Wednesday, 09 September 2026
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Supreme Court forces TV stations to sell more election ads at steep discounts
Republican victory means stations must offer lowest ad prices to political parties.
DLSS5VKLayer Wires Up NVIDIA DLSS 5 For Native Linux Games & Steam Play
An interesting new open-source project for those looking to make use of NVIDIA DLSS 5 on Linux is DLSS5VKLayer. The DLSS5VKLayer is a Linux Vulkan layer that works for both native Linux games as well as Steam Play (Proton) Windows games for experimental DLSS 5 support...
Top chipmakers embrace ASML’s $400M machines, agree to crucial chipmaking change
Chipmaking changes could boost productivity of new ASML machines by 40 percent.
Godzilla Minus Zero IMAX trailer teases King Ghidorah
Director Takashi Yamazaki's hotly anticipated sequel takes place two years after 2023 film's events.
“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens
Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.
ChatGPT Images 2.5
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49614720 Points: 195 # Comments: 236
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Update to Google’s AI weather model improves forecast accuracy
Like traditional weather models, it benefits from an expanded set of inputs.
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613262 Points: 757 # Comments: 549
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KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Commit-Timing Protocol Support
Merged today to the latest KDE KWin compositor development code is support for Wayland's important commit-timing protocol that is useful for video playback as well as for gamers relying on Adaptive-Sync/FreeSync support...
Google complies with EU rules for travel searches, says the new results stink
The EU continues to go after Google search practices it sees as anticompetitive.
The White House made a "Tetris" clone. The Tetris Company was not amused.
Trump admin's propaganda "arcade" hits some apparent legal limits.
Floating nuclear startup Bluecore lands $50M funding before setting sail
Startup wants to take atomic power generation on a barge to wherever the need is
The secret to protecting next-gen spacecraft might be eggshells
3D-printed aluminum eggshell arrays filled with water proved more effective at impact resistance.
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/991190/lg-tv-spying-standby-recording-wi-fi-scanning-gamers-nexus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612329 Points: 407 # Comments: 225
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The Linux Kernel Planning To Remove Around ~55k Lines Of Old ARM Platform Code
For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms. The removal of that now deprecated code is planned for the next kernel cycle or two...
The combat demo for Free Stars: Children of Infinity is out, and it's free
Blast your opponents in 1v1 arcade space battles like it's 1992 all over again.
Boston Scientific left nursing its bottom line after cyberattack
Medical device giant warns August intrusion will hit Q3 and full-year sales and earnings as recovery drags on
ASML and TSMC want bigger masks for smaller chips
Industry push aims to eliminate stitching constraints and ready high-NA EUV systems for production by 2033
How to secure hybrid meeting rooms without sacrificing user experience
SPONSORED FEATURE: With regulators tightening rules and attack surfaces widening, meeting-room kit must bake in security without pushing users toward workarounds
Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/alphagenome-atlas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611251 Points: 386 # Comments: 99
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Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/qwen38-27b-quantizations-benchmarked/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611128 Points: 155 # Comments: 85
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The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
Article URL: https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/30/the-two-christian-saints-who-are-secretly-the-buddha/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611051 Points: 161 # Comments: 92
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DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/a-secretive-dhs-predictive-policing-unit-is-analyzing-americans-financial-habits-and-pulling-them-over/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610988 Points: 281 # Comments: 157
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Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/08/paramount-caught-using-astroturf-group-to-drum-up-fake-support-for-merger/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610900 Points: 281 # Comments: 90
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LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection
Claims follow scrutiny over monitors installing adware without user consent
I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
Article URL: https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610631 Points: 189 # Comments: 153
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CHUWI UniBook With Intel Wildcat Lake For A $449 Linux-Friendly Laptop
CHUWI recently launched the UniBook laptop powered by the Intel Core 3 304 "Wildcat Lake" SOC and priced at just $449 USD. Especially with today's high component pricing, a brand new sub-$500 laptop is extremely rare. Rather than using some dated SoC, it uses Wildcat Lake as Intel's new value option alternative to the Core 3 Series Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs.
DaVinci Resolve 21.1 Released - Now With AI Assistant Integration
For those using the Linux-friendly DaVinci Resolve video editing and color correction/grading and visual effects software, DaVinci Resolve 21.1 is out today as a major update to this cross-platform solution...
EV batteries last longer than drivers feared
Study suggests used vehicles can retain about 90% of original usable battery capacity after 150,000 km.
DaVinci Resolve 21.1
Article URL: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20260908-03 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610181 Points: 297 # Comments: 130
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Show HN: Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software
Article URL: https://copperhead.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610059 Points: 174 # Comments: 67
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BigBear phishing crew nets thousands of Microsoft 365 credentials
Researchers got inside the crooks' admin panel and found 5,137 stolen records tied to 461 organizations
New Patches Provide HDMI 1.4 3D Mode Support For AMD Radeon Graphics On Linux
It turns out one of the feature limitations of the AMDGPU Linux graphics driver is HDMI 1.4 3D output support with frame packing, top-and-bottom, and side-by-side options for transmitting simultaneous video streams. I wasn't aware of this limitation for the lack of any 3D displays and many Linux enthusiasts/gamers as well, but if you happen to have a compatible HDMI 1.4 3D display, there are…
Mistral bags €3B to build Europe's sovereign AI champion
Samsung-led round values the French model maker at more than €21B
With another huge infusion of cash, Stoke Space goes even bigger
The space economy will grow exactly as fast as we can launch rockets.
Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns
Companies 'don't want their IP exposed, so they're willing to pay'
UK energy operator sticks with Palantir in £21M direct award
Proprietary platform keeps incumbent in place while NESO prepares a future competition
Linux 7.4 To Support Realtek RTL8127atf & RTL8116af Networking
Queued this past week into the net-next development tree of the latest networking additions for the Linux kernel is enabling support for Realtek's newer RTL8127atf and RTL8116af wired networking ASICs...
Grindr pays £26M to settle UK privacy class action
Dating app admits no liability over allegations that it shared sensitive user data, including HIV status, with third parties
DirectX Support Promoted To Official Target Within LLVM
Over the past four years there has been a lot of work on a DirectX back-end within the LLVM compiler stack. Microsoft has backed the initiative for being able to lower LLVM IR into the DirectX Intermediate Language (DXIL) for execution by Windows DirectX 12 graphics drivers. This back-end is now officially supported...
FEX 2609 Released With Speedier JIT Performance, JIT Disk Cache Option
FEX 2609 was released overnight as the newest monthly feature release for this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Steam and Steam Play (Proton) for enabling Windows games to run rather well on ARM64 Linux systems...
LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions
With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD, and RMPCHKD instructions for Zen 5 and newer...
Getting your hands dirty is good for you
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260904-how-getting-your-hands-dirty-boosts-your-health-within-weeks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608023 Points: 189 # Comments: 163
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Whitehall's latest plan to get things done: Less Whitehall
Ministers declare war on an 'industry of dither and delay' as consultations, legal caution, and judicial reviews get the chop
Britain reboots its space strategy with £7.8B already on the launchpad
Cross-government plan combines civil ambitions with an increasingly military view of orbit
Arm pushes agentic AI and desktop-quality graphics in next-gen phone platform
New CPU and GPU designs chase lower latency and richer games within a 1 W power budget
HPE makes its “unified storage” claim real as B10000 R6 hits GA
PARTNER CONTENT: Pairs block and adjacent file workloads with independent scaling of performance and capacity
‘Global reckoning’ is coming for big tech, says Australian minister
Introduces 'digital duty of care' that will mean Aussies get ‘my feed, my way’ – without algorithms if requested
Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
Article URL: https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915 Points: 719 # Comments: 355
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Huawei proudly shows off an entirely un-American chip
Resistance is futile
There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis
Article URL: https://weirdgloop.org/blog/google-jail Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604870 Points: 491 # Comments: 204
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FreeBSD 14.5 Released With Hardware Support Improvements, Many Bug & Security Fixes
For those that haven't yet made the move to FreeBSD 15 with still relying on FreeBSD 14 in production, out today is FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE...
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…
The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades
Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/09/07/the-helicopter-with-radioactive-blades/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600901 Points: 111 # Comments: 26
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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
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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."
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.
Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.
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.