After Senate vote, Trump admin backs off plans to kill ocean monitoring It's unclear whether the system is currently intact. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/after-senate-vote-trump-admin-backs…
EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation The EXT4 file-system improvements were merged today for Linux 7.2 with some enticing optimizations... https://www.phoronix.com/new…
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Android 17 Drops For Pixel Phones and Watch https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/06/18/1733258/android-17-drops-for-pixel-phones-and-watch?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Before SpaceX IPO, investors in China secretly acquired stakes One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/0…
Canonical has published more details about the local speech-to-text engine that will take dictation in the forthcoming Ubuntu version 26.10, aka "Stonking Stingray." In a post on the company’s Discour…
Your next work PC could live in the cloud. A couple of years ago, the Cloud Software Group – the private-equity-owned vendor that mashed up Citrix with Tibco – built a tool to analyze the ideal deskto…
Google Told Researcher 'Nice Catch!' Then Denied Bug Bounty For Flaw It Still Hasn't Fixed https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/06/18/1656252/google-told-researcher-nice-catch-then-denied-bug-bounty-for-f…
Rust PNG Image Decoder Now Even Faster: Benefiting Chrome, GNOME, Etc The Rust PNG crate, image-png, for PNG image encoding and decoding was already claimed to be the fastest PNG decoder in the world …
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Google Toldl Researchers 'Nice Catch!' Then Denied Bug Bounty For Flaw It Still Hasn't Fixed https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/06/18/1656252/google-toldl-researchers-nice-catch-then-denied-bug-bounty-f…
Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders' AI wealth fund. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/bern…
EXCLUSIVE Google has a security hole in a Kubernetes operator that could allow attackers to bypass Google Cloud Platform (GCP) identity and access protections and gain full control over any organizati…
ZTE announced that China Telecom Guangdong has officially released the E‑Surfing Simulation 2.0 – Cross‑Vendor IP Network Simulation Standard at the Talent & Expertise Development Forum (Peizhi Talent…
It might not yet have reached Earth orbit, but Relativity Space has announced plans for a mission to Mars carrying a NASA payload. The mission, dubbed Aeolus and scheduled for 2028, will launch a Mars…
Tim Cook Says Apple Price Increases Are 'Unavoidable' Due To Memory Costs https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/06/18/0054201/tim-cook-says-apple-price-increases-are-unavoidable-due-to-memory-costs?utm_s…
Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago We can't blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/hunter-gatherers-in-siberi…
Brain-inspired computing may one day help curb AI's ballooning energy demands, but don't expect it to replace today's datacenter hardware any time soon, UK politicans have been told. Speaking to MPs t…
When enterprises first began building AI strategies, the default assumption was straightforward: AI would run in the hyperscaler cloud. The APIs were ready, GPU capacity was building out, and the iner…
You Can No Longer Fly Or Purchase a Drone In Beijing https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/06/18/0040249/you-can-no-longer-fly-or-purchase-a-drone-in-beijing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
The latest version of the KDE desktop - Plasma 6.7.0 - has arrived, bringing several shiny new functions – some of which have been a long time coming – and features the return of the popular Oxygen th…
Cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev, 56, is first former ISS crew member to die Two expeditions, two spacewalks, 322 days in space. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/cosmonaut-aleksandr-samokutyaev-56…
