Tuesday, 07 July 2026
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Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode Now Working For Intel Alchemist GPUs On Linux
Earlier this year Vulkan Video encode was disabled on newer generations of Intel graphics hardware due to insufficient testing with the Intel ANV open-source driver. That impacted Gen12.5 graphics and newer - basically Alchemist and anything newer. Now at least Gen12.5 graphics with the likes of the Arc A-Series is seeing H.264 and H.265 encoding re-enabled...
Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma
Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM simulate a soup of molten salts and techno babble in pursuit of tritium
What's the oldest Americana flown in space?
From a Revolutionary War flag to the Statue of Liberty...
Software engineers can still rake in big bucks by working for fast-growing companies
AI's impact on tech business is complicated
Madlad builds homebrew GPU using 8,192 RISC-V chips
The next version will have 32,000 MCUs
Marek Olšák At Valve Lands RADV Code That Can "Double Performance" With Some VRS Cases
Longtime AMD Linux graphics driver expert Marek Olšák, who joined Valve earlier this year and now focusing more on RADV rather than the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, has seen some of his latest work now merged for Mesa 26.2. Marek landed a big overhaul to the variable rate shading (VRS) code that in some cases can double the performance...
CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps
Article URL: https://www.comaps.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808928 Points: 133 # Comments: 22
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GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues
A purported jab of Sony’s physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself.
OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
Article URL: https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808482 Points: 233 # Comments: 113
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NRC is (sort of) getting rid of "as low as reasonably achievable" standard
Its issues with current nuclear safety standards are termed semantic, not physical.
A global workspace in language models
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808002 Points: 155 # Comments: 46
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Katalyst's satellite rescue mission is now in pursuit of NASA's Swift
It will take several weeks for the Link spacecraft to rendezvous with NASA's Swift observatory.
EU urged to act after Pegasus infects phone of spyware inquiry MEP
Campaigners demand investigation and long-delayed action on PEGA Committee recommendations
Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic’s anti-surveillance stance
Anthropic accused of spying on users; engineer says “experiment” is over.
Samsung floats 2028 launch for seaborne datacenter
Korean megacorp sets itself a target date to commercialize watery server farm concept
The incredible shrinking Xbox: Five studios, 3,200 employees let go
Move affects ~20% of the gaming division, which will refocus on its biggest franchises.
Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams
Xbox chief says company can't afford to mistake longevity for inevitability
Kani: A Model Checker for Rust
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01504 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806410 Points: 108 # Comments: 5
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F1 in Britain: Automated software to blame for crushing expectations
Sometimes races finish behind a safety car, but it's not always satisfying.
Should DayQuil Be Legal?
Article URL: https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/should-dayquil-be-legal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806289 Points: 150 # Comments: 194
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There were not one, but two asteroid encounters this weekend
The Torifune asteroid turns out to be shaped like a peanut.
AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
Article URL: https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/06/amd-ryzen-ai-halo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805624 Points: 236 # Comments: 169
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AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap
128 GB of memory! In this economy?
Ryzen AI Developer Platform: AMD's Own Linux Distribution Built Atop Debian
With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform there is the option of ordering this Ryzen AI Max+ mini PC with either Microsoft Windows 11 or "Linux OS". When receiving a AMD Ryzen AI Halo review sample last month, I fully expected it to just be an Ubuntu LTS install with ROCm preloaded. I was quite surprised when powering it up to find that it's an OS called the AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform 1…
AMD Ryzen AI Halo Is An Excellent & Powerful Mini PC With Fully Open-Source Software
Earlier this year AMD announced the Ryzen AI Halo as their in-house mini PC offering built around their leading Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" platform. After pre-orders began last month, the Ryzen AI Halo is officially beginning to ship this week and over the past few weeks we have been testing it out at Phoronix.
Resetting Xbox
Article URL: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804993 Points: 376 # Comments: 318
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UK regulator warns of "arms race" to keep up with AI use in financial services
FCA official makes case for greater powers for watchdog as millions use technology for personal finance decisions.
Europe's new import rules are coming for your bargains
Good news if you're an OEM printer maker, EU retail biz, or a customs official... but hobbyists and others less pleased
Aluminum foil (2021)
Article URL: https://dernocua.github.io/notes/aluminum-foil.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804297 Points: 210 # Comments: 101
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Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More
Going back to early May there were patches for improving the Linux scheduler to help with gaming performance on old "potato" hardware by providing better cgroup scheduling. Those patches, referred to as the "flatten the pick" patch series, are now slated for introduction in the Linux 7.3 kernel...
Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries
Article URL: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Support/Nintendo-Switch-2/Information-about-upcoming-battery-related-revisions-to-some-Nintendo-products-3132901.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804193 Points: 287 # Comments: 175
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Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble
Oracle's down more than 40% this month, the BIS thinks AI could destroy the economy, and we've got the Kettle on for a chat about the whole mess
Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability
Article URL: https://andonlabs.com/blog/fable5-vending-bench Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803762 Points: 159 # Comments: 113
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Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters
Up to 150 more stores to get the 'Orwellian' tech by year's end
Intel i915 Driver Nearly Ready To "Work Well" With RT Linux Kernel Sans Display Support
When it comes to the real-time "RT" patches carried outside of the Linux kernel, a number of them pertain to adjustments around the Intel i915 kernel DRM graphics driver. The mainline Linux kernel and its RT support depend upon not building "PREEMPT_RT" for the i915 driver support while patches have been worked on recently for making this Intel kernel graphics driver code play nicely with…
Road to Elm 1.0
Article URL: https://elm-lang.org/news/faster-builds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803364 Points: 279 # Comments: 129
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Bentley teases its first EV, the Torcal
The new model will be officially unveiled in late September.
The Czinger 21C might be the wildest car we drive all year
This hybrid V8 has organic-looking 3D-printed components and shatters lap records.
Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert
ShinyHunters leaks names, addresses, DOBs, and more after Christian college discloses cyberattack
Canonical On Making Ubuntu For ARM64 "Truly A First-Class Architecture"
The Ubuntu Foundations Engineering Manager, Ravi Kant Sharma, with Canonical has provided an update regarding the current ARM64 state on Ubuntu Linux...
Pioneer DJM-S11 Professional DJ Mixer To Be Supported By Linux 7.3
The Pioneer DJM-S11 is a professional scratch style 2-channel DJ mixer that retails for $2,269 USD. But if currently connecting this expensive piece of kit to Linux, it does nothing and is unusable. With 87 new lines of code, it will begin to work with the Linux 7.3 kernel later this year...
Uniwill Laptop Driver Preparing A Number Of Features For Linux 7.3
The Unwill laptop driver on Linux for supporting various device-specific features by that major OEM/ODM will be seeing several new features with the Linux 7.3 cycle later this year. One of the most notable users of the Unwill driver is Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers...
Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network
Article URL: https://www.map.signalbox.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802535 Points: 358 # Comments: 135
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Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool
Modula-based source code resurfaces after nearly four decades
Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...
Barney Rubble points to bubble trouble
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code
Who wrote this rubbish? Oh ...
Japan’s asteroid sample retriever rapidly buzzes remote space rock
Zipped just 800m past Asteroid Torifune as part of very extended mission
Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again
SCO's legal successor Xinuos asks legal brains to let it bite IBM over ancient license and copyright claims
D7VK's Performance Gains Since Its Inception For Older Direct3D Versions On Linux
In addition to Sunday's release of DXVK 3.0.1, D7VK 1.12 was separately released as the latest version of this implementation for Direct3D 7 and older atop the Vulkan API...
EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister’s bank account
PLUS: India attacks Uber; South Korea warned AI boom is dangerous; Scuba-diving cyborg cockroach; and more!
Linux 7.2-rc2 Released: "Things Look Very Normal"
Linux 7.2-rc2 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 release in August...
DXVK 3.0.1 Released With More Game Fixes, Other Improvements
Following the release of DXVK 3.0 from late June that brought several big changes, DXVK 3.0.1 is out today with shipping various game fixes and other improvements to this important piece of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D Windows games on Linux...
MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage
Financial institutions are putting their clients at risk in the name of convenience.
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability
Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched
Chemical accidents rise as Trump administration proposes weakening safety rules
Chemicals from accidents that injured or killed people increased by nearly 50 percent in recent years.
The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth's first crust
The heat of the Hadean may have come from impacts as well as the interior.
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Project Now Capable Of Running Half-Life 2
One month ago it was exciting to see the open-source ReactOS operating system running Valve's Half-Life game. Little to realize less than 30 days later it would also be running Half-Life 2...
AMD Begins Staging Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.3
In addition to Intel beginning to volley graphics driver patches for Linux 7.3, this week AMD also began sending out their pull requests of "new stuff" to DRM-Next for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...
Intel Preparing Linux For IPU8 Web Camera Support With Nova Lake Laptops
More Linux kernel patches have been surfacing that confirm next-gen, high-end Nova Lake laptops will feature IPU8 image processing capabilities...
OpenRazer 3.12.4 Fixes Compatibility With Linux 7.2
OpenRazer 3.12.4 is now available as the newest update to these out-of-tree, unofficial Linux drivers for Razer devices. OpenRazer when paired with the likes of Polychromatic or other GUI options is what makes for a nice experience running Razer gaming peripherals under Linux...
FEX 2607 Optimizing For Yet-To-Be-Released ARM 256-bit SVE2 Hardware
The FEX Emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 software on ARM64 (AArch64) systems, including the likes of Wine / Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Windows gaming on ARM, is out with its newest monthly feature release. The Valve-backed project for running x86_64 games and other software on ARM for the upcoming Steam Frame and other more typical ARM Linux systems has been baking more…
Review: Supergirl is not the disaster its low box office suggests
It’s a pretty good movie, but it needed to be a great movie to thrive in an oversaturated superhero market.
Linux DRM Scheduler Patches Yield Massive Improvement For Job Submission Latency
A set of patches to the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) scheduler that is shared among different kernel graphics drivers is showing the potential of delivering much lower job submission latency when the system is loaded with many runnable CPU processes...
4K @ 60 FPS USB Video Capture Finally Becomes Less Problematic On Linux
One area of Linux hardware testing I haven't explored much in many years has been modern USB video capture for the lack of said hardware. The last time I did much video capturing on Linux was during the Hauppauge PCI card days. It turns out though that USB video capture of 4K 60 FPS content has been a pain point under Linux but is finally smoothing out with newer versions of the Linux kernel...
Phoronix Premium Summer Sale To Help Support Linux Hardware Testing
For those that missed Phoronix turning 22 years old last month when running a special to help support the site, a few readers mentioned recently they missed out on seeing the deal in time. Paired with the US Independence Day holiday and summer sales elsewhere, now through 10 July is a Phoronix Premium summer sale if wishing to view the site ad-free while supporting the daily open-source/Linux…
When the ability to smell goes away
Disturbances in this critical sense are often linked to problems with brain health.
A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why
Biology could explain the find, but there are other potential explanations.
Egypt Is Building a New Nile
Article URL: https://www.theb1m.com/video/egypt-is-building-a-new-nile Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779274 Points: 103 # Comments: 34
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Rocket Report: Indian startup nears first launch; SpaceX's millenary milestone
NASA awarded Rocket Lab deals for three dedicated launches using the company's Electron rocket.
Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech
New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline.
Despite the darkness, I still see signs of hope in America
It's difficult to pinpoint the moment in my life where America started to lose the plot.
Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR
Walkthrough experience includes visits to stars, exoplanets, and observatories.
Wing Commander IV and the FMV future that never quite was
C:\ArsGames takes a look at the time Chris Roberts more or less made a whole movie.
Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys
Article URL: https://clojure.org/news/2026/07/02/clojure-1-13-alpha1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767211 Points: 165 # Comments: 36
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Introduction to Genomics for Engineers
Article URL: https://learngenomics.dev/docs/biological-foundations/cells-genomes-dna-chromosomes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760424 Points: 210 # Comments: 34
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