Saturday, 25 July 2026
70 stories filed.
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses
There's no human safety or efficacy data, but that no longer seems to matter.
Qualcomm QCE Driver On The Chopping Block With ~48x Slower Than Armv8 Crypto Extensions
A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as "broken" and "harmful" due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine "QCE" driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it's even worse than anticipated...
Judge rebuffs Trump admin demand for phone records from NYT reporters
"We can quash the subpoenas, or you could withdraw the subpoenas,” judge told US.
European Union grants US request to restrict satellite images of Iran War region
New delay on Copernicus satellite pics comes as US ramps up war with Iran again.
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.
Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3
Sent out today was the weekly round of drm-misc-next patches of new Direct Rendering Manager feature material ready to be queued in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window...
Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo
Git is aptly named: it isn’t easy – but there are alternatives
Claude Opus 5
https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-system-card Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038433 Points: 908 # Comments: 497
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Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038060 Points: 290 # Comments: 137
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ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor
Feature launches a day after lawsuit alleges chatbot advice contributed to near-fatal embolism
This is the world's most advanced robotic servicing satellite—that we know about
"These are things that tend to be really hard."
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet met with ZTE to deepen cooperation in digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI)
PARTNER CONTENT: Focusing on 5G deployment, AI integration, and ICT talent development to drive the nation's digital transformation
Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs
Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network
Rocket Report: Lightning strikes in China; Starship launch on deck
Relativity Space announced plans to build a second rocket factory near Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Ubuntu Linux Looking To Get Rid Of /etc/debian_version Historical Artifact
Ubuntu Linux has shipped /etc/debian_version that is carried over from upstream Debian and in turn just indicating the Debian Sid development version from which the packages are arrived. Besides it being inaccurate, /etc/os-release has been the long preferred standard for reading the OS release information. Thus finally Ubuntu developers are looking at dropping the /etc/debian_version file...
Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents
Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal
Fedora 45 Looks To Begin Phasing Out In-Kernel Crypto Userspace API
Going along with the upstream Linux 7.2 kernel deprecation of AF_ALG and Linux 7.3 to further restrict this interface for letting user-space programs interact directly with the Linux kernel crypto API, Fedora 45 is looking to follow and help support this transition...
AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say
Rule would allow states to decide how much—if any—public input there can be.
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models
Letter: https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-L... [pdf] https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2080643682408321103 , https://xcancel.com/JensenHuang/status/2080643682408321103 https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-is-completely-div... , https://archive.ph/LAkVI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035303 Points: 269 # Comments: 157
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SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no
Replacement Raptors head for liftoff without a static fire test
Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS
Article URL: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034868 Points: 212 # Comments: 33
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Em dashes are amazing
Article URL: https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/em-dashes-are-fucking-amazing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034747 Points: 306 # Comments: 264
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Uncle Sam tells overseas cybercrooks their visas are canceled
Policy targets online scammers, sextortionists, and potentially their immediate families
AMD Advancing AI 2026: Open, Open-Source & More Open-Source
At this week's AMD Advancing AI 2026 event, "AI" was mentioned thousands of times in talks and in demos. As expected. Beyond that, the other term likely most heard during the event was "open"...
My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page
Article URL: https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034292 Points: 422 # Comments: 153
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LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in
Advert gets the chop, but the silent app installation mechanism remains untouched
Robot snakes searched for Venezuela earthquake survivors in collapsed buildings
US robotics researchers flew to Venezuela with snakebots after getting a call.
Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Experience Still Lackluster On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
At the end of last year when checking out the latest Linux experience on the Snapdragon X Elite it was a disappointing affair. The performance had regressed and overall a more headache-inducing experience than just running a modern AMD Ryzen AI or Intel Core Ultra laptop on Linux. Given the recent release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, I've been re-testing the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop with Snapdragon X…
EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?
Proposed cybersecurity legislation may force a cull of high-risk network technology, costing tens of billions
Fujitsu joins £14.9B UK framework despite public sector bid freeze
Supplier says the Horizon-era pause only stops it chasing work from new government customers
Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models
Article URL: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-mimic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033127 Points: 293 # Comments: 47
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Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs
Online marketplaces could find themselves buying the next round as the PM looks to tax ecommerce to save the local
Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter
The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility
It's getting harder to focus every day
Article URL: https://glyphack.com/attention/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49032660 Points: 647 # Comments: 363
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Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine
€890 million slap – just 0.25% of revenue – for making itself the subject of search results, and hiding app store alternatives
Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it
Sleep doesn't pay
Flux 3
Article URL: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031796 Points: 537 # Comments: 125
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Intel knows it needs to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan
Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day
Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours
Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services
OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be
Attack models gonna attack
Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs
Gatekeeper has one job and it's not doing it for some software
AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUs
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will
ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap
Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows
App is installed through Windows Update when certain LG monitors connect to a PC.
FDA reports new outbreak of explosive diarrhea with 72 cases identified
The FDA hasn't said where the cases are or how they're linked.
AMD EPYC Zen 7 "Florence" Confirmed With ACE, Next-Gen Memory
After announcing the AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" processors today at AMD Advancing AI 2026, Lisa Su ended her keynote by confirming EPYC Zen 7 "Florence" details as well as EPYC Zen 8 "Ravenna" being in development...
Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie.
Google's selfie videos can be used for account access, AI Avatars, and age verification.
AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems
Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.
Tweety gets the third degree in final Coyote vs. Acme trailer
Also, the full trailer for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil features a likable everyman.
AMD Announces ROCm.AI As AI-Driven Platform For Developers
In addition to Instinct MI455X and Helios launching along with the new AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" processors, AMD used their annual Advancing AI day to announce ROCm.AI as an AI-driven platform for developers...
AMD EPYC 9006 Venice Announced & Looks Poised To Be A Grand Slam
While AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" launched just under two years ago, it has aged remarkably well. It is one of the few CPU generations in my past 22 years of Linux hardware reviews/benchmarking that has still captivated me two years on in finding still typically industry-leading performance across varying workloads, exceptional reliability, and all around a very robust platform. Today though at AMD…
AMD Launches Instinct MI455X, Helios AI Rack
Lisa Su at AMD Advancing AI 2026 just launched the new Instinct MI455X GPUs and the Helios rack...
A woman got a UTI. Two years later, the bacteria had evolved, invaded her brain.
The case provides a novel report of the emergence of heterovirulence.
Google hit with $1 billion in fines as EU braces for Trump battle
Google becomes third tech giant to face huge fines under the Digital Markets Act.
FreeBSD Ports Currently Frozen Due To A Very Large Commit
The FreeBSD project issued a statement today over the FreeBSD Ports repository having been frozen for the past two days. The freeze is not due to a malicious compromise but rather a very large commit breaking things...
Sony's decision to ditch discs was practically inevitable, data shows
Circana numbers show US gamers overwhelmingly voting with their wallets.
Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending
Google continues to report big quarterly revenue, but its AI spending has skyrocketed.
AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.
Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look To Allow For Web-Based Remote Installations
One of the latest change proposals filed for Fedora Linux 45 is for supporting web-based remote installations of Fedora Atomic Desktop images...
Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations
Ahead of Lisa Su's keynote this morning at the AMD Advancing AI event, tagged on GitHub just now was the Ryzen AI Software 1.8 release for helping to deploy AI models on Ryzen AI PCs...
LLVM 23.1-rc1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & AVX-512 BMM Support, Other Compiler Enhancements
Following the recent code branching for the LLVM 23 series, LLVM 23.1-rc1 was released today in working toward the next stable release of this open-source compiler stack...
dav1d 1.5.4 Brings AV1 Decoding To OS/2
While the VideoLAN developers are busy these days working on dav2d for AV2 video decoding, they haven't let up work on dav1d and recently released dav1d 1.5.4 for continuing to enhance this leading open-source, CPU-based AV1 decoder...
White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of science
The resulting report is a near-random mixture of grievances and real problems.
I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated.
Sure, maybe your clock has a backup battery, but mine has a deployment pipeline!
Lemonade 11.5 Local AI Server Released With Completed Lemonade Router
Just one week after releasing Lemonade 11.0, the Lemonade 11.5 local AI server was released today for this open-source AMD backed project during their AMD Advancing AI event...
SDL Lands HDR10 Rendering Support
Sam Lantinga of Valve and SDL fame has landed HDR10 rendering support into the Simple DirectMedia Library...
COSMIC Epoch 1.4 Released With More Fixes, Force Quit For COSMIC Monitor
System76 developers today released COSMIC Epoch 1.4 as the newest stable release to their Rust-based desktop environment...
AMD EPYC Turin With PCIe 5.0 Storage Shows Off Nice Gains On Linux 7.2
Earlier this week was an exciting look at Intel Xe3 graphics performance gains on Linux 7.2 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. On the other side of the table, with AMD hardware on this forthcoming kernel an area to be excited about are some I/O improvements at least for 5th Gen EPYC with speedy PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD storage.
libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android
For helping to keep X11 clients running in a modern Linux desktop world with Wayland or even for running on macOS or Android, there is now yet-another option being developed with libx11-compat. The libx11-compat project is working to re-implement the Xlib client library atop SDL2/SDL3 interfaces for allow broad underlying platform coverage...
India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/indias-first-privately-developed-rocket-reaches-orbit-on-dramatic-debut-launch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973835 Points: 382 # Comments: 110
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