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CISA confirms hackers targeted over 100 US water systems during Julyhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/cisa-confirms-hackers-targeted-over-100-us-water-systems-during-july

The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water systems across the United States.

Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical gameshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/984936/xbox-disc-to-digital-feature-official

Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. The disc-to-digital feature, which The Verge exclusively revealed last month, is part of work that Microsoft is doing for game preservation and in preparation for the next generation of Xbox consoles. "Most Xbox One and […]

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha modelhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/surprise-z-ai-is-the-ai-lab-behind-the-mysterious-ox-alpha-model

Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.

Show HN: Shelf Protocol – Robots.txt for Commercehttps://github.com/Signal-All/shelfprotocol

My project helps merchants, consumers, and ai agents. We are at the point ai agents will be buying things for consumers. My product verifies the merchant, highlights the store to agents, brings stores and their products into one registery and gives the ai agent speed by calling my registry instead of the agent going searching each merchant one at a time. I have a function "can_buy()" that does a few things. It gives agents an understanding of what they can and can't do. It helps them know if a merchant allows ai agents to buy without a human involved, it lets the agent know my product prove t…

Show HN: How much of Hacker News is AI?https://hnstats.com

This website counts titles containing the standalone word "AI", case-sensitive and word-bounded. "OpenAI" doesn't count. "AI-powered" does. There's a toggle for a wider vocabulary: artificial intelligence spelled out, LLM, GPT, and model and vendor names. Some quick stats: - 14.4% of new HN titles this year, against 10.9% in 2025. On the wider vocabulary, 21.9% and 16.1%. - First month above 1% was Oct 2016. Above 5%, Feb 2023. Above 10%, May 2025. - Over the last five years the quietest month was Jan 2022 at 0.8%. The peak was Feb 2026 at 15.9%. - 13.6% on weekdays against 12.4% at weekends.…

Inquest begins into death of Jason Ardayhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdv5y220keo

Dr Julian Morris Morris said he had "reason to suspect that Professor Arday died an unnatural death".

King and Queen to visit the Caribbean in autumn tourhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddv4mn0d6po

The eight-day visit will see the royal pair travel to Antigua before King Charles travels to the Bahamas and Guyana.

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Accounthttps://twitterwebviewer.com

Article URL: https://twitterwebviewer.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449576 Points: 5 # Comments: 2

Stourbridge fires started accidentallyhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ye3ld87y1o

Investigators say the fires started accidentally in fields where farming machinery was being used.

GLM-5.3-Flashhttps://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash

Article URL: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449507 Points: 41 # Comments: 0

Show HN: AgentMachinist, issue to reviewed PR with a SHA-bound spec approvalhttps://github.com/vscarpenter/AgentMachinist

Article URL: https://github.com/vscarpenter/AgentMachinist Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449501 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Revealed – paint one image out of another (WebGL, no dependencies)https://revealed.idlee.xyz

Article URL: https://revealed.idlee.xyz Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449460 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

Microsoft’s 25th anniversary Xbox will cost $899https://www.theverge.com/games/985003/microsoft-xbox-25th-anniversary-console-price

The special-edition translucent green Xbox finally has an official price. Preorders for the console start August 27th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT. It will launch on November 13th, alongside a matching controller with the same "OG Green" colorway from the original translucent green Xbox. Microsoft is also including a full-game download of Halo: Combat […]

Show HN: A TUI for Inspecting Snowflake Taskshttps://github.com/ben-nour/snowtask

Article URL: https://github.com/ben-nour/snowtask Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449412 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Prompt Builder – Free Templateshttps://www.promptbuilder.space/templates

Article URL: https://www.promptbuilder.space/templates Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449363 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Elden Ring on the Switch 2 isn’t tarnishedhttps://www.theverge.com/entertainment/983307/elden-ring-nintendo-switch-2-review

FromSoftware is hoping to make a splash on the Switch 2 later this year when it launches The Duskbloods, a gothic competitive multiplayer game that's unlike anything the studio has made before. But before that, Switch 2 owners have a chance to experience the studio's biggest hit for the first time thanks to a port […]

You can now buy music on SoundCloudhttps://www.theverge.com/entertainment/984926/soundcloud-direct-music-sales-beta-launch

SoundCloud has launched a new beta feature that allows artists on the audio streaming platform to sell music directly from their profiles, instead of diverting fans to purchase from third-party services like Bandcamp and Beatport. The feature aims to give listeners a better way to support the musicians behind their favorite songs, because SoundCloud isn't […]

Your Oura Ring can’t measure what’s going on in your skullhttps://www.theverge.com/column/984991/optimizer-oura-ring-lawsuit-sleep-tracking-wearables

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Oura's getting sued. A recently filed class-action complaint against the smart ring maker alleges that the company has duped customers […]

Dolly Parton didn't just write hits — she created an American songbookhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/26/nx-s1-5944468/dolly-parton-legacy-songwriting

Parton, who died at 80 on Tuesday, had charm, depth, beauty, wit and radiant goodness. She was also a songwriter whose work told the story not just of country music but of the country itself.

Will a Premier League club break record for transfer sales in one window?https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce9ejxvky8vo

Aston Villa, Man City and Newcastle are closing in on Monaco's record for transfer income generated in a single window.

NovaCookies Campaigns Abuse Genuine Docusign Notifications to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessionshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/novacookies-campaigns-abuse-genuine.html

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing toolkit called NovaCookies that's used as a proxy to redirect Microsoft 365 sign-ins, while capturing authenticated sessions in the process. In a report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication, Island characterized the $320/month service as a subscription-based phishing platform that

Meta settles for $18 billion in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to childrenhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/meta-settles-for-18-billion-in-lawsuit-brought-by-29-states-over-social-media-harms-to-children

The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowing about the harms the platforms could pose to young users.

Chelsea in contact over move for Villa goalkeeper Martinezhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cm27yzrkeydo

Chelsea consider a move for Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez after making contact with the Argentina international's representatives.

Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlementhttps://www.theverge.com/policy/985032/meta-state-ag-kids-online-safety-settlement

Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost it hundreds of billions of dollars. Under the terms of the settlement, Meta agreed to come up with an age assurance standard that is subject to independent […]

Uefa set to drop Fifa tournament boycott threathttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5ye3j5n8vyo

Uefa is set to drop its threat of boycotting Fifa competitions, having received assurances there will be no repeat of Gianni Infantino's plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors, BBC Sport has been told.

Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to childrenhttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with-us-states-over-social-media-harms-2026-08-26

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with-us-states-over-social-media-harms-2026-08-26/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448819 Points: 29 # Comments: 5

Meta agrees to pay up to $16.68bn to settle social media casehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd68q3wynnqo

The deal has been reached during a California federal court trial over claims brought by 29 states.

Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canadahttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/paper-product-toilet-paper-tariffs-us-canada

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/paper-product-toilet-paper-tariffs-us-canada Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448560 Points: 23 # Comments: 6

Show HN: I built a tool showing how AI providers (should) throttle their modelshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23986

OP here: this project was born out of the frustration/paranoia that AI providers are throttling their models when their server load is too high. So, I set out to model and study the problem mathematically to understand what was happening, what I found was quite surprising. The idea seems natural: as the data center demand increases momentarily through the day, throttling their models (either using a quantized version, reducing the context window or lowering the tier of the model to a smaller one) seems appealing as the model in principle uses less electricity. The problem is that this can cau…

CISA Red Team Compromised Two Critical Infrastructure Orgs, One Detected Nothinghttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisa-red-team-compromised-two-critical.html

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the results of two red team assessments it conducted simultaneously against two critical infrastructure organizations, using what it described as similar tradecraft while recording sharply different defensive outcomes. Both organizations were fully compromised at the domain level, and in both, the red team also

QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling youhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/querystory-wants-you-to-believe-what-ai-is-telling-you

The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.

PeopleFinders’ New Website Runs Background Checks on Your Dateshttps://www.wired.com/story/peoplefinders-new-website-stud-or-dud-runs-background-checks-on-your-dates

The site, called Stud or Dud, helps daters dig up dirt on potential paramours. It’s fueled by the same public data as PeopleFinders.com—and comes with many of the same concerns.

AWS Acquires DuckDBhttps://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws

Article URL: https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448321 Points: 91 # Comments: 8

Show HN: Fake-bpy-module – Blender/UPBGE Python autocompletion for external IDEshttps://github.com/nutti/fake-bpy-module

I wanted to share fake-bpy-module, a collection of fake Blender Python API stubs designed to enable code auto-completion and type hinting in external IDEs like VSCode. I have been maintaining this open-source project for over 8 years, tracking Blender's active ecosystem from Blender version 2.78 to 5.2+. -- The Pain Point for Development in Blender Python -- Blender does not expose its Python API (bpy) as standard Python files outside of its built-in text editor. This makes add-on development in external IDEs tedious and prone to type errors. -- Solution & How it Works -- Instead of relying o…

Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give policehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/984838/ring-take-encryption-throw-away-the-key-law-enforcement

Ring has a new way to protect your videos. It's developed an encryption method called TAKE, short for Throw Away the Key Encryption, that the Amazon-owned company says will protect your videos without traditional end-to-end encryption. TAKE limits when and why Amazon's cloud can access those videos, while still providing features like smart alerts for […]

Arga is building a better way to train enterprise AI agentshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/arga-is-building-a-better-way-to-train-enterprise-ai-agents

Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.

Show HN: Kuma Voice – OSS Apple Watch voice assistant, no iPhone neededhttps://github.com/itsperini/kuma-voice

Article URL: https://github.com/itsperini/kuma-voice Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448238 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiencyhttps://qwen.ai/blog

Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448210 Points: 29 # Comments: 8

Show HN: Witstep – daily math and logic puzzle game (Free No Sign-up)https://witstep.vercel.app

Created a daily & patterns mode for fun puzzles, will expand more in the future, it already has a lot of patterns, have fun if you like this kind of stuff. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448164 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

A curmudgeon tries a language serverhttps://entropicthoughts.com/curmudgeon-tries-language-server

Article URL: https://entropicthoughts.com/curmudgeon-tries-language-server Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448150 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is herehttps://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

Article URL: https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448137 Points: 23 # Comments: 11

Show HN: Remap – bike routing that builds loops from the best roads, on-devicehttps://remap.earth

Article URL: https://remap.earth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448085 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

Reform proposes £30 tax rebate for HMRC phone delayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c804rd7leppo

People on hold to HMRC for more than 30 minutes would get a tax credit under plans announced by Robert Jenrick.

Show HN: Chapter Zero – the machines Kubernetes The Hard Way asks you to bringhttps://github.com/cyb3ralbert/chapter-zero

Article URL: https://github.com/cyb3ralbert/chapter-zero Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447993 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

Vholume review – a headlong rush of parkour perfection in a brutalist wonderlandhttps://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/aug/26/vholume-review-parkour

PC; Nathan Grange, Léonard Lemaitre, Niels Tiercelin, IronEqual Race across impossible dystopian cityscapes in this exhilarating game of wall-runs, death-chancing leaps and split-second improvisation At first, Vholume seems like a quick rush through some smartly selected references. Has this breathless yet austere parkour game been designed or ingeniously curated? The urban gymnast moveset comes from Mirror’s Edge. Level names use terms like conapt, first coined by Philip K Dick. And the environments themselves are dystopian and surreal, Half-Life 2’s City 17 colliding with the blasted a…

Show HN: Music Puzzle Game on Steroidshttps://bollywoodle.app

I am a puzzle and music buff. This was vibecoded over a weekend a year ago. I just checked recently and it has blown up! If you have ever craved a sleek and new music puzzle game, here it is. It breaks down a song into different stems for you to guess a dn a clever signal processing thing to turn the vocals into humming - something I built Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447840 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

Show HN: ModelMRI – see inside a local LLM, VLM or robot policy while it runshttps://github.com/muhammadmahadazher/ModelMRI

Article URL: https://github.com/muhammadmahadazher/ModelMRI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447785 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source projecthttps://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/08/26/nitter-no-more-x-sends-in-the-lawyers-to-shut-down-open-source-project/5292548

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/08/26/nitter-no-more-x-sends-in-the-lawyers-to-shut-down-open-source-project/5292548 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447772 Points: 10 # Comments: 4

Rockstar Games breaks silence on Grand Theft Auto 6 leakshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62eg71e1z2o

The game developer says the unauthorised footage has caused "heartbreak" for those working on the title.

Omarchy is full of security holeshttps://blog.happyfellow.dev/merchants-of-insecurity

Article URL: https://blog.happyfellow.dev/merchants-of-insecurity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447682 Points: 68 # Comments: 23

Show HN: Dependency graph and impact analysis for your GitHub repohttps://vast-neracu.vercel.app

Article URL: https://vast-neracu.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447666 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

How Dolly Parton helped the world - from children's books to supporting Covid vaccinehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24j39jqy2go

The late singer-songwriter's charity causes were as eclectic as her music, but she had a personal connection to each one.

Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propagandahttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447600 Points: 19 # Comments: 0

The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fearshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1143000/the-download-kids-issue-launch-bill-gates-ai-fears

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Kids issue If the desire to limit kids’ use of technology was once a subcurrent, it has become a raging flood. Countries around the world are banning children from…

Show HN: A single homepage link you can buy until someone pays $1 morehttps://mostexpensivelink.com

Article URL: https://mostexpensivelink.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447588 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

Spyware for Babieshttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/spyware-for-babies.html

The New York Times has a long article ( alt link ) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI. Nanit and its rivals want to own 24/7 health tracking for the sub-four-foot set. And their already astonishing levels of baby data collection are just the beginning. Nanit recently raised $50 million from investors to expand its use of A.I. and use its camera to track speech and language development, motor skills and more, while extending its presence in children’s bedrooms into early adolescence.

Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA 6 leakshttps://www.theverge.com/games/984959/gta-vi-leaks-rockstar-games-official-statement-heartbreaking

Rockstar Games has released its first official statement following days of sustained leaks of footage from Grand Theft Auto VI, calling the period "heartbreaking for our team." "It would be an understatement to say that having videos of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay leak in this way has been heartbreaking for our team, and this […]

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiringhttps://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/OgpCKYJ-founding-product-engineer

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/OgpCKYJ-founding-product-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447480 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

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