Saturday, 29 August 2026
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Linux 7.3 TPM Makes Cleanup Preparations For TrenchBoot
The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) subsystem changes for the Linux 7.3 kernel are centered around code clean-ups and improvements being made as a precursor toward TrenchBoot support...
Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced
"It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."
Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent
Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump.
Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day
James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversary.
DXVK 3.1 Released With DXGI Incremental Presentation, D3D11 Buffer Render Targets
DXVK 3.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation built atop the Vulkan API as a key component to Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...
Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
Article URL: https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480466 Points: 152 # Comments: 52
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI
It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer
Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording
Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.
Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted
Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met
GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
https://twitter.com/Zai_org/status/2093354097122455713 https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479878 Points: 433 # Comments: 152
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
Article URL: https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/28/keyboard-driven-guis.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479837 Points: 352 # Comments: 191
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies
The IT specialist began contacting a foreign government within days of being assigned to the DIA’s Insider Threat Division
HP Z4 G6i: A Linux-Friendly Workstation Powered By The Intel Xeon 600 Series
The past month I have been testing out the HP Z4 G6i workstation across many different workloads and grueling tasks. This HP workstation powered by the Intel Xeon 600 series "Granite Rapids WS" and NVIDIA RTX graphics offers a lot of compute power, but with the top-end configuration retailing for over $41k USD is quite pricey in today's environment. Windows 11 Pro is the default operating system…
Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming
GRUB's up for furry new update
State of the Map 2026
Article URL: https://2026.stateofthemap.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478401 Points: 111 # Comments: 41
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
Get your Windows license refund
Article URL: https://en.refund4freedom.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478340 Points: 575 # Comments: 232
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
Word 97's ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it
Microsoft veteran recalls how a CPU errata, a mythical ICE, and a single sneaky NOP saved Clippy's big debut
Htmx 4.0
Article URL: https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478178 Points: 341 # Comments: 80
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release
With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel's vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release and perhaps will break that threshold for Linux 7.3...
Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff
Paused export controls on materials used in key IT components due for review in November
U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
Earlier: US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464391 - (131 comments) US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451343 - (219 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477854 Points: 362 # Comments: 331
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn't have
Judge finds national-security rationale was assembled after Hegseth had already decided AI maker was a threat
Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
Article URL: https://www.orbify.eu/demo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477564 Points: 329 # Comments: 117
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
GPU Reset Recovery Merge Request For GNOME Mutter Submitted
Google Summer of Code 2026 featured a project working on GPU reset recovery for GNOME's Mutter compositor. GSoC has now wrapped up and the project overall was largely successful although some outstanding work remains. In this last week the merge request has been opened to conduct code review on this GPU reset recovery implementation for GNOME...
Microsoft preps this year's Windows 11 feature tweaks: 26H2 hits Release Preview
Same servicing branch as 24H2 and 25H2... and the same buggy updates
Vulkan 1.4.361 Released With New NVIDIA Vendor Extension
The Khronos Group is closing out the month of August with the Vulkan 1.4.361 specification update...
Migrating to HTTPX2
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/httpx2.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477212 Points: 172 # Comments: 74
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago
Organizational culture and systemic gaps in Secure by Design adoption blamed for sorry state of affairs
Chris Mason Steps Down As Btrfs Co-Maintainer, Departing Meta
Longtime Linux kernel developer Chris Mason is departing Meta. In the process of doing so, he is also stepping down from his co-maintainership role of the Btrfs file-system...
Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP
The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign.
Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution
100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses
Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut
"From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship."
Microsoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting
Teams question detection bot postpones debut, will get 2-month extension to practice interrupting you
Linux 7.3 Will Begin Checking USB-C Cables For Alt-Mode Support
The USB and Thunderbolt changes have been merged for Linux 7.3. Two changes stand out for me in the USB subsystem code with Linux 7.3. First, the kernel arguably being long overdue for checking USB-C cables capabilities whether they support alt-modes.
Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount
And as for getting US government to help – uncontrolled AI is not as dangerous as AI under the control of the technically clueless
Old IBM Driver Joins Insecure SGI Drivers In Being Removed For Linux 7.3
The char/misc changes were merged this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. While there is a lot of IIO driver churn as usual and updates to the likes of the Google Binder drivers, there continues to be the 2026 trend of removing old hardware drivers that are rarely updated these days and likely have no active users left on the mainline Linux kernel. This trend is further pushed along by the surplus of…
Big Tech market power will cause UK to lose AI race, think tank warns
Britain's market watchdog criticized for not creating the conditions for competition to thrive
Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)
Article URL: https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/blog/hilariously-fast-volume-computation-with-the-divergence-theorem.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476143 Points: 229 # Comments: 60
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BOFH: Schrödinger's petty cash puts us in a very awkward superposition
Why oh why are the accountants stricter than the IRS and HMRC put together?
On Call: Exec couldn’t identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call
One retro numeric keypad looks much like any other to some users
Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
Article URL: https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475079 Points: 350 # Comments: 115
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Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it’s drawing customers’ blood
The fix is either an unvalidated and unofficial emergency patch or taking the server offline
Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds
Alleged crew behind the Shai-Hulud worm and other supply chain attacks nabbed with help from the FBI
Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
https://archive.ph/ni6I3 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.46... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473522 Points: 399 # Comments: 307
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
Sovereign Tech Agency Providing Massive Investment Into Flatpak
The latest beneficiary of Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency is Flatpak where more than half a million Euros will be invested over the next two years to help with app sandboxing and other functionality...
Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released With Initial Collection Of Fixes
Canonical today published Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS as their first point release in the long-term support series for the "Resolute Raccoon"...
Anthropic proposes plumbing spec to link AI agents to lab kit and robots
Say you're trying to enrich Uranium and your centrifuges broke - soon it will be easy to connect an AI to figure out why
Nvidia and Cerebras are selling performance their customers will (probably) never see
Touting batch 1 token generation is a bit like boasting about the top speed of your car
The Twelve-Factor App
Article URL: https://12factor.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472216 Points: 167 # Comments: 86
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Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.
CRPx0 hacking service for dummies claims victim count more than quintupled
It's 'built to be operated by a human with no technical background'
Intel Linux Driver Orphaned For Limiting RF Exposure To Humans
Over the past year and a half a number of open-source drivers in the Linux kernel have been orphaned as a result of departures from the company. The impact has ranged from the Intel CPU "coretemp" temperature driver being orphaned without a maintainer to other lesser known Intel drivers. Another lesser known Intel driver is now being orphaned with no longer having a maintainer at the company:…
Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices
GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.
Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion
Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.
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,…
AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”
Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.
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...
The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look
"Everyone wants to take that aircraft up now..."
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.
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.
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.
Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them
"It just felt like the right thing to do."
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...