James Bond’s battle with AI is his most human story yet
As Amazon tries to decide a cinematic future for a broken icon, a new video game provides the best 007 experience in decades. ⌘ Read more
The $180m payday that ‘meme king’ didn’t share with most staff
He’s the face of the viral “co-founder Albo” campaign. He’s also the founder whose $180 million exit handed a payday to a tiny circle while other staff were kept in the dark. ⌘ Read more
@itsericwoordward@itsericwoodward.com Confess, you just registered as {{first_name}}!
Nobody checks their e-mail templates. And even if they do, they only look at the HTML part. The plain text part is useless more often than not. Granted, this is the subject.
Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties
Article URL: https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-online-age-pointless-privacy.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271327
Points: 3
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)
Article URL: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265206
Points: 41
# Comments: 9 ⌘ 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
The Eternal Sloptember
Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263238
Points: 41
# Comments: 5 ⌘ Read more
I just missed the 20 year anniversary of my blog. 😬 What a stupid long time to do this.
This started out as a PHP page with user comments, MySQL as a database, a PHP webadmin … can you believe that? Totally unnecessary. But everything was “LAMP” back then, so that’s what I was using as well. I kicked out MySQL in 2011 (it just stored files since then) and eventually switched to static HTML pages in 2015.
RSS feeds have only been there since 2009, because I was late to the party. For a long time, I didn’t understand what they were good for. 🤦
Mastering Dyalog APL
Article URL: https://mastering.dyalog.com/README.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256475
Points: 4
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Flight Simulator’s new collaboration with NSW Rural Fire Service
The NSW Rural Fire Service has teamed up with Microsoft for a new aerial firefighting mission in Flight Simulator. 9news.com.au spoke to the game’s director, Jörg Neumann, to learn all about it, and how they’ve used a million-dollar camera to capture real life locations for the game. ⌘ Read more
Limerick
Article URL: https://www.worldwidewords.org/surprise.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254684
Points: 5
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
What you need to know about VPNs in 2026
The technology is increasingly being used to dodge age and verification checks in Australia. But how does it work, and is it legal? ⌘ 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
Don’t Roll Your Own
Article URL: https://susam.net/do-not-roll-your-own.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252192
Points: 6
# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more
Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248954
Points: 9
# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more
How to convert between wealth and income tax
Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/winc.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237422
Points: 7
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
FSFE intervenes against Apple before EUCJ for the second time
Article URL: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260519-01.en.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233939
Points: 5
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
‘Huge validation’: Trump administration backs Aussie quantum tech
Two of Australia’s most prominent quantum names have been drawn into the Trump administration’s growing portfolio of strategic technology companies. ⌘ Read more
OpenBSD 7.9 released
The OpenBSD 7.9 release is
out, right on schedule. There is the usual long list of new features,
including improved architecture support, CPU scheduling on heterogeneous
systems, the ability to hibernate a suspended system after a configurable
delay, socket splicing, a
__pledge_open()
system call giving special access to the C library, and much more. See the
announcement and [the full\
changelog]( … ⌘ Read more
Python 3.15: features that didn’t make the headlines
Article URL: https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220696
Points: 4
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
Musk’s X admits breaking Australian child safety law, fined $650,000
Elon Musk’s social media company, formerly known as Twitter, failed to comply with an order to detail its child exploitation safeguards. ⌘ Read more
Google unveils new search bar, smart glasses as it ramps up the AI wars
Google may be starting to win the race towards truly useful consumer AI. ⌘ Read more
[$] In search of faster this_cpu operations
The kernel’s this_cpu\
operations are meant to speed access to per-CPU variables. They are
more optimal on some CPUs than others, though. During a
memory-management-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Yang Shi proposed a
fundamental, and somewhat controversial, change to how these operations
work in order to provide better performance on … ⌘ Read more
pgBackRest will continue
In April, David Steele, maintainer of the popular pgBackRest backup and restore project for
PostgreSQL, announced that he had archived\
the project and it would no longer be maintained due to lack of
sponsorship. On May 18, he announced
that a number of sponsors have stepped forward to ensure its continued
development:
Over the last few weeks, a coalition of sponso … ⌘ Read more
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@tftp@tilde.town mentioning in here requires he whole shebang. With jenny, if using vim, there is a key combination:
Nick name completions: Allows you to use ^X ^U to turn verbatim nick names into full twtxt mentions. For example, typing “cath” and then pressing ^X ^U will turn “cath” into a full mention, like “@”. (This function will read the contents of your “~/.config/jenny/follow” file.)
Digital legacy: How to make sure your family is not locked out
Security keeps people out of our documents, photos, financials, and secrets. How do you make sure family can access them if you die? ⌘ Read more
Suddenly, AI’s tech titans are talking up humanities. Wishful thinking or just a guilt trip?
After decades of dismissing liberal arts as useless, the tech world is coming around to the idea that learning about human nature could be a valuable asset. But it may be too late. ⌘ Read more
[$] HugeTLB preservation over live update
Recent times have seen a lot of effort put into the implementation of the kexec handover and live update orchestrator
features in the Linux kernel. But that work is not yet complete. At the
2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Pratyush Yadav led a
memory-management-track session on adding the ability to preserve [hugetlbfs](https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.html … ⌘ Read more
AI start-up boss who faked millions in revenue faces jail time
The former chief executive has been told by his own lawyer that a jail sentence is unavoidable after pleading guilty to fraud. ⌘ Read more
お知らせ:JPCERT/CC インターネット定点観測レポート[2026年1月1日~2026年3月31日] ⌘ Read more
[$] Policy groups for memory management
The kernel’s control-group\
subsystem works well for resource management, Chris Li said at the
beginning of his memory-management-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. Control groups work
less well for other use cases, though. He was there to present his
proposed enhancement, called “policy groups”, that would address some of
the shortcomings t … ⌘ Read more
Google takes fight to Apple, Microsoft with new high-end laptops
The web giant’s new line of Googlebook laptops will bring Gemini AI to the laptop in an attempt to compete with Apple’s MacBook and Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs. ⌘ Read more
LinkedIn cuts hit Australia as global cull claims 875 jobs
Local leadership has been gutted but the Microsoft-owned company says AI isn’t to blame. ⌘ Read more
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Firmus quietly scrubs UN logo ahead of $12 billion IPO push
AI factory builder Firmus, eyeing a $12 billion ASX float, displayed the UN emblem on every page of its website before quietly removing it. ⌘ Read more
お知らせ:JPCERT/CC Eyes「TSUBAMEレポート Overflow(2025年10~12月)」 ⌘ Read more
Ransom ‘paid’ to hackers who crippled online learning in Australia
More than 120 Australian schools, universities and TAFEs were caught in the world’s largest education breach. Now their data is supposedly deleted. ⌘ Read more
Sam Altman details ‘hair-raising’ chat with Elon Musk as he takes stand
Nobody has more to lose in the high-profile trial than OpenAI chief Sam Altman, and he has finally taken to the stand. ⌘ Read more
Sam Altman details ‘hair-raising’ chat with Elon Musk as he takes stand
Nobody may has more to lose in the high-profile trial than OpenAI chief Sam Altman, and he has finally taken to the stand. ⌘ Read more
[$] Using dma-bufs for read and write operations
The kernel’s dma-buf\
subsystem provides a way for drivers to share memory buffers, usually
in order to support efficient device-to-device I/O. At the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Pavel Begunkov, assisted
by Kanchan Joshi, led a joint session of the storage and memory-management
tracks to explore ways to make the use of dma-bufs more efficient yet, a … ⌘ Read more
DroneShield insiders sold $67 million in shares. The watchdog has questions
ASIC has launched an investigation into the counter-drone group’s disclosures, six months after a botched contract announcement and a $67 million director sell-off. ⌘ Read more
What are passkeys? The end of the password era explained
Passkeys are designed to be the end of “remembering” login credentials. And it may be time to accept them. ⌘ Read more
Aussie tech giant pauses work, devotes entire week to AI
While Australian tech sheds jobs amid AI productivity claims, Canva is making the opposite bet - paying 5300 people to stop working. ⌘ Read more
Trump goes ‘woke’ with a sudden change of mind
The AI alarm bells are ringing louder for Donald Trump, prompting an abrupt U-turn. ⌘ Read more
NetHack 5.0.0 released
Version 5.0.0
of the NetHack
dungeon-exploration game, a distant relative of Rogue and
Hack, has been released. NetHack’s code is now compliant with the
C99 standard, and the release includes more than 3,100
bug fixes and changes, detailed in doc/fixes5-0-0.txt
… ⌘ Read more
TikTok’s Australian revenue skyrockets, along with payments to Cayman-owned companies
The social media juggernaut is showing no signs of slowing in Australia, even as the Albanese government moves to regulate social media platforms. ⌘ 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
We need to hedge against controlling China and messy US on AI: Hello Japan!
Japan’s new leader, now visiting Australia, is investing heavily in future technology. Australia needs to join her. ⌘ Read more