Daily News Digest — Lunch Update

Lunch update, generated 2026-08-18.

11 new stories since Morning.

Rethinking Database Programming

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 80 points, 28 comments (discussion)

Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI

Sources: Hacker News, The Register

HN: 73 points, 32 comments (discussion)

Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim

Sources: Slashdot

Passport out-of-control at French airport

Sources: The Register

Watch Soldering Up Close and From Any Angle, in VR

Sources: Hackaday

Biboumi – XMPP gateway to IRC

Sources: Lobsters

Solar Power and Batteries Have Been Keeping Europe's Grid Stable

Sources: Slashdot

Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment

Sources: The Register

Store Tunes on Paper and Stream Them Over LoRA

Sources: Hackaday

UK puts Google AI on the flight path to fewer contrails

Sources: The Register

AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find

Sources: The Register