Sunday, 30 August 2026
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FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Released With Several Security Fixes
Ahead of FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE hopefully debuting on 8 September, FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 is out today as the final scheduled development release...
DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonprofits Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492219 Points: 111 # Comments: 17
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The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now
Article URL: https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/internet_predatory_cesspit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492193 Points: 263 # Comments: 163
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Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
Article URL: https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/good-culture-is-the-biggest-productivity Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491568 Points: 118 # Comments: 21
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Another x86 Advisory From Some Entity Other Than Intel Or AMD
Last October I highlighted an interesting post on the Linux kernel mailing list around an x86 corporate entity other than Intel or AMD that left mysterious intrigue. The developer that detailed those x86 opcode/CPUID/MSR allocations back in July then detailed 16-tile and 32-tile AMX implementations again for something outside the current scope of Intel/AMD processors. Today another message is…
GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)
Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3mua32q4ds22e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490702 Points: 175 # Comments: 63
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Improving Performance & Efficiency For Some Full Screen Content
In addition to the Union QtWidgets initial release happening this week, a number of other improvements also landed in the past few days in making Plasma 6.8 all the more exciting...
AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's
ReactOS 0.4.16 Released With New Graphical Installer, Better Hardware Support
ReactOS 0.4.16 released today as the newest major update to this "open-source Windows" project providing an open-source OS with Windows driver and application compatibility...
F2FS With Now Handle Multi-Device Flushes In Parallel With Linux 7.3
Coming in as a late pull request ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window closing this weekend were the Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates that have now made it into Linux Git...
GNOME's Very Exciting Week From Flatpak Funding To Reset Recovery Plus Apps
This week was extremely eventful in the GNOME space with GPU reset recovery for GNOME Mutter now largely wrapped up and the merge request opened to facilitate the code review. There was also the announcement of the half million Euro Sovereign Tech Agency investment into Flatpak. Plus on the application side were a few more interesting advancements this week.'..
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.
California Passes AB-1856 For Open-Source Relief Over Age Verification
As an update to the May story about California's age verification law may end up exempting most Linux distributions, that AB-1856 bill has finally passed!..
SteamOS 3.9 Preview Moves To Linux 7.2, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop
In time for the weekend Linux gamers, Valve last night released the first preview of SteamOS 3.9 for the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and other devices. This early preview comes with some exciting software updates...
Linux 7.3 UBI Adds Support For Per-Device Wear-Leveling Thresholds
The Unsorted Block Images "UBI" layer in the Linux kernel for NAND flash memory tracking and wear leveling finally has the notion of per-device wear-leveling thresholds...
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems
Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range
At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads
Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487341 Points: 223 # Comments: 77
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StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator
Article URL: https://github.com/stemdeckapp/stemdeck Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486081 Points: 187 # Comments: 57
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Debian Votes To Allow "Responsible Use Of Generative AI"
The voting is over and there is a winner now known in the much-debated Debian General Resolution voting over an AI policy for the Linux distribution...
Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework
Article URL: https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485267 Points: 360 # Comments: 96
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Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name
Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule.
Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August
Cancellations have accelerated.
"RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster
RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83.
Union QtWidgets Sees Initial Release For Advancing KDE Plasma's Union
Premiering in KDE Plasma 6.7 was Union as the new CSS-based style/theming engine for Plasma. Union ultimately aims to address KDE's fragmented ways of styling apps. As a step closer to that goal, there is now the initial release of Union for QtWidgets support...
Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website
More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters
How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system?
Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense
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)...
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
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
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: 787 # Comments: 198
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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
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
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...
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them
"It just felt like the right thing to do."
EVE Online moves to Python 3
Article URL: https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433328 Points: 236 # Comments: 123
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SQLite as a Document Database (2020)
Article URL: https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426995 Points: 126 # Comments: 32
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Glacier Mice
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424320 Points: 209 # Comments: 44
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Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux
Article URL: https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49415386 Points: 189 # Comments: 93
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