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Article URL: https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388752 Points: 352 # Comments: 235

Walmart announced it will begin accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay starting August 24, 2026, rolling out Tap to Pay to select Walmart and Sam's Club stores first, with full store coverage by end of year and fuel stations by mid-2027. This ends Walmart's decade-long resistance to the payment standards, having previously pushed its own Walmart Pay and the failed CurrentC consortium alternative.

Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/06/neat-io-threaded.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388694 Points: 154 # Comments: 93

Tom's Hardware reviews the Elegoo Centauri 2 Combo, a $319 four-color Core XY 3D printer that is a stripped-down version of the Centauri Carbon 2. It omits lighting, a camera, and an enclosure, which limits the range of filaments it can use.

Mercury Research reports AMD gained CPU market share across all categories in Q2 2026, with desktop CPU shipments falling over 20% YoY due to high PC prices driven by memory shortages and scarce consumer GPUs. Server processor shipments rose 20% YoY, with AMD reaching 34.5% server share, ~35% desktop share, and ~29% mobile share. The memory shortage stems from chipmakers prioritizing high-bandwidth memory for AI servers over conventional DRAM.

Tom's Hardware's 2026 Innovation Awards list winners across PC hardware categories, including Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus (CPU), AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 (HEDT), Intel Arc G3 Extreme (GPU), Corsair MP700 Micro (SSD), and Alienware AW3426DW (monitor). Dishonorable mentions go to the regression to DDR4 memory and discrete GPU stagnation.

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangement for almost a year, dusting off a 112-year-old antitrust law that’s rarely used against VCs.  Board conflicts aren’t exactly new, and these companies weren’t necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested […]

Starcloud, a startup building satellites for in-orbit AI inference, added a $250M extension to its $170M Series A at a $2.3B valuation. The company is racing to lock up launch capacity ahead of SpaceX's planned Falcon 9 retirement in 2028, having already filed with the FCC to operate 88,000 spacecraft.

Article URL: https://kagi.com/changelog#11296 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154 Points: 1252 # Comments: 394

Tesla is recalling nearly 3 million vehicles in China as part of a broader regulatory push involving 11 carmakers to address hidden emergency door releases that can trap occupants during crashes or fires. Nine manufacturers, including Tesla, Xiaomi, Xpeng, Zeekr, and Lynk & Co, will install warning labels and push software updates. China banned hidden electronically-actuated exterior door handles starting in 2027 after a two-year review, and the U.S. NHTSA is also investigating Tesla's door-latching system.

Apollo Global Management confirmed a data breach in a letter to California's attorney general, disclosing that hackers used social engineering to access its cloud environment between July 6 and July 10, stealing names, birth dates, contact information, and Social Security numbers. The campaign, tracked by Google researchers under names including Falcon, Helix, Pink, and Redact, also targeted Blackstone, Bridgewater, and Bain Capital, and relies on attackers impersonating IT helpdesk staff to trick employees into entering credentials and MFA codes.

LG Electronics Production Technology Institute signed a contract with an OSAT to supply a maskless Laser Direct Imaging (LDI) lithography tool for patterning fine metal interconnects in advanced semiconductor packaging. The highest-resolution version produces 1.5-μm line-and-space patterns, trading resolution for higher throughput, as TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging capacity remains constrained.

GitHub's CTO Vladimir Fedorov acknowledged a 7-hour-47-minute outage on August 17 that disrupted Actions, pull requests, issues, Copilot, and APIs worldwide—the second major outage that month after an August 6 Actions failure. GitHub now handles 2.9 billion monthly commits, 24 million new repositories, and 130 million merged PRs, but its infrastructure hasn't scaled to keep up, with Microsoft Azure carrying ~58% of platform load. Fedorov pledged a linear read-scaling architecture rollout starting with the largest monorepos, plus retry-limit tightening and system isolation, but admitted neither outage was caused by a code or config change—meaning the failure modes were already latent.

The article title indicates Waymo has doubled its lobbying spending amid a robotaxi competition with Uber, but the provided article body contains only cookie consent and privacy policy boilerplate—no substantive reporting is present in the text.

Article URL: https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387570 Points: 661 # Comments: 83

Article URL: https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387525 Points: 277 # Comments: 180

US Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting a comprehensive inquiry into how the FBI, DEA, ICE's Homeland Security Investigations, and the Secret Service use hacking tools and spyware, citing a lack of public reporting on scope, frequency, and safeguards. Wyden noted that unlike wiretaps, there are no annual reports for hacking operations, and that DOJ and FBI have ignored prior congressional transparency requests across multiple administrations.

Article URL: https://san.com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387497 Points: 696 # Comments: 393

Tom's Hardware is offering free access to its Premium Hot Chips 2026 coverage from August 23–26 via a free account, no payment required. The conference runs three days with technical sessions from Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and others, with planned coverage including AMD's MI400 series AI accelerators and Intel's next-gen 'Diamond Rapids' Xeon processors.

MG Malaysia launched a new locally assembled (CKD) base variant of the MGS5 EV called the COM, produced at EPMB's Melaka plant, priced at RM103,900 (RM100,900 with a limited-time RM3,000 rebate). It sits RM16,000 below the LUX variant, with a smaller 49kWh battery, 125kW motor, 340km WLTP range, and fewer comfort features, but retains RWD, MG Pilot L2.5 ADAS, and the same infotainment setup.

LG Display announced 'FLiPP,' a photolithography-based OLED deposition technique that replaces traditional metal masks, claiming 1.6x brightness and 2.4x longer panel lifespan. The technique was introduced by LG Display as a manufacturing process improvement for OLED panels.

CNBC's Morning Squawk covers Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's efforts to calm rising bond yields through a 'big toolkit' including smaller auctions, altered debt maturity makeup, and debt buybacks potentially exceeding $4 billion. The newsletter also flags American brands in China and a data center backlash, though details on those items are cut off in the provided text.

Supermicro fired several employees after an internal investigation into allegations that $2.5 billion worth of AI chips were smuggled into China, bypassing US export controls. The company claims senior management had no knowledge of the illicit transactions.

CPU-Z, the long-running hardware diagnostic tool first released in 2001, has received its V3 update adding 100+ health checks, built-in stress testing, and XOC effective clock tracking. The article text is largely boilerplate navigation from Tom's Hardware with minimal additional detail beyond the headline.

A $10,000 phishing kit called iAuthFlow v2, sold on Russian-language cybercrime forums, uses a browser-in-the-middle attack to enroll attacker-controlled passkeys on compromised accounts within seconds of authentication. Abnormal Security analyzed the kit's demos showing it targeting Google, with packages also advertised for iCloud, LinkedIn, and Microsoft. The rogue passkey persists even after the victim changes their password, defeating standard remediation steps like session revocation and credential rotation.