Friday, 26 June 2026
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Linux Foundation & Others Launch "Akrites" To Defend Open-Source Software From AI-Enabled Exploits
The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the brisk pace of new AI/LLM-discovered software bugs and vulnerabilities in ensuring that said issues are effectively addressed before they can be exploited by bad…
Om Malik, 1966-2026
Article URL: https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678852 Points: 103 # Comments: 8
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DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default
Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...
OpenAI says employees moving beyond chat to agents
Codex, it's not just for developers, really
Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead
Notion is "going all in on using agents to run your inbox."
Google finally releases a Finance Android app, promises iOS version later in 2026
It took 20 years, but the Finance app arrives just in time to be packed full of AI.
Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars
Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home
Academy Software Foundation Announces The "Wayland For Artists Working Group"
The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists...
Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack
Alibaba allegedly used 25,000 accounts to mine Claude over 28.8 million exchanges.
Planet orbits so close to its star that their magnetic fields connect
At the right point of the orbit and stellar cycle, the star's chromosphere brightens.
Updated Raspberry Pi OS With Linux 6.18 LTS Delivers Some Performance Benefits
Last week marked the release of an updated Raspberry Pi OS that moved to Linux 6.18 LTS from its former Linux 6.12 kernel base along with making a number of other package updates. Given the jump to the newer Long Term Support kernel and other improvements, I ran some fresh benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) to see the performance difference out of the updated operating system.
Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
Hi HN, Nick here. We’re launching OpenKnowledge ( https://openknowledge.ai/ ), a “what you see is what you get” markdown editor that has direct integrations with Claude, Codex, and Cursor. Available as MacOS app or CLI.
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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
Preprint: https://scrollprize.org/pdf/main.pdf https://github.com/ScrollPrize/villa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675179 Points: 717 # Comments: 163
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Servo 0.3 Released With The Demo Browser Becoming More Useful
Servo 0.3 released today as the latest version of this modern browser engine developed in Rust. With Servo 0.3 the demo servoshell browser is becoming more useful and supporting additional modern web features while Servo also continues to possess much potential moving forward on the embedded front as an alternative to the likes of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)...
IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
Article URL: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674967 Points: 208 # Comments: 118
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FOSS dev builds a BASIC compiler using LLVM
Not just any old BASIC, either: OS-9’s BASIC09
OS9Map
Article URL: https://yllan.org/software/OS9Map/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674484 Points: 137 # Comments: 19
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Recovery has to keep up with AI
SPONSORED POST: Why an AI-era recovery architecture looks different, with Eon's Gonen Stein
Apple passes RAMpocalypse costs on to consumers
Fondleslab and Mac prices rise by hundreds; phones safe ... for now
Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027
Unlike with Volvo, there will be no authorization for Polestar to sell its cars here.
Linux 7.2 Drops Ancient PROFIBUS Driver: Ported From SCO Unix In 1998, Unused For Years
Linux 7.2 is continuing the trend of removing obsolete hardware drivers for which the code hasn't seen any maintenance in years and there are no believed users left of said drivers, especially those that would be running modern mainline versions of the Linux kernel. The char/misc changes merged dropped two more obsolete drivers from the Linux source tree...
Windows 11 can now turn back the clock when updates go bad
Point-in-time restore offers a 72-hour escape hatch for stricken PCs
Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements
Article URL: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-25 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673825 Points: 191 # Comments: 74
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Apple ratchets up prices, blames the cost of memory
Some Macs are hundreds of dollars more expensive today than yesterday.
Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
Article URL: https://hackernewstrends.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673671 Points: 576 # Comments: 138
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Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency
SPI co-creator Dave Verwer joins Apple, says 'We will be moving away from that model completely'
The "sad inevitability" of Europe's heat wave
Europeans are baking under their second heat wave of the summer.
New effort will get genome sequences for entire Endangered Species list
Colossal Biosciences will be biobanking tissues from all of them as well.
Amazon pours another $13B into India's AI and cloud infrastructure
Mumbai and Hyderabad datacenter expansion forms part of broader $48B five-year investment pledge
Every Homo naledi we know of is female, and the implications are fascinating
"There is no natural explanation," says paleoanthropologist John Hawks.
Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/25/apple-price-increases-mac-ipa... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672732 Points: 526 # Comments: 771
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Linux Cache Aware Scheduling Extended For Even Better Performance: Up To 360% In MySQL
Cache Aware Scheduling is one of the most exciting kernel innovations to land in Linux this year. While it was finally merged last week to Linux 7.2, a new patch series today is already working to extend Cache Aware Scheduling and is showing some exciting performance improvements...
European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status
Preliminary position calls for designation under the Digital Markets Act
Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up
Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default
ZTE builds a TCO-optimal AI factory to fuel token economy
PARTNER CONTENT: Leveraging OEX architecture SuperPODs and multi-dimensional co-design to maximize tokens per second and lower total cost of ownership for scaled inference
Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting
CEO says automation is enabling leaner teams as engineering is split into three core areas
ZTE CDO Cui Li at MWC Shanghai 2026: unlocking value and embracing uncertainty in the AI era
PARTNER CONTENT: Embracing uncertainty with flexible architecture, ZTE drives full-stack AI value across telecom, enterprises, and smart homes at MWC Shanghai 2026
ZTE showcases full-stack AI capabilities at MWC Shanghai 2026, empowering new era of token operations
PARTNER CONTENT: Driving end-to-end synergy across AI factories, next-gen AIOS, and 6G-ready networks to maximize token efficiency and lower operational costs
AMD Contributes ONNX Runtime Backend To FFmpeg DNN Filter
An AMD engineer has contributed to the upstream FFmpeg library an ONNX Runtime back-end for its DNN filter. The FFmpeg Deep Neural Network (DNN) filters allow for running AI models natively inside the video processing pipeline for upscaling, object detection, background segmentation, and more. This ONNX Runntime back-end support is notable in that it expands the GPU and NPU capabilities with…
Linux 7.2 Staging Still Working To Tame The Realtek RTL8723BS "Beast Of A Driver"
Way back in 2017 for the Linux 4.12 kernel the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver was added to the kernel's staging area. Nearly a decade later, it's still being cleaned-up to suit the more rigorous non-staging area of the kernel in the formal networking subsystem. For Linux 7.2, the staging pull request is once again dominated by clean-ups to this Realtek WiFi driver...
IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future
Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom
IBM claims world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology
IBM’s nanostack transistors could boost chip performance or energy efficiency.
KSMBD Adds SMB2 Compression Support In Linux 7.2
Merged back in Linux 5.15 in 2021 was KSMBD as an in-kernel SMB3 file server. There hasn't been much KSMBD news to report on recently but for Linux 7.2 there is now SMB2 compression support...
Digital ID brain trust will meet behind closed doors as minister ducks cost questions
Minutes will not be published, and MPs still have no answer on the group's budget or how its members were chosen
Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another
The last inhabited Almaz outpost was short-lived, secretive, and remarkably accident-prone
The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure
PARTNER CONTENT: As agentic AI systems scale across cloud and datacenter environments, CPUs remain the control plane coordinating performance and efficiency.
UK school’s network left wide open for invasion, student found
And the admin password was right in the Active Directory description field
Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing software
Despite warnings of revenue deflation, chairman predicts AI will make more work, not less, for services orgs
Hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI will cost more than other AAA games
GTA6 might be an outlier, though—at least for now.
OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale
The silicon race is heating up amid the struggle to keep up with demand.
13 years and $500 million for a stage adapter? Report justifies NASA cancellations.
"Contract values for these efforts ballooned from nearly $2.8 billion to $5.9 billion."
US ends hantavirus outbreak response with no answers on draconian quarantines
We still don't know why RFK Jr. overruled CDC expert to order strict quarantines.
MGLRU Improvement Yielding Nice Gains On Linux 7.2: MongoDB 30~100% Higher Throughput
The many memory management "MM" related improvements were recently merged to Git for the Linux 7.2 kernel. As typical most kernel cycles, some of the low-level improvements can yield nice efficiency wins and better performance in different areas...
One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime "assembly line"
"Operation Endgame" simultaneously disrupts two widely used crime tools.
Underpromise, overdeliver? Hands-on with the $24,950 Slate auto.
It has 205 miles of bare-bones range.
Disney agreed to $50M settlement over claims it made live-TV streaming expensive
Lawsuit alleged Disney inflated market prices by making carriers include ESPN.
Experimental wine bottle tracks oxygen moving through the cork
The small bit of air in the bottle sees oxygen and other chemicals move in and out.
FCC plans ID mandate that could block anonymous use of prepaid burner phones
Privacy advocates and domestic violence groups say ID mandate is a big mistake.
NTFS3 Driver Sees Bug Fixes & Minor Improvements With Linux 7.2
While the new NTFS file-system driver merged for Linux 7.1 and has seen more improvements for Linux 7.2, for now at least the NTFS3 kernel driver continues to be maintained with new fixes and improvements. NTFS3 is the driver that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel a few years ago back during the pandemic by Paragon Software...
Formula E reveals first calendar for GEN4 with lots of real race tracks
Brands Hatch, COTA, and Zandvoort will all hold an e-Prix in 2027.
F2FS Integrates FSERROR Reporting, Reduces Memory Footprint In Linux 7.2
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have landed for Linux 7.2...
SilverStone RM32 3U Server Chassis + 1000W Extreme 1000Rz Platinum PSU
For those with limited rack space and wanting to assemble a high-end server/workstation, the SilverStone RM32 provides a lot of opportunities in being a 3U rackmount chassis that can accommodate an E-ATX or SSI-EEB motherboard, up to a 360mm liquid cooling radiator, and up to four full-size expansion cards all within 3U height requirements. Paired with the SilverStone Extreme 1000Rz Platinum…
New AMD Linux Patches Expose Gamma 2.4 + Gamma 2.6 Curves
In addition to AMD engineers being busy rolling out HDMI 2.1 for their open-source Linux driver at long last, another notable display-related improvement on the way to their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver is exposing the Gamma 2.4 and Gamma 2.6 curves support...
"So Many AI-Fueled Fixes" Means No New ARM64 KVM Features For Linux 7.2
The KVM virtualization-related changes were merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window. While there are a number of features/improvements for AMD and Intel virtualization as well as the likes of s390 and RISC-V, there aren't any new features on ARM64. The lack of ARM64 feature work this cycle is being attributed to "so many AI-fueled fixes" swamping the ARM Linux…
One Line x86 Change To GCC Compiler Nets +12% Benchmark Win For Modern Intel/AMD CPUs
A one line code change to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for its generic x86 tuning is benefiting modern Intel and AMD processors...
Linux 7.2 Protects Against Crafted Perf Data From Going Rogue
With the help of Claude Opus 4.6, the Linux 7.2 kernel added protections to fend off specially crafted or corrupted perf data for the perf tool that could cause a number of issues for the running system...
QSOE v0.1 Released As A QNX-Inspired RISC-V OS
QSOE 0.1 has made its debut as a QNX-inspired, dual kernel architecture open-source operating system just targeting RISC-V...
Linux 7.2 Ready With IMA and EVM Post-Quantum ML-DSA Signature Support
The integrity subsystem changes merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel include support now for IMA and EVM post-quantum ML-DSA signature support...
You can't unit test for taste
Article URL: https://dev.karltryggvason.com/you-cant-unit-test-for-taste/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657049 Points: 225 # Comments: 102
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I built a GPU back end for Emacs
Article URL: https://en.andros.dev/blog/4b707a03/how-i-built-a-gpu-backend-for-emacs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642503 Points: 154 # Comments: 79
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Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour
Article URL: https://explorer.oxide.computer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631450 Points: 220 # Comments: 95
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The disappearance of Japan's animators
https://archive.ph/aPMAr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620422 Points: 113 # Comments: 91
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Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike
Article URL: https://princechazz.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616304 Points: 149 # Comments: 54
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