Thursday, 30 July 2026
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Claude Is Down
Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/q2kg8n613kr3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102150 Points: 123 # Comments: 82
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Kimi K3-256k
Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101852 Points: 140 # Comments: 24
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Steam Client Adds HDR Streaming On Steam Deck OLED, AV1 Video Streaming
Today's Steam client beta update brings some new game streaming enhancements for Linux gamers...
Uncle Sam sees the light, offers GlobalFoundries $300M to pursue silicon photonics while taking 1% stake
Meanwhile, the other state-backed foundry, Intel, wraps up RAMP-C defense test chip program
Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug
"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" is an effective sales pitch for open source
Google begins global rollout of age verification API in Google Play
Google's new API relies on parents to set age ranges in Family Link.
Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning
Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota's nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.
Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies
Companies are making sure we have a surplus of options for building qubits.
Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year
"We're feeling pretty good about that," Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said.
Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos
Researcher says months of coordination with Microsoft have yet to produce a robust mitigation
Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
Article URL: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/keychron-announces-first-open-source-firmware-for-gaming-mice Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099715 Points: 170 # Comments: 80
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Moscow slaps Telegram founder on wanted list, Durov responds with one-finger salute
FSB claims Ukrainian spies use chat platform to recruit Russians for sabotage and arson
Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them
Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.
Superlogical
https://mitchellh.com/writing/superlogical Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098965 Points: 363 # Comments: 251
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New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck
Improved efficiency in EPP mode leads to ~32% jump in "1% low" frame rates.
Gaming and IRL worlds collide in Jumanji: Open World trailer
"I'm beginning to suspect we are not in Jumanji."
MinIO pitches persistent memory for agents with work to finish
AIStor keeps context, files, and secrets under customer control so interrupted jobs can pick up where they left off
Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
Hi HN, I built a specialized inference engine for running 4-bit Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on any M-series Mac using about 2 GB of RAM. It is called TurboFieldfare and is written in Swift and Metal. I have always adored on-device AI.
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The VMware deadline that could reshape your IT strategy
PARTNER CONTENT: With vSphere 8 support ending in 2027, IT leaders must navigate tight timelines and costs to modernize on their terms.
A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/economy/data-center-electricians-training.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098198 Points: 141 # Comments: 189
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NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning
Two reaction wheels are out and comms sporadic as controllers work to stabilize LINK
Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers suspected in attacks on Minnesota water systems
More than 30 facilities disrupted in 'coordinated cyberattack,' though officials have yet to name a culprit
What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?
AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key.
AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning
Cloud operators have already claimed most of its nearline capacity through 2028
Intel Graphics Driver Support For Xe3 "Peak Bandwidth Threshold" Feature In Linux 7.3
Intel today sent out their latest batch of kernel graphics driver updates that are ready for staging ahead of next month's Linux 7.3 merge window...
Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25398 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096969 Points: 255 # Comments: 162
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Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike
Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans
Darktable
Article URL: https://www.darktable.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096654 Points: 227 # Comments: 113
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AI insiders ask Uncle Sam to help slow the race they started
More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research
Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
Article URL: https://enklypesalt.com/posts/context-collapse-part3-ai-worming-through-word/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096188 Points: 294 # Comments: 213
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After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres
Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends
KOReader
Article URL: https://koreader.rocks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095865 Points: 594 # Comments: 187
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Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI disinformation
Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.
Back of the NetApp: Latest exec signing scores $34M compensation package
Product chief shoots straight to the top of the pay league, out-earning CEO in fiscal '26
Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows
Valve has been sponsoring Collabora engineers with early phase, exploratory work for trying to bring the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver to Microsoft Windows...
Vibe Coded X11 YSERVER Gets Steam Working, Full-Screen Games With Cinnamon
A new software creation that debuted this summer was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust largely by AI via Claude Code. This YSERVER implementation has continued implementing more X11 protocol and other functionality to get more desktop environments and apps working surprisingly okay on this vibe coded X11 server. YSERVER 1.4 is now available as the latest in this quest...
NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure
Privacy guardian warns public trust quickly erodes when supplier access comes as a surprise
Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?
Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded.
FreeBSD's Kernel Still Has A Bit Of GPL Code While Its Base User-Space Is GPL-Free
A few weeks ago there was excitement in the FreeBSD camp with FreeBSD 16 set to retire the last of its GPL code from the base system. While the retiring of the dialog code proclaimed that it was the last remaining piece of GPL software in the base system for FreeBSD, it turns out now that there is some GPL code within the FreeBSD kernel...
GCC To Decline Any Significant Contributions Made Via AI/LLMs - Except For Test Cases
The GCC Steering Committee announced today that they have accepted the recommended policy of the GCC AI Policy Working Group, which means no "legally significant" code contributions made via AI/LLM agents will be accepted into this open-source compiler...
AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness
Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places
Burnham's spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall
Splitting up responsibility for digital transformation and procurement while AI gets a seat at Cabinet risks incoherency
Why the 'patchpocalypse' demands immediate isolation
PARTNER CONTENT: Attackers automated, but your 30-day patch window didn't
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours
Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year
Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix
Don't worry about an AI bust, monster profits and huge margins are here to stay
More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/jailbroken-kindle-proxy-tun-modes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093569 Points: 377 # Comments: 107
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America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks
Docs point to China’s Unitree as prime example of the foreign clanker threat
Audi has a new flagship designed with the US in mind: The 2027 Q9
The new full-size flagship SUV starts at $87,700 when it goes on sale in Q4.
ARCTIC Launches Its New Fan Controller That Already Has Mainline Linux Support
In over 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and testing at Phoronix, I have never been more excited for a fan controller... ARCTIC today launched their new Fan Controller and in making the product very unique for Linux users, it already has mainline Linux kernel support via a open-source driver contributed directly by ARCTIC...
Reaction wheel failures leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit
"Preliminary investigation shows that two of Link's three reaction wheels currently are not operable."
College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure
Lab students were supposed to ID a mild germ. They all identified a deadly pathogen.
We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.
eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign
eBay sent bloody pig mask and other macabre deliveries to journalists' home.
Study: Dinosaurs were charbroiled after Chicxulub impact
“We're in the realm where we might be essentially killing off everything within that first hour or two."
Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands
The final condition will shock you! (It won’t. It’s taxes.)
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the Incident
Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089500 Points: 167 # Comments: 89
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Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away
Analysis of 15 million real AI interactions finds most tasks at most jobs are unaffected.
New airliner sets record flying 24 hrs nonstop from Australia to France
Test flight shows viability of Qantas Airways’ Project Sunrise routes in 2027.
Judge blocks first state law that would have banned prediction markets
Judge may allow Minnesota to ban some types of bets, but not all of them.
Starling: A New Linux Desktop Written In Swift, Own Wayland Compositor & Written With AI
There's yet another new open-source desktop option for Linux users in the era of new open-source projects largely written via AI/LLMs. Starling is this new project largely written via Claude and using the Swift programming language for the desktop while having its own Wayland compositor implemented in C. It also includes a built-in X11 server for handling X11 clients...
CachyOS Outperforming Windows 11, Slight Advantage Over Ubuntu & Fedora On AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
A recent mini PC being benchmarked at Phoronix is the BOSGAME VTA-439 that employs the new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 Gorgon Point SoC. With the BOSGAME mini PC having shipped with Microsoft Windows 11, here are some comparison benchmarks of the out-of-the-box Windows 11 performance up against Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 while also tossing the rolling-release, highly-optimized Arch…
AMD P-State Linux Driver Patches Can Boost 1%-Low FPS Gaming Performance By 31%
A set of patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list implement per-core Energy Performance Preference (EPP) boosting for recently-busy CPUs. This feature is designed to have a dramatic impact for Linux gaming and helping especially with the 1% low frame-rates improving by 31.8% on the Valve Steam Deck...
KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times
Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files). With the Dolphin file manager or other KIO-based KDE programs, copying many small files can be much slower than using the cp command directly or other copying programs like rsync, Finally that issue is in the process of being resolved for addressing very slow copy times when dealing with many…
Linux's crypto_rng Abstraction Layer Next On The Chopping Block
In addition to the deprecation and stripping down of AF_ALG, another piece of the Linux kernel crypto code steaming ahead toward removal is the crypto_rng abstraction layer...
ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux
ASUS laptops support a feature called "Whisper Mode" that intentionally slows down the fan speed and lowers the CPU clock speed in order to keep the device running cool and quiet. The open-source ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver is now seeing patches to properly support this Whisper Mode on Linux...
AMD PMF Testing Tool Slated For Linux 7.3
Looking to be added to the Linux kernel source tree for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle is test_amd_pmf, a small testing application for exercising the AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) interfaces and dumping various system data points...
Mysterious 16-Tile & 32-Tile AMX Implementations Talked Up For More Performance
Last October on Phoronix we were first to point out there being some mysterious intrigue around a new x86 implementation from a "corporate entity other than Intel/AMD" with the developer involved not elaborating on the matter. Now that same developer has posted another semi-cryptic message to the Linux kernel mailing list to talk about 16-tile and 32-tile Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX)…
Fwupd 2.1.7 Released With Many Bug Fixes
Fwupd 2.1.7 is out today as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating utility that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for offering a nice firmware upgrade story on Linux systems...
Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Aiming To Be One Of The Best Upgradeable Linux Laptops
Back in April, Framework Computer announced the Framework Laptop 13 Pro as a ground-up re-design of their modular/upgradeable laptop. This new Framework Laptop 13 Pro features a much larger battery (74Wh), LPCAMM2 memory support, a full CNC aluminum chassis, haptic touchpad, and a new power-optimized touch display. Paired with the very efficient Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs, the…
Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu has long provided hardware enablement "HWE" stacks for Ubuntu LTS releases to provide a newer kernel and Mesa drivers and more for better supporting new/modern hardware on the long-term support Ubuntu Linux releases. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical will also now be providing a virtualization HWE stack for shipping newer virtualization / confidential computing features...
AMD "Low Power" CPU Core Type Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.3
Last month I wrote bout new AMD Linux patches introducing a new "low power" CPU core type as an alternative to their standard performance cores and dense efficiency cores. That work now is poised to land with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel...
Wayfire Wayland Compositor Closing In On v1.0 Release
The Wayfire modular and extensible Wayland compositor formerly used by default on Raspberry Pi SBCs is nearing its v1.0 release. Wayfire 0.11 was released on Sunday for this Compiz-inspired, wlroots-powered compositor with that being their hopeful last planned version before Wayfire 1.0 releases...