Friday, 16 October 2026
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LPDDR5 5467 vs. 6400 vs. 7467 MT/s Memory Performance Benchmarks For Laptops
With the recently reviewed Star Labs StarFighter Ultra Linux laptop its BIOS allows for configurable memory speeds unlike many other laptop vendor BIOS implementations these days. Star Labs also made the default design decision to run the LPDDR5-7467 rated memory at LPDDR5-6400 speeds in the name of a balanced user experience for power/performance. So I was curious to run some benchmarks…
Memtest86+ v9.00 Released With Support For ARM64 Memory Testing
The open-source Memtest86+ program that is popular for RAM testing has expanded beyond the x86/x86_64 (and LoongArch64) world to now support memory testing on ARM64/AArch64 hardware...
Muse Spark Open
https://dev.meta.ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse-spark-ope... https://huggingface.co/meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/15/meta-launches-new-muse-spark-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107379 Points: 294 # Comments: 195
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YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays
Not afraid of custom waveforms frying your e-paper? Download it from GitHub and give it a shot on your stock screen today
More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke
Redesigning source control at Anthropic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073633 (996 comments) Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094694 (149 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106738 Points: 150 # Comments: 44
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An Israeli firm is sending zero-click spyware through online ads
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1011956/discover-tech-zero-click-ads-spyware Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106676 Points: 173 # Comments: 68
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Rocket Lab announces another delay for its medium-lift Neutron rocket
Rocket Lab announced the Neutron rocket in 2021, aiming for a first flight in 2024.
Smartphone shipments plummet as memory crisis pumps up prices
AI's appetite for components hammers budget handsets, with analysts seeing little relief before 2028
Workday wants a slice of customers' labour budget that its AI agents could replace
CEO eyes usage-based billing as automation pushes HR software vendor beyond traditional IT spending
Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale
Article URL: https://www.krea.ai/krea-3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105648 Points: 159 # Comments: 64
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Neural networks are clean
https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/2110757819427574056 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105647 Points: 257 # Comments: 77
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Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher
Article URL: https://respawnfirst.com/steam-client-is-now-faster-than-epics-new-vibe-coded-launcher/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105635 Points: 180 # Comments: 209
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TinyLittleOffice, where the link is the document
For those times when a full-fat editor is overkill
Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”
FTC may fine AI firms on par with companies that delay data breach reports.
KDE hits 30, decides it's time to move out of the X11 era
Wayland-only Plasma 6.8 heads for Kubuntu 'Tenacious T-Rex' early next year
Singer or clanker? YouTube Music will tell you with new gen AI labeling.
The AI music labels are rolling out now in YouTube Music and will come to YouTube soon.
Rewilding could help vulnerable islands keep pace with rising seas
Seabirds, native plants, and healthy reefs can help atolls build as seas rise.
Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran
Article URL: https://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/09-15-Fortran-birthday/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50104726 Points: 142 # Comments: 58
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When faster supercomputers aren’t enough
PARTNER CONTENT: A million reasons why advanced computing matters for genomics
Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era
Article URL: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/news/simons-foundation-launches-15m-effort-to-help-mathematicians-navigate-ai-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50104654 Points: 185 # Comments: 159
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3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T
3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs. They haven't forgotten about their past projects though and today released an updated version of their Dasharo downstream firmware for the ASRock Rack…
Spyware vendors found a way to make targeted ads even worse
Israeli adtech outfit allegedly helped spyware vendors infect phones while enjoying Google's seal of approval
Claude Code / AI Shows Potential For Reverse-Engineering Hardware For Linux Support
AI/LLMs like Claude Code are beginning to prove capable of helping to reverse engineer hardware for Linux support, especially when it comes to the tedious reverse engineering tasks...
Bank of America had to bring in 1,000 contractors to patch all the bugs Mythos identified
CEO said the workers were hired in Q2 and are still helping today
I know why the mathematicians weep
Article URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/i-know-why-the-mathematicians-weep Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103630 Points: 279 # Comments: 442
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Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design
Article URL: https://github.com/fyzugx/DEsk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103338 Points: 369 # Comments: 149
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TSMC sends scouts to check whether America's datacenters can deliver
Silicon giant budgets up to $64B for expansion while keeping an eye on construction progress and power supplies
C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions
Article URL: https://www.cppstories.com/2026/cpp26_contracts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50103164 Points: 100 # Comments: 95
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Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
Article URL: https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot2610.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102923 Points: 204 # Comments: 121
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X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms
Platform points to Iran, Russia, and China but provides no public evidence for attribution
Rocket Lab pushes back first Neutron launch to 2027
Carbon composite woes cause another delay for Peter Beck's Hungry Hippo
OpenAI claims 100-plus secret files followed ex-employee back to Apple
ChatGPT maker turns tables in Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, claiming confidential hardware plans made their way back to Cupertino
Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land
Article URL: https://unfenced.land/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102247 Points: 209 # Comments: 147
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Legal Aid Agency hackers made off with records dating back to 1978
Nearly 50 years of data caught up in breach, with probation service records also among the haul
Ubuntu 26.10 Released With Linux 7.3 + GNOME 51, Rust Coreutils Migration Complete
Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is now officially available as the newest six-month non-LTS update to Ubuntu Linux...
Zero-Click Spyware Delivered via Targeted Ads: AdFection
Article URL: https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101813 Points: 241 # Comments: 55
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US Air Force pilots used malware-laden USB drives to plan Afghanistan missions
The term military intelligence seems like an oxymoron in this case
Huawei Proposes Enabling CPU Boost By Default For ACPI CPPC Linux Driver
For those using the generic ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) CPUFreq driver such as on a number of ARM64 Linux server platforms, if the CPUs support a "boost" mode it's disabled by default. But a patch from Huawei is now looking to enable CPU boost mode by default on Linux...
GNOME Mutter Improves Damage Tracking For Secondary GPU Copy Buffers
As an early improvement to Mutter to look forward to with GNOME 52 (Update: It will first appear in GNOME 51.2), the compositor is now tracking damage for secondary GPU copy buffers. This should improve the experience for those with multi-GPU setups such as some hybrid laptops...
Japanese consortium bets on building bobbing bit barns
Four firms believe server farms on barges in ports will help solve the problem of finding suitable sites
Microsoft Releases Microsoft Defender For The Linux Desktop
Microsoft's newest software release for Linux is... Microsoft Defender for the Linux desktop. Microsoft Defender has been ported to Linux to "secure Linux desktops" with Microsoft acknowledging that "more developers begin to use Linux desktops" and thus bringing their security application and threat-protection product to Linux desktops to complement their prior ill-used Linux server support...
UK keeps AI safeguards in the maybe pile for Cyber Security BIll
Officials say amendments remain under consideration despite minister's pledge to act
Royal Navy goes fishing for suppliers to build its Type 93 robot submarine
Preliminary notice seeks XLUUV builders, payload makers and AI developers, with Excalibur and Herne the obvious candidates
Metropolitan Police's unchecked use of shoplifting platform lands force in trouble with data watchdog
Officers unlawfully uploaded 179 people's details to Auror without required privacy checks or corporate approval
Jev and other decision models can still be tricked with prompt injection
Never making type errors does not mean never making errors
Cisco make-me-root email bug exploited as a 0-day by unknown crims
Both Switchzilla and CISA sound the alarm
Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security
Incident hitting 700 supermarkets exploited outdated devices exposed to the Internet.
Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam
But the new "Preview" app "will have some bugs," Epic warns.
NATO may redeploy anti-drone defenses as attacks sink more Black Sea shipping
Suspected Russian drones have sunk or damaged 5 ships near Bulgaria and Romania.
Things are finally looking up for NASA's first missions to Venus in a generation
"This is great news for us. We're staffing up. We're accelerating."
Schools across US protest FCC plan that could disconnect kids from Internet
FCC chair threatens E-Rate fund, blames schools for kids' excessive screen time.
Georgia man sues Flock, sheriff's office over alleged ALPR-fueled retaliation
Plaintiff claims cameras enabled warrantless tracking and monitoring after he previously sued over excessive force.
Software development and rules stability: Prototype racing in 2030
With the end of IMSA’s 2026 season, we have thoughts about the future of the sport.
Framework Computers Triples Their Financial Support To CachyOS
In addition to providing Framework systems to the CachyOS Linux distribution for optimizing the support, Framework Computers has also been providing monthly donations to the project. CachyOS confirmed today that Framework Computers has now tripled their monthly donations to this independent Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux...
Greta Gerwig channels Bowie in psychedelic The Magician's Nephew trailer
"Have you ever seen a world born?"
Apple Contributes SSAF Driver To LLVM Clang For Source Code Transformations
Apple compiler engineers have contributed to upstream LLVM/Clang today a Scalable Static Analysis Framework (SSAF) driver for whole-program based analysis and source-to-source code transformations...
Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins
AI design tools make proteins that break bonds that are stable for hundreds of years.
Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room
OpenAI engineer faces 5 years and $250K fine as FBI lobs foreign spy charges.
Legendary FPS level designer Richard "Levelord" Gray dies at 68
Tributes pour in for the man behind iconic Duke Nukem 3D levels and much more.
Epic Games To Improve Easy Anti-Cheat On Linux With Anti-Cheat Systemd Service & eBPF
In addition to Epic Games announced a preview of their new Epic Games Launcher, including Linux support, they also announced plans to improve their Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software on Linux. Along with this improved EAC they are also working on official Linux support for the popular Fortnite game...
Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages Provide Some Additional Uplift On AMD EPYC
In addition to Ubuntu 26.10 itself delivering some nice performance gains on Ubuntu 26.10 for AMD EPYC servers and other hardware, the optional and currently-unofficial amd64v3 package archive also provides additional performance uplift. Here is a look quantifying the performance impact of amd64v3 packages on AMD EPYC 9005 series servers.
Ukraine blindsided by Starlink throttling restrictions and intelligence gaps
Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network.
HP EliteBook 6 G1q Powered By Snapdragon X1 Plus Sees Linux Patches
Canonical engineer Juerg Haefliger posted a set of Device Tree patches in working to support the mainline Linux kernel on the HP EliteBook 6 G1q laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Plus SoC...
Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
"Small weight-based replicators" could usher in a new generation of computer worms.
Linux Finally Making It Easier To Answer The Question: "Is This RISC-V System RVA23?"
The RISC-V RVA23 profile is a big deal for reducing fragmentation in the RISC-V ecosystem and standardizing more of the ISA to make it easier to distribute modern RISC-V binaries and the like. Modern versions of Ubuntu mandate RVA23 even though compliant hardware is still quite limited. Somewhat surprisingly, only coming about now is an easy ability for Linux users to find the answer to "is my…
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Landed More Hardware Improvements & Other Changes In September
Released at the end of August was Haiku R1 Beta 6 and over the course of September, further improvements continued to land for this BeOS-inspired project now in its 25th year of development...
The Internet’s undersea backbone is slipping into the danger zone
Elisabeth Braw’s book Undersea War on rising risks for undersea infrastructure.
OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say
Attack method exposes flaws in OpenAI, Google safeguards against AI nudes.
Cloud Hypervisor 54 Released With Live Migration Improvements
Cloud Hypervisor, the Rust-based Virtual Machine Monitor that began as an Intel open-source project and evolved into a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project, is out today with a sizable feature update...
Rustls 0.23.46 Released With Four Security Fixes
Rustls as the modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language with an emphasis on memory safety is out today with its v0.23.46 release in order to ship four new security fixes...
KDE Plasma 6.8 Released, Marks 30 Years Of The KDE Project
The feature-packed and polished Plasma 6.8 KDE desktop is now available. Making this release all the more special is that it coincides with the 30th anniversary of the KDE project...
Mesa Expands NPU Capabilities With Support For YOLOX With PyTorch
While Mesa is predominantly used for GPU drivers, open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso continues advancing the capabilities of NPUs within the Mesa driver stack...
Martin Shkreli livestreamed himself violating lifetime pharma ban, FTC says
"I can always find a couple of biotech stocks to smoke," Shkreli said in a livestream.
Intel ISPC 1.32 Released With AVX10.2 & APX Support, Even AMD Zen 6 Too
Intel ISPC 1.32 released today as the newest version of this Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler built atop LLVM/Clang. ISPC is a variant of the C programming language with extensiosn catering to Single Program Multiple Data programming for both Intel CPUs and GPUs...
Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit
Author here. Does anyone know what to do with the rest of the drivers? I found at least 13 in-tree drivers with the same bug class.
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