Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q
YouTube
Kernel Recipes 2026 - Security in the LLM age
Greg KH
A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mwucf5ert22f
Bluesky Social
Paul Byrne (@theplanetaryguy.com)
This will never stop blowing my mind.
A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away.
And around it, four planets slowly orbiting.
Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away.
And around it, four planets slowly orbiting.
Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=v5U_UzUTothfWXsPxtvNVAh7esWToMRD6XnbXmc5WgA
The Atlantic
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU
Phoronix
The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux…
Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict
Substack
Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict
Sometimes the law is not the law
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? https://sjg.io/writing/binrange-have-you-actually-put-the-bins-out/
sjg.io
Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
How I massively over-engineered a trivial problem again because I just can't help myself
Why don't more developers “use the platform”? https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/
Read the Tea Leaves
Why don’t more developers “use the platform”?
For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those…
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
GitHub
GitHub - Niko1221/Strata: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference…
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input. - Niko1221/Strata
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI
GitHub
GitHub - omlahore/RemoveMacAI: Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible.
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible. - omlahore/RemoveMacAI
Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline https://shannadige.com/blog/darkroom/
Shan Hannadige
Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline
A story about replacing a creative workflow and focusing on another.
Infidel goes wild https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/10/infidel-goes-wild
Zarf Updates
Infidel goes wild
Planetfall was yesterday's public release, but of course I've spent the past few weeks concentrating on Infidel. A couple of days I came across the most egregious bug I've yet seen in an Infocom game. This bug is extremely difficult to detect ...
In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online https://filmstories.co.uk/news/tippett-studios-in-the-wake-of-its-closure-a-digital-archive-of-animated-materials-appears-online/
Film Stories
Tippett Studios | In the wake of its closure, a digital archive of animated materials appears online
The stop motion work of Phil Tippett and the now closed Tippett Studios is being preserved in a free-to-browse online archive.
We ported the original Doom to SQL https://cedardb.com/blog/sqldoom/
Cedardb
We ported the original Doom to SQL
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.
Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data https://www.cpr.dk/cpr-nyt/nyhedsarkiv/2026/okt/omfattende-uautoriseret-adgang-til-borgeres-cpr-oplysninger
www.cpr.dk
Omfattende uautoriseret adgang til borgeres CPR-oplysninger
Det Centrale Personregister (CPR) har konstateret en alvorlig sikkerhedshændelse. Ved at misbruge en dansk virksomheds lovlige adgang til at søge...
Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfolding-chip-tech
Bloomberg.com
Qualcomm Licenses Patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding Chip Tech
Qualcomm Inc. has agreed to license patents related to Huawei Technologies Co.’s novel LogicFolding chipmaking technique as part of a wide-ranging pact, a win for the Chinese company’s technological ambitions.
Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation https://techfundingnews.com/europes-new-robotics-unicorn-germanys-robco-hits-1b-valuation/
Tech Funding News
Europe’s new robotics unicorn: Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation
Munich-based RobCo has surpassed a $1 billion valuation through an employee secondary share sale, doubling its valuation in just nine months
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/press-release/
NobelPrize.org
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 was awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”