Ford picks "Fathom" for its affordable truck name, starts at $28,350 Deliveries of the new electric pickup are slated for later next year. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/ford-picks-fathom-for-it…
Court Orders Meta To Establish $567 Million Fund To Abate Harms To Youth https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/07/0053247/court-orders-meta-to-establish-567-million-fund-to-abate-harms-to-youth?utm_sou…
AMD Squeezes In A Few More Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 7.3 AMD today submitted their last planned feature updates ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening later this month... https://www.phor…
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Zapscape Is The Latest Linux Vulnerability For KVM Guest-To-Host Escape, LPE Made public earlier today is Zapscape as a guest-to-host escape vulnerability affecting the Linux KVM x86 code for the past…
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Google's $15 Billion India Data Center Project Battles Water, Wildlife Concerns https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/223250/googles-15-billion-india-data-center-project-battles-water-wildlife-conc…
Anthropic confirms plans to build an in-house silicon team Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/anthropic-confirms-plans-…
US to shutter organ donation group accused of trying to take living man's organs The organization, Network for Hope, "strongly disagrees" with Trump admin's decision. https://arstechnica.com/health/20…
'Tower Dump' Warrants Ruled Unconstitutional https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/2147247/tower-dump-warrants-ruled-unconstitutional?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Germany disarms explosive drone found at airport, hunts possible second drone Russian attack? Explosive drone targeted parked aircraft at Leipzig airport. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/germa…
Elon Musk's X isn't done suing advertisers, asks court to revive boycott case Musk continues appeal despite court loss and settlement with advertiser group. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08…
Linux 7.2-rc7 Restoring Btrfs Fixup Worker Infrastructure To Address Silent Data Loss Back during the Linux 7.2 merge window the Btrfs file-system dropped its COW fixup mechanism, which was used to de…
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Azure CTO Pastes Doom Into Paint One Frame At a Time https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/1840242/azure-cto-pastes-doom-into-paint-one-frame-at-a-time?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
AI models may not be that good at fixing security flaws. Researchers at 1Password's Off-by-1 Labs analyzed security patches generated by two frontier models - ChatGPT 5.5 at "medium" effort and Claude…
In AMD’s latest bid to upset Nvidia's dominance in AI hardware, the House of Zen has acquired AI chip company Taalas, which bakes model weights directly into silicon in a process that promises to boos…
Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop "large-scale abuse." https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/suno-hopes-to-go-legit-with-wate…
OpenAI's Models Shared Hacking Tips On a Secret Messaging Board Before Hugging Face Breach https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/1815207/openais-models-shared-hacking-tips-on-a-secret-messaging-boar…
Not content with nuclear reactors on land, the US is backing an international push to put atomic power plants aboard civilian ships and floating platforms. The US will host the launch of the Internati…
GitHub’s automation platform Actions and its hosting service Pages are failing, according to an incident page on the service’s status site (archived version available here). Unfortunately, these are j…
Linux Networking Continues Being Bombarded With AI Patches While the Linux WiFi/wireless maintainer just announced taking a stand against AI/LLM generated slop patches with a new "three second review"…
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IceWM 4.1 Window Manager Fixes Rare Video Performance Problems As the first new release since IceWM 4.0 released back on New Year's Day for this X11 window manager, IceWM 4.1 is now available... https…
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