Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-08-23.

16 new stories since Lunch.

I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 450 points, 198 comments (discussion)

I bought 4 of the same tablet (Fire HD 10) on Black Friday 2021 for Home Assistant dashboards and a Fire HD 10 Pro I use as an E-reader/browser (with KOReader/Firefox).. To save money I got the cheaper version with lockscreen ads pre-installed but before ever letting them online I ran Fire Toolbox t...

Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

Sources: Hacker News, Slashdot

HN: 259 points, 98 comments (discussion)

Also linked: Slashdot

Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi

Sources: Hackaday, Hacker News

HN: 44 points, 6 comments (discussion)

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

Sources: Lobsters

Iran-linked Cyberattackers Shut Down a UK Power Plant for Four Days

Sources: Slashdot

How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings

Sources: The Register

Making LEDs in the Home Fab

Sources: Hackaday

An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs

Sources: Lobsters

Stanford Economist Now Believes an AI Job Apocalypse Is Unlikely

Sources: Slashdot

An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf

Sources: The Register

To become a better writer, read as much as you can

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 389 points, 244 comments (discussion)

> Why be a writer if you don’t love reading? Why devote your intellectual and emotional energy to creating a book, when it’s a form you’re not invested in? Why write, when you aren’t steeped in wonder of storytelling? This is the key point, I think. I've seen the same as the author: people who want ...

Are there any decent programs for pdf viewing and editing for Linux that replace Adobe Acrobat?

Sources: Lobsters

23 Years After SimCity 4's Release, 'Eternal Commuter' Bug Finally Fixed

Sources: Slashdot

My favorite Computer Science books, and why

Sources: Lobsters

Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation

Sources: Slashdot

I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 264 points, 113 comments (discussion)