Friday, 19 June 2026
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NASA asks Northrop Grumman to stop working on lunar HALO module
"We are reassigning most affected employees across existing opportunities and programs."
Android verification is coming: Google confirms timeline and supported app stores
A new system service will roll out this month ahead of big changes starting in September.
Godot 4.7 Released With HDR Output Support
Godot 4.7 is out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine...
Apple patches high-severity eavesdropping vulnerability in Beats Studio Buds
The vulnerability, disclosed 12 months ago, affects multiple manufacturers.
How NVIDIA Vera CPU Performance Compares To The Ampere Altra Max
Last month on Phoronix was an exclusive first look at the NVIDIA Vera CPU performance compared to prior-generation NVIDIA Grace as well as the current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon competition. Following that was looking at how the ARM Linux server performance has evolved over the past eight years of AArch64 Linux servers. A Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested wanting to see how Vera…
After Senate vote, Trump admin backs off plans to kill ocean monitoring
It's unclear whether the system is currently intact.
Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'
The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention
EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation
The EXT4 file-system improvements were merged today for Linux 7.2 with some enticing optimizations...
Before SpaceX IPO, investors in China secretly acquired stakes
One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors.
Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck
Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger
Rust PNG Image Decoder Now Even Faster: Benefiting Chrome, GNOME, Etc
The Rust PNG crate, image-png, for PNG image encoding and decoding was already claimed to be the fastest PNG decoder in the world for the past year. Now with the latest optimizations, it's even faster...
Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry
Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders' AI wealth fund.
Citrix now lets you run virtual desktops like a cost-conscious private equityeer
Soaring PC prices make alternatives to hardware refreshes interesting
The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars
Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/craigslist-multimillionaire-craig-newmark-b2980681.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588216 Points: 261 # Comments: 178
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Canonical reveals Myna, its local speech-to-text app
Bird-branded AI will ride on Stonking Stingray
NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit
Aeolus mission promises better Martian weather models, assuming Relativity Space can get its Terran R off the ground
ZTE and China Telecom Guangdong advance cross‑vendor IP network simulation pilots, paving the way for intelligent network operations
PARTNER CONTENT: Leveraging >95% digital twin fidelity and multi-vendor collaboration to eliminate network change risks and achieve zero-error O&M
A website that lists websites to submit your website to
Article URL: https://www.submission.directory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586631 Points: 366 # Comments: 82
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Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago
We can't blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore.
The AI tipping point: where enterprise AI runs at scale
PARTNER CONTENT: AI's cloud journey homeward bound: enterprises prefer private clouds for scaling AI workloads.
Google told researcher 'Nice catch!' Then denied bug bounty for flaw it still hasn't fixed
EXCLUSIVE 'Working as intended' for the win … again
The first long-duration resident of the ISS, a cosmonaut, has died
Two expeditions, two spacewalks, 322 days in space.
Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
Article URL: https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-enterprise-nas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585866 Points: 218 # Comments: 194
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Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Article URL: https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/parliament-lifts-ban-on-new-nuclear-power-plants-3257535.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585746 Points: 620 # Comments: 471
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Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts
Article URL: https://gerrymandle.cc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585739 Points: 114 # Comments: 51
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Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave
Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast
Claude AI Assists In Fixing Years Old AMD Radeon Linux Display Bug Affecting Numerous Laptops
A bug in the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver leading to some laptop displays freezing after periods of use may finally be close to being resolved. Given the length and quantity of bug reports and one of the problematic commits being tracked back to 2017, it's a heavy hitting issue for some Linux users. With the help of Claude Code, it looks like a fix is on the way to the Linux kernel...
AF_ALG Deprecation Approved For Linux 7.2, Useless & Insecure Crypto Driver Code Removed
The cryptographic subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...
How Alberta Eradicated Rats
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/albertas-war-on-rats/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584709 Points: 114 # Comments: 88
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KDE Plasma 6.7 brings the X11 era to a close
Plenty of new shiny in the service of improved usability
W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
Article URL: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584497 Points: 163 # Comments: 109
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AI nose uses 'Smell Language Model' to sniff out signs of disease
Sampling patients' breath may save lives and emergency room resources
Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status
Canonical and the Ubuntu Release Team have implemented an important policy change for Ubuntu flavors moving forward. If they are to have an official release, they must now successfully submit a beta release...
Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
Article URL: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/15/microsofts-new-outlook-takes-10-seconds-to-do-what-outlook-classic-does-instantly-on-windows/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584207 Points: 551 # Comments: 366
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Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
Article URL: https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-31-around-the-corner Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584135 Points: 394 # Comments: 212
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Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows
Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM
I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
Article URL: https://orchidfiles.com/github-repositories-distributing-malware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583928 Points: 590 # Comments: 136
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Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/modos-e-paper-monitor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583897 Points: 200 # Comments: 57
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India blocks Telegram ahead of scandal-hit medical school entrance exam
2.3 million people sit test chasing 100,000 places, and country already canceled it once this year
CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)
Article URL: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2025fa/self-guided/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583606 Points: 262 # Comments: 38
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FreeBSD 15.1 lands, but desktop dabblers still have to draw their own GUI
Better laptop sleep and Wi-Fi support make the beastie more portable-friendly, but getting beyond the shell remains a DIY job
Latest LLVM Patch Further Points To AMD GFX1250/GFX1251 Being Instinct Hardware
With the ongoing work around the AMD GFX1250 (and GFX1251) in the open-source AMD Linux driver stack, it's led to a lot of speculation about these parts in the GFX12 series associated with RDNA4. RDNA4 refresh? Or a lot of signals have pointed to GFX125x being possible AI/HPC accelerators such as for the upcoming Instinct MI400 series.
Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
Article URL: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/hospitals-and-universities-repurposing-drugs-at-90-lower-cost Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583386 Points: 266 # Comments: 115
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.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
Article URL: https://nelson.cloud/.gitignore-isnt-the-only-way-to-ignore-files-in-git/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583356 Points: 239 # Comments: 73
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Linux 7.2 EDAC Drivers Prep For Diamond Rapids, Nova Lake H
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) drivers, such as for dealing with ECC memory error reporting, are heavy on the Intel side with Linux 7.2 in preparing for upcoming hardware...
SteamOS 3.8.10 Stable Released With Updated Arch, Steam Machine Support & Wayland Desktop Default
Overnight Valve released SteamOS 3.8.10 into the stable channel. for succeeding SteamOS 3.7. There's a lot happening across the board to their in-house Linux platform for the likes of the Steam Deck and upcoming Steam Machine hardware...
Transport for London keeps Capita behind wheel of road charging ops in £912M extension
Replacement deal now expected in mid-2029 as body says safe transition will take at least five years
Linux 7.2 Protects Against "Stupid Or Malicious" DoS Attempts By Arming Timers In The Past
There are a number of time(r) core subsystem changes for the Linux 7.2 kernel to better harden the kernel...
Oracle support timelines for Fusion Middleware tighter than expected
Big Red drops ominous mention of 'Market Driven Support' beyond 2027 - but there's good news for AIX users
UK Cabinet Office hiring AI and innovation 'influencer' to build 'AI-first culture' in civil service
Every buzzword deployed in quest to transform into 'country that is equipped for an AI world'
RoachFest London 2026: The database as competitive asset
SPONSORED POST: Operate without fear. Build with confidence. Adapt to the AI era
Major US carrier stored credit card info in the clear, employee learned on first day
It happened at a major US telco in the early 2000s
Hulk, Punisher join Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer
Peter Parker to Bruce Banner: "I didn't know you could get that big."
DeepSeek Introduces Vision
Article URL: https://chat.deepseek.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581458 Points: 445 # Comments: 180
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Cyber offenses now account for around a third of all crime across Asia and South Pacific
Latest Interpol review shows how scams continue to dominate, and AI-enabled attackers prove too hot to handle for cash-strapped regions
Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
https://xcancel.com/NoamShazeer/status/2067400851438932297 https://www.reuters.com/technology/googles-gemini-co-lead-no... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578913 Points: 211 # Comments: 174
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AI/LLM Patch Craziness Having An Impact On ARM64 Linux Kernel Development
The ongoing rise in AI/LLM-generated patches hitting the mailing lists and affecting development workflows continues to impact Linux kernel development. For the ARM64 architecture updates in Linux 7.2 is an interesting anecdote over over feeling like this activity has "slowed us down a little on the feature side" and having to deal with this AI/LLM patch activity resulted in some features now…
Second carcass-eating fly species cleared by FDA for maggot wound therapy
Maggot therapy lacks robust data, but it has fans and a fail-safe "bacon therapy."
Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.
Elsewhere, beyond-classical quantum hardware, plus classical computing fires back.
California says AT&T lied to FCC in attempt to shut off old phone network
FCC considers AT&T petitions to preempt state rules and discontinue phone service.
Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements
Kent Overstreet announced the release today of Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6 as the user-space tools built around the Bcachefs copy-on-write file-system. There are a few new features and a lot of performance work in v1.38.6 without bringing any on-disk format breakage...
Linux 7.2 Slab Changes Include More Performance Optimizations
The slab memory allocation changes for Linux 7.2 have been merged and continue to see more work around shaves and performance optimizations...
Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks
The affected include Oracle, Lenovo, FedEx, a NATO contractor, and Fortinet.
AMD's Lemonade AI Server Now Much More Useful With MCP Server Integration
The open-source Lemonade AI server for "100% free and private" AI usage across Windows and Linux in leveraging AMD Ryzen AI NPUs, Radeon GPUs, and x86_64 CPUs, is now much more powerful with today's v10.8 release...
Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's “abusive conduct”
Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings.
AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties
Nvidia's self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents.
The Slate Truck's price may have leaked, starts at $24,950
The official launch takes place next week.
"Dangerous" AI models are coming no matter what
AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.
Experimental, Reverse-Engineered & AI Assisted Rust Driver Targets Modern DisplayLink Hardware
The original DisplayLink USB display adapters were great for working with an upstream, open-source driver while sadly the newer DisplayLink tech has been limited to an out-of-tree driver and proprietary user-space daemon. But posted today is an experimental "Vino" driver that is a clean-room, reverse-engineered driver for newer DisplayLink hardware...
Ten months later, the $100 Google Home Speaker is finally available for preorder
Google's new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality.
Towers once planned for California shuttle launches leveled for SpaceX rockets
"Space Launch Complex-6 represents six decades of American innovation."
"Truly evil" FDA rejection of gene therapy overturned after Trump official ousted
Gene therapy company UniQure had another FDA meeting after Vinay Prasad's exit.
Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System
Epic Games announced today they have created a new version control system that is now open-source as Lore. Given the proliferation and excellence of Git, you may be wondering why Epic Games is pursuing another VCS option... They are specifically catering Lore to games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes...
Intel Core Ultra X7 Panther Lake Performance On Linux 7.1
After recently noting the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage performance improving with Linux 7.1 and similarly finding performance gains for the Arc Pro B70 on Linux 7.1, several Phoronix readers have been wondering whether the newer Xe3 graphics with Panther Lake similarly benefit. Here are some CPU and iGPU benchmarks of the Core Ultra X7 358H "Panther Lake" SoC between Linux 7.0 and the recently…
Myna Announced As Speech-To-Text Solution For The Ubuntu Desktop
Earlier this month plans were shared publicly of Ubuntu 26.10 aiming to build a context-aware desktop with local AI features and one of the first capabilities to be integrated speech-to-text support. Now we have more details on the speech-to-text plans with Canonical announcing the Myna project...
Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL Support Successfully Merged For Linux 7.2
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display and accelerator driver changes have been merged for Linux 7.2. The Linux 7.2 DRM merge is headlined by the long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support for the AMDGPU open-source driver as part of the larger effort of finally proceeding with a full HDMI 2.1 implementation for this AMD Radeon Linux driver...
Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
Article URL: https://www.ns.nl/en/season-tickets/dal-vrij Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543872 Points: 147 # Comments: 66
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Emacs, how it all started for me
Article URL: https://xvw.lol/en/articles/emacs-start.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542784 Points: 129 # Comments: 49
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