LPDDR5 5467 vs. 6400 vs. 7467 MT/s Memory Performance Benchmarks For Laptops
LPDDR5 5467 vs. 6400 vs. 7467 MT/s Memory Performance Benchmarks For Laptops With the recently reviewed Star Labs StarFighter Ultra Linux laptop its BIOS allows for configurable memory speeds unlike m…
Black Sea drone attacks enter NATO country's territorial waters for first time
Black Sea drone attacks enter NATO country's territorial waters for first time Suspected Russian drones attack chemical tanker within Romanian waters. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/black-sea…
Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own
Microplastics in water aren’t inert and make damaging chemicals on their own Its effect on people remains an ongoing question. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/microplastics-in-water-arent-iner…
Memtest86+ v9.00 Released With Support For ARM64 Memory Testing
Memtest86+ v9.00 Released With Support For ARM64 Memory Testing The open-source Memtest86+ program that is popular for RAM testing has expanded beyond the x86/x86_64 (and LoongArch64) world to now sup…
YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays
Sure, running emulated Game Boy games at 30 fps with four shades of gray on an E Ink screen is cool, but you know what's cooler? A custom open source E Ink driver that could theoretically let any disp…
Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security
Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security Incident hitting 700 supermarkets exploited outdated devices exposed to the Internet. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/1…
Workday wants a slice of customers' labour budget that its AI agents could replace
Workday wants customers to fund its AI agents from staffing and outsourcing budgets, not just IT spending, as it opens more HR and finance functions to automation. Speaking to investors at its annual …
Smartphone shipments plummet as memory crisis pumps up prices
Smartphone shipments fell by at least a fifth in the third calendar quarter as the AI-driven memory crunch battered another consumer hardware market. Preliminary estimates from IDC and Omdia put the y…
Rocket Lab announces another delay for its medium-lift Neutron rocket
Rocket Lab announces another delay for its medium-lift Neutron rocket Rocket Lab announced the Neutron rocket in 2021, aiming for a first flight in 2024. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/rocket-l…
FTC probes if OpenAI, Anthropic security incidents harmed Americans, report says
FTC probes if OpenAI, Anthropic security incidents harmed Americans, report says FTC may fine AI firms on par with companies that delay data breach reports. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10…
KDE hits 30, decides it's time to move out of the X11 era
KDE is marking its 30th birthday by showing X11 sessions the door. The newly released KDE Plasma 6.8 is Wayland-only, though X11 applications can still run through XWayland. The change arrives right o…
TinyLittleOffice, where the link is the document
Don't need a full-fat productivity suite and worried about where your documents are being stored? Welcome to TinyLittleOffice, a set of applications where the document is the link itself. Using a URL …
YouTube Music begins labeling AI songs
YouTube Music begins labeling AI songs The AI music labels are rolling out now in YouTube Music and will come to YouTube soon. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/youtube-music-begins-labeling-ai-songs…
Bank of America had to bring in 1,000 contractors to patch all the bugs Mythos identified
Bank of America recruited an additional 1,000 contractors to help patch all the vulnerabilities discovered by Anthropic’s Mythos model, the CEO said on Wednesday. Brian Moynihan, chairman and CEO at B…
Spyware vendors found a way to make targeted ads even worse
The online advertising industry has found a new way to make itself even more unpopular, with one adtech outfit accused of helping spyware vendors infect people's phones without them even clicking an a…
When faster supercomputers aren’t enough
When a million veterans shared their genetic data by enrolling in the Department of Veterans Affairs' “Million Veteran Program,” they expected nothing back. This did not surprise Ravi Madduri, a senio…
3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T
3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T 3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI m…
Seabirds, forests and coral could help save sinking islands
Seabirds, forests and coral could help save sinking islands Seabirds, native plants and healthy reefs can help atolls build as seas rise. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/seabirds-forests-and-c…
Claude Code / AI Shows Potential For Reverse-Engineering Hardware For Linux…
Claude Code / AI Shows Potential For Reverse-Engineering Hardware For Linux Support AI/LLMs like Claude Code are beginning to prove capable of helping to reverse engineer hardware for Linux support, e…
TSMC sends scouts to check whether America's datacenters can deliver
TSMC is dispatching personnel to check out US datacenter construction and power availability as it plans billions of dollars in additional chipmaking capacity. The Taiwanese chipmaking giant warned of…
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