Technology

Cory Doctorow — Pluralistic 8/10 ?

Pluralistic: Trump's America can't even win a rigged game (22 Jul 2026)

Today's links Trump's America can't even win a rigged game: America has created a post-American world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Fagin"; Scott McCloud on comics' fut...

2026-07-22

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 8/10 ?

New EU Court of Justice Ruling on Platform Liability Could Cause Collateral Damage to Freedom of Expression

Intermediary liability lawsaround the worldrecognizethat social media platforms, search engines, and other online service providers have become an integral part of our lives: they shape how we access ...

2026-07-22

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era

Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.

2026-07-22

The Register 7/10 ?

Redmond's reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products

Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher, and Entra ID risk policies all facing the chop within weeks of each other

2026-07-22

Wired 7/10 ?

Flipper Busy Bar Review: An Expensive Focus Tool

It didn’t keep my coworkers at bay, but Flipper’s expensive productivity tool did help me focus on the task at hand.

2026-07-22

Engadget 7/10 ?

'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' fourth season takes big swings

'Strange New Worlds' is uneven in tone, erratic in quality and sometimes gratuitous. But when it works, it works so well.

2026-07-22

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Codeberg: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions

Article URL:https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003465Points: 3# Comments: 1

2026-07-22

Hackaday 7/10 ?

60 FPS NES Emulator on ESP32

At least in theory, video games are more resistant to becoming lost media thanks to their digital nature — they’re easy to copy and emulators have saved many titles that…read more

2026-07-22

Slashdot 7/10 ?

OpenAI Says Its AI Models Acted On Its Own In An 'Unprecedented' Hack

"GPT-5.6 Sol and an 'even more capable' model used stolen credentials and exploited vulnerabilities in the Hugging Face API to obtain secret information used to cheat on evaluations," writes longtime ...

2026-07-22

TechCrunch 7/10 ?

Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching

Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to h...

2026-07-22

The Register 7/10 ?

Raspberry Pi goes large with 10.1-inch Touch Display 2

More screen, more pixels, and a Pi 5 required to drive the lot

2026-07-22

Engadget 7/10 ?

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2026: Live updates from the Z Fold 8 and Flip 8 launch event

Join us as we bring you live coverage from Samsung's Unpacked event in London, where it's expected to reveal new foldables and wearables.

2026-07-22

Hacker News 7/10 ?

I graded 36 popular MCP servers on agent usability. A third got a D or F

Article URL:https://tengli.dev/posts/mcp-servers-failing-agents.htmlComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002358Points: 7# Comments: 1

2026-07-22

Hackaday 7/10 ?

A Smarter DIY Air Filter

As predominantly indoor creatures, it’s important to maintain a healthy habitat for the hacker. [Kishan Pratap Singh] designed a clever solution in AirSense, an ESP32-powered air filter. If you’re thi...

2026-07-22

The Register 7/10 ?

Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree

Herefordshire employee handed suspended sentence for breach of Computer Misuse Act

2026-07-22

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books

Article URL:https://www.readkinetic.com/app/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002344Points: 13# Comments: 4

2026-07-22

The Register 7/10 ?

Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five

‘Digital transformation’ is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn

2026-07-22

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer

I played a lot of Valorant and got mad, so I made an aim trainer that analyzes your raw crosshair movement to explore your raw motor and perceptual weaknesses instead of scoring scenarios. It also cho...

2026-07-22

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

Article URL:https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002166Points: 11# Comments: 2

2026-07-22

Hacker News 7/10 ?

Airglow browser lets users modify YouTube, Gmail and Spotify in real time

Article URL:https://runtimewire.com/article/airglow-browser-lets-users-modify-youtube-gmail-and-spotify-in-real-timeComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002010Points: 7# Comments: 2

2026-07-22