Daily News Digest — Lunch Update

Lunch update, generated 2026-09-13.

10 new stories since Morning.

From Git to Fossil (2025)

Sources: Lobsters

Malicious OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers in May

Sources: Slashdot

Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

Sources: The Register

Keeping Time on Tumbling Icosahedra

Sources: Hackaday

heol

Sources: Lobsters

How to make Xfce look like almost any desktop you want

Sources: The Register

Whip-Cracking Machine Reliably Breaks the Sound Barrier

Sources: Hackaday

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 267 points, 336 comments (discussion)

The more we treat HuggingFace and RubyGems incidents as technological curiosities the closer we are to cementing a dangerous precedent where operators of AIs cannot be blamed. LLMs do not desire, they hacked websites because OpenAI/Anthropic let them. We know some of the models that hacked HF were t...

a better way of blocking macOS updates

Sources: Lobsters

Stabilizing Rust's Never Type

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 199 points, 58 comments (discussion)