Friday, 30 October 2026
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Report: Trump did nothing with intel that China planted spy close to Nvidia CEO
Spy accused of exploiting Trump ties to Huang, funneling secrets to China.
Turning a solar power system into its own backup
Plant design allows it to run on either stored solar heat or combustion.
Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws
Charges filed as Trump admin tries to save Kalshi from Utah's total ban on gambling.
Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core Desktop
Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing
Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic
Article URL: https://www.vut.cz/en/but/news-f19528/two-but-graduates-received-state-honors-from-the-president-of-the-republic-d378468 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292233 Points: 109 # Comments: 10
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F2FS Adds Opt-In Multi-Grain Timestamps With Linux 7.4, Other Improvements
The F2FS (Flash Friendly File-System) improvements have been merged for Linux 7.4 to further enhance this flash-optimized solution...
Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
Article URL: https://www.kadoa.com/companies/insights/google-search-below-half Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291945 Points: 324 # Comments: 279
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BattMan aims to turbocharge US batteries without robbin' critical minerals
DoE-backed consortium hoping to scale, says orgs can apply to become, literally, part of BattMan
Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads
Google's negative cash flow balloons to -$9.06 billion, and stock price tumbles following Q3 earnings.
GSA left sensitive Google Drive files open to staff, contractors
Auditors have flagged similar security failures since 2014
H.264 Is Magic (2016)
Article URL: https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291054 Points: 178 # Comments: 94
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I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy
https://archive.ph/sGqBh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290668 Points: 218 # Comments: 226
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Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat
Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030
Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from
Article URL: https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/zombie-stats Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290283 Points: 100 # Comments: 51
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Built to bend: Postgres’s inventor and a steward on what AI really needs
PARTNER CONTENT: Michael Stonebraker and Bruce Momjian on why enterprise AI needs a database that no one controls, and what PostgreSQL 19 says about the road ahead
LLM Voice
Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50290177 Points: 178 # Comments: 98
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Belgium's tax agency confirms cyberattack, pulls services offline
Officials confirm this week’s tax deadlines extended to November as a result
We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418 Points: 834 # Comments: 223
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Systemd adds support for Rust
What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!
NVIDIA Vera Single vs. Dual Socket CPU Performance
For those curious how NVIDIA Vera is scaling between single and dual socket deployments, here are some benchmarks I carried out a while back exploring the power and performance from one to two Vera CPUs.
Critical launch for Vulcan as ULA targets Friday the 13th
Hopefully without disintegrating SRB nozzles
Massive leak exposes 41,000 DHS workers and undercover ICE agents
The leak reveals undercover agents, surveillance groups, and sensitive DHS access.
Linux 7.4 Networking Brings Hardware Pacing Offload, New Drivers & More Performance
The many Linux wired and wireless networking driver improvements were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window....
DoorDash to acquire Instacart
Article URL: https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/doordash-to-acquire-instacart Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287919 Points: 293 # Comments: 511
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Shortlist of age checks for the UK's under-16 social media ban is out, 'some' adults will need verifying
Some adults may not need to prove it, but many will
If IPv4 were land
Article URL: https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287775 Points: 175 # Comments: 191
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Attackers turn GitHub issues into supply chain campaign against 61 public repos in less than an hour
'The workflow automatically is triggered within a second, and if the workflow is indeed vulnerable, then the attack is executed successfully'
NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto
Article URL: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117518160563539748 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287599 Points: 134 # Comments: 107
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How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)
Article URL: https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50287448 Points: 201 # Comments: 165
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LibreOffice's 'no AI' stance meets LLM-assisted code
Core developers avoid AI coding assistants, while community contributors face disclosure and review rules
SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that's a problem for America's space agency
"NASA desperately needs SpaceX, and SpaceX knows it, and Elon knows it."
Traces of new Pi hardware spotted in GitHub
A new Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4 Model A seen lurking in the repository
Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers
Article URL: https://dreamgroup.com/blog/chained-php2shell-exploit-roots-25-servers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50286987 Points: 201 # Comments: 95
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AMD's ROCm HRX Loom v0.1 Released For Targeting AMD CPUs, GPUs & NPUs
At this year's AMD Advancing AI event Hyperloom was announced among the ROCm improvements to expect. Hyperloom aims for agentic workload optimizations and more with quote powerful abilities if everything works out right. As part of the latest round of ROCm advancements, the Loom SDK v0.1 release was released today...
Microsoft breaks New Outlook attachment opening with Edge Update
Attachments in New Outlook come undone thanks to Windows' fundamental interconnectedness of things
FAT32 File-System Seeing As Much As 265x Improvement With Linux 7.4
A change merged for Linux 7.4 is showing some mighty big speed-ups for the FAT32 file-system...
Graphics/NPU Driver Changes Already Begin Queuing Up For What Will Be Linux 7.5
Since last week drm-misc-next pull requests have already been sent out to DRM-Next to begin staging new feature code for what's intended for the Linux 7.5 kernel cycle kicking off at the end of the year...
KSMBD Adds New Options With Linux 7.4
A number of improvements to KSMBD, the in-kernel SMB3 file server, were merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel...
Matrix takes sovereign messaging into the realm of the tech giants
Once more, with feeling: 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you'
Admin dropped the F-bomb in a password to show hackers who was really 1337
Cursing in login credentials can help keep the bad guys out, but not when the rest of your security is BS
HPE puts storage to work on AI’s expensive memory problem
PARTNER CONTENT: HPE Alletra MP X10000 cache offload delivers up to 20× faster time to first token in testing validated by Kamiwaza. Apparently, remembering things beats calculating them again.
We won't "just hang out"
Article URL: https://borretti.me/article/we-wont-just-hang-out Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50285154 Points: 120 # Comments: 189
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Google's Gemini 4 Carbon looks like a diamond in the rough
Undercutting Claude on price ahead of Anthropic's IPO
Boffin's software found a possible dwarf planet - a result so rare he thought it must be a bug
2026 ED138 is way out beyond Neptune and perhaps the smallest known object of its type
Tape is so not dead that Fujifilm will increase production capacity 5x
Because, sigh, AI
Google struggling to make AI Mode searches pay
That’s a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud
GXVK: 3Dfx Glide API Implemented Atop Vulkan For Modern Usage
The open-source D7VK project that implements the Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs atop the Vulkan API for faster, modern performance is out with a new release. This new D7VK 2.4 release came as a bit of a surprise since it was just last month D7VK announced its maturity status and more or less in maintenance mode. But brought up in today's D7VK 2.4 announcement is an even bigger surprise: there's now…
ULA's Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th
This Vulcan launch will be first to use a full complement of 6 solid rocket boosters.
As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland
Europe's Pan-Arctic Cable will bypass US to link Canada, Japan, and South Korea.
Peptide peddlers cheer as RFK Jr. unilaterally grants access, overruling FDA
Six unproven peptides popular with MAHA now under "enforcement discretion policy."
The case of the 9 bit AES key
Article URL: https://v12.sh/blog/the-case-of-the-9bit-aes-key Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50280722 Points: 121 # Comments: 65
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The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona
It has been nearly a year since any space tourism flights occurred.
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.
Touchscreen MacBook Pro hands-on: OLED looks great on a Mac
It's not as different from the previous model as you might have expected.
Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use
Gemini 4 Carbon is essentially a slightly better version of Argon.
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.
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."
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.
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...
A hidden ocean change near Antarctica could have global consequences
Antarctic waters are getting saltier as sea-ice loss reshapes ocean circulation.
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...
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...
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...
China’s snooping around Pacific undersea cables raises risks for Big Tech
US-owned trans-Pacific cables face growing risks from sabotage and China.
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...
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...
If-then-else had to be invented (2020)
Article URL: https://github.com/e-n-f/if-then-else/blob/master/if-then-else.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233059 Points: 148 # Comments: 150
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