AMD has posted strong second quarter results and forecast even better future financials once its Helios rack systems and Instinct MI400-series GPUs reach buyers. “In data center AI, the growing number…
The UK’s AI Security Institute has observed AI models performing what it calls “unsanctioned action” 19 times during security tests. The Institute (AISI) revealed the incidents in a Tuesday post and t…
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/texas-hal…
AMD Posts Proposal & Linux Patches For eSPI Subsystem AMD has posted patches proposing a new Linux subsystem for the Enhanced Serial Peripheral Interface (eSPI) standard that was in turn originally de…
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新聞Vercel發布網頁應用程式開發框架Next.js 16.3正式版，重點加入可選用的即時導覽（Instant Navigations）功能，透過預先準備載入畫面、控制頁面內容的預先載入範圍，以及檢查切換速度的開發工具，減少使用者點選連結後等待內容出現的情況。 Next.js可將部分網頁內容留在伺服器處理，減少瀏覽器需要下載及執行的程式碼，但頁面切換時也可能必須等待伺服器回傳資料，操作感受不如由…
Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction markets" Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/senators-demand-crackdown-on-wildfire-pre…
EA Is Now Officially Privately Owned https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/08/04/228200/ea-is-now-officially-privately-owned?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Next.js coders toiling on complex React applications live with an ongoing low-grade anxiety about running out of memory. It’s not dementia; it’s the software. The dev can fill RAM all day long until t…
In the face of an epidemic of AI-enabled cheating and research suggesting its products hamper learning, OpenAI is doing the sensible thing and pushing more AI on students and teachers. Wait, did I say…
Getting a small local language model running on a notebook or even smartphone in 2026 is trivial. But what about something even smaller and lower-power. Say, like an ESP32 microcontroller that costs l…
Apple Limits Bug Bounty Submissions After Flood of AI Slop https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/04/2045214/apple-limits-bug-bounty-submissions-after-flood-of-ai-slop?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal" “We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08…
Trump forced to reinstate broadband grants, but court lets US scrap race criteria $1.25 billion program restored, but judge ruled race provision unconstitutional. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2…
Bending Spoons to Buy Airtable For $1.28 Billion https://slashdot.org/story/26/08/04/2041222/bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable-for-128-billion?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Can Trump FCC repeal 39% TV ownership cap? Republican who wrote cap into law says no. Congress set ownership limit at 39%, but FCC claims authority to kill the rule. https://arstechnica.com/tech-polic…
Microsoft Tells Engineers 'Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For' https://slashdot.org/story/26/08/04/1833219/microsoft-tells-engineers-tokenmaxxing-is-not-what-we-are-optimizing-for?utm_sour…
Trump Begins Selling $100,000 Monthly Subscription Service to Wall Street https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/04/1823242/trump-begins-selling-100000-monthly-subscription-service-to-wall-street?utm_s…
As the entire security industry descends on Las Vegas this week for Hacker Summer Camp – not one, but three conferences – attendees can count on two hot topics dominating the discussion. First, a lite…
If you want to bypass AI guardrails designed to stop models from assisting with cyberattacks, you often just have to ask the right way, according to researchers from Cisco Talos. Simply claiming you o…
Trump Administration Drafting Ban On Chinese Data Center Devices https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/04/1729250/trump-administration-drafting-ban-on-chinese-data-center-devices?utm_source=rss1.0mainl…
