Friday, 28 August 2026
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AMD Preparing To Enable HDMI 2.1 FRL Support By Default For Linux
It was back in May that the surprising event happened of AMD posting HDMI 2.1 FRL patches for their open-source AMDGPU Linux driver as part of their broader HDMI 2.1 bring-up. For years the open-source HDMI 2.1 support in AMDGPU was blocked by the HDMI Forum but whether it was due to Valve or some other event, the code was finally unblocked. While it's been part of the kernel since Linux 7.2,…
Linux 7.3 MGLRU Change Helps Executable Code Stays In Memory, Improving Performance
Following last week's main set of memory management "MM" related updates for Linux 7.3, another batch of MM code updates were submitted and merged today as we prepare to close out the Linux 7.3 merge window. There are a few optimization patches that stand out along with other mostly small fixes/changes...
Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6zwgg9y8go Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468315 Points: 130 # Comments: 71
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The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look
"Everyone wants to take that aircraft up now..."
Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468083 Points: 257 # Comments: 72
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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/build-with-gemini-omni-1-1-flash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467922 Points: 112 # Comments: 57
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RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn
Kennedy and his allies have a history of downplaying vaccine-preventable deaths.
Small Models Have Arrived
Article URL: https://calv.info/small-models-have-arrived Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466917 Points: 252 # Comments: 116
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Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
Article URL: https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-story-of-suica Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466894 Points: 116 # Comments: 87
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Why did 1,000 world citizens bury their underpants?
Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants.
AMD Jumps From ROCm 7.14 To ROCm 10.0 With ROCm.AI
Back in July ROCm 7.14 was announced as their new production release built atop TheRock build system and introducing Ryzen AI 400 series support. The versioning choice was a bit odd since ROCm 7.2 was the stable release at the time while ROCm 7.9+ turned into "tech preview" releases. With ROCm 7.14, it was declared stable.
ATF responds to 'major' cybersecurity incident after ransomware gang's claims
US Justice Department investigating the breach
Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS On Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Performance
Earlier this week I showed off some of the very nice Btrfs performance gains on Linux 7.3. For those wondering what kernel optimizations may have carried over to other file-systems or other file-system specific enhancements, here are Linux 7.2 vs. 7.3 Git performance benchmarks across Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS on the same system.
Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
Article URL: https://blog.chrislewis.au/decompiling-a-nintendo-64-game-in-84-days/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466006 Points: 116 # Comments: 45
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Schrödinger's backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT
SPONSORED FEATURE: Verify and survive: your backup isn't real 'til you test it
Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them
"It just felt like the right thing to do."
Nitter might be no more, but Twitter is back (sort of)
Twitter.now aims to fill the bird-shaped hole left by X. For a fee
Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago
"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.
Linux 7.3 Adds RWF_DONTCACHE Support For Block Devices
With the never-ending quest for greater I/O performance in the HPC space and the demands all the more relentless in the AI era, the Linux kernel block subsystem activity continues to be as vibrant as ever along with the ongoing innovations in the IO_uring space...
507 Mechanical Movements
Book (1868): https://archive.org/details/fivehundredseven00browiala Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465169 Points: 374 # Comments: 55
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Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.
How much of a problem is AI’s water use?
AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.
Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more'
As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized
Trade (and Tariffs)
Article URL: https://xkcd.com/3290/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464896 Points: 381 # Comments: 164
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Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode
Article URL: https://rahuljuliato.com/posts/markdown-ts-mode-emacs-31 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464543 Points: 126 # Comments: 52
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Lemonade 11.8 Makes It Easy To Run DeepSeek V4 Flash On AMD Strix Halo
For those interested in making use of the recently released DeepSeek V4 Flash model, AMD developers have released Lemonade 11.8 that now makes it rather trivial to get DeepSeek V4 Flash up and running on AMD Ryzen AI+ Max "Strix Halo" systems...
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.
Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data
UK’s largest airport operator believes 8.7 million customers affected
HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PC
Rising cloud AI costs are pushing workloads onto pricier PCs – which just happen to be better for PC maker's margins
Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Brings Intel SM3 / SM4 / SHA512 Optimizations
Werner Koch announced today the release of Libgcrypt 1.12.3 with various bug fixes and more exciting are the performance improvements...
Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap
AI at Work roadmap is the new name for upcoming Microsoft 365 capabilities
Bentley takes us for a ride in its new EV, the Torcal
The electric Torcal will be Bentley's entry model and cost less than a Bentayga.
Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller
Elderly Aids made 758,000 unwanted calls a year selling gear to stop unwanted calls
Microduck
Article URL: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462763 Points: 399 # Comments: 159
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Intel ANV Driver Improves Vulkan Video H.265 Decoding
Merged back in 2023 was Intel ANV Vulkan Video support for H.265 decoding. But it's been slightly out of compliant with the Vulkan spec, which is now fixed with the newest code for Mesa 26.3 by engaging the HuC firmware...
Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential
Track record is merely desirable for the person tasked with shaping UK.gov's skills blueprint for 550,000 civil servants
AppArmor In Linux 7.3 Adds Support For User-Space Compressed Policies
The AppArmor improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3 for this kernel security module providing per-program Linux application security controls around system resources. Most notable this cycle is being able to load user-space compressed policies...
LLVM Improves Zen 1 / Zen 2 Support To Deal With "Notoriously Bad" PDEP/PEXT
The LLVM/Clang compiler toolchain merged overnight better support for the nearly decade-old AMD Zen 1 processors and also helps with Zen+ and Zen 2 processors too. This latest work thanks to the open-source community is for providing more informed instruction scheduling around PDEP and PEXT that end up being quite costly for these original Zen processors...
AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi
Plus: new official Amiga-branded hardware is coming
NFS Improvements Arrive For Linux 7.3
The Network File-System (NFS) improvements for both the client and server code have been merged for the nearly-over Linux 7.3 merge window...
Check out the width of that Debian display
Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?
Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
Article URL: https://louisabraham.github.io/load-bearing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461817 Points: 206 # Comments: 105
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AI use among UK teachers doubles, but working hours still don't come down
F- for AI in test of reducing burden of teacher workload
You could own AI.slop, if applicant for new global top-level domains get their way
Resistance is futile: .borg is on the list, along with .itiswhatitis, .therapy, and.hype. If that’s scary, might a cup of .tea help?
Nutanix built $20m AI cluster to reduce use of Copilot and Claude, expects ROI in a year
Also thinks Arm can give it a hand on the edge during RAMpocalypse
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-op... (paywalled) https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/hugging-face-reportedly-in... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458161 Points: 1773 # Comments: 829
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Asahi Linux Hopes To Ship A Release Soon With Apple M3 Device Support
The Asahi Linux crew working to bring Linux support to Apple Silicon hardware is out today with a new status update on their initiatives, largely around Apple M3 bring-up as well as some M4/M5 achievements...
FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks
Beijing's botnets busted
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot'
RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances
A dashing pirate, a butler, a shapeshifting killer clown, an alien mad scientist in drag—the man had range.
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.
Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads
Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1
K8s 1.37 also unsticks a Metrics API that has been lodged in beta status for nine years
New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead
Flock shock rocks cop cam vendor as protests mount
Database from legal advocacy group details growing unease with warrantless panopticon
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...
Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"
Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state.
Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions
The bishops' snub comes as the state continues to attack vaccines.
Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text
The AI that powers Gboard's Rambler is coming to more Google products, including Chrome.
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'
The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring punches above its weight class
The "everyday" GT3 delivers, despite looming regulations and an ever-inflating price tag.
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.
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…
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.
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...
Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time
Messing with the genetic code might have gotten a bit easier to do.
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…
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…
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...
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...
The turbulent AI era is here
Article URL: https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make?WT.mc_id=20260826_ai-overture-2026-med-med Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447057 Points: 112 # Comments: 380
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