Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-07-25.

Showing top 30 of 95 distinct stories after deduping (2 appeared in more than one source).

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

Sources: Hacker News, Slashdot

HN: 568 points, 254 comments (discussion)

https://www.anthropic.com/news/donation-public-first-action Probably because anthropic is pouring $40 million dollars into a political pact to regulate models. And they have not been quiet about wanting to ban/regulate OSS models either. I have no idea why HN still treats them like ~their~ they are ...

Also linked: Slashdot

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 255 points, 46 comments (discussion)

If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 658 points, 504 comments (discussion)

> We’ve reached a point where an update to macOS — or to any app I rely on, really — is a source of dread rather than excitement. I now expect the new version to be worse. I actually relate to that. It used to be cool and exciting to update to see what new things are coming for free. I was just lo...

It Was Two Years Ago Today

Sources: Bubbles (The Cult of Nonsense)

Chrome registers a global shortcut for Gemini popup window

Sources: Lobsters

OpenAI's Rogue Agent Went Unnoticed For a Week

Sources: Slashdot

Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling

Sources: The Register

3D Printed Go Kart Designed to Fit in a Suitcase

Sources: Hackaday

Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 469 points, 272 comments (discussion)

The article, summarized: there are incentives for OpenAI to claim that their AI hacked its way out of their network and into Hugging Face. Ok... and what? Do you have any evidence for the claim being either true or false that you'd like to write an article about? I guess not. Without anything to add...

Sketch: Alfred Pennyworth

Sources: Bubbles (@mandarvaze’s microblog)

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap

Sources: Lobsters

Instagram Is Now Banning Pickup Artists, Pranksters Who Use Meta Glasses

Sources: Slashdot

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

Sources: The Register

Fast Volumetric Imaging of Seizures with Adaptive Optics Light Sheet Microscopy

Sources: Hackaday

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 427 points, 312 comments (discussion)

> the app enables communication even during network restrictions and creates a substantial risk of misuse by anti-national elements, terrorist organisations, organised criminal groups and cyber criminals seeking to evade lawful detection and continue communication despite legally imposed restriction...