Hackers Targeted Municipal Water Systems In 7 States This Week, FBI Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Cyberattacks targeting municipal water systems have been reported in at least seven states this week, prompting the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency to warn utilities nationwide that hackers are trying to disrupt critical water infrastructure. In a public service announce … ⌘ Read more

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… ⌘ Read more

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… ⌘ Read more

Typo-Squatting Scammers Con South Carolina Town Out of $545K
It started with some underground utility work for the South Carolina town of Surfside Beach (population: 4,155). “Public records confirm that a payment of $545,598.30 was issued,” according to a local news station — but the CEO of Wildcat Contractors “stated that the account that received the money is a scammer account and that his company has an overdue i … ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool
KDE developers have been working on kscreenctl as a utility replacement to kscreen-doctor. Plasma and related code has also seen a number of bug/crash fixes coming about this week too… ⌘ Read more

Renewable Energy Just Hit 30% of America’s Electricity Generation
America generated 10.06% more energy with renewables in the first four months of 2026 than it did in the same period the year before. That’s according to new figures from America’s Energy Information Administration, cited in this report from Electrek:

The growth was led by utility-scale solar (+21.3%), hydropower (+15.7%), small-scale solar
… ⌘ Read more

Analysts raise IkeGPS forecasts on sharper earnings and AI gains
Forsyth Barr analysts have raised their spot valuation on IkeGPS after the technology company delivered a “strong” full-year result.

The dual-listed utility pole assessment technology firm more than halved its net after-tax loss in the 12 months ending March 31, 2026, to $7.5 million from a net loss … ⌘ Read more

Python utility package for building Claude Code hooks
Article URL: https://github.com/RasmusGodske/claude-hook-utils

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318978

Points: 5

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[$] Better automatic management of transparent huge pages
Huge pages can improve performance by increasing translation lookaside
buffer (TLB) utilization and reducing memory-management overhead.
Transparent huge pages (THPs) are supposed to make huge-page usage,
well, transparent, Nico Pache said at the beginning of his session in the
memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. That transparency has
never worked as well as many wo … ⌘ Read more

VC firm Pacific Channel expands into Asia-Pacific with ENGIE Factory acquisition
Venture Capital firm Pacific Channel has acquired Singapore-based ENGIE Factory, and its shareholdings in seven startup ventures in the Asia-Pacific region.

ENGIE Factory is the venture arm of French multinational electric utility company ENGIE Group. ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox), Debian (chromium, nss, openvpn, and thunderbird), Fedora (cockpit, kernel, and linux-firmware), Oracle (gdk-pixbuf2, kernel, and libsndfile), SUSE (container-suseconnect, cpp-httplib, dnsmasq, firefox, glibc, GraphicsMagick, java-1_8_0-openj9, kernel, mozjs115, php8, python-urllib3, rekor, rootlesskit, rsync, tiff, ucode-intel, util-linux, and xz), and Ubuntu (bind9, bubblewrap, libarchive, linux-intel-iot-realtime, postgre … ⌘ Read more

Software startup Factor bursts out of Taiawa tech hub into the big time
Wellington technology hub Taiawa is celebrating the first exit of one of its in-house startup companies in a $24 million deal announced this week.

The day before BusinessDesk visited Taiawa, NZ company Gentrack revealed it was acquiring Taiawa’s resident startup Factor for $ … ⌘ Read more

NextEra and Dominion’s $67 Billion Mega-Merger Is All About the Data Centers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: A proposed merger of the largest utility in the country by market value, NextEra Energy, with the sixth-largest, Dominion, would create a megacompany at a time when data centers and rapid increases in electricity demand are reshaping the industry. The proposal … ⌘ Read more

Gentrack earnings drop on project delays in Utilities business
Gentrack on Monday reported lower first-half earnings due to delays in revenue from new projects and announced the purchase of Prospero Energy, trading as Factor.

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation, excluding acquisition costs of $0.6 million, was $7.9m in the six months to March 31 compared to $13m in the prior period. ⌘ Read more

Some Datacenters Divert Power from Homes. Will It Drive Homeowners to Solar and Batteries?
An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:

A Nevada utility just told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that it’s redirecting 75% of their electricity supply to data centers, and they have less than a year to find a new power source. It’s one of the starkest examples yet of the AI boom … ⌘ Read more

A Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons of Water Unnoticed
A Georgia data center developed by QTS used nearly 30 million gallons of water through two unaccounted-for connections before residents complained about low water pressure and the county utility discovered the issue. “All told, the developer, Quality Technology Services, owed nearly $150,000 for using more than 29 million gallons of unaccounted-for water,” … ⌘ Read more

Will Maryland’s Utility Bills Increase $1.6B to Support Other States’ Datacenters?
To upgrade its grid for data centers, PJM Interconnection (which serves 13 states) plans to spend $22 billion — and charge nearly $2 billion of that to customers in Maryland, argues Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel. The money “will be recovered in rates for decades” and “drive up Maryland customer bills by … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Raises Claude Code Usage Limits, Credits New Deal With SpaceX
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At its Code with Claude developer conference on Wednesday, Anthropic announced a deal with SpaceX to utilize the entire compute capacity of the latter’s data center in Memphis, Tennessee. On stage at the conference, CEO Dario Amodei said the deal was intended to increase usage limits … ⌘ Read more

AI Cameras are Being Deployed Across the Western US for Early Detection of Wildfires
The Associated Press reports:

On a March afternoon, artificial intelligence detected something resembling smoke on a camera feed from Arizona’s Coconino National Forest. Human analysts verified it wasn’t a cloud or dust, then alerted the state’s forest service and largest electric utility. One of dozens of … ⌘ Read more

Fwupd 2.1.2 Brings Support For Firmware Updates On More Hardware
Fwupd 2.1.2 is out today as the latest update to this open-source firmware updating utility that allows for updating system firmware and device/peripheral firmware under Linux… ⌘ Read more

Sched QoS For Linux Aims To Improve Scheduling & Inspired In Part By Apple’s QoS Classes
Linux developer Qais Yousef with Google has announced the alpha release of Sched QoS as a new initiative for user-space assisted scheduling. The scheduling model in turn is based in part on Apple’s quality of service classes used by iOS for classifying software as user interactive, user initiative, utility, or background tasks… ⌘ Read more

This Friendly Robot Just Installed 100 MW of Solar Power
Utility-scale solar construction… by robots! It’s “one of the largest real-world demonstrations,” notes Electrek, with 100 MW of capacity installed by the “Maximo” robots from AES, one of the world’s top power companies.

Maximo uses AI “to automate the heavy lifting of solar panels and accelerate solar installation,” according to their web page, which sho … ⌘ Read more

mdadm 4.6 Released With Boot Failure Fixes, New Lockless Bitmap
The mdadm utility for managing software RAID on Linux systems is out with a new release that adds new features while addressing some recent boot failure issues that were reported… ⌘ Read more

Linux Patches Updated To Steal Tasks For Improving CPU Utilization
Huawei engineer Chen Jinghuang posted the latest request for comments (RFC) patches for stealing tasks from overloaded CPUs in the same last level cache (LLC) in order to improve overall CPU utilization with today’s large core count servers… ⌘ Read more

Are U.S. Utilities Trying to Delay Easy-to-Use Solar ‘Balcony’ Panels?
Plug-in (or “balcony”) solar panels can also be hung out a window or be set up in a backyard, reports NPR. They channel energy from the sun straight into a home’s electrical outlet, generating enough electricity to power a refrigerator or microwave while “displacing electricity that otherwise would come in from the grid…”

But what’s hol … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.0 AMDGPU Fixing Idle Power Issue For RDNA4 GPUs After Compute Workloads
A fix is on the way to the Linux 7.0 kernel today for addressing an idle power issue with AMD RDNA4 GPUs reporting high power consumption and full utilization even after being “idle” following compute workloads like Llama.cpp… ⌘ Read more

Red Hat Releases Tuned 2.27 For Adaptively Tuning Linux To Different Workloads
Red Hat engineers this weekend released Tuned 2.27, the newest version of their open-source project to provide a tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux. Tuned makes it easier to adjust Linux power and performance characteristics depending upon the hardware and the different workload(s) for your Linux system deployment. Tuned is a replacement/alternative to Linux’s cpupower and power-profiles-daemon utilities… ⌘ Read more

GNU Gawk 5.4 Released With New MinRX Regex Matcher, Faster Reading Of Files
Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4… ⌘ Read more

Turbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics
The Turbostat command-line utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other useful information for AMD and Intel CPUs can now report some L2 cache stats for recent Intel CPUs beginning with Linux 7.0… ⌘ Read more

Anthropic To Cover Costs of Electricity Price Increases From Its Data Centers
AI startup Anthropic says it will ensure consumer electricity costs remain steady as it expands its data center footprint. From a report: Anthropic said it would work with utility companies to “estimate and cover” consumer electricity price increases in places where it is not able to sufficiently generate new power and pay fo … ⌘ Read more

GNU Binutils 2.46 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, SFrame Version 3
Following last week’s release of GNU Coreutils 9.10, released today is GNU Binutils 2.46 for these commonly used GNU binary utilities on Linux systems and elsewhere… ⌘ Read more

A minimalistic Go library for assertion, error handling, and resource management utilities.
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Microsoft Adds Sysmon To Windows
Microsoft has finally delivered on its promise to integrate Sysmon – the long-standing system monitoring tool from its Sysinternals suite – directly into Windows, a move that should make life considerably easier for enterprise administrators who have struggled with deploying and managing the utility across thousands of endpoints.

The functionality landed this week in Windows Insider builds 26300.7733 (Dev … ⌘ Read more

GNU Coreutils 9.10 Released With Many Improvements
Earlier this week Rust Coreutils 0.6 released while out today is GNU Coreutils 9.10 as the de facto standard for this set of core utilities on Linux systems and other platforms… ⌘ Read more

Reworked NTFS Linux Driver Posted With More Improvements & Fixes
Announced back in October was NTFS Plus as a new Linux driver for NTFS based on the former NTFS kernel driver prior to Paragon Software contributing the NTFS3 driver code. The intent with this new driver is for better performance. more features, public user-space utilities around it, and all-around a nice step forward for those reliant on this Microsoft file-system. Out this week is the sixth iteration of this remade NTFS driver… ⌘ Read more

Racing to build utility-scale computer, quantum start-up earns $20m federal investment
Australian taxpayers are backing Sydney start-up Diraq’s ambition to become a global leader in utility-scale quantum computing. ⌘ Read more

Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options
Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the “linuxulator-steam-utils” project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD 14 and newer. Linuxulator-steam-utils builds off FreeBSD’s Linuxulator support for running Linux binaries to enjoy t … ⌘ Read more

Libgcrypt 1.12 Released With VAES/AVX-512 Accelerated AES: 2x Performance On AMD Zen 5
Werner Koch released libgcrypt 1.12 as the newest feature release to this library providing the cryptographic building blocks used by GnuPG and other software like email clients, file encryption utilities, and other software… ⌘ Read more

Bezos’s Vision of Rented Cloud PCs Looks Less Far-Fetched
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once told an audience that he views local PC hardware the same way he views a 100-year-old electric generator he saw in a brewery museum – as a relic of a pre-grid era, destined to be replaced by centralized utilities that users simply rent rather than own. The anecdote, shared at a talk a few years ago, positioned Amazon Web Services a … ⌘ Read more

Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Monday that Microsoft will announce changes to ensure that Americans won’t see rising utility bills as the company builds more data centers to meet rising artificial intelligence demand. “I never want Americ … ⌘ Read more

Bcachefs Ships Latest User-Space Utilities With bcachefs-tools 1.35
Kent Overstreet has shipped the latest version of bcachefs-tools, the user-space code complementing the Bcachefs file-system kernel driver. There are a number of improvements present in this latest version with Overstreet remaining committed to advancing Bcachefs even with its current out-of-tree kernel status… ⌘ Read more

The modern world seems to want to separate the concepts of beauty and utility. We’re fine with having things that are aesthetic but don’ do anything useful, while the tools of society that get work done are often very ugly–visually, socially and metaphorically. Beauty without utility is worthless; utility without beauty is meaningless. We can’t treat them independently.

André Pestana - redução da idade da reforma, reforma mínima de 1000€, acabar com os 5% da NATO

MVieira - Temos tanto ouro, podíamos financiar um projecto de um botão para cada cidadão, o botão resolver. O botão funciona com ciência e magia, inteligência artificial e estupidez natural.

HCorreia - crise climática vai ser o fim do mundo, precisamos de plantar muito muito.

Pergunta final para cada um:

LMM - comentário de que mais se arrepende - é difícil

GMelo - Já desobedecer por razões de consciência? - Nunca precisou

Ventura - um primo diz-me que se apaixonou com alguém do Bangladesh - achava mal, preferia uma portuguesa

Seguro - se não ganhar - a culpa é dele (acho que foi isso)

Cotrim - onde é que o liberalismo precisa de um travão? - não precisa, há um travão embutido

Martins - a causa fracturante mais importante hoje - ex. a xenofobia

A. Filipe - se já se aborreceu com a disciplina de voto - não

Jorge Pinto - já cedi ao voto útil? - não

Humberto Correia - injustiça vs. falta de respeito, qual pior? - a pobreza

Pestana - Alguma vez achou que uma Greve foi longe de mais? - não

Vieira - Coisa maia série que disse e q não foi levada a sério? Direito à felicidade na constituição

Considerações pessoais: quando os debates começaram tinha dúvidas, hoje tenho certezas.

8/8

X.Org IMAKE Updated For Those Not Yet Transitioned To Autoconf/Automake Or Meson
X.Org package wrangler Alan Coopersmith at Oracle announced today the release of imake 1.0.11, the newest version of this utility that 20+ years ago was used extensively as part of the X Window System build process for generating Makefiles from a template. With this first imake point release in two years, imake itself can now be built via Meson and there is now support for RISC-V and LoongArch architectures… ⌘ Read more

#ptpol #debates #presidenciais

1 - diferenças - UE, diz JP, pondo #CMartins à defesa. CM mostra como eles estão em concordo: quem Europa mas são críticos em termos ou decisões específicos. JP tenta dizer que há uma diferença, mas não se vê diferença nenhuma (e CM tb diz queque se calhar até nem há insana diferença aqui). Comunidade Europeia de Defesa? Não, nem nisso há diferença.

2 - voto útil - ambos acham importante um presidente de esquerda, e são contra o voto útil porque acham Seguro um mau candidato. Estão de acordo.

3 - presidente mais interventivo - é importante, ambos estão de acordo.

“Tecnologia para emancipar”

Considerações pessoais - tristeza de debate, o jornalista perde tempo a tentar atacar estas candidaturas mas não tem tempo para os fazer mostrar diferenças. A única diferença aparente é que o #JPinto diz que eles têm uma visão diferente da Europa ainda que olha-se na prática e afinal não. 27 minutos de debate: com 13 minutos para cada lado o jornalista diz obrigado e boa noite, e fica-se por aqui. Um dos debates mais importantes para ajudar na decisão de voto a eleitores que poderão estar com dúvidas ente estes dois… desperdiçado. Até parece que o jornalista quer convencer que entre estes dois ele preferia um terceiro com o voto útil…

2/n

3 - maioria absoluta volta a acontecer? - AF “Mais importante que previsões é preciso um presidente claro e de confiança, aproveita para criticar o voto útil, Seguro responde com apelo ao voto útil, diz que sem voto útil a segunda volta é com Marques Mendes. Continuam a discutir sobre quem tem hipóteses e se o voto útil é bom ou mau, AF vai aproveitando para mostrar que ele defenderia coisas (boas) que Seguro não defende.

4 - financiamento para ajudar a Ucrânia - Seguro a favor de eurobonds, acusa AF de não condenar a invasão da Rússia à Ucrânia, AF desmente (e volta a condenar), Seguro faz-se de sonso, debate desce de nível.

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Considerações pessoais: AF claramente mais preparado para ser presidente, e seria melhor presidente. Único problema dele em relação a Seguro é mesmo que há clubismo e voto útil que vai dar muitos votos a Seguro em detrimento da esquerda (incluindo AF)

#ptpol #debates #presidenciais #AFilipe x #Seguro

1 - Spinumviva e MMendes - ética e transparência é bom (duh)
2 - esquerda - AFilipe relembra o papel de Seguro na altura da troika para explicar porque é que a candidatura dele é que é de esquerda, Seguro apela ao voto útil, AF repete que Seguro não diz nada de esquerda. Seguro diz que ele é esquerda sim, e quer dar exemplos, pela na legislação laboral como exemplo e AF aponta logo “boa ideia, no dia da greve eu estava lá, e você?”. Seguro continua a falar do trabalho para dizer (tarde e a más horas, relembra AF) que o pacote é mau, mas dizer isso não é uma coisa que o distingue do AF… AF diz que o Seguro não começou com esta posição no pacote, Seguro diz que é mentira. AF fala do ataque aos trabalhadores na altura da troika com apoio do Seguro, e que ele nem defendeu a retirada depois da troika. Seguro diz “ah isso é diferente”. Seguro diz que não esteve com Passos, até o jornalista vai buscar citações a dar razão a AF. “Eu não quero falar do passado”, responde Seguro, com insistências ele repete irritado “já lhe disse que eu sou presidente para o futuro, não no passado”. Continuamos nisto, eventualmente Seguro acaba a admitir que erava em concordo com Passos e a troika. Seguro avisa AF ser só protesto, AF exemplica q n

Denmark Says Russia Was Behind Two ‘Destructive and Disruptive’ Cyberattacks
The Danish government has accused Russia of being behind two “destructive and disruptive” cyberattacks in what it describes as “very clear evidence” of a hybrid war. From a report: The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyberattack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a … ⌘ Read more

Cryptsetup 2.8.2 Released With BitLocker Clear Key Support
Cryptsetup 2.8.2 released on Thursday for this open-source utility used for setting up disk encryption with dm-crypt on Linux systems, including for LUKS volumes, TrueCrypt, BitLocker, and other formats… ⌘ Read more

I cleaned up all my of AoC (Advent of Code) 2025 solutions, refactored many of the utilities I had to write as reusable libraries, re-tested Day 1 (but nothing else). here it is if you’re curious! This is written in mu, my own language I built as a self-hosted minimal compiler/vm with very few types and builtins.

https://git.mills.io/prologic/aoc2025