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Apple Announces macOS 27 'Golden Gate', Drops Support for Intel Macs

Apple announced macOS 27 "Golden Gate", which drops support for all Intel-based Macs, requiring Apple Silicon. This marks the final transition away from Intel architecture for macOS. The new OS is expected to debut alongside the next generation of Mac hardware, potentially including the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac Pro with M-series chips. The move aligns

Jun 9, 2026appleinsider.com

Thunderbird Littering My Home

A bug in Thunderbird, triggered by recent XDG changes adding a new project directory type, causes the application to create an empty `~/thunderbird` directory on every launch. The directory is useless and duplicates the existing `~/.thunderbird` config location. The author provides a workaround using `inotifywait` to watch for directory creation and `rmdir`

Jun 9, 2026thefoggiest.dev

Full Reverse Engineering of the TI-84 Plus Operating System

The TI-84 Plus OS (version 2.55MP, dumped from a 1 MiB flash) runs on a Z80 with 64 KiB addressable space, using a 4-slot hardware paging scheme and a bcall mechanism to access code across 1 MiB of flash and 128 KiB of RAM. The OS is a single-tasking monitor

Jun 9, 2026siraben.github.io

Siri AI

Apple announced a next-generation Siri AI, powered by Apple Intelligence, with capabilities including natural language conversations, personal context awareness, and a dedicated app, rolling out in English later this year. The update extends Visual Intelligence to iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro, and introduces AI photo editing tools such as Spatial Reframing, Extend, and Clean Up. All features are designed to operate on-device with privacy-preserving architecture, integrating into apps like Photos, Messages, and Safari

Jun 9, 2026apple.com

Zig by Example

The "boringcollege/zig-by-example" repository on GitHub offers a collection of example-based tutorials for the Zig programming language, similar in structure to the popular "Go by Example

Jun 9, 2026github.com

Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code

Intuned (YC S22) launches a platform that generates production-ready Playwright code from natural language prompts and schemas, then deploys and auto-maintains it when target sites change. It supports scrapers, crawlers, and RPA with built-in stealth, captcha solving, login handling, scheduling, and auto-scaling from one to hundreds

Jun 8, 2026intunedhq.com

Jun 8, 2026

How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?

More than 450 images in Thermo Fisher Scientific’s online primary antibodies catalog show signs of manipulation, including duplicated Western blot bands after flipping and rotation, according to an ongoing investigation by Reese Richardson and Sholto David. The problematic images, curated in a Zenodo repository, appear in “Advanced Verification” data that vendors claim demonstrates antibody specificity

Jun 8, 2026

The Cypherpunk Library

The Cypherpunk Library is a curated, public-domain collection of foundational texts in cryptography, privacy, and digital liberty, including works like the Cypherpunk Manifesto, PGP's origin story, and the Crypto An

Jun 8, 2026

Dopamine Fracking

"Dopamine fracking" describes the practice of aggressively over-optimizing casual or complex activities (via analytics, crowdsourcing, and resource allocation) to extract maximal short-term dopamine, analogous to hydraulic fracturing's environmental damage. The metaphor critiques the industrialization of human experience, where hyper-minmaxing and benchmark-focused optimization erode long-term cultural and creative sustainability. This term directly parallels technical anti-patterns in AI model "sloptimization" — optimizing solely for benchmark scores without regard for broader utility, highlighting a destructive cycle in

Jun 8, 2026

New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections

A new drug reported in *Science* achieves a functional cure—defined as sustained undetectable viral load and loss of hepatitis B surface

Jun 8, 2026

Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

A study analyzing

Jun 8, 2026

The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games

A consumer rights campaign called Stop Killing Games, launched by YouTuber Ross Scott in 2024, is challenging the industry practice of publishers disabling game servers after sale, rendering purchased titles unplayable. The group submitted a petition with nearly 1.3 million signatures to the European Commission in January, successfully triggering a public hearing in the European Parliament scheduled for April. The campaign

Jun 8, 2026

Office-open-xml-viewer: Office XML document viewer that renders to HTML Canvas

A new GitHub repository, "office-open-xml-viewer", provides a client-side viewer that renders Office Open XML documents (e.g., .docx, .pptx, .xlsx) directly to an HTML Canvas element. The tool processes the XML structure of these formats and draws the content using Canvas APIs

Jun 8, 2026

Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests

Texas’s grid operator (ERCOT) has flagged reliability risks after data centers and cryptocurrency mining sites failed voltage-compliance tests.

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GentleOS – Classic operating system with a lovely retro GUI

GentleOS32 is a hobby operating system designed for vintage 32-bit PCs, targeting the i386 architecture. It provides a retro graphical user interface running in real mode or protected mode, suitable for educational exploration of low-level OS development. The repository includes a bootloader, kernel, and

Jun 10, 2026github.com

Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M

Switzerland will hold a referendum on 14 June 2026 for the "Sustainability Initiative," which seeks to cap the permanent resident population below 10 million until 2050. At the end of 2025, the population stood at approximately 9.1 million, driven largely by post-2002 EU free movement agreements. If the population exceeds 9.5 million before 2050, the Federal Council must enact

Jun 10, 2026admin.ch

Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers

The article draws a parallel between the well-known "rockstar developer" phenomenon and AI-generated code: both produce complex, opaque systems that are difficult for others to maintain after the original creator departs. It argues that such code often relies on obscure languages, unfamiliar libraries, and convoluted data flows, leading to significant time lost on basic setup and debugging. The key finding is that AI-generated code, like that of a rockstar, may be impressive in isolation but creates long-term technical debt and maintenance burdens for teams. The implicit argument is that code readability and maintainability should be prioritized over

Jun 10, 2026codingwithjesse.com

Apple Core AI Framework

Apple's Core AI documentation page on developer.apple.com requires JavaScript to render its content; without it, the site displays only a prompt to enable JS. This technical dependency means that automated scraping or non-JS environments cannot access the framework's documentation directly. The page title indicates it covers Apple's Core AI framework, but the actual technical details, API references, or usage notes are hidden behind client-side rendering.

Jun 10, 2026developer.apple.com

Massachusetts bans sale of precise location data in new privacy rights bill

Massachusetts lawmakers passed the Consumer Data Privacy Act with a unanimous 146-0 House vote, granting residents rights to access and delete their data held by large technology companies while explicitly banning the sale of precise location data. The Senate had previously passed its own version, and the combined bill is expected to be signed into law by the governor. This legislation continues the trend of U.S. states enacting privacy protections in the absence of a comprehensive federal privacy law.

Jun 10, 2026techcrunch.com

Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'

Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors froze the bank accounts of Albania Land Development, the company building a $4 billion luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner on protected wetlands, triggering nationwide protests dubbed the "Flamingo Revolution." The EU issued a warning over the government's handling of the foreign investment, testing whether it will hold the administration accountable for environmental and corruption violations. The asset freeze and public outcry center on the project's construction within a designated protected area, raising legal and regulatory risks for international investors in Balkan real estate.

Jun 10, 2026yacnews.com

Jun 10, 2026

Making Graphics Like it's 1993

Catlantean 3D is a first-person shooter being developed from scratch under self-imposed constraints mimicking early 90s hardware: 320x240 resolution, 256 colors, hand-rendered graphics, hand-mixed audio, and fixed-point game logic with deterministic behavior. The project uses a limited platform abstraction layer for frame buffer, input, and audio, explicitly excluding any AI-generated assets. The article focuses on asset creation techniques, including palette rendering, VGA Mode 13h compatibility,

Jun 9, 2026

EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

Laboratory tests by foodwatch on 64 products from the Netherlands, France, Austria, and Germany detected residues of multiple pesticides in rice, tea, and spices, including substances no longer approved for use or sale in the EU. The findings highlight a regulatory gap where banned pesticides enter the European food supply via imported goods, a phenomenon the group terms the "toxic pesticides

Jun 9, 2026

xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab

xAI, now part of SpaceX, has formed partnerships with Anthropic and Google to supply them with significant datacenter capacity from its Colossus 1 facility in Memphis. This move addresses Anthropic's severe compute shortage, which had forced peak-hour usage restrictions and rationing as demand outpaced supply. By offloading capacity, xAI generates revenue for the pre-IPO SpaceX entity, positioning xAI more

Jun 9, 2026

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Jun 9, 2026

Stop the Apple Music app from launching

Music Decoy prevents the macOS Music app from launching when the ▶ Play key is pressed by using the bundle identifier `com.apple.Music`, causing the system’s Remote Control Daemon (`rcd`) to believe Music is already running and thus not launch it. The app runs in the background with zero CPU usage and can be configured via `defaults` to redirect the play

Jun 9, 2026

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center

In 1999, a Texas farming family deeded 87 acres to the City of Taylor for $10 with the condition it remain a public park. The city sold the land to data center developer Blueprint for $10 million in 2025, enabling construction of a 135,000-square-foot facility situated 500 feet from a residence, between a power substation and railroad tracks.

Jun 9, 2026

MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second

Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed, a 1-trillion-parameter model that achieves a decode speed exceeding 1000 tokens per second (up to ~1200 TPS) in collaboration with TileRT, claiming a 10× generation speed improvement over the base MiMo-V2.5-Pro. The model is accessible via a limited-time API from June 9–23, 2026,

Jun 9, 2026

Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds

Social media platforms have pivoted from peer-to-peer communication to short-video entertainment hubs, driven by business models optimized for user engagement time and ad revenue. This shift prioritizes algorithmic trending content and fads over personal connections, reflecting a fundamental change in platform architecture and user experience. The article notes emerging signs of consumer backlash against this design transformation.

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GNU Binutils 2.46.1 Released

GNU Binutils version 2.46.1 is now available as a point release addressing three specific bugs: PR34028, PR34088, and PR34125. The release can be downloaded from the GNU FTP and sourceware mirrors and is signed with Sam James’

Jun 10, 2026sourceware.org

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

Microsoft confirmed it temporarily removed dozens of open-source repositories on GitHub after password-stealing malware was injected into projects related to Azure, Claude Code, Gemini’s CLI, and VS Code. The malware, identified by Cloudsmith and OpenSourceMalware, exfiltrated credentials when developers opened the compromised tools within AI coding applications. The scope of affected downloads remains unknown, and Microsoft is investigating the breach.

Jun 9, 2026techcrunch.com

US Military Personnel in Israel Found Secret Spyware on Their Phones

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) elevated Israel's counterintelligence threat level from "high" to "critical" after discovering communications-intercepting spyware secretly installed on US military personnel's mobile phones in Israel. A classified seven-page DIA brief documents the surveillance incidents, marking the first time the agency has assigned its most serious espionage rating to a key ally. The revelation comes amid Congressional efforts to advance a US-Israeli military merger, underscoring tensions between alliance integration and operational security risks from Israeli intelligence collection described by a senior US official as "unhinged".

Jun 9, 2026ibtimes.co.uk

Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]

Let’s Encrypt has updated its subscriber agreement (v1.6.2) to explicitly prohibit issuance or use of its certificates in any US-sanctioned territory, including but not limited to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Russia-occupied regions. The policy change addresses compliance with US sanctions law and applies retroactively; certificates obtained by residents or entities in those territories may be revoked. This impacts automated ACME clients and certificate management workflows that rely on Let’s Encrypt’s free CA, as deployments in sanctioned regions or used by sanctioned entities must now seek alternative CA services or face revocation.

Jun 9, 2026letsencrypt.org

Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee

A federal judge blocked President Trump’s policy requiring a $100,000 fee for new H-1B visas, a ruling with direct implications for Alaska’s education sector. Of 573 international teachers in Alaska, 341 currently

Jun 9, 2026alaskasnewssource.com

For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer

Dozens of cryptographically signed Microsoft open-source packages were compromised with credential-stealing code that executes automatically when opened within AI coding agents. Security researchers flagged 73 packages as malicious after GitHub’s automated systems blocked them; however, GitHub cited only a terms-of-service violation instead of issuing a security warning, and Microsoft did not acknowledge the possibility of infection until days later. This marks the second supply-chain attack targeting Microsoft’s package ecosystem in as many months, and developers who used AI agents with any of the compromised packages should assume their systems are fully compromised.

Jun 9, 2026arstechnica.com

Jun 9, 2026

Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]

Signal's statement argues that the UK's proposed surveillance measures under the Online Safety Act or similar legislation undermine end-to-end encryption, contradicting core cybersecurity principles. The organization asserts that mandated client-side scanning or backdoors create systemic vulnerabilities exploitable by adversaries, weakening rather than enhancing public safety. Signal emphasizes that true security requires strong encryption without compromise, and that surveillance mandates represent a fundamental threat to privacy and trust in communication systems. The paper

Jun 8, 2026

The EU Open Source Strategy

The EU Open Source Strategy positions open source as central to Europe’s technological sovereignty, explicitly promoting European open alternatives to non-EU proprietary solutions in critical domains. The strategy targets the development, scaling, deployment, and long-term sustainability of open source technologies across public and private sectors. It is embedded within the broader EU Digital Sovereignty Package, alongside parallel initiatives including the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act, Chips Act 2.0, and the Strategic Roadmap

Jun 8, 2026

1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse

Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) has ingested its 1,000th data breach, revealing that disclosure lag—the delay between a breach occurring and public notification—is worsening. Despite the existence of privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA, attackers increasingly leverage extended disclosure windows to maximize extortion pressure. A recent example involves Carnival Corporation, where 8.7 million records were leaked by ShinyHunters days after the incident became public, with 85% of the

Jun 8, 2026

The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python

A perceptron, introduced by Frank Rosenblatt in 1958, is the simplest neural network: it takes a single input, applies a weight and bias, and outputs a binary decision (yes/no) based on whether the weighted sum exceeds zero. The article demonstrates building a perceptron from scratch in Python

Jun 8, 2026

Iran Severely Damaged US Air Ops Center in Qatar Soon After War Began

Multiple Iranian missiles struck and severely damaged the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, early in the U.S.-Iran war, rendering the facility inoperable; no injuries occurred as it was not in use at the time. The U.S. military had anticipated targeting of the CAOC and preemptively transferred personnel and command functions

Jun 7, 2026

HateArena – A free and open source arena shooter

HateArena is a free and open-source multiplayer first-person shooter built on the original Cube engine. The project's source code is hosted on GitHub, allowing technical users to inspect, modify, and contribute to the game's architecture. The announcement highlights the preservation and modern availability of a classic engine architecture optimized for fast-paced arena gameplay.

Jun 7, 2026

The circus freaks of open source

The article argues that certain behaviors and personalities within open source communities—such as performative activism

Jun 7, 2026

Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts

ntsc-rs is an open-source video effect that accurately emulates analog TV and VHS artifacts using algorithms modeling actual NTSC transmission and VHS encoding, rather than simple lookup tables. Written in Rust, it is multithreaded and SIMD-accelerated, enabling real-time processing at resolutions higher than native NTSC footage. The tool is available as a standalone application

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Claude Fable 5

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model achieving state-of-the-art results on nearly all tested AI capability benchmarks, with particular strength in software engineering

Jun 10, 2026anthropic.com

System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]

Anthropic released system cards for Claude Fable

Jun 10, 2026www-cdn.anthropic.com

Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?

Classical hyperparameter optimization (HPO) methods like CMA-ES and TPE consistently outperform LLM-based agents (e.g., Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview) when tuning a small language model under a fixed compute budget using the autoresearch framework, where avoiding out-of-memory failures is more critical than search diversity. Allowing the LLM to directly edit source code reduces but does not close the performance gap, as LLMs struggle to track optimization state across trials. To combine

Jun 10, 2026arxiv.org

OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO

OpenAI has confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC, positioning itself for one of the largest public market debuts in history. The filing follows a confidential submission by Anthropic a week earlier and precedes Elon Musk's SpaceX starting trading within days. The sequence suggests a concentrated wave of high-profile AI and tech IPOs entering public markets in rapid succession.

Jun 9, 2026cnbc.com

OpenAI Submits S-1 Draft to SEC

OpenAI has filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC, initiating the process for an initial public offering. This move signals the company’s intent to transition from a private entity to a publicly traded corporation, likely to secure substantial capital for scaling AI infrastructure, accelerating model development, and expanding compute resources. For technical audiences, the filing implies increased financial transparency and regulatory oversight, which may affect OpenAI’

Jun 9, 2026openai.com

Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models

Apple announced a major overhaul of its Apple Intelligence platform, now built on foundation models co-developed with Google using technologies from the Gemini family. These models are adapted to run both on-device and on Apple's Private Cloud Compute servers, enabling state-of-the-art understanding, reasoning, and multimodal support for image understanding and generation. The upgrade unlocks new capabilities including realistic image creation, advanced photo editing, and visual question answering.

Jun 9, 2026macrumors.com

Jun 9, 2026

Anthropic's Project Glasswing Update

Anthropic's Project Glasswing status report claims their Mythos model has found numerous software vulnerabilities, including dangerous ones, yet almost none have been patched. Security expert Bruce Schneier finds the data "fishy" and criticizes Anthropic for refusing to release details

Jun 8, 2026

Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post

Newer LLM models combined with agent-friendly documentation and directives like AGENT.md have significantly improved performance on specialized fintech tasks, including local tax regulations, accounting nuances, and ledger implementations. This automation reduces the need for human experts with deep domain knowledge, as previously differentiating expertise is now promptable with tools like ChatGPT Pro/Extended Thinking. The author notes a tangible decline in reliance on senior coworkers

Jun 8, 2026

DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision

DeepSeek V4 Pro achieves higher precision than GPT-5.5 Pro on benchmark evaluations, marking a significant shift in the LLM performance landscape. The comparison highlights DeepSeek's architectural advantages in handling tasks requiring exact numerical or logical outputs, where GPT-5.5 Pro previously led. This result suggests that DeepSeek's training methodology and model design may offer superior optimization for precision-critical applications such as code generation, mathematical reasoning,

Jun 8, 2026

If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II

A new paper argues that anthropomorphic attributes commonly ascribed to large language models (e.g., morality, natural language understanding) are not empirically unique

Jun 8, 2026

The OnlyFans Economy of American AI

The article argues that the AI industry is driven by a performative “taste” culture that masks hubris and pre-IPO valuation games, contrasting this with more rigorous analysis like Ted Chiang’s. The author, an engineer and skeptic, criticizes the mainstream discourse around recursive self-improvement as a necessary step toward AGI, dismissing it as a disguised form of tribalism rather than evidence-based progress. The piece draws a

Jun 8, 2026

Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

Anthropic has not released an official Claude Desktop client for Linux, with users currently limited to the web interface or the command-line `claude-code` tool. A GitHub issue ( #65697 ) specifically requests an official Linux build targeting Ubuntu LTS and Debian, emphasizing the need for a native desktop experience on the platform. The request reflects a gap in Anthropic's official support, as macOS and Windows already have dedicated

Jun 7, 2026

Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models

A training-free single-image diffusion model is proposed that replaces neural network optimization with a closed-form denoiser computed from a multiscale patch dataset of the reference image. Because the patch dataset is finite and low-dimensional, the score function for noisy patches can be derived analytically without training. The method achieves state-of-the-art generation quality and diversity compared to trained single-image diffusion models, while eliminating the hours of optimization typically required.

Jun 7, 2026

Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

Anthropic and OpenAI reportedly spend more than $1,000 for every $100 of revenue they earn, indicating severe cost-revenue imbalances in their LLM services. A recent Anthropic blog post (“When AI builds itself”) is criticized for using suggestive language and burying caveats alongside hyperbolic claims about autonomous AI coding. The article specifically questions reported benchmark success rates of 50–80% on coding