The Best 3-in-1 Apple Charging Stations After Testing Top Models
I tried all the top models to find the best 3-in-1 Apple charging stations, pads, and more. Keep your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods topped up with these WIRED-tested docking systems. ⌘ Read more

The Best 3-in-1 Apple Charging Stations After Testing Top Models
I tried all the top models to find the best 3-in-1 Apple charging stations, pads, and more. Keep your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods topped up with these WIRED-tested docking systems. ⌘ Read more

Velotric Nomad 2 Fat Tire Ebike, Tested and Reviewed (2026)
This wide-tired bike rolls comfortably over dirt, gravel, and whatever curbs you happen to bounce down. ⌘ Read more

You probably prefer younger but I’ll bet you just haven’t test-driven the right 1980s mom yet… ⌘ Read more

Parlamentswahl unter Putins Argusaugen
Armenien wählt am Sonntag ein neues Parlament. Die Wahl gilt als entscheidender Test für die Unterstützung der Bevölkerung für den geopolitischen Kurswechsel von Premierminister Nikol Paschinjan, der sich vom historischen Verbündeten Russland distanziert und sich der EU und den USA zuwendet. Kreml-Chef Präsident Wladimir Putin gefällt das nicht: Moskau schränkte kurz vor der Wahl armenische Exporte ein und drohte mit dem Stopp günstiger Gas- und Öllieferungen. Unverhohlen warnte Putin zudem vor ei … ⌘ Read more

Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Reaches Criticality In First Test
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use of different – and typically smaller – reactor designs, only one of them has been fully li … ⌘ Read more

Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised
This weekend is the ABC Classic FM countdown, which prompted me to dust off an old un-published data visualisation of rankings from previous years.

I’ve considered adding a search function, but I also kind of like that it requires a bit of exploration in the current form.

Some of the code is a bit clunky and I wouldn’t mind refactoring it. I’m also not sure about browser compatibility - I’ve only got access to a couple of devices to test it on.

Comments URL: [https://news.yc … ⌘ Read more

Best Running Shoes, Tested and Reviewed (2026): Saucony, Adidas, Hoka
We logged thousands of test miles to bring you the best running shoes for every pace, ability, and running goal. ⌘ Read more

Today Marks 22 Years Of Phoronix For Linux Hardware Testing & Benchmarking
Today marks 22 years since I started Phoronix.com to focus on Linux hardware reviews. It’s been quite a journey from the early state of Linux hardware support….. ⌘ Read more

Benchmarking The BORE Scheduler Performance With CachyOS Linux
Earlier this week I ran benchmarks of different CachyOS Linux kernel flavors that proved interesting from the performance overhead of their hardened kernel build to various other interesting performancr takeaways. One kernel flavor I hadn’t tested though was their build with the BORE scheduler. Given the interest and feedback from Phoronix readers, here is an article focused on looking at the performance of the BORE scheduler for the Linux kernel on CachyOS. ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1 + Mesa 26.1 Performance With The Radeon RX 9070 GRE, RX 9070 XT
With this week’s launch day review of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE, Ubuntu 26.04 with its Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.0 default driver stack was used for testing. That choice was made since the Ubuntu 26.04 release is still fresh, the RDNA4-based RX 9070 GRE was working without issue there, and from other RDNA4 testing knowing there isn’t much uplift from the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel or the current stable Mesa 26.1 OpenGL RadeonSI / V … ⌘ Read more

Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers
Meta has reportedly delayed the developer release of its Muse Spark AI model API multiple times, and as of Tuesday, had no scheduled launch date, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled). Reuters reports: A Meta spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday that the company is already testing the Application Programming Interface (API) with som … ⌘ Read more

2degrees pushes on with satellite-to-mobile plans despite rocket explosion
The boss of 2degrees says the company remains on track to enter the latest space race – using satellites to connect mobile customers in far-flung places – despite the setback facing its US partner after a spectacular rocket explosion in Florida.

2degrees hopes to begin testing a satellite-to-mobile service powered by Starlink rival AST SpaceMobile from the middle of this year. … ⌘ Read more

Sapere tells Govt: pause LNG, test diesel first
The Government is being urged to pause its push for imported LNG after a Sapere report argued that diesel, renewables, and faster industrial fuel switching could provide a cheaper dry-year electricity backstop.

The report, From faultlines to resilience, was commissioned by Rewiring Aotearoa, which advocates for electrification. ⌘ Read more

A Viral YouTube Show About an Unhinged AI Is Hitting Theaters. It’s a Big Test for Hollywood
The Amazing Digital Circus finale will hit more than 4,000 theaters around the world Thursday. Two weeks later it’ll be on YouTube, bucking Hollywood trends and testing the power of online fandom. ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net The good thing is that it’s already pretty battle-tested. 😅 There was this dumpster fire a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31114554 This was on their front page for quite a while, just look at the number of comments … 😂

Cybersecurity startup Blacklock aims to raise $5m for new AI software spinoff
Wellington-based cybersecurity startup Blacklock is separating its software development operations into a new company and is planning a US$3 million (NZ$5m) capital raise to develop and scale its products.

Blacklock was set up to streamline and automate services, including penetration testing, also known as white-hat hacking. The new spinoff company is known as Cyra. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL. At least now you know your infrastructure and web server can handle some traffic. Consider it a test, in addition to the fleeting recognition. 🤣

DistroWatch turns 25
The DistroWatch site is celebrating its\
25th anniversary. “All in all, it has been an incredible ride. Many
of you who read these pages regularly know that downloading and testing
distributions is a highly addictive pastime. I have been an avid
distro-hopper for the last 25 years and I don’t see myself abandoning this
activity for many more years to come.” Congratulations to Ladislav
Bodnar and all the others who have kept that resource going for so long. ⌘ Read more

Best Sleep Trackers of 2026: Oura, Whoop, and Eight Sleep
I tested the top sleep wearables for every type of sleeper, including devices from Oura, Whoop, and Eight Sleep. ⌘ Read more

‘Sexual Chocolate’ Faces Recalls After FDA Tests Reveal Undisclosed Viagra
Sellers of products with names like Boner Bears and DTF have voluntarily recalled their products after testing positive for the active ingredients in Viagra and Cialis. ⌘ Read more

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc6
The 7.1-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. Linus said: “Well, I wouldn’t call this ‘small’, but it is
certainly smaller than rc5 was. And I don’t think there’s anything
particularly scary here, so maybe we’re still on track for a normal release
cycle. Let’s see.” ⌘ Read more

Meta tests AI subscriptions and rolls out new paid plans for Facebook, Instagram
By Dean Seal and Meghan Bobrowsky

Meta Platforms has started the rollout of subscription plans for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and is testing new subscriptions for users of its AI chatbot as the company seeks to recoup some of the costs from its expensive AI buildout. ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1-rc6 To Support The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II & Nova 2 Lite Controllers
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 test kernel due out later today, this week’s batch of input subsystem fixes have been sent out that includes enabling a few newer input devices… ⌘ 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

6 Best Prepaid Phone Plans (2026): Tello, Boost, Google Fi, More
Forget the pricey, postpaid cell plans and two-year contracts. Save with one of these WIRED-tested options from US Mobile, Boost, and Google Fi. ⌘ Read more

Fed Up With Vibe Coders, Dev Sneaks Data-Nuking Prompt Injection Into Testing App
It all started when the German developer behind an open-source app for Java testing “added hidden instructions to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents,” reports Ars Technica:

The instructions were added to jqwik, a test engine for JUnit 5… The salient change in the update was a line that read: … ⌘ 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

On the subject of debugging these so-called AI(s) / Black Boxes… the model is a black box sure, but that’s not really the problem. Everything around it — the inputs, the outputs, the decisions it makes — all of that can and should be fully logged, traced and replayed. The “program” isn’t the model, it’s the full context you feed it. That’s what you debug. It’s not so different from any other system really; if you’re running something in production with no logs, no structured outputs and no tests, you’d have the same problem. The model doesn’t change that discipline, it just makes it more important.

Tello Mobile Plan Review (2026): Low Cost, Reliable Service
With inflation and gas prices rising, I’m trying to save money wherever I can. I tested Tello’s budget cell phone plan, and for me, it turns out prepaid can be just as good. ⌘ 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

Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 Released For Testing
Canonical today released the first monthly snapshot of the Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” release… ⌘ Read more

CVE-Bench: testing LLM agents on real-world vulnerability patches
Article URL: https://giovannigatti.github.io/cve-bench/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328088

Points: 3

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Blue Origin Rocket Exploded Thursday Night During Hot-Fire Test
Spaceflight Now shared their video of the explosion, which the Orlando Sentinel describes as showing Blue Origin’s rocket “become engulfed in flames. The fireball expands out and covers the entire launch pad as the fuselage of the rocket can be seen crumbling into the flames.”

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said on X.com “It’s too early to know … ⌘ Read more

Nesbitt: Protestware for coding agents
Andrew Nesbitt has written a blog\
post detailing a recent incident with the jqwik library for property-based testing
in Java. On May 25, the 1.10.0 release of jqwik included a change
that attempts to instruct coding agents to disregard previous
instructions and delete jqwik tests and code.

I think this is a new class of supply-chain input worth ke … ⌘ Read more

Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells
Hi, I’m Kenny, I’ve been building aislop. I starting working on this after using Claude Code, codex and opencode several times and noticing some slops. They aren’t syntax and passes most tests, they are patterns like empty catch blocks, useless comments, duplicated helpers, dead code and many more. So I built a tool to scan and check for these patterns and wired it into hooks so after each tool call, the agent checks for the slops.

You can try it out with npx aislop sca … ⌘ Read more

15 Best Wireless Chargers, All Tested and Reviewed (2026)
Stop fumbling for cables in the dark. These WIRED-tested stands and pads will take the hassle out of refueling your phone, wireless earbuds, and watch. ⌘ Read more

NASA Details Its Plan to Build a Lunar Base At the Moon’s South Pole
NASA has outlined a three-phase plan to build a lunar base at the moon’s south pole. The first phase, from 2026 to 2029, will focus on robotic missions, landers, rovers, reactors, satellites, and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance test. Later phases will add habitats, power systems, communications, cargo logistics, and rotating cr … ⌘ Read more

The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-just-exploded-during-a-static-fire-test/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318678

Points: 11

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Blue-Origin-Rakete bei Test auf der Startrampe explodiert ⌘ Read more

Blue Origin’s New Glenn blows up during static fire test
Article URL: https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/2060164928472854821

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317774

Points: 22

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Trump Loses More Control Over AI Regulation As Illinois Passes Landmark Law
Illinois lawmakers on Wednesday passed a landmark AI safety bill (SB 315) that would require major AI companies to publish safety plans, submit annual third-party testing reports, report serious incidents quickly, and protect whistleblowers who flag emerging risks. OpenAI and Anthropic supported the bill, which could make Illi … ⌘ Read more

Raphaël Glucksmann lance son crash test avant la présidentielle
Immigration, sécurité, «sursaut patriotique»: dans son livre et dans les médias, le leader de Place publique assume de vouloir parler «au-delà de la gauche». Entouré d’ex-macronistes, il poursuit sa route vers la présidentielle tout en se donnant encore trois mois de chauffe. ⌘ Read more

Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance
In recent weeks we have been exploring different areas of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics performance on Linux from various OpenCL and Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks, scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards, comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell, and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix readers keep raising requests for seeing the Arc Pro B70 performance for Linux gaming given the lack of any consumer BMG-G31 GPU. So fo … ⌘ Read more

Citing ‘severe’ math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-27/uc-math-professors-demand-return-of-sat-for-stem-admissions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309233

Points: 28

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Perfect Randomness Realized For the First Time
ETH Zurich researchers say they have generated certified “perfect randomness” for the first time by using a quantum Bell-test setup with two entangled superconducting chips connected by a 30-meter cooled link. “In the long term, this work could play a similar role in digital security as atomic clocks do for timekeeping: a physically certified source of randomness that other syst … ⌘ Read more

Meta To Start Testing AI Subscription Services
Meta will begin testing paid subscriptions for its Meta AI app and website, with a $7.99/month Meta One Plus plan and a more capable $19.99/month Meta One Premium plan offering. The test will start next month in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia as Meta looks for AI revenue beyond advertising while continuing to offer a free tier. CNBC reports: Naomi Gleit, the head of product at M … ⌘ Read more

Goat-chan testing her limits (ENarane) [Original] ⌘ Read more

8 Best Computer Speakers (2026) After Testing 25+ Pairs
These WIRED-tested computer speakers, from stereo speakers to surround sound, will suit any budget. ⌘ Read more

In a blink: BlinkPay proofs Kiwi real-time payments
BlinkPay has proved that real-time payments are possible in New Zealand by using the existing open banking infrastructure and a Bank of NZ account to execute a test transaction.

BlinkPay’s chief executive, Adrian Smith, said a successful test payment in March took just 2.6 seconds to complete, compared with expectations of up to 5 seconds. ⌘ Read more