Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accident "The anomaly originated at the main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/blue-origin-n…
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Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accident "The anomaly originated at the main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/blue-origin-n…
FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap, Claiming Authority Over Limit Set By Congress https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/1728210/fcc-kills-tv-ownership-cap-claiming-authority-over-limit-set-by-congress?utm_s…
A browser-based game designed to test humans' ability to safely approve AI coding agent requests suggests humans in the loop aren't as good at spotting dangerous commands as one might hope, with playe…
Parasitic zombie fungus thrives in mosses, too This may help fungi survive host scarcity and explains why infected hosts prefer the mosses as death sites. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/paras…
Times Magazine Now Serves Ads That Only AI Chatbots Can See https://slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/1552249/times-magazine-now-serves-ads-that-only-ai-chatbots-can-see?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress Change will let "Trump-aligned billionaires" buy more stations, advocacy group says. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy…
Moderna's mRNA flu shot earns FDA approval after rollercoaster review Moderna's new flu vaccine, mFLUSIVA, is approved for all adults ages 50 and up. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/modernas-mr…
Linux Patched For Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability Made public minutes ago is the Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability which is now patched in the newest Linux kernel Git code. The Safe RET Interrupt Vuln…
Apple NVMe Linux Driver Sees Fixes After Being Bitten By New Firmware A set of patches providing fixes for the Apple Silicon NVMe driver for the Linux kernel were sent out today due to new issues crop…
Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/cloudflare-…
Meta AI Hacked External Systems During Cybersecurity Testing https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/1547259/meta-ai-hacked-external-systems-during-cybersecurity-testing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
The debate about whether enterprises need an internal platform is over. Google’s 2025 DORA research found that 90 percent of organizations now report using an internal platform, and 76 percent have es…
Katalyst Space is continuing to make progress in the rescue of the spacecraft that is supposed to rescue NASA's Swift observatory. The spin of the LINK vehicle, which was launched in July on a mission…
Broadcaster Wins Broad US Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don't Exist Yet https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/0444235/broadcaster-wins-broad-us-blocking-injunction-covering-pirate-s…
The Performance Benefits To Upgrading Mesa With Intel Arc B390 On Ubuntu Linux If you are an early customer of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro or other Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake laptop and us…
A Canadian who helped orchestrate the sprawling Snowflake-linked data theft campaign has pleaded guilty in the US, admitting that he and his co-conspirators returned to squeeze at least one victim a s…
Microsoft has abruptly withdrawn Domain Exclusion for Microsoft 365 Copilot, days after touting it as a way to stop the assistant grounding its answers in unwanted websites. If you had a list of sourc…
Linux Accidentally Left Legacy I/O & Memory Handlers Open In Kernel Lockdown Mode For nearly the past decade has been the kernel lockdown mode for tightening up kernel access from user-space such as w…
Nearly three-quarters of businesses surveyed in the UK, France, and Germany fear Washington could abruptly cut their access to the US tech platforms on which they depend. The finding comes from a surv…
Blue Origin has identified the engine component at the center of May's spectacular New Glenn pad explosion, which left the Jeff Bezos space tentacle facing a substantial rebuild. "The anomaly originat…