Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-09-14.

21 new stories since Lunch.

Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste

Sources: Hacker News, The Register

HN: 93 points, 34 comments (discussion)

How my e-reader lost its stripes

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 52 points, 3 comments (discussion)

An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 276 points, 64 comments (discussion)

The contagion of fear

Sources: Lobsters

No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage

Sources: Slashdot

Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder

Sources: The Register

Pulse: a New VHDL Simulator

Sources: Hackaday

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 262 points, 805 comments (discussion)

I had claude faithfully rewrite SimTower so I could play it in the browser: https://kvetch.io/conciliatower I wanted to re-play SimTower but found it too difficult to get running through emulation. Instead, I worked for 6 months with Claude Code on a complete rewrite, replicating all the functionali...

Union Contract with Microsoft Ratified by 1,900 Blizzard Developers and Workers

Sources: Slashdot

Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent

Sources: The Register

Hackaday Europe 2026: Space Oddities

Sources: Hackaday

OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 239 points, 216 comments (discussion)

> If you have YARD installed, and you install this gem, then YARD will load and run whatever is in ./script.rb from inside the gem. How is that not a security issue in of itself?

What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?

Sources: Lobsters

Ubuntu Noble's likely last point release lands, then loses its desktop download

Sources: The Register

Fly Brain Connectome Used to Trade Stocks and Play Games

Sources: Hackaday

XCancel service is suspended until further notice

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 234 points, 511 comments (discussion)

I know it’s hard for some people (for understandable reasons), but at some point we have to ignore the X site completely and make politicians and public services/institutions aware that some people do not have or want access to the site. That is the only way anything might change someday. Maybe I’m ...

Mergiraf: A syntax-aware git merge driver for a growing collection of programming languages and file formats

Sources: Lobsters

Cyberattack sends International Meteor Organization crashing back to Earth

Sources: The Register

Rosy Retrocomputing

Sources: Hackaday

Steam Frame starts at $1059

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 229 points, 121 comments (discussion)

How can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?

Sources: Lobsters