Wine-Staging 11.18 Adds New Patches To Further Improve WoW64
Wine-Staging 11.18 Adds New Patches To Further Improve WoW64 Building off yesterday's Wine 11.18 bi-weekly development release is now Wine-Staging 11.18. This experimental flavor of Wine is presently …
US Air Force F-16 Crashes in Michigan After Pentagon Orders More Flyovers…
US Air Force F-16 Crashes in Michigan After Pentagon Orders More Flyovers https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/09/19/0420213/us-air-force-f-16-crashes-in-michigan-after-pentagon-orders-more-flyovers?utm…
Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy
Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy Research suggests that bilingualism can offer cognitive benefits. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/learning-anot…
GNOME OS Turns To Zswap To Deal With OOM Issues, Progress On Geary Email…
GNOME OS Turns To Zswap To Deal With OOM Issues, Progress On Geary Email Client Fork In addition to this week's GNOME 51 release were several other exciting developments in the GNOME desktop space... …
Intel Xe Driver For Linux 7.4 Adds vRAM Health Check, Degraded Memory Handling
Intel Xe Driver For Linux 7.4 Adds vRAM Health Check, Degraded Memory Handling Sent out this week were more Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle. The t…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Seeing More Polishing & Fixes, Plasma 6.9 Begins Seeing More…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Seeing More Polishing & Fixes, Plasma 6.9 Begins Seeing More Activity Following last week's Plasma 6.8 beta release, KDE desktop developers have spent this week mostly working on bug fi…
Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade
Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade Chariklo is only about 250 km across, but it has two rings, and they're changing. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/rings-around-a-tiny…
Gemini Breached Three Outside Systems, and Claude-Using Researchers Breached…
Gemini Breached Three Outside Systems, and Claude-Using Researchers Breached OpenAI https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/19/0518206/gemini-breached-three-outside-systems-and-claude-using-researchers-breac…
Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake
Mozilla and MZLA have delivered the latest releases in their new fortnightly cycle, but users who dislike the faster pace have alternatives. Firefox 156 is trickling out to users. The release notes on…
Has the James Web Space Telescope Discovered a New 'Black Hole Star'?…
Has the James Web Space Telescope Discovered a New 'Black Hole Star'? https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/09/19/040210/has-the-james-web-space-telescope-discovered-a-new-black-hole-star?utm_source=r…
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/researchers-used-claude-to-hack-openai/…
US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"
US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious" The Federal Register website briefly used an open-source Chinese AI search tool. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/us-gove…
Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep
Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep Rare cells with widespread connectivity seem to be able to trigger sleep. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/finding-the-cells-that-put-our-brain-to-…
Report: US almost boarded Chinese ship over hallucinated AI arms report
Report: US almost boarded Chinese ship over hallucinated AI arms report But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/report-us-almost-boarded-chine…
Ubuntu 26.10 Switches To The Linux 7.3 Kernel
Ubuntu 26.10 Switches To The Linux 7.3 Kernel As a very pleasant surprise, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release will now be powered by the Linux 7.3 kernel rather than their original plans and switch ove…
Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel
Claude Code customers have a new reason to give Anthropic more of their money. The tool now allows you to launch multiple sessions related to a single project, burning through more resources and cash …
Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI
Thanks to AI, computer science majors are finding themselves in a tougher spot than they might have expected. Jobs are harder to come by, and more graduates are ending up in lower-paying sectors like …
Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancer
Virginia is not just for lovers, but is also for datacenters, hosting more than anywhere else in the world. However, the growth could be slowing as Governor Abigail Spanberger issued an executive orde…
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K
The software engine underpinning GitHub Copilot and a growing number of Microsoft products is now written entirely in Rust, with AI agents doing most of the porting work. The migration cost about $120…
Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec
Anthropic on Friday surprised the developer community by supporting rival OpenAI's mechanism for passing marching orders to AI agents. This makes life easier for folks who use both platforms. "We're a…
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