FSF Shares Update on ‘LibrePhone’ and New Automated Site Monitoring Tool
At the end of 2025, the FSF launched LibrePhone project, which is working to “better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) system on a chip designs available today.” The FSF’s summer newsletter shares this update:

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Startup Targets Datacenters With 3D-Printed Nuclear Reactor Module
Startup Ampera has unveiled what it calls the first 3D-printed nuclear reactor module, built around a silicon-carbide core and pressure vessel designed for a thorium-based microreactor. The company says future systems could deliver 15 or 30 megawatts for up to 30 years without refueling. When The Register asked about availability, their s … ⌘ Read more

Claude Science is Here, Antibiotics Designed by Text Prompt Among Applications
Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an AI workbench that connects more than 60 scientific databases and tools through a single interface. Through the platform, Basecamp Research is making its EDEN models available for tasks such as designing antibiotic peptides and predicting vaccine targets from simple text promp … ⌘ Read more

IBM Says It Can Fit Nearly 100 Billion Transistors On a Chip
IBM has unveiled “what it says is the world’s first sub-1-nanometer chip technology,” reports ZDNet, “designed to pack nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-size die, roughly doubling the density of IBM’s earlier 2-nm test chip, first shown in 2021… Today, the smallest, most powerful chips top out at about 80 billion transistors.”

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OpenAI Unveils First Chip As Part of Broadcom Deal
OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled Jalapeno, OpenAI’s first custom AI chip, designed primarily to handle inference for ChatGPT and other services. It’s a major step in OpenAI’s plan to “build the full stack behind its models and products,” says OpenAI. “By designing more of the stack ourselves, we can serve more intelligence with greater efficiency and keep pushing advan … ⌘ Read more

Digital Euro Expected To Launch By 2029 After EU Backing
The European Parliament’s economic committee has backed a digital euro designed to reduce Europe’s dependence on US-controlled payment networks such as Visa and Mastercard. The ECB-backed currency is targeted for launch by 2029 after a full parliamentary vote and negotiations with EU member states. Euronews reports: Under the proposal, consumers would be able to … ⌘ Read more

Meta Launches Cheaper Smart Glasses Without Ray-Ban
Meta has launched its first smart glasses without Ray-Ban branding. Starting at $299, they’re cheaper than the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 while retaining EssilorLuxottica as a design and manufacturing partner. The Verge reports: As far as style and specs, the Meta Glasses aren’t that different from Ray-Bans. The internal specs are the same as the recently released Ray-Ban Meta Op … ⌘ Read more

Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector “RTI” To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers
Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector “RTI” as a new GUI created by developers on Valve’s open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming… ⌘ Read more

Doom Composer Bobby Prince Has Died
Video game composer and sound designer Bobby Prince has died at age 81 following an illness. Developer id software shared the news. Engadget reports: Prince was perhaps best known for his pioneering work on the Doom series. The Library of Congress inducted his soundtrack for the original game into the National Recording Registry just last month. “Despite the limitations of the 1993-era sound card drive … ⌘ Read more

EU To Soon Classify AWS and Azure As Gatekeepers Under DSA
The European Commission is reportedly preparing to provisionally classify Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act, bringing cloud infrastructure under the law’s stricter competition rules for the first time. The designation could require greater interoperability and data portability, making it easier for customers to … ⌘ Read more

AMD ACP7.D/7.E/7.F Driver Added In Linux 7.2: “Substantial Design Changes” For AMD Audio
It looks like AMD’s next-gen SoCs not only will be exciting on the CPU side with the much anticipated Zen 6 cores but the AMD Audio Co-Processor “ACP” IP looks to be going through some significant updates… ⌘ Read more

Brian Johnson, Special Effects Artist Behind ‘Space: 1999,’ Dies At 86
Special-effects designer Brian Johnson, known for his groundbreaking work on Space: 1999, The Empire Strikes Back, Alien, and Aliens, has died at the age of 86. Johnson began his career creating models and explosions for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson productions, later designed the iconic Eagle Transporter, and became one of science f … ⌘ Read more

Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System
Epic Games has released Lore, an MIT-licensed version control system written in Rust and designed specifically for “games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes,” reports Phoronix. From the report: While there is Git LFS for large file storage with Git, Epic Games has crated Lore as a version control system designed entirely around the large fi … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you very much! So, the concept is very similar. The root widget gets the input and can pass it to whatever child has the focus and so on.

My two main issues are the API design, that the input handler sometimes get an additional callback to notify the application about which element is focused, but sometimes not. And that focus switching sometimes just does not work as expected. Anyway.

As for rendering the selected button, I was also thinking about indicating it with some kind of border around it, square brackets seem to be a wonderful choice. :-)

A German Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates. ⌘ Read more

David Hockney said he would keep painting until the very end. He was true to his word
“I’m just going to go on working ’til I fall over,” said the renowned British artist at the opening of his exhibition in Australia in 2016. He did just that. ⌘ Read more

Jeff Bezos’ AI Startup Aims To Build an ‘Artificial General Engineer’
Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup, Prometheus, is working toward an “artificial general engineer” capable of helping design complex physical products such as robots, drugs, manufacturing systems, and rocket engines. The Verge reports: The NYT first reported on Prometheus last November, but now Bezos is sharing more information about the startu … ⌘ Read more

To Barbie and beyond: How a plastic doll became a design icon
A 1959 first-edition Barbie worth up to $40,000 will be among 150 dolls on display as part of an exclusive Australian exhibition devoted to the plastic figure turned cultural icon. ⌘ Read more

Exactly how many lamps you need, according to interior designers
If you hate turning on the big light, here’s how you can avoid it altogether. ⌘ Read more

Architect much more than creator of brutalist UTS Tower
Michael Dysart was one of Australia’s most significant architects, designing everything from universities to hundreds of schools, and reshaping the project home market. ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Friday, June 12
It is not in Wales or San Francisco, Guinness World Records confirmed again in 2019. What is the name of the official steepest street in the world, located in New Zealand?
The controversial Sarco pod is a device designed to help people do what?
Somalian Omar Abdulkadir Artan was banned from entering the US to do what over the coming months?
Which artist had Blue and Rose periods?
When listing the United Nations member states alphabetically, which nation immediately f … ⌘ Read more

The Furious Poster Giveaway for Lionsgate’s Acclaimed Action Movie
ComingSoon is excited to host a The Furious poster giveaway to celebrate the acclaimed action movie arriving in theaters this week. The four posters were designed by artists Ali Shimhaq, Ashraf Omar, Khang Giate, and Vincent Aseo. Lionsgate’s latest action film is out in theaters starting June 12. “After the daughter of Wang Wei (Xie Miao) […]

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Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
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“Unsung hero of architecture”: Michael Dysart
Tim Ross on his podcast @modernister nominated Sydney architect Michael Dysart as one of his all time heroes. Here he talks to Dysart about Urambi Village. ⌘ Read more

Beautiful but shallow: The NGV’s new blockbuster is big on celebrity but light on insight
Mostly, the pieces are designed to showcase the wealth of the wearer, and a jewel is nothing if not draped across a powerful figure. ⌘ Read more

AMD’s Lemonade SDK For Local AI Adds NVIDIA CUDA Support
Lemonade, the local AI server solution developed by AMD that is designed to work across their CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, is out with a new version today that also adds NVIDIA CUDA support… ⌘ Read more

Hit Freeform Series Scores Season 2 Renewal for Hulu Return
Freeform’s hit design competition series is returning for Season 2 on Hulu. The show will once again be hosted and executive-produced by Good Morning America co-anchor Lara Spencer. The contest pits two interior design teams against each other to transform identical rooms. That Thrifting Show confirmed to return on Freeform and Hulu Freeform’s That Thrifting […]

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The Odyssey: Christopher Nolan Movie’s New Popcorn Bucket Is a Trojan Horse
A new popcorn bucket for Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey has surfaced, and it’s a Trojan Horse. The upcoming epic adventure stars Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, and several other acclaimed actors in key roles. What does the new The Odyssey popcorn bucket look like? The latest popcorn bucket revealed for The Odyssey is designed […]

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Neues Design gezeigt: SpaceX’ KI-Satellit angeblich einfacher als Starlink V3
Vor dem SpaceX-Börsengang soll ein neues KI-Satelliten-Design für Kauflaune sorgen. Elon Musk will damit außerdem den Respekt von Aliens gewinnen. Eine Analyse von Johannes Hiltscher ( SpaceX, Börse)

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Rivian R2 2026: Specs, Price, Availability
With a competitive price, winning design, and better performance than the R1, Rivian could be set to break into the big leagues. Just make sure you get the right model with the right tech. ⌘ Read more

Amazon Ember Artline Review: A Stylish Art Television
The affordable Artline doubles as a design piece and comes close to outshining the reigning champion of art TVs, the Samsung Frame Pro. ⌘ Read more

WWDC-2026-Keynote: Der Abend der zweiten Versuche
Apple ist in sich gegangen und liefert längst überfällige Verbesserungen bei Betriebssystem-Geschwindigkeit, Apple Intelligence, Siri und Spotlight und nicht zuletzt dem ungeliebten Liquid-Glass-Design. Ein IMHO von Christian Rentrop ( Apple, KI)

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Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline
The open-source developers at Georgia Tech working on Vortex as an OpenCL-compatible RISC-V GPGPU implementation are out with their next major release for this open-source GPU design… ⌘ Read more

Exclusive: Get Bruvi’s Pod Coffee Maker for Nearly Half Off
Use this WIRED-exclusive coupon code to get the best deal on this high-design machine and biodegradable pods. ⌘ Read more

Donut Lab’s ‘Solid-State’ Battery Exposed As Regular Li-Ion
A battery researcher’s investigation, backed by more than 20 independent experts, claims Donut Lab’s much-hyped “solid-state” battery is actually a conventional lithium-ion cell, with voltage curves and expansion data matching high-nickel NCM chemistry rather than the promised sodium-ion solid-state design. Electrek reports the company raised about $25 mil … ⌘ Read more

Kylie Kwong among consultants dumped as Powerhouse cuts controversial program
The $2.6 million program sparked concerns that consultants were supplanting the roles of professionally accredited curators. ⌘ Read more

Show HN: Performative-UI – a react component library of design tropes
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Spanish traders set the standard forGnuCash database design
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Rising festival 2026
This year’s festival has kicked off. Here, our writers take a closer look. ⌘ Read more

Sigma BF Review (2026): Eccentric but Strangely Lovable
Sigma’s new entry is both a bold design experiment and a pretty decent camera. ⌘ Read more

I design with Claude more than Figma now
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Scientists Edited Human Embryo Genes. But Questions Remain
“A DNA-editing feat involving editing the genes of early stage embryos was announced this week,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

They describe the feat as “a far cry from designer babies, but nevertheless a step in that direction.”

Dieter Egli, an associate professor of developmental cell biology at Columbia University and his co-authors, including Nath … ⌘ Read more

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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

Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices
Hey HN, Guanming and Bill here from General Instinct ( https://general-instinct.com/).

After years of working in robotics, we kept running into the same problem: the best models never fit the hardware we actually had available.

The models that performed best were usually designed around datacenter assumptions: large GPUs, lots of memory bandwidth, and reliable network access. But most physical systems have the opposit … ⌘ Read more

The Odyssey Fans Are Saying the Same Thing About Its Popcorn Bucket
The Odyssey popcorn bucket has been revealed, and its unexpected design has drawn attention online. Accordingly, fans have shared their thoughts about it on social media. The Odyssey fans react to its IMAX popcorn bucket The Odyssey took an unconventional approach when it came to the design of its popcorn bucket. Instead of modeling after […]

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@prologic@twtxt.net As have I. 🤔 I mean, since I left GitHub, I got basically 0 pull requests anyway.

Even during my time using GitHub, I noticed that “drive-by PRs” are rarely a good idea. People don’t really know/understand the code or the design principles/goals, so I often turned down PRs. Or I accepted them and was grumpy afterwards. 😅

What does work is having a team of maintainers/devs. The only question is: How do you build such a team if you don’t accept PRs? That’s going to be the interesting part.

Design Within Reach Promo Codes: 30% Off | June 2026
Get 30% off, 20% off, and free shipping with our Design Within Reach coupon codes, plus up to 50% off furniture with these special discounts. ⌘ Read more

The Odyssey Popcorn Bucket Is Absolutely Perfect for Christopher Nolan Fans
The Odyssey popcorn bucket is here and it’s a must-have for Christopher Nolan fans. The bucket has been exclusively designed and released for the upcoming epic fantasy action film. The Odyssey is arguably Nolan’s most expensive film to date. It follows Odysseus, the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, on his long and arduous journey home […]

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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones. ⌘ Read more