Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025)
Article URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257058

Points: 13

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Ebola Outbreak Now Third Largest Recorded and “Spreading Rapidly”
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/ebola-outbreak-now-third-largest-recorded-and-spreading-rapidly/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248659

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Google Is Killing ChromeOS: Aluminium OS, Its Android-Based Replacement
Article URL: https://techjournal.org/google-aluminium-os-replacing-chromeos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244476

Points: 13

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The 13 Best Fans to Buy Before It Gets Hot Again (2026)
Swap out your creaky old box fan for a new model that lights up, mists, or even follows you around the room. ⌘ Read more

Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can
Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/145029/get-your-passwords-out-of-bitwarden-while-you-still-can/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223258

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说出来我都不信：Linux 漏洞第4、第5爆了 / Nginx 也继续爆漏洞
这是今天（2026年5月21日）早上： 这是今天晚上： 也不知道说什么了，直接看吧。 Linux 第4漏洞：CVE-2026-46333（7.1分） 这是继 Copy Fail（4 月 29 日）、Dirty Frag（5 月 7 日）和 Fragnesia（5 月 13 日）之后，在短短三周内爆出 ⌘ Read more

Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/mkaramuk/44a44d83178e632ec0dd1f02186d822c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221976

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Microsoft Launches Surface Pro 12, Surface Laptop 8 With Intel Chips
Microsoft is launching three new Intel-powered Surface devices for businesses: the Surface Pro 12, Surface Laptop 8, and a smaller 13-inch Surface Laptop model. These new machines come equipped with newer Intel chips, a few business-focused upgrades, and notably higher starting prices. “The high pricing of these three new Surface devic … ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.6 LTS To Linux 7.1 Bechmarks: Performance Up 13% On AMD Threadripper Over Three Years
The Linux 7.1 kernel performance has been looking quite good on the various Intel/AMD systems I have tested over the past three weeks. Linux 7.1 does bring some solid improvements over Linux 7.0 prior in different workloads and haven’t encountered any worrisome regressions compared to the current Linux 7.0 stable kernel. For those wondering the longer-term picture, here are benchmarks of Linux 7.1 Git compared to recent Linux … ⌘ Read more

AMD’s Lemonade SDK For AI Promotes macOS To GA Status, ROCm 7.13 Integrated
The Lemonade SDK for “refreshingly fast local AI” that is largely developed by AMD engineers as an open-source project continues advancing quite rapidly for serving optimized LLMs on GPUs and NPUs… ⌘ Read more

Us Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media
Test scores “are lower than they were a decade ago in school districts across the U.S.,” reports Times magazine, citing new data released Wednesday by Stanford researchers. “Reading scores were down roughly 0.6 grades in 2025 compared to 2015, and math scores were down about 0.4 … ⌘ Read more

Panther Lake Powered Framework Laptop 13 Pro Sees Linux Microphone Fix
Ahead of the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro laptops beginning to ship in June, an audio microphone fix was merged this weekend to the mainline Linux kernel for these new Intel Panther Lake powered devices… ⌘ Read more

Debian 13.5 Released To Ship The Latest Linux Security Fixes
Debian 13.5 is out today as the newest point release to Debian Trixie for incorporating all of the latest security fixes affecting the Linux kernel and dozens of user-space packages… ⌘ Read more

Sarkozy-Kadhafi: le résumé vidéo de la neuvième semaine du procès en appel
Mercredi 13 mai, le parquet général a réclamé la condamnation de Nicolas Sarkozy pour association de malfaiteurs, corruption, recel de détournement de fonds publics et financement illégal de campagne. Au terme de leurs réquisitions, les avocats généraux ont requis contre lui une peine de sept ans de prison ferme, 300 000 euros d’amende et cinq ans d’inéligibilité. Le résumé … ⌘ Read more

AMD ROCm 7.13 Released With Instinct MI350P Support, More Ryzen AI APUs
ROCm 7.13 was released today as the newest ROCm Core SDK Preview in working toward what will presumably be called ROCm 8.0 later in the year… ⌘ Read more

Three stable kernels for Thursday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.7, 6.18.30, and 6.12.88 stable kernels. These kernels do
not include a patch for the Fragnesia local-privilege-escalation exploit that came to light on
May 13, but do include many other important fixes throughout the
tree. Users ar … ⌘ Read more

Nginx rewrite 模块爆高危漏洞：可能已经存在十几年｜CVE-2026-42945
Nginx 是一款被广泛使用的 HTTP 服务器软件。2026 年 5 月 13 日官方披露常用模组 rewrite 存在安全漏洞。攻击者可通过构造特殊 HTTP 请求触发该漏洞，导致 Nginx 工作进程发生堆缓冲区溢出，进而造成进程崩溃或服务重启。@Appinn 在部分关闭了地址空间布局随机化（ ⌘ Read more

Man Who Stole Beyonce’s Hard Drives Gets Five-Year Sentence
A man accused of stealing hard drives containing unreleased Beyonce music, tour plans, and other materials from a rental car in Atlanta has pleaded guilty and accepted a five-year sentence, including two years in custody. Slashdot Bruce66423 shares a report from The Guardian: Kelvin Evans was by the Atlanta police department in September in connection to a J … ⌘ Read more

SOLAI Launches $399 Solode Neo Linux AI Computer
BrianFagioli writes: SOLAI has launched the Solode Neo, a $399 Linux-based mini PC designed for always-on AI agents, browser automation, and persistent developer workflows. The compact system ships with an Intel N150 processor, 12GB LPDDR5 memory, 128GB SSD storage, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a Linux-based operating system called Solode AI OS. The company says th … ⌘ Read more

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On Reddit, Hacker News and other places where people in software development talk to each other, more and more people are becoming disillusioned with the promise of code generated by large language models. Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often … ⌘ Read more

Windows Update Is Getting Automatic Rollbacks For Faulty Drivers
Microsoft is adding a Windows Update feature called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery that can automatically roll back faulty drivers to a previously known-good version without waiting for hardware makers or users to fix the problem manually. PCWorld reports: The way faulty drivers work today is that the hardware partner is responsible for pushing … ⌘ Read more

Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A new Linux local privilege escalation flaw called Fragnesia has been disclosed as a Dirty Frag-like vulnerability, allowing arbitrary byte writes into the kernel page cache of read-only files through a separate ESP/XFRM logic bug. Phoronix reports: Proof of concept code for Fragnesia is already out there. There is a … ⌘ Read more

Face au bulldozer Bolloré, le mouvement cherche à s’élargir
Un mois après le licenciement du patron de Grasset, les auteurs démissionnaires de la maison d’édition se sont réunis à Paris, mercredi 13 mai, avec d’autres personnalités engagées à leurs côtés. Ensemble, ils réfléchissent à une évolution de leur statut et à la manière de contrer l’agenda politique du milliardaire d’extrême droite. ⌘ Read more

LinkedIn Planning To Lay Off 5% of Staff In Latest Tech-Sector Cuts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a widening of technology sector cuts this year. The Microsoft-owned social network plans to cut about 5% of its headcount as it reorganizes teams and focuses personnel on areas where … ⌘ 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

Harvard Votes On Limiting ‘A’ Grades
Harvard faculty are voting on a proposal (PDF) to curb grade inflation by limiting solid A grades to 20% of students in a class, plus four additional A’s per course. Axios reports: Grade inflation is at a tipping point at Harvard. A move to make A grades harder to come by at one of the world’s leading universities could influence grading debates at peer institutions. Solid A’s account for nearly two-thi … ⌘ Read more

CERN Open Sources Its KiCad Component Libraries
Ancient Slashdot reader ewhac writes: CERN, a longtime Open Source pioneer, has made several contributions over the years to KiCad (“KEE-kad”), an Open Source EDA (Electronic Design Automation) package widely used in the hobbyist and professional electronics communities. It’s gotten so widely used that users can now submit their KiCad design files directly to several electronics f … ⌘ Read more

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Donald Trump se rend à Pékin avec l’Iran en tête
Le président des États-Unis effectue son deuxième voyage en Chine, du mercredi 13 au vendredi 15 mai. Au-delà des inévitables contentieux commerciaux, les négociations difficiles avec Téhéran, allié de Pékin, seront certainement au menu des discussions avec Xi Jinping. ⌘ Read more

Les finances au plus mal mais la voracité fiscale au plus fort
Cette année, Bercy se surpasse : jamais le fisc n’avait été aussi inventif pour tondre toujours plus de contribuables, et toujours plus court. La scène pourrait être cocasse : dans un bureau anonyme de Bercy, un fonctionnaire zélé fait défiler sur son écran des images satellites de jardins pavillonnaires. Mais attention : notre homme ne traque pas un […] ⌘ Read more

Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets?
fjo3 shares a report from Phys.org: Ever felt like mosquitoes bite you while ignoring everyone else? Scientists are now making progress in deciphering the complex chemical cocktail that makes particular people more enticing to these disease-spreading bloodsuckers. “It’s not a misconception – mosquitoes are attracted to some people more than others,” Frederic Simard of France’s Institute of Resear … ⌘ Read more

Will Maryland’s Utility Bills Increase $1.6B to Support Other States’ Datacenters?
To upgrade its grid for data centers, PJM Interconnection (which serves 13 states) plans to spend $22 billion — and charge nearly $2 billion of that to customers in Maryland, argues Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel. The money “will be recovered in rates for decades” and “drive up Maryland customer bills by … ⌘ Read more

The Intel Lunar Lake CPU Performance Gains On Linux Over The Past Year
Recently I ran benchmarks looking at the Xe2 graphics performance gains on Intel Lunar Lake over the past year with what’s shipped by Ubuntu and comparing against our original tests of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition. With those Lunar Lake iGPU benchmarks out of the way, here is a look at how the Lunar Lake CPU performance has evolved on Linux since April 2025. ⌘ Read more

13 Best Coolers for Sunshine and Nighttime (2026)
We tested coolers on camping trips, road trips, beach days, and at parties to bring you our favorite models for every situation. The Yeti Tundra Haul is our top pick. ⌘ Read more

Bay Area Homeowner Offers Property In Exchange For Anthropic Stock
Bay Area homeowner and investment banker Storm Duncan is trying to swap a 13-acre Mill Valley property for Anthropic equity instead of cash. He created a LinkedIn page for the home, describing the move as a “diversification play” because he is “under-concentrated in AI investments relative to the importance of AI in the future, and over-concentrat … ⌘ 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

Linux Version of Framework’s Laptop 13 Pro is Outselling Its Windows Variant
Framework began shipping its new Laptop 13 Pro this week. And the Ubuntu variant is outselling the Windows variant, reports PC World:

[I]t’s selling quickly by Framework’s internal metrics, with six batches of the Intel version of the laptop already sold out. [A later Framework social media post added “Spoke too soon, w … ⌘ Read more

Just saw the video. Can’t believe that ladder is that expensive. Even in AUD, it is almost $100. It is also 2.5 stars, with 13 reviews. Gulp. Engineering aside (and you are right, it is pretty interesting, and some, if not most of it went over my head), the ladder is rubbish. This is the one I have. Not super, but have been with me for a while, and used quite a bit, still as good as new.

Framework Laptop 13 Pro Is a Major Overhaul For the Modular, Upgradeable Laptop
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Framework has been selling and shipping its modular, repairable, upgradable Laptop 13 for five years now, and in that time, it has released six distinct versions of its system board, each using fresh versions of Intel and AMD processors (seven versions, if you … ⌘ Read more

Framework Computer Announces The Framework Laptop 13 Pro
At Framework Computer’s next-gen hardware launch event today they announced the Framework Laptop 13 Pro as a ground-up redesign of their 13-inch modular laptop… ⌘ Read more

Framework Previews The OCuLink Dev Kit
In addition to announcing the Framework Laptop 13 Pro today, Framework Computer at their next-gen hardware event also previewed the OCuLink Dev Kit for attaching high throughput peripherals like external GPUs (eGPUs) to Framework Laptops… ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, delve, freerdp, giflib, go-rpm-macros, libarchive, and openexr), Debian (gimp, imagemagick, luanti, mapserver, mupdf, opam, perl, pillow, postgresql-13, and tiff), Fedora (aqualung, awstats, curl, incus, mac, mbedtls, mingw-LibRaw, python-msal, python3.11, python3.12, python3.15, smb4k, stb, and usd), Gentoo (DTrace and FUSE), Mageia (gdk-pixbuf2.0, giflib, polkit-122, python-cairosvg, and rsync), Oracle … ⌘ Read more

Seven stable kernels for Saturday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.19.13, 6.18.23, 6.12.82, 6.6.135, 6.1.169, 5.15.203, and 5.10.253 stable kernels. Each contains a
number of important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to
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Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Linux Graphics Performance Up ~17% Over Past Year
Given the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release being imminent and also realizing it’s been nearly one year to the day since reviewing the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop under Linux, I ran some fresh benchmarks for seeing how the integrated Xe2 graphics have evolved on Linux over the past year. ⌘ Read more

安娜的档案缺席败诉，赔偿3.22亿美元，恐失去所有域名
这可能是互联网最奇怪的一场官司之一。一个月前《安娜的档案被 13 家大型出版商联合起诉》，如今判决已经出来了：没有出庭、没有抗辩，安娜的档案直接败诉。 法院判决其赔偿3.22亿美元，并下达永久禁令，要求域名注册商及相关服务提供方停止为该网站提供支持，包括暂停其域名的解析与使用。 目前安娜的档案仅剩 ⌘ Read more

Apple AI Glasses Will Rival Meta’s With Several Styles, Oval Cameras
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is developing display-free AI smart glasses aimed at rivaling Meta’s Ray-Bans, with multiple frame styles, a distinctive oval camera design, and tight iPhone integration. “The idea is to unveil the product at the end of 2026 or early the following year, with the actual release coming in 2027,” writ … ⌘ Read more

Hollywood Stars Sign Open Letter Protesting Paramount-Warner Bros Merger
More than 1,000 Hollywood figures, including major actors, writers, and directors, signed an open letter opposing Paramount Skydance’s proposed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, arguing it would hurt an industry “already under severe strain.” The deal is still under regulatory scrutiny in both the U.S. and U.K., while Paramount says … ⌘ Read more

FBI Raids Texas Home of Man Suspected of Firebombing Sam Altman’s SF Mansion
The FBI searched the Texas home of a 20-year-old man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s San Francisco residence. Authorities say the suspect also made threats at OpenAI’s headquarters, and reports indicate he had written extensively about fears over AI and opposition to AI executives.

The suspect reporte … ⌘ Read more

Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, and immigrant advocacy organizations are demanding that Meta abandon plans to deploy face recognition on its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, warning that the feature – reportedly known inside the c … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.0 Released
“The new Linux kernel was released and it’s kind of a big deal,” writes longtime Slashdot reader rexx mainframe. “Here is what you can expect.” Linuxiac reports: A key update in Linux 7.0 is the removal of the experimental label from Rust support. That (of course) does not make Rust a dominant language in kernel development, but it is still an important step in its gradual integration into the project. Another notable security-related c … ⌘ Read more