Saturday, 18 July 2026
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Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.
The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like
"Missiles are being launched at the joint force every single day in [Operation] Epic Fury."
Hegseth wants a "High-T" military; doctors call it a clinical minefield
"We're turning the clock back on rational healthcare."
Taco Bell iceberg lettuce identified as source of cyclosporiasis in 5 states
Don't eat Taco Bell lettuce in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, or West Virginia.
Noctua NL-LC1-36 All-In-One Liquid Cooler
With reviewing hardware for more than 22 years, when it comes to cooling products there are few brands that can still get me intrigued like Noctua. With their recent launch of the NL-LC1 all-in-one liquid coolers, I decided to try out the Noctua NL-LC1-36 360mm AIO cooler that is working out well for cooling high-end desktop CPUs like the recently launched Ryzen 9 9950X3D2.
Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly
And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close
FastFlowLM Developers Join AMD To Help Push Open-Source NPU Software
On top of releasing ROCm 7.14 as the new production release of ROCm now built offTheRock, rolling out the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, and GAIA 0.22, AMD has some more open-source news in the lead up to next week's AMD Advancing AI event...
Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy
American Diabetes Association blocked publication of op-ed articles so the authors posted them as a preprint.
Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month
22H2 has until 2028, or there's always Windows 11
Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?
Grasshopper-like tests could begin in 2028.
Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates
Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug
Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November
Fubo subscribers still don't have Versant channels.
AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting
Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters
San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.
Experimental Build Of Holo Core Published: Arch Linux AArch64 For Valve's Steam Frame
As part of Valve's upcoming Qualcomm-powered Steam Frame headset, Valve has been collaborating with Collabora on the Arch Linux AArch64 base for their platform. Published today are the initial sources and binaries of this "Holo Core" base of Arch Linux AArch64 to be used by the Steam Frame...
Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!
Desktops, laptops, phones, CPUs, GPUs, NAS—if you know this stuff, come work for us!
Frame – Linux X server in Assembly
Article URL: https://isene.org/2026/07/Frame.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948597 Points: 102 # Comments: 60
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Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/short-sellers-rack-up-87-bln-profit-spacex-slips-below-ipo-price-ortex-2026-07-16/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948435 Points: 122 # Comments: 87
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The state of open source AI
Article URL: https://stateofopensource.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947825 Points: 298 # Comments: 209
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Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947717 Points: 189 # Comments: 109
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First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4kdd1e0ejo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947560 Points: 271 # Comments: 189
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Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time
Article URL: https://honeypotlive.cc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947548 Points: 116 # Comments: 44
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Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'
More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 – in Rust
Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
Article URL: https://improvesomething.today/responses-to-problems/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947490 Points: 146 # Comments: 71
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A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp
Article URL: https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-17-which-lisp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947455 Points: 140 # Comments: 88
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Linux WMI Driver Gets Ready To Support ACPI-Based ARM64 Laptops
Linux developer Armin Wolf sent out a set of patches today for enabling AArch64 support for the ACPI Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) driver to work on AArch64 in no longer being bound to x86/x86_64. This is a step toward the long goal of being able to support modern Windows on ARM laptops via ACPI on Linux...
Microsoft gives admins Exchange Online breathing room
Retirement of PowerShell -Credential parameter pushed back to the end of 2026
Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content
You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned
Arm Core Local Accelerator Driver Posted For Linux As Agnostic Interface For Accelerators
A new open-source Linux driver announced today by Arm is the Arm Core Local Accelerator "CLA" driver as a CPU-local interface for programming attached accelerators. This is an agnostic interface for attached accelerators with the initial target focusing on an attached compute engine...
Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/1b8c9d52-88a9-426b-ba47-f1811f859166 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946303 Points: 328 # Comments: 275
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Attackers target critical FortiSandbox flaws as CISA issues patch order
Command injection vulns land on exploited list after researchers spot abuse attempts
The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.
FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals
FCC chair has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.
SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit
Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort
2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2
Quick, comfortable, roomy, and agile for a large electric SUV.
Rocket Report: India's Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company?
"We have done everything that could be done to test Vikram-1 on ground."
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester
Brussels may spend billions on semiconductor fabs, but tech sovereignty remains firmly in American and Chinese hands
AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 7.3
Since earlier this month AMD has begun staging graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3 ahead of the merge window opening in late July. That's brought some interesting changes so far while there still are a few weeks to land any additional features in DRM-Next. This week another batch of AMDGPU graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver feature code was sent out for this next kernel version...
Mozilla AI Releases Llamafile 0.10.4 With New Transcribefile Built On Transcribe.cpp
Mozilla AI developers have released a new version of Llamafile, their solution for easy-to-use LLMs as a single file that work across hardware and operating systems. With Llamafile 0.10.4 is now Transcribefile, as a new piece built off their recently announced Transcribe.cpp project...
Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz
No use crying over spilled milk when US plants can't bottle it in the first place
OpenBLAS 0.3.34 Improves Multi-Threading, Support For A Memory-Safe C Toolchain
OpenBLAS 0.3.34 released on Thursday as this popular, open-source BLAS library providing optimized support for a variety of CPUs/architectures. OpenBLAS 0.3.34 continues working on squeezing more performance out of today's processors as well as delivering other new features...
AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
URL already posted: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status I've got an estimated bill for $1.7 BILLION over this month. Normal usage is Obvs have created an urgent AWS support ticket. Anyone else seeing something like this?
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Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN
A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages
Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge
Continuity support required after £336 million replacement deal delayed by more than a year
How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality
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Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem
We're not Li-ion, user thought mobile phone batteries died every few days
EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943745 Points: 238 # Comments: 155
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NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage
Telstra skipped a patch, didn’t record changes, had no idea it was an accident waiting to happen
Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
Article URL: https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-mega-update-july-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943174 Points: 245 # Comments: 159
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South Korea making its own security-centric AI model
Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos
Frame: A New X11 Server Implementation Written Entirely In x86_64 Assembly
Previously we covered YSERVER as an X11 server written in the Rust programming language with the help of Claude Code. A Phoronix reader wrote in today to share an even more esoteric X11 server implementation that has come about and again written in large part by AI/LLM usage: Frame is an X11 server written in pure x86_64 Assembly...
SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start
"Now offloading propellant. Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days."
Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief
Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom
OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake'
Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid
Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing
Both nominees flailed in their own unique ways as senators sought answers.
HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
KDE KWin Introduces Support For Server-Side Drop Shadows
The KDE Plasma 6.8 will be introducing support for server-side drop shadows with the feature recently having been merged to KWin...
Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project
Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel
T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines
T-Mobile to restore free lines lost during plan migration, but price hikes remain.
AMD's GAIA Continues Striving To Be Your Ultimate AI Companion For Emails
Yesterday saw the release of AMD's Lemonade 11.0 local AI server as well as ROCm 7.14 as the first production release built using TheRock. Out today is AMD's GAIA 0.22 software as their latest AI software release in working toward the AMD Advancing AI event next week in California...
It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.
Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images.
Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory
Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.
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...
Decoy Font
Article URL: https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936584 Points: 678 # Comments: 152
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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...
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...
Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
https://www.kimi.com/en Kimi K3 Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342 Points: 1970 # Comments: 1142
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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.
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...
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…
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...
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...