For this week’s (slightly late) #caturday, I’d like to introduce our 4th and final feline resident, the old boy we call Bugsy. He’s been with us for 8 years, and we think he’s 13-14 years old (but he’s not saying).

He used to sound a bit like a cartoon gangster (hence the name), but as the years have passed, he started to sound more like late-stage William Hickey (Uncle Lewis from Christmas Vacation).

He’s our sweet little old man, and he is loved.

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Public Domain Image Archive
Article URL: https://pdimagearchive.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430539

Points: 4

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(This settled at about 25k hits on the HTML page now. But only about 11k hits in total on favicon.ico and only around 7.5k hits on the image thumbnails. So I guess that, in reality, it might have gotten around 7k hits. The rest … is probably bots.)

A Quiet Place 3 Set Photos Reveal Cillian Murphy’s New Look With Jack O’Connell
Fresh images from the Quiet Place 3 set have offered a new look at two key stars. The photos show Cillian Murphy and Jack O’Connell sprinting through New York streets covered in dirt and sweat. While plot details remain under wraps, the latest behind-the-scenes images suggest the survival struggle is far from over. The franchise […]

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The Odyssey Website Lets Fans Compare How Different Each Format Looks
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is giving fans a closer look at how the film will appear across different theatrical formats before its release. The movie’s official website now includes an interactive feature that lets visitors compare aspect ratios and image presentation in real time. The Odyssey website reveals how different the movie looks across formats […]

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Marvel Unveils Its Own Version of Backrooms Amid Box Office Success
Marvel’s latest post proves even the MCU can’t escape the Backrooms. The studio shared haunting liminal space images on X as A24’s Backrooms dominates the box office with $141 million worldwide. Marvel shares Backrooms from Loki Marvel Entertainment posted four liminal space images on X with the caption “Liminal spacetime” on June 5, 2026. The […]

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Best Close-up of Lex Luthor’s Warsuit Revealed With Brutal Superman Fight
DC fans got a glimpse of Lex Luthor‘s iconic warsuit in recent set images from Man of Tomorrow. The photos went viral online, with many fans praising how the suit resembles the one seen in the comics. Man of Tomorrow is expected to have a worldwide release on July 9, 2027. Lex Luthor’s warsuit gets […]

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Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding
Article URL: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/06/journey-to-jpeg-xl-how-open-source-experiments-shaped-the-future-of-image-coding.html

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390688](https://news.ycombinator.com/ite … ⌘ Read more

Une avalanche d’affaires s’abat sur le Parti socialiste espagnol et Pedro Sánchez
Les procédures judiciaires s’accumulent autour du PSOE et des proches du chef du gouvernement. Elles entachent l’image du parti et rendent le pouvoir plus vulnérable que jamais. Ses partisans dénoncent des manœuvres de déstabilisation. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net Thanks! Yeah, it already supports Twt Hash via twtxt-lib (both v1 and v2, when the time is right), plus most of the other features (multiline, user-agent, and metadata), and I’m working on (re-)implementing threading, mentions, and hash filtering (to make conversations easier to follow).

Here’s a current snapshot of my local version, in case anyone is interested:

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It’s not that much traffic, of course. One hit per second on average. (Plus the images.) The nasty bots are much worse. 😅

Ikone zwischen Glamour und Rebellion
Norma Jeane Baker, besser bekannt als Marilyn Monroe, gilt als Ikone des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dass die Faszination mehr als 60 Jahre nach ihrem frühen Tod ungebrochen ist, liegt an der Vielschichtigkeit der Person und des Phänomens Monroe: Lange auf ihr Image als Sexsymbol reduziert, war sie zugleich Pionierin, die gegen Studios kämpfte, Hollywoods Regeln für Frauen neu schrieb – und als Intellektuelle unterschätzt wurde. Am 1. Juni 2026 wäre sie 100 Jahre alt geworden. ⌘ Read more

1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
Article URL: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-image-4b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346257

Points: 7

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Last minute entry for #caturday (at least in this time zone)…

This is Shadow. He’s an incredibly sweet boy who likes long walks (on your shoulder), loving on his puppies, and laying in his bowl(s).

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NZ’s early AI adopters are already reaping the benefits
When Air New Zealand updated its uniforms last year, it faced a large and potentially expensive job: updating its library of 18,000 brand images.

“So, what are we going to do?” the airline’s data and AI lead, Mike Parsons, asked rhetorically at one of the last formal Techweek26 sessions in Auckland last week. ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, gdk-pixbuf2, glibc, gnutls, kernel, libexif, mysql8.4, postgresql16, postgresql18, python3.14, ruby:3.3, and ruby:4.0), Debian (krb5, roundcube, starlette, unbound, and varnish), Fedora (kernel, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-js-challenge, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, perl-Imager, poppler, python-uv-build, rrdtool, rust-astral-tokio-tar, rust-astral_async_http … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

LOL! You broke my link parser. 😄

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Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (postorius and spip), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, linux-firmware, tor, and unbound), Mageia (ffmpeg, nginx, perl-Imager, and tigervnc, x11-server, x11-server-xwayland), Oracle (firefox and kernel), Red Hat (buildah, git-lfs, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, grafana-pcp, gvisor-tap-vsock, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, opentelemetry-collector, osbuild-composer, podman, rhc, rhc-wo … ⌘ Read more

It looks like someone forgot to check their email template… 😁

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I really dig #caturday on the Fediverse, so I thought I would start doing it here as well.

For this week, I’d like to introduce my spirit animal, Bowie.

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May his supreme laziness (and fuzzy-chunky-monkey cuteness) serve as an inspiration to you, too.

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NTSB Wants PDF Removed After It Exposed Final Cockpit Audio From UPS Crash
The NTSB temporarily closed public access to nearly all investigation dockets after people used a spectrogram image from a PDF in the UPS flight 2976 crash file to reconstruct approximate cockpit voice recorder audio and post it online. “We show our work and we’ve been doing this type of thing for years. Nobody was aware that … ⌘ Read more

Reached a new high score on “River Raid” on the Atari800 emulator.

Overall, a most productive night. 😁

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Vidéo de Ben Gvir: quand les prisonniers sont palestiniens, l’Occident regarde ailleurs
Les images montrant le ministre israélien d’extrême droite humilier des militants de la flottille pour Gaza, qui ont suscité un tollé international, n’ont rien révélé de nouveau sur les prisons de l’État hébreu. Mais elles mettent en lumière quelque chose sur la hiérarchie des corps. ⌘ Read more

SpaceX Listed Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing
The rocket company has set aside more than $500 million for potential litigation losses, in part to account for complaints alleging Grok created sexualized images. ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libpng and nginx), Debian (erlang, netatalk, and nginx), Fedora (mod_md and SDL2_image), Mageia (perl-libwww-perl, perl-HTTP-Message, perl-WWW-Mechanize-Cached, perl-File-XDG, perl-Path-Tiny, perl-YAML-Syck, postgresql15, and rclone), SUSE (agama, alloy, cacti, cloud-init, dnsmasq, emacs, firefox, glibc, go1.25, go1.26, google-cloud-sap-agent, google-guest-agent, ibus-rime, librime, imagemagick, kernel, libsndfile, nginx, ongres-scram, … ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 Updates OpenZFS, Ensures Cloud Images Up-To-Date On First Boot
In working toward the stable FreeBSD 15.1 release in early June, FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 is out this weekend as the latest weekly test candidate… ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gimp, jq, and yggdrasil), Debian (nghttp2 and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, firefox, freerdp, GitPython, kernel, kernel-headers, krb5, nano, nix, nodejs20, php, python-click, python-django5, SDL2_image, and xen), Mageia (dnsmasq, flatpak, kernel, kmod-virtualbox, kernel-linus, perl-Net-CIDR-Lite, perl-XML-LibXML, and redis), SUSE (dnsmasq, firefox, jupyter-jupyterlab, kernel, krb5, libvinylapi3, log4j, Mesa, mozjs60, NetworkManager, O … ⌘ Read more

I’m pleased to announce that express-twtkpr (my ExpressJS library for hosting, editing, and posting to a twtxt.txt file) continues to crawl towards a full release with another (pre-alpha) update published to NPM. This update includes a whole new plugin system, and even a (little) more documentation. Check it out, if you dare (and use it at your own risk): https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-twtkpr

And speaking of plugins, here’s where the fun’s at: announcing express-twtkpr-core-plugins, a set of 3 plugins for your TwtKpr install: emojiButton, uploadButton, and postToMastodon. Like express-twtkpr, this set of plugins is still in pre-alpha, and lacks documentation, examples, tests, installation flexibility, or polish (so also use them at your own risk). Other than that, they work great: https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-twtkpr-core-plugins

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Stay tuned for 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

Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, freeipmi, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (corosync, firefox-esr, kernel, lcms2, libpng1.6, linux-6.1, php8.2, php8.4, postorius, pyjwt, and tor), Fedora (dotnet10.0, exim, gnutls, kernel, nextcloud, nodejs22, php, proftpd, prosody, python-pulp-glue, python-requests, rclone, and SDL3_image), Mageia (firefox, nss, rootcerts, openvpn, thunderbird, and vim), Oracle (corosync, freeipmi, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins … ⌘ Read more

«L’esprit critique» cinéma: décoloniser nos images
Le podcast culturel de Mediapart discute de «Dao» d’Alain Gomis, de la série «Bandi» signée Éric et Capucine Rochant et de la suite du «Diable s’habille en Prada» réalisée par David Frankel. ⌘ Read more

Vladimir Poutine célèbre son jour de la Victoire en mauvaise posture
La parade du 9-Mai, traditionnelle démonstration de puissance militaire russe, a été réduite cette année au strict minimum, indépendamment d’un cessez-le-feu de trois jours annoncé hier par Trump. Une absence de faste à l’image de la situation éprouvée par le chef d’État russe: englué militairement, inquiet pour sa sécurité et déconnecté des préoccupations de ses citoyens. ⌘ Read more

«Il est en train de mourir»: dans le Pas-de-Calais, les images insoutenables de l’interpellation de Zakariyya
«Mediapart» révèle les images de l’interpellation brutale de Zakariyya dans le Pas-de-Calais. On le voit faire plusieurs malaises sous les mains de policiers. Selon nos informations, le parquet de Béthune a ouvert une enquête pour violences volontaires par personne dépositaire de l’autorité publique. ⌘ Read more

Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems
The Flattened Image Tree “FIT” 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file… ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dovecot, fence-agents, freeipmi, git-lfs, image-builder, kernel, libsoup, osbuild-composer, and python-tornado), Debian (apache2, libdatetime-timezone-perl, lrzip, tzdata, and wireshark), Fedora (dovecot, forgejo-runner, gh, gnutls, krb5, nano, pdns, pyOpenSSL, squid, vim, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (graphicsmagick, kernel-linus, krb5-appl, libexif, libtiff, nano, nginx, ntfs-3g, opam, perl-Net-CIDR-Lite, perl-Starlet, perl-Starma … ⌘ Read more

A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure. ⌘ Read more

ReactOS Unifies Installation Media, Introduces GUI Installer and New ATA Driver
jeditobe writes: Developers of ReactOS told Phoronix that the project has introduced a unified BootCD, replacing its previously separate installation media and LiveCD images. The new image combines the traditional text-mode installer with a LiveCD mode in a single medium. Within this unified BootCD, the updated LiveCD … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, dovecot, image-builder, python-tornado, resource-agents, and systemd), Debian (openjdk-11, openjdk-17, and pyjwt), Fedora (pdns, pyOpenSSL, and squid), Slackware (hunspell), SUSE (alloy, avahi, bubblewrap, cmctl, coredns, curl, dpkg, firefox, golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, grafana, libpng12, PackageKit, sed, and xen), and Ubuntu (docker.io-app, nghttp2, python-django, and python-mako). ⌘ Read more

Retina Scan for Diabetes Could Also Reduce Deaths During Pregnancy in Developing Countries
This week Bill Gates wrote a blog post about a special camera from medtech startup Remidio, which delivers high-resolution images of a patient’s retina in seconds. The camera plugs into a phone running an AI system that watches for early signs of diabetes — all without needing a blood draw, e … ⌘ Read more

Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
With US restrictions limiting its access to advanced tech, SenseTime is doubling down on open source with a new model optimized to run on Chinese-made chips. ⌘ Read more

South Korea Police Arrest Man For Posting AI Photo of Runaway Wolf
South Korean police arrested a man accused of spreading an AI-generated image of an escaped wolf, after the fake photo reportedly misled authorities and disrupted the real search operation. The BBC reports: South Korean police have arrested a man for sharing an AI-generated image that misled authorities who were searching for a wolf that had br … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah, it’s crazy!

Somehow, your link 403s here, but I just searched it. At least it has the diagonals at the lower two steps. However, the two upper platforms also suffer from the plastic covers, it appears (I cannot tell the material from the low quality images I found). Maybe it is aluminium? I think some joints use machine bolts, though (but again, not enough detail visible).

Happy ladder climbing!

无需科学上网，国内丝滑使用最新GPT-Image-2！
相信大家这两天都被最新的「Image-2」图像模型刷屏了吧？ 就在昨天，椒图AI已经在第一时间上线该模型，欢迎大家前往椒图AI切换模型体验！ 根据官方排行榜给出的最新消息，Image-2的能力甚至超越了大香蕉，实测也是相当惊艳！ 使用地址：www.jiaotuai.cn 像下图这种真实的直播间截图↓ ⌘ Read more

ChatGPT 图像 2.0 正式发布了，这次有点强
前几天在这个帖子里分享了几张图片，就是灰度到的 ChatGPT Images 2.0，足以以假乱真的截图（AI生成）： 今天 ChatGPT Images 2.0 正式发布了，效果…非常赞啊。 只需要极短的 Prompt，就可以生成非常高质量的图片，而且很多图片，越来越感受不到是 AI 生成了，足以 ⌘ Read more

RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer
Introduced back in 2023 with Vulkan 1.3.258 was VK_EXT_host_image_copy to copy data between host memory and images on the host processor without needing to stage the data through a CPU-accessible buffer. This direct CPU-to-GPU image data transfer path can reduce memory usage during asset loads and all around more efficiency and performance. Finally now the RADV open-source Radeon driver is enabling support by default… ⌘ Read more

Arch Linux now has a reproducible container image
Robin Candau has announced
the availability of a bit-for-bit reproducible container image for
Arch Linux:

The bit-for-bit reproducibility of the image is confirmed by digest
equality across builds ( podman inspect --format '{{.Digest}}' <image>) and by running diffoci
to compare builds. We provide d … ⌘ Read more

GIMP 3.2.4 Released With A Fix For Its XCF Code That Has Existed Since 1999
Following last month’s GIMP 3.2 feature release that was followed by the GIMP 3.2.2 point release at the end of March, out now is GIMP 3.2.4 to ship more fixes to users of this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop and other imaging applications… ⌘ Read more

As an enjoyer of delightfully bad graphic design, found on most Czech village center cork boards, I’m sad to see the stolen clipart and badly cropped watermarked stock images, gradually replaced with AI slop.

This is far from a serious rant, but generating images of my kind being telepathically hit with sharp rocks, surely gives me a right to complain.

So far these seem the most prominent slop categories, seem to be…

Architecture slop:

1. find a sketch of what an old building looked like
   
   
2. generate an AI version, without correcting any of the perspective errors - this one is diagonally levitating
   
   
3. generate a recreation of the buildings demise - after going through the AI, for the second time, it is now a completely different building
   
   

Moralizing slop:

History slop:

OpenAI’s Big Codex Update Is a Direct Shot At Claude Code
OpenAI is updating Codex with more agent-like capabilities, positioning it as a more direct rival to Anthropic’s Claude Code. Some of the new features include the ability to operate macOS desktop apps, browse the web inside the app, generate images, use new workplace plug-ins, and remember useful context from past tasks. The Verge reports: Codex will now … ⌘ Read more

[$] Tagging music with MusicBrainz Picard
Part of the “fun” that comes with curating a self-hosted music library is tagging
music so that it has accurate and uniform metadata, such as the band names, album titles,
cover images, and so on. This can be a tedious endeavor, but there are quite a few
open-source tools to make this process easier. One of the best, or at least my
favorite, is MusicBrainz Picard. It is
a cross-platform music-tagging application that pulls information from the
well-curated, … ⌘ Read more