The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/the-worlds…
AMD Buys AI Chip Startup Taalas That Hardwires AI Models Into Its Silicon https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/07/016216/amd-buys-ai-chip-startup-taalas-that-hardwires-ai-models-into-its-silicon?…
A Scottish NHS trust is investigating a data breach concerning the medical records of a nine-year-old girl who died earlier this week and was named publicly for the first time on Wednesday after a man…
Two MIT researchers will present a new speculative execution attack at DEF CON 34 that uses precisely timed interrupts to bypass defenses against Spectre v2. Daniël Trujillo and Mengjia Yan of MIT's C…
Intel Makes Progress On HDMI 2.1 FRL With Their Linux Driver For Meteor Lake & Newer Following AMD making progress with HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) and other HDMI 2.1 functionality for their open-sourc…
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PoCL 7.2-RC1 Brings Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs The release candidate of PoCL 7.2 is now available for testing of this Portable Computing Language implementation of OpenCL …
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ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/bytedance-trains-massive-ai-model-in-bid-to-ri…
Microsoft is killing Live chat in Teams about 18 months after launch as it seeks to "focus investments on newer customer engagement and communication experiences." The service will be retired on Octob…
HyperX Driver Coming For Linux 7.3 Just To Report A Microphone's Mute Status A new driver coming for the Linux 7.3 kernel is HID-HyperX. It's not some new driver to support fancy hardware and some nif…
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US defense and aerospace supplier IEH Corporation 'fessed up that a criminal managed to break into its Microsoft 365 mailbox in a filing with regulators. In a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Ex…
Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/07/0059221/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-twice?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
新聞Cloudflare推出WebMCP開發者預覽，啟用後，Cloudflare會在網頁送到瀏覽器前自動加入一段橋接程式，讓支援WebMCP的AI代理發現網站提供的功能，並直接呼叫對應工具。網站管理者可直接在Cloudflare控制臺開啟功能，不必修改原有網站程式。 WebMCP是一項仍在實驗階段的瀏覽器技術，可讓網站以結構化方式向AI代理公開可呼叫的功能。以購物網站為例，網站可以提供商品搜尋等工…
新聞過去政府進行道路交通規劃與設計，高度仰賴人工調查或固定地點的交通觀測來取得數據，但這類人工調查方式容易因人力有限、觀測時間不足及樣本數限制，難以掌握不同時段、不同道路環境下的實際車流狀況。 交通部運輸研究所(簡稱運研所)為期3年的研究，利用成熟的無人機空拍影像來拍擴大道路觀測範圍，再利用成熟的AI影像辨識技術來分析車流，將過去需要人工觀測、記錄的交通資訊轉為大量、細緻化的數據。運研所今天(8/…
NetworkManager Adopts Policy For AI Coding Assistants The latest high profile open-source project to commit to an AI coding policy is NetworkManager, the widely-used software for Linux network configu…
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AMD ROCm Spur: Providing AI-Native, Rust-Based Job Scheduling The newest ROCm component for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack is Spur as an AI-native, Rust-written job scheduler for scaling up GPU w…
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EXCLUSIVE Don't waste time worrying about AI models achieving sentience – they're essentially already there, according to former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis. “If they pass the Turing test …
A US healthcare software provider has admitted that hackers may have made off with sensitive data belonging to 3.8 million people, making it the largest healthcare breach reported to regulators so far…
Linux 7.2-rc7 Addresses A "Nasty" Race Condition Leading To Use-After-Free After 8 Years The Linux kernel Git activity continues being quite heavy this week on fixes. It's looking like the Linux 7.2-r…
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AMD Updates HDMI 2.1 VRR & ALLM Patches But Will Miss Out On Linux 7.3 Complementing the HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support that AMD already upstreamed to the Linux kernel, AMD engineers have been…
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Vulkan 1.4.359 Expands Cooperative Matrix Capabilities Vulkan 1.4.359 released today and this one week update to the Vulkan API specification brings a new extension for enhancing the cooperative matri…
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