Tuesday, 01 September 2026
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AMD Updates UALink Patches To Get The Linux Kernel Ready For UALoE On Helios
Earlier this month AMD posted a massive set of patches for bringing up UALink support for the mainline Linux kernel and wiring it up into the AMDGPU kernel driver. In closing out the month of August, they have updated this big set of Ultra Accelerator Link patches...
Former Intel Engineer Who Was One Of The Clear Linux Architects Is Starting A New Distro
One of the former Intel engineers who was a Linux OS architect on their legendary Clear Linux distribution and before that also driving their Moblin and MeeGo Linux efforts is starting a new distribution project. This new initiative, named The Ur Project, is highly leveraging Rust and will rely on AI/LLMs in part and aims to incorporate some deisng improvements Clear Linux...
Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding
https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen/bautzen/bautzen-hoyer... (auf Deutsch) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511917 Points: 114 # Comments: 58
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I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
Article URL: https://jasontucker.blog/how-i-turned-my-security-cameras-into-an-automatic-bird-identification-system-with-birdnet-go/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511856 Points: 228 # Comments: 68
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ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
Article URL: https://ravynos.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511534 Points: 109 # Comments: 77
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3mdeb Enhancing The UEFI Update Capsules Experience For Open-Source Firmware
Open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb is out with a new blog post highlighting their recent work on enhancing the UEFI update capsules experience for open-source firmware with Coreboot and their downstream Dasharo offerings...
Playa Phone
Article URL: https://playaphone.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510514 Points: 364 # Comments: 149
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ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference
Article URL: https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510000 Points: 142 # Comments: 47
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ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules
Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.
Linux 7.3 Features Many Exciting Improvements, New Hardware Support & Faster Btrfs
With Linux 7.3-rc1 released to cap off the two week merge window, here is a look at the many exciting changes merged for the Linux 7.3 kernel that is working its way toward release in the second half of October.
NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe
"We would need over half a million 4K TVs to fully display the single Roman image from our largest survey."
Linux Kernel Patches Out For Review To Enable USB4/Thunderbolt For Apple M1 / M2 / M3
There is a set of 19 patches out for review on the Linux kernel mailing list that would finally allow the mainline kernel running on Apple Silicon M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs to enjoy USB4/Thunderbolt support...
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508982 Points: 179 # Comments: 207
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From watches to passwords on paper, everything that's old is new again
This week on the Kettle, we reminisce about the good old days of Windows on XP's 25th anniversary, how new-old Casio watches could reshape the smartwatch market, and why passwords might be better on paper
I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
Article URL: https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508506 Points: 156 # Comments: 87
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Agent memory as a file format
Article URL: https://calpaterson.com/memoryfields.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508317 Points: 140 # Comments: 73
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Servo 0.5 Released: DuckDuckGo Properly Rendering, Up To 10x Faster Text Rendering
Servo 0.5 is out today as the newest monthly update to this open-source, Rust-based browser engine. Servo 0.5 ships many notable enhancements for benefiting those running the Servoshell example browser or looking at Servo as an opportunity for embedded use...
New Linux Patches Tune AMD Ryzen Zen 6 To Optimize Performance & Power Consumption
Ahead of the next-generation AMD Ryzen Zen 6 client processors debuting, an important patch series was posted overnight to the Linux kernel mailing list. These patches provide new Zen 6 client Energy Performance Preference "EPP" tunings that are important for optimizing performance and power consumption for these upcoming AMD Zen 6 desktop and laptop processors...
A Faster Merge Sort For Mesa 26.3 Vulkan Drivers To Benefit Ray-Tracing
One of the latest optimizations to the Mesa Vulkan drivers by Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics team is faster and more vRAM efficient sorting for Morton code keys that are important for fast BVH construction and greater GPU parallelism...
Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.
Interactive mobile "gizmos" are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta's platform.
OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor
Article URL: https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507822 Points: 475 # Comments: 107
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NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.18 Ships More Fixes, Chrome/Chromium Decode On Direct Backend
Firefox has finally begun supporting Vulkan Video decoding to complement their long-used VA-API support on Linux. This is good news for the official NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack as it's been the notable vendor not supporting the Video Acceleration API. But prior to Firefox rolling out its experimental Vulkan Video support, an independent implementation of VA-API built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC…
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
Article URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-and-automode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506819 Points: 308 # Comments: 104
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Energy biz SSE smacked around in court by a guy and AI
Company's three year pursuit of debt from non-existent address ended by Oxford judge
The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn't mind a bit
The real fight is who wins the most AI and K8s workloads
Who, me? Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up
The real mistake here was probably sending someone so young to do the job
Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT
Article URL: https://dreamstation.systems/personal/ntppost.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504905 Points: 120 # Comments: 80
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Linux 7.3-rc1 Close To 41 Million Lines, AMD Kernel Graphics Driver At 6.5 Million Lines
With Linus Torvalds remarking in the Linux 7.3-rc1 release announcement of the AMD kernel graphics driver changes for amounting around a third of the -rc1 changes due to the big AMD GPU register files for DCN 6.0 and other new IP additions, here are some fresh code stats at large...
Linux 7.3-rc1 With AMD Zen 6 Additions, Better Btrfs Performance & 2026 Steam Controller
Like clockwork, the Linux 7.3 merge window has concluded after two weeks and the Linux 7.3-rc1 kernel now available for testing...
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
Cut content from Portal 2 , hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3 , and so much more.
Debian votes to let contributors code with AI
Disclosure optional, quality mandatory
OpenShot 4.0 Released In Adapting Video Editor UI To Qt6
OpenShot 4.0 was tagged this afternoon on GitHub as the newest major feature release to this open-source non-linear video editing application...
Why it matters that President Trump just dialed in to a NASA news conference
With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.
Linux 7.3 Lands More Audio Workarounds For Laptops & Other Devices
Following last week's main set of sound subsystem updates for Linux 7.3 that brought a lot of new audio hardware support, a second round of sound updates were merged this weekend ahead of today's Linux 7.3-rc1 release...
The Challenges In Bringing AMD ROCm To FreeBSD
This summer an intern with the FreeBSD Foundation worked on porting AMD ROCm to FreeBSD. The internship is concluding while the FreeBSD ROCm code is almost to the stage of being able to perform simple vector addition workloads...
AMD Zen 6 Preparations, Ryzen AI Halo LED Driver & Many Laptop Changes For Linux 7.3
The x86 platform driver changes are now in place for the Linux 7.3 kernel with additions for upcoming AMD Zen 6 hardware, the RGB LED driver controls for the Ryzen AI Halo PC, and a lot of laptop support additions and improvements for a variety of devices from different hardware vendors. Plus some handheld gaming device updates too...
Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.
NVIDIA Vulkan Frame Rate Up-Conversion "FRUC" Merged To FFmpeg
Upstreamed to the FFmpeg multimedia driver code this weekend is support for Frame Rate Up-Conversion "FRUC" making use of the NVIDIA Vulkan Optical Flow extension...
The "KVM Chainsaw" Clean-Up Merged For Linux 7.3 Along With Other Fixes
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine "KVM" changes have landed for the Linux 7.3 merge window that is wrapping up later today...
Linux 7.3 Introduces 8250_mxpcie Driver For Moxa PCIe Multi-Port Serial Boards
The TTY/Serial code changes for Linux 7.3 were merged this week and include dropping the dated IPWireless driver while introducing the new 8250_mxpcie driver...
Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats
RTL8723BS Driver Continues Dominating The Staging Area Activity For Linux 7.3
Upstreamed back in 2017 for Linux 4.12 was the RTL8723BS driver in the kernel's staging area. Nine years later it remains in staging and remains a frequent target for clean-ups and code improvements as it tries to work its way out...
FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Released With Several Security Fixes
Ahead of FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE hopefully debuting on 8 September, FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 is out today as the final scheduled development release...
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's
AWS keeps customer costs down in part through networking advances
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems
Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range
At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads
Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name
Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule.
Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August
Cancellations have accelerated.
"RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster
RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83.
Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website
More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters
How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system?
Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense
Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced
"It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."
Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent
Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump.
Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day
James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversary.
LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI
It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer
Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording
Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.
Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted
Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met
US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies
The IT specialist began contacting a foreign government within days of being assigned to the DIA’s Insider Threat Division
Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming
GRUB's up for furry new update
Word 97's ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it
Microsoft veteran recalls how a CPU errata, a mythical ICE, and a single sneaky NOP saved Clippy's big debut
Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff
Paused export controls on materials used in key IT components due for review in November
Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn't have
Judge finds national-security rationale was assembled after Hegseth had already decided AI maker was a threat
Microsoft preps this year's Windows 11 feature tweaks: 26H2 hits Release Preview
Same servicing branch as 24H2 and 25H2... and the same buggy updates
Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP
The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign.
Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut
"From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship."
Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.
Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices
GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
Article URL: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dwarf-fortress-is-getting-the-mother-of-all-magic-updates-extending-to-the-fundamental-cosmological-makeup-of-the-universe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467636 Points: 159 # Comments: 34
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