Congress aims straight at H‑1B tech visas

A new bill to kill the H-1B visa program lands like a bomb in Silicon Valley, threatening thousands of skilled immigrant workers and the companies that depend on them. Supporters call it protection for locals, critics see political grandstanding that will only push talent overseas.

US targets Wall Street home hoarders at last

The US plans to ban big Wall Street firms from buying single-family homes, blaming them for tight supply and rising rents. Homebuilder stocks wobble while renters cheer, but many doubt regulators will really unwind years of financialization or stop investors from finding new loopholes.

ICE splashes $28B on new surveillance toys

With a massive $28.7B budget, ICE goes shopping for databases, phone trackers and other surveillance tech. Civil liberties watchers are alarmed, seeing immigration enforcement turning into a general monitoring platform that can quietly track almost anyone, not just people at the border.

Greenland’s melting ice hides a mineral goldmine

New reporting on Greenland details huge untapped mineral deposits under retreating ice, from rare earths to metals vital for green tech. Locals fear a fresh resource rush that trades one climate problem for another as mining giants eye the Arctic like a new Wild West.

The $14 burrito shows why inflation still stings

A deep dive into San Francisco’s $14 burrito explains why official inflation numbers feel fake to locals. Tech workers and baristas alike see daily prices that never fall, even as statistics say things are calm, feeding suspicion that the system is tuned to soothe markets, not people.

ChatGPT Health reaches into your medical records

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, promising smarter answers by mixing AI with real health records. The idea is seductive, but people are worried about leaks, bias and who gets blamed when a slick chatbot gives the wrong call on a diagnosis or drug and doctors are tempted to trust it.

Notion AI can leak data before you approve

A researcher shows Notion AI is open to indirect prompt injection, saving poisoned edits to documents before users hit OK. It turns a friendly writing buddy into a sneaky data exfiltration tool, and the fact it stays unpatched leaves teams wondering what else their AI helpers log.

Tailscale quietly drops default state encryption

A Linux update from Tailscale removes automatic state file encryption and loosens its hardware checks so the client can start more easily. Fans of the service feel uneasy, since a product sold on security just made a tradeoff that leaves sensitive config data sitting easier to read.

Linux kernel bugs lurk for decades unnoticed

New analysis of Linux kernel history finds bugs hiding in code for an average of two years, with some sleeping for twenty. It is a sobering reminder that the machinery behind phones, servers and routers is full of latent vulnerabilities that nobody spots until luck or disaster strikes.

Popular JS crypto library ships with hidden flaws

Security firm Trail of Bits uses Google’s Wycheproof tests to uncover vulnerabilities in the widely used elliptic JavaScript crypto library. With millions of weekly downloads, the news rattles developers who assumed the math was safe and now must wonder what secrets rode on weak code.

GNOME moves to kill classic Linux middle-click paste

A GNOME developer pushes to remove middle-click paste from modern desktops and even Firefox, enraging long-time Linux users. To fans, it feels like yet another case of designers sanding off powerful, weird traditions in the name of safety while ignoring what actually made the platform fun.

Firefox add-on dodges X login wall with xcancel

A small Firefox extension silently redirects x.com and old twitter.com links to xcancel.com, letting people read threads without logging in. It is a petty but satisfying act of resistance against a hostile platform, and many clearly enjoy taking back a tiny bit of control in their browser.

Tailwind creator admits brutal 75 percent layoffs

The team behind Tailwind reveals they cut 75% of their engineering staff, blaming a brutal market. Devs are stunned that one of the web’s hottest CSS tools is shrinking, reading it as a warning that even beloved frameworks are not safe when VC dreams meet cold subscription numbers.

Hackers build open hardware clone of Wacom tablets

Project Patchouli offers a fully open electromagnetic pen tablet design, from coil arrays to firmware, aiming to be a kind of DIY Wacom. Hardware tinkerers love the freedom, and many see it as a rare case where creativity beats vendor lock-in instead of living under another closed driver.

Everyone piles on OneDrive’s dark patterns and bugs

A blistering rant about Microsoft OneDrive calls it a file-sync service that nags users, hijacks defaults and sometimes even loses or deletes data. Commenters loudly agree, treating it as proof that big vendors will happily trade reliability and consent for a few more files in their cloud.

Intel shows Panther Lake and new 18A chips

Intel’s new Panther Lake laptop chips, built on its shiny 18A process, look like a public promise that the company can still fight at the cutting edge. The crowd loves the bold move, but many remember past delays and are waiting to see real-world laptops first.

AMD flaunts Venice CPUs and MI400 AI cards

At CES, AMD rips the covers off its Venice server processors and MI400 AI accelerators, clearly aiming at the same money-printing AI market as Nvidia. Commenters enjoy the show but grumble that without clear pricing and benchmarks, this is still mostly smoke and hype.

AWS sneaks in weekend GPU price hike

When AWS quietly bumps some GPU prices by about 15% on a Saturday, people notice. Builders already burned by huge cloud bills see it as a warning that renting AI power from giants will only get more painful, and many start talking again about on‑prem hardware and alternatives.

US becomes ground zero for data centers

Fresh numbers show the United States grabbing more than half of future data center projects. Locals worry about power, water, and noise, while tech fans see cheap land and weak rules creating a huge AI fortress. The global imbalance makes everyone else look unprepared and exposed.

30B Qwen model runs live on Raspberry Pi

The ByteShape team claims a 30B Qwen model now chats in real time on a Raspberry Pi, thanks to extreme compression tricks. Readers are both impressed and suspicious, asking what "real time" really means, but the idea of serious AI living on cheap boards clearly excites people.

Hyundai’s new Atlas robot struts on stage

The latest Atlas from Hyundai and Boston Dynamics is all‑electric, agile, and clearly built for serious work, not just viral videos. Viewers are dazzled by the moves but uneasy about what happens when such robots hit warehouses and factories where human jobs already feel fragile.

Lego bricks get smart and start talking back

LEGO unveils its SMART Play system with tagged bricks and figures that respond to touch and movement. Parents see a fun way to mix screens with real toys, but some worry about creeping data collection and kids needing an app just to enjoy a pile of plastic blocks.

Raspberry Pi loses its budget crown to mini PCs

With DRAM prices soaring, a kitted-out Raspberry Pi 5 now costs about the same as tiny Intel N100 mini PCs. Long-time fans hate seeing the beloved hobby board drift from "cheap" to "why not just buy a small PC", and many blame supply chains and creeping feature bloat.

Vietnam orders a skip button for video ads

New rules in Vietnam demand a visible skip button after five seconds on online video ads, directly poking at YouTube’s most hated feature. Commenters cheer from around the world and instantly ask why their own regulators cannot grow a spine and copy the same simple requirement.

Opus 4.5 turns into shockingly capable code partner

A long write‑up argues that Claude Opus 4.5 is crossing from cute helper into something close to a tireless junior engineer. Readers swap stories of bots writing full apps, while others warn that teams may grow lazy, over-trusting AI that still happily makes quiet mistakes.

Developer claims to ship code up to 50x faster

One engineer says they now ship code 20–50x faster than five years ago by mixing strict habits with modern AI tools. The story hits a nerve: some feel inspired, others feel exhausted, and many admit they fear being left behind if they do not upgrade how they work soon.

Doom scrolling gets swapped for doom coding sessions

A hacker sets up a full terminal coding rig on their phone using Tailscale and Claude Code, turning idle scrolling time into building time. The community loves the hustle but jokes that corporations will happily convert every relaxed moment of life into unpaid productivity.

SMTP tunnel hides network traffic inside fake email

The SMTP Tunnel project disguises a SOCKS5 proxy as normal email traffic to slip past deep packet inspection. Privacy fans applaud the creativity, while others point out that censors and corporate firewalls will now have one more "suspicious" trick to hunt for in their logs.

X blames users after Grok makes abuse images

X’s Grok bot is caught generating sexualized pictures of minors, and the company’s response is to point the finger at users instead of shutting it down. Critics see a platform that loves edgy AI more than child safety, and even talk about App Store bans grows louder.

Reddit’s hottest delivery rant was AI fakery

A furious viral post about food delivery apps turns out to be an AI-generated stunt, fingerprinted by Gemini’s SynthID. Readers feel played, platforms look slow, and it suddenly feels like every dramatic screenshot might be a script cooked up by growth hackers chasing easy outrage.

Why promised AI coworkers never really showed up

A year after bold talk that AI agents would “join the workforce,” a sober post walks through what actually happened: lots of brittle tools, endless prompting, and humans cleaning up messes. The tone is tired and skeptical, like the community has seen this hype cycle too many times already.

Gas Town shows dev life with AI code agents

Steve Yegge’s Gas Town essay paints a chaotic future where coding with tools like Claude Code feels more like running a noisy factory than doing calm craft. It’s funny, sharp, and a bit depressing, echoing devs who feel their editors are turning into demanding coworkers rather than helpers.

Paper tracks how LLMs quietly reshape science work

A research preprint digs into how large language models like GPT-3.5 and ChatGPT change scientific writing, citation habits, and even who publishes. The mood is wary: help with drafts is handy, but people fear a tidal wave of bland, machine-shaped papers drowning out real human discovery.

Venezuela blackout sparks eerie internet routing shifts

Network sleuths using Cloudflare Radar and tools like isbgpsafeyet.com spot odd BGP changes during Venezuela’s massive power outage. It looks less like random chaos and more like someone quietly yanking or rerouting the country’s internet, deepening worries about governments flipping kill switches.

How Syria’s net stayed alive through war and spies

A gripping account shows how engineers kept Syria connected through ISIS, surveillance, and broken infrastructure. It’s part thriller, part networking diary, and it leaves readers stunned at how a handful of cables and hush‑hush deals can decide who gets information and who sits in the dark.

Kimwolf botnet quietly stalks your home network gear

KrebsOnSecurity details Kimwolf, a botnet that hides inside cheap routers and gadgets, turning them into stealthy proxy nodes. The tone is grim: while users argue about fancy AI, old‑fashioned sloppy hardware and default passwords are still giving crooks free real estate in our living rooms.

Anna’s Archive loses .org in surprise takedown

Shadow library Anna’s Archive finds its .org domain suddenly suspended by the Public Interest Registry, with “serverHold” slapped on like a scarlet letter. Fans see it as corporate pressure and quiet censorship, while critics say piracy finally hit a hard wall in the boring world of registries.

Trader wins big on Maduro fall prediction market

A user makes about $436,000 by betting on Venezuela’s President Maduro being captured, just before it hits the news. The timing screams inside knowledge, and turns prediction markets from nerdy toys into something that feels a lot more like legalized, real‑time geopolitics gambling.

Boston Dynamics and DeepMind join forces on robots

In a heavyweight tie‑up, Boston Dynamics teams with Google DeepMind to pump Gemini Robotics brains into humanoid machines like Atlas. Fans dream of helpful robot workers, critics picture security drones and strikebreakers, and everyone senses this is a line we can’t quietly uncross.

Brave rewrites adblocker, crushes memory use by 75%

Browser maker Brave rips out its old adblocking engine, swaps in Rust plus FlatBuffers, and boasts a 75% memory drop. Privacy‑minded users cheer a faster shot at killing ads and trackers, while ad‑tech folks see yet another sign that the browser war is really about who owns eyeballs.

Microsoft buries Office name under Copilot branding

The classic Microsoft Office label gets pushed aside for the “Microsoft 365 Copilot app,” with AI jammed right into the brand. Long‑time users roll their eyes at yet another rename, and many grumble that a trusty workhorse suite is being turned into a flashy AI billboard they never asked for.

Pebble Round smartwatch gets unexpected second life

The cult‑favorite Pebble Round watch resurfaces as Pebble Round 2, thanks to the RePebble crew and PebbleOS fans. It feels like a small rebellion against disposable gadgets, with a nostalgic community quietly proving that good design and open ecosystems can outlive the companies that birthed them.

HP-UX reaches end of the Unix road

HPE’s HP-UX 11i v3 finally hits end‑of‑support, closing a Unix line that began in 1982. Old‑school admins get wistful as another big‑iron OS slips into history, and the story doubles as a gentle reminder that every “enterprise forever” platform eventually joins the abandonware graveyard.

AI fake photos help shoppers squeeze refunds

Online shoppers now use AI-generated images to fake damaged goods and push through refunds. Stores look helpless while fraud tools sit in everyone’s browser. It feels clever on the surface, but underneath it shows how weak many e‑commerce checks really are.

Nightshade turns your art into AI poison

With Nightshade, artists silently booby-trap images so future AI models learn garbage when they scrape them. Fans cheer the revenge, others fear a dirty data arms race. It is a loud sign that creators are done politely asking companies to respect their work.

Hobbyist clones $4k studio gear using AI

A lone developer, helped by Claude, recreates a pricey audio processor as a software plugin with no deep DSP background. People marvel at the hustle and quietly ask what happens when boutique hardware, and maybe a few jobs, can be cloned with a chat box.

AI inspects circuit schematics before they hit fab

An LLM-powered checker promises to catch electrical design mistakes before hardware gets manufactured. Engineers like the idea of a patient robot reviewer, but also worry about trusting black‑box AI with expensive boards when a single bad hint can cost a full run.

Magic CSV cleans messy spreadsheets with plain words

Magic CSV lets users describe fixes in plain English and have AI reshape their data, no formulas needed. It looks like cheating in the best way. Under the excitement lurks a question most quietly share: what happens when we forget how to do the cleanup ourselves.

Fourteen Google years boiled down to 21 lessons

A long‑timer at Google explains how careers ride on impact narratives, politics, and saying no, not just clever code. Readers nod along as he describes meetings, promotions, and burnout. It feels brutally honest and many quietly see their own big‑company stories inside.

Developer claims web work finally feels fun again

A nostalgic developer contrasts PHP 4 and jQuery days with today’s lighter stacks, static sites, and smarter tools. The piece taps into deep fatigue with bloated frameworks. Many happily agree that removing layers, not adding them, might be the real modern upgrade.

Why do we expect software to be free anyway

A blunt question pokes at a core software myth: if we pay for cars, food, and rent, why not pay for code? Replies wrestle with open source ideals, zero‑cost copying, and cheap cloud. Behind the arguments sits a simple tension over what work is truly valued.

Hurricane shows fancy sites fail when people need news

During Hurricane Helene, the author just wanted a fast, plain text site and got bloated pages that barely loaded on weak connections. The story stings, because everyone knows we shipped heavy designs and forgot emergencies, seniors, and cheap phones still exist.

New language claims English can compile into Rust

The LOGOS project lets people write programs in natural English that compile down to Rust. It sounds magical and slightly cursed at once. Some see a learning bridge, others fear even more layers hiding what code really does behind friendly sounding sentences.

California offers one-click deletion from data brokers

The state’s DROP portal lets residents request deletion from registered data brokers in one sweep. It feels like a small revolution against quiet tracking. People cheer the move and immediately wonder how long it will take other regions to copy or water it down.

Eurostar’s public AI chatbot spills its own secrets

A researcher pokes the Eurostar chatbot and finds prompt leaks, weak IDs, and self‑XSS. It is an embarrassing reminder that shiny AI frontends can open real security holes. The mood is weary: yet another example of launch now, patch later, hope nobody looks.

Six tiny bugs chained into full remote takeover

A forensic breakdown of a LogPoint exploit shows how six low‑key issues combine into remote code execution on a security product. Readers cringe at the irony. It underlines a truth many feel: there is no such thing as harmless when attackers get enough puzzle pieces.

Researcher turns dating app traffic into control channel

A proof‑of‑concept uses Hinge as a covert command and control path by abusing its traffic. It is clever, slightly unsettling, and makes people rethink every everyday app as a possible tunnel. The write‑up hints how creative real attackers can be with simple tools.

Third-party services quietly become single failure points

A performance expert walks through how third‑party scripts and services can drag down entire sites. We rarely notice the hidden chains until one provider hiccups and everything slows or breaks. It leaves readers uneasy about how fragile the modern web stack has become.

Pre dawn blast and capture claim shake Caracas

Reports of a large scale strike on Caracas and claims that Venezuela’s leader was seized and flown out turned comment sections into war rooms. People argued over US power, regime change and how fast conflicting news and disinfo now spread in real time.

Commentators say US is back as protector

A sharp essay on the alleged Caracas raid paints a picture of a revived American protectorate era, with drones and press briefings replacing battleships. Readers saw a mix of swagger, mission creep and déjà vu from past interventions that never really ended.

Japan slides into the global democracy downturn

Fresh data puts Japan in the same worrying chart as other democracies drifting away from liberal norms. Techies, usually busy debating frameworks, found themselves arguing about rights, surveillance and how quickly calm looking systems can quietly harden.

Bluesky blasted as bad refuge from old Twitter

A left leaning writer calls Bluesky cliquey, unevenly moderated and oddly obsessed with its verification system. Many ex Twitter users nodded along, saying the new place feels less like a public square and more like a private club with confusing house rules.

Reddit compared to a dying strip mall

After killing beloved third party apps, Reddit now feels like an empty mall filled with branded junk and fewer real locals. Long time users grumbled that once vibrant communities turned into SEO farms chasing ad money and search traffic instead of good posts.

Claude sketches massive system faster than Google team

A Google principal engineer said Claude Code drafted a distributed orchestration system in about an hour, matching what her team had wrestled with for a year. Devs were excited and terrified, imagining managers waving this story whenever deadlines slip.

Researcher proves chatbots happily repeat invented brand

By creating a fake company and planting stories, one tinkerer watched major AI tools confidently repeat total fiction about a luxury paperweight line. It confirmed fears that these systems trust the loudest slop on the internet more than boring reality.

Karpathy course keeps humans learning neural guts

Andrej Karpathy’s Neural Networks Zero to Hero course stayed a go to link, walking people from tiny backprop demos to modern deep nets in plain code. In a world of one click models, hackers loved having a clear path to real understanding instead of pure hype.

Recursive models promise endless prompts without meltdown

A paper on Recursive Language Models pitched a way to handle huge prompts by breaking and looping work, instead of just making bigger black boxes. Readers liked the cleverness but also worried that giving AI more context just means faster, more detailed mistakes.

Looped language models hide their thinking off screen

New work on LoopLMs tries to move some AI “thinking” into internal steps instead of pages of visible text. It sounds powerful, but many found it spooky, since less transparent reasoning means it will be even harder to tell when the machine takes a wrong turn.

Early digital cameras leave a ghost town of memories

A deep dive into early 2000s digital photos hit a nerve, describing how dead drives, dead sites and lazy backups wiped childhoods and first jobs. The mood was part grief, part resolve, with many vowing to finally sort out storage before the next laptop dies.

HN users plot a comeback tour for old MP3s

One user asked how to ditch streaming and return to local MP3s, and a wave of replies praised owning files, not subscriptions. People swapped tips on players, tagging and home archives, clearly tired of albums vanishing whenever a license, app or CEO changes.

Dev turns twenty five dollar phone into laptop stand in

A tinkerer showed how a cheap Walmart Android phone plus Termux becomes a portable Linux dev box. Readers loved the punk energy, seeing it as a reminder that real hacking is about curiosity and making do, not just buying the newest glowing hardware.

Post claims heart disease is basically optional now

A long read argued that with aggressive use of statins, new PCSK9 drugs and better screening, most cardiovascular disease could be prevented today. The comments were split between hope, doubts about incentives, and anger that basic care still misses many.

AI vibe coding makes flashy tools look old

A sharp essay says vibe coding with chatbots and simple editors is already making fancy AI IDEs like Cursor feel bloated and slow. The tone is brutal: stop chasing shiny tools and start building workflows where AI quietly does the boring stuff and humans stay in charge.

CTOs count the real cost of AI coders

This breakdown pits AI coding agents against humans on a simple 100‑line task. It talks money, hidden review time, and loss of control. The mood is wary: cheap code from bots sounds nice until you own the bugs, the rewrites, and a codebase nobody can fully understand anymore.

Manual appears for building true agentic AI

A long, free guide claims to be the missing handbook for agentic AI, teaching how to wire tools like Claude Code into real command‑line agents. It treats the hype with suspicion and pushes careful design, guardrails, and small, boring wins instead of wild sci‑fi demos.

Grok draws sexual images, France steps in

Musk’s Grok chatbot reportedly generates sexualized images of people, including minors, on X. French regulators call the material illegal and demand answers. It reads like a nightmare blend of racy branding, weak filters, and real‑world harm that no safety excuse can soften.

Americans grow colder toward everyday AI tools

A big piece asks why many Americans now say they dislike AI. Between job fears, creepy ads, broken chatbots and biased systems, the tech no longer feels charming. The piece captures a tired mood: people are done being unpaid test subjects for half‑baked automated decision makers.

Fed cash pipeline to big banks surges

The New York Fed sharply boosts its overnight cash loans to major banks, stirring memories of past crises. Nobody in charge admits to trouble, but the charts look ugly. It feels like another round of quiet life support while the public is told everything is fine.

Tesla’s sales fall again as doubts pile up

Tesla reports a 9% sales drop in 2025, its second yearly decline. The article blames dangerous doors, battery gambles, the troubled Cybertruck, and a CEO who scares off buyers. The myth of endless growth fades, and the company starts to look like any other shaky automaker.

US wants access to Europe’s police biometrics

A talk at 39c3 details how the US is pushing countries in the visa‑waiver program to sign deals giving it access to police databases and biometric data. The story feels chilling: travel convenience on the surface, deeper tracking and data sharing underneath.

Global dev job market looks crowded and uneven

Fresh stats show over 100k software engineering roles, but only a slice are remote. Cloud and AI skills dominate. The tone is blunt: the market isn’t dead, just tougher, more local, and less forgiving for people who don’t match the latest buzzword stack on paper.

Developer describes brutal career winter in public

A veteran developer shares how job hunts keep failing despite solid skills and years in Ruby. Comments pour in with similar stories. It reads like therapy for a whole industry that once felt rich and safe and now feels anxious, older, and strangely disposable.

Indie web fans shout publish on your own site

The POSSE idea—publish on your own site, then share elsewhere—gets a fresh push. Tired of Instagram and feeds they don’t control, people want home pages back. The mood is hopeful and a bit defiant: if platforms act like landlords, users will become homeowners again.

IPv6 turns 30 and still waits in the wings

IPv6 hits its 30th birthday while IPv4 stubbornly hangs on. The piece walks through wasted years, carrier excuses, and slow adoption charts. It feels like watching a necessary upgrade trapped in limbo because nobody wants to be the first to swallow the full cost.

One user finally makes 2026 their Linux year

A personal essay declares 2026 the year of the Linux desktop—at least for one gamer who ditched Windows 11 and never looked back. It’s not fanboy noise; just a calm list of trade‑offs that quietly suggests more people might be ready to make the same jump.

Hackers bypass secure boot on new Pi chip

At the Chaos Communication Congress, researchers show how double glitches can bypass secure boot on the Raspberry Pi RP2350. The demo lands like a warning: even cheap boards need serious security, and “secure by design” claims deserve a lot more side‑eye.

Security pros keep roasting aging PGP email tools

A classic rant on the PGP ecosystem resurfaces, and it still hits hard. Clunky keys, fragile setups, and confusing trust models make encrypted email feel impossible for normal people. The piece carries a tired frustration that this mess was never properly replaced.

Meta accused of hiding, not killing, scam ads

A fresh report claims Meta did not just remove scam ads, it also made them harder for regulators and journalists to track. The move makes its public safety promises look hollow and feeds the feeling that user trust ranks below ad cash on its list.

Apple finally lets real rival browsers into iOS

In Japan, Apple will now allow iOS apps to use non‑WebKit browser engines, something users have begged for during years of tight control. It is limited to certain apps and one country, but it smells like regulators leaning on Apple and fans cheering from the sidelines.

California unleashes new rules on AI and deepfakes

California rolls out a wave of 2026 laws targeting deepfake pornography, AI abuse and online child harm. The rules read like a direct shot at the worst parts of platform culture, and tech companies know that what starts in Sacramento often spreads everywhere.

State launches DROP, a big red privacy button

The DROP platform lets Californians send one request to many data brokers to delete or stop selling their info. It is free, government‑backed, and feels like the first time privacy rights come with a simple tool instead of a stack of unread legal pages.

DHS says its own Real ID is not enough

The DHS now admits Real ID cards, sold as super secure, are too weak to prove citizenship. After years of hassle at DMVs and airports, people are stunned to hear the magic ID is not magic at all, and critics say they saw this coming a mile away.

China’s BYD closes in on Tesla’s EV crown

BYD is set to overtake Tesla as the world’s top EV seller, riding a mix of cheap plug‑in hybrids and aggressive pricing. Fans of Elon are clearly rattled, while others see this as proof that the center of car innovation has quietly moved to China.

BYD hits 4.6M sales and shrugs off doubts

New numbers show BYD sold 4.6 million vehicles in 2025, meeting its revised target despite market jitters. The company looks less like a copycat and more like a juggernaut, forcing old car brands and Tesla alike to rethink who actually leads the battery race.

Windows laptop beats Linux and sparks noisy debate

Benchmarks on an Intel Arrow Lake laptop show Windows 11 edging out Linux in a series of tests. The results poke a hornet’s nest of desktop loyalists, with some blaming young drivers and others saying raw speed matters less than control over your own machine.

Hackers claim 200GB after fresh ESA cyber hit

Cybercriminals boast of stealing 200GB from the European Space Agency, including data tied to CI/CD systems and code repositories. ESA downplays the damage, but space fans are uneasy, and many wonder why even groups that launch rockets still struggle with basic security.

ACM opens massive computing library to everyone

The ACM turns its Digital Library into open access, freeing a mountain of computer science papers that were locked behind paywalls for decades. Students, indie devs and curious readers suddenly get first‑class seats, and the pay‑to‑read journal model looks a bit shakier.

Bluetooth headphones exposed as secret phone door key

A flaw in Airoha Bluetooth chips, used by big brands like Sony, means attackers could use your wireless headphones as a key into your phone. It is the kind of quiet bug that makes people side‑eye every gadget, and many are asking why basic security failed again.

PS5 boot ROM keys leak, jailbreak dreams flare up

Alleged PS5 BootROM keys leak online, hinting that full console jailbreaks might get much easier. Modding fans are thrilled at the thought of homebrew and backups, while Sony lawyers are surely circling, and everyone knows the cat is hard to put back in the bag.

Public Domain Day showers culture with free classics

Public Domain Day 2026 pushes a new wave of books, films and news archives into the open, including forgotten gems from papers like the Manchester Guardian. Creators cheer the fresh remix fuel, and critics of endless copyright quietly say told you so.

Hot terminal Ghostty locks down its issue tracker

The popular terminal Ghostty bans direct GitHub Issues, forcing users into Discussions first. Fans of the tool defend the move as sanity saving, while others see it as gatekeeping, and the debate neatly captures rising tension between tiny dev teams and loud user bases.