The boffins on Google’s DeepMind team unveiled an experimental new language model this week that uses techniques originally developed for AI image generators to boost text output performance by as muc…
Data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters claims to have exploited a critical Oracle PeopleSoft bug as a zero-day to compromise more than 100 organizations, including the University of Nottingham, a…
IoT gadget firm AcuRite delays forced app migration due to new app's “shortfalls" The old app "still needs to be retired," AcuRite tells us. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/iot-gadget-firm-acu…
ACLU Sues After Facial Recognition Falsely Identifies Florida Man As a Child Abductor https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/06/11/1736213/aclu-sues-after-facial-recognition-falsely-identifies-florida-man-…
After nearly breaking, NASA's Deep Space Network "worked well" on Artemis II "Some missions are using more than what their paperwork would say." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/after-nearly-brea…
What's so special about a Formula 1 driver-in-the-loop simulator? Latency, bandwidth, and fidelity all matter when you're chasing milliseconds. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/whats-so-special-ab…
Blink’s six-piece outdoor camera kit is a great deal under $200 https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/948459/blink-camera-bundle-aeropress-deal-sale
OpenAI Mulls Slashing Prices As It Competes With Anthropic For Users https://slashdot.org/story/26/06/11/1722243/openai-mulls-slashing-prices-as-it-competes-with-anthropic-for-users?utm_source=rss1.0m…
Roborock’s Q10 S5 Plus robovac is over half off, matching its best price to date https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/948529/roborock-q10-s5-plus-robot-vacuum-mop-deal-sale
Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year https://www.theverge.com/tech/948534/amazon-data-centers-water-use
Mesa 26.2 Preps For AMD GFX1156 For New, Post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 Graphics Being submitted on the kernel side with the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is initial support for the GFX 11.5.6 graphics IP block…
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Did Iron Age Britons remove brains of the dead? Archaeologists found apparent scrape marks inside a skull; long bones may have been sharpened into tools. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/did-ir…
Here are the price-matching policies for Best Buy, GameStop, and others https://www.theverge.com/21570383/price-matching-policy-apple-google-microsoft
NASA's sprint to save the Swift observatory has reached another milestone: Katalyst Space's LINK robotic servicing spacecraft is now installed atop its Pegasus XL launcher. The milestone came less tha…
HANDS ON At WWDC this week, Apple introduced container machines, which are persistent virtual machines running Linux, bearing some resemblance to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Microsoft's opera…
This article is aimed at bioinformatics platform leads, ML infrastructure engineers, and genomics budget owners who are now running GPU-accelerated workflows in the cloud. It's about a hidden cost pro…
Online chat platform VRChat says a recent cyberattack compromised the data belonging to nearly 2.5 million users. It confirmed the “data security incident” in a report filed with Maine’s attorney gene…
It won't be making smartphones great again. The long-awaited Trump-branded smartphone has finally arrived, and it appears to be exactly what many suspected: an existing handset in gold drag. Repair bi…
Opendoor Ends India Operations, Fueling a Bigger Conversation About AI and Outsourcing https://slashdot.org/story/26/06/11/070228/opendoor-ends-india-operations-fueling-a-bigger-conversation-about-ai-…
A warrantless wiretap law is about to expire — but surveillance networks aren’t actually ‘going dark’ https://www.theverge.com/tech/948451/fisa-702-reauthorization-vote-fails-congress-wiretapping-laps…
