Wednesday, 28 October 2026
76 stories filed.
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
ZacOS 9 and Mavernix: Two classic Apple desktops find their Wayland to Linux
Classic Platinum or lickable Mavericks-era Aqua – it's your choice
Ghostty 1.4.0
Article URL: https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-4-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261998 Points: 293 # Comments: 103
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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...
Police Are Using AI to Pull over Drivers for 'Suspicious' Behavior
Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/police-are-using-ai-to-pull-over-drivers-for-suspicious-behavior-2000831220 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261819 Points: 233 # Comments: 155
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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.
Day 2 of canceled classes at University of New Mexico after Health Sciences Center cyberattack
University hospitals once again accepting patients after initial ambulance diversion, but recovery to continue in phases
Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261352 Points: 112 # Comments: 119
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Genie 4
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261319 Points: 407 # Comments: 232
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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.
Take it on the chin SatNad: Microsoft chief exec's pay slips 6% in record year
Revenue up, operating profit up, 30 million paid Copilot seats locked in, 88 DCs added, $43.8 billion returned to shareholders
From cheap tool to premium subscription: When a beloved app's price skyrockets
Huge price hikes force loyal users to reconsider their favorite apps.
Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
Article URL: https://stanforddaily.com/2026/10/27/professors-books-pirated-to-train-claude/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260814 Points: 218 # Comments: 119
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A $300B 'Debt Wall' Is Looming over Private-Equity Backed Companies
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/a-300-billion-debt-wall-is-looming-over-private-equity-backed-companies-d6359497 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260526 Points: 107 # Comments: 32
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CISA confirms PHP2Shell under attack as researchers clock successful exploits
Both critical PHP flaws land on the agency’s exploited list as infosec pros confirm hackers are getting working shells
Apple iPhone Duo review: Two screens, two experiences, two thousand dollars
I respect Apple's first crack at a foldable phone, but I'm not sure I like it.
US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-on-americans/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259604 Points: 525 # Comments: 169
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Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing, Apple says only a "small number" are affected
Apple's "precision-engineered" hinge is apparently damaging some iPhone Duo screens.
A whopping 3% of boardroom execs spy productivity and costs savings from AI
A load more are spending more than they expected and forecast to shell out even more in 2027
Is my data used for model training?
Article URL: https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996868-is-my-data-used-for-model-training Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259406 Points: 190 # Comments: 81
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PHP2Shell: Exploitation attempts and remediation trends
Article URL: https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-exploitation-so-far Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50259343 Points: 167 # Comments: 54
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Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup
University of Sheffield researchers figured out how to re-create the 1,600-year-old glass recipe.
Here be monsters: What do you still need to know when agents do the work?
Article URL: https://blog.adrq.dev/here-be-monsters-what-do-you-still-need-to-know-when-agents-do-the-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258868 Points: 110 # Comments: 36
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US officials want Section 702 renewed before damaging court ruling goes public
Senators say officials hid a ruling on warrantless searches past its release deadline.
Apple's foldable phone has a crease in its reputation
Admits a 'small number' of iPhone Duos have display problems, and no, you're not folding it wrong.
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...
New iMac with M6
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/imac/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258538 Points: 223 # Comments: 270
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When file infrastructure becomes the bottleneck
Legacy NAS, VPNs, and file-sync workflows leave hidden costs in their wake. Is the way your organization manages files still fit for purpose?
Microsoft releases out-of-band Windows fixes with certificate updates
Did you hear the one about eMudhra and the power of 4? Time to get connected to certificate trust list updates
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...
Attack on email hosting provider for German far right party AfD exposed 345k accounts
Alternative für Deutschland swats away scandals as reporters swarm leaked email tranche
Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible
Article URL: https://www.bitlog.com/2026/10/27/software-may-be-getting-worse-but-it-used-to-be-horrible/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257548 Points: 264 # Comments: 237
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Python's experimental JIT to be removed
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257419 Points: 353 # Comments: 188
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Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50257326 Points: 357 # Comments: 162
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UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups
Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones
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...
Gforth 1.0
Article URL: https://gforth.org/manual/1.0/NEWS.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50256952 Points: 132 # Comments: 11
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FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases
Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions
Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Now Supports Alternate Data Streams (ADS)
Merged back in Linux 7.1 was the new NTFS kernel driver implementation for better supporting Microsoft's NTFS file-system on Linux. Since then new features and improvements have continued to land for this NTFS driver with some more notable additions also coming in Linux 7.4...
Linux 7.4 Expands Sensor Monitoring For More ASUS & MSI Motherboards, New Minisforum Driver
With the Linux 7.4 kernel there are more MSI and ASUS motherboards with sensor monitoring support along with a variety of other additions to help broaden the selection of supported systems for hardware sensor monitoring under Linux. It's another busy cycle for the HWMON subsystem...
Firefox 159 Released With AMD Linux Graphics Fix For Excessive Memory Use
Firefox 159 is out today as the latest bi-weekly feature release for Mozilla's web browser...
Year of Linux on the Beach confirmed
Don't forget to keep code up to date. Even with a cold beverage in hand
How everyday technology choices drive true workplace sustainability
SPONSORED FEATURE: Introducing certified, environmentally friendly meeting room solutions, such as Barco ClickShare, in a standardized way across the organization can make the difference between hitting sustainability goals or not
The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI
Article URL: https://j11g.com/the-mythical-man-month-in-the-age-of-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255298 Points: 382 # Comments: 266
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Elvis rightsholders sue Anthropic for stealing songs and leaving them in Heartbreak Hotel
They want a little less chatbot conversation, and a whole lot more royalty action
IBM admits mainframes need to be modernized and will use AI to do the job
Promises to build ‘IBM Z Atlas’ tool that will tidy up messy big iron and enable AIOps
Japanese virtual desktop cloud hacked so hard it asks to be banned
CEO admits service used for foreign exchange trading had holes company was slow to fix
Initial Support For The Apple M4 & Apple A18 Pro Make It Into Linux 7.4
The many SoC patches have landed within the Linux 7.4 kernel providing support for dozens of new boards as well as a number of new SoCs like the Apple M4 and the A18 Pro as found in the MacBook Neo. The Google Tensor 5 was also finally mainlined along with Pixel 10 devices. Plus some unreleased Qualcomm SoC support rounds out the bunch...
Steam Frame VR Headset Sees Mainline Support With Linux 7.4
The mainline Linux 7.4 kernel will be capable of running on the Steam Frame VR headset...
Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists
It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all
OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra
Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price
Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce
Employees in the US, Canada, India, and the UK may receive offers to leave MS today.
Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail
Payload blobs measuring 12.9 to 13.7 MB were large enough to evade GitHub code search
Linux 7.4 Preps CXL For Very Neat Dynamic Capacity Devices "DCD"
The Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel. The fun work this cycle is preparing to support Dynamic Capacity Devices...
Worms mate in man's eyes, get plucked out right before larvae burst out
Case study gives a whole new meaning to "bedroom eyes."
Meet the real-life Scottish surgeon who inspired Sherlock Holmes
Lindsey Fitzharris chats with Ars about her new book, Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes .
Apple releases iOS and macOS 27.2 with new Siri AI features, new Music logo
Included is the ability to limit which applications Siri can directly access.
KMSCON 10.1 Released With Support For Per-Monitor Configurations
KMSCON as the user-space terminal emulator targeting Linux DRM/KMS interfaces as an alternative to the in-kernel VT now is able to individually configure monitors in multi-monitor setups. Plus a variety of other improvements with today's KMSCON 10.1 release...
Apple reveals updated iPad mini with a bigger OLED screen for $700
Apple claims this is the most significant update ever for the iPad mini line.
ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees
US robotics company stands by ICE deal as more than 300 employees warn of risk.
Musk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink terms with deadly drone strikes
Ukraine says Starshield back to normal, denies misuse of Starlink commercial service.
Intel IPU8 Support Upstreamed In Linux 7.4 For Nova Lake Laptops
The media subsystem changes have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel. Most notable is Intel IPU8 support being introduced for the next-gen image processing unit in high-end Nova Lake laptops..
Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
Investigators explain how highway thieves stole $100M in data center equipment.
KWin-Type Introduced To Address KDE Wayland Usability Gap For Auto-Typing Text
Open-source developer Jason Donenfeld known for his work on WireGuard announced today the release of kwin-type. KWin-type is a new Wayland-compatible program for auto-typing text from the standard input under the KWin Wayland compositor...
F1 in Texas: The American race that fans love to attend
Ars spends the weekend with the Audi Revolut F1 team at the Circuit of the Americas.
Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race.
Tesla hopes autonomy subscriptions can deliver the margins car sales cannot.
Mesa 27.0 Switching To Kraid Compiler By Default For Arm Mali GPUs
In development for a number of months now has been Kraid as a modern graphics compiler for recent Arm Mali GPUs. Kraid was merged for Mesa 26.2 back in June while in Mesa 27.0 due out in Q1 it will be switching to this new shader compiler by default...
Snapdragon X1 Elite / Acer Swift 14 AI Performance On The Ubuntu 26.10 X1E Concept
For those curious about the Snapdragon X1 Elite performance on the recently released Ubuntu 26.10 Concept X1E ISO, here are some benchmarks showing the performance relative to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS X1E state on the same hardware.
Linux 7.4 EFI Brings Improvement For Helping Systemd When Kernel Booted Directly
The EFI updates have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel and include an improvement for when the system was booted directly into the kernel on EFI-based systems without using a bootloader like GRUB or systemd-boot...
Nouveau-DKMS Aims For Better NVIDIA Open-Source Experience On Old GPUs
Nouveau-DKMS is in development as an out-of-tree spin-off of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver focused on providing better support for NVIDIA GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" series graphics processors and potentially other generations too pre-Turing where the modern Nova driver is in development by NVIDIA...
Linux 7.4 Begins Employing New "Core MM" Tree
Core memory management patches to the Linux kernel have typically been routed to mainline via Andrew Morton's "MM" branch, which is where also a variety of broader memory management related patches are also queued like all the ongoing work to DAMON/DAMOS. Kernel maintainers have now agreed to a new "Core MM" tree as the home for all of the core memory management changes moving forward...
From impulse purchase to pocket studio: The M-Vave FM-1
M-Vave's cheap FM-1 pocket synth has exploded as a community firmware playground.
Linux Fixes AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Regression Due To Cache Aware Scheduling
Merged for Linux 7.4 Git and marked for back-porting to Linux 7.2/7.3 stable is a regression fix affecting at least the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" laptop SoC when making use of Cache Aware Scheduling...
A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature
A new model suggests Mars may host ice-forming physics never directly observed before.
Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that
The tiny remains of the Laurentide Ice Sheet began getting somewhat less tiny.