T-Mobile Brings Free 911 Emergency Texting To AT&T and Verizon Customers
An anonymous reader shares a report: T-Mobile is opening up access to its Starlink-powered emergency texting service. The carrier announced on Wednesday that anyone with a compatible phone – even AT&T and Verizon customers – can sign up to text 911 over satellite for free.
In July, T-Mobile launched its “T-Satellite” service … ⌘ Read more
Announcing Vitess 23.0.0
The Vitess team is excited to release Vitess 23.0.0 — the latest major version of Vitess — bringing new defaults, better operational tooling, and refined metrics. This release builds on the strong foundation of version 22… ⌘ Read more
Benchmarking The AMD EPYC 9V64H: Azure HBv5’s Custom AMD CPU With HBM3
Nearly one year ago Microsoft announced the HBv5 virtual machines powered by a custom-designed AMD 4th Gen EPYC processor with high bandwidth memory (HBM3). Finally today the Azure HBv5 series is reaching general availability for those with memory-intensive HPC applications and other workloads. Microsoft kindly provided Phoronix with HBv5 access in advance to begin testing these new VMs with the AMD EPYC 9V64H CPUs featuring HBM memory, so … ⌘ Read more
Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund Announced For Long-Term Support To Rust Developers
The Rust Foundation announced today the creation of the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund as a new means of providing consistent, transparent, and long-term support for developers that make the Rust programming language possible… ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP Summit 28
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026.
The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP - both in person and remotely!
The XMPP Summit is a two-day event for the people who write and implement XMPP extensions (XEPs).
The event is no … ⌘ Read more
Announcing cgp-serde: A modular serialization library for Serde powered by Context-Generic Programming
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50 dead as Caribbean digs out from Hurricane Melissa
Jamaican officials announced plans Saturday to set up multiple field hospitals as it recovers from Hurricane Melissa, with the death toll numbering at least 50 across the Caribbean—and expected to rise. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Game Off 2025 theme announcement
GitHub’s annual month-long game jam is back for its 13th year! This November, make a game inspired by the theme WAVES—literal, digital, or emotional. 👋🏻 🌊 📡
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China’s Shenzhou 21 docks with space station, sets the country’s own speed record
China announced Saturday that its Shenzhou 21 spaceship docked with China’s space station with its latest three rotation crew at the country’s own record speed after a successful launch. ⌘ Read more
Introducing fnox: A secret manager that pairs well with mise
The official announcement is at https://github.com/jdx/mise/discussions/6779 but by default, Lobsters policy prevents submitting direct links to Github discussions.
Removing obfuscation in Minecraft: Java Edition
Gaming isn’t something we talk about very often here on OSNews, but I think this piece of news is actually a rare piece of good, welcome news from this industry. Mojang, the Microsoft-owned company behind Minecraft, has announced it’s going to stop obfuscating the code behind the Java edition of Minecraft. A refresher: the Java edition of Minecraft is the original version of the game, which exists alongside the Bedrock Edition, which is … ⌘ Read more
Nvidia will build AI supercomputers for US Energy Department, announces total bookings of $500 billion ⌘ Read more
Announcing the Certified Meshery Contributor (CMC)
A CNCF-first of its kind Open source projects thrive or die based in large part on their community of contributors. It behooves maintainers to make opportunities for recognition and support of their contributors abundant. As a… ⌘ Read more
Defense giants Airbus, Thales and Leonardo announce space merger to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink ⌘ Read more
US announces sanctions on Russia’s largest oil companies ⌘ Read more
Cloud Native Maturity Model 4.0 (Beta): Reflecting what’s next for cloud native — and we want your input
The CNCF Cartografos Working Group is excited to announce the beta release of the Cloud Native Maturity Model 4.0. This version expands the framework to include AI, FinOps, and evolving cultural practices. We invite the community… ⌘ Read more
Silicon Labs SixG301 Series 3 SoCs Target Zigbee, Matter, and Thread Development
Silicon Labs has announced general availability of its new Series 3 platform, debuting with the SiMG301 and SiBG301 wireless SoCs. Built on a 22 nm process, the Series 3 family targets compute-intensive IoT applications that require higher security, integrated connectivity, and support for modern 2.4 GHz wireless protocols. Series 3 introduces a multi-core architecture that […] ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.5 released
KDE is on a roll lately, and keeps on rolling with today’s release of KDE Plasma 6.5. As the project itself notes, this release focuses on relatively small improvements, refinements, and other niceties, without making any massive changes. With Linux desktops taking accessibility more seriously lately than ever before, I want to focus on the accessibility improvements first. The Orca screen reader now announces caps lock state changes, and screen readers will now describe the Shortcut … ⌘ Read more
Intel, AMD to bring memory tagging to x86, at some point
Now that ARM’s memory tagging, used extensively by Android ROMs such as GrapheneOS and now also by Apple, is becoming the new norm to aid in improving memory safety, the x86 world can’t sit idly by. As such, Intel and AMD have announced a ChkTag, x86’s version of memory tagging. ChkTag is a set of new and enhanced x86 instructions to detect memory safety violations, such as buffer overflows and misuses of freed memory (u … ⌘ Read more
Introducing a Richer ”docker model run” Experience
The command line is where developers live and breathe. A powerful and intuitive CLI can make the difference between a frustrating task and a joyful one. That’s why we’re excited to announce a major upgrade to the interactive chat experience in Docker Model Runner, our tool for running AI workloads locally. We’ve rolled out a… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft breaks USB input in Windows Recovery Environment
With official support for Windows 10 having officially ended a few days ago, let’s take a look and see how its successor, Windows 11, is doing. Microsoft released the first Patch Tuesday update (KB5066835) for Windows 11 25H2 this past week and it is probably fair to say that it has been a rough start for the new feature update. Despite the announcement of a wide rollout wherein the new version is now available for … ⌘ Read more
GIGABYTE AI TOP ATOM Introduces NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB10 Performance for the Desktop
GIGABYTE has announced the AI TOP ATOM personal AI supercomputer designed for on-premises AI development. The compact system is powered by the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip and delivers supercomputer-level performance within a 1-liter chassis. The AI TOP ATOM integrates a 20-core Arm processor (10 Cortex-X925 and 10 Cortex-A725 cores) paired with 128 GB of […] ⌘ Read more
China Wants Foreign Scientists. The Public Says No, Thanks. Since Beijing announced a new visa to attract young science and technology graduates, a backlash has erupted online, forcing the government to respond. ⌘ Read more
Upbeat and SiFive Launch Ultra-Low Power RISC-V MCU with AI Acceleration
Upbeat Technology has announced the UP201 and UP301 family of RISC-V microcontrollers developed in collaboration with SiFive. The devices are intended for applications such as always-on IoT, wearables, drones, and sensor-based systems. The UP201 and UP301 integrate two SiFive Essential IP cores and two neural accelerators designed by Upbeat Technology. They implement Upbeat’s Error Detection […] ⌘ Read more
FSF announces Librephone project
Article URL: https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586339
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Big tech is faking revenue
Open AI has recently announced deals worth $600 Billion with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle. OpenAI is able to spend hundreds of billions of dollars they do not have because those companies are paying that same money back to OpenAI via investment. The infinite money glitch means that stocks keep going higher as more circular revenue cycles between the same players. ↫ Sasha Yanshin The scam is so brazen, so public, so obvious. The foxes aren’t just in the hen house – they bought the wh … ⌘ Read more
Join Us in Rebooting the Docker Model Runner Community!
We’re thrilled to announce that we’re breathing new life into the Docker Model Runner community, and we want you to be a part of it! Our goal is to make it easier than ever for you to contribute, collaborate, and help shape the future of running AI models with Docker. From a Limited Beta to… ⌘ Read more
The Nobel economics prize is set to be announced Monday
The final Nobel of this year’s prize season is being announced Monday morning when organizers reveal the winner or winners of the Nobel memorial prize in economics. ⌘ Read more
Trump announces 130% tariffs on China. The global trade war just came roaring back | CNN Business ⌘ Read more
Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent ⌘ Read more
Trump announces Israel, Hamas reached Gaza deal, hostages to be released 72 hours after signing ⌘ Read more
Trump announces first phase of Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza ⌘ Read more
Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs after NAS sales plummet
Earlier this year, popular NAS vendor Synology announced it would start requiring some of its more expensive models to only use Synology-branded drives. It seems the uproar this announcement caused has had some real chilling effect on sales, and the company just cancelled its plans. Synology has backtracked on one of its most unpopular decisions in years. After seeing NAS sales plummet … ⌘ Read more
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Knative’s Graduation
Graduation marks Knative’s readiness for widespread production use, with upcoming features aimed at bridging legacy systems and expanding AI and cloud native integrations Key Highlights: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – October 8, 2025 – The Cloud Native… ⌘ Read more
Arduino UNO Q Combines Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 and STM32 MCU
Qualcomm Technologies has announced its plan to acquire Arduino, marking a major development in the embedded and maker ecosystems. The acquisition aims to combine Qualcomm’s edge computing and AI expertise with Arduino’s large developer community and open hardware approach. As part of the announcement, both companies introduced the Arduino UNO Q, a new dual-processor development […] ⌘ Read more
Announcing ORAS v1.3.0: Elevating artifact and registry management workflows
The ORAS community is thrilled to announce the release of ORAS CLI v1.3.0, a version packed with stability improvements and pioneering capabilities. In addition to strengthening existing functionality, this release introduces three major new features designed… ⌘ Read more
Terasic Announces Starter Kit Featuring RISC-V Nios V Processor and Software Bundle
Terasic has introduced the Atum Nios V Starter Kit, a feature-rich evaluation platform designed to accelerate development with Altera’s Nios V processor. The kit is aimed at embedded engineers, system developers, and educators looking for a practical way to explore RISC-V–based designs on the Agilex 3 FPGA platform. According to Terasic’s announcement, the kit is […] ⌘ Read more
Radxa Announces Fogwise AIRbox Q900 for Industrial Edge AI
Radxa has announced the Fogwise AIRbox Q900, a rugged edge AI system powered by Qualcomm’s IQ-9075 processor. The compact unit delivers high-performance compute with industrial reliability, targeting real-time inference in manufacturing, robotics, smart cities, and research. The AIRbox Q900 is powered by the Qualcomm IQ-9075 SoC. It integrates an octa-core Kryo Gen 6 CPU based […] ⌘ Read more
Announcing H1 2026 KCDs
We’re excited to announce the first wave of Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs) for 2026! These community-organized events bring together local practitioners, adopters, and contributors to connect and share cloud native knowledge. What’s New in 2026 This… ⌘ Read more
Silent Component Updates & Redesigned Update Experience
Following on from our previous initiative to improve how Docker Desktop delivers updates, we are excited to announce another major improvement to how Docker Desktop keeps your development tools up to date. Starting with Docker Desktop 4.46, we’re introducing automatic component updates and a completely redesigned update experience that puts your productivity first. Why We’re… ⌘ Read more