news, !paper 2026-08-20

1671 Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence / blog.curiousquail.com / 390

1044 Don't paste the AI, please / dontpastetheai.com / 579

1032 AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint / blog.laserphile.com / 332

859 I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers / experimental-history.com / 338

635 The August 17 outage / github.blog / 750

621 AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late / annas-archive.gl / 895

589 Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device / simedw.com / 117

549 Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload / safedep.io / 501

378 Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI / danielvaughn.dev / 209

354 Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003) / devblogs.microsoft.com / 137

354 Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study / rathbiotaclan.com / 120

336 I should have loved biology (2020) / jsomers.net / 130

303 Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM / github.com/zachahn / 297

293 Consumer Rights Wiki / consumerrights.wiki / 62

292 Linux 7.2 / igalia.com / 127

266 Why aren't smart people happier? (2022) / experimental-history.com / 418

257 Bun 1.4 / bun.com / 181

249 Ox Alpha / openrouter.ai / 194

218 Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter / stwipe.com / 27

210 Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful / blog.yaros.ae / 164

202 Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos / experimental-history.com / 134

189 Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU / mathstodon.xyz / 209

184 How to compromise your system with a job interview / codedge.de / 169

162 DiffusionGemma Technical Report / arxiv.org / 40

152 Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong / gingerbill.org / 81

147 ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data / atproto.com / 18

142 Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice / medicine.washu.edu / 74

139 Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1 / lists.x.org / 140

119 It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use / observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com / 91

113 Every Model Cheats / dreadnode.io / 96

113 SpacetimeDB: a short technical review / strn.cat / 53

112 Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons / bbc.com / 110

106 Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch / mikekasberg.com / 57

103 An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30 / elliptic-rank.icarm.cloud / 31

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