Saturday, 19 September 2026
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Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan
Valve's Steam Frame VR headset that makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with Adreno graphics is using the open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver from Mesa as reported last year. For OpenGL it turns out that the Mesa Zink driver is being used on the Steam Frame for OpenGL atop the Vulkan API...
FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion
FAA plans for AI tool to help manage DC air traffic before a nationwide rollout.
Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758736 Points: 131 # Comments: 54
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FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar
FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.
Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep
Rare cells with widespread connectivity seem to be able to trigger sleep.
US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"
The Federal Register website briefly used an open source Chinese AI search tool.
US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757520 Points: 254 # Comments: 192
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Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts
Agentic exploits for the win (again)
Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug
Article URL: https://donjon.ledger.com/blog/rp2350-secure-debug-laser-fault-injection/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757050 Points: 111 # Comments: 33
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North Korea's fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices
WaterPlum recruiters used bogus coding tests to backdoor jobseekers and raid more than 7,000 crypto wallets
Google's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust
Google's Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first "real" drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel…
FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B
AI, fake uniforms, and mock offices help crooks sell the con
Apple Video Decode Driver Posted For Upstream Linux Kernel Review
The latest Apple Silicon enablement code working its way from the Asahi Linux project toward the upstream Linux kernel is the AVD driver used for accelerated video playback across Apple M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs...
Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode
Legacy web apps have guaranteed shelter only through 2029, and Redmond warns modernization can take years
North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes
https://archive.is/xjmvA Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755160 Points: 147 # Comments: 122
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I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture
https://github.com/gaearon/conway-refinement#why-i-think-its... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755024 Points: 163 # Comments: 155
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KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal
Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
Article URL: https://try.cloudflare.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754785 Points: 413 # Comments: 188
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AMD Strix Halo Enjoys Some Performance Gains On Ubuntu 26.10, Especially With amd64v3
Ahead of next week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta release I have been testing the "Stonking Stingray" on a variety of systems. Ubuntu 26.10 is performing well overall with some nice upgrades over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, especially if opting to use the new snapshot/daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 in amd64v3 form for x86_64-v3 packages. In today's tests are a look at the performance benefits of Ubuntu 26.10 on an AMD…
Meet the winner of Nikon's Small World in Motion video contest
Ning Xu of Tsinghua University captured tiny cilia beating in airways of a child with rare respiratory disorder.
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI
Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.
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If you missed out on the Phoronix Premium special back during the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com in June, there is another promotion now active for helping to support the site and allow for continued daily original content and relentless Linux performance benchmarking and other open-sourced focused hardware testing...
Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly
Hotfix covers only Excel 2016 and may still come unstuck around conditional formatting
Linux Ready With Fix For Intel's FRED Crashing Some Games Under Wine / Steam Play
Recently there have been some bug reports to Mesa around Intel Panther Lake graphics crashing with some games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elden Ring crashing or freezing quite quickly. This turns out not to be an Intel Xe3 Arc Graphics B390 driver bug with Panther Lake but rather due to a kernel issue with the new Flexible and Return Event Delivery "FRED" that debuted with the Core Ultra…
The ideal database for AI agents doesn't exist yet, says Percona CEO
Iterative workloads caught vendors off guard, but requirements for a clean-slate solution remain unclear
I don't like passkeys
Article URL: https://hawksley.dev/blog/i-dont-like-passkeys Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49753211 Points: 672 # Comments: 654
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Former Labour deputy Tom Watson joins Palantir as £330M NHS deal nears break point
US spy-tech firm insists its new UK senior vice president is there to 'build things, not to open doors'
Rocket Report: China wants a Raptor 3 engine; SpaceX set for big Starship test
“I can tell you SpaceX has already gone captive."
Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop Adjusting Its Behavior Under Memory Pressure
The Ubuntu 26.10 desktop is adjusting its default out-of-memory (OOM) daemon behavior when dealing with memory pressure on the system...
KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insulting
AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing teams caught in latest reshaping of Big Four consultancy's Advisory arm
Linux Kernel Build Times Ready To Be Significantly Reduced With Latest Patches
The past few weeks we have eagerly been following a Linux kernel patch series after AI found some major bottlenecks in the Linux kernel build code. With AI helping to address these bottlenecks, Linux kernel build times are substantially reduced. These optimizations might be ready in time for Linux 7.4 for reducing incremental kernel build times as much as around 70%.
AMD Sends In More HDMI FRL Updates For Linux 7.4, Fixes For Upcoming Hardware
Linux 7.4 is set to be a very exciting holiday gift for AMD Radeon graphics customers. As covered last week on Phoronix, with this next kernel AMD Is enabling HDMI 2.1 support by default now that FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM support is included too. This week another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were sent out ahead of the Linux 7.4 merge window in October...
Intel Appears To End Its Bug Bounty Program
Amid a boom of bug reporting in general due to AI/LLMs across the entire software ecosystem, Intel this week appears to have ended its paid bug bounty program. They have (re)launched a new bug reporting program but with the bounties removed...
OpenJev
Article URL: https://openjev.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752041 Points: 473 # Comments: 231
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British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky
Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas
Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up
Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed
Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill
When wires and wireless mix, the combination can be electric
Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud
Article URL: https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750694 Points: 210 # Comments: 83
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AI risks make some insurers wary of corporate liability
RAND wants better data to price machine-made mishaps, apocalypse not included
AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users
Improved signup experience for ‘AI builders’ hides complexity and includes spending cap
Jemalloc 5.4.0
Article URL: https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/releases/tag/5.4.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750152 Points: 309 # Comments: 82
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The scourge of x86 emulation
Article URL: https://fex-emu.com/Scourge-of-emulation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750094 Points: 260 # Comments: 73
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A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
Article URL: https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-openai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749656 Points: 456 # Comments: 192
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USA’s Venezuela takeover comes with bonus exposure to Chinese AI surveillance tech
Think tank points out that companies banned by Washington will help run the regime that Uncle Sam now controls
OpenCL 3.1.2 Released With cl_khr_command_buffer Promoted
The Khronos Group today released the newest revision of the OpenCL specification with a handful of changes...
Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash
Hey HN, Henry from Cactus here. We submitted Needle 2 here a few weeks ago, and the feedback in the discussion thread was incredibly valuable, thanks! Thanks to all that feedback, we’ve been able to move quickly to release Needle 3 and I'd love to hear what you think again.
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Marvell pushes GlobalFoundries to light up wafer production
It might be the next trillion-dollar company, but it'll need some help on the supply side to do it
AI coding agents' 0-click RCE flaw could hand attackers keys to the kingdom
Plugin4Shell attack affects all the major coding agents, researchers say
Jemalloc 5.4 Released With Portability Improvements, Code Cleanups
Earlier this year Meta announced a renewed investment into the jemalloc memory allocator that's been popular for server and HPC use among various desktop use-cases too. After stagnating a bit in recent years, Jemalloc has been off to seeing new developments since Meta's announcement and out today is Jemalloc 5.4 as the latest step forward...
RFK Jr. names 8 new members to influential preventive medicine task force
The USPSTF sets insurance coverage for preventive services, like colonoscopies.
Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets
Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.
How to Write with an LLM
Article URL: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747070 Points: 300 # Comments: 211
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Huawei's next-gen Ascend NPUs could become China's best option
960DT is set to arrive early, boasting performance far exceeding anything the West could offer the Middle Kingdom
C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
Article URL: https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/09/16/cpp26-trivial-infinite-loops Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746406 Points: 107 # Comments: 137
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Google announces new experimental "CC" AI agent for families
Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
DoE seeking fault-tolerant quantum computer ... by 2028
Entrants get $250K upfront to deliver a demo within a year, which sounds totally feasible given quantum computing's track record
Researchers find way to listen in on headphones from afar
Eve's dropping in on Alice and Bob
Intel Granite Rapids WS vs. AMD Threadripper Zen 5 SMT Performance
As a follow-up to the article earlier this month of the Intel Xeon 600 workstation performance against AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series in over 400 benchmarks -- including when carried out at the same core count and memory configuration -- today's article is exploring the Hyper Threading / SMT impact on both the Intel Redwood Cove and AMD Zen 5 cores for workstations.
Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites
Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.
Rust Issues Warning Over Key Developers Being Targeted For Compromise
The Rust security response working group and Crates.io team have issued a warning that a targeted attack is underway against key Rust programming language developers...
IV drips used for "detoxification" actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned
The IV drips included glutathione, which was not made to be injected.
2026 Hyundai Ioniq 5: Here's what we still like, here's what annoys us
It’s spacious, efficient, and charges very quickly. But what about reliability concerns?
Mojo 1.1 Released, Now Accepting Community Contributions To The Compiler
Last month Modular's Mojo language was open-sourced following the acquisition of Modular by Qualcomm. Modular was the AI startup founded by Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame. Released today was Mojo 1.1 and also marks the project recently now beginning code contributions from the community to its compiler...
Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents
Model maker commits to new framework for reporting misaligned models.
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 4 ISOs Published
The fourth monthly-ish snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is now available for testing and comes ahead of next week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta milestone...
EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plants
Public health groups warn EPA rule will cost Americans billions in health bills.
Proposal Raised To Finally Standardize Video Memory Stats Reporting Under Linux
The idea has been talked about before but in 2026 still hasn't made it to the mainline Linux kernel.... Standardized reporting of video memory statistics that would work across different vendors / kernel graphics drivers. A new proposal was raised today in an effort to get a standardized interface established...
After being sidelined, Boeing's Starliner to get starring role in NASA's spaceflight plans
"They should fly their capsule. The government paid a lot of money for that."
A dolphin named Bubbles makes other fish vomit, then eats it
"Dolphins are predators and actively hunt their prey, whether it's been stolen from another species or not.”
Fujitsu Formally Announces Their MONAKA 144 Core CPU
For two years now we have been curious about the Fujitsu MONAKA CPU since some slides about this Arm-based server processor first appeared and they upstreamed compiler support in GCC 15. This week Fujitsu formally announced the MONAKA CPU and with availability beginning in November...
Intel Compute Stack Enables LEO For Nova Lake, Introduces Intel Portable ISA "PISA"
Released today was the Intel Compute Runtime 26.35.39758.10 update for Windows and Linux systems. With this updated OpenCL and Level Zero GPU compute driver stack comes some exciting updates for this monthly feature update...
New Linux Driver Coming To Improve ASUS Zenbook Snapdragon X2 Support
For those hopeful of running Linux well on the ASUS Zenbook A14 or A16 laptops powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 SoC, a new ASUS EC driver has been developed for enhancing the support...
Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people
One hacked camera captured 1.6 million images and could detect people as well as cars.