Kiwi Menu Continues Bringing macOS Vibes To GNOME
Kiwi Menu Continues Bringing macOS Vibes To GNOME Kiwi Menu as the macOS-inspired quick menu option for the GNOME Shell desktop is continuing to enhance its macOS-esque experience on GNOME... https://…
With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience
With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience Museums are embracing data-driven curation and a shifting technology landscape. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/07/with-help-…
Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else
OPINION Linux now being officially not anti-AI might be good news for projects that are explicitly anti-AI, but we foresee problems with conflict over where the money and development effort come from.…
GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations
GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations GNU developers today released GNU C Library "glibc" 2.44 as the newest feature release for this critical library to modern Linux…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool
KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool KDE developers have been working on kscreenctl as a utility replacement to kscreen-doctor. Plasma and related code has also seen a number of bug/crash fi…
BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book
EPISODE 14 The morning coffee in Mission Control is interrupted by a hesitant tapping at the door. Our current office temp has an issue. "It's the printer," she says, apologetically. "It makes a noise…
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/anthropics-opus-5-is…
Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling
Anthropic released its Opus 5 AI model on Friday, claiming that it "comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price." That's welcome news for enterprises beset by rising t…
Wine 11.14 Brings WoW64 Mode To FreeBSD, Icon Support In Start Menu
Wine 11.14 Brings WoW64 Mode To FreeBSD, Icon Support In Start Menu Wine 11.14 was tagged today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and a…
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses There's no human safety or efficacy data, but that no longer seems to matter. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/rfk-jr-s-h…
European Union grants US request to restrict satellite images of Iran War region
European Union grants US request to restrict satellite images of Iran War region New delay on Copernicus satellite pics comes as US ramps up war with Iran again. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/…
AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI
Even as AMD’s GPUs have grown more competitive, the House of Zen has struggled to shake the perception that its chips are less capable because they don’t run CUDA. At its Advancing AI event in San Fra…
Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info
Click To Pray, a prayer app endorsed by the Pope with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, has leaked people’s names and email addresses for months - or longer - according to an ethical hacker wh…
Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain
Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain "Any potential damage will be assessed when it is safe to do so." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/wildfire-forces-evacuat…
After court loss, Paramount agrees to delay Warner Bros. merger until trial
After court loss, Paramount agrees to delay Warner Bros. merger until trial “Halting this merger while our case proceeds is a critical victory," NY AG said. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07…
Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI
With the US government scrutinizing AI as much as ever, 25 technology companies, industry organizations, and venture capital firms published an open letter on Friday urging policymakers to support ope…
Europol flags 4,340 'horrific' URLs linked to The Com
Europol and its partners' investigators flagged 4,340 “horrific” URLs for removal over several weeks in June and July as part of an ongoing crackdown on The Com (short for community), a loosely knit n…
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech "Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..." https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/canadian-legislator-reads-out-apparen…
Debian Considering General Resolution Over LLM Usage In The Project
Debian Considering General Resolution Over LLM Usage In The Project Debian developers are discussing a general resolution whether to permit AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian softwa…
AMD ROCm Committed To Six Week Release Cycle Moving Forward
AMD ROCm Committed To Six Week Release Cycle Moving Forward One of many interesting takeaways from this week's AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco was word that ROCm will be on a rigid six week re…
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