Wednesday, 23 September 2026
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Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting
British Columbia sues OpenAI, demands Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT logs.
Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Shows A Few Improvements With AMD Strix Halo
Last week I ran some benchmarks showing performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" on Ubuntu 26.10. Then shortly after that testing on its daily state, which used the Linux 7.2 kernel, Canonical switched to Linux 7.3 as the Ubuntu 26.10 kernel. Here are some Linux 7.2 vs.
Adobe Premiere finally brings powerful video editing to Android, and it's free
You don't even need a Creative Cloud login to edit clips, but AI features cost extra.
Overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school – Pentagon
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806430 Points: 198 # Comments: 100
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Ubuntu Linux Maker Canonical Achieved $345M USD In Revenue For 2025
In 2024 Canonical generated nearly $300M USD in revenue for this company behind Ubuntu Linux and other services and software solutions. For 2025, they not only broke $300M but well exceeded it with $345M in revenue...
GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805509 Points: 705 # Comments: 392
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Review: Resident Evil might just be the best gaming adaptation yet
Director Zach Cregger's clever reboot strikes perfect balance between horror, humor, and over-the-top gore.
ABBYY gives old-school OCR a job in the AI pipeline
FineParser runs in a CPU-powered container, preserving tables and layout before handing documents to an LLM
There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117299954135808210 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804683 Points: 185 # Comments: 78
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Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced
Toyota's push comes as automakers race to develop and deploy humanoid robots.
IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records
The English hospitals recovered patient care data only.
Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-5-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804316 Points: 149 # Comments: 47
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NightmareEclipse's latest zero-day leaves Microsoft Defender stuck in the past
BigDiskBuster leaves Microsoft's antivirus running but unable to install updates
WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE
Article URL: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-7hp8-65ch-5whp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803959 Points: 101 # Comments: 52
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Claude Opus 5.5
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803892 Points: 818 # Comments: 631
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Effort begins to fill the void left by terminated US climate report
First paper added to community collection is a roadmap for research.
Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode
China’s AI darling goes on the defense after engineer highlighted Grok-esque security flaws
Shuffling the deck chairs: Xbox continues its "reset" with dramatic restructuring
Activision gets Halo , Obsidian becomes part of Bethesda, and more internal shake-ups.
Privacy group slams EU for changing the data rules to cater to AI
Schrems campaign raises specter of another legal challenge as legislators propose changes to GDPR
Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Target Limiter Proposed For Linux Graphics Drivers
A new proposal being discussed is introducing a Linux user-space API to be able to specify frame rate targets for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) handling on the Linux desktop...
UK cops arrest 2 EvilTokens suspects, Microsoft seizes 50 phishing kit websites
Used by crims to compromise 12K+ email inboxes across 10K+ global orgs
Who signed off on that AI agent? Nobody? Thought so.
SPONSORED FEATURE: AI agents may be unpredictable. Who they are, what they can do, and who owns them shouldn’t be.
OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
Article URL: https://arcturus-labs.com/blog/2026/09/21/will-openai-eat-jevs-lunch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802161 Points: 209 # Comments: 163
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Protests for Germany’s car industry as job losses loom
A combination of Chinese competition and US tariffs is causing problems in Germany.
SPEC Releases SPECviewperf 15.0.1 For Linux
SPEC back in May 2025 introduced SPECViewPerf 15 as the newest major release of this industry-standard workstation graphics benchmark. Sadly, the Linux support once again fell behind with SPECViewPerf 15 only debuting on Microsoft Windows. Today though Linux has caught up with SPEC releasing a Linux-native build of SPECViewPerf 15.0.1...
Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
Article URL: https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/i-wish-apple-would-just-stop-that-crap-apple-has-added-persistent-ads-to-ios-and-its-driving-users-crazy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801939 Points: 489 # Comments: 381
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Trump’s sneaky plan to gut Endangered Species Act draws from 1995 Scalia dissent
Trump adopts Scalia’s ire for feds protecting populations of endangered animals.
Well-done hack flames 3.2M Burger King Russia users
HIBP confirms cybercrims stuck a straw into marketing reservoir, sucking up six-years of leaky Whopper secrets
Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support
I created Drop because I always felt uneasy installing and running third-party programs using my main user account. A single compromised dependency means a full compromise of the system. What is even worse, because I ship software from my computer, a single compromised dependency can lead to compromise of all the users of my software.
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OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
Article URL: https://www.cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801324 Points: 467 # Comments: 334
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systemd 262 Released With AI/LLM Canary For Unreviewed Code, LUO Integration
Systemd 262 made it out today as the newest feature update to this Linux init system and service manager. As with most systemd releases, it's heavy on new features and functionality...
Dyson’s most overengineered gadget may have a waterproofing problem
Dyson admits a component issue but won't say what's failing in its $500 toothbrush.
EU datacenter green scorecard finally escapes Brussels
Long-delayed sustainability labels land as Commission eyes minimum efficiency standards
Vibe Coded YSERVER Adds XDMCP Support For Multi-User Shared Desktops
The open-source YSERVER project as a modern X11 sever written in the Rust programming language with the help of Claude Code is out today with a new feature release. Most notable for this AI Rust X11 server is X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) support for multi-user shared desktops...
Register reader hit with surprise bill after Microsoft portals disagreed
Did Copilot write the synchronization code?
Alibaba Contributing $3M USD To Omarchy To Work On Making "Ideal" Agentic OS
The Omarchy project announced today that Alibaba Cloud will be contributing a total of three million USD to their foundation for helping development of this Linux distribution and working to make it an "ideal agentic operating system"...
Promotion Reminder For Ad-Free Viewing, Multi-Page Articles On A Single Page
As a friendly reminder in case you missed it from over the weekend, the Phoronix autumn "Oktoberfest" premium sale is taking place through the rest of this week for those wishing to help support the site while enjoying ad-free viewing, multi-page articles rendered on a single page, and other benefits while helping for the site to survive and continue producing daily original content...
Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI
First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition
Linux 7.3 Adding Logitech G502 X Lightspeed USB Support, ELECOM M-XT4DRBK
Sent out today was a new HID subsystem pull request of fixes for the week to the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides some conventional bug fixes are also supporting some additional devices via quirks and new IDs...
Campaigners tell Burnham not to trade away the UK's tech tax to please Trump
Letter lands ahead of the PM's first face-to-face meeting with the US president
NASA chief: I'm only interested in "good deals" from international partners
"There was absolutely a time where we were trying to make everyone happy."
NHS Trust IT blunder overwrites 11 years of maternity records
Human error sent reused instructions at the wrong database, taking historical access logs with it
Cache Aware Scheduling Fixes Queued For Submission To Linux 7.3, Backporting To 7.2
Later this week it looks like the latest round of Cache Aware Scheduling fixes will be merged for enhancing this kernel scheduler functionality for grouping related tasks together on CPU cores that share the same last level cache (LLC). Cache Aware Scheduling can lead to better cache locality and lower latency by avoiding the costs of potential cache bouncing -- that is when bugs don't get in…
Linux Adding New Interface For Reporting AMD SEV Status
A convenient addition that surprisingly hasn't been added to the Linux kernel until now is /sys/devices/system/cpu/sev/sev_status as a new sysfs interface for reporting the AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) status...
ZLUDA Now Implements Some NVIDIA cuFFT APIs With hipFFT
ZLUDA as the open-source project working on CUDA for non-NVIDIA GPUs like AMD Radeon graphics cards now has implemented support for some of NVIDIA's core cuFFT APIs...
Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation'
Other changes also afoot as employees unionize and the distro itself sees modifications
Commodore's forgotten Amiga Unix gets a modern revival
Amix gains newer CPU support and a package manager as Open Look joins the retro comeback
GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in
Mike Bracken says the dash to adopt sovereign AI risks giving more control to a handful of tech suppliers
Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them
USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam
Gartner predicts 55% of enterprise VMware users will be investigating an exit by 2029
Chasing pack has its problems too, with maturity, cost, and complex licenses
Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming
Valve's Steam client beta today introduced Pyrowave as an experimental video codec for high bandwidth, low-latency video streaming...
California tightens datacenter rules on water and power
Public pushback puts bit barn resource use under the microscope
Anthropic-linked CVEs pile up, attackers mostly shrug
Of 225 flaws found by Glasswing and tracked by VulnCheck researcher, just one has confirmed exploitation in the wild
Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.
Solitaire Alone Together
Article URL: https://solitairealonetogether.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794193 Points: 115 # Comments: 27
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Military milestone: Ukrainian naval drone sinks Russian kamikaze drone boat
Drone boat battle occurs as Ukraine and Russia target Black Sea ports and ships.
Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T club
Fueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too
Saudi Arabia wants a car industry, launches Ceer with two EVs
The new carmaker is a joint venture between the Saudi PIF and Foxconn.
AMD Begins Preparing Open-Source Linux Driver For Graphics Cards With GDDR7
AMD sent out their latest Linux kernel graphics driver patches today for enabling some new hardware IP blocks. And as part of that, preparing for GDDR7 video memory with the AMDGPU driver...
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...
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...
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...
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.
California settles lawsuit against Paramount/Warner merger, angering advocates
State AGs had "very strong" case that merger is illegal, Lina Khan says.
Trump rejects AI slowdown calls, launches "AI Force" instead
The president offered few details on what his proposed new AI Force would do.
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…
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.
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.
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…