Friday, 11 September 2026
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Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance
Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line
Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'
Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument
Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships.
Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script
Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel!
Android can now securely migrate your logins between password managers
App support is slim right now, but Google says more are coming.
OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought
New report points finger at OpenAI bots that hijacked a German wiki for improper use of an additional 20 websites, and 14 fetching services
Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit’s looming data sale to Google
"Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.”
Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver”
The trick from Next Generation would be even more effective in real life.
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Released With Linux 7.0 HWE Stack
For those continuing to make use of the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support "LTS" series, Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS is out today as the newest point release...
Kimmel's ABC show won't air interview with Democrat because of Trump FCC threats
Talarico talk to be on YouTube to save ABC stations the hassle of dealing with FCC.
Drones deliver food and remove bodies after Nepal’s flood disaster
DJI drones that already supply Mount Everest camps assist Nepal’s flood relief.
Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks
Last month I had the chance to test the Xeon 678X workstation processor as my first hands-on opportunity with the Xeon 600 "Granite Rapids WS" series. The Intel Xeon 678X was within the HP Z4 G6i workstation and used it for a number of different benchmarks. In that HP workstation review were also some comparison points to the likes of AMD Ryzen Threadripper while in this article are some much…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler
Ahead of the stable release of Plasma 6.8 due out on 14 October that also marks the 30th anniversary of the KDE project, out today is the much anticipated beta release...
AI job cuts could come with a costly undo button
Gartner reckons nearly a third of displaced employees may be rehired by 2029 – at a premium
I have a theory that software drives people insane
Article URL: https://graybeard.ing/software-drives-people-insane/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646181 Points: 314 # Comments: 121
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NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools
Can help you pick the perfect spot for your future evil lair, or boffins make discoveries about Earth's satellite
Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex
Article URL: https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/how-big-tech-and-silicon-valley-are-transforming-military-industrial-complex Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645754 Points: 102 # Comments: 153
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Neki
Article URL: https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-neki Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645686 Points: 153 # Comments: 59
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Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
Article URL: https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645443 Points: 224 # Comments: 106
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NASA Color Trick Was Meant for Mars. Now It's Unveiling Rock Art on Earth
Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/this-nasa-color-trick-was-meant-for-mars-now-its-unveiling-rock-art-on-earth-2000809844 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645437 Points: 170 # Comments: 31
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Azure SQL Data Sync stops taking newcomers before 2027 execution
Existing customers can carry on for now, but Microsoft offers no like-for-like successor
Shopify moves back to Native from React Native
Article URL: https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643982 Points: 566 # Comments: 393
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Nscale swallows lion's share of UK datacenter investment
Tracxn credits one AI infrastructure outfit with $3.7B of sector's $5.7B haul
Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
Article URL: https://rustfoundation.org/media/guest-post-rust-is-tier-1-language-at-microsoft/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643546 Points: 503 # Comments: 277
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ShinyHunters expose 6.4M in attack on medical supplier McKesson
Have I Been Pwned logs leaked records spanning patients, staff, and providers
d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs
AI infrastructure startup joins Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu, and MediaTek as NVLink true believers
Intel BFF Driver Slated For Linux 7.4 Introduction
Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named "BFF" for the Linux kernel. This BFF driver is for a new hardware feature debuting with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors for better dealing with aging CPU silicon where some bits may become stuck over time...
Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled
Government orders independent review as carriers demand boss's resignation
List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games
Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Sony_PlayStation_digital_game_ownership_lawsuit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642531 Points: 300 # Comments: 98
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Artemis II commander and pilot become NASA's first astronaut emeriti
"Artemis II is done."
Trezor, BitBox users targeted in newsletter phishing spree
Attackers exploit legitimate mailing channels to demand crypto wallet backups
NVIDIA NVK Driver Lands Improvement To Help With Valve's Gamescope
Merged today for next quarter's Mesa 26.3 release is an improvement for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver. This latest NVK improvement benefits usage of Valve's Gamescope micro-compositor and should help with performance during game recording and remote play...
AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web
Error 1016 kept the chatbot quiet for 100 minutes while a separate resilience drill swallowed suggestion pills
X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update
We're getting closer to the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release as the first new tagged feature release since X.Org Server 21.1 debuted back in October 2021. There have been some new features, many code reverts, and many bug fixes merged over the past five years that will culminate with the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release...
GNOME 51 Adds Support For Custom Pointer Acceleration Profiles
As a last minute change ahead of next week's GNOME 51 desktop release, changes to Mutter and gsettings-desktop-schemas have now landed for supporting custom pointer acceleration profiles...
COSMIC Epoch 1.8 Provides Latest Fixes & Minor Improvements For This Rust Desktop
Released overnight was the newest version of the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment developed by System76 as part of the effort on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
GNU Automake 1.19 Released With More Than One Year Worth Of Fixes
For those continuing to use GNU Automake over the likes of Meson or CMake for your build system, Automake 1.19 is out today as the first new release in 15 months. Among the many fixes in this release is for a bug dating back 14 years...
German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration
'Realigned' project plan aims to move existing landscape to new platform to 'achieve faster progress'
Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers
Most organizations say tech independence is unrealistic – and one in ten can't replace a critical provider at all
What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640646 Points: 310 # Comments: 151
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Dental contractor set up secret account with access to 4,000 patient records then left the company
Toothless security
More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240536885387540 https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240537520615623 https://x.com/ValerioCapraro/status/2097791836269977996 , https://xcancel.com/ValerioCapraro/status/209779183626997799... https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ckaz32jwl6t2cno6fmuw2nhn/po... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639408 Points: 365 # Comments: 459
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Laptop-slinger Framework refunding customers who paid top dollar for RAM
Puts a whole new spin on ‘Cheap as chips’
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639090 Points: 878 # Comments: 495
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Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter
Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI
VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups – or migrations to rivals
Says license was never about moving VMs
Steam Client Beta Improves Big Picture Mode, Several Linux Enhancements
Tonight Valve released a big Steam client beta update with a number of new features and fixes...
Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI
Claude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's
Four groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit
A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.
Europe may finally have found a space entrepreneur who is meeting the moment
"We will not be relevant without a massive rocket at a massive cadence."
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: 1380 # Comments: 2396
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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.
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."
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…
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...
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...
Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
Article URL: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/07/hitachi-launches-co2-heat-pump-water-heaters-with-solar-friendly-tariff-controls/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627634 Points: 250 # Comments: 201
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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...
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...
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...
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...
>10x More Efficient Pretraining
Article URL: https://magic.dev/blog/pretraining# Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613072 Points: 100 # Comments: 53
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Stockfish 19
Article URL: https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2026/stockfish-19/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599992 Points: 243 # Comments: 141
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