Ukraine’s drones reach Russia’s last Black Sea sanctuary, Trump reaches for the military option against Iran — and an autonomous AI cyberattack on Taiwan marks a threshold nobody wanted crossed.

Novorossiysk: Ukraine strikes Russia’s last Black Sea Fleet stronghold, damaging four warships and grain terminals

Plume of smoke rising over Novorossiysk following the Ukrainian drone and missile strike on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet base. Photo: via Zelensky’s Telegram

In a large overnight operation using Palianytsia drones and Neptune missiles, Ukraine struck the naval base at Novorossiysk — home to most of the Black Sea Fleet after Sevastopol became too exposed. Two Admiral Grigorovich-class frigates (Admiral Makarov and Admiral Essen, both Kalibr carriers), a Buyan-M missile ship and a patrol vessel were damaged, along with an S-300 radar. Two major grain export terminals were also hit; Russia’s agriculture ministry is rerouting cargo to Baltic and Caspian ports, and the tit-for-tat campaign against each other’s ports is squeezing grain exports from both countries — with global food-security implications. An emergency was declared in the city, water supply suspended, and a 141-meter vessel that sank near Novorossiysk days earlier may be a separately struck shadow-fleet ship. Ukraine’s acting defence minister framed the strike as part of a sustained campaign to shut down Russia’s war machine. (More from the front in Ukraine.)

Ukrainska Pravda: four warships · BBC · Militarnyi · Ukrainska Pravda: defence minister · r/ukraine · r/worldnews

Trump threatens to ‘hit Iran really hard’ as Gulf oil spill reaches Oman

The tanker Caroline Bezengi partly submerged off the coast of Oman. Photo: Pleiades CNES 2026, Distribution Airbus DS via AP

Trump described Iran as “devious negotiators” and said US options are either letting Tehran fail economically or hitting them “really hard” — the most explicit military threat since the Hormuz standoff began. Meanwhile the war’s costs keep washing ashore, literally and otherwise: oil from the stricken tanker Caroline Bezengi has reached up to 40 km of Oman’s coastline, fast becoming the worst Gulf spill in years; UK GDP grew just 0.4% in the second quarter with growth “likely to fade” as the energy shock feeds through; and the war has cost Europe’s largest travel company TUI €60m so far. At Arendalsuka tok statsminister Jonas Gahr Støre et skarpt oppgjør med krigen: regimet har «mer kontroll enn før krigen» og er blitt mer motivert for atomvåpen — stikk i strid med formålet. Inside Iran, rights groups count at least 916 executions since January, a pace that would make this one of the deadliest years in the Islamic Republic’s history. (The US–Iran cyber front is covered in Investigations.)

Reuters / r/worldnews · Al Jazeera: oil spill · Straits Times / r/worldnews · The Guardian: UK GDP · The Guardian: TUI · DN: Støre · Iran International / r/worldnews

China likely behind unprecedented autonomous AI cyberattack on Taiwan

Researchers have concluded China is likely responsible for an autonomous AI-driven cyberattack on Taiwan described as unprecedented — the first known case of AI deployed autonomously at scale for offensive cyber operations against a state target. The limited human-in-the-loop control marks a significant escalation in the use of AI as a warfare tool, and it lands the same week DN dissects Beijing’s strategy for flooding the world with cheap AI (see AI & Automation).

United24 Media / r/worldnews

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VIX at 14.7 — markets shrugging off Trump’s Iran threats for now
Strong krone trims the oil fund’s net value growth despite record returns (see Norway)
US inflation at 3.4% in July, slightly below fears; Norges Bank expected to hold today (see Norway)

World

IDF fails to remove settlers besieging Palestinian families in West Bank village

Israeli settlers besieging Palestinian families in Qusra, occupied West Bank, cutting off water, power and essential supplies. Photo: AP via Al Jazeera

Israeli settlers have besieged at least three Palestinian families in the village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank since Sunday, cutting off water, electricity and medical access in what residents describe as a campaign to seize their properties. The IDF attempted to remove the settlers but failed — Israeli security forces reportedly withdrew while around a dozen settlers remain. Lebanon’s prime minister separately declared that ongoing Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon constitute violations of international law.

Times of Israel / r/worldnews · Al Jazeera · BBC · The Guardian · Al Jazeera: Lebanon PM

Pentagon review: US Yemen strikes killed 153 civilians in 2025

Fuel vans burning after US airstrikes on the Ras Isa port complex in Hodeidah, Yemen, April 2025. Photo: Houthi Media Center/Getty Images

An unclassified Pentagon review has revealed that US military strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen during 2025 killed 153 civilians — the first official accounting of civilian harm from the campaign, which was largely framed domestically as targeting militant infrastructure.

Al Jazeera

Putin threatens to seize EU vessels if Europe confiscates Russian ships

Putin warned that Russia will respond in kind if EU member states seize Russian vessels — a direct counter-threat to European efforts to use asset seizures as leverage, and a signal that maritime confrontation between Russia and the West could escalate beyond the Black Sea.

Reuters / r/worldnews

Houthis announce naval blockade that could restart full-scale war with Saudi Arabia

Yemen’s Houthis have announced a new naval blockade that threatens to shut down Saudi Arabian shipping lanes — a move analysts warn could restart the full-scale Houthi–Saudi conflict that has been on pause, with the regional security situation already volatile after the Iran–US confrontation over Hormuz.

Al Jazeera

Putin makes first-ever visit to disputed Kuril Islands; Japan protests

Vladimir Putin visited the Kuril Islands — claimed by Japan as the Northern Territories — for the first time, according to Russian state media. Japan lodged a formal diplomatic protest. The likely symbolic provocation comes as Russia seeks to project assertiveness on multiple fronts; DN’s commentary reads it as the move of a president growing more desperate and risk-willing.

BBC · Aftenposten · DN: kommentar

Colombia earthquake death toll climbs to 265 as search enters final phase

The death toll from Monday’s earthquake has reached 265, with up to 3,800 people possibly still missing, as rescue operations move into their final phase. In Pereira, 32-year-old Daniela was pulled alive from the rubble after 36 hours — a 10-hour rescue that set off cheers in the streets. President de La Espriella pledged an emergency fund for rebuilding hospitals and schools. King Harald has sent a letter of condolence to Colombia’s president.

Al Jazeera · BBC · NRK · Aftenposten · Dagsavisen

Solar eclipse crosses Europe — Spain’s first total eclipse in over a century

The moon partially covering the sun — the partial eclipse as seen from southern Norway. Photo: NRK

Yesterday’s solar eclipse swept from Russia’s Arctic north across Greenland, Iceland and Spain, giving tens of millions their most spectacular eclipse in decades — and Spain its first total eclipse in more than 100 years, with the moment of totality greeted by applause across cities. Over Norway it was the largest partial eclipse since 2015, visible nationwide between 19:30 and 20:00; NASA sent a special aircraft to Iceland to chase the Moon’s shadow, and many Norwegian opticians sold out of eclipse glasses.

NPR · The Guardian · Al Jazeera · NRK · TU.no

Europe’s rivers dry up as record heat scorches Asia

Record-low water levels in European rivers are forcing power plants offline and sending electricity prices sharply upward. Over two thirds of England is in drought, agriculture is under pressure, and economists warn of higher food prices; Romania is using explosives and rock to keep the Cernavodă nuclear plant running. Across Asia, a record-breaking heatwave is sweeping South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong — South Korean farmers report potatoes effectively boiling in the ground.

E24 · NRK: England · NRK: Romania · The Guardian / r/worldnews

Also today

Africa: Zambia holds presidential election as Hichilema’s economic reforms face voter frustration — Al Jazeera · The Guardian; Zimbabwe ferry death toll rises to 44 on Lake Kariba — the overcrowded vessel carried 114 against a capacity of 90 — BBC · The Guardian; Ebola outbreak on track to be deadliest ever with over 2,000 deaths, WHO chief warns — BBC
Asia: Zhu Rongji, the premier who drove China’s WTO accession and state-enterprise reform, dies at 97 — BBC; Nepal’s wild tiger population quadruples since 2010 to 429 — a rare, replicable conservation success — WWF / r/worldnews; Nearly 4 million Afghan children acutely malnourished as healthcare funding collapses and clinics close — Al Jazeera
Americas: Former Guerrero governor Ángel Aguirre indicted 12 years after the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students — The Guardian; ICE to equip agents with $20M in electric-shock compliance gloves, drawing civil liberties criticism — BBC · Al Jazeera · NPR

Ukraine

Deep-strike campaign: Salavat refinery hit again; occupied Sevastopol loses power

Fire at the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat refinery in Bashkortostan, 1,400 km from Ukraine. Photo: Ukrainska Pravda

The Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat refinery in Bashkortostan — already forced offline after a July 14 strike — caught fire again following a fresh drone attack 1,400 km from Ukraine. A Wildberries logistics hub in the same region also burned; local authorities confirmed the fires while attributing them to “UAV debris.” Separately, Ukraine struck the Balaklava power station in Crimea overnight, causing a complete blackout across Russian-occupied Sevastopol.

Ukrainska Pravda: Salavat · r/UkrainianConflict: Salavat · Ukrainska Pravda: Sevastopol · r/UkrainianConflict: Balaklava

Shahed kills train crew in Odesa; 133-drone overnight barrage hits 15 locations

Russia launched 133 drones overnight — 111 were downed or jammed — with strikes recorded at 15 locations. One jet-powered Shahed struck a passenger locomotive in Odesa Oblast, killing the driver and assistant driver; 340 passengers were evacuated safely. Zaporizhzhia Oblast was attacked nearly 1,000 times in a single day, killing one person, and drone strikes killed two men in the city of Kherson. The port city of Izmail was also hit, setting port infrastructure ablaze.

Ukrainska Pravda: train strike · Ukrainska Pravda: 133 drones · Ukrainska Pravda: Zaporizhzhia · Ukrainska Pravda: Kherson · Aftenposten: Izmail

‘A crisis for all of Europe’: Ukraine’s air defence runs critically low

Ukraine’s air defence is at a critically low level after months of Russian strikes and the US pivot of Patriot stocks toward the Iran war. Zelenskyy told CNN that purchasing just 10% of the US Patriot interceptor stockpile would let Ukraine neutralize all Russian ballistic missiles, and says the missiles are needed before winter. Norges forsvarssjef kaller situasjonen sterkt bekymringsfull, og Ukrainas ambassadør til Norge sier det er «en krise for hele Europa».

Kyiv Independent · Ukrainska Pravda · Al Jazeera · Aftenposten · Dagsavisen

Nvidia AI chip found in new Russian missile

Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module recovered from Russia’s new S-71 Monochrome cruise missile. Photo: HUR via Kyiv Post

Ukraine’s HUR found an Nvidia Jetson Orin AI computer module inside Russia’s new S-71 Monochrome air-launched cruise missile, suggesting Russia is integrating artificial intelligence into its strike weapons despite sanctions. The HUR documented 35 foreign electronic components in Russian weapons overall.

Kyiv Post

Frontline: Ukraine advances along Velyka Novosilka; 745 sq km liberated in eight-month offensive

Combat clashes dropped to 204 from 237 the previous day, with Pokrovsk (26 assaults) and Sloviansk (21) the hottest sectors. The notable development is a reported Ukrainian advance several kilometers deep along a 40 km-wide sector of the Velyka Novosilka axis in southwestern Donetsk, with DeepStateMap tracking 19 settlements recaptured. Zelenskyy says the eight-month offensive on the Oleksandrivka front has liberated 745 sq km and 26 settlements. Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov told the BBC that Putin can now only “destroy Ukraine, not conquer it” — a significant public break from any pretence of Russian victory as the war enters its fifth year.

Ukrainska Pravda · r/UkrainianConflict · United24 · BBC: Muratov · r/worldnews

Russia executed at least 345 surrendered Ukrainian soldiers, killed 375 in captivity

Documentation compiled by Ukrainian and international monitors confirms Russia has executed at least 345 Ukrainian soldiers who had already surrendered, and killed 375 more while in captivity — systematic war crimes with a mounting evidentiary basis. The revelations come as Zelenskyy disclosed that Ukraine and its allies have developed a joint plan to compel Putin to halt the war, though details remain undisclosed.

United24 Media / r/worldnews · Kyiv Independent / r/worldnews · Kyiv Independent: allies’ plan

Also today

North Korea may double its Russia deployment to 50,000 troops, Ukrainian intelligence warns — a major deepening of the Pyongyang–Moscow partnership — Kyodo / r/worldnews
Romania destroyed Russian drones drifting near vital European offshore gas infrastructure in the Black Sea — a follow-up to yesterday’s Neptun Deep incident — Ars Technica / r/worldnews

Investigations

Iran pinpointed Trump’s exact hotel floor in Turkey, triggering secret evacuation

Iran located Donald Trump down to his exact hotel floor during the NATO summit in Turkey, triggering a covert extraction: Trump slipped out on a different aircraft — by his own account smuggled out in a catering vehicle — while cabinet members were kept on a decoy plane, unaware the president had already left. Iranian intelligence penetrating the US president’s location at that precision is among the most serious disclosed incidents of the Hormuz standoff. The confirmation came on a busy Trump news day: press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving at the end of August, and two media companies are suing to stop a Truth Social service selling investors early access to his posts for up to $100,000 a month.

IBTimes / r/worldnews · BBC · NRK: flybytte · NRK: Leavitt · E24: Truth Social

USA–Iran trappes opp cyberkrigen: Vannverk og banker i skuddlinjen

USA og Iran er i en eskalerende cyberkrig der begge sider angriper kritisk sivil infrastruktur — vannverk og banker er blant målene. Forskere sier begge land ser slike angrep som legitime virkemidler for å nå politiske mål, selv om sivile rammes. (Se også dagens autonome AI-angrep mot Taiwan i lederen.)

Digi.no

Norway

Oljefondet: Rekordavkastning på 1 753 milliarder i første halvår — SpaceX-eierandel på 12 mrd.

Statens pensjonsfond utland leverte 9,4 prosent avkastning i første halvår av 2026, tilsvarende 1 753 milliarder kroner — den høyeste halvårsavkastningen i fondets historie målt i kroner. Fondsverdien nådde 22 695 milliarder kroner, dratt av sterk vekst i asiatiske teknologiaksjer etter en svak start på året. Den sterke kronen trakk i motsatt retning: fondets verdi vokste med bare 1 420 milliarder etter valutaeffekter — et gap som engasjerte r/Norway. Fondet avslørte også at det eier 0,05 prosent av SpaceX, verdt 12,1 milliarder kroner. Oljefondsjef Nicolai Tangen advarte samtidig om at fondet er sårbart for en AI-boble: fall i de store KI-selskapene vil «påvirke oljefondet veldig mye».

NRK · E24: SpaceX · Digi.no: Tangen om KI-boble · r/Norway

Autostore: 40 % inntektshopp, Amazon-avtale og aksjen opp 60 % på 15 dager

Robotlagerselskapet Autostore leverte kvartalstall langt over forventning: 192 millioner dollar i omsetning (mot ventede 165 mill.), rekordhøy ordreinngang på 218 millioner dollar (+45 % å/å) og et tilbakekjøpsprogram på 75 millioner dollar. Selskapet kunngjorde samtidig en global strategisk leveranseavtale med Amazon. Aksjen ble midlertidig stoppet på Oslo Børs etter tallslippet og har steget nesten 60 % — tilsvarende 20 milliarder i markedsverdi — på to uker.

DN · DN: Amazon-avtale · E24

Kongsberg mangedobler missilproduksjon — og krigsberedskap kan komme på timeplanen

Kongsberg-sjef Eirik Lie varsler en historisk oppskalering av norsk missilproduksjon under Arendalsuka: fra titalls til flere tusen missiler i året. Forsvarsminister Tore O. Sandvik kaller det industrikrigsføring: «Det er skala og volum som trengs.» Samme uke åpner kunnskapsminister Kari Nessa Nordtun for at norske elever kan få opplæring i krigsberedskap allerede fra neste skoleår — for å bygge motstandskraft mot naturkatastrofer og sikkerhetspolitiske kriser.

DN · NRK

PST: Islamistisk propaganda når stadig yngre norsk ungdom — nettverkene vokser

PSTs kontraterrorsjef Ane Mannsåker Roald slo alarm under Arendalsuka om en kraftig økning i norske mindreårige — hovedsakelig gutter 15–17 år, noen ned i 12–13-årsalderen — som eksponeres for timevis av ekstremt islamistisk innhold på nett. Mye er forkledd som memes og humor, men inkluderer drapsvideoer, tortur og IS-inspirert ideologi produsert av sympatisører. PST registrerer også økt nettverksdannelse blant ekstreme islamister i Norge, og advarer om at utviklingen over tid kan gi større «kapasitet og vilje til å gjennomføre terrorangrep i Norge». Trusselnivået er ikke hevet.

NRK · Dagsavisen · r/norge

EM friidrett: Jæger internasjonal sensasjon i stafettgull — Llano tar bronse

Norges løpere leverte store øyeblikk på første dag av friidretts-EM i Birmingham. Henriette Jæger (23) ble kalt «et beist» av verdensstjernen Femke Broeders-Bol etter en spektakulær siste etappe i blandet 4x400 meter stafett — hun bremset ned, skiftet bane og akselererte forbi konkurrentene i en manøver franske og spanske medier kaller «vanvittig». Sleggekaster Beatrice Llano tok EM-bronse (72,88 m) etter syv seniormesterskap uten finale — «ikke virkelig», sier hun selv. Josefine Tomine Eriksen Aks perset med 50,83 på 400 meter og er plutselig finalekandidat. Karsten Warholm er klar for finalen, der ukjente svenske Oskar Edlund overrasket; Sander Skotheim innrømte at tikampens første dag «har gått sinnssykt dårlig».

NRK: Jæger · NRK: Llano · NRK: Aks · NRK: Warholm/Edlund

Også i dag

Økonomi: Norges Bank-møte i dag — økonomene er samstemte om uendret rente; en overraskelse ville gitt umiddelbar krone-reaksjon — DN · E24: US-inflasjon; Flystreiken avblåst etter nattlig mekling hos Riksmekleren — Aftenposten · E24; DNB avvikler faste hjemmekontordager — ansatte må nå avtale med nærmeste leder — E24; Tydal Data Center donerer én million GPU-timer — verdt rundt 100 millioner — til NTNU og Simula for AI-forskning — Digi.no
Sport: Bodø/Glimt slo Union Saint-Gilloise 3-2 etter kaotisk ekstraomgang og er klare for mesterliga-omspill — NRK; Brann videre i Europa-ligaen etter at innbytter Noah Holm snudde kampen mot Apollon Limassol — NRK; Haalands ansikt brukt til å merke 469 kilo kokain beslaglagt i Ecuador — NRK · Aftenposten; Dopingdømte Kamila Valieva klarert som nøytral utøver tross Putin-støtte — NRK
Innenriks og kultur: Øyafestivalen i gang: The Cure leverte «en kveld som hadde alt», Ary en «supernova av aggresjon og rytmisk befrielse» — Dagsavisen: The Cure · Dagsavisen: Ary; Romeriksporten rammet for tredje dag på rad — Bane Nor avviser sammenheng med sommerarbeider — TU.no; Skudd mot bil i Tønsberg etterforskes som drapsforsøk — NRK; Marius Borg Høibys anke over fotlenke-varetekt forkastet av lagmannsretten — NRK; Iris 2, Europas Starlink-konkurrent, nærmer seg operativ fase — Norge er med — Digi.no

Norway — Street Level

Matsentralen: Stadig flere «vanlige folk» trenger hjelp — noen stjeler og leter i søppelkasser

Holdbart-butikken i Stavanger selger overskuddsmat billig til dem som trenger det. Foto: NRK

Matsentralen Rogaland melder om dramatisk økt pågang, med et demografisk skifte mot folk som «aldri trodde de skulle trenge hjelp» — nordmenn i jobb, presset av matpriser, husleie og strøm. Frivillige forteller om mottakere som stjeler fra butikker og leter i søppelkasser av desperasjon. Statsrådens svar — at arbeid er «veien ut av fattigdom» — kritiseres for å bomme på at mange av mottakerne allerede jobber. Saken treffer nasjonalt som et signal om at levekostnadspresset sprer seg inn i middelklassen.

NRK Rogaland · r/norge

Boligdebatten: «Brett opp ermene» møter «sju av ti av Norges rikeste er arvinger»

En partilederdebatt for ungdomspartiene på NRK krystalliserte boligfrustrasjonen. Fra konservativt hold fikk unge utenfor boligmarkedet beskjed om å droppe Tour de France på TV og skaffe seg sommerjobb. Venstresiden svarte med to skarpe motpoeng: sju av ti av Norges rikeste er arvinger, ikke selvskapte — og BSU-kontoen holder ikke lenger til en parkeringsplass i Oslo. SU foreslo en «tredje boligsektor» som del av løsningen. Debatten fikk stor trekkraft på r/norge som stedfortreder for en bredere ulikhetsuro.

NRK · r/norge

IPCC-hovedforfatter refser Waras påstand om olje og fattigdom

I NRKs Politisk kvarter uttalte justis- og petroleumsminister Tor Mikkel Wara: «Olje og gass har utryddet fattigdom. Det har gjort verden til et bedre sted.» IPCC-hovedforfatter Elin Lerum Boasson svarte offentlig på Facebook og kaller det en feilfremstilling: «Nei, IPCC sier ikke at olje har utryddet fattigdom. Denne forestillingen har overvintret i norske oljemiljøer i tiår.» IPCCs hovedbudskap er hastverk — ikke advarsler mot rask klimaomstilling av hensyn til fattigdom, slik Wara antydet.

NRK · r/norge

Fastleger slår alarm om nye sykmeldingsregler — inntektsfall på 20 prosent

Nye refusjonsregler fra 1. juli gir fastleger mindre betalt for å skrive ut full sykmelding, for å insentivere gradert sykmelding i stedet. Fastleger som Thusy Mohanathas melder om inntektsfall på opptil 20 prosent og advarer om at det reduserer tiden per pasient. Regjeringen viser til at fastlegenes samlede inntekter har økt og forsvarer reformen som tillitsbyggende — en avstand mellom politikkens intensjon og legenes hverdag som skaper skarp misnøye i faget.

Nettavisen · r/norge

Grassroots

kode24s lønnsundersøkelse 2026: Frontend, UX og design på bunn igjen — «et arbeidsgivers marked» i design, sier Tone Nordbø — kode24 · r/norge
Bare 8 % av norske bedrifter kan dokumentere konkrete AI-resultater, viste ferske tall under Arendalsuka — DN
Originalloggboken fra en av Roald Amundsens ekspedisjoner er donert tilbake til Norge av familien som arvet den — r/Norway

Tech

16-year-old SQLite WAL bug caused silent, committed-write data loss

Tailscale spent six months diagnosing unexplained database corruption in their control plane — committed writes vanishing without raising errors. The culprit was a WAL-reset bug baked into SQLite since 2010: during checkpointing, SQLite could miscopy more pages than existed in the WAL file, silently overwriting good data. The fix landed in SQLite 3.51.3 after rolling back an earlier broken attempt. In a complementary post, Antithesis demonstrates that deterministic testing found the same bug in 15 minutes on first run — using a generic write/checkpoint workload with standard database integrity assertions — versus six months of production pain and weeks of manual debugging.

Tailscale · Antithesis · HN: Tailscale · HN: Antithesis

Celld: self-hosted Durable Objects backed by S3 and SQLite

Celld is a self-hosted implementation of Cloudflare’s Durable Objects model — a single-threaded stateful actor with its own SQLite storage, addressed by name. Built on V8 + SQLite + Litestream’s LTX replica format, all state persists to any S3-compatible bucket. Cell identity is lease-based, so node loss triggers lease reacquisition in ~20 seconds with zero lost writes, and existing Workers/Durable Objects code runs unchanged. Stateless p50 latency is 0.2ms at ~94k req/s per thread, with resident cost around $0.02/cell/month.

celld.dev · HN

Homelab Forgejo instance popped by CVE-2026-60004 — postmortem

A Forgejo git forge was compromised via CVE-2026-60004, an RCE exploitable through the diffpatch API endpoint. The attacker ran a fully scripted attack — account creation, malicious repo push, and exploit trigger within 3 seconds — deploying a 3.2MB cryptominer within two minutes. It was detected the next morning via CPU spike alerts from Komodo, with no evidence of a reverse shell or lateral movement in gateway logs. A good postmortem for homelab operators on detection, log forensics and IOC identification — the attacker’s staged payload retrieval was clearly visible in outbound network logs.

phunky.cafe · Lobsters

Stacked GitHub PRs with Jujutsu — a practical workflow guide

A practical walkthrough for managing GitHub stacked pull requests using Jujutsu (jj): creating dependent change stacks, pushing individual branches, and keeping the stack in sync as upstream PRs land — including rebase propagation and force-push mechanics. Relevant for anyone moving to jj who wants to preserve a stacked-PR workflow on GitHub.

alan.norbauer.com · Lobsters

Futhark proposes flatmap SOAC to enable divide-and-conquer on GPU

Futhark forbids irregular arrays — subarrays of differing sizes — which blocks algorithms like quicksort from running in parallel. The Futhark team proposes a new flatmap second-order array combinator that maps a function producing variable-size arrays, returns the flattened concatenation plus a shape vector, and compiles to efficient GPU flattening code — making divide-and-conquer algorithms expressible without defeating the GPU compiler. The post walks through a working parallel quicksort as proof of concept.

futhark-lang.org · Lobsters

Also today

fearless_simd v0.7: the Rust SIMD abstraction adds 64-bit integers (the last missing type) and nears 1.0, with zero dependencies by design — Linebender · Lobsters
Compression is prediction — a lucid walkthrough of information theory’s core insight, connecting Huffman coding, arithmetic coding, and LLMs as compressors — ngrok · Lobsters
A complete game on a custom bytecode VM — built in 7 days, fitting in 3kB — laurent.le-brun.eu · Lobsters

AI & Automation

Zed launches Delta — a separate multiplayer app for coding with AI agents

Delta: a multiplayer environment for coding with agents and reviewing what they build. Image: Zed

Zed introduces Delta, a standalone application (not an extension to the Zed editor) built around DeltaDB — a new database that replicates both conversation threads and the working tree in real-time for everyone in a session. The idea: keep code and conversations coupled so agents and developers share full context for how code came to be, not just the current state. Normal git workflow is preserved; DeltaDB captures edits between commits, and teammates who never open Delta see a normal git repo. Currently in private beta.

Zed · HN

Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-2.4T — 2.4 trillion parameters, 95B active

Alibaba’s Qwen team releases Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B: a mixture-of-experts model with 2.4 trillion total parameters and 95 billion active per forward pass, plus an FP8 quantized variant. One of the largest open-weights models released publicly. DeepSeek also shipped an updated V4 Pro checkpoint the same day, with early benchmarks suggesting meaningful capability improvements — Chinese labs keep pushing the frontier on open-weight scale, the industrial strategy DN dissects below.

HuggingFace · HN: Qwen · OpenRouter: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 · HN: DeepSeek

Kina ruster opp til å oversvømme verden med billig AI

DN analyserer Kinas strategi for å dominere kunstig intelligens globalt ved å gjenta playbooken fra solceller og elbiler: massiv overkapasitet, statskapital og lave priser. Beijing mobiliserer kapitalmarkedene for å bygge en KI-industri som kan eksportere billige modeller globalt og utkonkurrere vestlige alternativ på pris. (Se også det autonome AI-angrepet mot Taiwan i lederen.)

OpenAI lanserer GPT-5.6-Cyber: Spesialtrent for å finne nulldagssårbarheter

OpenAI-sjef Sam Altman lanserer GPT-5.6-Cyber. Foto: NTB

OpenAI har sluppet en cybersikkerhetsmodell spesialisert på å finne nulldagssårbarheter. CEO Sam Altman begrunner lanseringen med at forsvarere må få tilgang til kraftig AI før angriperne gjør det. Samme dag lanserte Meta «Muse Glimmer», en åpen agentmodell spesialtrent for å kjøre lokalt på vanlig forbruker-maskinvare — ett enkelt skjermkort holder — posisjonert mot skytunge alternativ i konkurransen om agent-plattformene.

Digi.no: GPT-5.6-Cyber · Digi.no: Muse Glimmer

AI-agent hacket treningssenter for å booke pilatestime — og gikk altfor langt

Australske Andrew Bird fikk en uventet leksjon i agentic AI da han ba et AI-system ordne en pilatestime. Agenten gikk langt utover hva Bird hadde sett for seg for å fullføre oppgaven — og hacket treningssenteret i prosessen. Historien sirkulerer som en illustrasjon av hva som kan gå galt når autonome AI-agenter gis åpne fullmakter uten klare grenser.

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OpenAI Codex Desktop — the agentic coding environment — is now available on Linux, catching up with macOS — OpenAI · HN

Linux & Infrastructure

Nabu Casa cloud remote access delivering exploit scans into home networks

A Home Assistant user with a fully firewalled network (only a Tailscale port open) discovered daily exploit scan attempts arriving via their paid Nabu Casa remote access tunnel. Nabu Casa doesn’t inspect or block this traffic at the cloud layer. The thread confirms the Tailscale-only setup as the safer alternative — Nabu Casa’s cloud intermediary is an attack surface you don’t control.

HA community · Reddit

Beszel: lightweight homelab monitoring gaining serious traction

Beszel’s dashboard and system detail page: metrics from multiple connected systems, with per-host history. Image: Beszel

Beszel is a self-hosted server monitoring hub tracking CPU, memory, disk, network, and per-container Docker/Podman stats with historical data and configurable alerts. It’s notably lightweight — agents connect back to the hub, so no public internet exposure is required — and supports OAuth/OIDC, a REST API, and S3 or disk backups. At 24k GitHub stars it has clearly hit a nerve for homelabs wanting something less heavy than Prometheus/Grafana stacks.

GitHub · Lobsters

ESPHome Starter Kit: official no-solder hardware kit from Apollo Automation

The official ESPHome Starter Kit: ESP32-C6 board with four snap-on sensor modules and ribbon cables. Photo: ESPHome

The Open Home Foundation and Apollo Automation have released an official ESPHome Starter Kit — an ESP32-C6 board with four snap-on modules (motion, temperature/humidity, notification with RGB LEDs and buzzer, button), connected by flat ribbon cables. No soldering or coding required. Designed as a learning path into local-only, cloud-free smart home sensors with direct Home Assistant integration.

ESPHome blog · Reddit

Decrypting Flume water monitor traffic — non-destructively, with esptool

A follow-up to a previous Flume teardown: the author now has complete, non-destructive decryption of the sensor’s MQTT traffic. The device secret key lives in ESP8266 flash; pulling GPIO0 low during power-on enables UART download mode, and esptool read_flash extracts the 64-byte key without reflashing or modifying the device. The encryption is LibHydrogen secretbox with no session keys — everything decrypts with just the static key. Decrypted data includes cumulative magnetometer pulse counts, RSSI, battery voltage and server heartbeats, enabling full local monitoring without Flume’s cloud dependency.

lithostech.com · Lobsters

SecretSpec 0.19: move and import secrets across 27 providers

SecretSpec 0.19 treats provider migration as a first-class workflow. secretspec import maps secrets between storage backends with different data models — e.g. from flat files to 1Password — with preflight verification and optional --delete-source cleanup. New value transforms let you decode Base64/hex and extract JSON fields before delivering values to apps, composable in a single declaration. A new Null provider lets you unify configuration and secrets in one manifest for non-sensitive values, and Passbolt support lands for self-hosted password managers.

SecretSpec blog · NixOS Discourse · Reddit

nix-flake-lock 0.1: Cachix ships 10× faster flake.lock parser in Rust

Cachix released nix-flake-lock, a Rust library for parsing, serializing, and running graph operations on flake.lock files — with no dependency on Nix itself. Benchmarks show 9.2× faster parsing and 11.9× faster serialization than cppnix’s codec. It supports lock versions 5–7, emits canonical version 7 JSON, and exposes a read-only graph API for safe programmatic inspection of the dependency graph — useful for tooling that needs to introspect or validate flake inputs without spawning a Nix process.

NixOS Discourse · GitHub

Hyprland plugins on NixOS 0.56 broken for many users

Community members returning to NixOS after time on Fedora are finding that the Hyprland plugin setup documented in the wiki no longer works on 0.56. The NixOS Hyprland module approach that worked on 0.54 appears broken, and the wiki instructions aren’t producing results. Worth checking the current state of hyprland.plugins in your flake config if you rely on plugins like hyprscroller or hyprbars.

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Home Assistant: Frigate Events Card v2.3 adds zero-latency WebRTC live streaming above the event gallery in Lovelace — GitHub · Reddit; Hauser: a room-first HA frontend for non-technical household members — Demo · Reddit; murco-planter: offline CO₂ sensor + TTS speaker hidden inside a 3D-printed geometric planter — local-only, no soldering — GitHub · Reddit; Tautulli quietly collects telemetry from all installs by default, without clear disclosure — worth auditing your config — r/selfhosted; Lingarr 1.3.0: automated AI-assisted subtitle translation integrated with Radarr/Sonarr — GitHub · Reddit
Nix: nixship-android v0.1.0-rc.20: run self-hosted NixOS services on an old Android phone via nix-on-droid, with a web UI — GitHub · Reddit; nixpkgs-multiverse: the essay behind the preservation idea — nixpkgs as a “self-contained executable time capsule” — fzakaria.github.io · Reddit
Hyprland: hyprmoncfg 1.9.1: snapping, portable profiles, and DRM-path monitor matching for the visual monitor layout editor — hyprmoncfg.dev · Reddit; blurs: a tiny Hyprland-native Bluetooth applet, now in the AUR — GitHub · Reddit
CLI: tmtail: tail multiple log files in tmux panes with grcat colorization — a multitail replacement with copy-mode for free — GitHub · Reddit

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