Linux 7.1-rc6 Released Following Another “Larger-Than-I’d-Wish-For Size” Week
The Linux 7.1-rc6 kernel is now available for closing out the month of May and approaching the Linux 7.1 stable release that should be out by mid-June… ⌘ Read more
Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/despite-price-hike-steam-deck-is-already-sold-out-in-north-america/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348704
Points: 7
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1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
Article URL: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-image-4b
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346257
Points: 7
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Linux 7.1-rc6 To Support The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II & Nova 2 Lite Controllers
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 test kernel due out later today, this week’s batch of input subsystem fixes have been sent out that includes enabling a few newer input devices… ⌘ Read more
I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200
Article URL: https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/v100localllm/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345694
Points: 7
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Linux 7.1-rc6 To Hide The Documentation On “clearcpuid” Feature
The clearcpuid= kernel parameter can be used to disable specific CPUID features for the kernel by specifying the targeted bit numbers of the feature(s) to disable or their flags from the /proc/cpuinfo output. The clearcpuid parameter, for example, has been useful for carrying out AVX-512 comparison benchmarks for apps that check for the presence of the AVX-512 extensions via /proc/cpuinfo. But moving forward the documentation on clearcpuid is b … ⌘ Read more
Various USB Quirks Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc6
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 kernel due out on Sunday, this week’s round of USB fixes have been merged with various new device quirks added as well as some patches as a result of scanning tools… ⌘ Read more
Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac
Article URL: https://lowendmac.com/2013/jef-raskin-the-visionary-behind-the-mac/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339894
Points: 7
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RBG: Of Many, One – ‘Sharp, intelligent and emotionally bruising’
Auckland Theatre Company’s 2026 season continues, in collaboration with Sydney Theatre Company, with RBG: Of Many, One, written by Suzie Miller and directed by Priscilla Jackman.
It opened on May 23 and runs until June 7, 2026, at the ASB Waterfront Theatre. ⌘ Read more
Spritpreisbremse wird verlängert
Kurz vor Auslaufen der Spritpreisbremse haben sich die Regierungsparteien ÖVP, SPÖ und NEOS auf eine Verlängerung geeinigt. Ab Juni wird allerdings nur noch die Mineralölsteuer (MÖSt) um 1,7 Cent pro Liter gesenkt. Die Begrenzung der Margen wie bisher fällt weg, wie es am Samstag hieß. Bis Ende August müssen Tankstellen zudem Preissenkungen bei den internationalen Preisnotierungen verpflichtend weitergeben. ⌘ Read more
Voxel Space
Article URL: https://s-macke.github.io/VoxelSpace/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336564
Points: 7
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AMD Submits More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.2
On Friday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD pull request landing more kernel graphics/compute driver improvements in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window happening in mid-June… ⌘ Read more
Canada in Technical Recession
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/recession-gdp-may-2026-statscan-9.7216352
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328718
Points: 7
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On Rendering Diffs
Article URL: https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327809
Points: 7
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AMD ROCm 7.2.4 Released With Performance & Stability Fixes
AMD’s ROCm open-source compute stack is up to version 7.2.4 stable as it continues seeing new fixes while on the tech preview feature side is the recent ROCm 7.13 release… ⌘ Read more
AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3pe36qe7ro
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327222
Points: 7
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Linux Networking Still Seeing “Significantly Bigger” Pull Requests Due To AI
Last week’s collection of networking subsystem fixes for Linux 7.1 noted craziness continuing with no end in sight with a large pull request of fixes with many of them spurred on by AI/LLM coding agents. This week it’s “significantly bigger” than prior kernel cycles for this late stage of kernel development due to this assistance of large language models… ⌘ Read more
Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain
A change coming on the way for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is yielding a significant improvement to the direct I/O write performance. While a big gain, technically it’s a regression fix after a change mistakenly dropped the behavior several years ago… ⌘ Read more
Intel To Support DRM Background Color Property With Linux 7.2
Introduced in Linux 7.1 is a dedicated CRTC background color property for DRM graphics/display drivers. The “BACKGROUND_COLOR” property can be used with capable drivers and display controllers as the default background color when not covered by any plane or from transparent regions of higher planes. With the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle, the Intel DRM driver will begin supporting this background color property… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2 To Bring Graphics Driver Fix For Old Integrated Graphics On Intel Sandy Bridge
For those still making use of Intel Sandy Bridge processors from 15 years ago, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is bringing a fix for an engine reset issue when using the old integrated graphics with Sandy Bridge… ⌘ Read more
Budget 2026’s thorny political issues
This week’s pre-election Budget suggests the Government believes it will have done just enough to win on Nov 7 this year and is instead setting itself up for the 2029 election, promising looser purse strings then.
That is a confident call. ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2’s Open-Source Nouveau Driver To Finally Support The NVIDIA GA100
Sent out today was the last drm-misc-next pull request ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window getting underway in June. As part of this last batch of small Direct Rendering Manager graphics/accelerator driver changes is finally enabling the NVIDIA GA100 within the Nouveau driver… ⌘ Read more
Tāiko Critical Minerals posts $8.7m full year loss ahead of planned 2028 mining start
Tāiko Critical Minerals reported a net loss of $8.7 million as it continues work on a planned West Coast mining project north of Greymouth.
The company, which was listed on the New Zealand Exchange (NZX) in March this year, released its preliminary unaudited results for March 31, 2026, on May 29. ⌘ Read more
I’m “Retiring” from Tech – Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source, Sentry.io
Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/chadwhitacre.com/post/3mmvzlutrvk2g
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315784
Points: 7
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Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313048
Points: 18
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Patrick Balkany condamné à de la prison ferme sans mandat de dépôt pour détournement de fonds publics
L’ancien maire de Levallois-Perret, 77 ans, avait été jugé du 7 au 10 avril pour avoir affecté, entre 2010 et 2015, des policiers municipaux à des tâches personnelles, notamment comme chauffeurs privés. ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Released With More Bug Fixes
Building off the KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta release earlier in May, a second beta was declared today in preparing for the Plasma 6.7 stable debut in mid-June… ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Dirk and Linus talk; BPF and GCC; private memory modes; BPF page-cache policies; major page faults; LLM kernel review; tiered-memory support; transparent huge pages; page mappings; Model Openness Tool.
Briefs: Stenberg security stress; GTK PDF problems; Morton 2004 keynote; OpenBSD 7.9; Bambu’s AGPLv3 violations; Quotes; …
[Announcements](https://lwn.net/Ar … ⌘ Read more
Can we have the day off?
Article URL: https://mlsu.io/posts/day-off/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302745
Points: 40
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You Should Not Update Your Dependencies
Article URL: https://www.mendral.com/blog/you-should-not-update
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302319
Points: 7
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Meta To Start Testing AI Subscription Services
Meta will begin testing paid subscriptions for its Meta AI app and website, with a $7.99/month Meta One Plus plan and a more capable $19.99/month Meta One Premium plan offering. The test will start next month in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia as Meta looks for AI revenue beyond advertising while continuing to offer a free tier. CNBC reports: Naomi Gleit, the head of product at M … ⌘ Read more
Interview session with Jonathan Corbet
The Linux Foundation will be hosting a\
live interview with LWN co-founder Jonathan Corbet. The event will
take place on Tuesday, June 2 at 8:00AM Pacific daylight time (UTC-7).
Registration is open for those who would like to attend. ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel
Canonical’s kernel team confirmed today their intention of shipping the Ubuntu 26.10 release with what will be the Linux 7.2 kernel… ⌘ Read more
Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins For AMD Zen 5 On PostgreSQL, Valkey, Network Performance
The long-in-development work on Cache Aware Scheduling looks like it will come to a head soon with it looking like Cache Aware Scheduling will land for Linux 7.2. Ahead of the upcoming merge window I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at different areas where this feature is shining. ⌘ Read more
Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins For AMD Zen 5 On PostgreSQL, Valkey, Network Performance
The long-in-development work on Cache Aware Scheduling looks like it will come to a head soon with it looking like Cache Aware Scheduling will land for Linux 7.2. Ahead of the upcoming merge window I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at different areas where this feature is shining. ⌘ Read more
7 Best Outdoor Security Cameras (2026) After Testing Dozens
These weatherproof outdoor security cams keep a watchful eye on your property while you get on with life. Our list includes battery-powered cameras that need no subscription. ⌘ Read more
Nearly half (44%) of every T-shirt goes to waste before you even buy it
Article URL: https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2026/05/nearly-half-of-every-t-shirt-goes-to-waste-before-you-even-buy-it/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278832
Points: 7
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7 Ways to Get So Good at AI, People Will Think You Are AI
From killing your chatbots to optimizing your prompts, here are the best ways to go full AI native and conquer the new world. ⌘ Read more
Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd
Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/145071/flatpak-will-depend-on-systemd/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277355
Points: 7
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Btrfs Preps Huge Folios Support Ahead Of Linux 7.2
The past few Linux kernel cycles there has been experimental support for large folios with Btrfs while for Linux 7.2 it looks like this modern file-system will be taking things further with huge folios… ⌘ Read more
NZ sharemarket up 0.7% after strong results
Heavyweight Fisher & Paykel Healthcare surprised some commentators with another strong annual financial result, driving the New Zealand sharemarket higher by more than 0.7%.
The S&P/NZX 50 Index reached a morning high of 13,182.35 following Fisher & Paykel’s bumper release, then cooled off in the afternoon to close at 13,069.74, up 99.46 points, or 0.77%. ⌘ Read more
TP-7 Field Recorder
Article URL: https://teenage.engineering/products/tp-7
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273531
Points: 4
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Ubers COO says its getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai-token-spending-harder-justify-2026-5
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268871
Points: 7
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[$] Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development
Linus Torvalds does not enjoy giving talks, but he does consent to
the occasional on-stage conversation with Dirk Hohndel at Linux
Foundation events. The pair held the 30th of their fire-less fireside
chats during a keynote session on May 20, at the 2026 Open\
Source Summit North America. Topics included 3D printing, guitar
pedals, the recent 7.1-rc4 release of the kernel, and Torvalds’s
complicated relationshi … ⌘ Read more
Intel Introducing USB4STREAM Protocol For Linux - Opening Up Some Nifty Uses For USB4
An exciting Intel innovation expected to be added for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is introducing the new USB4STREAM protocol for USB4/Thunderbolt as a “super simple” way to “basically just transfer raw packets from one host to another”. This can be useful for quickly backing up a system from one host to another, sharing of web cameras or other peripherals across systems, or other environments where not having networking or wanti … ⌘ Read more
Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware
With Linux 7.1 ISDN, ham radio, and other old network code was removed in lightening the kernel source tree by around 138 thousand lines of code. Some additional Linux networking code cleaning is expected for Linux 7.2 with the ISA and PCMCIA hardware around ARCnet set to be removed… ⌘ Read more
Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc5
The 7.1-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. Quoth Linus:
I’m not entirely happy about it - most of this is totally trivial
stuff to random drivers, which obviously makes it all less scary,
but at the same time I’m really not convinced the churn is worth it
at rc5 time. These things are “fixes”, sure, but at the same time a
lot of them are simply so irrelevant that I think they’d be better
off in a linux-next tree and get merged during the merge window. … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.1-rc5 Released With Fixes Ramping Up From AI Coding Agents
In the road to releasing Linux 7.1 in June, out today is Linux 7.1-rc5 that continues coming on heavy with fixes… ⌘ Read more
GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week
For those curious about the growing use of AI and coding agents within the Linux kernel, this week there was another large batch of new patches fixed that were generated or co-authored by agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot… ⌘ Read more
DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
Article URL: https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256953
Points: 16
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