Thursday, 27 August 2026
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Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency
Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code...
Linux 7.3 KSMBD Adds Interoperability For Apple Time Machine Backups
KSMBD as the in-kernel SMB3/CIFS server for higher performance and lower resource usage than user-space SMB/CIFS protocol implementations is becoming even more useful with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel...
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks
'These are test runs for a larger-scale attack'
GitHub Actions was down yet again
Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test
Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
Article URL: https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452990 Points: 261 # Comments: 45
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An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452980 Points: 164 # Comments: 53
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The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring punches above its weight class
The "everyday" GT3 delivers, despite looming regulations and an ever-inflating price tag.
MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case
Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job
Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future
"Most" Xbox One and Series X games are compatible; discs will still work after being claimed.
Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too
Zuckercorp ties $5.3B of its payout to rivals playing along
Intel Granite Rapids WS Core Scaling Performance With The Xeon 678X
Last week I provided a look at the Intel Xeon 600 series Hyper Threading performance with the Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor for HT/SMT on and off. That was interesting while another reader request was to look at the CPU core scaling performance for this high-end workstation processor. Here are those benchmarks for showing the performance, power, and frequency/thermal impact of the Xeon…
Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND
Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills
Tim Curry has died
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451448 Points: 417 # Comments: 150
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Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads
Republicans demanded that parties and fundraising committees be given lowest ad rates.
Boston Scientific discloses 'global disruption' in ongoing cyberattack
No timeline to restore IT systems as probe remains ongoing
Haiku R1 Beta 6 Released After Two Years, BeOS-Inspired Project Turns 25 Next Week
Haiku R1 Beta 5 came out in September 2024 while out today is the long-awaited sixth beta for this open-source operating system inspired by BeOS. This beta release also comes one week ahead of the project's 25th anniversary...
It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI
Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/using-obsidian-with-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450898 Points: 107 # Comments: 67
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Disruption with Some GitHub Services
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450722 Points: 210 # Comments: 124
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Carhartt data breach affects 12.9M, half of what ShinyHunters claimed
One AI and two trained eyes delved into the heavily padded leaks
Nebula Sans
Article URL: https://www.nebulasans.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450448 Points: 266 # Comments: 101
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Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time
Messing with the genetic code might have gotten a bit easier to do.
CIOs are on notice – vSphere 8 times out in October 2027
SPONSORED FEATURE: How do you plan for AI and virtualization when the clock is ticking this loudly?
AMD Proposes New LLVM iTHP Option For Squeezing More Performance
AMD's compiler team is proposing a new LLVM Clang compiler option, -fenable-readonly-thp for implementing instruction Transparent Huge Pages "iTHP" at compile and link-time. With -fenable-readonly-thp, they are finding more performance out of SPEC CPU, Geekbench, and other workloads from the arranging of 2MB segment alignment at link time and allowing the executable text range can be promoted to…
Microsoft sketches out a Whiteboard extension
Users have a little more time to migrate from Azure storage to OneDrive
Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk
Article URL: https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449749 Points: 175 # Comments: 125
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15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go.
"We're living in this world of scarcity with the Moon."
Fedora + Tuned-PPD Performance Regression Should Be Fixed With New Linux Kernel
Earlier this month when benchmarking six Linux distributions on the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", the performance was strangely slow on Fedora Workstation 44. When digging further into it, the performance loss was with Fedora 44 using Tuned-PPD by default where as other Linux distributions default to Power Profiles Daemon. Ultimately, after Red…
Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
Article URL: https://twitterwebviewer.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449576 Points: 205 # Comments: 98
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GLM-5.3-Flash
Article URL: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449507 Points: 696 # Comments: 328
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Psychiatry’s diagnostic bible is finally getting a biological upgrade
Biology is coming to psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, even as reliable biomarkers remain rare.
AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database
Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company
Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with-us-states-over-social-media-harms-2026-08-26/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448819 Points: 431 # Comments: 404
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Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist
AI and robots are advancing faster than you think, and we're not prepared for a world where the majority may be out of work
AWS Acquires DuckLabs
Article URL: https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448321 Points: 854 # Comments: 242
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Intel Introduces New "BFF" Linux Driver To Deal With Aging Silicon & Stuck Bits
Intel is preparing to introduce a new Linux driver named "BFF" for dealing with aging processor silicon where bits may become stuck over time...
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448210 Points: 527 # Comments: 172
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Armbian 26.8 Released With Installer Rewrite, UEFI ISO Images
Armbian as the Debian/Ubuntu-derived distribution that provides an optimized platform for ARM and RISC-V single board computers is out today with a major update...
Linux 7.3 FUSE Delivering Nice Performance Improvements
The Linux kernel's FUSE code for enabling file-systems in user-space is enjoying some nice speed boosts with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel...
Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project
Cease and desist letters from firm headed by free speech absolutist
LibreOffice 26.8 Released With Many Nice Improvements
LibreOffice 26.8 is now available as the latest half-year feature update to this leading open-source alternative to Microsoft Office...
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast
Plans to break ground in 2027, produce own propellent, power in 'self-sustaining' spaceport. All before Starship ships v1.0 orbit
IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs
The focus is on agentic capability and predictable enterprise deployment.
Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR
Reform UK's leader proposes 'light-touch' alternative, although rival politicians say plans are sparsely detailed and inconsistent with reality
Xtracycle's Swoop ASM e-bike brings an automatic transmission to cargo bikes
A steel frame cargo bike with a unique twist: You can let it choose your gear.
AMD Introduces New "GFX1250-STRICT" GPU Target In LLVM
The AMD GFX1250 IP is what's used by the new Instinct MI450 series accelerators. That's been around within the Linux kernel, AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end, and related codebases the past year. Interestingly merged yesterday is a new "gfx1250-strict" target...
GCC Patches Added -mcpu=native -mtune=native Support For RISC-V
A SiFive engineer posted patches today for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for adding -mtune=native -mcpu=native support for the compiler on RISC-V...
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers
Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...
Linux 7.3 PCI Code Adds Advisory Non-Fatal Errors, Intel Dunlow Support
All of the PCI/PCIe subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel were merged this week...
Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose
Eight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces
RAG Is Simpler Than You Think
Article URL: https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/rag-is-simpler-than-you-think Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445727 Points: 386 # Comments: 168
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Sopra Steria's £370M Capita spat heads for 2028 courtroom showdown
French SI still crying foul over shared services contract, alleges bid was 42% under DWP's own cost model
India’s crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets
A space station by 2035 is ISRO’s new mission
Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over
Oh great, Big Tech is now in prime position to decide which messages get through
Chrome/Chromium Experimenting With Flatpak Packaging
Google engineers responsible for the Chrome/Chromium web browser are experimenting with Flatpak packaging on Linux. They aren't yet committed to officially supporting Flatpak packages but for now are at least exploring the option...
Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action
Amid talk of an Nvidia deal, the AI search biz is looking beyond the cloud
The world's busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now
SpaceX aims to launch Starship from Florida by the end of the year. 2027 seems more likely.
Linux 7.0-mk2 Released For Multi-Kernel Linux With Promising Performance Results
Last year a multi-kernel architecture was proposed for the Linux kernel to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machine. Each kernel with "multikernel" Linux can run on dedicated CPU cores whole sharing the underlying hardware resources. Linux 7.0-mk2 released today with the kernel patched for this multi-kernel behavior...
World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames
Record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges.
COSMIC Epoch 1.7 Released: No Longer Slow Browsing Network Filesystems
COSMIC Epoch 1.7 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based open-source desktop environment with development led by System76...
LLVM/Clang 23.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & NVIDIA Rigel Support, Partial C++26 Support
LLVM 23.1 was released today on-schedule as the first stable release of the LLVM 23 series as the H2'2026 update to this open-source compiler stack...
Preserving glow-in-the-dark art and fashion for future generations
Understanding unique photochemistry of such materials will help in conservation, storage, and exhibition.
Google's anti-nausea Motion Assist dots finally rolling out on Android
It's currently only appearing on Pixels running Android 17.
Two unvaccinated people die from measles in Pennsylvania, officials confirm
"[P]eople are not familiar with this disease and don’t fully understand the potential severity."
Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"
The PorteuX Linux distribution focused on being a high performance, modular, and minimalist distro took to forking Xfce's xfwm4 window manager into "xfwm4-gl" for OpenGL compositing support. As part of that they developed a window manager / compositor benchmark for evaluating the performance and efficiency of typical operations. Their results are fascinating...
SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport
"This will be a project like no other."
AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers
The latest criticism of the increased burden placed on open-source software project maintainers caused by AI / LLM agents is around too many bug reports effectively causing a "denial of service" attack on project maintainers...
Lab supply companies have been selling antibodies using manipulated images
Image changes that would get a paper retracted are widespread among suppliers.
New bootloader lets you take the "Meta" out of the original Meta Quest
Privilege escalation attack grants "full control" and freedom from Meta's servers/apps.
AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs
A pioneering AI scientist once predicted computers would replace human radiologists. They haven't.
Benchmarking Some Incredible Performance Gains With Btrfs On Linux 7.3
With the Btrfs pull request for Linux 7.3 having delivered more performance optimizations with some ~3x and ~5x gains mentioned in specific areas, I was eager to test out the new Btrfs performance on the in-development kernel. In today's article are some benchmarks of Btrfs on Linux 7.2 stable compared to Linux 7.3 Git with some very enticing performance gains confirmed in various workloads.
Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development
Folks have been daisy-chaining Macs for AI—this refresh keeps that in mind.
AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
Young employment in AI-impacted fields down 19% compared to more AI-resistant occupations.
Data centers become "killer application" for new power transformer tech
Solid-state transformers could also benefit EV charging and, someday, households.
Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395802 Points: 263 # Comments: 85
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