Intel Preparing WiFi 8 “UHR” Support For Their IWLWIFI Linux Driver
Intel open-source software engineers have been busy beginning to prepare their upstream IWLWIFI wireless driver in the Linux kernel for supporting their next-gen WiFi adapters supporting the WiFi 8 “Ultra High Reliability” standard… ⌘ Read more

‘The Oral Tradition That Built Software May Not Survive AI’
A historian-turned-software engineer warns that “so little is ever written down” by professional programmers in a new article for Fast Company:

Perhaps there’s an early design doc, but then it turns out that everything was substantially revised before work began. Maybe there are a few wiki pages explaining known issues, some of which were solved a long … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, a ride indeed. Exactly, this affected each and every Atom feed and only Atom feeds. All RSS feeds worked like nothing ever happened. This std::string to time_t to std::string to time_t dance only happens for Atom feeds. RSS feeds, on the other hand, go right from std::string to time_t and be done. That’s precisely what the second option is aiming to propose for Atom feeds, too.

I will clarify that tomorrow in the article.

It’s very interesting what kind of quirks accumulate in software over the years. Especially quirks, the basically noone knows of anymore. Until something explodes and gets rediscovered. Luckily, that doesn’t happen all that often.

KDE Linux Prunes Its Insecure & Unused Software
With the end of the month comes a new KDE Linux status report from prominent KDE developer Nate Graham… ⌘ Read more

I wasted my entire weekend on the writeup. If you have way too much time to spare and also are interested in a bug analysis of a software that you don’t even use, I have you covered: https://lyse.isobeef.org/newsboat-time-parsing-bug-analysis/

Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML
Zrythm is a wonderful open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) application. Zrythm 1.0 released back in 2024 for this software catering from beginners to audio professionals. It’s been a GTK-based application for years but the developers have been porting it to Qt6/QML. Released this weekend is the first Zrythm 2.0 alpha release that moves from GTK to Qt/QML… ⌘ Read more

Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync
Article URL: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342705

Points: 13

# Comments: 5 ⌘ Read more

Journalist Spots Fugitive Terrorist Using Facial Recognition Software
Slashdot reader Bruce66423 writes: A German court this week sentenced a member of the Red Army Faction — a far-left terrorist organisation that operated in West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s — to jail. [67-year-old Daniela Klettewas was sentenced to 13 years for armed robberies, according to the Guardian, and “she also faces trial for … ⌘ Read more

Software Stocks Have Best Month Since 2001. Talk of ‘SaaSpocalypse’ Subsides
Security company Okta shot up 30% Friday, reported CNBC, while data platform provider Snowflake jumped 50% this week.

They see it as part of a larger trend where software stocks “soared this week,” signaling “some companies are navigating their way through AI disruption better than Wall Street expected” and that investors “may ha … ⌘ Read more

GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator
GNOME Circle as the initiative for third-party/independent software applications and libraries extending the GNOME desktop ecosystem is taking a stand against AI slop. The GNOME Circle policy has been updated to reject low-effort, vibe coded applications/libraries where the developer is not able to take responsibility for the work… ⌘ Read more

Do You Actually Need to Pay for Transcription Software?
I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services. ⌘ Read more

Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)
Hey everyone,

I previously introduced an open source private home security camera in 2024, which uses OpenMLS for end-to-end encryption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42284412.

It was called Privastead then and it’s now renamed to Secluso.

John Kaczman found my project from here and has been working on it with me over the last year and half. We’ve made a lot of improvements to the software, which w … ⌘ Read more

Fedora 45 Considering Use Of PURL Metadata For Uniquely Identifying Software Packages
One of the Fedora 45 change proposals under consideration at the moment is making adding PURL “Package-URL” to Fedora’s package metadata for simplifying the mapping between upstream projects and Fedora packages… ⌘ Read more

Radeon Software For Linux 26.12 Brings Ubuntu 26.04 Support
While most Linux enthusiasts and desktop users/gamers are comfortable just riding the latest upstream Linux kernel and Mesa drivers shipped by their distribution, for those enterprises preferring the officially blessed and QA’ed driver packages from AMD, last week marked the release of the Radeon Software for Linux 26.12 driver… ⌘ Read more

‘We’re really proud’: TradeWindow targets WiseTech
TradeWindow’s management is confident the trade software minnow is on the path toward breaking even, as it goes head-to-head with its larger Australian rival, WiseTech Global.

The dual-listed company, which counts some of New Zealand’s biggest exporters, including Silver Fern Farms, Zespri and Sealord, among its customers, reported a net after-tax loss of $2.6 million in the financial year ended March 31. ⌘ Read more

Górny: why Gentoo?
Gentoo developer Michał Górny has written a lengthy\
article explaining the philosophy and purpose of the Gentoo Linux
distribution, in response to a\
thread on Mastodon:

Gentoo is a source-first distribution, which means the primary
method of installing software is to build it from source. Of course,
that doesn’t mean manually building stuff, following some kind of
how-to: finding all t … ⌘ Read more

IBM, Red Hat Commit $5 Billion To Secure Open Source Supply Chains
IBM and Red Hat are committing $5 billion to a new initiative called “Project Lightwell,” which aims to secure open-source software supply chains with AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, triage, patch validation, and upstream maintenance. Longtime Slashdot reader wiggles shares a press release from IBM: IBM and Red Hat today announced Project … ⌘ Read more

Arm Announces Metis: Agentic AI Security Framework
Arm today announced the open-sourcing of Metis, an agentic AI security framework that delivers context AI-powered security analysis in looking out for software vulnerabilities… ⌘ Read more

New Moms Are Returning to Coding Jobs Radically Reshaped by AI
New mothers working in software development are staring down an AI-pilled workplace they barely recognize. ⌘ Read more

Mythos Detected 23,000 Vulnerabilities Across 1,000 OSS Projects
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Anthropic says its Claude Mythos model discovered thousands of severe vulnerabilities across more than 1,000 open source software (OSS) projects. According to the AI giant, Mythos Preview has identified more than 23,000 potential vulnerabilities. Of these, 1,900 have been reviewed by external security f … ⌘ Read more

Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sagecare/jobs/xtloH8r-senior-software-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282478

Points: 0

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
Article URL: [https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wr … ⌘ Read more

AI ‘capability leap’: 80% of software developers now using it
Late last year, AWS senior engineer Mike Nooney noticed a flurry of activity on social media that indicated something exciting had happened in his field: AI had taken what we described as a “capability leap”.

“So, I thought, let’s get in and have a look at Claude Code and some of the other tools,” he recounted to an audience at last week’s Techweek26 summit. ⌘ Read more

Comprehensive Response to Bambu’s AGPLv3 Violations (Software Freedom Conservancy)
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC)
published a news\
item on May 18 about its response to violations of the AGPLv3 by Bambu
Lab in its 3D printers. The company has not provided the source code to
its modifications to a 3D “slicer” program that was released under the
AGPLv3 and it has also threatened Paweł Jarczak who created … ⌘ Read more

The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race
As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly. ⌘ Read more

Are chatbots making things more difficult than old-fashioned transactions?
These days as consumers, we are often locked into these false amities with chatbots, our to-and-fro reliant on what previous questions and responses have been digested by the software. ⌘ Read more

Lenovo, Dell, and HP Financially Support Linux Vendor Firmware Service
The It’s FOSS blog has news about the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, which gives hardware vendors a secure portal to upload firmware updates “which can then be downloaded and installed by users through clients such as GNOME Software or fwupdmgr.” (Originally developed in 2015 by GNOME maintainer Richard Hughes…)
The issue, however, o … ⌘ Read more

My I3-Emacs Integration
Article URL: https://khz.ac/software/i3-integration.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252535

Points: 3

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

Free Software Foundation’s Call for ‘LibreLocals’ Answered on Six Continents - With More Coming
The Free Software Foundation announced this week that “its global call for free software supporters to organize LibreLocals this May resulted in free software supporters organizing forty-six LibreLocal events on six continents thus far.” (And new dates and locations are being added daily. … ⌘ Read more

Intel’s Latest Round Of Open-Source Projects Ended: OBS Studio Plugin, CVE Binary Tool & More
With Intel having been one of the most dominant open-source contributors for years across the software ecosystem, months after they began sunsetting various software projects no longer aligned with today’s Intel, they continue formally sunsetting/archiving different open-source projects… ⌘ Read more

DreamWorks’ Open-Source MoonRay Renderer Now Part Of The Academy Software Foundation
Back in 2022 it was announced DreamWorks Animation was open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer that has been used in production feature films. It ended up being published as open-source in March 2023 as OpenMoonRay and since then has continued advancing with new feature releases and improvements. Now it’s being contributed to the Academy Software Foundation as the newest project… ⌘ Read more

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

Palantir Held a Hack Week to Add New Controls to Software Used by ICE
The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE. ⌘ Read more

Waymo Pauses Atlanta Service As Its Robotaxis Keep Driving Into Floods
Waymo has paused service in Atlanta after one of its driverless cars entered a flooded street and got stuck. It follows a similar pause in San Antonio that prompted a recent software recall (PDF) over flood avoidance. TechCrunch reports: Waymo admitted that it hadn’t finished developing a “final remedy” for avoiding flooded areas when … ⌘ Read more

A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations. ⌘ Read more

Yearslong Fight Over Users’ Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial
A long-running lawsuit over Vizio’s Linux-based smart TV software is headed to trial in August, with the Software Freedom Conservancy arguing that GPL rules require Vizio to release complete source code owners could use to modify, maintain, or strip ads and tracking from their TVs. Ars Technica reports: The outcome could rever … ⌘ Read more

Software startup Factor bursts out of Taiawa tech hub into the big time
Wellington technology hub Taiawa is celebrating the first exit of one of its in-house startup companies in a $24 million deal announced this week.

The day before BusinessDesk visited Taiawa, NZ company Gentrack revealed it was acquiring Taiawa’s resident startup Factor for $ … ⌘ Read more

Plex Triples Lifetime Subscription Cost To $750
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Plex is raising the price of a new Lifetime Plex Pass from $249.99 to $749.99 on July 1. That’s a $500 increase for media server software. Plex says it needs the money for “long-term development” and future features, but a lot of self-hosting folks are already wondering if this is basically a soft way of killing the Lifetime option with … ⌘ Read more

Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself
Google’s overhaul of its AI creation software, Flow, includes a new video model and a tool for generating selfie videos called avatars. ⌘ Read more

More Intel Open-Source Projects Formally Sunset: BigDL Time Series Toolkit & Others
Yet more open-source Intel software projects have been formally archived. Over the past year Intel has formally discontinued a number of open-source projects it formally maintained. Many of them were already dormant and not too noteworthy but there were also some more notable ones discontinued like their legendary Clear Linux, Software Defined Silicon, Optane Memory software projects, and then other efforts like open ecosystem … ⌘ Read more

How Owners of EVs from Bankrupt Fisker Saved Their Cars With an Open Source Nonprofit
An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:
When Fisker Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2024, it left roughly 11,000 Ocean SUV owners holding the keys to vehicles that cost them anywhere from $40,000 to $70,000 — and that were rapidly losing the software brains that made them work. … ⌘ Read more

Python Stays #1, R Rises in Popularity, Says TIOBE
Are statistical programmers coalescing around a handful of popular languages? That’s the question asked by the CEO of software assessment site TIOBE, which every month estimates the popularity of programming languages based on their frequency in search results:

This month, the programming language R matched its all-time high by reaching position #8 in the TIOBE index on … ⌘ Read more

Claude Code Did The Heavy Lifting To Get Adobe Lightroom CC Running On Linux
An open-source developer with the assistance of Claude Code has managed to get the Adobe Lightroom CC software working on Linux under Wine… ⌘ Read more

FluidX3D Lands A Big Speed-Up For This OpenCL CFD Software
Released this week was FluidX3D 3.7, the latest feature update to this computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that is CPU/GPU accelerated by way of OpenCL… ⌘ Read more

How I Added an LLM-Based Grammar Checking + TeX Math Import To LibreOffice
Former Microsoft programmer Keith Curtis “wrote and self-published After the Software Wars to explain the caliber of free and open source software,” according to his entry on Wikipedia, “and why he believes Linux is technically superior to any proprietary OS.”

He’s also KeithCu (long-time Slashdot reader #925,649), and has wri … ⌘ Read more

Memtest86+ 8.10 Improves Support For Newer Hardware
Memtest86+ 8.10 is out today as a significant update to this legendary open-source RAM testing software… ⌘ Read more

Steam Controller Mapping Merged To SDL Library
A few days ago the widely-used SDL library added support for the new Steam Controller without depending upon the Steam client. Now another improvement for the new Steam Controller has been merged to this widely-used library for cross-platform games/apps with software/hardware abstractions… ⌘ Read more

Cloud Hypervisor 52 Now Supports Launching AMD SEV-SNP Confidential VMs With KVM
For what originally began as an open-source Intel software project, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing robust development outside the confines of Intel Corp these days with ongoing improvements driven by Microsoft, Cyberus Tech, Ant, and other organizations for this Rust-based VMM for cloud workloads… ⌘ Read more

SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam
Valve’s new Steam Controller, which began shipping earlier this month for $99 USD, is a great piece of hardware. This high-end gaming controller is great hardware wise but what some may not enjoy about it currently is the tight integration with the Steam controller and no native OS drivers currently for use outside of Steam. As a big win today, the widely-used SDL3 gaming software/hardware abstraction library has added support for t … ⌘ Read more

SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam
Valve’s new Steam Controller, which began shipping earlier this month for $99 USD, is a great piece of hardware. This high-end gaming controller is great hardware wise but what some may not enjoy about it currently is the tight integration with the Steam controller and no native OS drivers currently for use outside of Steam. As a big win today, the widely-used SDL3 gaming software/hardware abstraction library has added support for t … ⌘ Read more