Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-08-14.

20 new stories since Lunch.

Curl Performance

Sources: Lobsters

Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile

Sources: Slashdot

Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine

Sources: The Register

Uninvasive EEG Interface Could Be Used To Play Games

Sources: Hackaday

Every Fucking Website (2020)

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 613 points, 351 comments (discussion)

Should load much slower. Also, where is the unrelated autoplaying video that will unmute if you actually click it, that follows your scrolling and only becomes smaller when you dismiss it? Plus, it should probably have text that cuts off letting you know you can have access for just $10/month. Plus,...

Judge Orders Google To Make Rival App Store Installs Easier

Sources: Slashdot

Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age

Sources: The Register

Hackaday Podcast Episode 382: Glueballs, Borg Cubes, and Supersonic Trebuchets

Sources: Hackaday

Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 559 points, 512 comments (discussion)

The single biggest annoyance with Opus 5 is that it writes too elliptically. Sentences that orbit a point, then jump to it like it's a revealed insight. Unnecessarily abstract phraseology. Constantly using inanimate nouns as the subjects in sentences in order to unlock variety in verb choice, especi...

SlopScan: Displays a "slop score" when viewing public git repositories

Sources: Lobsters

Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and 'Sensitive' Drones

Sources: Slashdot

French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records

Sources: The Register

Snooping Flume Water Monitor Data On The Wire

Sources: Hackaday

Qwen 3.8 27B

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 534 points, 354 comments (discussion)

Since it might be helpful to some, here's my current commandline for llama.cpp running on an RTX 4090 with my monitor moved to the iGPU to free up all of its VRAM. llama-server -m Qwen3.8-27B-IQ4_NL.gguf --mmproj mmproj-BF16.gguf -c 170000 --parallel 1 -ngl -1 --cache-type-k q8_0 --cache-type-v q8_0...

Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store

Sources: Slashdot

Virgin Galactic flights stay grounded while ticket prices head for the Moon

Sources: The Register

This Week in Security: BugTraq, AI Hacks, and Being Dumb On Planes

Sources: Hackaday

Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 294 points, 200 comments (discussion)

Some of his planks: * Cut your taxes, and raise everyone else’s. * Nationalize Adele. * Build at least one affordable house. * Hold a referendum on whether Pluto should regain its planet status. I see the attraction.

Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them

Sources: Slashdot

Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure

Sources: The Register