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Xsnow "protestware" in Debian

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Technology Jun 30, 2026

Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker

He's 13 years old. He wanted to track his own ant colonies — growth, feeding, humidity, and other metrics. He built t...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Nano Banana 2 Lite

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash-lite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/crypto-firms-have-spent-189-million-so-far-2026-us-election-report-says-2026...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code

Article URL: https://twitter.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2071971609183678544 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-heatwave-hq-forced-shut-down-air-conditioning-europe/ Commen...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Blue Origin still doesn’t know why its New Glenn rocket blew up last month

But the company is still claiming that New Glenn will return to flight this year.

Technology Jun 30, 2026

BMW iX5 Blows Away the Competition with 460-KW Charging, 435-Mile Range

Article URL: https://insideevs.com/news/800125/bmw-ix5-neue-klasse-ev-electric-suv/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/henrico-virginia-datacenter-energy-cost-email/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

The Bose Soundlink Max is $120 off ahead of the July 4th weekend

The Bose Soundlink Max is usually $399, but has been on steep discount this week at Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from ...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

The US going 100% EV by 2040 would save more than 100k lives, study says

Much of it comes from heavy-duty trucks and buses that burn diesel.

Technology Jun 30, 2026

What is a quantum computer good for? Absolutely nothing — yet

To this day, we have yet to see a quantum computer conclusively perform a single useful task. Existing machines are simp...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/scammers-sell-seeds-for-exotic-ai-generated-flowers-that-dont-exist/ Comments URL:...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests

Article URL: https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Trump asked Musk for SpaceX stock to seed US kids’ savings accounts, report says

Sources suggest Musk may be mulling big donation to Trump Accounts.

Technology Jun 30, 2026

The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level

Article URL: https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/06/the-post-covid-decline-in-the-labor-share/ Comments ...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Tesla starts testing Cybercab without pedals or a steering wheel in Austin

The company may finally be ready to try to deliver on Elon Musk's years-long promise of launching a robotaxi network of ...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Libby will filter out AI content, kind of

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

New York Is About to Feel Hotter Than Phoenix

Extreme heat coupled with humidity will make it feel like 109 degrees Fahrenheit as the holiday weekend approaches.

Technology Jun 30, 2026

We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

Article URL: https://waag.org/en/article/why-we-moved-our-bluesky-data-eurosky/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Jun 30, 2026

X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use

X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the company’s API....

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Arcturus could halve the grid’s electrical losses using its nano-infused copper

Stealthy startup Arcturus uses lasers to infuse carbon nanomaterials into copper, dramatically improving its ability to ...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and c...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game

Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.

Technology Jun 30, 2026

The Supreme Court stops Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship

The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, ruling 6-3 against President Donald Trump's effort to end the longstand...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship

Article URL: https://apnews.com/live/birthright-citizenship-decision-supreme-court-updates-06-30-2026 Comments URL: htt...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards

Article URL: https://ranpara.net/posts/words-are-a-byproduct-of-consciousness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week?

Article URL: https://taonaw.com/2026/06/27/have-you-restarted-your-computer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Looking Ahead to Postgres 19

Article URL: https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgresql-19-features-beta/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Jun 30, 2026

Lumo, Proton’s privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade

Proton's Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities.