Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226145
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226145
Frederick Forsyth has died
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/09/frederick-forsyth-day-of-the-jackal-author-and-former-mi6-agent-dies-aged-86
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/09/frederick-forsyth-day-of-the-jackal-author-and-former-mi6-agent-dies-aged-86
the Guardian
Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86
Writer used his experience reporting on De Gaulle’s France to plot his thriller, and continued to draw on real-world research for subsequent bestsellers
A bit more on Twitter/X's new encrypted messaging
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/06/09/a-bit-more-on-twitter-xs-new-encrypted-messaging/
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/06/09/a-bit-more-on-twitter-xs-new-encrypted-messaging/
A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
A bit more on Twitter/X’s new encrypted messaging
Update 6/10: Based on a short conversation with an engineering lead at X, some of the devices used at X are claimed to be using HSMs. See more further below. Matthew Garrett has a nice post about T…
Object firing signals at Earth every 44 minutes
https://www.livescience.com/space/unlike-anything-we-have-seen-before-astronomers-discover-mysterious-object-firing-strange-signals-at-earth-every-44-minutes
https://www.livescience.com/space/unlike-anything-we-have-seen-before-astronomers-discover-mysterious-object-firing-strange-signals-at-earth-every-44-minutes
Live Science
'Unlike anything we have seen before': Astronomers discover mysterious object firing strange signals at Earth every 44 minutes
ASKAP J1832-0911, which is periodically throwing out pulses of radio waves and X-rays, could be a brand-new cosmic object.
Google battling 'fox infestation' on roof of £1B London office
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/09/google-foxes-roof-london-kings-cross-office
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/09/google-foxes-roof-london-kings-cross-office
the Guardian
Google battling fox incursion on roof of £1bn London office
Foxes have ‘begun to dig burrows’ in soil of rooftop garden at the as yet unopened King’s Cross headquarters
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-cdc-acip-vaccines-3790c89f45b6314c5c7b686db0e3a8f9
https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-cdc-acip-vaccines-3790c89f45b6314c5c7b686db0e3a8f9
AP News
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
Sly Stone has died
https://abcnews.go.com/US/sly-stone-pioneering-leader-funk-band-sly-family/story?id=122666345
https://abcnews.go.com/US/sly-stone-pioneering-leader-funk-band-sly-family/story?id=122666345
ABC News
Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82
Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his family. Stone was 82 years old.
Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/nx-s1-5340363/las-vegas-climate-change-solution-trees
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/nx-s1-5340363/las-vegas-climate-change-solution-trees
NPR
Faced with rising temps, Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees
Climate change is driving more dangerous summer heat across the U.S. Las Vegas, which reached 120 degrees last summer, is planting thousands of trees to help cool its hottest neighborhoods.
World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clynq459wxgo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clynq459wxgo
BBC News
World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says
Hundreds of millions of people are not able to have the number of children they want, the UN warns.
Ada Continues to Climb in June Tiobe Index and PYPL
https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/ada-continues-to-climb-in-june-tiobe-index-and-pypl/2126
https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/ada-continues-to-climb-in-june-tiobe-index-and-pypl/2126
Ada Forum
Ada Continues to Climb in June TIOBE Index and PYPL
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Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why
https://tuta.com/blog/digital-sovereignty-europe
https://tuta.com/blog/digital-sovereignty-europe
Tuta
Europe needs digital sovereignty - and Microsoft has just proven why. | Tuta
Call to action: Businesses already offer great European alternatives for digital sovereignty, authorities must start adopting them now!
Mozilla shuts down even more Firefox services
https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-shuts-down-even-more-firefox-services-you-might-still-be-using/
https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-shuts-down-even-more-firefox-services-you-might-still-be-using/
Neowin
Mozilla shuts down even more Firefox services you might still be using
Mozilla has announced the shutdown of several Firefox services as it shifts its focus and resources back to the core Firefox browser.
IBM to build first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/10/1118297/ibm-large-scale-error-corrected-quantum-computer-by-2028/
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/10/1118297/ibm-large-scale-error-corrected-quantum-computer-by-2028/
MIT Technology Review
IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028
The company says it has cracked the code for error correction and is building a modular machine in New York state.
Always On, Always Connected, Always Searching, Always Distracted
https://leejo.github.io/2025/06/10/always_on/
https://leejo.github.io/2025/06/10/always_on/
Launch HN: BitBoard (YC X25) – AI agents for healthcare back-offices
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44237769
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44237769