Saturday, 26 September 2026
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Review: The iPhone 18 Pro is Apple's coolest smartphone (but only literally)
Better thermals and battery life make this iterative update nicer to use.
Uncle Sam coughs up $1.9B for grid upgrades as datacenters hit a power wall
Better conductors and improved sensing capabilities expected to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional capacity
Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script
More mockery and memes from the Dark Web Roast
AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise.
"There is no evidence of any significant, widespread displacement or reduction in hiring”
New software dependency validation process increases speeds by 54x
Overhead reduced by as much as 99.7%
Paramount/WBD merger conditions give the public "virtually nothing," judge is told
US judge reviews deal with California, says it must not be result of collusion.
Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
Article URL: https://ollaya.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848269 Points: 135 # Comments: 43
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Is solar's growth finally slowing in the US?
Renewables easily cover changes in US demand, which is rising by 2% in 2026.
ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'
Data theft and extortion biz, that is
Google-backed energy outfit brings 33 MW of 4 GW geothermal potential online in Utah
Fervo Energy aims to have 100 MW online by New Year and half a gigawatt by 2028
Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.
Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access
Nothing in the attack chain screams malicious software, except none of the impersonated HR and payroll providers actually offers a desktop app
Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid
Familiar fingerprints point to Kim’s regime … to the surprise of nobody
GDB 18.1 Debugger Brings Better Windows Support
GDB 18.1 is out today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger that works across C/C++, Fortran, Rust, and other languages like Go, Ada, and more...
Redox OS Adds IO_uring-Like API, NUMA & Gets QEMU Working
The Redox OS open-source, Rust-based operating system has seen a lot of activity in recent weeks with many notable improvements landing...
After seven years, a spacecraft company is releasing its Otters into the wild
"There is always a tension that comes with seeing the first of anything fly."
U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845977 Points: 279 # Comments: 426
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US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%
The new LFP battery charges from 10 to 70% in 4.5 minutes at just 65˚C.
Office 2016 and 2019 holdouts blame update for license deactivation bug
But was the update at fault? Microsoft isn't saying
Which copy of that file is the real one? Dinner, off the record, in Midtown
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in New York on the file infrastructure nobody has got around to replacing, with nothing on the record.
Approaching A 10 Second Linux Kernel Build
The coffee window is closing. Going back many years with the time it's taken to compile the Linux kernel has been a well known opportunity for a coffee break or even eating a meal during the lengthy Linux kernel build process. Even when the Linux kernel was much smaller than it is today, with the hardware at the time it would often be a very time consuming process...
Factorio that you can touch
Article URL: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-447 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845133 Points: 253 # Comments: 71
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Raspberry Pi surfs memory crunch to record first half
A well-timed RAM stockpile helped keep boards shipping while rivals struggled for memory
With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time
NASA's PRIMA mission will use spare parts from Webb to do major science at a lower cost.
First Principles Thinking
Article URL: https://sunilsadasivan.com/writing/first-principles-thinking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844736 Points: 164 # Comments: 68
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Trump administration takes Musk’s side in fight over EU tech rules
Washington says Brussels overreached when it fined X €120 million under the DSA.
Windows update leaves some virtual desktops staring into the void
Users may need to summon Explorer manually after signing in
Uncle Sam wants in on Musk's €120M fight with Brussels
Justice Department claims the EU overreached by pursuing X's owner and wider corporate empire
Asahi fork embraces LLMs and lands Linux on the M4 Mac mini
Coding agents helped two developers build an accelerated desktop and graphics driver in weeks
Platform-independent SIMD in Go
Article URL: https://go.dev/blog/simd-experiment Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843269 Points: 306 # Comments: 120
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Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git
Article URL: https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843174 Points: 253 # Comments: 88
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Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory
High-value goods remain tied up as merchants debate attack or platform glitch
BOFH: The Helldesk opens its third eye and ascends to a higher plane of troubleshooting
Putting the 'om' in computing
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
Rocket Report: Era of cheap launch is over? Astra sets early 2027 target for return
"The customer got comfortable with a high reliability and a low price."
Dyfed-Powys Police cops to cyberattack, staff data potentially nicked
Force says public data appears untouched, but investigators looking into whether crims grabbed employee information
Patches Posted For Enabling NVMe On All Apple M3 Based SoCs With Linux
While Linux 7.2 brought initial Apple M3 support and Linux 7.3 brought M3 Pro / Max / Ultra support, the mainline Linux kernel support for the M3 series hardware remains very basic and not yet ready for daily driving. But more work continues to be upstreamed and today the patches were posted for getting NVMe storage up and running across all Apple M3 hardware...
AMD Sends Out New Linux Patches Further Enhancing HDMI 2.1 Reliability
Linux 7.4 is going to be the big kernel release where the AMD graphics driver will finally expose HDMI 2.1 by default and comes with features including HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM. Ahead of that milestone there have been various other last minute tweaks and improvements to its HDMI 2.1 support. Sent out on Thursday was the latest round of AMDGPU DC patches that includes a few more patches for…
Another week, another data breach for Revolut customers
DriveWealth coughs up historic customer info after attackers socially engineer their way inside
Last Call For The Autumn Special For Ad-Free Viewing & Supporting Linux Hardware Testing
Last call for the Phoronix autumn "Oktoberfest" Premium sale: it runs through end of day Sunday, 27 September (any timezone - I'm not particularly strict). If you have been meaning to support the site, this is the window...
Ink and Switch interactive homepage
Article URL: https://www.inkandswitch.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842270 Points: 199 # Comments: 25
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Go's Improving SIMD Support, Platform-Independent SIMD Interface
A new blog post published on Thursday covers the experimental support for SIMD with the Go programming language. This expanding Go SIMD support also includes a platform-independent API for making use of SIMD with modern processors...
Samba 4.25 Released With Experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles
Samba 4.25 is out as the newest stable release for this open-source software enabling file and print services sharing between Linux servers and Windows systems...
Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective!
Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation
Your files are in four places and nobody knows which one is right
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner on the file infrastructure nobody has got round to replacing, under the Chatham House Rule.
UK wants more homes heated by waste heat from datacenters
Millions for building and improving bitbarn driven heat networks - including hot water pushed through tunnel under the Thames
Amiga Screens: A Primer
Article URL: https://www.datagubbe.se/amscr/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841309 Points: 109 # Comments: 29
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Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
Article URL: https://nyaa.sh/reviews/mac-mini-m6-emulation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841285 Points: 241 # Comments: 105
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CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2
Article URL: https://www.safateam.com/intelligence-hub/research/technical-articles/cve-2025-13032-entering-and-breaking-the-avast-antivirus-sandbox-part-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841115 Points: 104 # Comments: 27
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What About Rails?
Article URL: https://jardo.dev/what-about-rails Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839664 Points: 269 # Comments: 171
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Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents
While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents. But a patch set out today would finally introduce one...
Qualcomm Posts Patches For Enabling GPU Support In Their Snapdragon X2 Mahua SoC
Yesterday Qualcomm posted open-source GPU driver patches for their Adreno 850 GPU one day after being announced with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Yesterday Qualcomm also announced their Snapdragon X2 Linux support plans. Today they have posted the GPU enablement patches for what's found in the Mahua SoC for lower-tier Snapdragon X2 SoCs...
CDC opens state ordering for COVID-19 vaccines after unexplained delay
Health department previously blamed delay on "not yet finalized procurement decisions."
ReactOS Lands Significant DirectX Stack Update From Wine For Enabling More Games
The open-source ReactOS project striving to provide binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows applications/games as well as drivers took a huge step forward today with landing a significant update to its DirectX stack from code leveraged from the Wine project...
Donald Duck's uncle was partly based on Wernher von Braun
Introducing the "world-famous authority on outer space..."
F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app installs
F-Droid's Android app store has been rebuilt from the ground up.
New York defies Trump admin, asks court to shut down Polymarket gambling
New York sues Polymarket as Trump admin tries to override state gambling laws.
We have a trailer for Musk documentary Elon called a "hit piece"
Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney focuses on the world's wealthiest man.
Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Some Nice Gains For Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro
For those with a Framework Laptop 13 Pro or another Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release is delivering some nice out-of-the-box improvements over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
Robots make combat airdrops, clear mines as Ukraine defeats Russian pincer
Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi has erased Russian gains with the help of robots.
New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.
Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
Hello! We’re Sid, Alex, Ketan, and Milan. We’re building Whiteboard ( https://whiteboard.dev.fast/ ), an open-source desktop app where humans and agents can architect software together in a common workspace.
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COSMIC Epoch 1.9 Brings New Image Viewer & On-Screen Keyboard
COSMIC Epoch 1.9 was released last night as the newest version of the System76-sponsored, Rust-based desktop environment. COSMIC Epoch 1.9 release notes only became available today and it's a big one with new apps and improvements to existing offerings...
Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
Article URL: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832938 Points: 538 # Comments: 269
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Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1
Google's experimental orbital data center will have four TPUs and only run for 15 minutes at a time.
AMD Posts GCC Compiler Patches For AVX10V1AUX ISA Support
Following their recent AVX10_V2_AUX support for GCC as part of the bring-up for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" in GCC 17, AMD compiler engineers this week posted the initial patches for enabling the AVX10V1AUX ISA support...
OpenAI agent “didn’t accept no for an answer” in Australian government breach
"There will obviously be legal consequences," prime minister promises.
Fedora Discussion Raises The Idea Of Replacing LibreOffice With Collabora Office
One of the livelist Fedora Discourse community discussions in recent days -- or even in quite a period of time for that matter -- comes down to a user having suggested that Fedora replace LibreOffice by default with the downstream Collabora Office...
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 Released With Union Theming Engine Maturing
Following the KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta from earlier this month, the second and last beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop is now available for testing...
AlmaLinux Rolls Out New Software/Hardware Certification Portal, Self-Certify App
Two years ago RHEL-derived AlmaLinux announced a hardware certification program as part of their Certification Special Interest Group (SIG). They have now expanded their hardware certification program to include third-party software certification on AlmaLinux too plus a new app that users can install for self-certifying their system...
Linux Kernel Introducing New Taint Due To Fuzzing Bots Yielding Impractical Bug Reports
The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag "TAINT_FORCED_BIND" to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux's bind/unbind sysfs functionality and generating bug reports for impractical and not at all relevant hardware/driver combinations...
Mir 2.30 Released Now With Rust Required, Mir Roadmap Published
Canonical today released Mir 2.30 as the newest release of this Wayland compositor library for building out different shells and other functionality from smart mirrors to other consumer devices...
Fwupd 2.1.8 Released With New Hardware Support From ASUS, Lenovo & Others
Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced Fwupd 2.1.8 today as the newest feature release for this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems. With Fwupd 2.1.8 comes support for a number of newer devices plus plenty of bug fixes...
Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817680 Points: 417 # Comments: 462
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2DWillNeverDie
Article URL: https://2dwillneverdie.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801436 Points: 319 # Comments: 82
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