Saturday, 01 August 2026
68 stories filed.
High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.
qm
Article URL: https://github.com/yc-software/qm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126604 Points: 181 # Comments: 46
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The First Open-Source Firmware Released For Modern AMD Ryzen AM5 Platform
Last month 3mdeb released their open-source firmware for a modern AMD EPYC motherboard from Gigabyte that was built off the new AMD openSIL project and Coreboot. Today 3mdeb has delivered the first open-source firmware release for a modern AMD Ryzen desktop motherboard with having independently brought their openSIL+Coreboot powered Dasharo stack to the readily available MSI PRO B850-P WIFI...
Researchers devise a full-color night vision goggle
Wavelength and intensity in the infrared are translated into colors in the visible.
Shotcut 26.7 Video Editor Released With Stock Asset Library
Shotcut 26.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editing solution...
China could supply EV manufacturing boom with recycled EVs
Look at chemistry of batteries and motors shows big opportunity for recycling.
Sony acknowledges backlash, “cautiously” moves ahead with end of PlayStation discs
Sony doesn't think the move will hurt it financially.
The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters
Hopefully the company secures houses better than it locks down SaaS systems
Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflix’s desk.
Filmmaker sues Netflix over stolen screener of unreleased Nicolas Cage movie.
Big Food vs. the People
Article URL: https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/big-food-vs-the-people/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124858 Points: 126 # Comments: 81
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US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data
History suggests this was not wise
Nouveau Preparing To Finally Enable Atomic Mode-Setting By Default
In addition to the Nouveau kernel driver unblocking Vulkan Video H.264 support for the Mesa NVK driver, another feature change on the way is this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver finally preparing to enable atomic mode-setting by default...
Elevators
Article URL: https://john.fun/elevators Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124218 Points: 622 # Comments: 162
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Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
Whoever wins, we lose
Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar
A nice little summer job for someone
AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust
The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.
Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted
Last month the Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" saw more than 1,500 malicious packages amid a sophisticated malware attack and then also seeing an influx of spam and profanities amid this community/user-maintained repository for the popular Arch Linux distribution. Unfortunately, there is another round of AUR troubles...
Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1086489/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123208 Points: 108 # Comments: 75
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Charities remain locked out of CAF Bank online accounts
A week into shutdown, 14,000 customers still have no restoration date and some are struggling to pay staff
Linux 7.3 To Allow Tuning AMD P-State Dynamic EPP With Per CPU Core Granularity
Sent out last night was the last batch of planned AMD P-State driver feature improvements targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window...
Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus
The hot new roguelite twin-stick shooter lives up to the hype.
NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin
Engineers make progress in stabilizing mission but push back the rendezvous date
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner
£4.3B deal gives telco full control of Britain's largest mobile operator
The End of an Era
Article URL: https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121980 Points: 356 # Comments: 389
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Servo 0.4 Browser Engine Gets More Websites Rendering Correctly
Servo 0.4 was just released for closing out the month of July. This month the Servo browser engine with its servoshell demo browser began rendering more real-world websites correctly...
How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit
A disputed exam, an unreliable detector, and one very late Apple Pages file.
Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in
APUC investigating after criminals claim historical data theft
Rocket Report: New launch rule may limit environmental regulations, Falcon 9 to hit Moon
"America won the first Space Race, and we can do it again."
Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Allows For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC
This week's round of drm-misc-next patches for staging ahead of the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window bring an exciting change for the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver...
x86_64 Shadow Stack By Default Retargeted For Fedora 46
In recent weeks there was a proposal to enable x86_64 Shadow Stack support by default with the upcoming Fedora Linux 45 release. That change has been approved now by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) but with the feature being punted off to Fedora 46 next year...
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester
European firms feel the greatest pressure as US giants dominate cloud and AI infrastructure
Vulkan 1.4.358 Released With New Image Tiling Control Extension
After two weeks without any Vulkan spec update, Vulkan 1.4.358 was released overnight. Besides the usual assortment of minor clarifications/fixes, Vulkan 1.4.358 introduces one new extension: VK_EXT_image_tiling_control...
Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2-rc6: "Far Larger Than Wished"
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE previously warned of many sound driver fixes due to AI/LLMs and a "new normal" of patch activity as a result. While we are approaching the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window with the stable release coming up in August, the sound patches continue trending higher and this week were "far larger than wished" ahead of Linux 7.2-rc6 due out on…
UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests
Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene
Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120299 Points: 475 # Comments: 260
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Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0nqv05g0do Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120120 Points: 112 # Comments: 119
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Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered
The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119559 Points: 629 # Comments: 301
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Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations
Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem
Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney
"Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies"
Tim Cook passes the baton in Apple's Q3 2026 earnings call
The iPhone and Mac sold well, but memory costs threaten further price increases.
Linux 7.3 Will Treat Intel Nova Lake S Graphics As Stable
Ahead of the next-generation Intel Nova Lake processors expected to begin rolling out around the start of 2027, the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel cycle is going to begin treating Nova Lake S processors with their integrated graphics as stable...
Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers
Exploits can give persistent server access that survives credential rotation and disk re-imaging.
Trump FCC faces blowback in attempt to police speech on broadcast TV
"Chilling message to all broadcasters: carry speech we don’t like at your peril."
Iran struck Amazon data centers again amid widening war, satellites show
Satellites show burn scars and fires at AWS data centers and Saudi oil refinery.
LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower
AI-riddled social network adds button to report sloppy posts, ditches AI rewrite tools, and promises more to come
Just because a game is on disc doesn’t mean it will work in the future
DoesItPlay tracks the many "physical" games that don't work without the Internet.
Chrome may get faster updates with no restart required
The last two versions of Chrome have included more patches than the previous 23 combined.
Oracle adds Google Gemini to the agent menu
Chocolate Factory LLMs join Big Red's Fusion automation party
AMD Posts Linux Patches For HDMI 2.1 Auto Low-Latency Mode "ALLM" & VRR
Following AMD posting AMDGPU patches for HDMI 2.1 FRL support after the HDMI 2.1 open-source support was long blocked by the HDMI Forum, as part of working toward a complete HDMI 2.1 implementation in this AMD Linux driver it was followed by HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) support. Now the latest on the AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 enabling path is enabling Auto Low-Latency Mode (ALLM) as well as…
GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech
High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows
Google reveals Gemini Robotics 2.0, promising improved dexterity and safety
Gemini Robotics 2 includes three models, but only one is publicly available right now.
Space Force-backed mission does its best impression of Top Gun in orbit
"Dogfighting in space doesn’t quite have the drama of an aerial dogfight."
There's Finally A New Game Powered By The Unigine 2 Engine
It's been about a decade since seeing any new games released on the visually-impressive, Linux-friendly Unigine Engine. Unigine Corp has mostly been focusing on Unigine Engine usage for simulations and other professional applications, but coming as a surprise today is a new game being developed on their latest Unigine 2 engine technology...
Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font
ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting
OPI Abstraction v0.1 Published With Aiming To Standardize DPU/IPU Ecosystems
The Linux Foundation hosted Open Programmable Infrastructure "OPI" announced its first coordinated release with OPI Abstraction v0.1. The work of the Open Programmable Infrastructure is hoping to standardize the data processing unit (DPU) and infrastructure processing unit (IPU) ecosystems...
Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust
Three approaches to the issue of quantum results that can't be verified classically.
Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages
A lesson for aspiring vandals: Take out all the cameras, not just the ones that flout your ideals
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R610 On CachyOS With The GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU
With the Razer Blade 18 as the first laptop Razer's certifying for (Ubuntu) Linux use while testing it out I was predominantly using the NVIDIA R610 official driver stack. Some users were interested though in how well this laptop is working with the open-source, upstream Nouveau+NVK driver stack given Razer is marketing this high-end laptop for Linux use too. Before sending the review unit back…
New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption
Plus, a new policy for the AI protocol ensures features aren't removed suddenly.
Americans give all-day school phone bans a ringing endorsement
Polling suggests patience with handsets in the classroom is running shorter than a teenager's battery life
AMD Zen 6 Client HSMP Patches Point To "Ryzen Master" Functionality On Linux
In an interesting twist, patches this week posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are enabling AMD Zen 6 client desktop and laptop SoCs for the HSMP driver. Up to now the AMD HSMP Linux driver was just used for modern EPYC server processors while now we are seeing this HSMP driver supporting the upcoming Medusa and Olympic Ridge client platforms... Including mentions of overclocking and even…
Xen 4.22 Released With AMD Zen 5 BLT Support, Improved RISC-V Virtualization
The Xen Project today released Xen 4.22 as the newest feature release of this open-source hypervisor popular for open-source virtualization in automotive systems and other embedded use-cases as well as the cloud...
Huawei Considers Open-Sourcing A Half-Hearted Mesa Vulkan Driver
A Huawei engineer posted to the Mesa mailing list today over potentially upstreaming a Vulkan driver they have developed for an in-house GPU. However, at least in current form, this new in-house GPU Vulkan driver is likely dead in the water from being upstreamed into Mesa...
Patches Posted To Improve Linux Media Acceleration On Intel Alchemist GPUs
The Intel Arc A-Series graphics (DG2) remains in a bit of an awkward state on Linux due to the transition period moving from the i915 kernel driver to more modern and feature capable Xe kernel driver. It's only post-Alchemist where the Intel Xe driver is officially supported and used by default while those opting for the Xe driver with the A-Series can often enjoy better performance and…
Five Proposals Now Being Weighed For Debian AI/LLM Usage
Last week Debian developers began considering a general resolution over AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian project. They are now up to weighing five different proposals for how to permit or block AI/LLM usage in the Debian space...
Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos.