Tuesday, 09 June 2026
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macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era
You'll need an M1 or better to run the next release of macOS.
iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 don't drop support for any iPhones—and just a few iPads
This promises to be a solid release for aging iPhones.
Meta alleges NSO violated spyware injunction with new WhatsApp attacks
WhatsApp disrupted spear phishing attempts, asks court to hold NSO in contempt.
Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]
Article URL: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450646 Points: 143 # Comments: 18
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The fastest humans in the galaxy just got a spiffy patch to prove it
"It is actually challenging how you measure [Mach] from space."
Say hi to "Siri AI"—Apple announces new, more "conversational" voice assistant
New features coming this fall alongside two-tiered, Google-powered AI model overhaul.
Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-reveals-new-ai-architecture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450142 Points: 250 # Comments: 205
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Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
Article URL: https://www.admin.ch/en/sustainability-initiative Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450059 Points: 164 # Comments: 336
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Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity come to Google NotebookLM
NotebookLM is getting a big upgrade, but it's only for AI Ultra and enterprise accounts right now.
Your empty cuppa could capture carbon
Polystyrene can be upcycled into carbon sponge material.
For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer
73 packages run self-replicating stealer as soon as they're opened by an AI agent.
Siri AI
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449084 Points: 255 # Comments: 189
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Apple's iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, and other updates focus on refinement
Apple's OSes come with Liquid Glass tweaks and performance optimizations.
Running CachyOS With The BORE Scheduler While Disabling Ananicy-CPP
Last week I ran benchmarks of CachyOS with the BORE scheduler using its "linux-cachyos-bore" kernel option. The results didn't end up being as enticing as anticipated but the developer behind the BORE scheduler commented in the forums that he recently received reports from users experiencing game stuttering while using BORE that was attributed to CachyOS' default use of Ananicy-Cpp. So over the…
Man jailed for a month despite Flock showing he was 5 miles from crime scene
Cop seemingly ignored Flock camera timestamp to justify arrests.
Apple WWDC 2026
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/apple-events/event-stream/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448106 Points: 213 # Comments: 406
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Ransomware crims got a month-long head start on Check Point VPN 0-day that now has a fix
Scumbags, including a Qilin ransomware affiliate, began hitting this hole May 7
Massachusetts bans sale of precise location data in new privacy rights bill
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/massachusetts-votes-to-pass-new-privacy-rights-bill-that-bans-sale-of-precise-location-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448012 Points: 186 # Comments: 29
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Stop the Apple Music app from launching
Article URL: https://lowtechguys.com/musicdecoy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447935 Points: 520 # Comments: 208
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F1 in Monaco: Finally, the cars were flat-out in qualifying
The cars are too big to race well, but the competition for pole position is thrilling.
Canonical sends Ubuntu into the AI agent era
Sandboxed LLM dev environments lead the show, but accessibility may be the real prize
ZTE Demonstrates Integrated AI, Connectivity and Digital Utility Technologies at TNB Energy Transition Conference
PARTNER CONTENT: Driving Grid Modernization and Energy Transition in Malaysia Through Advanced AI and Smart Infrastructure Solutions
NASA's Secret: Moon astronauts will be rocking Prada underwear
What, you think any old liquid-cooled bodysuit would be acceptable to pair with such a fashionable outer layer?
A Falcon 9 booster turns 5 years old—and just set a remarkable reuse record
We take the Falcon 9 rocket for granted. But we probably shouldn't.
Linux 7.1 Helping Intel Arc Battlemage Graphics Achieve Better Performance
Recent testing of the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage desktop graphics card has shown that the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is delivering superior graphics performance over the current stable Linux 7.0 kernel.
EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
Article URL: https://www.foodwatch.org/en/eu-banned-pesticides-found-in-rice-tea-and-spices Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447062 Points: 154 # Comments: 58
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Ransomware sends Illinois high school on an early summer vacation
Meanwhile, 13 schools in Wales affected by separate attack
AI is slowing down
Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-slowing-down/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446893 Points: 281 # Comments: 315
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MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
Article URL: https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-tilert-1000tps Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446639 Points: 434 # Comments: 294
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Amazon Leo's satellite homework is late, but FCC won't flunk it just yet
Orbital broadband biz will miss its July 30 deadline to have 1,616 spacecraft in place
xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab
Article URL: https://martinalderson.com/posts/xais-new-rental-business/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446428 Points: 308 # Comments: 225
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Xfce Ported To Rust-Written Redox OS For Better X11 Experience
The belated "This Month in Redox" was posted today for covering improvements made to this open-source, Rust-based operating system during the month of May. Most notable in May is seeing the Xfce desktop ported over to Redox OS...
Canonical Experimenting With x86-64-v3 Packages For Ubuntu 26.10
Canonical engineers are again evaluating the impact of building the Ubuntu Linux archive for the x86-64-v3 "amd64v3" micro-architecture feature level for its performance benefits on modern Intel and AMD systems. An amd64v3 archive is available of Ubuntu 26.10 for testing with the packages targeting this level that allows for AVX/AVX2 and other newer CPU x86_64 ISA capabilities of the past…
NHS prescribes half a million Copilot licenses for its paperwork headache
After a trial claimed chatbot saved staff 43 minutes a day, NHS England has decided it's time to supersize the experiment
Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes
hope you enjoy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445554 Points: 661 # Comments: 133
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Michigan politicians want to ban Chinese-badged cars from even visiting the US
The latest bill would ban day trips from Canada or Mexico in Chinese cars.
GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections
Miasma worm shapeshifts, but cloud secret-scouting remains the goal
"Chat is dead": OpenAI preps overhaul of ChatGPT
OpenAI to recast hit chatbot as a route to higher-margin products before a potential IPO.
Linux 7.2 To Add ACPI CPPC v4 Support Authored By NVIDIA
Ahead of NVIDIA Vera ramping up, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is adding the ACPI CPPC v4 support authored by a NVIDIA engineer...
Flatpak 1.18 Released With Integration For AMD ROCm
Flatpak 1.18 is out today for providing the latest improvements to this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech...
Python JIT compiler project under threat after steering council says proper process wasn't followed
No new features to be submitted to main branch, existing code removed in 6 months if new proposal not created and accepted
NSO Group back in Meta's crosshairs after alleged WhatsApp targeting
Zuckercorp says surveillance-for-hire vendor was still running phishing operations after federal court told it to knock it off
Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20260520-how-social-media-ceased-to-be-social Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444228 Points: 479 # Comments: 371
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UK boffin bait lands 18 international researchers
Global Talent visa program aims to draw in dissatisfied scientists from countries including the US
The weather and climate science AI revolution isn’t revolutionary
Machine learning has its limits—how is it being used?
Linux EFS File-System May Have New Maintainer - Or It Might Just Get Removed
An interesting quandary has arose on the Linux kernel mailing list over maintainership of old, unmaintained code within the Linux kernel. Someone has stepped up to maintain an old, very rare file-system driver but admittedly doesn't even use it and just submitted basic fixes. Or is it just better removing that old code?..
Brit fraudsters using AI to doctor 'evidence' in motor insurance claims
Policy-holders increasingly turn fender benders into much more by sprinkling in their favorite AI chatbots, Aviva says
Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot
As the discussions continue among developers over potentially branching off some of the older Mesa drivers, the AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits on Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Copilot...
Last Call For The Phoronix 22nd Birthday Premium Special
As a friendly reminder, if you wanted to join Phoronix Premium at a discounted rate to show your support for the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com during these difficult times in the web publishing space, that special is ending later today...
BeagleV Ahead & Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V Boards To See Working WiFi With Linux 7.2
In addition to the SpacemiT K1 and K3 RISC-V SoC Device Tree updates sent out last week, the RISC-V T-HEAD Device Tree "DT" changes were also sent out last week ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...
Department of Work and Pensions' answer to AI job fears is a bot to polish your CV
Whitehall says Work Assistant will help jobseekers apply around the clock – provided employers don't mind machine-written applications
History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system
When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'
The Cypherpunk Library
Article URL: https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442725 Points: 337 # Comments: 94
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Yes! It’s true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform
It always has been, but Microsoft didn’t realize it
How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?
Article URL: https://reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/how-much-of-thermo-fishers-antibody-data-has-been-manipulated/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442075 Points: 373 # Comments: 80
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Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug
And he got away with it too!
1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background
Article URL: https://1worldflag.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440435 Points: 143 # Comments: 123
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Linux 7.1-rc7 Released: Stable Hopefully Next Sunday
Last week Linux 7.1-rc6 was larger than Linus Torvalds wished for and for Linux 7.1-rc7 it has come in still heavier than typically seen this late in the cycle, but is shrinking and making Linus comfortable in hopefully releasing Linux 7.1 stable next Sunday...
Our systems editor flew all the way to Taiwan and still couldn't get away from AI
Every show now is an AI show, and that included this year's Computex
RIP Anthony Head: Our 10 favorite moments of Buffy’s Giles
Head's true genius—and that of his character, Giles—lay in quietly filling in the gaps in every scene
Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding
As an exciting development for GPU-accelerated video decoding within the Mozilla Firefox web browser, initial support for Vulkan Video has landed in the web browser!..
Wayland Protocols 1.49 Released With Improved Multi-GPU Support, Windows BT.2100
Simon Ser just published Wayland Protocols 1.49 as the latest version for this primary set of Wayland protocol definitions...
School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon
How accurate does an AI system need to be?
"Flatten The Pick" Linux Patches Progress For Better cgroup Scheduling While Linux Gaming
A month ago I wrote about Linux scheduler work to help boost gaming performance on old "potato" hardware with Intel engineer Peter Zijlstra noting that Linux cgroup scheduling has continued to be "a pain in the arse." This work continues advancing with a third iteration of these "flatten the pick" patches being posted...
Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships
If you thought driverless cars were bad, imagine a 200,000 ton container ship
Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode
The VK_GOOGLE_display_timing extension for obtaining display timing information that can be useful for frame-pacing and eliminating micro-stuttering in games now has direct display mode support with KHR_display for the Mesa Vulkan drivers. This now merged addition immediately benefits the Intel ANV and Radeon RADV drivers as well as the PowerVR, Turnip, and V3DV drivers too...
Linux 7.1-rc7 Adding More AMD Zen 6 CPU Models
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc7 test kernel release due out later today, a pull request has been submitted of some "x86 fixes" for this kernel release. Most notable with this pull request is acknowledging some additional AMD Zen 6 CPU models...
Some Broadcom V3D Graphics Support On Path For Removed Over Lack Of Testing
Broadcom V3D 3.3 and V3D 4.1 graphics IP is set to be deprecated and removed from the V3D kernel graphics/display driver after the Mesa driver support was removed two years ago already. The situation in both cases amount to lack of hardware by developers for testing and with that likely no other known users of these particular Broadcom graphics in selects SoCs...
Home Office ditches legacy asylum database, keeps the spreadsheets
Years into a major IT overhaul, MPs say the department still lacks reliable view of what is happening across the asylum system
England's exam watchdog frets over smart specs turning GCSEs into Google searches
Ofqual says smart glasses, hidden earpieces, and AI tools are creating a new generation of cheating headaches
FreeBSD 15.1 Delayed To Mid-June Due To Critical x86 Bug Fixes
FreeBSD 15.1 was supposed to be out at the start of June but a second release candidate pushed it back by a week and now a third needed release candidate has pushed out the stable release by an additional week...
Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
Those ousted included ADA journal Editor-in-Chief Steven Kahn and former ADA President Desmond Schatz.
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...
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...
Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing
What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem?
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.
OCaml Onboarding: Introduction to the Dune build system
Article URL: https://ocamlpro.com/blog/2025_07_29_ocaml_onboarding_introduction_to_dune/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402137 Points: 134 # Comments: 14
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