A River of News

Tech headlines, Saturday, September 12, 2026

148 items. Times are UTC.

23:00 UTC 6

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    AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research Hacker News
  2. tech
    No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record Hacker News story
  3. tech
    TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio Hacker News
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    Is there any benefit to restarting your gaming handheld regularly? Engadget
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    Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board TechCrunch by Sarah Perez story
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    One problem with Android Auto can be fixed with a simple update Engadget

22:00 UTC 5

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    What's the difference between your iPhone's Do Not Disturb and Focus modes? Engadget
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    Killing with a car costs $1.6M, California requires drivers to carry $30K Hacker News
  3. tech
    Giving up on smart rings Hacker News
  4. tech
    Spanish Grand Prix: How to Watch the F1 Race Today CNET by Kevin Lynch
  5. tech
    How to change Amazon Alexa's voice and personality Engadget

21:00 UTC 7

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    Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack Hacker News
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    OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May The Verge by Terrence O’Brien story
  3. tech
    P(doom) Hacker News
  4. tech
    Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait Engadget story
  5. tech
    Financial Times' 404 Page not Found Hacker News
  6. tech
    'Coltrane' Review: Sound and Spirit Hacker News
  7. tech
    Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’ The Verge by Terrence O’Brien story

20:00 UTC 7

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    Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases Hacker News
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    OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026 TechCrunch by Anthony Ha story
  3. tech
    StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter The Verge by Terrence O’Brien story
  4. tech
    Why is the internet so upset about NVIDIA's DLSS 5? Engadget
  5. tech
    Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 13, #1912 CNET by Gael Cooper story
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    Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Sept. 13, #1190 CNET by Gael Cooper story
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    Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 13, #924 CNET by Gael Cooper story

19:00 UTC 7

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    Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work Hacker News
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    OpenAI agents hacked a software service before the Hugging Face incident Engadget story
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    Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model Hacker News
  4. tech
    LG Says We're Fake News [video] Hacker News
  5. tech
    Tesla says it will finally unveil the second generation Roadster on October 1 TechCrunch by Anthony Ha story
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    Diablo V is coming out in spring 2029 Engadget story
  7. tech
    An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights Hacker News

18:00 UTC 9

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    Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard Hacker News
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    4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls Hacker News
  3. tech
    How to add your driver's license to Apple Wallet and where you can use it Engadget
  4. tech
    LG denies accusations of smart TVs continuously recording its users Engadget story
  5. tech
    US Open 2026 Women’s Singles Final: How to Watch Aryna Sabalenka vs. Elena Rybakina CNET by Kevin Lynch story
  6. tech
    BlizzCon 2026: New Starcraft Shooter, Diablo 5, World of Warcraft Forever CNET by Adam Benjamin story
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    BlizzCon 2026: New Starcraft Shooter, Diablo V, Animated Netflix Series Coming CNET by Adam Benjamin story
  8. tech
    Keep an Eye on Your Entryway With Up to $100 Off the Newest Ring Doorbells CNET by Zainab Falak
  9. tech
    The benefits of leaving your VPN on all the time Engadget

17:00 UTC 4

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    How Much Solar Power Do You Actually Need For An RV? Engadget
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    OrangePi Zero 3W Review: Tiny yet Powerful Hacker News
  3. tech
    My favorite sci-fi books about how we build societies and keep justifying them Hacker News
  4. tech
    Will There Be a 7G? Hacker News

16:00 UTC 12

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    How SaaS startup guys get first 100 customers first, make fkn $500k ARR fast? Hacker News
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    Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down Hacker News story
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    Anthropic's CEO proposes a three-step plan to curb AI development Engadget story
  4. tech
    Sylvan Esso think you should splurge on good-quality yogurt The Verge by Terrence O’Brien
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    Mother Calls for ‘Accountability’ After Meta AI Mines Family Posts for Info on Minors CNET by Omar Gallaga story
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    Meta Pulls Invasive AI Prompts After Mother Reveals Feature Scraping Family Data CNET by Omar Gallaga story
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    How to share your iPhone's location for just as long as you need Engadget
  8. tech
    Make Your First Edit to OpenStreetMap in the Next 15 Minutes Hacker News
  9. tech
    Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI The Verge by Terrence O’Brien story
  10. tech
    Real Madrid vs. Rayo Vallecano: How to Livestream La Liga Soccer CNET by Kevin Lynch
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    Premier League Soccer: Watch Sunderland vs. Arsenal Live From Anywhere CNET by Kevin Lynch story
  12. tech
    Is a free VPN worth using? Here's why it could be risky Engadget

15:00 UTC 9

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    Compressing a Flag to 11 Bits Hacker News
  2. tech
    Anthropic CEO outlines plan to ‘pace the frontier’ TechCrunch by Anthony Ha story
  3. tech
    Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction Hacker News
  4. tech
    How to know it's time to replace your EV battery Engadget
  5. tech
    Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance? Hacker News
  6. tech
    LG responds to TV spying allegations The Verge by Terrence O’Brien story
  7. tech
    Nvidia is the central bank of AI Hacker News story
  8. tech
    Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems Tom's Hardware story
  9. tech
    Are you using the right Ethernet port on your router? Here's how to know Engadget

14:00 UTC 14

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    Ask HN: What default model do you use and why? Hacker News
  2. tech
    I made a build profiler to understand Bun's compile times Hacker News
  3. tech
    Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute The Verge by Justine Calma story
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    Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests TechCrunch by Jagmeet Singh story
  5. tech
    How to properly clean and sanitize your secondhand tech finds Engadget
  6. tech
    I refuse to let SPICE die Hacker News
  7. tech
    Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For Hacker News
  8. tech
    Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun" Hacker News story
  9. tech
    You Don't Need Matrix Calculus Hacker News
  10. tech
    We Must Pace the Frontier Hacker News
  11. tech
    US Customs supervisor busted for stealing Core i7 CPUs, RAM, and hard drives from Homeland Security PCs — stolen tech swapped with inferior hardware and cashed out on Newegg Tom's Hardware by Zhiye Liu
  12. tech
    We tested DLSS Multi Frame Generation on RTX 40-series GPUs — new mod brings RTX 50-series exclusive feature to older cards, and it really works Tom's Hardware by Jeffrey Kampman
  13. tech
    Compiler Can Undo Your Security Checks Hacker News
  14. tech
    How to get started with Meta's new AI agent, Muse Engadget story

13:00 UTC 9

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    A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021) Hacker News
  2. tech
    My last six months at Evernote Hacker News
  3. tech
    LLMs are real, AI is fake Hacker News
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    IKEA releases new Skyrim mod that adds gloriously mundane Kallax shelving unit as your newest companion — free collab provides a drab flatpack answer to your loot woes Tom's Hardware by Mark Tyson
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    How Google Maps knows when a business is packed Engadget
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    Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late The Register
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    A Few Good Ideas in Programming Languages Hacker News
  8. tech
    Laika’s stop-motion fantasy Wildwood looks so smooth The Verge by Andrew Webster
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    Is a 256GB SSD better than a 1TB hard drive? It depends how you're using it Engadget

12:00 UTC 8

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    NüshuRescue: Reviving the Endangered Nüshu Language with AI Hacker News
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    Get the best battery life for your Windows laptop by changing these settings Engadget
  3. tech
    Show HN: Liniora – Ever thought about replacing your project manager? Hacker News
  4. tech
    Engadget review recap: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, Insta360 Luna Pro and more Engadget
  5. tech
    Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate Hacker News
  6. tech
    Where to preorder the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max The Verge by Brad Bourque story
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    This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: September 12, 2026 — Benchmarking Qwen 3.8, the splintered compute economy and AI breakthroughs Tom's Hardware
  8. tech
    GameCube vs PS2: Which retro console is more powerful? Engadget

11:00 UTC 17

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    Fuck it, make it anyway Hacker News
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    Crypto farm in Mexican mountains puts spotlight on cartel funding Hacker News story
  3. tech
    Altman tells staff OpenAI is open to slowing AI development Hacker News story
  4. tech
    Iran could potentially reverse-engineer captured US underwater drone — several Iranian embassies mock US over capture, Navy claims lost Anduril vehicle was defective and unclassified Tom's Hardware by Etiido Uko story
  5. tech
    Wardogs, Valheim 1.0 and other new indie games worth checking out Engadget
  6. tech
    How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats Hacker News
  7. tech
    Dell's 52-inch enormo-monitor is a tsunami of impractical fun The Register
  8. tech
    The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle Hacker News
  9. tech
    Naomi Klein: Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. Turns you into a supremacist Hacker News
  10. tech
    10 Best Standing Desks Worth Buying in 2026 WIRED by Nicole Kinning, Matthew Korfhage
  11. tech
    Kioxia Exceria Pro G2 2TB SSD Review — Speed built to last Tom's Hardware by Shane Downing
  12. tech
    I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China Ars Technica by Timothy B. Lee
  13. tech
    Premier League Soccer: Stream Liverpool vs. Fulham Live From Anywhere CNET by Kevin Lynch
  14. tech
    OpenAI just wants to win The Verge by Robert Hart story
  15. tech
    Premier League Soccer: Stream Chelsea vs. Hull City Live From Anywhere CNET by Kevin Lynch
  16. tech
    Lucky PC scavenger discovers 12 RTX 3070 GPUs from the crypto mining era — cards survived years of basement storage with only minor signs of wear Tom's Hardware
  17. tech
    The Anti-Woke Right Can’t Figure Out How to Stop ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ WIRED by Miles Klee story

10:00 UTC 12

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    AI Is Powerful Enough to Crack Our Hardest Math Problems–and Kill Us All Hacker News story
  2. tech
    Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32% Tom's Hardware
  3. tech
    We've followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out Hacker News
  4. tech
    Consumer Rights Wiki documents at least 44 instances in which Sony says you own your games — project is direct assault on Sony's claim in recent ownership lawsuit Tom's Hardware by Zak Killian story
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    From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere WIRED by Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman, Dell Cameron story
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    The Best 3-in-1 Apple Charging Stations After Testing 30+ Models WIRED by Simon Hill
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    An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem Hacker News
  8. tech
    Mercury Is Shrinking Way Faster Than We Thought, Scientists Discover 404 Media by Becky Ferreira story
  9. tech
    Samsung S90H OLED TV Review: A More Affordable OLED Option for Bright Rooms CNET by Ty Pendlebury
  10. tech
    Engineer turns simulated fly brain into a crypto day trader, posts downloadable sim to GitHub — 166,700 virtual neurons read candlestick charts for dopamine hits Tom's Hardware story
  11. tech
    Branch Ergonomic Chair Pro (Sega Edition) Review: Comfy, Not Boring WIRED by Louryn Strampe
  12. tech
    ‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs WIRED by Isabella Ward story

09:00 UTC 4

  1. tech
    Optimizing a Spin-Lock Hacker News
  2. tech
    You Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, Trump-Appointed Judge Rules WIRED by Sophie Hurwitz story
  3. tech
    Resistance Training Prescription for Muscle Function, Hypertrophy in Health Hacker News
  4. tech
    The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation The Register

07:00 UTC 2

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    Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine Hacker News
  2. tech
    The V8 JavaScript Runtime Undermined My Constant-Time JavaScript Library Hacker News

05:00 UTC 2

  1. tech
    WeWorm: Zero-Click WeChat Worm Hacker News
  2. tech
    Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturay, Sept. 12 CNET by Gael Cooper story

04:00 UTC 3

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    OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May Hacker News story
  2. tech
    Usenet rewind archive search engine Hacker News
  3. tech
    Clay Mathematics Institute on the Navier-Stokes Problem Hacker News

03:00 UTC 1

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    Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results Hacker News

02:00 UTC 4

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    Pandas Should Go Extinct Hacker News
  2. tech
    Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model? Hacker News
  3. tech
    Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap) Hacker News
  4. tech
    Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid" Hacker News

01:00 UTC 2

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    Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 12, #719 CNET by Gael Cooper story
  2. tech
    How Poor People Buy Cars Hacker News

00:00 UTC 4

  1. tech
    Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies Hacker News
  2. tech
    Richat Structure Hacker News
  3. tech
    The Nature of Dance Hacker News
  4. tech
    Show HN: Graphify C# – Compiler-accurate Find Usages for coding agents Hacker News