# Morning Briefing

Tuesday, April 29, 2026
📰 Top Stories

## Ghostty is leaving GitHub

Hacker News · Score: 2978 · 894 comments · Also: The Register, Ars Technica
Mitchell Hashimoto (HashiCorp co-founder) is moving Ghostty off GitHub, calling it "no longer a place for serious work" due to persistent outages. GitHub published a mea culpa the same day. Covered by HN, The Register, and Ars — rare cross-source convergence on platform reliability.
github open-source platform-reliability

## Your phone is about to stop being yours

Hacker News · Score: 1527 · 743 comments
Google is tightening Android restrictions that could effectively end user ownership of their devices. The HN discussion is heated — 743 comments deep on digital ownership and right-to-repair.
android right-to-repair google

## Ex-FBI Director James Comey indicted for "8647" seashell Instagram post

Ground News · 376 sources · Also: Ars Technica, Reason, NPR
A grand jury indicted former FBI Director Comey over an Instagram post of seashells arranged as "8647" — interpreted by some as a threat against Trump. Covered by 376 sources across the political spectrum.
doj free-speech comey

## Supreme Court calls Louisiana's House map an "unconstitutional racial gerrymander"

NPR News
SCOTUS struck down Louisiana's congressional map while keeping Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact — but the decision effectively guts the landmark law's protections for minority voting power.
scotus voting-rights gerrymandering

## South Korean court sentences ex-President Yoon to 7 years in prison

NPR News
An appeals court sentenced ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol to 7 years for resisting arrest and bypassing a Cabinet meeting before his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.
south-korea democracy martial-law
💻 Tech

## GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown

Wiz · Also: The Register, Hacker News (404 pts)
Wiz researchers found a high-severity RCE in GitHub's git infrastructure giving attackers full read/write access to private repos. Claude AI helped produce the bug report — Wiz nabbed a lucrative bounty. GitHub has patched it.
security github rce

## Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?

Hacker News · Score: 467 · 440 comments
Legal analysis of AI-generated code ownership. The 440-comment HN discussion is worth reading — spans copyright, employment contracts, and what happens when your "coding assistant" writes your IP.
ai legal copyright

## Warp is now open-source

Warp.dev · Hacker News (325 pts)
The Rust-based terminal emulator Warp has gone open-source. A significant move in the terminal space — competition heats up for both traditional and modern terminal tools.
open-source terminal rust

## GitHub will start charging Copilot users based on actual AI usage

Ars Technica
GitHub says it can no longer absorb "escalating inference cost" from heaviest AI users. The shift from flat-rate to usage-based pricing signals where AI tooling economics are heading.
github ai-pricing copilot

## GoDaddy transferred a 27-year-old domain without any security checks

The Register
GoDaddy allegedly handed complete control of a 27-year-old domain to another customer with zero authentication. The owner spent 32 phone calls and 17 email chains over 5 days trying to recover it.
security domains godaddy
🌍 Wider Lens

## The Trump team is quietly eliminating U.S. support for birth control abroad

NPR News
Congress allocated over $500M for international family planning, but the Trump administration hasn't spent it. The consequences are already being felt in affected countries.
foreign-aid healthcare policy

## The quiet layoffs sweeping China's tech giants

Rest of World
Alibaba reduced headcount by a third in 2025; Baidu's workforce dropped 7%. The AI pivot is reshaping Chinese tech employment — "there's constant churn," per one worker.
china tech-layoffs ai

## Senior citizens join the immigration fight to protect caregivers

NPR News
As SCOTUS weighs ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians, seniors are advocating for their immigrant caregivers — highlighting the intersection of immigration policy and eldercare.
immigration healthcare scotus
🔥 HN Deep Reads

## Ghostty is leaving GitHub

Hacker News · 894 comments
Nearly 900 comments on platform exodus. Threads cover GitHub's reliability decline, alternatives (Codeberg, Radicle, self-hosted Gitea), and what it means when your forge isn't trustworthy. Also: HardenedBSD moving to Radicle, "Tangled — We need a federation of forges" on the front page.
github-exodus forge-federation discussion

## Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?

Hacker News · 440 comments
Deep discussion on AI code ownership — copyright assignment, work-for-hire doctrine, and whether AI-generated code can be owned at all. Essential reading if your team uses AI coding tools.
ai legal ownership

## How ChatGPT serves ads

Hacker News · 280 comments
Breakdown of ChatGPT's full ad attribution loop. Discussion dives into AI as ad surface, user trust implications, and whether "AI answers" with sponsored content is a new ad paradigm or just old tricks.
ai advertising openai
🎮 Gaming

## Valve is "hard at work" on Steam Deck 2, but next-gen performance isn't possible yet

Eurogamer · Also: Rock Paper Shotgun
Valve confirms Steam Deck 2 is in development but the RAM/storage price crisis is delaying the Steam Machine. The new Steam Controller ships sooner because it doesn't need those components.
valve steam-deck hardware

## The Blood of Dawnwalker gets Sept 3 release date

Eurogamer · Also: Kotaku, Rock Paper Shotgun
The dark fantasy vampire RPG from Witcher 3's director launches September 3, 2026. Rebel Wolves confirms no AI was used in development. System requirements also revealed.
rpg vampire release-date

## Fears mount that PlayStation has "re-armed the CBOMB" DRM issue

Eurogamer
Some PlayStation digital games now require an online check-in every 30 days, reviving fears about game preservation and ownership. Sony's AI chat bot responses to confused users aren't helping.
drm playstation preservation
⚖️ Bias Check

## Comey "8647" Indictment

Ground News · 376 sources · Left: 28% · Center: 49% · Right: 22%
Covered by 376 sources. Left outlets frame it as criminalization of political speech; Right outlets emphasize the threat interpretation and accountability for a former top law enforcement official. Center coverage focuses on the legal novelty of the indictment.
bias-check free-speech doj

## FCC review of Disney/ABC licenses after Kimmel joke

Ground News · 177 sources · Left: 30% · Center: 45% · Right: 24%
Covered by 177 sources. Left outlets frame it as government retaliation against speech ("illegal jawboning" per Reason); Right outlets emphasize FCC's regulatory authority and decency standards. The speed of the FCC order after the joke raises First Amendment questions across the board.
bias-check fcc free-speech