Wednesday, 10 June 2026
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Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds COSMIC Desktop Option
Alpine Linux, the Linux distribution popular especially for containers / micro-services and embedded devices, is out with its newest feature release...
If your sex life is dead, you can blame Steve Jobs
Economists find signs of a ‘large and causal relationship between iPhones and fertility' in AT&T exclusivity-era data
Netflix trying to "poison regulators" about WBD merger, Paramount lawyer claims
Netflix's response: "Absurd."
Anthropic spins a Fable of a tamer, safer Mythos
Company also changes data retention policy
Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about
New frontier model refuses cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry queries.
Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation
Voice translations preserve speaker's tone, pacing, pitch—with SynthID watermarks for security.
CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/ceos-who-think-ai-replaces-their-employees-are-just-bad-ceos/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465675 Points: 179 # Comments: 75
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NASA assigns crew for Artemis III, sets aggressive timeline for flying it
"Artemis III will be an extraordinary demonstration of what is possible."
Miasma worms its way onto GitHub as attack kit goes open source
As if there weren't enough package poisonings to worry about
MIT boffins take electrospray nozzles out of the cleanroom, into the 3D printer
Who said sub-millimeter, three-layer science juice had to be expensive to squirt?
Where is the AI jobs crisis?
Article URL: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/the-daily-spark/where-is-the-ai-jobs-crisis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464333 Points: 113 # Comments: 165
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What it feels like to work with Mythos
Article URL: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464140 Points: 128 # Comments: 117
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Screwworms in US: Human risk is low—but they can burrow through your skull
The chances are low, but not zero.
Claude Fable 5
System Card [pdf]: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c3... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463808 Points: 1421 # Comments: 1123
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One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses
Meta won't say why or whether it's coming back.
Apple’s iOS 27 goes all agentic on compromised passwords, promises to change them with one tap
iBiz might not win the AI race, but analysts say it's focusing on features people may actually use
Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-failed-make-its-ai-tool-comply-eu-regulations-eu-commission-says-2026-06-09/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463024 Points: 303 # Comments: 508
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Drone boat picked up downed US Army helicopter pilots—a first for sea rescues
US Navy’s Task Force 59 achieved the drone rescue at sea near Strait of Hormuz.
Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition
Graph database biz says on-prem, air-gapped intel stack gives governments a no-kill-switch option
FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462308 Points: 346 # Comments: 229
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High-severity vulnerability in Linux caused by a single faulty character
Use-after-free bug can be exploited to evade sandbox defenses.
macOS 27 Beta Breaks The Ability To Boot Asahi Linux
Asahi Linux is warning its users from trying out the new macOS 27 "Golden Gate" beta released this week by Apple. With macOS 27 beta, the Asahi Linux partition is no longer visible and thus unable to boot to your Apple Silicon Linux installation...
LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy
The Document Foundation accuses newly launched Euro-Office of undermining digital sovereignty by defaulting to Microsoft's OOXML document format
Gold isn’t inert, it just has bodyguards protecting it
Individual gold atoms move around to form oxidation-proof structures.
RISC-V CPU Performance Up 8x In Five Years: SiFive HiFive Unmatched To SpacemiT K3
Recently I published some initial SpacemiT K3 benchmarks for that first-to-market RISC-V RVA23 SoC with the K3 Pico-ITX mini computer. In there was a comparison against modern Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen desktop CPUs along with the likes of the Raspberry Pi 5, Loongson 3B6000, and SiFive HiFive Premier. For those curious about the longer-term RISC-V performance, here is a look at how far the…
Here's Audi's next Q7 SUV and US-only SQ7, now with an RS V8
At night, the car projects its turn signals onto the road to alert other road users.
Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway
Pressure to deploy wins out over security as four in five orgs confess to breaches from vulnerable apps
Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15184 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48460863 Points: 103 # Comments: 45
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Apple says its AI is still private, even when it's running on Google's servers
Some models run in Google's cloud, but without giving Google any kind of access.
First Drive: The 2027 Rivian R2 entirely changes the EV game
Rivian's second EV is the sub-$60,000 R2, and it was worth the wait.
Asterinas 0.18 Released For Rust-Written, Memory Safe Linux Alternative OS
In addition to Redox OS continuing to evolve quite nicely for that from-scratch, Rust-based open-source OS, Asterinas OS is also continuing to move forward for that Rust-based operating system striving for Linux compatibility...
Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'
Encrypted messaging app warns device-level checks could be repurposed for censorship
LLVM/Clang Lands Initial Compiler Targeting For Hygon x86 CPUs
Following the recent Hygon C86-4G CPU support added to the GCC 17 compiler, the open-source LLVM Clang compiler has similarly seen Hygon c86-4g-m4 / c86-4g-m6 / c86-4g-m7 CPU support merged...
Chrome's zero-day Whac-A-Mole continues with fifth exploited bug of the year
Google paid researcher a tidy $55K bounty for its discovery
Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein
Just for fun and self education, I've built this over a weekend to teach myself why orbits exist, not just show planets going around. Something that was never clearly explain to me in school. It opens with a guided tour that builds the idea up step by step: two bodies and the equal/opposite force, inertia (the Sun is removed and Earth just drifts straight), then "an orbit is falling and…
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France probes compromise of gov messaging platform after account hijack
Authorities say the breach only exposed public chat rooms, but alleged attacker claims to have accessed far more data
Making Graphics Like it's 1993
Article URL: https://staniks.github.io/articles/catlantean-3d-blog-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459294 Points: 690 # Comments: 114
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Kyndryl showers execs with shares while staff ponder redundancy packages
IBM spin-off's top brass bag six-figure stock awards
Linux 7.2 Preparing Intel Key Protection Technology "KPT" For Next-Gen QAT
Going back to the launch of 1st Gen Xeon Scalable processors in 2017 was Intel Key Protection Technology (KPT) promoted and there have been Key Protection Technology references in QuickAssist (QAT) documentation since 2016. Surprisingly we are only now seeing Key Protection Technology references for the upstream Linux QAT driver as Intel engineers prepare for their next-gen "Gen6" QuickAssist…
Lightweight Pragtical Code Editor Adds SDL GPU Backend
Pragtical, the lightweight open-source code editor that prides itself on using just ~50MB of RAM and ~10MB of disk space while being a full-featured code editor, is tacking on more features. Most notable with the new Pragtical release is adding an SDL-based GPU back-end for this MIT-licensed editor...
The iPhone's Last Stand?
Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2026/the-iphones-last-stand/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459001 Points: 151 # Comments: 189
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Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline
The open-source developers at Georgia Tech working on Vortex as an OpenCL-compatible RISC-V GPGPU implementation are out with their next major release for this open-source GPU design...
Next stop, C:\ ... Paris Metro screen goes off the tracks
Prochain arrêt: Gare du Bork! French capital city train does the tech can-can
Qilin NHS breach tally grows as Essex trust confirms stolen records
Two years on from ransomware attack, hospitals are still trying to identify and warn patients
UK.gov warned that digital transformation hype is no substitute for delivery
Parliamentary committee says £45B savings claim risks undermining public sector tech reform rather than helping it
Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/microsofts-open-source-tools-were-hacked-to-steal-passwords-of-ai-developers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457830 Points: 509 # Comments: 172
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Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic
L'etat, c'est AI
FCC lifts looming deadline for Amazon Leo satellite broadband constellation
The waiver "serves the public interest by promoting a second large satellite broadband constellation."
Ubuntu MATE Is Continuing Despite No Ubuntu MATE 26.04 Release
Back in March, Martin Wimpress stepped down as the longtime Ubuntu MATE leader and was looking for contributors to keep this Ubuntu derivative going with its GNOME2-derived desktop. That change in leadership paired with no Ubuntu MATE 26.04 release having occurred led to some concerns among users, but the plan is still for Ubuntu MATE to continue moving forward...
Fedora 44 RISC-V Images Released, Including New "Omni" Kernel For Broader RISC-V Hardware Support
Following the official Fedora 44 images released one month ago, Fedora 44 RISC-V images were published today for those wanting to run this newest Fedora Linux on RISC-V hardware...
Apple courts developers with privacy and context in AI comeback bid
Apple Intelligence stumbled through 2024 and 2025. It's starting to look respectable
Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]
Article URL: https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.7-June-04-2026-diff.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453275 Points: 239 # Comments: 191
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AMD Support Being Added To UFS Host Controller PCI Driver In Linux 7.2
Linux's ufshcd-pci as the Universal Flash Storage host controller PCI driver has supported a variety of Intel devices to this point while for Linux 7.2 the first AMD device is set to be added...
Norks blast 250+ fake job offers to developers over 6 weeks to try and snarf creds and crypto
When an unsolicited job offer sounds too good to be true …
Tests suggest Russian satellites can jam GPS on a continental scale
Mystery of GPS interference across Europe raises questions about Russian motives.
Apple's Orwellian device controls for tots also mean more work for parents
The new features ignore the argument that if parents wanted to spend more time on their kids, they wouldn't have supplied them with an iPad or iPhone in the first place
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.
A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-05-giant-star-destroyed-universe-rarest.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451966 Points: 128 # Comments: 15
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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.
It's do or die for Apple AI
WWDC announcements earned tempered praise from analysts, with an emphasis on the word 'if'
Meta alleges NSO violated spyware injunction with new WhatsApp attacks
WhatsApp disrupted spear phishing attempts, asks court to hold NSO in contempt.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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...
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?..
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...
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...
OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision
Article URL: https://opencv.org/opencv-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421858 Points: 641 # Comments: 114
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