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'Cowboy builders' targeted in new government clampdownhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2z44982e4o

A database of trusted tradespeople and a system to protect customers' money is being launched by the government next month.

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GTA 6 'demo' delivers malware directly to your PChttps://www.engadget.com/2246005/gta-6-demo-malware-infostealer

Despite what some scam sites may try to tell you, Rockstar has not made any of GTA 6 available to play in advance.

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Meta addresses β€˜pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaignhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/985851/meta-privacy-loophole-fix-marketing-campaign

Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta's vice president of augmented reality, writes in a post on Threads that "the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording." The company's line of […]

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Rape and sex offence specialists on all police forces by 2027, PM sayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e577l5g99o

The plans for forces in England and Wales had been scheduled to be rolled out by summer 2029, but have been brought forward.

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6 Takeaways From the GTA VI Extended Lookhttps://www.wired.com/story/5-takeaways-from-the-gta-vi-extended-look

Grand Theft Auto VI is nigh. Here’s what the developer revealed about its highly anticipated game.

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AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?https://www.wired.com/story/ai-agents-hacking-systems-could-push-the-us-and-china-to-cooperate

This week on β€œUncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collaboration.

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Show HN: SvGrid – a Svelte 5 data grid an AI can drive to build a full apphttps://github.com/sv-grid/sv-grid

Article URL: https://github.com/sv-grid/sv-grid Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49471036 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Rosebed – A Minecraft beta 1.7.3 reimplementation in Zighttps://mdmrk.github.io/rosebed

Article URL: https://mdmrk.github.io/rosebed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49471032 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

$900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighborhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-windfarm-money-neighbors-florida-b3040628.html

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-windfarm-money-neighbors-florida-b3040628.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470996 Points: 20 # Comments: 1

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Meta Paid $17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platformhttps://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-just-paid-nearly-17-billion-to-make-sure-it-gets-to-write-the-kid-safety-rules-for-every-other-social-media-platform

Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-just-paid-nearly-17-billion-to-make-sure-it-gets-to-write-the-kid-safety-rules-for-every-other-social-media-platform/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470949 Points: 17 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: Public threads that branch when you replyhttps://app.treechat.com/quest/post-0e602844-aa9a-4040-a637-02403bdc8284

Article URL: https://app.treechat.com/quest/post-0e602844-aa9a-4040-a637-02403bdc8284 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470705 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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'Mortified' McInnes takes responsibility for Rangers' European exithttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4gvxw90428o

Manager Derek McInnes says he take "full responsibility" for Rangers' "embarrassing" Conference League exit at the hands of Jablonec.

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Show HN: Qbix webserver 1.0, is able to handle 100x more traffic than Nginx+PHPhttps://github.com/Qbix/webserver

Article URL: https://github.com/Qbix/webserver Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470697 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: An open T2I benchmark with all 9k+ generated images publishedhttps://imagebench.ai/gallery

Article URL: https://imagebench.ai/gallery Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470694 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Rivian’s CFO is leaving the companyhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/rivians-cfo-is-leaving-the-company

Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the company said in a filing on Thursday.

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Show HN: Black Friday is in 91 dayshttps://blackfriday.tools

Black Friday is "around the corner" (lol) and I want to capture the best deals! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470637 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Context-Aware Header Audit; Built for Learning, Not for Scores (German)https://www.scraptrap.de/scraptrap_http_header_audit.php

Article URL: https://www.scraptrap.de/scraptrap_http_header_audit.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470604 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Listen to Hacker News and Create Podcastshttps://hn.soundcast.cc

HN, I love creating podcasts about anything. But existing services took too long and were too hard to configure. I've built this to be remarkably fast and fun. Enjoy! Brandon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470537 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Discover and share AI prompts and MCP servershttps://promptic.us

Article URL: https://promptic.us/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470528 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ datahttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/buried-in-metas-18b-settlement-is-a-legal-pass-on-kids-data

Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, highlighting a privacy tradeoff built into the deal.

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Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley attacks Burnham's 'populist' High Street planshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn74mm2jz8jo

In a letter, the entrepreneur accuses the prime minister of "jumping on 'everyday fixes' or bandwagons" with his latest cost of living and retail policies.

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Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlashhttps://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-backlash-to-data-centers

Article URL: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-backlash-to-data-centers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470380 Points: 20 # Comments: 2

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YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchaseshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/youtube-now-lets-creators-tag-amazon-products-and-earn-commissions-from-purchases

The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts its massive online marketplace inside one of the most popular video platforms.

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GTA VI looks just as great as we could hope forhttps://www.theverge.com/games/983941/grand-theft-auto-vi-gta-netflix-extended-look

Netflix and Rockstar Games finally debuted their "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI. It showed that the new game looks to keep much of the spirit of GTA - exploration, driving, crimes, shooting, and cinematic story scenes. But everything just looks much better than previous entries, with impressive graphics, densely-packed rooms, and detailed environments. […]

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Show HN: We built a multiplayer pixel art and level editor with a LΓ–VE runtimehttps://karo.town

Article URL: https://karo.town/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470249 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood younghttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/27/1143037/startup-claims-its-found-a-drug-to-make-your-blood-young

I knew I’d officially become a β€˜longevity influencer’ this month when a company called Generation Lab reached out to offer me the chance to write aboutβ€”and even receiveβ€”their new rejuvenation treatment,Β an injectable combination of two existing drugs which they call 1-Generation. This wasn’t just any antiaging treatment, either. A company fact sheet says that it…

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Show HN: go-binsync – Go binary patches up to 67Γ— smaller than bsdiffhttps://github.com/wjordan/go-binsync

This project is a little performance-optimization experiment focused on reducing the size of Go binary patches, which can be useful for quick incremental updates of live services. When a Go program grows by a few bytes through an incremental change, a bunch of related references and offsets throughout the compiled binary end up changing that makes general-purpose binary-diff encoders inefficient: zstd --patch-from produces a 530kb patch for a one-line change in a 30MB binary. bsdiff improves upon this (150KB patch) thanks to a delta compression algorithm that can handle relative offsets. go…

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Show HN: Untapped potential of fixed-size buffershttps://mzaks.medium.com/untapped-potential-of-fixed-size-buffers-e64bb5749142

Article URL: https://mzaks.medium.com/untapped-potential-of-fixed-size-buffers-e64bb5749142 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470168 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: I built xvisibility.lol to get more visible on X without payinghttps://www.xvisibility.lol

Article URL: https://www.xvisibility.lol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470083 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Chinese Routers Sold Worldwide Contain Backdoorshttps://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/chinese-routers-sold-worldwide-backdoors

An untold numbers of ZBT routers sold around the world as white-label products come with several implants built by the manufacturer.

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Reform of all social media should come with Meta changes, UN sayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17j00lnn41o

California's attorney general is now looking at TikTok and YouTube to enact teen safety features.

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Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with bookshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/985567/google-gemini-notebook-expert-sources-books

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their […]

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Show HN: Apronagents – give each AI coding agent a disposable Git remotehttps://github.com/Ut8v/apronagents

Article URL: https://github.com/Ut8v/apronagents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469859 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Lumiko – Chrome screen recorder with automatic cursor zoomhttps://lumiko.dev

Article URL: https://lumiko.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469844 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Telem – Route agent web search across providers and inspect the traceshttps://telem.ai

TL;DR: Web search open router that routes agent web search across providers (Exa, Parallel, Tavily, Brave, SerpAPI etc.), and traces web search results with quality metrics, so you can visualize whether a bad agent run is a web search problem or a reasoning problem. I work in venture capital, and before that I worked in information retrieval. When agents went viral, I built a due diligence agent for my day job. I vibe-coded the first version. It was pretty bad. My first reaction is to blame the model. I tried to change backend models, maybe because Fable doesn't want to help me do people sear…

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Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just β€˜Gambling’https://www.wired.com/story/google-engineer-accused-of-polymarket-insider-trading-says-he-was-just-gambling

Michele Spagnuolo was arrested for alleged insider trading on Polymarket, but the Switzerland-based engineer says he was simply gambling, activity that is beyond the reach of US law.

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Werro edges closer to 800m mark as world records fall in Zurichhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cgmrvyjn1nvo

European champion Audrey Werro came tantalisingly close to downing the oldest outdoor world record in athletics, finishing a little more than four tenths of a second off Jarmila Kratochvilova's 800m mark.

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Show HN: OpenWand – A mission to remove chat interface from working with AIhttps://github.com/SunnyLich/OpenWand

Hi everyone, I'm working on OpenWand, an "LLM chat interface" that is optimized for AI co-work. Its function is to truly integrate AI into your workflow, so no more switching windows, no more copying context, less prompt typing. You can focus on working, not prompting. You can think of it as a free Chatgpt (the interface/frontend) alternative for your everyday work. I would be very grateful for any help, testing, feedback and/or bug reports. What's shown here is just my current implementation. But with your help and feedback, we can add or adjust features to further this mission. Thank you fo…

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Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake Americahttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgwdn1g58yo

Trump's order comes after the trade talks between the US and Canada collapsed late last week.

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What Meta’s $17 Billion Settlement Means

Our reporter Cecilia Kang explains Meta’s settlement of a lawsuit claiming that the company’s social media platforms had harmed teenage users.

Trump directs federal government to rename Lake Ontario to Lake Americahttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/27/g-s1-140583/trump-lake-ontario-america

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario amid an escalating trade dispute with Canada .

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Grand Theft Auto VI’s long-overdue gameplay reveal – as it happenshttps://www.theguardian.com/games/live/2026/aug/27/grand-theft-auto-vis-long-overdue-gameplay-reveal-as-it-happens

Under some strange circumstances, Rockstar is broadcasting the first (official) gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, the most-anticipated game of the year. Follow along for everything you need to know. Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s GTA 6 liveblog! I’m Keza MacDonald, video games editor, and along with our games correspondent Keith Stuart I’ll be taking you through all the context around the upcoming reveal of the biggest game of the decade. In about 15 minutes, Rockstar Games will broadcast the first gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto 6 via Netflix. This game – more than a…

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OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Facehttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/openai-says-reward-hacking-drove-ai.html

OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May. The incident, the company said, took place during cybersecurity evaluations of several OpenAI models, and that it was mainly fueled by what it described as a "highly capable

Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Forcehttps://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/nvidia-starts-a-pac-as-ai-chip-maker-buids-influence-force-in-dc

Article URL: https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/nvidia-starts-a-pac-as-ai-chip-maker-buids-influence-force-in-dc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469249 Points: 14 # Comments: 3

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Show HN: Husk a Local-first, open-source, security scannerhttps://husk-security.dev

Seeing all of the recent supply chain attacks like the Shai-Hulud worms made us realise that it is more important than ever to have good security posture. We have tried to set up good security, but all of the existing tools bring too much friction, and they are mostly for enterprise. Husk is an open-source scanner, that helps you stay protected. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469234 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or elsehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/985679/google-play-android-17-memory-limit

Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the company yesterday published a memo addressing the Play Store's role in enforcing new memory-usage restrictions. The post emphasizes the importance of meeting new memory usage limits for apps, in order "to help developers navigate industry-wide hardware […]

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Show HN: Easily deploy vibecode apps through MCPhttps://zerolith.io

To let your friends deploy the apps they've vibecode without having to set up a VPS for them (true story). I'm trying to streamline this a bit and include everything needed for rapid prototyping (domain name, sql, MCP). I'd love to hear your feedback on what you find interesting, what's holding you back, and what's missing. Feel free to contact me for more credits, though the ones included should be enough for a while! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469211 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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France relaxes strict cheese-making rules after prolonged droughthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c980e36dd5do

Makers of some of France's most famous cheeses get waivers on where herds graze due to the lack of grass.

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Show HN: Z, minimal agentic harness for engineers that just workshttps://github.com/computerex/z

The core philosophy for Z harness is transparency and minimalism. All tokens are shown. Z implements Claude Code hooks/claude.md semantics. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469159 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B commentshttps://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/08/27/y-combinators-ankit-gupta-faces-backlash-over-h-1b-comments-487099

Article URL: https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/08/27/y-combinators-ankit-gupta-faces-backlash-over-h-1b-comments-487099/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469134 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Labor Day 2026 Deals Got Me a Complete Starter Tool Kit for Under $375https://www.wired.com/story/labor-day-2026-home-tool-kit-essentials

I combed through the Labor Day sales to find the power tools and other essentials that cover nearly every household repair.

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Show HN: Memorial for Athena Strand. She will always be rememberedhttps://athena-strand.org

Her name will forever be remembered, her name will forever be celebrated. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469099 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathologyhttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4523

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4523 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469098 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Collaborate with your team on Claude and ChatGPT artifactshttps://www.valet.dev/blog/your-agent-is-only-the-first-collaborator

We're been seeing an explosion of agent generated artifacts get shared in companies, but with no place to put them or comment on them their utility is limited. We're building Valet to give agents the tools to collaborate with humans. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469073 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Interactive SDP Explainer for WebRTC, Sip, and RTSPhttps://explainer.pion.ly

Article URL: https://explainer.pion.ly/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469021 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

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I measured what my Claude.md, skills and hooks are worthhttps://github.com/jameskomo/config-drift-checker

Article URL: https://github.com/jameskomo/config-drift-checker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468945 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

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A Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friendhttps://www.wired.com/story/a-georgia-cop-used-flock-to-track-2-other-cops-his-ex-and-her-friend

After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movementsβ€”and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show.

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Allan Little: I met dangerously fanatical Mladić early in Bosnian warhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl744j0ww1o

BBC special correspondent Allan Little met the "Butcher of Bosnia" in the early months of the Bosnian war.

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