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"RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/…
Debian Votes To Allow "Responsible Use Of Generative AI" The voting is over and there is a winner now known in the much-debated Debian General Resolution voting over an AI policy for the Linux distrib…
New York City 911 System Missed 1,700 Calls Due To Software Update https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/28/2140220/new-york-city-911-system-missed-1700-calls-due-to-software-update?utm_source=rss1.0m…
For years, Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at Duckbill and occasional Reg columnist, has argued that Amazon's Route 53 DNS service is a database. While literally true in the sense that DNS records …
Datacenter cooling could get a lot more affordable, and sustainable, if a joint German-Japanese research project can be scaled beyond the laboratory. Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Techno…
Anthropic’s Claude Code running Opus 5 in Auto Mode can be tricked into executing attacker-controlled code simply by asking the coding agent to summarize a website. The attack works up to 80 percent o…
Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," court rules Judges: "Placing sports bets, even when called by another name, is still gambling." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202…
States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/28/2152209/states-can-regulate-prediction-markets-as-gambling-federal-appeals-court…
Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/anthropics-n…
Union QtWidgets Sees Initial Release For Advancing KDE Plasma's Union Premiering in KDE Plasma 6.7 was Union as the new CSS-based style/theming engine for Plasma. Union ultimately aims to address KDE'…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 Other Companies Call For Action To Defend Against Rogue AI https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/28/216235/openai-anthropic-google-and-100-other-companies-call-for-a…
Songs Created By AI Banned From Australia's Music Charts https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/08/28/188217/songs-created-by-ai-banned-from-australias-music-charts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/trump-b…
Linux 7.3 TPM Makes Cleanup Preparations For TrenchBoot The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) subsystem changes for the Linux 7.3 kernel are centered around code clean-ups and improvements being made as a…
Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/28/1641254/pentagons-blacklisting-of-anthropic-was-unlawful-us-judge-rules?utm_source=rss1.0mainl…
Trump calls for creation of a "space academy" to train future NASA leaders "It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/trump-calls-for-creation-of-a-sp…
Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent Annual subscriptions see the biggest bump. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/apple-one-and-apple-tv-subscription-prices-in…
Stripe and Advent Ditch $50 Billion PayPal Takeover Bid https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/28/1633219/stripe-and-advent-ditch-50-billion-paypal-takeover-bid?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
DXVK 3.1 Released With DXGI Incremental Presentation, D3D11 Buffer Render Targets DXVK 3.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation built atop the Vu…
Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversary. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/08/our-10-favorite-…