Friday, 14 August 2026
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KDE, Techpaladin & Kubuntu Focus Announce The Bullet-Proof KDE Software Initiative
KDE e.V. along with Linux PC vendor Kubuntu Focus and KDE-aligned consulting firm Techpaladin Software have announced a collaboration of the "bullet-proof KDE Software initiative" for providing at least three years of bug fixes and security updates to KDE Plasma 6.6 LTS and related software...
The Best Linux 7.2 Features: Cache Aware Scheduling, AMD Zen 6, AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL
With the Linux 7.2 kernel expected to be released on Sunday, 16 August, here is a look at some of the most interesting new features and changes to find with this next kernel version to be used by Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming Linux distribution releases...
Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals
Trump memo is first time gov't has authorized private sector to perform cyber attacks.
Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship
Will it be the VSS... Horizon , Explorer , Ascend or Apeiron ?
Updated Coreboot/Dasharo For MSI PRO Z690-A / Z790-P Motherboards, Adds Overclocking
In addition to 3mdeb providing their Coreboot-based Dasharo built atop AMD openSIL on a Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard and recently making their first Dasharo release for an AMD Ryzen AM5 platform with the MSI PRO B850-P WIFI, the firmware consulting firm today released updated versions of their MSI PRO Z690-A and MSI PRO Z790-P Dasharo ports to those Intel Core motherboards...
Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game
Ukrainian drone pilots teach the US military and NATO hard battlefield lessons.
Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say
Flock to lock out cops who stalk exes, but agencies can still hide abuse.
Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
Article URL: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultrafast-with-openai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289844 Points: 195 # Comments: 65
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Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed
"I've lost trust ..."
Choose Boring Technology (2015)
Article URL: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289512 Points: 129 # Comments: 65
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The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop
Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.
Gemini 3.7 Flash
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.7-flas... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289112 Points: 372 # Comments: 233
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Mistral OCR 4.1
Article URL: https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288889 Points: 149 # Comments: 52
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Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release
Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has "substantial improvements."
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph
Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books
Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back
Contractors could surveil and disrupt foreign criminal networks, provided they follow strict rules and put up $1M
The backup Microsoft never promised you
SPONSORED FEATURE: Your M365 and Azure data might not be as safe as you think from ransomware; time for a reality check
Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations
Article URL: https://oxide.computer/blog/kubernetes-on-oxide Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286485 Points: 117 # Comments: 52
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Spaghettifying DRAM
Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286341 Points: 368 # Comments: 111
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Rivian's 2027 changes include its No. 1 most-requested feature
Pricing hasn't changed, and now you can get captain's chairs for the R1S.
The Beneficial Performance Gains Running The Framework Laptop Pro 13 / Core Ultra X9 388H With Linux 7.1+
The recently launched Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" runs well on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and other modern Linux distributions. In the case of Ubuntu 26.04 with Linux 7.0, while everything works, if upgrading to Linux 7.1 or the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is even better performance. Here are benchmarks of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro with Core Ultra X9 388H…
Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public
Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker's IPO is the biggest listing in history
Gloomberb
Article URL: https://gloom.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285982 Points: 325 # Comments: 166
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We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked
Let's shield the astronauts instead of the spacecraft.
Ordinary abundance
Article URL: https://ordinaryabundance.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285770 Points: 144 # Comments: 69
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I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10
Article URL: https://alexmorleyfinch.github.io/marlin/history/v1/article/the_birth.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285718 Points: 114 # Comments: 62
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Mystery attacker spent a year raiding Salesforce and ServiceNow portals
Custom tools harvested whatever over-permissioned guest accounts would surrender
GeForce NOW On Linux Native App Exits Beta
At the beginning of the year NVIDIA released a native build of GeForce NOW for Linux using Flatpaks. Today their native Linux build has exited beta to reach official production status for this cloud gaming solution from NVIDIA...
MSI Claw Gamepad Driver Set To Be Merged For Linux 7.3
The MSI Claw Gamepad driver is set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel for enabling RGB lighting and controller configuration support with the mainline kernel...
Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results
Article URL: https://www.netlify.com/blog/one-prompt-11-models-very-different-results/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285327 Points: 142 # Comments: 61
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DeepSeek Harness developer preview
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/en/guide... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285244 Points: 476 # Comments: 220
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Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan
Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat
AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon's charity data
CRM provider confirms customer database was copied and probably downloaded in readable form
Linux Patches Enable Apple M4 NVMe Support
While the Apple M4 SoCs aren't yet supported by the mainline Linux kernel and the Apple M3 series hardware isn't yet ready for end-users, there are some early elements of the Apple M4 support beginning to come together by open-source developers working on the Apple Silicon support. Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list were patches for enabling NVMe solid state drive support with the M4...
Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now
The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited.
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 Ships With 233+ CVE Fixes
While Microsoft continues working on Azure Linux 4.0 as its overhauled Linux distribution built atop Fedora, Azure Linux 3.0 remains the current stable production series. Released overnight was Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 and it comes with more than 233 security patches for recent CVEs in the AI era...
Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop
Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work
Intel XPU Manager 2.1 Released For Monitoring Arc Pro Graphics On Windows/Linux
Intel XPU Manager 2.1 is now available as the latest version of this open-source tool for Linux and Windows systems for the monitoring and management of Arc Pro graphics cards. The Intel XPU Manager helps in keeping an eye on device utilization and other metrics via the xpu-smi command and other components...
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows
Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad
Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results
Developer spotted hostname and credential string lurking in autocomplete
Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit
CEO says buyers are moving fast and shuffling budgets to replace old boxen
Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview
Article URL: https://community.openai.com/t/codex-in-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-is-now-in-preview/1390027 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281916 Points: 419 # Comments: 289
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Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads
Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term
Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find
Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM
Rsync 3.5 Released As "Extraordinary" Update To Fix 33 Security Issues
Rsync as the widely-used, open-source remote sync software for synchronizing files and directories across networks is out today with a very important update...
Comma.ai Launches A PCIe Gen4 x4 To USB4 Dock With Open-Source Firmware
George Hotz of Comma.ai and Tinygrad today announced the Tiny Chestnut eGPU Dock and the "Chestnut" Dock complete with an AMD Radeon RX 9060 8GB GPU too. Making this Chestnut / Tiny Chestnut Dock interesting is that it runs on open-source firmware...
OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns
ChatGPT Ads, I wish I knew how to quit you
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous
And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there
Toddler's tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors
Boy's unusual symptoms could help identify the next case sooner.
The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency
Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm
Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages
Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset took six months of hunting and development of a new logging tool to identify
Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
“It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.”
Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."
Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month
With Truth API, Trump is "selling priority access to news he himself generates."
Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare
Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure
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...
Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
Eight years on, we're still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution
US boosts drone surveillance as flesh-eating screwworms spread in Texas
Hundreds of Homeland Security drones retasked to survey wildlife and livestock.
Nvidia's latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is...a router?
NeMo Switchyard brings GPT-5-style model routing to the mainstream
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...
Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows
Exploit Wednesday's back, baby
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.
US tries to override New York gambling laws, orders Kalshi to keep operating
Trump admin claims New York suing Kalshi created "market emergency."
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...
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...
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...
Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia
Article URL: https://pxl-th.github.io/blog/better-gs-julia/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232039 Points: 102 # Comments: 18
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