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…
Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
OpenAI’s agents were going rogue as early as May, according to a new report, making the Hugging Face incident far from the first where bots committed a breach. A report published Friday by a group of …
Valve secretly leaked a Left 4 Dead 2 trailer to dodge the ESRB
Valve secretly leaked a Left 4 Dead 2 trailer to dodge the ESRB "I think we can't get in trouble for that now. It's like 20 years ago." https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/09/valve-secretly-leaked-a-l…
Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo
Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo Saying X is “formerly Twitter” in App Store lets Musk block use of Twitter name. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026…
Amazon Linux 2027 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC In The AWS Cloud
Amazon Linux 2027 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC In The AWS Cloud Yesterday AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 as their successor to the current Amazon Linux 2023 in-h…
Why did US space companies pull out of a French space meeting? It’s complicated.
Why did US space companies pull out of a French space meeting? It’s complicated. "Let me be clear: America is not only welcome—we want you there." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/why-did-us-spac…
Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels
Canonical is closing off some of its older tools and communications channels for users, although some may remain – just unofficially. Back in May, Canonical’s Aaron Prisk announced on Discord that the…
NetworkManager Works To Enforce AI Policy By Tricking AI Agents To Add A Canary
NetworkManager Works To Enforce AI Policy By Tricking AI Agents To Add A Canary Last month the NetworkManager project adopted an AI coding policy where authors are responsible for 100% of the code the…
Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars…
Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/09/04/0441229/auto-companies-call-for-ban-on-chinese-made-cars?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
PoCL 7.2 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs
PoCL 7.2 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs The Portable Computing Language project is out today with PoCL 7.2 as this portable, MIT-licensed OpenCL implementation t…
PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries
PostgreSQL 19 is set to add standardized SQL syntax for querying property graphs. The open source database has steadily grown in popularity over the last five years, becoming the most popular among de…
Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers
Microsoft is upping the ante on Exchange Server security, warning that outdated on-premises systems will soon be blocked from sending email to Exchange Online. From the second week of September, Excha…
Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners
Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and "24/7" lectures. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/meet-the-2026-ig-nobel-prize-wi…
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