Saturday, 15 August 2026
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D7VK 2.1 Brings Faster Load Times, More Performance Tweaks
D7VK as the open-source implementation of the Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5/ 3 APIs atop the Vulkan API for Linux/Wine usage is out with another feature update. D7VK continues to mature quite well for further enhancing these older Direct3D API versions that cover the span prior to DXVK's focus of Direct3D 8 to Direct3D 11 or VKD3D-Proton's Direct3D 12...
Lemonade 11.6 Integrates Muse-Glimmer 30B, Experimental TheNoise ROCm Image Generation
For those dabbling with generative AI on the weekends, the AMD-led Lemonade SDK 11.6 is out today with its newest feature release of this open-source software for running local AI apps with optimized LLMs across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs...
Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
Omarchy 4.0 Linux Distro Released With Desktop Shell Now Implemented Via Quickshell
Omarchy as the Arch Linux distribution developed by David Heinemeier Hansson "DHH" / Basecamp is out today with Omarchy 4.0 as the distro's biggest release to date...
First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity
Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft.
Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.
State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers
Kalshi ordered to stop offering bets in Washington, must implement geofencing.
PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine
Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons
Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce97mm3vvemo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301260 Points: 374 # Comments: 257
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Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch
It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age
Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology
RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
Article URL: https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300759 Points: 143 # Comments: 56
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Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
The Stop Killing Games movement faces an uphill battle.
France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/frances-top-court-rules-social-media-ban-curtails-freedom-expression-2026-08-14/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300671 Points: 158 # Comments: 98
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Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play
Third-party app stores are about to become more visible in Google Play.
Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
Article URL: https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300314 Points: 151 # Comments: 101
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R-rated director's cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter's original horror vision
Chris Carter chats with Ars about the film he originally wanted to make—and why it's more relevant than ever.
Linux 7.1, Linux 7.2 Performance On The Intel Xeon 600 Series
With Linux 7.2 expected for its stable release this weekend, today's testing has some additional testing of the Linux 7.2 Git kernel as well as Linux 7.1 stable compared to Linux 7.0 as used by default on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Phoronix testing previously conducted of Linux 7.2 have shown benefits for Intel Arc B390 Xe3 in some configurations, faster poll performance on AMD Ryzen Threadripper and…
Introducing Toast 1
Article URL: https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/toast-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299746 Points: 137 # Comments: 42
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Seven books I keep close because I love them
Article URL: https://blog.plover.com/2026/08/02/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299675 Points: 218 # Comments: 96
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Taylor Farms' connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response
Senator Warren questions whether Taylor Farms' influence swayed Trump admin.
Qwen 3.8 27B
Article URL: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299605 Points: 597 # Comments: 392
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Every Fucking Website (2020)
Article URL: https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299222 Points: 631 # Comments: 364
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OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records
Government disputes claims of continued access as investigators measure damage
In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices
Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/australia-home-batteries Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298910 Points: 275 # Comments: 206
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Virgin Galactic flights stay grounded while ticket prices head for the Moon
Turns out this space thing really is hard
Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure
Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn
Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down
Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education
The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
Article URL: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-temu-fication-of-software-digital-goods-services/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297637 Points: 107 # Comments: 77
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TalkTalk Business and ARO to borg into UK tech services giant
70,000 customers will join the collective, whose name and leader remain unknown
Rocket Report: Rocket Lab shows off its flexibility; Blue Origin's two-pad plan
"We’ve never seen launch capacity so constrained."
Features Coming For Linux 7.3 From Optimizing Intel Hybrid CPUs To Old AMD Athlon XPs
With Linux 7.2 expected to see its stable debut Sunday, here is a look at what I have been monitoring as changes expected to be submitted during the Linux 7.3 merge window that will open on Monday...
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra review: The ultra foldable with an ultra price
Samsung didn't have to change much this year because its hardware is just that good.
Crypto wallet maker Trezor confirms 13,000 customers' details exposed in logistics breach
Even if your hardware is secure, quantum-ready, encrypted, and future-proof, no one is immune to a supplier letting the side down
Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Article URL: https://mun-logadan.github.io/why-does-opus-5-feel-worse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296740 Points: 593 # Comments: 557
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Patches Posted For Fixing The Linux DRM Scheduler's Fair Policy
Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel release expected out on Sunday, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem was forced to revert their "fair" scheduler policy default new for this kernel. Due to a last minute user-reported regression, FIFO returns as the default DRM scheduler policy for Linux 7.2. But patches are now available for addressing that regression and thus hopefully for Linux 7.3 there…
DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update
Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260813/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296627 Points: 228 # Comments: 122
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Open-Source exFAT Programs 1.4.3 Improves Fsck & Mkfs
Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel release expected on Sunday, a new release of the exFAT file-system user-space programs was released overnight...
Slackware-Based Zenwalk Linux Aims For "True Low Latency Desktop Experience"
It's been a long time since hearing much out of the Zenwalk project, the Linux distribution built off Slackware. It's still around though and with their latest kernel work are hoping for a "true low latency desktop experience" by employing the BORE scheduler...
BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime
Diary of an excuse hound: Pie charts make us hungry for pizza
Scottish prosecutors cast eye over leaky supplier after staff data exposed
Unnamed third party spotted suspicious activity, with names, roles, and email addresses potentially affected
Claude Code returns blank thinking blocks, but reasoning still costs you
Developers report model thinking blocks being returned empty or truncated
Organic-looking brake assemblies debut on new Czinger 21C Spyder
Czinger used topological design and additive manufacturing to make the brakes.
Five years after quitting a job, developer’s former boss asked for rapid tech support
Connecting a single power cord turned into a lucrative all-nighter
GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
Article URL: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294997 Points: 975 # Comments: 488
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New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs
Intelligence Service says finding domestic threats is harder due to proliferation of toxic content online
AMD GAIA 0.23 Delivers Ability To Install/Run AI Agents From The Terminal
AMD's GAIA open-source AI software built atop Lemonade for serving as an AI companion for emails, a Bash coding agent, and other AI agent skills is out with a new version today with more features while also improving security and making other improvements...
OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging
'Computer History' records clicks and typing to build ChatGPT memories
US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer
Study finds wait times for cancer surgeries hit 10-year high.
Give Google the boot by building your own search engine
Got $10 and a gig of storage space? Marlin lets you weight your crawl toward the parts of the web you actually care about
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 cyberattacks.
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...
Microsoft's dueling Copilot apps have combined into a single entity
Consumer and work experiences converge, while a few features face the chop
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.
Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed
"I've lost trust ..."
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
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…
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Don't classify, hallucinate
Article URL: https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/08/10/hypothetical-classifications Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249523 Points: 187 # Comments: 79
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