OpenCourant: Rocky Linux Developers Create Community Fork Of OpenRadioss
OpenCourant: Rocky Linux Developers Create Community Fork Of OpenRadioss This week was the surprising and unfortunate decision of Siemens shutting down the OpenRadioss project as the four year old ope…
San Francisco's Car Crime Has Plunged. How Much Credit Does Flock Deserve?…
San Francisco's Car Crime Has Plunged. How Much Credit Does Flock Deserve? https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/03/0553234/san-franciscos-car-crime-has-plunged-how-much-credit-does-flock-deserve?utm_s…
Fulcrum Echo promises AI text in the style of any writer, so I tested it
Fulcrum faces an identity crisis, even as it works on creating one by enabling anyone to imitate another person's writing style. The AI startup, founded in 2025 and previously operating at fulcrumrese…
FSF Sponsors 'GNU Boot', a Libre, Ethical Replacement for Nonfree BIOS Or UEFI…
FSF Sponsors 'GNU Boot', a Libre, Ethical Replacement for Nonfree BIOS Or UEFI https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/10/03/1713227/fsf-sponsors-gnu-boot-a-libre-ethical-replacement-for-nonfree-bios-or-ue…
Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: a spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: a spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners, Loki ) narrates NatGeo's new documentary Africa: Earth's Wild Home https://arstechnica.com/science…
MGLRU-FG Delivering Up To 10~40% Higher Performance For Linux In Some Tests
MGLRU-FG Delivering Up To 10~40% Higher Performance For Linux In Some Tests Linux's Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" has already achieved nice performance gains for Linux in recent years by optimizing page recla…
US Bank Regulator Sued Over Crypto Firm Charters by Community Bank Advocates…
US Bank Regulator Sued Over Crypto Firm Charters by Community Bank Advocates https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/10/04/0656228/us-bank-regulator-sued-over-crypto-firm-charters-by-community-bank-advocat…
Long-Time Slashdot Reader Announces New Open Source Web Browser 'Northstar'…
Long-Time Slashdot Reader Announces New Open Source Web Browser 'Northstar' https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/10/04/0127201/long-time-slashdot-reader-announces-new-open-source-web-browser-northstar?u…
NVIDIA's Results Of Conducting Wayland vs. X.Org Latency Testing
NVIDIA's Results Of Conducting Wayland vs. X.Org Latency Testing In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer's conference they…
All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part. The IEA and climate negotiators want to set a target for shifting the economy to run on electricity. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/…
Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care
In 1942, Isaac Asimov formulated three laws of robotics. 58 years later, Jef Raskin responded with three laws of human-computer interface design. They haven’t been bettered yet. There are rules, and e…
Linux Begins Seeing Workarounds For Fujitsu MONAKA CPU Bugs
Linux Begins Seeing Workarounds For Fujitsu MONAKA CPU Bugs Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes aft…
AMD Sends In More New GPU Hardware Enablement For Linux 7.4, Bug Fixes
AMD Sends In More New GPU Hardware Enablement For Linux 7.4, Bug Fixes We are nearing the cut-off of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem material for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. AMD this we…
openSUSE Turns To ZUPT For Post-Quantum Backups
openSUSE Turns To ZUPT For Post-Quantum Backups OpenSUSE developers have announced they are making ZUPT available on their Linux distribution as a solution for providing post-quantum backups. ZUPT com…
Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40
Decades before the modern web, the BBC Domesday Project dared to archive an entire nation using…. what else – massive LV-ROM (LaserVision Read Only Memory) LaserDiscs. To mark the impending 40th anniv…
Three EU Officials Not Sold on Europe's Homegrown Alternative to Microsoft…
Three EU Officials Not Sold on Europe's Homegrown Alternative to Microsoft Teams https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/04/061207/three-eu-officials-not-sold-on-europes-homegrown-alternative-to-microsof…
This Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It…
This Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/10/04/0054248/this-virus-stole-a-human-gene-and-wont-let-go-of-it?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/apple-ch…
Physicists Identify 'Octupolar' Magnetism, With Implications for Quantum…
Physicists Identify 'Octupolar' Magnetism, With Implications for Quantum Technologies https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/10/04/0015230/physicists-identify-octupolar-magnetism-with-implications-for-…
Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock…
Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/03/0545254/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-t…
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