Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-08-25.

22 new stories since Lunch.

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 48 points, 18 comments (discussion)

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 751 points, 622 comments (discussion)

I was blown away by M1 Pro, and used it for 4 years before it became a little sluggish, and replacing it with an Asus S16 running on Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (an excellent laptop). One of the main reasons was missing my old Linux setup. I've briefly tested M5 Pro in an Apple store and was surprised by how ...

MNT Station - A modular, open hardware desktop computer and server

Sources: Lobsters

Perplexity and Nvidia Launch Fully Local AI Agent With Zero Token Costs

Sources: Slashdot

EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters

Sources: The Register

AI Book Scanning: Just What Is A Rare Book?

Sources: Hackaday

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 606 points, 358 comments (discussion)

Due to pricing insanity (not that Apple prices weren’t insane before the ram/ssd shortages) I’m not in the market but I do wonder if my next computer should be a Mac Studio instead of a MBP that lives its life docked. Might be better to just run a Studio and Neo for the very few times I actually nee...

I stabilized never type

Sources: Lobsters

AI Is Hitting Entry-Level Jobs Hardest, Stanford Study Finds

Sources: Slashdot

You could've applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack

Sources: The Register

Artificial Intelligence as It Once Was

Sources: Hackaday

Dolly Parton has died

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 483 points, 75 comments (discussion)

Also linked: Hacker News

Waymo Is Expanding to Germany

Sources: Slashdot

Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing

Sources: The Register

Anatomy of an SLA Resin Printing Disaster

Sources: Hackaday

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 341 points, 177 comments (discussion)

So happy with my base M4 purchase for $499 when it released. I even snagged a 1TB replacement drive for $199 a year ago. Feels like I got the last train out.

An interactive introduction to the spanning tree protocol

Sources: Lobsters

Apple Announces New Mac Mini With M6 and M5 Pro Chips

Sources: Slashdot

Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop

Sources: The Register

Nitter project received cease and desist

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 258 points, 179 comments (discussion)

I’ve been writing an HN clone that’s literally a clone. It copies all front page posts and comments. I just wanted to say publicly that dang is awesome. Instead of shutting down the idea, he’s been actively helping the project by answering periodic emails and… well, not shutting it down. Not sure wh...

The Move to Python 3 Begins

Sources: Lobsters

Motorola's 2027 Flagships Will Officially Support GrapheneOS

Sources: Slashdot