NASA Figured Out How To Keep Its 48-Year-Old Voyager 2 Probe Running For Yet Another Year https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/08/0415215/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voyager-2-pro…
AI Helped Create A DirectX 11 Driver For QEMU VMs Thanks in part to the power of Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5, a new Windows DirectX 11 driver for QEMU has been created to help improve graphics ac…
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Linux 7.2-rc7 Adding Support For The Most Unique Or Very Funky Gaming Controller The input subsystem fixes for the week include a number of AI-driven patches to address various information leaks, out-…
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The race for the first before-and-after images of the spent SpaceX rocket on the Moon has been won by the South Korean space agency. The Korean Aerospace Administration (KASA) posted imagery from its …
Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By Police After Mistaken Flock Alert - Twice https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/08/042259/woman-pulled-from-car-at-gunpoint-by-police-after-mistaken-flock-alert---t…
Trump Administration To Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion To Halt US Wind Projects https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/07/2157219/trump-administration-to-pay-german-firm-12-billion-to-halt-us-wind-pr…
After acknowledging last month that unreleased AI models committed what for human perpetrators would be computer crimes, OpenAI now says it cannot rule out the possibility that Astra, a pending model …
Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/0…
新聞開源Git服務平臺Gitea揭露重大漏洞CVE-2026-59774，遠端攻擊者不需要登入帳號，只要伺服器上存在可公開存取的儲存庫，就可能藉由文件處理功能讀取伺服器內的檔案，取得內部存取權杖後，甚至可以在系統上執行程式碼。漏洞CVSS 3.1風險評分達9.8分，官方已在Gitea 1.27.1修補。 CVE-2026-59774漏洞發生在Gitea處理Org-mode文件的方式。Gitea提供…
新聞資安業者Huntress近日發現甲骨文資料庫遭到駭客入侵後被用以當成跳板，對Windows發動攻擊、竊取用戶密碼。 Huntress本周揭露了一起利用傳統SQL注入（SQL injection）漏洞結合Oracle資料庫內建Java功能，成功將攻擊工具包khunt寫入資料庫內部，最終取得Windows作業系統SYSTEM權限的進階攻擊案例。 在這起案例中，一家企業對外服務App因為未能檢查輸入…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Improvements For UI, Built-In Remote Desktop Server It's been another busy summertime week of KDE developers working toward a great Plasma 6.8 desktop release in October... https://www.…
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Virginia Governor To Intervene In Dominion-NextEra Merger https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/07/2142258/virginia-governor-to-intervene-in-dominion-nextera-merger?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Water Utilities Group Partners With DEF CON Offshoot For Water Watch Center https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/07/2137206/water-utilities-group-partners-with-def-con-offshoot-for-water-watch-center?u…
Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires Copernicus Browser adds wildfire visualization amid record wildfire seasons. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free…
Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500 Six deaths reported among screwworm cases, one directly attributed to the flies. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/flesh-eat…
Kalshi and Polymarket Bets On Clinical Trials Criticized As 'Ghastly' https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/07/1843210/kalshi-and-polymarket-bets-on-clinical-trials-criticized-as-ghastly?utm_source=rs…
Scientists at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) say that they have overcome plasma instability issues standing in the way of commercial fusion power plants. The boffins overseeing the MAST (Mega …
Ransomware attacks jumped nearly 20 percent in July, with UK firm Comparitech counting 799 incidents, up from 668 in June. Of those, 51 had been confirmed by victims. The tally makes July the second-b…
The AI giants have joined forces to ask the world’s developers to all please write their agentic skills and tools into the same format. In return, coders will be able to move these superpowers easily …
With at least 12 US states’ water systems having been hacked - most likely by Iran - we have to get better at cyber defense, according to retired General and Ex-NSA chief Paul Nakasone, who was speaki…
