Daily News Digest — Lunch Update

Lunch update, generated 2026-09-09.

13 new stories since Morning.

Google's Revived Nuclear Power Plant Gets $1.9 Billion Loan From US Government

Sources: Slashdot

Security boffin claims airport group left API keys in client-side JavaScript for four years

Sources: The Register

Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode ROM

Sources: Hackaday

OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math's 'Millennium Problems'

Sources: Slashdot

Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider

Sources: The Register

Sick of Wayland vs. Xorg? How about GEM?

Sources: Hackaday

Huawei Watch D3 pumps up its health-monitoring credentials

Sources: The Register

Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 381 points, 338 comments (discussion)

From "Jokester" by Isaac Asimov 1956: "Early in the history of Multivac, it had become apparent that there was one big bottleneck: the questioning procedure. Multivac could answer the problems of humanity, all the problems, if -- if it were asked meaningful questions. But as knowledge accumulated at...

Solaris Turnstiles

Sources: Lobsters

Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365

Sources: The Register

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 256 points, 125 comments (discussion)

Sloc Cloc and Code - Did I just get Buster Scrugged?

Sources: Lobsters

Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

Sources: The Register