Daily News Digest — Lunch Update

Lunch update, generated 2026-07-24.

12 new stories since Morning.

Making GIFs from 35mm film photography

Sources: Lobsters

Humans Can Learn To Echolocate In Just 10 Weeks, and It Rewires the Brain

Sources: Slashdot

Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs

Sources: The Register

Exploring Hidden JPEG Features

Sources: Hackaday

World's First Wave Power Generator Receives Certification For Regular Use

Sources: Slashdot

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

Sources: The Register

A New Blood Hack For An Old Game

Sources: Hackaday

Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine

Sources: The Register

Flux 3

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 339 points, 86 comments (discussion)

FreeBSD ports frozen

Sources: Lobsters

Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it

Sources: The Register

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 336 points, 239 comments (discussion)

I call it the Intent-Implement-Quality problem. Software factories can implement anything given a one-liner requirement. That one-liner requirement can be a complete app/product, epic, feature, bug, design change or refactoring. But these one liner requirements are requirements coming from a human w...