Straker suspended after suspected US employee fraud
Auckland translation technology company Straker has been suspended from trading on the Australian Securities Exchange after discovering suspected fraud at its United States subsidiary involving at least US$1.5 million (NZ$2.5m) and possibly more.

Straker requested the voluntary suspension on Tuesday, saying it had identified transactions totalling approximately US$1.5m that it was confident had been misappropriated … ⌘ Read more

Browser-based file encryption tool using WebCrypto
Article URL: https://secvant.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274018

Points: 5

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F&P Healthcare lifts dividend after tariff-defying profit rise
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has lifted its total dividend for the year by 22% after posting a 24% rise in annual net profit after tax, even in the face of US tariffs.

The Auckland-based medical equipment manufacturer’s revenues rose 14% to $2.31 billion across the financial year, while ne … ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Tuesday, May 26
Which of the following elements has the atomic number 2? Carbon, Lithium or Helium?
What type of animal is a mandrill?
What do edentulous mammals not have?
In which year did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour?
Which king was killed by an arrow to the eye?
In which country does the story “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” take place?
What colour spots does a common ladybird have?
Who directed the 1974 film Blazing Saddles?
In what sport is the “Fosbury flop” technique used?
Whi … ⌘ Read more

Japan’s New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality
Article URL: https://www.bgr.com/2178211/japan-hypersonic-engine-ramjet-2-hour-flights-to-us/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270812

Points: 9

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Memorial Day Tech Deals: Sony, Apple, Anker, and More
Lots of our most-recommended headphones, power banks, and other gadgets are on sale for Memorial Day. ⌘ Read more

Best Memorial Day Mattress Deals: Helix, Saatva (2026)
It’s one of the best times of the year to buy a mattress, and deals on our favorite models end tonight. ⌘ Read more

RADV Driver Lands Support For VK_KHR_shader_fma
Merged today for what will become Mesa 26.2 next quarter is the Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” now supporting the VK_KHR_shader_fma extension… ⌘ Read more

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/netherlands-seizes-800-servers-arrests-2-for-aiding-cyberattacks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266906

Points: 4

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Best Memorial Day Deals: Garmin, Birdfy, Branch (2026)
Memorial Day isn’t until Monday, but sales on our favorite gear are going on all weekend. ⌘ 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

I went 1-for-2 again at Magic today, winning the first game with my (mostly standard) Fallout “Hail, Caesar” deck by creating a swarm of soldiers and slapping people across the face with them (LOL!), before quitting the 2nd game for lack of time after my board got wiped (I mean, I might have lucked into something eventually, but it was getting late, so I dropped out).

I hope to play more regularly going into the summer, but who knows.

Government backs $1.2b loan scheme to shift firms off gas
The Government will guarantee up to $1.2 billion of bank lending to help businesses reduce their reliance on natural gas, as it looks to preserve dwindling domestic supply for users with fewer alternatives.

Finance Minister Nicola Willis, Energy Minister Simeon Brown and Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones said the [Gas Transition Loan Guarantee Scheme](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/budget-2026/gas-users-b … ⌘ Read more

发现频道：最近10日的热门排行榜[2026年第21期]
最近10日，来自小众软件论坛的发现频道的热门排行榜，由系统自动生成，直接列出来： 序号 主题 1️⃣ Moeli 阅读：轻量易用的漫画小说阅读器 2️⃣ 一个剪贴板实时同步工具 | 五端支持 | P2P | 跨网络 | UniClipboard 3️⃣ 【开源自荐】格图X | 多文件夹 ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD on Laptop
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-On-Laptop-Driver

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258736

Points: 6

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‘AI washing’: firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/24/ai-washing-pr-firms-scrambling-rebrand

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257980

Points: 15

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Linux To Remove ISA Speech Synthesizer Driver That Likely Hasn’t Been Used In Decades
Following the process of phasing out Intel 486 CPU support and other old hardware drivers that were dropped in the Linux 7.1 kernel cycle for reducing the kernel maintenance burden, the upcoming Linux 7.2 cycle is continuing the trend of phasing out some of the old hardware support that is very obsolete, likely having no users on the latest upstream kernels, and no one formally maintaining the obsolete drivers… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-…

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253386

Points: 4

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JWT is a scam and your app doesn’t need it
Article URL: https://www.dusanmalusev.dev/blog/jwt-is-a-scam-and-your-app-doesnt-need-it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249553

Points: 33

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My Net Worth: Caroline Harvie-Teare, Venues Ōtautahi CEO
Caroline Harvie-Teare is a Cantabrian through and through. She grew up in Dunsandel, competed in the South Island horse-riding championships, and has spent much of her career serving the city she loves.

I grew up on a 2,500-acre (1,000ha) farm in Dunsandel for the first seven years of my life. Farm life’s pretty simple – it’s a pretty happy time. My dad built a really cool go-kart for my two older brother … ⌘ Read more

Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many?
Article URL: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/oura-says-it-gets-government-demands-for-user-data-will-it-share-how-many/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247876

Points: 16

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Kraker kritisiert „ewiges Fortschreiben“
Die Präsidentin des Rechnungshofs (RH), Margit Kraker, hat mehr Tempo bei Reformen beim Gesundheitsbereich und bei Pensionen eingemahnt. Diese seien „ein großer Brocken“ im Budget, sagte sie in der Ö1-Sendereihe „Journal zu Gast“. Das Einsparungsvolumen von 2,5 Milliarden Euro sei „wahrscheinlich sehr knapp bemessen“, so Kraker. „Ewiges Fortschreiben“ funktioniere nicht. ⌘ Read more

GNOME Commander 2.0 Released Following Rewrite In Rust & GTK4
GNOME Commander, the orthodox file manager for the GNOME desktop that was inspired by Norton Commander, has been rewritten in the Rust programming language and also now using the GTK4 toolkit… ⌘ Read more

Entscheidung über Einsparungen vertagt
Die Entscheidung über die Einsparungen im Universitätsbudget 2028 bis 2030 ist vorerst vertagt. Im Doppelbudget 2027/28 wird der derzeitige Budgetansatz von rund 5,2 Mrd. Euro zunächst formal fortgeschrieben. Das gab Wissenschaftsministerin Eva-Maria Holzleitner (SPÖ) am Freitag bekannt, nachdem es einen Aufschrei der Unis und Kritik aus den Ländern gegeben hatte. ⌘ Read more

An amazing ride and 2 fists full of Sadako breasts (EroTaiga) [The Ring] ⌘ Read more

ToDesk 达成 2 亿装机量里程碑：8K 旗舰级画质加持，远程控制软件开始进入“视网膜”级竞争
近年来远程办公、跨区域协同、跨设备互控愈发普遍，不知屏幕前的各位是否遇到过这类场景——如远程操作公司或同事/客户的电脑来进一步调整所设计的急用海报，却发现细节糊成一片，色彩也有所偏差；帮处于外地的父母子女操作电脑，移动端小屏上根本看不清一些位置的信息；再或者想控制能带得动专业应用的高配置电脑来剪辑视 ⌘ Read more

赛博领鸡蛋：古墓丽影、纪念碑谷3 等6款游戏[5.22~5.28]
Epic 本周送出 2 款电脑游戏、1 款手机游戏，分别是《逃出百慕大》《古墓丽影1～3》以及口碑很好的手机游戏《纪念碑谷 3》，以及好几款 Steam 限免游戏。 《逃出百慕大》 这是一款带有轻度解谜元素的冒险游戏，玩家需要探索多个漂浮岛屿，通过寻找隐藏道具、破解机关以及收集能量核心来推进剧情。整 ⌘ Read more

Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar
Article URL: https://qz.com/samsung-chip-workers-bonus-ai-profits-052126

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230892

Points: 18

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Linux 7.2 To Enable SR-IOV Support For Intel Nova Lake’s Xe3P Graphics
Open-source Intel software engineers today sent out their latest round of Xe kernel graphics driver updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month’s Linux 7.2 merge window… ⌘ Read more

US To Award $2 Billion To Quantum Companies, Take Equity Stakes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Quantum Insider: The Trump administration is preparing a new round of industrial policy aimed at quantum computing, with roughly $2 billion in grants expected to go to nine companies developing quantum hardware and related technologies. According to Reuters, citing a Wall Street Journal report, the U.S. Dep … ⌘ Read more

Sponsored: Bayleys Total Property Issue 4 out now
Backed by Bayleys’ national strength and global reach, Total Property offers exclusive access to New Zealand’s high calibre commercial property opportunities and the latest market insights. Whether you’re a seasoned investor or exploring new ventures, we’ll connect you to the right opportunities with Bayleys’ trusted expertise.

In this issue, we explore how private capital continues to dominate global commercial real estate investment, driv … ⌘ Read more

Government puts $2.5m towards billion-dollar underground asset striking problem
The Government is putting $2.5 million towards a possibly $1.45 billion problem: the accidental damage of underground cables and pipes.

Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop announced on Thursday that work on a national underground asset … ⌘ Read more

Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can
Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/145029/get-your-passwords-out-of-bitwarden-while-you-still-can/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223258

Points: 13

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OpenBSD 7.9 released
The OpenBSD 7.9 release is
out, right on schedule. There is the usual long list of new features,
including improved architecture support, CPU scheduling on heterogeneous
systems, the ability to hibernate a suspended system after a configurable
delay, socket splicing, a
__pledge_open()
system call giving special access to the C library, and much more. See the
announcement and [the full\
changelog]( … ⌘ Read more

Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Adding Expandable Heap Support With Linux 7.2
AMD engineers continue enhancing the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux… ⌘ Read more

VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine’s Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan
Wine developers have announced the release of VKD3D 2.0, the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API. VKD3D is what’s used by upstream Wine for D3D12 compared to Valve’s downstream VKD3D-Proton within Steam Play (Proton)… ⌘ Read more

More AMDGPU Driver Fixes Prepped For Linux 7.2
AMD is ready with more AMDKFD compute driver and AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window… ⌘ Read more

Pensionen steigen um 2,95 Prozent
Die Regierung hat sich im Zuge der Budgetverhandlungen auf die Pensionserhöhung geeinigt. Im kommenden Jahr sollen die Pensionen um 2,95 Prozent steigen, teilte das Sozialministerium am Donnerstag mit. Die Erhöhung liegt damit knapp unter der prognostizierten Inflationsrate. ⌘ Read more

Patrick Simon, sociodémographe: «Une nouvelle société est en train d’advenir, avec une multiplicité de références culturelles et sociales»
La grande enquête «Trajectoires et origines 2», qui porte sur la diversité des populations en France, vient percuter de nombreuses idées reçues sur les personnes immigrées et leur descendance. Entretien avec le sociodémographe Patrick Simon, qui a codirigé ce livre très attendu e … ⌘ Read more

Pensionen: Erhöhung um 2,95 Prozent ⌘ Read more

SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers
The investment comes as Musk’s AI unit faces complaints about the carbon-emitting units and looks to become a big player in cloud computing. ⌘ Read more

My Food Bag lifts profit and revenue as board weighs possible sale
Listed meal-kit company My Food Bag has reported revenue growth of 6.2% for the second half of the 2026 financial year.

In an NZX announcement on Thursday, My Food Bag (MFB) announced a net profit after tax of $6.7 million, up 5.3% year on year. ⌘ Read more

AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL To Be Initially Disabled-By-Default
One of the most exciting developments in recent times for the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver is HDMI 2.1 FRL support for the AMDGPU driver along with Display Stream Compression support as they work toward providing full HDMI 2.1 support for this open-source AMD Radeon driver. The details how AMD managed to pull this feat off given prior resistance from the HDMI Forum remains to be confirmed, but it’s moving ahead and out today is the latest … ⌘ Read more

RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
Red Hat has released RHEL 10.2 and 9.8 with new AI-assisted command-line tools. The releases also add updated developer toolchains such as Go 1.26, LLVM 21, Rust 1.92, Python 3.14, and PHP 8.4. Phoronix reports: Red Hat Enterprise Linux has introduced the goose command for power users. Goose is an optional CLI AI assistance with model context protocol (MCP) integrati … ⌘ Read more

The Very Exciting Cache Aware Scheduling Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2
As a very exciting development ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window opening in about one month’s time, it looks like the long-awaited Cache Aware Scheduling support will finally be merged! CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE has made it into a TIP branch with all the Cache Aware Scheduling code for helping with Linux performance on modern CPUs sporting multiple last level caches… ⌘ Read more

RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
Red Hat today announced the releases of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 as well as RHEL 9.8… ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, libpng, nginx, nginx:1.24, ruby, and ruby:3.3), Debian (gnutls28 and linux-6.1), Fedora (dnsmasq, kernel, keylime-agent-rust, perl-Net-CIDR-Lite, python-pysam, python-urllib3, rust-cargo-vendor-filterer, rust-ingredients, rust-oo7-cli, rust-rpki, rust-sevctl, and rust-tealdeer), Mageia (bind), Oracle (bind, giflib, gimp:2.8, kernel, libpng, rsync, ruby, and vim), Slackware (haveged and mozilla), SUSE (cockpit, dnsmasq, e … ⌘ Read more

NordVPN Coupons and Deals: 77% Off in May 2026
Save up to 77% on 2-year plans and get 3 free months with our NordVPN discount codes. ⌘ Read more

«L’État druze» de Soueïda, en rupture avec le reste de la Syrie
Depuis la tentative de Damas d’imposer son autorité par la force en juillet 2025, et la mort de 2 000 personnes, Druzes et Bédouins sunnites, une «garde nationale» composite fait office de forces armées. Et le soutien israélien est de plus en plus présent. ⌘ Read more