

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• 404 Media▲ 522

'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.

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• DBushell▲ 811

I said no and Apple said yes

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• Cryptocellar▲ 618

OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

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• Meta▲ 301

I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB

I asked Muse to archive the files it could see and send them to my Google Drive. It did.

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• Artificial Analysis▲ 266

Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

Analysis of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens…

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• GrapheneOS▲ 275

There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027

@tranquil_cassowary@infosec.exchange @ocelot221@mastodon.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca @mulchmaxxing@blahaj.zone There's a high chance of devices being sold with it preinstalled in 2027 but…

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