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PepsiCo Scraps Coverage of Weight-Loss Drugs for Employees

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-25/pepsico-scraps-coverage-of-weight-loss-drugs-f...
1•cramer4next•1m ago•0 comments

A Trillion Times Larger

https://0xsmac.substack.com/p/a-trillion-times-larger
1•tosh•2m ago•0 comments

Bill Gates warns A.I. is more dangerous than Big Tech will admit

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/bill-gates-ai-risks.html
1•eternalreturn•3m ago•0 comments

MI Rep "I took off a dead voter and guess what? That dead voter was put back on"

https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/2092567742914122117
2•bilsbie•4m ago•0 comments

As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code

https://www.xda-developers.com/as-ubuntu-embraces-ai-debian-discusses-banning-all-ai-generated-code/
1•robtherobber•4m ago•0 comments

Oral-History: Frances "Fran" Allen

https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Frances_%22Fran%22_Allen#Working_on_Early_Supercomputers:_The_Stret...
1•Bluestein•4m ago•0 comments

What a coding agent sends to its provider

https://crp4222.github.io/PrivAiTe/agent-leak-measurement.html
2•crp4222•4m ago•0 comments

Axera AX8850 LLM running ggufs

https://github.com/woolcoxm/LLMTest
1•woolcoxm•5m ago•0 comments

Moonshot AI wants 30% of what US clouds earn from Kimi K3

https://thenextweb.com/news/moonshot-k3-revenue-sharing-us-clouds
3•Aboutplants•7m ago•0 comments

The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-...
1•nanna•8m ago•0 comments

Just say something people want

https://www.gkogan.co/say-something-people-want/
1•gk1•8m ago•0 comments

Zig removes support for wasi-Libc

https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pulls/36633
1•jedisct1•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A local tool that logs every time you swear at your AI coding assistant

https://github.com/fireinbelly/biomass-conversion-index-monitoring-system
1•lokinkl•8m ago•0 comments

Futurepedia

https://www.futurepedia.straxos.com/
1•geoinline•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vyukov MPSC queue in C++20 with a six-claim formal memory-model proof

https://github.com/nisgemML/mpsc-queue
1•nisgem•13m ago•0 comments

Russia starts blocking DoH and DoT

https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-russia-starts-blocking-doh-and-dot/
1•pjf•14m ago•0 comments

Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0j3z6147jo
3•dazhbog•15m ago•0 comments

LinkedIn's 'Seems Like AI Slop' button drops views by 40%

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/linkedin-seems-ai-slop-button-195000046.html
4•mrweasel•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Code Stitcher – Apply any LLM output to your local codebase

2•aihatterer•17m ago•0 comments

The Intelligence Monopoly Is Over. Creating a God's Eye View of the Iran Strikes

https://www.spatialintelligence.ai/p/the-intelligence-monopoly-is-over
1•Bluestein•17m ago•0 comments

RandomAI – A retro split-flap board that routes you to a random AI

https://www.google.com/search?q=https://randomai.chat
1•theaijournalope•23m ago•1 comments

Playing whack-a-mole is losing

https://dadrian.io/blog/posts/whack-a-mole-is-losing/
1•allanbreyes•28m ago•0 comments

Baleba Signs for Manchester United

https://thefinalthirdfootball.blogspot.com/2026/08/thefinalthirdfootball.html
2•Africanway•29m ago•0 comments

AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1141952/puzzles-ai-models-flub-these-tests/
2•joozio•29m ago•0 comments

Quantifying AI data center nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from space

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.22153
1•vintagedave•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: backpressure.systems adds MCP and CLI

https://backpressure.systems/mcp-and-cli
1•leocardz_•32m ago•0 comments

A spy satellite simulator in the browser, except the data is real

https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view
1•bauerpl•35m ago•0 comments

Adaptable Engineers Hold Key Skills in the AI Era

https://spectrum.ieee.org/adaptable-engineer-core-skills
2•rbanffy•41m ago•0 comments

The journalist facing an $800 daily fine to keep her sources secret

https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2026/aug/25/catherine-herridge-journalist-suprem...
11•geox•43m ago•1 comments

As CTE Cases Soar, Why Do Football Crowds Still Go Wild?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/us/nfl-cte.html
1•JumpCrisscross•44m ago•0 comments
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Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/26/debian-polls-its-developers-on-whether-to-burn-the-bots-tame-the-bots-or-let-em-loose/5292270
6•lproven•1h ago

Comments

lproven•59m ago
Posting this because I want people to vote -- and ideally vote for a total ban.
colesantiago•25m ago
> and ideally vote for a total ban.

If a total ban were to happen, wouldn't that make Debian a target for hackers who can use LLMs to find vulnerabilities?

How would Debian keep up with the influx of AI assisted 0 days?

ivandenysov•3m ago
> Debian is a large and complicated project: the release announcement for version 13 says it has 69,830 packages, which take a total of 403 GB of disk, and contain 1,463,291,186 lines of code. So, suitably, it is a large and complex poll.

Surely these are not just Debian-owned packages. Whatever Debian decides won’t apply to packages not owned by Debian