Hacker Newsroom for 19 September: AI Training Disclosures, Passkey Frustrations, Android Source Release
Hacker Newsroom · Sep 19, 2026 · 8:02
Hacker Newsroom · Sep 19, 2026 · 8:02
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Hacker Newsroom for 19 September recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through ai training disclosures, passkey frustrations, android source release.
1. AI Training Disclosures
Microsoft's internal warnings about AI training have surfaced in newly unredacted filings in the New York Times copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI. The TechCrunch article reports allegations of paywall circumvention and copyright notices being removed from training data, alongside a Microsoft executive's description of the scraping as the largest theft of labor in human history.
2. Passkey Frustrations
Passkeys promise easier, phishing-resistant logins, and the post asks what happens when their owner loses access. The post explains that a passkey is tied to the legitimate website and uses cryptographic credentials that cannot be reconstructed from the website's stored login data.
3. Android Source Release
Android seventeen’s first quarterly platform release is raising an uncomfortable question about the future of open Android. In a Mastodon post, GrapheneOS says this is the first release since Android Honeycomb to add new interfaces for app developers without a corresponding release to the Android Open Source Project.
That's it for today.
