HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression "DSC" Also Ready For AMDGPU Linux Driver
HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression "DSC" Also Ready For AMDGPU Linux Driver At the beginning of the month was the surprise milestone of AMD posting AMDGPU kernel driver patches for HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rat…
iOS, macOS, and iPadOS 26.5 updates arrive with encrypted RCS messaging and more
iOS, macOS, and iPadOS 26.5 updates arrive with encrypted RCS messaging and more Probably the last big updates we'll see before the next versions appear at WWDC. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0…
Texas sues Netflix for advertising ‘bait and switch’ and spying…
Texas sues Netflix for advertising ‘bait and switch’ and spying https://www.theverge.com/streaming/928071/texas-netflix-lawsuit-privacy
Google Says Hackers Used AI To Create Zero Day Security Flaw For the First Time…
Google Says Hackers Used AI To Create Zero Day Security Flaw For the First Time https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/1640239/google-says-hackers-used-ai-to-create-zero-day-security-flaw-for-the-fi…
Redesigned Thelio Major Elevates System76's All-AMD, Open-Source Linux…
Redesigned Thelio Major Elevates System76's All-AMD, Open-Source Linux Workstation A few weeks back we reviewed the redesigned System76 Thelio Mira with a brand new chassis design and powered by the A…
Pirates are already playing Forza Horizon 6 days before its launch
Pirates are already playing Forza Horizon 6 days before its launch Crackers take advantage of unencrypted files that briefly appeared on Steam https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/pirates-are-alread…
A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers…
A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers https://www.theverge.com/tech/926487/meari-technology-hack-baby-monitor-security-camera
Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI…
Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI https://www.theverge.com/tech/928007/google-ai-zero-day-exploit-stopped
Apple Now Requires Verification For Education Store…
Apple Now Requires Verification For Education Store https://apple.slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/0443252/apple-now-requires-verification-for-education-store?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
7 of our favorite deals from Amazon’s Pet Days sale…
7 of our favorite deals from Amazon’s Pet Days sale https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/927788/amazon-pet-days-tech-gadgets-cat-dog-deal-sale
Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life
An effort to revive and reinvigorate the 2002 Gtk2 GUI programming toolkit is growing and gaining interest… as we predicted would happen a few months ago. The gtk2-ng project is reviving and modernizi…
F1 set for another engine tweak in 2027, and what's this about V8s?
F1 set for another engine tweak in 2027, and what's this about V8s? Rather than dig in, the sport is being proactive about fixing the problem. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05/f1-set-for-another-e…
GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance…
GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance companies https://www.theverge.com/transportation/927863/gm-settles-california-lawsuit-claiming-it-sold-driving-habit-dat…
Anthropic Says 'Evil' Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude's Blackmail…
Anthropic Says 'Evil' Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude's Blackmail Attempts https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/11/0437206/anthropic-says-evil-portrayals-of-ai-were-responsible-for-claudes-bl…
Matter and OpenADR team up to connect smart homes to the grid…
Matter and OpenADR team up to connect smart homes to the grid https://www.theverge.com/tech/927756/matter-openadr-demand-response-smart-home-energy-management
SoftBank bets on battery building to back bit barns
SoftBank is getting into the datacenter battery business and plans to start manufacturing them on the scale of gigawatt-hours per year of capacity to support the power needs of AI infrastructure, incl…
Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree
Google says crooks already have AI cooking up zero-days, and claims one nearly escaped into the wild before the company stopped it. In a report shared with The Register ahead of publication on Monday,…
Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released
The Python team has released the first beta of version 3.15, with new features including a stable application binary interface (ABI) for free-threaded CPython, lazy imports to speed startup time, a ne…
BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks
BWH Hotels is informing customers about a third-party data breach that gave cybercriminals access to six months' worth of data. The notification email stated that BWH Hotels, which owns the WorldHotel…
GNOME's Help Viewer Updated Due To Flatpak Sandbox Escape Vulnerability
GNOME's Help Viewer Updated Due To Flatpak Sandbox Escape Vulnerability GNOME's help viewer, Yelp, last year was impacted by a serious security issue for arbitrary file reads. There's a new vulnerabil…
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