Tuesday, 06 October 2026
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Linux 7.4 To Land New BTB CTX Isolation Feature Of AMD Zen 6
The Linux 7.4 kernel is set to introduce support for a new AMD Zen 6 security feature...
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Article URL: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49968105 Points: 122 # Comments: 76
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Windows 11 26H2 blighted by new audio issue
AC-3 decoder drama also hits Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2
US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/russia-lab-worker-possibly-dies-of-plague-siberia-quarantine-measures-irkutsk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967444 Points: 147 # Comments: 114
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Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators
Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?
F1 in Bahrain... in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start
A software bug waylaid half the field and required a race reboot.
OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads
Want to generate an image with ChatGPT? Then prepare for ads if you're in the US
Auto-CPUFreq 3.2 Adds Configurable HWP Dynamic Boost, Platform Profile Reporting
The open-source Auto-CPUFreq tool for active system monitoring and power optimizations is out with a new release for continuing to enhance battery life on Linux laptops...
Debian's latest kernel security update has 1,313 reasons to patch
AI-assisted bug hunting adds to maintainers' workload, while broad CVE rules help explain the sprawling tally
Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher
Unconfirmed reports have suggested there was a laboratory accident.
The question you would ask HPE and NVIDIA if nobody was recording
The Register’s data sovereignty dinner in Washington puts HPE’s and NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure leads at one table, off the record, on 29 October.
Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand
Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply
Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1
Article URL: https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965308 Points: 100 # Comments: 17
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AMD ROCm vs. Vulkan Performance For Lemonade Local AI Server With Llama.cpp
A Phoronix Premium reader recently inquired about seeing some new benchmarks of AI performance between Vulkan and AMD ROCm back-ends to see how the situation plays out today. Here are some fresh benchmarks on two separate systems with AMD Radeon graphics and using the Lemonade local AI server while exploring the difference between the ROCm and Vulkan Llama.cpp back-ends.
AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
Games Workshop seeks IT leader to summon the legions in epic saga battling the forces of ERP
Warhammer set in 40,000? Yes, ERP projects can seem to take that long
Mesa Developers Looking At A Formal Governance Model
The Mesa 3D driver stack has functioned well over the years without a formal governance model and just relying on an informal consensus approach for big changes. But on some occasions this informal handling has been less than ideal so upstream Mesa developers are now looking at establishing a formal governance model...
Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41564-pixel-11-doesnt-yet-meet-the-grapheneos-security-standards-and-may-be-skipped Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49964303 Points: 351 # Comments: 193
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Linux's ZRAM Reworked For Greater Memory Savings, Better Performance
With today's very high memory prices, the Linux ZRAM code for compressed block devices in RAM has seen a rework to provide greater memory savings...
Anthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the world as we know it
Pay no attention to those more practical risks behind the curtain, which is exactly what we're doing on this week's Kettle
Linux 7.4 To Mainline Support For The Google Tensor G5, Pixel 10 Devices
Going back to last year have been patches for booting the mainline Linux kernel on Pixel 10 devices while finally those Google Pixel 10 Device Trees and Tensor G5 SoC support is set to be mainlined for Linux 7.4...
Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text
GNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again
Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust
Article URL: https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v3.0.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963385 Points: 190 # Comments: 98
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Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches
Ars Technica's guide to new keyboard sensing technologies.
Web Search API
Article URL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963171 Points: 368 # Comments: 179
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Mold 3.0 High Speed Linker Released Following Rust Rewrite
The Mold high speed linker alternative to the likes of GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD recently has been going through a rewrite from C++ to Rust as well as having high ambitions of eventually becoming the default linker on Linux systems. Today marks the release of Mold 3.0 for this Rust-based high performance linker...
Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double
How badly do you want that Win10 device to keep getting security updates?
Linux 7.4 Continues Preparing For Intel's Rugged Panther Lake
Back in May we spotted a Linux patch adding "Panther Lake R" as a rugged version of Panther Lake intended for "use in harsh environments". Since Linux 7.2 we have seen some bits of Panther Lake R driver support added while for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle there is additional enablement happening for this Panther Lake derivative...
Qualcomm Patching Linux For Hardware Thermal Binning To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops
A new patch series sent out from Qualcomm that aims to help at least the Snapdragon X series laptops is hardware-binned trip point support. Some Qualcomm SoCs are available in different multiple thermal/package bins with different junction temperature limits but otherwise being the same silicon. The new Linux patches are working to properly convey that information around the thermal limits for a…
BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected
Rescue carries an estimated £400M cash impact as Virgin Media declares move 'a stitchup'
Linux 7.4 AMD P-State Driver Will Be Ready For Ryzen Zen 6 CPUs
With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel the necessary changes to the AMD P-State driver are set to land for properly supporting the upcoming AMD Ryzen client processors based on the Zen 6 cores...
Legacy sign-on service comes back to bite school software provider Bromcom
Intruders retrieved email addresses from superseded tech kept running for an internal system
Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what
Meta isn’t helping — or perhaps it is
Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data
Article URL: https://www.cpr.dk/cpr-nyt/nyhedsarkiv/2026/okt/omfattende-uautoriseret-adgang-til-borgeres-cpr-oplysninger Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49962012 Points: 414 # Comments: 301
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Huawei and Qualcomm announce broad patent license agreement
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961861 Points: 155 # Comments: 92
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Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed
Silly supplier ended up short-changing themselves
Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
Article URL: https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961057 Points: 256 # Comments: 205
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New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
Fresh analysis of First Dynasty mass burials finds signs of fatal blunt force trauma on 39 percent of skulls.
Linux 7.3-rc6 Released: Normal For The New "AI Normal"
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks...
In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online
https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49957812 Points: 227 # Comments: 30
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A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
Article URL: https://wieslawsoltes.github.io/VB6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956681 Points: 372 # Comments: 126
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The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquitoes-are-a-choice/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956290 Points: 189 # Comments: 141
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OpenCourant: Rocky Linux Developers Create Community Fork Of OpenRadioss
This week was the surprising and unfortunate decision of Siemens shutting down the OpenRadioss project as the four year old open-source project started by Altair Engineering with their prominent Radioss finite element solver. Siemens didn't just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that hosted the open-source code and removed other resources that had built around it.…
Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: A spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
Wunmi Mosaku ( Sinners , Loki ) narrates NatGeo's new documentary Africa: Earth's Wild Home .
MGLRU-FG Delivering Up To 10~40% Higher Performance For Linux In Some Tests
Linux's Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" has already achieved nice performance gains for Linux in recent years by optimizing page reclaims and improves performance under memory pressure. The new MGLRU-FG patches aim to take things further...
Fulcrum Echo promises AI text in the style of any writer, so I tested it
I am just a copy of a copy of a copy, everything I say has come before
All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
The IEA and climate negotiators want to set a target for shifting the economy to run on electricity.
NVIDIA's Results Of Conducting Wayland vs. X.Org Latency Testing
In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer's conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency...
Linux Begins Seeing Workarounds For Fujitsu MONAKA CPU Bugs
Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs...
Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care
All this, and angry NeoVim users
AMD Sends In More New GPU Hardware Enablement For Linux 7.4, Bug Fixes
We are nearing the cut-off of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem material for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. AMD this week sent in another feature pull to DRM-Next that is moving over to mostly bug fixing but does contain the enablement of some new GPU intellectual property blocks for upcoming graphics hardware...
openSUSE Turns To ZUPT For Post-Quantum Backups
OpenSUSE developers have announced they are making ZUPT available on their Linux distribution as a solution for providing post-quantum backups. ZUPT combines backup creation, compression, integrity verification, and encryption all via this single open-source utility...
Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40
The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today
Arm Working On "TLBID" For Linux To Increase Performance On High Core Count CPUs
Arm sent out an initial set of patches this week working on support in the Linux kernel for TLBI Domains. This "TLBID" feature is an upcoming Arm architecture capability designed to increase performance on high core count systems...
We ported the original Doom to SQL
Article URL: https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948300 Points: 285 # Comments: 43
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Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
"...we were making history."
The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, Kristóf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development…
Linux Patches Show Promising Results For Lower Latency Of Short Slice Tasks
Linaro engineer Vincent Guittot sent out a set of patches on Friday working on scheduling latency improvements, especially when multiple short slice tasks are running concurrently on the same system...
Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows
Exploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says
Clever database, but can it run Doom?
Reg hack learns the meaning of 'Be careful what you wish for'
The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.
Palantir's fondness for French food cooked up tech's latest fad – forward-deployed engineers
Embedded consultants who get you up to speed on new tech in a hurry aren’t new, but they meet the AI moment
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
Someone got Doom in an SQL database
1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
Actors with makeup and fake symptoms staggered into 73 healthcare facilities.
Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
Critics say workers are still owed far more.
The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy
It wasn't obvious at the time, but the US uncoupled carbon emissions and GDP growth.
US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China
Nvidia’s chip-smuggling problem won’t go away as arrests continue.
Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
Also: Spooky action at the LHC, Ice Age psychoactive use, yeast for building homes on Mars, and more.
US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches
A newer program has been operational since 2011, and the next generation could launch within 12 months.
This startup pays NYC residents to run air conditioners on free batteries
Bonus: Every Electric’s batteries are beloved by household cats.
Cybertruck sales in free fall as Tesla reports mediocre sales for Q3
Tesla met analysts expectations as it sold fewer cars in Q3 2026 than Q3 2025.
The Tao of Backup
Article URL: http://www.taobackup.com/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932236 Points: 250 # Comments: 100
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Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`
Article URL: https://blog.haskell.org/foldl-and-foldr/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49917900 Points: 111 # Comments: 24
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