Thursday, 21 May 2026
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AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL To Be Initially Disabled-By-Default
One of the most exciting developments in recent times for the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver is HDMI 2.1 FRL support for the AMDGPU driver along with Display Stream Compression support as they work toward providing full HDMI 2.1 support for this open-source AMD Radeon driver. The details how AMD managed to pull this feat off given prior resistance from the HDMI Forum remains to be…
NASA's Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world
"As a bonus, it captured Mars images from a rare perspective."
Even Claude agrees: hole in its sandbox was real and dangerous
Another day, another AI bug silently fixed with no CVE and no public disclosure
Masters of the Universe final trailer brings the '80s nostalgia
"You are he who will restore peace to Eternia."
Intel's CEO reveals early hiring challenges as bankruptcy concerns deterred top talent
Recovering chipmaker looks beyond 14A to 10A and 7A process nodes in foundry comeback bid
Leaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door
The 0–60 time is impressive, the miles/kWh number even more so.
OpenAI floats buy-before-your-try AI availability guarantee
Nice AI workloads you have going, it'd be a shame we ran out of stock
The Very Exciting Cache Aware Scheduling Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2
As a very exciting development ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window opening in about one month's time, it looks like the long-awaited Cache Aware Scheduling support will finally be merged! CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE has made it into a TIP branch with all the Cache Aware Scheduling code for helping with Linux performance on modern CPUs sporting multiple last level caches...
"Ryzen 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition" may help you avoid paying for a new PC
It could be one way to make your old PC play nicely with a high-end GPU.
Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users
Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 29 months earlier, is fixed.
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212493 Points: 454 # Comments: 294
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Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats
President asks $1B from taxpayers to secure his $400M privately funded ballroom.
Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling
Article URL: https://www.beyondplastics.org/press-releases/starbucks-cups-recyclable-report Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212279 Points: 152 # Comments: 115
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Hulu set to keep existing as standalone streaming service and app (for now)
Disney still has a lot of tech to unite and bundles to push.
Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.
In the process, Colossal may have handed a useful tool to developmental biology.
Flipper One Tech Specs
Article URL: https://docs.flipper.net/one/general/tech-specs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212046 Points: 139 # Comments: 54
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Minnesota prohibits prediction markets, promptly gets sued by Trump admin
State law makes it a felony to create, operate, or advertise prediction markets.
Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026
Google's AI search evolution is accelerating at I/O 2026.
Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped
Red Hat’s free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend
Firefox 153 Nightly Rolls Out New Settings UI
The latest nightly builds of Firefox 153 have rolled out a new appearance for the browser's settings area...
Bye-bye, Gemini CLI; Google's gone and swapped you for a closed-source AI
Most users lose access June 18 - unless you’ve got enterprise creds or paid API keys
Apparently Google hates us now
Article URL: https://twitter.com/pokemoncentral/status/2057123807404638250 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210263 Points: 378 # Comments: 191
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Plex appeal fades as Lifetime Pass jumps to $750
How many times would you have to watch Lord of the Rings to cover that?
Initial Benchmarks Of The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V CPU With The K3 Pico-ITX
One of the RISC-V SoCs we have been most looking forward to this year is the SpacemiT K3 that features the X100 RISC-V cores that are RVA23 compliant and among the first readily available RVA23 RISC-V platform for running on the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. In this article is a preview of some very early benchmarks of the SpacemiT K3 with the new Pico-ITX single board computer offering.
SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014)
Article URL: https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209558 Points: 109 # Comments: 6
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Man jailed for posting Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement
Sheriff loses fight with man he jailed for 37 days for posting a Trump meme on Facebook.
Russia's plan to advertise on rockets and spacecraft takes off
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Patches Trying To Bring Mainline Linux Support For The Infineon/Intel XMM6260 Modem
While it has been nearly seven years since Apple acquired the Intel Mobile Communications' smartphone modem business and fifteen years since Intel acquired the wireless solutions division of Infineon, in 2026 we might see mainline Linux kernel support for the out-of-date XMM6260 modem...
RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
Red Hat today announced the releases of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 as well as RHEL 9.8...
GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
Previous thread in sequence: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316 - May 2026 (321 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207660 Points: 291 # Comments: 88
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Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial
Access to TV OS's source code could allow users to limit ads, tracking.
Those spared latest Meta job cuts forcibly reassigned to AI roles
Staff protest overhaul and mouse tracking at 'Employee Data Extraction Factory'
China banned RTX 5090D V2 while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was visiting
The chip was added to a list of banned goods at China’s customs checkpoints last Friday.
Datacenter builds could be shielded from judicial review in UK planning reforms
British government wants to ensure no hold-ups for critical energy and infrastructure projects
Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE
Article URL: https://www.alqst.org/ar/posts/1190 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206768 Points: 864 # Comments: 367
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Microsoft says cu l8r to text message security
Old, busted, insecure authentication to be replaced with something shinier and safer
Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers
Greg Kroah-Hartman took time away from his duties as Linux's second-in-command as stable maintainer, various subsystem maintainer, and recent hobby of using AI/LLMs for uncovering Linux kernel bugs to present at the Rust Week conference...
'Workforce rebalancing' comes for Kyndryl, and delivery teams are in the firing line
Big Blue spinout eyes up to $500M in savings and agentic AI while insiders grumble it's still 'IBM without the hardware'
Saying Goodbye to Asm.js
Article URL: https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206340 Points: 279 # Comments: 121
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ESA boss tires of being dragged around by NASA mood swings
Are we pilots or are we passengers? Aschbacher asks
The Internet can't stop watching Figure AI's humanoid robots handling packages
Figure AI's 24/7 livestream showcases human soft spot for humanoid robots.
Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205782 Points: 226 # Comments: 164
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Map of Metal
Article URL: https://mapofmetal.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205699 Points: 372 # Comments: 131
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Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205626 Points: 559 # Comments: 216
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HP Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service / Fwupd
That didn't take long. Mere days after Dell and Lenovo began sponsoring the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as premiere sponsors in contributing $100k+ annually to this open-source firmware updating initiative, HP is also now a premiere sponsor...
GitHub says internal repos exfiltrated after poisoned VS Code extension attack
Initial assessment says customer data spared while users wonder what else may have slipped out
FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan Accelerated Decoding For APV Video
FFmpeg already supports CPU-based decoding for Samsung's APV as the Advanced Professional Video Codec. FFmpeg also has APV encode support too while now an interesting addition was merged this week: Vulkan-based acceleration for APV...
Intel llm-scaler-vllm PV 1.4 Released With Updated Components, Arc Pro B70 Support
Intel software engineers today rolled out the llm-scaler-vllm PV v1.4 as the Docker build of their latest software stack for those wishing to run vLLM in a pre-configured, performant setup on their Arc (Pro) Graphics hardware...
Valkey 9.1 Delivers More Performance & Enhanced Security
Valkey 9.1 released on Tuesday as the latest version of this popular fork of the Redis in-memory, key-value database...
Smaller suppliers invited to pitch for £2.9B UK defense tech framework
Government Commercial Agency wants DIPS 2 to reach beyond MoD buyers and the usual big-name suppliers
PostgreSQL backup tool gets some backup of its own after sole maintainer sounds alarm
AWS, Percona, Supabase, pgEdge, and Tiger Data rally round pgBackRest with funding pledge
Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
Previous thread: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201484 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204770 Points: 344 # Comments: 206
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London's police asked Big Tech for comms data over 700,000 times last year
A Freedom of Information Act request shows the extent of the surveillance
ZTE releases Sustainability Report 2025: driving a new chapter in sustainable development through AI
Through its "All in AI, AI for All" vision, ZTE surpasses climate targets, bridges the global digital divide, and strengthens governance resilience
Moose-proof and megacasting: Ars drives the new Volvo EX60
Volvo is coming for its competitors with more efficient production and newer tech.
Space factories edge closer after experimental capsule survives hypersonic landing
Varda hails success of autonomous touchdown tech and celebrates heat data haul
Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage
This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit
Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260515-the-1950s-blunder-which-causes-mass-hay-fever-in-japan Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202047 Points: 334 # Comments: 151
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AI sackings reach New Zealand, which will use it to eject 14 percent of government staff
Minister demands AI becomes ‘basic expectation for all public entities’
Vim Merges GTK4 Toolkit Support, Co-Authored-By Claude
The GTK-based GUI version of the Vim text editor, gVim, now has support in place for the modern GTK4 toolkit as an alternative to its long present GTK2/GTK3 support...
Anthropic’s Stainless steal tightens grip on AI dev tooling
Claude maker nabs SDK and MCP tooling biz, plans to sunset platform
FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants "data in near real time"
FBI will pay vendors to help it track and search for vehicles nationwide.
Spider-Noir final trailer gives us a classic villain
It's never too late to become a hero.
"I'll buy 10 of those"—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites
"How in the hell do I get more science into space? That is my goal."
Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription
Plex says that it has considered getting rid of Lifetime Passes.
Fedora Retiring Its Deepin Desktop Packages
A year after SUSE decided to remove its Deepin desktop packages over ongoing security concerns, Fedora Linux is now also removing their Deepin packages over similar concerns and lack of activity in maintaining the packages...
AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 Series SKUs From 8 To 84 Cores
Back in late February AMD announced the EPYC 8005 "Sorano" series to succeed EPYC 8004 Siena. At the time details were light while today AMD published the SKU table and more details on the EPYC 8005 series...
OpenBSD 7.9 Released With Support For Up To 255 x86_64 CPU Cores, WiFi 6
Theo de Raadt announced the release today of OpenBSD 7.9 as the latest feature update to this unique BSD platform...
Mageia 10 RC1 Released With Newer Packages
Following the ISOs dropping a few days ago, today the Mageia 10 release candidate was officially announced for those fond of this Linux distribution with its roots tracing back to Mageia and Mandrake Linux...
Ubuntu Core 26 Released With Live Kernel Patching, Better OTA Updates
Following last month's release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical today released Ubuntu Core 26...
Linux 7.2 Will Fix The Intel P-State Driver For The New Bartlett Lake CPUs
The fix is set to land in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel so the P-core-only Bartlett Lake processors will not report bogus maximum frequency values...
The Linux Kernel Working On A Rust-Based Untrusted Data API
One of the newest interfaces being worked on for the Rust programming language support within the Linux kernel is an Untrusted Data API for data received into the kernel from user-space...
OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Destined For Linux 7.2
The latest Linux gaming handheld driver work by Derek Clark of Valve's Linux efforts is the OneXPlayer Configuration Driver that is now set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle...
How fast is N tokens per second really?
Article URL: https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174920 Points: 228 # Comments: 56
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