Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-09-02.

21 new stories since Lunch.

A note on subscription prices from LWN

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 631 points, 125 comments (discussion)

I Don't Have a Smartphone

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 117 points, 104 comments (discussion)

Humanity has built the records of FATE by accident

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 6 points, 1 comments (discussion)

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 580 points, 358 comments (discussion)

The speed combined with the fact that this thing is really good at HTML JavaScript is pretty exciting. Here's what I got for 1.8 cents and 13 seconds from the prompt "make me a cool thing in html": https://gisthost.github.io/?6a77bc41a81718c6aaa10d4ab243c59f Transcript here (it was part of a chat): ...

NYC Public Schools Ban AI Use Through Middle School

Sources: Slashdot

SonicWall's SMA1000 boxes under active attack again

Sources: The Register

FLOSS Weekly Episode 880: The Two Wolves

Sources: Hackaday

Mistral now trains on user input by default, except on enterprise tier

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 299 points, 126 comments (discussion)

Google Defeats US Bid to Force Ad Tech Sale

Sources: Slashdot

Microsoft will stop finishing your sentences in Word and Outlook

Sources: The Register

How a 1981 RAM Expansion Worked

Sources: Hackaday

Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 290 points, 140 comments (discussion)

Dependent if expressions without dependent types

Sources: Lobsters

Uber Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce

Sources: Slashdot

NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science

Sources: The Register

“I’m Not Dead Yet!” Reverse Polish Notation Calculators You Can Still Buy

Sources: Hackaday

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 234 points, 109 comments (discussion)

Firefox’s AI Switch Is Off. Telemetry Isn’t

Sources: Lobsters

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

Sources: Slashdot

Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill

Sources: The Register

Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 186 points, 44 comments (discussion)