02 Feb 2026
Slashdot
Notepad++ Compromised By State Actor
Luthair writes: Notepad++ claims to have been targeted by a state actor, given their previous stance on Uyghurs one can speculate about a candidate. Notepad++, in a blog post: According to the analysis provided by the security experts, the attack involved infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org. The exact technical mechanism remains under investigation, though the compromise occurred at the hosting provider level rather than through vulnerabilities in Notepad++ code itself. Traffic from certain targeted users was selectively redirected to attacker-controlled served malicious update manifests.
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02 Feb 2026 5:00pm GMT
Hacker News
Claude Code's renderer is more complex than a game engine
02 Feb 2026 4:08pm GMT
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
02 Feb 2026 4:01pm GMT
Slashdot
High-Speed Internet Boom Hits Low-Tech Snag: a Labor Shortage
The U.S. laid fiber-optic cables to a record number of homes last year as billions of dollars in federal broadband grants and a surge in data-center construction fueled an enormous buildout, but the industry does not have enough workers to sustain the pace. A 2024 report by the Fiber Broadband Association and the Power & Communication Contractors Association projects 58,000 new fiber jobs between 2025 and 2032 and estimates 120,000 workers will leave the field in that period, mostly through retirement -- a combined shortage of 178,000. The gap is especially acute among splicers, who fuse hair-thin filaments by hand, and directional drill operators. Telecommunications line installers and repairers earned annual median wages of $70,500 for the year ended May 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, against a $49,500 national median. Push, a utility-construction firm, raised hourly pay for fiber crews by 5% to 8% in each of the past several years and expects the pace to quicken.
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02 Feb 2026 4:01pm GMT
Hacker News
Kernighan on Programming
02 Feb 2026 3:57pm GMT
Ars Technica
Narwhals become quieter as the Arctic Ocean grows louder
Increasing shipping traffic is interfering with the whales' ability to hunt and communicate.
02 Feb 2026 2:43pm GMT
Slashdot
Starbucks Bets on Robots To Brew a Turnaround in Customers
Starbucks has been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into AI and automation -- testing robots that take drive-through orders, virtual assistants that help baristas recall recipes and manage schedules, and scanning tools that count inventory -- as the 55-year-old coffee chain tries to reverse several years of struggling sales. The company last week reported its first same-store sales increase in two years in the U.S., where it earns roughly 70% of its revenue. Shares still slid 5% on concerns that heavy spending, including $500 million to boost staffing, had hurt profits. CEO Brian Niccol, who joined in 2024 after engineering Chipotle's turnaround, told the BBC he is confident consistent growth will address that; the company has pledged to find $2 billion in cost savings over three years.
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02 Feb 2026 2:43pm GMT
Ars Technica
NASA gears up for one more key test before launching Artemis II to the Moon
A good test would clear the way for launch of Artemis II as soon as next Sunday, February 8.
02 Feb 2026 1:41pm GMT
01 Feb 2026
Linuxiac
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 5, 2026 (Jan 26 – Feb 1)

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Linux Lite 7.8, DietPi 10, VirtualBox 7.2.6, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.4, Plasma 6.6 Beta 2, Transmission 4.1, Xfce begins work on a Wayland compositor, what happens if Linus Torvalds steps away, and more.
01 Feb 2026 10:47pm GMT
After Years of Waiting Jellyfin Finally Lands on Samsung Tizen TVs

Samsung Smart TV owners can now use Jellyfin natively, as the open-source media server is now available on the Tizen platform.
01 Feb 2026 9:15pm GMT
European Open Source Awards 2026 Honor Linux Kernel Maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman has received the top prize at the 2026 European Open Source Awards in Brussels.
01 Feb 2026 3:02pm GMT
Ars Technica
At NIH, a power struggle over institute directorships deepens
The research agency has 27 institute and center directors. Will those roles become politicized?
01 Feb 2026 12:15pm GMT