Sunday, 23 August 2026
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Redox OS Switches To EEVDF-Based Scheduler For 2.6x Throughput
The Rust-written, from-scratch Redox OS operating system has switched to using an EEVDF based scheduler design. In doing so they are promoting a 2.6x increase in throughput and a 782x improvement in fairness...
Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Continues Seeing Fixes With Linux 7.3
In early 2025 it was being discussed to potentially drop the HFS and HFS+ file-system support with the code having been orphaned over a decade and becoming a maintenance burden. But that dismal outlook quickly turned around with some developers stepping up to maintain the old Apple file-system support. Over a year later, fortunately, it's turned out to be a success story with more HFS/HFS+…
Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Steps Down
There is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) / SMB3 code within the Linux kernel. Longtime maintainer, principal Linux CIFS author, and current Microsoft employee Steve French has stepped down due to health reasons...
If you're not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will
Agents are also the new attack surface - cue defenders' existential angst
ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
Article URL: https://quantumi.sh/public/labs.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49400408 Points: 227 # Comments: 75
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A Friendly Introduction to Racket
Article URL: https://geometridae.bearblog.dev/a-friendly-introduction-to-racket/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399898 Points: 102 # Comments: 40
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New MCP Roadmap
Article URL: https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399591 Points: 147 # Comments: 112
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AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing
Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity
Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver
A reported security vulnerability for the NTFS3 driver has gone unaddressed since being reported earlier this summer. The vulnerability allows a pre-crafted NTFS image on a USB flash drive or similar to allow the user to gain root access to the running Linux system...
Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses
Hibernation cuts down on synapses, but mice seem to retain memories anyway.
Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US
Lands free of roads are under threat from the Trump administration’s proposed rollback.
AMD RDNA 4m Firmware Published For Linux Ahead Of Launch
In addition to AMD's Friday afternoon big code drop of all the UALink enablement patches for the Linux kernel and the AMDGPU driver, there was another big drop from AMD to end out the week... Upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository is all the firmware binaries needed by the open-source driver stack for initializing their forthcoming RDNA 4m "GFX 11.7" graphics...
NVK Vulkan Video Merged For Mesa 26.3
The newest major feature to land in Mesa's open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is support for Vulkan Video!..
Sched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3
The extensible scheduler framework "sched_ext" that allows for custom schedulers as BPF programs has been working on sub-scheduler support in recent kernel cycles. With Linux 7.3, sub-scheduler support is now deemed feature complete...
Red Hat's Tuned 2.28 To Improve Out-Of-The-Box WiFi Power Savings On Fedora
Tuned 2.28 released this Saturday as the newest version of Red Hat's tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux. Tuned is used notably out-of-the-box on Fedora Linux for monitoring and adaptively tuning systems...
Open-Source Etnaviv Driver Now Able To Run YOLOX
The open-source, reverse-engineered Etnaviv driver stack that began for providing accelerated graphics support on Vivante GPU IP and since expanded to handle Vivante NPUs as well is now able to handle YOLOX object detection...
Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads
The highlight of this week's x86/mm pull request of changes for the Linux 7.3 kernel are fixes that reduce the time that the TLB flushing code has interrupts disabled. This helps significantly with latency-sensitive workloads but Intel engineer Dave Hansen noted in the pull request that "it's certainly something to keep an eye on" in looking out for any regressions...
Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
Article URL: https://munderdiffl.in/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398152 Points: 226 # Comments: 102
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Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs
Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost
Casio decides it's about time the simple digital watch got a little smarter
F-B100W adds Bluetooth and step tracking while keeping a two-year battery
Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49397074 Points: 244 # Comments: 889
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Some Enticing Performance Optimizations This Week
This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue to highlight interesting developments in the trek towards Plasma 6.8...
OpenZFS 2.4.4 Released With Linux 7.2 Support, Dozens Of Fixes
OpenZFS 2.4.4 is out today as the newest stable point release for this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice
Quarantining leaked credentials is not good enough
Trump's space transportation policy calls for new spaceport on federal land
"We probably need another site that's capable of heavy and super heavy launch capability."
Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble
Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power
Wine 11.16 Released With VA-API Hardware Decoding, Better ARM64 Support
Wine 11.16 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this software enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux and other platforms...
Proton 11.0-2 Enables More Titles With Steam Play / Linux Gaming
Just in time for those that enjoy their Linux / Steam Play gaming on weekends, Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 11.0-2 as the newest stable release of this Wine 11.0 downstream that powers Steam Play for running Windows games gracefully on Linux...
Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says
Show us the money
Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging
Thunderstorms make seismic waves that can be used to find sub-surface features.
AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC
Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature
Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says
Renters say hidden Zillow listings make it harder to afford living in New York City.
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...
Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/21/rust-glancer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393052 Points: 378 # Comments: 88
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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
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…
Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials
Malicious updates turned routine builds into a delivery system for infostealer malware
AMD grabs more CPU share while pricier PCs punish desktop demand
Mercury Research blames costly memory and scarce GPUs for 20% processor shipment slide
'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.
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
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.
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
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 .
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.
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.
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.
Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
Article URL: https://hister.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351802 Points: 106 # Comments: 39
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