Night update, generated 2026-07-26.
13 new stories since Lunch.
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 560 points, 277 comments (discussion)
The other approach to killing the cookie banner is simply to declare that such a thing cannot constitute “informed consent”. (Perhaps: “ticking a checkbox and/or clicking a button cannot constitute informed consent”; and see what they try next.) From a factual perspective, I honestly think that shou...
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 321 points, 199 comments (discussion)
I updated a ~3k line Python project with this the other day. I was using v0.15.x beforehand. It didn't take too long and the new rules do improve code quality. It caught quite a few things previous versions didn't. Here's a few commits of changes: (A whole bunch of manual changes based on its sugges...
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 315 points, 195 comments (discussion)
I think this has been posted in response to this news story [1] to clarify that GrapheneOS has strong protection against data being extracted even without a duress PIN/password. On a related note, a recent article [2] also describes how GrapheneOS helped a journalist protect his work and his confide...
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 260 points, 204 comments (discussion)
This investment has never been secret. Google (now under parent company Alphabet) invested roughly $900 million as the majority of a ~$1 billion funding round alongside Fidelity Investments. This gave Google an initial equity stake of about 7–7.5% in SpaceX at a valuation of roughly $10–12 billion.
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 220 points, 162 comments (discussion)
So I'll have to park my car in a garage first, then take a bus to the terminal just so that a robot can move my car from the place where I parked it to a different place? I was hoping it'd be something where I'd pull up to the curb, grab my bags and head in while the robot parked the car for me but ...
Sources: Lobsters
Sources: Slashdot