Friday, 09 October 2026
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High-severity Nvidia bug could crash GPU monitoring on exposed servers
The GPU giant released a fix for the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-47483
TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B deal
Advanced packaging tech is essential to the domestic production of high-performance semiconductors used in AI datacenters
Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster
If there's one thing AI can do well, it's failing more quickly than the average SRE
EXT4 Deprecates Its Journaled "data=journal" Mode
The EXT4 file-system today deprecated its journaled mode of the "data=journal" mount option. Following its deprecation, this mode is planned for removal in the year 2028...
Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
Article URL: https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008427 Points: 199 # Comments: 55
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Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise
Credential-stealing malware detected within minutes of npm release, but impact remains unknown
OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/open-ai-revenue-nvidia-oracle-coreweave.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008187 Points: 178 # Comments: 98
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COSMIC Epoch 1.10 Released With Launcher Now Using GPU Accelerated Rendering
System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.10 as the newest incremental update to this Rust-based desktop developed in-step with their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever
Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is.
Money trail backs leaked chats from extortion crew that walks into US law firms
Researchers corroborate parts of Silent Ransom Group dump detailing crypto payouts, cash brokers, and recruitment
4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe
Article URL: https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/10/4-hour-battery-storage-is-cheaper-to-install-than-gas-turbines-all-across-globe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50007519 Points: 177 # Comments: 88
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Ubuntu Currently Suffering From Sustained DDoS Attack
Those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources today are finding the site inoperable amid what's now confirmed as an ongoing distributed denial of service attack...
Too many quantum startups, too little money to keep them alive
Gartner predicts more than half will fold by 2030, even as businesses begin testing the technology's usefulness
Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Nice I/O Performance Wins Over Ubuntu 26.04 On AMD EPYC
While Ubuntu 26.10 is not a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and thus will see limited enterprise deployments compared to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, for those not after that long-term deployment support and preferring to live more on the leading-edge, Ubuntu 26.10 is delivering some nice performance gains on current 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware.
Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year
"If this was easy, everybody else would be doing it."
Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-program-vance-microsoft-e7b3a407f822702b269ee277d21343ea Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006832 Points: 610 # Comments: 1051
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Fighting GenAI with GenAI: The New Email Security Landscape
SPONSORED FEATURE: Old attack, new protections
Margaret Hamilton, software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90
Her team's code kept Apollo 11's landing on course when the guidance computer became overloaded
Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
Ten years ago I was 19 and traveling through East Africa, and I spent a summer in Ibumila, a village in the Njombe highlands of Tanzania. There's no school in the village. The nearest one is a boarding school an hour away that costs a few hundred dollars a year, which is out of reach for most families there and was about two weeks of summer job money for me.
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Secretive Rosaic Labs Hires Legendary Linux x86 Developer
The curiosity into secretive semiconductor startup Rosaic Labs builds. Earlier this year it was noted that Intel was providing Rosaic Labs with access to its Atom technology with RTL code. There have also been rather mysterious x86 additions not from Intel or AMD (or Zhaoxin / Hygon) that given the timing may pertain to Rosaic Labs.
Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.
Rust upstart reveals 'reimplementation' of Microsoft Office – with Claude on coding duty
ArtCraft adds Word, Excel, and PowerPoint lookalikes to its open source lineup, but they're not ready for production
Nova Driver Continues Progressing With Long-Term Goal For Official NVIDIA Linux Use
NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard and Red Hat's Danilo Krummrich presented at this week's LPC2026 conference in Prague on the open-source and upstream Nova driver stack that continues forming as a Rust-based open-source NVIDIA Linux kernel driver...
CrowdStrike finds possible bank hacker's CV among exposed AI logs
Suspected Chinese speaker used Claude Code and agentic pentesting tool ARTEX in attacks on South Korean lenders
Beauty in DVD Menus
Article URL: https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005527 Points: 198 # Comments: 127
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IBM offloads 'hundreds' of its cloudy VMware customers
Broadcom partner 11:11 picks ‘em up ahead of channel death deadline
AI giants promise to play nice with personal data after UK watchdog scrutiny
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and six others agree to changes, but the ICO isn't done asking questions
Samsung eyes $80B quarterly profit as memory buyers pay the price
AI demand fattens chipmakers' margins while cheaper PCs and phones become harder to produce profitably
Patches Updated To Begin Removing The Linux x32 ABI
Linux developers are once again considering the removal of the Linux x32 ABI...
I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/invisible-cities-one-shot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004790 Points: 288 # Comments: 152
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UK and Germany team up against Russian cyberattacks as Brexit rethink looms
Security pact promises information-sharing and coordinated disruption, but offers little detail on agencies or funding
Windows Search learns to take orders
Preview lets users change settings and carry out tasks directly from a tidier results list
Google's Sashiko AI Has Completed 191k Patch Reviews, Cited On Nearly 500 Kernel CVEs
Sashiko that was built by Google engineers for agentic review of the Linux kernel code changes and powered by Google's AI models continues proving very valuable to kernel developers. In less than one year since they launched Sashiko for agentic AI code review, their results are quite fascinating...
Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots
Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies.
A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist
Sen. Blanche Lincoln wrote law that let US ban sports-event contracts. She lobbies for the other side now.
SpacemiT RISC-V SoCs To See More Improvements With Linux 7.4
For those interested in the SpacemiT K3 as one of the few RVA23 RISC-V SoCs readily available so far and in the likes of the K3 Pico-ITX system, more improvements for its upstream kernel support are coming in Linux 7.4...
Google Working To Leverage More Compiler Optimizations Within The Linux Kernel
While Linus Torvalds previously shot down plans for Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) in the mainline Linux kernel, Google engineers are hoping still to get that out-of-tree functionality upstream. They also would like to see PGO supported for Linux kernel modules rather than just the main Linux kernel image. Additionally, they hope to see limitations overcome around AutoFDO and Propeller…
Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra
What the f?
Scientists get a new clue to the origin of solar wind 'switchbacks'
Understanding why our nearest star does what it does
Cheapskates wouldn't pay for security help, got hit by ransomware, and went bust months later
The owner knew a guy...
Embedding the human factor into AI agent adoption
SPONSORED FEATURE: Making the link between business strategy and how the workforce adopts technology will be crucial to business success in the agentic AI era
OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/history.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002650 Points: 204 # Comments: 496
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It's a bird, it's a plane...well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it's a droppable robot boat
The ALBATROSS has landed
“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002008 Points: 571 # Comments: 586
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Steam Beta Now Defaults Non-Steam Windows Binaries To Using Proton
Valve released tonight a new Steam client beta that includes some notable improvements for Linux users...
Microsoft Issues First Release Of Their LiteBox Sandboxing Library OS
Back in February we featured LiteBox as a new Microsoft open-source project building out a Rust-based sandboxing Library OS. LiteBox leverages Linux virtualization security features and Rust language inherent benefits to provide the ability for sandboxing Linux apps on Linux, Linux programs on Windows, and other security-oriented deployments. Out today is the first tagged release of LiteBox for…
AI Makes "Open-Source, Clean Room" Implementations Of Adobe Photoshop & Premier In Rust
As an interesting demonstrator for the power of AI and potentially pressing legal challenges, Claude Code and AI agents have created "open-source, clean-room reimplementation" versions of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, and Adobe Lightroom. These new creations from the ArtCraft project are implemented in the Rust programming language...
Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop.
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
FEX 2610 Released With Handling For AVX-VNNI, Disk Cache Improvements
FEX 2610 released today as the newest monthly release of this open-source emulator for running x86_64 games/apps on AArch64 for ARM64 Linux systems, including most notably by Valve's Steam Frame headset...
'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998066 Points: 261 # Comments: 149
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PA measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases, largest since disease was eliminated
Pennsylvania reported 1,066 outbreak-linked cases on Wednesday.
TP-Link problems in US grow amid FCC router ban and four state lawsuits
TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US, still needs exemption from FCC ban.
The Mathocalypse
Article URL: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997718 Points: 363 # Comments: 381
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Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand
Altering molecular handedness has implications for the origins of life.
Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns
In renewed policy, pediatricians review the benefits of heating milk to kill germs.
Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.
Star Labs StarFighter Ultra: A Modern High-End Linux Laptop With Coreboot
When it comes to Linux pre-loaded laptops, I have looked at hardware from most of these vendors over the past 22+ years of Phoronix. One vendor I haven't had the chance to personally test until now is the UK-based Star Labs. That changed recently and over the past few weeks I have been testing out their new StarFighter laptop that offers great Linux support and comes pre-loaded with Coreboot and…
Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari
Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs.
Trade group crunches numbers on Trump’s impossible push for 100% US-made tech
Trump's aggressive reshoring push could cost tech firms $230 billion, CTA estimates.
Mistral says "Le Chonk" can challenge the best AI models
Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally
The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.
AI/ML is becoming a performance factor in motorsport
More than just a sponsor: OpenAI has been helping Ganassi with setups.
NVIDIA 615.78.08 Linux Driver Adds VK_NV_low_latency2 r3 For Improved VKD3D-Proton
NVIDIA today released their 615.78.08 Linux driver build with a useful improvement for gamers using Steam Play (Proton) with Direct3D 12 games via VKD3D-Proton along with a variety of other fixes...
Review: Fine, let's talk about Digger
Its excesses may try one’s patience at times, but the film sticks the landing with a savagely moving finale.
Kage: Google Experimenting With Linux Driver Isolation Using In-Kernel LFI Sandboxes
Google engineers are experimenting with Linux kernel device driver isolation using in-kernel sandboxes leveraging LLVM's Lightweight Fault Isolation (LFI) functionality...
Qualcomm Posts QPaCE Linux Driver Code For Faster ZRAM On Newest SoCs
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 "Hawi" SoC features the Qualcomm Page Compression Engine "QPaCE" hardware accelerator. Linux patches posted recently provide a QPaCE driver for accelerating page compression and decompression for the ZRAM block device...
If you're looking, here's a "good deal" for NASA and the European Space Agency
"We are in the era of people interested in having good deals, and LISA is a very good deal for the US."
XMFS: Experimental File-System Being Worked On By Huawei For Modern Linux Servers
Huawei engineers are experimenting with a new file-system called XMFS. XMFS was presented this week at LPC 2026 in Czechia as a file-system for modern Linux servers with CXL 3.0 or Huawei United Bus connectivity...
Microsoft Updates Its WSL2 Linux Kernel With DXGKRNL Improvement, More Features Enabled
Following the Windows Subsystem for Linux 3.0.2 release with support for running WSL2 now on very large servers and also experimental sparse VHD storage support, Microsoft has now released a new version of the WSL2 Linux kernel as their downstream kernel configuration tailored for WSL2 usage...
Drones sink ships near NATO countries in “unacceptable” attacks, EU says
Two cargo ships have sunk, one ship was afire, and sailors are dead or missing.
Cleo (Mathematician)
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982445 Points: 245 # Comments: 55
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The Slow Formation of Durable Software
Article URL: https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980346 Points: 218 # Comments: 89
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Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits
Article URL: https://100r.ca/site/home.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970767 Points: 351 # Comments: 163
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15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished
Article URL: https://shahidhussain.com/writing/search-for-salvage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959280 Points: 334 # Comments: 117
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