Monday, 31 August 2026
73 stories filed.
OpenShot 4.0 Released In Adapting Video Editor UI To Qt6
OpenShot 4.0 was tagged this afternoon on GitHub as the newest major feature release to this open-source non-linear video editing application...
Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference
With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.
Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
Article URL: https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499867 Points: 175 # Comments: 48
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Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
Article URL: https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499854 Points: 274 # Comments: 263
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European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-backdoor-law-enforcement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499394 Points: 252 # Comments: 98
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Linux 7.3 Lands More Audio Workarounds For Laptops & Other Devices
Following last week's main set of sound subsystem updates for Linux 7.3 that brought a lot of new audio hardware support, a second round of sound updates were merged this weekend ahead of today's Linux 7.3-rc1 release...
The Challenges In Bringing AMD ROCm To FreeBSD
This summer an intern with the FreeBSD Foundation worked on porting AMD ROCm to FreeBSD. The internship is concluding while the FreeBSD ROCm code is almost to the stage of being able to perform simple vector addition workloads...
Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498978 Points: 175 # Comments: 205
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METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack
Article URL: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-offer-holy-postmortem-of-the-huggingface-hack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498787 Points: 138 # Comments: 67
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AMD Zen 6 Preparations, Ryzen AI Halo LED Driver & Many Laptop Changes For Linux 7.3
The x86 platform driver changes are now in place for the Linux 7.3 kernel with additions for upcoming AMD Zen 6 hardware, the RGB LED driver controls for the Ryzen AI Halo PC, and a lot of laptop support additions and improvements for a variety of devices from different hardware vendors. Plus some handheld gaming device updates too...
Hacking IKEA Furniture
Article URL: https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497810 Points: 219 # Comments: 126
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Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.
NVIDIA Vulkan Frame Rate Up-Conversion "FRUC" Merged To FFmpeg
Upstreamed to the FFmpeg multimedia driver code this weekend is support for Frame Rate Up-Conversion "FRUC" making use of the NVIDIA Vulkan Optical Flow extension...
The "KVM Chainsaw" Clean-Up Merged For Linux 7.3 Along With Other Fixes
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine "KVM" changes have landed for the Linux 7.3 merge window that is wrapping up later today...
Linux 7.3 Introduces 8250_mxpcie Driver For Moxa PCIe Multi-Port Serial Boards
The TTY/Serial code changes for Linux 7.3 were merged this week and include dropping the dated IPWireless driver while introducing the new 8250_mxpcie driver...
Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel
Article URL: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496918 Points: 180 # Comments: 75
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Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats
Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496782 Points: 178 # Comments: 51
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RTL8723BS Driver Continues Dominating The Staging Area Activity For Linux 7.3
Upstreamed back in 2017 for Linux 4.12 was the RTL8723BS driver in the kernel's staging area. Nine years later it remains in staging and remains a frequent target for clean-ups and code improvements as it tries to work its way out...
Bug Blindness
Article URL: https://danluu.com/bug-blind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494520 Points: 378 # Comments: 239
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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...
Creepy Crawlies
Article URL: https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791 Points: 591 # Comments: 298
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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…
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
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...
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpj6r6CjJf8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49463888 Points: 259 # Comments: 130
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RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython
Article URL: https://blog.python.org/2026/08/riscv-now-officially-supported/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425252 Points: 288 # Comments: 52
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What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s
Article URL: https://askmike.org/articles/ai-coding-lessons-in-the-90s-from-my-dad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49419381 Points: 107 # Comments: 52
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