Wednesday, 22 July 2026
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US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns
Don't worry - it can autonomously attack ground targets, too
Nintendo customers have no legal right to tariff refunds, company tells judge
Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.
Advertise in ChatGPT
Article URL: https://ads.openai.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996571 Points: 152 # Comments: 159
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FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers
Article URL: https://freeink.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996318 Points: 138 # Comments: 31
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Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again
AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud
AI makes programming differently difficult
Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-didnt-make-programming-easier-it-just-made-it-differently-difficult/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996197 Points: 112 # Comments: 76
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Let Tom Hiddleston be your guide to Pompeii's final day
NatGeo's Pompeii: Out of Time fuses historical fact and imagination to bring city's last 24 hours to life.
Three New Ubuntu Snap Vulnerabilities Made Public - One Dates Back To Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Canonical today disclosed three new Snap security vulnerabilities affecting snapd. Two are rated high impact vulnerabilities while the third is considered medium but covers all Ubuntu releases of the past decade going back to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS...
Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals
A single chemical made by mole-rat queens enforces the social order.
Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For X2 Elite Extreme Powered ASUS Zenbook A16
Following recent Linux kernel patches enabling the Snapdragon X2 Elite powered Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 and HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite laptops to boot outside of Windows 11 on ARM, Qualcomm engineers have now posted a new patch series for getting the X2 Elite Extreme powered ASUS Zenbook A16 working on Linux...
Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.
Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
https://x.com/jack/status/2079605800998146171 , https://xcancel.com/jack/status/2079605800998146171 https://buzz.xyz/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995213 Points: 105 # Comments: 93
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Sales of Valve's Steam Deck crater after recent price hike
Analysis of bestseller charts shows an 80 percent dip from 2025's sales rate.
Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4
There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.
Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises
Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI
Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement
Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain
The World's 2,400 Castles
Article URL: https://thecastlemap.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994178 Points: 131 # Comments: 100
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KDE Plasma 6.7 vs. GNOME Shell 50.3 vs. Xfce 4.20 On CachyOS With NVIDIA Graphics
Earlier this month I provided a look at the KDE Plasma 6.7 Wayland vs. X11 session performance for graphics/gaming on CachyOS using NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 graphics. Since then Phoronix readers -- including some premium supporters -- requested seeing some additional desktops tested with the latest CachyOS packages.
Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993816 Points: 221 # Comments: 36
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Canonical Makes The "Enterprise Store" Official For Offline/Air-Gapped Ubuntu Usage
For months the Enterprise Store "enterprise-store" has been mentioned in some Ubuntu documentation and other elements while today it was formally announced by Canonical. The Enterprise Store is for helping to manage Ubuntu Linux deployments particularly within enterprise organizations that may have their computers air-gapped or otherwise strict Internet controls...
TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe
"Current economic conditions" have shifted TreeSize's business model.
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
https://console.cloud.google.com/agent-platform/publishers/g... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993414 Points: 478 # Comments: 377
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Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing
If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?
Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Article URL: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/07/apple-defeats-liability-for-not-scanning-icloud-for-csam-but-the-judge-was-not-pleased-amy-v-apple.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992870 Points: 238 # Comments: 207
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Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA
Users asked for flexibility, but a leaner OS for older PCs might matter more as hardware prices soar
PCjs Machines
Article URL: https://www.pcjs.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992323 Points: 153 # Comments: 15
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AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert
Have I Been Pwned confirms scale for first time
When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?
Automakers love connected vehicles, but support isn't open-ended.
Stratis Storage Anaconda Integration Approved For Fedora 45
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved the latest batch of features for the upcoming Fedora 45 release...
Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code
More than one-eighth of apps analyzed contained foreign code.
2027 Kia Seltos first drive gives you plenty of SUV for not much $
It starts at just under $25,000, but the hybrid won't arrive until next year.
Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet
Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon
LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware
Plug in your new display and get a McAfee pitch you never asked for
UK.gov's tech department gets the chop after two years
RIP DSIT: Digital transformation duties shuffle off to reborn DCMS, with GDS along for the ride
AMD Ryzen AI Halo LED Driver Queued For Introduction In Linux 7.3
For those that have picked up one of the neat AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PCs, the LED driver allowing for customization of the LED lighting bar is set to be mainlined for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...
Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support
Collabora's Holo Core port lays the groundwork for running SteamOS 3 natively on the headset
Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago
And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't
Intel Compute Runtime Continues Building Out Exciting "LEO"
Going in-step with last week's release of the Intel Graphics Compiler 2.38.2, out today is the Intel Compute Runtime 26.27.39122.11. Most intriguing with the new release is Intel continuing to build out the still-experimental LEO feature...
AMD Getting The Linux Kernel Ready For Zen 6 Profiling/Perf With More EILVT Registers
Among the recent patch series in preparing Linux for upcoming AMD Zen 6 processors is making the kernel aware of additional EILVT registers to be found with at least EPYC Venice platforms...
Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out
Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants
InputPlumber 0.78 Released With Expanded Hardware Support
InputPlumber is out with its newest feature release. As a reminder, InputPlumber is the open-source input router and remapper daemon for combining various input devices from gamepads to mice and keyboards as well as the ability to emulate them...
Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party
SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Örebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal
Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-3.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989701 Points: 500 # Comments: 205
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Judgment day looms for UK's £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade
Supplier stumbles and MoD staffing shortages earn the program a red delivery rating
Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods
Biggest-ever DSA fine shows Brussels wants to bust the biz model behind China’s cheap e-commerce champs
Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem, while the rest of a zone and region kept humming
OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy
French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn’t seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime
Cold Reset Recovery Coming Together To Better Help Intel GPUs On Linux
One of the patch series going through nearly a dozen revisions now is for introducing a cold reset recovery method for the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers with an initial focus on the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver...
DA: Cop covered bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his iPhone—but other cams caught him
Pennsylvania cop charged with oppression and obstruction.
Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief
Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain
Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round
California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.
Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states
Judge grants restraining order, saying merger "likely to violate antitrust laws."
The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches
The Trump administration is asking the Space Force to do a lot. This will require more launches.
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
AT&T loses key ruling in bid to stop offering basic phone service in California
AT&T suffers setback but will keep asking court and FCC to preempt state rules.
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...
RIP bargain bin: The price impact of Sony's disc-free PlayStation plan
Used discs are often cheaper than even deep digital discounts.
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…
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...
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 first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday is finally here
"Something's coming. Something we may not be able to deter."
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.
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...
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...
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…
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...