Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector “RTI” To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers
Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector “RTI” as a new GUI created by developers on Valve’s open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming… ⌘ Read more

Doom Composer Bobby Prince Has Died
Video game composer and sound designer Bobby Prince has died at age 81 following an illness. Developer id software shared the news. Engadget reports: Prince was perhaps best known for his pioneering work on the Doom series. The Library of Congress inducted his soundtrack for the original game into the National Recording Registry just last month. “Despite the limitations of the 1993-era sound card drive … ⌘ Read more

EU To Soon Classify AWS and Azure As Gatekeepers Under DSA
The European Commission is reportedly preparing to provisionally classify Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act, bringing cloud infrastructure under the law’s stricter competition rules for the first time. The designation could require greater interoperability and data portability, making it easier for customers to … ⌘ Read more

AMD ACP7.D/7.E/7.F Driver Added In Linux 7.2: “Substantial Design Changes” For AMD Audio
It looks like AMD’s next-gen SoCs not only will be exciting on the CPU side with the much anticipated Zen 6 cores but the AMD Audio Co-Processor “ACP” IP looks to be going through some significant updates… ⌘ Read more

Brian Johnson, Special Effects Artist Behind ‘Space: 1999,’ Dies At 86
Special-effects designer Brian Johnson, known for his groundbreaking work on Space: 1999, The Empire Strikes Back, Alien, and Aliens, has died at the age of 86. Johnson began his career creating models and explosions for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson productions, later designed the iconic Eagle Transporter, and became one of science f … ⌘ Read more

Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System
Epic Games has released Lore, an MIT-licensed version control system written in Rust and designed specifically for “games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes,” reports Phoronix. From the report: While there is Git LFS for large file storage with Git, Epic Games has crated Lore as a version control system designed entirely around the large fi … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you very much! So, the concept is very similar. The root widget gets the input and can pass it to whatever child has the focus and so on.

My two main issues are the API design, that the input handler sometimes get an additional callback to notify the application about which element is focused, but sometimes not. And that focus switching sometimes just does not work as expected. Anyway.

As for rendering the selected button, I was also thinking about indicating it with some kind of border around it, square brackets seem to be a wonderful choice. :-)

A German Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates. ⌘ Read more

David Hockney said he would keep painting until the very end. He was true to his word
“I’m just going to go on working ’til I fall over,” said the renowned British artist at the opening of his exhibition in Australia in 2016. He did just that. ⌘ Read more

Jeff Bezos’ AI Startup Aims To Build an ‘Artificial General Engineer’
Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup, Prometheus, is working toward an “artificial general engineer” capable of helping design complex physical products such as robots, drugs, manufacturing systems, and rocket engines. The Verge reports: The NYT first reported on Prometheus last November, but now Bezos is sharing more information about the startu … ⌘ Read more

To Barbie and beyond: How a plastic doll became a design icon
A 1959 first-edition Barbie worth up to $40,000 will be among 150 dolls on display as part of an exclusive Australian exhibition devoted to the plastic figure turned cultural icon. ⌘ Read more

Exactly how many lamps you need, according to interior designers
If you hate turning on the big light, here’s how you can avoid it altogether. ⌘ Read more

Architect much more than creator of brutalist UTS Tower
Michael Dysart was one of Australia’s most significant architects, designing everything from universities to hundreds of schools, and reshaping the project home market. ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Friday, June 12
It is not in Wales or San Francisco, Guinness World Records confirmed again in 2019. What is the name of the official steepest street in the world, located in New Zealand?
The controversial Sarco pod is a device designed to help people do what?
Somalian Omar Abdulkadir Artan was banned from entering the US to do what over the coming months?
Which artist had Blue and Rose periods?
When listing the United Nations member states alphabetically, which nation immediately f … ⌘ Read more

The Furious Poster Giveaway for Lionsgate’s Acclaimed Action Movie
ComingSoon is excited to host a The Furious poster giveaway to celebrate the acclaimed action movie arriving in theaters this week. The four posters were designed by artists Ali Shimhaq, Ashraf Omar, Khang Giate, and Vincent Aseo. Lionsgate’s latest action film is out in theaters starting June 12. “After the daughter of Wang Wei (Xie Miao) […]

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Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
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“Unsung hero of architecture”: Michael Dysart
Tim Ross on his podcast @modernister nominated Sydney architect Michael Dysart as one of his all time heroes. Here he talks to Dysart about Urambi Village. ⌘ Read more

Beautiful but shallow: The NGV’s new blockbuster is big on celebrity but light on insight
Mostly, the pieces are designed to showcase the wealth of the wearer, and a jewel is nothing if not draped across a powerful figure. ⌘ Read more

AMD’s Lemonade SDK For Local AI Adds NVIDIA CUDA Support
Lemonade, the local AI server solution developed by AMD that is designed to work across their CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, is out with a new version today that also adds NVIDIA CUDA support… ⌘ Read more

Hit Freeform Series Scores Season 2 Renewal for Hulu Return
Freeform’s hit design competition series is returning for Season 2 on Hulu. The show will once again be hosted and executive-produced by Good Morning America co-anchor Lara Spencer. The contest pits two interior design teams against each other to transform identical rooms. That Thrifting Show confirmed to return on Freeform and Hulu Freeform’s That Thrifting […]

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The Odyssey: Christopher Nolan Movie’s New Popcorn Bucket Is a Trojan Horse
A new popcorn bucket for Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey has surfaced, and it’s a Trojan Horse. The upcoming epic adventure stars Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, and several other acclaimed actors in key roles. What does the new The Odyssey popcorn bucket look like? The latest popcorn bucket revealed for The Odyssey is designed […]

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Neues Design gezeigt: SpaceX’ KI-Satellit angeblich einfacher als Starlink V3
Vor dem SpaceX-Börsengang soll ein neues KI-Satelliten-Design für Kauflaune sorgen. Elon Musk will damit außerdem den Respekt von Aliens gewinnen. Eine Analyse von Johannes Hiltscher ( SpaceX, Börse)

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Rivian R2 2026: Specs, Price, Availability
With a competitive price, winning design, and better performance than the R1, Rivian could be set to break into the big leagues. Just make sure you get the right model with the right tech. ⌘ Read more

Amazon Ember Artline Review: A Stylish Art Television
The affordable Artline doubles as a design piece and comes close to outshining the reigning champion of art TVs, the Samsung Frame Pro. ⌘ Read more

WWDC-2026-Keynote: Der Abend der zweiten Versuche
Apple ist in sich gegangen und liefert längst überfällige Verbesserungen bei Betriebssystem-Geschwindigkeit, Apple Intelligence, Siri und Spotlight und nicht zuletzt dem ungeliebten Liquid-Glass-Design. Ein IMHO von Christian Rentrop ( Apple, KI)

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Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline
The open-source developers at Georgia Tech working on Vortex as an OpenCL-compatible RISC-V GPGPU implementation are out with their next major release for this open-source GPU design… ⌘ Read more

Exclusive: Get Bruvi’s Pod Coffee Maker for Nearly Half Off
Use this WIRED-exclusive coupon code to get the best deal on this high-design machine and biodegradable pods. ⌘ Read more

Donut Lab’s ‘Solid-State’ Battery Exposed As Regular Li-Ion
A battery researcher’s investigation, backed by more than 20 independent experts, claims Donut Lab’s much-hyped “solid-state” battery is actually a conventional lithium-ion cell, with voltage curves and expansion data matching high-nickel NCM chemistry rather than the promised sodium-ion solid-state design. Electrek reports the company raised about $25 mil … ⌘ Read more

Kylie Kwong among consultants dumped as Powerhouse cuts controversial program
The $2.6 million program sparked concerns that consultants were supplanting the roles of professionally accredited curators. ⌘ Read more

Show HN: Performative-UI – a react component library of design tropes
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Spanish traders set the standard forGnuCash database design
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Rising festival 2026
This year’s festival has kicked off. Here, our writers take a closer look. ⌘ Read more

Sigma BF Review (2026): Eccentric but Strangely Lovable
Sigma’s new entry is both a bold design experiment and a pretty decent camera. ⌘ Read more

I design with Claude more than Figma now
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Scientists Edited Human Embryo Genes. But Questions Remain
“A DNA-editing feat involving editing the genes of early stage embryos was announced this week,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

They describe the feat as “a far cry from designer babies, but nevertheless a step in that direction.”

Dieter Egli, an associate professor of developmental cell biology at Columbia University and his co-authors, including Nath … ⌘ Read more

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Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Reaches Criticality In First Test
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use of different – and typically smaller – reactor designs, only one of them has been fully li … ⌘ Read more

Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices
Hey HN, Guanming and Bill here from General Instinct ( https://general-instinct.com/).

After years of working in robotics, we kept running into the same problem: the best models never fit the hardware we actually had available.

The models that performed best were usually designed around datacenter assumptions: large GPUs, lots of memory bandwidth, and reliable network access. But most physical systems have the opposit … ⌘ Read more

The Odyssey Fans Are Saying the Same Thing About Its Popcorn Bucket
The Odyssey popcorn bucket has been revealed, and its unexpected design has drawn attention online. Accordingly, fans have shared their thoughts about it on social media. The Odyssey fans react to its IMAX popcorn bucket The Odyssey took an unconventional approach when it came to the design of its popcorn bucket. Instead of modeling after […]

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@prologic@twtxt.net As have I. 🤔 I mean, since I left GitHub, I got basically 0 pull requests anyway.

Even during my time using GitHub, I noticed that “drive-by PRs” are rarely a good idea. People don’t really know/understand the code or the design principles/goals, so I often turned down PRs. Or I accepted them and was grumpy afterwards. 😅

What does work is having a team of maintainers/devs. The only question is: How do you build such a team if you don’t accept PRs? That’s going to be the interesting part.

Design Within Reach Promo Codes: 30% Off | June 2026
Get 30% off, 20% off, and free shipping with our Design Within Reach coupon codes, plus up to 50% off furniture with these special discounts. ⌘ Read more

The Odyssey Popcorn Bucket Is Absolutely Perfect for Christopher Nolan Fans
The Odyssey popcorn bucket is here and it’s a must-have for Christopher Nolan fans. The bucket has been exclusively designed and released for the upcoming epic fantasy action film. The Odyssey is arguably Nolan’s most expensive film to date. It follows Odysseus, the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, on his long and arduous journey home […]

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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones. ⌘ Read more

Google Launches ‘Gemma 4 12B’ AI Model That Can Run On Your Laptop
Google has launched Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter open AI model designed to run locally on your laptop without depending entirely on cloud infrastructure. WION reports: According to Google, the new model delivers performance close to much larger AI systems while requiring significantly less memory. The company says Gemma 4 12B can run … ⌘ Read more

Nouveau micmac autour de la primaire: le PS voit double
La proposition d’Olivier Faure d’organiser deux primaires successives pour désigner un candidat de la gauche non mélenchoniste à la présidentielle a déclenché une énième crise au PS où les oppositions dénoncent une «tentative de coup de force». Dans l’entourage du premier secrétaire, on assume un «pavé dans la mare». ⌘ Read more

Okay. I have lost the “battle” against “AI” at work and I will no longer try to “fight” any of it.

It is simply what people want. They want to use it. And that’s the end of it.

And why do they want it? Because it makes their job easier. And why is that? In very large parts, it’s because we have accumulated a metric fuckton of technical debt due to decades long mismanagement. We were (and are) operating in “emergency mode” all the time. There simply was no time to clean things up or to rethink designs. We always have to go with the cheapest and quickest solution. We are never ahead of things: Earlier this year, I started an initiative and wanted to tackle some issue that I could see coming. I was shut down because this wasn’t “urgent”. Very soon after, this exact thing became that exact problem – but now, there was no time anymore to do it properly because NOW it’s urgent, so, once again, we had to go with a quick and dirty solution.

It’s always like that and I had brought it up again and again. And now we have a huge spaghetti mess that hardly anyone understands anymore.

Nobody – except AI. It can still make some sense of this and, obviously, this is useful to people.

So, any argument I make against AI is completely pointless to begin with. I’m such a fool for not having seen this earlier.

The last argument I made today was: “Look, we already have so much technical debt and spaghetti systems, we really, really must clean this up. If we throw AI on top of this now, it’ll only get so much worse.” And once more, I was shut down. My intentions were “admirable”, but “there’s no time for that”.

Okay. Good luck with that. They’ll keep doing it this way. At some point, it’ll either explode entirely and some poor soul has to clean it up, or it’ll explode and they’ll have no other choice but to throw everything away and start from scratch – assuming they can still afford that.

In other words, none of this about AI, really, nor caused by it. Our department’s massive spike in AI usage is just a symptom of the underlying management issues. And since those aren’t being addressed, nothing will change and this whole mess will only get worse.

(I blame all this on management, because, well, that’s who’s to blame. I do not have a solution for it, though – and assigning blame without constructive criticism always sucks big time. I don’t like doing this. If you had put me into that particular management position, I wouldn’t have been able to solve any of this. The thing is, though, I’m not an expert on management and it isn’t my job – I’m just the “princess” who solves your technical issues.)

Microsoft’s Project Solara Is an OS For Devices That Run AI Agents Instead of Apps
An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows, with two working hardware designs so far, and an initial set of big-name companies lined up to run pilots. The p … ⌘ Read more

COSMIC Desktop’s Frosted Glass Is Giving Windows Aero Vibes
Some of the latest feature work for the Rust and Wayland based COSMIC desktop environment is on creating their new “Frosted Glass” appearance. It’s getting closer to release and giving off Windows Aero vibes for that design language from the Windows Vista days… ⌘ Read more

Companies chosen for Marsden Pt rail spur ‘design sprint’
Three companies have been chosen for a Marsden Point rail spur “design sprint”, Rail Minister Winston Peters says.

Peters on Tuesday afternoon said Spanish infrastructure firm Acciona, a Downer-HEB joint venture, and Auckland City Rail Link (CRL)-builder Martinus Rail had been selected by KiwiRail to complete a “design sprint” for the proposed 19km rail line in Northland. ⌘ Read more

Aon NZ retrenches regional presence in nationwide office shake-up
Aon New Zealand is scaling back its nationwide office network, consolidating smaller regional branches into larger hubs in 2026.

In a written statement, the global insurance and consulting firm said the changes were designed to meet client needs and would take place throughout the year. ⌘ Read more