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Zombie 'who owns Unix?' lawsuit comes alive again

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/06/zombie-who-owns-unix-lawsuit-comes-alive-again/5266761
2•robin_reala•1h ago

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bell-cot•45m ago
> ...the roots of the case are the 1998 alliance between IBM and a company called the Santa Cruz Operation which sold a version of UNIX...

> Big Blue decided Linux was the future and bailed from Project Monterey – then allegedly contributed some Monterey code to [Linux] ...

> The matter continues and appears likely to do so until either the heat death of the universe or the year of...

Anyone know how much code is involved, and how important it is? I would think that the EFF or somebody would organize it's replacement with legally kosher new code.

A Stargate for Data

https://willdepue.substack.com/p/a-stargate-for-data
2•felixdoerp•3m ago•0 comments

Know thyself – why your chatbot hallucinates you; and what to do instead

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/75291
1•parrik•4m ago•0 comments

Cynefin Framework

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework
1•hasley•5m ago•0 comments

Redditor has mystery data corruption; realises their desk fan is the cause

https://old.reddit.com/r/EagleCool/comments/1tw9gtc/i_have_several_questions_currently_love_hate/
1•davidbarker•5m ago•0 comments

Microsoft, Google and Cloudflare just made 2029 the new quantum deadline

https://thenewstack.io/post-quantum-cryptography-deadline-2029/
1•Brajeshwar•6m ago•0 comments

Almost all coders at Id Software have been fired, following Xbox reset

https://xcancel.com/ScottApogee/status/2074198967550685268#m
5•LucidLynx•6m ago•0 comments

The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/philosophy-majors-ai-jobs.html
2•benbreen•7m ago•0 comments

Africa's animals fear human voices more than the sound of lions/gunshots (2023)

https://www.iflscience.com/africas-animals-fear-the-sound-of-humans-more-than-lions-dogs-or-gunsh...
1•maxloh•7m ago•0 comments

StoryScope: Investigating Idiosyncracies in AI Fiction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03136
2•djha-skin•8m ago•0 comments

Brain Chemistry Changes After Just Three Days of Silence

https://www.bgr.com/science/your-brain-chemistry-changes-after-just-three-days-of-silence/
1•momentmaker•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bloomiro, an MCP tool for improving SEO and AI search visibility

https://bloomiro.com
3•johnbuildss•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a JavaScript layer that let's me make clinical research for free

1•pathmap•10m ago•1 comments

Chinese EV makers Geely, Chery take over empty European auto factories

https://restofworld.org/2026/chinese-ev-europe-factory-takeover-tariffs/
1•JeanKage•11m ago•0 comments

What a Data Engineer Misses About Transformers (Until You Build One)

https://saran-blog.vercel.app/posts/what-a-data-engineer-misses-about-transformers/
1•smallel4•13m ago•0 comments

I Quit My PhD

https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/when-i-quit-my-phd
1•andsoitis•13m ago•0 comments

The Only Two Things We Ever Say to Each Other

https://www.hardrefresh.life/the-only-two-things-we-ever-say-to-each-other/
1•speckx•13m ago•1 comments

Chat Control 1.0 approved to be voted on on Thursday

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/116878253081563900
2•nickslaughter02•14m ago•1 comments

Decline of PhD Admissions Could Imperil a 'Generation of New Talent'

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/us/research-universities-fewer-phds-science.html
3•pseudolus•14m ago•1 comments

How Statisticians Split a Bill

https://dmvaldman.github.io/tablestakes/
2•dmvaldman•15m ago•0 comments

The power of APIs: The unsung hero of AI interface

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/07/07/the-power-of-apis-the-unsung-hero-of-ai-i...
3•losgehts•15m ago•0 comments

GitHub Has Restricted Access to Star Data

https://www.star-history.com/blog/github-stargazer-api-restriction/
5•eatonphil•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Revector – Alembic-style schema migrations for Qdrant

https://github.com/diegoglozano/revector
1•diegoglozano•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: hnsubstacks – Browse only Substacks submitted to HN

https://hnsubstacks.com/
2•cartucho1•17m ago•0 comments

Mozilla's Otari: The Open Source LLM Control Plane

https://www.mozilla.ai/product/otari
2•nunodonato•19m ago•0 comments

I ran the official MCP conformance suite against a real server

https://www.barefootdigital.dev/blog/what-the-official-mcp-conformance-suite-actually-tells-you-a...
1•barefootdifital•19m ago•0 comments

Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble

https://www.notus.org/economy/treasury-internal-report-warning-dangers-ai-bubble
4•petethomas•23m ago•0 comments

Pqc-scan: scan your codebase for quantum-vulnerable cryptography

https://github.com/sachhg/pqc-scan
1•sachitm21•25m ago•0 comments

United Airlines Loses Bid to Dismiss Lawsuit over 'Windowless' Window Seats

https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-loses-bid-to-dismiss-lawsuit-over-windowless-window-seats/
1•randycupertino•25m ago•1 comments

A Peek Inside Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Where Whimsical Puppets Are Designed

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/a-peek-inside-jim-hensons-creature-shop-where-sesame-street...
1•pseudolus•25m ago•0 comments

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview
4•gasull•26m ago•0 comments