HANDS ON If you've got a drawer full of old phones, unloved tablets, or even an ancient monitor, you can now give those devices new life in your home by turning them into wall-mounted status boards, c…
Since the beginning of the year, several people have remarked to me off the cuff, apropos of nothing in particular: "Google Cloud is killing it." Parent company Alphabet reported Q2 earnings [PDF] aft…
Tesla's revenues are up, but profits squeezed as Musk spends on AI Q2 2026 was profitable, but barely. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/07/teslas-revenues-are-up-but-profits-squeezed-as-musk-spends-o…
After cutting over 4,000 jobs due to AI, fintech biz Block is back with Buzz, a shared workspace where humans and bots can collaborate in ways that are more auditable, sovereign, and secure than what …
SDL Lands HDR10 Rendering Support Sam Lantinga of Valve and SDL fame has landed HDR10 rendering support into the Simple DirectMedia Library... https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-HDR10-Rendering-Support
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Clayface trailer leans into the body horror "The people I trusted betrayed me. The justice system failed me." https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/07/clayface-trailer-leans-into-the-body-horror/?utm_b…
COSMIC Epoch 1.4 Released With More Fixes, Force Quit For COSMIC Monitor System76 developers today released COSMIC Epoch 1.4 as the newest stable release to their Rust-based desktop environment... htt…
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Scientists may have found the first moon outside our Solar System – depending on what astronomers ultimately decide counts as one. Either way, the groundbreaking research, published in Nature this wee…
If you're responsible for Linux security, someone just dumped a pile of work onto your desk: 432 Linux kernel CVEs were published across Sunday and Monday this week. Linux watchers at nixCraft pointed…
Next Space Force chief throws cold water on the idea of space privateers It turns out some of Benjamin Franklin's opinions from 240 years ago are still relevant today. https://arstechnica.com/space/20…
AMD EPYC Turin With PCIe 5.0 Storage Shows Off Nice Gains On Linux 7.2 Earlier this week was an exciting look at Intel Xe3 graphics performance gains on Linux 7.2 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panth…
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Tesla's latest vehicle has two wheels, no motor, and a target market still mastering walking: the $225 Balance Bike for Kids. The contraption, designed for children aged two to five, "features a light…
What happens when you try to chop a photon in half? A mirror that moves mid-photon could release a shower of new photons. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/what-happens-when-you-try-to-chop-a-ph…
You've got an idea for an Excel spreadsheet, but building it is another matter. Microsoft's Copilot can help, and now SpaceXAI is offering an alternative: the Grok add-in for Excel. Available on the M…
Samsung unveils new Galaxy Z8 foldables and Galaxy Watches, available August 7 Samsung's new foldables are slimmer, faster, and more expensive. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/samsung-unveils-…
The Irish government has kicked a Microsoft procurement potentially worth €1 billion into touch amid a political debate about the nation's overreliance on US tech providers and a move to free and open…
EXCLUSIVE A Windows information-stealer targeting more than 300 applications comes equipped with a novel surveillance tool: an AI profiler that ranks infected victims so crooks know who to target firs…
Having popularized AI with the cheapskate masses, OpenAI has turned its attention to enterprise customers who might actually pay for its services. The debt-fueled maker of frontier models on Wednesday…
libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android For helping to keep X11 clients running in a modern Linux desktop world with Wayland or even for running on macOS or And…
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Intel Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts Slated For Linux 7.3 Back in March Intel software engineers began sending out Linux patches for Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts as a new capab…
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