Thursday, 02 July 2026
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T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit
T-Mobile wants Broadcom to keep supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.
KDE Linux Introduces "Developer Mode" Option, Easier Log Collection
With the start of the new month comes a new progress report on the KDE Linux distribution for the prior month. Even with KDE developers being busy to ship Plasma 6.7 in June, they still accomplished a lot when it comes to KDE Linux...
Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors
Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system
Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions
'We can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing'
Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied
'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg
NASA chief praises progress Blue Origin is making after launch failure
"We've got time into 2027 before we're getting nervous."
Fable 5 Is Back
Article URL: https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2072402636813607381 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752030 Points: 171 # Comments: 135
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ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM
Article URL: https://zcode.z.ai/cn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751752 Points: 223 # Comments: 113
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US home battery installations hit record high on rising electricity costs
Record home battery installations unlock options for grids—and AI data centers.
An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time
SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world
Superworms could replace beetles for cleaning skeletal remains
An optimal ratio of 10-15 grams of larvae per gram of specimen minimized cleaning time with no bone damage.
Sony announces end of PlayStation discs, parts of digital store in the same day
“We will own nothing, it's truly sad.”
A good little EV you won't be able to buy soon: The Volvo EX30 Cross Country
Tariffs and anti-China policies killed this little Volvo in the United States.
AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models
Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough
System76 Launches New Lemur Pro Laptop Powered By Intel Panther Lake
System76 today announced their new Lemur Pro high-end Linux laptop that is now powered by the Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs...
What to learn to be a graphics programmer
Article URL: https://blog.demofox.org/2026/07/01/what-to-learn-to-be-a-graphics-programmer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750710 Points: 148 # Comments: 65
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Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding
People trust their AI assistants and it's easy to abuse this trust
Ithaca's king defies the gods in final The Odyssey trailer
"You gods don't speak in ways we understand."
After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release
US lifts curbs on Anthropic’s advanced Fable and Mythos models.
NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade late
Starliner's certification may be delayed to 2027, 10 years later than Boeing's original schedule.
Linux 7.3 To Overcome "Significant Bottleneck" For Small I/O With PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs
While the Linux 7.2 feature merge window ended just days ago and the better part of two months now before v7.2 will be released as stable, there are already features beginning to accumulate that will target the Linux 7.3 cycle. The most exciting change I've seen to kick off that dance ahead of Linux 7.3 is addressing a "significant" bottleneck affecting small direct I/O performance with speedy…
NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight
Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule
AMD Sends Out Latest Linux Patches For RMPOPT Optimization
Earlier this year AMD disclosed the RMPOPT instruction that given the timing will seemingly be introduced with upcoming Zen 6 EPYC "Venice" processors. The RMPOPT feature amounts to a performance optimization for AMD EPYC SEV-SNP enabled servers by cutting down on the associated Reverse Map Table (RMP) overhead. Linux enablement of AMD RMPOPT remains ongoing and out this week is the latest…
How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster
Article URL: https://probelab.io/blog/optimistic-provide/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48748518 Points: 117 # Comments: 34
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A space history mystery: What happened to the Viking arm used 50 years ago?
A timely tale about a 50-year-old robotic arm...
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company.
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When backups aren't enough: the case for real disaster recovery
PARTNER CONTENT: The gap between having a backup and actually recovering from a disaster is wider than most IT teams realize
Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/sony-deletes-551-studiocanal-movies-playstation-owners-paid-for Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747389 Points: 427 # Comments: 195
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Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form
Fedora-derived server distro is ready for local testing, but production deployments should wait
For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
https://biotic.org/research/spudcell/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747304 Points: 598 # Comments: 208
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FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder
Article URL: https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,129691.0.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747116 Points: 196 # Comments: 71
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Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746914 Points: 199 # Comments: 111
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Glibc Introduces /etc/tunables.conf For System-Wide Tunables
Red Hat has contributed new system-wide tunables infrastructure to the GNU C Library "glibc" that allows specifying system-wide tunables via the new /etc/tunables.conf configuration file...
UK likely to intervene in Paramount takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery
The acquisition was approved without concessions by the Department of Justice in June.
RADV & RadeonSI Drivers See New Fixes For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs
Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues taking special focus on AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era GPUs for enhancing the open-source graphics driver support for these aging graphics cards...
Internal Combustion Engine (2021)
Article URL: https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746076 Points: 239 # Comments: 53
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Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages
Some crawlers gather data for both search and AI training, so when publishers block them to protect content they risk disappearning from search results ...
DRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites
AI server gold rush leaves budget laptops starving for chips as sub-$500 machines down nearly a fifth stateside
Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
Article URL: https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48745456 Points: 465 # Comments: 524
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Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
Article URL: https://box2d.org/posts/2026/06/announcing-box3d/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48745445 Points: 348 # Comments: 80
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Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills
But also claims XenServer 9 is great in the DaaS niche it retreated to a decade back
Brit competition cops fast-track £2B borging of Netomnia into Openreach challenger
Liberty Global, Telefónica, and InfraVia have grand designs on the UK fiber market
Scientists find no link between Tylenol and autism, again, after Trump warning
After Trump's claims, Tylenol usage dropped during pregnancies.
Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price
Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS target the security-conscious with deep pockets
GCC 16.2 Being Planned For Early August Release
For those that prefer waiting until the first bug-fix/point release before upgrading to a major new feature series, GCC 16.2 is being planned for an early August release for delivering back-ported bug fixes to the GCC 16 compiler...
Asahi Linux Fixes Booting With macOS 27, Progress On M3 & Apple Video Decode
The Asahi Linux project published a new blog post outlining recent development efforts in getting Apple Silicon hardware working with their downstream Linux distribution. There is ongoing work on bringing up Apple M3 support, fixing boot support for macOS 27 beta systems, Apple Video Decoder (AVD) support progress, and more...
Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses
https://www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email-vulnerability-re... , https://archive.vn/mCbBw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744606 Points: 218 # Comments: 48
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Arch Linux AUR Malware, Linux 7.2 Developments & Other June Highlights
Last month on Phoronix there were 294 original news articles and 18 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Beyond Phoronix.com turning 22 years old in June, there were also a lot of exciting Linux hardware and open-source software developments worth recapping...
ASUS ROG Strix Laptop Sees Driver Fix For Linux Performance Too Low Compared To Windows
With modern laptops, proper platform/WMI drivers are becoming more depended upon not only for supporting all typical functionality from keyboards to backlights and other handling, but also for achieving proper performance. For many laptop vendors, the Linux platform drivers are maintained by the open-source community and actual customers. The latest example of the challenges of the…
Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report
Article URL: https://asahilinux.org/2026/06/progress-report-7-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744518 Points: 507 # Comments: 182
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Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands
It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix
ZTE honored with two GeSI DWP Global Awards for Signal Reach Program in Africa
How the tech giant's "Rural Ecosystem" initiative is bridging the digital divide across 20+ nations with green connectivity and inclusive services
NVIDIA Working On New "TLV" Firmware Binary Format For Nova Driver
NVIDIA engineers have been developing a new binary format for their GPU firmware images for use with the in-development, open-source Nova kernel driver. With this new TLV binary firmware format it aims to be easier to parse by their Rust-based driver code...
UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies
Home Office deals with Deloitte and PA Consulting raise questions over Cabinet Office spending controls
Portuguese restaurant kiosk software gives Windows indigestion
Can't verify the publisher's identity? Maybe stick a fried egg on it?
Japan wants 10 million more robots by 2040, some providing medical care
We’ve learned so much cleaning up after Fukushima, let’s level that up with added AI, says minister
Former Indonesian minister and startup hero jailed for Chromebook buys
Nadiem Makarim vows to appeal sentence given he was found not to have profited from $600 million laptops-for-schools program
Performance Optimizations, NVIDIA Vera, Arc Pro B70 & Other Linux Highlights From Q2
As the last planned article on Phoronix of Q2, here is a look back at what excited readers the most in the second quarter. There were 872 original news articles this quarter as well as 54 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is what excited readers the most over these past three months...
COSMIC Epoch 1.2 Desktop Fixes Flickering Issues For Intel Graphics
Just a week after the COSMIC Epoch 1.1 release with its slick new system monitor, COSMIC Epoch 1.2 is now available for this Rust-based desktop developed by System76...
June research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
Also, the science of poop's distinctive shape, boron buckyballs, and the secret to a soccer feint.
Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com
Logged-out Old Reddit access is “significant source of abusive scraping."
Amazon blames piracy apps with malware for killing new Fire Stick sideloading
New Fire Stick OS helps Amazon block third-party homepage launchers, ad blockers.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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…
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…
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...
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...
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...
Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-06-newly-australian-ballista-spider-snare.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711052 Points: 239 # Comments: 58
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1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis
Article URL: https://hypertalking.com/2023/05/15/1-bit-pixel-art-emojis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672848 Points: 117 # Comments: 16
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