Friday, 02 October 2026
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Mesa Drops Its Poorly Maintained & Rarely Used Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver
Back in 2021 the Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver "d3d10umd" was introduced as a new Gallium3D state tracker to work as a Windows WDDM UMD driver similar to Windows WARP while leveraging LLVMpipe for better performance. Now five years later the poorly maintained code is removed from the Mesa codebase...
Pi 1.0
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926069 Points: 182 # Comments: 67
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Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released With Linux 7.3 Kernel, GNOME 51 Desktop
Ubuntu 26.10 beta is now available for the official Ubuntu editions as well as the various community flavors...
Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer
"This is a fight I likely won't win. We have said goodbye before. But remember, family is forever."
Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
Prices for memory sold for 2027 "are much higher than 2026 prices."
Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix
During the past month on Phoronix were 284 original news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews/multi-page benchmark articles. A lot of exciting happenings both on the hardware and software fronts while October is sure to be another interesting month with the releases of Ubuntu 26.10, Fedora 45, and some more hardware fun...
Florida cops say they don't know who owns 11 unpermitted Flock cameras
Floridians alarmed by 14 mysterious Flock cameras; 11 have no clear owner.
Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing
Your invite to a fake AI policy advisory committee has strings attached
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.
Some Networking Fixes Being Diverted To Linux 7.4, AI/LLM Activity Still Increasing
With the vast array of wired and wireless networking drivers within the Linux kernel and range of protocols and other networking features, it's a big expanse of code for AI/LLM agents to analyze and critique. The Linux networking developers have acknowledged being "complete overwhelmed" by the AI/LLM-driven patch activity and bug reports as well as battling against AI slop patches. Even though…
Clef: Open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/clef-decision-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923692 Points: 311 # Comments: 127
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AWS offers local, open source leash for agent harnesses
Dogwood Local Engine checks AI tool calls against user-defined temporal rules before they run
RIP, vector database
Article URL: https://turbopuffer.com/blog/rip-vector-database Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923466 Points: 213 # Comments: 59
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Red Hat being phased out of existence?
Article URL: https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/01/Red_Hat_Being_Phased_Out_of_Existence_Like_Many_Other_Companies.shtml Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923056 Points: 143 # Comments: 79
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Microsoft makes Windows settings backup the default in 26H2
Annual update installed. You're up to date, so nothing seems to have changed. Wait a minute...
As US relations fray, Canada gets serious about its own launch industry
The Canada Rocket Company gets serious about medium-lift launch.
Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi
Article URL: https://twitter.com/GayaniFigma/status/2105295629941350454 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922729 Points: 148 # Comments: 87
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Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers
Article URL: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/various-projects-independently-find-hidden-sdr-capabilities-in-esp32-microcontrollers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922674 Points: 110 # Comments: 12
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company.
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RacketCon Is Saturday
Article URL: https://con.racket-lang.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922515 Points: 108 # Comments: 26
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Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure
Attackers were probing the mail server flaw weeks before it had a CVE to its name
Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/cops-can-bypass-iphone-automatic-inactivity-reboot-graykey/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922278 Points: 202 # Comments: 166
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Qt Creator 21 IDE Beta Enables More AI Functionality By Default
Following yesterday's release of the Qt 6.12 LTS toolkit, The Qt Group today released Qt Creator 21 in beta form as the latest version of their integrated development environment focused on C/C++ as well as Python, JavaScript, and other programming languages...
Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-k2-streams/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921923 Points: 142 # Comments: 60
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MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies
Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law
CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch
Replacing letters with symbols still doesn’t make it good.
Exchange Web Services enters the final stretch before Microsoft pulls access
Legacy API begins disappearing from tenants today, with no exceptions after April
AMD RMPOPT Optimization Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4
In addition to the very nice AMDGPU IOMMU optimization for iGPUs set to debut in the Linux 7.4 kernel, over on the AMD EPYC server side for servers running SEV-SNP virtual machines is a separate, nice optimization also expected for this next kernel version...
Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
Article URL: https://www.techpowerup.com/353296/micron-ceo-says-memory-supply-will-be-much-tighter-in-2027-and-2028-than-in-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920932 Points: 287 # Comments: 332
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How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
Article URL: https://nnethercote.github.io/2026/09/30/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-september-2026.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920896 Points: 203 # Comments: 104
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Palantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective data
Former Labour deputy challenges Clive Lewis but skips the warnings attached to NHS figures
Clearing Out Linux's Old 32-bit ARM Platform Code Is Itself A Challenge
Longtime ARM Linux maintainer Arnd Bergmann over the past year has been working to clear out a number of old ARM platforms from the mainline kernel tree. With Linux 7.3 many older 32-bit ARM platforms were deprecated and in turn hundreds of kernel drivers orphaned. Now it's on to removing that actual code, which given the amount of entangled code, is itself a challenge...
England's schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents
Two-thirds report immediate recovery, although teachers remain divided over whose job security is
PS5 emulation is suddenly making big strides on PC
Games like Astro Bot and Demon’s Souls are running ably without a console.
NASA squeezed Treasury, vibe coded, and broke the mold in bid to save Swift
"We did some really, really cool stuff. I'm absolutely gutted we weren't able to get further."
Intel Optimization Zone 1.2 Released With New Guides & Recommendations
Earlier this year Intel announced the "Optimization Zone" as their new initiative to provide a centralized place to collect all their resources for maximizing performance and software tuning on Intel hardware platforms. They've continued building out more resources for the Intel Optimization Zone and yesterday released v1.2 with more tuning guides and best practices for optimal performance on…
StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta
Article URL: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920160 Points: 464 # Comments: 106
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UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ
The Information Commission replaces the Information Commissioner, putting statutory powers under collective control
NVIDIA Olympus SMT Optimizations For Vera CPU Showing 3~6% Performance Gains
Back in August I wrote about NVIDIA working on Linux scheduler improvements for helping the SMT performance on their new Vera CPU with Olympus cores. That work remains ongoing but is looking fairly beneficial for performance especially for knocking it out in less than one hundred lines of code...
GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
Article URL: https://news.synopsys.com/2026-09-30-OpenAI-and-Synopsys-Announce-GPT-Synopsys-Frontier-Intelligence-to-Revolutionize-Chip-Design Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919910 Points: 150 # Comments: 80
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Qualcomm Continues Doing More For Their Open-Source Linux Graphics Drivers
Rob Clark, who originally started working on the reverse-engineering Freedreno and MSM DRM graphics driver projects prior to even being employed by Qualcomm, presented this week at XDC 2026 Toronto around all the recent efforts they have been pursuing at Qualcomm for this upstream open-source graphics driver stack...
Sopra Steria widens legal challenge to Capita's Whitehall outsourcing deal
Unredacted contract prompts fresh claims of preferential treatment and greater risk for the DWP
New Linux Patches Trying To Mainline Renesas SH7305 CPU Support
The Renesas SH7305 isn't a new processor and is well known for powering various Casio graphing calculators over the past decde and a half. But finally the mainline Linux kernel may end up seeing support for this 32-bit SH-4a RISC core...
Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Price Increases To $77.50 USD
During the last round of price hikes on Raspberry Pi devices due to RAM pricing, they were able to keep the 1GB and 2GB single board computer versions steady. But Eben Upton announced today that the RAM pricing has become "unsustainable" and even the 2GB versions now are facing steep price hikes...
Fewer women than ever in UK's 'old boys' club' cyber industry
Younger workers often overlooked for senior roles due to historical issues and fears they’ll get pregnant, says survey
Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes
So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda
The tech industry is hot for shopping bots, but they're years away
What's good for human shoppers does not work with probabilistic AI agents
Singapore’s government creates a dating app
Team that gave the world Bluetooth COVID tracking swipes right on algorithmic matchmaking
RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates ‘much higher’ prices
Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come
OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 Released With More AI Apps, Snaps & PGO + LTO Optimizations
For ending out the month of September the OpenMandriva Linux distribution crew released OpenMandriva ROME 26.0 as their long overdue release held up by various technical issues and a reported sabotage attempt to their platform. With OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 having been their last release, this is quite a big update...
Valve's Work On Foveated Rendering For The Open-Source Turnip Driver On The Steam Frame
As part of Valve's work on developing the Steam Frame VR headset, they worked on foveated rendering support for the Mesa Turnip driver that supports the Qualcomm Adreno graphics with open-source Vulkan API support. Foveated rendering is the technique to more closely mimic human vision by rendering high detail at your direct gaze point and lower quality in the peripheral vision. For computer…
Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services
Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn’t sure how
Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life
Hot, nutrient water might have lasted for over 5 million years after the impact.
Fifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths
State health officials race to vaccinate residents by giving over 8,500 doses.
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'
Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant.
Reminder: The "border exemption" to your rights is real.
Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wieners
Just ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.
A local network of implants uses your body as the wiring
It's possible to send electrical signals right through human tissues.
Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails
A simple email gives the attackers the ability to remotely inject OS commands.
Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet
So much for Gemini 3.5 Pro.
Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com
Reddit says it's fighting "automated abuse."
RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.
The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers
Boycotting Disney is hard.
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...
Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.
"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over 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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network
Article URL: https://github.com/maanHimself/OpenDLSS-NR Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906100 Points: 230 # Comments: 108
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Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns
Article URL: https://bookofshapes.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894430 Points: 235 # Comments: 21
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