Thursday, 04 June 2026
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Flesh-eating screwworm infection detected in South Texas, USDA says
If confirmed, it would be the fly's first breach of the US-Mexico border.
Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech
It's hard to stop a signal jammer if you can't locate the source, say Rice University researchers
Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out
Google must change AI Overviews after claiming users don't want "lots of sources."
Dashlane issues opaque advisory warning 20 encrypted vaults were stolen
Security advisory leaves out key details. Dashlane maintains complete silence.
Google's new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM
Gemma 4 12B uses a new encoding scheme and token prediction to punch above its weight.
Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows
Coreutils serves over 75 Unix commands in Windows and PowerShell command lines
Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
Article URL: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/06/03/elixir-v1-20-0-released/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388324 Points: 388 # Comments: 126
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COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience
COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15 was released today and while it doesn't yet contain the new "Frosted Glass" option for the desktop UI, COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15 does contain some other notable enhancements...
Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE
Critics say Trump plan to test AI models is short-sighted, performative.
Ring gets buzzed by class action for collecting visitors' faces without consent
The latest in a series of raised eyebrows over Familiar Faces and other AI ventures
New social features further Plex’s evolution from media server business
Plex is increaingly focusing on content discovery and streaming rentals.
Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig
Article URL: https://github.com/duanebester/gooey Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386725 Points: 112 # Comments: 33
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No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel
Always-on agent promises to keep work moving, provided you trust it with practically everything
MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/03/macbook-neo-production-doubled-says-kuo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386238 Points: 281 # Comments: 289
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Intel bit off more than it could chew with 18A process node
CFO Zinsner insists the troubled node was a one-off as 14A stays on track
ESP32-S31
Article URL: https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-s31 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385965 Points: 225 # Comments: 122
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Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators
NGMN wants a clear migration path before next-gen network rollouts begin
Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385906 Points: 602 # Comments: 246
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AMD EPYC 8635P "Sorano" Benchmarks: Significant Upgrade Opportunity For EPYC 8004 Servers
After announcing the AMD EPYC 8005 "Sorano" series back in February, AMD recently began shipping these Zen 5 successors to the EPYC 8004 "Siena" line-up. With the EPYC 8005 product stack ranging from 8 to 84 cores and being drop-in upgrades for EPYC 8004 servers after a BIOS update, these are quite some interesting processors for those after a single socket, performant server. Up today are…
The tech that could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company
CU later, rivals? That's if Broadzilla doesn't eat its lunch first
Autonomous vehicles were supposed to cut traffic—what if they don't?
Data shows Waymo's robotaxis are empty for almost half of the miles they drive.
A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt
Article URL: https://letsencrypt.org/2026/06/03/pq-certs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385114 Points: 195 # Comments: 104
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AI agents can now manipulate your organization. Are you ready?
SPONSORED POST: Agents with hands require a hands-on policy
Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures
Researchers follow in Nightmare Eclipse’s footsteps, flipping off Redmond in favor of insta-leaks
DaVinci Resolve 21
Article URL: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/whatsnew Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384482 Points: 341 # Comments: 162
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I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
Article URL: https://burntsushi.net/encephalitis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384355 Points: 397 # Comments: 111
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Intel Preps GCC Function Multi-Versioning To Support APX & AVX10.2
Along with some GCC compiler tuning for Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids to deal with some new APX capabilities not proving beneficial for performance, new patch activity today is preparing GCC for function multi-versioning (FMV) for the AVX10.2 and APX instruction set extensions...
Inside Meta's attempts to play catch-up with AI
Doubts linger over whether Meta can close the gap with rivals.
Microsoft Build: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, Coreutils for Windows, air-gapped GitHub and more
Execution Containers provide safe environment for running AI agents, while Windows Developer Config aims to make Windows less unpleasant for developers
Listen up, England. The Health Secretary is going to be data controller for everyone's Single Patient Record
No, public bucket policy doesn't mean everyone gets a bucket for themselves. Please let Tech do it. Don't go into Settings...
Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93x0k194yno Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383220 Points: 635 # Comments: 603
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Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-02/uber-caps... ( https://archive.ph/ZrwAy ) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383056 Points: 290 # Comments: 367
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Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search
Action follows Chocolate Factory's changes to AI search results
Ubuntu To Ship Newer AMD ROCm Updates Via SRUs
As noted back in April, with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS it's now possible to simply "apt install rocm" on Ubuntu Linux for installing AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. But as prominently noted there, what's shipped right now in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is already months out of date compared to upstream ROCm. Fortunately, Canonical shared today that moving forward they plan to ship newer ROCm versions as stable…
Beans use an immune receptor to call in airstrikes on caterpillars
When they're being eaten, bean plants release chemicals that draw in parasitic wasps.
Every Byte Matters
Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/01/every-byte-matters Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382382 Points: 218 # Comments: 108
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UK banks offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion
150 new organizations inducted to cyber’s Soho House, including the first outside the US
Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it
Article URL: https://blog.nns.ee/2026/06/03/katana-badusb/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382310 Points: 615 # Comments: 98
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NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support Moves Closer For Open-Source Nova Driver
While the upstream, open-source Nouveau driver already supports NVIDIA's Hopper and Blackwell graphics processors with the GPU System Processor (GSP) code path, the bring-up of the Rust-written Nova driver remains ongoing. Out this week is the 12th iteration of the Hopper and Blackwell enablement for this future open-source NVIDIA Linux driver...
PlayStation Architecture
Article URL: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382142 Points: 230 # Comments: 46
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Intel XPU Manager Adds Support For Arc Pro B65 + Arc Pro B70
Intel this week rolled out new versions of their open-source XPU Manager and Linux NPU driver software...
ZTE and partners nurture global ICT talent through 2026 engineering capacity building program
Global ICT experts gather in Shenzhen to master cutting-edge engineering practices and foster international collaboration
Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-issue-warning-ai-rapidly-gains-ground Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382052 Points: 139 # Comments: 169
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Automattic's CMS empire shows cracks as WordPress share falls
Web publishing giant remains dominant, but 6 straight months of decline suggest era of uninterrupted growth may be over
How long will it take to rebuild Blue Origin's launch pad? We asked some SpaceX vets.
"Everyone is in a place where it’s no fun to be there."
Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils
As another interesting takeaway from this week's Microsoft Build 2026 conference beyond their open-source Intelligent Terminal project is Coreutils for Windows. Microsoft is maintaining a fork of Rust Coreutils for Windows to ease the developer experience across Windows / WSL / macOS / Linux...
New "KRAID" Compiler Merged To Mesa For Panfrost/PanVK Drivers
As a follow-up to the article last week about KRAID as a new compiler for modern Arm Mali graphics, that initial code has now been merged to Mesa 26.2 for benefiting the Panfrost and PanVK open-source drivers...
UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract
Lock-in to a small number of suppliers holding up digital government plans, committee says
TypeScript devs no longer need to tangle with C# to use Aspire dev stack after Microsoft update
Aspire is a powerful tool for developers but not well understood – and pure TypeScript AppHost may broaden its appeal
Canonical Now Considers Their Steam Snap For ARM64 To Be Stable
At the beginning of the year Canonical announced a Steam Snap package for Ubuntu ARM64 that leverages the FEX emulator for running x86/x86_64 games on ARM64. After months of testing and improvements, they now consider their Steam Snap for ARM64 to be stable...
Marek Olšák Scores Up To 100% Pixel Throughput Optimization For RADV Driver
Marek Olšák who had been a longtime AMD Linux driver engineer specializing in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, recently began working for Valve on their Linux graphics driver team. His focus has understandably shifted to working on the RADV Vulkan driver and one of his early optimizations now with the Valve hat on is up to a 100% pixel throughput optimization for the RADV driver, which is already…
Male bowerbirds prefer to dazzle females with bright human-made items
"It’s a reminder of how human activity is changing the natural world in unanticipated ways.”
Microsoft plans Linux tools and an RTX Spark desktop for Windows developers
One hardware announcement and several software highlights from Microsoft Build.
'Dumbass' criminal breaks the 'first rule of ransomware club'
You don't infect anyone in Russia or other CIS countries
Contentful is a shot in the arm for Salesforce's 'headless' bet
Lacking an enterprise content layer for Headless 360, CRM titan went shopping
Microsoft's Project Solara is an Android OS designed for agents instead of apps
Microsoft missed the boat on apps, so get ready for agents.
Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says
Lawsuit: Ring cameras scan guests and passersby and use AI to identify faces.
Trump's AI E-(I)-O could let feds pick winners and losers
Government gets a say in 'trusted partner' access, and that worries policy experts
If I had a hammer... it might actually be a rhino tooth
Neanderthals had some wild stuff in their toolkits.
Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Intelligent Terminal"
Microsoft today announced their newest open-source creation... Under the MIT license it's the Intelligent Terminal...
Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center
The National Center for Atmospheric Research won't be losing its supercomputer.
Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2
Article URL: https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/2026-06-01-edsger.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374552 Points: 230 # Comments: 32
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Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches
International Mathematical Union endorses warning about tech industry influence.
Android phones will soon be able to detect spoofed calls and impersonation scams
Google's June Android feature drop includes more scam detection, more AirDrop, and yes, more AI.
The truth lies in the past in Silo S3 trailer
"We do not know when it will be safe to go outside. We only know that day is not this day."
Number of suspected Ebola cases falls by hundreds as testing ramps up
The number of cases falls from 1,100 to 437 with increased testing.
Benchmarking The Different CachyOS Linux Kernel Flavors
CachyOS ships with a good Linux kernel configuration by default balancing the different features as well as performance. But they also ship a variety of other kernel builds for those preferring a more leading-edge kernel or the current LTS series, a hardened kernel configuration, and more. In this article are some fresh benchmarks of the Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution with some of…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland
KDE developers are sticking to their plans for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in dropping X11 support. Meanwhile it turns out 95% of current Plasma 6.6 users are running already on Wayland...
The Linux Kernel Ready To Make TSC A Hard Requirement For x86 CPUs
Now that the Linux kernel has been removing Intel 486 CPU support and also proceeding to drop other vintage CPUs like the AMD K5 CPU support and AMD Elan, the Linux kernel is ready to make the TSC support unconditional for x86 processors...
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merges Mesh Shader Support
Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver now has mesh shader support as another significant step forward for this driver in being able to handle modern Linux gaming and other workloads...
Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code
Canonical today released Mir 2.27 as the latest version of this set of compositor libraries for easily building Wayland-based shells on Linux and fitting into the Ubuntu Linux paradigm...
ASUS ZenVision Laptop Lid Screen Reverse Engineered & Now Able To Work On Linux
ASUS ZenVision is a feature of some ASUS laptops like the Zenbook 14X OLED Space Edition where there is a 3.5-inch monochrome screen embedded into the top lid of the laptop. From this mini display embedded into the top lid of the laptop it's possible to display animated themes, show the current date/time, battery status, or customized messages and the like. The practicality is rather limited as…
COSMIC Desktop's Frosted Glass Is Giving Windows Aero Vibes
Some of the latest feature work for the Rust and Wayland based COSMIC desktop environment is on creating their new "Frosted Glass" appearance. It's getting closer to release and giving off Windows Aero vibes for that design language from the Windows Vista days...
Shotcut 26.6 Beta Brings Many Fixes, OpenFX & VST2 Plugin Support
Shotcut 26.6 is now available in beta form as this latest feature update for this popular, open-source and cross platform video editor...
Phoronix Marking 22 Years Of Linux Hardware Coverage This Week
On 5 June marks 22 years since starting Phoronix.com for covering the Linux hardware space and open-source news...
Stop Killing Games
Article URL: https://jxself.org/stop-killing-games.shtml Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356449 Points: 141 # Comments: 143
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