AI Makes "Open-Source, Clean Room" Implementations Of Adobe Photoshop &…
AI Makes "Open-Source, Clean Room" Implementations Of Adobe Photoshop & Premier In Rust As an interesting demonstrator for the power of AI and potentially pressing legal challenges, Claude Code and AI…
Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/microsoft-event-debuts-new…
Attackers hijacked top-level domains, minted fake security certs for Google and other orgs
Imagine going to a Google website at its correct URL, only to be redirected to a crim's illegitimate copy. Attackers hijacked top-level domains, allowing them to alter DNS records and mint fraudulent …
Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra
Look out, Intel! Microsoft released its first Surface notebook powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark system-on-chip (SoC) during an event in San Francisco on Wednesday. The Surface Laptop Ultra is one of seve…
Argonne scientists create chatty X-ray microscope that zooms in where you tell it to
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have plugged an agentic AI platform into an X-ray nanoprobe beamline, creating a system that can get a closer look at areas researchers ask it to focus on. A…
OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties
When OpenAI introduced dots last month, it pitched them as "always-on agents" running in their own cloud computer, but that may be overstating the readiness of the technology and of the people trying …
Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system
If you thought Windows Recall was creepy, buckle up. Microsoft is about to shoehorn even more AI into its desktop operating system, giving Copilot access to every file on your PC. But don't worry, Red…
Google, Unity Launch Platform To Create Video Games From Prompts…
Google, Unity Launch Platform To Create Video Games From Prompts https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/10/07/1640219/google-unity-launch-platform-to-create-video-games-from-prompts?utm_source=rss1.0main…
Drone strikes, likely Russian, sink ships in NATO countries’ economic zones
Drone strikes, likely Russian, sink ships in NATO countries’ economic zones Two cargo ships have sunk, one ship was afire, and sailors are dead or missing. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/dron…
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/…
FEX 2610 Released With Handling For AVX-VNNI, Disk Cache Improvements
FEX 2610 Released With Handling For AVX-VNNI, Disk Cache Improvements FEX 2610 released today as the newest monthly release of this open-source emulator for running x86_64 games/apps on AArch64 for AR…
PA measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases, largest since disease was eliminated
PA measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases, largest since disease was eliminated Pennsylvania reported 1,066 outbreak-linked cases on Wednesday. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/pa-measles-outbreak-to…
Florida sues TP-Link, claiming it hides router security risks and links to China
Florida sues TP-Link, claiming it hides router security risks and links to China TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US, still needs exemption from FCC ban. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/1…
Poetry is the new AI security threat as PoeLLM malware infects 3K+ servers
A suspected Italian attacker armed with a malware-controlling poem has infected more than 3,000 servers since April, breaking into enterprise AI infrastructure to mine cryptocurrency and add compromis…
Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing
SpaceX has acknowledged the need for satellite operators to collaborate to avoid collisions and has taken the unusual step of sharing imagery showing how close spacecraft are coming to each other. The…
US states sue popular kitmaker TP-Link over China risks
The attorneys general of Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska have sued ubiquitous networking and smart home tech maker TP-Link, alleging its security claims were misleading and it hadn't properly dis…
AWS launches open-source AI agent sandbox to prevent YOLO mode disasters
AWS has offered multiple open-source strategies for holding AI agents accountable, and now it’s adding a full-on sandbox to this stack. Dubbed Strands Box, the new solution uses OS-level isolation and…
Browser-in-browser attacks use fake Meta Muse Ad lure to steal credentials
A phishing campaign targeting advertising managers by impersonating Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Manus to steal credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes has added a fake Mus…
Microsoft and Nvidia Unveil Surface Laptop Ultra For $2,599…
Microsoft and Nvidia Unveil Surface Laptop Ultra For $2,599 https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/10/07/1812223/microsoft-and-nvidia-unveil-surface-laptop-ultra-for-2599?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand
Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand Altering molecular handedness has implications for the origins of life. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/chemistry-nobel-goes-…
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