Saturday, 30 May 2026
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Kenyan court blocks Trump admin from dumping Ebola-exposed Americans there
The US has previously built specialized facilities just for this purpose.
The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'
Article URL: https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/22330/stop-killing-games-movement-gains-momentum-california-assembly-passes-game-protection-bill Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328365 Points: 117 # Comments: 110
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ICE to keep an eye on your eyes under $25M biometric scanner deal
And you thought a face recognition app was intrusive?
Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.
Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70
Fresh off the funding round from HP, Fwupd 2.1.4 was christened today as the newest stable update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems...
Analysis of Texas measles outbreak shows just how dangerous virus is
About 1 in 5 cases were hospitalized and most of those developed complications.
AMD ROCm 7.2.4 Released With Performance & Stability Fixes
AMD's ROCm open-source compute stack is up to version 7.2.4 stable as it continues seeing new fixes while on the tech preview feature side is the recent ROCm 7.13 release...
No fix yet for critical RCE bug in open-source Git service Gogs - exploit module is out
Researcher reported the vuln in March. Maintainers haven't responded to his messages since
House of the Dragon S3 trailer revels in dragons, fire, and blood
"The crown is a weight that crushes. You'll do things that spell death for all involved."
Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC
ABC says early renewal for all stations is unprecedented, has no legitimate purpose.
SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
Article URL: https://obeli.sk/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need-for-durable-workflows/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326802 Points: 232 # Comments: 122
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DOJ sues states that rejected ICE requests for undercover license plates
DOJ keeps accusing ICE monitoring sites of doxing, but evidence remains scarce.
QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban
Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits
Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris
Article URL: https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325340 Points: 271 # Comments: 76
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Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T
Article URL: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-8b-a1b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325306 Points: 107 # Comments: 30
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Startup offers free home cleaning—if it can record it all for robot training
The latest twist in paying humans to wear head cameras for robot training data.
23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach
California AG claims genetics biz downplayed 2023 mega-leak while paying ransom to attacker
After years of stability, F1 reliability can no longer be taken for granted
Until recently, a driver had maybe a six in ten chance of finishing a race.
The dead economy theory
Article URL: https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324712 Points: 471 # Comments: 636
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GTA 6 Developers Unionize
Article URL: https://rockstarintel.com/gta-6-developers-announce-rockstar-games-union/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324499 Points: 488 # Comments: 312
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UCLA seeks pre-litigation resolution with Oracle
Discussion understood to concern delayed SaaS transformation project
Severed sea cucumber appendages don't seem to die
They seem to reorganize their tissues and then just keep living.
Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
Article URL: https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bijou64/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323992 Points: 187 # Comments: 69
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AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis
A billion AI agents walk into a power grid
It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPVAnwuSjfk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323869 Points: 163 # Comments: 314
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Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button
Look, says Redmond, usage up 27-43% based on one week of data - admits it 'may not be indicative of long-term usage trends'
I am retiring from tech to live offline
Article URL: https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323683 Points: 689 # Comments: 471
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CachyOS Delivers Lead Over Arch Linux, Pop!_OS & Ubuntu On System76 Thelio Major
The new System76 Thelio Major powered by the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and optionally with the Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card for an all-open-source AMD Linux stack is a mighty powerful workstation. If desiring even more compute potential out of this high-end desktop/workstation, CachyOS works pretty darn well on this new system with lofty leads over upstream Arch Linux as well as…
Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI
Last week's collection of networking subsystem fixes for Linux 7.1 noted craziness continuing with no end in sight with a large pull request of fixes with many of them spurred on by AI/LLM coding agents. This week it's "significantly bigger" than prior kernel cycles for this late stage of kernel development due to this assistance of large language models...
Rocket Report: A dark day for Blue Origin; Pentagon eyes new launch site
A new crew launched to China's Tiangong space station, and one of the astronauts will stay for a year.
Dutch cops wrest 17M devices from mystery botnet's clutches
Hosting provider pulled the plug after police traced 200 servers to the Netherlands
Here's why the failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic
"I hope that it makes it far enough away from the pad that it does not cause pad damage."
High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building
Article URL: https://commonedge.org/high-density-living-2000-years-ago-inside-the-roman-apartment-building/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322241 Points: 137 # Comments: 55
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FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right
TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations
We should be more tired than the model
Article URL: https://vickiboykis.com/2026/05/28/we-should-be-more-tired-than-the-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322118 Points: 132 # Comments: 117
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ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload
You and me go ChatGPhish-ing in the dark
Russia-linked threat group put ChatGPT to work from lure to payload
Researchers say 'GREYVIBE' crew used AI tools throughout a campaign targeting Ukrainian military and government
Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans
Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready
Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain
A change coming on the way for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is yielding a significant improvement to the direct I/O write performance. While a big gain, technically it's a regression fix after a change mistakenly dropped the behavior several years ago...
Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?
Article URL: https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2026-05-23-is-AI-causing-a-repeat-of-frontends-lost-decade/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321631 Points: 239 # Comments: 206
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These researchers would be in Africa fighting ebola—but Trump cut their funding
US Infectious diseases centers launched during COVID have lost their funding under Trump.
Intel To Support DRM Background Color Property With Linux 7.2
Introduced in Linux 7.1 is a dedicated CRTC background color property for DRM graphics/display drivers. The "BACKGROUND_COLOR" property can be used with capable drivers and display controllers as the default background color when not covered by any plane or from transparent regions of higher planes. With the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle, the Intel DRM driver will begin supporting this…
ShinyHunters adds Charter to trophy shelf after 4.9M customer records leak
Telco giant says no sensitive data was taken, though names, addresses, phones, and emails are now out there
Fedora 45 Considering Use Of PURL Metadata For Uniquely Identifying Software Packages
One of the Fedora 45 change proposals under consideration at the moment is making adding PURL "Package-URL" to Fedora's package metadata for simplifying the mapping between upstream projects and Fedora packages...
Linux 7.2 To Bring Graphics Driver Fix For Old Integrated Graphics On Intel Sandy Bridge
For those still making use of Intel Sandy Bridge processors from 15 years ago, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is bringing a fix for an engine reset issue when using the old integrated graphics with Sandy Bridge...
Radeon Software For Linux 26.12 Brings Ubuntu 26.04 Support
While most Linux enthusiasts and desktop users/gamers are comfortable just riding the latest upstream Linux kernel and Mesa drivers shipped by their distribution, for those enterprises preferring the officially blessed and QA'ed driver packages from AMD, last week marked the release of the Radeon Software for Linux 26.12 driver...
That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026
In a world of mass-produced bot-slopware, small is more beautiful than ever
Jammin' on UK defence secretary's jet as Russia blamed for GPS interference
Estonian academic fingers mobile tower-mounted devices as Kremlin tries to swat Ukrainian forces
Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner
What a wind-up!
The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida
New Glenn was due to play a starring role in NASA's Artemis Program.
Intel Sends Out Revised Linux Patches For Directed Package Thermal Interrupts
Back in March was an initial patch series out of Intel for Linux support for Directed Package Thermal Interrupts as a new feature of recent Intel CPUs. There wasn't much to report over the past three months on this work but today a second iteration of the patches emerged on the Linux kernel mailing list...
Linux 7.2's Open-Source Nouveau Driver To Finally Support The NVIDIA GA100
Sent out today was the last drm-misc-next pull request ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window getting underway in June. As part of this last batch of small Direct Rendering Manager graphics/accelerator driver changes is finally enabling the NVIDIA GA100 within the Nouveau driver...
2027 Audi RS5 first drive: A performance PHEV with split personalities
Audi has developed an entirely new electric torque-vectoring rear differential.
Troops’ phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries
Lawmakers push DoD to tighten smartphone controls after adversaries exploited commercial tracking data
LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false
Fine-tuning tests show "bias... toward confidently representing the claims as true."
Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code
Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.
Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops
Six 0-days, three under active exploitation, more to come on July 14?
US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds
There are strategies to improve healthcare, but US isn't trying them.
Snowflake buys Natoma to help freeze out rogue agents
It is the database titan’s sixth acquisition announcement since June 2025
Researchers develop a new process to get lithium out of rocks
If it scales up, it can help us diversify our sources of a key element.
FBI says Google engineer used internal search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket
FBI: Googler who knew outcome of bets in advance made $1.2M profit on Polymarket.
Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs
Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream
A respectable port of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition invades macOS
The port seems solid, and all DLC is supported—but there's no crossplay, sadly.
Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance
In recent weeks we have been exploring different areas of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics performance on Linux from various OpenCL and Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks, scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards, comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell, and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix readers keep raising requests for seeing the Arc Pro B70…
Arm Announces Metis: Agentic AI Security Framework
Arm today announced the open-sourcing of Metis, an agentic AI security framework that delivers context AI-powered security analysis in looking out for software vulnerabilities...
QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions
The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack had a policy that forbid any contributions including or derived from AI-generated content. But there are now second thoughts with a proposed patch that will permit AI/LLM contributions in non-critical areas...
Qualcomm Snapdragon C Announced For $300+ Laptops
For competing with the Apple MacBook Neo, Google Chromebooks, and other entry-level laptops, Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon C series SoCs...
Intel Arc G-Series Processors Announced For Handheld Gaming Devices
Ahead of Computex, Intel today announced the introduction of the Arc G-Series. While taking on the "Arc" branding, this isn't a new graphics card from Intel but rather their new processors with integrated graphics for handheld gaming devices...
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Released With More Bug Fixes
Building off the KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta release earlier in May, a second beta was declared today in preparing for the Plasma 6.7 stable debut in mid-June...
24 Years After The ATI R300 Launched, Open-Source R300 Driver Continues With Big Rework
While there has been talk of potentially branching off the older Mesa graphics drivers, the ATI R300 Gallium3D driver just won't die yet. The R300 Gallium3D driver for supporting ATI R300 through R500 graphics cards saw a big rework merged today in restructuring the driver's intemediate representation (IR) handling...
KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics
KRAID is a new Rust-written shader compiler currently being developed for the Panfrost/PanVK open-source Arm Mali driver code. KRAID is designed for Mali's Valhall graphics processors and new as a modern, clean sheet design...
O3DE 26.05 Released With New Open Particle System, Other Engine Improvements
It's been nearly five years already since the start of O3DE as the Open 3D Engine that began as Amazon's Lumberyard project spun into an open-source project under the Linux Foundation umbrella. Out this week is O3DE 26.05 for shipping the latest improvements to this cross platform game engine...