Wednesday, 15 July 2026
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COSMIC Epoch 1.3 Released With New Frosted Glass Option
For those that were intrigued by the COSMIC desktop's "Frosted Glass" effect, it's now available in released form with today's COSMIC Epoch 1.3 release...
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.
Trump admin puts Americans in Congo on "do-not-board" list, barring return
Citizens must now spend 21 days in a third country before they are allowed to come home.
Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs
Remember when last month's 206 CVEs seemed eye-watering? Yeah, those were the days
Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic
Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages
FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System
As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired...
Probe into explosive diarrheal cases points to Taco Bell and bad lettuce
Federal officials have not confirmed a source yet—and there may be multiple sources.
BOSGAME VTA-439: A Great, Linux-Friendly Mini PC Powered By AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
For those that were intrigued by the recent launch of the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform with a very capable mini PC but looking for something more affordable and not needing quite as much horsepower or AI focus, BOSGAME recently launched their VTA-439 mini PC. The BOSGAME VTA-439 is powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 with Radeon 890M graphics for those wanting still quite a capable mini…
New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts
50 MW-plus bit barn builds on hold while Empire State hashes out rules to protect the environment and ratepayers
US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time
US military’s drone boats struck an Iranian naval port as war heats up again.
Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left
Article URL: https://mindgard.ai/blog/cursor-0day-when-full-disclosure-becomes-the-only-protection-left Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910676 Points: 201 # Comments: 83
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Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
Article URL: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-27b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910545 Points: 358 # Comments: 136
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These painted e-tattoos could be the future of wearable biosensors
Conductive ink is painted directly onto the skin in colorful custom designs, drying into working electrodes.
The Tower Keeps Rising
Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/the-tower-keeps-rising/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909785 Points: 305 # Comments: 150
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DeepMind bigbrain calls for America to set AI standards before it's too late
Industry, regulate thyself
Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
Article URL: https://marco-nett.de/blog/measuring-input-latency-on-linux-x11-vs-wayland-vrr-dxvk/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909424 Points: 335 # Comments: 215
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Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI
The new Google image search will use your "unique interests" to create an always-updated gallery.
Blender 5.2 LTS Released With Many Great Enhancements
Blender 5.2 is out today as the newest Long Term Support release for this leading, open-source 3D modeling software...
Welsh Doxbin admin jailed for egging on swatters from behind a screen
Callum Dare encouraged others to carry out dangerous hoaxes, made mini-movies from the footage
Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they're... quite good
Who are you, and what have you done with Microsoft?
System76 Launches New Adder Pro Laptop With NVIDIA GPU, 2K OLED & Up To 96GB RAM
System76 today announced their new Adder Pro laptop that they are promoting as the "gamer's dream machine" with its NVIDIA graphics, 2K OLED 500 nit display, up to 96GB RAM, and 3.37 lb weight...
Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works
This came from an idea that had been knocking around in my head for several years. I had been collecting opening lines of famous works and thought it would be cool to see one everyday as I opened the browser. I tried different styles but landed on the simple background with the text, let the words speak for themselves.
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I'm a USB-C Maximalist
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-a-usb-c-maximalist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908214 Points: 130 # Comments: 223
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Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
Article URL: https://www.artfish.ai/p/offloading-thinking-to-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908178 Points: 353 # Comments: 355
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New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry
New York’s data center moratorium may become the blueprint for anti-AI movement.
RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet
HFI proposes a familiar PC-style route from power-on to operating system
IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value
CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing'
Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy
Solar observatory awaits a new launch date after its original ride hit booster trouble
Linux Foundation's Latest Foray Is To Standardize Internet-Native Payments For AI Agents
There is yet-another-foundation being stewarded by the Linux Foundation that further broadens its scope outside of the typical Linux/open-source umbrella. Today the Linux Foundation announced the launch of the x402 Foundation for aiming to standardize Internet-native payments for AI agents and applications...
Boomers, not Gen Z, are the generation cutting back most on alcohol
New research overturns assumption that abstinent younger drinkers are behind weak demand.
Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Proposed For GlandaGPU: An Open-Source Soft GPU Core
A new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver has been sent out for GlandaGPU, an open-source custom 3D graphics core designed in VHDL and running on FPGA hardware...
Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole
'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'
Intel IGC 2.38.2 Brings Latest Round Of Graphics Compiler Improvements
Ahead of the next Intel Compute Runtime release, IGC 2.38.2 was released today as the newest feature update to this open-source graphics compiler used by Intel iGPU/dGPU hardware on both Windows and Linux...
Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them
'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes
Human did 10% of the job, AI did 90%
Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers
Mozilla, Proton, Tor warn ministers that targeting the tech risks creating more problems than it solves
Intel Vulkan Driver Now Supports H.265 10-bit Video Encoding
Hyunjun Ko with Igalia continues advancing the Vulkan Video capabilities of the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems...
How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
Article URL: https://jola.dev/posts/how-to-stop-claude-from-saying-load-bearing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48905248 Points: 404 # Comments: 464
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Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites
Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide
Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly
Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan
Linux Dealing With Apple's Wild Mess Of Sensors On Apple Silicon SoCs
While there has been the Apple System Management Controller "SMC" hardware monitoring driver with the intent on exposing battery/power stats as well as thermal and more for Apple Silicon SoCs on Linux, it hasn't yet been working out properly on the mainline kernel. Between missing Device Tree nodes to the hodgepodge mess of sensors between the different Apple M-Series SoCs, it's a mess...
Haiku Merges NVMM For Initial Virtualization Support, But It Doesn't Yet Fully Work
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their June 2026 status report. In the past month the developers merged their NVMM VM monitor support, hardware driver improvements, and progressed toward the upcoming Haiku sixth beta release...
India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch
Gaganyaan was supposed to fly in 2022 and make the country only the fourth to put people into orbit
"Light" GRUB Alternative Package For Confidential Computing Approved For Fedora 45
A month ago there was a change proposal raised for offering a "light" version of the GRUB2 bootloader for use in confidential computing environments. While there were some differing views on the matter for this alternative, stripped-down GRUB package as opposed to just using other bootloaders like systemd-boot, ultimately, the proposal is now approved...
Weston 16.0 Compositor Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Fixes
Overnight the Weston 16.0 release occurred as the latest milestone for this reference Wayland compositor...
How do you solve a problem like Capita?
Bringing troubled contracts in-house requires skills Whitehall is already struggling to recruit
Ministers arm under-16s social media ban with least surprising study of the year
Boffins confirm: taking away teens' phone makes them act like humans again
Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing
Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored
Big Blue thinks small, again, with POWER tower
The last proprietary minicomputer, now in ‘deskside’ form if you fancy that
SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week
This flight will put Starship under higher pressure and test out new Starlink satellites in orbit.
New Linux Patches Aim To Better Handle Multiple Swap Devices
For those having Linux systems with multiple swap devices, such as for swap tiering or layered swap handling, a set of patches posted today for the Linux kernel are looking to improve the situation...
US continues to shun Ebola-infected citizens; second American sent to Germany
The man is said to be doing well in a Frankfurt hospital.
The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
With residential proxies all the rage, CISA urges router users to be vigilant.
Ukrainian drone strikes forced Russia to stop shipping in vital sea corridor
Ukraine’s drone blitz halted Russia’s Sea of Azov shipping in under a week.
California creates $3,500 rebate for new electric vehicle buyers
There's a separate $1,750 rebate for used EVs, but both rebates have a price cap.
Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets
OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.
Solution to Feynman's reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to "silly sprinklers"
New study confirms 2024 "momentum flux theory" on how angular momentum of water flows drives rotation.
States sue to block Paramount/WBD merger that was approved by Trump admin
AG: Deal will bring "higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and TV."
Tom Cruise is utterly transformed in Digger trailer
"If we can't control the force of nature, at least we can control the narrative."
Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows
The biggest smartphone makers keep on trucking in the face of component shortages and economic uncertainty.
Graviton5 Outperforming Intel Xeon Granite Rapids But Falls Short Of AMD EPYC Turin
Following the recent GA of the AWS M9g series as the first instances powered by the new Graviton5 CPUs, I recently ran benchmarks looking at Graviton4 vs. Graviton5 CPU performance. There was very nice generational gains for the new AWS Graviton processors with the shift from Arm Neoverse-V2 to Neoverse-V3 cores and from DDR5-5600 to DDR5-8800 memory, among other improvements.
Colorado will decide whether a "right to natural gas" is added to state constitution
The amendment would restrict building codes that promote electrification.
FreeBSD Desktop Installer Option Working Through NVIDIA Driver Handling, Licensing
Alfonso Siciliano, who has been one of the FreeBSD developers leading the effort on adding a KDE-based desktop option to the FreeBSD installer, provided an update on recent work around adding integrating this desktop option...
GNOME OS Creating "Test Center" As Its Take On Apple TestFlight For Experiment Software
GNOME developers working on GNOME OS have received funding from Germany's Prototype Fund to work on creating the GNOME OS "Developer Tool Suite" or also tentatively called their "Test Center" to help in testing experimental applications/libraries in a modern Linux computing world with systemd-sysext, Buildstream, and other newer tech...
Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3
Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...
Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU Driver Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel
While the Raspberry Pi 5 is already over two and a half years old, one of the missing elements of its support from the mainline Linux kernel has been the IOMMU driver. We are now seeing Raspberry Pi's downstream IOMMU driver being adapted for mainline with hopes of getting it into the upstream kernel...
Cloud Hypervisor 53 Released With Offloaded Snapshot/Restore Daemon
Cloud Hypervisor 53.0 is now available for this open-source, Rust-based VMM focused on cloud workloads and modern security needs. Originally started at Intel, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing new development these days by Microsoft, Meta, Arm, and other organizations...
Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE
Hello HN, I don't post on here much, but wanted to get some eyes on a new project I'm just launching. I think we definitely need one more AI code agent.. I'm a long-term C++ dev, and over 30+ years I've created some successful audio dev tools (JUCE, the Tracktion DAW, the Cmajor DSP language).
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The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB
Article URL: https://2b2t.place/1million Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872401 Points: 139 # Comments: 43
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Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
Article URL: https://danq.me/2026/07/09/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48869989 Points: 679 # Comments: 420
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