Tuesday, 12 May 2026
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Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks
An intern who failed this much would be shown the door
Vulkan 1.4.351 Brings Six New Extensions, Including A Ray-Tracing Improvement
Quietly sneaking out at the end of last week was Vulkan 1.4.351 as the newest spec update to this high performance graphics and compute API...
Cookie thieves caught stealing dev secrets via fake Claude Code installers
New IElevator2 COM interface? No problem
OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own
By which we mean it bought someone else's with other people's money
Passengers from hantavirus ship arrive in US; 3 people in biocontainment
A US passenger tested "mildly positive," but WHO is calling it "inconclusive" for now.
Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?
Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/can-someone-please-explain-whether-cloudflare-blackmailed-canonical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098537 Points: 148 # Comments: 66
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Starlink shuts down its GPS-style cheat code. Researchers may unlock it anyway.
Shutdown of Starlink location feature won’t dampen interest in GPS alternatives.
HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression "DSC" Also Ready For AMDGPU Linux Driver
At the beginning of the month was the surprise milestone of AMD posting AMDGPU kernel driver patches for HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support. The HDMI FRL patches have since been updated to also enable HDMI 2.1's Display Stream Compression (DSC) functionality for higher resolutions and higher refresh rates with the open-source AMDGPU driver...
iOS, macOS, and iPadOS 26.5 updates arrive with encrypted RCS messaging and more
Probably the last big updates we'll see before the next versions appear at WWDC.
Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy
Article URL: https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-microsoft-israel-chief-leaves-amid-ethical-controversy-1001542602 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097796 Points: 117 # Comments: 119
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Samsung made a “mockery” of Dua Lipa by putting her picture on TV boxes, lawsuit says
Lipa says her picture contributed to Samsung's "enormous revenue."
Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages
Dull but important … so, a bit like Debian itself, really
Redesigned Thelio Major Elevates System76's All-AMD, Open-Source Linux Workstation
A few weeks back we reviewed the redesigned System76 Thelio Mira with a brand new chassis design and powered by the AMD Ryzen 9000 series. This was an interesting Linux-powered desktop manufactured in Colorado while for those needing a bit more performance, since then the redesigned Thelio Major launched. The new System76 Thelio Major provides an updated Thelio case design like Mira while comes…
Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator
After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw
CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler
Article URL: https://nvlabs.github.io/cuda-oxide/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096692 Points: 313 # Comments: 97
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Pirates are already playing Forza Horizon 6 days before its launch
Crackers take advantage of unencrypted files that briefly appeared on Steam.
F1 set for another engine tweak in 2027, and what's this about V8s?
Rather than dig in, the sport is being proactive about fixing the problem.
Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life
Debian 14 plans to ax Gtk2 – and hard pruning stimulates fresh growth
GNOME's Help Viewer Updated Due To Flatpak Sandbox Escape Vulnerability
GNOME's help viewer, Yelp, last year was impacted by a serious security issue for arbitrary file reads. There's a new vulnerability affecting the GNOME help viewer that led to the Yelp 49.1 release to address a possible Flatpak sandbox escape vector...
Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095550 Points: 282 # Comments: 482
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BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks
Customers urged to keep an eye out for phisherfolk
Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released
JIT compiler much improved, but no reinstatement for leaky incremental garbage collector
A promising Indian launch startup nears its first orbital test flight
"We wanted to get to an orbital launch vehicle in a few years."
Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree
GTIG says AI-powered hacking has moved well beyond phishing emails and chatbot tricks
SoftBank bets on battery building to back bit barns
Tech investment giant wants batteries for its own AI datacenters, and lots of them
Intel IGC 2.34.4 Compiler Brings Many Improvements
The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.34.4 release is out today as this compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL compute on Intel graphics hardware plus is also used as the graphics shader compiler under Windows...
Water company's leaky security earns near-£1M fine
Utility provider failed to detect Cl0p ransomware attack for nearly two years
F2FS Preparing FSERROR Reporting Support
Introduced in Linux 7.0 was FSERROR as generic I/O error reporting infrastructure. Linux to that point had no standardized mechanism for reporting metadata corruption or file I/O errors to user-space with each file-system doing its own thing. The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is now the latest Linux file-system preparing for FSERROR usage...
Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged
Cybercrooks ruin engineers' weekends with Saturday attack
NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle
Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration
Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos
Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there
Linux 7.2 To Add Support For Switchtec PCIe Gen6 Switches
The upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel will be adding support for Microchip's Switchtec PCIe Gen6 switches...
Sony's failed war against Internet piracy may doom other copyright lawsuits
Cable firm Cox's Supreme Court win may help all tech providers, not just ISPs.
Classic Outlook's Quick Steps trip over Microsoft bug
Client's handy automations get grayed out unless you know the keyboard shortcut
AMD Ryzen AI & Intel NPU Drivers Adding New Power Features With Linux 7.2
Last week's drm-misc-next pull request of new Direct Rendering Manager and accelerator driver feature material destined for Linux 7.2 include some new power management control features both for the AMD Ryzen AI and Intel NPU drivers...
Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
Article URL: https://ratty-term.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093100 Points: 567 # Comments: 181
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Sculpt OS 26.04 Can Finally Be Used To Self-Host For Developing/Building Genode
Sculpt OS as the general purpose operating system built off the Genode OS Framework is out with a new feature release...
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits
Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement
Linux 7.0.6 Released To Finish Mitigating the Dirty Frag Vulnerability
Linux 7.0.6 is out as stable this morning to finish mitigating the Dirty Frag vulnerability that was made public last week...
The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains
Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.
Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that’s coming off the tracks
That’s not a radio. THIS is a radio
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch
The office sink is always a horror. Managers worried this one glowed
Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
Article URL: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-account-registration-now-requires-sending-an-sms-via-phone-instead-of-receiving-an-sms/36082 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48092028 Points: 486 # Comments: 338
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Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
Article URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091737 Points: 587 # Comments: 245
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Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner
Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent
The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090521 Points: 327 # Comments: 182
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I'm going back to writing code by hand
Article URL: https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090029 Points: 890 # Comments: 558
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Linux 7.1-rc3 Released With Many Networking Changes
Linus Torvalds just issued the third weekly test candidate of the Linux 7.1 kernel with around a third of the patches being for the networking subsystem...
Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086190 Points: 2044 # Comments: 691
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Local AI needs to be the norm
Article URL: https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085821 Points: 1725 # Comments: 683
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Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s
Article URL: https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/matrix-multiplications-swift.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085685 Points: 189 # Comments: 9
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Do you take after your dad’s RNA?
Evidence is growing that sperm carries marks of a father’s life experiences, influencing traits in offspring.
Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To Per-Core I/O Performance
Following a presentation at last week's Linux storage, file-system, memory management and BPF summit (LSFMM) in Croatia where Linux I/O overhead compared to the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) was presented, Jens Axboe was motivated to pursue some new Linux kernel optimizations for greater per-core I/O performance. This lead IO_uring developer and Linux block maintainer has managed to…
Huge landslide created a 500-meter-high tsunami in a major tourist area
Fortunately, it happened early in the morning, so nobody was around.
Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages
With half-way through the Debian 14 "Forky" development cycle, the Debian release team is out with an update this weekend and some big news...
OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux
The newest open-source AMD Linux driver on the Linux kernel mailing list that has recently been undergoing review is prom21-xhci that exposes the temperature sensors found on the AMD Promontory 21 chipsets' xHCI controllers...
Kconfirm Is On A Quest To Clean Up The Linux Kernel's Configuration System
New tooling being worked on for possible mainline Linux kernel inclusion is Kconfirm as a new tool for detecting misusage and efforts stemming from Kconfig, the configuration system for kernel builds...
Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 on Saturday in order to ship the latest security fixes affecting a wide variety of open-source software projects...
Nocturne Is The Latest Music Player For GNOME To Hit v1.0
While since GNOME 48 Decibels is the new audio player of the GNOME desktop, there is no shortage of other GNOME/GTK-aligned music players. Last month was the big Amerbol music player update and there are Lollypop and others. The latest GNOME-aligned music player now hitting the 1.0 milestone is Nocturne...
Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts
Hyprland 0.55 is out today as a big feature update for this Wayland-based compositor...
The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys
These connected companions could disrupt everything from make-believe to bedtime stories. No wonder some lawmakers want them banned.
FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes
FEX 2605 is out this weekend as the newest monthly feature release to this emulator for running Linux x86_64 binaries on ARM64 (AArch64) devices. This is the open-source project sponsored by Valve and planned for use with the upcoming Steam Frame as well as being relevant to Linux gaming on other 64-bit ARM laptops and other devices...
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Improves Handling Of Desktop Apps, Other Fixes
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 is out this week as the latest maintenance release for this tablet/smartphone-focused Ubuntu distribution...
Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/mexican-science-transforms-scorpion-venom-and-habanero-chile-into-antibiotics-against-resistant-bacteria/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070571 Points: 151 # Comments: 60
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Manufacturing qubits that can move
It's hard to mix electronic manufacturing and flexible geometry.
Trump reportedly plans to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary
The plan isn't final and could change, but his ouster would be no surprise.
ABC refuses to capitulate to Trump admin, fights FCC probe into The View
FCC chair hasn't been able to bully ABC and owner Disney into submission.
Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market
But human artists still "must remain at the center," PlayStation maker says.
The unprecedented and deadly cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, explained
"This is not COVID," and other reasons why risk to the public is currently low.
Course correction: Google to link more sources in AI Overviews
Google's AI search will start citing its sources in several new ways.
Court rules Trump's 10% tariff is just as illegal as the tariff it replaced
Trump's vow to impose tariffs a "different way" already has the tech industry on edge.
Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals
Across the country, schools and colleges postpone year-end tests.
Elon Musk faces criminal probe in France after ignoring summons in X case
France threatens criminal charges if Musk doesn't appear for questioning.
AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs
Article URL: https://duarteocarmo.com/blog/amalia-and-the-future-of-european-portuguese-llms Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065429 Points: 101 # Comments: 49
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Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)
Article URL: https://slate.com/technology/2004/11/the-death-of-the-last-maverick-tech-company.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060077 Points: 176 # Comments: 55
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Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
Article URL: https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/accel-tuner.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058260 Points: 140 # Comments: 83
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