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Sunday, 16 August 2026
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Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to ALPRs
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/this-company-will-add-phone-airpod-and-smartwatch-trackers-to-license-plate-readers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467712 Points: 32 # Comments: 10
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Upcoming breaking changes for NPM v12
Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-upcoming-breaking-changes-for-npm-v12/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467705 Points: 43 # Comments: 10
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Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released
Article URL: https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.24.0-released.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467570 Points: 71 # Comments: 14
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Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents
Article URL: https://blog.gitbutler.com/true-grit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466812 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
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Test-case reducers are underappreciated debugging tools
Article URL: https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/test_case_reducers_are_underappreciated_debugging_tools.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459659 Points: 52 # Comments: 8
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Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models?
If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in the economics of AI.
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WWDC 2026: Everything announced on Siri AI, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence, and more
Apple primarily made the case for an improved experience with its long-standing Siri assistant, which like most other announcements had a hefty helping of AI.
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Netflix trying to "poison regulators" about WBD merger, Paramount lawyer claims
Netflix's response: "Absurd."
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Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about
New frontier model refuses cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry queries.
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Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation
Voice translations preserve speaker's tone, pacing, pitch—with SynthID watermarks for security.
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NASA assigns crew for Artemis III, sets aggressive timeline for flying it
"Artemis III will be an extraordinary demonstration of what is possible."
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Screwworms in US: Human risk is low—but they can burrow through your skull
The chances are low, but not zero.
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High-severity vulnerability in Linux caused by a single faulty character
Use-after-free bug can be exploited to evade sandbox defenses.
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Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Article URL: https://aarushgupta.io/posts/kan-fpga/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466277 Points: 20 # Comments: 1
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Apple's AI Can Now Change Your Passwords. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Article URL: https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/apples-ai-can-now-change-your-passwords-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465744 Points: 12 # Comments: 4