Wine 11.16 Released With VA-API Hardware Decoding, Better ARM64 Support
Wine 11.16 Released With VA-API Hardware Decoding, Better ARM64 Support Wine 11.16 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this software enabling Windows games and applications to…
Apple Cuts Jobs In Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming Teams…
Apple Cuts Jobs In Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming Teams https://apple.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/207246/apple-cuts-jobs-in-siri-vision-pro-immersive-video-and-gaming-teams?utm_source=rss…
Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says
Salesforce partners say they have yet to see any meaningful revenue from Agentforce, two years after the CRM giant launched its AI platform, promising spectacular growth. That's according to a recent …
Proton 11.0-2 Enables More Titles With Steam Play / Linux Gaming
Proton 11.0-2 Enables More Titles With Steam Play / Linux Gaming Just in time for those that enjoy their Linux / Steam Play gaming on weekends, Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 11.0-2 as th…
Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels The private Android-based OS will expand beyond Pixels next year. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/motorolas-grapheneo…
American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets…
American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets Felony Charges https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/202201/american-who-wiped-his-phone-with-duress-password-during-bor…
AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC
AI companies are buying loads of physical books, hoovering up the texts for model training, and then physically destroying the originals. A group of 18 advocacy organizations on Friday asked the US Fe…
Chinese regulators tell Tesla to fix nearly 3 million cars
Chinese regulators tell Tesla to fix nearly 3 million cars Chinese safety regulators have cracked down on doors that don't open in a crash. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/chinese-regulators-tell…
AMD Posts Massive Patch Series For Enabling UALink In The Linux Kernel
AMD Posts Massive Patch Series For Enabling UALink In The Linux Kernel Whether coincidental or intentional, AMD engineers tend to drop interesting, feature patches for the open-source/Linux space on F…
Researchers use "thunderquakes" to study structure of Earth's surface
Researchers use "thunderquakes" to study structure of Earth's surface Thunderstorms make seismic waves that can be used to find sub-surface features. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/researcher…
Class action accuses brokers of hiding Zillow listings, driving up NYC rents
Class action accuses brokers of hiding Zillow listings, driving up NYC rents Renters say hidden Zillow listings make it harder to afford living in New York City. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
AI Boosted Homework Scores, Then Exam Scores Dropped…
AI Boosted Homework Scores, Then Exam Scores Dropped https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/1951227/ai-boosted-homework-scores-then-exam-scores-dropped?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Explosive Russian drone boat destroyed near European offshore gas site
Explosive Russian drone boat destroyed near European offshore gas site Romania blew up drone boat to protect lives of several hundred rig workers. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/explosive-rus…
Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers
Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers Logitech increased prices by up to 25 percent last year. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/lawsuit-demands-logitech-hand-tariff…
Man Dressed As Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council…
Man Dressed As Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/1840254/man-dressed-as-darth-vader-defends-flock-cameras-to-san-diego-city-council?ut…
Micron Unveils $10 Billion AI Memory Research Lab In Boise…
Micron Unveils $10 Billion AI Memory Research Lab In Boise https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/1752224/micron-unveils-10-billion-ai-memory-research-lab-in-boise?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Linux 7.3 Lands Improvements For Voodoo 3 / 4 / 5 & Vintage Atari Computers In…
Linux 7.3 Lands Improvements For Voodoo 3 / 4 / 5 & Vintage Atari Computers In 2026 At a time when Linux continues dropping older hardware drivers due to the influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports and…
Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, 'Enormously Helped' By AI…
Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, 'Enormously Helped' By AI https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/1742239/linus-torvalds-endures-a-debug-session-from-hell-enormously-helped-by-ai?utm_…
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch
CEO Elon Musk says SpaceX probably won't attempt to catch a returning Starship for several months, walking back his earlier suggestion that it could happen on the next test flight. In a post on his so…
Homeland security cybercops say patch TrueConf (Russia's Zoom) if you're using it
CISA has ordered US federal agencies to patch two exploited flaws in TrueConf, a Russian-built video conferencing platform, after compromised servers were caught handing malware to unsuspecting meetin…
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