Daily News Digest — Lunch Update

Lunch update, generated 2026-07-30.

11 new stories since Morning.

C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior

Sources: Lobsters

Comcast Store Punished Low Sales By Smashing Pies In Workers' Faces, Lawsuit Claims

Sources: Slashdot

MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future

Sources: The Register

RC Telemetry Board Lets Virtual Crewmember Help You Race Better

Sources: Hackaday

AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 503 points, 256 comments (discussion)

I can’t speak for other startups, but I applied to the most recent YC batch with my idea for making AI proactive instead of reactive, and pre-being selected I’ve published a paper on recursive self-improvement mapped to the Epoch AI data. I contacted a professor from a university in the UK and he re...

Qantas Plane Flies For More Than 24 Hours In Record-Breaking Flight

Sources: Slashdot

Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook

Sources: The Register

A Capable KVM Built With The ESP32

Sources: Hackaday

The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time

Sources: The Register

30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage

Sources: The Register

Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up

Sources: The Register