Daily News Digest — Lunch Update

Lunch update, generated 2026-07-28.

13 new stories since Morning.

PyTorch: A Reference Language

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 41 points, 3 comments (discussion)

Arizona State Launches Influencer Degree Where Students Must Gain Real Followers

Sources: Slashdot

Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision

Sources: The Register

FreeBSD Just Removed the Last of its GPL-Licensed Code

Sources: Hackaday

Earth's Biggest Disasters Strike In a Hidden Pattern Every 27 Million Years

Sources: Slashdot

Arista patches actively exploited VeloCloud bug as CISA puts admins on the clock

Sources: The Register

The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next

Sources: Hackaday

Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly

Sources: Lobsters

Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber

Sources: The Register

7.1 Earthquake in Japan

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 282 points, 61 comments (discussion)

One Ring to Rule Them All: Wiring Radios to Laptops the Hard Way

Sources: Lobsters

Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops

Sources: The Register

Paged Out #9 [pdf]

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 249 points, 28 comments (discussion)