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BalajeS/WSL-For-FreeBSD: Experimental project to adapt the WSL2 open-source components to run on FreeBSD

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⚡ Experimental Project – Running FreeBSD on WSL2 ⚡ This repository hosts work-in-progress efforts to run FreeBSD inside Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) with minimal to no changes to the FreeBSD base system. The project builds on the open-source components of WSL2 to enable FreeBSD to boot and run seamlessly in a Windows environment. Enable FreeBSD to run natively on WSL2’s architecture Make minimal or no modifications to the FreeBSD base system Contribute improvements back to open-source components where possible 🚧 Work in Progress – This is an experimental personal project. FreeBSD boots successfully inside WSL2 Basic functionality is up…

“It’s time to go”: Nobel Prize winner opted for suicide in Switzerland

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Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002. (archive picture) Picture: sda At the age of 90, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman chose to die a self-determined death in Switzerland. He spent his last days in Paris - conscious, fulfilled and quiet. No time? blue News summarizes for you The Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman chose assisted suicide in Switzerland on March 27, 2024.The Nobel Prize winner wanted to forestall a phase of mental and physical decline.His final step was well-considered - and yet difficult for many to understand. In March 2024, Daniel Kahneman celebrated his 90th birthday…

AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline

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It feels like it was just yesterday that Sony hardware architect Mark Cerny was first teasing Sony's "PS4 successor" and its "enhanced ray-tracing capabilities" powered by new AMD chips. Now that we're nearly five full years into the PS5 era, it's time for Sony and AMD to start teasing the new chips that will power what Cerny calls "a future console in a few years' time." In a quick nine-minute video posted Thursday, Cerny sat down with Jack Huynh, the senior VP and general manager of AMD's Computing and Graphics Group, to talk about "Project Amethyst," a co-engineering effort between…

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

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Lily JamaliTechnology correspondent, San FranciscoGetty ImagesSilicon Valley is home to many major tech firms, including Apple's circular headquartersAt OpenAI's DevDay this week, OpenAI boss Sam Altman did what American tech bosses rarely do these days: he actually answered questions from reporters."I know it's tempting to write the bubble story," Mr Altman told me as he sat flanked by his top lieutenants. "In fact, there are many parts of AI that I think are kind of bubbly right now."In Silicon Valley, the debate over whether AI companies are overvalued has taken on a new urgency. Sceptics are privately - and some…

Verge Genomics (YC S15) Is Hiring for Multiple Engineering and Product Roles

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Verge is using AI to develop better drugs faster. We are one of the few AI drug discovery companies to advance from data to clinic – delivering two new AI-derived drugs in the last three years, discovered using our industry-leading proprietary datasets and tooling. Along the way, we've signed commercial partnerships with Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca totaling $1.6B in contract value and $67M in near-term cash.We're hiring for the following roles on our platform team:* Head of Product & Engineering* Principal Full-Stack Engineer (Django)* Senior Computational Biologist (AI/ML)* Senior Data EngineerPlease apply through our careers page, and mention Hacker News…

Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26

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Summary: iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions. With iOS 26, Apple seems to be leaning harder into visual design and decorative UI effects — but at what cost to usability? At first glance, the system looks fluid and modern. But try to use it, and soon those shimmering surfaces and animated controls start to get in the way. Let’s strip back the frost and look at how these changes affect real use. Liquid Glass: Apple’s New Visual Language iOS 26 introduces Apple’s new…

Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”

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from the ice-is-not-a-marginalized-group dept Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to internal correspondence obtained by Migrant Insider, Apple has removed the DeICER app—which allowed users to log sightings of ICE enforcement activity—by invoking guidelines normally reserved for protecting marginalized communities from hate speech. Apple justified this by treating federal immigration agents as a protected class equivalent to groups protected from discrimination based on “religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin.” According to internal correspondence reviewed by Migrant Insider,…

Backlash as new EU political ad rules kick in – POLITICO

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The new law on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising, which kicked in on Friday, brings new restrictions and transparency requirements for paid political ads. Since the law was agreed, Google, Meta and Microsoft have all opted to stop showing political ads in the EU altogether. “Smaller, newer parties and independent candidates will lose an affordable channel to reach voters, while large, well-followed accounts remain largely unaffected,” said liberal Slovak EU lawmaker Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová. “That shift risks narrowing who can be heard and makes campaigning harder for newcomers.” She said that by axing political advertising, platforms are “taking the…

I’m in Vibe Code Hell

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When I started thinking about the problems with coding education in 2019, “tutorial hell” was enemy number one. You’d know you were living in it if you: Successfully followed plenty of tutorials, but couldn’t build anything on your own Spent more time watching videos about programming than actually programming Had flash-card level knowledge of many technologies, but didn’t understand anything under the hood Students would watch (or fall asleep to) 6-hour videos, code along in their own editors, feel like they got it, and then freeze up the moment they had to write anything from scratch. Classic tutorial hell. That’s…

Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund

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Igalia is excited to announce a new commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund to advance the Servo web engine. As stewards of Servo, Igalia is honored to receive support for a multi-pronged effort focused on public interest, developer usability, and long-term sustainability. Servo is a modern, parallelized web engine written in Rust, a Linux Foundation Europe project which Igalia has been actively maintaining since 2023, Servo represents a bold rethinking of browser architecture. Its modular design has made it a valuable resource across the Rust ecosystem. But like many promising open source technologies, Servo needs sustained investment to reach its…