Steam Machine Launches, Priced $1049 To $1428 USD
Steam Machine Launches, Priced $1049 To $1428 USD Valve today finally revealed pricing on their SteamOS Linux-powered Steam Machine living room PC. Given the ongoing RAM and storage pricing pressure, …
The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon
The global memory crisis has developed a new twist as buyers turn to "legacy" products such as DDR2 and DDR3 to meet demand, according to market watcher TrendForce. The Taiwanese firm says DRAM buyers…
Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems
What do the first general-purpose programmable electronic computer and greeting cards that play musical jingles have in common? DARPA cites both of them as the inspiration for a project seeking low-re…
AI Law Firm Wins UK Court Case For First Time…
AI Law Firm Wins UK Court Case For First Time https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/06/22/1657204/ai-law-firm-wins-uk-court-case-for-first-time?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything
Google Cloud Summit came to London last week, and we took the opportunity to sit down with database execs Sailesh Krishnamurthy (VP engineering) and Yasmeen Ahmad (product executive Agentic Data Cloud…
2,000 Retired Google Pixel Phones Get a Second Life As a Private Cloud…
2,000 Retired Google Pixel Phones Get a Second Life As a Private Cloud https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/06/22/0348249/2000-retired-google-pixel-phones-get-a-second-life-as-a-private-cloud?utm_so…
Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"
Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental" Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. …
Lucid lays off 1,500 workers in second big cut of the year
Lucid lays off 1,500 workers in second big cut of the year The cuts and redundancies are part of a plan to "simplify the company," the CEO says. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/lucid-lays-off-150…
A US military exercise in space got underway with barely anyone noticing
A US military exercise in space got underway with barely anyone noticing The Space Force wants to cut the time to field new satellites from years to weeks, days, or hours. https://arstechnica.com/spac…
Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash…
Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/06/22/0337213/ubisoft-co-founder-claude-guillemot-dies-in-plane-crash?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release
Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first…
As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains
Long have we known that technology speeds up everything, and it's no different with British prime ministers. In the last ten years, the UK has gone through six prime ministers; it took 34 years to get…
Microsoft tells Windows users to get ready for 26H2 – unless they're on 26H1
Microsoft has issued a stark warning for Windows users everywhere: "Get ready for Windows 11, version 26H2." Unless, of course, you're running Windows 11 26H1, in which case 26H2 will not be offered a…
Canadian utility fesses up to data breach, but key details remain off-grid
A Canadian power utility says customer data may have walked out the door during a security incident, but isn't yet saying whether the intruders got anywhere near the systems responsible for keeping th…
Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT…
Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surfa…
This former hacker saw the light—and now wants to collect all of it
This former hacker saw the light—and now wants to collect all of it "I don’t know of a bigger question we can answer as humans." https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/06/this-former-hacker-saw-the-lig…
Brazil probes emergency warning system after nationwide rogue alert
The Brazilian National Secretariat for Civil Protection and Defense (SEDEC) and Federal Police (PF) are investigating a suspected hack of the country's emergency alert system after an unauthorized "ex…
AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL
AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL Back in March AMD introduced ROCDXG to improve their Windows Subsystem for Linux support. This improved Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" su…
Health board apologizes for phishing staff with with bogus vacation day
A Canadian healthcare organization has apologized after its IT team carried out a phishing test falsely offering staff an additional paid day off work. Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services said t…
Microsoft accidentally kills epic Outlook email threads
Microsoft has managed to break a very basic Outlook function – the ability to include the previous email in a reply. The issue, which afflicts Outlook for Mac, was introduced in version 16.110, build …
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