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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…

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 […]

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.

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

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 movements—and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show.

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.

Previewing the Model Hardware Standardhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/model-hardware-standard-research-preview

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-hardware-standard-research-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468834 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

Smith & Cox help England to 248-9 on truncated day onehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cddv00z4609o

Jamie Smith and Jordan Cox battle difficult conditions and an improved Pakistan performance to take England to a competitive total on the opening day of the second Test.

ATF declares ‘major incident’ as ransomware gang claims hackhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/atf-declares-major-incident-as-ransomware-gang-claims-hack

The ATF is the latest federal government agency in recent years to notify Congress of a "major incident" involving its cybersecurity.

We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzerhttps://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/24290

Article URL: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/24290 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468642 Points: 4 # Comments: 2

Show HN: Sparrow-2 – Solving the cocktail party problemhttps://www.tavus.io/blog/sparrow-2

Hey there, I’m Brian. I've been shipping conversational models over here at Tavus for the past two years. I want to tell you about our new audio-understanding model: Sparrow-2! It’s a new category of model and a unique new approach to conversational audio. Earlier this year we launched Sparrow-1, (at the time) our SoTA turn taking model. Since our Sparrow-1 launch, I’ve spent a lot of time listening to humans talking and trying to really understand how people know when to talk, when to listen, and when to wait. I’ve also been hunting down failure modes of the current SoTA models. And…

M5Stack Launches PaperMonohttps://shop.m5stack.com/blogs/news/m5stack-launches-papermono-a-compact-e-ink-development-terminal-for-connected-projects

Article URL: https://shop.m5stack.com/blogs/news/m5stack-launches-papermono-a-compact-e-ink-development-terminal-for-connected-projects Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468593 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Jury deliberating in trial of Lindsay Clancy, US woman accused of killing her childrenhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33keeyyv70o

Prosecutors argued Clancy made a calculated decision to murder the children, while the defence argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

Show HN: Yet another minimal and lightweight terminal multiplexer written in Go.https://github.com/patriceckhart/hrdx

Article URL: https://github.com/patriceckhart/hrdx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468507 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Yet another minimal and lightweight terminal multiplexer written in Go.https://github.com/patriceckhart/hrdx

Article URL: https://github.com/patriceckhart/hrdx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468507 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AIhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/openai-anthropic-google-and-100-other-companies-call-for-action-to-defend-against-rogue-ai

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.

Show HN: A private radio station for issue updates across your orghttps://github.com/statemediafm/statemediafmradio

Article URL: https://github.com/statemediafm/statemediafmradio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468354 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Dropping SynthID from 188/192 to 0/192 without changing visible texthttps://mark.q1z.org

mark.q1z.org https://github.com/byte271/FuckMark/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468317 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6zwgg9y8go

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6zwgg9y8go Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468315 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

Man City and Aston Villa to face holders PSG in Champions Leaguehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5ywxxll10jo

European champions Paris St-Germain will face Premier League duo Manchester City and Aston Villa in the league phase of this season's Champions League.

Netflix Failed at Video Games. Now It’s Trying to Promote Themhttps://www.wired.com/story/netflix-failed-at-video-games-now-its-trying-to-promote-them

Netflix has walked back plans to put AAA games on its streaming platform. Instead, it's pivoting to marketing highly anticipated titles like Grand Theft Auto VI.

Agentic AI Risks, CVE Program Concerns Permeate Black Hat USA 2026https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/agentic-ai-risks-cve-program-concerns-black-hat-usa-2026

This installment of the Reporters' Notebook video series discusses the topics that dominated the cybersecurity conference, such as AI's effects on vulnerability reporting and security research.

Show HN: HN Radiohttps://dg-devrel-hn-radio.fly.dev

Article URL: https://dg-devrel-hn-radio.fly.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468131 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cachehttps://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468083 Points: 12 # Comments: 0

OpenAI and 100 Others Warn That Window to Defend Against A.I. Attacks Is Narrowing

Sam Altman of OpenAI, which has joined more than 100 tech companies in publishing an open letter warning of a wave of cyberattacks driven by artificial intelligence.

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flashhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/build-with-gemini-omni-1-1-flash

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/build-with-gemini-omni-1-1-flash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467922 Points: 17 # Comments: 0

Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wristhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/googles-new-fitbit-air-brings-pokemon-sleep-to-your-wrist

Google teamed up with the Pokemon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.

Show HN: An Apple Passwords browser extension on Linuxhttps://github.com/Sank6/iCloud-Keychain-for-Linux

Goal was to use Apple Passwords from my Linux desktop (with a browser extension to autofill passwords). Combines existing public reverse engineering attempts. Also pulls TOTP codes from the keychain and HideMyEmail aliases from iCloud API. It also does NOT write new passwords back to iCloud (yet). Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467903 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

What we should make of CIA boss's secret trip to Moscowhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2z8l8xdg2o

There is nothing routine about John Ratcliffe making a secret, 10,000-mile return dash to Moscow, writes Frank Gardner.

The stakes as high as Kevin Warsh is set to give his first major speech as Fed Chairhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/27/nx-s1-5945044/federal-reserve-kevin-warsh-jackson-hole-wyoming-bond-markets

The stakes are high as Fed Chair Kevin Warsh prepares to give a speech on Friday at the annual gathering of economists and central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Product and AI Engineershttps://www.bild.ai/jobs

Article URL: https://www.bild.ai/jobs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467837 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillowhttps://twitter.com/LocumRex/status/2092993787605717176

Article URL: https://twitter.com/LocumRex/status/2092993787605717176 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467750 Points: 43 # Comments: 12

OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agenthttps://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-developing-a-persistent-ai-agent

Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”

Grok Bot for Linux: Unofficial port of the official app (open source)https://github.com/jakob-bu/grok-bot-linux-unofficial

Article URL: https://github.com/jakob-bu/grok-bot-linux-unofficial Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467702 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

Show HN: AiTells, a Vale style package for AI-written prose tellshttps://github.com/krishnasunkam/vale-ai-tells

Article URL: https://github.com/krishnasunkam/vale-ai-tells Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467627 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

See fiber breaks linked to a maphttps://react-networks-lib.rackout.net/otdr-strip

Article URL: https://react-networks-lib.rackout.net/otdr-strip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467554 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out whyhttps://github.com/kelviq/tare

Article URL: https://github.com/kelviq/tare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467551 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out whyhttps://github.com/kelviq/tare

Article URL: https://github.com/kelviq/tare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467551 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

CMS with AI, Not AI CMS: Wagtail 8.0's New APIhttps://wagtail.org/blog/cms-with-ai-not-ai-cms-wagtail-80s-new-api

Article URL: https://wagtail.org/blog/cms-with-ai-not-ai-cms-wagtail-80s-new-api/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467481 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

BRIN is 1/4570th the size of a B-tree, until 5% of rows are updatedhttps://deepsql.ai/blog/the-zonemap-shaped-hole-in-postgres

Article URL: https://deepsql.ai/blog/the-zonemap-shaped-hole-in-postgres Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467402 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

I was burning 300k tokens on one ticket and stalling at 60k so I tried this (Foreman: tiered, budgeted, checkpointed)https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vzyohi/i_was_burning_300k_tokens_on_one_ticket_and

Every framework let one model do everything until it stalls at 55k with cacheRead≈0. Foreman is different: Hierarchy, not flat: director → lead (premium, 90k ctxCap) → coder/tester (standard, 60k) → drone (economy, 40k). routing[implement]=coder , routing[plan]=lead . Premium never implements — it judges from 6k briefs. Memory, not amnesia: every run has steps/outTokens/ctxCap/ctxKill/usd enforced mid-run ( lib.mjs:checkBudget() one deep seam, pure, testable). Past ctxCap , --continue is refused — next run starts fresh from a deterministic 6k checkpoint brief (git diff + REPORT +…

Speedo’s new smart goggles module can track all four swim strokeshttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/985650/speedo-iq-vanquisher-goggles-module

Speedo is launching a removable smart module for its Vanquisher goggles that can analyze a swimmer's performance across all four swim strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. The new Speedo iQ system uses swim-specific sensors to analyze head movement in the water, time breaths, and track distance per stroke. Unlike other smart goggles, such as […]

Jensen Huang says Nvidia achieved AGI, again — not that it mattershttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/985597/jensen-huang-says-nvidia-achieved-senseless-agi

On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as "senseless." He's right. For the supposed finish line of the AI race, there is no consensus […]

Show HN: ASOGrade – App Store keyword research using Apple Search Ads demandhttps://asograde.com

Article URL: https://asograde.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467227 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Numerical (In)Stability of Recurrence Relationshttps://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/24/numerical-instability-recurrece

Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/24/numerical-instability-recurrece/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467145 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Show HN: IdeaKache – Ideas Worth Holding Ontohttps://ideakache.com

Explore 2,410 ideas from many of the world's leading thinkers. Start with Jeff Bezos or let IdeaKache pick for you by clicking "Crack open a Kache Surprise". I've spent 9 years collecting ideas from books, podcasts, X and corners of the internet. Each entry taught me something. All entries are sourced so you can refer back to the original. I've checked every one of them. Some entries are behind a simple login (which is free) to protect against agents and bots. Let me know what you think. Jeremy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466998 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

Why HPSC Is a Big Deal for Space Explorationhttps://www.windriver.com/blog/Why-HPSC-Is-a-Big-Deal-for-Space-Exploration

Article URL: https://www.windriver.com/blog/Why-HPSC-Is-a-Big-Deal-for-Space-Exploration Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466989 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Optimus Prime and Eeyore voice actor Peter Cullen dieshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15844gwe0wo

Cullen voiced the heroic Optimus Prime in the Transformers TV series and then the Hollywood films.

Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and morehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/googles-ai-mode-can-now-track-flight-prices-help-book-hotels-and-more

The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process itself.

Speedo launches its own smart swim wearablehttps://www.engadget.com/2244650/speedo-launches-its-own-smart-swim-wearable

Speedo is offering up its own take on smart swimming goggles, but it won't offer feedback while you're in the water.

Sony finally has a cheaper OLED to compete with midrange Samsung and LG TVshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/985363/sony-releases-cheaper-bravia-6-oled-tv

After unexpectedly showing up on a wall-mounting compatibility chart on Sony's site back in June, the company has announced the Sony Bravia 6 OLED TV. The TV sits below its other OLED TVs - the Bravia 8 and Bravia 8 II - as well as its Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II RGB LED […]

OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/openclaw-went-viral-meet-the-maintainers-building-and-securing-it

OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first six months. The post OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it. appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

Small Models Have Arrivedhttps://calv.info/small-models-have-arrived

Article URL: https://calv.info/small-models-have-arrived Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466917 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

The broadcast squeezeback, rebuilt with CSS Grid and WebVTThttps://www.mux.com/blog/the-broadcast-squeezeback-rebuilt-with-css-grid-and-webvtt

Article URL: https://www.mux.com/blog/the-broadcast-squeezeback-rebuilt-with-css-grid-and-webvtt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466902 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

I will host your workloads for free, for on paper experiencehttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vzxwq7/i_will_host_your_workloads_for_free_for_on_paper

I want to become a platform engineer, but I don't have experience on my resume. If you have a medium sized workload you want to deploy on my AWS account, I can do it for free for you because I want to gain some troubleshooting experience that I can mention in interviews. I am RHCSA certified and I am going to get my CKA certification in September. I am very interested and well versed in Kubernetes and Linux internals. Please contact me if you are interested. I'm also available for DevOps roles. submitted by /u/acompleteunknownnn [link] [comments]

Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Cardhttps://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-story-of-suica

Article URL: https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-story-of-suica Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466894 Points: 6 # Comments: 2

Japanese polka dot artist Yayoi Kusama dies aged 97https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v4k0re3vwo

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v4k0re3vwo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466865 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock camerashttps://www.theverge.com/tech/985155/flock-camera-destruction-vigilantes

Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They've protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. This is only the beginning. The spontaneous and decentralized nature of the vigilante protests is also what makes them difficult to suppress. There isn't a uniform method of disruption; people have done everything from unplugging, smashing, stealing, and spray-painting the […]

Show HN: PwnPad – hardware hacking platform built for practical learninghttps://github.com/twelvesec/PwnPad

Article URL: https://github.com/twelvesec/PwnPad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466711 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Show HN: I built a site to share and find Claude Code passeshttps://claudecoupons.com

This is an exchange site for people with paid Claude accounts who want to get free credits for sharing their passes. When someone redeems your Claude Code coupon, Anthropic credits you $10 in usage. I’ve already added mine. If you have a paid Claude account, run "/passes", get your coupons, and add them to the site too. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466673 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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