Another x86 Advisory From Some Entity Other Than Intel Or AMD
Another x86 Advisory From Some Entity Other Than Intel Or AMD Last October I highlighted an interesting post on the Linux kernel mailing list around an x86 corporate entity other than Intel or AMD tha…
As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate…
As Backlash Grows, More Americans Now Oppose Automated Police License Plate Readers Than Support https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/29/0325208/as-backlash-grows-more-americans-now-oppose-automated-p…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Improving Performance & Efficiency For Some Full Screen Content
KDE Plasma 6.8 Improving Performance & Efficiency For Some Full Screen Content In addition to the Union QtWidgets initial release happening this week, a number of other improvements also landed in the…
Xylitol Linked To Strokes and Heart Attacks, Study Finds…
Xylitol Linked To Strokes and Heart Attacks, Study Finds https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/29/0058228/xylitol-linked-to-strokes-and-heart-attacks-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead. Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/i-asked-100-c…
AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting
Last month I sat in a networking lab with AWS VP of Global Network Engineering Matt Rehder and cracked a joke about cage nuts cutting your hands to ribbons. I wasn't prepared for the blank stare I got…
ReactOS 0.4.16 Released With New Graphical Installer, Better Hardware Support
ReactOS 0.4.16 Released With New Graphical Installer, Better Hardware Support ReactOS 0.4.16 released today as the newest major update to this "open-source Windows" project providing an open-source OS…
F2FS With Now Handle Multi-Device Flushes In Parallel With Linux 7.3
F2FS With Now Handle Multi-Device Flushes In Parallel With Linux 7.3 Coming in as a late pull request ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window closing this weekend were the Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS…
GNOME's Very Exciting Week From Flatpak Funding To Reset Recovery Plus Apps
GNOME's Very Exciting Week From Flatpak Funding To Reset Recovery Plus Apps This week was extremely eventful in the GNOME space with GPU reset recovery for GNOME Mutter now largely wrapped up and the …
California Passes AB-1856 For Open-Source Relief Over Age Verification
California Passes AB-1856 For Open-Source Relief Over Age Verification As an update to the May story about California's age verification law may end up exempting most Linux distributions, that AB-1856…
The World's Busiest Spaceport Is About To Get a Lot Quieter, At Least For Now…
The World's Busiest Spaceport Is About To Get a Lot Quieter, At Least For Now https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/29/0049211/the-worlds-busiest-spaceport-is-about-to-get-a-lot-quieter-at-least-fo…
SteamOS 3.9 Preview Moves To Linux 7.2, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop
SteamOS 3.9 Preview Moves To Linux 7.2, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop In time for the weekend Linux gamers, Valve last night released the first preview of SteamOS 3.9 for the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and o…
Linux 7.3 UBI Adds Support For Per-Device Wear-Leveling Thresholds
Linux 7.3 UBI Adds Support For Per-Device Wear-Leveling Thresholds The Unsorted Block Images "UBI" layer in the Linux kernel for NAND flash memory tracking and wear leveling finally has the notion of …
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems
A defense startup has raised $7 million to develop its counter-drone system that uses small interceptors to defend against swarms of FPV (First-Person View) drone swarms, the kind causing heavy battle…
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range
Microsoft's latest Xbox merchandising deal means at least you can sit on an IKEA cushion while you wait for your PlayStation 5 to boot. IKEA has announced YXSTABY, a nine-piece collection of items aim…
守護原始資料，NetApp活用儲存快照副本技術，助企業因應AI時代下的資料存取風險
新聞AI日益普及帶來許多便利之餘，然而，近期陸續傳出幾起AI誤刪資料的事故，引發恐慌，企業該如何預防這類意外的發生？隨著越來越多企業建置大數據資料分析環境與AI工廠基礎設施，以及因應接踵而來的勒索軟體網路攻擊與資料外洩威脅，企業如何具備足夠的資料保護能力？長期推廣企業儲存系統與資料保護領域的NetApp台灣技術總監許宏俊認為，維持原始資料的完整性與可靠性，提升資料存取行為的分析能力，靈活運用快照副…
Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts…
Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/28/221237/trump-creates-a-space-academy-and-honors-the-artemis-astronauts?utm_source=rss1.0main…
Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August
Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August Cancellations have accelerated. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/cities-terminate-flock-contracts-at-record-pace-in-august/?utm_bra…
Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage?…
Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage? https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/28/2115229/is-china-secretly-fueling-americas-data-center-rage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Meta tweaks AI glasses to block some creepy recordings, but privacy risks remain
Meta tweaks AI glasses to block some creepy recordings, but privacy risks remain Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2…
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