Wednesday, 13 May 2026
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Twin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being fired
A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.
“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says
Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him “safely” experiment with drugs, logs show.
CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
Article URL: https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042 Points: 149 # Comments: 46
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Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices.
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AMD & Intel Roll Out New Linux Updates For Today's Patch Tuesday
Today's Patch Tuesday is a busier one than normal for the quarter. Both AMD and Intel have rolled out new updates for Linux customers among other security disclosures today. Thankfully though the vulnerabilities don't appear to be too widespread or impactful...
Microsoft will lean on your CPU to speed up Windows 11's apps and animations
"All modern operating systems do this, including macOS and Linux."
Googlebook
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducin... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545 Points: 395 # Comments: 624
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Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillance-nightmare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111531 Points: 143 # Comments: 50
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eBay rejects GameStop's $56B offer: "Your proposal is neither credible nor attractive"
eBay board doubts GameStop's ability to buy and operate the much larger firm.
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 is now available for this implementation of NVIDIA's NVAPI/NVOFAPI interfaces atop DXVK and VKD3D-Proton that is used in turn by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enhanced NVIDIA Linux gaming support...
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins
Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu
Google's Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they're coming this year
Google has revealed its vision for the AI laptop of tomorrow.
Android is getting a big AI overhaul in 2026
Google has big plans for Android in 2026, and most of it is AI.
IBM s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust Linux Kernel Support
An IBM engineer posted the first set of patches enabling the Rust programming language support for the Linux kernel to be built on the s390 architecture...
FCC walks back router update ban before it bricks America's network security
Quietly extends waivers to 2029 after realizing it was about to leave millions of devices unpatched
Congress investigates Canvas breach as company pays ransom
Instructure CEO Steve Daly's got some explaining to do
The Future of Obsidian Plugins
Article URL: https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109970 Points: 225 # Comments: 89
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AirBit crypto Ponzi victims can now claim slice of $400M asset haul
After guilty pleas, prison terms, and seizures, the DOJ has opened the compensation process
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
Article URL: https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-expertise/why-senior-developers-fail-to-communicate-their-expertise Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109460 Points: 236 # Comments: 119
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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109224 Points: 920 # Comments: 321
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US bank reports itself after slinging customer data at 'unauthorized AI app'
Volume and sensitivity of the data cited as chief concerns
SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch
Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May
Running Four Intel Graphics Cards Under Linux On Ubuntu 26.04
It's been nearly one year to the week since Intel introduced Project Battlematrix as their initiative for improving their Linux driver support for the Arc Pro B-Series with enhancements such as bettering the multi-GPU support in allowing up to eight Arc Pro GPUs per system as well as other open-source driver optimizations in the era of AI. Recently with the Arc Pro B70 in having four review…
Lawsuit brought by former store operators missing from Vodafone results
Former franchise operators claim telco unfairly cut commission and other payments
Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.
Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
Article URL: https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107997 Points: 350 # Comments: 32
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NHS England confirms: Palantir staff can access patient data
Tech firm's employees can get an 'admin' role letting them into the National Data Integration Tenant... and its identifiable information
Frontier AI safety tests may be creating the very risks they're meant to stop
Think tank warns outsider access to powerful models is governed by patchy controls and a hope nobody dangerous gets in
ARCTIC Fan Controller Driver Expected To Land In Linux 7.2
A new driver expected to land in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is the ARCTIC Fan Controller driver to allow fan speed monitoring and PWM controls for this upcoming ARCTIC product. Making this new driver all the more exciting is that it was worked on by ARCTIC directly compared to the typical workflow for such desktop/consumer hardware peripherals often being left up to the reverse-engineering,…
Cache-poisoning caper turns TanStack npm packages toxic
Six-minute supply chain blitz pushed 84 malicious versions with credential theft and disk-wiping code
EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way
Mozilla claims the Digital Markets Act delivered lasting bump, invites Britain to do similar
Once again, SpaceX has set a new record for the tallest rocket ever built
SpaceX cleared an important milestone Monday on the road to launching a new version of Starship.
Microsoft makes Copilot easier to summon, harder to ignore in Office
It looks like you're trying to get more Microsoft 365 users to engage with your assistant. Would you like help?
Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware
Prominent Linux kernel engineer Peter Zijlstra of Intel has been working on a set of scheduler patches to help with enhancing the behavior and delivering better results, especially for aging hardware he described as a "potato" -- an Intel Sandy Bridge desktop CPU with AMD Radeon RX 580 Polaris graphics. Benchmark results are promising from this work for gaming on old hardware while other…
Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue
Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope
Fwupd 2.1.3 Brings Firmware Updating To Modular Smartphones
Fresh off the milestone of Dell and Lenovo becoming premier sponsors of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), there is a new feature release of the Fwupd firmware updating tool for Linux systems...
Intel Looking To Move Their Low-Power Mode Daemon Into The Linux Kernel Source Tree
For years Intel has been developing the Low Power Mode Daemon "LPMD" to help their hybrid laptop and desktop CPUs deliver optimal power efficiency under Linux. Intel LPMD leverages hardware hints and other features for optimizing active idle power of the processor and putting the system into lower power modes where possible. This tool could soon call the Linux kernel source tree its new home...
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Finally Sees Initial ARM64 SMP Support
The open-source Haiku operating system inspired by BeOS is now seeing multi-core symmetric multi-processing (SMP) support on ARM64 that works at least in a virtualized world. Plus an assortment of other improvements made to this open-source OS over the course of April...
Apple, Google drag cross-platform texting into the encrypted age
After years of stopping dead at the green bubble border, iPhone and Android users can finally send E2EE messages without relying on third-party apps
Learning Software Architecture
Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/12/software-architecture.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106024 Points: 481 # Comments: 97
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ZTE and Claro launch next-generation 4K Ultra HD IP STB in Brazil
Device delivers smoother streaming and simpler interaction, elevating home entertainment
FleetWave outage takes another turn. Chevin confirms crooks accessed customer data
A month after bringing systems back online, SaaS vendor tells customers attackers potentially walked off with operational data, contact details, and payroll numbers
Britain pays Starlink millions despite Musk's calls to overthrow UK government
Satellite service supports troops and Ukraine, but payments may raise eyebrows after boss's political broadsides
Japan’s PM orders cybersecurity review to stop Mythos going full CyberZilla
Fears exponential increase in attack scale and speed
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
Article URL: http://www.typewritten.org/Media/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104428 Points: 611 # Comments: 318
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Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6
Critics are not convinced this plan to add an ‘area code’ based on ASNs has much merit
Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers
https://www.instructure.com/incident_update#:~:text=STATUS%2... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/canvas-instructure-hac... , https://archive.ph/HIkdn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103668 Points: 185 # Comments: 177
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GitLab promises a different kind of layoff as biz pivots toward AI
Code hosting biz is trimming its global footprint and flattening its management layer
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
Article URL: https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102700 Points: 524 # Comments: 174
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Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026
The open-source Radeon "R300g" driver living within the Mesa codebase for supporting the aging ATI (AMD) Radeon 9500 "R300" through Radeon X1000 "R500" series graphics processors is going through a big code restructuring as part of a big undertaking in 2026... Yes, 24 years after the ATI R300 GPUs first released, thanks to a devoted open-source developer fan, there is a significant improvement…
Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks
Production-version patches are coming online and should be installed pronto.
Audi has a new Q9 flagship coming soon: Here's its interior
Audi made sure to consult American tastes for its first full-size SUV.
After banning foreign routers, FCC says existing ones can get updates until 2029
FCC extends waiver allowing routers and drones to get patches for two more years.
Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water, and nobody noticed for months
Can AI save us from the AI industry’s endless thirst for water? Outlook not so good.
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...
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.
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.
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."
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…
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.
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...
A promising Indian launch startup nears its first orbital test flight
"We wanted to get to an orbital launch vehicle in a few years."
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...