August 30, 2026
Today's top tech stories, deduped across the newsletters I read and briefly summarized. Click a source to open the original article.
AI
Anthropic raises Claude Code's weekly limits — but cuts today's temporary boost first
Anthropic is permanently raising Claude Code's standard weekly usage limits by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, but it's first cutting today's temporarily expanded limits by 17%, making the net change less generous than it sounds.
Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, an open-weight 770-billion-parameter LLM
Tencent released Hy4 Preview as open weights: a text-only LLM with 770 billion total parameters, 49 billion active parameters, and a 1-million-token context window.
StemDeck is a free, open-source, local AI stem separator
StemDeck is a new open-source tool that uses AI to separate vocals, drums, and other stems from an audio track, running entirely locally without any cloud service.
Security
DHS uses obscure law to surveil journalists, non-profits, and unions
The US Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known authority — so-called 1509 summonses — to obtain records on journalists, non-profits, and unions, according to The Guardian.
A mere rumor of a bug is now enough to find a security exploit
OCaml maintainer and Cambridge professor Anil Madhavapeddy describes how just a rumor that a bug exists is now enough for attackers to locate and exploit it.
Brave browser adds email aliases to dodge tracking
Brave 1.94 introduces an 'Email Aliases' feature that lets users generate disposable email addresses when signing up for new services, helping them evade tracking.
Texas added $1 to car insurance policies — the money funded Flock surveillance cameras
Texas lawmakers added a $1 fee to car insurance policies, and the money has funded the rollout of Flock Safety's license-plate recognition cameras through MVCPA grants.
Dev
Tether brings iMessage and SMS to Linux
The new open-source project Tether lets Linux users send and receive iMessage, SMS, and other messaging directly from the desktop.
New tool boots a virtual iPhone using Apple's Virtualization.framework
The vphone-cli project shows how to boot a virtual iPhone using Apple's Virtualization.framework, without physical hardware.
EVE Online begins its move to Python 3
The developers behind EVE Online have announced they are starting the work of migrating the game's server code from Python 2 to Python 3.
Typebase is a single-folder backend you write in TypeScript
Typebase is a new Show HN project that lets you build a complete backend in a single folder of TypeScript, skipping the usual setup and boilerplate.
IT
Samsung shows off its Processing-in-Memory tech at Hot Chips 2026
At the Hot Chips 2026 conference, Samsung presented its Processing-in-Memory (PIM) technology, which moves computation closer to memory to reduce data-movement bottlenecks.