LibreOffice 26.8 Beta Released For Improving This Free Software Office Suite
LibreOffice 26.8 Beta Released For Improving This Free Software Office Suite The Document Foundation today announced the first beta release of the LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite set for its…
OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt
OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMand…
Valve Releases Proton 11 With Huge Linux Gaming Improvements…
Valve Releases Proton 11 With Huge Linux Gaming Improvements https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/07/08/0713204/valve-releases-proton-11-with-huge-linux-gaming-improvements?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkano…
Newly installed monitoring system watched the seafloor spread
Newly installed monitoring system watched the seafloor spread The crust expands at mid-ocean rifts. But how? https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/newly-installed-monitoring-system-watched-the-seafl…
Single vs. Dual Channel Memory Performance With The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
Single vs. Dual Channel Memory Performance With The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Given today's pricing environment around system memory, a Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested some benchmarks…
Mysterious Spheres Found In Australia Are Likely Space Debris…
Mysterious Spheres Found In Australia Are Likely Space Debris https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/07/08/078258/mysterious-spheres-found-in-australia-are-likely-space-debris?utm_source=rss1.0mainlink…
China tells devs to ditch Claude Code over 'backdoor code' fears
China's National Vulnerability Database (CNVDB) is urging developers to uninstall recent Claude Code versions over the fear that they can scoop up sensitive user data without consent. Referring to it …
Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die
A “systematic vulnerability pattern” in at least six of the most widely used AI coding assistants can be abused to trick agents into accessing files outside the workspace sandbox, leading to remote co…
Intel Sunsets Quantum Intrinsics & Other Open-Source Projects This Week
Intel Sunsets Quantum Intrinsics & Other Open-Source Projects This Week Intel has formally archived some more of their now-unmaintained open-source projects this week... https://www.phoronix.com/news/…
Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint
UK comms regulator Ofcom has fined Virgin Media £28 million for repeatedly obstructing customers seeking to switch broadband, pay TV, and landline providers, or to cancel their contract with the compa…
Tech divorce from Walmart cost Brit retail giant Asda £1.22B
The UK’s third-largest supermarket, Asda, has reported that the cost of its tech divorce from Walmart — which included building a new SAP ERP system — reached £1.22 billion, four years after it first …
Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down
Aussie telco Telstra is currently battling the mother of all borks after blaming a “software defect” for an outage that downed emergency services calls and public transport lines. Telstra blamed the 1…
Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design
Lurking in the release notes for this month's Patch Tuesday preview is a fix for a world of storage pain being experienced by some unlucky Windows 11 users. At the end of June, Microsoft said: "This u…
Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander
Former NASA boss Jim Bridenstine has warned that the space agency's plan to land astronauts on the Moon risks becoming too complicated for its own good. Bridenstine, who ran NASA during the first Trum…
How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces—and maybe homes
How AI could enable autonomous robot workers in workplaces—and maybe homes Top robotics researchers and founders explain how robot autonomy is evolving. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/robot-worker…
US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge
US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge Miners backed by Trump admin. sell to Japan, South Korea despite push to develop domestic supply chain. https://arstechnica.com/science…
AMD ZenDNN 6.0 Brings Many Improvements For Accelerating Inference On…
AMD ZenDNN 6.0 Brings Many Improvements For Accelerating Inference On Ryzen/EPYC CPUs AMD ZenDNN 6.0 released today as a significant update to this open-source deep neural network library for helping …
Blue Origin, for the first time, is expected to raise private capital
Blue Origin, for the first time, is expected to raise private capital The company is raising $10 billion, leading to a valuation of $130 billion. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/blue-origin-for-…
US manufacturers’ energy costs soar because of AI data center demand
US manufacturers’ energy costs soar because of AI data center demand Squeeze on Rust Belt electricity bills threatens Trump’s manufacturing plan. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/us-manufac…
Wayland No Longer Considered Experimental For Linux Mint's Next Cinnamon Release
Wayland No Longer Considered Experimental For Linux Mint's Next Cinnamon Release The Linux Mint distribution has published their June development summary that most notably includes work on Cinnamon's …
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