Google API Keys Remain Active After Deletion
Aikido Security found that deleted Google API keys can continue authenticating for a median of about 16 minutes and as long as 23 minutes, despite Google Cloud’s UI claiming that once a key is deleted it can no longer make API requests. Dark Reading reports: Joe Leon, researcher at Belgian startup Aikido Security, recently analyzed the revocation window – the time between a key’s dele … ⌘ Read more

[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond
José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026
Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit
with a 90-minute summary of what has changed for GCC’s BPF support in the past year.
This kind of session has become something of a tradition. There were similar
updates in
2025 and
2024. This time around, GCC seems to be closing in on
feature p … ⌘ Read more

Hating AI Is Good
Article URL: https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-is-good-actually

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222366

Points: 16

# Comments: 4 ⌘ Read more

NZ sharemarket whipsaws again, down over 1.6%
The normally stable energy sector stumbled after a large parcel of shares in Contact was put up for sale, and the New Zealand sharemarket fell more than 1.5% in a broad sell-off.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index was on a downward slide throughout the day and closed at 12,761.03, down 213.29 points or 1.64% – its lowest level in nearly seven weeks. ⌘ Read more

[$] openSUSE “terms of site” raise complaints about age restrictions
Many people in the Linux community began using the operating system—and
contributing to open source—at a tender age, often well before
their 16th birthday. Thus, a recent change in openSUSE’s terms of site (ToS)
that required users of the project’s web site to be “at least 16
years of age or the age of majority” in their jurisdiction has
raised objections. The terms have since been modified, though users
must still have paren … ⌘ Read more

Flavie Flament témoigne dans l’affaire Bruel: «16 ans, c’est l’âge des premiers émois, pas celui d’un viol dans un appartement parisien»
Alors que Patrick Bruel a réagi lui-même pour la première fois, démentant avoir violé ou drogué Flavie Flament, la célèbre animatrice prend la parole dans un entretien vidéo avec «Mediapart». Celle qui a porté plainte pour viol contre le chanteur dit vouloir «donner de l’écho» aux « … ⌘ 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

Sysadmin Creates ‘ModuleJail’ To Automatically Blacklist Unused Kernel Modules
Long-time Slashdot reader internet-redstar shares an interestging response to “the recent wave of Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities like ‘Copy Fail’ and ‘Dirty Frag’”:

Belgian Linux sysadmin and Tesla Hacker “Jasper Nuyens” got tired of the idea of manually blacklisting dozens or even hundreds of obscure … ⌘ Read more

The UK Finally Starts Reforming Its ‘Computer Misuse Act’
Computer Weekly reports on “the long-awaited reform of Britain’s outdated Computer Misuse Act of 1990 — which has hamstrung the work of the nation’s cyber security professionals and researchers for years.”

The Computer Misuse Act was passed 35 years ago in response to a high-profile hacking incident involving no less than the King’s father, the late Duke of Edi … ⌘ Read more

An Entire Wikipedia That’s 100% AI Hallucinations
“Every link leads to an entry that does not exist yet,” explains the GitHub page for a Wikipedia-like site called Halupedia. “Until you click it, at which point an LLM pretends it has always existed and writes it for you, in the deadpan register of a 19th-century scholarly press…”

Every article is invented on demand. The footnotes are also lies… The hardest problem with an infi … ⌘ 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

The Apple-OpenAI Alliance is Fraying, Setting Up a Possible Legal Fight
Bloomberg reports that Apple’s two-year-old partnership with OpenAI “has become strained, according to people familiar with the matter.”

Bloomberg describes OpenAI as “failing to see the expected benefits from the deal and now preparing possible legal action.”

OpenAI lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on a rang … ⌘ Read more

California Law Limits ‘Recyling’ Logo in New Attack on Plastic Waste
“Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol,” writes the Washington Post’s “climate coach.”

The “chasing arrows” symbol, created in 1970 by a college student inspired by the burgeoning environmental movement, has been stamped indiscriminately on plastic bottles, clamshell takeout containers, chip bags and … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic’s Mythos Helped Build a Working macOS Exploit in Five Days
“The vulnerability is simple in practice,” writes Tom’s Hardware: “run a command as a standard user and gain root (administrator) access to the machine.”

And it was Mythos Preview that helped the security researchers at Palo Alto-based Calif bypass a five-year Apple security effort in just five days. The blog 9to5Mac reports:

Last year, … ⌘ Read more

The Search for the Next ‘James Bond’ Actor Has Begun
Variety reports:

Amazon MGM Studios started auditioning actors for the part of 007 in the past few weeks, Variety has learned… The next James Bond film will be directed by Denis Villeneuve, the filmmaker behind the “Dune” franchise, “Arrival” and “Sicario.” Amy Pascal of the “Spider-Man” films and David Heyman of the “Harry Potter” series will produce the pict … ⌘ Read more

My Net Worth: Jacob Rajan, Indian Ink co-founder
Jacob Rajan co-founded the Indian Ink Theatre Company with Justin Lewis nearly 30 years ago, with the hit play Krishnan’s Dairy. Their 12th original production, Balloon Dog , begins a tour of New Zealand and Australia on May 16.

I was born in Malaysia, but both my parents are from Kerala in Southern India. The political situation in Malaysia was that if you … ⌘ Read more

Fedora’s AI Developer Desktop Initiative Blocked by Community Backlash
The blog It’s FOSS has an update on the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative, a proposed platform for AI/machine learning workloads on Fedora. It’s now been blocked “after two Fedora Council members retracted their earlier approval votes.”

The initiative was proposed by Red Hat engineer Gordon Messmer, aiming to deliver an Atomic D … ⌘ Read more

Trump Phones Start Shipping - But Were There Really 600,000 Preorders?
USA Today reports:

Trump Mobile phones are being shipped this week, the company exclusively confirmed to USA TODAY in an email May 11….
The company’s first smartphone — the T1 Phone — was originally scheduled for release in August. However, the golden gadget’s release was later delayed to October before being pushed back again to … ⌘ Read more

Why Is the US Job Market So Tough, Especially for Recent College Grads?
What’s going on with the U.S. job market? “The economy is growing. Unemployment is low,” notes the Washington Post. “And yet, for millions of workers, finding a job has become harder than at almost any other point in decades,” with the hiring rate “well below pre-pandemic levels for more than a year.”

Part of the problem? “Of the net … ⌘ Read more

Linux Kernel Outlines What Qualifies As A Security Bug, Responsible AI Use
The Linux 7.1 kernel has added new documentation clarifying what qualifies as a security bug and how AI-assisted vulnerability reports should be handled. Phoronix reports: Stemming from the recent influx of security bugs to the Linux kernel as well as an uptick in bug and security reports from discoveries made in full or in pa … ⌘ Read more

ACC : sur le chemin de Northvolt, malgré les aides
Un article de Henry Bonner Comme je l’évoquais en février au sujet des résultats de 2025 chez Stellantis, le constructeur des Peugeot, Citröen, et Fiat, les déceptions du secteur des batteries créent des milliards d’euros de pertes, pour les investisseurs et constructeurs de voitures. Pour le moment, la conversion vers les voitures électriques, sous l’effet […] ⌘ Read more

Japan Runs Out of Robot Wolves In Fight Against Bears
Japan’s worsening bear problem has created a shortage of handmade “Monster Wolf” robots, which are $4,000 solar-powered scarecrow-like devices with glowing eyes, sensors, and blaring sounds designed to frighten the animals away. “We make them by hand. We cannot make them fast enough now. We are asking our customers to wait two to three months,” company president Y … ⌘ Read more

GCC 16 Produces Faster Binaries Than GCC 15, Competitive Race With LLVM Clang 22
GCC 16.1 released at the end of April as the latest major, annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. Early benchmarks showed some nice leads for GCC 16 over GCC 15. Continued testing of the new GCC 16 compiler has continued to show overall better performance of the resulting binaries than using GCC 15 on the same hardware and same compiler flags. That led many to wonder about the GCC 16 performance up against the latest LLVM … ⌘ Read more

Meet Rassvet, Russia’s Answer to Starlink
With the launch of the first 16 satellites, Russia begins construction of a network for satellite internet that aims to cover the entire country by 2030. But getting there won’t be easy. ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 7, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: LLMs and security; restartable sequences and TCMalloc; Fedora and GNOME bug reports; Prolly trees; Arm on s390.

• Briefs: NHS open source; Alpine outage; GCC 16.1; Incus 7.0 LTS; NetHack 5.0.0; PHP license; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more

Apple Will Pay $250 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Siri’s AI Features
If you bought an iPhone 15 or 16 in the US, you could be set to pocket up to $95 per device as Apple settles class-action lawsuit. ⌘ Read more

GCC Git Lands Fix For Missing AVX-512 Optimizations On AMD Zen 6
Last week marked the release of GCC 16.1 as the first GCC 16 stable release. While that release introduces initial AMD Zen 6 “znver6” support well in advance of those next-generation AMD processors debuting, it’s not yet in perfect shape with just today two missing optimizations around AVX-512 having been merged… ⌘ Read more

Apple Agrees To Pay iPhone Owners $250 Million For Not Delivering AI Siri
Apple has agreed to a proposed $250 million settlement over claims that it misled iPhone buyers about the availability of Apple Intelligence and its upgraded Siri features. The settlement would cover U.S. buyers of the iPhone 16 lineup and iPhone 15 Pro models between June 10, 2024, and March 29, 2025. The Verge reports: The settl … ⌘ Read more

GCC 16 Compiler Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains Over GCC 15
With the GCC 16.1 compiler released last Thursday, I have begun running more compiler benchmarks on this first GCC 16 stable feature release. GCC 16 comes heavy on new changes in being the annual feature release and delivering changes from AMD Zen 6 and Arm AGI CPU support to new C++ features and even the Algol 68 programming language front-end. It’s also looking quite good in the performance department relative to the GCC 15 compiler from last year. ⌘ Read more

16% of Parents Help Their Children Bypass Online Age Checks, Study Finds. One 15-Year-Old Just Uses a Fake Moustache
The Independent reports that “more than a third of children in the UK have found a way around age verification measures” for social media sites and other online platforms. And new research from online safety organisation Internet Matters “suggests … ⌘ Read more

And a trip to my backyard mountain again. It was very windy, so the 16°C felt even cooler than that. But it will be back in the twenties tomorrow when I visit a mate for a hike, oof.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-04-30/

GCC 16.1 released
Version\
16.1 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has been
released.

The C++ frontend now defaults to the GNU C++20 dialect and the corresponding
parts of the standard library are no longer experimental. Several
C++26 features receive experimental support, including Reflection
( -freflection), Contracts, expansion statements and std::simd.

Other changes include the introduction of an experimental compiler
frontend for the [Algol … ⌘ Read more

[$] Python packaging council approved
The Python packaging world now has a formal
governance council, of the form described in PEP 772 (“Packaging
Council governance process”), which was approved\
by the steering council on April 16. It has been over a year
since the PEP was first proposed in February 2025 and it has undergone
lengthy discussions in multiple postings … ⌘ Read more

Hygon C86-4G CPU Support Added To The GCC 17 Compiler
Merged today to the GCC Git compiler codebase, which will be for GCC 17 rather than the imminent GCC 16.1 stable release, is adding support for the Chinese-manufactured Hygon C86-4G-M4 / C86-4G-M6 / C86-4G-M7 series x86_64 processors… ⌘ Read more

Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release
Weston 16.0 could ship by the end of June with good color management and HDR support along with other new features for this reference Wayland compositor… ⌘ Read more

Remembering Seth Nickell
LWN has received the sad news that Seth Nickell passed away, on
April 16, from his father, Eric Nickell:

Many of you knew Seth from his work in the GNOME Usability Project, but his
roots in that community trace back to his high school years. As a father of
a high school junior, I remember being terrified when he flashed the hard
drive of a computer he purchased for himself with this weird “Linux” thing.
And I was a bit awed by the college application essay he wrote about open
source and Linus Tor … ⌘ Read more

GCC 16’s Improved Error Messages, Experimental HTML Output
GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is releasing as soon as later this week if all goes well. Among the many improvements in this year’s open-source compiler update are continued enhancements to the error messages as well as having an experimental HTML output option for messages… ⌘ Read more

Acer Swift 16 AI (2026) Review: Where Do Your Hands Go?
Sporting the largest touchpad I’ve ever seen, this ambitious laptop is better in theory than in practice. ⌘ Read more

[$] Zig explores structured concurrency
Version 0.16.0 of the Zig programming language was
recently announced, and with
it an expanded version of the new Io interface that we
covered in December.
The new interface is based on an idea called structured concurrency that makes writing
correct concurrent applications easier. Zig’s implementation of
the idea is more explicit and verbose than other languages, however, which could
offer an oppor … ⌘ 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

Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s
Norway plans to ban social media access for children under 16 (source paywalled; alternative source), “joining a growing number of countries responding to concerns about the potential harm kids face online,” reports Bloomberg. From the report: The bill comes after “overwhelming” demand from the public, the government said Friday. It pla … ⌘ Read more

GCC 16 Compiler Nearly Ready For Release With Zen 6, AVX10.2, APX & Algol 68
GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is nearly ready for its official debut as this year’s major feature release for this open-source compiler… ⌘ Read more

Pancreatic Cancer MRNA Vaccine Shows Lasting Results In Early Trial
NBC News reports on a 16-person clinical trial of “personalized messenger RNA vaccines” which use the immune system to fight cancer cells. “The goal is not to eliminate existing tumors, but instead to stamp out lingering, undetected cancer cells, and later any new cells that form before they can cause a recurrence.”
Patients still have s … ⌘ Read more

My mate and I hiked some 16-18 kilometers to the Wasserberg. The 22°C sun was beating down hard on us. There were quite a bunch of clouds all around, but none of them casted the tiniest shade on us. Only in the second half we got a little bit luckier in that regard. Still, we were soaked before we even left town. Hardly any breeze.

Unfortunately, I left my camera at home and found it hidden behind the cettle in the kitchen after searching the entire house for some 15 odd minutes. However, a greenfinch paid me a visit this morning and I got it on camera. The sunset was crazy colored, too:

https://lyse.isobeef.org/gruenfink-2026-04-18/

‘TotalRecall Reloaded’ Tool Finds a Side Entrance To Windows 11 Recall Database
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Two years ago, Microsoft launched its first wave of “Copilot+” Windows PCs with a handful of exclusive features that could take advantage of the neural processing unit (NPU) hardware being built into newer laptop processors. These NPUs could enable AI and machine le … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI’s Big Codex Update Is a Direct Shot At Claude Code
OpenAI is updating Codex with more agent-like capabilities, positioning it as a more direct rival to Anthropic’s Claude Code. Some of the new features include the ability to operate macOS desktop apps, browse the web inside the app, generate images, use new workplace plug-ins, and remember useful context from past tasks. The Verge reports: Codex will now … ⌘ Read more

Is Linux Mint In Trouble?
BrianFagioli writes: The developers behind Linux Mint say the project is rethinking its release strategy and moving toward a longer development cycle, with the next version now expected around Christmas 2026. In a monthly update, project lead Clement Lefebvre said the team reached a “crossroads” and needs more flexibility to fix bugs, improve the desktop, and adapt to rapid changes across the Linux ecosystem. The upcoming … ⌘ Read more

Europe Has ‘Maybe 6 Weeks of Jet Fuel Left’
The head of the International Energy Agency warned that Europe may have only “six weeks or so” of jet fuel left if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz stays disrupted. The Associated Press reports: IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of what he called “the largest energy crisis we have ever faced,” s … ⌘ Read more

To complete, the clouds after sunset: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-04-16/

And the morning sun: https://lyse.isobeef.org/morgensonne-2026-04-16/