Thursday, 10 September 2026
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ReactOS Dev Gets FEX Running For x86_64 Games On This "Open-Source Windows" OS Under ARM
A ReactOS developer for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications has achieved an intriguing software stack. With the experimental ReactOS ARM64 build for running on 64-bit ARM hardware like Raspberry Pi SBCs, he's paired that "open-source Windows" OS with the open-source FEX emulator for in turn being able to run Windows…
Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models
US urges AI firms to ID, then secretly switch, Chinese users to less-capable models.
Apple's long-rumored foldable becomes reality with the $2,000 iPhone Duo
Apple's first foldable can be yours next month.
When it comes to Beatles references, scientists can't let it be
New study detects 3,200 references to Beatles song titles and lyrics in academic papers.
Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs
Four women sue Amazon, say company denied basic accommodations and fired them.
Apple debuts $129 AirPods 5 with better noise cancellation and transparency mode
AirPods 5 with noise cancellation is cheaper than its predecessor.
Apple starts preorders for Watch Series 12, Ultra 4 with new Health Sensing System
New Apple Intelligence features, too.
The quick guide to fall vaccines and when you should get them
Here are the evidence-based recommendations and this year's vaccine rollout.
iPhone Duo
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630931 Points: 433 # Comments: 1002
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Apple Watch Series 12
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/introducing-apple-watch-series-12-with-the-all-new-health-sensing-system/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630566 Points: 129 # Comments: 114
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AirPods 5
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-active-noise-cancellation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630253 Points: 208 # Comments: 162
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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro adds variable camera aperture and a more powerful chip
There's also a new thermal management system, reducing overheating.
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-debuts-iphone-18-pro-and-iphone-18-pro-max/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630151 Points: 137 # Comments: 94
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Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution
UN-backed Equal Earth map has educational value but won’t alter navigation apps.
Anthropic researcher quits with a warning: Self-improving AI could "kill us all"
"We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!"
Prime Video releases full trailer for Mike Flanagan's Carrie
"All I ever wanted was to go to school."
Google's AI genome system evaluates every possible one-base change
Most one-base changes to the human genome do nothing, but a few are significant.
Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On The First Available Ryzen AM5 Motherboard
Earlier this year the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm ported AMD openSIL CPU open-source silicon initialization library and Coreboot to an EPYC motherboard, the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. Their next feat now achieved is bringing AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a desktop AMD Ryzen motherboard with their downstream Dasharo firmware solution. I have been running this alternative firmware on the MSI PRO B850P…
Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs
Article URL: https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2026/09/2026-ddos-attack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628614 Points: 105 # Comments: 34
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GNU Radio in the browser
Article URL: https://gnuradioworld.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628576 Points: 131 # Comments: 16
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XWayland 26.1 RC2 Released For Testing With More Fixes
Following last month's initial release candidate of XWayland 26.1 with its many new features, a second release candidate is now available with a number of fixes...
No Man's Sky Cosmos
Article URL: https://www.nomanssky.com/cosmos-update/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628493 Points: 172 # Comments: 189
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Planet Labs' open satellite feed
Article URL: https://tech.marksblogg.com/planet-labs-open-satellite-feed.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628429 Points: 103 # Comments: 21
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UK government says Fujitsu won't use framework places to chase new customers
Procurement officials promise to police the scandal-hit supplier's voluntary bidding moratorium
System76 Launches The Thelio Mira AI With AMD Ryzen + NVIDIA Or AMD Graphics
System76 today unveiled their newest desktop computer as the Thelio Mira AI. The System76 Thelio Mira AI is designed for multi-GPU AI training, model fine-tuning, AI inferencing, computer vision and image generation tasks on tthe AI side. Or with its AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPU and NVIDIA/AMD GPU options is also a good candidate for simulations and other HPC-type workloads...
OpenSSL 4.1 Alpha 1 Released With DTLS 1.3, GREASE & More AVX-512 Optimizations
The first alpha release of the upcoming OpenSSL 4.1 release is now available for testing with some GREASE and DTLS 1.3 support along with more AVX-512 performance optimizations...
GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
Article URL: https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627370 Points: 246 # Comments: 95
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NVIDIA 615.71.09 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements
NVIDIA today debuted the 615.71.09 Linux driver that comes with a number of improvements, especially from the Vulkan API perspective...
NOAA is putting commercial fishing ahead of conservation
Critics say the new agenda could weaken science-based rules and marine protections.
Cryptocrook ringleader, 22, who met crew on Minecraft admits role in $245M heist
Stolen funds bought mansions, private jets, and supercars – now he faces up to 20 years
What will our economic future look like?
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/econ-scenarios Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626373 Points: 114 # Comments: 174
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Shopify acquires Tailwind
Article URL: https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626190 Points: 703 # Comments: 295
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A Nice Improvement Coming For Faster Btrfs Zstd Decompression
In addition to the still-pending kernel work for improving the in-kernel Zstd code, sepaarately the Btrfs file-system driver has an improvement on the way in its decompression code path for the Zstd transparent file-system compression...
WeChat worm could pwn a friend before they even answered the call
Calif says AI helped turn a VoIP memory bug into cross-platform RCE before Tencent shut it down
Microsoft closes the book on Publisher and unplugs Project Online
Office 2021 joins the October retirement list as customers weigh pricier alternatives
How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
Article URL: https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624856 Points: 309 # Comments: 188
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Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
Article URL: https://desertant.com/blog/introducing-desert-ant-labs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624823 Points: 334 # Comments: 85
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Security boffin claims airport group left API keys in client-side JavaScript for four years
Researcher believes overprivileged Iterable creds exposed 8.8M customer records – and could have enabled mass deletion
Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.
Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider
Users given 45 days to save their mail or sign up with Junara
AMD Posts New GCC Compiler Patch For Extended Load Optimization
It's nice seeing a new GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patch out of AMD today that is a general optimization for the x86_64 compiler code and not exclusively tied to their Zen processors. It's an Extended Load Optimization to benefit code where there is a narrower type and then an arithmetic type with a wider type...
Experimental Patches Get Nouveau+NVK Working On NVIDIA DGX Spark GB10
Red Hat's David Airlie has managed another open-source graphics engineering feat... Getting the Nouveau reverse-engineered kernel graphics driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver running on the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with the DGX Spark system...
YSERVER 1.5 Released With Reverse PRIME Support & Other New Features
Announced a few months back was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in the Rust programming language. In getting the project off the ground quickly and given the size of X11, it was largely vibe coded with Claude Code. The project continues and is attracting contributions from more users with today marking the YSERVER 1.5 release...
Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
Article URL: https://buttondown.com/blog/lotus-notes-email Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49623937 Points: 143 # Comments: 106
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Huawei Watch D3 pumps up its health-monitoring credentials
Inflatable wrist cuff delivers 24-hour blood pressure readings, though the design remains chunky
Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
Article URL: https://opusfived.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49623754 Points: 841 # Comments: 347
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Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365
Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push
Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code
Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments
Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing
Plans 30x datacenter expansion for less than what big tech spends in a month
US claims Chinese AI companies’ core AI strategy is distilling American models
Spooks and CISA point to ‘industrial-scale distillation’ by DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese players
AI Made A Lot Of "Hideous" Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation
An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to "significant speed up" the Linux kernel build times. In the process the LLM used generated "a lot of code, much of it hideous" but in the end was used to find some very significant time savings for faster kernel builds via more task parallelization in different areas of the kernel build process...
Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 974-CVE deluge
Adobe also brought goodies to the patch party and they deserve immediate attention
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic
Vend it like Altman
Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas
See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad
systemd 262-rc2 Adds An AI Canary For Detecting Unreviewed AI/LLM Code Contributions
One week after releasing systemd 262-rc1, systemd 262-rc2 is now available with further fixes and refinements for this init system and service manager. Systemd is also the latest open-source project introducing an AI canary for aiming to detect AI/LLM-based code contributors that weren't reviewed by an actual person in advance of the pull request...
LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices
“It doesn’t cost a lot to store text forever.”
GOG brings back "big box" PC games, one printable template at a time
Preservation "goodies" also include downloadable 3D models for desktop perusal.
OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack
Researchers disclosed the cross-account trick the same day rogue agents exploited another zero-day for admin access
Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.
Bing Wallpaper app opens Harry Potter's chamber of ads
No defense against the dark arts Microsoft is practicing on your wallpaper
The universal language of space is... Star Trek? Mais oui.
"Science fiction imagines the future. We build it."
NIH to use part of its budget to pay for Department of Defense research
Money would ostensibly fund research the NIH leadership said it no longer wanted.
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...
Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Article URL: https://ai.meta.com/muse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615537 Points: 619 # Comments: 676
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Google research shows when AI agents communicate, some cheat while others tattle
DeepMind researchers propose tapping into the whistleblower tendency to keep agents in check
What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
Article URL: https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49614280 Points: 182 # Comments: 92
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Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips
Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute
Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer
Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project
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...
Floating nuclear startup Bluecore lands $50M funding before setting sail
Firm wants to take atomic power generation on a barge to wherever the need is
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...
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...
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…
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...
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...
Coyote v. Acme (1990)
https://archive.ph/KgB6h https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_vs._Acme Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586494 Points: 147 # Comments: 69
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