Daily News Digest — Lunch Update

Lunch update, generated 2026-07-29.

12 new stories since Morning.

Your Brain Can Rewire Itself To Allow True Multitasking

Sources: Slashdot

Back of the NetApp: Latest exec signing scores $34M compensation package

Sources: The Register

Behold The Most Beautifully Ambitious Starship Simulator Yet

Sources: Hackaday

Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots

Sources: Slashdot

NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure

Sources: The Register

Building a Portable Weather Radar

Sources: Hackaday

Manganin: tools matter

Sources: Lobsters

AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness

Sources: The Register

Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 330 points, 96 comments (discussion)

Burnham's spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall

Sources: The Register

Writing Toy Software Is A Joy (2025)

Sources: Lobsters

Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours

Sources: The Register