Linux 7.3 Looks Like It Will Upstream FailFS
Linux 7.3 Looks Like It Will Upstream FailFS Merged back in Linux 7.3 was NULLFS as a "completely catatonic minimal pseudo filesystem". Now expected for Linux 7.3 is its sibling: FailFS... https://www…
Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters
Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters Trump's DOJ says citizens should no longer be able to enforce environmental laws. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/trump-wants-…
SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana
SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana A Louisiana launch site would offer several significant advantages. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/spacex-is-set-to-acq…
Samsung Bans Smart TV Apps That Share Users' Internet Connections…
Samsung Bans Smart TV Apps That Share Users' Internet Connections https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/08/03/1637257/samsung-bans-smart-tv-apps-that-share-users-internet-connections?utm_source=…
As Reddit Stock Falls, CEO Questions Value of Google's AI Overviews…
As Reddit Stock Falls, CEO Questions Value of Google's AI Overviews https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/03/1628248/as-reddit-stock-falls-ceo-questions-value-of-googles-ai-overviews?utm_source=rss1.0…
Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems
Conference-goers may want to think twice about connecting to public Wi-Fi after Microsoft disclosed that Russian foreign intelligence operatives (SVR) are compromising captive portal networks to deliv…
South Korea Records Its Highest Ever Temperature…
South Korea Records Its Highest Ever Temperature https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/03/0721235/south-korea-records-its-highest-ever-temperature?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Company Offering Printed Books To Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage…
Company Offering Printed Books To Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/03/0714207/company-offering-printed-books-to-train-ai-stops-after-404-media-coverage?utm…
NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has stated "we simply will not fly it" if claims about the costs of the repurposed Mars rover engineering model prove anywhere near accurate. Isaacman was responding …
Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak
The Police National Legal Database (PNLD) is the latest UK public sector outfit to admit that cybercriminals made off with its data, including the names and work email addresses of police officers, ju…
MediaTek lines up $5B war chest for AI datacenter push
Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek is lining up $5 billion in financing to expand into AI datacenter silicon, targeting a slice of a market it expects to be worth up to $80 billion next year. The fabless ch…
Benchmarking Six Linux Distributions On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Benchmarking Six Linux Distributions On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro With the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro now shipping powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) and a brand new hardware desig…
英國數位銀行Revolut疑7,500萬筆客戶資料被兜售於暗網
新聞駭客上周將號稱來自英國數位銀行Revolut的7,500萬筆客戶資料放上暗網兜售，但銀行方面表示，未發現資料外洩跡象，並認為該資料集很可能是偽造資料。 Revolut是2015年創立於英國倫敦的金融科技與數位銀行業者，主要透過手機應用程式提供多幣別兌換、跨國轉帳，以及虛擬與實體簽帳卡等服務。該公司全球客戶已超過7,500萬名，國際匯款服務可支援向160多個國家匯款。 資安情報帳號Intel a…
Google Earth's AI makeover survives one trip around the Sun
Google performed a remarkably brisk reverse ferret last week, launching AI image generation in Google Earth and yanking it the next day after certain sections of the internet did the inevitable. This …
Water system cyberattacks spread to Georgia, Michigan amid US-Iran conflict
Georgia and Michigan are the latest US states to report cyberattacks on water systems, as the FBI investigates incidents across at least seven states. Iran-backed hackers are the leading suspects, alt…
zlib-rs 0.6.7 Released With LoongArch LSX Optimizations, Use-After-Free Fix
zlib-rs 0.6.7 Released With LoongArch LSX Optimizations, Use-After-Free Fix zlib-rs 0.6.7 is out today as the newest version of this "safer zlib" implementation making use of the Rust programming lang…
GNOME Boxes Preparing To Deliver Much Improved Virtualization Experience
GNOME Boxes Preparing To Deliver Much Improved Virtualization Experience GNOME Boxes as a front-end to libvirt and QEMU is preparing to deliver a much improved virtualization experience for those want…
NVIDIA 610.57.04 Linux Driver Delivers Many Fixes
NVIDIA 610.57.04 Linux Driver Delivers Many Fixes NVIDIA is kicking off the new month by releasing an updated R610 Linux driver build with quite a number of bug fixes... https://www.phoronix.com/news/…
Linux 7.3 Expected To Drop The FreeVxFS File-System Driver
Linux 7.3 Expected To Drop The FreeVxFS File-System Driver It looks like Linux 7.3 will end up dropping FreeVxFS as the read-only Linux kernel driver for the Veritas VxFS file-ssytem used formerly by …
How headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after dark
How headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after dark Automotive lights are better than they've ever been, but there's a trade-off. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/how-headlights-got-…
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