Three New Ubuntu Snap Vulnerabilities Made Public - One Dates Back To Ubuntu…
Three New Ubuntu Snap Vulnerabilities Made Public - One Dates Back To Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Canonical today disclosed three new Snap security vulnerabilities affecting snapd. Two are rated high impact vuln…
Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For X2 Elite Extreme Powered ASUS Zenbook A16
Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For X2 Elite Extreme Powered ASUS Zenbook A16 Following recent Linux kernel patches enabling the Snapdragon X2 Elite powered Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 and HP EliteBook X G…
Steam Deck sales are losing steam since May's price hike
Steam Deck sales are losing steam since May's price hike Analysis of bestseller charts shows an 80 percent dip from 2025's sales rate. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/07/steam-deck-sales-are-losin…
Judge approves Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors
Judge approves Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/judge…
Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement
German authorities say they have neutralized the main infrastructure supporting the Kratos phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) kit following an operation supported by the US and Indonesia. Officers from Fra…
Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises
Oracle says that it could face more than $100 million a year in financing costs to guarantee the power commitments behind a nearly 1 GW datacenter campus it is developing in Wisconsin with Vantage and…
Google reveals faster and cheaper Gemini 3.6 Flash, says 3.5 Pro is still in…
Google reveals faster and cheaper Gemini 3.6 Flash, says 3.5 Pro is still in testing There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4. https://arstechnica.com/google/202…
FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals
FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals FCC chair has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company. https://arstechnica.com/tech-pol…
TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe
TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe "Current economic conditions" have shifted TreeSize's business model. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/treesize-wont-renew-…
KDE Plasma 6.7 vs. GNOME Shell 50.3 vs. Xfce 4.20 On CachyOS With NVIDIA…
KDE Plasma 6.7 vs. GNOME Shell 50.3 vs. Xfce 4.20 On CachyOS With NVIDIA Graphics Earlier this month I provided a look at the KDE Plasma 6.7 Wayland vs. X11 session performance for graphics/gaming on …
Canonical Makes The "Enterprise Store" Official For Offline/Air-Gapped Ubuntu…
Canonical Makes The "Enterprise Store" Official For Offline/Air-Gapped Ubuntu Usage For months the Enterprise Store "enterprise-store" has been mentioned in some Ubuntu documentation and other element…
Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA
Microsoft is moving more of its redesigned Start menu into the Windows 11 Beta channel, although the long-awaited movable taskbar remains confined to experimental builds. Build 26220.8925 was released…
Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing
Last week, Nvidia invited a handful of journalists to a briefing about AI infrastructure to help convey the physical reality behind simulated intelligence. "Infrastructure is physical, it's real," sai…
AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert
A data breach at AI music generator platform Suno exposed more than 55 million user accounts, according to Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned service, which ingested the files. The dump consisted mostly of…
Stratis Storage Anaconda Integration Approved For Fedora 45
Stratis Storage Anaconda Integration Approved For Fedora 45 The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved the latest batch of features for the upcoming Fedora 45 release... https:…
When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?
When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next? Automakers love connected vehicles, but support isn't open-ended. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/07/when-your-vehicle-outlives-its-cloud-wha…
Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code
Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code More than one-eighth of apps analyzed contained foreign code. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/apps-targeted-at-us-troops-contain-ch…
UK.gov's tech department gets the chop after two years
The UK government is scrapping the department charged with leading digital and tech change across the public sector. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) – created by former Co…
LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware
LG has come under fire over its Monitor App Installer, which is automatically and silently installed when plugging in some of the company's monitors. In this case, the monitor in question is a new LG …
Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet
Fortinet on Tuesday revealed it will use Intel Foundry to fab its sixth-gen Security Processor (SP6), a nice win for Chipzilla's sputtering chipmaking biz. The chips feature dedicated accelerators des…
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