Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-08-07.

18 new stories since Lunch.

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 110 points, 30 comments (discussion)

Framework Notifies 'All Customers' of a Data Breach Via Compromised Metabase BI Service

Sources: Slashdot

N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands

Sources: The Register

Chernobyl’s Robots, or the Hackathon From Hell

Sources: Hackaday

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 298 points, 285 comments (discussion)

The worrying thing here is that so many people accepted outsourcing the decision on who can see their website to a large company (Cloudflare). If the company decides that a certain user should not see the website, the user will not see the website, and no one will know about it, and the user will ha...

Suno Says It Will Start Watermarking Songs

Sources: Slashdot

ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses

Sources: The Register

Hackaday Podcast Episode 381: Airless Tires, Full-color Prints, and 28 MW of LEDs

Sources: Hackaday

São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 298 points, 114 comments (discussion)

What are you doing this weekend?

Sources: Lobsters

ByteDance Is Training a 10-Trillion-Parameter Model To Chase the Frontier

Sources: Slashdot

MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs

Sources: The Register

Music is Back on Optical Disk in This Plex Server

Sources: Hackaday

Trump Orders New 15% Tariff On Key Material For Solar Panels, Microchips

Sources: Slashdot

Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder

Sources: The Register

This Week in Security: Claude Gets Hacking, Hotel WiFi, and NPM Compromised Again

Sources: Hackaday

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 210 points, 135 comments (discussion)

From constraint models to playable puzzle games

Sources: Lobsters