Saturday, 13 June 2026
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Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements
Alexandre Julliard just released Wine 11.11 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for running Windows games and applications under Linux as well as other platforms...
Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure
GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized
AMD Opens Pre-Orders For The Linux-Friendly Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform
AMD today announced the opening of pre-orders for their Ryzen AI Halo petite PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" and working with either Microsoft Windows or Linux...
PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data
Vulnerability in the Oracle-owned PeopleSoft software is about as critical as they come.
MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd
Plus, Raspberry Pi edition finally catches up
Controversial FISA spying law expires tonight. The spying will continue.
Section 702 of FISA to expire tonight, but certification lasts until March 2027.
Here's what Jeff Bezos' new startup Prometheus will do
It isn't the only startup tackling physical AI, but it's one of the best-funded.
Have politics finally come for the National Academies of Science?
A pending report on climate attribution may be setting the stage for conflict.
Fired IT worker jailed for 21 months after sabotaging old school district
Iowan’s scheme undone after misplacing trust in former coworker
Ukraine's one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers
Full autonomy is rare, but Ukraine is installing AI modules on drones and robots.
I Am Not a Reverse Centaur
Article URL: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/i-am-not-a-reverse-centaur Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507282 Points: 212 # Comments: 152
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"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
Article URL: https://correresmidestino.com/dont-you-just-upload-it-to-chatgpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507278 Points: 205 # Comments: 185
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How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
Article URL: https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507020 Points: 163 # Comments: 55
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$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."
Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates
Article URL: https://piwodlaiwo.github.io/pirates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506659 Points: 136 # Comments: 63
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket
Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.
Linux 7.2 Features Expected: Apple M3, Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, USB4STREAM, Cache Aware Scheduling
Linux 7.1 stable is expected to be released this Sunday with its many new features. Immediately following the Linux v7.1 tagging, the Linux 7.2 merge window will open and a lot of new feature material is expected to be merged over the next two weeks...
Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time
Article URL: https://www.pgedge.com/blog/looking-forward-to-postgres-19-its-about-time Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506372 Points: 119 # Comments: 34
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Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams
The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.
A PDF that changes based on how its read
Article URL: https://sgaud.com/texts/pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506209 Points: 104 # Comments: 56
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RFK Jr. melts down over NYT report, admits he blacklists reporters
NYT reported Kennedy is disengaged. Kennedy's response seems to show NYT is right.
Red Hat Releases Second Developer Preview Of RHEL 10 For RISC-V
Last year when releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, Red Hat announced a RHEL 10.0 developer preview for RISC-V. Since then that RISC-V developer preview hadn't been updated but now Red Hat has published a new developer preview snapshot based on RHEL 10.2...
Open-Source Success Achieved For Greater Transparency & Security: Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On EPYC
Ever since AMD announced openSIL in early 2023 for open-source CPU silicon initialization to eventually replace AGESA and enhance their Coreboot support, I have been eager to try it out. The openSIL code drops to date though have just focused on select reference platforms with only aiming for production status in the Zen 6 timeframe. But thanks to 3mdeb porting openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte…
KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations
GPTZero claims only 5 of the report's 45 citations matched their sources, raising questions about how the Big Four's AI study was assembled
The Best Features Of Linux 7.1: FRED, New NTFS Driver & More Performance
On Sunday it's anticipated that Linus Torvalds will released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel. This is a really terrific mid-year update to the Linux kernel! Here's what makes me excited about Linux 7.1...
The biggest race in the world? The 24 Hours of Le Mans is this weekend.
More than 350,000 spectators will watch 62 cars compete, day and night.
Ubuntu 26.10 Reaffirms Plans For Switching To Dbus-Broker
Among the many new features planned for Ubuntu 26.10 is switching the default D-Bus implementation over to using the high performance Dbus-Broker drop-in replacement...
CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
Article URL: https://innovativegenomics.org/news/crispr-technique-selectively-shreds-cancer-cells/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505231 Points: 562 # Comments: 152
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Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman's distrust of crisis lines
Did chatbot abandon mental health guardrails when a vulnerable user pushed back?
Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end
Article URL: https://envs.net/~volpe/blog/posts/reduce-slop.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504912 Points: 145 # Comments: 101
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
Article URL: https://blog.lopp.net/call-to-action-stop-the-fcc-kyc-regime/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504697 Points: 298 # Comments: 195
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
A dumpster arrived behind my university's library
Article URL: https://yalereview.org/article/sheila-liming-the-end-of-books Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504543 Points: 143 # Comments: 125
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Novo Nordisk reports cyberattack as UK gives Wegovy pill the nod
Clinical trial participant data stolen, but pharma giant says exposed records were pseudonymized
WASI 0.3
https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/releases/tag/v0.3.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504063 Points: 213 # Comments: 83
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Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H2O in its bit barns last year
The West's biggest online shopping mall comes clean about its datacenter water usage
Microsoft has mostly repaired flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet
And it was Microsoft Copilot that unwittingly revealed the longstanding vulnerability
New NTFS Linux Driver Being Improved For Windows Native Symbolic Links
One of the exciting additions to the Linux 7.1 kernel is the introduction of the new NTFS file-system kernel driver. While in good shape already and proving advantageous over other NTFS open-source driver options, one of the initial limitations on it is around Windows native symbolic link handling but that is now in the process of being resolved...
Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops
Telegram-based 'Outsider Enterprise' accused of sending millions of scam texts and impersonating trusted brands
Maxproof
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13473 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503014 Points: 122 # Comments: 10
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Cameras, sensors, and 3D body scans: All the tech helping eliminate blown calls
This World Cup, refs will use digital twins of each player to view plays from every angle.
Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000
Retail investors lined up to get a handful of Musk's magic beans in SpaceX's debut
Ebola cases in DRC rise to 676 as Kenya protests erupt over US plans
Outbreak responses are still playing catch-up as US works to isolate itself.
Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses
The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.
Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely
Failure raises questions about how Verizon prepares refurbished phones for new users.
Rocket Report: Nova moving through test campaign; SpaceX IPO launches Friday
"If I needed to fly on another vehicle, what would that look like?"
Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked
Commissioner Mark Rowley says automation savings are now 'at risk'
AVX-512 Optimization For Linux RAID Showing Up To 41% Improvement On AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
Linux cryptography subsystem expert Eric Biggers Eric Biggers of Google worked on some pretty nice Intel/AMD x86_64 optimizations over the years. Especially around AVX-512 optimizations within the Linux kernel's crypto code has been one of his many nice improvements to the kernel in recent times. Today he's out with another enticing AVX-512 optimization and this time it's for the software RAID…
Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware
The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised...
Plymouth council exposes hundreds in latest local government email gaffe
Authority admits mass message to home-schooling families revealed recipients' addresses, prompting ICO report and apology
Wine Wayland Driver Lands Alpha Modifier Support For Opacity Handling
The Wine Wayland driver continues to be improved upon for bettering the experience around Windows games/applications running natively on Wayland Linux desktops without having to go through X11/XWayland. The newest feature merged is alpha modifier support for opacity handling of surfaces...
UK digital ID gets brain trust to 'challenge' ministers on policy
CEO of Mumsnet among the six-member team
Qt 6.12 Beta Released With Qt Quick 3D XR Apps Now Able To Run On 2D AR Glasses
The first beta release of the Qt 6.12 toolkit is now available for testing. Qt 6.12 is packing a number of refinements and new features compared to earlier Qt6 releases. For paying Qt commercial customers, Qt 6.12 is also going to be the latest Qt6 Long Term Support (LTS) release...
GCC 15.3 Compiler Brings Nearly A Year Worth Of Bug Fixes
For those relying on last year's stable GCC 15 series in not yet having migrated to the latest GCC 16, out today is GCC 15.3 to ship all of the latest back-ported bug fixes...
BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder
Mission Control sends its regards
Windows bowls a BSOD at sports fans
It's just not cricket
Delos Data offers AI chip startups a fast track to rack scale
Half the trouble of building an Nvidia NVL or AMD Helios competitor is just getting the networking out of the box
This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken
Casual IT team learns that building bespoke PCs can be a false economy
Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
Article URL: https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498385 Points: 711 # Comments: 241
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If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
Article URL: https://tombedor.dev/human-attention-and-human-effort/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497609 Points: 1447 # Comments: 452
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Claude is ready for its corporate close-up
IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements
Everyone hates frontier AI labs, says Palantir boss
'Enterprises are fed up,' says Alex Karp, because LLM makers 'want to tokenmax' instead of understanding enterprise needs
Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-wor... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495928 Points: 219 # Comments: 146
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Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act
Cruz/Wyden bill would help Americans sue federal officials over censorship.
Anthropic recruits army to sell Claude to nonprofits
Join Claude Corps, see the world, spread the gospel of AI
AcuRite admits new app falls short, delays old app’s May shutdown to fix problems
The old app "still needs to be retired," AcuRite tells us.
ShinyHunters hacked 100+ orgs by exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-day
University of Nottingham is first of many, Shiny tells The Reg
After nearly breaking, NASA's Deep Space Network "worked well" on Artemis II
"Some missions are using more than what their paperwork would say."
F1 teams spend millions on their simulators—what makes them different?
Latency, bandwidth, and fidelity all matter when you're chasing milliseconds.
Mesa 26.2 Preps For AMD GFX1156 For New, Post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 Graphics
Being submitted on the kernel side with the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is initial support for the GFX 11.5.6 graphics IP block along with several other newer IP blocks such as SDMA 6.4, NBIO 7.11.5, IH 6.4, HDP 6.4, MMHUB 3.4.2, SMU 15.0.5, ATHUB 3.4.2, and VPE 2.2. Now in user-space for the Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers is the GFX1156 (GFX 11.5.6) support being prepared too...
Git 2.55-rc0 Released With Rust Enabled By Default
Git 2.55-rc0 is out today as the first tagged test version of the forthcoming Git 2.55 distributed version control system. Most notable with Git 2.55 is that Rust support is being enabled by default...
Benchmarking The Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages
With Canonical engineers again experimenting with x86_64-v3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux using an "amd64v3" archive for the current Ubuntu 26.10 development, I decided to see how these latest amd64v3 packages comparing to their conventional Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 packages.
Khronos Releases glTF 2.1 To Make This 3D Asset Standard Work Well For Large Scenes
It's crazy realizing that glTF 2.0 is already nine years old for this API-neutral 3D runtime and asset delivery format. The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group today extended that with the debut of glTF 2.1 as a backward-compatible revision to the specification...
YSERVER: Modern X11 Server Written In Rust With The Help Of Claude Code
Open-source developer Jos Dehaes wrote in to Phoronix today in announcing a new X11 server he has been working on from scratch that has been quietly developed to this point but now ready to announce to the world... The YSERVER...
OpenJPH 0.28 Up To 1.9x Faster With New AVX2 Optimizations For High-Throughput JPEG2000
OpenJPH as an open-source implementation of high-throughput JPEG2000 Part-15 (or JPH or HTJ2K) is now significantly faster for both encode and decode operations thanks to new AVX2 optimizations for Intel and AMD processors...
Intel's Open Image Denoise 2.5 Delivers Solid Performance Improvements For GPUs
Intel's Open Image Denoise is the open-source project providing a high performance denoising library for ray-tracing and used by the likes of Blender and other renderers/creative apps for powerful denoising capabilities. Released last week was Open Image Denoise 2.5 with some very nice performance improvements for Intel GPUs...