Thursday, 13 August 2026
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Tenstrorrent Posts GCC Compiler Patches For Ascalon XG Core
While the Tenstorrent Ascalon X is known as their high performance out-of-order RISC-V RVA23 CPU core for extreme performance over the H and S models, a new GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patch today from Tenstorrent makes known a new Ascalon XG core...
GCC 17 Compiler Adding "-m128bit-atomic" For 128-bit Atomic Memory Operations
Merged today to the GNU Compiler Collection Git code is the new -m128bit-atomic option for next year's GCC 17 feature release...
Manjaro Linux 26.1 Released With GNOME 50 & KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktops
Manjaro 26.1 Bian-May is now available as the newest feature release to this desktop Linux distribution built atop an Arch Linux base...
Zed: Delta
Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276574 Points: 167 # Comments: 65
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Intel AMX Performance With The Xeon 678X Workstation CPU
One of the most compelling features for Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids alongside MRDIMMs is Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for helping accelerate AI workloads and more. AMX is also found with the new Granite Rapids WS processors and in currently having my hands on an Intel Xeon 678X in the HP Z4 G6i workstation, I ran some benchmarks looking at the AMX performance and power impact for this…
Two hydrogen-burning engines powered this car to a new land speed record
JCB has invested heavily in hydrogen to power its diggers and other machinery.
Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/grok-4-6-benchmarks-and-analysis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275385 Points: 212 # Comments: 200
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US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating
Trump admin claims New York suing Kalshi created "market emergency."
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274600 Points: 503 # Comments: 187
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Grok 4.6
Article URL: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274027 Points: 246 # Comments: 260
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Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.
Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes
Social engineering and malware combine to enable financial fraud before banks have time to act
Qwen3.8-2.4T
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B-FP8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273478 Points: 313 # Comments: 76
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Sovereign AI overcomes compliance challenges and feeds innovation in public sector and other regulated industries, say HPE and NVIDIA
SPONSORED POST: Sovereign AI is becoming a strategic infrastructure priority, explain HPE's Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA's Kaushik Shirhatti
License plate reader searches should require a warrant
Article URL: https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/08/12/license-plate-reader-searches-should-require-a-warrant/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273165 Points: 442 # Comments: 274
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Uber Freight keeps on trucking after extortion crew breaks in
Helix claims nearly a million files, while the logistics biz says operations never hit the brakes
Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-wal-reset-bug Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272832 Points: 570 # Comments: 94
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Linux Finally Seeing Patches For Better Hybrid Graphics On 2018~2019 Era MacBook Pros
Patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provide support for Apple GMUX hybrid graphics support on 2018~2019 Apple MacBook Pros. This allows for better power savings on these nearly decade old MacBook Pro laptops by allowing the discrete GPU to power down and be properly restored as needed...
Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died
Article URL: https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272655 Points: 173 # Comments: 23
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Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot
Article URL: https://knownagents.com/insights Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272569 Points: 172 # Comments: 115
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Why Tiny JPEGs Look Different in Chrome
Article URL: https://guillaumetech.github.io/posts/jpg-scaling-chrome/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272549 Points: 196 # Comments: 37
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Google reveals 2026 hardware lineup: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, and Pixel Tag
Google focuses more on AI and curated experiences than spec upgrades in 2026.
Intel ANV Driver Enables Vulkan Video AV1 Encoding For DG2/Alchemist GPUs
Hyunjun Ko of Igalia continues working on Vulkan Video support for Intel graphics hardware on Linux with the ANV driver. Merged now for Mesa 26.3-devel is enabling AV1 video encoding via Vulkan Video on DG2/Alchemist hardware...
Exposed: Woeful security at UK criminal records office that led to sensitive data leak
Nobody patched the CMS or read the alerts, and ACRO still cannot tell whether info was exfiltrated
Researchers found a way to hijack devices through Zoom screen sharing
A public AI tool found the dangerous Zoom flaw in under 20 prompts.
Formula E finds a new home on Disney+, ESPN+
The deal starts with the arrival of the GEN4 car and 2026-27 season this December.
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
Article URL: https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271994 Points: 566 # Comments: 465
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Akira ransomware scum blocked victim's security tools – and broke their own encryptor
Gives a whole new meaning to Safe Mode
Did poop enable the evolution of complex animals?
In a recent study, evolution gets even messier than usual.
How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget
Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 1977
2026 Eclipse Webcams
Article URL: https://jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse_webcams/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270953 Points: 422 # Comments: 113
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Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground
Victoria is the first stop as privacy campaigners warn the technology is becoming routine
Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available
Article URL: https://blogs.embarcadero.com/delphi-13-community-edition-is-now-available/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270621 Points: 151 # Comments: 113
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Big Cloud is poised to corner the market for enterprise hardware
AI gave hyperscalers first dibs on scarce kit, and business buyers may have little choice but to rent it back
Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions
One of the Direct Rendering Manager changes made for Linux 7.2 was switching to "fair" as the DRM scheduler default in place of the existing FIFO policy. The intent was on making the DRM scheduler policy more fair with this being used by AMDGPU and various other DRM kernel graphics drivers. But due to a last minute regression report, the fair policy is being reverted for Linux 7.2...
Mold 2.42 Delivering Greater Performance For This High Speed Linker
It's been quiet since the Mold 2.41 release back in April while today it's now been succeeded by Mold 2.42 for deliver even greater performance out of this high speed linker...
Intel LLM-Scaler Ready With Muse Glimmer Support, Other LLMs & Features
Intel's LLM-Scaler project that was born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative aims to make it easier to run generative AI on Arc (Pro) B-Series graphics cards with the likes of vLLM, ComfyUI, SGLang, and other popular AI software in this Docker-based pre-configured AI stack. This week new LLM-Scaler releases brought same-day support for new models and other enhancements...
Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation
Woxi is an interpreter for the Wolfram Language written in Rust. It comes with Woxi Studio, a Mathematica-like GUI built with iced, but you can also use Woxi through a CLI, Jupyter kernel, Python package, npm package, or WASM module. Compared with wolframscript / Mathematica, the main differences are: - Free and open source - Very fast startup - Typically milliseconds rather than seconds for the…
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What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
Article URL: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270022 Points: 216 # Comments: 113
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We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi
What would be your tip for this stricken device?
LACT 0.10 Released With New NVIDIA Overclocking Controls, Blackwell Hotspot Sensor
LACT is one of the popular third-party Linux GPU configuration and monitoring utilities that works across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel graphics. This GUI provides GPU overclocking controls plus a wealth of information reporting, which is especially great considering the lack of any official GUI control panel for AMD Radeon and Intel Arc graphics on Linux. With today's LACT 0.10 release, there are yet…
UK puts £14B cloud framework in place with SMEs promised a bigger slice
Global players dominate the market. Will public sector buyers give local suppliers a look-in?
Nailed it: Toolstation gives its store IT an ASUS NUC refurb
SPONSORED FEATURE: Toolstation swapped aging Linux tills across branches for compact ASUS NUCs on ChromeOS Flex, cutting support tickets and freeing counter space
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas
Let's all go a bit mad scientist and see if software can validate our wildest theories
Zuck’s Chinese agentic prey escapes, will resume standalone ops
Manus AI will delete some data to satisfy legal requirements
QEMU 11.1 Released With Numerous Improvements
For those using QEMU as part of the open-source virtualization stack, QEMU 11.1 is now available with a number of new feature enhancements and fixes...
India’s central bank wants AI to approve loans that humans would reject
Regulator hopes for greater financial inclusion, without extra risk or blaming models for bad decisions
Redox OS Enjoys installer Improvements, Performance Enhancements
A new blog post out today from the Redox OS crew highlights all of the interesting improvements made to this Rust-based, open-source operating system over the course of July...
DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
FBI Atlanta confirms it's looking into the incident, no arrests made.
Modular's Mojo programming language hits 1.0 milestone
Developers await open source compiler release to dispel uncertainty following Qualcomm acquisition
Trump wants Big Pharma to split MMR vaccine; Big Pharma thinks it's idiotic
It took just hours for the leading pharma group to reject the recommendations.
Signal adds an extra layer of security to make sure you're actually chatting with the right person
One big caveat, though: You need your contact's phone number
421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one
Sysadmins, welcome to your new norm
Russian drones found near vital European offshore gas site, get blown up
This follows many drone incursions into Romania and a failed attack in Germany.
Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo
Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency
Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers
Device-bound session credentials thwart an increasingly common form of account takeover.
Meta can't stop states' $1.4 trillion lawsuit from going to trial
Judges tell Meta that Section 230 provides a defense, not immunity from lawsuits.
Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users
But will Gemini's surge survive slowing model releases?
Intel CPU Microcode 20260811 Release Fixes Eight Security Issues
Intel today published their 20260811 CPU microcode updates to fix a variety of issues for existing processors, including shipping the first new microcode images for Bartlett Lake and Wildcat Lake. The new microcode updates stretch back to Intel Core Gen10 processors...
Together AI embraces the competition with $240M IBM Cloud deal
Deal to fund 'large' deployment of Nvidia's last-gen HGX B300 systems launching in Q1 2027
OpenAI Brings ChatGPT Desktop App To Linux
OpenAI announced today they have brought their ChatGPT Desktop application to Linux and is currently in preview form...
Used EV buying guide: The $30,000 edition
Depending on the model, you might have hundreds to choose from—or just one.
Less than 2.5% of Taylor Farms' recalled lettuce went to Taco Bells
FDA report reveals where Taylor Farms sent its lettuce—and it raises questions.
DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi
This is why we can't have nice things, people
Tracking extreme heat by the hour makes climate change seem even worse
Hot hours of summer could triple in the coming decades.
A Google insider spills the tea on how the company forsook its founding ideals
Claire Stapleton's new book, Don't Be Evil , recounts her journey from company cheerleader to outspoken dissident.
Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, isn't filling empty Democratic seat
Trump has resisted urge to fire FCC Democrat despite recent Supreme Court win.
Analyzing Fedora's Slow Performance On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro With Intel Panther Lake
As part of my recent Linux testing of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro I had recently benchmarked six Linux distributions on the Framework Laptop 13 Pro. CachyOS was the fastest to not much surprise but arguably the most surprising aspect was finding Fedora Workstation 44 typically running slower than the five other modern Linux distributions benchmarked. Here's a follow-up to that with more Fedora…
Flatpak 1.19 Released With Nine Security Fixes
Flatpak 1.19 was released today as a new development release along with the Flatpak 1.18.1 stable point release. Both of these releases ship a number of newly-discovered security issues with this app sandboxing and distribution tech...
New surveillance tech links your phone to your license plate
Phone and Bluetooth signals could turn roadside cameras into far richer tracking tools.
GNOME Designers Lay Out Some Of Their GNOME Shell Dreams
GNOME interaction designer Tobias Bernard has shared some of the plans and ideas for long-term GNOME Shell improvements they have been eyeing for future GNOME releases...
Up To 12.8x Improvement Observed For gup_test With New Linux MM Patches
Linux developer Rik van Riel has pulled off some nice Linux kernel optimizations over the years and the Meta engineer has been working on another one around batching of look-ups with Linux's follow_page_mask() that is used for translating virtual addresses to the corresponding struct page...
Raspberry Pi AXI PMU Driver Under Review For The Mainline Linux Kernel
One of the Raspberry Pi device drivers that has remained elusive from the mainline Linux kernel has been for the performance monitoring unit (PMU) for the Broadcom AXI on all Raspberry Pi 1 through Raspberry Pi 5 models. Thanks to the work of a Google engineer, there is a new effort working to get a mainline Linux driver for the Raspberry Pi AXI PMU...
New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn't know about passkeys
Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.
FastFlowLM 1.0 Released Now As Part Of The AMD ROCm Umbrella
FastFlowLM is the open-source software for getting vision, audio, embedding, and MoE large language models up and running on AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. FastFlowLM 1.0 released today and is also now part of the AMD ROCm software umbrella...
High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons
Article URL: https://petapixel.com/2026/08/04/amazing-high-res-photo-shows-a-butte-rising-from-mars/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194856 Points: 140 # Comments: 12
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