Anthropic's Bug-Hunting Mythos Was Greatest Marketing Stunt Ever, Says cURL Creator https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/199232/anthropics-bug-hunting-mythos-was-greatest-marketing-stunt-ever-says-c…
FCC slightly relaxes foreign router ban, allows software updates until 2029 FCC extends waiver allowing routers and drones to get patches for two more years. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/0…
Vulkan 1.4.351 Brings Six New Extensions, Including A Ray-Tracing Improvement Quietly sneaking out at the end of last week was Vulkan 1.4.351 as the newest spec update to this high performance graphic…
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GM Cutting Hundreds of Salaried IT Workers As It Trims Costs, Evaluates Needs https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/1839238/gm-cutting-hundreds-of-salaried-it-workers-as-it-trims-costs-evaluates-need…
Govee’s new portable smart lamp is on sale for the first time https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/928249/govee-table-lamp-classic-deal-sale
OpenAI can’t have inexperienced consultants derailing the AI hype train, so it’s launching a consultancy of its own to help enterprises find the value in its models necessary to justify the spending, …
iPhone-Android RCS Conversations Are End-To-End Encrypted In iOS 26.5 https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/1834209/iphone-android-rcs-conversations-are-end-to-end-encrypted-in-ios-265?utm_source=rss…
Palantir’s true believers are wearing this jacket https://www.theverge.com/report/928026/palantir-chore-coat
Passengers from hantavirus ship arrive in US; 3 people in biocontainment A US passenger tested "mildly positive," but WHO is calling it "inconclusive" for now. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/p…
Apple brings encrypted RCS chats to iPhone https://www.theverge.com/tech/928141/apple-ios-26-5-rcs-messages-iphone-google-android
Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the 'Next Industrial Revolution' https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/172237/students-boo-commencement-speaker-after-she-calls-ai-the-next-industria…
Starlink blocks access to its GPS alternative ahead of SpaceX IPO Shutdown of Starlink location feature won’t dampen interest in GPS alternatives. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/starlink-bloc…
cURL developer Daniel Stenberg has seen Anthropic’s Mythos, a model the AI biz has suggested is too capable at finding security holes to release publicly, scan his popular open source project. But aft…
About halfway through the Debian 14 “Forky” development process, its release team announced a new goal: deterministic package compilation. The Debian project’s latest Bits from the release team newsle…
HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression "DSC" Also Ready For AMDGPU Linux Driver At the beginning of the month was the surprise milestone of AMD posting AMDGPU kernel driver patches for HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rat…
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iOS, macOS, and iPadOS 26.5 updates arrive with encrypted RCS messaging and more Probably the last big updates we'll see before the next versions appear at WWDC. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0…
Texas sues Netflix for advertising ‘bait and switch’ and spying https://www.theverge.com/streaming/928071/texas-netflix-lawsuit-privacy
Google Says Hackers Used AI To Create Zero Day Security Flaw For the First Time https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/1640239/google-says-hackers-used-ai-to-create-zero-day-security-flaw-for-the-fi…
Redesigned Thelio Major Elevates System76's All-AMD, Open-Source Linux Workstation A few weeks back we reviewed the redesigned System76 Thelio Mira with a brand new chassis design and powered by the A…
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Pirates are already playing Forza Horizon 6 days before its launch Crackers take advantage of unencrypted files that briefly appeared on Steam https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/pirates-are-alread…
