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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Coyote vs. Acme is even funnier because Warner Bros. Discovery tried to kill it

There's an argument to be made that people wouldn't be all that interested in Coyote vs. Acme if it weren't for the way David Zaslav tried to kill it. By trying to shelve the project, Warner Bros. Discovery only drew attention to its habit of disappearing nearly completed movies in order to cash in on […]

World · Deutsche Welle

Designing food for a hotter world

Inside futuristic labs, plants are scanned, stressed and analysed. The aim is to use the results to produce plant strains that can better serve a growing population in a warming world.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Comcast is turning millions of its routers into motion detectors

Comcast is bringing Wi-Fi motion sensing to millions of routers that are already in customers' homes, turning the devices into activity monitors. A new update to the Xfinity Internet app, arriving today, August 18th, enables the feature on compatible Xfinity routers at no extra cost. Announced as part of its new Xfinity Shield service, WiFi […]

World · The Guardian Ukraine

What is behind Russia’s ‘consequences’ threat over UK sending drones to Ukraine?

Britain has supplied more militarily significant munitions to Kyiv but there are political reasons for Moscow’s remarks Europe live – latest updates Russia’s embassy in London has accused the UK of “deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine crisis, while hypocritically professing a desire for peace” after it emerged over the weekend that Britain was supplying attack drones to Kyiv. Continue reading...

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

Article URL: https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345220 Points: 294 # Comments: 195

World · Al Jazeera

Qatar: Iran’s claim that Doha is holding missing pilots is a ‘media ploy’

Qatar says Iran’s claim it is holding missing aircrew is untrue and a “media ploy”, with Tehran yet to verify it.

World · Deutsche Welle

German court convicts Ukrainian man over Russia parcel plot

The court said the man sent packages with GPS trackers from Germany to Ukraine to scope out potential sabotage targets for Russian secret services.

World · Al Jazeera

Palestinian-American confronts Israeli settler at his besieged home

Palestinian-American Loui Abu Ridi confronted an Israeli settler at his home in Qusra, south of Nablus.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

OpenAI’s Greg Brockman: Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 likely to “significantly accelerate the threat landscape”

OpenAI has adopted a less-than-straightforward stance with regards to open-weight AI models, both raising alarms over powerful Chinese releases while The post OpenAI’s Greg Brockman: Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 likely to “significantly accelerate the threat landscape” appeared first on The New Stack .

Society · The Guardian Society

One person dead and more than 200 ill in UK salmonella outbreak

UKHSA rules out British produce as source of infections and says evidence points to consumption of imported eggs One person has died and more than 200 others have fallen ill during a UK-wide outbreak of salmonella that health officials have linked to people eating imported eggs. The 207 people affected range in age from under one year to 90 years old, according to the UK Health Security Agency , which is leading an investigation into the outbreak. Continue reading...

AI · The Decoder

Anthropic CEO says AI centralizes by nature and open models just shift power to whoever owns the chips

An open fight over AI regulation has broken out on X. Investor Gavin Baker, former White House adviser David Sacks, and Meta researcher Yann LeCun accuse Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of using fear rhetoric to buy himself a regulatory advantage. Amodei counters that regulation can also rein in corporate power, and that open models alone just shift power toward the players with the most computing muscle. The article Anthropic CEO says AI centralizes by nature and open models just shift power to whoever owns the chips appeared first on The Decoder .

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked

Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.

Business · CNBC Technology

A fintech app built by crypto exchange Kraken just launched a cash back debit card in bid for consumer wallets

Kraken is vying for a place in consumer wallets as crypto evolves from an asset class into infrastructure for mainstream financial products.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Polaroid’s new Pokémon collection captures memories, not Pikachus

Polaroid announced a new collection of cameras, instant film, and accessories all featuring limited-edition designs to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pokémon. The new collection goes a little harder than Fujifilm's Pokémon collaboration from five years ago with the introduction of Polaroid film printed with various characters around the frames, including Pikachu and Snorlax. […]

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health opens first US office, in New York

The scanning and bloodwork health startup founded by Spotify's founder will officially launch in New York in about a month.

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge Breaks the Traditional Patching Model

Rapid7 warns that traditional patch cycles cannot keep pace with soaring vulnerability disclosures and faster exploitation, forcing defenders to prioritize exposure over severity scores. The post AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge Breaks the Traditional Patching Model appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Developers & Open Source · Docker Blog

Coding Agent Horror Stories: The Command You Already Approved

Learn how AI coding agents can run attacker code through commands you already approved and how Docker Sandboxes limit what an attack can reach.

Developers & Open Source · cloudflare/workers-sdk Releases

wrangler@4.124.0

Minor Changes #15026 6529f0c Thanks @petebacondarwin ! - Allow containers to be attached to a Durable Object from its exports entry A container can now be linked to its Durable Object from the export side, using a new container field that names an entry in the containers array. As a result containers[].class_name is now optional — a container that is referenced this way only needs a name : { "name" : " my-worker " , "main" : " worker.js " , "compatibility_date" : " 2026-07-01 " , "containers" : [ { "name" : " my-container " , "image" : " ./Dockerfile " , "max_instances" : 1 } ], "exports" : { "MyContainerDO" : { "type" : " durable-object " , "storage" : " sqlite " , "container" : " my-container " } } } The existing containers[].class_name direction keeps working and either direction may be used, but the two must agree: a container that names its Durable Object cannot also be claimed by a different one. container is only valid on live durable-object exports ( created and expecting-transfer ) and requires storage: "sqlite" . Wrangler now also reports an error when: a container reference names a container that does not exist two Durable Object exports claim the same container a container and a Durable Object export disagree about which one they are linked to a container ends up linked to no Durable Object at all two containers share a name a container's class_name names a Durable Object whose storage is legacy-kv two containers are attached to the same Durable Object That last case was previously accepted but could never work: workerd attaches a single container per Durable Object namespace, and in local development every container for a class builds into the same image tag, so one silently overwrote the other. If you have two containers on one class_name , give each its own Durable Object class. Patch Changes #15211 bc5726b Thanks @nithin42 ! - Honor access.dev when running Workers with @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers , so ctx.access.getIdentity() returns the configured identity just as it does with wrangler dev . #14999 ba54f0d Thanks @mittalpk ! - Fix .env loading on Windows leaking stale, differently-cased duplicate keys On Windows, wrangler loads .env values through a case-insensitive Proxy wrapper so lookups like env.PATH and env.Path resolve to the same value, and this object is assigned directly to process.env . When a key was set again under a different casing (e.g. a value in .env.local overriding one from .env with different casing), the previous casing was never removed from the underlying object. env.PATH / env.Path still returned the correct, latest value, but anything that enumerates process.env — Object.keys , for...in , JSON.stringify , object spread, or a spawned subprocess inheriting the environment — would see both the stale and current key. Duplicate entries no longer appear, so environment variables passed to subprocesses and any code that lists the environment now see only the latest value for each variable. #15044 b7422b0 Thanks @stareezy-1 ! - Normalize structural CRLF line endings before sending D1 commands to the remote query API wrangler d1 migrations apply --remote and wrangler d1 execute --remote --command failed with incomplete input: SQLITE_ERROR when the SQL contained CRLF line endings inside a compound statement such as a CREATE TRIGGER ... BEGIN ... END; body. Structural line endings are now normalized to LF before the command is sent to the D1 query API, while CRLF inside quoted values and identifiers remains unchanged. #15046 186339c Thanks @erwinzhang7 ! - Fixes D1 SQL statements not handling lowercase end s correctly wrangler d1 execute and wrangler d1 migrations apply split a SQL file into statements before running them. A BEGIN or CASE block closed with a lowercase end was not recognised as closed, so every statement after it was folded into that block instead of being run on its own. SQLite accepts either case, so a file like this applied only the trigger and silently skipped the table: CREATE TRIGGER IF NOT EXISTS update_trigger AFTER UPDATE ON items begin DELETE FROM updates WHERE item_id = old . id ; end; CREATE TABLE after_the_trigger (id TEXT PRIMARY KEY ); Files written with an uppercase END were unaffected. Both cases now behave the same. #15231 4f922dc Thanks @dependabot ! - Update dependencies of "miniflare", "wrangler" The following dependency versions have been updated: Dependency From To @cloudflare/workers-types ^5.20260811.1 ^5.20260814.1 workerd 1.20260811.1 1.20260814.1 #15248 4d74b8d Thanks @dependabot ! - Update dependencies of "miniflare", "wrangler" The following dependency versions have been updated: Dependency From To @cloudflare/workers-types ^5.20260814.1 ^5.20260815.1 workerd 1.20260814.1 1.20260815.1 #15185 1f79ace Thanks @jamesopstad ! - Resolve --latest to the newest compatibility date supported by the installed runtime wrangler deploy --latest and wrangler versions upload --latest resolved the compatibility date to the current date, and wrangler pages download config did the same for projects configured to always use the latest compatibility date. Both write that date into a configuration file for subsequent commands to use, so a date that the installed workerd did not yet support left the project unable to run wrangler dev . These now resolve to the latest compatibility date supported by this version of Wrangler, which is the release date of the workerd it ships with. #15151 49f73de Thanks @maximilliangrand ! - Fix spurious Trailing comma jsonc(519) warnings for wrangler.jsonc in VS Code 1.131+ Trailing commas in wrangler.jsonc files that reference Wrangler's JSON schema are no longer reported as errors by recent versions of VS Code. Wrangler always accepted these files; only the editor warning was wrong. #14983 7cee278 Thanks @kdelay ! - Respect CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID in wrangler pages project list , create and delete These three commands could target a previously used account even when CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID was set, failing with Authentication error [code: 10000] in setups with more than one account. They now use the account named by CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID , matching the rest of wrangler pages . When the variable is unset, the previously used account is still selected, as before. #15153 265256a Thanks @podonnell-dev ! - Fix wrangler preview base-config commands showing an inherited script positional #15185 1f79ace Thanks @jamesopstad ! - Use a fixed default compatibility date rather than the current date When no compatibility date was set, Wrangler, C3 and the Vitest pool all defaulted to the current date. workerd only accepts a compatibility date up to 7 days beyond its own release, so whenever a workerd release was delayed the default could get ahead of the runtime that had been installed, and local development would fail to start. The default is now fixed at the release date of the workerd version that ships with each release, which leaves a week of headroom and updates as workerd is upgraded. @cloudflare/vite-plugin previously inlined the date at which it was built. It now shares the same default. #15239 f431166 Thanks @jamesopstad ! - Prevent date-enabled Node.js compatibility from adding conflicting globals to generated runtime types Runtime type generation now treats Node.js compatibility enabled by a compatibility date the same way as an explicit nodejs_compat flag. Node.js globals continue to come from @types/node instead of being generated as any declarations that override those types. #15196 8fb2b87 Thanks @skepticfx ! - Use the FedRAMP High managed container registry when Wrangler targets the FedRAMP High compliance region Container builds, pushes, deployments, image commands, and local development now select the corresponding production or staging FedRAMP registry and API from either compliance_region or CLOUDFLARE_COMPLIANCE_REGION . #15082 75cf407 Thanks @penalosa ! - Enable the new configuration format in the cf-wrangler dev delegate Projects started through cf dev now load cloudflare.config.ts and optional wrangler.config.ts , matching the configuration used by the delegate's build path. Updated dependencies [ 1277a72 , 4f922dc , 4d74b8d , 2e0c962 , 8777180 ]: miniflare@5.20260815.0-alpha

World · Deutsche Welle

Belgium wildfire: Rains help High Fens containment efforts

Firefighters continue to battle one of the worst wildfires in Belgian history near the German border. Rains and cooler temperatures are helping them bring it to heel after it ravaged an area half the size of Manhattan.

World · Deutsche Welle

Trump's North Korea overture triggers fears for US alliances

In announcing scaled back joint military drills with South Korea, the US president appears to be moving towards Pyongyang just as North Korea becomes more emboldened.

World · Al Jazeera

Japanese activist keeps protesting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Japanese activist keeps protesting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

Article URL: https://philo.gay/linecam/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344825 Points: 306 # Comments: 52

World · BBC Europe

British couple on honeymoon killed in helicopter crash on Greek island

The newlyweds, named as Alexander Cromie and Marie Ebert, were killed alongside their Greek pilot.

World · Al Jazeera

Bashar al-Assad’s cousin Wassim sentenced to death in Syria

A Syrian court has sentenced Wassim al-Assad, cousin of Bashar al-Assad, to death for murder, torture and war crimes.