Saturday, 22 August 2026
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AMD Posts Massive Patch Series For Enabling UALink In The Linux Kernel
Whether coincidental or intentional, AMD engineers tend to drop interesting, feature patches for the open-source/Linux space on Friday afternoons. Hitting the kernel mailing list minutes ago were two patch series sent out by AMDGPU maintainer Alex Deucher for introducing UALink infrastructure...
Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
The private Android-based OS will expand beyond Pixels next year.
Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers
Logitech increased prices by up to 25 percent last year.
Chinese regulators tell Tesla to fix nearly 3 million cars
Chinese safety regulators have cracked down on doors that don't open in a crash.
Linux 7.3 Lands Improvements For Voodoo 3 / 4 / 5 & Vintage Atari Computers In 2026
At a time when Linux continues dropping older hardware drivers due to the influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports and patches for hardware extremely unlikely to be used with modern versions of the mainline Linux kernel, Voodoo graphics cards and vintage Atari computers are seeing some reprieve with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel release...
Fighter jets help destroy Russian drone boat near European offshore gas platform
Romania blew up drone boat to protect lives of several hundred rig workers.
Personalized pricing is “abhorrent,” but FTC limits may increase costs, critics say
Some Americans fear the FTC may be thinking about personalized pricing all wrong.
Homeland security cybercops say patch TrueConf (Russia's Zoom) if you're using it
Ukrainian hacktivists exploiting the bugs, but TrueConf's reach stretches well beyond home turf
Kobo can run apps now
Article URL: https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390427 Points: 237 # Comments: 91
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Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch
Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches
Framework Laptop 16 With GeForce RTX 5070 12GB, One-Piece Keyboard & Haptic Touchpad
While the past few weeks have been quite busy with the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro testing with that all-new laptop model and paired with Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", at the same time Framework Computer has begun shipping some updated components for the Framework Laptop 16 laptop. If looking for a bit more GPU compute power hor larger form factor than the 13-inch model, the…
SickKids children’s hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in
Toronto org says it wasn’t the only one to be affected by the third-party software vulnerability
Nginx Dark Mode Support For Error Pages Remains Elusive
In early 2025 I wrote about the upstream Nginx web server rejecting dark mode support for its error pages on the basis of wanting to keep the default error pages simple and developers arguing the extra HTML tag for the dark mode styling as superfluous. Following a lot of public backlash for being against offering native dark mode handling by default, Nginx stakeholders were polled and largely…
Felony Bench
Article URL: https://www.felonybench.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389430 Points: 289 # Comments: 135
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Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials
Malicious updates turned routine builds into a delivery system for infostealer malware
Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
Article URL: https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388752 Points: 117 # Comments: 89
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AMD grabs more CPU share while pricier PCs punish desktop demand
Mercury Research blames costly memory and scarce GPUs for 20% processor shipment slide
Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Article URL: https://kagi.com/changelog#11296 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154 Points: 847 # Comments: 295
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'We let you down': GitHub pledges to scale up before developers give up
CTO promises architectural overhaul following second outage of the month
Intel Computer Vision Sensing Driver Now Ready For Nova Lake
The main set of media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. Notable this round is the Intel Computer Vision Sensing "CVS" driver merged the previous cycle now supporting next-gen Nova Lake platforms...
Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber
Alphabet-owned company is seeking to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services.
I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
Article URL: https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387570 Points: 313 # Comments: 39
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New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
Article URL: https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387525 Points: 174 # Comments: 119
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Linux 7.3 Cleans Up Stack Randomization, Ensures It Happen As Early As Possible
Merged this week for the Linux 7.3 kernel was a big clean-up to the stack randomization code for better security on Linux systems and helping unify some of the architecture-specific code...
$10K phishing kit claims it can plant rogue passkeys for persistent access to pwned accounts
Seller's demos show a browser-in-the-middle attack adding credentials seconds after authentication
Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
https://archive.ph/SflVC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2rokxux5cU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386895 Points: 184 # Comments: 263
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Intel Compute Runtime 26.31.39395.13 Continues Prepping For Crescent Island, OpenCL LEO
Intel today released the Compute Runtime 26.31.39395.13 open-source GPU compute stack update for Windows and Linux systems. Big ongoing trends for the Intel Compute Runtime continue to be preparing for upcoming Crescent Island and Nova Lake Xe3P graphics hardware as well as building out their new OpenCL LEO driver...
I'm becoming AI-blind
Article URL: https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386699 Points: 163 # Comments: 162
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Microsoft lets you swap New Outlook's looks with the face of Outlook Classic
Functionality not all there yet, but at least Redmond's latest and greatest appears a bit more like its predecessor
As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings
Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.
Rocket Report: SpaceX makes its mark on the Moon; ULA names new boss
Taiwan's effort to develop its own satellite launcher hit a setback this week.
DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386163 Points: 406 # Comments: 136
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Linux 7.3 Ready With CXL Type-2 Driver Support For AMD Solarflare NICs
With the mainline Linux 7.2 kernel there is now the basic support in place for CXL Type-2 accelerator drivers within the CXL core subsystem code. The first in-tree Type-2 driver with the Linux kernel is for the new AMD Solarflare NIC hardware...
Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, "Enormously Helped" By AI
It's pretty rare to see Linus Torvalds author patches himself pertaining to the open-source Linux graphics drivers, but waking up this morning I was surprised to see he authored and committed an Intel Xe kernel graphics driver change himself. It ended up being after he encountered a "debug session from hell" but was ultimately helped by AI in fixing a bug that had been irking him...
Microsoft sounds alarm as perfect-10 Entra ID flaw comes under attack
Redmond says the cloud identity bug is already fixed, but isn't saying who exploited it or how widely
Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch
CableLabs wants hardware makers to embrace a workaround that keeps legacy kit connected
Debian is 33, Haiku is 25, and neither is standing still
One remains a pillar of Linux, while the other keeps the BeOS dream alive
EE invites mobile users to live life in the 5G Fast Lane – for a price
Network slicing offers a prioritized experience for those prepared to pay for a premium monthly plan
Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it
After imagining explosions, blackouts, and daring escapes, this techie decided the best thing to do was just not doing the job
Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.
Secure Workload Software has five nasty flaws and even SaaS users have updates to install
Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins
Cloudy AI is Chinese giant’s ‘most certain’ path to growth as e-commerce slows
Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation
Policies and code of conduct breached
Intel Mesa Linux Drivers Now Treating Nova Lake S / U / H / HX As Stable
Intel's open-source Mesa drivers for Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV (Vulkan) on Linux are no longer treating next-gen Nova Lake processors with integrated graphics as experimental and off-by-default. With today's Mesa 26.3-devel code, the Intel driver code across Nova Lake's S, U, H, and HX product families are considered stable and enabled by default...
Russian snoops add OAuth abuse to targeted phishing campaigns
Don't click on that State Department meeting invite
Google tethers Antigravity to enterprise controls amid AI shakeup
Corporate customers can look forward to easier management of agents in Google Cloud
US distributor of China’s most popular humanoid robots pivots after US ban
FCC ban on foreign-made robots accelerated RoboStore’s US manufacturing plans.
Europe cancels planned upgrades for Ariane 6 rocket
Arianespace hasn’t publicly disclosed the cost for an Ariane 6 launch.
They survived 9/11; 25 years later, their bonds remain unbroken
Survivors reconnect with those who saved them in National Geographic's 9/11: Reunited .
Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords
v 1.27 expands generics to support methods
Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs
All of the networking subsystem feature updates were merged today for the Linux 7.3 kernel's merge window. There are a lot of wired and wireless networking improvements this cycle but also a ton of bug fixes -- including many not so important fixes spun up by AI/LLM agents. The networking subsystem maintainers admit now they are "completely overwhelmed" due to this code churn from the output of…
OpenAI chases Anthropic's biz customers with zero data retention pledge
With Private Safety Processing, AI biz promises discreet, automated prompt surveillance
Rust 1.98 Adds Algebraic Floating-Point Methods Akin To "-ffast-math"
Rust 1.98 released today and is headlined the debut of new algebraic floating-point methods...
KMSCON 10.0.2 Brings asciicast Playback Support, Bug Fixes
KMSCON 10.0.2 debuted today as the latest update to this leading user-space terminal emulator for Linux systems. KMSCON is built around Linux's KMS/DRM interfaces and the most viable alternative to date for in-kernel VTs...
Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids
Roblox is first platform to submit to independent audits under the Online Safety Act.
KDE Software Now Has Stable Btrfs Snapshot Integration With KIO-Snapshot 1.0
With today's release of KIO-Snapshot, KDE software now has stable integration of Btrfs file-system snapshots...
Genesis joins the giant electric SUV club with new GV90
A retractable screen, a huge heads-up display, and an optional 4-seat VIP interior.
Intel Hyper Threading Performance On The Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids-WS"
With the Intel Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor that I have been recently testing within the HP Z4 G6i workstation, there are 48 cores plus with Hyper Threading is a total of 96 threads for this high-end workstation processor with a 300 Watt TDP. For those curious about the performance impact of HT/SMT on this Intel Xeon 600 series workstation processor, here are some comparison benchmarks.
SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste
The yeetcycling math resembles asteroid mining in reverse.
Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces
People-search tool ClarityCheck left database containing more than 9M image files exposed.
FSCRYPT Sees Cleanup With Linux 7.3 To Open Door For More Features Like Btrfs Encryption
FSCRYPT is the Linux file-system encryption framework for supporting per-directory, transparent encryption. FSCRYPT so far is used by the likes of EXT4, F2FS, and CephFS. For Linux 7.3 there is an important clean-up to the FSCRYPT code to simplify it while also opening the door for new features moving forward into future kernel versions...
Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.
Linux Driver Posted For The PreSonus Quantum 2626: A ~$700 Thunderbolt Audio Interface
The PreSonus Quantum 2626 is a high-end, Thunderbolt 3 based audio interface. PreSonus just maintains Windows and macOS drivers for this high-end audio interface while now an open-source Linux driver has been posted after being independently developed via reverse engineering...
RPM 6.1 Released With Clang Build Fixes, New Release Model
RPM 6.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this package management system. With RPM 6.1 comes a number of features and improvements as well as a new release model...
Mesa 26.2.1 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
For those preferring the tradition of waiting for the first point release of a new Mesa feature release before upgrading, Mesa 26.2.1 is available today with a healthy round of bug fixing...
Linux 7.3 Cleans Up The Code For Disabling Of Legacy 32-bit Time Support
The Linux kernel has supported the CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME Kconfig build time option for optionally disabling of legacy 32-bit time system call support. This is intended to disable the code that uses a 32-bit integer for time that is thus not Year 2038 safe, but at the cost of breaking compatibility for legacy 32-bit applications. Even if building without Linux 32-bit time support, it turns out…
NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory
Without a rescue, NASA's Swift Observatory is expected to reenter the atmosphere later this year.
Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026
US residents face trade-offs as delivery drone services such as Prime Air expand.
Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops
Framework says it's replacing some out-of-warranty AMD mainboards.
Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data
Bankrupt Spirit accused of selling out workers in massive data sale to Google.
AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
https://archive.is/w1eng https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357530 Points: 131 # Comments: 186
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