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2026-08-31 Discoveries

Candidates found by the public-feed scout on 2026-08-31. Automated discovery is not an endorsement.

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#0185
STRANGE TECH · Hackaday · SAFETY SCREENED

Hackaday Links: August 30, 2026

The big news today is, of course, the successful launch and deployment of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope earlier this morning. The space agency’s latest observatory lifted off at …

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#0284
NEW TECH · Google Technology · SAFETY SCREENED

How the GNIS Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps

The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has formally changed the name for "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" in the United States. Since we update Google Maps …

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#0383
STRANGE TECH · Hackaday · SAFETY SCREENED

Dissecting a Lethal Universal Travel Adapter

The world’s refusal to standardize on a single type of mains power outlet has led to a vibrant market of so-called travel adapters, all of which try to outdo each …

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#0482
USEFUL TOOL · Product Hunt · SAFETY SCREENED

Murfy AI

Write, review, and publish to arXiv 10x faster

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#0581
STRANGE TECH · Hackaday · SAFETY SCREENED

LLM Moats Quickly Evaporating

In the business world, a moat is a quality of a business that makes it difficult for competitors to take that company’s profits. With how hard it is to train …

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#0680
USEFUL TOOL · Product Hunt · SAFETY SCREENED

Topview Motion Studio

Create launch videos without touching After Effects

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#0780
USEFUL TOOL · people.kernel.org · SAFETY SCREENED

Creepy Crawlies

You've probably heard me complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their im...

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#0880
USEFUL TOOL · greenlightning.eu · SAFETY SCREENED

Hacking IKEA Furniture

When something you want is not available for purchase, well, you can always build it yourself! I recently moved and have a dedicated office room now. I wanted …

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#0980
USEFUL TOOL · reclaimthenet.org · SAFETY SCREENED

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

ProtectEU strategy by EU Commission targets encrypted data access, expanding EUROPOL powers and cross-border intelligence sharing.

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#1078
USEFUL TOOL · Product Hunt · SAFETY SCREENED

Superagent

Claude Code for the rest of us

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#1177
USEFUL TOOL · haiku-os.org · SAFETY SCREENED

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

After about two years since the last beta, and only about a week after Haiku’s 25th birthday, Haiku R1/beta6 has been released! See “Release Notes” for the release notes, “Press contact”, for press inquiries … and …

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#1275
AI TOOL · github.com · SAFETY SCREENED

Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver

Experimental Linux DRM/KMS driver for the SM750G10 SE-DP750A-HDMI, with HDMI, custom RGB565 dithering, DMA and software-scaled ultrawide modes. - KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb

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USEFUL TOOL · qubes-os.org · SAFETY SCREENED

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

We have published Qubes Security Bulletin (QSB) 118: Dom0 arbitrary code execution in qvm-copy-to-vm error reporting. The text of this QSB and its accompanying cryptographic signatures are reproduced below, followed by a general…

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AI TOOL · sander.ai · SAFETY SCREENED

Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)

Fully discrete methods dominated for a few years, but language models based on continuous diffusion are making a comeback.

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USEFUL TOOL · arxiv.org · SAFETY SCREENED

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

There has been some interest recently in determining the longest distance one can sail for on the earth without hitting land, as well as in the converse problem of determining the longest distance one could drive for on the earth without…

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