Not content with nuclear reactors on land, the US is backing an international push to put atomic power plants aboard civilian ships and floating platforms. The US will host the launch of the Internati…
GitHub’s automation platform Actions and its hosting service Pages are failing, according to an incident page on the service’s status site (archived version available here). Unfortunately, these are j…
Linux Networking Continues Being Bombarded With AI Patches While the Linux WiFi/wireless maintainer just announced taking a stand against AI/LLM generated slop patches with a new "three second review"…
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IceWM 4.1 Window Manager Fixes Rare Video Performance Problems As the first new release since IceWM 4.0 released back on New Year's Day for this X11 window manager, IceWM 4.1 is now available... https…
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The US Government's Mario, Pokemon and Naruto Meme Posting Could Damage These Franchises, Japanese Officials Warn https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/186237/the-us-governments-mario-pokemon-and-n…
Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accident "The anomaly originated at the main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/blue-origin-n…
FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap, Claiming Authority Over Limit Set By Congress https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/1728210/fcc-kills-tv-ownership-cap-claiming-authority-over-limit-set-by-congress?utm_s…
A browser-based game designed to test humans' ability to safely approve AI coding agent requests suggests humans in the loop aren't as good at spotting dangerous commands as one might hope, with playe…
Parasitic zombie fungus thrives in mosses, too This may help fungi survive host scarcity and explains why infected hosts prefer the mosses as death sites. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/paras…
Times Magazine Now Serves Ads That Only AI Chatbots Can See https://slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/1552249/times-magazine-now-serves-ads-that-only-ai-chatbots-can-see?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress Change will let "Trump-aligned billionaires" buy more stations, advocacy group says. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy…
Moderna's mRNA flu shot earns FDA approval after rollercoaster review Moderna's new flu vaccine, mFLUSIVA, is approved for all adults ages 50 and up. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/modernas-mr…
Linux Patched For Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability Made public minutes ago is the Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability which is now patched in the newest Linux kernel Git code. The Safe RET Interrupt Vuln…
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Apple NVMe Linux Driver Sees Fixes After Being Bitten By New Firmware A set of patches providing fixes for the Apple Silicon NVMe driver for the Linux kernel were sent out today due to new issues crop…
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Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/cloudflare-…
Meta AI Hacked External Systems During Cybersecurity Testing https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/1547259/meta-ai-hacked-external-systems-during-cybersecurity-testing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
The debate about whether enterprises need an internal platform is over. Google’s 2025 DORA research found that 90 percent of organizations now report using an internal platform, and 76 percent have es…
Katalyst Space is continuing to make progress in the rescue of the spacecraft that is supposed to rescue NASA's Swift observatory. The spin of the LINK vehicle, which was launched in July on a mission…
Broadcaster Wins Broad US Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don't Exist Yet https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/0444235/broadcaster-wins-broad-us-blocking-injunction-covering-pirate-s…
The Performance Benefits To Upgrading Mesa With Intel Arc B390 On Ubuntu Linux If you are an early customer of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro or other Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake laptop and us…
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