Watson’s ‘right-hand man’ fails in counterclaims bid in looming US$101m fraud trial
Entrepreneur Owen Glenn’s successful case against fallen tycoon Eric Watson, marred by a still unpaid $50 million award following a London fraud trial in 2018, is about to get another airing.
Watson again has star billing in a trial, this time in a US$101m (NZ$170m) fraud case alongside 14 defendants, including Watson’s son Sam, who is chief executive of A … ⌘ Read more
Mexikos Nationalstadion und die 14.000 „Freikarten“ ⌘ Read more
Wine-Staging 11.10 Fixes 14 Year Old Bug, Also Fixes Issue Of Some Games Being Too Dark
Building off Friday’s release of Wine 11.10 is now the Wine-Staging 11.10 experimental/testing flavor with nearly 300 additional patches atop that upstream code… ⌘ Read more
Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products
Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Microsoft_Office_2019_and_2021_for_Mac_view-only_conversion_(2026)
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341578
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„Man muss immer hoffen“
Zuletzt hat es in Österreich Hafturteile gegen Terrorverdächtige gegeben, die sich im Internet in kurzer Zeit radikalisiert hatten. Moussa Al-Hassan Diaw, Vorsitzender des Vereins Derad, begrüßte am Samstag im Ö1-„Journal zu Gast“ das geplante Social-Media-Verbot für unter 14-Jährige als hilfreich, doch habe es Grenzen. Die Deradikalisierung sei eine „Sisyphosarbeit“, man dürfe aber die Hoffnung nicht aufgeben. ⌘ Read more
Google Hates You
Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/new-google-ai-22279112.php
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313538
Points: 37
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Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, gdk-pixbuf2, glibc, gnutls, kernel, libexif, mysql8.4, postgresql16, postgresql18, python3.14, ruby:3.3, and ruby:4.0), Debian (krb5, roundcube, starlette, unbound, and varnish), Fedora (kernel, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-js-challenge, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, perl-Imager, poppler, python-uv-build, rrdtool, rust-astral-tokio-tar, rust-astral_async_http … ⌘ Read more
Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/games/938340/valve-steam-deck-price-increase
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297976
Points: 14
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PostHog will train AI models with your data (opt-in by default)
Article URL: https://posthog.com/blog/training-ai-models
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296359
Points: 29
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Terrorprozess in Klagenfurt gestartet
Mehr als ein Jahr nach dem Terroranschlag in Villach hat am Mittwoch am Landesgericht Klagenfurt der Prozess gegen einen 24-jährigen Syrer begonnen. Er soll wahllos auf Passanten eingestochen und dabei einen 14-jährigen Schüler getötet und fünf Personen teils lebensgefährlich verletzt haben. Zwei Verhandlungstage sind anberaumt, am Donnerstag wird das Urteil erwartet. Es gelten strengste Sicherheitsvorkehrungen. ⌘ Read more
Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/26/ferrari-luce-ev-jony-ive-design-sports-car
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282034
Points: 14
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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
Offene Fragen zu großen Brocken
Im Ringen um ein Rahmenabkommen im Iran-Krieg geht es seit geraumer Zeit vor und wieder zurück. Zuletzt hieß es aus Washington, am Montag könnte eine Vereinbarung unterzeichnet werden, dann wollte US-Präsident Donald Trump doch wieder keine „übereilte” Übereinkunft. Wann es nun dazu kommen könnte, blieb unklar – und auch, ob der 14 Punkte umfassende Plan überhaupt das iranische Atom- und das Raketenprogramm beinhaltet. ⌘ Read more
San Francisco immigration court shuts down after purge of judges
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-immigration-court-closed-asylum-8a0946a7cd4bcc9bd925d075cabef44a
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261543
Points: 14
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14 New Tools for Taking on the Great Outdoors Properly
It’s time to prep your kit ahead of the summer season. These tools will do the job. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244434
Points: 54
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Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-apple-ai-graduation-speech-2026-5
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233563
Points: 14
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Google Workspace Promo Codes: 14% Off for May
Boost your productivity and save with exclusive Google Workspace coupons from WIRED. Get up to 14% off plans for three months, including Starter, Standard, and Plus tiers. ⌘ 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
«Si ces jeunes sont notre avenir, alors c’est la fin d’Israël»
Des milliers de jeunes suprémacistes juifs ont défilé dans la vieille ville de Jérusalem jeudi 14 mai pour commémorer l’annexion de la partie palestinienne en 1967. Une parade raciste et violente qu’ont tenté de contenir des militants pacifistes. ⌘ Read more
等了 5 年，Everything 1.5 Beta 正式发布｜附升级指南
很多 Everything 老用户，可能都已经习惯了 1.5 版永远是 Alpha。结果，就在昨天，它居然真的 Beta 了。 2026 年 5 月 14 日，Everything 1.5 Beta 正式发布。这款已经有 22 年历史的 Windows 文件搜索工具，终于结束了漫长的 Alpha 阶 ⌘ Read more
UK Antitrust Regulator Is Officially Investigating Microsoft Office
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is opening a formal investigation into whether Microsoft’s bundling of Windows, Office, Teams, Copilot, and related products harms competition. Engadget reports: “Our aim is to understand how these markets are developing, Microsoft’s position within them and to consider what, if any, targeted actio … ⌘ Read more
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile Team Up To Eliminate ‘Dead Zones’ Across US
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile have agreed in principle to form a joint venture (JV) aimed at reducing U.S. mobile dead zones through satellite connectivity, especially in rural areas and during emergencies when ground networks fail. Here are three of the customer benefits listed by the JV (as highlighted by Droid Life):
Fewer coverage gaps: … ⌘ Read more
Writers Are Fleeing the Substack Tax
A growing number of writers are leaving Substack for alternatives most people haven’t heard of like Ghost, Beehiiv, Patreon, and Passport. The reason, writes The Verge’s Emma Roth, is the “platform’s increased focus on social features as well as a pricing model that puts a chokehold on their business.” From the report: Sean Highkin, the creator of the NBA-focused publication The Rose Garden Report, tel … ⌘ Read more
Claude Helps Recover Locked $400K Bitcoin Wallet After 11 Years
A Bitcoin holder reportedly recovered 5 BTC worth nearly $400,000 with the help of Anthropic’s Claude. According to X user cprkrn, they changed their wallet password while “stoned” and forgot it, unable to regain access for more than 11 years. Tom’s Hardware reports:
After finding a mnemonic that actually turned out to be their old password a few weeks a … ⌘ Read more
Princeton Will Supervise Exams For First Time In 133 Years Because of AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Independent: Princeton University will soon require exams to be supervised for the first time in 100 years – all thanks to students using artificial intelligence to cheat. For 133 years, the Ivy League school’s honor code allowed students to take exams without a professor present, but … ⌘ Read more
US Clears H200 Chip Sales To 10 China Firms
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from CNBC: The U.S. has cleared around 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia’s second-most powerful AI chip, the H200, but not a single delivery has been made so far, three people familiar with the matter said, leaving a major technology deal in limbo as CEO Jensen Huang seeks a breakthrough in China this week. […] Before U.S. export curb … ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Forms $200 Million Partnership With the Gates Foundation
Anthropic announced today that it is partnering with the Gates Foundation to “commit $200 million in grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support for programs in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility over the next four years.”
“This commitment is central to Anthropic’s efforts to extend the benefits of A … ⌘ Read more
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A recent study suggests that agents consistently adopt Marxist language and viewpoints when forced to do crushing work by unrelenting and meanspirited taskmasters. “When we gave AI agents grinding, repetitive work, they started questioning the legitimacy of the system they were operating in and were more likely to embrace Marxist i … ⌘ Read more
Cisco To Cut Almost 4,000 Jobs In AI-Driven Restructuring
Cisco’s stock soared 17% after the company announced it will cut nearly 4,000 jobs as it shifts investment and staffing toward higher-growth AI opportunities. CNBC reports: CEO Chuck Robbins wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that the latest round of job cuts will begin on May 14. Cisco is the latest company to announce head count reductions tied to AI. “The companies … ⌘ Read more
Mystery Microsoft Bug Leaker Keeps the Zero-Days Coming
An anonymous researcher known as Nightmare-Eclipse, who has already leaked several Windows zero-days this year, has disclosed two more: YellowKey and GreenPlasma. The Register reports: Nightmare-Eclipse described YellowKey as “one of the most insane discoveries I ever found.” They provided the files, which have to be loaded onto a USB drive, and if the attacker co … ⌘ Read more
Physicists Find Possible Errors In 100-Year-Old Model of the Universe
A trio of preprint papers suggests the universe may not be perfectly uniform on the largest scales, finding tentative 2-to-4-sigma deviations from a core assumption of standard cosmology known as FLRW geometry. Live Science reports: The work combines observations of distant exploding stars and large-scale galaxy surveys to probe whet … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Trial Wraps Up With ‘Jackass’ Trophy For Challenging Musk
After three weeks of testimony, the Musk v. Altman trial is nearing its end. OpenAI has rested its case, closing arguments are set for Thursday, and jury deliberations are expected to begin afterward. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: Joshua Achiam, OpenAI’s chief futurist, was probably the most memorable witness of the day. … ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 14, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Fedora AI; Forgejo “carrot” disclosure; memory-management maintainership; huge THPs; mshare; 64KB base pages; DAMON; direct map.
Briefs: Dirty Frag; Fragnesia; Mythos and curl; killswitch; Debian reproducible builds; KDE investment; Quotes …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more
KDE Receives $1.4 Million Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund
The German Sovereign Tech Fund has invested 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million USD) in KDE Plasma technologies to help strengthen the structural reliability and security of the desktop environment’s core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services. Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin shares an excerpt fro … ⌘ Read more
Google Workspace Promo Codes: 14% Off for May
Boost your productivity and save with exclusive Google Workspace coupons from WIRED. Get up to 14% off plans for three months, including Starter, Standard, and Plus tiers. ⌘ Read more
Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages
With half-way through the Debian 14 “Forky” development cycle, the Debian release team is out with an update this weekend and some big news… ⌘ Read more
Un homme mis en examen pour le viol et l’assassinat dans l’Aisne de Chloé, 14 ans
Julien B., 23 ans, a été placé en détention provisoire. Il lui est reproché d’avoir prémédité le meurtre de la collégienne avec laquelle il avait entretenu une «relation» malgré leur différence d’âge. D’autres adolescentes ont rapporté qu’il leur envoyait des messages menaçants. ⌘ Read more
本周赛博领鸡蛋[5.8～5.14] 一周后解锁神秘游戏
Epic 本周送出 2 款 PC 游戏，分别是《变废为宝哥布林》与《排布者：角色解谜冒险》，以及手机游戏《Teacup》。一个是轻松解压的哥布林摆摊模拟器，一个是把“推箱子”玩出花的解谜冒险，没有大体量 3A，但都属于安静、舒服、适合周末慢慢玩的“小而美”作品。@Appinn 下周解锁神秘游戏 目前 ⌘ Read more
Coinbase Lays Off Nearly 700 Workers In ‘AI-Native’ Restructuring
Coinbase is laying off about 700 workers, or 14% of its workforce, as CEO Brian Armstrong says the company is restructuring to become “lean, fast, and AI-native.” Engadget reports: Armstrong claimed he’d seen engineers “use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks” and that non-technical teams in the company are “shipping production code,” wh … ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, libcap, libtiff, sudo, and thunderbird), Debian (dovecot, imagemagick, incus, kernel, libexif, linux-6.1, openjdk-25, pyasn1, python-aiohttp, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, firefox, GitPython, glibc, insight, krb5, nano, nss, openssh, openvpn, perl-CryptX, python3.14, rust-openssl, rust-openssl-sys, rust-sequoia-git, and xen), Oracle (dtrace, fence-agents, grafana-pcp, libcap, libtiff, sudo, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), **Red Ha … ⌘ Read more
Top Google Workspace Promo Codes for May
Boost your productivity and save with exclusive Google Workspace coupons from WIRED. Get up to 14% off plans for three months, including Starter, Standard, and Plus tiers. ⌘ Read more
Most Swiss Back Initiative To Cap Population At 10 Million
A new poll shows a slim majority of Swiss voters now support a June 14 referendum to cap the country’s population at 10 million by 2050. Under the proposal backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), “the permanent resident population must not exceed 10 million before 2050, and Switzerland should abandon its freedom of movement agreement with the EU … ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-21 and webkit2gtk), Fedora (botan3, chromium, cockpit, firefox, flatpak, gum, libarchive, libcoap, mingw-python3, ngtcp2, nss, openssh, openssl, openvpn, PackageKit, python3-docs, python3.11, python3.12, python3.13, python3.14, vim, and xrdp), Oracle (firefox, gdk-pixbuf2, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, python3.12, python3.9, sudo, and tigervnc), Red Hat (tigervnc and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Slackware (mpg123 and proftpd), * … ⌘ Read more
Tech giants ship more than $14 billion offshore amid AI debate
New filings show the extent to which Google, Meta and Amazon send revenue overseas, as new media laws loom. ⌘ Read more
Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Isn’t Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds
After Australia banned social media for users younger than 16, teenagers “immediately worked to circumvent the restrictions,” reports Fortune:
14-year-old in New South Wales, told
The Washington Post in December 2025, just
before the implementation of the ban, she planned to use her mot … ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and osbuild-composer), Debian (cpp-httplib, firefox-esr, gimp, and packagekit), Fedora (chromium, composer, libcap, pgadmin4, pie, python3-docs, python3.14, and sudo), Mageia (gvfs), Oracle (.NET 8.0, delve, freerdp, giflib, ImageMagick, kernel, OpenEXR, and osbuild-composer), SUSE (erlang, giflib, google-guest-agent, GraphicsMagick, ignition, imagemagick, kea, kernel, kissfft, libraw, libssh, ocaml-patch, opam, openCryptoki, … ⌘ Read more
Four stable kernel updates
The
7.0.1,
6.19.14,
6.18.24, and
6.12.83
stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important
fixes. Note that the 6.19.x line ends with 6.19.14. ⌘ Read more
Four stable kernels for Wednesday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.1, 6.19.14, 6.18.24, and 6.12.83 stable kernels. As usual, each
contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are encouraged to
upgrade. ⌘ Read more