Thursday, 29 October 2026
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Linux Kernel Developers Considering Removal Of KGDB Debugging Functionality
Merged to the kernel all the way back in Linux 2.6.26 in 2008 was KGDB for improving the kernel debugging experience. KGDB works in conjunction with the GNU Debugger (GDB) to debug the kernel in a similar fashion to user-space debugging. KGDB requires the use of a second computer connected via serial or network cable.
Amazon turns its most capable smart speaker into a smart camera, too
The Echo Studio with Home Camera can "see and understand what's in front of the camera."
Cadillac Escalade IQ review: Huge battery, huge range, huge SUV
With more than 200 kWh, this luxury three-row can go 460 miles on a charge.
Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.
Florida county won’t investigate sketchy Flock cameras removed by mystery owners
Florida county claims it lacks resources to find owners of unpermitted Flock cameras.
System76 Introducing AMD-Powered Linux Small PC
System76 began teasing today the new Thelio Prime Desktop as an AMD-powered Linux mini PC that will begin shipping in November...
Apple announces touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED display
The OLED display is the main draw, but the price is a lot to reckon with.
Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons?
Article URL: https://nullpt.rs/fingerprinting-bioweapons Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276998 Points: 107 # Comments: 21
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MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-groundb... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276940 Points: 290 # Comments: 461
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Gemini 4 Carbon
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50276792 Points: 470 # Comments: 397
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Amazon tells tokenmaxxing devs to slow their AI roll
Focus more on what matters, please, like creating useful software and accomplishing company goals
GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down
Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse
Serial ransomware crook gets 70 months behind bars for Nefilim, Hive roles
Artem Stryzhak joined both gangs, which targeted businesses and a hospital during the pandemic
Buckle up for more body-swapping hijinks in Jumanji: Open World trailer
"We have to be ready for whatever's coming next. If we lose in here, there won't be a home to go back to."
Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments
Article URL: https://surgehq.ai/blog/dayjob-tax Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275626 Points: 107 # Comments: 61
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How Google fumbled the frontend with Angular 2
All Things Open Talk provided lessons in how not to upgrade a software package
Canonical Reviving Their Immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop
Canonical engineers back in 2023 outlined plans for Ubuntu Core Desktop as their immutable Linux desktop. They made some good initial progress but since 2024 it went rather silent. Now they are reviving Ubuntu Core Desktop as their immutable desktop OS offering and with grand plans for the future...
CachyOS vs. Fedora 45 vs. Ubuntu 26.10 Performance On AMD Ryzen 9
With the recently released Ubuntu 26.10 and the nearly-released Fedora Workstation 45, Phoronix readers have begun inquiring about fresh benchmarks looking at how they stack up against the performance-optimized, Arch Linux based CachyOS. Up today are our first CachyOS vs. Fedora 45 vs.
CNC Stone Carving
Article URL: https://carmelitegothic.com/cnc-stone-carving/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274409 Points: 277 # Comments: 97
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Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions
Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the company promised to become carbon-negative by 2030
NetBSD Adds Alternative Text Editor To vi & xedit For Easing New Users
NetBSD-current has added a new command line text editor to its base set of packages for helping out new users as an alternative to their vi and xedit editors currently included...
Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
Article URL: https://religionnews.com/2026/10/26/in-a-first-a-humanist-granted-a-religious-exemption-from-using-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273396 Points: 314 # Comments: 368
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A hidden ocean change near Antarctica could have global consequences
Antarctic waters are getting saltier as sea-ice loss reshapes ocean circulation.
Emacs Turns 50
Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145399/emacs-turns-50/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273171 Points: 290 # Comments: 115
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China's spaceplane bears striking resemblance to America's X-37B
Defense Intelligence Agency space report includes a rare orbital snap of the Chinese craft, and it looks rather familiar
X.Org XCB Co-Creator Praises Wayland's Protocol Design
Open-source developer Jamey Sharp who is a longtime X.Org developer and co-creator of the X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) finally had the need to write a Wayland client and ended up praising its design...
Intel gets tax breaks while local authorities lose revenue, claims policy org
Report accuses corp of getting subsidies for its fabs from Oregon and New Mexico that deprive those states of vital funds
Provenance Time Proposed As A New Timestamp For Linux
While the Linux kernel and various file-system drivers already support the notion of the birth time for tracking a file/directory's birth/creation time, a slightly different provenance time "ptime" is now being proposed for the Linux kernel...
Cisco open sources tool for detecting AI agents on hacking sprees
Project Quarry aims to provide a 'shared language' for evaluating agent behavior
US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar
Previously: Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775183 - April 2026 (119 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272145 Points: 196 # Comments: 94
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Hyprland 0.57 Released With Compiz Inspired Wobbly Windows
For those that want to reminisce over the days long ago of Compiz and Beryl on the Linux desktop, the Hyprland 0.57 Wayland compositor released today and has added Compiz-inspired wobbly windows support...
123 Reg discloses 'AI cyberattack' on customer data, suspects China nexus
Company chiefs believe the attackers could be the same as those who used ARTEX to breach South Korea’s financial giants
Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
Article URL: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271640 Points: 880 # Comments: 339
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China’s snooping around Pacific undersea cables raises risks for Big Tech
US-owned trans-Pacific cables face growing risks from sabotage and China.
Open Cosmos steps up Europe's space sovereignty game, shows off ConnectedCosmos satellites
El Reg takes a tour of a satellite nursery for customers thinking about de-risking dependence
VKD3D-Proton 3.1 Released With New Features Ahead Of Big v3.2 Release
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux team just tagged the VKD3D-Proton 3.1 release. This version comes with a number of new features and performance optimizations while being the stable point ahead of VKD3D-Proton beginning to see a lot of new feature code for what will then become VKD3D-Proton 3.2...
Man spends 35 years collecting corporate waffle, turns it into an app
Why waste time thinking of something useful to say when an app can leverage synergies for you?
GhostBSD 26.2 Released As FreeBSD 15.1 Powered OS With New Installer
GhostBSD 26.2 is out as the latest feature release of this FreeBSD-powered desktop operating system...
NTFS3 Hardened In Linux 7.4 Against Corrupted Or Maliciously-Crafted NTFS Volumes
Paragon Software's Konstantin Komarov sent out the latest NTFS3 driver updates for this in-kernel NTFS read/write driver. With Linux 7.4, the NTFS3 driver is focused on being hardened against corrupted or maliciously-crafted NTFS volumes...
Retiring BSD-Compress Proposed For Linux PPP Network Code
A patch has been proposed to remove the BSD-Compress support from the Linux kernel for the Linux networking point-to-point protocol (PPP) due to being unmaintained and having fundamental issues with the code that can lead to a fatal error...
Neocloud thinks AI agents - not meatbags - will be its main customers
Quake AI is developing APIs to let autonomous agents access its services more efficiently
Why roaming packages have become an anachronism in the age of app-first travel
PARTNER CONTENT: Connectivity at all times, abroad
SK Hynix says memory shortages to persist until 2030
Good for its bottom line, not great news for yours, or for the PC and smartphone markets
AI slows growth for Infosys and keeps it afloat at the same time
Predicts slower growth as savings from automation hit price of extended deals
Git for the US Code
Article URL: https://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-the-us-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268380 Points: 403 # Comments: 208
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Wine Merges Support For MESA_map_buffer_client_pointer To Improve WoW64 32-bit OpenGL
An initiative led by CodeWeavers this year has come to fruition for improving OpenGL support with WoW64 for bettering Windows 32-bit application/game support while using 64-bit system libraries...
Apple refreshes the iMac, entry-level MacBook Pro with the M6 chip
Additionally, the N1 chip brings Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.
South Carolina's measles outbreak jumped to Washington state 5 times in 2 weeks
International travel used to be the main risk of measles cases in the US—not anymore.
China's top-secret spaceplane can't hide in low-Earth orbit
The DIA's threat assessment suggests China may soon place directed energy weapons in space.
"No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses
Owners of AI-run firms would evade liability for "reckless" AI, US Rep. Comer says.
Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity
Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic's 93-page "Risk Factor" tome.
Linux 7.4 Introduces DMA-BUF Support To I/O Path With IO_uring
Merged today for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window is the infrastructure for enabling DMA-BUF support in the kernel's I/O path with the wonderful IO_uring framework...
Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/early-progress-drug-development Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265609 Points: 308 # Comments: 303
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Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet Earth
Critical flaw in EDK2 allows attackers to execute code early in the boot process.
Big Red gets cozy with Google to offer TPUs to AI customers
Oracle plans to add those chips alongside new Nvidia hardware and OpenAI services as businesses await AI payoffs
Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/ssh-investigation-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264857 Points: 357 # Comments: 183
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Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
Article URL: https://www.brangus.io/survival-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264853 Points: 492 # Comments: 186
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Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W & Raspberry Pi 4 Model A Surface In Linux Kernel Patches
It looks like a next-generation Raspberry Pi Zero is about to surface, the long-awaited Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W. And in an interesting twist in these times amid high PC component costs and supply chain constraints, a Raspberry Pi 4 Model A...
Google begins certifying Registered App Stores for Android, but not in the US
Easier app installs are coming to third-party stores, pending Google's stamp of approval.
Anthropic now lets Claude users jump out of plane without parachute
Meet CLAUDE_CODE_EVEN_MORE_DANGEROUSLY_SKIP_PERMISSIONS
AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours
One critical, three high-severity EPICS bugs could disrupt research experiments
Vibe genes? Natural(ish) language comes to protein, genome design software
You can apparently now tell AI tools what sort of protein you want them to make.
Warner Bros. drops final trailer for Dune: Part Three
"After years of combat, I've become the oppressor Chani had sworn to fight."
Apple takes powerful M6 chip to the MacBook Pro, iMac
6th-gen M-series silicon promises more cores, faster memory, a fatter NPU, and better connectivity, now in more form factors
EU privacy advocates accuse US data annotation firm of snooping on contractors
Noyb files five complaints in four member states over alleged tracking of workers on Scale AI's Outlier platform
KDE Fixes 15 Year Old Bug Over Inaccurate Notifications When Copying Files To USB Drives
A long-standing KDE bug is set to be resolved with next month's KDE Frameworks 6.32 release...
Ford simplifies using your EV as a home battery with the $30K Fathom
The Fathom pickup won’t need a wall-mounted inverter to output 10 kW to your house.
DeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model promising more realistic physics and humans
Genie 4 will roll out to developers and Google AI Ultra subscribers soon.
From cheap tool to premium subscription: When a beloved app's price skyrockets
Huge price hikes force loyal users to reconsider their favorite apps.
Pavee OS: Ikey Doherty's New Daily-Driver Desktop Distro Being Built Atop Barney
Back in September Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux and Serpent OS notoriety as well as being a former Intel Clear Linux developer announced Barney as his planned showcase for how to "properly" build a modern Linux distribution in 2026+. Today he's provided an update on this Barney distro tooling effort as well as announcing Pavee OS as his planned daily-driver desktop distribution built atop it...
KDE Plasma 6.8.2 Released With Dozens Of Additional Bug Fixes
Debuting two weeks ago on the 30th anniversary of the KDE project was the Plasma 6.8 desktop with many exciting improvements. Last week it was succeeded by Plasma 6.8.1 with dozens of bug fixes and this week now brings Plasma 6.8.2 with yet more bug fixing...
AMD EPYC Zen 6 PML Support, ARM64 On s390 Merged For Linux 7.4 KVM
The many Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) improvements have been merged for Linux 7.4 to deliver a number of new features for different server processors...
Accelerating HTTP Web Servers With In-Kernel eBPF Deliver Up To 4.5x Throughput
An interesting new open-source project born out of university research is Beeper to provide application-layer parsing within the in-kernel eBPF. With an HTTP parser implemented by Beeper in eBPF and providing an in-kernel HTTP cache, the throughput for web servers could be improved by 3x at high rates...
The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand
Article URL: https://www.circuithub.com/post/unveiling-the-grid Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243060 Points: 303 # Comments: 138
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Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/meet-the-2026-winner-of-nikons-small-world-photomicrography-contest/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234796 Points: 367 # Comments: 68
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MacOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0
Article URL: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/10/macos-extensions-pack-for-apple-network.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227400 Points: 115 # Comments: 2
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Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World
Article URL: https://healeycodes.com/decompiling-fast-food-tycoon-2-drawing-the-world Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223739 Points: 162 # Comments: 33
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Start Doing Graph Theory
Article URL: https://vertex.degree/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50208960 Points: 451 # Comments: 103
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