AI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM
AI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem fixes for the week are heavier on the side with many fixes to these kernel …
How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone
Our resident Microsoft-watcher Richard Speed last week wrote about his seven-hour odyssey bringing a Windows 11 box up to snuff with the latest patches. I’ll see you that struggle, Richard, and raise …
Wisp Makes It Easier To Manage Btrfs Snapshots From The GNOME Desktop
Wisp Makes It Easier To Manage Btrfs Snapshots From The GNOME Desktop Wisp is a new GNOME Shell extension making it easier to graphically manage Btrfs file-system snapshots... https://www.phoronix.com…
Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge
Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge The 500-mile Semi arrives as charging gaps still limit electric trucking. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09/teslas-big-elect…
AMDXDNA Linux Driver Being Enhanced For Current NPU3 Hardware
AMDXDNA Linux Driver Being Enhanced For Current NPU3 Hardware The AMDXDNA open-source Linux kernel accelerator driver is seeing a fair amount of work for better supporting current-generation NPU3 neur…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Continues With Last Minute Tweaks & Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.8 Continues With Last Minute Tweaks & Fixes Even with this week's KDE Akademy conference and releasing KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2, KDE developers still found time to land last minute changes f…
Trump administration takes Musk’s side in fight over EU tech rules
Trump administration takes Musk’s side in fight over EU tech rules Washington says Brussels overreached when it fined X €120 million under the DSA. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/trump-ad…
Google ads caught delivering convincing scareware ads to unsuspecting users
Google ads caught delivering convincing scareware ads to unsuspecting users Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/google-ads-caught-de…
Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites
Britain’s Royal Air Force has gained some space cadets, in the form of No. III Space Effects Squadron, tasked with protecting critical satellites that the UK relies on for communications and navigatio…
Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements
Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/tesla-workers…
Microsoft cells out, crams multiple values into Excel boxes
Microsoft has ended 40 years of single-occupancy for Excel cells and is now allowing multiple values to inhabit the same home. "One of the oldest rules of spreadsheets: one cell, one value," said Jake…
Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust
Programming language generics can now ride in style from one language’s compiler to another and back again, thanks to experimental work from Mojo core contributor Evan Ovadia. This former Google engin…
Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC" Microsoft's new Surface laptops forego Copilot+ PC branding. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/microsoft-stops-insisting-you-need-a-copilot-pc/…
Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.
Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say. Heidi Overton faced questions focused on vaccines, birth control, and vapes. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/can-trump-ever-be-wron…
New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming…
New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming Ambitions Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to h…
Court rules Trump can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
Court rules Trump can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features "Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy…
AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise.
AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise. "There is no evidence of any significant, widespread displacement or reduction in hiring” https://arstechnica.com/ai/20…
NASA green-lights billion-dollar infrared observatory for launch in early 2030s
NASA green-lights billion-dollar infrared observatory for launch in early 2030s NASA's PRIMA mission will use spare parts from Webb to do major science at a lower cost. https://arstechnica.com/space/2…
Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid
The CEO of crypto exchange Bitget has confirmed that a cyberattack with all the hallmarks of a North Korean operation resulted in approximately $387.5 million worth of digital assets being stolen from…
Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access
You work in your company's human resources department and use HR software to check employee information, benefits, and payroll. So, when you see a downloadable Windows version promising a faster alter…
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