Tuesday, 21 July 2026
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NetworkManager 1.58 Released With 464XLAT CLAT Support & GENEVE Interface
NetworkManager 1.58 is out today with the latest feature enhancements for bettering wired and wireless network management on Linux...
Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims
IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake
AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical
An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral
Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid
Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy
Intel Expanding Memory Options For Current Xeon 6 / Xeon 6+ Servers
With Intel's next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors not slated to launch until next year and with AMD EPYC Venice being right around the corner, Intel announced today that with upcoming BIOS updates they will be expanding the range of RDIMM and MRDIMM memory support for current-generation Xeon 6 and Xeon 6+ processors...
Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents
Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged
Kimi Work
Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/products/kimi-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981703 Points: 156 # Comments: 73
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Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls
Article URL: https://jelly-ui.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981620 Points: 151 # Comments: 55
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How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks
Article URL: https://unslop.run/blog/measuring-ai-writing-on-arxiv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981206 Points: 163 # Comments: 115
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AMD Talks Up The Great Opportunities Of SPIR-V IR With ROCm
While AMD ROCm 7.14 released last week as the first production release built off TheRock, there is already more to look forward to moving into the future with the AMD ROCm stack... In particular, SPIR-V with ROCm becoming a reality for unified binaries that can work across graphics architectures/targets, better portability across GPU hardware, and other improvements to the experience in…
The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash
OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly
F1 in Belgium: Machine learning algorithms are ruining the sport
Many will say Spa is the best racetrack on earth, but not for these F1 cars.
GNOME Changes Security Disclosure Policies Due To AI-Generated Reports
The GNOME project is changing its handling of security reports due to the influx of AI/LLM-generated security findings...
I Stopped "Creating Content"
Article URL: https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/why-i-stopped-creating-content/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980520 Points: 112 # Comments: 76
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AliExpress hit with record $625M fine after failing to make EU-ordered fixes
Online retailer AliExpress says it's shocked by largest DSA fine yet.
The Voice of Google
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-voice-of-google Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980053 Points: 106 # Comments: 41
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Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling
Article URL: https://www.emergingtrajectories.com/lh/frontier-lab-economics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980019 Points: 209 # Comments: 221
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)
Article URL: https://nothings.org/gamedev/ssao/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979931 Points: 122 # Comments: 46
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Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign
Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home
The first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday is finally here
"Something's coming. Something we may not be able to deter."
China's open-weights AI strategy is winning
Article URL: https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979269 Points: 629 # Comments: 532
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Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain
Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory
Perfection Is Not Over-Engineering
Article URL: https://var0.xyz/posts/perfection-is-not-over-engineering.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979120 Points: 143 # Comments: 68
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Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices.
Governments look at banning ransom payments in face of increasingly sophisticated threats.
Linux 7.2 Improves Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Arc B390 Graphics Performance
My testing of the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel continues in the lab. One of the latest promising findings from this kernel that will be released as stable in August is faster Intel Xe3 graphics performance on Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware.
Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding
Article URL: https://github.com/search Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978835 Points: 197 # Comments: 47
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Linux Patches Introduce "KNOD" For In-Kernel Network Offloading Directly To AMD GPUs
Some extremely cool patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list on Sunday. The patches for "KNOD" allow for in-kernel network offloading to GPUs with an initial focus on AMD GPU support. What makes this all the more nifty is that it doesn't depend upon any user-space libraries like AMD ROCm but is all handled in-kernel with driving the GPU directly...
Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
Article URL: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-registry-database/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978605 Points: 478 # Comments: 263
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EU's AI labeling rules take effect next month
Chatbots and agents will have to come clean about who – or what – users are talking to
LEDs' Potential to Save Our Night Skies
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/led-light-pollution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978350 Points: 172 # Comments: 126
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Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball
On this week's episode of The Kettle, we welcome a special guest to discuss how the AI datacenter buildout is setting the world on fire – literally
The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
Article URL: https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977711 Points: 432 # Comments: 244
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Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online
HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details
Firefox 153 Available With Support For Vulkan Video Decoding, Experimental JPEG-XL
Mozilla has uploaded the Firefox 153.0 release binaries today for the newest monthly update to this cross-platform web browser. Making Firefox 153 exciting is that it's the newest Extended Support Release "ESR" as well as introducing Vulkan Video decode support...
Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness
Augment Code's Vinay Perneti talks models, harnesses, and context.
openSUSE Seeking Additional Corporate Sponsors
While openSUSE is closely aligned with SUSE as a company, they aren't the exclusive sponsor of this free and open-source Linux distribution with its rolling-release Tumbleweed and Leap stable releases. AMD has been a longtime major supporter of openSUSE and the Fastly content delivery company has been another platinum sponsor too besides SUSE. There are also various other lower-tier sponsors…
Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs
With a wave of the wand, affected models will go to the Patch Tuesday ball after all
UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme
One of Labour's biggest technology projects is headed for the bin as Burnham reshuffles Whitehall's priorities
Airport Simulator
Article URL: https://airport.apunen.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976846 Points: 545 # Comments: 111
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AMD Posts AVX10_V2_AUX ISA Support Patches For GCC Compiler
Earlier this month Intel compiler engineers posted initial GCC compiler patches for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" that was born out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group to augment AVX and scalar code with new capabilities for AI/ML workloads. Now as part of that an AMD compiler engineer posted patches over the weekend for AVX10_V2_AUX ISA support...
Linux's Qualcomm Crypto Accelerator Driver "Harmful" And Being Disabled: Slower Than CPU, History Of Bugs
The Qualcomm Crypto Engine Accelerator "QCE" driver is being disabled within the Linux 7.3 kernel over a number of issues, including being slower than having the CPU cores handling cryptographic work and a history of different driver bugs. Plus race conditions causing security issues and other challenges...
Hyprland 0.56 Released With Many Enhancements To This Wayland Compositor
Out today is Hyprland 0.56 as the newest feature update to this unique Wayland compositor and incorporating just under three months worth of improvements...
Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red
Nine-department ERP overhaul judged unachievable without urgent action
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
Which way to the Land of the Free again?
Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings
Departments haven't worked out how the technology will reshape staffing, roles, and skills across the public sector
Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
Article URL: https://slcyber.io/research-center/exploit-brokers-pay-500000-for-a-wordpress-rce-i-found-one-with-gpt5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48975665 Points: 354 # Comments: 202
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High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required
Worries about ‘prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node’
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'
Developer was hired to write VB, used C# instead, and thought he mostly made it work
AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner
Yet by 2030, a quarter of the IT ops work you do now will be handled by an unsupervised clanker
Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check
PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns and burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!
India's first privately developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
"On the first attempt, reaching orbit, I never thought it was possible."
Linux 7.2-rc4 Released: Looking Like The "New Normal"
The fourth weekly release candidate of the Linux 7.2 kernel is now available for testing...
Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius
Connect all the things and watch what happens
The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired
If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today...
As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease
Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks.
FFmpeg Lands Latest AVX-512 Optimization: 1.372x Faster In Pixel Format Conversion
The latest hand-tuned code in the FFmpeg multimedia library for allowing better performance on today's modern Intel/AMD AVX-512-capable processors is showing 1.372x faster performance for RGB24 to RGBA pixel format conversions...
Legion Y700 Gen4 Tablet Powered By Snapdragon 8 Elite Seeing Linux Patches
The Legion Y700 Gen4 is an Android tablet that debuted last year and powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. This 8.8-inch tablet is now seeing patches for enabling Linux support outside the confines of Android and will hopefully end up in the mainline kernel...
More ASUS Motherboards To Enjoy Working Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.3
Thanks to the work of the open-source community, more ASUS desktop motherboards for Intel Core and AMD Ryzen systems are seeing working sensor monitoring under Linux. With the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle, several additional ASUS motherboards will now enjoy working sensor monitoring...
GNU Hurd Makes Progress On AArch64, Writing Translators In Rust
The GNU Hurd project recently issued their Q2'2026 status report to outline recently development efforts. The Hurd is still happening!..
NVK Vulkan Performance Improving With Mesa 26.2 Against NVIDIA Proprietary Driver
The performance of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver continues to improve each feature release in its quest toward better competing with NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver with its proprietary Vulkan driver...
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Preps Fix For Apple Studio Display
This week's batch of AMDGPU Display Core "DC" updates arrived heavy with 70 new patches for improving that open-source display support for Radeon graphics on the Linux desktop...
GNOME OS Safe Mode Improving The System Reliability
At GNOME's annual GUADEC conference happening this week in Spain, an update was shared on the current state of GNOME OS...
Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
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.
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.
Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?
Grasshopper-like tests could begin in 2028.
Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November
Fubo subscribers still don't have Versant channels.
San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.
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!
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.
2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2
Quick, comfortable, roomy, and agile for a large electric SUV.