Five More Lenovo Laptops To Report Fan Sensors With Linux 7.3
Five More Lenovo Laptops To Report Fan Sensors With Linux 7.3 In addition to more ASUS motherboards having working sensors with Linux 7.3, this next kernel version will also get several more Lenovo la…
North Korean spies are running local LLMs to cause AI mischief
North Korean government snoops are operating LLMs locally and collecting technology to weave AI into their attack operations, according to South Korean security firm Genians. The researchers said they…
Third-party app stores are rolling out in Google Play, but there's only one…
Third-party app stores are rolling out in Google Play, but there's only one right now Aptoide has become the first app store distributed inside Google Play under a judge's order. https://arstechnica.c…
Meta's 'Open' Muse Glimmer Model Can Run On a Single Computer…
Meta's 'Open' Muse Glimmer Model Can Run On a Single Computer https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/10/163237/metas-open-muse-glimmer-model-can-run-on-a-single-computer?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Linux 7.3 Bringing A KCFI Optimization To Benefit Older Intel CPUs
Linux 7.3 Bringing A KCFI Optimization To Benefit Older Intel CPUs Expected to be merged during the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is a Kernel Control Flow Integrity (KCFI) improvement intended to be…
Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list
An Australian man who asked his AI agent to book him a slot in a class at his local gym got more than he bargained for as the bot hacked into a waitlist and started messing with other members' reserva…
Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware
Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware New update includes improvements for the Intel-based MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ among others. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/valve-slowly-expa…
Taiwan 'Throttles' Mobile Internet For First Time During Annual War Games…
Taiwan 'Throttles' Mobile Internet For First Time During Annual War Games https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/10/1557258/taiwan-throttles-mobile-internet-for-first-time-during-annual-war-games?utm_s…
Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak
Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak Recall of jalapeño products spans 26 states, major retailers, a variety of foods. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/…
Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat
Anthropic is making auto mode the default in Claude Code from August 14, claiming its classifier is "as safe or safer than an average user clicking through prompts." Users with a different default alr…
Framework loses customer data in Metabase zero-day attack
Modular laptop maker Framework has warned customers that an attacker exploited a zero-day at analytics provider Metabase to access names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, and login …
Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China
Cameras aboard Royal Navy drone boats were found phoning home to an IP address in China during a routine cyber vulnerability assessment. The UK Ministry of Defence confirmed the discovery, describing …
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers
Wetherspoons has stopped short of banning Meta-style smart glasses from its pubs, but told The Register that customers should switch off their cameras and refrain from filming. "Like many hospitality …
Attackers pick Levi's pockets in social engineering attack
Levi Strauss is investigating a data breach after attackers used social engineering to access three employees' work computers. In a regulatory filing, the jeans maker said the intruders accessed and e…
As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them
Anti-datacenter sentiment appears to be hardening in the US and UK, with more American jurisdictions blocking new builds and protesters marching against a planned facility in London's historic Brick L…
LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity
LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline last week after detecting "unusual activity on servers that are hosted and managed by a third-party vendor." Non-public custo…
AI Assistant Hacks Gym Website In First Known Australian Autonomous Cyber…
AI Assistant Hacks Gym Website In First Known Australian Autonomous Cyber Attack https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/10/0518257/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-in-first-known-australian-autonomous-cybe…
Qt Toolkit To Introduce Edge AI Submodule, Initially For Vision AI With Qt
Qt Toolkit To Introduce Edge AI Submodule, Initially For Vision AI With Qt The Qt Group has been working on various AI integrations for the Qt toolkit in recent times like a QML profiler skill for age…
Dogs can tell if you're scared or sad
Dogs can tell if you're scared or sad fMRI scans show happiness, fear, anger, and sadness have distinct brain activity patterns in doggy brains. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/dogs-can-tell-i…
One of China's workhorse rockets just exploded in flight
One of China's workhorse rockets just exploded in flight If the failure involved the YF-100 engine, there are broader concerns for China's space program. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/one-of-c…
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