AMD Proposes New LLVM iTHP Option For Squeezing More Performance
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 …
Chinese Government Fears AI Might Replace Human Intimacy…
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
Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project
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…
Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist
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…
AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database
Amazon Web Services has bought DuckLabs, the support and development company behind open-source DuckDB. The deal — the financial details of which were not disclosed — will see DuckLabs, founded by aut…
Microsoft sketches out a Whiteboard extension
Microsoft is giving customers who are still clinging to its doomed legacy Whiteboard technology a lifeline, and has pushed the deletion date to October 16, 2026. The migration tooling for "legacy ente…
Fedora + Tuned-PPD Performance Regression Should Be Fixed With New Linux Kernel
Fedora + Tuned-PPD Performance Regression Should Be Fixed With New Linux Kernel Earlier this month when benchmarking six Linux distributions on the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ul…
Intel Introduces New "BFF" Linux Driver To Deal With Aging Silicon & Stuck Bits
Intel Introduces New "BFF" Linux Driver To Deal With Aging Silicon & Stuck Bits Intel is preparing to introduce a new Linux driver named "BFF" for dealing with aging processor silicon where bits may b…
Armbian 26.8 Released With Installer Rewrite, UEFI ISO Images
Armbian 26.8 Released With Installer Rewrite, UEFI ISO Images Armbian as the Debian/Ubuntu-derived distribution that provides an optimized platform for ARM and RISC-V single board computers is out tod…
Linux 7.3 FUSE Delivering Nice Performance Improvements
Linux 7.3 FUSE Delivering Nice Performance Improvements The Linux kernel's FUSE code for enabling file-systems in user-space is enjoying some nice speed boosts with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel…
Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR
Reform UK says it wants to scrap the UK GDPR after eight years of the regulations “strangling” small businesses. The party’s leader Nigel Farage and economy chief Robert Jenrick announced additional p…
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast
SpaceX has announced plans to spend $100 billion on a Louisiana spaceport designed to support thousands of launches annually. According to SpaceX, construction is planned to start in 2027, and the fir…
OpenAI自研推論晶片Jalapeño首批實測出爐，挑戰Nvidia GB200與GB300
新聞OpenAI公布首款自研推論晶片Jalapeño的首批效能測試結果，在GPT-OSS 120B、DeepSeek R1 670B與Kimi K2.5 1T三款大型語言模型上，Jalapeño峰值每瓦吞吐量為比較系統的1.5至1.9倍，端到端回應延遲則減少約43%至72%。OpenAI預計2026年底開始將Jalapeño部署到自家運算基礎架構。 OpenAI解釋Jalapeño的設計重點，是減…
LibreOffice 26.8 Released With Many Nice Improvements
LibreOffice 26.8 Released With Many Nice Improvements LibreOffice 26.8 is now available as the latest half-year feature update to this leading open-source alternative to Microsoft Office... https://ww…
IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs
IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs The focus is on agentic capability and predictable enterprise deployment. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/ibms-new-granite-4-2-m…
Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Dead Brains Don't Always Rot…
Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Dead Brains Don't Always Rot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/26/0626223/scientists-may-have-figured-out-why-dead-brains-dont-always-rot?utm_source=rss1.0ma…
Xtracycle's Swoop ASM e-bike brings an automatic transmission to cargo bikes
Xtracycle's Swoop ASM e-bike brings an automatic transmission to cargo bikes A steel frame cargo bike with a unique twist: You can let it choose your gear. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/xtracyc…
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers
BORK!BORK!BORK! The scales are empty, and so what else can there be but a 404? Today's entry in the pantheon of bork takes us to the UK city of Coventry, where a set of scales at a Tesco store shows t…
中國駭客鎖定緬甸政府與IT產業，發動網路間諜活動Operation QuicSilver
新聞資安公司Seqrite揭露網路間諜活動Operation QuicSilver，中國駭客自今年4月開始，疑似利用Virtual Hard Disk（VHD）虛擬硬碟檔案散布惡意程式，鎖定緬甸政府及IT產業。攻擊者以緬甸文撰寫的政府活動邀請函作為誘餌，最終部署自行開發的Go語言後門QUICAgent，取得受害電腦的遠端控制能力。 在其中一起事故裡，駭客使用具備比利時與緬甸假期的行事曆作為誘餌，檔…
數發部將建立政府AI風險評估機制，未來政府大型AI服務上線前擬納入風險審查、10月公布機關AI內控範本
新聞隨著「人工智慧基本法」在今年1月14日正式施行，推動政府數位轉型及AI治理的數發部已規畫建立政府機關的AI治理制度。數發部數位政府司長王誠明在今天(8/26)的數位政府高峰會中表示，政府AI應用已從試驗階段逐步進入制度化管理，未來將建立一套標準化的AI風險評估與內控制度，讓各機關在導入生成式AI及AI代理（AI Agent）等新技術時，有一致的治理流程可遵循。 王誠明首先指出，近年生成式AI快…
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