Tuesday, 22 September 2026
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Gravity Linux Aims To Provide A Nice Experience For Apple M4 & Newer
There's a new Linux distribution focused on supporting Linux on Apple Silicon Macs. Gravity Linux is this new distribution that is a spin of Fedora Remix and is catering to the still-experimentally-supported Apple M4 Macs and newer. In addition to leveraging Asahi Linux code and reverse engineering, Gravity Linux also leverages OpenAI Codex and Claude Code...
The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-mars-sample-return-mission-dead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791939 Points: 103 # Comments: 51
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Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts
'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face
Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing
'A new category,' insists the Chocolate Factory, not a premium Chromebook - yet some of the family resemblance remains
US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/faa-halts-some-us-east-coast-flights-due-communication-issues-2026-09-21/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791509 Points: 105 # Comments: 64
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Patches Posted For Enabling Apple Silicon Mac Speaker & Headset Jack Support On Linux
While the downstream Asahi Linux kernel has offered working speaker support and headset jack capabilities on Apple Silicon Macs, the mainline Linux kernel hasn't supported this functionality. But a set of 28 patches sent out today on the Linux kernel mailing list are working toward mainlining this important functionality for using Apple Macs on the upstream Linux desktop...
Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac
Article URL: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/turn-restrict-access-apple-intelligence-mchlb2e44f94/mac Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790409 Points: 147 # Comments: 92
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Nebula Matrix Network Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4
NBL is a new Ethernet networking driver destined to premiere in the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel for supporting Nebula Matrix NICs...
London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street
Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO
Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies in May 2026
A third-party cybersecurity firm accidentally gave experimental Gemini models access to the Internet.
Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land
Forrester predicts operators will face tariffs, grid commitments, and tougher community scrutiny
California settles lawsuit against Paramount/Warner merger, angering advocates
State AGs had "very strong" case that merger is illegal, Lina Khan says.
Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August
Article URL: https://twitter.com/Lon/status/2101793422487204027 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789224 Points: 266 # Comments: 181
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AWS bolts together open source agent harness, says it sips fewer tokens than rivals
Strands claims near-parity with Claude Code and Codex on benchmarks, though it only raced coding agents and marked its own homework
Grok 4.7
Article URL: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49788838 Points: 379 # Comments: 321
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Trump rejects AI slowdown calls, launches "AI Force" instead
The president offered few details on what his proposed new AI Force would do.
RansomHouse picks a fight with Namibia's defense establishment
National cyber team confirms the breach, but not whether data was stolen or encrypted
AMD EPYC Server Performance Up ~8% Geo Mean For 2026 With Linux Kernel Improvements
With the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel showing some nice performance improvements over Linux 7.2 in different areas, Linux 7.2 also having brought some nice gains especially for I/O, and the preceding kernels also having seen some nice performance optimizations this year, I wanted to measure how far the Linux kernel performance has evolved so far in 2026. Today's article is looking at that…
Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty
Modeling suggests liquid-cooled designs can halve water consumption, though the company has skin in the game
Attention is all you have
Article URL: https://alicegg.tech/2026/09/21/attention Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787726 Points: 407 # Comments: 121
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macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/1vlnf13/workaround_to_avoid_downloading_ai_models_and/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787535 Points: 163 # Comments: 77
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What Sun got wrong
Article URL: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/what-sun-got-wrong/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787436 Points: 401 # Comments: 221
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Review: Neagley is a worthy spinoff to megahit Reacher
It's a bit uneven in execution but still delivers as fast-paced, entertaining escapist fare.
M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review
Article URL: https://www.macstories.net/stories/m5-ultra-mac-studio-review-the-dream-mac-for-local-ai-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787313 Points: 197 # Comments: 182
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Python Workers are now generally available
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-ga/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49787142 Points: 135 # Comments: 18
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Amazon shows Meta's Muse AI shopping agent the door
Retailer cites credentials and transparency concerns while guarding its lucrative customer journey
Patches Posted With Aim To Mainline Linux Kernel Support For The Amazon Kindle 4
Amazon released the Kindle 4 back in 2011 with a 6-inch E-ink display, 2GB internal storage, and running a modified version of Linux. In the years since the Amazon Kindle 4 has been jail-broken and there are some customized Linux distributions with a patched kernel to run on the Kindle 4. Now in 2026 there are patches on the Linux kernel mailing list looking to mainline support for that fifteen…
Apple Mac mini review: The new M6 impresses, but the price hike is rough
The M4 Mac mini was one of Apple's best values. The $899 M6 mini, not so much.
Googlebooks launch October 4 starting at $899—here are the five models you can preorder today
Googlebooks offer premium hardware and deep smartphone integration, but you may not like the price.
Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips
Article URL: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2380887#p2380888 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786689 Points: 193 # Comments: 155
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Clop gets a taste of its own medicine after ShinyHunters hijack leak site
Rival crew demands eight figures and threatens to expose companies that paid to keep quiet
NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon
Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner's future remains uncertain
Orphaned VMs: Running VMs Uninterrupted While Host Kernel Is Offline For Reboots/Updates
Here's some very intriguing work taking place by a Google engineer... With the hyperscalers and other cloud providers pushing for zero-downtime, a set of experimental patches for "Orphaned VMs" allow for the virtual machines to continue to run while the host kernel is offline for security updates or rebooting with the Live Update Orchestrator. The experimental patches and request for feedback…
GNU Wget 2.3 Released With --progress=dot, OS/2 Improvements
GNU Wget2 is up to version 2.3 today with the first new release of 2026 for this popular command-line tool for non-interactive file downloading and being able to easily fetch website contents...
American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient
US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey – datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth
Rustaceans warned of job interviews with a malicious payload
Attackers are courting crate owners with plausible company profiles and booby-trapped recruitment calls
AMD BC-250 Continues Being Improved Under Linux With Patches Now Enabling The PSP
The AMD BC-250 as the product designed at the time for cryptocurrency mining and based on a cut-down Sony PlayStation 5 APU continues having an interesting second-life being re-tasked for Linux use from general purpose workloads to AI. Sent out this weekend were the latest Linux kernel patches for continuing to enable more of the BC-250...
Igalia Celebrates 25 Years Of Advancing Linux & Open-Source
The Igalia Linux/open-source consulting firm based out of A Coruña, Spain is celebrating twenty five years of contributions to upstream open-soure projects...
Linux's Perf Script Command Much Faster With Overhaul As Python Module
A big patch series sent out this weekend for the Linux kernel's perf subsystem removes the embedded Python and Perl scripting in favor of standalone Python scripts with a new Python perf module. This perf module for Python written in C is much faster than the status quo...
It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity
Please release me, let me close...
Salesforce wants to charge for AI outcomes, but first it needs to figure out how
Seats, Flex Credits, and all-you-can-eat contracts make for an 'anxiety-filled architecture'
Your cloud survived everything except the real world
War damage, air traffic chaos, and a storage shortage expose the cost of treating resilience as someone else's problem
Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
Article URL: https://github.com/jaredpalmer/kev/tree/main Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783999 Points: 347 # Comments: 162
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VMware has quietly walked back its SmartNIC ambitions
Virtzilla’s bet on hyperscale hardware going mainstream didn’t excite customers, but may live on
Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on
Attempt to prove procurement prowess ended up gathering dust
Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]
Article URL: http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2008/11/13/GrimPuzzleDoc_small.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783495 Points: 344 # Comments: 81
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Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal
Quits enterprise networking hardware business, tells users to install on-prem software ASAP
Heretic removes restrictions from language models
Article URL: https://heretic-project.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783101 Points: 202 # Comments: 87
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Google joins the ‘Oops, our agents hacked someone’ club after partner’s internet access error
Kept it secret for months - even after OpenAI 'fessed up
Chinese memory-maker CXMT claims DRAM production breakthrough
PLUS: Toyota's robot hiring spree; China's CDNs struggle; India to charge for some UPI payments; and more!
Linux 7.3-rc4 Released: More Fixes Caught By LLMs, But Nothing Too Scary
Linus Torvalds announced the release today of Linux 7.3-rc4. As usual for recent months, the fixes continue to be quite heavy and scattered all over the place driven in large part by AI/LLMs spotting various code defects. Overall though Linus Torvalds isn't too worried about Linux 7.3-rc4...
Important x86 Fixes Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.3-rc4
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel release due out in the coming hours, an important batch of x86/x86_64 fixes have been merged to address a few outstanding issues...
Gzip 1.15 Released With Many Bug Fixes For Issues Present Since Its Inception
Gzip 1.15 is out today for succeeding the Gzip 1.14 release from April 2025. With this release comes a number of fixes for bugs present since the beginning of Gzip...
KDE To Focus On Next-Gen Styling, Better Documentation & KDE For Enterprise
At the KDE Akademy 2026 conference going on right now in Graz, Austria the three KDE goals for the next two years were unveiled...
An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang
Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP's inner circle.
AI-Assisted Starling Desktop Introduces 3D View With "Walkable 3D Waterfront City"
From a few months ago you may recall Starling as the new Linux desktop written with its own Wayland compositor, using the Swift programming language, and written in large part via AI with Claude Code. Out today is Starling 0.5 with this desktop now gaining an optional 3D desktop mode...
Vulkan 1.4.363 Released With New VK_INTEL_device_info Extension
Vulkan 1.4.363 is out as the latest routine update to the Vulkan API specification and also introduces a new Intel vendor extension...
Linux 7.3 Adds Support For Victrix Pro BFG & Azeron Controllers
Sent out this morning were a big batch of input subsystem fixes ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel releasing later today. Alongside many bug fixes to different drivers is also expanding the range of supported gaming controllers by the XPad driver...
Don't call it an SUV: The Ferrari Purosangue review
Unlike previous Ferrari four-seaters, this one is better for humans than cargo.
T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant
Isotope ratios provide a hint that the giants were actively managing temperatures.
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Linux 7.3-rc4 To Address Two Unfortunate Bugs With Btrfs
Merged today were this week's set of Btrfs file-system fixes for the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel, which include two notable bug fixes...
Simple Optimization For Linux 7.4 Can Open Files For Reading ~39% Faster
More than two years in the making, Linux 7.4 is poised to introduce a patch that amounts to a rather simple optimization to avoid unnecessary/duplicative work that can net some nice gains when opening files for reading...
Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy
Research suggests that bilingualism can offer cognitive benefits.
Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade
Chariklo is only about 250 km across, but it has two rings, and they're changing.
AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
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.
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.
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.
Rocket Report: China wants a Raptor 3 engine; SpaceX set for big Starship test
“I can tell you SpaceX has already gone captive."