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Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data It has been a bad month for federal government cybersecurity. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/hacks-of-2-federa…
Fedora 45 Beta Performance: The Satisfyingly Boring Benchmarks While there have been a number of Ubuntu 26.10 development benchmarks in recent weeks and more on the way, some Phoronix readers have ask…
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Mesa Drops Its Poorly Maintained & Rarely Used Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver Back in 2021 the Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver "d3d10umd" was introduced as a new Gallium3D state tracker to work as a Window…
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Memory supplies are “only getting tighter,” Micron CEO says Prices for memory sold for 2027 "are much higher than 2026 prices." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/10/memory-supplies-a…
Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released With Linux 7.3 Kernel, GNOME 51 Desktop Ubuntu 26.10 beta is now available for the official Ubuntu editions as well as the various community flavors... https://www.phoronix.…
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Marvel releases one last VisionQuest trailer "This is a fight I likely won't win. We have said goodbye before. But remember, family is forever." https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/10/marvel-releases…
Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix During the past month on Phoronix were 284 original news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews/mul…
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If you don't want your AI agents running out of control and changing files or transferring data outside your rules, AWS has published an open source software library that it claims can add a new layer…
A suspected Chinese espionage group impersonated AI policy figures, including a senior Anthropic employee and a former White House official, in phishing campaigns targeting AI policy experts at US uni…
Florida cops say they don't know who owns 11 unpermitted Flock cameras Floridians alarmed by 14 mysterious Flock cameras; 11 have no clear owner. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/florida-co…
Some Networking Fixes Being Diverted To Linux 7.4, AI/LLM Activity Still Increasing With the vast array of wired and wireless networking drivers within the Linux kernel and range of protocols and othe…
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AI finally beat the best Stratego player in history—and did it on a budget Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10…
Windows 11 26H2 is out, and Microsoft has enabled Windows settings backup by default, a move that could send administrators scrambling to opt out where they once had to opt in. The latest release hasn…
As US relations fray, Canada gets serious about its own launch industry The Canada Rocket Company gets serious about medium-lift launch. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/as-us-relations-fray-cana…
Attackers were poking at a critical Zimbra mail server bug weeks before it was publicly disclosed, and then moved on to steal credentials, raid mailboxes, and take deeper control of compromised system…
AI ambition is easy to describe - using data and models to improve decisions, automate work, accelerate discovery, or create new services. Delivering those outcomes is harder and takes a significant a…
Qt Creator 21 IDE Beta Enables More AI Functionality By Default Following yesterday's release of the Qt 6.12 LTS toolkit, The Qt Group today released Qt Creator 21 in beta form as the latest version o…
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Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we warn you about weak security practices. This week’s terrifying tale involves a lack of important patching and a humorously bad password belonging to t…
MI5 has warned that more than 100 UK-linked academics contributed to research projects allegedly funded to improve China's spying capabilities. The Security Service issued an unusually public espionag…
England's secondary schools are reporting slightly fewer cybersecurity incidents and faster recovery when disaster strikes, according to a survey by exams regulator Ofqual. Twenty-seven percent of sch…
