You Should Not Update Your Dependencies
Article URL: https://www.mendral.com/blog/you-should-not-update

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302319

Points: 7

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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

Interview session with Jonathan Corbet
The Linux Foundation will be hosting a\
live interview with LWN co-founder Jonathan Corbet. The event will
take place on Tuesday, June 2 at 8:00AM Pacific daylight time (UTC-7).
Registration is open for those who would like to attend. ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel
Canonical’s kernel team confirmed today their intention of shipping the Ubuntu 26.10 release with what will be the Linux 7.2 kernel… ⌘ Read more

Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins For AMD Zen 5 On PostgreSQL, Valkey, Network Performance
The long-in-development work on Cache Aware Scheduling looks like it will come to a head soon with it looking like Cache Aware Scheduling will land for Linux 7.2. Ahead of the upcoming merge window I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at different areas where this feature is shining. ⌘ Read more

Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins For AMD Zen 5 On PostgreSQL, Valkey, Network Performance
The long-in-development work on Cache Aware Scheduling looks like it will come to a head soon with it looking like Cache Aware Scheduling will land for Linux 7.2. Ahead of the upcoming merge window I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at different areas where this feature is shining. ⌘ Read more

7 Best Outdoor Security Cameras (2026) After Testing Dozens
These weatherproof outdoor security cams keep a watchful eye on your property while you get on with life. Our list includes battery-powered cameras that need no subscription. ⌘ Read more

Nearly half (44%) of every T-shirt goes to waste before you even buy it
Article URL: https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2026/05/nearly-half-of-every-t-shirt-goes-to-waste-before-you-even-buy-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278832

Points: 7

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7 Ways to Get So Good at AI, People Will Think You Are AI
From killing your chatbots to optimizing your prompts, here are the best ways to go full AI native and conquer the new world. ⌘ Read more

Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd
Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/145071/flatpak-will-depend-on-systemd/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277355

Points: 7

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Btrfs Preps Huge Folios Support Ahead Of Linux 7.2
The past few Linux kernel cycles there has been experimental support for large folios with Btrfs while for Linux 7.2 it looks like this modern file-system will be taking things further with huge folios… ⌘ Read more

NZ sharemarket up 0.7% after strong results
Heavyweight Fisher & Paykel Healthcare surprised some commentators with another strong annual financial result, driving the New Zealand sharemarket higher by more than 0.7%.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index reached a morning high of 13,182.35 following Fisher & Paykel’s bumper release, then cooled off in the afternoon to close at 13,069.74, up 99.46 points, or 0.77%. ⌘ Read more

TP-7 Field Recorder
Article URL: https://teenage.engineering/products/tp-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273531

Points: 4

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Ubers COO says its getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai-token-spending-harder-justify-2026-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268871

Points: 7

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[$] Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development
Linus Torvalds does not enjoy giving talks, but he does consent to
the occasional on-stage conversation with Dirk Hohndel at Linux
Foundation events. The pair held the 30th of their fire-less fireside
chats during a keynote session on May 20, at the 2026 Open\
Source Summit North America. Topics included 3D printing, guitar
pedals, the recent 7.1-rc4 release of the kernel, and Torvalds’s
complicated relationshi … ⌘ Read more

Intel Introducing USB4STREAM Protocol For Linux - Opening Up Some Nifty Uses For USB4
An exciting Intel innovation expected to be added for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is introducing the new USB4STREAM protocol for USB4/Thunderbolt as a “super simple” way to “basically just transfer raw packets from one host to another”. This can be useful for quickly backing up a system from one host to another, sharing of web cameras or other peripherals across systems, or other environments where not having networking or wanti … ⌘ Read more

Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware
With Linux 7.1 ISDN, ham radio, and other old network code was removed in lightening the kernel source tree by around 138 thousand lines of code. Some additional Linux networking code cleaning is expected for Linux 7.2 with the ISA and PCMCIA hardware around ARCnet set to be removed… ⌘ Read more

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc5
The 7.1-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. Quoth Linus:

I’m not entirely happy about it - most of this is totally trivial
stuff to random drivers, which obviously makes it all less scary,
but at the same time I’m really not convinced the churn is worth it
at rc5 time. These things are “fixes”, sure, but at the same time a
lot of them are simply so irrelevant that I think they’d be better
off in a linux-next tree and get merged during the merge window. … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1-rc5 Released With Fixes Ramping Up From AI Coding Agents
In the road to releasing Linux 7.1 in June, out today is Linux 7.1-rc5 that continues coming on heavy with fixes… ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week
For those curious about the growing use of AI and coding agents within the Linux kernel, this week there was another large batch of new patches fixed that were generated or co-authored by agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot… ⌘ Read more

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
Article URL: https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256953

Points: 16

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Linux To Remove ISA Speech Synthesizer Driver That Likely Hasn’t Been Used In Decades
Following the process of phasing out Intel 486 CPU support and other old hardware drivers that were dropped in the Linux 7.1 kernel cycle for reducing the kernel maintenance burden, the upcoming Linux 7.2 cycle is continuing the trend of phasing out some of the old hardware support that is very obsolete, likely having no users on the latest upstream kernels, and no one formally maintaining the obsolete drivers… ⌘ Read more

Markdown Is Not LaTeX
Article URL: https://www.iconoclasts.blog/joe/markdown-is-not-latex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252007

Points: 7

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A large set of stable kernel updates
The 7.0.10,
6.18.33,
6.12.91,
6.6.141,
6.1.174,
5.15.208, and
5.10.257
stable kernel updates have all been released. The first four are huge
(the 7.0.10\
review version had … ⌘ Read more

US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials’ names with Senate
Article URL: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/us-tech-firms-share-dutch-regulator-officials-names-with-senate/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246614

Points: 31

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Royaume-Uni: l’avènement historique des partis indépendantistes
L’Écosse, le pays de Galles et l’Irlande du Nord sont dirigés, depuis les élections du 7 mai, par des partis de centre-gauche qui envisagent, à plus ou moins long terme, la dissolution du pays. Les trois nations comptent travailler de concert pour desserrer l’étau de la Couronne. ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.8 To Support System Monitor With Intel Xe, Plasma 6.7 Sees More Crash Fixes
KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing for next month’s Plasma 6.7 stable desktop release due out in mid-June while also beginning more feature work toward Plasma 6.8… ⌘ Read more

Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he’s our 26-year-old son
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/22/experience-found-baby-subway-now-26-year-old-son

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245571

Points: 7

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Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda
Article URL: https://notesbylex.com/shipping-a-laptop-to-a-refugee-camp-in-uganda

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241997

Points: 7

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Linux 7.1 Merges AMD Dynamic EPP Fixes, Intel Bartlett Lake Scaling Fix
Merged today for Linux 7.1 was this week’s power management fixes with a few notable fixes for both AMD and Intel platforms… ⌘ 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

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Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/sam-altman-won-in-court-against-elon-musk-but-really-we-all-lost

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235361

Points: 7

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Linux Sound Subsystem Also Seeing Many Fixes Driven By AI/LLMs
It’s not only the Linux networking subsystem where many fixes have been appearing – including several notable security fixes for local privilege escalation issues – leading to “craziness” from AI / LLMs. The Linux sound subsystem has also been seeing an uptick in activity with many “assisted-by” patches coming about in recent weeks… ⌘ Read more

Today’s Linux Networking Fixes: “Craziness Continues With No End In Sight”
Driven by AI/LLM bots like Shashiko uncovering new issues within the Linux kernel source tree, including various security vulnerabilities like Dirty Frag, the mailing list has been wild with bug reports and fixes. Today’s networking fixes pull request for Linux 7.1 continues to highlight the ongoing craziness and fears that the worst may be yet to come… ⌘ Read more

Oceania Healthcare posts record result but still no dividend
Oceania Healthcare says the year to March 31 marked a “step-change” in financial performance, although free cash flow remains negative and dividends are still off the table.

The retirement village and aged care service operator’s proforma underlying ebitda lifted 20% to $97.7 million, while proforma underlying net profit lifted 34% to $64.1m. ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2 To Enable SR-IOV Support For Intel Nova Lake’s Xe3P Graphics
Open-source Intel software engineers today sent out their latest round of Xe kernel graphics driver updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month’s Linux 7.2 merge window… ⌘ Read more

Démantèlement de l’Ademe: le Conseil d’État est contre
D’après l’avis du Conseil d’État remis au gouvernement le 7 mai, que «Mediapart» a pu consulter, l’instance chargée d’examiner les projets de loi estime que la réforme de l’agence de transition écologique n’est pas «justifiée». ⌘ 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

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

Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Adding Expandable Heap Support With Linux 7.2
AMD engineers continue enhancing the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux… ⌘ Read more

SpaceX Reveals Its Finances For the First Time
SpaceX has revealed its financials for the first time as it prepares for a potentially massive IPO. The New York Times reports: SpaceX’s revenue soared to $18.7 billion in 2025, up 33 percent from a year earlier, the company disclosed in a filing required of firms that are seeking to go public. In the first three months of this year, revenue rose to $4.7 billion from $4.1 billion i … ⌘ Read more

More AMDGPU Driver Fixes Prepped For Linux 7.2
AMD is ready with more AMDKFD compute driver and AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window… ⌘ Read more

My Food Bag lifts profit and revenue as board weighs possible sale
Listed meal-kit company My Food Bag has reported revenue growth of 6.2% for the second half of the 2026 financial year.

In an NZX announcement on Thursday, My Food Bag (MFB) announced a net profit after tax of $6.7 million, up 5.3% year on year. ⌘ Read more

The Very Exciting Cache Aware Scheduling Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2
As a very exciting development ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window opening in about one month’s time, it looks like the long-awaited Cache Aware Scheduling support will finally be merged! CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE has made it into a TIP branch with all the Cache Aware Scheduling code for helping with Linux performance on modern CPUs sporting multiple last level caches… ⌘ Read more

Dairy prices edge up at season finale
Dairy prices have edged out a small gain as the New Zealand season comes to an end.

The average price at the last Global Dairy Trade auction of the 2025/26 dairy season, held overnight, lifted 0.6% to US$4,198 (NZ$7,193) per metric tonne (MT). ⌘ Read more

StanChart To Cut Over 7,000 Jobs, Boost AI To Replace ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’
The London-headquartered lender Standard Chartered announced plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs by 2030, with CEO Bill Winters saying the bank will replace some “lower-value human capital” through automation and AI while offering retraining to affected workers. “It’s not cost-cutting. It’s replacing in some cases lower-val … ⌘ Read more

Google’s Response to OpenClaw’s 24/7 AI Agent
Google’s always-running, data-hungry AI agent is designed to spend your money and send your emails. ⌘ 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

Before Mass Layoffs, Meta Reassigns 7,000 Workers To Focus On AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta told employees on Monday that it was reassigning 7,000 workers to focus on new initiatives around artificial intelligence, the latest change in a company transformation spurred by the powerful technology. Employees will be moved to four new organizations focused on building new A.I. … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2 Will Fix The Intel P-State Driver For The New Bartlett Lake CPUs
The fix is set to land in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel so the P-core-only Bartlett Lake processors will not report bogus maximum frequency values… ⌘ Read more