Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-09-11.

Showing top 30 of 97 distinct stories after deduping (4 appeared in more than one source).

Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

Sources: Bubbles (Jim Nielsen), Hacker News

HN: 412 points, 289 comments (discussion)

Key for me is to "group" cables. For example, I have a bag of USB-C cables, a bag of USB-A cables, etc. Grouping them is key to deduplicating. It's easy to look at a single legacy USB A-to-B "printer" cable in isolation and think "I might need this someday!" Because you really might need it someday....

The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 125 points, 80 comments (discussion)

Making Social Media Social

Sources: Bubbles (Smashing Frames), Lobsters

Latest Apple Watch Can Grab Snippets of Conversation Without Both Speakers' Consent

Sources: Slashdot, The Register

Also linked: The Register

Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 388 points, 164 comments (discussion)

If you're looking for reason to be skeptical, look no further than the massive delta between the Terminal Bench 2.1 (92.8%) and the Terminal Bench 4 score (27.3%). Terminal Bench 4 was released a couple weeks ago, so the difference you're seeing between the two scores can be interpreted as "how well...

after all... why not?

Sources: Bubbles (ava's blog)

It's not the YAML spec's fault, but

Sources: Lobsters

Climate 'Feedback Loops' Could Worsen Global Warming By 30%, Study Finds

Sources: Slashdot

OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time

Sources: The Register

Lara Croft on a Microcontroller

Sources: Hackaday

Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 300 points, 46 comments (discussion)

Social Media Diet

Sources: Bubbles (Kai Gulliksen)

What comes after git

Sources: Lobsters

Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons

Sources: Slashdot

Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research

Sources: The Register

Changing Nozzle Internal Geometry to Increase FDM Flowrate

Sources: Hackaday

Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 296 points, 246 comments (discussion)

I live in Japan and last year when we moved from an apartment to a house we installed a Mitsubishi EcoCute heat pump water heater which already has these features and is also a CO2 heat pump. We have one of the "all-denka" electric plans, where we trade off cheap rates during solar hours for expensi...