Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-07-26.

13 new stories since Lunch.

Kill The Cookie Banner

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...

Wildfires, Evacuations, and Smoke Hit Europe and North America

Sources: Slashdot

Ever Seen Claude Use Fusion 360?

Sources: Hackaday

Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59

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...

AI-Equipped Garbage Trucks Could Soon Start Spying On People in the US

Sources: Slashdot

Repairing a “for parts” Canon 7D Mark II DSLR

Sources: Hackaday

GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices

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...

Is Huawei Building Its Own DRAM Fab?

Sources: Slashdot

Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake

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.

Three Astronauts Safely Return from Space Station, Landing in Kazakhstan Steppe

Sources: Slashdot

London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

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 ...

Dmitri Gaskin on jQuery

Sources: Lobsters

Typo-Squatting Scammers Con South Carolina Town Out of $545K

Sources: Slashdot