NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers a Field of Honeycomb Textures https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/01/2136251/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-discovers-a-field-of-honeycomb-textures?utm_source=rs…
Here's how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA's Swift mission "We believe that a capture of Swift, an attempted capture of Swift, is very much in the cards." https://arstechnica.co…
Hamburg Is Replacing a Bridge In One Huge Piece https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/01/0618234/hamburg-is-replacing-a-bridge-in-one-huge-piece?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
NetBSD 11.0 Released With RISC-V Support, Enhanced Linux System Call Compatibility NetBSD 11.0 officially shipped today as the nineteenth major release of this popular BSD operating system... https://…
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New GitHub, PyPI Policies Hope to Boost Supply Chain Security https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/08/01/0511237/new-github-pypi-policies-hope-to-boost-supply-chain-security?utm_source=rss1.0mainl…
Used EV Prices are Now Going Up in America https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/01/0710210/used-ev-prices-are-now-going-up-in-america?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Review: Yes, we're still arguing about Nolan's The Odyssey Christopher Nolan's impressionistic reinterpretation of Homer's epic poem finds the man behind the myth. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026…
Google Plans To Exempt Sanctioned Nations From Android Developer Verification https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/31/2315254/google-plans-to-exempt-sanctioned-nations-from-android-developer-verifica…
Likely illegally, Claude gained access to 3 networks. Will Anthropic be held to account? Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison. https://arstechnica.com/security/20…
MPEG-4 Patent Expiration, RADV On Windows, Open-Source AI & Other July Highlights Last month on Phoronix there were 257 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 20 featured Linux h…
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Reddit CEO on AI Overviews: "We're still looking for that win-win" Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/reddit-ceo-on-ai-overviews-…
Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud "Foxboron" announced today he is resigning f…
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After noise complaints, judge orders Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica Autonomous vehicle giant disturbs residents' sleep. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/after-noise-compla…
Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific worka…
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Drones Offer Alternative to Balloons For Weather Research https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/31/239224/drones-offer-alternative-to-balloons-for-weather-research?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
GNOME Working To Establish An RFC Process, Battling Sloppy AI-Generated Extensions GNOME developers were quite busy in closing out the month of July from continued work on establishing a formal Reques…
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KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6.8 development space particularly thanks to performance work on betterin…
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Weary travelers making their way through airports have enough to contend with these days without some Microsoft borkage popping up over departure information. Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader …
Picolibc 1.8.12 Brings Latest Improvements To This Embedded-Focused C Library If the recent release of the GNU C Library glibc 2.44 is too big for your embedded use-cases, Keith Packard continues hack…
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Defcon's new badge is a security key you can see inside A removable chip lets hackers inspect their badge—and keep using it after Defcon. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/defcons-new-badge-is-…
