Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 9.0, firefox, flatpak, httpd, and thunderbird), Debian (chromium, corosync, cyborg, dovecot, exim4, git-lfs, imagemagick, kernel, keystone, linux-6.1, php-twig, python-aiohttp, sentry-python, swift, and symfony), Fedora (chromium, djvulibre, docker-compose, giflib, haveged, libsoup3, libssh2, mingw-objfw, netatalk, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-m … ⌘ Read more

It’s Not Just X. It’s Y
Article URL: https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just-data-its-post-training/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350149

Points: 9

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Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it
Article URL: https://claudefolio.com/blog/anyone-can-build-a-platform-now-almost-nobody-can-get-people-to-find-it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342097

Points: 20

# Comments: 9 ⌘ Read more

Rust Coreutils 0.9 Released With Additional Security Hardening, Zero-Copy I/O
Rust Coreutils 0.9 was tagged today as the latest major update to this GNU Coreutils implementation in the Rust programming language. Rust Coreutils 0.9 is up to a 90.4% pass rate against the GNU test suite!.. ⌘ Read more

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
Article URL: https://qazinform.com/news/anthropic-surpasses-openai-to-become-worlds-most-valuable-ai-startup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336233

Points: 9

# Comments: 4 ⌘ Read more

Oh, nice. In my endeavors of time in C++, I came across cal 9 1752. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/brief-history-mktime

Canada in Technical Recession
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/recession-gdp-may-2026-statscan-9.7216352

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328718

Points: 7

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, cockpit, firefox, flatpak, httpd, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (kernel, kitty, lemonldap-ng, nagios4, python-flask-httpauth, and roundcube), Fedora (CImg, gmic, haveged, jpegxl, kernel, libpng, mapserver, mingw-qt6-qtsvg, openbao, perl-Sereal, perl-Sereal-Decoder, perl-Sereal-Encoder, and podofo), Mageia (bind, graphicsmagick, microcode, nginx, packages, perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication, perl-HTTP-Daemon, perl-IO-Compr … ⌘ Read more

Cars are trying to spy on you, and it’s only just the beginning
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260513-your-car-is-spying-on-you-its-about-to-get-worse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318481

Points: 9

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

Minimax M3
Article URL: https://www.minimax.co.uk/products/water-softeners/minimax-m3-water-softener/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48316462

Points: 9

# Comments: 4 ⌘ Read more

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/sam-altman-dario-amodei-walking-back-ai-jobs-apocalypse-prophecies-ipo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314363

Points: 18

# Comments: 9 ⌘ Read more

Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock
Article URL: https://ipvm.com/reports/bipartisan-alpr-amendment-killed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312082

Points: 9

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Dirk and Linus talk; BPF and GCC; private memory modes; BPF page-cache policies; major page faults; LLM kernel review; tiered-memory support; transparent huge pages; page mappings; Model Openness Tool.

• Briefs: Stenberg security stress; GTK PDF problems; Morton 2004 keynote; OpenBSD 7.9; Bambu’s AGPLv3 violations; Quotes; …

• [Announcements](https://lwn.net/Ar … ⌘ Read more

Stride Property Group lifts annual profit to $31.3m, confirms 8c dividend
Stride Property Group posted an improved full-year profit in a period it describes as one of strategic progress, during which it paid an 8-cent-per-share combined cash dividend.

Its full-year profit after tax was $31.3 million, up $9.6m from $21.7m in FY25. Net rental income was $58.9m, down from $69.1m. Management fee income was $22.9m, from $20.4m. ⌘ Read more

Internet Traffic in Iran Increasing
Article URL: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir?dateRange=28d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301603

Points: 9

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Fonterra to open new season with a $9.75/kgMS opening forecast
Fonterra Co-operative Group will start the new dairy season with a forecast farmgate price of $9.75 per kilogram of milk solids, within a range of $8/kgMS to $11/kgMS.

The co-op was expected to start the season with a wide range, but its opening price sits at the upper end of forecasts from major NZ banks. ⌘ Read more

Unicode 18.0.0 Beta
Article URL: https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode18.0.0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290881

Points: 9

# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more

Agent Memory: An Anatomy
Article URL: https://brgsk.xyz/agent-memory-anatomy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287808

Points: 9

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Cloudflare Flagship
Article URL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/flagship/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287468

Points: 9

# Comments: 2 ⌘ Read more

The Best Movies to Stream This Month (May 2026)
Bugonia, Good Boy, and Send Help are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month. ⌘ Read more

Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284712

Points: 9

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AlmaLinux 10.2 Released For Latest Community-Driven RHEL 10.2 Experience
The AlmaLinux project announced the releases today of both AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and AlmaLinux OS 10.2… ⌘ Read more

Ryman reset right for market conditions, CEO says
Retirement village and aged care provider Ryman’s reset of its model means it now has the flexibility to grow as property market conditions allow, but not the obligation, chief executive Naomi James says.

The operator of 47 villages, offering 9,959 retirement units and 4,686 aged care beds, decided two years ago to scale back development to focus on returns from existing assets, she said. ⌘ Read more

Does Anybody Actually Like React?
Article URL: https://jsx.lol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274077

Points: 21

# Comments: 9 ⌘ Read more

Japan’s New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality
Article URL: https://www.bgr.com/2178211/japan-hypersonic-engine-ramjet-2-hour-flights-to-us/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270812

Points: 9

# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more

SpaceX Launches 29 Starlink Satellites on Memorial Day
“The expansion of SpaceX’s Starlink network of internet relay satellites continued Monday with a Memorial Day launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station,” reports Spaceflight Now.

The mission added another 29 Starlink satellites to more than 10,000 already in low Earth orbit:

This was SpaceX’s 60th orbital flight of the year, consisting of 59 Falcon 9 rocket … ⌘ 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

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The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02474-9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260331

Points: 10

# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more

Rust-Based Wild Linker 0.9 Brings New Platform Coverage, Linker Plugin API
Wild Linker 0.9 was released today as the latest version of this very fast linker for Linux systems that is written in the Rust programming language… ⌘ 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

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Microsoft Drops Claude Code After Budget Overrun
Article URL: https://aiweekly.co/alerts/microsoft-drops-claude-code-after-budget-overrun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238896

Points: 38

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On the Money: Grant Baker’s book launch, Ray Smith, Nikhil Ravishankar, a great AI speech, and more
On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.

It was not the easiest week to be a departmental chief executive. Minister for the Public Service Nicola Willis signalled 9,000 public-sector jobs might go, and several agencies might be folded into on … ⌘ Read more

Linux Provides Better Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Over Windows 11
Last month with the new AMD Zen 5 “Dual Edition” 3D V-Cache CPU, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition showed great performance on Linux across a range of workloads. Curious if the operating system was playing into the greater benefit of Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 versus just the workloads tested, this article is looking at both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 on Microsoft Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Linux across a range of … ⌘ 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

New Patches Allow The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G To Be More Useful Under Linux
Back in 2024 there were Linux patches to enable a partially-working Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8xc Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC. Now in 2026, there are new patches for making that ARM-powered Microsoft Surface laptop actually working more respectably under Linux… Like a working display and more… ⌘ 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

RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
Red Hat today announced the releases of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 as well as RHEL 9.8… ⌘ Read more

Valkey 9.1 Delivers More Performance & Enhanced Security
Valkey 9.1 released on Tuesday as the latest version of this popular fork of the Redis in-memory, key-value database… ⌘ Read more

Serko outlook lifts as AI travel tools offset Middle East war war
Serko’s chief executive says the corporate travel company is weathering the travel disruptions caused by the US and Israeli war with Iran surprisingly well, recording a “very strong” final quarter despite the global volatility.

Serko on Wednesday reported a 34% increase in total income to $120.9 million in the 12 months ended March 31, 2026, compared with $90.5m a year earlier. ⌘ Read more

Ample Meats losses deepen as 2024 accounts finally filed
The Chinese-owned Taranaki meat processor that blamed its accountants for delayed financial statements deepened its loss in 2024 as revenue dropped, according to newly filed accounts.

Ample Group posted a loss of just over $1.9 million in the 12 months to the end of September 2024, compared with … ⌘ Read more

OpenBSD 7.9 Released With Support For Up To 255 x86_64 CPU Cores, WiFi 6
Theo de Raadt announced the release today of OpenBSD 7.9 as the latest feature update to this unique BSD platform… ⌘ Read more

[OC] people seem to be surprised that i’m tall, im 5’9! which makes my tits even more impressive! ⌘ Read more

Some weekend stable kernel updates
The 7.0.9,
6.18.32,
6.12.90, and
6.6.140 stable kernels have been released.
Each contains yet another set of important fixes. ⌘ Read more

Amazon Stops Supporting Pre-2013 Kindles Today. Some Owners Turn to Jailbreaking
Today Amazon ends support for first- and second-generation versions of Kindles and Kindle Fire tablets, along with the Kindle Touch, the 9.7-inch Kindle DX, and other devices released in 2012 or earlier.

Owners can continue reading ebooks that they’ve already downloaded, and they can also still sideload books using … ⌘ Read more

Kioxia and Dell Cram Nearly 10PB Into a Single 2U Server
BrianFagioli writes: Kioxia and Dell Technologies say they have built a 2U server configuration capable of scaling to 9.8PB of flash storage, which is the sort of density that would have sounded impossible just a few years ago. The setup combines a Dell PowerEdge R7725xd Server with 40 Kioxia LC9 Series 245.76TB NVMe SSDs and AMD EPYC processors. According t … ⌘ Read more

Wine 11.9 Released With Wayland Pointer Warp, Initial Support For System Threads
Wine 11.9 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release and nearing the half-way point of the development cycle toward Wine 12.0… ⌘ Read more

Honda Retreats To Hybrids After Failed EV Bet Triggers Record $9 Billion Loss
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Honda is waving the white flag. The Japanese automaker previewed two new hybrids set to launch by 2028 after taking an over $9 billion hit over its failed EV bet, leading to its biggest loss in company history. Honda admitted it was “unable to deliver products that offer … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, gsasl, nodejs, postgresql-15, postgresql-17, python3.9, and thunderbird), Fedora (expat, firefox, freerdp, GitPython, kernel, php, rust-podman-sequoia, rust-rpm-sequoia, rust-sequoia-chameleon-gnupg, rust-sequoia-git, rust-sequoia-keystore-server, rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp, rust-sequoia-openpgp, rust-sequoia-sop, rust-sequoia-sq, and rust-sequoia-sqv), Mageia (awstats, libreoffice, perl-HTTP-Tiny, and tomcat), Oracle (corosync, freerdp, … ⌘ Read more

Coreboot + AMD openSIL Powered Firmware Published For The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1
3mdeb announced on Thursday their release of Dasharo v0.9 for the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 EPYC server motherboard. This is the first time seeing AMD openSIL and Coreboot available for a readily-available AMD EPYC server motherboard!.. ⌘ Read more

A Conspiracy Theory About QR Codes Has Led to Chaos Ahead of Georgia’s Midterms
The state of Georgia banned the use of QR codes for elections, based in part on the assertions of a man who’s boosted false claims about Israel and 9/11. Now no one knows how ballots will be counted. ⌘ Read more