Chrome Lets AI Debug Your Browser, a 49MB News Page, and Invisible Unicode Malware

Kai and Maya cover the top stories from Hacker News for Sunday, March 15, 2026: - Chrome DevTools ships an MCP server letting AI coding agents connect to and debug your live browser sessions with full access to Elements, Network, and Console panels - An audit reveals the New York Times homepage makes 422 requests and loads 49 megabytes of ad tech, trackers, and programmatic auction scripts - The Glassworm threat actor returns with invisible Unicode malware hidden in 150+ GitHub repositories, npm packages, and VS Code extensions - River 0.4 separates the Wayland compositor from the window manager, turning custom WMs into weekend projects with 15+ already built - The community mourns Intel Optane as benchmarks show its 3D XPoint storage still crushes modern NAND three years after discontinuation - Canada introduces Bill C-22 mandating metadata surveillance capabilities in telecom networks, drawing Five Eyes comparisons - Researchers teach a Unitree G1 humanoid robot to play real tennis rallies using imperfect human motion data