Friday, 05 June 2026
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Linux 7.1 + Mesa 26.1 Performance With The Radeon RX 9070 GRE, RX 9070 XT
With this week's launch day review of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE, Ubuntu 26.04 with its Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.0 default driver stack was used for testing. That choice was made since the Ubuntu 26.04 release is still fresh, the RDNA4-based RX 9070 GRE was working without issue there, and from other RDNA4 testing knowing there isn't much uplift from the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel or the…
Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403980 Points: 114 # Comments: 40
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Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling
Musk can't be trusted to protect X user privacy, public commenters warn FTC.
Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses
Article URL: https://www.buchodi.com/meta-glasses-facial-recognition/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403588 Points: 137 # Comments: 120
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OpenAI's agent chained decade-old DoS attacks to crash web servers in seconds
Codex drops an HTTP/2 Bomb
Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers
NCTA seeks waiver from foreign-router ban, citing memory and substrate shortages.
Bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, study finds
Scientists in Finland found bees could solve an insect version of the classic "box-and-banana" problem.
The desperation of NYTimes
Article URL: https://rozumem.xyz/posts/16 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401965 Points: 271 # Comments: 254
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AI heavyweights warn their tech could help terrorists develop bioweapons
Scientists and industry leaders push for mandatory DNA synthesis screening
Benevolent dictator Zuck will give Meta staff 30-minute breaks from keylogging privacy assault
Tech biz teaching AI to use computers by slurping staff activity
After 11 years at Mars, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper
“I think the team has really experienced the loss of a loved one with the end of the mission.”
When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400842 Points: 184 # Comments: 225
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Retro-Tech Parenting
Article URL: https://havenweb.org/2026/05/28/retro-tech.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400588 Points: 199 # Comments: 135
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AMD takes a third of server CPU market as shipments grow
Intel still owns the room, but Epyc keeps nicking the furniture
It doesn't feel very agricultural: The 2026 Subaru Solterra review
Subaru's badge-engineered SUV remains on sale alongside the new Trailseeker.
Linux 7.2 Will Be Able To Boot On Apple M3 Macs - But Far From Useful For End-Users
The upcoming Linux 7.2 mainline kernel is expected to be able to boot on Apple M3 devices including the M3-powered iMac and MacBook products. But before getting too excited it's still a long ways to go before it will actually be useful for any Apple M3 daily usage under Linux with the overall support at this stage still being very limited for these 2~3 year old Apple Macs...
Qualcomm Gets The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 Laptop Working On Linux
For those interested in the prospects of running Snapdragon X2 laptops on Linux rather than Windows 11 on ARM, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 has emerged as one of the initial X2 laptops with tentative Device Tree handling to allow Linux to boot on this latest-generation Qualcomm-powered laptop,..
Blender 5.2 LTS Enters Beta With New Features
Blender 5.2 is now available in beta form for this leading open-source 3D modeling software...
How some data center operators are tackling their water use problems
Hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability.
My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with
Columbia admits last year’s data breach exposed victims beyond its students, staff.
'Please do not vibe f--- up this software': Broken backups spark AI coding row in rsync project
Users probe backup failures find Claude-assisted commits. Veteran engineer retorts: "I did not just vibe-code 'convert test suite to python'."
AMD's GAIA Finally Has A Nice Multi-Device Experience For AI
AMD's GAIA open-source project geared for building AI agents that run locally on your PC is out with a significant new feature release for Windows and Linux systems...
VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398055 Points: 521 # Comments: 236
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Intel's mysterious new datacenter GPU is what Nvidia's Rubin CPX nearly was
Nvidia's prefill accelerator was shelved, but Chipzilla's Crescent Island could fill the void
GCC Git Enables Additional Tuning For AMD Zen 6
In addition to Intel adjusting their Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids targets in GCC this week to deal with APX realities, AMD this week also adjusted some tuning bits for their Zen 6 "znver6" target...
Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records
Pips Accenture and NEC to bag decade-long deal for cops across England, Wales, and beyond
systemd 261-rc3 Released With Individual Binaries Now Embedding dlopen ELF Metadata Note
The stable release of systemd 261 is quickly approaching for being found in H2'2026 Linux distributions...
Five Eyes: Watch out for odd LinkedIn connection requests, China's back on the hunt for state secrets
Cash-for-intel tradecraft continues to concern intelligence officials years after it was first spotted
Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
Article URL: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397028 Points: 431 # Comments: 163
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Duo who sold car crash victims' data must repay £118k
Fresh penalties secured after initial prison, community service sentences for RAC double act
Used Waymo robotaxi batteries become backup storage for power grids
Used Waymo batteries will bolster California and Texas energy storage projects.
Gaussian Point Splatting
Article URL: https://momentsingraphics.de/Siggraph2026.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396792 Points: 167 # Comments: 61
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AMD Submits Its Long-Awaited HDMI 2.1 FRL Support For Linux 7.2 AMDGPU
It's happening! The long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for handling higher resolutions and higher refresh rates on modern AMD Radeon graphics cards with the upstream AMDGPU open-source driver has been submitted to DRM-Next ahead of this month's Linux 7.2 merge window!..
Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support
While not as well known as the likes of the Godot or O3DE open-source game engines, Crown Engine continues advancing as an open-source, C++-based game engine...
LLVM To Begin Offering Zstd-Compressed Binaries For "Significantly Reduced" Downloads
The LLVM project will begin offering Zstd-compressed archives of their binaries in addition to the existing XZ-compressed releases. LLVM developers are finding Zstd working out great with "significantly reduced" download sizes...
GOV.UK goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe
Means residents can skip the credit card and use 'pay by bank' for local authorities and services
Steam Survey For May 2026 After Delay: Linux Just Under 4%
Back in March Steam on Linux skyrocketed to 5.33% with more than double the Steam gaming marketshare of macOS. Then for April Steam on Linux pulled back to a still-great 4.52%, well above the times when Steam on Linux was at 2% or less for many years. Now the May 2026 figures have been published overnight by Valve...
Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
You can get a 2h free trial by solving a proof-of-work captcha when topping up your account for the first time. If you'd like to learn more, an independent interview was posted a couple of weeks ago [1], and the FAQ [2] has a lot of information as well. For the source code sharing, we've talked with lawyers and are inclined to no longer require the NDA/NCC for privacy reasons shared with us…
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UK tax collector hands Capgemini £600M contact center deal, delays start of £2.4B CRM contract
Another monster tech contract in the works for one of the usual suspects
Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine
'Attackers can now cheaply operationalize known vulnerabilities at scale,' boffins tell The Reg
All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields
It was far too easy for a hacker to get the information
Flesh-eating screwworm infection confirmed in South Texas, USDA says
With the case confirmed, it is the fly's first breach of the US-Mexico border.
Widely-Used libinput Updated Due To Arbitrary Root Code Execution
The libinput input handling library used by both X.Org and Wayland environments on modern Linux desktops is out with a new security fix release. A new vulnerability is now public allowing for arbitrary root code execution...
3mdeb Keeps Making Progress On Their Coreboot + AMD openSIL Port To Ryzen MSI Board
Following thr 3mdeb consulting firm's recent release of their Dasharo build of Coreboot and AMD openSIL for the Gigabyte MZ33-ARI1 EPYC 9005 series motherboard, the same engineers continue working on their port of Coreboot and the openSIL CPU silicon initialization library to a Ryzen 9000 series consumer motherboard...
I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
Article URL: https://kasra.blog/blog/i-spent-1500-seeing-if-llms-could-hack-my-app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392343 Points: 369 # Comments: 197
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Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
Article URL: https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grades-soar-as-professors-see-greater-ai-usage-dwindling-math-skills-in-uc-berkeley/article_16fad0bf-02cb-4b8c-8d88-888ffd9f8608.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392004 Points: 701 # Comments: 658
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They’re made out of weights
Article URL: https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391611 Points: 1366 # Comments: 594
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Commvault says it's time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a 'dark, dead' state
Those backup plans need backup testing
Microsoft, Atom Computing update their quantum computing progress
Some quantum computing companies we've covered have done recent progress updates.
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."
Can't make sense of Dashlane's vault theft notification? You're not alone.
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: 949 # Comments: 377
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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
Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
https://archive.is/bcpZl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387270 Points: 717 # Comments: 1230
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New social features further Plex’s evolution from media server business
Plex is increaingly focusing on content discovery and streaming rentals.
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
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
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: 1007 # Comments: 379
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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…
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.”
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_Bay_Model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373642 Points: 197 # Comments: 50
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