Friday, 03 July 2026
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Companies that add more AI also add more people
But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs
Exapunks (2018)
Article URL: https://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48765663 Points: 142 # Comments: 50
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Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack
Don't count on the LLM to return your data - even if you pay up
EFS File-System Slated For Removal With Linux 7.3 After 20+ Years Unmaintained
The EFS file-system was used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and disk partitions on SGI IRIX before IRIX 6.0 switched over to XFS. Inside the Linux kernel has been a read-only EFS file-system driver without a maintainer for 20+ years while for Linux 7.3 it's expected to be removed...
FAA proposal: Supersonic airliners can fly over US cities if they’re quiet
New US rules would legalize quiet supersonic flights without the sonic boom.
SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training
Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building
Ars Live recap: When are the big rockets NASA desperately needs going to be ready?
I have not seen anyone put out a date for a new rocket, and actually hit it.
Plex debuts 5-year membership pass for $250
Plex is pushing customers to newer features and more frequent payments.
Africa CDC confirms Marburg case in Uganda as Ebola outbreak rages
Early reports indicate there may be another case, but spread is thought to be localized.
Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery
Browser game teaches Vim's famously unintuitive movement commands to keep your hands on the keyboard
Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division
It only works for a few divisions thanks to a lot of added materials.
Google loses long-running appeal of record EU fine, will have to cough up $4.7 billion
The EU went after Google for the practice of bundling its search engine and browser with Android.
SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI
Enterprise software giant confirms it's 'applying discipline' when it comes to hiring and business trips as tries to keep pace
Ctrl+Alt+Oops: FortiBleed criminal's logins stitch two gangs together
Researchers scoured logs, finding opsec fail for at least one person who was working with INC and Lynx simultaneously
Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory
Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@iblech/116769502749142438 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763035 Points: 327 # Comments: 162
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Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders’ target
Insiders say Sam Altman is in active talks with the Trump administration.
Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially Dropping It
When AI/LLM agents are used in the creation of Linux kernel patches, the policy for a while now has been that it should be specified using an "Assisted-by" tag as part of the patches/commits. But Linux kernel developers this week have been discussing whether to revise that policy or to potentially eliminate it...
Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
Article URL: https://clashreport.com/world/articles/spain-orders-blacklist-of-us-tech-giant-palantir-from-public-and-private-companies-fsnc2z17gjv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48762725 Points: 408 # Comments: 124
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Microsoft said exploitation was 'less likely' ... but CISA just added SharePoint RCE to KEV list
Attackers need little more than a valid SharePoint account to execute code on vulnerable on-prem servers
Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC
FTC urged to reject Elon Musk’s bid to end X monitoring amid AI concerns.
Podman v6.0.0
Article URL: https://blog.podman.io/2026/07/introducing-podman-v6-0-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48762098 Points: 224 # Comments: 85
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Tesla sales increase by 25% in Q2 2026
Deliveries outstripped production, suggesting Tesla has cleared some inventory.
RISC-V RVV Vector Performance Benchmarks With The SpacemiT K3 SoC
Since May we have been benchmarking the SpacemiT K3 RISC-V SoC as one of the first to market RISC-V chips supporting the RVA23 profile. The SpacemiT K3 has shown how far RISC-V performance has come in the past half decade and one of the promising elements of this modern RISC-V SoC with its X100/A100 cores is supporting the RISC-V Vector Extension "RVV" 1.0. In this article are some initial…
Woman's hip replacement disintegrates, causing severe metal poisoning
Doctors find grey fluid and dead, metallic flesh inside poisoned woman's hip.
AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules
Article URL: https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/technology/20260306-314930/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761536 Points: 311 # Comments: 170
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The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
Article URL: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/crime-pays-the-egg-bandits-made-a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761229 Points: 379 # Comments: 181
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How to ask for help from people who don't know you
Article URL: https://pradyuprasad.com/writings/how-to-ask-for-help/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761118 Points: 283 # Comments: 39
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Intel Posts Initial GCC Compiler Patches For AI Compute Extensions "ACE"
The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group led by Intel and AMD recently firmed up the AI Compute Extensions (ACE) specification for optimizing x86 for AI computation tasks around matrix multiplication and the like for machine learning workloads. The cross-vendor ACE extension is ultimately a successor to Intel's Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Posted to the GCC mailing list today by Intel engineers are…
Pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic warns patients cybercrooks may have swiped health data
Company that also makes insulin pumps and other devices tells users what was exposed months after ShinyHunters attack
Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support & Other Features
One month ago we reported on YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust with the help of Claude Code. Since then YSERVER has continued to advance in supporting more X11 functionality thanks to the help of Claude Code (AI) and out today is version 1.3 o this display server...
Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01232 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760201 Points: 124 # Comments: 29
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KDE Plasma Affected By Arbitrary Code Execution To Break Sandboxes With "Open New Window"
A security disclosure has been made public today for a yet-to-be-patched arbitrary code execution vulnerability with the KDE Plasma desktop...
India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears
Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators
The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain
Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/115096720350507897 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759870 Points: 288 # Comments: 154
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PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
Article URL: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759634 Points: 382 # Comments: 169
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Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
Google tries balancing AI data center emissions with clean energy efforts.
Oracle E-Business Suite was under attack via critical flaw before the public exploit code was even released
Attackers appear to have reverse-engineered Big Red's patch
Linux Looking To Retire A Number Of Old ARM Platforms In Early 2027
It's not only old x86 i486 CPU support being removed from the Linux kernel but a number of older ARM platforms and features are on the chopping block too. A proposal has been laid out for deprecating and then removing a number of outdated ARM platforms and features from the Linux kernel in early 2027...
FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan APV Encoder
Back in May the FFmpeg project introduced Vulkan-accelerated decoding for the APV video format. The Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec was being handled using Vulkan shaders in a similar way to how FFmpeg implemented Vulkan acceleration for Apple ProRes. Now there is Vulkan-accelerated APV encoding too...
Editorial: It's time to step up and have your say for science
Your comments on a dangerous rule putting politicals in charge of science can matter.
Rusticl OpenCL Driver Improving Hardware Utilization In Mesa 26.2
Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst has landed his latest optimization work to Rusticl in Mesa 26.2. The latest effort for this Rust-based OpenCL driver that works across Gallium3D drivers is around better hardware utilization...
JPEG-XL libjxl 0.12 Brings More Performance Optimizations
A new release of libjxl is now available for this reference implementation of the JPEG-XL image format, including both image encode and decode support...
Box3D Debuts As New Open-Source 3D Physics Engine
Erin Catto who has been developing the Box2D 2D physics engine for games announced the release of Box3D. Box3D is now providing a new open-source 3D physics engine that is forked off from the Box2D code...
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer
Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error
UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse
Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues
The fall of the theorem economy
Article URL: https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-the-theorem-economy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758048 Points: 228 # Comments: 98
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Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access
Fortunately, they were professional red teamers. Unfortunately, they pwned the network
Trouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore
Alleged illicit GPU movements lead to seizure of $42 million house
Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-01-kimi-k2-7-is-now-available-in-github-copilot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756602 Points: 387 # Comments: 162
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Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
Article URL: https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755965 Points: 1519 # Comments: 628
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New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch
They're 90 percent human in some ways, can provide daily companionship psychological support
Fedora Council Seeks To Shutdown Current Discussions Over AI Developer Desktop
Stemming from the widely varying views over the recent Fedora proposal for an "AI Developer Desktop" catering to running local AI and machine learning workloads in pre-configured environments with a seamless hardware-accelerated experience, the Fedora Council issued a statement this evening to effectively shutdown discussions for now over a Fedora AI Developer Desktop and to pause the Fedora…
Steam On Linux Usage Receded A Bit In June
Back in March Steam on Linux use shot up to 5.33% as a big 3.1% improvement over February. In April it dropped to 4.52% and then fell to 3.99% in May. Valve just published the Steam Survey numbers for June and it points to another minor setback from the recent all-time high of Steam on Linux...
Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI
Risk factors galore
EvilTokens device-code phishing kit totally more evil than we all thought
It's a 'complete BEC operations environment,' Talos researcher says
Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy
Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity
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'
NASA chief praises progress Blue Origin is making after launch failure
"We've got time into 2027 before we're getting nervous."
US home battery installations hit record high on rising electricity costs
Record home battery installations unlock options for grids—and AI data centers.
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.
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...
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.
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…
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…
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...
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...
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...
German button maker searched rivers of American Midwest for valuable shells
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-one-german-button-maker-searched-the-rivers-of-the-american-midwest-for-the-shells-that-could-make-him-a-fortune-180989012/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702006 Points: 117 # Comments: 39
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