Thursday, 11 June 2026
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Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR
Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 1999
It blocked us at 'hello!' Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts
Hyper-vigilant safety classifiers turn Fable into cautionary tale
Framework Laptop 13 Pro To Begin Shipping In July
Framework Computer began informing those that pre-ordered the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro that it will begin shipping in July rather than their original June target. The setback is coming to address two issues that came up in their testing process that delayed the start of mass production...
Logitech’s foldable mouse is for people who refuse to carry a mouse with them
The Mobi Fold is an $80 Bluetooth mouse with a silicone-wrapped hinge.
Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster
Diffusion AI is most common in image generation, but it can make text outputs much faster.
Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/farmer-donates-land-for-a-park-city-sells-it-for-data-center-development-usd10-gift-became-usd10m-for-city-government-with-usd30m-tax-expected-over-next-decade Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481126 Points: 203 # Comments: 46
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Intel XPU Manager 2.0 Overhauls Windows & Linux Management For Arc Pro GPUs
Just a week after the release of Intel XPU Manager 1.3.7, Intel today released XPU Manager 2.0 as a major overhaul for this software for monitoring and management of their data center GPUs on Microsoft Windows and Linux...
πFS
Article URL: https://github.com/philipl/pifs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480978 Points: 248 # Comments: 71
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Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated
Article URL: https://samwilkinson.io/posts/2026-06-09-anthropics-model-naming-extrapolated Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480852 Points: 223 # Comments: 60
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Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day
Revenge is a dish best served code
Linux 7.2 To Enable ESWIN SoC Support By Default For RISC-V Kernel Builds
An important one-liner is set to come for Linux 7.2 to enable ESWIN SoC support by default for RISC-V kernel builds. This change will allow default RISC-V kernel builds in turn to boot on the likes of SiFive's HiFive Premier P550 developer board...
Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely
Article URL: https://www.matteast.io/spacex-escape-velocity.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479947 Points: 158 # Comments: 147
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We managed to glean some interesting details about the Artemis III mission
"I was on the phone with Blue Origin leadership that night, all the next day, all through the weekend."
How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479705 Points: 116 # Comments: 20
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Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/29045 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479452 Points: 277 # Comments: 189
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Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance
The US military struck Iran again after an Iranian drone’s lucky midair strike.
GM gets datacenter fever, decides to build grid-scale sodium-ion batteries
Detroit automaker partners with Peak Energy to try a saltier route to energy storage
OB-GYNs release their own vaccine schedule, rejecting RFK Jr.'s meddling
Thirteen other medical groups have already endorsed the independent schedule.
Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers
Move also cuts off a massive market of legit users who buy cards with physical cash.
Datacenter growth may run into a power wall by 2030
Grid operators could struggle to support new bit barn construction
AMD's Lemonade SDK For Local AI Adds NVIDIA CUDA Support
Lemonade, the local AI server solution developed by AMD that is designed to work across their CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, is out with a new version today that also adds NVIDIA CUDA support...
The 2026 Honda Prelude review: Didn't expect such a head-turner
Honda's $42,000 hybrid coupe looks great, handles well, and gets 44 mpg.
DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/diffusion-gemma-faster-text-generation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478471 Points: 242 # Comments: 58
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macOS 27 beta boots Asahi Linux off Apple Silicon
Partition's still there, but good luck seeing it and don't upgrade until fix lands, says team
Authentication issues related to API requests
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/fcj3088jg1wx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477851 Points: 146 # Comments: 27
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Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications
Article URL: https://burr.apache.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477400 Points: 146 # Comments: 83
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I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
Hey gang, you may remember me from such books as _The Lean Startup_ and _The Startup Way_. It's been fifteen years since I wrote The Lean Startup, and in that time I've seen some things. In both big companies and tiny startups, NGOs and governments, in almost every industry you can name.
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Intel Arc Pro B70 Showing Off Some Performance Wins With Linux 7.1
After recently noticing the Intel Arc B580 performing better on Linux 7.1 for that kernel version soon to be released as stable, I was curious if there were performance gains also to be found with the new flagship Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 workstation graphics card. Here are some benchmarks of the Intel Arc Pro B70 in relevant workloads between Linux 7.0 and the near-final Linux 7.1 kernel.
Linux Foundation's Latest AI Effort Is Around AI Asset & Data Exchange
The Linux Foundation continues working to get more involved in new AI initiatives. Today the Linux Foundation announced the OpenSharing Project with an effort to standardize AI asset and data exchange...
Vercel escapes contempt rap after admitting it botched FBI warrant response
Files sought by feds were sitting in a deletion queue, not gone for good
Linux Lite 8.0 sheds Chrome, slims down, and finds its name fits better than ever
Firefox is in, Snap and Flatpak are still out, but a default AI helper may raise eyebrows
PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
Article URL: https://pgdog.dev/blog/our-funding-announcement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476466 Points: 339 # Comments: 169
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A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent
Article URL: https://blue41.com/blog/how-we-helped-bunq-secure-their-financial-ai-assistant/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476136 Points: 147 # Comments: 125
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Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting'
Productivity gains lost as staff spoon-feed AI and correct its cock-ups
Racist comments targeting politicians tripled since Meta relaxed its rules
Violent threats against lawmakers have also surged on Facebook.
NVIDIA Engineer Devises Patch To Significantly Reduce GCC Bootstrap Time
NVIDIA engineer Kyrylo Tkachov posted a patch for testing yesterday to significantly reduce the amount of time it takes the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for conducting a native bootstrap. The time spent in the configure process for native GCC builds is reduced by around 43% while the overall bootstrap wall time is lowered by around 15%...
GM Energy introduces V2G support and new energy storage battery chemistry
There are more than a quarter of a million V2G-capable GM EVs on the roads already.
Linux's CrOS EC Driver To Support Custom Fan Curves - Useful For Framework Laptops
The cros_ec Linux kernel driver is used for supporting the ChromeOS Embedded Controller "EC" used by Chromebooks and various other laptops like Framework Laptops. With patches pending to cros_ec, support for custom fan curves is being introduced...
GitHub pulls pin on npm's auto-run scripts
Shai-Hulud worm exploited exactly this. Better late than never, says everyone except the malware authors
Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
Article URL: https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475483 Points: 919 # Comments: 422
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All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)
Article URL: https://jivx.com/eki Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475100 Points: 171 # Comments: 59
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NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal
Whether any of the spacecraft will be ready in time for H2 2027 remains unanswered
Ivanti tells Sentry customers to patch now as critical bugs hit 10.0 and 9.9
Remote, unauthenticated RCE with root privileges is about as bad as it gets
Brussels' datacenter efficiency scorecard may come with a credit warning
Moody's says proposed A-to-G green grades for bit barns could affect financing
KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows
Open-source developer Jakub Okoński has been working on comparing the gaming latency between Linux and Windows and in turn working to drive some improvements into KDE's KWin Wayland compositor so the latency is more competitive with the gaming experience under Microsoft Windows 11...
Linux Firmware Repository Preps For AI Coding Agents
The linux-firmware.git repository that serves as the de facto home of all the binary blobs used by the mainline Linux kernel open-source drivers has now introduced AGENTS.md documentation and other preparations for embracing AI coding agents...
AMDGPU Linux Driver Preps For HDMI 2.1 Compliance Testing
While not as exciting as features like HDMI 2.1 FRL and Display Stream Compression itself, as part of AMD's efforts to provide a fully open-source HDMI 2.1 driver implementation for AMDGPU, new code is being prepped for their kernel driver to support the HDMI compliance testing efforts...
Linux's KVM Preps For APX Support In VMs
Among the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) work being queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window are preparations for supporting Advanced Performance Extensions within KVM virtual machines...
RADV Driver Now Leveraging RDNA3+ Hardware Feature For Better Instruction Cache Prefetching
Initially introduced in RDNA3 (GFX11) GPUs is INST_PREF_SIZE to specify the number of instruction bytes to prefetch prior to a wavefront beginning execution. The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now making use of this feature in RDNA3/RDNA4 GPUs for better instruction cache prefetching...
Node4 CEO Neil Muller found dead at home after suspected stabbing
MSP says it is 'absolutely devastated' as woman arrested on suspicion of murder
SpacemiT shows off usably quick RISC-V mini desktop
Actual RVA23 hardware and useful performance – for a certain price
France and Germany agree to disagree, ditch joint next-gen Euro fighter
Aircraft at core of the Future Combat Air System canned as parties could not decide who leads on the work
Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
Article URL: https://media.mercedes-benz.com/en/article/bebac2af-acdc-465a-9538-adb0bf3d8ccf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472877 Points: 481 # Comments: 300
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Logitech knows when to fold 'em
Meet Mobi Fold - creased popster or clever portable mouse
Linux Sees Patches For "Critical" Vulnerability Affecting Many Arm CPUs
Made public today is CVE-2025-10263 as a "critical" security vulnerability affecting many different Arm CPU cores. CVE-2025-10263 could allow for privilege escalation on affected systems due to a specific timing condition during a memory permission change. Fundamentally it comes down to completion of affected memory accesses might not be guaranteed by the completion of a TLBI...
AI is making Patch Tuesday (kinda) fun again
Unless you're an admin or vulnerability manager – then you're totally screwed
Salesforce cuts staff amid acquisition spree and $50 billion share buyback
The layoffs come after CEO Marc Benioff boasted of record revenue and 'incredible cashflow' two weeks ago
Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases
Starlink, SpaceX's top moneymaker, also raised service prices by $5 to $10.
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...
Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed
A separate zero-day also disclosed by Nightmare Eclipse appears to be patched as well.
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
Three key vital signs make up the "urban pulse" of a city
Cities are dynamic, not static grids, and urbanization is a "spiky," cyclical, and asynchronous process.
Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor
Five peer-reviewed papers update the design and model its expected output.
Paramount accuses Netflix of "scorched-earth campaign" against WBD merger
Netflix's response: "Absurd."
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.
NASA assigns crew for Artemis III, sets aggressive timeline for flying it
"Artemis III will be an extraordinary demonstration of what is possible."
Screwworms in US: Human risk is low—but they can burrow through your skull
The chances are low, but not zero.
One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses
Meta won't say why or whether it's coming back.
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...
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…
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...
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...
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…