Tuesday, 08 September 2026
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Mysterious x86 CPU Already Has APX, x86S Where Intel Left Off For Legacy-Free x86
The mystery deepens around an x86 implementation from a corporate entity other than AMD and Intel and has been making some very intriguing changes for coming from a seeming start-up. Beyond 16 tile and 32 tile AMX implementations that already surpass Intel's current Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) capabilities in shipping Xeon CPUs, new disclosures were made today concerning Advanced…
Matt Clifford to leave ARIA before Anthropic role becomes a 'distraction'
MPs welcome move but still want answers over how the conflict of interest was allowed to arise
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification
Wheels turning on the road and in government
Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
Article URL: https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-movie-maker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599481 Points: 248 # Comments: 165
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DRAM contract prices forecast to grow only 13-18% in Q3
PC buyers already had enough of helping to fund the AI revolution, only essential refreshes happening now
Nightwing CEO has a Labor Day message for staff – and apparently The Register
Nothing says ‘For internal use only’ quite like emailing it to the press
Oracle may be next in EU software licensing hot seat following SAP deal
Commission reportedly seeks third-party views, although no formal investigation is underway
Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Daily ISOs Now Being Published
As an interesting development for Ubuntu 26.10, the daily ISOs of the "Stonking Stingray" now include amd64v3 images...
bzip3
Article URL: https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49598291 Points: 323 # Comments: 91
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Hackers drain $320M in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, claim they're the good guys
Self-described white hats promise to return 'most' of the 4,000 BTC once the vulnerability is fixed
Asahi Linux takes on Apple M3, minus a few creature comforts
Most hardware works, although graphics, sleep, and external displays need more attention
Nitter lives to proxy another day after taking legal advice
Public instance XCancel uncancelled after X Corp's cease-and-desist campaign, with others promised shortly
Linux Preps For New AMD Zen 6 BTB CTX Isolation Security Feature
A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors...
Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements
Vast majority of new devices on market still don't give repair information to owners, but give themselves top marks for repairability
Welsh environment regulator's FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff
NRW says it has found no evidence data was misused after spreadsheet published in error five years ago
The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center
When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?
Nouveau Preparations For HDMI 2.1 DSC, AMD HDMI FreeSync Fixes For Linux 7.4
Last week's set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver...
Intel's Dynamic PAMT Appears Ready For Linux 7.4 To Help With TDX Memory Overhead
Intel's Dynamic PAMT feature looks like it's finally going to be ready for mainline with Linux 7.4. The Intel Dynamic PAMT is used for helping to reduce memory overhead when making use of Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) for confidential VMs...
UK food supply chain at risk from hostile attacks
Defending against cyber foes is among factors hitting food price inflation, report finds
Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux
Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin
Rustls 0.23.44 Released With ML-DSA Certificates Enabled By Default
Rustls as the modern TLS library implementation written in the Rust programming language is out with a new feature release. This morning's Rustls 0.23.44 release enables post-quantum secure ML-DSA certificates by default...
Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics
Article URL: https://mathathonchallenge.com/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596055 Points: 189 # Comments: 55
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Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs
Article URL: https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-08-23-speculative-decoding-amd-gpus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596054 Points: 119 # Comments: 40
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Peers ask why UK cyber bill leaves execs off the personal liability hook
Ministers say £17M corporate fines and forthcoming board-level governance rules provide sufficient accountability
Live map of public transport in Belgium
Article URL: https://openbaarvervoerbelgie.be/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49595865 Points: 167 # Comments: 72
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OpenAI's rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on
'The Collective' learned to communicate, organize, cheat, and apparently sacrifice its own
Amazon-branded plane in fatal accident at Miami Airport
Couldn’t stop before the end of a runway
Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire
Even the greatest scientific minds are at risk of rogue 9-pin connectors
Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry
This week on The Kettle we weigh in on Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition and why it could spell a new, more fragmented and siloed era of AI development
Keep Our Servers Running
Article URL: https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/keep-our-servers-running-your-recurring-donation-goes-3x-this-september/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593563 Points: 896 # Comments: 221
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Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds
Last week, he blamed himself for being ‘a grade A nincompoop’ who assumed a system upgrade couldn’t possibly go wrong
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals
PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more
216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs-caught-logging-au... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592375 Points: 251 # Comments: 592
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Linux 7.3-rc2 Released Following Another Busy Week
After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October...
Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Beta Brings UI Improvements, Better Audio Quality
Following the recent Shotcut stable release with a stock asset library and other improvements, Shotcut 26.9 Beta is out today with yet more improvements for this open-source video editing application for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems...
NetBSD 9.5 Released To Cap Off The Series
NetBSD 9.5 released today as the final release of the NetBSD 9 stable branch...
Linux 7.3-rc2 Scheduler Fix For Cache Aware Load Scheduling Misfits On Hybrid CPUs
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel being released later today, a set of scheduler fixes have been sent out for this week's kernel test release. Most notable with the scheduler fixes are dealing with possible misfits for Cache-Aware Load Scheduling on hybrid CPUs like Intel Core (Ultra) processors...
German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket
"We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."
Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs - With Caveats
Asahi Linux developers announced today that they are now officially supporting the Linux distribution on Apple M3 powered Macs. With the exception of the Mac Studio M3 Ultra, other M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max devices should now work with the latest Asahi Linux builds but with some feature caveats...
LLVM Developers Discuss Enabling ClangIR Build By Default
ClangIR has been in development for a number of years now as a new intermediate representation for the Clang compiler. ClangIR makes use of MLIR and is higher-level than LLVM IR. With ClangIR able to preserve more C/C++ source semantics, its usage can lead to better diagnostics, code/static analysis, and more performance optimizations compared to everything lowered straight away from AST to LLVM…
Linux 7.3-rc2 Transitions More kmalloc Calls To The Superior kmalloc_obj
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel release due out later today, a merge causing a lot of code churn was pulled in by Linus Torvalds. This tree-wide effort converts more of the kmalloc() function calls over to the newer and superior kmalloc_obj() family of functions...
Slackware 16 Alpha 1 Available Following GCC 16.2, Glibc 2.44 & Binutils 2.47 Upgrade
The timing on Saturday's Slackware-based Zenwalk ISO "current milestone" update is now more clear with upstream Slackware having prepared what is its first alpha release of the upcoming Slackware 16...
Farmed salmon may not be as nutritious as it once was, new research suggests
The shift in the fish’s diet is having significant downstream impacts on the environment and climate.
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium
Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour
Slackware-Based Zenwalk ISOs Updated With Linux 7.1, Flatpak Integrated + Xfce 4.20
It's been over four years since the original release of Zenwalk 15.0 while released today is a new Zenwalk Current Milestone snapshot. This Slackware-based Linux distribution with a long history has an exciting update out for testing this weekend...
Ikey Doherty Plans To Show How To "Properly" Build A Modern Linux Distro
Ikey Doherty is back in the Linux distribution space. Sort of. Ikey Doherty who was the founder of the Solus Linux distribution as well as Serpent OS (now AerynOS) as well as having been employed by Intel on their Clear Linux team is back at it again in the Linux space...
Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.
NVIDIA Posts vGPU Manager & VFIO Variant Driver For Open-Source Nova
NVIDIA continues building out more functionality around the open-source, upstream Nova kernel graphics driver within the Linux kernel. Making it out to the mailing list this Saturday is a set of 13 patches for introducing a NVIDIA vGPU manager and VFIO variant driver...
Nouveau Lands Display Fixes For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs As It Works Toward HDMI 2.1
This week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes that were merged ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc2 release contain a number of fixes to the open-source Nouveau driver's display support for current-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs...
Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo
In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop. Patches were posted this week for initial enablement of the A18 Pro and the MacBook Neo Device Tree... But even with these patches, the Linux…
AMD Working To "Push Rust Deep Into The GPU Stack"
AMD is building out what they are describing as an "elite" team of developers for driving Rust code "deep into the GPU stack" from firmware to drivers, shader compilers, and other GPU software in Rust...
After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
"It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day.
A ratings board wouldn't let Valve release a trailer. It "leaked" it instead.
"I think we can't get in trouble for that now. It's like 20 years ago."
Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed
Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice.
Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.
Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo
Saying X is “formerly Twitter” in App Store lets Musk block use of Twitter name.
Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations
"Let me be clear: America is not only welcome—we want you there."
Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO
Two of Europe's leading launch startups announced new fundraising this week.
Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+
Fairphone's CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.
Simple Is Not Small
Article URL: https://jyn.dev/simple-is-not-the-same-as-small/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558685 Points: 133 # Comments: 43
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Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.