Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta Now Properly Handles Notches & Rounded Corners
The community of developers continuing to maintain Ubuntu Touch for smartphones has released the Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 beta ahead of the planned stable release in mid-July… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2 To Better Communicate File-System Casefolding For Helping Windows NFS & More
Newly-merged code for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel will now expose the case-folding (case insensitive) behavior of local file-systems so that Linux file servers and others can properly report the actual behavior rather than guessing if case-folding is actually used/supported… ⌘ Read more
How America’s Energy Department is Building a National Platform for Doing Science with AI
America’s Energy Department “wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI,” reports Communications of the ACM:
It is called the Genesis Mission, and the idea is to connect the country’s 17 national laboratories, their supercomputers, scientific datasets, and a growing layer o … ⌘ Read more
US Congress Lets ‘Warrantless Wiretap’ Law FISA Lapse
It’s the U.S. law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets. And the U.S. Congress just let it lapse. Sort of. NPR reports:
Each year, the provision is used by American intelligence agencies to collect the electronic communications of hundreds of thousands of foreigners located outside of the United States. The government says that more than … ⌘ Read more
Despite our pain, the Jewish community refuses to wallow in anger
Six months on from the Bondi massacre, Australia’s Jews are in the second stage of their mourning. Next, we will seek light to dispel the darkness. ⌘ Read more
30 Jahre bunter Protest in Bildern
Vor drei Jahrzehnten sind erstmals bunt gekleidete Menschen und feierlich geschmückte Wagen über die Wiener Ringstraße gezogen, um für gleiche Rechte und gegen Diskriminierung queerer Menschen zu demonstrieren. Anlässlich des Jubiläums sprach ORF.at mit den Mitgründern der Regenbogenparade: über Aufstände und Widerstände, „Stonewall“ als Meilenstein und darüber, warum die Regenbogenparade aus Sicht der Community selbst 30 Jahre später nicht nur Party, sondern immer auch Protest sein muss. ⌘ Read more
Solidarity rally held in Belfast following violent riots
In the wake of anti-immigration riots in West Belfast, community members have shown their support for immigrants. ⌘ Read more
Hundreds of billions in loans didn’t make a dent in global poverty
By Gabriele Steinhauser, Photography by Roun Ry for WSJ
Giving tiny loans to shoestring entrepreneurs was meant to be capitalism’s cure for global poverty.
Microfinance, loans issued in communities not served by traditional banks, would help poor people in developing countries start businesses and work their way toward prosperity. ⌘ Read more
Daten verkauft: Pokemon Go liefert angeblich Kameradaten für militärische Drohnen
Die Pokemon-Go-Community nimmt seit 2021 Pokestops mit dem Telefon auf. Das kann Partner Vantor für GPS-lose Navigation in Drohnen nutzen. ( Pokémon Go, Spiele)
Night Nurse Trailer Previews Bizarre, Uncomfortable, & Erotic Psychosexual Thriller Movie
Georgia Bernstein’s debut psychosexual thriller Night Nurse drops its first trailer. The upcoming movie explores a sinister side of caregiving. The official synopsis for Night Nurse reads, “At the start of her new job in a luxury retirement community, Eleni (Cemre Paksoy) is drawn into a series of scam calls targeting the elderly residents, a \ … ⌘ Read more
GNOME Foundation Announces First Participants Of Fellowship Program
Back in March the GNOME Foundation announced a fellowship program. The GNOME fellowship program will help with the long-term sustainability of the GNOME desktop and looked to fund independent/community contributors over a twelve month period. Today the first recipients of the fellowship program have been announced… ⌘ Read more
People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Furious About the SpaceX IPO
Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI’s supercomputers. ⌘ Read more
FCC Wants To Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms To Get All Customers’ IDs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to make it effectively impossible for people to buy what many call burner phones – a phone not explicitly linked to your identity at the point of purchase – which would impact privacy-conscious people, to domestic abuse … ⌘ Read more
Tests Suggest Russian Satellites Can Jam GPS On a Continental Scale
Researchers say mysterious, seconds-long GPS interference bursts detected across Europe appear to come from Russian EKS early-warning satellites, making this “a rare example of human-made GPS interference coming from space,” reports Ars Technica. The signals may be tests of space-based jamming capability, short satellite communications, … ⌘ Read more
‘This will help others’: Rugby league community reacts to Kane Evans coming out as gay
The NRL believes Kane Evans’ courageous interview will not only change his own life, but also that of others struggling with their sexuality. ⌘ Read more
QuiznessDesk, Tuesday, June 09
Is the Tropic of Cancer north or south of the equator?
What type of dogs are commonly kept by Inuit communities?
Which cartoon character lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk?
Perhaps it was a case of shocking luck that Anthony Starr was cast as both Jethro West and Van West in what classic New Zealand TV series?
Which band released the 1999 comeback single `Maria`?
Which historical figure opened the 1936 Olympic Games?
Niue is a self-governing coral island in free associat … ⌘ Read more
WhatsApp Catches Spyware Firm NSO Defying No-Hacking Court Order
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Meta-owned communications app WhatsApp says it recently detected and disrupted a spear-phishing attempt linked to spyware company NSO Group. The attack is allegedly in defiance of a court order that bars the spyware maker from targeting WhatsApp. WhatsApp filed a lawsuit against NSO in 2019, after it ca … ⌘ Read more
Nintendo paie 35 millions d’euros et clôt un litige pour pratique commerciale trompeuse
La justice française reprochait au fabricant japonais une «communication tardive et parcellaire»” “au sujet d’un dysfonctionnement de sa console de jeu vidéo Switch. Une enquête avait été ouverte en 2020 après une plainte de l’UFC-Que choisir pour pratique commerciale trompeuse. ⌘ Read more
Australia remembers Neale Daniher with MND Big Freeze event
The AFL community have come together to remember the late Neale Daniher on the first Big Freeze MND charity event since his death. ⌘ Read more
Agents, Agile, Communism, Coercion
Article URL: https://elliotmorris.net/agents-agile-communism-coercion
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435924
Points: 5
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
Melbourne kung fu queen among King’s Birthday Honours heroes
The honours recognise community heroes whether they’re raising money for an ambulance service, teaching women self-defence, bringing killers to justice or organising relief efforts in a bushfire-hit region. ⌘ Read more
Shuuko treating her husband well (hornygraphite) [Komi Can’t Communicate] ⌘ Read more
Google Says It Will Replenish More Water Than It Uses At Data Centers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: There’s been a lot of pushback in recent months around the impact of AI data centers on local communities, with the use of water being a key issue for many. Google, in an expansion of its “water stewardship” programs, is making commitments that include replenishing more water than it … ⌘ Read more
Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration On Federal Regulation of Telecom Companies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Thursday in upholding the power of federal regulators to enforce data privacy laws on telecommunications companies. The 8-1 decision (PDF) preserved one of the Federal Communications C … ⌘ Read more
NASA Says Goodbye to Its Longtime Mars MAVEN Mission
NASA has officially ended the MAVEN mission after the Mars orbiter stopped responding in December, apparently after an unexpected spin drained its batteries and knocked out communications. Launched in 2013 and orbiting Mars since 2014, MAVEN spent more than a decade studying how the planet lost its atmosphere and helped explain how Mars transformed from a potentially … ⌘ Read more
Fedora Linux 43 Exposes 20-Year-Old Microsoft Outlook Security Failure
BrianFagioli writes: Fedora Linux 43 users upgrading to the latest Dovecot mail server discovered something rather unsettling: some older Microsoft Outlook configurations may have been silently ignoring SSL/TLS settings for POP3 email connections for years. According to a Fedora community blog post, affected Outlook clients reportedl … ⌘ Read more
King’s Birthday Honours 2026: NZ business leaders celebrated
Commercial barrister Jim Farmer, KC, Mainfreight director Bryan Mogridge and Barfoot & Thompson managing director Peter Thompson are among businesspeople celebrated in this year’s King’s Birthday honours.
No knights or dames will be honoured from the business community, with doctor Paul … ⌘ Read more
Servo 0.2 Released With Revamped Android Browser UI
For ending out the month of May is a new monthly release of Servo, the open-source, Rust-based browser engine being developed by Linux Foundation Europe stakeholders and the open-source community. There are many nice enhancements on the desktop side with Servo 0.2 while also improving the Android browser UI experience with Servo too… ⌘ Read more
Space startup raises funds for laser satellite communications
By Loren Grush
Observable Space raised US$90 million (NZ$151.7m) in its debut funding round as the company seeks to use lasers to help satellites and potentially orbiting datacentres move information to and from Earth. ⌘ Read more
[$] A trademark dispute over MeshCore
MeshCore is a relatively new project, started in January 2025, that aims
to build a scalable mesh network using low-power long-distance radios. While
many other projects of the same general nature have been tried before, MeshCore
grew quickly because of its more efficient message routing and enthusiastic
community. In early 2026, an early proponent of the project made a sudden shift
that left the rest of the community stunned and embroile … ⌘ Read more
NASA Details Its Plan to Build a Lunar Base At the Moon’s South Pole
NASA has outlined a three-phase plan to build a lunar base at the moon’s south pole. The first phase, from 2026 to 2029, will focus on robotic missions, landers, rovers, reactors, satellites, and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance test. Later phases will add habitats, power systems, communications, cargo logistics, and rotating cr … ⌘ Read more
YouTube To Automatically Detect, Label AI-Generated Videos
YouTube will begin automatically labeling videos when its systems detect “significant” photorealistic AI use, while also making AI-content disclosures more visible below long-form videos and directly on Shorts. “We’ve heard consistently from our community that they value transparency when it comes to generative AI content,” YouTube said in a blog post. “These … ⌘ Read more
Bouncy Castle Communism Is the Solution
Article URL: https://www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-castle-communism
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286428
Points: 4
# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more
AlmaLinux 10.2 Released For Latest Community-Driven RHEL 10.2 Experience
The AlmaLinux project announced the releases today of both AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and AlmaLinux OS 10.2… ⌘ Read more
[$] Reviewing kernel patches with LLMs
In a plenary session at
the
2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, the state of patch
review using large language models (LLMs) was discussed. It is a topic that has been swirling around in the
kernel community for much of the year. The plenary, which was led by Roman
Gushchin, Chris Mason, Josef Bacik, and Sasha Levin, resulted in a quite bit
of discussion, so much that a second fil … ⌘ Read more
These Privacy-Conscious Gay Dating Apps Want to Dethrone Grindr
As public backlash against Big Dating mounts, a batch of new gay hookup apps offer community-powered alternatives. ⌘ Read more
Canonical Is Shutting Down Ubuntu Pastebin
“Canonical says Ubuntu Pastebin will be decommissioned at the end of May 2026,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, “as part of an infrastructure modernization effort.”
The announcement only appeared this week, giving the Linux community barely any warning before a service that has been tied to Ubuntu support culture for years suddenly disappears.
Ubuntu Pastebin has long been used for … ⌘ Read more
Mozilla Brings Web Serial Workflows to Firefox, Collaborates With Adafruit
The Web Serial API lets websites write to (and read from) serial devices using JavaScript, including USB and Bluetooth devices with virtual serial ports. And this week’s Firefox 151 release introduced support for the Web Serial API on desktop.
“Most folks won’t use this API,” acknowledges Mozilla’s blog, “but for our community … ⌘ Read more
More Videogames Developers Consider Unionization - Some Spurred By Changes to Remote Work Policies
Developers for several top videogames have joined unions under the Communication Workers of America — including Call of Duty, Fallout, Overwatch, Diablo and World of Warcraft. Last month workers on the online game Magic: The Gathering Arena team announced their own CWA union.
T … ⌘ Read more
Quantum ‘Jamming’ Could Help Unlock the Mysteries of Causality
To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect. ⌘ Read more
Tait Communications wins at Hi-Tech Awards
Tait Communications took out the top honour at Friday’s NZ Hi-Tech Awards, being named the 2026 PwC Hi-Tech Company of the Year.
The judges commented that the 57-year-old company continued to innovate and move at speed, not an easy achievement for a well-established business. ⌘ Read more
4chan’s Misogynist ‘Wizards’ Are Nudifying Women by Request
As nonconsensual explicit deepfakes continue to proliferate online, entire communities are now collaborating on this digital form of sexual abuse. ⌘ Read more
Patches Trying To Bring Mainline Linux Support For The Infineon/Intel XMM6260 Modem
While it has been nearly seven years since Apple acquired the Intel Mobile Communications’ smartphone modem business and fifteen years since Intel acquired the wireless solutions division of Infineon, in 2026 we might see mainline Linux kernel support for the out-of-date XMM6260 modem… ⌘ Read more
[$] The tenth OpenPGP email summit
The OpenPGP Email Summit is
an annual meeting for those who work on encrypted email and related
topics. The tenth\
installment of this meeting took place in March 2026 and the minutes
have now been published. As usual, a wide range of topics were
discussed. Highlights included support for post-quantum cryptography
(PQC) with multiple actors planning roll … ⌘ Read more
[$] openSUSE “terms of site” raise complaints about age restrictions
Many people in the Linux community began using the operating system—and
contributing to open source—at a tender age, often well before
their 16th birthday. Thus, a recent change in openSUSE’s terms of site (ToS)
that required users of the project’s web site to be “at least 16
years of age or the age of majority” in their jurisdiction has
raised objections. The terms have since been modified, though users
must still have paren … ⌘ Read more
Europe Tests Laser Links As Satellite Comms Outgrow Radio
Europe is testing laser-based satellite communications through a new mountaintop ground station in Greece, aiming to deliver faster, more secure links than traditional radio systems as bandwidth demand grows. The Register reports: Lithuanian space and defense biz Astrolight says that it has commissioned a new optical ground station in Greece that will support … ⌘ Read more
gkh_clanker_t1000 & gkh_clanker_2000 Continue Uncovering Linux Kernel Bugs
As first reported on Phoronix in early April, Linux’s second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman has been leveraging new AI fuzzing tools for uncovering Linux kernel bugs. Prominent due to his position within the Linux kernel community and also being the primary Linux stable maintainer. His AI-assistance for fixing Linux kernel bugs is based on a Framework Desktop powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max. The “gkh_clanker_t1000” continues assisting in Linux … ⌘ Read more
Fedora’s AI Developer Desktop Initiative Blocked by Community Backlash
The blog It’s FOSS has an update on the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative, a proposed platform for AI/machine learning workloads on Fedora. It’s now been blocked “after two Fedora Council members retracted their earlier approval votes.”
The initiative was proposed by Red Hat engineer Gordon Messmer, aiming to deliver an Atomic D … ⌘ Read more
Wood Burning Is Reintroducing Lead Pollution Into the Air, Scientists Find
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Wood heating is reintroducing lead into the air of local communities and homes, a systematic investigation by academics has found. Overwhelming evidence of lead’s neurotoxicity meant the metal was banned as an additive in petrol more than 25 years ago. The research by acade … ⌘ Read more
[$] Controlling memory-management with BPF
Roman Gushchin began his session in the memory-management track of the
2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that the
community has seen a lot of proposals adding BPF-based interfaces for
memory management. None of them have made their way into the mainline,
though. He wanted to explore the ways in which BPF might be helpful and
the obstacles that have kept BPF-based solutions out so far. This session
was … ⌘ Read more