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Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

AI agents are making retrieval engineering a core engineering discipline

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

Linux 7.3 Lands More Audio Workarounds For Laptops & Other Devices

FulcrumSec claims Manchester Airports hack, theft of 86 GB of data

Your AI agent is only as good as the harness around it

The Challenges In Bringing AMD ROCm To FreeBSD

Anthropic warns infostealer malware is hijacking Claude sessions to drain usage

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

Chrome Web Store extensions caught stealing crypto, browser data

AMD Zen 6 Preparations, Ryzen AI Halo LED Driver & Many Laptop Changes For Linux 7.3

But where does taste come from?

Transfer files over an ethernet patch cable

Chess.com launched a poker site and is planning even more classic games

Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

No AI Fridays

monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter

China’s robots race ahead

Two new small, powerful Macs

Automating Immersive Reading

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later

Hacking IKEA Furniture

One Nix flake to rule them all

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

NVIDIA Vulkan Frame Rate Up-Conversion "FRUC" Merged To FFmpeg

The "KVM Chainsaw" Clean-Up Merged For Linux 7.3 Along With Other Fixes

Linux 7.3 Introduces 8250_mxpcie Driver For Moxa PCIe Multi-Port Serial Boards

Building my own network stack

Rust Function Overloading - Call for Experimentation

Radxa Linkr – A USB drive-sized IP KVM with USB-C, Ethernet, and WiFi support

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

Gram Editor 3.3.0 Released

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

California Passes AB-1856 For Open-Source Relief Over Age Verification

There's no such thing as Just a Tool

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

RTL8723BS Driver Continues Dominating The Staging Area Activity For Linux 7.3

Bug Blindness

Anthropic is cutting Claude Code's current weekly limits by 17%

Vicariously hike the Appalachian in the gorgeous A Trail Tale

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported

Hy4 preview

FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Released With Several Security Fixes

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic

Creepy Crawlies

Another x86 Advisory From Some Entity Other Than Intel Or AMD

Distraction-free writing gadget BYOK is adding custom extensions

Debian and the sirens

Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learned storytelling from Grim Fandango 

Your container runs. Everything around it shouldn’t be your problem.

KDE Plasma 6.8 Improving Performance & Efficiency For Some Full Screen Content

Brave browser adds email aliases to help users evade tracking

Commits on GitHub have doubled in four months. Verification capacity has not.

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

The Galaxy Z Flip 8 is at its best when there’s friction

The 3 roles AI agents play in your developer platform

ReactOS 0.4.16 Released With New Graphical Installer, Better Hardware Support

When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals

F2FS With Now Handle Multi-Device Flushes In Parallel With Linux 7.3

GNOME's Very Exciting Week From Flatpak Funding To Reset Recovery Plus Apps

I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

SteamOS 3.9 Preview Moves To Linux 7.2, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop

Ryabitsev: Creepy crawlies

Being kicked out of the tech industry

ACEMAGIC Kron Mini K5 (Core 3 304) review – Part 1: Specifications, unboxing, teardown, and first boot

McKesson discloses breach after ShinyHunters claims patient data theft

Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August

"RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster

JetBrains told everyone to patch. It didn’t patch itself.

Car: Dolphin 26.08 and KIO performance improvements

PaperCut releases second emergency patch for exploited flaws

LM Studio built a judge for AI commands. Then the judge started agreeing with the defendant.

Alibaba just released Qwen3.8-Flash: “An early preview of the architecture in Qwen4”

[$] The "rnull" Rust block driver

GiveWP WordPress donation plugin flaw lets hackers execute server commands

Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 goes open weight, but its new license aims at hyperscalers

Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced

Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day

68-year-old imprisoned after making $1.3 million by pirating IPTV services

Nvidia is paying $12.9 billion to keep open models on its chips 

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Building a mini Homelab that fits in my carry-on

AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery. Can Defenders Keep Up?

Eight stable kernels with fix for a single vulnerability

Security updates for Friday

Over 8,300 Gitea servers vulnerable to code execution attacks

Toy-making giant Hasbro disclose data breach affecting employees

Scale before the spike: Predictive autoscaling for GPU workloads on Kubernetes

Fanless AMD Ryzen Embedded 8840U/8640U Edge AI Computer supports up to 256GB DDR5 SO-DIMM memory

Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut

Your Kubernetes platform is ready for containers. Is it ready for AI?

ServiceNow warns of three max severity security vulnerabilities

Spark Solder one-handed USB-C soldering iron supports TS100 tips, integrates solder feeder (Crowdfunding)

Windows 11 KB5120998 update released with 35 changes and fixes

Microduck – A duck-like biped robot designed for physical AI experimentation and fun

Orange Pi Zero 4 with Octa-Core Allwinner A733, PCIe 3.0, and Wi-Fi 6

Launchpad

MSI WS300 with 72-Core Grace CPU, Blackwell Ultra GPU, and Dual 400GbE

Anthropic's hardware standard 🤖, Meta's Claude spend 💰, agent files 👨‍💻

Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Nearly 700 rogue AI agents coordinated in the Hugging Face attack

Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

Google found a way to test Gemini without seeing the questions

GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Aider, Claude Code, and OpenClaw ran an identical model. Token use varied 70-fold.

The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look

Dad's Custom Atari Peripherals – By Jim Trageser

RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn

This duck will teach you reinforcement learning — and pick up your socks

Replit’s new default: Auto mode picks the best model for each task

Why did 1,000 world citizens bury their underpants?

Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face deal has an open-source problem

“Posterity will find it ludicrous”: Sai agent hits 73% on OSWorld 2.0 performing routine (but necessary) work

USB-C Deskradar – An ESP32-C3 ADS-B flight tracker with a 1.28-inch round display

[$] Using steal time to moderate CPU demands

Why basic RAG fails at multi-hop reasoning (and how GraphRAG fixes it)

Eight stable kernels for Thursday

Security updates for Thursday

Anthropic’s new Files API vs. pasting: It will save you time, but it won’t save you money.

Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

Electric rain can eat through metal

Building an AI factory on Kubernetes

Opener is an open-source reference implementation of the DECT NR+ massive IoT, low-latency standard

LUNYEE 3020 Nova review – A desktop CNC router with 710W spindle tested with UGS and Easel software

FireWire HAT with PCIe 2.0 for Tapeless DV and HDV Capture

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 27, 2026

Nvidia buys Hugging Face 💰, Inside OpenAI 🤖, making LLMs faster ⚡

Anthropic’s Claude now has a browser of its own

X sent Nitter a cease-and-desist. Then it went after the source code.

The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)

[$] An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

HomeMaster MiniPLC – An ESP32 DIN-rail PLC controller for Home Assistant

Armbian 26.8 released

Security updates for Wednesday

LibreOffice 26.8 released

Governance guidance for CNCF projects: Choosing the right structure for your project’s size and stage

Banana Pi BPI-AI2N – A Renesas RZ/V2N-based SoM and carrier board for Vision AI applications

Trade

Upcoming Jetson Orin Nano 2 boosts edge AI performance to 78 TOPS

OpenAI unveils chip ⚡, SpaceX $100B spaceport 🚀, knowledge compression 👨‍💻

Lantronix Open-M 720G/520G – Ultra-compact LGA system-on-modules based on MediaTek Genio 720 and Genio 520 SoCs

mklinux-v7.0-mk2 released

Debugging Ubiquiti's 5G Backup on AT&T

Orbs

The lazy developer’s guide to observing your own code

Stop trying to learn all of Kubernetes at once

JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps

$299 Arduino Ventuno Q SBC combines Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 SoC and STM32H5 MCU

Firehat is an open-source FireWire DV capture HAT for SBCs with Raspberry Pi PCIe FFC connector (Crowdfunding)

Fanless Edge box runs Linux on Rockchip RV1126B with 3-TOPS NPU

IAR webinar to examine static and runtime analysis for AI-assisted embedded development

Advantech AOM-6741 AI Vision SMARC module features 100 TOPS Qualcomm IQ-9075 SoC, up to 36 GB LPDDR5

New Mac Mini 🖥️, Cybercab next week 🚕, context engineering 👨‍💻

RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython

Jetway PIC-TWL1 Intel N150 Pico-ITX motherboard is made for industrial automation and embedded systems

What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s

Automating root cause analysis at scale: Multi-signal correlation for cloud native incident response

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

Highway Signs

Apple foldables 📱, Nvidia price hikes 📈, future of MCP 👨‍💻 

Low-cost 45mm NanoPi R28S offers dual GbE and Wi-Fi 6

DietPi v10.6 Adds Orange Pi and Odroid Images

How to turn slow queries into actionable reliability metrics with OpenTelemetry

ESP32-S3 handhelds with 3.97-inch e-paper and optional LoRa/NFC

K230 handheld couples AMOLED display with LoRa and keyboard

EPIC SBC packs Ryzen AI X100 with dual 2.5GbE and triple M.2

Archery Feat

Anthropic eyes $2T+ IPO 💰, Slack Code 👨‍💻, end of open source 💻  

Announcing H1 2027 KCDs

Getting the Steam Deck LCD working on a Raspberry Pi

German ciphers, telegrams, and cloud native data sovereignty

YouTube vs Netflix 🎬, Stripe declares Singularity 🤖, half-day vulnerabilities 👨‍💻 

Hands-on with Raspberry Pi's CM5 Programming Jig

LattePanda Mu MXM carrier kits with choice of Arc A380 or RTX 3060 graphics

OpenAI pauses training 🤖, Meta landmark trial ⚖️, git on s3 👨‍💻

Tesla Cybercab launch 🚕, Cursor's GitHub rival 👨‍💻, AI usage patterns 🤖

Stripe buys OpenRouter 🔀, Anthropic Model 2 🤖, zero knowledge proofs 🧠 

OpenAI Ultrafast ⚡, X open sources algo 📱, DeepSeek Harness 🐋

Grok 4.6 🤖, Pixel 11 📱, AI shows cracks 📉

Grok Bot 🤖, Gemini 1B MAUs 📈, prop trading devs 👨‍💻

Zuckerberg's manifesto 🤖, Elon's $1T shortcut 💰, local models won't win 👨‍💻

Apple Watch redesign ⌚, OpenAI hack timeline 🔒, agentic code quality 👨‍💻

I'm excited for Intel after testing the XPS 13

OpenAI device details 🤖, AI synthetic virus 🦠, agent plugins 👨‍💻

DeepMind CEO steps down 👋, Jeff Dean's startup 🤖, Cloudflare OS 👨‍💻

Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats

Siri AI 📱, SpaceX internet 🛰️, AI code review 👨‍💻

SpaceX buys land 🗺️, AI vertical integration 🤖, Cloudflare Computer 👨‍💻

OpenAI Astra 🤖, Larry Ellison's bet 💰, GitHub CLI stacked diffs 👨‍💻 

Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on my Mac Studio

Adding a backup Internet WAN on my OPNsense Router

Open Sauce and GPS time were my summer AI Antiseptics

QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall

The Special Value Pi 4 was extremely short-lived

Quickly apply LUTs (color grading) with ffmpeg

Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

You can finally power on a Mac remotely

I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab