Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-09-06.

12 new stories since Lunch.

QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 1103 points, 221 comments (discussion)

This resonates with me. The past few months, frontier AI labs were rushing to announce "no, our AI bot broke out of its sandbox and committed crime first and harder than yours". I said to so friends back then: if I posted about how I ran GLM 5.2 or whatever I was running then in some shoddily built ...

Nitter is unarchived and will continue

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 106 points, 14 comments (discussion)

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 77 points, 3 comments (discussion)

Flock Offered Webinar Teaching Cops How to Surveil 'No Kings' Protesters

Sources: Slashdot

Is This the Year of The Linux… Television?

Sources: Hackaday

Terence Tao on “prematurely solving [a maths] problem by purely AI-powered methods”

Sources: Lobsters

UN Votes To Encourage Map Projections More Accurately Reflecting the True Size of Continents

Sources: Slashdot

This Clavichord is a Well-Tempered Project

Sources: Hackaday

A/I shuts down – Stay human

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 370 points, 247 comments (discussion)

Really sad, and also a testament of the fact that as much as we think we try to be indipendent, eventually once somebody starts putting enough pressure on the people around you (and you turn from "a neutral customer" to "a liability") the path to isolation is very short.

NetBSD 11 from scratch

Sources: Lobsters

Your intellectual fly is open (2025)

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 351 points, 244 comments (discussion)

These are all important points and I love the analogy. But there is an even bigger issue with having LLMs write for you: Writing is thinking. Thinking and deciding. There have been many times when I start out writing something substantial - could be an email, a blog post, a software design document,...

2026 Hugo Award Winners Include Ursula Le Guin-Authored Graphic Novel

Sources: Slashdot