GNOME 51 Beta Released With Many Minor Improvements
GNOME 51 Beta Released With Many Minor Improvements The beta release of GNOME 51 is now available for testing. This cycle for the beta milestone is mostly a wide collection of minor improvements throu…
Europe's Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant,…
Europe's Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/15/067213/europes-record-heatwave-kills-25000-dries-rivers-sh…
Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI?…
Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI? https://slashdot.org/story/26/08/15/0431256/why-are-big-tech-ceos-writing-long-manifestos-about-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
WordPress漏洞XSS2Shell可讓駭客執行PHP程式碼，逾萬網站遭自動化鎖定
新聞WordPress發布7.0.3安全更新，修補核心程式登入頁面的高風險跨站指令碼漏洞CVE-2026-64638。攻擊者不必先取得WordPress帳號即可觸發漏洞，若再誘使已登入的管理員開啟並操作惡意頁面，便可能利用管理員權限一路將攻擊擴大至伺服器端PHP程式碼執行。資安業者近期並觀察到大量自動化活動，鎖超過1.1萬個網站，遍及67個國家。 CVE-2026-64638又稱XSS2Shell…
Vulnerability Giving Attackers Full Control of Macs Is Under Active…
Vulnerability Giving Attackers Full Control of Macs Is Under Active Exploitation https://apple.slashdot.org/story/26/08/14/2213230/vulnerability-giving-attackers-full-control-of-macs-is-under-active-e…
Intel's Jay Graphics Shader Compiler Now Passing Vulkan CTS With Xe2/Xe3…
Intel's Jay Graphics Shader Compiler Now Passing Vulkan CTS With Xe2/Xe3 Hardware Last year Alyssa Rosenzweig joined Intel to work on their Linux graphics drivers after previously serving as a contrac…
RustConn 0.20 Continues Further Polishing This GTK4/libadwaita-Based…
RustConn 0.20 Continues Further Polishing This GTK4/libadwaita-Based Connection Manager RustConn has been in development for a while now as a modern GTK4 connection manager supporting a variety of pro…
First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity
First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/fir…
So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online…
So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much. https://arstechnica.com/s…
ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses
A new variant of the Shai-Hulud npm worm has poisoned hundreds of packages while adding propagation techniques that can leave little trace in the corresponding source repositories. In Frank Herbert’s …
Late Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2 Bring More Device Quirks, Intel Nova Lake…
Late Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2 Bring More Device Quirks, Intel Nova Lake HDMI-In Capture Ahead of the presumed Linux 7.2 stable kernel release tomorrow, some last minute sound fixes/quirks have been m…
KDE Plasma 6.8 To Allow Fine-Tuning Mouse/Touchpad Speeds
KDE Plasma 6.8 To Allow Fine-Tuning Mouse/Touchpad Speeds KDE developers continue to be quite busy this summer baking improvements for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop release. This Week in Plasna is o…
Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Cosmic Object: a Black Hole 'Star'…
Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Cosmic Object: a Black Hole 'Star' https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/14/2224234/astronomers-discover-a-new-kind-of-cosmic-object-a-black-hole-star?utm_source=…
Debian Developers Begin Voting Over LLM Usage Within The Project
Debian Developers Begin Voting Over LLM Usage Within The Project Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the project. After collecting a variety of proposals…
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine
Lego has released its largest Hubble Space Telescope yet – a model built at approximately minifig scale that dwarfs the observatory included with its Space Shuttle Discovery set. The first thing to sa…
Google ordered to make it easier to download alternative Android app stores
Google ordered to make it easier to download alternative Android app stores Third-party app stores are about to become more visible in Google Play. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/google-order…
Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make…
Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/14/2112242/meta-patents-ai-glasses-to-use-facial-re…
OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/openai-a…
Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories…
Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/14/215204/robots-that-walk-and-talk-are-coming-to-car-factories?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack
Some 1.6 million unique email addresses tied to RingCentral have been leaked online, alongside names, physical addresses, and phone numbers, according to Have I Been Pwned. RingCentral disclosed the b…
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