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MNT is launching the Station, a miniature desktop case for motherboards that come from its Reform open-source laptop. If you upgraded the laptop, you can now give your old motherboard a new life. The …
GitHub Actions stumbled again on Wednesday, days after the code host renewed its promises to improve reliability. Wednesday’s problem, as has so often been the case, hit Actions, GitHub’s CI/CD platfo…
Amazon to Acquire DuckLabs, Adding the Team Behind DuckDB https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/08/26/1824257/amazon-to-acquire-ducklabs-adding-the-team-behind-duckdb?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Psychiatry’s diagnostic bible is finally getting a biological upgrade Biology is coming to psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, even as reliable biomarkers remain rare. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/…
Driven: The 992.2 Porsche 911 GT3 Touring earns its keep The "everyday" GT3 delivers, despite looming regulations and an ever-inflating price tag. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/driven-the-992-2…
Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children's Social Media Addiction https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/26/1632251/meta-reaches-18-billion-of-settlements-over-childrens-social-media-addict…
Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future "Most" Xbox One and Series games are compatible; discs will still work after being claimed. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026…
Medical device maker Boston Scientific’s global operations have been disrupted by an ongoing cyberattack, the company disclosed on Wednesday. According to an SEC filing, the “cybersecurity incident” a…
The rising cost of contract prices for memory chips could see DRAM and NAND flash account for more than two-thirds of the capital expenditure of cloud service providers (CSPs) by next year. Taiwan-bas…
Intel Granite Rapids WS Core Scaling Performance With The Xeon 678X Last week I provided a look at the Intel Xeon 600 series Hyper Threading performance with the Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processo…
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15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go. "We're living in this world of scarcity with the Moon." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/15000-years-of-solar-wind-in-fo…
Firefox 157 Will Include JPEG XL By Default On All Platforms https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/26/0633229/firefox-157-will-include-jpeg-xl-by-default-on-all-platforms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time Messing with the genetic code might have gotten a bit easier to do. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/researchers-get-two-genetic-codes…
Haiku R1 Beta 6 Released After Two Years, BeOS-Inspired Project Turns 25 Next Week Haiku R1 Beta 5 came out in September 2026 while out today is the long-awaited sixth beta for this open-source operat…
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For users of vSphere 8, October 11, 2027 looms large on the calendar. That is the day general support for vSphere 8 ends, along with bug fixes and security patches, and the day traditional perpetual l…
Workwear and fashion retailer Carhartt’s data breach was about half as bad as ShinyHunters claimed, according to Troy Hunt, who reviewed the data dump before uploading it to his Have I Been Pwned webs…
AMD Proposes New LLVM iTHP Option For Squeezing More Performance AMD's compiler team is proposing a new LLVM Clang compiler option, -fenable-readonly-thp for implementing instruction Transparent Huge …
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Chinese Government Fears AI Might Replace Human Intimacy https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/26/0618208/chinese-government-fears-ai-might-replace-human-intimacy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
X, the social media mouthpiece of free speech absolutist Elon Musk, has reportedly sent legal takedown notices to Nitter and related service XCancel over alleged data scraping and rules violations. XC…
Bill Gates thinks that experts underestimate the potential havoc AI will wreak on society and says preparations to ease the transition are inadequate. The Microsoft founder and former CEO is usually a…
