Sunday, 07 June 2026
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Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts
Article URL: https://ntsc.rs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428025 Points: 101 # Comments: 15
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Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
Article URL: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/meta-confirms-thousands-of-instagram-accounts-were-hacked-by-abusing-its-ai-chatbot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427643 Points: 154 # Comments: 57
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Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-raised-threat-israeli-spying-us-highest-level-sources-say-rcna348565 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427523 Points: 234 # Comments: 155
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GNOME File Previewer Finally Switches TO GTK4, Adds Dark Mode
GNOME Sushi as the file previewer component for the GNOME Files (Nautilus) file manager has now been adapted to make use of GTK4 as well as delivering other enhancements for a nicer file previewing experience on GNOME...
Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/229e5949-3ebc-4151-8a86-a01b5e259241 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426022 Points: 123 # Comments: 41
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Python JIT project was asked to pause development
Article URL: https://discuss.python.org/t/an-announcement-from-the-steering-council-regarding-the-jit-project/107638 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425982 Points: 115 # Comments: 46
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Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF
Article URL: https://su3.io/posts/introducing-zeroserve Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425723 Points: 141 # Comments: 36
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Moving beyond fork() + exec()
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/16f01bbbb8e0d1f0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425528 Points: 202 # Comments: 211
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Benchmarks in Leipzig
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05818 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425247 Points: 113 # Comments: 42
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Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs
Article URL: https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2062880075117113739 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424605 Points: 182 # Comments: 351
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OpenCV 5.0 Released With Rewritten DNN Engine, Built-In LLM & VLM Support
OpenCV 5.0 released today as a major update to this widely-used, open-source computer vision (CV) library...
Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920m-per-month-for-compute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423990 Points: 363 # Comments: 515
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Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing
What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem?
Valve Developer Posts New AMD Anti-Lag Implementation For RADV Driver
Daniel Schürmann of Valve's Linux team has posted a new VK_AMD_anti_lag implementation for the RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver...
Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)
Article URL: https://pokeemerald.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423762 Points: 217 # Comments: 61
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Ape: A New Vulkan Driver Written In The Zig Programming Language
Ape is a new open-source Vulkan driver written in the Zig programming language and not dependent upon any Mesa code...
KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Make Sure You Don't Miss Your Low Battery Notifications While Gaming
KDE developers continue with last minute bug fixes ahead of the Plasma 6.7 desktop release later this month as well as preparing early feature work toward Plasma 6.8 and also landing more fixes for the current Plasma 6.6 stable series...
GNU Gets Back Into Nutrition Software After 14 Year Hiatus
For those looking for open-source food nutrition software, GNU's GNUtrition has seen its first new release in 14 years...
Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach
Totally different attack from the break-in last month. Oh so that's OK then
Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
Genuine question. Over the past six months, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve checked the HN Best RSS feed without seeing a post about how AI “writes bad code,” “introduces bugs,” “creates technical debt,” or something along those lines. I’ll probably make a lot of enemies by saying this, but do people realize that code is just a means to an end?
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Today Marks 22 Years Of Phoronix For Linux Hardware Testing & Benchmarking
Today marks 22 years since I started Phoronix.com to focus on Linux hardware reviews. It's been quite a journey from the early state of Linux hardware support.....
Linux DRM Ioctl Developed By AMD Being Disabled Following Ongoing Security Issue
It's unfortunately another busy week in the Linux 7.1 kernel space with not everything slowing down so well, late in the cycle and leading to the upcoming 7.1 stable release. This week's DRM pull request of kernel graphics/accelerator drivers is again heavy on fixes and also ends up disabling an ioctl interface given ongoing security concerns from that code merged last year...
The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)
Article URL: https://salvagedcircuitry.com/sigma-45mm.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420148 Points: 232 # Comments: 83
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Baby botulism outbreak: FDA still doesn't know cause—or how to prevent it
In the end, the three companies involved all point the finger at each other.
Start spreading the news: Datacenters may face one-year ban in NY
The bill awaits Gov. Hochul's signature after passing the state legislature
If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks
When 'Chatty Spider' morphs into tech services cosplay spider
How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched
Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn't consider the behavior a vulnerability.
Ubuntu 26.10 To Begin Laying Foundation For Context-Aware Desktop, Other New Features
Jean Baptiste Lallement of the Canonical Desktop Team today posted a roadmap of many development items they are hoping to tackle for Ubuntu 26.10 due out in October. Some of these desktop plans are more ambitious and will take multiple release cycles to fully realize, but it goes to show their continued investment into the Ubuntu desktop...
Small modular nuclear reactor reaches criticality in first test
The reactor, from a startup called Antares, isn't ready to generate power yet.
The saga of the International Space Station air leak took a worrying turn Friday
"We look forward to working with Roscosmos on a collaborative approach to address the leaks."
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
"We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests
Developer felt "beaten up," with "no choice" but to shrink data center.
Yet another Cisco SD-WAN 0-day under attack, and no patch in sight
Good luck, sys admins
CUDA-Oxide 0.2 Brings Early Improvements To Pure Rust CUDA Kernels
Last month CUDA-Oxide was introduced as an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler. From pure Rust programming language code, one can write CUDA GPU kernels in a "safe(ish)" manner with the CUDA-Oxide compiler emitting NVIDIA PTX output directly. Out today is the second update to CUDA-Oxide...
Review: Spider-Noir recaptures the magic of a bygone era
Nicolas Cage was born to play 1930s PI Ben Reilly/The Spider: part Bogart, part Bugs Bunny, 100% Cage-y.
Serious ISS air leak forces NASA astronauts to temporarily take shelter in Dragon capsule
Business is back to normal in the orbital station, but one of two newly discovered leaks is still unrepaired
Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry
Money would keep coal plants open, build the first new plants in over a decade.
The Fitbit Air is a good wearable weighed down by a chatty AI "coach"
The Air succeeds as a minimalist, reliable fitness tracker, but Google's AI Health Coach feels unnecessary.
Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security
DoE wants to keep 13 coal-fired power generators going at the same time as funding nuclear research
ZTE showcases AI-driven project management innovations at the 14th IPMA Research Conference 2026
PARTNER CONTENT: Integrating AI into the iEPMS platform to achieve a 98% quality review accuracy rate and slash report generation times, leveraging experience from 240,000 global projects
New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
Article URL: https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/what-is-desalination-definition-ocean-water-704732/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413500 Points: 487 # Comments: 200
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China Mobile Jiangsu and ZTE unveil intelligent complaint analysis agent to reshape core network O&M
PARTNER CONTENT: Leveraging multi-modal LLMs and agent technology to automate signaling analysis and shift core network O&M from experience to knowledge-driven
Not the next R8? Audi reveals mid-engined plug-in hybrid V8 Nuvolari.
The Huracan gave us the R8s, now the Temerario lends itself to a new Audi.
Agentic AI hype races ahead as enterprises remain stuck in pilot mode
Most orgs remain trapped between flashy demos and real-world deployment, despite 75% saying adoption is racing ahead
Rocket Report: Blue Origin explosion still making headlines; Impulse raises money
NASA expects to begin stacking the SLS rocket this summer for next year's Artemis III launch.
Safety officials finally have a good idea of what a big rocket explosion can do
Overpressure from the Blue Origin blast shattered windows at a hangar about a mile away from the pad.
Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS. Repeat, Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS
SQL Server licenses can now be consumed in the rival cloud's DBaaS
ARM Linux Server Performance Up More Than 7x Geo Mean In 8 Years, As Much As 15x With NVIDIA Vera CPU
NVIDIA's Vera CPU is delivering the fastest ARM performance I have ever seen. For putting it into perspective how far the ARM server CPU hardware has come in just the last decade and for some "fun" benchmarks as part of Phoronix marking 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and benchmarking, here are some benchmarks showing the Ampere eMAG from September 2018 to the performance now with NVIDIA…
Vulkan 1.4.353 Released With Three New Extensions
After three weeks without any Vulkan API spec updates, Vulkan 1.4.353 was released today to deliver the latest documentation updates for this high performance graphics/compute API as well as introducing three new extensions...
World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families
Those receiving aid in the famine-threatened, war-torn territory told support will remain
More SpacemiT K3 & K1 Support Landing In Upstream Linux 7.2
In addition to Apple M3 Device Trees for Linux 7.2, the SpacemiT RISC-V SoCs are seeing some notable Device Tree improvements with this next version of the Linux kernel...
Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box
Who needs one big CPU when you could have dozens of little ones?
Raspberry Pi's profits are up. So is its DRAM bill
Forecasts earnings well ahead of expectations, even as it taps credit facilities to lock in memory supply
Steve Jobs in Exile is a fine profile of Jobs' years at NeXT
“Why don’t we just frickin’ call Apple?”
Review: AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a disappointing way to spend $549
The superior RX 9070 also launched for $549 just over a year ago.
NVIDIA's Nova Driver Continues Being Built Up In Linux 7.2 Along With Other DRM Rust Code
Danilo Krummrich sent out the main set of DRM Rust subsystem changes on Thursday that are targeting the Linux 7.2 kernel. NVIDIA's open-source Nova driver continues seeing a bulk of the DRM Rust work as this modern successor to Nouveau continues taking shape...
Capita £370M bid 40% under UK.gov estimate for Oracle HR and finance system project, court case reveals
Cost model designed to protect against low-cost bid bias, claims rival
Linux 7.2 Continues Improving AMDGPU Support On POWER, ARM
In addition to AMDGPU finally seeing HDMI 2.1 FRL support in Linux 7.2, another change worth noting in this week's AMDGPU pull request is the continued work on enhancing the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver support for non-4K page size kernel builds. In particular this helps out with AMD graphics and ROCm for the likes of ARM and POWER...
GNOME 51 Retires Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support With Removing EGLStreams
EGLStreams was NVIDIA's original route to supporting Wayland with their official Linux graphics driver stack. Adoption was limited and driver vendors outside of NVIDIA didn't end up going with EGLStreams/EGLDevice. Thankfully, NVIDIA corrected course long ago with DMA-BUF, GBM, and KMS support that aligns with the rest of the ecosystem, and now that old code path is being removed from GNOME…
Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder
Blue Badge holders exposed to each other after BCC function proves too complex
UK's top crime agency hamstrung by legacy IT, watchdog warns
Regulator says NCA's aging tech drags down productivity, forces officers to juggle hardware and do manual workarounds
Brit regulator finds mobile network service on trains is far from first class
Comms watchdog says up to 83% of tests fail the 'good performance' threshold
Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes
Bulletproof vests and armored vehicles were not in the job description
Benchmarking The BORE Scheduler Performance With CachyOS Linux
Earlier this week I ran benchmarks of different CachyOS Linux kernel flavors that proved interesting from the performance overhead of their hardened kernel build to various other interesting performancr takeaways. One kernel flavor I hadn't tested though was their build with the BORE scheduler. Given the interest and feedback from Phoronix readers, here is an article focused on looking at the…
'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says
The plea for caution comes the same week it beat AI archrival OpenAI to filing for an IPO
Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
Most of us were amused when DALL-E and its peers went mainstream, and we were quick to point out the obvious flaws. Then ChatGPT hit the scene and again, many of us dismissed it as a parlor trick that would never amount to much. Using LLMs for coding initially was a only small step up from basic code completion, and a welcome farewell to Stack Overflow.
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The skeptic’s guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet
Robot demonstrations can distort public perceptions of robotic capabilities.
Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds
A familiar tactic popularized by chaotic crime crew Lapsus$
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…
AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data
FCC did not violate carriers' right to jury trial, court says in 8-1 ruling.
These LLMs are the best at resisting Russian propaganda
Estonian government benchmark shows how dozens of models combat Russia's "strategic narratives."
Dashlane explains how attackers managed to download encrypted password vaults
By targeting large numbers of users, attackers increased their chances of success.
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.
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,..
How LLMs work
Article URL: https://www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-actually-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389360 Points: 787 # Comments: 219
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Social Cache Busting
Article URL: https://www.autodidacts.io/social-cache-busting/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369864 Points: 117 # Comments: 43
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