Monday, 29 June 2026
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Linux 7.2-rc1 Released: "Things Look Reasonably Normal" While Landing AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, AMD ISP4 & CAS
As expected, Linux 7.2-rc1 was released a brief time ago to cap off the Linux 7.2 merge window. Now it's off for eight weeks or so of testing before Linux 7.2 stable is released that will in turn go on to power the likes of Fedora 45 and Ubuntu 26.10...
USB4STREAM, Optimizations, Jay & Other Popular Intel Linux News From This Quarter
With Q2'2026 working toward a close, here is a look back at the most popular Intel Linux and open-source news for the quarter...
Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?
Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. "Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.”
Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem
Article URL: https://github.com/librepods-org/librepods Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710232 Points: 138 # Comments: 29
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I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
Article URL: https://antoine.fi/mri-analysis-using-claude-code-opus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708941 Points: 208 # Comments: 312
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Show HN: Zanagrams
Article URL: https://zanagrams.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708182 Points: 106 # Comments: 38
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CachyOS June 2026 OS Released With More Performance Optimizations
CachyOS is out today with a new feature release for this Arch Linux powered distribution that delivers stellar out-of-the-box performance...
Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers
Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/workplace-boundaries-act-employees-after-hours/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707769 Points: 202 # Comments: 141
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5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)
https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-collection/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707763 Points: 282 # Comments: 73
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EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
Article URL: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/double-threat-to-private-communications-undemocratic-chat-control-backroom-deals-and-imminent-concessions-spark-relaunch-of-fightchatcontrol-eu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707719 Points: 496 # Comments: 288
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Linux 7.3 To Introduce DRM "Color Format" Property With AMD GPU Driver Support
While the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window is only ending later today to cap off the feature work on this next version of the Linux kernel, already for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle later in the year there is one notable feature on the way: the DRM color format property is being introduced and being first supported by the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver...
The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
Article URL: https://aresluna.org/the-curious-case-of-the-disappearing-polish-s/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706814 Points: 188 # Comments: 57
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A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706714 Points: 161 # Comments: 106
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The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706560 Points: 192 # Comments: 195
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Linux Dropping Old Drivers, AI Detected Vulnerabilities & Other Kernel Highlights Of Q2
With Q2'2026 quickly coming to an end, here's a recap of the most popular Linux kernel news over the past three months on Phoronix...
Linux 7.2 Surpasses More Than 43 Million Lines In The Kernel Tree
Today marks the last day of the Linux 7.2 merge window with Linux 7.2-rc1 due out later today. With the many new features and improvements merged over the past week since the Linux 7.1 stable debut, the Linux kernel source tree now exceeds 43 million lines...
Vim Patches Yielding Faster GTK3 Wayland Performance: "Major Milestone"
For those using Vim with its GTK3 toolkit interface on Wayland, it soon should be delivering much better performance with pending patches...
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
Article URL: https://www.marfapublicradio.org/podcast/marfa-public-radio-puts-you-to-sleep Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703759 Points: 374 # Comments: 115
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Nourish: A New Wayland Compositor Powered By Vulkan With Infinite Scrolling/Panning
The newest Wayland compositor on the block is Nourish, it's a Vulkan-powered and its unique selling point is offering "infinite" zooming and panning to in effect provide an infinite workspace...
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...
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...
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...
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?
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."
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.
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.