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…
Apple Says More Ex-Employees May Have Taken Confidential Data to OpenAI https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/04/1719218/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-to-openai?utm_sour…
The Pixel 11's "glow" feature is actually called HiLight—here's what it does The camera flash will evolve into a multi-color LED that illuminates when your phone is face down. https://arstechnica.com/…
The NVM Express (NVMe) specifications have been updated, gaining enhancements such as support for post-quantum cryptography, and SSD virtualization and live migration to better support virtualized env…
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added an exploited N-able vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, giving federal agencies three days to p…
Apple Launches Legal Challenge Against UK Demand To Access Encrypted User Data https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/04/0557231/apple-launches-legal-challenge-against-uk-demand-to-access-encrypted-user-…
Sandisk and SK Hynix Publish First Open High Bandwidth Flash Standard https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/04/0511224/sandisk-and-sk-hynix-publish-first-open-high-bandwidth-flash-standard?utm_sou…
Microsoft announced this week that between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, the company had paid more than $20 million in bug bounties to 562 researchers. The total was a Redmond record, as was the nu…
Trump admin "aware" of deaths in explosive diarrhea outbreak, delays reporting Federal officials will update the outbreak sometime "this week," a spokesperson said. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026…
2027 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport X proves code is as important as hardware Chevy's 721-hp hybrid ups the ante with few compromises, but at a steep cost. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/2027-ch…
