Trying Out Snapdragon X Elite With The Acer Swift 14 AI Laptop On Ubuntu 26.04
Trying Out Snapdragon X Elite With The Acer Swift 14 AI Laptop On Ubuntu 26.04 This week I tried out the current Ubuntu 26.04 development state on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite with the Acer Swift 1…
European retailers yank popular headphones after study reports trace amounts of…
European retailers yank popular headphones after study reports trace amounts of hormone-disrupting chemicals https://www.theverge.com/science/894771/headphones-hormone-disrupting-chemicals-study
Linux 7.1 Will Bring Power Estimate Reporting For AMD Ryzen AI NPUs
Linux 7.1 Will Bring Power Estimate Reporting For AMD Ryzen AI NPUs This week's round of drm-misc-next patches bring a few improvements to the AMDXDNA accelerator driver used for supporting the Ryzen …
Google Now Using AutoFDO To Enhance Android's Linux Kernel Performance
Google Now Using AutoFDO To Enhance Android's Linux Kernel Performance Google's Android LLVM toolchain team shared publicly this week that they have begun making use of AutoFDO for automatic feedback …
Meta Plans Sweeping Layoffs As AI Costs Mount…
Meta Plans Sweeping Layoffs As AI Costs Mount https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/14/012226/meta-plans-sweeping-layoffs-as-ai-costs-mount?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
KDE Plasma 6.6.3 Fixing Direct Scan-Out When Using Fractional Scaling
KDE Plasma 6.6.3 Fixing Direct Scan-Out When Using Fractional Scaling KDE developers continue being very busy working on Plasma 6.7 feature development as well as continuing to drive new fixes and ref…
GNOME OS Switches To KMSCON Enabled By Default
GNOME OS Switches To KMSCON Enabled By Default GNOME OS as the Linux-based OSTree-using distribution that serves as the leading-edge, reference platform of GNOME desktop development is now using KMSCO…
Two Long-Lost Episodes of 'Doctor Who' Found…
Two Long-Lost Episodes of 'Doctor Who' Found https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/03/14/0048239/two-long-lost-episodes-of-doctor-who-found?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
ChatGPT, Other Chatbots Approved For Official Use In the Senate…
ChatGPT, Other Chatbots Approved For Official Use In the Senate https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/13/2111234/chatgpt-other-chatbots-approved-for-official-use-in-the-senate?utm_source=rss1.0mainlink…
Flying to the Moon for the first time in 54 years is risky—but how risky?
Flying to the Moon for the first time in 54 years is risky—but how risky? "This ought to make for some good reading," NASA's mission management team chair said. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/f…
Woman sneezes out maggots after fly larvae get trapped in her deviated septum
Woman sneezes out maggots after fly larvae get trapped in her deviated septum She made a full recovery, despite the maggots. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/woman-sneezes-out-maggots-after-fly-…
Amazon will increase ad-free Prime Video prices by $2 per month on April 10
Amazon will increase ad-free Prime Video prices by $2 per month on April 10 Amazon says its service requires "significant investment." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/amazon-will-increase-ad-f…
Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games
Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/figuring-out-why-ais-get-flummoxed-by-…
Instagram Discontinues End-To-End Encryption For DMs…
Instagram Discontinues End-To-End Encryption For DMs https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/03/13/214229/instagram-discontinues-end-to-end-encryption-for-dms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good
Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good Early Access impressions: New characters shine, but it feels like we'e done this before. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/03/slay-the-spire-2…
States’ anti-monopoly case against Live Nation continues Monday…
States’ anti-monopoly case against Live Nation continues Monday https://www.theverge.com/policy/894851/states-live-nation-monopoly-trial
Qatar Helium Shutdown Puts Chip Supply Chain On a Two-Week Clock…
Qatar Helium Shutdown Puts Chip Supply Chain On a Two-Week Clock https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/13/190216/qatar-helium-shutdown-puts-chip-supply-chain-on-a-two-week-clock?utm_source=rss1.0mainl…
Spotify tests letting users directly customize their Taste Profile…
Spotify tests letting users directly customize their Taste Profile https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/894753/spotify-taste-profile
debauit Announced As Debian Source Package Auditor
debauit Announced As Debian Source Package Auditor Announced today was debaudit, a new set of tools and services designed to verify the integrity and reproducibility of Debian source packages... https…
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is coming to current-gen Xbox consoles this…
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is coming to current-gen Xbox consoles this year https://www.theverge.com/games/894799/microsoft-gaming-copilot-ai-xbox-consoles
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