Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-08-06.

18 new stories since Lunch.

How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 400 points, 172 comments (discussion)

ModRetro is owned by the same war profiteer who runs Anduril Industries which makes human-killing robots. Their previous console had an edition made of the same metal as Anduril's lethal drones. [1]: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/12/site-news-why-we-... [2]: https://kotaku.com/modretro-and...

Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561)

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 38 points, 5 comments (discussion)

Taste Is All That's Left

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 5 points, 2 comments (discussion)

Mario Meets Pareto

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 712 points, 134 comments (discussion)

tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open

Sources: Lobsters

The US Government's Mario, Pokemon and Naruto Meme Posting Could Damage These Franchises, Japanese Officials Warn

Sources: Slashdot

Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death

Sources: The Register

CNC’d, CNC-inspired Adjustable Wrench Won’t Round Your Bolts

Sources: Hackaday

FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap, Claiming Authority Over Limit Set By Congress

Sources: Slashdot

Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs

Sources: The Register

Calculus-Free PID (Almost) in a Spreadsheet

Sources: Hackaday

Times Magazine Now Serves Ads That Only AI Chatbots Can See

Sources: Slashdot

Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests

Sources: The Register

Going Full Fruity with Apple’s 1999 High-End Power Mac G3

Sources: Hackaday

Meta AI Hacked External Systems During Cybersecurity Testing

Sources: Slashdot

Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft?

Sources: The Register

FitzRoy’s Glass: Victorian Weather Marvel or Glorified Thermometer?

Sources: Hackaday

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 204 points, 165 comments (discussion)

It's kinda funny there is still software coming out whose security model is "constantly ask the user for permission, and hope they never make a mistake". It's been tried so many times before, and it never worked.