Judgment day looms for UK’s £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade
The UK government's projects authority has sounded the alarm over progress on Skynet 6, the estimated £8.35 billion program to upgrade the military's satellite communications. The National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) rated the Skynet 6...
Zimbra Update Patches Critical Vulnerabilities
The latest Zimbra refresh resolves command injection, XSS, restriction bypass, and SSRF security defects. The post Zimbra Update Patches Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 FPS on E-Paper Display Without Help
If electronic paper displays have one downside, it’s generally refresh rate. Earlier versions of the tech might only have been able to do single-digit frames per second, while modern, mid-range devices can sometimes manage 10-20 FPS — and that’s not including the...
Fedora Xfce or Xubuntu: Which is the best Linux desktop?
Xfce is a Linux desktop environment that is great at giving old machines new life. Two major distributions present this desktop differently. So, which is best?
Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of
Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/20/linux-kernel-will-support-origin-sort-of Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988793 Points: 8 # Comments: 6
Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution
Threat actors are now exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting ServiceNow AI Platform, according to Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the threat intelligence firm said it's observing in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2026-6875 (CVSS score:...
New ENCFORGE Ransomware Targets AI Model Files in Langflow RCE Attack
Researchers at Sysdig have linked a second attack on the same Langflow server to JADEPUFFER, the AI-agent-driven operator it first documented earlier this month. The same operator has now been spotted deploying ENCFORGE, a new compiled Go ransomware designed to...
Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
Google Cloud last week experienced an outage that analysts say demonstrates that not all promises of cloudy resilience are created equal. Google’s incident report explained that three services – the VMware Engine (GCVE), NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solutions (BMS)...
FCC plans to ban companies selling DJI products under other brands
Several companies suspected of selling DJI products under their own brands might soon be banned in the US.
Reverse-engineering is cheap now
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/20/cheap-reverse-engineering/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988265 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Do we just want slaves?
Article URL: https://www.yashthapliyal.com/blog/do-we-just-want-slaves Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988196 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
I left Amazon to buy a printing company. It was the best career move I ever made
After joining Amazon as a product leader in 2022, I saw a series of layoffs and return-to-office mandates over the following three years that made any semblance of presence in home life impossible. The tech industry layoffs disproportionately impacted women, and the...
AI FOMO is a distraction from being a good leader
In almost every leadership conversation I have been part of over the last two years, AI comes up within the first ten minutes. Sometimes it is the whole conversation. Executives want to know how to use it, how to talk about it, how to signal that they are not behind...
Google Maps Killed the Restaurant Star
We all know that Google and other big players pick and choose what information people see, but we sometimes overlook it outside of the search and social media space. [Lauren Leek] decided to take a look at how Google Maps picks winners and losers in the restaurant...
Show HN: Ex Situ – open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
Hi, I designed and developed a spatial index that maps museum artefacts as connecting arcs/hyperlinks from their origin site to institutional location/sources. The Index specifically looks at western/euro-american institutions and maps their collection categorised by...
The IPO hype machine is moving faster than the stocks
It has been a busy year for Wall Street debuts. While a few IPOs have captured most of the headlines, 203 companies have begun trading on either the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq market so far in 2026. Many made splashy entrances, but their performance has been...
OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy
French cloud operator OVH has revealed it used its Sydney, Australia, datacenter as the crash test dummy to test a rapid rollout of a fix for the critical Januscape guest-host escape bug in the Linux kernel-based virtual machine (KVM). Januscape, aka CVE-2026-53359,...
Five US tech giants’ hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding
Article URL: https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987863 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste
Article URL: https://www.instructables.com/A-Koi-Pond-Mosaic-Made-From-10-Pounds-of-3D-Printe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987831 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral
Article URL: https://www.armaangomes.com/blogs/doom/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987846 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?
Given the expansion of the fed/state/local/corporate surveillance net, do you find yourself expressing yourself less freely on the internet than you did five years ago? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987634 Points: 9 # Comments: 4
Ramp Router
Article URL: https://ramp.com/router/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987253 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Detection of a Four-Carbon Sugar in Interstellar Space
Although life tends to find a way, something first has to kickstart said lifeforms. Exactly how the first biological cells formed on Earth – and potentially on other worlds – remains an enduring mystery. Some theories point to the early Earth’s surface conditions as a...
Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986731 Points: 19...
Show HN: I made email signatures less boring
Article URL: https://esigna.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986912 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Article URL: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-project-leadership-changes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986091 Points: 14 # Comments: 2
Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
I wore Meta’s $499 prescription Ray-Bans for 6 weeks: They’re stylish but not for me
Meta's Ray-Ban Blayzer Optics are made specifically for prescription eyeglass wearers with a lightweight, stylish design.
Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation
The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.
Amazon’s Adaptive Display for Fire TVs is officially rolling out today
Amazon's Adaptive Display accessibility feature for Fire TVs is officially rolling out today