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Cory Doctorow — Pluralistic 8/10 ?

Pluralistic: How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026)

Today's links How corporate America built a better Roach Motel: Hostages beat customers every day. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 3-hole punches; Warner Bros v Warner Bros...

2026-09-07

Hacker News 7/10 ?

LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

Article URL:https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs-caught-logging-audio-with-screen-off-and-snooping-on-local-devices.1391214.0.htmlComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594878Points...

2026-09-07

The Register 7/10 ?

Amazon-branded plane in fatal accident at Miami Airport

Couldn’t stop before the end of a runway

2026-09-07

Hackaday 7/10 ?

NES Radar Tracks Flights at 9600 Baud

Air traffic visualizers seem to be having a bit of a moment right now, and now that moment has come to the venerable NES thanks to [k6lcm]’s NES Radar project,…read more

2026-09-07

Slashdot 7/10 ?

Roku's 24/7 AI Slop Channel Is Even Worse Than Expected

A new streaming TV channel shows films made with genAI, reports Engadget. "Fairground AI Creator TV" is free — and supported with ads — describing its material as "AI Cinema": "AI-generated" can mak...

2026-09-07

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

Article URL:https://itsfoss.com/news/switzerland-replace-microssoft-pilot/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594251Points: 24# Comments: 11

2026-09-07

The Register 7/10 ?

Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire

Even the greatest scientific minds are at risk of rogue 9-pin connectors

2026-09-07

Hackaday 7/10 ?

How Charged Water Drops Induce Corrosion

Generally, we do not look at the gentle patter of raindrops on a surface with much concern, but according to a study by [Zhongyuan Ni] et al. in Nature, we should…read more

2026-09-07

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI

Article URL:https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-jensen-huang-agi-openai-astra-ai-2026-9Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594189Points: 10# Comments: 6

2026-09-07

The Register 7/10 ?

Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry

This week on The Kettle we weigh in on Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition and why it could spell a new, more fragmented and siloed era of AI development

2026-09-07

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Bot Detection Without JavaScript: What My Blog Measured

Article URL:https://gkoreli.com/how-i-separate-readers-from-bots-without-javascriptComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594130Points: 5# Comments: 0

2026-09-07

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs

Article URL:https://github.com/timgordontg/engrimComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594008Points: 6# Comments: 0

2026-09-07

Hacker News 7/10 ?

TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings

Article URL:https://cordcuttersnews.com/tivo-plans-to-end-free-automatic-commercial-skipping-in-november-tests-paid-premium-replacement-service/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495939...

2026-09-07

Hacker News 7/10 ?

I refused to train the AI that could replace me

Article URL:https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-training-jobs-expert-replacement/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593959Points: 10# Comments: 0

2026-09-07

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Coop – Isolated VM Environments for Running Claude Code and Codex

Article URL:https://github.com/trailofbits/coopComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593842Points: 6# Comments: 1

2026-09-07

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This September

Article URL:https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/keep-our-servers-running-your-recurring-donation-goes-3x-this-september/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593563Points: 10# Comments: ...

2026-09-07

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Mother convicted of: her 5 yo walks short way to pond alone in Virginia

Article URL:https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/09/06/5-year-old-walked-alone-gated-community-his-mom-was-sentenced/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593410Points: 11# Comme...

2026-09-07

The Register 7/10 ?

Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds

Last week, he blamed himself for being ‘a grade A nincompoop’ who assumed a system upgrade couldn’t possibly go wrong

2026-09-07

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security

Article URL:https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0301Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593066Points: 4# Comments: 0

2026-09-07

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post

Article URL:https://gettogether.devComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592840Points: 9# Comments: 1

2026-09-07