Wednesday, 29 July 2026
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War machines can run amok with AI in control
Tour of the AI kill chain maps the risks of ubiquitous surveillance and flawed algorithms
Microsoft and Wiz mind-meld agents catch more than 90% of bugs
Secret to their success: Using the right model for the right security job
Donate to GrapheneOS
Article URL: https://grapheneos.org/donate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088451 Points: 173 # Comments: 40
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New airliner sets record flying 24 hrs nonstop from Australia to France
Record flight shows viability of Qantas Airways’ Project Sunrise routes in 2027.
Deflock Casa Grande
Article URL: https://deflockcg.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088148 Points: 218 # Comments: 79
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Judge blocks first state law that would have banned prediction markets
Judge may allow Minnesota to ban some types of bets, but not all of them.
Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49087091 Points: 100 # Comments: 46
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Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
Article URL: https://sbcl.org/all-news.html?2.6.7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086971 Points: 117 # Comments: 37
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Substack writers, you need a website
Article URL: https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086788 Points: 199 # Comments: 126
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AI is storage’s biggest opportunity - and biggest threat
Faster access and more secure recoveries are driving business, but mishaps and attacks can endanger data
College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought
Report: Trump mad RFK Jr. hasn’t cut more vaccines or proven autism link
Trump is fixated on the false, long-debunked claim that vaccines cause autism.
DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'
More organizers prohibit camera-equipped specs, even with prescription lenses
A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants
Article URL: https://blog.doubleword.ai/you-could-have-come-up-with-kimi-delta-attention Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085909 Points: 265 # Comments: 110
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Britain hopes £7.3M will help electric and hydrogen aircraft take off
Government finds some loose change down to chuck at emission-free flight research
Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
Article URL: https://www.slow-journalism.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085731 Points: 162 # Comments: 85
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Starling: A New Linux Desktop Written In Swift, Own Wayland Compositor & Written With AI
There's yet another new open-source desktop option for Linux users in the era of new open-source projects largely written via AI/LLMs. Starling is this new project largely written via Claude and using the Swift programming language for the desktop while having its own Wayland compositor implemented in C. It also includes a built-in X11 server for handling X11 clients...
Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes
Article URL: https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2026/kimi-k3-architecture-notes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085698 Points: 165 # Comments: 19
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Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals
Article URL: https://mlugg.co.uk/posts/incremental-compilation-internals/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085666 Points: 131 # Comments: 83
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AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype
VulnCheck says fewer than 2% of AI-assisted vulnerability discoveries have been weaponized, casting doubt on claims frontier models are handing attackers a major advantage
Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?
Article URL: https://anthropeum.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084989 Points: 109 # Comments: 31
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Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification
Article URL: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2026/000011_en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084938 Points: 330 # Comments: 103
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CachyOS Outperforming Windows 11, Slight Advantage Over Ubuntu & Fedora On AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
A recent mini PC being benchmarked at Phoronix is the BOSGAME VTA-439 that employs the new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 Gorgon Point SoC. With the BOSGAME mini PC having shipped with Microsoft Windows 11, here are some comparison benchmarks of the out-of-the-box Windows 11 performance up against Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 while also tossing the rolling-release, highly-optimized Arch…
Bank for charities pulls online services over security fears
Customer funds safe, but 14,000 organizations may have to phone in time-sensitive payments
Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires
NASA reports some cable damage near Madrid as its antennas and ESA's Cebreros station emerge largely intact
As US measles cases rise, biotech firms start developing new treatments
The US is making measles great again, so treatment options are needed for the most vulnerable.
New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
Article URL: https://www.lji.org/news-events/news/post/new-hiv-vaccine-shows-unprecedented-success-in-preclinical-study/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083314 Points: 444 # Comments: 207
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Hugging Face rebuilt a third of its infrastructure after OpenAI agents ran amok
Postmortem offers finer details on the 'unprecedented' attack that's reshaping approaches to security
Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first
Washington rallies allies to shape next-generation networks after spending 18 months rattling them
Too many AI agents can get in each other's way
For enterprise agents, less is more
Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics
Public meeting over proposed AI bit barn ended with zoning approval, a physics teacher arrested, and fresh questions over whether clapping now counts as disorderly conduct
Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26692 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49082022 Points: 244 # Comments: 104
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Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision
Support for e-MERLIN ends 2028 unless the historic radio astronomy center can find another source of cash
DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it
Article URL: https://ciphercue.com/blog/dmarc-enforcement-gap-rua-fragmentation-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081783 Points: 156 # Comments: 96
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AMD P-State Linux Driver Patches Can Boost 1%-Low FPS Gaming Performance By 31%
A set of patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list implement per-core Energy Performance Preference (EPP) boosting for recently-busy CPUs. This feature is designed to have a dramatic impact for Linux gaming and helping especially with the 1% low frame-rates improving by 31.8% on the Valve Steam Deck...
KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times
Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files). With the Dolphin file manager or other KIO-based KDE programs, copying many small files can be much slower than using the cp command directly or other copying programs like rsync, Finally that issue is in the process of being resolved for addressing very slow copy times when dealing with many…
Linux's crypto_rng Abstraction Layer Next On The Chopping Block
In addition to the deprecation and stripping down of AF_ALG, another piece of the Linux kernel crypto code steaming ahead toward removal is the crypto_rng abstraction layer...
ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux
ASUS laptops support a feature called "Whisper Mode" that intentionally slows down the fan speed and lowers the CPU clock speed in order to keep the device running cool and quiet. The open-source ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver is now seeing patches to properly support this Whisper Mode on Linux...
Arista patches actively exploited VeloCloud bug as CISA puts admins on the clock
Unauthenticated command injection scores perfect 10 and may expose managed Edge devices
Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber
Latest batch takes the copper sales restrictions to 1,572 locations and 15.4 million premises
7.1 Earthquake in Japan
Article URL: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20260728163528⟨=en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080664 Points: 746 # Comments: 194
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Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops
Token costs not quite sorted, but on-prem will be an option
China fights back in AI spat with claim US AI companies distil Chinese models
Beijing happy to ‘take all necessary measures’ if sanctioned
Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks
AI seems to have a liberal bias
Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.
Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers
Starlink has a Texas factory but also makes routers in Vietnam.
Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering
American AI flag bearers get in line, at least on paper
AMD PMF Testing Tool Slated For Linux 7.3
Looking to be added to the Linux kernel source tree for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle is test_amd_pmf, a small testing application for exercising the AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) interfaces and dumping various system data points...
Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies
Kennedy has focused on nutrition but has neglected food safety, critics say.
iOS and macOS 26.6 arrive today, paving the way for iOS and macOS 27
These are likely the last updates of note before Apple's bigger fall updates.
A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
When the first step goes wrong, bad results follow.
“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
Google's and Reddit's use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.
5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech
Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find.
Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many
Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.
Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a "dead end" for rapid reuse
NASA has not made substantial investments in thermal protection research for decades.
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.
Mysterious 16-Tile & 32-Tile AMX Implementations Talked Up For More Performance
Last October on Phoronix we were first to point out there being some mysterious intrigue around a new x86 implementation from a "corporate entity other than Intel/AMD" with the developer involved not elaborating on the matter. Now that same developer has posted another semi-cryptic message to the Linux kernel mailing list to talk about 16-tile and 32-tile Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX)…
Fwupd 2.1.7 Released With Many Bug Fixes
Fwupd 2.1.7 is out today as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating utility that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for offering a nice firmware upgrade story on Linux systems...
Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone
The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.
Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
Framework's latest modular laptop trades one set of problems for another.
Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Aiming To Be One Of The Best Upgradeable Linux Laptops
Back in April, Framework Computer announced the Framework Laptop 13 Pro as a ground-up re-design of their modular/upgradeable laptop. This new Framework Laptop 13 Pro features a much larger battery (74Wh), LPCAMM2 memory support, a full CNC aluminum chassis, haptic touchpad, and a new power-optimized touch display. Paired with the very efficient Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs, the…
What public health professionals can learn from anti-vaccine storytelling
Sometimes, compelling stories beat medical evidence.
Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu has long provided hardware enablement "HWE" stacks for Ubuntu LTS releases to provide a newer kernel and Mesa drivers and more for better supporting new/modern hardware on the long-term support Ubuntu Linux releases. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical will also now be providing a virtualization HWE stack for shipping newer virtualization / confidential computing features...
Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says.
AMD "Low Power" CPU Core Type Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.3
Last month I wrote bout new AMD Linux patches introducing a new "low power" CPU core type as an alternative to their standard performance cores and dense efficiency cores. That work now is poised to land with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel...
Wayfire Wayland Compositor Closing In On v1.0 Release
The Wayfire modular and extensible Wayland compositor formerly used by default on Raspberry Pi SBCs is nearing its v1.0 release. Wayfire 0.11 was released on Sunday for this Compiz-inspired, wlroots-powered compositor with that being their hopeful last planned version before Wayfire 1.0 releases...
FreeBSD Developing New NTSYNC Driver For Accelerating Windows NT Sync Primitives
The FreeBSD project published today their Q2-2026 status report that highlights all of their interesting open-source development initiatives for the past quarter. A lot is happening including FreeBSD seeing an AMD ROCm port and also their own NTSYNC driver being created...
NVIDIA & Others Form The Open Secure AI Alliance
NVIDIA and more than two dozen other companies have started the Open Secure AI Alliance for helping to keep open-source AI models secure. The other founding members range from Microsoft to Adobe, IBM, Red Hat, SpaceX, OpenClaw, Palantir, and others...
Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: "Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5"
In working toward releasing the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in less than one month's time, out today is Linux 7.2-rc5 to ship this week's latest bug/regression fixes and help facilitate more testing of this in-development kernel version...
First teaser for Apple TV's Neuromancer debuts at SDCC
Plus Mike Flanagan's Carrie teaser, trailers for Dark Matter S2 and Matchbox the Movie , and Marvel news.
GNU Binutils 2.47 Released With More RISC-V Extensions, New Options
Along with this weekend's release of GNU C Library 2.44, the GNU Binutils 2.47 release is also now available for this important set of binary utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms with the GNU toolchain...
"KVM Chainsaw" Expected To Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing With God Data Structure
A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what's dubbed the "KVM Chainsaw" as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu "god data structure"...
User Frustrations Over The "Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound" Support
Besides the FreeBSD graphics and WiFi drivers lagging behind Linux and other operating systems, the FreeBSD audio driver support and handling of audio streams with FreeBSD on the desktop can be problematic depending upon the hardware/system. One of the most active mailing list threads this week in the FreeBSD camp was over the "tragic state" of FreeBSD audio/sound support...
Auto-CPUFreq 3.1 Adds Monitoring Mode To GUI, New Configuration Options & Fixes
Auto-CPUFreq is one of the open-source projects striving to be a CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux systems to improve battery life without making any real compromises to the user experience. Out today is v3.1 as the newest feature release of Auto-CPUFreq...
SDCC teaser gives us our first good look at Blade Runner 2099
Also: Forging the One Ring in Rings of Power S3 teaser; new Lanterns trailer; Spaceballs: The New One panel.
How to survive boiling water
Article URL: https://taxa.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-boiling-water Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036068 Points: 395 # Comments: 86
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