Saturday, October 17, 2026
Published 7:01 AM · 120 articles from 14 sources · about 6 min to read in full
IT & infrastructure
Linux 7.3 is days from release and Ubuntu 26.10 shipped. The operationally relevant item for Windows shops is NTLM being disabled by default in an upcoming update. Distro packaging and desktop news filled the rest.
What happened
Microsoft's upcoming Windows update will disable the legacy NTLM protocol by default. The Register warns it may cause network problems during migration, so audit NTLM dependencies before the update lands. The Register ↗
Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking Stingray' has been officially released. Lobsters ↗
Linux 7.3 merged last-minute workarounds for Samsung 990 PRO and 990 EVO Plus NVMe SSDs ahead of release. Phoronix says the release is due October 18, with many contributions from Valve. Phoronix ↗
Fedora is considering moving to the RPM v6 package format with Fedora 46 next year. Phoronix ↗
Gary Guo presented a method at Kangrejos 2026 for safe self-referential data structures in kernel Rust via pin_init. It reduces unsafe code in Nova. LWN.net ↗
The Register benchmarked Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X Arm laptop SoC in HP's OmniBook Ultra 16 for local AI work. It finds serious compute at a price. The Verge's multi-laptop roundup covers four Windows machines. The Register ↗
Codeberg is sunsetting Codeberg Pages v2 and asks users to migrate to the new git-pages-backed service. Lobsters ↗
GNOME OS Preview was announced as a step toward a stable GNOME OS built on stable GNOME releases instead of nightly builds. Phoronix ↗
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Linux 7.3 merges last-minute workarounds for Samsung 990 PRO and 990 EVO Plus NVMe SSDs before its stable release.
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Ahead of the Linux 7.3 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow, last minute workarounds were merged for the Samsung 990 PRO and Samsung 990 EVO Plus NVMe solid state drives...
GNOME OS Preview was announced as a step toward a stable GNOME OS built on stable GNOME releases instead of nightly builds.
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The GNOME OS Linux distribution to date has just been in GNOME OS Nightly form for tracking the latest nightly packages of GNOME in their current development form. GNOME OS Preview was announced today as their trek toward a stable GNOME OS in using the latest GNOME stable releases rather than nightly form...
Gary Guo presented at Kangrejos 2026 a method for safe self-referential data structures in kernel Rust via pin_init, reducing unsafe code in Nova.
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Self-referential structures that can be used without unsafe code have posed a problem for Rust for years. There are many cases where a self-referential data structure is the elegant algorithmic choice, but implementing it in accordance with Rust's lifetime rules is all but impossible. At Kangrejos 2026, Gary Guo presented a clever solution to the problem in the context of the kernel's pin_init crate, which helps with the creation of immovable data structures, typically for interoperability with C. Guo's changes could help remove most of the unsafe code related to lifetimes in the Nova driver and, eventually, other Rust components.
Phoronix previews notable features in Linux 7.3, including performance improvements and many contributions from Valve, due October 18.
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The Linux 7.3 kernel is slated to be officially released on Sunday, 18 October, barring any last minute issues from coming about. With that said, here's a reminder about some of the most exciting features to look forward to in this next kernel version...
Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking Stingray' has been officially released.
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Microsoft's upcoming Windows update will disable the legacy NTLM protocol by default, which may cause network problems during migration.
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Legacy protocol is going to be axed, and enforcement by default will highlight how migration is going
The Verge's hands-on review roundup of Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X Arm laptop SoC across four tested Windows laptops.
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Nvidia’s new SoC is available in Windows laptops from six different manufacturers. We’ve collectively tested four of them so far. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X processor is finally here, and we've been collectively testing a small fortune's worth of powerful laptops sporting this new "superchip." RTX Spark is designed to be a high-performing Arm-based SoC for laptops and small desktop computers, rivaling the best from Apple, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. It has loads of cores, Nvidia RTX Blackwell graphics, and enough power and unified memory to run sizable local AI models. The flagship placement is inside Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra with a staggering 128GB of unified memory, which our own Tom Warren fully reviewed. Sean Hollister has been testing a 64GB version of the Asus … Read the full story at The Verge.
Jeff Layton's Linux Plumbers 2026 talk surveyed recent Linux NFS server enhancements and upcoming changes.
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The NFS network filesystem protocol has a long history on Unix-like operating systems (and beyond). NFS is still evolving, though, and implementations need to keep up. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference, NFS developer Jeff Layton gave an overview of recent enhancements to the Linux implementation, along with some hints for what will be coming in the near future.
Fedora considers moving to the RPM v6 package format with the Fedora 46 release next year.
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The RPM v4 packaging format has been used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora and its derivatives for more than two decades. With next year's Fedora 46 release, Fedora Linux may finally transition to the modern RPM v6 packaging format...
siltop is a new btop-style monitor that reads power, GPU, clocks and temps from Apple Silicon Macs without sudo.
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btop is beautiful. But on my M-series Mac it can't tell me the one thing I actually want to know: what is the chip doing? No watts, no GPU, no per-core clocks. So I built siltop: btop's calm, with eyes on the silicon. Real power, clocks and temps straight from the SMC and IOReport, no sudo, about 1.3% of one core (btop is ~2.5% on the same machine). It also tells you what's wrong in plain words ("Busy: rustc using 9.1 cores", "Hot: fans at 80%") before you read a single graph. 10-second try, no load needed: brew install cloaky233/tap/siltop && siltop --demo Curious what your Mac shows. M1/M2 Ultra and M5 Max owners especially, I haven't seen yours yet. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50128654 Points: 9 # Comments: 8
Wine 11.20 development release arrives with a CD-ROM support change, ahead of Wine 12.0 stable planned for early 2027.
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Wine 11.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows games and apps on Linux. We are quickly approaching the point where this development work will culminate into the Wine 12.0 stable release in early 2027...
The Register benchmarks Nvidia's RTX Spark laptop, built on HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16, for local AI workloads.
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El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16
Codeberg announced it is sunsetting its Codeberg Pages v2 service.
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Phoronix re-benchmarks the Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids server on Ubuntu Server 26.10 versus Ubuntu 25.10 from a year earlier.
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It's been nearly one year since receiving the Gigabyte R284-A92-AAL1 2U Granite Rapids server platform for continuing my testing of the flagship Xeon 6980P processors. Curious how the Xeon 6980P 2P performance has evolved on Linux since then, I ran some benchmarks on the newly-released Ubuntu Server 26.10 against the tests carried out last year on Ubuntu 25.10 with the same hardware.
A retrospective explainer on Token Ring networking technology posted to Hacker News.
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Article URL: https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-was-a-token-ring-network/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118318 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
Blog post explaining RFC 8950, which allows announcing IPv4 routes with IPv6 next-hops in BGP.
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Article URL: https://anuragbhatia.com/post/2026/06/rfc8950-announce-ipv4-with-ipv6-next-hop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118267 Points: 13 # Comments: 0