Daily News Digest

Morning edition, generated 2026-09-13.

Showing top 30 of 77 distinct stories after deduping (2 appeared in more than one source).

Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 307 points, 169 comments (discussion)

They are talking about slowing down the public facing AI development. Because then nation states can create a capabilities gap between them and the public. Why does nobody seem to be pointing out this obvious explanation? It explains why the “we need to race China” concern suddenly vanished in the d...

Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 97 points, 29 comments (discussion)

LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 475 points, 381 comments (discussion)

LG's statement: > ACR uses audio fingerprinting technology using the TV’s internal audio processor (not a speaker) to identify content and does not collect screenshots, screen recordings, video recordings, voice recordings, or other audio recordings from the TV. So they are claiming that ACR is done...

Specialty Coffee COCORO, Hakodate

Sources: Bubbles (Emma Goto)

xkcd-font: The xkcd font

Sources: Lobsters

Sam Bankman-Fried, Former Crypto Billionaire, Appeals His Conviction To the US Supreme Court

Sources: Slashdot

Union body tells UK government workers must get a say before AI clocks in

Sources: The Register

Spin FV-1 Emulator Simplifies Sound Pedal Development

Sources: Hackaday

Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 388 points, 91 comments (discussion)

Not the End of the World, actually

Sources: Bubbles (What the Fran)

Useful Things Agents Can Do That Are Not Writing Code

Sources: Lobsters

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls For AI Slowdown

Sources: Slashdot

Microsoft annoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language

Sources: The Register

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: 16-Bit Homebrew Relay Computer

Sources: Hackaday

LG Says We're Fake News [video]

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 224 points, 105 comments (discussion)

Week In Review 2026-09-12

Sources: Bubbles (Take 5, D.)

A Few Good Ideas in Programming Languages

Sources: Lobsters

Automattic's Matt Mullenweg Claims He's Back 'In Control'

Sources: Slashdot

Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on

Sources: The Register

Making an Air-Powered Circular Saw with LEGO

Sources: Hackaday

Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 186 points, 45 comments (discussion)

Why are modern televisions so cheap?

Sources: Bubbles (Kevin Boone)

The gpg.fail aftermath: On responsible disclosure, GPG, and the state of security in 2026 [32:37]

Sources: Lobsters

OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought

Sources: The Register

Big Infinity Mirror Clock Invites You To Gaze Deeply

Sources: Hackaday

Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 181 points, 98 comments (discussion)

Mastodon users hate everyone and everything

Sources: Bubbles (Korin)

A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith

Sources: Lobsters

AI job cuts could come with a costly undo button

Sources: The Register

Apple iPod Engraver (2019)

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 176 points, 39 comments (discussion)