DXVK 3.1 Released With DXGI Incremental Presentation, D3D11 Buffer Render…
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
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-…
Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted
The Green Party of England and Wales wants the government to end the blanket designation of new bit barns as “critical infrastructure” and change planning rules to stop such facilities taking preceden…
LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI
The latest semi-annual release of LibreOffice, the cross-platform FOSS office suite, is out – and it’s gleefully throwing some shade. The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.8 – and sent The R…
Roblox Is Cracking Down On Games That Reward Kids For Doomscrolling…
Roblox Is Cracking Down On Games That Reward Kids For Doomscrolling https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/08/28/0027222/roblox-is-cracking-down-on-games-that-reward-kids-for-doomscrolling?utm_source=rss…
US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies
The former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist previously accused of trying to pass secret and top-secret information to foreign spies has pleaded guilty following a successful FBI sting. …
US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors…
US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/28/009205/us-considers-fresh-round-of-tariffs-on-semiconductors?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
HP Z4 G6i: A Linux-Friendly Workstation Powered By The Intel Xeon 600 Series
HP Z4 G6i: A Linux-Friendly Workstation Powered By The Intel Xeon 600 Series The past month I have been testing out the HP Z4 G6i workstation across many different workloads and grueling tasks. This H…
Word 97's ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen shared another fireside tale – one to strike fear into the hearts of engineers everywhere: the bug that can't be replicated in the debugger. The story begins ne…
Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming
It looks like the Racoon has bedded in and settled down, as Canonical releases the first point release of this year’s Ubuntu LTS version, offering an upgrade to users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat…
The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release
The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel's vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel relea…
Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn't have
The Pentagon illegally blacklisted Anthropic as a national security threat based partly on things Claude couldn't actually do, a US federal judge has ruled. US District Judge Rita Lin found that the g…
Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff
The IEEE is warning that China’s export controls on rare earth minerals could start to impact datacenters, as shipments of some key materials are down 75 percent and Beijing is due to review its polic…
GPU Reset Recovery Merge Request For GNOME Mutter Submitted
GPU Reset Recovery Merge Request For GNOME Mutter Submitted Google Summer of Code 2026 featured a project working on GPU reset recovery for GNOME's Mutter compositor. GSoC has now wrapped up and the p…
CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago
CISA is still crying out for software vendors to adopt Secure by Design (SBD) development practices, and says in its latest review that longstanding vulnerability classes are still the most exploited.…
Microsoft preps this year's Windows 11 feature tweaks: 26H2 hits Release Preview
Microsoft has dropped Windows 11 26H2 into the Windows Insider Release Preview Channel and released August's preview update. Windows 11 26H2 shares the same servicing branch as Windows 11 24H2 and 25H…
Vulkan 1.4.361 Released With New NVIDIA Vendor Extension
Vulkan 1.4.361 Released With New NVIDIA Vendor Extension The Khronos Group is closing out the month of August with the Vulkan 1.4.361 specification update... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.3…
Chris Mason Steps Down As Btrfs Co-Maintainer, Departing Meta
Chris Mason Steps Down As Btrfs Co-Maintainer, Departing Meta Longtime Linux kernel developer Chris Mason is departing Meta. In the process of doing so, he is also stepping down from his co-maintainer…
Microsoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting
Microsoft has pushed back detection and question answering by the Teams Facilitator to November, after initially scheduling General Availability for June. Teams Facilitator is an AI assistant that joi…
Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution
OpenAI has gathered more than 100 of the world's biggest tech and infosec companies to warn that cyber defense is in trouble - a reassuring development given quite a few of them helped build the techn…
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