Monday, 28 September 2026
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Budgie 10.10.3 Released With Favorites In Budgie Menu, Labwc Bridge Improvements
Budgie 10.10.3 is out today as the newest point release to this open-source desktop...
Ember-1
Article URL: https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868830 Points: 179 # Comments: 99
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There are no "rogue" AI agents
Article URL: https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868083 Points: 279 # Comments: 203
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PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
Article URL: https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867553 Points: 127 # Comments: 24
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The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
Article URL: https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867486 Points: 202 # Comments: 77
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On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-concept-of-a-duty-of-care-to-their-users/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867067 Points: 312 # Comments: 271
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In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866951 Points: 168 # Comments: 63
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Ten lines of code that changed my world
Article URL: https://pixelambacht.nl/2026/ten-lines-of-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866534 Points: 104 # Comments: 33
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Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
Article URL: https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866515 Points: 107 # Comments: 55
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Linux Kernel's LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness
In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements...
How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war
The Smithsonian has faced withering pressure from the Trump administration.
Intel Delivers A Significant Memory Hotplugging Performance Optimization For Linux
Adding to the features expected to land for Linux 7.4 is a significant performance optimization for the memory hotplugging speed for adding additional RAM. In particular, the memory hotplugging being most applicable for cases like expanding the amount of memory for VMs or in today's CXL world for adding additional system memory...
New Linux Patches For Supporting Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G14's Second Camera
For those considering Lenovo's recently launched and beautifully crafted ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 laptop powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", one of the lingering missing features under Linux will hopefully soon be addressed: its second web camera...
Apple buried Copland 30 years ago. Now the failed OS boots in a browser
The final developer build offers a glimpse of the future Cupertino abandoned for NeXT
New Patch Series Working Toward DRBD 9 Support In The Linux Kernel
Earlier this year developers at LINBIT began working toward a goal of upstreaming ~15 years worth of their Distributed Replicated Block Device changes into the mainline Linux kernel. That major update has yet to land but sent out this week was a new patch series in preparing the trek toward introducing DRBD 9 support in the mainline kernel...
Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money
The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks
Improved GPU Reset Coming For Raspberry Pi Boards With Linux 7.4
In addition to this week's DRM-Misc-Next pull request introducing some new HDMI 2.0 helpers for the DRM drivers, the pull request also introduced improved GPU reset support for the Broadcom V3D GPU with the VC4 kernel driver...
"Toolpak" Being Devised By GNOME OS Developers, Akin To Flatpak For Tools
GNOME developer Jordan Petridis published a blog post today to introduce the world to the Toolpak plans for GNOME OS...
MM Change Slated For Linux 7.4 Yields +22904539.81% In One Metric, More Modest Wins In Others
Queued this week into the slab/for-next Git branch ahead of next month's Linux 7.4 merge window is a memory management change for refilling pre-filled sheaves from the barn. In some cases this yields wild improvements to specific synthetic benchmarks...
Go Concurrency Distilled
Article URL: https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-distilled/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856988 Points: 353 # Comments: 154
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AI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem fixes for the week are heavier on the side with many fixes to these kernel graphics/display drivers ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc5 release...
Wisp Makes It Easier To Manage Btrfs Snapshots From The GNOME Desktop
Wisp is a new GNOME Shell extension making it easier to graphically manage Btrfs file-system snapshots...
Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge
The 500-mile Semi arrives as charging gaps still limit electric trucking.
AMDXDNA Linux Driver Being Enhanced For Current NPU3 Hardware
The AMDXDNA open-source Linux kernel accelerator driver is seeing a fair amount of work for better supporting current-generation NPU3 neural processing units. The AMD NPU3 is what's found in current AMD Ryzen AI 300 / Ryzen AI 300 PRO series SoCs...
How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone
Your spare Android won’t come back to life in a hurry but – like neglected PCs – it really should
KDE Plasma 6.8 Continues With Last Minute Tweaks & Fixes
Even with this week's KDE Akademy conference and releasing KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2, KDE developers still found time to land last minute changes for Plasma 6.8 plus ongoing early work toward Plasma 6.9...
Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites
Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats
Flip Fluid on Flip Dots
Article URL: https://mitxela.com/projects/flipflip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854219 Points: 321 # Comments: 21
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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...
Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.
Heidi Overton faced questions focused on vaccines, birth control, and vapes.
New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming Ambitions
Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there's finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system…
Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.
Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements
Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.
Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
Article URL: https://asawicki.info/articles/writing_efficient_cpp_code.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849409 Points: 115 # Comments: 61
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Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust
An experiment is afoot to sidestep C as the language of interoperability with Rust
Microsoft cells out, crams multiple values into Excel boxes
Once a single-scalar home, spreadsheet cells are being redeveloped to handle many tenants
Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people.
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.
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."
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...
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.
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
Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory
High-value goods remain tied up as merchants debate attack or platform glitch
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."
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…
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...
CDC opens state ordering for COVID-19 vaccines after unexplained delay
Health department previously blamed delay on "not yet finalized procurement decisions."
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.