Americans are warming to the idea that schools should be for learning rather than doomscrolling, with support for all-day smartphone bans now outweighing opposition for the first time. A new Pew Resea…
When organizations plan for the future, refresh environments, or roll out new capabilities, they are often tied to software licensing agreements that exist or will need to be acquired. While an organi…
With a stateless makeover, new MCP spec targets enterprise scale Plus, a new deprecation policy ensures features aren't removed suddenly. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/with-a-stateless-makeover-n…
AMD Zen 6 Client HSMP Patches Point To "Ryzen Master" Functionality On Linux In an interesting twist, patches this week posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are enabling AMD Zen 6 client desktop an…
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Amazon has linked the compromises of four npm packages over the past 18 months, saying they were all the work of the same North Korean crew. In research published this week, AWS attributed the activit…
Xen 4.22 Released With AMD Zen 5 BLT Support, Improved RISC-V Virtualization The Xen Project today released Xen 4.22 as the newest feature release of this open-source hypervisor popular for open-sourc…
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Microsoft had some news for Classic Outlook users this week, though it wasn't an extension of support or an admission that new Outlook has failed to win over the holdouts. Instead, Copilot is getting …
The Russian espionage crew that turned simply reading an email into a security risk has expanded beyond Zimbra, with Proofpoint saying it's now pulling the same half-click trick against Microsoft Outl…
With support for MySQL Galera Cluster ending in two months, open source observers are again questioning how much of the technology's future MariaDB plc intends to keep in the community edition. The co…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing Telehealth company Hims & Hers over allegations that it shared customers' sensitive health data with advertising platforms and misled them about billing and…
新聞在高科技、服務業等多家企業聯手支持下，開源基金會（TAIONE Open Source Foundation）今天正式成立，宣布未來三年將投入3億元，推動臺灣的開源AI工程。開源基金會董事長蔡祈岩指出，全球下一步的AI競爭在開源，開源基金會的成立是一件重要的事。 蔡祈岩進一步補充，AI時代把全球競爭從製造延伸到模型、工具鏈、標準與生態。開源讓臺灣不必重新打造封閉式全球平台，也能直接進入世界級技…
Comcast Store Punished Low Sales By Smashing Pies In Workers' Faces, Lawsuit Claims https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/30/0031205/comcast-store-punished-low-sales-by-smashing-pies-in-workers-faces-l…
IT is going remote while sucking up more power. Most corporate IT is now off-premises for the first time, according to Uptime Institute, while the average rack power density has crested above 11 kW fo…
Huawei Considers Open-Sourcing A Half-Hearted Mesa Vulkan Driver A Huawei engineer posted to the Mesa mailing list today over potentially upstreaming a Vulkan driver they have developed for an in-hous…
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新聞Amazon威脅情報團隊指出，2025年3月至2026年3月間發生的typo-crypto、debug、chalk及axios軟體套件攻擊，可能出自同一北韓關聯駭客組織。攻擊者使用的部分伺服器相同，程式碼與入侵手法也有多處相似，因此Amazon研判這幾起事件可能彼此相關。 其中，Google威脅情報團隊先前已將axios攻擊與北韓關聯組織UNC1069連結，而Amazon此次進一步將typo-…
新聞生成式AI快速發展後，企業開始重新思考AI的價值。對全球最大零售商Walmart（Walmart）而言，AI不只是提升銷售推薦或員工效率的工具，也逐漸成為改善零售流程、降低資源浪費的重要技術。在Walmart最新的FY2026永續報告書，Walmart揭露他們如何利用AI、資料分析、自動化與數位平臺，將永續目標融入日常營運，從食品管理、供應鏈減碳到AI治理，建立以數據驅動的永續零售模式。 Wa…
Patches Posted To Improve Linux Media Acceleration On Intel Alchemist GPUs The Intel Arc A-Series graphics (DG2) remains in a bit of an awkward state on Linux due to the transition period moving from …
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Five Proposals Now Being Weighed For Debian AI/LLM Usage Last week Debian developers began considering a general resolution over AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian project. They are…
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It is 30 years since AT&T handed Microsoft a valuable foothold in the browser wars by making Internet Explorer 3 the default for its WorldNet service. Windows 95 was barely a year old when AT&T set ou…
Intel Media Driver & VPL GPU Runtime 2026Q2 Updates Continue Prepping For Nova Lake Over the past few Intel VA-API Media Driver releases we have seen preparations made for Nova Lake video acceleration…
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