Saturday, 08 August 2026
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Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks
Calling all defenders
Linux 7.3 To Support Logitech HID++ 2.0 Reprogrammable Button Support
For those with newer, high-end Logitech input devices, coming with Linux 7.3 is support for the re-programmable button support of the HID++ 2.0 protocol...
AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription
Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms
New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics
19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions.
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Article URL: https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214008 Points: 209 # Comments: 128
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DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report
DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
Article URL: https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-claim-oracle-isn-t-writing-its-own-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213754 Points: 246 # Comments: 167
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OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
Initial Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra Support Being Upstreamed For Linux 7.3
Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was the Device Tree (DT) support for booting the mainline Linux kernel on the base Apple M3 SoC. Though it's not yet useful for end-users with many features remaining to be supported and upstreamed. Now for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel, the M3 Pro, Max, and Ultra variants will also have initial support for booting on the mainline kernel...
How snails engineer their slime
Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus.
Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says
There's no evidence the truck will be a cheap EV truck, but what if it were?
Intel QATlib 26.08 Released With Gen6 Device Support, 2MB Hugepages
Intel today released an updated version of their QuickAssist Technology library (QATlib) as the user-space component for making use of QuickAssist accelerators under Linux...
Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI
What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you?
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213029 Points: 102 # Comments: 110
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Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power
MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing
TTM Memory Management For Graphics To Be More Aggresive With Linux 7.3
This week a final batch of DRM-Misc-Next feature material was submitted for DRM-Next to queue ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening later in the month. Most notable is the TTM memory management code is now being more agressive when allocating below protection limits. This is an improvement coming thanks to Valve's open-source Linux graphics team...
An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes
Article URL: https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211921 Points: 100 # Comments: 29
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N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
Attackers turned admin access into a route downstream, while N-able tells N-central customers to patch – again
ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses
Cancer diagnostics breach spills personal and health info as extortion crew says healthcare giant ‘should’ve paid the ransom’
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
Article URL: https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211386 Points: 318 # Comments: 301
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Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism
Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.
MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
Timer interrupts reopen branch predictor poisoning window, with a working Zen 2 exploit to prove it
Intel Makes Progress On HDMI 2.1 FRL With Their Linux Driver For Meteor Lake & Newer
Following AMD making progress with HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) and other HDMI 2.1 functionality for their open-source Linux kernel graphics driver, Intel is out today with a big set of 44 patches working on HDMI 2.1 FRL support for their kernel graphics driver with Meteor Lake hardware and newer...
Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder
Investigation into whether staff improperly accessed Minnie Merriman’s file after she was named for the first time this week
AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.
PoCL 7.2-RC1 Brings Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs
The release candidate of PoCL 7.2 is now available for testing of this Portable Computing Language implementation of OpenCL that allows for CPU-based execution or via alternative LLVM back-ends allows for OpenCL on Level Zero, NVIDIA GPUs, and even remote devices/hardware...
ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface
We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see.
Trump is losing his war on wind power
A court rules that a hold on all wind projects clearly violates the law.
What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209539 Points: 154 # Comments: 250
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Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard
Website support widget lasted 18 months before Redmond ended the conversation
Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language
So i've been working on this project since a few days (or months i should say), it's called wyzer (meaning wiser) it's a statically typed, compiled, resource-oriented programming language with integrated distributed safety via choreographic programming and perceus memory model, The reason why i began this project is out of frustration from Rust, you see it does provide safety for your memory by…
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HyperX Driver Coming For Linux 7.3 Just To Report A Microphone's Mute Status
A new driver coming for the Linux 7.3 kernel is HID-HyperX. It's not some new driver to support fancy hardware and some nifty features but rather mundane in nature due to the poor behavior of a high-end HyperX USB gaming microphone...
Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account
Intruder gained access to engineering files and potentially export-controlled technical data
Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
Article URL: https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208535 Points: 192 # Comments: 87
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Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
"Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."
Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
Article URL: https://textlog.cc/about Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208458 Points: 106 # Comments: 49
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Intrusion at US healthcare software provider puts 3.8M people's data at risk
Unlimited Technology Systems says names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and insurance details may have been swiped
NetworkManager Adopts Policy For AI Coding Assistants
The latest high profile open-source project to commit to an AI coding policy is NetworkManager, the widely-used software for Linux network configuration...
Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208393 Points: 117 # Comments: 31
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AMD ROCm Spur: Providing AI-Native, Rust-Based Job Scheduling
The newest ROCm component for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack is Spur as an AI-native, Rust-written job scheduler for scaling up GPU workloads to multi-thousand GPU clusters...
Linux 7.2-rc7 Addresses A "Nasty" Race Condition Leading To Use-After-Free After 8 Years
The Linux kernel Git activity continues being quite heavy this week on fixes. It's looking like the Linux 7.2-rc7 kernel release on Sunday will be another big one with the changes continuing to flow in from both developers and AI bots...
AMD Updates HDMI 2.1 VRR & ALLM Patches But Will Miss Out On Linux 7.3
Complementing the HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support that AMD already upstreamed to the Linux kernel, AMD engineers have been further ironing out their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. The latest quest has been getting HDMI 2.1 variable rate refresh (VRR) support upstreamed along with HDMI Auto Low-Latency Mode (ALLM)...
'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director
Humans will get the AI models they deserve
Vulkan 1.4.359 Expands Cooperative Matrix Capabilities
Vulkan 1.4.359 released today and this one week update to the Vulkan API specification brings a new extension for enhancing the cooperative matrix capabilities...
GCC 16.2 Released With More Than 100 Fixes
Following the GCC 16.1 compiler release from the end of April as the first stable version of GCC 16, GCC 16.2 is now available with dozens of bug fixes collected since then for further stabilizing this year's GNU compiler feature release...
Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses
Former Merseyside police officer sacked after failing to declare he was 'too close' with the wrong crowd
2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-out Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207236 Points: 119 # Comments: 107
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Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees
What an idiot
China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks' products
Beijing’s not saying why, which is just what happened when it investigated Micron
‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec
Machine-generated traffic to surge 1000x in five years, while we meatbags keep clicking away slowly
AMD Squeezes In A Few More Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 7.3
AMD today submitted their last planned feature updates ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening later this month...
Zapscape Is The Latest Linux Vulnerability For KVM Guest-To-Host Escape, LPE
Made public earlier today is Zapscape as a guest-to-host escape vulnerability affecting the Linux KVM x86 code for the past six years. This 2020 kernel change to KVM x86 can also be used as a local privilege escalation (LPE) exploit too where /dev/kvm is world-writable on some Linux distributions like RHEL...
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
https://www.reuters.com/world/new-mexico-court-orders-meta-p... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexic... https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nm-court-orders-meta-to-pay-5...
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How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era
AI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem
Organ donation group accused of trying to take living man's organs faces shutdown
The organization, Network for Hope, "strongly disagrees" with Trump admin's decision.
Explosive drone found hovering near Ukrainian cargo aircraft at German airport
Russian attack? Explosive drone targeted parked aircraft at Leipzig airport.
Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202716 Points: 198 # Comments: 61
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Linux 7.2-rc7 Restoring Btrfs Fixup Worker Infrastructure To Address Silent Data Loss
Back during the Linux 7.2 merge window the Btrfs file-system dropped its COW fixup mechanism, which was used to detect dirty pages without an ordered extent. This code was removed as it was believed the kernel's memory management layer had solved the underlying conditions but in reality it ended up leading to silent data loss. That Btrfs fixup worker infrastructure is now restored in time for…
X wants to keep suing advertisers, asks 5th Circuit to overrule district judge
Musk continues appeal despite court loss and settlement with advertiser group.
Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music
Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop "large-scale abuse."
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon
Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.
Linux Networking Continues Being Bombarded With AI Patches
While the Linux WiFi/wireless maintainer just announced taking a stand against AI/LLM generated slop patches with a new "three second review" rule, the broader Linux networking subsystem continues to be bombarded with AI-generated patches...
Large genome models used to design new viruses
The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.
AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision
Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws
IceWM 4.1 Window Manager Fixes Rare Video Performance Problems
As the first new release since IceWM 4.0 released back on New Year's Day for this X11 window manager, IceWM 4.1 is now available...
Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death
Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits
Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accident
"The anomaly originated at the main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines."
Parasitic zombie-ant fungus thrives in mosses, too
This may help fungi survive host scarcity and explains why infected hosts prefer the mosses as death sites.
Taste Is All That's Left
Article URL: https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199346 Points: 641 # Comments: 502
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Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress
Change will let "Trump-aligned billionaires" buy more stations, advocacy group says.
Linux Patched For Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability
Made public minutes ago is the Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability which is now patched in the newest Linux kernel Git code. The Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability stems from improper handling within Linux's Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigation affecting AMD Zen 1 through Zen 4 processors...
Apple NVMe Linux Driver Sees Fixes After Being Bitten By New Firmware
A set of patches providing fixes for the Apple Silicon NVMe driver for the Linux kernel were sent out today due to new issues cropping up when running newer Apple firmware. Firmware shipped by macOS 15+ is causing issues with the current Apple NVMe open-source Linux driver developed by the Asahi Linux crew...
Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36d4376nd2o , https://archive.is/YDn6S Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184355 Points: 298 # Comments: 60
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São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest
https://thursd.com/articles/helio-da-silva-sao-paulo-tiquati... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138446 Points: 301 # Comments: 115
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