Valve Releases Proton 11 With Huge Linux Gaming Improvements https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/07/08/0713204/valve-releases-proton-11-with-huge-linux-gaming-improvements?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkano…
Newly installed monitoring system watched the seafloor spread The crust expands at mid-ocean rifts. But how? https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/newly-installed-monitoring-system-watched-the-seafl…
Single vs. Dual Channel Memory Performance With The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Given today's pricing environment around system memory, a Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested some benchmarks…
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Mysterious Spheres Found In Australia Are Likely Space Debris https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/07/08/078258/mysterious-spheres-found-in-australia-are-likely-space-debris?utm_source=rss1.0mainlink…
China's National Vulnerability Database (CNVDB) is urging developers to uninstall recent Claude Code versions over the fear that they can scoop up sensitive user data without consent. Referring to it …
A “systematic vulnerability pattern” in at least six of the most widely used AI coding assistants can be abused to trick agents into accessing files outside the workspace sandbox, leading to remote co…
Intel Sunsets Quantum Intrinsics & Other Open-Source Projects This Week Intel has formally archived some more of their now-unmaintained open-source projects this week... https://www.phoronix.com/news/…
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UK comms regulator Ofcom has fined Virgin Media £28 million for repeatedly obstructing customers seeking to switch broadband, pay TV, and landline providers, or to cancel their contract with the compa…
The UK’s third-largest supermarket, Asda, has reported that the cost of its tech divorce from Walmart — which included building a new SAP ERP system — reached £1.22 billion, four years after it first …
Aussie telco Telstra is currently battling the mother of all borks after blaming a “software defect” for an outage that downed emergency services calls and public transport lines. Telstra blamed the 1…
Lurking in the release notes for this month's Patch Tuesday preview is a fix for a world of storage pain being experienced by some unlucky Windows 11 users. At the end of June, Microsoft said: "This u…
Former NASA boss Jim Bridenstine has warned that the space agency's plan to land astronauts on the Moon risks becoming too complicated for its own good. Bridenstine, who ran NASA during the first Trum…
How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces—and maybe homes Top robotics researchers and founders explain how robot autonomy is evolving. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/robot-worker…
US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge Miners backed by Trump admin. sell to Japan, South Korea despite push to develop domestic supply chain. https://arstechnica.com/science…
AMD ZenDNN 6.0 Brings Many Improvements For Accelerating Inference On Ryzen/EPYC CPUs AMD ZenDNN 6.0 released today as a significant update to this open-source deep neural network library for helping …
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Blue Origin, for the first time, is expected to raise private capital The company is raising $10 billion, leading to a valuation of $130 billion. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/blue-origin-for-…
US manufacturers’ energy costs soar because of AI data center demand Squeeze on Rust Belt electricity bills threatens Trump’s manufacturing plan. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/us-manufac…
Wayland No Longer Considered Experimental For Linux Mint's Next Cinnamon Release The Linux Mint distribution has published their June development summary that most notably includes work on Cinnamon's …
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新聞經濟部今天(7/8)發表國產四足機器人(機器狗)研發平臺。這套由工研院整合建立的開放式技術平臺，涵蓋關節驅動、運動控制、AI感知、自主導航到模擬訓練等底層能力，希望讓國內業者不必從零開發機器人本體，就能打造巡檢、消防、物流等應用領域的四足機器人。 研發平臺是由經濟部科技專案支持、花費一年半所建置，串聯工研院與所羅門、仁寶、英業達、東元電機、創博、來達科技等業者，共同建立從零組件、控制模組、AI…
Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets "HalluSquatting" weaponizes LLMs' inability to say "I don't know." https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/hackers-can-use-9…
