Intel Granite Rapids WS vs. AMD Threadripper Zen 5 SMT Performance
Intel Granite Rapids WS vs. AMD Threadripper Zen 5 SMT Performance As a follow-up to the article earlier this month of the Intel Xeon 600 workstation performance against AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 se…
Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool
There's no need to actually read a whole research paper when you can ask a bot to explain it to you. Scientific papers can transform into AI agents that, according to the Stanford team behind the proj…
China's Salt Typhoon backdoors Latin American orgs with new snooping malware
China’s Salt Typhoon gang has developed a new backdoor and dropped it in networks belonging to high-profile organizations in several countries across Central and South America since at least August 20…
Sketchy IV drips at wellness clinics have poisoned dozens, CDC and FDA warn
Sketchy IV drips at wellness clinics have poisoned dozens, CDC and FDA warn The IV drips included glutathione, which was not made to be injected. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/sketchy-iv-drip…
AI text watermarking can make models more vulnerable to adversarial prompts
AI text watermarking can make models more vulnerable to adversarial prompts SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/0…
Rust Issues Warning Over Key Developers Being Targeted For Compromise
Rust Issues Warning Over Key Developers Being Targeted For Compromise The Rust security response working group and Crates.io team have issued a warning that a targeted attack is underway against key R…
2026 Hyundai Ioniq 5: Here's what we still like, here's what annoys us
2026 Hyundai Ioniq 5: Here's what we still like, here's what annoys us It’s spacious, efficient, and charges very quickly. But what about reliability concerns? https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09/202…
Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data
Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/iran…
AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed
AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-leaders-want-to-hi…
Mojo 1.1 Released, Now Accepting Community Contributions To The Compiler
Mojo 1.1 Released, Now Accepting Community Contributions To The Compiler Last month Modular's Mojo language was open-sourced following the acquisition of Modular by Qualcomm. Modular was the AI startu…
London property manager breach may have exposed bank details and lockbox codes
London property management biz City Relay has warned customers that intruders may have stolen financial data, passwords, and codes used to access keys after compromising its Metabase Cloud instance. C…
NASA to order more Starliner missions and help certify a new rocket to keep it…
NASA to order more Starliner missions and help certify a new rocket to keep it flying "They should fly their capsule. The government paid a lot of money for that." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/0…
Thousands will die if EPA repeals power plant climate rules, lawsuit says
Thousands will die if EPA repeals power plant climate rules, lawsuit says Public health groups warn EPA rule will cost Americans billions in health bills. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/thous…
Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents
Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents Model maker commits to new framework for reporting misaligned models https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/covert-uploads-a…
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 4 ISOs Published
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 4 ISOs Published The fourth monthly-ish snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is now available for testing and comes ahead of next week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta milestone... ht…
Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars…
Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/09/17/0517235/hackers-stole-flocks-camera-software-revealing-how-the-company-t…
Proposal Raised To Finally Standardize Video Memory Stats Reporting Under Linux
Proposal Raised To Finally Standardize Video Memory Stats Reporting Under Linux The idea has been talked about before but in 2026 still hasn't made it to the mainline Linux kernel.... Standardized rep…
Microsoft configuration change leaves SharePoint pages drawing a blank
Do you test in production? Microsoft rolled back a configuration change after it prevented some users from loading SharePoint Online sites and pages. Microsoft tracked the incident as SP1472983. Betwe…
Microsoft patch gives domain-joined Windows PCs trust issues
Microsoft's September cavalcade of cockups continued with confirmation that something is amiss with Active Directory domain logins. The issue, which affects Windows 11 versions 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1, w…
Grassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI's $140M machine
A coalition of advocacy groups is trying to counter the AI industry's influence on US politics by asking congressional candidates and elected officials to reject support from a major pro-AI political …
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