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The permission you denied today is your safety net for tomorrow

I know why Mathematicians weep

Microsoft says Windows 11 is now ‘more responsive’ and runs better on 8GB of RAM

KDE releases documentary

Ubuntu 26.10 released

GridSnap – an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS

Microsoft: Windows Server 2022 reached end of mainstream support

GTA VI’s new trailer gives you one more look at Vice City

C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions

Security updates for Thursday

Seven stable kernels for Thursday with fix for critical vulnerability

Quick question: Who exactly is iPhone Handoff for?

Google launches its ‘universal’ online shopping cart ahead of the holidays

The code confidence gap nobody’s talking about

Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero-click' spyware

Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

The Costa GUI

Ledger’s new hardware wallet is an Android phone without the phone

Amazon’s always-listening Bee wearable can now help you buy stuff

Agentic AI doesn’t have a model problem. It has a retrieval problem.

Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released

Police arrests 95 suspects in international CSAM crackdown action

Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land

Ubuntu 26.10 Released With Linux 7.3 + GNOME 51, Rust Coreutils Migration Complete

Your secrets aren’t safe with this cute robot toy — they’re on Chinese servers ready to be hacked

Huawei Proposes Enabling CPU Boost By Default For ACPI CPPC Linux Driver

GNOME Mutter Improves Damage Tracking For Secondary GPU Copy Buffers

Big Walk skipped Xbox to boycott Microsoft’s involvement with Israel

Microsoft Defender for Linux

Microsoft Releases Microsoft Defender For The Linux Desktop

Microsoft fixes bug causing Windows black screens, Explorer crashes

UK Legal Aid Agency: Hackers stole records dating back to 1978

Haxy on Haxy

Haxy.net is live! — HAXY (git forge) devlog

HPMicro HPM5100 RISC-V MCU integrates four 16-bit ADCs, four op-amps for analog sensing and motor control

Furifont: furigana built into the font

Show HN: Flipflop, Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing

The Double Headed Stack Allocator

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 15, 2026

Inside GTA 🚗, Anthropic revenue jump 📈, agentic verification 🤖

LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents

Linus Torvalds let Claude Code fix the Linux page cache. Then reviewers found a race.

Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks

McKinsey is making job applicants spar with a fake AI client

Show HN: Ito – Build Terminal UIs in Lua

Tiny Little Office

The best feature of Apple’s HomeView might be its simplicity

Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security

Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam

Fixing C Strings With String Views

NATO may redeploy anti-drone defenses as attacks sink more Black Sea shipping

Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke

OpenCode 2.0

Things are finally looking up for NASA's first missions to Venus in a generation

Schools across US protest FCC plan that could disconnect kids from Internet

Georgia man sues Flock, sheriff's office over alleged ALPR-fueled retaliation

Software development and rules stability: Prototype racing in 2030

FBI raids DPRK IT worker laptop farms in Texas, US nationals arrested

Things to know when you get cancer

Framework Computers Triples Their Financial Support To CachyOS

Greta Gerwig channels Bowie in psychedelic The Magician's Nephew trailer

Apple Contributes SSAF Driver To LLVM Clang For Source Code Transformations

Researchers left a hidden message for rogue AI agents. Then the agents wrote back.

Ledger asks sellers across Asia to halt sales after supply-chain attack

Where do you look when Kubernetes is healthy but requests stall?

Cisco patches new Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks

Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins

Orange Pi O1 SBC features 16 TOPS SOPHGO BM1688 AI SoC, supports 4G/5G cellular connectivity

Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room

Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

Legendary FPS level designer Richard "Levelord" Gray dies at 68

Epic Games To Improve Easy Anti-Cheat On Linux With Anti-Cheat Systemd Service & eBPF

What I Self-Host

Your database decision could come back to haunt you

Why 88% of AI pilots never make it to production

Microsoft fixes VPN issues caused by September Windows updates

Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages Provide Some Additional Uplift On AMD EPYC

The Blind Spots of Agentic Pentesting and How to Close Them

[$] Collaborating with out-of-tree tracers

Ukraine blindsided by Starlink throttling restrictions and intelligence gaps

Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series

KDE Plasma 6.8 released

“Take work away from frontier LLMs”: Subquadratic’s decision model claims 12x Jev’s context window

[$] GCC development with large-language models

Global takedown hits network behind 1 billion phishing messages

HP EliteBook 6 G1q Powered By Snapdragon X1 Plus Sees Linux Patches

Security updates for Wednesday

Formlabs dropped the Raspberry Pi on the way to a $699 SLA printer

CISA warns admins to immediately fix Ivanti flaw exploited as zero-day

Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices

Linux Finally Making It Easier To Answer The Question: "Is This RISC-V System RVA23?"

Hirudo Android malware replaces banking apps to evade security checks

BeOS-Inspired Haiku Landed More Hardware Improvements & Other Changes In September

Plasma 6.8 released (KDE's 30th birthday)

The Internet’s undersea backbone is slipping into the danger zone

Introducing Firefox Enterprise

OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say

Microsoft: Recent Windows updates may trigger Remote Desktop failures

Cloud Hypervisor 54 Released With Live Migration Improvements

Rustls 0.23.46 Released With Four Security Fixes

How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

KDE Plasma 6.8 Released, Marks 30 Years Of The KDE Project

Romu – A Tiny Raspberry Pi RP2354A board for USB application development (Crowdfunding)

66% of billion-dollar companies leave critical bugs unpatched — the part the AI bug-hunting hype leaves out

Planet Database

Geniatech Enables Local LLM Inference with RK1828 and Hailo-10 M.2 AI Accelerators

Coin-Sized Romu Packs Raspberry Pi RP2354A into USB Type-A Form Factor

Mesa Expands NPU Capabilities With Support For YOLOX With PyTorch

VIEWE launches 4.3-inch ESP32-S31 display development board

Gemini 4 🤖, OpenAI spy ⚖️, Anthropic replaces git 👨‍💻

Martin Shkreli livestreamed himself violating lifetime pharma ban, FTC says

OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting spy device in office

The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio

ESA targets Anbernic emulation handhelds as "superfake" piracy enablers

Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware

Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA

Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it

Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech

[$] KDE Linux at two

Anthropic’s red team ran AI on 15 cheap TV boxes. Then the math got unsettling.

Nix and Lix local root-privilege-escalation vulnerabilities

Gemini 4 Argon debuts with a unified 1M input/output token limit

The agent did the work. The audit log couldn’t say who asked.

Your C is not standard C

[$] Owning C types from Rust code

Eisentraut: The reverts will continue until morale improves

Security updates for Tuesday

Tracing Mystery Network Traffic with eBPF Across HRT's Global Compute Cluster

Workday goes headless, opening its HR and finance data to outside AI agents

Workday is using TypeSafe’s Jev to build user interfaces on the fly

It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360

Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit

The X Subscription bundles Cursor with Grok and X Premium. But Claude now costs extra.

Microchip MTCH3380P and MTCH3240P capacitive touch controllers support up to 64 buttons with parallel sensing

Dragonwing FWA Gen 6 Elite Platform combines 5G Advanced, NR-NTN, and tri-band Wi-Fi 8

Stopping sand from destroying a hydropower turbine [video]

Meta Wonder 🤖, X's resurgence 📈, why WebMCP matters 🌍

Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand

“A major overhaul”: OpenCode 2.0 puts its terminal, desktop, and web apps on one shared service

GPUs on Kubernetes are bring-your-own-everything, starting with the bill

Google paid $90,000 for this bug, then waited two months to fix it

Coding agents made building easy. Platform teams that build from scratch are 3.5x more likely to lack a strategy.

David Rudnick on "borderline impossible" process of designing Arsenal typeface

Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction

The Haunted Toys R Us

PlugMate and PlugClaw Review – Thumb-sized Android-based private computers with optional Ubuntu/OpenClaw support

From zero to agent builder: Running kagent on your laptop

Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity

Rejected Space Mission Profiles

(Updated) 32-channel logic analyzer supports 1.4GS/s sampling and USB 3.2 Gen2 streaming

Facebook releases Muse Gadgets SDK for ESP32 and Raspberry Pi/Linux-based devices

ZOTAC CM5-PICO Fanless Industrial PC with Dual HDMI and M.2 Expansion

Do dentists know what they're doing?

Inside Muse 🤖, Apple HomeView 🏠, AI experimentation 👨‍💻

Wireless-Tag WT32P4C5-43S – A fully integrated 4.3-inch ESP32-P4 and ESP32-C5 touch display devkit

Abietec AX61 Wireless Modules Leverage Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Matter

Zymbit ZYMKEY 5 Security Module Offers 640 Key Slots for Raspberry Pi

M5Stack ToughC5 weatherproof ESP32-C5 IoT controller offers dual-band Wi-Fi 6, BLE 5, and Zigbee/Thread

Radxa's Q8B has 2x the performance and expansion of the Pi 5

Open-source ESP32-C3 DNS ad blocker supports up to over 500,000 domains without PSRAM

Join Platform Engineering Day at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026

Making the Golden Kubestronaut a little more golden

Who owns NIS2 and DORA on a Kubernetes platform team

Dogcatcher

Intel Twin Lake-Based Helix 320 Industrial Gateway with Quad 2.5GbE

SpaceX mobile 🛰️, Touchscreen MacBook 💻, Claude Code mods 👨‍💻

Don’t give AI agents root. Make them propose the next system state.

Sipeed SLogic32U3 – A high-speed 10 Gbps USB 3.2 logic analyzer (Crowdfunding)

Q8botOne – A palm-sized open-source quadruped robot with ESP32-C3, DYNAMIXEL smart actuators (Crowdfunding)

Efinix Sapphire RV64 SoC – Configurable RISC-V soft-cores with DDR3, LPDDR4x, and HyperRAM for Efinix FPGAs

Claude Haiku 5.5 🤖, mathpocalypse 🧮, designer influence 👩🏻‍🎨

CiliumCon is back at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026

BackstageCon comes to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City

Kubernetes on Edge Day returns to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026

Meshery becomes a CNCF Incubating project

DSPi firmware turns Raspberry Pi RP2040/RP2350 into a USB sound card with an onboard DSP engine

Juice

IBASE IB966 3.5-inch SBC with Panther Lake and up to 180 TOPS

Raspberry Pi 5 cluster runs Qwen3-30B-A3B at 15 tokens/s on CPU

Apple's home ecosystem 🏠, OpenAI math 🧮, state of tech 👨‍💻 

The 2026-2028 CNCF ambassador cohort

iPhone Duo apps 📱, Google Docs markdown 📝, ephemeral testing 👨‍💻

TechNexion TELOS-AI4000 delivers 40 TOPS in compact form factor

Apple CEO designs 💼, Muse's maker 🤖, using web standards 👨‍💻 

Efinix Sapphire RV64 brings 64-bit RISC-V and Linux to FPGAs

Banana Pi BPI-CM7 with Allwinner H618, Wi-Fi 5 and Armbian support

Starlink Community 🛰️, Muse economics 🤖, Pi 1.0 👨‍💻

Gemini 4 🤖, Apple smart home 🏠, Workspace Comments API 👨‍💻

OpenAI DevDay 👨‍💻, Apple's reorg 💼, data is the app 📊

SpaceX reaches orbit 🚀, Meta poaches MongoDB CEO 💼, unread code 👨‍💻

SpaceX orbital attempt 🚀, OpenAI pauses training 🛑, S3 is the future 👨‍💻

I'm starting HomelabFest (in St. Louis, Sep 2027)

Google's space datacenter 🛰️, Bezos $30B bet 🚀, CPU shortage 💻

Meta VR headset 😎, Anthropic finds enzyme 🧬, code ownership 👨‍💻

Opus 5.5 + GPT-6 🤖, Apple fitness tracker ⌚, bug blindness 👨‍💻

Googlebooks 💻, Grok 4.7 🤖, Google infiltrates hackers 👨‍💻

Raspberry Pi locks down Pi 5 RAM upgrades in firmware

Anthropic wet lab 🧬, Apple home device 🏠, senior dev death spiral 👨‍💻

NTP, an atomic clock, and having a great time at the world's largest VCF

Hacking OpenAI 👨‍💻, Claude leads R&D 🤖, Safari MCP 🌍

OpenNMC is an open replacement for expensive APC management cards

Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd

Before NTP there were Time and Daytime

Building a mini Homelab that fits in my carry-on

Debugging Ubiquiti's 5G Backup on AT&T

Getting the Steam Deck LCD working on a Raspberry Pi

Hands-on with Raspberry Pi's CM5 Programming Jig

I'm excited for Intel after testing the XPS 13

Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats

Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on my Mac Studio