Scientists Find Wind Blowing From Our Milky Way’s Black Hole
After 50 years of searching, astronomers say they have finally found evidence of a long-sought “wind” blowing from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. “Unless a black hole exists in a perfect vacuum, it must blow a wind somehow. And there is no perfect vacuum in the universe,” team co-leader and Northwestern Uni … ⌘ Read more

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

The US Military Quietly Turned GPS Into a Global ‘Numbers Station,’ Evidence Suggests
A security researcher says evidence suggests the U.S. military has been using an obscure GPS message field for nearly 20 years to broadcast encrypted key-distribution data, effectively turning GPS satellites into a global “numbers station.” The hidden-looking 176-bit messages appear tied to the Pentagon’s Ove … ⌘ Read more

Google Will Pay SpaceX $920 Million Per Month For Compute
Ahead of its upcoming IPO, SpaceX announced that Google will pay the company $920 million per month for access to roughly 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and related compute infrastructure. Google says the agreement is short-term “bridge capacity” to meet stronger-than-expected demand for Gemini Enterprise, while SpaceX is using deals like this and its Anthropic contra … ⌘ Read more

Bitcoin Falls To $60,000 As Zcash Bug Rocks Crypto
Bitcoin briefly fell below $60,000 on Friday, “extending its weekly loss to nearly 20% and threatening to fall below $59,000,” reports CoinDesk. Crypto was also hit by a 40%-plus plunge in Zcash after Shielded Labs disclosed a years-old bug that could have allowed undetected counterfeit ZEC creation. From the report: Now, with stocks in plunge mode – the Nasdaq down nearly 4% o … ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.10 To Begin Laying Foundation For Context-Aware Desktop, Other New Features
Jean Baptiste Lallement of the Canonical Desktop Team today posted a roadmap of many development items they are hoping to tackle for Ubuntu 26.10 due out in October. Some of these desktop plans are more ambitious and will take multiple release cycles to fully realize, but it goes to show their continued investment into the Ubuntu desktop… ⌘ Read more

340 Local News Outlets Now Blocking the Internet Archive
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Earlier this year Nieman Lab broke the story that major news publishers, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co., had started blocking the Internet Archive for fear that AI companies might scrape the nonprofit’s repositories for training data. As one of the last bastions of archival history … ⌘ Read more

GOV.UK Goes Dutch On Payments As It Dumps Stripe
The UK’s Government Digital Service is replacing Stripe with Dutch payments provider Adyen for many GOV.UK Pay transactions, including local authorities, police forces, and armed forces units. The three-year deal covers about 1,000 services and is meant to make payments more flexible while keeping the user experience largely unchanged. The Register reports: According to the tend … ⌘ Read more

BSA Lashes Out At Mandatory Open-Source Licensing
Longtime Slashdot reader Elektroschock writes: The American Business Software Alliance (BSA) does not consider mandatory open-source licensing to be an appropriate indicator of sovereignty. This is among the “pointed messages” they sent to the French government consultation (closed) today. “What protects Europe is the ability to govern, audit, and mitigate risk, not where a c … ⌘ 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

Valve Says Steam Machine ‘Shipping This Summer’
Valve says its long-awaited Steam Machine and Steam Frame are both “shipping this summer.” The company is also expanding its Verified program beyond Steam Deck to cover the new hardware. “Steam Verified is a developer-focused program where game makers ensure that their titles are capable of running on the Deck (meaning they’ll run fine under Linux), that the UI elements and tex … ⌘ Read more

ISS Astronauts Told To Prepare For Possible Evacuation Over Air Leak
NASA ordered astronauts on the International Space Station to shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for possible evacuation after a worsening air leak in the Russian Zvezda service module’s transfer tunnel. The Guardian reports: The four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-12 mission on the station – two US astronauts, a French astronaut and … ⌘ Read more

Used Waymo Robotaxi Batteries Become Backup Storage For Power Grids
Waymo and B2U Storage Solutions have struck a “strategic supply agreement” to repurpose used batteries from Waymo’s electric robotaxi fleet into stationary storage for California and Texas power grids. The arrangement could give robotaxi batteries a second life storing renewable energy after they’re no longer suitable for vehicle use. I … ⌘ Read more

Bees Can Use Tools To Solve Problems, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Bumblebees can use tools to solve a problem, according to experiments that demonstrate their remarkably advanced cognitive abilities. The bees were given an adapted version of an experiment that, 100 years ago, first demonstrated chimpanzees could work out how to retrieve an out-of-reach banana by stacking boxes. Since … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags ‘Self-Improvement’ Risk
Anthropic is urging leading AI labs to consider slowing development, warning that frontier models are advancing fast enough that they may soon be able to improve themselves without direct human intervention. The company says a global ability to pause or slow AI development would “likely be a good thing,” citing internal data abou … ⌘ Read more

New IronWorm Malware Hits 36 Packages In npm Supply-Chain Attack
A new npm supply-chain attack has infected 36 packages with Rust-based infostealer malware called IronWorm. According to BleepingComputer, the malware “targets 86 environment variables (key-value pairs) and 20 credential files that may contain OpenAI, AWS, Anthropic, and npm credentials, vault configuration files, SSH keys, and Exodus cryptocurrenc … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1 + Mesa 26.1 Performance With The Radeon RX 9070 GRE, RX 9070 XT
With this week’s launch day review of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE, Ubuntu 26.04 with its Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.0 default driver stack was used for testing. That choice was made since the Ubuntu 26.04 release is still fresh, the RDNA4-based RX 9070 GRE was working without issue there, and from other RDNA4 testing knowing there isn’t much uplift from the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel or the current stable Mesa 26.1 OpenGL RadeonSI / V … ⌘ Read more

Companies Are Using Reddit To Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort to systematically manipulate the answers provided by chatbo … ⌘ Read more

Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers
Meta has reportedly delayed the developer release of its Muse Spark AI model API multiple times, and as of Tuesday, had no scheduled launch date, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled). Reuters reports: A Meta spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday that the company is already testing the Application Programming Interface (API) with som … ⌘ Read more

LinkedIn China Spying Threat Prompts Warning From US, Allies
The U.S. and its Five Eyes intelligence partners issued a joint warning (PDF) that Chinese military intelligence services are using LinkedIn and other professional networking sites to recruit people with access to government, military, foreign policy, or sensitive economic information. “These actors use an aggressive online recruitment strategy whereby in … ⌘ 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

Samsung Ditches New Jersey For Texas, Costing Garden State 1,000 Jobs
schwit1 shares a report from NJ.com: Samsung is pulling up stakes in New Jersey and heading to Texas, a move that could leave roughly 1,000 Garden State workers facing a stark choice: relocate or risk losing their jobs. The South Korean tech giant confirmed this week that it will move its US headquarters from Englewood Cliffs, NJ, to its exist … ⌘ Read more

Régularisation des travailleurs sans papiers: la circulaire de Bruno Retailleau mise en échec
Lors d’une réunion entre ministres de l’intérieur et du travail, syndicats et patronat le 26 mai, Laurent Nuñez a fait part de son souhait de rétablir des critères plus clairs et précis pour faciliter la régularisation des personnes sans papiers évoluant dans les métiers «en tension». Un désaveu de l’action de Retailleau. ⌘ Read more

Apple Is Bringing Age Verification To Texas This Week
joshuark shares a report from The Verge: Apple will introduce age verification in the App Store for users in Texas starting on Thursday, June 4th. The move, as spotted by MacRumors, comes just days after a federal appeals court allowed Texas’ App Store Accountability Act to go into effect while a lawsuit against it proceeds. People in Texas who are creating a new App … ⌘ Read more

Superman & Jason Momoa’s Lobo Have Already Fought in DCU
Superman and Lobo may already have a history in the new DCU. The two characters, played in James Gunn’s universe by David Corenswet and Jason Momoa, will appear in the upcoming movie Supergirl. The film will be out in theatres on June 26 and is directed by Craig Gillespie. Jason Momoa Reveals Superman and Lobo […]

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Google Ordered To Put Clearer Links In AI Search, Let UK Publishers Opt Out
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: UK regulators today ordered (PDF) Google to put clearer attributions and links to publishers’ content in its AI-generated search features. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also said Google must give publishers a way to opt out of AI features in search. “In … ⌘ Read more

26 Amazon Prime Perks You Might Not Be Using (2026)
Your membership gets you more than free two-day shipping. Here’s what you may be missing ahead of Amazon Prime Day. ⌘ 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

Amazon’s New Stargate Series Is Officially Dead
Amazon has reportedly killed its planned new Stargate series despite giving it a series order in 2025. According to Variety, studio executives were worried it would only appeal to longtime fans. ScreenRant reports: Reports of what became Gero’s Stargate series started in 2022, after Amazon acquired MGM Studios. Dean Devlin, who co-wrote the 1994 Stargate movie with Emmeri … ⌘ Read more

重新让 macOS 26 拥有启动台 Launchpad
当 macOS Tahoe 26 取消了启动台功能之后，再次看到下面这个画面，你觉得如何： 这大概是目前还原度最高的第三方 macOS 启动台工具。 苹果官方砍掉了启动台 在启动台 Launchpad 被 macOS 26 里一个叫做 App 的应用取代了，用起来总是差点意思。 开发者也有 ⌘ Read more

Demand Is Booming For New No Tech, Repairable Tractor
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The secondary market for decades old, low-tech John Deere tractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere’s repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What if they made a new … ⌘ 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

EU Plots To Abandon US Tech
Ancient Slashdot reader whitroth shares a report from Politico, with the caption: “shutting down Microsoft Office for the International Criminal Court (ICC) was clearly a wake-up call.” From the report: The EU is moving to counter American dominance in technology by reaching for one of the oldest tools in its arsenal: industrial strategy. As the European Commission unveiled a plan Wednesday to reduce Europe’s reliance … ⌘ Read more

MacBook Neo is So Popular That Apple Reportedly Doubled Production
According to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has reportedly doubled 2026 MacBook Neo production from 5 million to 10 million units after stronger-than-expected demand for its $599 budget laptop. MacRumors reports: On an earnings call in late April, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Neo was “off the c … ⌘ 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

Google Shares Fitbit Air Blueprints So Anyone Can 3D-Print Accessories
Google has released (PDF) technical specs and 2D CAD drawings for the Fitbit Air to encourage users to make their own accessories. “These CAD drawings include crucial mating dimensions, tolerances, and mating force specifications – including attach and detach force – to help you build a high-quality accessory band,” Google says … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Plans Linux Tools, RTX Spark Desktop For Windows Devs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft’s Build developer conference kicked off today, and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft’s opening keynote focused overwhelmingly on AI and other closely related technologies. […] On the hardware front, we didn’t get any updates for existi … ⌘ Read more

Meta Workers Can Opt Out of Workplace Tracking for Up to 30 Minutes
Meta is scaling back parts of its employee tracking initiative after staff objected to software that collected mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and other actions for AI training data. According to Reuters, the company will now let workers pause collection for up to 30 minutes and request exemptions. Reuters reports: [Stephane Kasriel, a … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Claims New Quantum Chip 1,000 Times Better Than Before
Microsoft says its new Majorana 2 quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor, with qubits lasting about 20 seconds instead of milliseconds, and claims it could have a commercially useful quantum machine by 2029. The BBC reports: “We will have a quantum machine in 2029 that can solve commercially viable, reasonable problems,” … ⌘ Read more

Android Gets Fake Call Detection That Uses RCS
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Phone by Google wants to combat the “growing threat of impersonation scams” and protect Android users against “sophisticated, AI-powered deepfake attacks” with fake call detection. […] Fake call detection requires that both parties are on Android and use the Phone by Google app, while Google Messages and Google Contacts also … ⌘ Read more

Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What?
Article URL: https://bytecode.news/posts/2026/06/bun-has-been-converted-to-rust-now-what

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383018

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Ubuntu To Ship Newer AMD ROCm Updates Via SRUs
As noted back in April, with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS it’s now possible to simply “apt install rocm” on Ubuntu Linux for installing AMD’s open-source GPU compute stack. But as prominently noted there, what’s shipped right now in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is already months out of date compared to upstream ROCm. Fortunately, Canonical shared today that moving forward they plan to ship newer ROCm versions as stable release updates (SRUs)… ⌘ Read more

Thanks To Robots, Ukraine Is Now Talking About Winning, Not Just Surviving
fjo3 shares a report from Defense One: A small but growing number of European officials and analysts are saying what four years ago was unthinkable: Ukraine isn’t just surviving its grueling war with Russia, it is in some ways thriving and may even be on a path to victory. This isn’t yet captured in headlines – for example, abo … ⌘ Read more

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Science Foundation’s $368 million Ocean Observatories Initiative, a network of more than 900 deep-sea instruments used to monitor ocean currents, marine ecosystems, carbon absorption, heat waves, fisheries, coastal flooding, and climate change. The NSF said it would send ships in June to begin the re … ⌘ Read more

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

Mathematicians Warn of AI Threats to Profession As Industry Encroaches
A new Leiden Declaration, endorsed by the International Mathematical Union and published on June 2, 2026, warns that AI could undermine mathematics by flooding the field with plausible but flawed proofs, weakening attribution, shifting incentives, and giving tech companies too much influence over research priorities. “Mathematicians … ⌘ Read more

European Parliament Ditches Google For French Search Firm
The European Parliament is replacing Google with French search engine Qwant as the default on in-house computers, citing digital sovereignty and privacy concerns. Politico reports: As of Thursday June 4, “Qwant will replace Google as default search engine on European Parliament computers,” officials told lawmakers in an email seen by POLITICO. The change is be … ⌘ Read more

Russian Spy Agency Says Foreign Spies Turned Officials’ Smartphones Into Surveillance Devices
Russia’s FSB claims foreign intelligence services compromised smartphones belonging to senior Russian officials, allegedly turning them into surveillance devices capable of stealing data, recording conversations, and activating microphones or cameras. “This software is used to steal existing … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Deliberately Bricking All Office For Mac 2019/2021 Installations
Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac will reportedly drop into “reduced functionality mode” on July 13, 2026, when a license-validation certificate expires, leaving perpetually licensed apps able to open files but not edit or save them. Slashdot reader joshuark shares a report from OSnews: “Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for … ⌘ Read more

Gmail thinks I’m stupid, so I left
Article URL: https://moddedbear.com/gmail-thinks-im-stupid-so-i-left

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375016

Points: 77

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