Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-08-13.

19 new stories since Lunch.

Spaghettifying DRAM

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 336 points, 104 comments (discussion)

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 462 points, 210 comments (discussion)

"Every run is traceable Everything the model sees is recorded in an append-only session log: system prompts, reasoning, tool calls and results, subagent scheduling, and every context injection. In the Trajectory view, you can inspect these records by source. Resume, fork, search, and replay all oper...

Anthropic Could Be Worth $2 Trillion When It Goes Public

Sources: Slashdot

This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph

Sources: The Register

Bridging Older Tasmota Hardware Into Apple Home

Sources: Hackaday

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 413 points, 287 comments (discussion)

So much negativity... I like the desktop app and am looking forward to testing it out.

EuroZig

Sources: Lobsters

World's Largest 106-Foot Electric Plane Takes Maiden Flight In New York

Sources: Slashdot

Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back

Sources: The Register

Supercon Ten Tickets on Sale Now

Sources: Hackaday

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 311 points, 205 comments (discussion)

Here's a image->html test. Gemini has always swung above its weight class for vision work, so I'm always eager to try it with this. Original images: https://image.non.io/neonRamenDesigns.webp Gemini 3.7 build: https://html.non.io/neonRamenGemini3.7 Opus 5 build for comparison: https://html.non.io/ne...

Apple Turns to Publishers For Help With Siri AI

Sources: Slashdot

The backup Microsoft never promised you

Sources: The Register

Holograms, From Your Plotter

Sources: Hackaday

Gloomberb

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 309 points, 163 comments (discussion)

I really wish people would mention their stack when they have these curl install scripts. I'd rather use a real package manager, but I'm not totally against installing a compiled binary this way. I am, 100%, not going to install some Java/Type-script nightmare like this though. How is it resolving t...

University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades to 'Curb Mental Health Crisis'

Sources: Slashdot

Mystery attacker spent a year raiding Salesforce and ServiceNow portals

Sources: The Register

Bladerunners and the Mother of Invention

Sources: Hackaday

Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 135 points, 58 comments (discussion)