A Canadian who helped orchestrate the sprawling Snowflake-linked data theft campaign has pleaded guilty in the US, admitting that he and his co-conspirators returned to squeeze at least one victim a s…
Microsoft has abruptly withdrawn Domain Exclusion for Microsoft 365 Copilot, days after touting it as a way to stop the assistant grounding its answers in unwanted websites. If you had a list of sourc…
Linux Accidentally Left Legacy I/O & Memory Handlers Open In Kernel Lockdown Mode For nearly the past decade has been the kernel lockdown mode for tightening up kernel access from user-space such as w…
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Nearly three-quarters of businesses surveyed in the UK, France, and Germany fear Washington could abruptly cut their access to the US tech platforms on which they depend. The finding comes from a surv…
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…
