Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-08-11.

16 new stories since Lunch.

Mojo 1.0

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 67 points, 35 comments (discussion)

Making holograms with a pen plotter

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 4 points, 0 comments (discussion)

GNOME Shell Design Dreams

Sources: Lobsters

Spotify Will Label 'AI Persona' Profiles, Exclude Their Music From Recommendations

Sources: Slashdot

Intel upsizes stock sale to $20B with spending plans still fuzzy

Sources: The Register

Turning a Toy Game Boy into a Real Game Boy

Sources: Hackaday

Paramount Considers Leaving California Amid Antitrust Suit

Sources: Slashdot

Two wars and a World Cup lead to epic DDoS attacks on publishers

Sources: The Register

The PC OS That Would Have Blown Your Mind Back In 1984

Sources: Hackaday

Briar is in maintenance mode

Sources: Lobsters

France Bans Unsolicited Telemarking Calls

Sources: Slashdot

Feds warn Gunra ransomware is exploiting known bugs to hit critical infrastructure

Sources: The Register

PC-1: The 1954 Computer with no Tubes, Relays, or Transistors

Sources: Hackaday

England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 422 points, 300 comments (discussion)

I am glad they’re screening for it. I was born to someone who had the virus, but didn’t know I had Hep C myself until I submitted myself to an exceptionally thorough STI testing panel. I say exceptional, because the standard ones I’d done throughout college and early adulthood do not happen to inclu...

England Set To Eliminate Hepatitis C

Sources: Slashdot

Cyberattack on logistics giant CEVA delivers customer data into the wrong hands

Sources: The Register