Confirmed Ebola deaths in DR Congo hit 600
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Iran war: Trump calls second set of US strikes 'retribution'
The US launched fresh strikes on Iran overnight, the second wave of attacks in 24 hours after President Trump declared a ceasefire to be over. Meanwhile, Iran is preparing to bury slain leader Khamenei. DW has more.
Trump to ask US Supreme Court for new hearing on birthright citizenship
In June, the Supreme Court ruled against Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship for individuals born in the US.
Rights group plans complaint to IOC against Infantino over Trump support
FairSquare says it will lodge the complaint regarding the FIFA president's 'repeated breach of political neutrality'.
Morocco dealt huge blow as injured Saibari out of World Cup quarterfinal
Ismael Saibari will miss the match against France in Boston due to a hamstring injury he sustained last week.
Eight killed as landslide hits Rohingya school in Bangladesh
At least seven children and a teacher were killed after a landslide hit a girls’ school at a refugee camp in Bangladesh.
South Sudan, 15 years on: Still fighting for peace
A stalled peace process, deepening humanitarian needs and economic challenges test the world's youngest nation.
Graham Platner drops his bid for Senate after facing an allegation of rape
Platner's campaign to unseat GOP Sen. Susan Collins in Maine was marked by repeated scandals. It came to a crashing halt after the allegation led top Democrats to withdraw their support.
Tehran releases footage showing ruins of late Iranian leader’s compound
Iranian state media has released what it calls the first footage showing damage to the late Khamenei’s compound.
Khamenei’s coffin in Karbala on last stop before burial in Mashhad
Millions gathered in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq to pay their respects at the funeral of Iran’s late supreme leader.
Iran war live: One killed as US bombs Bushehr, Chabahar, Bandar Abbas, Jask
US attacks kill at least one person in the city of Iranshahr and cause widespread power outages in Chabahar.
Symlinks Are Still Scary (And Yes, You Can Commit Them to Git)
A harmless-looking symlink in a Git repo can redirect a tool into reading or writing anywhere on your machine. That old trick is now showing up in AI coding assistants, with nasty results.
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Misc Changes [ci] Pin typescript version in tests: #95619 fix(create-next-app): render filenames in Geist Mono so the preloaded font is used: #95471 [turbopack] print Turbopack warnings after SSG: #95430 fix(create-next-app): pin both axes on Tailwind template logos to silence aspect-ratio warning: #95609 Turbopack: enable import with {type: 'text'} by default: #95606 Consistently gate navigation-testing-lock API on flag: #95582 test: Fix immutable static asset deployment tests for real: #95600 Upgrade React from 23def8fd-20260706 to 12a4baec-20260707 : #95581 Split remaining "client-node"-only modules into .browser variants: #95366 [turbopack] Don't evict when there is little memory to save: #95213 align dev and build output: #94916 [turbopack] Don't persist if there is little work to do: #95137 fix: log "Partial Prefetching enabled" during next build: #95593 [PP] Surface URL data during prefetching as an Instant insight with rule page: #95365 [turbopack] Rename rscEndpoint to rscHmrEndpoint : #95538 [ci] Split up large create-next-app/templates/matrix test: #95555 Credits Huge thanks to @bgw , @aurorascharff , @sampoder , @mischnic , @eps1lon , @vercel-release-bot , and @lukesandberg for helping!
Rewriting Bun in Rust
Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner has been promising this blog post ( since May 9th ) about his Zig to Rust rewrite of Bun for significantly longer than it took him to finish the rewrite. Honestly, it was worth the wait. This is a detailed description of an extremely sophisticated piece of agentic engineering, featuring dynamic workflows, trial runs, adversarial review and all sorts of other interesting tricks. Jarred spends the first half of the post praising Zig for getting Bun this far. Then we get to a core idea in the piece, emphasis mine: Our bugfix list felt bad and I was tired of going to sleep worrying about crashes in Bun. I don't blame Zig for that - other users of Zig don't have the bugs we had, and mixing GC with manually-managed memory is an uncommon enough thing for software to need that no language really designs for it. We wouldn't have gotten this far if not for Zig, and I'll always be grateful. Until very recently, programming language choice was a one-way decision for a project like Bun. Everyone knows you should never stop the world and rewrite a large piece of software from the ground up. Joel Spolsky highlighted that in Things You Should Never Do, Part I back in April 2000! Coding agents powered by today's frontier models change that equation. Why pick Rust? It all came down to those challenges with memory management: A large percentage of bugs from that list are use-after-free, double-free, and "forgot to free" in an error path. In safe Rust, these are compiler errors and RAII-like automatic cleanup with Drop . A crucial enabling factor for the rewrite was that the Bun test suite was written in TypeScript, which meant it could act as a conformance suite . This allowed an agent harness to automate much of the initial port from Bun to Rust, initially as an experiment to try out an earlier version of the model we now have access to as Mythos/Fable. At first, I didn't expect it to work. A few days in, a high % of the test suite started passing and I saw how much the new Rust code matched up with the original Zig codebase. My opinion went from "this is worth trying" to "I'm going to merge this". [...] For most of those 11 days (and after), I monitored workflows - manually reading the outputs to check for issues and bugs, and prompting Claude to edit the loop to fix things. How do you review a PR with +1 million lines added? How do you start to build the confidence needed to responsibly merge large quantities of LLM-authored code? A language-independent test suite with a million assertions, adversarial code review and when something does go wrong, fixing the process that generates the code instead of hand-fixing the code. The new implementation of Bun has been live in Claude Code for nearly a month now: Claude Code v2.1.181 (released June 17th) and later use the Rust port of Bun. Startup got 10% faster on Linux but otherwise, barely anyone noticed. Boring is good. A perk of working at Anthropic is that you don't have to pay for your tokens - handy when the estimated cost is $165,000! Pre-merge, this took 5.9 billion uncached input tokens, 690 million output tokens, and 72 billion cached input token reads — around $165,000 at API pricing. This whole thing is a fascinating case study in taking on wildly ambitious projects with the help of coordinated parallel agents. Via Hacker News Tags: ai , rust , zig , generative-ai , llms , ai-assisted-programming , anthropic , bun , conformance-suites , agentic-engineering , claude-mythos-fable
John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/john-deere-right-to-repair-agriculture-equipment-cb7514ffedb95c130a976af661f2bc02 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838876 Points: 1187 # Comments: 237
Indonesia’s free meals programme plagued by alleged corruption and waste
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's initiative has been criticised for misdirecting resources to affluent regions.
Introducing GPT‑Live
Introducing GPT‑Live OpenAI finally upgraded the model used by ChatGPT voice mode! I've had preview access for a few weeks in the iPhone app, and the new model is very impressive. It also has the ability to spin off harder tasks to GPT-5.5: For questions that require web search, deeper reasoning, or more complex work, it delegates to our latest frontier model behind the scenes and brings the result back into the conversation when it’s ready. While it works, GPT‑Live can keep talking with you and maintain the flow of conversation. At launch, GPT‑Live will use GPT‑5.5 in the background. As we release new frontier models, we’ll continuously update the model used by GPT‑Live. The previous voice mode in the ChatGPT app was based on a GPT-4o era model, with a knowledge cut-off some time in 2024. I had mostly stopped using voice mode because the age and relative weakness of the model greatly limited how useful it was as a brainstorming partner. During the preview period I encountered a pretty obscure bug: the model was interrupting me to laugh at things I said, which weren't even intended as jokes! It felt rude and condescending - I reported it to OpenAI and as far as I can tell they made some tweaks and it's now less likely to happen. From looking back at my transcripts I think it was this bit that triggered the interrupting laugh: so where are the owls when they're not, like before dusk? The owls exist, right? Are they hiding in holes? Where are they hiding? My longest conversation with the new model has been a full hour while walking the dog (and taking photos of pelicans ). I have not yet managed to take a photo of an owl. Via Hacker News Tags: text-to-speech , ai , openai , generative-ai , llms , multi-modal-output , llm-release , speech-to-text
Wealthy AI workers send San Francisco house prices soaring
The median cost of a home in the city is now $1.7m, a record high, according to the latest figures.
I run the UK's biggest bank, here are five ways to manage your money
The CEO of Lloyds Bank talks about how to save, budget, avoid scams and manage money in a relationship.
Why electric cars cost more to insure - and what's being done about it
The insurance cost of electric vehicles is still putting off many would-be buyers. So what can be done about it?
Disability benefits system ‘not working’ Timms review finds
Interim report into Pip found process had systematic and deep-rooted problems and required bold and radical overhaul A landmark government review of disability benefits has warned “challenging discussions” remain on how to overhaul and pay for a system it concludes is unfit for purpose and too often leaves vulnerable claimants dehumanised and degraded. The Timms review of the personal independence payment (Pip) concluded the benefit, claimed by nearly 4 million people in England and Wales, suffered from systematic and deep-rooted problems that had undermined public trust in the benefits system. Continue reading...
Wildcard Fery faces Zverev in Wimbledon semis, as Kostyuk meets Noskova
A partisan Centre Court backed home hope and world number 114 Fery in his incredible fairytale run to the last four.