Tuesday, August 25, 2026
ArchiveMS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
A reverse engineer found that MS Paint and Photos silently embed unique tracking IDs in every image you create — even locally generated ones. 832 HN points and counting, and the technical walkthrough is meticulous.
The Jews Who Voted for Hitler
Max Naumann's League of Nationalist German Jews thought they could outrun the ideology they endorsed. The Atlantic excavates a chapter of history that's almost too uncomfortable to read — and too important not to.
Israel Is Running a Synthetic Think Tank to Influence AI Search Results
Israel is funding a fake think tank that publishes AI-generated essays designed specifically to warp what chatbots tell you. First documented case of a nation-state poisoning LLM outputs at scale.
Pop music has a new favourite chord progression
Pop music quietly swapped its default chord order and you didn't notice. David Bennett walks through exactly when IV-I-vi-V dethroned the classic axis progression — with receipts from the last five years of hits.
Simon Weckert creates Digital Camouflage shirt to avoid AI video surveillance
Berlin is rolling out AI video surveillance at Kottbusser Tor this month. A designer responded by creating a shirt that makes you invisible to person-detection systems. It's colorful, it works, and you can buy one.