Linux 7.3 Lands Last-Minute Fixes For Samsung 990 PRO & 990 EVO Plus SSDs
Linux 7.3 Lands Last-Minute Fixes For Samsung 990 PRO & 990 EVO Plus SSDs Ahead of the Linux 7.3 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow, last minute workarounds were merged for the Samsung 990…
KDE Plasma 6.9 To Debut New Weather Widget & On-Screen Keyboard
KDE Plasma 6.9 To Debut New Weather Widget & On-Screen Keyboard With KDE Plasma 6.8 released earlier this week, KDE developers have begun working on more feature activity toward Plasma 6.9... https://…
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 Brings New Hardware Support & Important Security Fix
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 Brings New Hardware Support & Important Security Fix Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 was released on Friday as the latest update to this community-maintained tablet/smartphone Ubuntu Lin…
Amazon wants you to Bee-lieve wearable AI can recall it all for you
Amazon wants to ensure you have a personal AI that you can carry with you anywhere, listening in on your conversations so it can remind you of key details – and give you personalized shopping recommen…
Get in the bin! UK Space Agency wants public to name its debris removal mission
The UK Space Agency needs a name for its Active Debris Removal Mission and has decided that the great British public are the people for the job. The agency confirmed the operation earlier this week an…
OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites
OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard.` https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/opena…
Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training
Businesses using Facebook commercially may want to think twice about what information they share online. At the end of the month, Meta plans to introduce terms that would authorize it to collect conte…
Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers
Node.js creator Ryan Dahl is sacrificing a battle to win the war … for server-side computing and allowing Node-replacement Deno to fall by the wayside. Last week, Cloudflare announced that it had purc…
Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price
Nvidia's RTX Spark partner systems are here, and spec-for-spec they've got all the ingredients for a hit: a potent CPU, blisteringly fast integrated graphics, and up to 128 GB of unified memory in a l…
Open-weight models win hearts, minds, and wallets
Open-weight models more than quadrupled their share of spending through Vercel's AI Gateway between June and September, when they processed more than seven in 10 tokens. "In August, open-weight models…
Wine 11.20 Released With CD-ROM Support Change
Wine 11.20 Released With CD-ROM Support Change Wine 11.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows games and apps on Linux. We are quickly approac…
US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"
US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license" There are still significant hurdles ahead, both technical and legislative. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/us-rep-pro…
New online tool will check lawyers' sloppy AI-written briefs since they can't seem to be bothered
For lawyers who love to use AI to write legal briefs, there's just one problem: bots hallucinate and make things up. Fortunately, a new tool, CiteProof, promises to crawl over briefs and filings for f…
Ubuntu Stonking Stingray swims into spotlight with pre-release kernel
The latest interim release of Ubuntu is here, complete with kernel 7.3 – even though it isn't officially out yet. It also includes a new speech-to-text system that is intriguing but not fully useful. …
“thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops
“thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops Discord user flagged AI CSAM, triggering arrest of New Jersey deputy AG. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/thegentlemanpe…
The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises
The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises Microsoft promises one machine for dev, AI, and gaming, and mostly gets there. https://arstechnica.com/reviews/2026/10/the-surface-lap…
17 More Security Vulnerabilities Made Public For X.Org Libraries
17 More Security Vulnerabilities Made Public For X.Org Libraries Just shy of two weeks since a dozen vulnerabilities were published for the X.Org Server and XWayland, more than one dozen vulnerabiliti…
GNOME OS Preview Announced In Road Toward A Stable Release
GNOME OS Preview Announced In Road Toward A Stable Release The GNOME OS Linux distribution to date has just been in GNOME OS Nightly form for tracking the latest nightly packages of GNOME in their cur…
The Best Features Of Linux 7.3: Performance Improvements, Lots From Valve
The Best Features Of Linux 7.3: Performance Improvements, Lots From Valve The Linux 7.3 kernel is slated to be officially released on Sunday, 18 October, barring any last minute issues from coming abo…
Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees Meta “streamlined” its commercial TOS. Legal experts warn it’s an AI power grab. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202…
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