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Does Using AI to Edit an Op-Ed on Students' Math Skills Undermine the Argument? https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/20/1729258/does-using-ai-to-edit-an-op-ed-on-students-math-skills-undermine-the-ar…
YouTube Offers Creators Millions of Dollars to Stay Off Netflix https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/20/1715225/youtube-offers-creators-millions-of-dollars-to-stay-off-netflix?utm_source=rss1.0mainli…
Rust 1.98 Adds Algebraic Floating-Point Methods Akin To "-ffast-math" Rust 1.98 released today and is headlined the debut of new algebraic floating-point methods... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-…
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Thunderbird is moving to fortnightly releases to keep pace with Firefox's accelerated schedule. Mozilla and its subsidiary MZLA updated their flagship apps this week, releasing Firefox 154 and Thunder…
Slack has decided that AI coding agents have spent quite enough time alone with developers and would be better off doing their work where everyone can watch: on Slack. The Salesforce-owned chat factor…
A young security researcher figured out a way to enroll a Linux device into Apple’s Find My network and read live location data from it. Find My is Apple’s app for, you guessed it, finding things – wh…
The US now accounts for 15 of the world's 20 largest hyperscale datacenter markets, with Northern Virginia alone hosting nearly 12 percent of global capacity. US locations have increased their dominan…
Once upon a time, Windows Task Manager was a stone-cold killer. Optimized to within an inch of its life, it struck fear into errant processes. These days, Microsoft also wants it monitoring AI workloa…
KMSCON 10.0.2 Brings asciicast Playback Support, Bug Fixes KMSCON 10.0.2 debuted today as the latest update to this leading user-space terminal emulator for Linux systems. KMSCON is built around Linux…
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Weak Roblox safeguards failed to stop adults contacting kids, regulator says Roblox is first platform to submit to independent audits under the Online Safety Act. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2…
Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/20/173219/reverse-lookup-service-exposed-millions-of-photos-of-peoples-faces?utm_source=rss1.0m…
KDE Software Now Has Stable Btrfs Snapshot Integration With KIO-Snapshot 1.0 With today's release of KIO-Snapshot, KDE software now has stable integration of Btrfs file-system snapshots... https://www…
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FCC Abolishes Gigabit Speed Goal, Suggesting It Is Unfair To Slower Technologies https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/08/19/2141221/fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unfair-to-slower-t…
Japan to Require AI Firms to Disclose Training Data https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/19/2322222/japan-to-require-ai-firms-to-disclose-training-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Intel Hyper Threading Performance On The Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids-WS" With the Intel Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor that I have been recently testing within the HP Z4 G6i workstation, there …
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Genesis joins the giant electric SUV club with new GV90 A retractable screen, a huge heads-up display, and an optional 4-seat VIP interior. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/genesis-joins-the-giant…
The UK's tax collector has awarded Capgemini a £37 million contract to help migrate a critical tax system from SAP's legacy ECC platform to S/4HANA, extending a supplier relationship that began in 200…
NetBSD's 19th major release adds 64-bit RISC-V support, improved Linux compatibility, and a MICROVM kernel that can boot in milliseconds. NetBSD 11.0 arrived at the end of July, a little over two year…
A ransomware affiliate appears to have found a new way to squeeze victims for cash: pose as the good guy and undercut the criminals it was working with. Researchers at GuidePoint Security say an outfi…
SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste The yeetcycling math resembles asteroid mining in reverse. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/spacexs-orbital-data-centers-wou…
