Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-08-04.

22 new stories since Lunch.

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Sources: Hacker News, Slashdot

HN: 215 points, 158 comments (discussion)

Apple is cutthroat in business too. Tony Fadell, the inventor of the iPod and co-inventor of the iPhone, and later Nest founder, commented this in Stratechery about the lawsuit when filed: "This is Apple’s typical tactic to scare Apple employees — either former or current. I heard this lawsuit was d...

Also linked: Slashdot

Web security is too hard

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 92 points, 28 comments (discussion)

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 459 points, 516 comments (discussion)

I wanted to show my gf the halo 1 campaign, so I downloaded the 30GB Masterchief Collection via steam. When I launched it, I was greeted with a black box. After 1 Minute it was a microsoft login screen that looked eerily like a browser inside the game. Since I couldn't do anything else, the game was...

The Lua community needs to learn to move on

Sources: Lobsters

Trump Begins Selling $100,000 Monthly Subscription Service to Wall Street

Sources: Slashdot

Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it

Sources: The Register

At Last! CP/M for Protected Mode

Sources: Hackaday

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 318 points, 73 comments (discussion)

Trump Administration Drafting Ban On Chinese Data Center Devices

Sources: Slashdot

This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp …

Sources: The Register

BornHack Radio 102.8 FM, Playing Radio At A Hacker Camp

Sources: Hackaday

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 299 points, 68 comments (discussion)

IntelliJ IDEA Goes LSP: Java and Kotlin Intelligence Comes to VS Code, Cursor, and Agentic Flows

Sources: Lobsters

Apple Launches Legal Challenge Against UK Demand To Access Encrypted User Data

Sources: Slashdot

Feds get 3 days to patch N-able God mode flaw under active exploit

Sources: The Register

Un Ordinateur Pour Le Minitel-1 (A Computer For The Minitel-1)

Sources: Hackaday

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 298 points, 335 comments (discussion)

It seems quaint now, but it’s astonishing how much the fear of war (especially nuclear annihilation) affected mid-century fiction. In addition to "There Will Come Soft Rains" we have short stories like Stephen Vincent Benét’s "By the Waters of Babylon." In that story, society has been bombed back to...

Sandisk and SK Hynix Publish First Open High Bandwidth Flash Standard

Sources: Slashdot

NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs

Sources: The Register

Road Trains Roam The Backroads of Australia

Sources: Hackaday

Harness engineering for self-improvement

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 258 points, 55 comments (discussion)

FFmpeg 9.0

Sources: Lobsters