Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-09-13.

13 new stories since Lunch.

Homebrew 7.0.0

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 473 points, 191 comments (discussion)

Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs moving to Tier 3 (announced last...

Watch what you say: Apple opens the door to a nightmare world of always-listening tech

Sources: Lobsters

California's Gig Drivers Just Secured Collective Bargaining Power with Newly Certified Union

Sources: Slashdot

The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker

Sources: The Register

A 386 PC For Your RP2350

Sources: Hackaday

what if my git host were a static site generator?

Sources: Lobsters

Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter - For Filming Them in Public

Sources: Slashdot

Analyzing the FScale Instruction in Intel’s 8087 FPU

Sources: Hackaday

JetKVM Mini

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 441 points, 171 comments (discussion)

This author has tested a lot of IP KVMs and compares them in this post: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/i-tested-every-ip-kvm... He likes JetKVM. However, they appear to be sold out. The Mini seems great but I have yet to receive a preordered item on the advertised timeline. That article poin...

Switching to GNU Guix: A Beginner's Perspective

Sources: Lobsters

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 263 points, 111 comments (discussion)

I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 252 points, 68 comments (discussion)

Golang developers should try Odin

Sources: Lobsters