Daily News Digest — Lunch Update

Lunch update, generated 2026-07-18.

7 new stories since Morning.

Union Fights Microsoft Over Layoffs at Game Studios

Sources: Slashdot

Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage

Sources: The Register

Simple Games from a Simpler Time

Sources: Hackaday

The 'Death of the Stick Shift' is Almost Here for Americans

Sources: Slashdot

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 255 points, 101 comments (discussion)

GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 251 points, 131 comments (discussion)

NextBSD project revived: Apple's FOSS user-space tools on the FreeBSD kernel

Sources: Lobsters