Daily Tech News 2 November 2026

• Binance is back online. (CNBC)
  
  The company saw net outflows of $3.64 billion (not $3.64 as Slashdot claimed) due to loss of trust, but has $170 billion in assets, which is kind of a lot.

• The creator of CentOS - and more recently of Rocky Linux after IBM fucked up CentOS - has created a new kernel. (It's FOSS)
  
  Written entirely in Rust with no actual Linux code in it, but compatible enough that Rocky Linux 10 runs perfectly happily on top.
  
  It doesn't support all the platforms Linux runs on, only modern Intel/AMD PCs, and it doesn't include the breadth of driver support Linux does. But it works, and it was developed, with AI assistance, in just 11 days.
  
  
  
• The reports of Stack Overflow's death are greatly exaggerated, reads Stack Overflow's gravestone. (Stack Overflow)
  
  Right.
  
  
  
• A new utility unlocks the performance of Nvidia's 20, 30, and 40 series cards for FP16->FP32 MACs on the tensor cores that had long been artificially crippled by Nvidia. (VideoCardz)
  
  This was done in the hardware by setting a limiting register that can never be changed on consumer cards, only allowing more expensive workstation and server models to achieve full performance.
  
  But someone discovered a bug in the hardware that lets anyone with a consumer card basically crash it so that the register is cleared.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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