Thursday, 28 May 2026
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Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity
Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.
Mystery GPS jammer in Iran becomes test for NASA satellites’ capabilities
NASA science satellites show dual use in locating sources of GPS interference.
NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Rolls Out CUDA Python 1.0, CUDA Tile For C++
NVIDIA on Tuesday released CUDA 13.3 as another significant advancement for their unified GPU programming stack for NVIDIA hardware...
Mina the Hollower is the best old-school action adventure I've played in a while
Smooth movement, compelling combat, and tons of secrets make for an innovative throwback.
YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-ai-video-label... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299753 Points: 255 # Comments: 137
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Nvidia bets $150B on Taiwan as Trump's plan to make US an AI hub backfires
Nvidia will invest $150 billion a year to make Taiwan an AI “epicenter.”
Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad
“I don't want recommendations! I know what I want to watch."
Valve's Steam Deck is back in stock after months, but you won't like it
Four-year-old handheld is saddled with an unfortunately modern price tag.
Trump admin to block Ebola-exposed Americans from US, move them to Kenya
Trump official asked CDC staff to volunteer to screen travelers at airports.
"Little red dot" in early Universe is a naked supermassive black hole
The black hole accounts for over two-thirds the mass of the object it inhabits.
US Space Force confirms SpaceX will build sensor-to-shooter targeting network
"We aren’t trading speed for scale; we are demanding both," says the military's program manager.
CrowdStrike, Google shatter Glassworm botnet
Developer-targeted, supply-chain attacks all the rage these days
Disclosure Day final trailer features Spielberg himself
Director describes how his views on existence of aliens have changed, interspersed with footage from film.
SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)
Article URL: https://www.thran.uk/writ/hdid/2025/12/simcity-3k-in-4k.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297645 Points: 209 # Comments: 64
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YouTube to begin automatically labeling AI videos
AI videos that are animated, unrealistic, or only have a little AI may still hide their origins, though.
Bosses blinded by confidence about shadow AI use by workers
More than half of orgs in Okta survey faced an AI-related security incident or near miss last year
Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel
Canonical's kernel team confirmed today their intention of shipping the Ubuntu 26.10 release with what will be the Linux 7.2 kernel...
Smart light company Govee apologizes for “white supremacy” marketing imagery
PR exec says Govee "did not meet the standard required."
VKD3D-Proton Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support
Valve's VKD3D-Proton component to Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D 12 implemented over the Vulkan API has landed its descriptor heap (VK_EXT_descriptor_heap) support as a big step forward...
Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/27/canada-sweden-saab-globaleye-aircraft Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296994 Points: 271 # Comments: 188
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AIs don't like religion - particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims
LLMs prefer secular, rational reasoning, and while they'll still get religious on occasion, they have a negative view of Jehovah's Witnesses
I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296794 Points: 491 # Comments: 589
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DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296649 Points: 537 # Comments: 272
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Extortion crews are visiting law firms pretending to be tech support, FBI warns
Cybercriminals still allowed to walk into office blocks and convince staff to let them plug in their own thumb drives
Training our own AI models
Article URL: https://posthog.com/blog/training-ai-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296359 Points: 176 # Comments: 122
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Researchers find all big-name bots bomb EU compliance tests
Given a chance, AI will be breaking the law, breaking the law
Last.fm is now independent
Article URL: https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295892 Points: 534 # Comments: 151
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Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48295679 Points: 464 # Comments: 239
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Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry
Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted
Nvidia kills Windows XP-era Control Panel "after 20 years of dedicated service"
Nvidia says the Control Panel's features have been migrated to the Nvidia app.
Volvo gets US government approval to bypass Chinese connected-car ban
The ban for model year 2027 onward began under Biden and has been enacted by Trump.
4 in 10 AI agents headed for demotion or the rubbish bin
Gartner predicts governance struggles to plague rollout of this year’s much-hyped technology
Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins For AMD Zen 5 On PostgreSQL, Valkey, Network Performance
The long-in-development work on Cache Aware Scheduling looks like it will come to a head soon with it looking like Cache Aware Scheduling will land for Linux 7.2. Ahead of the upcoming merge window I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at different areas where this feature is shining.
India's cyber agency sets clock at 12 hours to tackle exploited bugs as AI turns up the heat
CERT-In says internet-facing or critical systems should be patched, mitigated, or cut off within half a day where feasible
Windows 11 update preview promises faster launches, puts Task Manager on NPU patrol
Just mind the known issue that can still send installs rolling back
Broadcom gets early start on WiFi 8 with next-gen wireless routing kit
Better, more reliable, and cheaper? Isn't that the story every generation?
Broadcom's custom ASIC biz adds South Korea's FuriosaAI to its empire
Third-gen chips to use Broadzilla's advanced packaging, networking tech
Linux Developers Looking At Retiring The x32 ABI
The Linux x32 ABI for x86_64 processors allow making use of the full 64-bit register file and wide data path but retaining 32-bit pointers to provide for a smaller memory footprint when not needing 64-bit pointers. Linux x32 came to the party late and didn't enjoy much adoption over the years and is now looking at possible removal from the Linux kernel...
Tony Blair and the Reform party both want AI in government, though they can't agree on what for
Former UK PM demands modernization, and right wing party channels inner Musk to call for mass job cuts in public sector
Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy1tt3hs572m Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293080 Points: 224 # Comments: 174
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UK armed forces aims for secure comms via optical satellite links
Brit military boffins test ground station with infra-red lasers to deliver multi-gigabyte downloads
Private equity bought America's essential services
Article URL: https://rubbishtalk.com/economy/how-private-equity-bought-americas-essential-services/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292941 Points: 372 # Comments: 444
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How to guarantee a speaker gig: Hack the system. Literally
Make your mark on the call-for-proposal platform
GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended'
Another day, another GitHub wobble - but the service keeps growing
Motorola's 2026 Razrs are almost worth buying just for their stunning looks… almost
Pretty little phones with pretty big price tags.
US law enforcement warns of "anti-tech extremism" as AI hatred grows
The feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat.
Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula
Diarmuid Early dominates Amsterdam qualifier as competitive spreadsheeting sets sights on Vegas finals
Linux Driver To Expose Voltage Inputs For Raspberry Pi SBCs
The Raspberry Pi hardware monitoring driver "RASPBERRYPI-HWMON" is being extended to allow exposing voltage measurements on these ARM single board computers...
Intel TDX Runtime Updates Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2
A feature that has been worked on for a while now by Intel Linux engineers is for allowing run-time updates of the Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) module without having to reboot the running server. For Linux 7.2 it looks like that feature will be all-set for allowing the easier roll-out of security updates and the like for this confidential computing capability on modern Intel Xeon servers...
6G: The next gen of wireless tech nobody's ready to pay for
Standards body on track for 2028 specs drop. Telcos on track for 2028 existential crisis about 5G ROI
Canonical Releases Workshop As New Way Of Launching Development Environments
Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today the release of Workshop as their new Snap-based application for launching development environments with ease...
Mini Micro Fantasy Computer
Article URL: https://miniscript.org/MiniMicro/index.html#about Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291947 Points: 223 # Comments: 78
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AWS whips out Graviton-powered Redshift instances, claims 7x speed for data warehouse
AI agents asking questions in natural language apparently issue a lot more queries than your average SQL jockey
Go: Support for Generic Methods
Article URL: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77273 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291575 Points: 139 # Comments: 122
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InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows
Contactless collection meets Microsoft's licensing reminder
All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22391 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291225 Points: 333 # Comments: 132
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Explainer: Edge AI
You can run AI at the edge, if your infrastructure supports it
Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
Article URL: https://arps18.github.io/posts/claude-code-mastery/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48289950 Points: 328 # Comments: 219
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ReactOS Now Running On ARM64 In Experimental Form
ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" project working to implement binary compatibility for computer programs and drivers for Microsoft Windows now has experimental support for running on 64-bit ARM...
Is Peter Thiel the target of Pope Leo's Gandalf quote? An investigation.
Parsing a papal proclamation.
Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules
Musk says drones used Starlink instead of Starshield, blames military contractor.
NASA takes steps toward building Moon Base, including discussing a "perimeter"
"We also obviously want to be very mindful of the Outer Space Treaty."
We're starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple's MacBook Neo
Sub-$600 laptops have existed for years, but consistently good ones remain rare.
Google's ANGLE Merges Wayland Support, Unblocking Chromium Embedded Framework On Wayland
It looks like Google's Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" could finally be enjoying nice native Wayland support soon!..
NVIDIA Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering The Best Performance Ever Seen On ARM
NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU isn't ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads. NVIDIA's Vera CPU with its in-house-designed Olympus CPU cores ends up packing a heavy-hitting punch with competitiveness to Intel/AMD x86_64 CPUs that I have never seen out of any other ARM or non-x86_64 processors. Continue…
AlmaLinux 10.2 Released For Latest Community-Driven RHEL 10.2 Experience
The AlmaLinux project announced the releases today of both AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and AlmaLinux OS 10.2...
Pavona Aims To Provide A Certification-Ready, Open-Source Silicon Ecosystem
GlobalPlatform announced today the launch of Pavona as an open-source silicon ecosystem backed by founding members such as Meta, Qualcomm, Tenstorrent, Winbond, and the University of Oxford, among others...
NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements, DRM Color Pipeline API
NVIDIA is kicking off the new week with their first Linux driver beta in the R610 driver series that is succeeding the current R595 release branch...
Intel Working On pmtctl Tool For Linux In Dealing With Platform Telemetry Data
A set if 17 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for introducing a new tool in the kernel source tree, pmtctl. This new pmtctl tool is for interfacing with Intel Platform Monitoring Technology...
Btrfs Preps Huge Folios Support Ahead Of Linux 7.2
The past few Linux kernel cycles there has been experimental support for large folios with Btrfs while for Linux 7.2 it looks like this modern file-system will be taking things further with huge folios...
ML-KEM + X-Wing Patches Posted For Linux To Help With Post-Quantum Security
Linux cryptography expert Eric Biggers of Google posted a set of patches on Monday for providing proof-of-concept support for ML-KEM and X-Wing for post-quantum cryptography...
Meta's CacheLib Sees New Release After Two Year Hiatus For Helping With High DRAM Prices
Back in 2021 Facebook open-sourced CacheLib as a new caching engine. Back in 2021 it was done to help scale services with non-volatile memory caching to offset increasing DRAM costs at the time. Now in 2026, DRAM memory prices are astronomical compared to 2021 pricing given the AI surge.
Labwc 0.20 Wayland Compositor Released With Numerous New Features
In addition to the release today of Sway 1.12 for that i3-inspired Wayland compositor, Labwc 0.20 is also out today as another wlroots-based Wayland compositor...
Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols
Sway 1.12 is out today as the newest feature release of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor powered by the wlroots library...
Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given "Predictable" Data (2024)
Article URL: https://www.thonking.ai/p/strangely-matrix-multiplications Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247005 Points: 137 # Comments: 37
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