Thursday, 01 October 2026
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Gemini 4 Argon
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913571 Points: 170 # Comments: 64
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More AI In Open-Source, CachyOS, Ryzen AI Halo, Framework Laptop 13 Pro & Other Q3 Hits
With the third quarter wrapping up, here is a look back at the most interesting content on Phoronix over the past three months...
Lawsuit demands OpenAI halt unsafe development that caused Hugging Face hack
OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.
EDG C/C++ Front-End Open-Sourced
Edison Design Group has open-sourced their EDG C/C++ front-end that has been known in the commercial world for its extensive dialect support and other features. The EDG C++ front-end has been used by the likes of Intel C++ Compiler classic, NVIDIA CUDA NVCC, and even Microsoft Visual Studio for IntelliSense...
Trump decrees era of 'Super Intelligence' upon us
Federal paperwork to be pulped as agencies told to forget the old name, while critics ask who owns all those .si domains
So what's happening with Russia's new, long-delayed crewed spacecraft?
Russia says it has a "promising, reusable manned transport spacecraft."
Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.
Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call
MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails
Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins
Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.
AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit
That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment
Framework Desktop With AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 Starts Out At $6799 USD
Framework Computer today opened the pre-order process for their updated Framework Desktop featuring the new AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 496 "Gorgon Halo" SoC with 192GB of LPDDR5x-8533 memory...
The PS5 hacking scene just took a big leap forward
New exploit works on all but the most recently updated consoles.
Ex-NCA officer who worked on Silk Road operation ordered to repay £1.8M for stealing seized Bitcoin
Paul Chowles helped himself to 50 coins while examining devices linked to Silk Road 2.0
Discord gives more advertisers more tools to target its users
Discord is "opening the platform to advertisers, regardless of their budget."
What butterfly wings have in common with barbershop poles
Wing patterns, flight dynamics create "motion dazzle" effect, make it harder to gauge speed, direction.
Where does your AI data actually live?
The Register takes HPE and NVIDIA to dinner in Washington to answer the question that stalls AI in regulated industries, off the record.
OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian
By including Baseten in its marketplace, OpenAI signals it wants its models to win on the merits, not through coercion
BMW reveals US 3 series pricing: The EV carries a hefty premium
The 2027 BMW 330 starts at $49,900, the i3 50 xDrive at $61,500.
OpenJDK vs. GraalVM vs. Eclipse Temurin vs. Semeru Java Performance
Immediately following the OpenJDK 8 through OpenJDK 27 benchmarks I expanded the scope of testing to look at how recent OpenJDK releases have been comparing to alternative JVMs like GraalVM, Temurin, and Semeru. Here are those benchmarks if curious about the Java performance in those different environments.
A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909583 Points: 169 # Comments: 63
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OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns
OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.
SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering
Article URL: https://alphapixeldev.com/sdf-vs-msdf-vs-slug-vs-rive-gpu-text-rendering/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908962 Points: 107 # Comments: 44
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Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*
Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin
Qt 6.12 LTS Released With QML Hot Reloading, StyleKit In Experimental Form
Qt 6.12 is now available as the newest version of the Qt6 toolkit and also serving as a Long Term Support (LTS) release...
The last time my family was replaced by technology
Article URL: https://manuel.darcemont.fr/posts/the-last-time-my-family-was-replaced-by-technology/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908394 Points: 126 # Comments: 277
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Rusticl Had A Great Year For Rust OpenCL In Mesa With 3.1 Support, More Drivers
Rusticl lead developer Karol herbst provided a status update on this Mesa Rust-based OpenCL driver during the XDC 2026 conference happening in Toronto...
7 in 10 enterprises expected to abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028
Build it, bill it, bin it as forward-deployed engineering leaves customers dependent on outside expertise
Linux 7.4 To Support The NPU On AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 Series "Gorgon Halo"
While the AMD Ryzen AI 400 series "Gorgon Halo" systems are nearing the marketplace, the NPU support for Linux was seemingly overlooked until now. But at least the simple enablement patch looks like it will arrive for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel...
Apple makes the AirPods 5 slightly less hostile to repair
Replaceable earbud batteries lift iFixit score from zero to a dizzying two out of ten
Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates
A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption
Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates
The move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication.
America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill
Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts
Proposal To Set ARM64 Kernel Stack Size At Boot Time To Reduce Memory Consumption
A proposal was posted this week to the Linux kernel mailing list by a Google engineer to make it easier for ARM64 Linux to adjust the kernel stack size. The motivation for doing so to configure the kernel stack size during boot time is on reducing system memory consumption...
Intel Media Driver 2026Q3 Introduces Crescent Island Support
Released overnight was the Intel Media Driver 2026Q3 stack for providing the latest open-source video encode/decode capabilities on Intel integrated/discrete graphics hardware. Most notable with the new release is rolling out Crescent Island support...
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills
Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness
You said no MCP
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906637 Points: 535 # Comments: 312
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Mesa Developers To Work Toward Eliminating TGSI IR
TGSI was the intermediate representation (IR) developed for Mesa's Gallium3D drivers by Tungsten Graphics at the time. It worked fine more than a decade ago but since then the Mesa front-ends and hardware drivers have largely transitioned over to the superior NIR format. Work is underway toward eliminating TGSI in the Mesa codebase...
KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited
Plus, Klassik recreates the KDE 3 desktop experience on Qt 6
UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches
British Transport Police’s six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive
Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines
Researchers find a way to recover stale indirect branch prediction entries
Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time
The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers
OpenClaw slips on a suit to evade widespread business bans
Red Hat, Nvidia, OpenAI and friends are working on an enterprise edition they say is ‘Kubernetes for agents’
LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
Article URL: https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/linkedin-larpmaxxing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49904314 Points: 101 # Comments: 115
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Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations
Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'
Archinstall 4.5 For Arch Linux Brings AArch64 Improvements, RT Kernel Options
Ahead of the October ISO refresh of the Arch Linux media, Archinstall 4.5 released today as the newest update to this convenient, text-based Arch Linux installer...
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
Article URL: https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49901736 Points: 857 # Comments: 366
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Most powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trial
Retatrutide is a triple-hormone obesity drug simulating GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon.
Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections
It's a worm attack, AI-style
AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.
OpenAI tries disarming AI angst with cute graphics and always-on agents
It's not OpenClaw. It's dots
Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws
FCC unlikely to stop Trump ads described as illegal taxpayer-funded propaganda.
AMD Boosting AI/LLM Performance For Radeon iGPUs As Much As 18~23% With Linux 7.4
If you have an AMD Ryzen laptop/desktop and looking to leverage AI/LLM capabilities with the integrated graphics, Linux 7.4 is going to be a real treat especially for lower-end hardware. AMD's new PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4 is set to provide some solid gains as shown in these benchmarks today across different AMD Ryzen/Radeon hardware.
NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers
So is SpaceX just being selfish or what?
Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
See also https://electrek.co/2026/07/28/vermonts-largest-energy-sourc... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897993 Points: 359 # Comments: 266
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Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack
Without a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code."
Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals
Lawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional.
Microsoft Announces General Availability Of WSLC: Linux Containers On Windows
Following the public preview of Linux containers on WSL, Microsoft today announced the general availability of WSLC for supporting Linux containers on Windows...
Dots: Always-on agents
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896604 Points: 740 # Comments: 621
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Branch Target Reuse, BTR: New Spectre V2 Attack Targeting JIT Compilers
It's been a while since any new Spectre vulnerabilities have come to light but that's changing today. The embargo has now lifted on BTR, Branch Target Reuse as a new Spectre-V2 attack affecting just-in-time (JIT) compilers...
New Ubuntu Concept ISO For Snapdragon Laptops Brings First X2 Laptop Support
It's been a while since Canonical announced any new ISOs of their Ubuntu builds targeting Qualcomm Snapdragon X series laptops. But ahead of this week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta release, they shipped new Ubuntu 26.10 Snapdragon Concept images today with improved Snapdragon X1 laptop support as well as the initial Snapdragon X2 laptop support...
Meta Releases OpenZL 0.3 With Decompression Speed 144% Faster Than Zstd
Just shy of one year ago Meta announced OpenZL as a format-ware compression framework focused on delivering both high compression ratios and high speed compression/decompression. OpenZL has continued making more optimizations and out today is OpenZL v0.3 and advertising some huge gains over Zstandard (Zstd) that is also worked on by Meta engineers...
This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data
Between the cars and their companion apps, you’re exposed to a lot of trackers.
Less protein for maggots means longer lives for fruit flies
Eating less protein as larvae may limit their ability to produce proteins as adults.
hw-monitor 0.6 Released With Per-Process GPU Usage & Memory Reporting
For those after in-depth hardware and system monitoring support from the Linux desktop, hw-monitor continues to advance as one of the modern options. Released on Monday was hw-monitor 0.6 with per-process GPU reporting metrics when using capable DRM drivers like the AMDGPU, Intel i915 and Xe, and Nouveau drivers...
OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release
Similar performance, security trade-offs also seen in current public models.
NOCL Making Progress As Mesa Gallium/OpenCL Atop NVIDIA CUDA
In development the past year has been the Mesa Gallium3D API implemented atop NVIDIA's CUDA driver API. Initially named "CLUDA" and now going by "NOCL", this Mesa code paired with Rusticl is working well for OpenCL atop the NVIDIA proprietary driver as a new compute option...
Mesa 26.3 Enables Intel's New Jay Shader Compiler By Default, Compile Times 55% Faster Or 66% Faster Than Windows
Over the past year Jay has been in development as a new open-source shader compiler for Intel GPUs. Alyssa Rosenzweig has been leading its development since joining Intel in 2025. For Mesa 26.3 the Jay shader compiler is being enabled by default for modern Intel graphics hardware and is around ~10% faster than the existing BRW compiler code...
BPF-Based Display Panel Drivers Being Explored For Linux
BPF-based HID drivers have helped to deliver quirks/fixes for different HID devices more quickly than being bound by the conventional kernel cycle. Loading these eBPF programs from user-space have shown a lot of potential for innovating and iterating more quickly with BPF drivers for different subsystems. The latest area now seeing the BPF treatment are display panel drivers...
Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot
We built a desktop companion robot that is powered by Arduino UNO Q. Project is open source: source code, 3D printable files and assembly instructions are available at Arduino Project Hub. Robot is equipped with camera, distance sensor, buzzer, moves head and arms with 3 servo motors and has an animated display.
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Solving Factorio Quality
Article URL: https://exyr.org/2026/solving-factorio-quality/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887343 Points: 242 # Comments: 91
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I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records
Article URL: https://blog.faav.net/how-i-couldve-accessed-17-trillion-microsoft-records Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883970 Points: 195 # Comments: 87
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