Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute
Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute Among the changes being considered for the in-development Fedora 45 is a lightened version of the GRUB UEFI bootloader that w…
Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse…
Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse https://www.theverge.com/tech/949360/apple-ai-photo-edit-reframe-extend-clean-up-hands-on
Echo Isle is a pint-sized adventure inspired by classic Zelda…
Echo Isle is a pint-sized adventure inspired by classic Zelda https://www.theverge.com/games/947136/echo-isle-review-pc
AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking
Amazon has developed a new networking topology that's up to a third faster and up to 40 percent more energy efficient than traditional hierarchical network designs. The novel architecture, called Resi…
Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the…
Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System Researchers have quantified the length and mass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks globally. https://arst…
The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models…
The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/948425/tribeca-2026-dear-upstairs-neighbors-google-deepmind-openai
World's First Crewed Solid-State Flight Electrifies Aviation's Future…
World's First Crewed Solid-State Flight Electrifies Aviation's Future https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/06/13/0654225/worlds-first-crewed-solid-state-flight-electrifies-aviations-future?utm_sourc…
Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released... With Initial Support For ARM
Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released... With Initial Support For ARM Released on Friday was the newest version of Intel Thermald, the thermal daemon developed by Intel for their processors on Linux for moni…
GCC 17 Merges Function Multi-Versioning For APX & AVX10.2
GCC 17 Merges Function Multi-Versioning For APX & AVX10.2 Earlier this month I wrote about Intel working on function multi-versioning support for APX and AVX10.2 with the GCC compiler. This allows dev…
Haiku OS Now Enables AVX-512 Support, Other Hardware Improvements
Haiku OS Now Enables AVX-512 Support, Other Hardware Improvements The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system now enables Advanced Vector Extensions 512 on capable Intel/AMD CPUs. A number of…
KDE Plasma 6.7 Sees Last Minute Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release
KDE Plasma 6.7 Sees Last Minute Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release Ahead of the much anticipated Plasma 6.7 desktop release next week, KDE developers have been busy putting final touches on it, mostly…
NHS patients can't opt out of Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can
Patients in England cannot stop their data being processed by the Palantir-built NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), but individual NHS trusts can choose not to use it, health minister Preet Kaur Gill …
XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway
BORK!BORK!BORK! We're big fans of retro computing here at Vulture Central, and so it is with a certain delight that we can report XP-era Windows has been spotted disgracing itself on London's Dockland…
Anthropic 'Suspends' All Mythos and Fable Access After US Order Limiting…
Anthropic 'Suspends' All Mythos and Fable Access After US Order Limiting Foreign Access https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/06/13/0546258/anthropic-suspends-all-mythos-and-fable-access-after-us-order-l…
Data Center Opponents Have Blocked Or Delayed Projects Worth Nearly $130…
Data Center Opponents Have Blocked Or Delayed Projects Worth Nearly $130 Billion In 2026 https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/06/12/2242249/data-center-opponents-have-blocked-or-delayed-projects-worth-n…
SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?
SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next? As of today, SpaceX is owned by investors who will want to see it make money. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/spac…
Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day…
Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day https://www.theverge.com/news/949517/valve-vr-headset-import-records-steam-frame-steam-machine-game-console
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500…
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromise…
OpenZFS 2.4.3 Released With Many Bug Fixes
OpenZFS 2.4.3 Released With Many Bug Fixes OpenZFS 2.4.3 is out today as the newest stable point release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation as well as point releases for the OpenZFS 2.…
SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right?
Amid the unrelenting demand for AI infrastructure, SK Hynix, the world’s largest supplier of HBM memory used in high-end GPUs, now expects to triple its wafer capacity. You'll just have to wait throug…
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