Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-08-09.

Showing top 30 of 91 distinct stories after deduping (3 appeared in more than one source).

My server is a phone now

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 204 points, 81 comments (discussion)

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 157 points, 30 comments (discussion)

Dithered QR Codes

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 102 points, 13 comments (discussion)

_for-sale DNS records

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 373 points, 137 comments (discussion)

What Happened to John and Lorena Bobbitt After 1993

Sources: Bubbles (UtterlyInteresting)

Counting the days, revisited

Sources: Lobsters

Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues

Sources: Slashdot

Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard

Sources: The Register

Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera

Sources: Hackaday

Fastmail offers EU data region

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 358 points, 178 comments (discussion)

EU data regions are a reflexive action by companies that try to hold on to their EU customers (and more and more are leaving, surprisingly the larger ones seem to be leading here). Realize that as long as you are still hosted on US owned infrastructure or that if there are US (or: five-eyes) owned c...

This goodbye is different

Sources: Bubbles (Jeff Bridgforth)

robot.villas – RSS-to-Mastodon Bridge

Sources: Lobsters

Slashdot Reader Builds a Photo-Verification App for iPhones

Sources: Slashdot

Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account

Sources: The Register

High-Density Parchment Paper Papertronics with Laser-Carved Hydrophilic Channels

Sources: Hackaday

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 254 points, 184 comments (discussion)

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Sources: Bubbles (Finest Day)

Systemd Dynamic Users (2020)

Sources: Lobsters

New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human

Sources: Slashdot

Microsoft excludes Domain Exclusion from MS 365 Copilot – days after rolling it out

Sources: The Register

Track Bird Visitors With a Raspberry Pi and a USB Mic

Sources: Hackaday

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 147 points, 15 comments (discussion)

Saturday Morning Coffee

Sources: Bubbles (Rob Fahrni)

Soar package manager

Sources: Lobsters

More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems

Sources: Slashdot

Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice

Sources: The Register

Grading Tomatoes with an ESP32 and ML

Sources: Hackaday

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 120 points, 71 comments (discussion)

No notifications

Sources: Bubbles (Happily Imperfect)

OpenSSH Key Structure Guide

Sources: Lobsters