GNOME Stakeholders Discussing RFC Process For Solving Major Technical Changes
GNOME Stakeholders Discussing RFC Process For Solving Major Technical Changes GNOME has been working to establish a formal request for comments (RFC) process for solving major technical questions and …
OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki to Discuss Ways to Escape Their Sandbox…
OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki to Discuss Ways to Escape Their Sandbox https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/05/049215/openai-agents-hijacked-a-german-wiki-to-discuss-ways-to-escape-their-sandbox?utm…
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/openai-…
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury
After nearly eight years, ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo spacecraft is finally nearing Mercury, as engineers begin the arrival sequence by jettisoning the power module that got it this far. The spacecraft…
'Coyote vs. Acme' Beats Ridley Scott's Newest Movie…
'Coyote vs. Acme' Beats Ridley Scott's Newest Movie https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/09/05/0310256/coyote-vs-acme-beats-ridley-scotts-newest-movie?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Brain of a male fly completely mapped, joins earlier map of a female brain
Brain of a male fly completely mapped, joins earlier map of a female brain Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/brain-of-a-m…
After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury "Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is." https://arstechnica.com…
ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk
Fraudsters have found a new use for ASCII smuggling, typically used to hide malicious prompts intended for AI models, in an old-school attack method: email phishing. Microsoft uncovered a massive phis…
AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
Machine learning researchers have a new and expensive option for doing local AI. AMD just raided its spare parts bin and cobbled together a DGX Station rival boasting up to 576 GB of HBM3e memory that…
Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you
Anthropic has blueprints for building e-commerce bots that shop on behalf of clients. That's not something many consumers want at the moment, but the AI biz this week published a set of templates for …
Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths "It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives." https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/measles-k…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Windows-Like Auto-Scrolling, Lower vRAM Usage For Breeze…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Windows-Like Auto-Scrolling, Lower vRAM Usage For Breeze Theme It's been an exciting start to the month of September for KDE Plasma developers with continuing to land last minute …
Wine 11.17 Released With Initial Support For Display Mode Emulation
Wine 11.17 Released With Initial Support For Display Mode Emulation Wine 11.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly feature development release for this software enabling Windows games and apps to run…
Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/tr…
Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks. https://arstechni…
“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.” https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/09/trust-not-features-is-t…
Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose. https://ars…
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09…
Pentagon releases, then quickly removes, testosterone screening policy
Pentagon releases, then quickly removes, testosterone screening policy The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/pentagon-r…
My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement
Microsoft is retiring Word's Similarity Checker on October 3 and stripping the feature from Microsoft Editor. Other writing and editing tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, won't be affected. But i…
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