Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-08-15.

Showing top 30 of 105 distinct stories after deduping (1 appeared in more than one source).

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 674 points, 253 comments (discussion)

Firefox is also the only browser that vets uBlock's code on every update to make sure the developer hasn't inserted spyware or malware into the extension. They don't do it for every extension, but they do so for a wide selection of popular options. > Recommended extensions differ from other extensio...

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 333 points, 195 comments (discussion)

My master's thesis is on a topic in this field (Privacy Preserving ML) and from my understanding HE and other techniques have very high overheads(~10^3) on inference tasks and thus aren't very commercially viable.

Instagzam and other logo redesigns

Sources: Bubbles (creolened.com)

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

Sources: Lobsters

Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories

Sources: Slashdot

Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words

Sources: The Register

Twin Guitar-Playing Robots Will Work for Tab

Sources: Hackaday

Seven books I keep close because I love them

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 326 points, 148 comments (discussion)

Where do YOU draw the AI line?

Sources: Bubbles (quailblog)

ActivityPub Won by Being Boring

Sources: Lobsters

Ex-Cambridge Professor At Center of Plagiarism Row Found Dead

Sources: Slashdot

DeepSeek's innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in

Sources: The Register

Large-Scale Pokémon Eviction Looms with Pokémon Bank Server Shutdown

Sources: Hackaday

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 272 points, 133 comments (discussion)

The lower the sun, the more fun exploring...

Sources: Bubbles (Light, Logged!)

My comment section is static HTML

Sources: Lobsters

Flock Announces Changes Amid Backlash Over Its License Plate Reader Network

Sources: Slashdot

1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack

Sources: The Register

Submersible drone analyzes ice

Sources: Hackaday

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 251 points, 110 comments (discussion)

Today marks 39 years my lovely bride has put up with me. I’m very grateful and love her more now than ever. ❤️

Sources: Bubbles (Rob Fahrni)

Thunderbird’s Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign

Sources: Lobsters

France's Top Court Blocks Social Media Ban For Under-15s

Sources: Slashdot

Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down

Sources: The Register

Automatic Naptime with BabyBjorn Bouncing Servo

Sources: Hackaday

AI by Hand

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 247 points, 19 comments (discussion)

On Publishing Your Salary

Sources: Bubbles (Kev Quirk)

We implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in the Linux Kernel, Musl Libc, and BGP

Sources: Lobsters

PBS Station Fears Losing 50TB of Data After Being Ghosted By Cloud Provider

Sources: Slashdot

TalkTalk Business and ARO to borg into UK tech services giant

Sources: The Register