Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-08-21.

22 new stories since Lunch.

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 287 points, 35 comments (discussion)

Felony Bench

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 228 points, 102 comments (discussion)

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 44 points, 1 comments (discussion)

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 813 points, 282 comments (discussion)

I think this is amazing. Love Kagi. I’m happy to pay for a good search. Nobody speaks about their AI Assistant, but it is really good. They somehow harnessed it so that it mainly searches info first and sticks to the verifiable data. I prefer it to Claude or any other, because it actually answers th...

Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly

Sources: Lobsters

Man Dressed As Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council

Sources: Slashdot

Homeland security cybercops say patch TrueConf (Russia's Zoom) if you're using it

Sources: The Register

PVC Pipe Turned DIY Digital Telescope

Sources: Hackaday

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 396 points, 134 comments (discussion)

Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened

Sources: Lobsters

Micron Unveils $10 Billion AI Memory Research Lab In Boise

Sources: Slashdot

Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch

Sources: The Register

Hackaday Podcast Episode 383: QR Codes, Caving Gear, and the Old School Way to Learn Electronics

Sources: Hackaday

Kobo can run apps now

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 188 points, 76 comments (discussion)

Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, 'Enormously Helped' By AI

Sources: Slashdot

SickKids children’s hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in

Sources: The Register

Building a Discrete Component 75 Baud Modem

Sources: Hackaday

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 160 points, 112 comments (discussion)

Walmart To Finally Start Accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay

Sources: Slashdot

Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials

Sources: The Register

This Week in Security: Apple Warns Users, Stripe Merchants Leak Keys, Copilot Helps Hack Itself, and Comcast Senses Movement

Sources: Hackaday

I'm becoming AI-blind

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 141 points, 135 comments (discussion)