Early Benchmarks Of AMD EPYC On Linux 7.3 Show Some Performance Gains On The…
Early Benchmarks Of AMD EPYC On Linux 7.3 Show Some Performance Gains On The Horizon With Linux 7.3-rc1 out this week and marking the end of the merge window, it's onto a lot of Linux 7.3 performance …
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M Drivers Licenses…
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M Drivers Licenses https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/09/02/0611226/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
CERN Transitioning To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution
CERN Transitioning To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, besides being well known for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is known among l…
Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers
Dropbox has warned around 5,000 users that attackers compromised their accounts by abusing a legacy Lenovo login integration. In an email sent to affected customers, the cloud storage biz said attacke…
Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill
Mozilla's Firefox 155 and subsidiary MZLA's Thunderbird 155 have arrived. Yes, already. Firefox officially debuted yesterday, although The Reg FOSS desk wasn't offered the upgrade until early evening.…
NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory may now be beyond rescue, but the team behind the spacecraft has reactivated its instruments to eke out a final few months of science data before it reenters Eart…
Dell Stock Surges On Record Orders For AI Servers…
Dell Stock Surges On Record Orders For AI Servers https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/02/0551240/dell-stock-surges-on-record-orders-for-ai-servers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84
Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84 He reported from space that only "fat" Japanese tree frogs enjoyed weightlessness. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/to…
Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest'
UK Parliament's science and technology committee has asked the government to explain how it will avoid conflicts of interest after Anthropic recruited Matt Clifford, chair of blue-sky research agency …
Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15
Good news if you want to keep your NAS boxes on FreeBSD – two new contenders just stepped up, with updated forks of the cancelled TrueNAS Core. FreeBSD has a strong reputation as a stable server OS, a…
AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays
AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for gener…
Microsoft update disarms Outlook and Teams on Arm PCs
Not keen on the new Outlook? You're not alone. Microsoft's August security update has stopped it and Teams from launching reliably on some Arm-based devices, including Surface hardware. Microsoft ackn…
Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return
If you thought 72 GPUs per rack was dense, next-generation designs from Nvidia and others will cram hundreds or even thousands of accelerators into a single massive system. But for any of that to happ…
The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones
The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones The Army says its laser system can track and destroy hostile drones. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/the-army-just-used-a-20-kil…
GNOME Mutter 51.rc Adds Cross-GPU Buffer Scan-Out Support, Other Last Minute…
GNOME Mutter 51.rc Adds Cross-GPU Buffer Scan-Out Support, Other Last Minute Work The release candidates are out today for the GNOME Shell and Mutter in preparing for the formal "GNOME 51.rc" release …
London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above
Mobile coverage on parts of London's Underground now rivals the streets above for 5G availability and signal strength, according to analysis by network intelligence biz Ookla. Cellular support has bee…
A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter
Visiting a second bar on the same night can often be a dangerous move. When Dave Bradley did it, he ended up having to move a datacenter, on a two-week deadline, without extra budget. Bradley is a sen…
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Rassvet, Russia's rival to Starlink, is getting off to a slow start
Rassvet, Russia's rival to Starlink, is getting off to a slow start At least three of the first 32 Rassvet satellites likely suffered outright failures, and more may be in trouble. https://arstechnica…
UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme
The British government has opened the first competitions under a £100 million procurement scheme intended to give domestic AI startups a route into public sector contracts. Chancellor John Healey anno…
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