Wednesday, 01 July 2026
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NASA may send a backup, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon
"That would be an awesome capability."
Google kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and more
Tenor still connects to Google apps, but other platforms must look elsewhere for GIFs.
Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM
With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall
Apple takes Epic fight over app store fees to the Supreme Court
Supreme Court will weigh if Apple contempt finding in Epic case is “erroneous.”
GraalVM CE 25.1.3 Gets Native Image "Hello World" Program Down To Just 6.5MB
GraalVM, the advanced JDK focused on ahead-of-time (AOT) Native Image compilation and since last year began shifting focus to more non-Java languages like Python and JavaScript, is out with its newest community feature release. GraalVM Community Edition 25.1.3 is now available with some interesting changes in tow...
Changing AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show
SEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings
New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea
Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.
Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools
29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are
Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet
They may not look as good, but Nano Banana 2 Lite images only take a few seconds to create.
RFK Jr. stacks FDA panel with peptide peddlers as FDA scientists oppose access
Peptide drugs are popular, but FDA scientists warn they're untested, may be harmful.
Fedora 45 Looks To Finally Offer Install Support For Stratis Storage
Ever since RHEL deprecated their short-lived Btrfs plans, Red Hat engineers over the past decade have been developing Stratis Storage as their storage management solution leveraging XFS, LUKS, DM, and their Rust-based daemon. While Stratis Storage has been available in Fedora Linux going all the way back to Fedora 28, until now there hasn't been the option of using it for the root file-system on…
Claude Sonnet 5
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736605 Points: 693 # Comments: 368
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I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025)
Article URL: https://gauthier-lechevalier.com/radar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736137 Points: 105 # Comments: 30
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Claude Science
Article URL: https://claude.com/product/claude-science Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735770 Points: 280 # Comments: 96
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Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors
A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.
Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe
Ex-employee claims this 'meets the definition of an insider threat'
Nano Banana 2 Lite
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash-lite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735444 Points: 240 # Comments: 88
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Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great
61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead
Linux 7.2 Features: Cache Aware Scheduling, USB4STREAM, AMD ISP4, AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL
Linux 7.2 is working toward release in August with its more than 43 million lines in the codebase. With Linux 7.2 there are many new changes in tow as summed up in today's feature overview.
New Linux Driver Posted To Enable Keyboard Support On M3 MacBooks
While Linux 7.2 introduces the ability to boot on Apple M3 Macs, it's not yet remotely useful for end-users wanting to use an Apple Mac/MacBook as their daily system. As it stands now, the M3 Macs boot to a simple console and that's about it with the lack of proper GPU acceleration and functionality like the keyboard on MacBooks not working either. Posted to the kernel mailing list today was the…
The US going 100% EV by 2040 would save more than 100k lives, study says
Much of it comes from heavy-duty trucks and buses that burn diesel.
AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution
DB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg
Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
Article URL: https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734373 Points: 1113 # Comments: 289
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Trump asked Musk for SpaceX stock to seed US kids’ savings accounts, report says
Sources suggest Musk may be mulling big donation to Trump Accounts.
Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows
Linux container CLI and API for Windows applications
What the OCI MSA didn't solve for AI scaling
PARTNER CONTENT: The OCI MSA settled the architecture for optical scale-up. How fast bandwidth scales is a manufacturing question, not an architectural one
KDE Plasma 6.7.2 Brings Fix For Most Common KWin Crash, Better Chromium Video Playback
KDE Plasma 6.7.2 is out today as the latest point release to deliver bug fixes for the Plasma 6.7 desktop that debuted earlier this month...
Arm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish
Even with lots of RAM, GPU, and fast disks, you probably don’t want it
AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, Improvements For Old GPUs & Other AMD Linux Highlights In Q2
With Q2'2026 drawing to a close, as part of the different quarterly recaps of popular areas on Phoronix, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news of the quarter...
UK regulator wants Apple and Google to let devs steer clear of app store fees
Proposals could open cheaper routes for purchases made through third parties
Florida bans local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals
Gov. Ron DeSantis calls it a crackdown on "radical climate policies."
Ars Live, today: The latest on 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.
Knoppix
Article URL: https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732056 Points: 211 # Comments: 89
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Canonical First Gold Sponsor Of Trifecta Tech For Building More Infrastructure In Rust
Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical continues making more inroads in the Rust infrastructure space. Canonical announced today they have become the first gold sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation that works on projects like sudo-rs for building more open infrastructure in the Rust programming language...
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852)
Article URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48731989 Points: 149 # Comments: 46
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Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size
Rolling back the years and the bloat for veteran text editor
Where there's a will, AI still has work to do
Probate lawyer finds generated document looked the part but missed many of the questions that matter
Raspberry Pi OS gets a new kernel but apparently not a new version number
Linux 6.18 arrives with a few desktop tweaks, while the neglected x86 edition remains stuck on Debian 11
Zluda 6 release (run unmodified CUDA applications on non-Nvidia GPUs)
Article URL: https://vosen.github.io/ZLUDA/blog/zluda-update-q1q2-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730713 Points: 131 # Comments: 12
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Intel Kills Off AMX-TF32 Support Before It Even Shipped In Diamond Rapids
Intel has dropped AMX-TF32 before its debut in Xeon Diamond Rapids. The latest Intel programming reference manual has dropped AMX-TF32 and Intel engineers are already moving ahead to strip out the AMX-TF32 support that existed in the GNU Compiler Collection...
Servo Browser Engine Continues Making Much Progress On Less Than $8k Monthly
Released last week was the Servo 0.3 browser engine release along with their latest Servoshell demo browser. Today the project has published their monthly development recap to highlight all of the interesting changes made. Here's a look at what they accomplished over the past month while doing so on less than $8k in monthly donations...
GCC 17 Compiler Lands SpacemiT X100 Core Targeting
The newest GCC 17 compiler code has landed support for -mcpu=spacemit-x100 and -mtune=spacemit-x100 targeting for the SpacemiT X100 RISC-V core...
No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle
Apple's final break with Chipzilla leaves another platform preparing to wind down support
HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track
Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station
Atlas shrugs: New UK asylum seeker IT system failed to help case workers learn from appeals
After several delays in development, Atlas went live without functionality Home Office case manager needed, inspectors say
How is AI changing datacenter network fabrics?
EXPLAINER AI workloads are overwhelming the traditional datacenter fabrics they run on. Here's what's replacing them.
Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings
Allows ISVs to put their names on the door so desirable bots always get in
South Korea’s hot new sensation is 3S+1F – a quadrillion-Won AI plan, not a band
Seoul plans to spend about $900 billion to become K-semiconductor powerhouse
India’s central bank mandated use of .bank domains to enhance trust – but its registry leaked sensitive info
Open API could reveal everything an attacker needs to impersonate bank officials
US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking spree
Operation by two Russia-state groups has been ongoing since at least March.
South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots
South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028.
Wine 11.12 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling & Other Wayland Enhancements
Wine 11.12 fell off the bi-weekly release rhythm with not making it out last Friday, but it managed to ship today. Wine 11.12 brings fractional scaling support to its Wayland driver and various other enhancements...
US renewable boom passes key milestone in April
Small-scale solar helped renewables hit nearly triple coal's generation in the US.
Supreme Court ruling guts government’s use of geofence warrants
SCOTUS falls short of deeming geofence warrants unconstitutional, though.
Next Bcachefs Release Aims To Include Rust Code In The Kernel Module
The Bcachefs file-system already makes use of the Rust programming language in the user-space tools for this CoW file-system and they have been planning to make use of Rust within the kernel module too. Beginning in the next Bcachefs release, v1.38.7, they are looking at beginning to include Rust code now in their kernel driver...
Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy
Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.
Ozone loss was a thing even before CFCs were widely used
With today’s scientific tools, the problem could have been spotted in the 1950s.
Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data
The EU wants Google to share search data with competitors and open up AI on Android, but Google alleges major privacy risks.
Quantum computing startup says it will leapfrog everybody
But the system would require a massive leap from any of its existing hardware.
Git 2.55 Released With Rust Support Enabled By Default, git history fixup
Git 2.55 is out today as the latest stable update to this distributed version control system...
Kalshi sues Illinois over new tax on prediction market sports bets
Illinois now a key battleground in fight over prediction market sports bets.
Linux 7.2 On Threadripper Shows Some Nice I/O Improvements & Faster Poll, Some Regressions
I have begun testing out Linux 7.2 on more hardware following the winding down of the merge window and culminating with yesterday's Linux 7.2-rc1 release. Today's tests are looking at how Linux 7.2 in its early development state is comparing to Linux 7.1 stable on AMD Ryzen Threadripper.
Microsoft Announces Public Preview For Linux Containers On WSL
Microsoft today shipped the first public preview of WSL Containers "WSLC" as their latest extension of the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11...
Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System
Red Hat senior software engineer Marcin Juszkiewicz of Red Hat's ARM Team had been dogfeeding with an AArch64 Linux desktop being used as his primary, personal system for nearly the past year. But now he shared he has gone back to using his AMD Ryzen desktop instead over AArch64 Linux issues encountered with his Ampere Altra desktop...
Infinity Scheduler Aims To Be A Better Linux Scheduler
The Infinity Scheduler is another attempt at improving the CPU scheduling behavior under Linux and created by the developer behind the existing "scx_flow" sched_ext scheduler. But Infinity Scheduler isn't taking the approach of using sched_ext and is rather patched into the Linux kernel in modifying CFS and RT behavior...
AMD Linux Patches Introduce New "Low Power" CPU Core Type
A new Linux kernel patch series posted to the kernel mailing list minutes ago is introducing a new "Low Power" CPU core type for AMD heterogeneous processors. The x86 topology code in the Linux kernel already supports the notion of Performance and Efficiency type cores while now a new "Low Power" core type is being introduced for AMD heterogeneous platforms...
ZLUDA v6 Gets PhysX Running Well On AMD GPUs But Loses Commercial Funding
ZLUDA as a reminder is the open-source project that began as drop-in CUDA support for Intel graphics hardware and then was quietly funded by AMD for years as a drop-in CUDA replacement on AMD GPUs that went open-source after losing funding. That was then taken down and since late 2024 ZLUDA then began focusing on multi-GPU CUDA focused on AI after beginning to receive funding from an unspecified…
TLAC Aims To Be An Open-Source Alternative To Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Systems
It's not clear that any games have yet to deploy this open-source anti-cheat system but TLAC is a new open-source project that aims to provide a privacy-respecting alternative to kernel-level anti-cheat systems like Denuvo, Easy Anti-Cheat, and BattlEye...
Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
Article URL: https://karolina.mgdubiel.com/drone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704289 Points: 295 # Comments: 65
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1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller
Article URL: https://www.ti.com/product/MSPM0C1104 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688685 Points: 125 # Comments: 85
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