Qualcomm Talks Up Linux On Snapdragon X2 Laptops
Qualcomm Talks Up Linux On Snapdragon X2 Laptops Qualcomm at their Snapdragon Summit taking place in Hawaii are talking up the forthcoming Linux support for Snapdragon X2 series laptops... https://www…
China silent as US touts plan for AI safety alerts that omits tech experts
China silent as US touts plan for AI safety alerts that omits tech experts Trump focus on winning “AI race” may deter China from sharing safety intel. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/china…
An Epyc trip to Venice: Everything we do and don't know about AMD's 256-core monster chip
AMD's Venice Epycs mark the chipmaker's biggest architectural shift in CPU design since Rome made its debut all the way back in 2019. What's more, AMD's Zen 6-based product stack is shaping up to be t…
Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper
South Korean researchers have published details of how their four-legged robot completed a marathon on a single battery charge – nearly two years after it crossed the finish line. RAIBO2 covered the 4…
Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology
After more than six months of kicking the age verification can down the road due to community blowback, Discord is finally deploying its new system, albeit with several tweaks it hopes will assuage us…
Someone's attacking a critical 0-day RCE in F5 BIG-IP APM
F5 has fixed a critical zero-day bug in its BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) that unknown miscreants are exploiting to remotely execute malicious code. BIG-IP APM is a centralized access management …
Europe's fastest supercomputer is finally getting its domestic silicon infusion
Talk about digital sovereignty! Europe's most powerful supercomputer, Jupiter, is finally getting the domestic silicon infusion it's been waiting for. On Tuesday, French chip designer SiPearl began de…
Mop the slop from your LinkedIn feed with a new open-source Chrome extension
Decision-making AI model Jev has found another job: helping a Chrome extension identify and flag low-value writing on LinkedIn. AI enthusiast, author, and business consultant Tom Frazier released Slop…
Contrary to some reports, you don't have two brains
Contrary to some reports, you don't have two brains A bad press release makes a good excuse to look at how developmental biology works. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/contrary-to-some-reports…
Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash
Discord age verification rolls out today with changes spurred by user backlash Discord will try to automatically estimate ages, require verification when it can't. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
Lemonade Fixes AMD APU Model Streaming, Drops OpenMOSS ROCm As ~40x Slower…
Lemonade Fixes AMD APU Model Streaming, Drops OpenMOSS ROCm As ~40x Slower Than Vulkan The AMD-aligned Lemonade open-source project for serving as a local AI server released 2026.39.1 today as well as…
Aftermarket driver assist under federal probe following fatal crashes
Aftermarket driver assist under federal probe following fatal crashes Feds know of 5 crashes where cars using comma.ai devices hit slow or stopped vehicles. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/09/afterm…
Netflix drops trailer for Brad Bird's Ray Gunn
Netflix drops trailer for Brad Bird's Ray Gunn "It’s film noir and a hard-boiled detective story, but it’s got a lot more comedy and a lot more action." https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/09/netflix…
British regulator takes a hard look at Pornhub's Apple-powered age checks
Ofcom has opened an investigation into whether Pornhub's Apple-based age checks are effective enough to keep children away from its adult content. The investigation will examine whether Pornhub owner …
A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch
Fresh from releasing TMOG, his take on a cross-platform Task Manager upgrade, former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has put his PDP-11 on the web. The PDP-11 is a family of minicomputers from Digital…
The more Americans hear about datacenters, the less they like them
Americans are growing more and more wary of datacenters, with a Pew Research Center survey finding sharp rises since January in those who view the effect on the environment, energy bills, and nearby c…
Closing the observability gap for the AI-ready enterprise
The modern enterprise is a digital enterprise. From the back office to the factory floor, connected systems and digital services form the operational backbone on which all else depends. So when disrup…
Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack
Academic publishing giant Elsevier confirmed a compromise this week after students found its platform redirecting users to a cybercriminal crew's leak page. One Reddit user, a self-described nursing s…
Thoughts return to forbidden RAM upgrades as Raspberry Pi OS gets fresh lick of paint
Raspberry Pi OS has gained a new desktop layout, while surging memory prices have revived a row over firmware that restricts RAM upgrades. Although Raspberry Pi doesn't emphasize version numbers in it…
Intel Developing Their DXVK-IGDEXT For Improved Linux Gaming On Arc Graphics
Intel Developing Their DXVK-IGDEXT For Improved Linux Gaming On Arc Graphics Intel engineers have been quietly developing dxvk-igdext as their own component for DXVK Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 atop the …
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