Monday, 24 August 2026
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Linux 7.3 Better Protects Against Buggy EFI Firmware Taking Down The Rest Of User-Space
The EFI updates were merged today for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel. Most notable with the EFI updates is now enforcing a timeout foe EFI runtime service completions rather than potentially hanging indefinitely...
Linux 7.3 Delivers Graphics Driver Improvements From Old GPUs To Next-Gen Hardware
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. There is a lot of exciting GPU kernel driver improvements this cycle ranging from some notable enhancements to old AMD Radeon graphics hardware up through enabling support for some next-generation AMD graphics IP blocks to over on the Intel side where Nova Lake S graphics are being…
Due to need for 'absolute success,' China delays critical Moon launch to 2027
"The Chang’e 7 mission does not meet the conditions for launch."
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings
S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work
An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf
Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust
ReactOS Merges Support For Job Objects As Step To Running Modern Windows Apps
Merged yesterday to the ReactOS code-base is initial support for Job Objects, which is an important milestone in the road to being able to run more modern Windows software under this open-source operating system striving for Windows driver/application compatibility...
Linux 7.3 Makes Preparations Toward Upstreaming FAMFS File-System
The NVDIMM and direct access (DAX) patches have been merged for the Linux 7.3 cycle. Most of the DAX/NVDIMM activity this cycle is on making preparations for the upcoming submission of Micron's FAMFS file-system...
Volcanoes that made history
Enormous eruptions altered Earth’s climate and societies all over the globe.
GCC Patch Adjusting AMD Zen 5 Misprediction Cost Nets 12% Win In Benchmark
An AMD compiler engineer posted a patch on Saturday for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The two-line patch adjusts the misprediction cost for Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors, which ends up yielding a 12% improvement in one SPEC CPU benchmark on Zen 5 and a 9% improvement on Zen 4...
Linux 7.3 Introduces New AES Encryption APIs - Will Open Up More Performance
Eric Biggers of Google continues carrying out great work on the Linux kernel crypto code. For Linux 7.3 he's landed work on new library APIs for most of the AES encryption modes used within the kernel. Moving forward this will open the door to more performance optimizations, reducing code duplication, and other enhancements...
Linux 7.3 Input Subsystem Updates Merged With Security Fixes, Other Improvements
The big set of input subsystem updates were merged earlier this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. It's a random assortment of different improvements as well as bug/security fixes driven in part by the flow of AI/LLM generated discoveries...
I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
Article URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/qwen-3-8-27b-reverse-engineering-job-frontier-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407507 Points: 159 # Comments: 80
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JIT Compiling Code in 5μs
Article URL: https://malisper.me/jit-compiling-code-in-5-us/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406387 Points: 123 # Comments: 78
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The End of an Athlon
Article URL: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406333 Points: 143 # Comments: 57
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To become a better writer, read as much as you can
Article URL: https://nappertime.com/the-golden-rule-of-becoming-a-better-writer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405870 Points: 316 # Comments: 208
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MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust
Article URL: https://martypc.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405816 Points: 154 # Comments: 55
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The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)
Article URL: https://nappertime.com/the-art-of-and-beauty-of-blade-runner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405331 Points: 136 # Comments: 68
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Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away
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...
eCryptfs Sees Fixes For Potential Malicious Intent, Some Dating Back To Its 2006 Debut
The eCryptfs stacked cryptographic filesystem implementation for the Linux kernel to transparently encrypt files saw a number of bug fixes for the Linux 7.3 kernel. A number of these bug fixes deal with potential maliciously-crafted data and vulnerable going back to the 2006 introduction of eCryptfs as this option known for its use on Ubuntu home directory encryption and Chrome OS...
NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier
Article URL: https://www.primeintellect.ai/research/nanogpt-speedrun Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404380 Points: 127 # Comments: 31
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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...
NetBSD and my life (2005)
Article URL: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/09/10/0000.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402781 Points: 139 # Comments: 32
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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+…
Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
Article URL: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/why-your-local-llm-feels-dumber-than-it-is/253917 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402232 Points: 417 # Comments: 171
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Thinking in Python
Article URL: https://thinkinginpython.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402202 Points: 251 # Comments: 50
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Scrap (2006)
https://xcancel.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402189 Points: 386 # Comments: 212
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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: 438 # Comments: 132
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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: 241 # Comments: 142
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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...
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/how-texas-student-blew-whistle-rogue-ai-hacking-attempt-2026-08-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387959 Points: 188 # Comments: 98
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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
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.
$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
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 .
ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data
Article URL: https://atproto.com/blog/atproto-spaces-alpha Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379732 Points: 160 # Comments: 25
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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.
RF Cafe
Article URL: https://www.rfcafe.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355659 Points: 227 # Comments: 44
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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: 423 # Comments: 94
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typ.ing
Article URL: https://typ.ing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346854 Points: 321 # Comments: 102
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