Friday, 17 July 2026
73 stories filed.
We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere
If the large, rocky planet is losing helium, then we can infer what is left behind.
FreeBSD Intern Working On Porting AMD ROCm To The BSD World
An intern with the FreeBSD Foundation is working on porting AMD's ROCm compute stack to run on this popular BSD environment...
EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids
The Chocolate Factory is not amused
Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning
Article URL: https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936880 Points: 100 # Comments: 75
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OnePlus confirms shutdown in the US and Europe, ending months of speculation
OnePlus promises to continue supporting the phones it has already released.
AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You
Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year
Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.
"We will likely have similar concerns and discussions when China fields its Starlink-like constellation."
Decoy Font
Article URL: https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936584 Points: 212 # Comments: 71
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NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936451 Points: 141 # Comments: 81
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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Article URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936426 Points: 336 # Comments: 80
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Wayland 1.26 Released With New Pointer Warp Event
Simon Ser just announced the stable release of the Wayland 1.26 release...
Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom
Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.
Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility
Neverclick avoids being limited to certain apps by ditching accessibility APIs for a quick, lightweight computer vision model.
C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest
Newly documented stealer ClickLock comes for the more trusting Mac user with spot of social engineering
Microsoft Goes Nostalgic In Newest Open-Source Drop: Comic Chat Open-Sourced After 30 Years
Introduced in 1996 with Internet Explorer 3.0, Microsoft Comic Chat provided comic-like avatars driven IRC chat client. After 30 years, this proprietary IRC chat client that was removed in Internet Explorer 6.0, is now open-source software...
NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one
Blue Origin and SpaceX get their turn to prove they can dock, loiter, and not blow up the launch pad
Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds
NTSB findings back Elon Musk's claim that driver manually overrode FSD.
Kimi K3 is now live
Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342 Points: 696 # Comments: 388
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Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push
Total of 900 applications including ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems going to be kept 'under European control'
Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode
Article URL: https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/goes-19-safe-hold Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48934286 Points: 129 # Comments: 65
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AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Linux Performance
Today the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D goes on sale as the lowest-price AMD 3D V-Cache processor being marketed for gamers. This 8-core / 16-thread processor features a 4.5GHz boost clock and a total of 104MB of cache while being based on the older Zen 4 architecture and coming in at about $329 USD. Here is a look at how the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D is performing on Linux.
Brit Scattered Spider duo handed tickets to prison over Transport for London attack
Sentencing bookends the biggest cybercrime conviction in UK history
Linux Floppy Driver For Apple's Super Woz Integrated Machine "SWIM" In Old Macs Improved
This is quite unexpected and was not on my bingo card for this year or even decade... The Linux driver for the floppy disk controller in Apple's legacy Super Woz Integrated Machine (SWIM) saw a large set of patches today for improving its performance and delivering various fixes...
Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/sony-deletes-a-bunch-more-movies-from-the-accounts-of-people-who-bought-them/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933419 Points: 492 # Comments: 300
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AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding
Low-carbon projects reap accidental windfall as billions chase compute infrastructure
Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure
Article URL: https://onatm.dev/2026/07/16/homescale-part-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933303 Points: 123 # Comments: 18
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How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
Article URL: https://rtfeldman.com/rust-to-zig Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933149 Points: 313 # Comments: 171
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Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due
One in six machines still run the old OS as migration stalls and patch deadlines creep closer
Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback
Xona aims to deploy 258 satellites into low-Earth orbit as a GPS alternative.
SpaceX open sources Grok Build in same week company was found beaming users' repos to the cloud
AI-and-X subsidiary now claims to offer ‘complete user privacy’ days after Elon Musk confirmed the data would be deleted
AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites
Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery
Ente – Opening Our Books
Article URL: https://ente.com/open/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48932697 Points: 200 # Comments: 72
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New Linux Driver Improving Support For GETAC Rugged Laptops
GETAC manufactures a line of rugged/semi-rugged laptops for use in the public safety, defense, industrial manufacturing, oil and gas, and other industries. While shipping with Microsoft Windows out-of-the-box, a new driver has been proposed as GETAC MPMD as a minimal ACPI driver for improving support for these GETAC rugged laptops. In particular, the driver will allow the various programmable…
OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
Article URL: https://community.oneplus.com/thread/2170715118587871237 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48932539 Points: 474 # Comments: 268
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Telegram shortlinks knocked offline over sanctioned VPN connection
t.me borked for a day until platform proved it had no ties to service favored by cybercriminals
Ubuntu Kernel Team Warns Of Temporary AMD GPU Performance Regression Up To 42x
The Ubuntu Kernel Team issued a statement this morning to proactively warn Ubuntu Linux users on Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS HWE users that the next kernel point release will contain a performance regression for AMD GPUs in compute-heavy workloads with up to a 42x performance hit. The positive news is that due to this being an upstream regression in a Linux 7.0 point release, upstream…
Imagination PowerVR BXM-4-64 GPU Firmware Upstreamed For The T-Head TH1520
Now in the upstream linux-firmware.git centralized repository is the firmware binary needed for enabling the Imagination Tech PowerVR BXM-4-64 Rogue GPU found with the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 SoC...
How to teach an old Intel Mac new tricks with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Why to do it, and what to watch out for
Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all
Using the admin password, you could be anyone and see anything
Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas
It’s possible to leak PII describing 5.7 million people without breaching privacy rules
Even HP resellers thought the price of toner and ink was too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel
Regulator fines PC and printer giant for rigged tender bids and collusion
The lost joy of music piracy
Article URL: https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930454 Points: 740 # Comments: 489
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AMD ROCm 7.14 Announced As New Production Release, Ryzen AI 400 Series Support
As a follow-up to the article over ROCm 7.14 being tagged, AMD has formally announced the availability of ROCm 7.14 and it's their new production release rather than being a tech preview...
Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC
The Colonel stops taking online orders and may close stores after logistics partner’s systems go down
AMD ROCm 7.14 "TheRock" Tech Preview Tagged For Latest AMD GPU Compute Stack
AMD's software team appears to be busy getting ready for next week's Advancing AI event happening next week in San Francisco. In addition to the release today of the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, TheRock 7.14 was also tagged as the modern build system for ROCm working on the latest tech preview releases of this open-source AMD GPU compute stack...
Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open
Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs
Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there
Union wants to halt a "perpetual cycle" of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining.
Cadence's AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, advanced packaging design
One-two punch offers a glimpse of how low-precision AI can complement high-precision simulations
Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon
While an impressive sale, the pen and switch did not break records.
Sheetz is quitting VMware, migrating 11,000 virtual machines
The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.
Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation
Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.
Mesa 26.2-rc1 Released In Ending Feature Work For This Quarter's 3D Graphics Stack
Mesa 26.2 was branched today from Mesa Git and in turn Mesa 26.3-devel is now open on mainline...
Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park
Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.
Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2
Retail foundation leader Dave Treadwell takes over as senior leader and 19-year vet Dave Brown departs for pastures unknown
Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches
HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.
AMD Releases Lemonade 11.0 Local AI Server With Text-To-Speech, Other New Features
Ahead of the AMD Advancing AI event next week, today AMD released Lemonade 11.0 as the latest feature release of their local AI server supporting AMD Ryzen CPUs, AMD Radeon GPUs, and AMD Ryzen AI NPU acceleration...
FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs
FCC chairman claims power to repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
In memoriam: 7 of our favorite Sam Neill films
The actor, who starred in 1993's Jurassic Park , died Monday in Sydney, Australia, at the age of 78.
Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn
With the settlement withdrawn, Google is now bound by the court's full antitrust remedies.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 vs. CachyOS Performance On A $5399 Laptop
Earlier this month on Phoronix I reviewed the Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 as the first laptop Razer is certifying for Linux use via Canonical's hardware certification program for Linux. It offered very nice performance with the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics albeit costly with a configured price of $5399 USD. That review featured benchmarks on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS…
OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?
The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.
Linux Patches Finally Allow Apple Magic Keyboard/Mouse Battery Monitoring Via Bluetooth
Besides the ongoing challenges of enabling newer Apple Silicon SoC support on Linux, Apple peripheral support on Linux remains a mixed bag depending on the product as well. The latest functionality now being addressed is for having battery reporting work for the Apple Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard when connected via Bluetooth...
A most improbable astronaut just went to space
"I pretty much, at that point in time, gave up on being an astronaut."
How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?
"The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We're focused on making them cheap and light."
Linus Torvalds Reaffirms That Linux Is Not "Anti-AI" & Not A "Social Warrior" Project
Overnight Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote another well crafted message that reaffirms the Linux kernel position of not being against AI and lashing back against some kernel developers that are against AI/LLM usage within the kernel project...
Sotheby's big T. rex auction raises concerns hype and wealth are upending science
Private buyers are increasingly outbidding museums for fossils.
Vocalinux 0.14 Beta Released For Offline Voice Dictation / Speech-To-Text On Linux
Ubuntu 26.10 is notably working on laying the foundation for a context-aware desktop and their initial deliverable being worked on is Myna as a speech-to-text solution for the Linux desktop. Interestingly there is already a promising voice dictation / speech-to-text solution for the Linux desktop called Vocalinux that continues advancing and is usable right now for those looking at their own…
FreeBSD Laptop Support Continues Improving With WiFi, GPU & Audio Driver Work
The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project, which has received more than $750k USD in funding to improve the experience of FreeBSD on laptops, is out with its newest monthly progress report. A lot continues to happen for improving the FreeBSD laptop story, which in many aspects also benefits FreeBSD on the desktop too...
Mesa's Native Vulkan-To-Metal Driver Now Advertises Vulkan 1.4
KosmicKrisp as the Vulkan API driver built atop Apple's Metal API in Mesa for macOS and iOS systems is now advertising Vulkan 1.4 compatibility...
Khronos Lists First Conformant OpenCL 3.1 Implementation: Apple M1/M2 On Asahi Linux With Rusticl
Back in May OpenCL 3.1 was announced with a focus on AI and HPC workloads. Just over two months later, this incremental update over OpenCL 3.0 now has its first listed conformant OpenCL 3.1 implementation for passing the OpenCL 3.1 conformance test suite cases. It's Apple Silicon M1/M2 graphics running on Asahi Linux with the Mesa Rusticl driver...
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.
Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't
Article URL: https://goughlui.com/2026/07/09/teardown-a-generic-7-port-usb-3-0-hub-that-wasnt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883036 Points: 194 # Comments: 89
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