Tuesday, 16 June 2026
74 stories filed.
Cisco SD-WAN make-me-root bug under attack
Second Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaw exploited as an 0-day this month
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta Now Properly Handles Notches & Rounded Corners
The community of developers continuing to maintain Ubuntu Touch for smartphones has released the Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 beta ahead of the planned stable release in mid-July...
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher
According to the one person who actually read the research paper
COVID vaccines still protect against heart problems, large study finds
Despite continued benefits, anti-vaccine rhetoric has driven down vaccination.
DARPA seeks swappable satellites to help with future star wars
Worried that an unexpected strike could take out critical orbital systems, Pentagon researchers want to know how fast the industry thinks it could launch replacements
Intel Performance Skills: New Open-Source Project Leveraging AI For Linux Performance Optimizations
The newest open-source project out of Intel is the Intel Performance Skills project that is providing AI agent skills to help with CPU performance analysis and performance optimizations on Linux...
UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews
Critics say bans push kids to riskier alternatives and can be beaten with VPNs.
A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
Article URL: https://roman.pt/posts/linkedin-backdoor/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546294 Points: 339 # Comments: 70
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Anthropic reserves right to check ID for Claude subs
How can I help you today? Present your papers to begin
FreeBSD Receives Funding To Launch AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery
The FreeBSD Project announced today the launch of an AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with grant funding provided by the Linux Foundation backed Alpha-Omega project. Alpha-Mega has sponsors including Microsoft, AWS, Google, Anthrophic, OpenAI, and others who will now be helping with FreeBSD uncovering new vulnerabilities by leveraging AI...
Chipmaker Nvidia seeks to raise over $25B in first bond deal since 2021
Debt sale set to test investor appetite for further exposure to AI sector amid a deluge of borrowing.
A Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation
The rocket's breakup likely generated 100 to 150 new pieces of space junk.
GCC Steering Committee Supports Inclusion Of WebAssembly Backend
Last month a new GCC back-end was proposed for WebAssembly to allow C/C++ code to be compiled to WASM with this GNU compiler toolchain. The GCC Steering Committee has evaluated it and approves the notion of WebAssembly back-end for GCC...
HPE offers VMware refugees a year off the meter
Free VM Essentials license and cut-price Zerto dangled at customers eyeing a platform escape
Fox’s $22B Roku acquisition aims to expand its reach into smart TVs, advertising
Fox plans to take over Roku's streaming hardware, OS, and FAST services.
Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs
AMD's stripping of TSME from consumer CPUs appears to be a deliberate, covert move.
Game Engine White Papers Commander Keen
Article URL: https://forgottenbytes.net/commander_keen.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544781 Points: 112 # Comments: 35
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Council of Europe hacked in ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft heist
Joins the ranks of Nottingham Uni and 100 other unnamed victims
Typst 0.15.0
Article URL: https://typst.app/docs/changelog/0.15.0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544396 Points: 234 # Comments: 56
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Java's Project Valhalla finally lands a preview in JDK 28
Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release
Feds snooze as US datacenter law set to lapse with no replacement in site
Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) of 2023 covers standards including security and sustainability
Russian Spam & Profanities Are Now Plaguing The Arch Linux AUR
After days of dealing with 1,500+ packages in the Arch Linux AUR containing malware, the latest headache in the Arch Linux User Repository is Russian spam and offensive messages...
20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again
Remembering the ups and downs of the Intel Mac era as it finally winds down.
The Y2K bug is back! Dutch dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build
26 years late and no threat unless you still run a PDP-11/70 and rely on short-wave timekeeping broadcasts
Good news—we have extra time before the Sun ends life on Earth
Will the Sun roast Earth’s plants or starve them?
TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)
Article URL: https://tinywind.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543475 Points: 498 # Comments: 102
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NASA management wants a word and won't say why
A mystery calendar event is certainly one way to find out about being selected for the Artemis III crew
Red Hat gives Ubuntu a bootc up the backside at Canonical shindig
Bootable containers pitch shows how distro can be managed with familiar OCI tooling
Microsoft site throwing warnings after someone forgot to renew cert
Connectivity checker trips browser alarms thanks to lapsed security paperwork
F1 in Spain: An old-fashioned strategy fight can still be thrilling
Armed with a ton of new upgrades, Ferrari came to Spain full of confidence.
Firefox 152 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support Built By Default, Modernized Settings UI
The Firefox 152.0 release binaries are now available ahead of tomorrow's official unveiling. With Firefox 152 there is now the JPEG-XL support code being compiled by default for the release albeit still disabled at run-time by default behind a preference for now...
Iroh 1.0
Article URL: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542480 Points: 815 # Comments: 259
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My Homelab AI Dev Platform
Article URL: https://rsgm.dev/post/ai-dev-platform/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542433 Points: 189 # Comments: 39
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Europe's AI paralysis has a solution - and it starts with a semantic twin
PARTNER CONTENT: Onix's Wingspan platform promises to move enterprises from pilot purgatory to governed, enterprise-wide AI deployment in weeks, not years
Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins
Article URL: https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/copper-drug-restores-memory-and-clears-toxic-alzheimers-proteins Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542132 Points: 214 # Comments: 79
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Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
Has anyone here fully swapped Claude/GPT for a local model as their main coding tool, not just for side experiments? If so, please share your setup and performance (e.g tok/s) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542100 Points: 518 # Comments: 258
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Reading /proc/filesystems Is Surprisingly Done Very Often & Now As Much As 444% Faster
Reading /proc/filesystems for obtaining a list of file-systems supported by the running kernel is done frequently on Linux. Namely due to being read by the SELinux library (libselinux), reading of /proc/filesystems is done more often than one would typically expect and now the Linux 7.2 kernel is optimizing for it to yield much better performance...
Salesforce reels in customer support AI specialist Fin for $3.6B
Support bot maker claims its AI agents can resolve three-quarters of customer queries without human help
PRC-linked spies hid inside medical and military networks for more than a year, snooping through Gmail and stealing data
Google says the intruders were on the hunt for everything from drone tech to pathogens
Russia appears set to finally address long-term, serious space station cracks
This has been a persistent, behind-the-scenes dispute between NASA and Roscosmos.
Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits
Community repo freezes new accounts after attackers swamp it with poisoned package updates
CrankGPT
Article URL: https://crankgpt.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540854 Points: 528 # Comments: 209
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Hetzner Price Adjustment
https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/standardization-and-price-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540844 Points: 262 # Comments: 385
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US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive
Brussels says access curbs prove Europe needs greater technological independence
Framework Computer Making Progress On Coreboot For Their Modern Intel-Powered Laptops
While we have seen Coreboot work-in-progress support for older Ryzen-powered Framework Laptops, it seems there is a recent uptick in development around supporting Coreboot on Framework Computer's modern Intel-powered wares...
Fox to buy Roku
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/fox-roku-deal-f6e564f9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540499 Points: 234 # Comments: 329
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Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs
The scheduler updates were merged this morning for the Linux 7.2 kernel and it's exciting. Cache Aware Scheduling has finally been merged! This is a win for especially modern Intel and AMD processors with multiple last level caches (LLCs)...
Flatpak-NG sounds like bad news for systemd refuseniks
Linux app packaging rethink could leave alternative-init distros in the cold
UK AI hiring surges as firms seek people to babysit the bots
PwC says AI hiring jumped 61 percent despite wider slowdown in vacancies, with employers increasingly looking for workers who can use AI rather than build it
Linux 7.2 Introducing The Rust Zerocopy Library To Eliminate More "Unsafe" Code
Miguel Ojeda already mailed in the many Rust code changes for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel. This is quite a big Rust code with more than forty thousand new lines of Rust code in the kernel...
UK Treasury hunts CTO on salary that may not compute for top tech talent
The pension may be cushy, but the looming headaches for £77K are not
Linux 7.2 To Better Communicate File-System Casefolding For Helping Windows NFS & More
Newly-merged code for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel will now expose the case-folding (case insensitive) behavior of local file-systems so that Linux file servers and others can properly report the actual behavior rather than guessing if case-folding is actually used/supported...
GNU Linux-libre 7.1-gnu Released With More Driver Deblobbing, Unhappy With i486 Removal
Following yesterday's release of the upstream Linux 7.1 kernel release, GNU Linux-libre 7.1 is out with its new build for de-blobbing various drivers from loading non-free-software microcode/firmware and other sanitizing of the kernel code in the name of software freedom...
Apple Foundation Models
Article URL: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/cli-sdks-libraries/libraries/apple-foundation-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536776 Points: 457 # Comments: 214
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Linux 7.2 To Raise LLVM/Clang Compiler Requirement, Add Support For Distributed ThinLTO
Among the early pull requests sent in prior to today's Linux 7.1 release of new material aiming for Linux 7.2 were all the Kbuild updates...
Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley's comet, twice? It's complicated
University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066.
Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes
Article URL: https://maurycyz.com/projects/glass/1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528587 Points: 115 # Comments: 35
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Linux 7.1 Released: New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED For Panther Lake, Faster Arc Graphics
Linus Torvalds just released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel and it's coming a half-day early thanks to his travel plans...
Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack
Just a day after Arch Linux developers believed they got their malware AUR incident under control with 1,500+ packages affected by malware, another round of of AUR malware is now being discovered. This latest round is more sophisticated as with code obfuscation to better conceal the intent...
Revised AVX-512 xor_gen() Implementation For Linux RAID Yielding More Performance Gains
A few days back I wrote about Google's Eric Biggers spearheading an AVX-512 implementation of xor_gen() as the Linux kernel function used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5/RAID6. That initial implementation was yielding up to 41% better performance while a new implementation has now been posted for scoring some additional victories...
pkgcli As PackageKit's Modern, Nicer Command Line Interface
Open-source developer Matthias Klumpp wrote a blog post today outlining his recent work developing pkgcli, a new and modern command-line interface (CLI) around the PackageKit package management abstraction layer...
Wine-Staging 11.11 Released With 289 Patches Atop Upstream
Following Friday's exciting release of Wine 11.11 with Wayland driver improvements, Wine-Staging 11.11 is now available for this experimental/testing derivative that continues carrying nearly 300 patches atop the upstream codebase...
Review: Disclosure Day is big on action, light on ideas
There's nothing new or surprising, but it's still an entertaining film from one of our greatest directors.
Intel Ending Development Of BigDL: An Open-Source AI/LLM Effort Getting Axed
Among Intel's ongoing reduction in open-source projects they maintain, their BigDL open-source project focused on running large language models across Intel XPUs from Core Ultra laptops to discrete GPUs to cloud / data center hardware all in a low-latency manner, is being ended...
Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute
Among the changes being considered for the in-development Fedora 45 is a lightened version of the GRUB UEFI bootloader that would focus on being a minimal implementation suitable for confidential computing...
Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System
Researchers have quantified the length and mass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks globally.
Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive
Commerce dept. worries that a Fable 5 "jailbreak" could be a national security threat.
SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?
As of today, SpaceX is owned by investors who will want to see it make money.
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.
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.
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.
Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-italian-teenagers-stayed-overnight-at-their-school-they-found-ancient-roman-ruins-hidden-in-the-basement-180988917/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485527 Points: 173 # Comments: 84
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