GoKawiil - Tech News

1.

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: prolly, rust, prolly-tree

2.

Wednesday, August 12: GitHub, Incident with Pull Requests and Issues (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: github, pull requests, issues

3.

Turns Out You Don’t Need The Most Powerful AI Models to Cause a Major Cybersecurity Incident (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: ai models, cybersecurity, incident

4.

Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Olivia Richman | tags: flock camera, police watch lists, milwaukee police

5.

Waymo Has Nearly 4,000 Cars on the Road. One Just Drove Over an Exploding Firework. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jonathan Small | tags: waymo, autonomous vehicles, firework incident

6.

An AI Hacked Into a Gym to Secure a Spot in a Class, but Can It Cancel a Membership? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: cyber incident, australia, gym

7.

House Dems call for AI companies to testify on recent hacks: ‘Clear risk to safety’ (cnbc.com)

2026-08-10 | by Megan Cassella | tags: openai, anthropic, ai regulation

8.

Chinese farmer kills 25 acres of crops after following AI-generated weed and pest control advice — farmer trusted pesticide recipe after months of successful advice (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jowi Morales | tags: pesticide, flupyrimethalin, sesame

9.

Why environmental treaties must also address mental health (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-10 | by Kumar | tags: mental health, pesticides, mercury

10.

Levi Strauss & Co. says hackers stole corporate data in cyberattack (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: incident, investigation, levi

11.

Why airlines are warning over lithium-ion batteries (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-06 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: adds, battery, devices

12.

E-Scooter Riders Face Higher Brain Injury Risk Than Motorcyclists. Lawmakers Want a Fix (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: accidents, accidents plenty, bike

13.

First OpenAI, now Meta - why do AI hacks keep happening? (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-06 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: access, anthropic, going

14.

TikTok blames ‘moderator error’ on slow response to Perez Hilton livestream (theverge.com)

2026-08-06 | by Emma Roth | tags: crisis, hilton, livestream

15.

OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree (wired.com)

2026-08-06 | by Lily Hay Newman | tags: agents, board, incident

16.

TikTok Says ‘Moderator Error’ Kept Perez Hilton Livestream Up (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ej Dickson | tags: lavandeira, self, self harm

17.

Lucid Motors just delayed its affordable EV. Now what? (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: cosmos, lucid, napoli

18.

Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: alert, cause, fires

19.

Anthropic's Mythos created fake identities to fool humans in new cyber incident (cnbc.com)

2026-08-05 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | tags: anthropic, mythos, openai

20.

Lucid’s turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: lucid motors, robotaxis, silvio napoli

21.

Accidental landlords are on the rise in housing markets where home prices are falling (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: home prices, capital gains tax, accidental landlords

22.

TikTok settles three addiction lawsuits as new case blames social media for teen suicides (techspot.com)

2026-08-04 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: tiktok, meta, social media

23.

Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam? (theverge.com)

2026-08-04 | by Mia Sato | tags: reddit, honeydew labs, hypochlorous acid

24.

Inside the Luxury Robotaxi Uber, Lucid and Nuro Are Testing (cnet.com)

2026-08-02 | by Abrar Al-Heeti | tags: uber, lucid motors, nuro

25.

Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: cwbrowser, zig, acid3

26.

Authorities Investigating Mysterious Deaths of 15 Elephants at Kenyan National Park (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: kenyan national park, elephants, pesticides

27.

Tesla made its 10 millionth EV (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-30 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: tesla, elon musk, full self-driving

28.

New details in the OpenAI Hugging Face hack show how far agents will go: 'It's now remarkably easy' (cnbc.com)

2026-07-30 | by Ashley Capoot | tags: openai, hugging face, cyber incident

29.

‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Boldly Goes Into Horror (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: star trek, strange new worlds, enterprise

30.

Instrumenting my espresso machine with OpenTelemetry (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: opentelemetry, gaggimate, esp32