Wednesday, 21 October 2026
76 stories filed.
Palo Alto's firewall OS has been under attack from multiple ransomware groups since June
Unit 42 investigates network compromises across numerous industries
Improved Performance & Resource Usage For XFS Checksumming With Linux 7.4
Among the many VFS pull requests merged as the initial material for the in-development Linux 7.4, the VFS IOmap pull introduced lazy bounce buffering for checksummed reads. This improvement is benefiting checksumming on XFS with improved performance and lower resource usage...
Intel & AMD Now Collaborating On Software Optimizations With PyTorch/oneDNN
Intel has long worked on tuning their oneDNN neural network library for their hardware and saw its adoption by PyTorch and other AI frameworks. AMD has maintained ZenDNN as their downstream fork that is oneDNN API compatible while catering to their Zen processor designs. As an interesting twist, AMD and Intel jointly announced today they will be collaborating around oneDNN for PyTorch and…
Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs
Article URL: https://github.com/google-pytorch/torch_tpu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169053 Points: 125 # Comments: 38
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Swamped curl maintainers take low-level flaws public to survive vulnerability 'avalanche'
From October 26, only high and critical cases stay private as project seeks help sharing the workload
OneDrive loses bunch of Copilot shortcuts in File Explorer clear-out
Microsoft keeps 'Ask Copilot' as dedicated actions disappear between mid-November and early December
Voxtral 3
Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50168396 Points: 325 # Comments: 85
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openEuler brings China's enterprise Linux ambitions to the desktop
CentOS roots give way to homegrown containers, AI tools, and a workstation edition we took for a spin
Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month
Article URL: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@AshleyGullen/117473851565913919 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167536 Points: 348 # Comments: 301
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How going dual-native means VM/container co-existence and sovereign security in the AI era
SPONSORED FEATURE: Nutanix says running VMs and containers within the same operating environment shouldn’t be a brake on AI ambitions
Polestar tries to quantify what it’s like to drive a performance car
Drivers had electrodes strapped to their heads as they tested EVs on track.
Enterprises blow nearly a third of software budgets on upgrades they never asked for
Keeping vendors happy is costing businesses millions, even when everything was working fine in the first place
Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case
Article URL: https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/ofcom-concedes-defeat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167028 Points: 194 # Comments: 114
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Intel Core Ultra 9 Arrow Lake On Star Labs StarFighter Shows Nice Gains On Ubuntu 26.10
For those running a Star Labs StarFighter Ultra or other Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake laptop, the recent Ubuntu 26.10 release is providing some nice performance gains over the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Here is a look at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.10 performs with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H over dozens of different benchmarks.
My Friend Bob Cringely
Article URL: https://tyma.com/my-cringe-story/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166794 Points: 122 # Comments: 35
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HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon
Mystery silicon and mirrored SSDs set to touch down before year's end
EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise
Article URL: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166579 Points: 358 # Comments: 194
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2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
Article URL: https://yoyo-code.com/2026-is-exciting-year-for-rust-compiler-and-me/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166502 Points: 106 # Comments: 34
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How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed
Article URL: https://kaba.cx/posts/20261020_Tor/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166257 Points: 218 # Comments: 57
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'Password1' and a forgotten test account land Welsh outfits in hot water
ICO reprimands Ogi Networks and Data Cymru after ransomware breach exposes info of 3,300 people, mostly children
Linux Foundation Estimates 25% Of New Pull Requests To Be Low-Quality AI Slop
The Linux Foundation published a new study today around the impact of generative AI on open-source software development. One key takeaway is that ~25% of new open-source software pull requests amount to AI slop...
Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/typescript-rust-port/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165953 Points: 226 # Comments: 105
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Linux Coredumps Via Sockets Can Be Much Smaller Now With Sparse Support
Added to the Linux kernel last year was Coredump support via Unix domain sockets as an alternative to the pipe-based Coredumps. With code now merged for Linux 7.4, the core dumps via sockets has the potential of being much smaller thanks to sparse support. In extreme cases they can be 1% of the size without sparse support...
Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs
Article URL: https://peec.ai/blog/publish-stats-get-cited-the-tactic-that-put-my-data-all-over-the-web Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165801 Points: 264 # Comments: 145
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Google Cloud says a 'power event' caused today's outage
Fells London zone, taking banks, parcel firm and property sites with it – and recovery is 'tentatively' due by 1300 UTC
NixOS is making me less afraid
Article URL: https://entropicthoughts.com/nixos-is-making-me-less-afraid Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165484 Points: 135 # Comments: 88
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Meta Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations
Meta is suspending the sharing feature while it investigates its privacy.
Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
Article URL: https://teddysvoronos.com/2026-10-19-apple-broke-an-essential-presentation-feature-of-ipads/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165208 Points: 362 # Comments: 213
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Bullhorn sees red after cyberattack knocks recruitment platform offline
Staffing software giant calls in CrowdStrike as customers face login headaches and questions remain over possible data theft
BFS Removed With Linux 7.4 As Old UnixWare File-System
Linus Torvalds began honoring pull requests overnight of new code entering the Linux 7.4 kernel -- as well as removing old code. BFS is the latest obsolete file-system removed from the mainline kernel...
KDE Plasma 6.8.1 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
Following last week's release of Plasma 6.8, the Plasma 6.8.1 point release is out today with dozens of bug fixes...
Omarchy 4.5 Expanding To AArch64 World With Snapdragon X & NVIDIA N1X Laptops
The Omarchy Linux distribution to date has been centered on x86_64 support for this Arch Linux distribution. Released today was Omarchy 4.5-RC1 and with this new version there is initial AArch64 support centered around Snapdragon X and NVIDIA N1X laptop support...
Microsoft admits that Always On VPN problems were not fixed in the October Security Update
Let they who are without sin throw a stone and miss the greenhouse entirely
Visiting Slate’s first showroom as its $25,000 electric truck nears production
Slate's first showroom sells the promise. Mass production will determine the rest.
Whitehall shuts the front door on digital ID but leaves the back open
Ministers may have scrapped the national scheme, but One Login, digital wallets and 80-plus planned credentials are still very much alive
Linux 7.4 Adding New Emulation Function While Some Old CPUs May Soon Be Phased Out
Linux 7.4 is seeing a new emulation function added for cmpxchg() for compare and exchange. This is being done so that two-byte cmpxchg() can be used in common Linux kernel code that is already natively supported on newer CPU architectures. The pull request notes though that some old CPU architectures might no longer be supported by the Linux kernel moving ahead...
Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/google-cloud-outage-takes-down-hsbc-revolut-bank-of-scotland-llyods-equifax-more/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163961 Points: 234 # Comments: 111
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17k Lines Of New Rust Kernel Code Heading Into Linux 7.4
Miguel Ojeda sent out his pull request of the new Rust kernel code slated for introduction in Linux 7.4. It's a big one this round due to updating the Zerocopy vendored library plus updating other Rust crates for the kernel...
UK finance watchdog wants firms to report AI failures and close calls
FCA seeks clear accountability as financial services embrace increasingly autonomous agents
OpenBSD 8.0 Released With Intel Arc A-Series, Other Hardware Improvements
Theo de Raadt released OpenBSD 8.0 today as the 61st release of this BSD operating system...
Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted
Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail, Revolut all hit as europe-west2-b falls over. No recovery time in sight, 'no workarounds for now'
DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
Article URL: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepInfer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163277 Points: 1945 # Comments: 752
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London’s mobile networks fall to bottom of Europe’s capital league
Rooftop rent cuts, planning refusals and congestion leave Ookla ranking the UK’s capital last for speed and latency
Why cyber resilience is now a boardroom priority for UK public services
PARTNER CONTENT: What happens after the inflection point?
MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space
Article URL: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50162177 Points: 333 # Comments: 64
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Japan launches mission to bring home a piece of the Martian moon Phobos
The climax for MMX will come in 2029, when the spacecraft will attempt up to two landings on Phobos.
Sony updates the Walkman as a $5,900 gold-plated MP3 player
That price buys you an Android 16 device which can display an animated cassette
‘David Beckham’ was briefly the world’s second-worst manga pirate
Publishers call for better verification of domain name registrants, and ICANN is on the job with a new policy
ICANN testing tech to let law enforcement access non-public WHOIS info
Single sign-on to help address imminent threats to life, critical infrastructure, or kids
AMD GAIA 0.25 Brings Several Improvements For Local AI Agents On Ryzen AI
AMD GAIA 0.25 is out this week as the latest feature release for this open-source project that began as "Generative AI Is Awesome" and is now going on a tag line of "AMD's open-source agent factory" in building/using local AI agents on AMD Ryzen AI hardware...
DeepSeek deep-sixed at all US federal civilian agencies
Order disallowing use of Chinese AI service is unhelpfully vague and broad
Pennsylvania issues alert on congenital measles—something US hasn't seen for decades
Congenital measles can be fatal, and survivors require monitoring for years.
Linux 7.4 Sunsetting Old EDAC Drivers Due To "AI Generated Fixes Frenzy"
In addition to introducing the new Intel BFF driver, the Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" kernel subsystem is sunsetting a number of old hardware drivers due to increased noise to AI/LLM-generated bug fixes for these likely unused or minimally used drivers...
Russian spacecraft maneuvers in "extreme proximity" to satellite used by Ukraine
"Kosmos 2612 closed from hundreds of kilometers away to extreme proximity to ICEYE-X36."
Accused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI says
US fears Saudi government will help ex-OpenAI engineer flee spying charges.
Batteries help reduce emissions, but how do we reduce their emissions?
One way to make batteries cleaner is to make fewer of them.
PSA: Patch your Plex media server before someone hacks it
A researcher says attacks chaining 4 vulnerabilities is hacking unpatched boxes.
Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test
Can undersea geothermal power help Pacific Rim nations cut down on oil imports?
ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support
ReactOS gains NTFS install support with new driver.
Btrfs Brings More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.4
With Linux 7.3 there are some nice Btrfs performance improvements to enjoy while the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel is set to bring some additional performance optimizations for this copy-on-write file-system...
Intel Working To Add XMX-Accelerated XeSS To Valve's Steam Play (Proton)
An Intel engineer opened the pull requests today for adding Intel XeSS support to Valve's Proton for Steam Play along with associated changes to VKD3D-Proton and DXVK...
AI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their work
Delayed Steam Next Fest demo is a sign of a growing problem for indie devs.
Florida DMV hacked after police dept insecurely stored login info
Florida issues alerts after statewide DMV data breach linked to ShinyHunters.
Linus Torvalds' AI Code Improved: Huge Performance Wins With Reworked Code
Last week I wrote about Linus Torvalds leveraging AI to come up with a hefty Linux kernel improvement using Claude Code. The code is for reading from the page cache without folio references to help workloads of small reads from a single file across many CPU threads. Meta engineer Kiryl Shutsemau has taken that code and reworked it and showing extremely promising performance results...
Linux In 2026 Continues Improving Support For Benefiting Old Atari & Amiga Hardware
The Motorola 68000 "m68k" CPU support continues being maintained in the mainline Linux kernel and continuing to see new hardware support for these vintage systems from the likes of Commodore Amiga, Atari, and early Apple Macintosh models...
Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits
Character.AI faces claims its bots encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
A Chinese rocket deorbited over Minnesota and left this in a farmer's cornfield
All the evidence points to the debris being part of a Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket.
Review: Lanterns is a truly unique twist on the superhero genre
Gritty HBO series is a beacon for what's possible when one is allowed to get creative with the tropes.
Canonical's Multipass 1.17 Adds Direct Support For Non-Ubuntu Linux Distros
Canonical's Multipass software is used for orchestrating Ubuntu virtual instances with a single command to launch Ubuntu VMs across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Multipass 1.17 was released today and they are now offering direct support for enabling non-Ubuntu Linux distributions as well...
GNU Linux-libre 7.3-gnu Removes More Firmware Blobs
GNU Linux-libre 7.3 is now available following yesterday's Linux 7.3 release. The GNU Linux-libre downstream continues stripping out driver/hardware support where dependent upon firmware blobs or other proprietary elements deemed out of line with free software ideals...
DIY VR: How to build your own headset, and why you probably won't want to
A primer on the joys and pains of building your own head-mounted display.
GNOME Mutter Lands Improvement For Reducing GPU Work While In Power Savings Mode
Stemming from a bug report one month ago with GNOME 51 over high GPU usage while the monitor is sleeping, a set of 17 patches were merged today for addressing this issue...
Stratospheric airship flew from US to Japan to test sky cell tower concept
Tests showed Sceye’s high-flying platform can deliver connectivity in disasters.
Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access
The outside watchdog can publish its findings without Anthropic's approval.
Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
Article URL: https://github.com/tywr/Nordwand-Mono Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141581 Points: 505 # Comments: 142
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Science says your boss should talk less in meetings
Research suggests listening more while talking less. Killing aimless meetings can help, too.