Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-07-22.

22 new stories since Lunch.

Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 446 points, 95 comments (discussion)

The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens

Sources: Slashdot

Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days

Sources: The Register

The Need for Speed: Internet Speed Measurement (or DIY?)

Sources: Hackaday

Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 308 points, 401 comments (discussion)

I do not know how to use a Passkey in a way that won’t impede how I log in to systems. I’ve been in tech for 26 years, and I understand the Public/private key behind what a Passkey is. Here’s what I don’t understand: I access a website through at least four different devices (my iPad, iPhone, Window...

SIMD for Collision

Sources: Lobsters

Microsoft Announces Xbox Backward Compatibility For PC

Sources: Slashdot

Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter

Sources: The Register

Dress Up Your YubiKey With This Web-Based Tool

Sources: Hackaday

Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 251 points, 119 comments (discussion)

log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua

Sources: Lobsters

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Announced to Compete With Future iPhone Fold

Sources: Slashdot

Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor

Sources: The Register

Compile Here, Run Everywhere: Crosstool-Ng

Sources: Hackaday

The startup's Postgres survival guide

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 219 points, 112 comments (discussion)

Unranked, systemd, crawls

Sources: Lobsters

Jack Dorsey Takes On Slack and GitHub With New AI Workplace Platform 'Buzz'

Sources: Slashdot

Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own

Sources: The Register

Old TV Vacuum Tube Turned DIY X-Ray Machine

Sources: Hackaday

Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 217 points, 91 comments (discussion)

Slash Pages

Sources: Lobsters

OpenAI tries the consulting path with 'Presence', charging enterprises boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents

Sources: The Register