Tuesday, 23 June 2026
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USB4STREAM Merged For Linux 7.2 To Quickly Send Data Between USB4 Connected Systems
As part of today's USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window, USB4STREAM was merged as a nifty and exciting addition to opening up some interesting USB4 connnectivity use-cases for high speed, low latency data transfers...
Texas lassoes massive Microsoft datacenter - and 20 years of gas turbine emissions
The air turns brown when bit barns come to town … deep in the heart of Texas
Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake
"Winning" bets were made on cloned website and would have lost money, WSJ finds.
Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors
Makers of Chrome, Edge, Firefox back bot-fraud defense called Private Access Control Tokens
Security shops among the 'hundreds' of Klue hack victims
As yet another extortion crew Icarus exploits Salesforce-linked integrations
Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs
Critics saw the move as an underhanded way to steer them toward more costly chips.
Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed
Article URL: https://ipvm.com/reports/police-chiefs-track Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634694 Points: 164 # Comments: 37
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Canada is looking to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-nuclear-strategy-9.7244509 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634585 Points: 146 # Comments: 52
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Valve's Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won't be able to buy one yet
Valve says it's using a randomized purchase queue to make the experience "less frustrating and more fair."
Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 Lays Out Tuning Recommendations For More Workloads
Back in March Intel announced the Optimization Zone as a new initiative for helping server administrators and developers better maximize the performance of different workloads running on Intel hardware. Out today is the Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 release with more workloads now covered for squeezing out the most performance on Intel CPUs...
Nvidia gets all agentic about supercomputing for scientific research
Tireless AI agents could help scientists do research humans alone can't, says GPU giant
The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators
From academic toss-aside to cloud substrate
Steam Machine Launches, Priced $1049 To $1428 USD
Valve today finally revealed pricing on their SteamOS Linux-powered Steam Machine living room PC. Given the ongoing RAM and storage pricing pressure, the Steam Machine pricing comes in at the high-end...
Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart
TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had
NHTSA investigating alleged Tesla Autopilot crash that killed woman in her home
Tesla touts Autopilot as lifesaving a day after grandmother died in crash.
Steam Machine launches today
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/06/22/the-newell-nucle... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66QzlDewigE Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632884 Points: 930 # Comments: 809
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Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems
One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here
The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon
Some hardware firms redesigning products to use older DDR2 and DDR3 components
Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12277 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631888 Points: 122 # Comments: 69
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The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything
'Humans are not going to be using data platforms in the next three to five years,' product exec tells us
Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents
Oak is a version control system I've been working on designed for agents ( https://oak.space ). It improves the speed and context your agents need when working on serious projects. With virtual mounts, agents locally and in the cloud no longer need a full copy of a repo to get working.
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Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"
Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.
Lucid lays off 1,500 workers in second big cut of the year
The cuts and redundancies are part of a plan to "simplify the company," the CEO says.
A US military exercise in space got underway with barely anyone noticing
The Space Force wants to cut the time to field new satellites from years to weeks, days, or hours.
1,250 hp hybrid Corvette shatters the Pikes Peak production record
The high-altitude race is a unique test of car and driver.
Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release
Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first preview release of Xfwl4 in alpha form...
Canadian utility fesses up to data breach, but key details remain off-grid
London Hydro says names, addresses, account details may have been exposed, but much about the intrusion is unknown
The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output
Article URL: https://patrickmccanna.net/the-text-in-claude-codes-extended-thinking-output-is-not-authentic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630535 Points: 242 # Comments: 176
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This former hacker saw the light—and now wants to collect all of it
"I don’t know of a bigger question we can answer as humans."
Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet
It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status...
Microsoft tells Windows users to get ready for 26H2 – unless they're on 26H1
Same core as 24H2 and 25H2 means an enablement package, while Search gets a little more forgiving
Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance
Article URL: https://hustvl.github.io/Moebius/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630171 Points: 191 # Comments: 58
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How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban
The company warned about dangers of advanced AI far more than rival OpenAI.
Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation
Article URL: https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630020 Points: 675 # Comments: 224
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As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains
Attempting to boost growth, efficiency, and sovereign tech proved too difficult. The next leader will face the same challenges... and temptations
AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL
Back in March AMD introduced ROCDXG to improve their Windows Subsystem for Linux support. This improved Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" support with the ROCm compute stack is a cleaneer architecture, open-source compared to their legacy WSL code having closed bits, and more robust handling. Today they issued a new ROCDXG library release to further enhance their WSL support...
Brazil probes emergency warning system after nationwide rogue alert
Severe weather event alert platform buzzed devices across the country with the word 'misanthropy'
Microsoft accidentally kills epic Outlook email threads
Redmond manages to break replying to an email on Outlook for macOS, one of the most basic functions
Health board apologizes for phishing staff with with bogus vacation day
IT thought a fake offer of extra time off for hard-pressed Canadian medical workers was the way to go
Miracle-WM Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year
Miracle-WM 0.10 released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor. With this new release is also acknowledgement they are hoping to cross the "1.0" milestone later in the year...
Humanity trashed Earth orbit – next stop the Moon
Neuraspace CEO floats lunar scrapyards as a cleaner way to handle hardware left behind
Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers
Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" as a new GUI created by developers on Valve's open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming...
OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Merged For Linux 7.2 Along With Other New Hardware
The HID subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 7.2 kernel with some treats that will excite Linux gamers and other desktop users...
Linux 7.2 sched_ext Continues Working Toward Sub-Scheduler Support
Merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel were all of the sched_ext changes for this extensible scheduler support that allows loading BPF programs from user-space for handling scheduling tasks. Linux 7.2 continues building out sched_ext's sub-scheduler support...
Gizmodo readers hit with ClickFix malware prompts after account compromise
Infosec buffs say Windows users could have been infected with a nasty trojan, while Mac users got off lightly
Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy
Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?
Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest
Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Also, don't pick a contract fight with a monster of the art
Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28224 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626930 Points: 439 # Comments: 245
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GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
Article URL: https://techstackups.com/comparisons/glm-5.2-vs-opus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626866 Points: 461 # Comments: 310
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How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!
Rigid workplace cultures and youthful ambition do not mix
Deno Desktop
Article URL: https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626137 Points: 987 # Comments: 363
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Early AMD GCN GPUs Seeing Improved GPU Recovery - Another Valve-Led Linux Improvement
Early AMD Radeon Graphics Core Next "GCN" GPUs are seeing work to improve the GPU recovery process in the event of hangs. This work is yet another improvement for older AMD GPUs being led by Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team...
zlib-rs 0.6.4 Released With Fix For Intel Raptor Lake Crash, SIMD Optimizations
As a follow-up to last week's article around Firefox leveraging zlib-rs and some nice upstream improvements to this Rust-based Zlib implementation, the zlib-rs 0.6.4 release is now available to ship all of these latest enhancements...
Trump admin’s coal investments assist plants with repeated violations
At least three coal plants have been repeatedly cited for violating environmental regulations.
Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite Laptop
Last month Qualcomm engineers posted patches bringing up the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 laptop on Linux. Sent out this weekend were a new set of patches from Qualcomm for bringing up the HP EliteBook X G2q laptop model powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC...
Mesa 26.2 Merges Vulkan Present Timing Support For X11/XWayland
Mesa's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code now has support for present timing support "VK_EXT_present_timing" with X11 and XWayland...
Google's Gemini Partially Figures Out A Lengthy Linux Boot Time On Modern ASUS Laptop
Google Antigravity with the Gemini 3.5 Flash model helped a Linux user sort out a situation where his laptop was taking around 36 seconds to boot the kernel, which shouldn't be the case for the high-end laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 processor and 32GB of RAM. It ended up being yet another case of device firmware issues, but now a Linux kernel patch is pending for working around the issue on the ASUS…
Review: Widow's Bay is a boldly original take on comedic horror
An eminently binge-able series that honors classic horror tropes while reinventing them in surprising ways.
Linux 7.2 Begins Making Preparations For NVIDIA "Blackwell-Next"
When going through the VFIO subsystem patches for the ongoing Linux 7.2 merge window, there isn't too much to get excited about for end users with these changes. But there is the first time mentioning "Blackwell-Next" enablement by NVIDIA for the Linux kernel...
Linux's KUnit Finally Supporting JUnit Output
KUnit as the unit testing framework for the Linux kernel and was inspired in part by Java's JUnit when originally conceived, is now finally able to output to the JUnit format for better interoperability with other CI systems and the like that standardize on that common format...
Broadcom Working On VMware Zero-Copy Buffer Sharing Between VMs And Hypervisor
Interesting feature work for VMware virtualization on Linux now being pursued by Broadcom is to support zero-copy buffer sharing between the VM(s) and host hypervisor, which would equate to an efficiency and performance win...
Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches
Linux 7.2 has finally eliminated the strncpy API from the Linux kernel. The strncpy() function for copying up to a specified number of bytes has long been deprecated and after six years of work and hundreds of patches, no more users of the strncpy interface within the Linux kernel remained that it has now been eliminated...
The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed
Tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors.
Help I accidentally a wigglegram
Article URL: https://lmao.center/blog/wiggle-accidents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48605561 Points: 464 # Comments: 117
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Rocket Report: Rebuild begins at Blue Origin launch pad; Relativity targets Mars
A French launch startup is scrapping the name of its rocket, apparently due to a trademark issue.
As global warming threatens corals, scientists search for reefs that can take the heat
Researchers say these coral strongholds may help repopulate more degraded reefs.
My Mathematical Regression
Article URL: https://blog.dahl.dev/posts/my-mathematical-regression/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597221 Points: 148 # Comments: 49
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A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
"I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this."
Microsoft discovers new lightweight backdoor that steals cryptocurrency
Crypto Clipper spreads over USB and communicates over Tor.
FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama
In February, a Trump official refused to review the vaccine.
As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military
Taiwan's drone spending plans for defense could also boost business overseas.
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.