Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 Released For Testing
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 Released For Testing Canonical today released the first monthly snapshot of the Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" release... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Snapshot-…
Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents
Rogue agents are dangerous, but eliminating them is never easy. Jason Bourne, Ethan Hunt, and James Bond have each run afoul of their governance at various junctures, yet stopping them takes sequel af…
Lone attacker published 14 malicious npm packages mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch libraries
A single npm user on Thursday published 14 malicious packages within a four-hour window, all mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, DevOps, and environment-configuration libraries, according to …
AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand
A security lead at a large enterprise* told me last week, when I asked whether they had any interest in Grok: "The revenge porn edgelord LLM? Yeah, imagine that; our bank wants nothing to do with it."…
Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia’s new N1X laptop processors…
Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are all teasing Nvidia’s new N1X laptop processors https://www.theverge.com/news/940275/nvidia-n1x-laptop-processor-arm-microsoft-teaser
Wine 11.10 Released With VKD3D 2.0, Improved VBScript Compatibility
Wine 11.10 Released With VKD3D 2.0, Improved VBScript Compatibility Wine 11.10 marks the latest bi-weekly development release of Wine for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and ot…
SpaceX gets $4 billion contract to build missile-tracking ‘Golden Dome’…
SpaceX gets $4 billion contract to build missile-tracking ‘Golden Dome’ satellites https://www.theverge.com/science/940207/spacex-golden-dome-satellite-contract
ICE to keep an eye on your eyes under $25M biometric scanner deal
If you thought US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s widespread use of face recognition apps was a privacy violation, you’re about to get eye-rate over a new $25 million contract. According to a la…
Kenyan court blocks Trump admin from dumping Ebola-exposed Americans there
Kenyan court blocks Trump admin from dumping Ebola-exposed Americans there The US has previously built specialized facilities just for this purpose. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/kenyan-court…
Acer’s answer to the MacBook Neo is a $699 laptop with Intel chips and 8GB of…
Acer’s answer to the MacBook Neo is a $699 laptop with Intel chips and 8GB of RAM https://www.theverge.com/tech/939596/acer-swift-air-14-aspire-18-nitro-16-computex-price-specs
Here's why the failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic
Here's why the failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic "I hope that it makes it far enough away from the pad that it does not cause pad damage." https://arstechnica.com/space/2026…
No fix yet for critical RCE bug in open-source Git service Gogs - exploit module is out
There's a huge hole and no one is patching it thus far. A critical, remote code execution (RCE) bug in Gogs, a popular open-source self-hosted Git service, can be exploited by any authenticated user -…
Acer’s launching a Linux handheld for streaming your PC games…
Acer’s launching a Linux handheld for streaming your PC games https://www.theverge.com/games/940091/acer-nitro-blaze-link-linux-handheld
Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/botnet-of-more-than-17-million-de…
AMD ROCm 7.2.4 Released With Performance & Stability Fixes
AMD ROCm 7.2.4 Released With Performance & Stability Fixes AMD's ROCm open-source compute stack is up to version 7.2.4 stable as it continues seeing new fixes while on the tech preview feature side is…
US law enforcement warns of "anti-tech extremism" as AI hatred grows
US law enforcement warns of "anti-tech extremism" as AI hatred grows The feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-…
Blue Origin Rocket Exploded Thursday Night During Hot-Fire Test…
Blue Origin Rocket Exploded Thursday Night During Hot-Fire Test https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/05/29/171202/blue-origin-rocket-exploded-thursday-night-during-hot-fire-test?utm_source=rss1.0main…
House of the Dragon S3 trailer revels in dragons, fire, and blood
House of the Dragon S3 trailer revels in dragons, fire, and blood "The crown is a weight that crushes. You'll do things that spell death for all involved." https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/05/hous…
DOJ sues states that rejected ICE requests for undercover license plates
DOJ sues states that rejected ICE requests for undercover license plates DOJ keeps accusing ICE monitoring sites of doxing, but evidence remains scarce. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/doj…
Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores…
Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/940007/ai-companies-will-pay-for-robot-training-data
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