A US–Iran deal reopens Hormuz even as Ukraine turns Crimea into an “energy desert,” Starmer walks out of Downing Street in tears, and a lethal heatwave shuts down French reactors.

Iran–US deal: inspectors return, sanctions waived, Hormuz to reopen

JD Vance met Iranian officials at a Swiss luxury resort in what the Trump administration called a “major milestone” — the most significant US–Iran breakthrough since the recent war. Iran will let UN nuclear inspectors back in; Washington will waive sanctions on Tehran’s oil exports and has released roughly $12 billion in frozen funds; and the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran had closed, will reopen — though Tehran says it will “administer” it going forward. The deal carries friction: Iran’s foreign ministry insisted it made “no new commitments” beyond the nuclear sites and rejected Trump’s claim that the funds would buy US agricultural produce, and a video showed Iranian officials walking out mid-negotiation, leaving Vance to face the press alone. Trump drew a public red line, warning that stopping Iran’s nuclear program “supersedes” any economic-depression risk. Even as it negotiated, Tehran arrested more than 3,000 of its own citizens for “collaborating with the enemy.”

The Guardian · Guardian: live · BBC · Al Jazeera: Hormuz · Reuters/Reddit · ABC/Reddit: walkout · Sky/Reddit: arrests

Crimea becomes an “energy desert” as fuel rationing spreads to six Russian regions

NASA FIRMS satellite data showing fire hotspots across occupied Crimea after overnight Ukrainian drone strikes, 23 June 2026.

Overnight, a major drone strike ignited fires at Kerch’s oil terminal, the TES-Terminal fuel complex and the Port of Kavkaz, closing the Kerch Bridge for the entire night. Crimea’s occupation governor has halted all fuel sales to non-state buyers, suspended ferries, and cancelled every children’s camp through 1 September — effectively ending the tourist season. The squeeze is spreading: six Russian regions have imposed emergency fuel rationing, Moscow marketplaces are blocking fuel resellers, and the Kremlin has publicly acknowledged rising prices while floating stopgaps like obsolete fuel grades and “mini refineries.” (Full battlefield picture in Ukraine.)

Ukrainska Pravda · United24: lockdown · United24: rationing · The Guardian · EUObserver

Keir Starmer resigns; Andy Burnham could be PM by July

A “broken” Keir Starmer, holding back tears, announced his resignation after barely two years in Downing Street — the shortest-serving recent UK leader — pushed out by more than 100 Labour MPs and his own ministers after weak local elections and collapsing popularity. He stays on as caretaker until the party picks a successor, with nominations opening 9 July. Andy Burnham, the popular Greater Manchester mayor and former health and culture minister, was swiftly sworn in as an MP and immediately confirmed his candidacy — so far unchallenged, and likely to become Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade. A Norwegian analyst notes Burnham sits close to the centre and much may stay unchanged.

NRK: Starmer · NRK: Burnham · Aftenposten · Guardian: Burnham · Guardian: Starmer record · CBS/Reddit

Europe’s heatwave kills at least 18 in France; French reactors throttle down

A severe heatwave has swept western and central Europe, killing at least 18 in France — including two children found dead in a car and around 20 drownings — with red alerts across France, Italy and Spain and the UK’s first red warning in years as temperatures approach 40°C+. French nuclear plants are cutting output because rivers are too warm to cool them safely: Golfech is shut until 30 June and Saint-Alban on the Rhône has repeatedly throttled back, with production losses estimated near 230 GW and Monday power prices at 1.19 kr/kWh against a 0.5 kr 30-day average. France convened a crisis meeting and restricted outdoor alcohol; schools closed and trains were disrupted. Norwegian tourists are travelling anyway — one at France’s Hellfest suffered heatstroke in near-40°C heat.

Guardian: live · BBC · TU: atomkraft · NRK: turister · Aftenposten: drukninger

Indicator	Value	Change
S&P 500 (f)	7,439	−1.36%
Dow 30 (f)	51,749	−0.71%
Nasdaq (f)	29,960	−2.26%
Russell 2000 (f)	2,980	−1.45%
VIX	19.95	+15.44%
Gold	4,123	−1.90%
BTC	$62,815	−2.05%
EUR/USD	1.1412	−0.13%
USD/NOK	9.759	+0.64%

VIX +15.4%, Nasdaq −2.3% — broad risk-off: Qatar LNG hub explosion, Ukraine escalating strikes into Russia, Five Eyes urgent AI cyber warning
Gold −1.9% despite the equity selloff — the Iran deal and Hormuz reopening likely unwound the war premium that had been propping it up

World

Alan Greenspan, Fed chairman who shaped the modern US economy, dies at 100

Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman from 1987 to 2006, died at 100. His tenure — defined by deregulation and low-rate orthodoxy — spanned the dot-com bubble and the 2008 crisis, which he later partly blamed on his own ideology, and was rooted in a long friendship with libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand that helped cement his faith in markets.

BBC · Al Jazeera · NPR

Qatar LNG explosion kills at least 13 at the world’s largest gas hub

An explosion at the Ras Laffan industrial zone — Qatar’s main LNG processing site and the world’s largest hub — killed at least 13 and injured dozens. Qatari authorities called it a “technical accident” but gave few details. The blast raises immediate questions about supply-disruption risk for LNG-dependent European markets.

BBC

Far right wins Colombia’s presidency; left vows to challenge result

Abelardo de la Espriella — a Trump-admiring evangelical lawyer who has vowed to “disembowel” the left and kill criminals “like rats and cockroaches” — won Colombia’s runoff, alarming human-rights advocates who see an “institutional threat.” Leftist candidate Iván Cepeda said he would challenge the result in court.

The Guardian · Al Jazeera

Two more critics dead: a Putin journalist in Latvia, an Ecuador whistleblower

Putin og Alina Kabaeva (2004) — fra saken om journalisten Grigorij Nekhorosjev, som avslørte forholdet og nå er funnet død.

Russian journalist Grigorij Nekhorosjev (69), former editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Korrespondent, was found dead at his home in Latvia. In 2008 he exposed the alleged relationship between Vladimir Putin and gymnast Alina Kabaeva — a story that pressured the paper’s owner into shutting it down. Latvian authorities are investigating; the death is provisionally attributed to poisoning from mushrooms he is said to have foraged himself, under circumstances described as unusual. (English-language wires reported a separate “accidental mushroom poisoning” of a Putin enemy in the same window.) Meanwhile in Ecuador, Polish anti-corruption activist Monika Silva Koniuszek — who had investigated the family business of the country’s right-wing president — died from a blow to the head and strangulation, a postmortem found, contradicting the government’s initial suicide claim.

Dagsavisen: Nekhorosjev · Extra.ie/Reddit · Guardian: Ecuador

Five Eyes: frontier AI will transform offensive cyberattacks “within months”

The Five Eyes alliance (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) issued an urgent joint warning that cutting-edge AI models are “fundamentally transforming” offensive cyber capability, and that the timeline “is not years, it is months.” The warning named Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber as enabling sophisticated attacks at unprecedented speed and scale; Anthropic was reportedly required to disable foreign-national access to Mythos over national-security concerns. CISA cut its critical-vulnerability response deadline for government to just three days, citing AI threat acceleration.

Al Jazeera

Israel’s “quiet annexation” of the West Bank grows louder

An Al Jazeera weekly wrap describes Israel’s annexation of the West Bank advancing in the open — mosques torched, settlements expanded, officials openly describing efforts to extend control. In Gaza, a 17-year-old Palestinian girl was killed by an Israeli strike while walking to school to sit an exam; the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem made a solidarity visit to the territory’s remaining Christian community. Separately, a new UN report documents Myanmar’s junta killing 702 civilians — including 153 children — in the second half of 2025.

Al Jazeera: annexation · Al Jazeera: girl killed · BBC: Myanmar

Also today

Europe: Spain’s PM Sánchez loses a key ally — ex-transport minister José Luis Ábalos jailed 24 years for Covid-era mask-contract bribes — Guardian; Jeffrey Donaldson, ex-DUP leader, convicted by a jury of historic child sex offences — Reuters/Reddit; Brexit at 10 — 60% of Gen Z Britons would vote to rejoin the EU; participants call it the moment that “broke” British politics — Guardian: poll · Guardian: oral history · NPR; EU plans to host Taliban representatives in Brussels spark fierce backlash from MEPs and rights campaigners — Guardian
Americas: A US federal judge ruled Trump’s revamped SAVE voter-verification system unlawful; the Supreme Court separately narrowed Voting Rights Act enforcement in seven states — NPR: SAVE · NPR: SCOTUS; A Brazilian court convicted Volkswagen for enslaving laborers at an Amazon farm during the dictatorship era — a corporate-accountability precedent — El País/Reddit
Asia & Pacific: A bullying-revenge school shooting in the central Philippines killed three students and wounded seven; two student suspects in custody — BBC · NPR; China sanctioned US defense and rare-earth firms in a retaliatory escalation — Asia Times/Reddit
Sport: Messi becomes the World Cup’s all-time top scorer with career goals 17 and 18 against Austria, in likely his final tournament — Al Jazeera · NPR

Ukraine

Ukraine hits Dubna satellite hub and Voronezh weapons plant in third Moscow-area strike this week

Antennas and satellite dishes at the Dubna Space Communications Center, Russia’s largest satellite teleport (Wikimedia).

Ukrainian drones struck the Dubna Space Communications Center — Russia’s largest satellite teleport, ~540 km from the border — on the night of 21–22 June, the third strike on the Moscow area in a week. Separately, Ukraine launched roughly nine Storm Shadow and possibly ERAM/AGM-188 missiles at the Voronezh Semiconductor Devices Plant, which makes components for Kh-101 cruise missiles, Iskander-K and Pantsir-S1; the regional governor acknowledged damage and at least five killed. Zelensky said Ukrainian Fire Point drones have now hit targets 2,070 km deep, with 3,000 km range coming, and told the UN Security Council Russia should “get out before it is too late.” ISW counts 28 confirmed long-range strikes on Russian oil infrastructure in June alone.

United24: Dubna · Ukrainska Pravda · NV: Voronezh · Defence Blog: AGM-188 · Kyiv Post/Reddit: UN · ISW, June 22

Russia strips frontline air defenses to shield Moscow

Russia has redeployed a Pantsir system from the front to a tower beside the Moscow Oil Refinery — visible with only 2 of its 6 missiles loaded, a sign of interceptor shortages — while satellite imagery shows a new S-400 installation under construction west of Moscow since late May. ISW assesses that Ukraine’s intensifying strike campaign is forcing Russia into impossible tradeoffs between protecting the capital and supplying the front, compounded by S-300 shortages already reported by CBS News.

The Telegraph · Yahoo/Reddit · ISW, June 22

Frontline: slow grind at Kostyantynivka, a new Dobropillya push, and AI-faked propaganda

221 combat clashes in the past day, with Pokrovsk, Hulyaipole and Lyman the hottest fronts. At Kostyantynivka, Ukrainian soldiers describe Russian advances under 100 meters a day as drone crews keep infantry in a “kill zone” — serious, but far from the collapse Russian state media advertises. North of Pokrovsk, Russia is pressing toward Dobropillya from two directions via Rodynske and Bilytske; ISW confirmed Russian forces seized Radkivka north of Kupyansk. Notably, the Russian MoD published likely AI-altered footage claiming flag-raisings in both Lyman and Kostyantynivka — part of a systematic Kremlin cognitive-warfare effort ISW has tracked for weeks.

Ukrainska Pravda: 221 clashes · Ukrainska Pravda: Lyman · ISW, June 22

Putin to meet Lukashenko over drone ultimatum; opposition warns Belarus may enter the war

For the third time in four days, Zelensky demanded Belarus dismantle Russian drone signal repeaters on its border, and the Kremlin confirmed Putin will meet Lukashenko to address it — calling the demand “an absolutely aggressive threat.” Belarus opposition figures warn Lukashenko may be quietly preparing to bring his country into the war. Zelensky meanwhile publicly rejected pressure to offer Putin a face-saving off-ramp. The UN reported May 2026 was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since April 2022, and a Russian drone strike on the Turkish-flagged Victress in the Black Sea killed an Egyptian crew member, prompting Türkiye to call for reduced tensions.

United24: Lukashenko · United24: Belarus opposition · NV/Reddit: Zelensky · Ukrainska Pravda: UN · Ukrainska Pravda: Türkiye

Also today

Russia’s MOEX index fell 4.42% to ~2,313 — its lowest since March 2023, a 15-week losing streak now exceeding the 2008 crisis decline — after a modest 25bp rate cut paired with hawkish rhetoric disappointed investors — Moscow Times/Reddit · Moscow Times
Ukraine’s cheap networked sensors are reshaping Western thinking on air defense — NATO is studying the model closely — Business Insider/Reddit

Norge

Norge slår Senegal 3–2 og er klar for sluttspillet i VM

Kampbilde fra Norge–Senegal i New Jersey, 23. juni 2026. Foto: VG

Erling Braut Haaland scoret to mål og Martin Ødegaard leverte en strålende pasning da Norge beseiret Senegal 3–2 natt til mandag i New Jersey. Marcus Holmgren Pedersen scoret sitt første A-landslagsmål etter at Julian Ryerson måtte ut med lyskeskade allerede etter elleve minutter. Seieren sikrer Norge topp to i gruppe I og plass i 16-delsfinalen – første gang herrelandslaget tar seg videre i et VM med seks poeng. Kampen ble spilt under flomvarsel i New York-regionen, og norske supportere ble evakuert fra utearealer før avspark. Neste kamp er fredag mot Frankrike, der Ståle Solbakken varsler rotering – flere spillere hadde krampetendens. Jubelen ga seismiske utslag i Bergen og fikk Tampnets undervannsfiberkabel i Oslofjorden til å dirre, mens Vipps meldte om 200 prosent økning i transaksjoner – ny rekord.

NRK: Norge slo Senegal · NRK: veien videre · Aftenposten: VM-drama · NRK: seismometer · Digi.no: fiberkabler · E24: Vipps-rekord

Skattekommisjonen legger frem forslag onsdag – store endringer ventes

Skattekommisjonen presenterer rapporten sin onsdag, og både NRK og DN erfarer at nøkkelforslagene inkluderer å tredoble botiden for skattefritt salg av primærbolig (fra ett til tre år), fjerne skattefritaket på hyttesalg, innføre moms på skadeforsikring og endre formuesskatten. Forslaget om botid treffer direkte den «boligflippingen» NRK-kilder beskriver som systematisk utnyttelse: investorer flytter inn i utleieboliger nettopp det minimumsåret som kreves for skattefritt salg. Eksperter tviler likevel på bredt politisk forlik – en professor beskriver de ideologiske motsetningene som dype og «minner om en krig». Samtidig tror norske økonomer Norges Bank hever renten allerede i august, drevet av økte boligpriser og en sterkere økonomi enn ventet.

NRK: tredobler botiden · DN: hytte-skattefritak · DN: moms på forsikring · NRK: ekspert tviler · E24: renteøkning · r/norge

22. juli-minnesmerket offisielt ferdigstilt i regjeringskvartalet

Det nasjonale minnesmerket etter terrorangrepene 22. juli 2011 er nå offisielt ferdigstilt i regjeringskvartalet. Matias Faldbakkens verk «En opprettholdelse» er et stort mosaikkbilde av vadende fugler fra Tyrifjorden, montert på en blå stålkonstruksjon laget av det originale transportstellet brukt til å flytte vraket av Y-blokka. Mosaikken ble lagt av overlevende, etterlatte og ungdom sammen med kunstneren, som beskriver det som «en brutal påminnelse». Reaksjonene er blandede – lederen i Støttegruppen kaller det verdig og vakkert, mens en kunstkritiker er kritisk til komposisjonen.

NRK: slik ble minnesmerket · Dagsavisen: en verdig form · Dagsavisen: tårene presset på

SAS hengte ut rullestolbruker Birgit Skarstein over høyttaleren på Gardermoen

SAS annonserte over høyttaleranlegget på Gardermoen at et fly var forsinket på grunn av en rullestolbruker – den paralympiske utøveren Birgit Skarstein, som hadde bestilt assistanse 28 dager i forveien. En advokat som var medpassasjer motsa beskjeden i sanntid. SAS’ pressesjef ga en lunken beklagelse («dersom Birgit opplevde at reisen ikke ble som forventet»). Hendelsen falt sammen med at Stortinget enstemmig vedtok å gjennomgå tilgjengeligheten i flytrafikken for funksjonshemmede; Norges Handikapforbund kalte det «en stor overtramp».

NRK: SAS beklagar · r/norge

Telenor snudde etter NRK-avsløring: testet overvåkingssystem i Myanmar

NRK har konfrontert Telenor med interne dokumenter og en anonym tidligere leder som sier selskapet faktisk testet et LIG-system (Lawful Intercept Gateway) for masseovervåking av mobilkunder i Myanmar – stikk i strid med selskapets offentlige uttalelser. Interne brev fra Telenor-ledelsen til myanmarske myndigheter bekrefter at de «har tatt skritt og gjort tiltak for å forberede, teste og klargjøre LI-utstyret», og militæret fikk tilgang til rommet i rundt fire timer for egne tester. Selskapet endrer nå sin versjon av historien.

NRK: Telenor snakker usant

Hvaldimir bekreftet som russisk militærhval med 100 prosents sikkerhet

Etter to års forskning er seniorforsker Rasmus Worsøe Havmøller ved Kristiansand naturhistoriske museum sikker: hvalrossen Hvaldimir – som dukket opp i norske farvann i 2019 med en sele merket «St. Petersburg» – var en russisk militærhval. Genetisk analyse viser at han stammer fra Okhotskhavet mellom Russland og Japan, og sannsynligheten for at han naturlig fant veien til Norge er tilnærmet null. Ukrainsk marinbiolog Olga Shpak hevder han tjenestegjorde under navnet «Andruha» i Russlands marine pattedyrprogram. Historien skal nå fortelles på museum.

NRK: militærhval

Også i dag

Arbeidsliv: Oljestreiken trappes kraftig opp – Offshore Norge varsler lockout fra lørdag, som rammer rundt 1 272 arbeidere (opp fra 378). Tapet ligger alt over 100 mill. kr i uka — NRK · TU; SAS-streik kan ramme sommerferien fra onsdag – kabinansatte krever høyere lønn og bedre arbeidstid — E24; Posten Bring kutter rundt 1 milliard kroner (25 %) ved hjelp av ny teknologi inkludert AI – og varsler færre ansatte — DN
Miljø & infrastruktur: Brussel (ESA) krever svar innen 3. juli om hvorfor Nordic Mining fortsatt dumper gruveavfall i Førdefjorden etter at Høyesterett underkjente utslippstillatelsene — NRK · TU; Høyanger: 15 år med for mye aluminium i drikkevannet fra Kyrkjebø vassverk – barn under tre år kalles inn til helsekontroll — NRK; Østfoldbanen: sykkel lagt over sporet ved Tomter – det syvende dokumenterte sabotasjeforsøket på linjen — TU; Gassfunnet Carmen i Nordsjøen bekreftet av DNO – anslått til opptil 107 millioner fat oljeekvivalenter — DN
Sikkerhet & gransking: Russiske Tu-160-bombefly på 16-timers tokt over Barents- og Norskehavet, eskortert av MiG-31 — Aftenposten; Forsvaret bistår politiet med vakthold ved USAs ambassade i Oslo ut midten av august, grunnet den «sikkerhetspolitiske situasjonen» — r/oslo; Uavhengig gransking igangsettes av Sametingets håndtering av Mikkel Eskil Mikkelsen-saken — NRK; Granskingsutvalg avdekker store mangler og svak kontroll i det norske systemet for utenlandsadopsjoner — NRK

Norge — på grasrota

«Zombiepublikum» på norske konserter bekymrer artistene

VG-lista-koreograf Irlin Finsådal slo alarm om publikum som står ubevegelige og filmer i stedet for å engasjere seg – og sammenlignet årets publikum med «sauer i en innhegning». Aftenposten kjørte saken som et kulturelt øyeblikk og rammet det inn som en sosiale-medier-drevet passivitet i ungdomskulturen. r/norge-tråden la til skepsis: er dette faktisk nytt, eller er det generasjonspanikk forkledd som mediekritikk?

Publikum under VG-lista. Foto: Annika Byrde / NTB

Aftenposten · r/norge

Grasrot

Tobakksjapper popper opp på løpende bånd på Grünerløkka – fire–fem i Thorvald Meyers gate på ett år. r/oslo-tråden åpner rett på sak: «Er det bare hvitvasking, alt sammen?» — r/oslo
En rant på r/norge om ambient overvåking – Ring-kameraer, taxikameraer, dashcam-kultur, butikk-CCTV – peker på at infrastrukturen for masseovervåking av dagliglivet bygges ut uten noen kollektiv debatt — r/norge
VM-feber tar over norsk Reddit: r/norge og r/norway druknet i jubel, memes og tårer etter 3–2-snuoperasjonen mot Senegal («ble faktisk rørt») — r/norge · r/Norway

Tech & Infrastructure

Oak: version control rebuilt for AI agents

Oak — version control for agents.

Oak is a new open-source VCS designed around agentic workflows rather than human ones. Instead of commits, it uses a branch-per-session model with descriptions. Content addressing via BLAKE3 and lazy on-demand hydration through virtual FUSE mounts mean an agent can start working on any repo in seconds without a full clone. Machine-readable JSON output, documented numeric exit codes, and non-interactive operation throughout. The pitch: dramatically less wall time, fewer transcript tokens, and faster recovery than running Git in an agent loop. HN noted parallels to Google’s CitC and Meta’s EdenFS, while skeptics asked whether models trained on Git will simply ignore it — a real adoption challenge.

Oak repository · HN

Nix still can’t relocate its binary cache — and a 100-line build core

NASty’s web UI system dashboard — CPU, memory and storage at a glance.

Farid Zakaria had a productive few days. The headline argument: Nix’s hardcoded /nix/store paths make alternative store prefixes (rootless installs, Bazel/Buck2 sandboxes, nested user namespaces) cascade-invalidate the entire dependency graph and force recompilation from source. The fix would be Linux $ORIGIN-relative paths — but the kernel doesn’t support $ORIGIN in PT_INTERP headers or shebangs, so the options are kernel patches, static bootstrap wrappers, or language-level relative paths. He frames this as the key remaining blocker for Nix in constrained and corporate environments. In a companion piece, wrap-buddy documents ELF entry-point hijacking for the pathological binaries patchelf can’t handle — neutralizing PT_INTERP, injecting an entry stub, and reconstructing the binary in memory with the NixOS linker. And a third reimplements nix-build in ~100 lines of Go to show that a derivation is just a build plan realized in four recursive steps — the sandboxing, SQLite tracking and caching is infrastructure, not the core. Related: NASty v0.0.12, a NixOS + bcachefs NAS OS with bcachefs-native compression, erasure coding, TPM2-sealed encryption, and NFS/SMB/iSCSI/NVMe-oF sharing — all from one web UI.

fzakaria: relocatable · fzakaria: wrap-buddy · fzakaria: nix-build · Lobsters · NASty

nix-omarchy-theme: declarative Hyprland theme switching via Home Manager

A Home Manager module enabling runtime theme switching across the whole Hyprland desktop. A theme-switcher command (aliased ts) applies a theme by updating wallpapers, reloading Hyprland, restarting Waybar/Mako/Ghostty/Btop, and updating GTK/icon themes via gsettings. Themes live in Git repos with a colors.toml; 17 built-in templates cover Alacritty, Foot, Ghostty, Kitty, Helix, Btop, Hyprlock and Waybar. Inspired by Omarchy’s theme ecosystem, extensible via custom templates.

GitHub niedch/nix-omarchy-theme · r/NixOS

Xfce goes Wayland: Xfwl4 first preview released

Xfwl4 — Xfce’s Wayland compositor — has its first preview after six months of sponsored development, aiming for seamless parity with X11-based Xfce so users can switch without noticing. The alpha is missing mouse/touchpad settings dialogs, app-switching keyboard shortcuts, and startup window-position restoration, but is described as a “solid cut” — a real milestone for anyone who wants a traditional stacking desktop on Wayland without jumping to GNOME or KDE.

spurint.org · Lobsters

HTTP gets a QUERY method — safe, idempotent, with a request body

RFC 10008 standardizes HTTP QUERY: a method that’s semantically read-only and idempotent (like GET) but accepts a request body (like POST). It closes a long-standing gap — complex search queries that overflow URL length limits with GET, or get mislabeled as POST mutations — and lets middleware and caches correctly treat QUERY as safe to retry and cache. Caveats: links can’t be shared, and broad adoption will take years; plain GET remains right for most cases.

Kreya blog · HN

Rhombus v1.0: Racket’s readable-syntax language ships stable

Rhombus is a general-purpose functional language on Racket’s foundations, offering conventional syntax without sacrificing Lisp-tradition macro power. Instead of S-expressions it uses “shrubbery notation” — an intentional middle ground that preserves compile-time metaprogramming while staying readable to people outside the Lisp tradition. v1.0 ships comprehensive docs, a new class system, pervasive pattern matching, and hierarchical namespaces. Racket’s answer to the accessibility problem that has long limited Lisp-family languages. Elsewhere, Mitchell Hashimoto pledged another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation (total now $700k) — donating despite disagreeing with Zig’s no-LLM contribution policy, a signal Zig has earned credibility beyond ideological alignment.

Racket blog · Lobsters: Rhombus · mitchellh.com · Lobsters: Zig

Drawing-tablet brands won’t collaborate on Linux drivers — because the repos are named after Wacom

Illustration by David Revoy: a “Linux drawing tablet driver” sandbox with a Wacom penguin inside while Huion, XpPen and Gaomon penguins hesitate outside.

Open-source Linux tablet infrastructure (libwacom, wacom-hid-descriptors) is community-run but named after Wacom — and that naming is blocking collaboration. Huion, XpPen, Gaomon and Ugee refuse to share device specs with projects they perceive as “primarily Wacom-led,” since contributing would route their specs through Wacom-branded infrastructure. David Revoy notes the irony: the repos already support all brands, the names are just a legacy artifact, and Linux users suffer for a coordination failure rooted entirely in competitive optics.

David Revoy · Lobsters

Police chiefs used Flock license-plate readers to stalk ex-partners

Multiple police chiefs have been arrested for using Flock Safety’s ALPR network to track romantic partners without warrants: one Idaho sheriff queried his wife’s plate 700+ times in three months; an Illinois chief ran an ex-boyfriend’s plate 140 times, mostly off duty. Flock’s own Chief Legal Officer called it “the most common” misuse pattern. IPVM argues the pattern shows ALPR networks function as warrantless stalking infrastructure — the vehicle is the mechanism, the person is the target — and that judicial oversight is necessary.

IPVM · HN

Also today

Security: PSA — Jellyfin critical CVE (CVSS 9.3): unauthenticated drawtext ffmpeg-filter injection lets attackers read arbitrary files (incl. /etc/shadow) on all versions before 10.11.7. Upgrade now — SentinelOne · r/selfhosted; Linux Secure Boot certs expiring — Microsoft’s 2011 shim-signing key expired Sept 2025, with more in June 2026. New install media signed with the 2023 key won’t boot un-updated hardware; existing installs are unaffected — LWN · Lobsters; cloudipdb.io — daily-refreshed CIDR lists (441k+) for 37 cloud/CDN/bot providers (AWS, Hetzner, Cloudflare, Tor, GPTBot…) in nftables/iptables/Caddy/JSON formats — cloudipdb.io · r/selfhosted
Self-hosting & home: Home Assistant gains IR/RF/Serial proxies (joining Bluetooth/Z-Wave), bridging decades-old devices via cheap microcontrollers — Open Home Foundation; A forecast-aware HA pre-cooling system shifts AC load out of 2–7 PM peak-rate windows using two helper variables (master enable + forecast high) — blog · r/homeassistant; A fully local voice assistant on a Raspberry Pi: OpenWakeWord → Vosk → Piper with Platypush hooks, no cloud on the happy path — platypush.tech · Lobsters
CLI & desktop: deno desktop bundles any Deno/TypeScript project (Next.js, Astro, SvelteKit, Remix) into a standalone native app via the OS webview, with binary-diff auto-updates — Deno docs · Lobsters; p99 0ms* autocomplete for 240M domains — prefetch on keyDown, render on keyUp; in-memory trie for the top 1M plus a memory-mapped SSD index for the rest — ruurtjan.com · Lobsters; tupass — a TUI for pass with collapsible tree, fuzzy search, and field-specific copy — GitHub · r/commandline; eilmeldung 1.6.0 — Rust vim-key TUI RSS reader gains article piping (store/summarize via LLM) and custom icons/borders — GitHub · r/commandline; foot terminal adds --class to set the Wayland app-id at launch, simplifying Hyprland window rules — r/commandline
Hardware: Valve’s Steam Machine launches at ~$799 — Zen 4 6-core, RDNA3 8GB, claimed 6× Steam Deck GPU, targeting 1440p/4K living-room gaming on SteamOS — Steam · HN · specs

Norsk tech

Frankrike flytter én million lærere til åpen kildekode

Frankrike har gjennomført et massivt digitalt suverenitetstiltak og migrert over én million lærere til en åpen kildekode-plattform, som del av en bredere strategi for å redusere avhengigheten av amerikanske teknologigiganter i offentlig sektor. Prosjektleder Benoît Piédallu vil på sikt fjerne alle amerikanske løsninger fra statens systemer. Danmark piloterer samtidig et Microsoft-alternativ for kommuner, mens Oslo Origo – det norske kommunale digitaliseringsselskapet – preges av masseflukt blant ansatte etter at prosjektet ble lagt ned.

Digi.no: 1 million lærere · Digi.no: dansk Microsoft-alternativ · Digi.no: Origo-flukt

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Health

World’s first type 1 diabetes delay drug approved for NHS

Teplizumab — the first drug proven to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes — has been approved for use on the NHS in England and Wales. It can postpone the early stage of the disease by up to three years in at-risk individuals, described by specialists as an “incredible moment” and the biggest breakthrough in tackling the condition in decades.

The Guardian

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