AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver
AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver It's not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI…
The suborbital space tourism industry is on life support
The suborbital space tourism industry is on life support It's not clear whether Virgin Galactic has the cash reserves to fund a prolonged test phase. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/the-suborbit…
First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed
Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demandCISA has added a critical cPanel bug to its known-exploited list, confirming that attackers are already po…
Women sue the men who used their Instagram feed to create AI porn influencers
Women sue the men who used their Instagram feed to create AI porn influencers AI ModelForge is a platform that teaches men how generate their own AI influencers. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Linux Support Coming For The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II: A $160 High-End Gaming…
Linux Support Coming For The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II: A $160 High-End Gaming Controller The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II is a recently-launched wireless gaming controller for both PC and Xbox gaming. This is a pre…
Dyson finally made a better robot, but a worse vacuum
Dyson finally made a better robot, but a worse vacuum https://www.theverge.com/tech/921136/dyson-spot-scrub-ai-wet-dry-robot-vacuum-cleaner-review
Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'
Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to followMicrosoft is following through on its promise to prioritize Windows stability with its April 30 non-securi…
蘋果財報超越預期，iPhone 17與MacBook Neo熱銷
新聞蘋果週四（4/30）公布截至3月28日的2026財年第二季財報，該季蘋果創下1,112億美元的營收，比去年同期成長17%，所有地區的業績都出現兩位數的成長，是蘋果歷來最佳的3月季度表現。蘋果表示，該成果主要受益於iPhone 17系列的市場需求，以及新款MacBook Neo的熱銷。由於表現超越分析師預期，當天蘋果盤後股價上漲2.68%，至278.46美元。在1,112億美元的營收中，有802…
Rocket Report: Falcon Heavy is back; Russia's Soyuz-5 finally debuts
Rocket Report: Falcon Heavy is back; Russia's Soyuz-5 finally debuts Two launches this week delivered 61 more satellites to orbit for the Amazon Leo broadband network. https://arstechnica.com/space/20…
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep comingCanonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source gian…
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway
But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software devAn astronomy software dev claims a Falcon 9 upper stage will hit the Moon in August, traveling …
OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that
Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mockedOpenAI is lining up a limited release of its new GPT-5.5-Cyber model to a handpicked circle of "cyber defenders," just weeks after taking…
The Invisible Force Making Food Less Nutritious…
The Invisible Force Making Food Less Nutritious https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/05/01/0123239/the-invisible-force-making-food-less-nutritious?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
There's a lot of hype about Chinese EVs—is any of it true?
There's a lot of hype about Chinese EVs—is any of it true? In addition to being full of screens, China now wants its cars to be packed with AI. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05/theres-a-lot-of-hyp…
UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender
Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudstersThe Department for Work and Pensions has gone shopping for covert cameras, live-streaming kit, and ve…
Intel Making More GPU Driver Improvements For Crescent Island With Linux 7.2
Intel Making More GPU Driver Improvements For Crescent Island With Linux 7.2 Intel's upcoming Crescent Island product as a reminder is a new inference-optimized Xe3P graphics card with 160GB of vRAM a…
Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD…
Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD R300/R600 Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team has ignited a discussion over potentially shifting some of Mesa…
Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April…
Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings A lot happened in the Linux and open-source world during the month of April. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 shipped,…
Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed
Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a yearThe Home Office has increased the annual value and overall duration of its new passport pr…
Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?
Things that go bork in the nightBork!Bork!Bork! What frightens you? What, as an IT professional, would make you shriek like a small child? What tech horrors are lurking under your bed?…
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