Apple Announces macOS 27 ‘Golden Gate’, Drops Support For Intel Macs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from AppleInsider: Apple has unveiled its next Mac operating system, macOS Golden Gate, with Apple promising better performance, the improved Siri, and more. […] On the surface, macOS Golden Gate is not as significant an upgrade as macOS Big Sur, or even macOS Tahoe with its Liquid Glass redesign. But … ⌘ Read more

Mehr Kontrolle mit iOS 27: Apple erweitert Kindersicherung
Mit iOS 27 und den anderen neuen Betriebssystemen von Apple erhalten Eltern neue Werkzeuge, um die Gerätenutzung ihrer Kinder zu steuern. ( Apple, API)

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WWDC26: Apple präsentiert macOS Golden Gate und iOS 27
Apple hat auf der WWDC26 keine Revolutionen versprochen. Nur ein schnelleres System, weniger Ärger im Alltag und KI - aber nicht für die EU. ( Apple, Mac OS X)

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Diesel supplies en route recovering with 27.2 days worth at sea
There are 27.2 days’ worth of diesel headed for New Zealand, the highest stock number for almost three weeks.

Diesel supplies had been steadily declining since May 20, reaching a recent low of 16.5 days’ worth – the lowest recorded diesel supplies at sea bound for New Zealand since the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) began its twice-weekly reports on the nation’s fuel sto … ⌘ Read more

One of Australia’s most wanted men arrested in Greece 27 years after fatal Sydney stabbing
James Dalamangas evaded Australian and Greek authorities for the best part of three decades before he was arrested at a farmland property this week. ⌘ Read more

One of Australia’s most wanted men arrested in Greece 27 years after fatal Sydney stabbing
James Dalamangas evaded Australian and Greek authorities for the best part of three decades before he was arrested at a farmland property this week. ⌘ Read more

NZ launches rare dumping probe into aluminium imports
The Government has launched a rare global safeguard investigation into aluminium extrusion imports after local producers argued that low-priced offshore products were damaging a significant New Zealand manufacturing cluster.

Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Cameron Brewer initiated the investigation on May 27 after accepting that an application from the Aluminium Extruders Association of NZ (Alenz) contained reaso … ⌘ Read more

How to Watch Apple’s WWDC 2026 Keynote—and What to Expect
The annual developer event is where Apple announces operating system updates—like iOS 27—and maybe even teases future hardware. Here’s how to see it all. ⌘ Read more

EU nimmt Hürde bei Ukraine-Mitgliedschaft
Die EU hat den Weg für ein Vorankommen bei der EU-Mitgliedschaft der Ukraine geebnet. Die EU-Botschafterinnen und -Botschafter der 27 Mitgliedsstaaten leiteten am Mittwochabend den „Prozess zur formellen Eröffnung des ersten Verhandlungsblocks in den Beitrittsverhandlungen mit der Ukraine und Moldau“ ein, erklärte die zypriotische EU-Ratspräsidentschaft auf der Plattform X. Zuvor hatte Ungarn diesen Schritt blockiert. ⌘ Read more

A Mathematician’s Lament – Paul Lockhart (2002) [pdf]
Article URL: https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician%27s_Lament.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390400

Points: 9

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code
Canonical today released Mir 2.27 as the latest version of this set of compositor libraries for easily building Wayland-based shells on Linux and fitting into the Ubuntu Linux paradigm… ⌘ Read more

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity
Article URL: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/489976/ai-successionism-transhumanism-posthumanism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345881

Points: 27

# Comments: 16 ⌘ Read more

Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/robinhood-now-lets-your-ai-agents-trade-stocks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326659

Points: 5

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

Budget 2026’s verdict? Zero progress
Zero. That is how much progress we have seen in turning the Government books around.

That remains the order of the day out to the 2026/27 fiscal year. ⌘ Read more

Citing ‘severe’ math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-27/uc-math-professors-demand-return-of-sat-for-stem-admissions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309233

Points: 28

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NZ sharemarket falls 0.1% on Budget Day
The New Zealand sharemarket fell slightly on Budget Day, while Mainfreight had a sharp rise even though it wasn’t happy with its annual financial result.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index peaked at lunchtime at 13,310.5 but began sliding as the Budget was announced, closing at 13,206.11, down 27.10 points, or 0.16%. ⌘ Read more

Websites Have a New Way To Spy On Visitors: Analyzing Their SSD Activity
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Now sites have a new way to spy on their visitors: measuring subtle interactions with their solid-state drives. The technique, named FROST (fingerprinting remotely using OPFS-based SSD timing), allows sites to monitor other sites a visitor is viewing and what apps are open … ⌘ Read more

Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/criminal-inquiry-e-jean-carroll-trump-accusations.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303131

Points: 17

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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

Nvidia To Spend $150 Billion a Year In Taiwan
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company plans to spend around $150 billion a year in Taiwan, calling it the “epicenter of the AI revolution.” “Four years ago, five years ago, Nvidia was spending about $10, $15 billion dollars a year in Taiwan. Now we’re spending $100, going to $150 billion dollars in Taiwan each year,” Huang said. Reuters reports: Huang was speaking at a launch celebratio … ⌘ Read more

Rust Will Save Linux From AI, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman
Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says Rust can help Linux deal with a flood of AI-discovered security bugs (namely Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragnesia) by preventing common C mistakes around memory, locking, error handling, and untrusted data at build time rather than during human review. It’s “not a silver bullet” and does not mean rewriting the whol … ⌘ Read more

The AI Fight Brewing Inside the New York Times
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: How newsrooms should use AI – or if they should at all – has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight. Unionized staff … ⌘ 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

Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News
Article URL: https://nonogra.ph/germany-considers-law-to-force-social-media-algorithm-boost-for-state-approved-news-05-27-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298837

Points: 17

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Roku Updates Its UI For the First Time In a Decade
Roku is rolling out its first major homescreen update in a decade. The UI doesn’t look too dramatically different, but users will notice more personalization-driven changes, including frequently used apps, “top picks,” household-specific layouts, and recommendations based on viewing habits. Rest assured, Engadget adds, “Everything is still in various shades of purp … ⌘ Read more

Le Conseil de lutte contre la pauvreté démonte l’allocation de solidarité unifiée
Dans un avis rendu public le 27 mai, le Conseil national des politiques de lutte contre la pauvreté et l’exclusion sociale invite le gouvernement à retirer son projet de loi d’allocation de solidarité unifiée, déjà critiqué par les associations. ⌘ Read more

Tech CEOs Are Apparently Suffering From AI Psychosis
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: There is a certain wildness in the tech industry these days that both mimics previous eras of large changes, like cloud computing (runaway costs in the early days), and is like nothing we’ve ever seen before (record revenues accompanied by mass layoffs). One possible explanation: tech executives, especially CEOs, are … ⌘ Read more

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston To Step Down After 19 Years
Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years and will become executive chairman, with product chief Ashraf Alkarmi set to take over after a co-CEO transition period. CNBC reports: Drew Houston founded Dropbox
nearly two decades ago at age 24, eventually becoming a household name in Silicon Valley and the first tech entrepreneur to take a comp … ⌘ Read more

Company Behind School Bus AI Cameras Wants To Share Footage With Police
joshuark writes: BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras in tens of thousands of school buses around the U.S., now plans to turn those cameras into automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), capturing the location of every vehicle the buses drive past, and give that data to law enforcement, 404 Media has learned. Bus … ⌘ Read more

Starlink and Amazon May Be Able To Buy Into EU Mobile Satellite Spectrum Plan
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Elon Musk’s Starlink and Amazon’s low-earth-orbit satellite business may be able to acquire some European mobile satellite spectrum next year, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. But they said two-thirds of the satellite spectrum that allows mo … ⌘ Read more

Justice française : le couteau suisse de la Macronie
Jadis, la justice française était aveugle. Mais avec la Macronie, miracle ! alleluhia ! elle a non seulement recouvré la vue mais elle louche désormais ostensiblement vers l’exécutif dont elle est devenue le commode couteau suisse. Et muni de ce couteau suisse, l’État français taille avec vigueur toujours plus dans ce bois dont on fait, au mieux, […] ⌘ Read more

American Airlines Picks Starlink For In-Flight Wi-Fi
American Airlines plans to install SpaceX’s Starlink Wi-Fi on more than 500 narrow-body Airbus aircraft starting early next year. It does not, however, have any immediate plans to change providers on its Boeing fleet, which currently uses a mix of Viasat and Panasonic. CNBC reports: American in January rolled out free in-flight Wi-Fi for members of its frequent flyer … ⌘ Read more

A Fundamental Principle of Aeronautical Engineering Has Been Overturned
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Aerodynamic drag is a major “barrier” in high-speed airplanes, automobiles, and bullet trains. This is because a design with less aerodynamic drag allows the aircraft to move at higher speeds with less energy. When an aircraft or car body moves at high speed, a thin layer of air cal … ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Wednesday, May 27
Which range of hills forms a natural border between Scotland and England?
Titan and Pandora are moons of which planet?
Which famous artist`s career stretched from 1895 to his death in 1973?
Which American president ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb?
The song Moon River appeared in which 1961 film?
What does the word “forte” mean in music? Soft, fast or loud?
What colour is the Ferrari emblem’s background?
How many players make up a volleyball team?
W … ⌘ Read more`

Stop Advertising in Your Commits
Article URL: https://akselmo.dev/posts/stop-advertising-in-your-commits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283914

Points: 27

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NZ sharemarket trades flat, down 0.1%
The New Zealand sharemarket was a little hesitant as it entered a pivotal week for company earnings releases and economic moves.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index reached an intraday high of 13,101.27 but then fell late, closing at 12,970.80, down 21.03 points, or 0.16%. ⌘ Read more

Three stable kernel updates
The
7.0.4,
6.18.27, and
6.12.86
stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important
fixes. ⌘ Read more

Scientists Discover 27 Potential New Planets That Orbit Two Stars
Astronomers have identified 27 potential new circumbinary planets – worlds that orbit two stars, like Star Wars’ Tatooine. “To date, only about 18 circumbinary planets … had been identified in the universe,” reports the Guardian. “More than 6,000 planets have been discovered that orbit single stars, like Earth does around the sun.” The Gua … ⌘ Read more

AI tool ‘too dangerous to release’ could wreak havoc on businesses
It found a 27-year-old bug in software used in routers worldwide. Experts fear Anthropic’s Mythos model could trigger the next wave of major breaches. ⌘ Read more

Just missed the 15th anniversary of the Linux installation on my laptop:

$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2011-04-27 11:38] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)

ICANN Opens Applications For New Generic Top-Level Domains
ICANN has opened applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012. The Register reports: ICANN hasn’t offered new gTLDs since 2012, but on Thursday opened applications for new domains in 27 scripts. A 439-page Applicant Guidebook explains the process. The Register suggests paying attention to the string evaluation FAQ, which expla … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net There ya go! 8-)

Security review of Plasma Login Manager (SUSE Security Team Blog)
SUSE’s Security Team has published a detailed\
blog post on their recent review of the Plasma\
Login Manager version 6.6.2,
which was forked from the SDDM display\
manager.

While most of the code [remains t … ⌘ Read more

Study Finds a Third of New Websites Are AI-Generated
alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Researchers working with data from the Internet Archive have discovered that a third of websites created since 2022 are AI-generated. The team of researchers – which includes people from Stanford, the Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive – published their findings online in a paper titled “The Impact of A … ⌘ Read more

EU Tells Google To Open Up AI On Android; Google Says That’s ‘Unwarranted Intervention’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In January, the European Commission began an initial investigation, known as a specification proceeding, into how Google has implemented AI in the Android operating system. The results are in, and the EU says Android needs to be more open, which is no … ⌘ Read more

Notepad++ Finally Lands On macOS as a Native App
BrianFagioli writes: Notepad++ has finally made its way to macOS, and this time it is not through a compatibility layer. A new community-driven port brings the long-standing Windows text editor over as a fully native Mac application, built with Cocoa and compiled for both Apple Silicon and Intel systems. Instead of relying on Wine or similar tools, the project replaces the Windo … ⌘ Read more

China Blocks Meta’s $2 Billion Takeover of AI Startup Manus
China has blocked Meta’s planned $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, ordering the deal withdrawn after months of scrutiny from both Beijing and Washington. “The decision to prohibit foreign investment in Manus was made in accordance with laws and regulations,” reports CNBC, citing the National Development and Reform Commission. “It added that it has … ⌘ Read more

Really nothing spectacular at all today, but yet we still got some red for less than five minutes: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-04-27/ Azabache was hiding somewhere in the trees, I could hear him very well, but not lay my eye on him. The leaves are already covering him up perfectly now.

Supreme Court Reviews Police Use of Cell Location Data To Find Criminals
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: When the Call Federal Credit Union outside Richmond, Va., was robbed at gunpoint in 2019, the suspect took $195,000 from the bank’s vault and fled before the police arrived. A detective interviewed witnesses and reviewed the bank’s security footage. But with no leads, the … ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot Is Moving To Usage-Based Billing
GitHub said in a blog post today that it is moving Copilot to usage-based billing starting June 1. Base subscription prices will remain the same but premium requests will be replaced with monthly AI Credits that are consumed based on token usage.

“Instead of counting premium requests, every Copilot plan will include a monthly allotment of GitHub AI Credits, with the option … ⌘ Read more