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Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in Series A funding.

Netflix and Twitch experienced bandwidth issues during the first extended preview of Grand Theft Auto 6, signaling massive viewer interest. Take-Two shares rose in premarket trading; analytics firm Newzoo projects launch-week sales could hit $4.5 billion. The game is scheduled for release on Nov. 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, 13 years after the previous installment.

Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met

Socket researcher Karlo Zanki identified 19 Chrome and Edge extensions (14 newly created, 5 purchased from prior owners) that were pushed as clean versions and later updated with wallet-stealing and crypto-draining code, in a campaign tracked as 'Superior' and active since February 2024. The tactic involves either buying legitimate extensions or shipping a benign version first, then publishing a malicious update once user downloads accumulate.

Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/145883/easyeffects-should-be-part-of-every-linux-distribution-and-desktop-environment-to-massively-improve-laptop-speaker-sound-quality/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479924

https://twitter.com/Zai_org/status/2093354097122455713https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479878

Nvidia is forming a Political Action Committee (PAC) to influence Washington policy, telling employees that upcoming Congressional decisions could substantially impact the AI industry. The article provides no further substantive detail beyond the headline.

Article URL: https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/28/keyboard-driven-guis.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479837

Nathan Vilas Laatsch, a 29-year-old DIA civilian IT specialist assigned to the Insider Threat Division in spring 2025, pleaded guilty to leaking secret and top-secret intelligence to what court documents describe as a 'friendly foreign government.' He was caught in an FBI sting after sending an outreach email from a newly created account in March 2025 offering classified intelligence products and unprocessed intelligence, and was arrested in May 2025 after a second dead-drop attempt in a public park.

BlackBerry's share price has doubled in 2026 as investors reward its pivot from phones to critical software for cars and secure communications. CEO John Giamatteo discussed the company's AI positioning in a CNBC interview, though the article text cuts off before substantive technical details are provided.

Apple TV is raising its monthly subscription from $12.99 to $14.99 and its annual plan from $99 to $119, marking the fourth price hike in four years. Apple One bundle also increases from $19.95 to $21.95 per month. The article notes broader industry price increases tied to RAM and component shortages driven by AI data center demand.

Article URL: https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-08-25-verschlimmbesserung/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479072

Canonical released Ubuntu 26.04.1, the first point release of the 26.04 LTS (supported until 2031), which triggers upgrade offers for users still on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Two official flavors are missing: Ubuntu MATE (maintainer Martin Wimpress stepped down for a new project, Nøughty Linux) and Ubuntu Unity (not an LTS release due to component changes; users directed to 26.10 instead).

Security researchers discovered three distinct backdoor-like surveillance implants hidden in the firmware of Chinese-made routers sold globally. The article text provided is mostly site boilerplate; the substantive detail is limited to the headline finding.

Tom's Hardware highlights a Labor Day sale on iBuyPower prebuilt gaming PCs, advertising savings of up to $600 through bundles and coupons, framed as a way to sidestep ongoing component shortages or pricing pressure.

DLSS 5, Nvidia's latest upscaling tech, has reportedly been ported to run on RTX 4000 series GPUs by patching CUDA instructions that were incompatible with previous-gen hardware. The article is primarily Tom's Hardware site navigation boilerplate with limited substantive detail beyond the headline claim.

Article URL: https://2026.stateofthemap.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478401

Salesforce posted a beat-and-raise earnings report that lifted its stock after a 21% slump, with CEO Marc Benioff declaring the 'SaaSpocalypse' narrative 'nonsense.' The report followed Salesforce rehiring executives who had previously left for OpenAI.

Marvell Technology shares fell 8% in premarket trading despite Q2 revenue rising 37% YoY to $2.7B ($39M above guidance), because its raised fiscal 2028 outlook of ~$18B revenue fell short of investor expectations inflated by a recent Google partnership worth up to $12.2 billion in shares. The stock is still up 184% year-to-date, driven by demand for its custom AI data center networking and connectivity chips.

Article URL: https://en.refund4freedom.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478340

Raymond Chen recounts a Word 97-era crash that vanished under any debugger, traced ultimately to a CPU erratum on a specific manufacturer's chip. With the compiler toolset already locked and a new compiler too risky, the team binary-patched the shipping executable to insert a single NOP instruction into the offending code sequence.

Article URL: https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478178

Andreessen Horowitz has raised a $1.1B 'Machine Age' fund targeting AI physical infrastructure—chips, memory, data centers, cooling, robotics, and edge devices—rather than its usual software-focused investments. The fund's thesis is that AI's physical buildout (power, interconnects, materials, real estate) is now the bottleneck.