Sunday, 28 June 2026
55 stories filed.
Reserved THP Feature Proposed For Linux To Combine The Best Of HugeTLB & THP
Linux kernel developer and Bytedance engineer Qi Zheng sent out a request for comments (RFC) patch series on a new feature called Reserved THP to combine the best of HugeTLB and THP kernel functionality...
Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers
Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/zuckerstreisand-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698684 Points: 496 # Comments: 190
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Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
Article URL: https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698617 Points: 513 # Comments: 201
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Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on
Article URL: https://cephalosec.com/blog/cybersecurity-in-the-post-mythos-era-keep-calm-and-carry-on/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698559 Points: 107 # Comments: 33
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Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)
Article URL: https://danluu.com/discontinuities/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698151 Points: 172 # Comments: 43
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How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-many-elementary-particles-are-there-really-20260615/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697746 Points: 106 # Comments: 89
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OpenRA
Article URL: https://www.openra.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697560 Points: 472 # Comments: 88
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The case for physical media ownership
Article URL: https://dervis.de/physical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697335 Points: 302 # Comments: 205
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Linux MD RAID5 Seeing Scalability Improvements Up To 17%
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was a new patch series working on scalability enhancements to the MD RAID5 software RAID code. Up to a 10~17% improvement was observed in some configurations with these RAID5 scalability patches...
Apple and Audi alumni have made a luxe EV based on the moon buggy
The Amble One is a street-legal $25,000 electric buggy designed for luxury resorts.
GNOME AI Assistant Adds Image Generation Support
In development over the past three years has been Newelle as a GNOME-aligned AI virtual assistant. Out this week is Newelle 1.4.5 and it now adds AI image generation support and a redesigned chat interface...
KDE Plasma 6.7.2 To Fix KWin's Most Common Crash, Plasma 6.8 To Not Crash When Ejecting CDs
While Plasma 6.7.1 was just released this week following the recent stable debut of Plasma 6.7, there are already a number of fixes piling up for Plasma 6.7.2 due out in July. Plus more feature work and fixes for Plasma 6.8 as the next desktop version going Wayland-only...
Fintech Engineering Handbook
Article URL: https://w.pitula.me/fintech-engineering-handbook/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696982 Points: 400 # Comments: 136
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COSMIC's New System Monitor Is Looking Very Slick
Not only is GNOME 51 working to replace GNOME System Monitor with its new replacement, but over in System76's COSMIC space they have been baking their own new system monitor too...
DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
Article URL: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSpec/blob/main/DSpark_paper.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696585 Points: 692 # Comments: 287
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Shotcut 26.6 Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Display On Linux
Shotcut 26.6 is out today as the newest major feature release for this popular cross-platform, open-source video editing solution...
South Korea plans to train entire military as "drone warriors"
Half-million strong military will train on drones as “universal combat tool.”
Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He actually had worms.
His doctors went looking for cancer, then they saw the worms' heads.
Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California
Illinois passed a similar law, giving services more incentive to make ads less booming.
Russian citizens told "switch to Android" after Apple blocks key Russian apps
Russian government lashes out at Apple's "bizarre" decisions.
NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI
NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.
FCC accused of hiding Chairman Carr's messages with DOGE and Musk
FCC refuses to provide messages, has "wasted a year" of court's time, filing says.
New Intel Linux Driver Patches Enable HDR Over DP MST Connections
One of the limitations of the Intel Linux driver's high dynamic range (HDR) display support is that it currently doesn't work for any DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport "DP MST" connections, such as for daisy chaining monitors or multi-monitor docking stations. But the good news is patches are being worked on to address this Intel Linux kernel display driver shortcoming...
Netflix now requires every user profile to be tied to unique email address
Update began June 15 and will no longer allow you to share your login info.
Antibiotic "megacluster" discovery provides new strategy to fight superbugs
It's "an exciting advance in efforts to restock the antibiotic arsenal."
Ars Live: What's the latest in the aftermath of the New Glenn catastrophe?
Join us on the livestream at 1 pm ET and ask questions about the aftermath of New Glenn.
How NVIDIA GB10 CPU Performance Compares To Vera
Since delivering NVIDIA Vera CPU benchmarks one month ago and follow-ups like how the ARM Linux server performance has evolved in 8 years or how Vera compares to Ampere Altra that is still quite common in the marketplace, another frequent discussion point and inquiry is about the performance of NVIDIA Vera relative to NVIDIA's GB10 chip. For those curious about the per-core performance and the…
VW may close four factories to adapt to the future, report says
With falling sales in the US and especially China, VW Group wants to restructure.
Feedbacks upon feedbacks: Rock weathering and the climate
Rock weathering may release or draw down carbon dioxide—it depends on the rock.
More AMD Zen 6 Prepping, Many ASUS / Lenovo / HP Laptop Improvements For Linux 7.2
The many x86 platform driver changes have now been merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel. As usual it's mostly made up of driver enhancements for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen (AI) and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops...
Experimental Code Enables Per-Monitor Backgrounds For GNOME Shell
One of the limitations of GNOME's current multi-monitor handling is that the same background is used across the displays. For those that want to enjoy per-monitor background selection, some experimental / proof-of-concept code is now working to allow such per-monitor backgrounds to work with the modern GNOME desktop...
SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US
Move would test whether group can turn ambition into a mass-market phone business.
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Now Enables Descriptor Heaps By Default
Back in early May was the experimental enabling of Vulkan descriptor heaps for the Intel ANV open-source driver. After nearly two months of continued testing and improvements, the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap support for Intel graphics on Linux is now enabled by default...
Linux 7.2 Fixes Where PCIe Devices Could Be Inadvertently Restricted To 2.5 GT/s
The PCI/PCIe subsystem changes have been merged this week as we approach the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window...
Rocket Report: China may soon attempt booster landing; Rocket Lab does rapid response
Is SpaceX planning to end its Transporter program?
Intel ISPC 1.31 Brings New Targets For Nova Lake, Experimental PowerPC 64-bit
Intel engineers on Thursday released the newest version of the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler, ISPC. The ISPC 1.31 supports their variant of the C programming language with extensions for Single Program, Multiple Data programming for leveraging their range of CPU and GPU hardware...
Linux 7.2 Adds New Driver For Wacom W9000 Pen-Enabled Touchscreens
The input subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.2, which is seeing its merge window wrap up on Sunday. Most notable with the input updates is the introduction of the "wacom_w9000" for supporting newer, pen-enabled touchscreens...
Coreboot 26.06 Brings Support For Intel Nova Lake, AMD Strix Halo & 31 New Boards
Coreboot 26.06 is out today as the latest quarterly feature release for this software project providing open-source system firmware support for a growing number of platforms...
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 Released For Monthly Testing
Daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" continue to be published, but for those preferring something a bit more regulated, out today is Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 as the second monthly ISO image...
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…
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)...
Microsoft adds another year to Windows 10 extended update program
About a quarter of PCs are still running Microsoft's previous operating system.
FCC may kill $2B program that connects schools and libraries to Internet
Carr cites screen time concerns, is accused of trying to be "the nation’s parent."
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."
Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74yn7v7k4qo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677564 Points: 146 # Comments: 144
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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.
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.
The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II
Article URL: https://www.flutetunes.com/articles/my-flute-goes-to-war/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670103 Points: 126 # Comments: 65
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Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide
Article URL: https://www.fosslinux.com/158206/linux-on-older-hardware-revival-guide.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668747 Points: 180 # Comments: 103
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Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada
Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X26000476 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664063 Points: 101 # Comments: 57
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AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-radio-chip-design Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660021 Points: 140 # Comments: 81
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Underarm bowling incident of 1981
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underarm_bowling_incident_of_1981 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650794 Points: 119 # Comments: 102
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