With the US government scrutinizing AI as much as ever, 25 technology companies, industry organizations, and venture capital firms published an open letter on Friday urging policymakers to support ope…
Europol and its partners' investigators flagged 4,340 “horrific” URLs for removal over several weeks in June and July as part of an ongoing crackdown on The Com (short for community), a loosely knit n…
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech "Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..." https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/canadian-legislator-reads-out-apparen…
Debian Considering General Resolution Over LLM Usage In The Project Debian developers are discussing a general resolution whether to permit AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian softwa…
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AMD ROCm Committed To Six Week Release Cycle Moving Forward One of many interesting takeaways from this week's AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco was word that ROCm will be on a rigid six week re…
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Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent Roku blames RAM shortage after CEO called it "great" for business in May. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/roku-raises-streaming-stick-pri…
Qualcomm QCE Driver On The Chopping Block With ~48x Slower Than Armv8 Crypto Extensions A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as…
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The FreeBSD project froze its ports repository on Wednesday. The reason turns out to be a slightly embarrassing Git-related oopsie where a version of Copilot got uploaded somewhere it should not have …
Judge rebuffs Trump admin demand for phone records from NYT reporters "We can quash the subpoenas, or you could withdraw the subpoenas,” judge told US. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/judg…
ZTE announced that Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, held a cordial meeting with Mr. Xiao Ming, ZTE's President of Overseas, Mr. James Zhang, Senior Vi…
OpenAI is expanding its healthcare footprint by encouraging users to connect Apple Health data and supported medical records to ChatGPT - one day after a user sued the company, alleging the chatbot's …
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07…
新聞本週二Google發布Chrome穩定版更新150.0.7871.181版與150.0.7871.182版，不料兩天後突然又推出新版本，針對Windows與macOS提供150.0.7871.186版與150.0.7871.187版，針對Linux與Android提供150.0.7871.186版，這次修補4個高風險漏洞，皆由Google內部發現與通報，其中3個屬於記憶體已釋放卻仍被使用（UA…
Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3 Sent out today was the weekly round of drm-misc-next patches of new Direct Rendering Manager feature material ready to be …
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The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded Salesforce a $1.6 billion, three-year contract to spread AI through the government service. The CRM giant has inked an Agentic Enterprise License…
Dougherty County Police Department (DCPD) near Albany, Georgia, is appealing for help from the local community after someone set two Flock Safety cameras on fire. Police initially investigated whether…
This is the world's most advanced robotic servicing satellite—that we know about "These are things that tend to be really hard." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/this-is-the-worlds-most-advanced-…
Rocket Report: Lightning strikes in China; Starship launch on deck Relativity Space announced plans to build a second rocket factory near Cape Canaveral, Florida. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07…
Ubuntu Linux Looking To Get Rid Of /etc/debian_version Historical Artifact Ubuntu Linux has shipped /etc/debian_version that is carried over from upstream Debian and in turn just indicating the Debian…
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Fedora 45 Looks To Begin Phasing Out In-Kernel Crypto Userspace API Going along with the upstream Linux 7.2 kernel deprecation of AF_ALG and Linux 7.3 to further restrict this interface for letting us…
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