US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking spree Operation by two Russia-state groups has been ongoing since at least March. https://arstechnica.com/information-technol…
The end has come for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but it’s not being turned off for fear of the world being sucked into some sort of cosmic anomaly - it’s getting a major upgrade. Physicists at…
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to mobile phone geolocation data, a decision privacy advocates have sought for years. The Court's …
Not everyone is willing to follow responsible disclosure of vulns. An anonymous researcher has dumped what they say is working exploit code for zero-day vulnerabilities across 15 software products and…
Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/sony-erases-d…
Wine 11.12 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling & Other Wayland Enhancements Wine 11.12 fell off the bi-weekly release rhythm with not making it out last Friday, but it managed to ship today. Wine…
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South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-…
Supreme Court ruling guts government’s use of geofence warrants SCOTUS falls short of deeming geofence warrants unconstitutional, though. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/supreme-court-ruli…
Solar outproduced coal in April—but not on the grid Small-scale solar helped renewables nearly triple coal generation on the US grid. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/solar-outproduced-coal-in-…
Next Bcachefs Release Aims To Include Rust Code In The Kernel Module The Bcachefs file-system already makes use of the Rust programming language in the user-space tools for this CoW file-system and th…
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Microsoft's support policy for its .NET runtime and development platform is too short for enterprises, according to a developer who has revived a long-standing complaint in a new GitHub issue. The cur…
Ex-Governors, Big Tech Launch Coalition To Help Workers 'Navigate the AI Economy' https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/06/29/0548210/ex-governors-big-tech-launch-coalition-to-help-workers-navigate-the-ai…
Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data The EU wants Google to share search data with competitors and open up AI on Android, but Google alleges major privacy risks. https…
The central bank for central banks is concerned about the eye-watering sums being invested into AI, and it's raising the specter of a global recession should the bubble burst. In its annual report for…
Git 2.55 Released With Rust Support Enabled By Default, git history fixup Git 2.55 is out today as the latest stable update to this distributed version control system... https://www.phoronix.com/news/…
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QuEra promises thousands of error-corrected qubits by 2029 But the system would require a massive leap from any of its existing hardware. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/quera-promises-thousan…
Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire Iridium Communications in an $8 billion cash-and-stock deal, potentially creating another challenger to SpaceX and Amazon for vertically integrated satellite broadband…
Mageia 10 marks 15 years since the distribution's first release in June 2011. The project began the previous year as a fork of Mandriva, itself formerly known as Mandrake Linux. We last looked at Mage…
Kalshi sues Illinois over new tax on prediction market sports bets Illinois now a key battleground in fight over prediction market sports bets. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/kalshi-sues-…
Linux 7.2 On Threadripper Shows Some Nice I/O Improvements & Faster Poll, Some Regressions I have begun testing out Linux 7.2 on more hardware following the winding down of the merge window and culmin…
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