Anthropic Files to Go Public
Anthropic says it has confidentially filed an IPO prospectus with the SEC, “setting up a potentially historic share sale for investors ready to jump into artificial intelligence,” reports CNBC. The move puts Anthropic ahead of OpenAI’s expected filing and follows explosive reported growth, a massive new valuation, major infrastructure deals, and ongoing tensions with the Pentagon over its models. From the report: “This gi … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting read! The current state is already a very great achievement. I felt honored being able to already have followed your development along here on twtxt. :-)

That’s a cool clock, I should remind myself of my working time, too.

Shift from a Leader-Follower to a Leader-Leader Approach
Article URL: https://www.practicalengineering.management/p/shift-from-a-leader-follower-to-a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351858

Points: 7

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Linux 7.1-rc6 Released Following Another “Larger-Than-I’d-Wish-For Size” Week
The Linux 7.1-rc6 kernel is now available for closing out the month of May and approaching the Linux 7.1 stable release that should be out by mid-June… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Ahh, I see. Okay, I’m with you there. On this high level, I can understand how the thing works.

Maybe my wording isn’t good. 🤔 Let’s take a real life example from what we do at work.

There’s this AI chatbot. It gets support requests from users, so the user says something like “I need access to a particular system”. This triggers the bot to “run” the instructions stored in a large Markdown file, like “check if the user is authorized to do this, then issue the following API requests”, and so on. This is essentially like running a little script, except it’s written in natural language (German) and there’s no “script interpreter” but just the AI.

Now, suppose that the AI doesn’t quite do what was intended. There’s some subtle bug. How do you debug this? How do you find out how the AI came to the “conclusion” to run step A instead of step B? And how do you find out how exactly you have to change your prompt so this doesn’t happen again next time?

If this was an actual script/program instead of AI, you could repeat the request and attach a debugger or throw in some printf() or whatever. How do you do that kind of thing with AI? How do you pinpoint exactly what the problem was?

(Or is this just a stupid idea? Do we have to give up that way of thinking when using AI? Is the era of debuggability over?)

Streamers Like Clavicular Are Humiliating OnlyFans Girls For Clout
Sex workers appear on the livestreams of famous manosphere influencers to boost their followings—but often end up being degraded. ⌘ Read more

Górny: why Gentoo?
Gentoo developer Michał Górny has written a lengthy\
article explaining the philosophy and purpose of the Gentoo Linux
distribution, in response to a\
thread on Mastodon:

Gentoo is a source-first distribution, which means the primary
method of installing software is to build it from source. Of course,
that doesn’t mean manually building stuff, following some kind of
how-to: finding all t … ⌘ Read more

Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill
The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign. ⌘ Read more

Lepionka fails in final court appeal attempt against Gibson Sheat
Lepionka & Co Investments has failed its latest attempt in a decade-long legal battle to sue its former law firm for allegedly negligent advice given 11 years ago.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court followed the Court of Appeal and the High Court in dismissing Lepionka & Co Investments’ (LCIL) application for leave to appeal, concluding [a decade-long litigation](https://businessdesk. … ⌘ Read more

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
Article URL: [https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode/](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode/ … ⌘ Read more

Netherlands Blocks US Takeover of Vital Digital Supplier
“Following months of public debate and protests against American IT giant Kyndryl’s proposed acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider that hosts the Netherlands’ online identity platform, the Dutch government has decided to block the acquisition,” writes longtime Slashdot reader rastakid. “The deal triggered fears that it would mean that ‘DigiD’ data woul … ⌘ 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

QuiznessDesk, Tuesday, May 26
Which of the following elements has the atomic number 2? Carbon, Lithium or Helium?
What type of animal is a mandrill?
What do edentulous mammals not have?
In which year did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour?
Which king was killed by an arrow to the eye?
In which country does the story “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” take place?
What colour spots does a common ladybird have?
Who directed the 1974 film Blazing Saddles?
In what sport is the “Fosbury flop” technique used?
Whi … ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Monday, May 25
What is the only country that Denmark borders?
What type of animal is a sidewinder?
Chemically pure gold contains how many carats?
Which Charles Dickens novel featured the character of Tiny Tim?
What is the longest river in France?
Which Lion King character did Jeremy Irons provide the voice for?
Who had a hit in 1982 with Maneater?
In mythology, which of the following did Pegasus have that a normal horse wouldn`t? Wings, a crown, or three eyes?
In a deck of cards, wh … ⌘ Read more`

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

GNOME Commander 2.0 Released Following Rewrite In Rust & GTK4
GNOME Commander, the orthodox file manager for the GNOME desktop that was inspired by Norton Commander, has been rewritten in the Rust programming language and also now using the GTK4 toolkit… ⌘ Read more

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

Waymo Pauses Atlanta Service As Its Robotaxis Keep Driving Into Floods
Waymo has paused service in Atlanta after one of its driverless cars entered a flooded street and got stuck. It follows a similar pause in San Antonio that prompted a recent software recall (PDF) over flood avoidance. TechCrunch reports: Waymo admitted that it hadn’t finished developing a “final remedy” for avoiding flooded areas when … ⌘ Read more

NZ sharemarket rallies, up almost 1%
The New Zealand sharemarket rallied nearly 1% after the large block of Contact Energy shares was quickly snapped up, and US President Donald Trump indicated he was in the final stages of a peace deal with Iran.

Following another rebound on Wall Street, the S&P/NZX 50 Index climbed to 12,878.07, a gain of 117.04 points or 0.92%. ⌘ Read more

The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech
France is already moving on from Zoom and Microsoft Teams in favor of homegrown alternatives. Other countries are quickly following suit. ⌘ Read more

California’s Wildfire Season Is Already Overactive
Major fires are threatening homes and ecologically sensitive areas following a hot, dry winter. ⌘ Read more

Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years
Google is giving its iconic search box its first major redesign since 2001. The new design incorporates, you guessed it, artificial intelligence, “getting bigger and more interactive so that people can ask even longer questions and upload photographs and videos into queries,” reports the New York Times. “In addition, people can ask follow-up questions … ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Wednesday, May 20
The Bahamas lie off the coast of which US state?
How is ascorbic acid more commonly known?
Which of the following was not one of the famous Brontë sisters? Anne, Jane or Emily?
In what decade did the building of the Berlin Wall begin?
Which cartoon character’s name is Italian for “pine eye”?
A Kind Of Magic and Hammer To Fall by Queen are songs on the soundtrack to which 1986 film?
Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams and Beyonce Knowles made up which band?
What is t … ⌘ Read more

Mageia 10 RC1 Released With Newer Packages
Following the ISOs dropping a few days ago, today the Mageia 10 release candidate was officially announced for those fond of this Linux distribution with its roots tracing back to Mageia and Mandrake Linux… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu Core 26 Released With Live Kernel Patching, Better OTA Updates
Following last month’s release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical today released Ubuntu Core 26… ⌘ Read more

Google I/O 2026 Live Blog: All the Gemini and Smart Glasses Updates as They Happen
Follow our live coverage of Google’s annual developer keynote, where the company will announce updates to its Gemini suite of AI tools and more details about Android XR smart glasses. ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Tuesday, May 19
The country historically known as Abyssinia is now known as what?
Which of the following would live in a formicary? Owls, bees or ants?
In degrees Celsius, what is the average body temperature?
What was the name of the volcano that erupted in the year A.D. 79 and destroyed the city of Pompeii?
Which book by George Orwell includes the line “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing”?
Who was the first man to reach the South Pole?
Which two brothers play … ⌘ Read more

@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.)

See: https://movq.de/git/jenny/file/vim/README.html

The running boom brings business for brands, retailers
Four days a week, the Zone Blue run club gathers for runs of varying length on Wellington’s waterfront, on the track at Newtown Park, and at Freyberg Beach.

There’s a “take it easy” Tuesday evening run, a speed session on the track on Wednesday, and a 30-minute effort followed by a coffee on Saturday mornings. ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.0.8 Released & LTS Kernels Updated For ssh-keysign-pwn
Following yesterday’s disclosure of the ssh-keysign-pwn vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to read root-owned files, a slew of new stable kernel releases are out today to address this latest Linux security issue… ⌘ Read more

Linux’s Latest Vulnerability Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users
Following Dirty Frag, Fragnesia, and other Linux kernel vulnerabilities making themselves known in recent days, the latest now is ssh-keysign-pwn… ⌘ Read more

Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Following last week’s disclosure of the Dirty Frag vulnerability for the Linux kernel, which only finished being patched up in mainline on Monday, Fragnesia is now public as a similar local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability… ⌘ Read more

Open Source Project Shuts Down Over Legal Threats from 3D Printer Company Bambu Lab
The free/open source project OrcaSlicer is a popular fork of 3D printer slicing software from Bambu Lab. But Tuesday independent developer Pawel Jarczak shuttered the project “following legal threats from Bambu Lab,” reports Tom’s Hardware:

Jarczak’s fork of OrcaSlicer would have allowed users to bypass Bamb … ⌘ Read more

Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To Per-Core I/O Performance
Following a presentation at last week’s Linux storage, file-system, memory management and BPF summit (LSFMM) in Croatia where Linux I/O overhead compared to the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) was presented, Jens Axboe was motivated to pursue some new Linux kernel optimizations for greater per-core I/O performance. This lead IO_uring developer and Linux block maintainer has managed to achieve around a 60% increase to … ⌘ Read more

More stable kernels with partial Dirty Frag fixes
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.1.171, 5.15.205, and 5.10.255 stable kernels, quickly
followed by 6.1.172 and 5.15.206 kernels. This is another round
of stable kernels to provide fixes for one of the CVEs ( CVE-2026-43284)
assigned following the [ … ⌘ Read more

AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux’s Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support
Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors… ⌘ Read more

PCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released For 1TB/s Bi-Directional x16 Bandwidth
The PCI-SIG today held a briefing around PCIe 8.0 that follows the PCIe 7.0 specification that was released to members last June… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Gives Up On Xbox Copilot AI
Microsoft is winding down Xbox Copilot on mobile and ending development of Copilot on console, reversing plans to bring the gaming-focused AI assistant to current-generation Xbox consoles this year. “The move follows [new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma’s] reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tuesday, which added executives from Microsoft’s CoreAI team – where Sharma worked before taking ove … ⌘ Read more

My first game of Magic ended with a truly EPIC TURN yesterday…

It was a 5-player game, and I was running my (unpublished) Superfriends deck (mostly Planeswalkers and counter manipulators). After some ups and downs, I was able to pop the ultimate abilities on a handful of PWs all on a single turn, pumping my Bioessence Hydra to 110/110 (!) before tapping it twice to kill 2 opponents, and then following that by destroying all of the lands of a 3rd opponent and stealing all of the creatures from the 4th, at which point the survivors decided to quit. As I said, EPIC TURN!

Game 2 ran long, so I dropped out. But that first game…

White House Considers Vetting AI Models Before They Are Released
The Trump administration is reportedly considering an executive order to create a working group that could review advanced AI models before public release. The shift follows concerns over Anthropic’s powerful Mythos model and its cyber capabilities, with officials weighing whether the government should get early access to frontier models without n … ⌘ Read more

Expanded AMD HDMI 2.1 Support Is Coming To Linux
AMD is preparing expanded HDMI 2.1 support for Linux, following earlier delays after the HDMI Forum rejected an open source implementation of HDMI 2.1 as proprietary technology. As GamingOnLinux reports, AMD developer Harry Wentland submitted a patch series to the Linux kernel mailing list, noting that it brings “HDMI FRL support to the amdgpu display driver” and that “DSC is s … ⌘ Read more

DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts
Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the man—who hasn’t entered the US in more than a decade—following posts on X condemning the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD 15.1 Beta Released For Early Testing
Following last year’s release of FreeBSD 15.0, FreeBSD 15.1 is working its way toward release release in June. For kicking off the release dance, FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 1 is available today for testing… ⌘ Read more

Servo Browser Engine Seeing Progress On FreeBSD Support
Following the recent Servo 0.1 release, the Servo project has published their latest monthly status report to highlight recent development efforts around this modern open-source browser engine… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu’s AI Plans Have Linux Users Looking For a ‘Kill Switch’
Canonical’s plan to add AI features to Ubuntu has sparked pushback from users who are concerned it could follow Windows 11’s AI-heavy direction. “After Canonical’s announcement earlier this week that it’s bringing AI features to Ubuntu, replies included requests for an AI ‘kill switch’ or a way to disable the upcoming features,” reports The Verge. Canoni … ⌘ Read more

Linux’s sched_ext Sees A Bunch Of Bug Fixes Following Increased AI Code Review
Just days after the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release, the Linux kernel’s extensible scheduler class “sched_ext” is seeing a lot of bug fixes. Many of these bug fixes aren’t just from the Linux 7.1 merge window but a number date back many kernel cycles. This uptick in bug fixes for sched_ext is coming due to increased AI code review… ⌘ Read more

Proton 11.0 Beta 2 Updates VKD3D-Proton
Following the release of Proton 11.0 Beta 1 from two weeks ago that updated against Wine 11.0, this heart to Valve’s Steam Play is now out with a second beta release… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu’s “AI Kill Switch” Is Achieved By Removing Snaps, Initially Opt-In
Following yesterday’s polarizing news of Canonical to begin shipping AI features in Ubuntu Linux over the course of the next year, Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical has now provided some clarifications around their AI plans… ⌘ Read more

Cole Allen Charged With Attempting to Assassinate Trump
The suspected shooter at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner faces three felony charges. He currently remains in custody following Monday’s hearing. ⌘ Read more

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc1
Linus has released 7.1-rc1 and closed the
merge window for this release.

Things look fairly normal, although we do have a few different
projects to cull some old hardware support to help minimize
maintenance burden: phasing out i486 support (configs deleted, code
deletions to follow) and independently starting to remove some
really old networking hardware support, and removing some SoC
support that never went anywhere.

But we’re more than making up for … ⌘ Read more