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0803 | Wikimedia Union Snub, Treasury Yen Intervention, DROP, eBay Harassment Case

This week's episode digs into the Wikimedia Foundation's refusal to voluntarily recognize its staff union, a historic US Treasury intervention in the yen market, California's enforceable DROP data-deletion platform, and the $56M eBay harassment case. The tech and community roundup covers Europe's 50% jump in BEV sales, German carmakers shedding managers, rooting a TP-Link router, Kakehashi's attempt to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM, Syncular's offline-first SQL sync, and Meshdiff's browser-sid

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0723 | Interview Take-Home Unmasks Supply-Chain Plot

A developer dissects a fake job interview that planted persistent malware through a Git hook, and Codeberg's crypto project ban reignites the self-hosting debate. Two creators post-train Gemma 4 to self-assess accuracy, routing only uncertain queries to the cloud, while Terence Tao tests ChatGPT's reasoning on the Jacobian Conjecture. Microsoft sets a 2027 deadline to sunset SMS 2FA and begins automatic passkey enrollment in 2026, raising lock-in concerns. Plus: AI-generated menus as the new low

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Mia：Welcome to HackerNews Daily, the Bri podcast that brings you the top stories from the tech world every day.

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EU Parliament Backs Chat Control, Postgres Gets a Rust Rewrite, and Bots Flood LinkedIn

The European Parliament's Civil Liberties committee narrowly approved the Chat Control proposal, which would scan private — including encrypted — messages for child sexual abuse material, setting up a broader fight ahead. Meanwhile, a community rewrite of PostgreSQL in Rust now passes 100% of the original regression test suite, while a separate analysis argues that generative AI is fundamentally lowering the cost of such massive rewrites. The Bun JavaScript runtime is also migrating parts of its

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Grok 4.5, GPT Live, OpenBSD root bug, and a Uniqlo bash shirt

This week, Mia and Milo sift through a wave of developer stories where the headlines often outran the evidence. xAI released Grok 4.5 but the official blog was unreachable, leaving Hacker News as the primary source. Microsoft unveiled Flint, a JSON-based visualization language for AI agents, while a mysterious model called SWE-1.7 claimed near-GPT-5.5 intelligence with no verifiable details. The EU moved closer to reviving private message scanning rules that threaten end-to-end encryption, and O

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