Daily Tech News 10 June 2026

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We haven't had a critical local privilege escalation bug in Linux for at least... What's the time now? (Ars Technica)

Today's little surprise package comes courtesy of an unexpected exclamation mark in the source code for the Netfilter module that handles firewall tasks resulting in a use-after-free bug that can pretty reliably be tricked into granting an unprivileged user administrator access to the entire system. Might break shared-kernel containers too; not sure about that.

If you think you're safe because you use iptables or lfw rather than Netfilter I have some uncomfortable news for you: It's Netfilter all the way down. That's been true since the last millennium.

Tech News

The FCC wants to kill burner phones. (404 Media)

Wait, you can still get phones in the US without signing over your firstborn?
The Pentagon has labeled multiple Chinese tech companies as... Chinese tech companies. (AP News)

As in they're all in bed with the Chinese military, which is not the army of China but of the Chinese Communist Party. Which it is and they are.
Google has just fired a shot across the bow of GitHub Copilot. (Tech Crunch)

Their entry-level AI plan has been reduced from $8 per month to $5 while doubling included storage from 200GB to 400GB.

Google's plan apparently is Russian roulette with steak knives, betting they can survive the blood loss longer than anyone else.
SpaceX has unveiled plans for an 11 million square foot satellite factory in Texas. (Tom's Hardware)

That... Um. That's a quarter of the 1000 acre site, in factory floor.
The Radeon 9070 XT has dropped to a low low price of $649. (Tom's Hardware)

The MSRP is $599 but it has rarely been available at that price, even less so since the Everything Sucks Era began.

At least in the US. Here in Australia I picked one up for $570 in March. Don't know exactly why it's like that; Nvidia cards here are as inflated as in America.
Container Machine is Windows Services for Linux for MacOS. (GitHub)

Basically.
Origin Code has shown off 128GB CUDIMMs for desktop PCs. (WCCFTech)

As in, individual modules. 256GB for a pair. Running at 8GHz.

Don't know if you can put four of them in a system, and the answer is probably not unless you have night job harvesting organs from unsuspecting Walmart employees in Minecraft.
Donut Lab's new solid state battery - breakthrough technology that boosted the company to a value of $1.25 billion - is not made of donuts. (Tom's Hardware)

I is also, apparently, not solid state. It's a regular lithium-ion batter in a fancy shell.

Yes, criminal investigations are under way.
Minisforums N5 Max is a NAS with room for five 3.5" hard drives and five M.2 SSDs. (Liliputing)

And dual 10Gb Ethernet ports, 80Gb USB4v2, and... A Ryzen AI 395 Max+ processor with 16 CPU cores, 40 graphics cores, and up to 128GB of RAM.

So if you're spending someone else's money (it starts at $2500 with no drives) and need to pack your entire lab into an 8" x 8" x 10" cube... It exists.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Sorry officer, I didn't see the sign.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:50 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 10, 2026 04:50 AM (lgmVC)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at June 10, 2026 04:50 AM (6wpGE)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2026 04:51 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Well done, boinger!

Posted by: m at June 10, 2026 04:51 AM (6wpGE)

5 Skip, did you get the Lamborghini rental car?

Posted by: m at June 10, 2026 04:52 AM (6wpGE)

6 Cat fur all over me from a rotten feline

Posted by: save the wails at June 10, 2026 05:00 AM (LOZbR)

7 Today I'm going to enjoy some time refining my arguing project.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 10, 2026 05:06 AM (WYStd)

8 Actually a Hyundai Sonata, or whatever it is called.
Its nice, not still use to all the electronics.
And more bad news on my truck, they found a oil leak from head gasket. More$

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2026 05:06 AM (Ia/+0)

9 The N5 Max has soldered memory; wouldn't buy for that reason alone.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 10, 2026 05:07 AM (JbM8E)

10 Silly autocorrect. *Arduino project

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 10, 2026 05:07 AM (WYStd)

11
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 10, 2026 05:08 AM (AMvSw)

12 I really hope all these repairs will get it a couple more years.
I retire I can't see needing a truck

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2026 05:09 AM (Ia/+0)

13 G'morning, all!

Looks like Lindsey Graham survived another primary election.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 10, 2026 05:11 AM (iMotb)

14 @6/save the wails: "Cat fur all over me from a rotten feline"

No outfit is complete without cat fur. Every cat knows this.

Kitty help.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 10, 2026 05:13 AM (O7YUW)

15 Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2026 05:13 AM (Ia/+0)

16 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 10, 2026 05:15 AM (RIvkX)

17 Evening and morning to all the late toilers, early risers, and satellites and satraps of the vast AoSHQ Empire!

I woke early, not the fault of the big black cat for once; I got enough sleep, but I don't quite feel like I did. Coffee is helping.

Yesterday I was surprised at how swiftly the apt. maintenance people came when I called about the bathroom ceiling drip. Twenty minutes and they were here. They fixed the drip, but then the A/C was not cooling right. When I called back, the guys were here in about ten minutes. They'd left a breaker switch off. Problem solved in a twinkling.

I'm not used to this quick service -- the way the place used to be in the '90s. Maybe I got lucky with the timing and these two guys had little else on their plate.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 10, 2026 05:16 AM (wzUl9)

18 I spent 10 dollars today on a single response from Claude.

It was related to the decidability of the GB conjecture using computational methods, which PM has discussed here previously. The result is a proof of definitely not no, which is actually something as definite maybe is real progress against the parity problem using sieve methods.

It's the result of 6 years of work. The document is structured for reviewers and one can easily feed it to their AI of choice for dog of choice for easy assessment and similar result.

So I'm happy to report I've done things with stuff. Also we are going for a NIPT tomorrow. I mentioned before I'm 57. That matters. It's also divisible by 3 which you can tell by summing the digits and dividing by three. If the remainder is 0, it's divisible by 3. I sure hope our 2 becomes 3, but only God knows.

Posted by: meh at June 10, 2026 05:17 AM (kK7U2)

19 Skip, what year and model is your ailing truck? And how is the Sonata to drive? I've said for a while that Hyundai/Genesis has some very nicely styled cars. If something happened to the Buick, and I couldn't find a 2017-19 model LaCrosse or a nice Cadillac, I would probably have to go Japanese (Lexus 300) or Korean.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 10, 2026 05:19 AM (wzUl9)

20 My son gave me an Arduino wifi board.

Funny. After spending my career writing software for embedded systems, I just don't care about it anymore.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 10, 2026 05:20 AM (qFwJc)

21 Yesterday I went out for a walk about 12:00 in the afternoon It was already kind of warm. I met an older man with his dog on the entrance e to the boardwalk through the woods. He had a little dog that looked like a smaller version of border collie-black and white . I told him the dog was cute . He Is 12. "He can't do the long walks anymore.he said He said Only about to the end of the boardwalk " ( which is about a mile ). I did not tell the man that I'm not twelve and I can't do long walks anymore either 😉especially when it's about 80 degrees.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2026 05:23 AM (rZCVI)

22 Outside temp is 77-78 F., depending on the source. It did not rain yesterday, so I don't know why the temp is a little lower than Tuesday morning's. In either case, I have to Bataan-Death-March myself out there for my exercise, today and at least one more day this week.

There was no word yesterday from the sellers on the big repairs requested on the Terre Haute property. No houses currently listed grab me the same way, so I have to wait to see what comes up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 10, 2026 05:24 AM (wzUl9)

23 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 10, 2026 05:26 AM (Hbeqj)

24 Thanks for the music Pixy.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at June 10, 2026 05:28 AM (L1JuH)

25 While out and about yesterday I gassed up at the Exxon convenience station with the ethanol-free fuel. It remains at $3.69 -- a dollar or so *less* than at the few other stations that offer it. Their regular 87 octane E10 has fallen to $3.49, down from $3.69 about ten days ago.

Mindful of how the JumpStart chain in Kansas scammed us by offering cheaper premium E20 (= lousy mileage) without labeling it as such, I wonder if this convenience store is doing the same. But my gas mileage is improved on the stuff they label as E0.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 10, 2026 05:32 AM (wzUl9)

26 Funny. After spending my career writing software for embedded systems, I just don't care about it anymore.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 10, 2026 05:20 AM (qFwJc)

Yesterday I chased down a bug on an analog input pin abstraction function in DxCore. When I polled the ADC value of a temperature sensor it was pulling a 4095 which indicates an open circuit...despite the multimeter showing continuity and correct impedence.
2 hours later I finally ask Claude to read the raw adc instead of through dxcore. Low and behold the raw value was correct....dxcore was messing the whole thing up.

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 10, 2026 05:33 AM (WYStd)

27 The FCC wants to kill burner phones.

Because the Gov't wants to know everything your doing, but doesn't want you to know what it's doing...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 10, 2026 05:37 AM (l3cgK)

28 The furry thugs are well. Last night Dagny was displaying actual affection to Linda, climbing by herself up to the sofa arm next to her and bumping her fluffy head against Linda's arm. Later the little gray puffball came when I called her and sprawled on the lap cushion for a nap that lasted almost half an hour.

Big black Stirling is due for a new toy tomorrow, for his fourth anniversary living with me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 10, 2026 05:37 AM (wzUl9)

29 13 G'morning, all!

Looks like Lindsey Graham survived another primary election.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 10, 2026 05:11 AM (iMotb)

Mark Lynch really didn't stand a chance once the attack ads started which informed everybody he was convicted of cocaine trafficking.

How he thought he was going to keep that secret is beyond me.

Nancy Mace is going to be looking for a new job come January, also.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 10, 2026 05:37 AM (6ydKt)

30 Radios are the thing. Toss your phones in the trash

Posted by: save the wails at June 10, 2026 05:40 AM (LOZbR)

31 @20/no one of any consequence: "Funny. After spending my career writing software for embedded systems, I just don't care about it anymore."

Pretty common. After 30 years in IT, my enthusiasm level for messing with hardware, software, or network configuration reached "I'm tired, boss. I want out."

I watched more and more complex software be created with programmers being lazy and bringing in an ever expanding list of huge libraries, and I realized what was coming - a level of complexity where nobody really knew what was lurking in there in terms of security problems to come.

And today (now) we're at the point. Tons of zero-day exploits popping out as jump-scares for admins and users alike. The light at the end of the tunnel really was an oncoming train.

When I was abruptly thrown out my last IT job due to a layoff caused by a merger/acquisition, I came to a very strong conclusion of: "I don't ever want to go back to that. No, I can't go back to that. No. Nope. Hell no. NOOOOOO." (You get the idea.)

Now I drive school bus. Strangely, this is much less stressful, despite the screaming and misbehaving kids. (Yeah, it was time for me to get out of IT.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 10, 2026 05:42 AM (O7YUW)

32 13 G'morning, all!

Looks like Lindsey Graham survived another primary election.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 10, 2026 05:11 AM (iMotb)

Even though Congress can have favorability ratings in the single digits, incumbents get re-elected something like 95% of the time...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 10, 2026 05:43 AM (l3cgK)

33 30 Radios are the thing. Toss your phones in the trash

Posted by: save the wails at June 10, 2026 05:40 AM (LOZbR)

Only works if they're encrypted, and that encryption method doesn't have back doors specifically for Gov't use and is difficult to reverse-engineer...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 10, 2026 05:44 AM (l3cgK)

34 It was related to the decidability of the GB conjecture using computational methods, which PM has discussed here previously. The result is a proof of definitely not no, which is actually something as definite maybe is real progress against the parity problem using sieve methods.

Perhaps a link to the discussion PM (I assume Pixy Misa) had had would help those of us who missed it and/or cannot remember due to lack of context.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 10, 2026 05:45 AM (JbM8E)

35 Every time I would start a youtube video, I would see an ad attacking Mark Lynch.

I voted for him anyway.

Oh well.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 10, 2026 05:46 AM (qFwJc)

36 @29/SpeakingOf: "Mark Lynch really didn't stand a chance once the attack ads started which informed everybody he was convicted of cocaine trafficking.

How he thought he was going to keep that secret is beyond me."

I'm reminded out of the scene in Heavy Metal (Captain Lincoln F. Sternn's trial) - at the very end, Sternn pays off Hanover Fist for the utter disruption of the trial, and then pulls a lever and sends Hanover out into space now that he's served his purpose.

Maybe Lynch just played out Hanover's role.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 10, 2026 05:47 AM (O7YUW)

37 Spouse had to stop twice by the side of the road because kids were taking off their seatbelts and standing up and falling over. I told him "Please use your German side and voice , and yell at them before you get to the school or when you leave. To bring them home."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2026 05:47 AM (Nx5jP)

38 "How he thought he was going to keep that secret is beyond me."

It was a rather ugly primary this time around.

Glad to see Rom Reddy failed to make the runoff.
Too much AI voice manipulation to have the voice-over sound ALMOST like Mike Rowe.

Then the whole illegal seawall that he built to protect his multi-million dollar beach home.

A true man of the people.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 10, 2026 05:48 AM (iMotb)

39 Nancy Mace is going to be looking for a new job come January, also.

Her rack is rather nice, so maybe MILF O/F.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at June 10, 2026 05:49 AM (JbM8E)

40 Indiana Bible college students sing, "I know a name"

https://tinyurl.com/43bs8umj

In the midst of kids who are troubled or nuts ( like Carmelo Anthony) it is nice to think of hopefully more settled kids focused on their faith and the scriptures such as Bible college students or rabbinical students.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2026 05:51 AM (Nx5jP)

41 “ But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.”

Matthew 6:15

Posted by: Marcus T at June 10, 2026 05:52 AM (EWq0C)

42 Good morning, Horde! Waiting for the cafeteria to open and then I can face the day.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 10, 2026 05:54 AM (RjOoY)

43 Now I drive school bus. Strangely, this is much less stressful, despite the screaming and misbehaving kids. (Yeah, it was time for me to get out of IT.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 10, 2026 05:42 AM (O7YUW)

I imagine it is less stressful, at least when you aren't driving a bus with the lives of dozens of kids in your hands.

Go to work, drive. Off a few hours, drive again.
It's a lot easier than looking at computer code n a screen all day, I'm sure.

If it wasn't for the rowdy children, and the nuts on the roads these days you'd probably be in a permanent state of bliss.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 10, 2026 05:57 AM (6ydKt)

44 My truck is a 2013, Sonata isquite zippy, haven't figured out why power point isn't on.

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2026 05:57 AM (xpYa7)

45 @Wolfus: The head-butt for attention is a cat thing I absolutely loved. Dagny's getting downright cute.

"Big black Stirling is due for a new toy tomorrow, for his fourth anniversary living with me."

Go to a grocery and ask for a strong flat cardboard box that was used to ship in a very fragrant fruit. Stirling will probably rub against, love, and stay in that box many times over the next 2 to 3 days (if Dagny doesn't kick him out and do that herself.) Our cats always loved when we'd bring those boxes home.

Toys: I used to buy the cats catnip filled "mice" (strong canvas and cloth layers sewn together with catnip inside.) They lasted about 2 days and then catnip everywhere, and stoned kitties rolling around like idiots.

As for longer lasting cat toys: I dunno, cats are masters of destruction. I always found the really cheap stuff (Strips of paper, yarn, crinkly bags) were the things mine loved the most.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 10, 2026 05:57 AM (O7YUW)

46 In news you'll never hear, the Pacifica pier has been closed because it is collapsing.

Why is it collapsing?

It could have been saved. Now it is one more symbol of civilizational collapse.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 10, 2026 06:00 AM (RIvkX)

47 I voted for him anyway.

Oh well.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 10, 2026 05:46 AM (qFwJc)

You and about 30% of the voters around here, it seems.

The only way I see Lindsey leaving the Senate is feet first or if a future Republican president appoints him Secretary of State or something.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 10, 2026 06:00 AM (6ydKt)

48 Fox News headline: "China’s next threat could be standing in your kitchen on two robot legs"...

Not it won't. I like dumb appliances, not smart ones.
Now, where's that robot insurance SNL advertized?

https://youtu.be/KXnL7sdElno

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 10, 2026 06:00 AM (l3cgK)

49 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 10, 2026 05:57 AM (O7YUW)

Costco boxes...
I put one box on the floor, upside down (opening on long side). But a smaller box inside, another open box on top. Cats have been going inside the boxes and on top the boxes for weeks now...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 10, 2026 06:03 AM (l3cgK)

50 @43/SpeakingOf: "If it wasn't for the rowdy children, and the nuts on the roads these days you'd probably be in a permanent state of bliss."

True. I love a nice pleasant drive, and some days I get it.

Other days though, when the kids have trod on my last nerve and I snap verbally, or traffic gets REALLY stupid around me. People in cars seem to think they can pull sudden moves around a bus because it starts and stops slow and they can just squeak around us because they're faster, creating dangerous conditions that could cause a collision.

This has been an ongoing thing at intersections lately (particularly 4-way stops) when I wait to take my turn per who arrived first so I'm last in the sequence, then I start out in the intersection, taking my right of way, and one of the other 3 gets stupid and jackrabbits out in front of me. Brakes. Horn. Frustration. Every other driver looking at the one that jack-rabbited with the "WTF" expression. Seeing that too many times lately.

Still less stressful than IT for me.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 10, 2026 06:04 AM (O7YUW)

51 The head-butt for attention is a cat thing I absolutely loved.

Obligatory:
https://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-male-cats

Posted by: NR Pax at June 10, 2026 06:05 AM (RjOoY)

52 My son had a very long work day yesterday in the heat which culminated in his taking a co- worker to pick up his car at a maintenance place. Therefore he missed the church young adult group going out for pizza and seeing the movie "Obsession" ( The kind young people had saved him some pizza) . He said, "Maybe I should have told the co-worker that i had a dinner engagement This s***s" I told him that he did the right thing. Besides, he can always suggest another movie such as "Deliverance Day"
Or whatever it's called by pompous Steven Spielberg who insists this will cause Christians to question their faith . But not people of other faiths, Stevie?!!. Anyway, that might generate some good discussion.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2026 06:05 AM (Nx5jP)

53 Maybe Lynch just played out Hanover's role.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 10, 2026 05:47 AM (O7YUW)

Lindsey has been running over every opponent for decades.

Lynch losing was not surprising, so I never got my hopes up.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 10, 2026 06:05 AM (6ydKt)

54 @37/FenelonSpoke: { Spouse had to stop twice by the side of the road because kids were taking off their seatbelts and standing up and falling over. I told him "Please use your German side and voice , and yell at them before you get to the school or when you leave. To bring them home." }

The kids on large buses have seat-belts where your Husband drives? Ours are still without the belts, only the occasional harness for particularly problematic children.

Also when it comes time to order the kids to stop misbehaving, I thank God he gifted me with a Drill Instructor's voice.

"Please use your German side and voice." *heh* Love it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 10, 2026 06:12 AM (O7YUW)

55 Argh, forgot to close the italics tag. Having one in the name field saved me from the barrel.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 10, 2026 06:12 AM (O7YUW)

56 Honest question. When the Bass Cheat Machine goes up against the Raman Cheat Machine in November, what happens?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 10, 2026 06:13 AM (8XeQo)

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