AMD Launches Instinct MI455X, Helios AI Rack
AMD Launches Instinct MI455X, Helios AI Rack Lisa Su at AMD Advancing AI 2026 just launched the new Instinct MI455X GPUs and the Helios rack... https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Instinct-MI455X-Helios
Woman loses vision in one eye after UTI bacteria evolves to invade her brain
Woman loses vision in one eye after UTI bacteria evolves to invade her brain The case provides a novel report of the emergence of heterovirulence. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/woman-loses-vi…
FreeBSD Ports Currently Frozen Due To A Very Large Commit
FreeBSD Ports Currently Frozen Due To A Very Large Commit The FreeBSD project issued a statement today over the FreeBSD Ports repository having been frozen for the past two days. The freeze is not due…
Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal
It's a bad day to be an Oracle admin: Big Red has just released 1,449 security patches ready to be applied. The patches were released as part of the company's quarterly security fixes, and the record …
Millions of California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth
At least 2.2 million vehicles fitted with dealer-installed KARR and SWDS security systems are vulnerable to nearby Bluetooth attacks that can unlock doors or prevent a stopped vehicle from starting, a…
Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past
AI seemed simpler in 2024 when Anthropic released the first version of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI applications to external systems. Back then, developers prim…
The PlayStation game disc was dying long before Sony pulled the plug
The PlayStation game disc was dying long before Sony pulled the plug Circana numbers show US gamers overwhelmingly voting with their wallets. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/07/the-playstation-gam…
White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of science
White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of science The resulting report is a near-random mixture of real problems and grievances. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/white-ho…
AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/ai-arms-race-in-…
Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots
Tesla's investment bill ballooned in calendar Q2 as Elon Musk's biz entered what it calls its "largest and most exciting period of investment. The company has poured resources into AI silicon and robo…
Iran-linked crews are probing more flavors of US industrial kit
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has expanded the scope of its alert on Iranian-affiliated hackers attacking critical infrastructure, including water and energy facilitie…
GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team
GitHub has decided that, if everyone with an AI chatbot can file a bug bounty report, it may as well stop paying them like seasoned security researchers. Starting July 27, the Microsoft-owned code for…
Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look To Allow For Web-Based Remote Installations
Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look To Allow For Web-Based Remote Installations One of the latest change proposals filed for Fedora Linux 45 is for supporting web-based remote installations of Fedora Atomi…
One ChatGPT link could smuggle a rogue AI agent into your company
One click on what looked like an ordinary ChatGPT link could plant an attacker-controlled AI agent inside a company's ChatGPT workspace, according to researchers who uncovered a flaw in OpenAI's works…
IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them
IBM is asking investors to view calendar Q2's software wobble as merely a temporary AI-induced panic attack, insisting the delayed deals that triggered one of its steepest stock slides in years are al…
Swiss train maker tells ransomware crooks to get off at the next stop
Swiss rail manufacturer Stadler Rail says it refused a CHF 10 million ($12.3 million) ransom demand after the Everest ransomware gang compromised one of its suppliers. Stadler will not pay, and based …
If you get knocked on the head and get all your devices stolen and have amnesia, Google will let you back in with a selfie
Tired of worrying about how you might recover all the precious data stored in your Google account if you somehow lose your devices and forget your email address and phone number? Just give Google a vi…
Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations
Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations Ahead of Lisa Su's keynote this morning at the AMD Advancing AI event, tagged on GitHub just now was the Ryzen AI Software 1.8…
LLVM 23.1-rc1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & AVX-512 BMM Support, Other Compiler…
LLVM 23.1-rc1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & AVX-512 BMM Support, Other Compiler Enhancements Following the recent code branching for the LLVM 23 series, LLVM 23.1-rc1 was released today in working toward …
dav1d 1.5.4 Brings AV1 Decoding To OS/2
dav1d 1.5.4 Brings AV1 Decoding To OS/2 While the VideoLAN developers are busy these days working on dav2d for AV2 video decoding, they haven't let up work on dav1d and recently released dav1d 1.5.4 f…
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