Tuesday, 19 May 2026
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New Intel Xe Linux Graphics Driver Code Now Cites Multiple Crescent Island SKUs
The latest Intel Xe kernel graphics driver patches for Linux now indicate multiple PCI IDs for the upcoming Crescent Island "CRI" accelerators rather than just a lone model...
One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions
"I think there's plenty of fire lit under them already."
Australian Aboriginals cared for a dingo's grave for decades
For some ancient Aboriginal Australian communities, dingoes were part of the family.
Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now
Article URL: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-arm64-progress/19044?page=2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183579 Points: 204 # Comments: 68
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Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees
Musk plans to appeal after judge immediately affirmed the jury's decision.
Pompeii victim ID'd as a likely doctor
New X-rays and CT scans showed small case with locking mechanism containing metal instruments.
Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller
Well, page is more accurate, but the source code is available if you want to try doing something even crazier
Linux 7.2 Expected To Introduce "OPENAT2_REGULAR" To Avoid Tricking Secure Programs
Among the VFS patches queued into "-next" branches ahead of next month's Linux 7.2 merge window is the code for introducing the new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for the openat2 system call...
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182754 Points: 563 # Comments: 273
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Guy Gardner makes a cameo in new Lanterns teaser
"This ring? It's the greatest weapon in the Universe. When and if to use it, that's the whole ball game."
The Dory Sign is E ink, smart screen simplicity at its finest
Dory CEO claims the $149 signs won't be bricked should Dory go out of business.
Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/iran-start... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182592 Points: 165 # Comments: 224
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Anthropic acquires Stainless
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182281 Points: 252 # Comments: 181
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Qwen 3.7 Preview
Article URL: https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2056403591464984753 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181877 Points: 164 # Comments: 57
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Linux kernel flaw opens root-only files to unprivileged users
Plus ModuleJail, a radical proposal for minimizing the impact of similar bugs
Five years later, Windows 11 brings back much-missed taskbar options (and more)
Microsoft is also testing a smaller taskbar and more customizable Start menu.
Europe tests laser links as satellite comms outgrow radio
Greek mountaintop ground station aims infrared beams at CubeSats in ESA-backed optical networking trial
We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
Article URL: https://archestra.ai/blog/only-responsible-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181125 Points: 334 # Comments: 166
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Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
Article URL: https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/truth-power-and-honest-journalism Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181041 Points: 377 # Comments: 85
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Dutch cops’ shame game works wonders as most wanted scammers now turned in
Game Over?! gamified the identification of scammers who sought thrills from terrorising the elderly
'Big AI' is subverting regulations just like tobacco and oil firms
Researchers warn that regulatory capture means industry concerns trump those of citizens
BMW sends off the 6th-gen M3 CS with a manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive
The 2027 M3 CS Handschalter is lighter and comes with three pedals instead of two.
Linux 6.6 LTS To Linux 7.1 Bechmarks: Performance Up 13% On AMD Threadripper Over Three Years
The Linux 7.1 kernel performance has been looking quite good on the various Intel/AMD systems I have tested over the past three weeks. Linux 7.1 does bring some solid improvements over Linux 7.0 prior in different workloads and haven't encountered any worrisome regressions compared to the current Linux 7.0 stable kernel. For those wondering the longer-term picture, here are benchmarks of Linux…
TanStack weighs invitation-only pull requests after supply chain attack
Shai-Hulud worm exploited GitHub Actions misconfiguration to poison shared cache, now project weighing nuclear option on unsolicited contributions
Did Artemis II break through? Registrations at Space Camp double afterward.
Isaacman's $25 million donation leads to impressive new facilities.
Microsoft remembers that taskbars used to move
Experimental Windows 11 build restores some old favorites, though the rough edges are still showing
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179732 Points: 230 # Comments: 88
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Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
Article URL: https://github.com/zakirullin/files.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179677 Points: 443 # Comments: 238
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Bug bounty businesses bombarded with AI slop
"Never-ending" AI slop strains corporate hacking reward schemes.
NGINX Rift attackers waste no time targeting exposed servers
Researchers say 18-year-old flaw already being probed and exploited just days after disclosure
Firefox 151 Now Available With Document Picture-in-Picture API
Firefox 151 release binaries are now available as the latest monthly update to Mozilla's open-source web browser...
Poland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternative
Shift comes amid mounting reports of successful social engineering attacks targeting higher-ups in government
Linux AF_ALG Crypto Code Removing Zero-Copy Support Out Of Security Concerns
Given all the recent Linux kernel security concerns and new bugs being discovered, the Linux cryptographic subsystem is proactively dropping zero-copy functionality from AF_ALG due to growing security concerns...
Torvalds: AI Tools Great When Not Causing Unnecessary Pain & Pointless Make-Believe Work
With yesterday's Linux 7.1-rc4 release are some additional comments by Linux creator Linus Torvalds around AI tooling and the surge in security bug reporting to the Linux kernel due to said LLM-powered tooling...
Windows boot partition runs out of space for Microsoft's May security update
Testing? We've heard of it
The US space enterprise is desperately waiting for Starship—will it finally deliver?
"This is such a wild ride. The highs are high. The lows are low."
F-35 software delays leave UK buying time with US glide bombs
MoD says StormBreaker will plug gap until homegrown SPEAR 3 integration lands
Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain's age-check mess
Firefox maker says the tools are basic security infrastructure, not teenage contraband
Google tells database devs to lean hard on AI for PostgreSQL work
Cloud giant says humans remain accountable, even when code gets an assist from the machines
AMD's Lemonade SDK For AI Promotes macOS To GA Status, ROCm 7.13 Integrated
The Lemonade SDK for "refreshingly fast local AI" that is largely developed by AMD engineers as an open-source project continues advancing quite rapidly for serving optimized LLMs on GPUs and NPUs...
Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't
Governments can't touch VPNs technically or commercially. The mess they'll make if they try will be off the scale
Doom soundtrack added to National Recording Registry
Haters are gonna hate the fact Bobby Prince's demonic dirges rank with Taylor Swift's 1989
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything
Letting a 21-year-old write critical code without supervision is not smart
Grafana Labs admits all its codebase are belong to someone who popped its GitHub account
No customer info stolen, no impact to operations, and no blackmail payment
gkh_clanker_t1000 & gkh_clanker_2000 Continue Uncovering Linux Kernel Bugs
As first reported on Phoronix in early April, Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman has been leveraging new AI fuzzing tools for uncovering Linux kernel bugs. Prominent due to his position within the Linux kernel community and also being the primary Linux stable maintainer. His AI-assistance for fixing Linux kernel bugs is based on a Framework Desktop powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max.
It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175140 Points: 268 # Comments: 654
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Samsung's weather app sparks storm of controversy by handing territory to North Korea
PLUS: China-linked cyber-attack on central Asian oil sector; Bottom falls out of Indian smartphone sales; And more!
Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’
Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating ‘unnecessary pain and pointless work’
Surprise AI bills leave AWS and Google Cloud users aghast
Stuck with an AI bill for tens of thousands of dollars? You're not alone by a long shot
Linux 7.1-rc4 Released With Many Fixes, New Documentation For Security/AI Topics
It was another busy week in the Linux 7.1 kernel space that has culminated with the release of Linux 7.1-rc4...
Ubuntu Concept ISOs Published For CIX P1 AI CPU
Similar to Canonical engineers having published "Ubuntu Concept" ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops to provide the very latest hardware-specific support that hasn't yet worked its way to the mainline Linux kernel and other packages, Canonical has begun providing Ubuntu Concept ISOs for the CIX P1 as an "AI" focused platform...
Open-Source "low_latency_layer" Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux
A new open-source project called low_latency_layer is an implicit Vulkan layer that enables AMD Anti-Lag 2 and NVIDIA Reflex 2 to reportedly work in a hardware-agnostic manner so that AMD and Intel graphics cards can both enjoy Reflex or Anti-Lag 2 working on non-AMD graphics cards as well...
A revolutionary cancer treatment could transform autoimmune disease
Researchers are testing CAR T cell therapy as a way to reset the immune system.
Claude Code Did The Heavy Lifting To Get Adobe Lightroom CC Running On Linux
An open-source developer with the assistance of Claude Code has managed to get the Adobe Lightroom CC software working on Linux under Wine...
FFmpeg Introduces Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan-Powered Video Acceleration
Last year the widely-used, open-source FFmpeg multimedia library introduced Apple ProRes video acceleration using shaders with the Vulkan API. Now FFmpeg has taken it a step further and can support Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan-based video decoding...
Panther Lake Powered Framework Laptop 13 Pro Sees Linux Microphone Fix
Ahead of the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro laptops beginning to ship in June, an audio microphone fix was merged this weekend to the mainline Linux kernel for these new Intel Panther Lake powered devices...
FluidX3D Lands A Big Speed-Up For This OpenCL CFD Software
Released this week was FluidX3D 3.7, the latest feature update to this computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that is CPU/GPU accelerated by way of OpenCL...
FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 Updates OpenZFS, Ensures Cloud Images Up-To-Date On First Boot
In working toward the stable FreeBSD 15.1 release in early June, FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 is out this weekend as the latest weekly test candidate...
The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
Article URL: https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163389 Points: 391 # Comments: 182
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GNOME 51 Could End Up Replacing System Tools With "Resources" App
The current GNOME System Monitor is on track to be replaced by the GNOME Resources app for as soon as the GNOME 51 desktop release...
Memtest86+ 8.10 Improves Support For Newer Hardware
Memtest86+ 8.10 is out today as a significant update to this legendary open-source RAM testing software...
What Is Date:Italy?
Article URL: http://aesthetikx.info/blog/date_italy.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162157 Points: 103 # Comments: 43
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Debian 13.5 Released To Ship The Latest Linux Security Fixes
Debian 13.5 is out today as the newest point release to Debian Trixie for incorporating all of the latest security fixes affecting the Linux kernel and dozens of user-space packages...
Longtime Leading AMD Linux GPU Driver Developer Now Working For Valve
It seems that Valve isn't done expanding their open-source Linux graphics driver team and securing top talent for enhancing the Linux GPU drivers for a better gaming experience. One of the foremost leading Mesa developers has left AMD to join Valve...
The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants us to know it's taking this very seriously.
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
Article URL: https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156186 Points: 120 # Comments: 71
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Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots
Universities promise no frontline duty and perks if students enlist in military.
Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval
Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.
US hantavirus case was false positive; outbreak cases drop from 11 to 10
WHO announced today that the operation to safely transfer passengers is complete.
Review: Good Omens finale (mostly) sticks the landing
Truncated third season feels rushed, but also gives us a fitting end to a love story for the ages.
Solar power production undercut by coal pollution
Each year, some of the power solar could have produced is blocked by aerosols.
Weather-monitoring firm hangs dark cloud over customers’ heads by forcing new app
Newer AcuRite Now app lacks some features but has a subscription option.
Three's a party: US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO
Instead of running silent and deep, most satellites easily stand out against the blackness of space.