Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Released With Support For Notches & Rounded Corners
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Released With Support For Notches & Rounded Corners Following last month's beta release, Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 is now available as the latest feature release for this Ubuntu 24…
SDCC teaser gives us our first good look at Blade Runner 2099
SDCC teaser gives us our first good look at Blade Runner 2099 Also: Forging the One Ring in Rings of Power S3 teaser; new Lanterns trailer; Spaceballs: The New One panel. https://arstechnica.com/cultu…
SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight
SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight SpaceX will likely attempt to catch Starship back at the launch pad on its next flight. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026…
Fedora Working To Establish Conflict of Interest Policy
Fedora Working To Establish Conflict of Interest Policy Posted this week is a draft copy of the Fedora Conflict of Interest policy being worked on for dealing with identifying, disclosing, and managin…
How AI drove Shopify back to clean code
E-commerce platform Shopify wants to make reading source code a thing again. And it has an unlikely ally for its back-to-the-roots approach: AI agents. The company is launching a new storefront theme …
Big Tech accused of stonewalling European social media researchers
Big Tech accused of stonewalling European social media researchers Researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta aren't providing data they're legally required to. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/bi…
Kiwi Menu Continues Bringing macOS Vibes To GNOME
Kiwi Menu Continues Bringing macOS Vibes To GNOME Kiwi Menu as the macOS-inspired quick menu option for the GNOME Shell desktop is continuing to enhance its macOS-esque experience on GNOME... https://…
With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience
With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience Museums are embracing data-driven curation and a shifting technology landscape. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/07/with-help-…
Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else
OPINION Linux now being officially not anti-AI might be good news for projects that are explicitly anti-AI, but we foresee problems with conflict over where the money and development effort come from.…
GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations
GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations GNU developers today released GNU C Library "glibc" 2.44 as the newest feature release for this critical library to modern Linux…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool
KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool KDE developers have been working on kscreenctl as a utility replacement to kscreen-doctor. Plasma and related code has also seen a number of bug/crash fi…
BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book
EPISODE 14 The morning coffee in Mission Control is interrupted by a hesitant tapping at the door. Our current office temp has an issue. "It's the printer," she says, apologetically. "It makes a noise…
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/anthropics-opus-5-is…
Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling
Anthropic released its Opus 5 AI model on Friday, claiming that it "comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price." That's welcome news for enterprises beset by rising t…
Wine 11.14 Brings WoW64 Mode To FreeBSD, Icon Support In Start Menu
Wine 11.14 Brings WoW64 Mode To FreeBSD, Icon Support In Start Menu Wine 11.14 was tagged today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and a…
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses There's no human safety or efficacy data, but that no longer seems to matter. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/rfk-jr-s-h…
European Union grants US request to restrict satellite images of Iran War region
European Union grants US request to restrict satellite images of Iran War region New delay on Copernicus satellite pics comes as US ramps up war with Iran again. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/…
AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI
Even as AMD’s GPUs have grown more competitive, the House of Zen has struggled to shake the perception that its chips are less capable because they don’t run CUDA. At its Advancing AI event in San Fra…
Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info
Click To Pray, a prayer app endorsed by the Pope with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, has leaked people’s names and email addresses for months - or longer - according to an ethical hacker wh…
Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain
Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain "Any potential damage will be assessed when it is safe to do so." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/wildfire-forces-evacuat…
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