Blue Origin has identified the engine component at the center of May's spectacular New Glenn pad explosion, which left the Jeff Bezos space tentacle facing a substantial rebuild. "The anomaly originat…
Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4 Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/google-plans-to-kill…
Linux Wireless Maintainer Takes Firm Stance Against AI/LLM Generated Slop Patches In addition to the Linux kernel staging area now rejecting AI/LLM-generated patches except for real security fixes, th…
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PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we lovingly poke fun at other organizations' security screw-ups, in hopes the rest of us can learn a valuable lesson. This week’s story involves an…
SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon SpaceX won't build large cell towers but plans small base stations across US. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/…
AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI Why humans need to moderate humans. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/ai-isnt-enough-to-protect-social-media-communities-from-ai/?utm_…
If AI companies are collecting badges for "our model escaped the test environment," Meta just earned one. The Facebook parent company has confirmed that one of its AI models exploited a vulnerability …
Microsoft has dropped a reminder that Windows 10 LTSC 2021 will wheeze its last breath soon, and enterprises need to plan for the event. While free support for most editions of Windows 10 ended last y…
FDA Approves First mRNA Flu Shot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/0424256/fda-approves-first-mrna-flu-shot?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Page Alloc Hogger Lets You Better Stress Memory Behavior On Linux For Testing/Debugging A new kernel feature proposed by a Google engineer is Page Alloc Hogger to allow for fine control over where mem…
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation appears to have let its most acerbic writers loose on its latest results announcement, in which certain AI companies are branded "crass kleptomaniacs." CEO Robert Tho…
AMD GFX1171 Support Merged For Mesa 26.3 Earlier this year we began seeing patches for AMD GFX1170 graphics IP labeled as "RDNA 4m" and that was then completed with also adding GFX1171 and GFX1172 as …
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Qualcomm Proposes Synx For The Linux Kernel With "Significant" Power + Performance Benefits Qualcomm engineers have initiated a discussion over upstreaming Synx to the Linux kernel, which is a global …
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SteelSeries' Latest Arctis Nova 5X & Nova 7 Headsets To Be Supported By Linux 7.3 If you happen to have a gaming headset from the latest SteelSeries Nova 5X or Nova 7 series, the upcoming Linux 7.3 ke…
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新聞微軟更新Excel，擴充Copilot存取企業資料的能力。使用者可在Excel中加入Power BI報表作為分析依據，也可透過同步Copilot連接器查詢企業已連接的系統與文件，並利用內嵌引用查看回答來源。Power BI整合適用於Windows、Mac及網頁版，目前正分階段推出。 使用者可從Excel的工作內容選擇器加入Power BI報表，再要求Copilot分析營運表現、找出資料趨勢，或…
新聞隨著地緣政治與極端情境威脅加劇，數位韌性已成為企業維運（BCP）的必修課題。政府將於今年8月展開「2026 城鎮韌性（防空）演習」，這次演習首度加入30分鐘的「行動網路降速演練」，被視為全民數位韌性防護的「系統性壓力測試」，儘管只是短暫的行動網路降速演練，卻考驗民眾與企業的緊急應變能力。 根據演習規劃，中部地區的苗栗縣、臺中市、南投縣、彰化縣、雲林縣、嘉義市、嘉義縣將會在8月10日(周三)，而…
新聞本日新聞焦點 ● 趨勢、Anthropic、Nvidia、AWS於黑帽大會AI Summit強調聯防 ● CISA警告IBM Langflow、N-central、Apache Tomcat漏洞遭利用 ● Google Cloud金鑰管理服務正式支援NIST後量子密碼學標準 ● 歐洲刑警組織與9國聯手清除逾4,300個極端主義與犯罪內容網址 ● 中國駭客藉由iOS漏洞利用工具包散布惡意軟體Gh…
新聞AWS宣布，將內部專案MeshClaw改名為Kiro Crew並開源。Kiro Crew可讓多個AI代理跨不同工作階段持續處理開發任務，並保存任務狀態、排程、專案脈絡與修正紀錄，即使開發者暫時離開，工作也能依設定繼續進行。 Kiro Crew最初由3名Amazon工程人員自行開發，目的是減少人員必須持續盯著AI執行工作的情況。官方表示，專案在不到6個月內已獲逾39,000名Amazon內部人員…
新聞生成式AI快速普及，正在改變資料中心的設計與營運模式，也重新定義資料中心的永續課題。 Uptime Institute近期發表「Global Data Center Survey 2026」顯示，隨著AI模型訓練與推論需求增加，高密度運算環境快速增加，資料中心業者除了持續改善能源效率，還必須面對電力供應、冷卻能力與營運韌性等新挑戰。 Uptime Institute每年都會對全球資料中心業者、…
新聞今年稍早，新北市三峽一名員警於執勤中不幸殉職，社群平臺隨即出現一則呼籲外界捐款慰問家屬的貼文，附上員警本人的銀行帳戶。警政署刑事警察局預防科科長莊明雄看到消息，第一時間便準備匯款，甚至動用了連妻子都不知情的私房錢。 妻子得知後質問他：「你當過科長，怎麼會蠢到看到臉書貼帳號就匯錢？」這句話讓莊明雄整整緊張了兩個小時。一直到新聞證實，那則募款貼文其實是殉職員警的妻子用先生帳號發布，並非詐騙，他才鬆…
