World

Vance backs Orbán in Budapest; Hungary’s secret Russia pact exposed

JD Vance visited Budapest to publicly support Viktor Orbán ahead of Sunday’s election, accusing the EU of “foreign interference” while himself campaigning for the incumbent. Germany rebuked Vance for hypocrisy. Days earlier, Politico revealed a 12-point cooperation agreement signed by Hungary’s Foreign Minister Szijjártó and Russian officials in Moscow, covering energy, trade, healthcare, and education. VSquare published details showing Szijjártó coordinated with Russia to block Ukraine’s EU membership path. A separate report revealed Hungary offered to share intelligence with Iran after the 2024 Hezbollah pager attack. Orbán responded that he sees nothing wrong with being “Putin’s mouse.”

Politico (Germany) · United24 (Russia pact) · Ynet (Iran intel) · BBC (Orbán profile)

Zelenskyy: US ignoring evidence Russia is helping Iran

Zelenskyy stated that the US is ignoring Ukrainian intelligence showing Russia is actively assisting Iran, attributing the blind spot to Trump’s trust in Putin. The accusation highlights the deepening overlap between the Ukraine and Iran conflicts, and comes as the Kremlin’s SVR pushed a baseless claim about EU nuclear weapons development — ISW assesses this as a coordinated information operation to fracture US-EU ties.

The Guardian · ISW

Israeli opposition: Netanyahu achieved the ‘worst result’

Yair Lapid accused Netanyahu of “selling lies” to the US about what the war would achieve — a ceasefire that leaves Iran’s nuclear and military capabilities largely intact while Israel’s Lebanon operations face growing international condemnation. Trump threatened 50% tariffs on any country supplying Iran with weapons and said the US military will remain in the region until a “real agreement” is honored, warning the US is ready for its “next conquest.”

Al Jazeera (tariffs) · CNBC

Bill Gates to testify in Epstein probe

Bill Gates will appear before the House Oversight Committee in June as part of the congressional Epstein investigation. Former AG Pam Bondi’s testimony has been postponed. Separately, UK ambassador Lord Mandelson was revealed to have tried to get Epstein’s “goddaughter” access to 10 Downing Street.

NPR · Al Jazeera (Mandelson)

Ukraine

Last Crimea railway ferry disabled

Ukrainian GUR special operations struck and disabled the Slavyanin, Russia’s last operational railway ferry in the Kerch Strait, on the night of April 5–6. The ferry transported fuel, weapons, ammunition, and military equipment to occupied Crimea. The same night, Kavkaz port in Krasnodar Krai was also hit. Combined with ongoing strikes against Crimean oil depots at Feodosia and Hvardiiske, and the earlier disabling of the Kerch Bridge for heavy cargo, Russia’s logistics into Crimea are under severe and compounding pressure.

Kyiv Independent · RBC Ukraine

Drone forces outpace Russian recruitment for four straight months

Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi reported that Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces have killed or wounded more Russian personnel than Russia has mobilized every month since December 2025. In March, drone units executed over 11,000 combat missions daily, striking 150,000+ verified targets — a 50% increase from February. Ukraine now holds a 1.3:1 drone superiority on the frontline, with 32% of Ukrainian drones being EW-resistant fiber-optic models versus 24% for Russia. Russian casualties reached 316 per square kilometer of advance in Donetsk in Q1 — nearly triple the 2025 average.

Ukrainska Pravda · United24

First-ever fully drone-led bridge demolition

Ukraine’s 426th Unmanned Systems Regiment destroyed the Konkivskyi Bridge in occupied Kherson Oblast in a 60-day operation: 30 missions delivering 1.5 tonnes of explosives via UK-made Malloy T-150 drones. Engineers identified structural weak points after Russian forces inadvertently posted internal photographs online. A final missile strike completed the collapse.

Ukrainska Pravda

Deep strikes: Krasnodar substation hit, Lukoil refinery halted

Overnight April 8–9, a large-scale drone attack struck Krasnodar Krai near the Krymsk air base, setting fire to a 110kV electrical substation at an oil pipeline facility. Reuters confirmed that Ukraine’s April 5 strikes on the Lukoil refinery in Kstovo fully halted operations. Strikes also hit occupied Luhansk targets including an equipment depot and ammunition depot.

Ukrainska Pravda · Reuters

Japan sends engineers to Ukraine’s frontline for $2,500 interceptor drones

Japanese company Terra Drone is sending engineers directly to Ukraine’s frontline to test interceptor drones in combat, collaborating with Ukrainian firm Amazing Drones. The resulting $2,500 drone is designed to neutralize enemy aerial threats.

Euromaidan Press

Rosatom hack leaks 300GB exposing accelerated Iran nuclear deliveries

The CyberLegion hacking group breached Rosatom and leaked over 300 gigabytes of internal documents, including technical specifications for equipment destined for Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant showing accelerated deliveries. The leak also contains production planning for nuclear projects in Belarus, China, and India.

Real Narrative News

Norway

Kjernekraftutvalget sier nei — minst 20 år unna

The government’s nuclear power committee delivered a unanimous verdict: nuclear power in Norway is too expensive, takes too long, and the country lacks competence. The earliest realistic timeline is mid-2040s. The committee recommends going big if it happens at all — small modular reactors alone won’t be cost-effective. SV called it vindication for wind investment. Ola Borten Moe dismissed it: “vi er ikke dummere enn kineserne.” DN’s editorial called it “a dose of realism.” Across Europe, the trend is moving toward more nuclear.

NRK · DN · TU.no · Aftenposten

Fiskebåter mot raketter: Andøya-konflikten eskalerer

A fishing boat forced the abort of Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum 2 rocket launch from Andøya — Europe’s only operational spaceport. The rocket’s fuel overheated during the delay, scrapping the attempt. Authorities have now imposed an enforceable maritime exclusion zone with fines up to 9,000 kroner, replacing advisory warnings. Local fishers protest that the restrictions hit during peak skrei season. The rocket company notes 15 authorized annual launches total only ~15 hours of restricted access. Næringsminister has called a meeting with the fishing sector for April 13.

NRK · NRK

F-16-flyene til Ukraina står fortsatt i Belgia

The six F-16s Norway pledged to Ukraine 2.5 years ago remain at a workshop in Belgium and have never been put into service. Defence chief Eirik Kristoffersen acknowledged the aircraft were not airworthy when donated. Defence Minister Gram avoided saying they had been “delivered,” stating the jets are “in Belgium awaiting maintenance.”

NRK · NRK · TU.no

Rødgrønt oppvaskmøte etter dieselbråk

The five red-green parties met Thursday to hash out their differences after Senterpartiet broke the budget agreement before Easter by securing a majority for fuel tax cuts. Støre says he’s not worried the coalition majority will collapse, but called the break “unacceptable.” Finance Minister Stoltenberg promised all fuel tax cuts will be implemented by May 1, while questioning whether the changes comply with EU rules. The diesel-petrol price gap has never been wider.

NRK · NRK

Norske skip avventer — Hormuzstredet fortsatt usikkert

Iran has published safe navigation charts and the first ships have passed through Hormuz, but several Oslo Børs-listed shipping companies are keeping vessels in the Persian Gulf until security is confirmed. The Norwegian Shipowners’ Association says they “will not resume transit until there is real security.” Oslo Børs opened up 0.8% Thursday, partially recovering from Wednesday’s sell-off that wiped 164 billion kroner from three oil stocks alone.

DN · NRK · E24

Telenor faces massive Myanmar lawsuit

NRK has published an investigation into a major lawsuit against Telenor related to the military coup in Myanmar. When soldiers raided a home, they detained children aged two and nine. The lawsuit could involve billions of kroner.

NRK

Politiets IT-systemer slått ut av strømtest

A failed backup power test at a police datacenter took down IT systems across Norway for about 30 minutes Wednesday. Border control at Oslo Airport halted, causing hour-long queues. A criminal trial was disrupted when the prosecutor lost access to case files. Several banks also experienced issues.

Digi.no · NRK

Ingen dømt for kjønnslemlestelse — 30 år med ubrukt lov

Despite carrying up to 15 years’ imprisonment, Norway has never secured a single FGM conviction since the law was introduced in 1995. Over 70 cases have been reported since 2005. An estimated 17,300 girls and women in Norway may have undergone FGM before arrival. Cases collapse due to evidentiary challenges — FGM often occurs abroad, medical evidence is hard to date, and victims fear consequences of reporting. France has secured over 100 convictions; Norway has zero.

NRK

Jotta vil slette ti år med familiedata

Norwegian cloud storage company Jotta wants to delete a customer’s entire archive — over ten years of family photos and videos — after a hash value triggered a match on their systems. The company calls the situation “extremely uncomfortable.” The case raises questions about automated content scanning and false positives.

Digi.no

Tech

Flatpak sandbox escape: any app gets full host access

CVE-2026-34078 affects all Flatpak versions before 1.16.4. Through symlink manipulation in the portal system, any Flatpak app can create symlinks pointing to arbitrary host paths. When Flatpak resolves and mounts these, the sandbox is completely bypassed — unrestricted read, write, and execute on the host.

GitHub Advisory · Lobsters

Aphyr: ML promises to be profoundly weird

Kyle Kingsbury argues that LLMs’ “jagged frontier” of competence — solving multivariable calculus while failing simple word problems — isn’t a temporary growing pain but a structural property. When unpredictably unreliable systems get deployed across society, the result is disorienting in ways we haven’t fully reckoned with. The weirdness comes from the inconsistency itself.

aphyr.com · HN

PostgreSQL performance halved on Linux 7.0 kernel

A kernel change restricting preemption modes to Full and Lazy breaks PostgreSQL’s spinlock-heavy buffer management, dropping throughput to ~50% on modern CPUs like AWS Graviton4. The fix requires PostgreSQL to adopt RSEQ (Restartable Sequences). Workaround: enabling huge pages eliminates the regression entirely.

Phoronix · Lobsters

Veracrypt blocked by Microsoft revoking driver signing

Microsoft abruptly terminated the Veracrypt maintainer’s signing account with no explanation, blocking all Windows releases. System encryption is most affected. After media coverage, Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman reached out. The issue may be part of a larger policy change also affecting WireGuard.

SourceForge · HN

Chiasmus: neurosymbolic MCP server for code analysis

An MCP server pairing LLMs with Z3 (constraint solving) and Tau Prolog (logic programming) for code analysis. Parses code into ASTs via tree-sitter, extracts structural facts as Prolog relations, then delegates questions like dead code detection or call graph traversal to the solvers — replacing dozens of iterative grep calls with single provably-correct tool calls.

Blog post · Lobsters

MegaTrain: training 100B+ LLMs on a single GPU

MegaTrain treats CPU memory as primary storage and the GPU as a transient compute engine, streaming parameters layer-by-layer via pipelined double-buffering. On a single H200 with 1.5TB host memory, it trains up to 120B parameters with ~2x the throughput of DeepSpeed ZeRO-3 — full precision, no quantization tricks.

arXiv · HN

Little Snitch arrives on Linux

The macOS network monitor now has a Linux version. It runs with a 33MB memory footprint and uses eBPF for packet inspection. Two of three components are open source, but the daemon remains proprietary — prompting discussion about alternatives like OpenSnitch and Portmaster.

Product page · HN · Lobsters

Astral’s security posture for uv and ruff

Mandatory pinned GitHub Actions commits, Sigstore cryptographic attestations, dependency cooldown periods to avoid compromised post-release updates, and a deliberate choice not to automate features they can’t do securely. A mature approach to supply chain security for tools rapidly becoming Python infrastructure.

Astral blog · HN

John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement

A landmark outcome — the settlement addresses complaints that Deere’s software locks prevented farmers from repairing their own equipment.

The Drive · HN

Linux & Infrastructure

Dependabot now supports Nix flakes

GitHub’s Dependabot can now monitor flake.lock files and open PRs when flake inputs have newer upstream commits. Add nix as a package ecosystem in .github/dependabot.yml. Supports GitHub, GitLab, Sourcehut, and plain git inputs. Version updates only — no security update support yet.

GitHub Changelog · r/NixOS

The Great Nix Flake Check: 7,600+ flakes evaluated

A large-scale compatibility study evaluated 7,600+ Nix flakes across CppNix, Lix, and the author’s own implementation. Success rates ranged from ~55–70%. The study uncovered numerous undocumented behaviors — implicit inputs, special attribute handling, context-dependent URL parsing — and advocates for formal specification. Lix proved very compatible despite the lack of documentation.

Blog · NixOS Discourse · r/NixOS

fzf 0.71.0: parallel search and Zellij support

Search now scales linearly with CPU cores, cache memory footprint reduced 86x per entry. The --tmux flag is renamed to --popup and supports Zellij 0.44+ floating panes. New --id-nth tracks item identity across reloads. Shell integration gets multi-select in bash/fish CTRL-R and shift-delete for history removal.

Release notes · r/commandline

ruah: parallel AI coding with git worktree isolation

A CLI giving each AI agent an isolated Git worktree with glob-based file locking to prevent edit collisions. Supports DAG-based workflows defined in Markdown, works with Claude Code, Aider, Codex, Cursor, and Windsurf.

GitHub · r/commandline

SIEM add-on proposed for Home Assistant

A Security Information and Event Management add-on with strong community support — structured security audit log recording login successes/failures, user IDs, IPs, and user agents.

GitHub Discussion · r/homeassistant

Vaxry’s talk at FUTO on Hyprland

The Hyprland creator gave a rare public talk at the Louis Rossmann-backed tech organization.

YouTube · r/hyprland

Artemis II

Artemis II’s four astronauts are on their return trajectory, likely splashing down Saturday, after breaking Apollo 13’s record for the farthest humans from Earth. The crew said they were bringing back “so many more pictures, so many more stories” from their lunar discoveries.

BBC