Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-08-20.

Showing top 30 of 111 distinct stories after deduping (0 appeared in more than one source).

OpenRouter is joining Stripe

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 756 points, 375 comments (discussion)

Using Open in your company name, when there's nothing about it, should be illegal.

I'm Upset Again About a Co-Creator of RSS Being Prosecuted For Something Meta Is Doing With Little Consequence

Sources: Bubbles (quailblog)

Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys

Sources: Lobsters

Whistleblower Arturo Bejar Leads Testimony In Landmark Trial Against Meta

Sources: Slashdot

Microsoft ends one of the last ways to buy VMware without big bundles

Sources: The Register

Quick Share Implemented On A Kindle

Sources: Hackaday

Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 442 points, 77 comments (discussion)

If Your New People Are on X, Maybe Your New People Suck

Sources: Bubbles (Coyote Tracks)

Ploopy A+ (external trackball)

Sources: Lobsters

PINE64 Halts Linux Device Production Amid DRAM and EMMC Shortages

Sources: Slashdot

AMD inches closer to its goal of making AI suck less ... energy

Sources: The Register

NASA Tests Featherweight Radar Antenna for SkyFall Mars Helicopters

Sources: Hackaday

Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 389 points, 164 comments (discussion)

If you're like me and struggled to parse the title, my understanding is, "To obtain certain source code from Google, you could previously reference git tags, but now you have to fill out a form and wait for a human to give you a google drive link."

Loss of Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age

Sources: Bubbles (The CerebralRift)

Reclaim the terminal

Sources: Lobsters

Stripe Buys AI Startup OpenRouter For $7.5 Billion

Sources: Slashdot

'Not a theoretical risk,' feds warn as attackers use AI-made code to hack critical infrastructure controllers

Sources: The Register

HYDR8 Will Lead You to Water, But Will You Drink?

Sources: Hackaday

Casio F-B100W-1A

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 323 points, 259 comments (discussion)

BIG Warning to anyone thinking about purchasing one of these You cannot connect the watch to Bluetooth without a proprietary app, and that proprietary app will not let you use the Bluetooth feature without some bullshit called a "CASIO Account". Their privacy policy is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser too...

Little websites everywhere

Sources: Bubbles (News feed)

Packing Malware in Rosetta 2

Sources: Lobsters

Amazon's Drones Will Soon Deliver to Nearly 500 US Cities and Towns

Sources: Slashdot

SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs

Sources: The Register

Mini Blinking Barrels Keep Desktop Traffic in Check

Sources: Hackaday

Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 265 points, 87 comments (discussion)

Beyond the Veil

Sources: Bubbles (wry writer)

capri: Type-safe, atomic Gleam bindings for Khepri, the modern distributed database for the BEAM

Sources: Lobsters

Music Publisher Round Hill Files $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Suits Against Suno, Anthropic

Sources: Slashdot

Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown

Sources: The Register

fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 217 points, 94 comments (discussion)