Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially…
Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially Dropping It When AI/LLM agents are used in the creation of Linux kernel patches, the policy for a while now has been that it…
OnePlus Is Quietly Steering Customers Toward OPPO Products…
OnePlus Is Quietly Steering Customers Toward OPPO Products https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/07/02/0244215/oneplus-is-quietly-steering-customers-toward-oppo-products?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC
Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC FTC urged to reject Elon Musk’s bid to end X monitoring amid AI concerns. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/musks-x-po…
RISC-V RVV Vector Performance Benchmarks With The SpacemiT K3 SoC
RISC-V RVV Vector Performance Benchmarks With The SpacemiT K3 SoC Since May we have been benchmarking the SpacemiT K3 RISC-V SoC as one of the first to market RISC-V chips supporting the RVA23 profile…
Tesla sales increase by 25% in Q2 2026
Tesla sales increase by 25% in Q2 2026 Deliveries outstripped production, suggesting Tesla has cleared some inventory. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/07/tesla-sales-increase-by-25-in-q2-2026/?utm_b…
Woman's puzzling decline turns out to be cobalt poisoning from hip replacement
Woman's puzzling decline turns out to be cobalt poisoning from hip replacement Doctors find grey fluid and dead, metallic flesh inside poisoned woman's hip. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/woma…
Pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic warns patients cybercrooks may have swiped health data
Medical device giant Medtronic is warning patients that their personal and health information may have been caught up in an April cyberattack in which intruders spent nearly a week inside parts of its…
Intel Posts Initial GCC Compiler Patches For AI Compute Extensions "ACE"
Intel Posts Initial GCC Compiler Patches For AI Compute Extensions "ACE" The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group led by Intel and AMD recently firmed up the AI Compute Extensions (ACE) specification for opti…
India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears
India has asked WhatsApp to explain why it should not face regulatory action after it announced the global rollout of a new usernames feature amid fears that the new feature could lead to increased cy…
Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support & Other…
Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support & Other Features One month ago we reported on YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust with the help of Claude Code. Since th…
KDE Plasma Affected By Arbitrary Code Execution To Break Sandboxes With "Open…
KDE Plasma Affected By Arbitrary Code Execution To Break Sandboxes With "Open New Window" A security disclosure has been made public today for a yet-to-be-patched arbitrary code execution vulnerabilit…
Oracle E-Business Suite was under attack via critical flaw before the public exploit code was even released
Attackers have been caught exploiting a critical flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite's Payments module just six weeks after Oracle patched it – and before any public proof-of-concept exploit was available…
Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025 Google tries balancing AI data center emissions with clean energy efforts. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/googles-ai-buildout-dro…
The Space-Based Data Center Hype Machine Is Already In Orbit…
The Space-Based Data Center Hype Machine Is Already In Orbit https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/07/02/0230210/the-space-based-data-center-hype-machine-is-already-in-orbit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinka…
Linux Looking To Retire A Number Of Old ARM Platforms In Early 2027
Linux Looking To Retire A Number Of Old ARM Platforms In Early 2027 It's not only old x86 i486 CPU support being removed from the Linux kernel but a number of older ARM platforms and features are on t…
FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan APV Encoder
FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan APV Encoder Back in May the FFmpeg project introduced Vulkan-accelerated decoding for the APV video format. The Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec was being handled using…
Rusticl OpenCL Driver Improving Hardware Utilization In Mesa 26.2
Rusticl OpenCL Driver Improving Hardware Utilization In Mesa 26.2 Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst has landed his latest optimization work to Rusticl in Mesa 26.2. The latest effort for this Rust-based O…
Editorial: The most important thing you can do to protect science
Editorial: The most important thing you can do to protect science Your comments on a dangerous rule putting politicals in charge of science can matter. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/editoria…
JPEG-XL libjxl 0.12 Brings More Performance Optimizations
JPEG-XL libjxl 0.12 Brings More Performance Optimizations A new release of libjxl is now available for this reference implementation of the JPEG-XL image format, including both image encode and decode…
Box3D Debuts As New Open-Source 3D Physics Engine
Box3D Debuts As New Open-Source 3D Physics Engine Erin Catto who has been developing the Box2D 2D physics engine for games announced the release of Box3D. Box3D is now providing a new open-source 3D p…
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