'Asimov Was Right' About Rules For Robots, Says Ex-US Cyber Director https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/07/1829239/asimov-was-right-about-rules-for-robots-says-ex-us-cyber-director?utm_source=rss1.0m…
AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed? Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/ai-chatbots-have-failed-p…
Meta ordered to pay $567M to treat youth mental health problems it helped create New Mexico judge orders $567M fund to help address youth mental health crisis. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026…
Linux 7.3 To Support Logitech HID++ 2.0 Reprogrammable Button Support For those with newer, high-end Logitech input devices, coming with Linux 7.3 is support for the re-programmable button support of …
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DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says Wall of Receipts claims $215 billion in savings, but DOGE offers little evidence. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun's corona. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/the-ultima…
Framework Notifies 'All Customers' of a Data Breach Via Compromised Metabase BI Service https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/07/1757230/framework-notifies-all-customers-of-a-data-breach-via-compromise…
Trump is losing his war on wind power A court rules that a hold on all wind projects clearly violates the law. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/trump-is-losing-his-war-on-wind-power/?utm_brand=…
Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment "Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/remembering-the-pre-google-web-…
Suno Says It Will Start Watermarking Songs https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/08/07/1710226/suno-says-it-will-start-watermarking-songs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive” Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/openais-ex…
New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics 19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/new-offi…
Initial Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra Support Being Upstreamed For Linux 7.3 Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was the Device Tree (DT) support for booting the mainline Linux kernel on the base Apple M…
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Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says There's no evidence the truck will be a cheap EV truck, but what if it were? https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/volkswagen-plans-to-wi…
How snails engineer their slime Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/how-snails-engineer-th…
ByteDance Is Training a 10-Trillion-Parameter Model To Chase the Frontier https://slashdot.org/story/26/08/07/174223/bytedance-is-training-a-10-trillion-parameter-model-to-chase-the-frontier?utm_sourc…
Intel QATlib 26.08 Released With Gen6 Device Support, 2MB Hugepages Intel today released an updated version of their QuickAssist Technology library (QATlib) as the user-space component for making use …
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TTM Memory Management For Graphics To Be More Aggresive With Linux 7.3 This week a final batch of DRM-Misc-Next feature material was submitted for DRM-Next to queue ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window…
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Hackers have dumped data stolen from Abbott’s cancer diagnostics business after the healthcare giant apparently declined to pay up, with the leak containing 10.9 million unique email addresses alongsi…
N-able has confirmed attackers exploiting an N-central zero-day made it into customer networks, as the vendor pushes out a second mandatory hotfix just days after the first. The security shop publishe…
