FDA Approves First mRNA Flu Shot
The FDA has approved the first mRNA flu vaccine in the United States after a clinical trial found it was about 27% more effective than a standard flu shot. Manufactured by Moderna and marketed as mFlusiva, the vaccine is expected to be available this fall for adults ages 50 to 64 and those 65 and older, though approval for the older group is conditional on Moderna conducting an additional clinical trial, N … ⌘ Read more

More Than 30 Minnesota Water Systems Targeted In Cyberattack
jrnvk shares a report from KMSP: Minnesota IT Services reports that a “coordinated cyberattack” targeted technology at more than 30 community water systems between Sunday, July 26 and Monday, July 27. The state has activated its cybersecurity incident response capabilities to respond to the attacks.

On Monday and Tuesday, FOX 9 reported on notices from fou … ⌘ Read more

Earth’s Biggest Disasters Strike In a Hidden Pattern Every 27 Million Years
A new analysis of 89 major geological events over the past 260 million years found evidence that mass extinctions, volcanic eruptions, ocean crises, and other upheavals may cluster around a roughly 27.5-million-year cycle. The cause remains unknown, with possibilities ranging from mantle activity and orbital changes to spe … ⌘ Read more

Peacock to Be Included With YouTube Premium In Major Streaming Tie-Up
YouTube Premium will include Peacock Premium at no extra charge beginning in early 2027. “The deal brings a slew of premium content to the [$15.99 per month] YouTube Premium subscription, including live sports like the NFL, NBA and MLB and entertainment like Law & Order, Saturday Night Live and Love Island,” reports The Hollywood Repo … ⌘ Read more

Amazon Trying to Launch a Global Satellite Cellphone Network In 2028
Amazon has asked the FCC to approve a 5,105-satellite constellation launching in 2028 that would provide global direct-to-cell “voice, messaging, data, and emergency services,” similar to Starlink’s partnership with T-Mobile. The network would use Globalstar spectrum, support future Apple satellite services, and complement Amazon’s existi … ⌘ Read more

Nvidia, Tech Giants Launch AI Safety Initiative
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia and a large group of technology, cybersecurity, and enterprise software companies have launched new initiative aimed at developing and sharing open source tools, models, and techniques for securing AI systems and agents. The new Open Secure AI Alliance aims to give defenders more open tools for testing, auditing and protecting AI m … ⌘ Read more

Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Hackaday: Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other ‘AI’ tools will no longer be welcome. This follows on the heels of a similar ban on cryptocurrency-related projects. The … ⌘ Read more

China Begins Mass Production of Homegrown DUV Chip Tools
According to The Information (paywalled), a state-backed Shanghai company has begun mass-producing China’s first homegrown immersion DUV lithography machines, with about five units expected this year for SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT. Roughly 20 more units are expected in 2027. Tom’s Hardware reports: The Information didn’t name the manufacturer, but its sources … ⌘ Read more

ChatGPT Starts Blocking Direct Requests To Copy an Author’s Style
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OpenAI’s ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors. When asked to do so, the popular LLM instead offers a response that draws on the “broad qualities” of those authors “while remaining distinct in its own voice,” for example. This morning, A … ⌘ Read more

Apple Will ‘Watch Everything Burn’ When AI Bubble Bursts
MacRumors interviewed AI critic Ed Zitron, author of the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter and host of the Better Offline podcast, about what could happen to Apple if the costly AI infrastructure boom collapses. Zitron argued that Apple is relatively well insulated because it has spent far less on data centers than rivals such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. He sai … ⌘ Read more

Big Tech Accused of Stonewalling European Social Media Researchers
European misinformation researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta are obstructing access to platform data required under the EU’s Digital Services Act through rejections, restrictive quotas, costly APIs, and burdensome security demands. Although regulators have fined X and pushed platforms to improve access, researchers remain skeptical that the ch … ⌘ Read more

Nvidia In Talks With OpenAI To Guarantee $250 Billion Financing For Data Center
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The backstop from Nvidia would help the ChatGPT maker lease a 10-gigawatt project that SoftBank’s … ⌘ Read more

‘KVM Chainsaw’ Expected to Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing with ‘God Data Structure’
An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix:

A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what’s dubbed the “KVM Chainsaw” as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu “god data structure”. Red Hat engineer and KVM maintainer Paolo Bonzini has merged the kvm-chainsaw br … ⌘ Read more

A New Middle Class of Content Creators Is Quietly Quitting the 9-to-5
“The rise of TikTok, Instagram Reels and Amazon storefronts has created a new kind of white-collar exit strategy,” reports Bloomberg. Workers ditch office jobs not to become celebrities, necessarily, “but to piece together an income online through brand deals, affiliate links and highly personal videos documenting everyday life.”

In m … ⌘ Read more

2.1 Million People View Leaked ‘Odyssey’ Bootleg on X
Variety reports:

“The Odyssey” leaks have begun, as a high-quality bootleg of the film reached millions of people on X thanks to a viral tweet on July 25. At 2:25 p.m. PT, a post on X reading “Someone uploaded ‘The Odyssey’ full movie on X. Can you believe it?” amplified a message from a now-suspended account. The message included a high-quality version of the … ⌘ Read more

‘Inside the Dystopian World of Germany’s Free Speech Crackdown’
Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph, calling the country’s political speech laws “unusually stringent for an EU member state.”
One German had his home raided for calling a minister a “Schwachkopf [dummy]” while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Me … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks, mate!

On the back of the bench, the badge says: “Gestiftet Verein berg hohenstaufen Göppingen 2013”. I read that as the Mt. Hohenstaufen club donated the bench itself:

On the front of the bench, the badge says: “Gestiftet von Hildegard Schuster, Gesellschafterin der Schwarz-Gruppe, Firma Wackler”. The bronze lady was donated by a shareholder of the Schwarz group, specifically the local Wackler trucking and logistics company. Clip of 27 in original resolution:

The book itself reads: “Zur Erinnerung an Ralph Kobza” It’s in memory of the sales manager of the art foundry next town that created also this statue. My mate took this photo:

@prologic@twtxt.net That’s cool to hear!

Looking at my access logs, something seems to be off, though:

2026-07-04T04:11:26+02:00 200
2026-07-04T05:16:09+02:00 304
2026-07-04T06:33:34+02:00 304
2026-07-04T06:37:46+02:00 304 # just four minutes since last crawl
2026-07-04T06:41:55+02:00 304 # another four minutes
2026-07-04T07:11:33+02:00 304
2026-07-04T07:11:40+02:00 200 # no conditional request just seven seconds later
2026-07-04T07:43:25+02:00 304
2026-07-04T07:43:33+02:00 200 # just eight seconds since last crawl
2026-07-04T09:18:06+02:00 304
2026-07-04T09:22:53+02:00 304 # just four minutes since last crawl
2026-07-04T09:27:03+02:00 304 # another four minutes

Students Around the World are Using AI-Powered Smart Glasses to Cheat on Tests
Students are using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat on tests, reports CNN. “And in East Asia’s test-obsessed societies, where a single exam could impact the trajectory of a student’s future career and social status, educators are scrambling to get ahead of the problem.”

Already, countries are stepping up inspections … ⌘ Read more

‘Supergirl’ Movie Criticized for Script, Poor Visual Effects
The Onion joked the new movie Supergirl is about a hero who must single-handedly save the world “after the catastrophic collapse of interest in the genre.”

Unfortunately, The Hollywood Reporter says the film’s reviews “range from negative to tepid praise (averaging a 58 percent Rotten Tomatoes score).”

Many point fingers at the film’s script, wi … ⌘ Read more

How a Seemingly Harmless Image Can Jailbreak Vision-Language AI Models
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Florida International University researchers have developed a technique called JaiLIP (Jailbreaking with Loss-guided Image Perturbation) that uses subtle image modifications to bypass AI safety guardrails. Unlike traditional jailbreaks that rely on carefully crafted prompts, the attack works through ima … ⌘ Read more

France’s Heat This Week Was Worse Than a Dire Scenario Imagined For 2050
There’s a deadly, record-breaking heat wave spreading east across Europe, reports the Washington Post — and it’s even worse than a dire earlier forecast:

The forecast was recorded in 2014 as part of a campaign coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that invited about 60 presenters worldwide to imagine a weather … ⌘ Read more

Max Planck Slapped With Two Paper Retractions By Suspected Rogue Algorithm
Max Planck won 1918’s Nobel Prize for physics. Yet two of his papers were retracted — a move now being criticized by Yves Gingras, a historian of physics at the University of Quebec and Mahdi Khelfaoui, a fellow historian of science at UQ Trois-Rivières. Science reports:

The papers, both quietly retracted in 2011, original … ⌘ Read more

Scroll Burned in 79 AD Volcanic Eruption Finally Deciphered Using AI
When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., it buried hundreds of papyrus
scrolls. They were rediscovered in the mid-1700s, remembers Smithsonian magazine, “the only
surviving collection of its kind from the Greco-Roman
world…”

“But when scholars tried to unroll them, the carbonized manuscripts
crumbled to dust.”

Every generation that fo … ⌘ Read more

California Sheriff Says Their Drone Disarmed a Suspect, Shares Video on Instagram
The Los Angeles Police Department says about 1,500 police agencies across America have drone programs, reports SFGate, and 58 of those drone-using police agencies are in California.

The Sacramento County sheriff’s office recently posted drone footage on Instagram set to theme from “Mission: Impossible,” claiming “ … ⌘ Read more

FSF ‘LibreLocal’ Organized From Prison by a Man Jailed for ‘Cyber-Crimes’ After Promoting Free Software
Thursday the Free Software Foundation blogged about this year’s 47 ‘LibreLocal 2026’ meetups, highlighting 10 that took place in Australia, Mexico, the United States, New Zealand, Cameroon, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, China, and Iran. “Far from each other in many parts o … ⌘ Read more

We’re at 39.5 °C now. Are we going to hit 40?

Bitcoin Drops Again. Skeptical Investment Strategist Calls It ‘Useless’
Friday Bitcoin closed at just $59,948 — dropping 19% just for June and more than 50% lower than its record high in October of $124,310.

To commemorate the occasion CNBC interviewed long-time bitcoin skeptic Jeremy Grantham, reporting that the 87-year-old cofounder/chief investment strategist of the massive asset-management firm GMO is … ⌘ Read more

Today’s sunrise:

US Government Allows Anthropic Limited Release of ‘Mythos’ AI Model, Saying ‘Appropriate Safeguards are in Place”
“The US government has allowed Anthropic to release its powerful Mythos AI model to select companies and organizations,” reports CNN, “revising license requirements after ordering an export block earlier this month in the wake of national security fears.” … ⌘ Read more

We went to the source of the river Fils this evening. I couldn’t believe it, but as I was promised, there were just 20°C. That was super nice. Almost chilly. We only met two others with their three dogs right at the beginning and had everything to our own. We enjoyed the firefly and bat show on a bench. Now back in town and the temps are cooking at 27°C. Fuck me!

It was already fairly dark for my camera, so all the photos are even more blurry than usual. Sorry!

https://lyse.isobeef.org/filsursprung-2026-06-25/

06 shows the bench in the background. The source is next to the building under the trees. 07 shows it in its full glory. 08 is the view before the glowing show began.

Olisse · 2026-06-20 22:27 UTC
haihaihiii! mbox.blue is awesome ;)

So nice of the very few folks that have discovered mbox to say such nice things about my little experimental project and free service offering 😁

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org My thermometer claims 27 °C now but I don’t trust it. It’s hot, it’s humid, it’s horrible.

Преговорите за присъединяване на Украйна и Молдова към ЕС започват в понеделник

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‘Very happy’: Victim’s joy over paedophile’s appeal fail
Ashley Paul Griffith had argued the 27‑year non‑parole period for hundreds of sexual offences against children was manifestly excessive. ⌘ Read more

Apple’s Camera Chief Thinks AI Can Give You Superpowers
The generative features in iOS 27’s new Photos app will add fake pixels to some of your shots, but Apple’s Jon McCormack says the company isn’t using AI “for the sake of AI.” ⌘ Read more

Decision on notorious paedophile’s appeal bid revealed
Ashley Paul Griffith had argued the 27‑year non‑parole period for hundreds of sexual offences against children was manifestly excessive. ⌘ Read more

Restated accounts turn up in 3M’s latest annual results
The local branches of large foreign company 3M New Zealand have restated its 2024 accounts because of incorrect figures in its support services expenses, resulting in a higher tax bill.

The US multinational’s latest accounts for the year to December 2025 show it underestimated its “other income” revenue by $2.27 million. ⌘ Read more

Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/macos_27_golden_gate_removes_the_dumb_icons_from_menu_items

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487435

Points: 6

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macOS 27 淘汰 AFP，有41 年历史的苹果文件共享协议
在苹果刚刚发布的 macOS 27 测试版系统中，有用户发现 AFP 客户端已经不再支持，这意味着有着 41年历史的苹果传输协议 AFP 被彻底淘汰。@Appinn AFP（Apple Filing Protocol）是苹果生态最重要、寿命最长的网络协议之一。 AFP 是 Apple File Se ⌘ Read more

27 турецких моделей OnlyFans заподозрили в порнографии и отмывании денег ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 11, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Suspicious AI activity in Fedora; fork() + exec(); splice() + vmsplice(); BPF loop verification; fanotify; trusted publishing.

• Briefs: CA age bill; Bundler cooldowns; insecure code completion; Asahi and macOS 27 beta; Buildroot 2026.05; Ubuntu MATE; rsync 3.4.4; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, securit … ⌘ Read more

macOS 27 Beta Boots Asahi Linux Off Apple Silicon
The Asahi Linux team is warning Apple Silicon users not to upgrade to the macOS 27 beta because Apple’s changes to the boot picker and Startup Disk app make Asahi partitions invisible, preventing Linux from booting. The Register reports: The team added: “If you insist on trying out macOS 27 as soon as possible, please ensure you install a secondary copy of macOS 26 first, or … ⌘ Read more

Streaminggeräte: Kein TVOS 27 für ältere Apple-TV-Modelle
Ältere Apple-TV-Modelle erhalten kein Update auf die neue Hauptversion von TVOS. Dafür wird mindestens ein Apple TV der zweiten Generation benötigt. ( Apple TV, Apple)

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MacOS 27 Golden Gate: Top New Features
Apple has announced the latest version of macOS. It’s all about the reintroduction of Siri, which is now accessible from anywhere on the Mac desktop. ⌘ Read more

The Top New Features in Apple’s iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
Apple took the wraps off iOS 27 at its WWDC event, and the iPhone update is chock-full of smart upgrades, with a big focus on improvements to Siri. ⌘ Read more

macOS 27 Beta Breaks The Ability To Boot Asahi Linux
Asahi Linux is warning its users from trying out the new macOS 27 “Golden Gate” beta released this week by Apple. With macOS 27 beta, the Asahi Linux partition is no longer visible and thus unable to boot to your Apple Silicon Linux installation… ⌘ Read more

Asahi Linux warns users not to upgrade to macOS 27 beta
The Asahi Linux project,
which brings Linux support to Apple Arm-based Macs, has warned\
its users not to upgrade to the macOS 27 “Golden Gate”
beta.

Apple has changed how the boot picker and Startup Disk applications
detect valid OS boot volumes. When using either from macOS 27, your
Asahi partition will not be visible! We believe this to be a bug, and
have filed a report (FB2 … ⌘ Read more

NZ sharemarket jumps over 1.2%
The New Zealand sharemarket rose more than 1% following rebounds offshore, and investors’ attention is turning to this week’s trillion-dollar listing by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index started slowly and hit a morning low of 13,022.9 but traded strongly in the afternoon to close at 13,204.08, up 165.84 points or 1.27%. ⌘ Read more