Hacker News on 7 August 2021

• An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
• Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence
• In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features
• Sci-Hub is fundraising
• Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does
• After DeepMind’s cofounder was placed on leave for bullying, Google promoted him
• Very fast rocket
• What it was like developing for NES back in 1990
• Bug in Lynx's SSL certificate validation – leaks password in clear text via SNI
• Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information