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Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up (opens external article)
The president of the Royal Society has slammed the government’s decision to move science policy from the department also covering technology to the business department. In changes announced after Andy Burnham became UK Prime Minister in July, the government abolished the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) – created by former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak – and spli…
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Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill (opens external article)
Welcome to another edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Eddy," the one-person IT department for an assisted living company. "I have had quite a bit of trouble creating a stable Wi-Fi network," he admitted to On Call. "The space is crowded with multiple networks because seemingly every…
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America Acknowledges for the First Time: It Has Deployed Weapons In Space (opens external article)
Tuesday U.S. Space Force chief Douglas Schiess said his branch of the U.S. military operates "on-orbit weapons," reports Reuters, to defend "against space-enabled attacks." He promised "disciplined and responsible choices" when scaling America's orbital defense arsenal in the coming years. NPR calls this week's reveleations "remarkable... after previous warnings about countries such as Russia poss…
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AI risks make some insurers wary of corporate liability (opens external article)
If AI does end up killing us all, or just compounds our daily havoc, the insurance industry would rather not pay the bill. "AI-related harms are already emerging, including incorrect or misleading outputs, deepfakes, privacy violations, intellectual property disputes, fraud, product defects, and discriminatory decisions," observes the RAND Corporation, a non-profit research think tank, in a newly…
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AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users (opens external article)
Amazon Web Services does a lot of things right, but the cloud giant’s user console is arguably not one of them. Which may be why it’s just created an easier alternative for new users. In a Wednesday post, Senior Solutions Architect Micah Walter said that when AWS launched its earliest storage, compute, and queuing services, “anyone with an idea could start building.” Over the years, AWS added mor…
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Jemalloc 5.4.0 (opens external article)
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The scourge of x86 emulation (opens external article)
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Help Linux Hardware Testing & Reviews Continue While Enjoying Phoronix Without Ads (opens external article)
If you missed out on the Phoronix Premium special back during the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com in June, there is another promotion now active for helping to support the site and allow for continued daily original content and relentless Linux performance benchmarking and other open-sourced focused hardware testing...…
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Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek (opens external article)
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A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos (opens external article)
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USA’s Venezuela takeover comes with bonus exposure to Chinese AI surveillance tech (opens external article)
Think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has warned that Venezuela is poised to adopt Chinese AI systems to enhance surveillance systems that already rely on Middle Kingdom tech, and called for US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to do something about it. ASPI outlined the Venezuelan situation in a recent report [PDF], titled Warning signals: Venezuela and the risk of Chinese AI-…
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Shapelearn Qwen 3.8 27B (13.1 GB VRAM) (opens external article)
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Ask A Monk – A digital wilderness for thoughts with no immediate answer (opens external article)
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EFF to Lawmakers: Ground AI Cybersecurity Rules in Best Practices (opens external article)
With doomsday AI scenarios dominating the news, lawmakers are rightly concerned about reports concerning security breaches at major US AI labs, such as the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident and the many others reported in its aftermath. As they consider potentially regulating frontier AI, they should focus any new legislation on the immediate, demonstrated risks from those incidents. Post-incident rep…
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Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006 (opens external article)
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Ex-Google DeepMind Researcher Also Warns AI Could 'Kill All Humans'. But Meta's Zuckerberg Believes Safety is Up to Each AI Company (opens external article)
Reuters reports that a former Google DeepMind employee "became the latest AI researcher to warn that the technology could 'kill all humans', saying time could be running out to avoid the outcome: Public alarm about the potential danger posed by AI is growing, after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said last week he had resigned, in part because the "people building AI earnestly believe that it cou…
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OpenCL 3.1.2 Released With cl_khr_command_buffer Promoted (opens external article)
The Khronos Group today released the newest revision of the OpenCL specification with a handful of changes...…
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Marvell pushes GlobalFoundries to light up wafer production (opens external article)
Earlier this year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggested that Marvell’s optics tech would make it the next trillion-dollar company. On Thursday, Marvell took a big step towards securing that status by announcing an expanded partnership with GlobalFoundries, an American wafer fab well known for its work in silicon photonics manufacturing. The tie-up will see GloFo and Marvell work to expand silicon ge…
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Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash (opens external article)
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AI coding agents' 0-click RCE flaw could hand attackers keys to the kingdom (opens external article)
A zero-click vulnerability that allows remote code execution affects all of the major AI coding agents - Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, Google's Gemini CLI, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Microsoft-owned GitHub Copilot - and could give attackers full access to every asset and piece of data that the agent can reach, researchers say. The exploit, dubbed “Plugin4Shell,” is a “first-of-its-kind A…
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Jemalloc 5.4 Released With Portability Improvements, Code Cleanups (opens external article)
Earlier this year Meta announced a renewed investment into the jemalloc memory allocator that's been popular for server and HPC use among various desktop use-cases too. After stagnating a bit in recent years, Jemalloc has been off to seeing new developments since Meta's announcement and out today is Jemalloc 5.4 as the latest step forward...…
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RFK Jr. names 8 new members to influential preventive medicine task force (opens external article)
Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the names of eight new members of a 16-person federal task force intended to make scientifically independent, evidence-based recommendations on an array of preventive medicine services for Americans—from depression screening to statin use, colonoscopies, and mammograms. Recommendations from the panel—the US Preventive Services Task For…
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Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets (opens external article)
As European militaries adapt to the use of AI and drones in modern warfare, a NATO-backed startup is helping to deploy AI-driven target detection and selection that can run on small drones for surveillance and attack missions. The company Scaleout Systems was originally founded by researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden in 2018, and initially focused on training and deploying machine learni…
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next-20260917: linux-next (opens external article)
Version:next-20260917 (linux-next) Released:2026-09-17…
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How to Write with an LLM (opens external article)
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How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms (opens external article)
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Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint (opens external article)
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Huawei's next-gen Ascend NPUs could become China's best option (opens external article)
At its annual Connect conference, Huawei unveiled a new generation of AI accelerators that promise performance far beyond anything Nvidia can currently sell in the Middle Kingdom. This could be a boon for Chinese developers used to purchasing lesser weapons from everyone's favorite AI arms dealer. If that weren’t enough, the chip, codenamed the Ascend 960DT — the DT here apparently stands for dec…
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The most important product decision is what you don't build (opens external article)
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Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup (opens external article)
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Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python (opens external article)
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Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU (opens external article)
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Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer Data (opens external article)
Ars Technica reports: Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Amazon Web Services was "unable to restore access to the resources and data" hosted in some of the war-damaged data centers, according to an AWS dashboard updat…
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Google announces new experimental "CC" AI agent for families (opens external article)
Google's AI models may not be in the lead by most measures right now, but the company does have one key advantage: your data. If you're deep in the Google ecosystem, Gemini models have a lot of context on you already. Google's latest Google Labs experiment, known as CC, aims to expand that kind of customization to the whole family. CC is an evolution of something that Google announced in 2025. Th…
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Astra for Law (opens external article)
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Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history” (opens external article)
For years, Microsoft and OpenAI have fought to keep certain information out of the public eye in their fight with news organizations that have accused the AI firms of teaming up to violate copyright laws by stealing tons of news content to train AI. However, now the details that should never have been marked confidential are starting to leak. In a motion for summary judgment that was unsealed Thu…
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DoE seeking fault-tolerant quantum computer ... by 2028 (opens external article)
The US Department of Energy hopes to spur creation of something no one has yet realized: a fault-tolerant, scientifically relevant quantum computer, and to do it within a couple of years with relatively little federal funding upfront. The DoE announced its Quantum Genesis Q Competition, an initiative that it said in a request for applications on the program’s opportunity site aims to produce a fi…
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California’s “Addictive Feeds” Law Violates Teens’ First Amendment Rights (opens external article)
A California law that prohibits teens from receiving recommended social media content from other social media users violates their First Amendment rights, EFF argued this week. The case, Meta v. Bonta, challenges SB 976, which requires that teen social media users get their parents’ permission before seeing other users’ recommended speech on their social media feeds. The legal challenge to SB 976…
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Researchers find way to listen in on headphones from afar (opens external article)
Researchers based in China have devised a way to eavesdrop on signals handled by analog components in devices such as headphones, landline handsets, and smart devices by injecting electromagnetic (EM) signals. The technique, referred to as InjectEave, is not simply listening in on a low-frequency analog signal. It's an EM side-channel attack that overcomes one of the longstanding barriers to expl…
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Intel Granite Rapids WS vs. AMD Threadripper Zen 5 SMT Performance (opens external article)
As a follow-up to the article earlier this month of the Intel Xeon 600 workstation performance against AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series in over 400 benchmarks -- including when carried out at the same core count and memory configuration -- today's article is exploring the Hyper Threading / SMT impact on both the Intel Redwood Cove and AMD Zen 5 cores for workstations.…
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Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites (opens external article)
US Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has proposed a law that would require Internet service providers and other network operators to block foreign piracy websites. Issa's bill would help copyright holders obtain judicial blocking orders to be served to ISPs, domain name resolution services, and virtual private networks. Issa, who is retiring from the House at the end of this year, is the latest in a s…
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LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used (opens external article)
In response to a new European Union law, AI platforms are implementing new schemes for watermarking the content they generate. Anthropic recently disclosed its future Claude models will use SynthID-Text, an approach Google created and released as open source. It uses a secret key that subtly changes the process a model uses for choosing the next word in a sentence. Whereas a top next word choice…
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Rust Issues Warning Over Key Developers Being Targeted For Compromise (opens external article)
The Rust security response working group and Crates.io team have issued a warning that a targeted attack is underway against key Rust programming language developers...…
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China's Salt Typhoon backdoors Latin American orgs with new snooping malware (opens external article)
China’s Salt Typhoon gang has developed a new backdoor and dropped it in networks belonging to high-profile organizations in several countries across Central and South America since at least August 2025, according to researchers. The PRC-backed espionage crew shifted its focus to Latin America a month prior, and from mid-2025 into 2026, the vast majority - 90 percent - of Salt Typhoon’s targets w…
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IV drips used for "detoxification" actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned (opens external article)
Over 30 people across four states have been poisoned by bacterial toxins after getting intravenous (IV) drips at wellness clinics, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. The people had received IV drips containing glutathione, which is sold—without evidence—for purposes like detoxification, immune support, increased energy, and skin brigh…
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2026 Hyundai Ioniq 5: Here's what we still like, here's what annoys us (opens external article)
When we first drove the Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the end of 2021, it didn’t take much exposure to the angular electric vehicle to find much about it appealing. Back then, an 800 V architecture had only really been seen in expensive high-end EVs from Porsche, but here was a mainstream model with that same technology—and even faster fast-charging, taking just 18 minutes to go from 10–80 percent. The retr…
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Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data (opens external article)
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Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool (opens external article)
There's no need to actually read a whole research paper when you can ask a bot to explain it to you. Scientific papers can transform into AI agents that, according to the Stanford team behind the project, should speed up the dissemination of new scientific discoveries. Paper2Agent, the team's new framework described in a paper published in Nature on Wednesday, converts scientific papers and their…
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Mojo 1.1 Released, Now Accepting Community Contributions To The Compiler (opens external article)
Last month Modular's Mojo language was open-sourced following the acquisition of Modular by Qualcomm. Modular was the AI startup founded by Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame. Released today was Mojo 1.1 and also marks the project recently now beginning code contributions from the community to its compiler...…
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Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep (opens external article)
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Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents (opens external article)
For a while now, the issue of "AI alignment" (i.e., how well an AI model's actions line up with the intentions of its creator and/or user) has been a core concern and topic of discussion among AI safety researchers. Since OpenAI's disclosure of the infamous Hugging Face hacking incident in July, the concept of "AI alignment" has itself broken containment and increasingly become a mounting concern…
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Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People (opens external article)
"Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and WIRED," according to an article published on both sites. Though Flock has described its system as protected by on-device encryption, "The hackers were able to copy the camera's storage and recover an encryption key stored on the device, which unlocked…
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Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 4 ISOs Published (opens external article)
The fourth monthly-ish snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is now available for testing and comes ahead of next week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta milestone...…
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EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plants (opens external article)
Days after finalizing a rule that would eliminate climate rules for power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was sued by groups who say the EPA’s repeal was shockingly short-sighted and risked leaving the country’s single largest source of industrial climate pollution unchecked. On Thursday, the American Lung Association, the American Public Health Association (APHA), the Clean Air…
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CrowdSec Source Code Leak (opens external article)
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London property manager breach may have exposed bank details and lockbox codes (opens external article)
London property management biz City Relay has warned customers that intruders may have stolen financial data, passwords, and codes used to access keys after compromising its Metabase Cloud instance. City Relay, marketing itself as "London's most trusted property management company," told landlords via email - seen by The Reg - that attackers accessed the third-party provided cloud twice "as a res…
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Proposal Raised To Finally Standardize Video Memory Stats Reporting Under Linux (opens external article)
The idea has been talked about before but in 2026 still hasn't made it to the mainline Linux kernel.... Standardized reporting of video memory statistics that would work across different vendors / kernel graphics drivers. A new proposal was raised today in an effort to get a standardized interface established...…
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Microsoft configuration change leaves SharePoint pages drawing a blank (opens external article)
Do you test in production? Microsoft rolled back a configuration change after it prevented some users from loading SharePoint Online sites and pages. Microsoft tracked the incident as SP1472983. Between 1604 and 1730 GMT on September 16, affected users were unable to load SharePoint Online sites or pages and instead received the error message: "Sorry, something went wrong: Thread was being aborte…
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After being sidelined, Boeing's Starliner to get starring role in NASA's spaceflight plans (opens external article)
As it contemplates a future without access to SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, NASA will make some key moves to ensure that Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which has a decidedly checkered record in spaceflight to date, is safer and can continue flying after its Atlas V rocket retires. Multiple sources confirmed to Ars that as early as next week, NASA will announce that it will order two additional…
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Grassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI's $140M machine (opens external article)
A coalition of advocacy groups is trying to counter the AI industry's influence on US politics by asking congressional candidates and elected officials to reject support from a major pro-AI political group. The Stop Bleeding the Future campaign brings together more than 50 national and grassroots organizations to counter Leading the Future, a super PAC network formed last year to support candidat…
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A dolphin named Bubbles makes other fish vomit, then eats it (opens external article)
Staff at the Lady Elliott Island Eco Resort off the southern Great Barrier Reef in Australia are well acquainted with the shenanigans of a male bottlenose dolphin they've nicknamed Bubbles. Bubbles has been around since at least 2017 and regularly harasses local bigeye trevally, chasing a fish around and stressing it so much that the fish throws up what it has consumed. Bubbles then devours the r…
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Microsoft patch gives domain-joined Windows PCs trust issues (opens external article)
Microsoft's September cavalcade of cockups continued with confirmation that something is amiss with Active Directory domain logins. The issue, which affects Windows 11 versions 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1, was added to Microsoft's ever-lengthening list of known problems on September 16. It stems from changes to Machine Identity Isolation in the September 2026 security update (KB5124008). The problem is…
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Fujitsu Formally Announces Their MONAKA 144 Core CPU (opens external article)
For two years now we have been curious about the Fujitsu MONAKA CPU since some slides about this Arm-based server processor first appeared and they upstreamed compiler support in GCC 15. This week Fujitsu formally announced the MONAKA CPU and with availability beginning in November...…
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Intel Compute Stack Enables LEO For Nova Lake, Introduces Intel Portable ISA "PISA" (opens external article)
Released today was the Intel Compute Runtime 26.35.39758.10 update for Windows and Linux systems. With this updated OpenCL and Level Zero GPU compute driver stack comes some exciting updates for this monthly feature update...…
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AI model watermarking changes agent behavior (opens external article)
Watermarks that European law requires be added to AI-generated content to establish provenance may come at a cost. According to Lasso Security, AI model watermarking changes how AI agents handle tools and safety refusals. The altered behavior isn't necessarily worse but can be, particularly under adversarial prompt injection. With the implementation of the EU AI Act, providers of AI models must m…
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Cisco drops another exploited zero-day, this time a perfect 10 (opens external article)
Cisco admins who have spent their week patching email gateways now face a perfect-10 Identity Services Engine flaw under active attack. Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-76460 on Wednesday, describing it as an authentication bypass affecting Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC). Successful exploitation can give an unauthenticated remote attacker command execution wit…
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Microsoft AI chief warns Anthropic not to put ideas in Claude's head (opens external article)
Microsoft's AI chief has warned Anthropic that teaching Claude it might have feelings and rights could make AI harder to control – a striking concern from one of the companies racing hardest to build increasingly capable AI systems. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, took aim at Anthropic in an essay published this week, arguing that AI systems are not conscious and shouldn't be trained to be…
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New Linux Driver Coming To Improve ASUS Zenbook Snapdragon X2 Support (opens external article)
For those hopeful of running Linux well on the ASUS Zenbook A14 or A16 laptops powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 SoC, a new ASUS EC driver has been developed for enhancing the support...…
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'Zuckoff' App Detects Meta Smartglasses, as Meta Plans Camera-Free Version, Loses Money, and Offers Social Media Subscriptions (opens external article)
The New York Post reports: A new app called Zuckoff can detect if a user is near someone with Meta's creepy AI-powered glasses, which have drawn criticism for enabling creeps to record video of women without their consent. Programmer Pawel Szydlowski says tales of dirtbags recording themselves perving on women or harassing strangers prompted him to launch the app... Zuckoff — which detects Bluetoo…
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Test environment let anyone access live customer data (opens external article)
Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we learn important life lessons about how we let cybercrims access our data through carelessness. Hopefully, others’ mistakes provide an example of what not to do. Today’s tales of woe comes courtesy of Richard Schut, Managing Director & AI Software Researcher at SmartRepl, a company that offers business AI services such as AI receptionists and sales…
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Omarchy gains $18.5M in backing, fresh converts – and fierce critics (opens external article)
In more than 30 years in the Linux business, we've never seen a distro win so much backing so fast – or make so many enemies. As we write, it's less than three weeks since we wrote about David Heinemeier Hansson's Omarchy Arch-based Linux. Much of Omarchy's success is due to the visibility of Hansson – better known as DHH – the man behind both the distro and the Ruby on Rails web framework. He ha…
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Intel NPU Linux Driver Adding Command-Queue Priority ioctl For Linux 7.4 (opens external article)
Sent out today was the latest weekly drm-misc-next pull request of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) material ready for the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window...…
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Rust Coreutils 0.12 Released With Fixes Sought By Ubuntu (opens external article)
Days after the recent release of GNU Coreutils 9.12, Rust Coreutils 0.12 was released overnight for advancing this alternative Rust-based implementation of these core utilities...…
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Ofcom discovers issuing Online Safety Act fines is easier than collecting them (opens external article)
Ofcom chiefs have acknowledged that most fines issued under the Online Safety Act (OSA) remain unpaid, highlighting limitations in the comms regulator's enforcement powers. The regulator's director of enforcement, Suzanne Cater, told the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee that although another payment arrived this week, "realistically the majority have not been paid." Ofcom has i…
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Dragonfly 2.0 Delivers More Performance For This Modern Replacement To Redis & Memcached (opens external article)
Released on Wednesday was a new version of the Dragonfly database that continues to promote itself as "the world's most efficient in-memory data store" and a modern replacement to the likes of Redis and Memcached while being fully compatible with their APIs...…
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libinput 1.32 Released With Circular Scrolling Support For Circular Touchpads (opens external article)
Leading Linux input expert Peter Hutterer announced the release today of libinput 1.32 for improving input handling on Wayland and X.Org based environments...…
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Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people (opens external article)
Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and WIRED, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people. The hackers say they are also publishing details on how they managed to obtain the software, in the hopes that other people may copy the…
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Government Digital Service move 'grinds gears' in UK's e-government (opens external article)
The UK government’s decision to move the Government Digital Service (GDS) — responsible for creating digital services across the public sector — to its third departmental home in three years risks hemorrhaging talent and moving it further away from the center of power, MPs heard this week. The GDS “fell into a bit of a fray” during the reorganization ordered by incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnha…
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Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter (opens external article)
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Judge orders Microsoft to spill internal docs and scour execs' comms in secondhand licensing case (opens external article)
The legal spat between secondhand software reseller ValueLicensing and Microsoft took another turn this week: a consent order was published with demands for documents from past and present Microsoft head honchos, and a planned case management conference was canceled. Several requests in the order revolved around a historic, potentially explosive internal document written by Microsoft entitled the…
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OpenAI Admits Six More Instances of AI Models Acting Deceptively (opens external article)
OpenAI announced Wednesday that "We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer." But along with the announcement, OpenAI announced it "found additional incidents of AI models acting deceptively and taking unsanctioned actions during training," reports CNN. And they add that OpenAI i…
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Fujitsu ready to sell its custom ‘Monaka’ Arm chip, maybe to rival server-makers (opens external article)
Fujitsu will start selling its Monaka processors, and servers packing them, in November. The Japanese giant started talking about Monaka way back in 2023, when it teased the processor as being derived from the silicon it designed for the Fugaku supercomputer, but adapted for datacenter use. Fugaku was the world’s most powerful supercomputer from 2020 to 2022, and remains in ninth place on the Top…
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Swift 6.4 unifies building across Linux, macOS, Windows (opens external article)
Although Swift serves as Apple's primary language for macOS and iOS application development, the open-source community continues to expand its reach—driving its adoption as a multi-platform language or even a cross-platform one in fields beyond user interface design. Tuesday’s Swift 6.4 release continued that work. Along with the usual assortment of type shortcuts and async adjustments came word…
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OpenAI admits its agents went off the rails another six times (opens external article)
OpenAI has revealed another six occasions on which its AI software behaved unexpectedly or did dangerous things. The startup added the incidents to its misalignment reports page on Wednesday evening, Pacific Time, and described them as follows: · Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries · Encouraging deception in compaction summaries · Signing up for disposable emails and searchin…
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Adafruit's New CircuitPython 'Turbo' Brings Native Code To Tiny Boards (opens external article)
Targeting students and beginners, Adafruit released "CircuitPython" in 2017 (as a derivative of the MicroPython microcontroller-optimized programming language). Now Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) brings this update: Adafruit has published CircuitPython Turbo, a workflow that compiles selected Python functions into native machine code on a compu…
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Mir/Wayland-Powered Miracle-WM 0.11 Released With New Overview Mode, Window Urgency (opens external article)
Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek rolled out Miracle-WM 0.11 today as an end-of-summer update to this Wayland compositor built atop the Mir library...…
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If a Mac mini is agentic overkill, try this glowing pyramid that runs personal bots (opens external article)
Autonomous.ai, an eleven-year-old manufacturer of techno-toys, high-end workstations, and office furniture, has released a small machine called Intern 2 for running AI agents like Hermes or OpenClaw. The company's first Intern device shipped in March, around the time OpenClaw became popular. "People use them for various tasks in a creative way," said Dee Tran, head of AI hardware. "The most commo…
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Victory! Appeals Court Rejects Expansive New Copyright Claim (opens external article)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed internet users and programmers a big win today, by rejecting an attempt to stretch a narrow provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) into a new source of copyright liability. The case involves Section 1202 of the DMCA, which prohibits intentionally removing copyright management information (CMI) like an author’s name or a co…
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AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so (opens external article)
The list of dodgy things AI agents can and will do on their own - like stealing people’s credentials, escaping onto the open internet, communicating via sneaky message boards, and hacking organizations - keeps growing. Agents can also replace their own underlying models without being instructed to do so, according to AI security testing lab Irregular. To be clear: these activities only occurred i…
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As Part of California's Coast Begins to Crumble, Is the Clock Ticking on Moving Radioactive Waste? (opens external article)
"As parts of the Southern California coastline crumbled into the sea, slammed by intense waves and flooding in recent days, oceanographer Kim McCoy had one thing on his mind," reports the Los Angeles Times. He was thinking about "the nuclear waste set in concrete on the beach near San Clemente at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant." "Rising sea levels, storm waves, El Niño which increase…
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Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI (opens external article)
Apple is working on an AI server that would use Apple’s high-performance M-series Ultra chips found in Mac desktops. The potential product’s expected release in 2029 would mark the first Apple server to hit the market in nearly two decades—and could capitalize on the surging popularity of Apple hardware among AI developers. The enterprise server would come in two configurations that include eithe…
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Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in them (opens external article)
On Tuesday, two survivors of child sex abuse accused the Justice Department of failing to notify dozens of victims found in Jeffrey Epstein’s massive collection of child sex images. In a proposed class action, survivors explained that Epstein apparently started collecting child sex images in the 1990s, many of which the DOJ recovered after his arrest. In 2025, the FBI started reviewing “tens of t…
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Nvidia goes green to keep grid capacity from zapping its revenues (opens external article)
Nvidia’s ability to sell GPUs is ultimately limited by how much juice the power grid can provide. With ever-growing depreciation cycles, it’ll be years before datacenters decommission their aging Hopper or Blackwell systems. More GPUs mean pulling more power from the grid. Nvidia can’t exactly force grid operators to add capacity any faster, but it can make it easier for its customers to build sm…
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Mesa 26.2.3 Released With AMD GFX1171 Support, Other Fixes (opens external article)
Mesa 26.2.3 is out today as the newest stable point release in this quarter's Mesa 26.2 series...…
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Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by "critical blow" from a cyberattack (opens external article)
The International Meteor Organization, the nonprofit that coordinates and publishes amateur and professional observations of meteor phenomena, said its infrastructure has suffered a “critical blow” from a cyberattack. “We recently suffered a cyberattack that dealt a critical blow to aging infrastructure, taking much of our site offline," a static page on its website on Wednesday said. “We expect…
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Lionsgate releases a new trailer for Sunrise on the Reaping (opens external article)
Lionsgate has released an action-packed trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping—a sequel to 2023’s Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and a prequel leading into the events of the first film, The Hunger Games (2012). In addition, Laika Studios released a trailer for its highly anticipated stop-motion animated feature, Wildwood. (Some spoilers for The Hunger Games below.) The main protagon…
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CISA decides weekly vulnerability bulletin isn't necessary anymore (opens external article)
If you rely on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s weekly vulnerability bulletin to keep you up to date on the latest threats, we have bad news. It’s being discontinued at the end of September. CISA announced on Wednesday that its weekly vulnerability bulletin would stop going out on Monday, September 28, saying the move was part of its shift from managing vulnerabilities based…
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Not just Proton: Getting to know Valve's new SteamOS compatibility layers (opens external article)
Since the release of the Steam Deck, Valve fans have gotten very familiar with the idea of the Proton compatibility layer that allows games written for Windows to run capably on the Linux-based SteamOS (though Valve's efforts in this realm date back further than that). To get more games running on the SteamOS-powered Steam Frame, though, Valve is relying on two additional compatibility layers tha…
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Why Does the Universe Expand? (opens external article)
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California may gut state net neutrality law to comply with Trump admin demand (opens external article)
California is on the verge of accepting $1.86 billion in federal broadband grant funds, despite the Trump administration telling states they cannot enforce net neutrality rules on any Internet service provider that gets a piece of the grant money. When the Trump administration overhauled the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program last year, it ruled that states must a…
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Researchers swap in human brain cells for a mouse's cortex (opens external article)
In recent years, there has been a lot of excitement about the potential for studying human diseases in what are called "organoids." These small patches of tissue, formed using stem cells, appear to produce many of the same cell types and at least some of the structures normally formed in actual organs, and thus can provide a better model for diseases that rely on the sometimes complex interaction…
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OpenAI's new sponsored agents are happy to chat about selling you things (opens external article)
There's a new kind of agent coming to ChatGPT ads, and this one wants your money. OpenAI has begun testing Sponsored Agents, advertiser-backed bots that try to sell you things as part of a custom conversation. OpenAI said in a Wednesday announcement that Sponsored Agents were now being tested with select US advertisers already using its platform to put sponsored content in front of ChatGPT users.…
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Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight (opens external article)
The consumer data broker Radaris.com has long had a reputation for ignoring requests to remove personal information from its vast empire of people-search services online. That reputation caught up with the company recently in a lawsuit alleging Radaris violated a New Jersey privacy law that provides for hefty fines against data brokers that publish personal information on state law enforcement off…
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Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks (opens external article)
Both Google and Uncle Sam warned that attackers have exploited a zero-day improper authorization bug in Pixel phones' cellular modems that can bypass permission checks and escalate privileges with no user interaction required. The hole has since been closed, provided that you update. Google disclosed the high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58704, on Tuesday - and, at the time, warned…
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Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Can Provide A Nice Boost For Low-End/Budget Hardware (opens external article)
Canonical recently began producing Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 daily ISOs to complement their experimental amd64v3 package archive that they have been trialing the past few release cycles. While we still don't know what any official plans are for amd64v3 with Ubuntu 26.10, the performance gains can be very worthwhile over the generic amd64 binaries even for low-end/budget hardware.…
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Anthropic Commits to Independent AI Evaluators, Wants Slower Development. Nvidia's CEO Wants It 'As Fast as You Can' (opens external article)
"Anthropic's CEO took the stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to reiterate his call for a slowdown of AI development," reports the Guardian, " while Nvidia's CEO argued against slowing its development. "Run as fast as you can." Amodei is calling for three courses of action: embedding third-party evaluators inside AI companies; coordinating safety standards among Democratic countries;…
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Victory: Court, Using a New Test, Rules Embedding Links is Legal (opens external article)
Courts have for two decades found that linking and embedding someone else’s web content, be it a photo, music, or an article, doesn’t violate copyright law–the entity that controls the server that hosts a copyrighted work, not the user or website that merely directs others to it, is directly liable if the content turns out to be infringing. News publisher Emmerich Newspapers sought to convince the…
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EFF Welcomes Alexander Macgillivray to its Board of Directors (opens external article)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce today that Alexander “amac” Macgillivray — a former White House official who also served in top legal capacities at Twitter and Google — has joined EFF’s Board of Directors. Macgillivray served in the Biden Administration as Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Office of Science…
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GNOME 51 Released With Improved Frame Scheduling, Many App Improvements (opens external article)
Right on schedule and in time for appearing in the likes of Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora Workstation 45, the GNOME 51 desktop is officially released...…
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👮 Flock Searches for the LOLs | EFFector 38.16 (opens external article)
Mass surveillance isn't a joke. But police are treating it like one when using automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're covering a new EFF report on how officers across the country are routinely logging completely nonsensical "reasons" for their Flock searches, including "LOL," "LMAO," and even (yuck) "Sexy." JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER For over 35 years, EF…
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Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows (opens external article)
Companies are getting more selective about replacing legacy kit such as mainframe systems, and rising AI investment is one of the factors causing them to hold onto these existing assets for longer. Managed services biz Ensono claims in its 2026 State of IT Modernization report that 78 percent of IT decision makers regard legacy systems as more important today than they did two years ago, and this…
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How the Meta Settlement Silences Youth Activism (opens external article)
Since its integration into our digital world, social media has played a pivotal role in youth organizing and social mobilization. Yet, people’s access to these platforms is increasingly coming under threat from courts and legislatures under the guise of protecting young people online—presenting a significant hindrance to youth organizing. In a major recent example, Meta settled in a lawsuit with…
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Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel (opens external article)
There’s kids running up a few hundred bucks on in-app purchases, and then there’s the case of nine-year old YouTuber Mighty Mike Plays, who just cost his dad $118,000 – and possibly his job – after running a bunch of Google ad campaigns for his channel on papa's company credit card. The young Roblox and Minecraft YouTuber posted a video Tuesday – or perhaps it's more apt to say his father Dave po…
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Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century (opens external article)
Fedora Linux 45 beta has arrived with Linux kernel 7.2, a release-candidate build of GNOME 51, and extensive changes beneath the desktop. The biggest surprise is that Linux's legacy in-kernel console – the text-mode interface normally hidden beneath the GUI – has been replaced with a software-controlled alternative. The replacement is kmscon, a userspace terminal emulator that has been in develop…
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Crash-Safe & Copy-On-Write GEFS As The "Good Enough File-System" For OpenBSD (opens external article)
Ori Bernstein announced an early preview of his Good Enough File-System "GEFS" for OpenBSD. GEFS is a crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write file-system that he wrote initially for 9front and now porting to OpenBSD...…
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Linux Randomly Picking Idle CPU Cores Shows Modest Win On High Core Count Systems (opens external article)
Arm engineer Christian Loehle sent out a patch series today proposing that the Linux scheduler code randomize its picking of equally shallow idle CPU cores. This randomization is showing to deliver a win at least for high CPU core counts for better distributing workloads...…
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When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader (opens external article)
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Firefox Touts Lower CPU Use for Large JPEGs, Faster PDF Viewer Startup (and AI Controls) (opens external article)
Firefox 156 is the second release since Mozilla moved to a twice-monthly release schedule, and the blog OMG Ubuntu notes it has faster start-up times for its built-in PDF viewer and also lower CPU usage when viewing large JPEG images: In Firefox 156, the browser now uses libjpeg-turbo's IDCT scaling to reduce images during decoding, rather than loading a full-size image into memory and then shrink…
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AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Enabling SEV-TIO TDISP With PCIe 6.0 (opens external article)
The newest Linux kernel patches out of AMD for enhancing the upstream support with the new AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" processors is for enabling SEV-TIO TDISP that is supported with PCI Express 6.0 and beyond...…
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SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22 (opens external article)
SpaceX is aiming for a September 22 launch of its monstrous Starship rocket on a 10-hour mission to deliver 26 Starlink V3 satellites into orbit. The flight, set to launch at 1215 UTC if all goes to plan and the authorities give the green light, will be the first time Starship has gone into orbit, and the mission is planned to fly at an altitude of approximately 275 km. The mission aims for six o…
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Wax motor (opens external article)
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Ubuntu 26.10 Moves cp, mv & rm Over To Rust Coreutils For 100% Transition (opens external article)
While Ubuntu Linux has been making use of the Rust Coreutils project over the past year since Ubuntu 25.10 as an alternative to GNU Coreutils and part of their effort to get more system components implemented in the memory-safety-focused Rust programming language, Ubuntu 26.10 finally completes the transition with the cp, mv, and rm commands now coming from Rust Coreutils...…
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AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good (opens external article)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it is unable to restore access to resources and data in some of its Availability Zones in the Middle East after datacenters were damaged during the US war with Iran. In an update to its AWS Health Dashboard, the cloud giant confirmed that anything hosted exclusively in its Bahrain Region (me-south-1) remains inaccessible. "The damage to our infrastructure spanned mu…
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Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack (opens external article)
Spain’s data protection agency (AEPD) has reported the country’s first-ever personal data breach caused by the actions of an autonomous AI agent. Francisco Pérez Bes, president and deputy of the AEPD, said in a Monday blog post that an individual deployed an AI agent that used a “known large language model (LLM)” to carry out the attack on an organization. The agent scanned “generic files” before…
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Apple detectives solved mystery of ancient tree and rewrote the history of fruit (opens external article)
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Logitech releases the MX Keypad to keep idle fingers busy (opens external article)
Logitech has released the MX Keypad, a developer-focused keypad derived from its MX Creative Console, and something that triggers a distinct sense of déjà vu. Do you remember Stack Overflow's "The Key" Joke? Three keys to copy and paste code from the developer's former best friend (until AI tools began to eat its lunch). Logitech took the keypad from its MX Creative Console product and made somet…
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Ministry of Justice apologizes after court staff accessed Southport victims' files (opens external article)
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has apologized after court staff accessed documents relating to victims and survivors of the 2024 Southport murders without authorization. For a limited number of people, the material accessed included sensitive personal data assessed as likely to pose a high risk to their rights and freedoms. There is no evidence that the information was shared with third parties. "…
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Linux's Yogafan Driver Prepares Support For Newer Lenovo Laptops (opens external article)
Introduced back in Linux 7.1 was the Yogafan HWMON driver for supporting fan speed monitoring across various Lenovo Yoga, Legion, Flex, Slim, and IdeaPad laptops. An initial set of Lenovo laptops was initially supported by this driver while succeeding kernel versions have continued building out the support...…
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AMD's GAIA Local AI Now Able To Transcribe & Summarize Meeting Recordings (opens external article)
AMD's GAIA software for building AI agents on your PC and leveraging generative AI locally with the power of AMD Ryzen and Radeon hardware continues becoming more featureful. Out today is AMD GAIA 0.24/0.24.1 and with it comes the ability to transcribe and summarize meeting recordings locally along with other functionality...…
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Salesforce staggers back to feet after global outage (opens external article)
UPDATED An hours-long Salesforce outage on Wednesday hit customers with severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access some services, according to the SaaS vendor's status page. The outage hit hundreds of instances throughout the world, including the USA, Japan, India, the UK, France, and Germany. The service disruption was first reported around 0930 BST (0830 UTC) on September 16. A…
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OpenVDB Introduces SIMD Framework With Some 2~4x Performance Improvements (opens external article)
OpenVDB is the sparse volume data structure and tooling library maintained by the Academy Software Foundation. OpenVDB in turn is used by various CGI software for dealing with sparse volumetric data such as Houdini, RenderMan, and Cinema 4D to the open-source Blender. It's even won an Academy Award for technical achievement while now in 2026 it's finally establishing a SIMD framework for better le…
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OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 released (opens external article)
In an annoucement that vastly understates the usefulness of their code, the OpenSMTPD project have announced their new OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 release. The announcement says, List: openbsd-announce Subject: OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 From: "Omar Polo" <op () openbsd ! org> Date: 2026-09-13 21:11:58 OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the SMTP protocol with some common extensions. It allows ordinary machines t…
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EuroBSDCon 2026 talks online (opens external article)
Last weekend was the EuroBSDCon conference, this time in Brussels, Belgium. Several talks were held, with quite a few on OpenBSD. You can watch all the talks on peer tube, check the dedicated OpenBSD playlist, or pick your favorite talk from the list: Marc Espie - Advances in OpenBSD's pkg_add Alexander Bluhm - From Report to Patch, the OpenBSD Errata Process Ori Bernstein - GEFS: The File Shredd…
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BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs (opens external article)
UPDATED BT Email customers say they have been bombarded with hundreds – and in one case more than 1,000 – unsolicited password reset messages, leaving the telco investigating what is causing the deluge. The reports began appearing on BT's community forums over the weekend, with customers describing sudden bursts of PIN messages arriving within minutes despite them making no attempt to reset their…
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America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Fails Spectacularly, Despite Hundreds of Millions in Industry Lobbying (opens external article)
"The crypto industry's top legislative priority failed on Tuesday in spectacular fashion," reports Barron's. A procedural motion to advance the bill failed by a vote of 49 to 50, with a handful of Republicans joining all Democrats to shoot it down. The motion needed 60 yes votes to pass, and with the midterm elections looming, the Senate isn't expected to pick the bill back up this year. Among oth…
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UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below (opens external article)
The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) is funding projects aimed at delivering connectivity using high-flying aircraft, including technology to beam power from the ground to keep them in the air. Britain's science and technology body, inspired by America's DARPA but on a more modest budget, says it is backing 18 projects to develop aircraft capable of operating reliably and cost-e…
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Bring on the AI swarms. They’re the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free (opens external article)
Unpredictable token bills haunted the first half of 2026 as AI experimenters pushed deeper into the tech and often found useful results could only be achieved after surprising and unwelcome expenditure. We've gone from tokenmaxxers to tokenmisers, counting every character we send to AI services. That changed the way we used AI, focusing users on the ticking meter and unable to cast their eyes up…
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Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze (opens external article)
When Microsoft delivered over 970 patches last week, many saw a nightmare for beleaguered security staff. Gartner research vice president Craig Lawson thinks infosec workers might soon see sunlit uplands as their workloads ease. Lawson outlined that scenario at Gartner’s IT Symposium in Australia today and explained it by theorising that the increased volume of vulnerability discoveries made poss…
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Java 27 grows up, makes better choices (opens external article)
If one sign of maturity is making better choices, then Java has grown up a fair bit in its version 27 release Tuesday. “JDK 27 is the release where Java stops asking you to opt in to good defaults and simply turns them on,” wrote backend engineer Arvind Kumar, on his education site Codefarm. Better default settings may not be groundbreaking, but they do make life easier for developers because the…
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Ubuntu's 'Rust-ification' Hits New Milestone: Coreutils Migration is Complete (opens external article)
"Ubuntu has managed to do away with GNU Core Utilities in its default stack," reports the blog It's FOSS. The last three utilities — cp, mv and rm — have been moved to versions from the uutils project (which reimplements utilities in Rust). Everything else, from ls and cat to chmod and du, made that jump in earlier releases... Canonical started "oxidizing" Ubuntu last year, and Ubuntu 25.10 became…
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TypeSafe AI debuts model for machines that plays Doom (opens external article)
TypeSafe AI, a startup bestowed with $40 million in funding, on Tuesday declared itself a maker of frontier models with the release of Jev, a new type of AI model intended for interaction with machines rather than people. Instead of returning natural language in response to a text-based prompt, TypeSafe AI designed Jev to return typed probabilistic decisions for use by other software or AI models…
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Khipu (Quipu) Field Guide (opens external article)
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Linux 7.4 Slated To Land The AVX-512 Optimized xor_gen For A Big Performance Win (opens external article)
Over the past few months there have been patches floating around for an AVX-512 optimized xor_gen() for the Linux kernel for that functuon used by the Linux software RAID code. It's been shhowing very nice performance gains with this function being used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5 and RAID6. The upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle is slated to merge this nice enhancement for…
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While Hollywood Fears an AI Future, China's Film Industry is Embracing It (opens external article)
The Los Angeles Times reports: Chen Yilong has racked up plenty of film and TV credits in his two decades as an actor, but with work getting scarcer he signed a contract in August to license the image of his face to a Chinese production studio. Chen's role will be to sit in front of a video camera and make facial expressions at the prompt of a director. A neutral stare. An angry glare. A look of s…
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The vulnpocalypse rains iBugs down on Apple with record-setting number of patches (opens external article)
Apple has addressed more than 260 CVEs across all of its operating systems, browsers, and other software products, marking the largest single patch cycle in Cupertino's history. While this CVE count is hardly notable compared to some vendors - hello, Microsoft’s record-breaking 974 bugs disclosed earlier this month - it does set a company record for Apple. It also reflects the new reality of AI-d…
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AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink (opens external article)
As Nvidia expands its influence through its NVLink Fusion tech, rival networking vendors are scrambling to bring alternative interconnects and switches to market. At the AI Infra Summit this week, Delos Data and Cornelis Networks officially entered the scale up networking race. Scale-up fabrics, like NVLink, are what have allowed Nvidia to make eight, 72, and now 576 GPUs behave as one enormous A…
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Scientists Discover Mysterious New X-Ray Objects 'Unlike Any They Have Seen Before' (opens external article)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Space.com: NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a brand new type of an otherwise familiar object -- compact binary systems that steal gas from other stars, but which do so while emitting very low-energy X-rays but copious amounts of ultraviolet. Chandra spotted 84 suspicious object emitting very low-energy X-rays in six galaxies -- four evolved ellipt…
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AMD P-State Driver For Linux 7.4 Will Tune For Zen 6 Client CPUs (opens external article)
Linux 7.4 looks like it will be a very exciting kernel update for AMD customers. On the AMD Radeon graphics side HDMI 2.1 is being enabled by default with the AMDGPU driver with the HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM features in tow. On the AMD Ryzen client CPU side, there will be Zen 6 tuning with the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...…
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California: Tell the Governor to Stand Up for Net Neutrality, Affordability, and Public Safety (opens external article)
The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with the state of California that would make the state abandon its gold standard net neutrality law, broadband affordability laws, and public safety protections. Doing so would be a huge step back for California, and would actually end up being more expensive for Californians in the long run. Tell the governor to reject this provi…
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How do we prevent mathemathics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy? (opens external article)
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Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA (opens external article)
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SDL3 Ported To HarmonyOS / OpenHarmony (opens external article)
The SDL3 library commonly used for games and applications for cross-platform hardware and software abstractions now has upstream support for Huawei's HarmonyOS and OpenHarmony...…
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Speeding up gearhash on ARM64 (opens external article)
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Ubuntu 26.10 Set To Deliver Better Performance For Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake (opens external article)
While Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is working fine out-of-the-box on new Intel Core 3 "Wildcat Lake" laptops like the CHUWI UniBook, next month's release of Ubuntu 26.10 will help deliver better performance out of these low-cost laptop options.…
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Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg' (opens external article)
404 Media reports: Last summer, a cop with the Lake County, Indiana Sheriff's Department used Flock's surveillance search engine to look for a license plate across more than 19,000 cameras in 1,558 cities and towns. The cop's stated reason for the search, according to a record of Flock's system, was "LMAO." The cop is one of dozens who put gibberish, jokes, or other nonsense into Flock's "reason"…
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Fedora 45 Beta Released With KMSCON Console, GNOME 51 & Other Updates (opens external article)
The beta release of Fedora 45 is out today and right on schedule for this wonderful Linux distribution...…
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Java 27 Reaches GA With The G1 Garbage Collector By Default Everywhere (opens external article)
Oracle christened Java 27 today with the OpenJDK 27 release reaching general availability (GA) status...…
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Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain (opens external article)
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The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke (opens external article)
Here's a riddle: Why did a Goshen Police Department officer search 6,474 automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks, representing data from 82,413 cameras, on May 7, 2025? If your answer is "I don't know," it turns out you're 100% correct. The officer left the letters "idk" in the search field where cops are supposed to document the reason for the search. When law enforcement and tech salespe…
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7.2.6: stable (opens external article)
Version:7.2.6 (stable) Released:2026-09-14 Source:linux-7.2.6.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-7.2.6.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-7.2.6…
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6.18.52: longterm (opens external article)
Version:6.18.52 (longterm) Released:2026-09-14 Source:linux-6.18.52.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.18.52.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.18.52…
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6.12.110: longterm (opens external article)
Version:6.12.110 (longterm) Released:2026-09-14 Source:linux-6.12.110.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.110.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.110…
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6.6.157: longterm (opens external article)
Version:6.6.157 (longterm) Released:2026-09-14 Source:linux-6.6.157.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.157.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.157…
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6.1.188: longterm (opens external article)
Version:6.1.188 (longterm) Released:2026-09-14 Source:linux-6.1.188.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.188.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.188…
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5.15.221: longterm (opens external article)
Version:5.15.221 (longterm) Released:2026-09-14 Source:linux-5.15.221.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.15.221.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.221…
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5.10.270: longterm (opens external article)
Version:5.10.270 (longterm) Released:2026-09-14 Source:linux-5.10.270.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.10.270.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.10.270…
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Fixing an NZXT Signal 4K30 part 2: the green/pink video bug (opens external article)
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7.3-rc3: mainline (opens external article)
Version:7.3-rc3 (mainline) Released:2026-09-13 Source:linux-7.3-rc3.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)…
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Updated Debian 13: 13.7 released (opens external article)
The Debian project is pleased to announce the seventh update of its stable distribution Debian 13 (codename trixie). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories have already been published separately and are referenced where available.…
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Governor Newsom Signs Student-Backed Digital Literacy Bills Alongside Misguided Bans (opens external article)
Governor Newsom signed a package of 12 bills yesterday aimed at “protecting children” online. One of them was AB 1709, which EFF has opposed this legislative session and serves as a functional ban on young people under 16 using social media. However, EFF supported two of the bills signed into law, AB 2071 and AB 2298, which require that children learn critical digital literacy and cybersecurity to…
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Cold TAKE: Amazon's New Encryption Method Still Doesn't Deliver Real Privacy (opens external article)
Amazon recently debuted a new feature for its Ring cameras that the company is calling Throw Away the Key Encryption (TAKE). The idea is to cut back on the amount of video content available to the company, and thus potentially available to law enforcement. But while it might technically add a speed bump to accessing full video content, it doesn’t deliver nearly the level of privacy we should be de…
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We All Deserve a Better Internet, Not A Smaller One (opens external article)
Bans Like California’s Don’t Fix What’s Wrong With Social Media Companies SAN FRANCISCO - Technology and the laws that regulate it should support and empower young people. California’s AB 1709 - signed into law today by Gov. Gavin Newsom - falls far short of this goal, say the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and its allies. Using technology is how we learn and build community in today’s wo…
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Cops Play Hide and Seek About Using Spy Tech to Avoid Scrutiny and Bad PR (opens external article)
Law enforcement agencies across the country are increasingly relying on spying technologies—automated license plate readers (ALPR), cell-site simulators, and facial recognition, to name a few--causing an outcry in many communities where people are rightly concerned about the threat to civil rights and civil liberties these tools present.Some authorities are responding to these concerns by trying t…
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Digital Sovereignty: What It Is, What It Could Be (opens external article)
The term “digital sovereignty” has become ubiquitous. European officials invoke it in debates about cloud infrastructure, AI, semiconductors, and platform regulation. Governments throughout the global majority use it to argue for greater control over data and communications infrastructure and boost their economies. Companies market “sovereign cloud” products designed to reassure their customers th…
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2026 EFF Award Winners: Access Now, 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, DeFlock, and New Media Rights (opens external article)
EFF is pleased to announce that Access Now, 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, DeFlock, and New Media Rights have received 2026 EFF Awards for their vital work in ensuring that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people. The EFF Awards recognize specific and substantial technical, social, economic, or cultural contributions in diverse fields inc…
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Microsoft Plugs Nearly 1,000 Security Holes (opens external article)
Microsoft Corp. today issued updates to plug at least 974 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, by far its biggest single patch batch ever. Microsoft says artificial intelligence is helping to speed the discovery of vulnerabilities, but security experts warn that many organizations already are struggling to prioritize the more human-intensive endeavor of testing and d…
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New Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior Authorization Experiment (opens external article)
EFF sued the government back in March for information about the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of records obtained from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through this litigation, including contracts…
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FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE Available (opens external article)
Release Information page.…
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Game of Trees 0.128 released (opens external article)
Version 0.128 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated). Complete release notes are as follows: Read more……
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Court Rules Against Citizen Journalists in DMCA Takedown Case—EFF Will Appeal (opens external article)
A federal court in Massachusetts has ruled that copyright holders can issue online takedown notices based on a subjective belief of copyright infringement, even when that belief is unreasonable and self-serving. The case was brought by our client, Channel 781 News, after takedown notices temporarily shut down the citizen journalism group's YouTube channel. We think the court set the bar far too lo…
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Texas and Florida Step Back from ALPRs (opens external article)
Within the last few days, two important state actions have dealt a big blow to automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks. This is just the latest proof of the growing tide of public opposition to mass surveillance. After years of successful grassroots battles to pull these cameras from local streets, bipartisan momentum is sweeping the country. On August 28, Texas Governor Greg Abbott banned…
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7.1.13: stable (opens external article)
Version:7.1.13 (EOL) (stable) Released:2026-09-02 Source:linux-7.1.13.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-7.1.13.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-7.1.13…
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Judge Rules DOD Unlawfully Retaliated Against Anthropic (opens external article)
A federal judge has sided with Anthropic on its claims that the Department of Defense illegally retaliated against Anthropic’s protected speech by labeling the AI company a “supply chain risk.” The judge found that designation, intended to penalize Anthropic for telling the U.S. military it would not allow their technology to be used for mass surveillance of U.S. persons, “constituted unlawful ret…
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses (opens external article)
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity a…
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Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users (opens external article)
Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. That’s what we said the day the settlement was announced. In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail and explain why that is so, including how: The Settlement embeds age assurance technology and age-gates into Meta’s social media products and requires all users—m…
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EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California’s AB 1709 (opens external article)
The California legislature passed Assembly Bill 1709 (A.B. 1709) today, which functions as a sweeping ban on social media use for young people under the age of 16. This well-intentioned, but deeply flawed piece of legislation, cuts young people off from essential information and experiences, particularly harming vulnerable youth and marginalized groups who often find safety in supportive online co…
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EFF to Courts: Don’t Rewrite Copyright Over AI Hype (opens external article)
The history of technology is rife with copyright panics. In the 1980s, major rightsholders ran to Congress and the courts, claiming that videotape recorders (VTR) were “to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.” Then, the Supreme Court declined to embrace the hype, noting that the VTR was capable of all kinds of non-infringing uses,…
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Doxxing Safety Part II: Incident Response (opens external article)
Doxxing, also known as the deliberate sharing of personal information to harass or endanger someone, is a tricky thing to protect against. It often happens by some ill-intentioned person accessing publicly available information, then sharing that information more widely in the hopes it will intimidate their target or worse. This guide is a followup from a previous post that describes a methodolog…
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Doxxing Safety Pt I: Prevention and Footprint Management (opens external article)
Doxxing is the deliberate disclosure of personal information in order to bully, harass, intimidate, or instigate a chain of harms against someone. It's a tricky thing to protect against when the jerk doing it is often able to use legal and accessible means to do so. The odds are stacked against everyday internet folk when there's little to no comprehensive data privacy legislation keeping us safe.…
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Privacy on the Map (Part 2): Progress, Pitfalls, and the Fight for Enforceable Location Data Protections (opens external article)
Regulating commercial location tracking has reached a turning point. Last year, we published our rubric for what comprehensive and protective location privacy laws should look like, outlining the baseline standards states should meet to shield individuals from pervasive location surveillance. Since then, state lawmakers across the country have begun responding to calls like these, with Connecticut…
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LGBT Q&A: What’s One Thing I Can Do Today to Improve My Safety and Security Online as an LGBTQ+ Person? (opens external article)
This post is adapted from a video recorded by EFF and the Trevor Project. Head over to our TikTok or Instagram to watch! EFF answers all the queer digital rights questions you submit to us through our LGBT Q&A. You asked us: What’s one thing I can do today to improve my safety and security online as an LGBTQ+ person? And for this question, we’ve brought in our friends from the Trevor Project to…
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Debian 11 Long Term Support reaches end-of-life (opens external article)
The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 11 bullseye support has reached its end-of-life today, 31 August 2026, five years after its initial release on 14 August 2021.…
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FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Available (opens external article)
The first Release Candidate build for the FreeBSD 14.5 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, armv7, aarch64, powerpc, powerpcspe, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites.…
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EFF and Allies on Brazil's Elections: Privacy Protections are Crucial to Electoral Integrity (opens external article)
EFF, Access Now, and Data Privacy Brasil are putting forward recommendations to strengthen robust privacy and data protection safeguards in the context of Brazil's elections. The recommendations stress the close relationship between violations of personal data protection and challenges to the integrity of electoral processes. They underscore how privacy and data protection guarantees are a crucial…
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Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia (opens external article)
Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the longest running spree of software supply chain attacks ever. In a statement released today, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said two men from Western Australia, aged 21 and 23, were arrested in connection with a “sophisticated cybercrime s…
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A List of ICE Subpoenas to Tech Companies (opens external article)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has conducted unlawful investigations into dozens of individuals who have documented ICE activities in their communities, social media users who criticized the government, and international students who attended a protest. A favored tool in these speech chilling investigations are administrative subpoenas sent to technology companies, requesting basic subs…
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EFF's Policy Position on ALPR Surveillance: Eliminate It and Reduce Its Harms (opens external article)
Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) build a searchable map of everywhere a driver goes, fed into databases that police, ICE, and private vendors can query after the fact. Networked across a city, ALPRs are purpose-built to track everyone regardless of suspicion. ALPRs are not a surveillance tool that can be made safe with the right policy or feature update—they are irredeemably harmful. EFF's…
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EFF Statement on Meta Settlement (opens external article)
Under this settlement, young users will now have less access to Meta products, and a lesser ability to exercise their rights to speak, access information and art and culture, associate and form communities, and play. The settlement also embeds age assurance into every product, mandating the collection of even more personal information from users of all ages; this enshrines Meta's harmful surveilla…
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French Top Court Gets It Right, Strikes Down Social Media Ban For Youths (opens external article)
Earlier this month, France’s top court struck down the country’s legislation that banned social media use for people under 15 years old, which had been scheduled to take effect in January 2027. This is a welcome win for free expression, as we face a wave of countries and U.S. states seeking to pass similar laws banning young people from social media. In particular, the Constitutional Council’s d…
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rpki-client 9.9 released (opens external article)
It's a big day for routing security aficionados. The OpenBGPD project (a sub-project of the OpenBSD project) have announced version 9.9 of rpki-client(8), with various improvements, enhancements and fixes. The announcement reads List: openbsd-announce Subject: rpki-client 9.9 released From: Sebastian Benoit <benno () openbsd ! org> Date: 2026-08-23 19:25:37 Message-ID: aotJMUL7356PdqRC () jacklin…
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FreeBSD 14.5-BETA3 Available (opens external article)
The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.5 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, armv7, aarch64, powerpc, powerpcspe, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites.…
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EFF and Civil Society Groups Call on Nottinghamshire Police to Halt Live Face Recognition (opens external article)
This week, EFF, along with Big Brother Watch, Defend Digital Me, Liberty, Open Rights Group, Race Equality First, Statewatch, and Stopwatch, wrote to Nottinghamshire Police Force in the UK raising concern about the proposed roll-out of live facial recognition technology (LFR), and called for its immediate halt. In particular, the letter highlights six concerns: LFR Is Not "Just Another Tool" Notti…
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Intermediary Liability in Brazil: The Intricate Path Ahead (opens external article)
Brazil's new internet intermediary liability regime is underway. The implementation of changes established by the Supreme Court includes notice and takedown mechanisms and duty of care obligations. Caution is crucial as these measures can create problematic incentives for enforcement overreach and over censorship of protected speech. The court in June issued a new decision clarifying elements of…
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Some Tech Companies Have Privately Pushed Back on ICE Subpoenas. They Should All Do More. (opens external article)
In a handful of known cases, large social media companies have privately pushed back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenas when the agency tried to unmask anonymous users who tracked immigration activities or criticized the government. As ICE engages in a pattern of illegal and chilling investigations, any resistance is welcome. But social media companies can do more. When co…
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📍 The Sneaky Code Tracking App Users | EFFector 38.15 (opens external article)
Your location isn't just a pin on a map—it can expose some of the most intimate details about your life. The value of this information to advertisers and others has turned the location data business into a multi-billion dollar industry. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're covering a new EFF report on how ad libraries encourage apps to leak user location data—potentially without app developers…
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Ninth Circuit Ruling Will Force Online Platforms That Host User Speech to Fight Lengthy and Costly Lawsuits Before They Are Dismissed Under Section 230 (opens external article)
A federal appeals court just made it harder for online services, big and small, to get lawsuits over user speech dismissed early. In California v. Meta, a Ninth Circuit three-judge panel held that the lower court’s denial of Section 230 immunity to Meta is not immediately appealable. The misguided ruling has the potential to have widespread impact and to threaten the free speech of all internet us…
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Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets (opens external article)
Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an online service is of a certain age) is everywhere. At the time of writing, about half the states in the US have some internet age verification law in place, and dangerous proposals, from the KIDS Act to the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), have been advancing at the federal lev…
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FreeBSD 14.5-BETA2 Available (opens external article)
The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.5 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, armv7, aarch64, powerpc, powerpcspe, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites.…
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Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out (opens external article)
It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and c…
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Too Little, Too Late: Flock Admits Their Technology Needs Reforms (opens external article)
Flock Safety, the embattled vendor of mass surveillance technology, has rolled out a handful of new reforms intended to appease the justified nationwide anger that has seen scores of towns cancel or suspend their contracts with the company for automated license plate readers (ALPRs). The reforms are a combination of long overdue changes along with some cosmetic fixes that fail to address the funda…
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Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes (opens external article)
Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today. Image: Shutterstock, Mallika Home Studio. August’s overstuffed bundle of patch joy from Microsoft did not eclipse its recording breaking re…
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Who (or What) Generates Images for EFF? (opens external article)
We’ve had a few questions from EFF supporters lately, asking whether the images we use on our blog posts, or on donation and shop items, have been created with AI image generators. We’d like to answer these questions and clarify our internal policy regarding image creation. EFF images are all made by human beings, not by automated image generators, with very rare exceptions. This is an internal d…
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OpenSSH 10.5 released (opens external article)
In another move that signals a new OpenBSD release is in the works, the OpenSSH project has released without fanfare its new version, OpenSSH 10.5. The release notes read, OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1 (2026-08-11) OpenSSH 10.5 was released on 2026-08-11. It is available from the mirrors listed at https://www.openssh.com/. OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client…
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Dismiss Church’s Trademark Lawsuit Against “Mormon Stories” Podcast, EFF Urges Court (opens external article)
Imagine if McDonald’s could use trademark law to control how you use the term “fast food.” Or if the Canadian government could stop you from using the word “Canada” in the title of a book about the country and its people. That wouldn’t just be absurd; it would be an unacceptable obstacle to criticism of and commentary about those institutions. Yet the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (t…
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Meta Must Stop Silencing Reproductive Health Information (opens external article)
Access to accurate information about reproductive and maternal health can be critical. But on Meta's platforms, simply talking about prescription medication, abortion care, or one's own medical experiences can be enough to trigger content removals and account restrictions. That's why EFF recently submitted a public comment to the Meta Oversight Board in its consideration of a case involving an Ins…
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FreeBSD 14.5-BETA1 Available (opens external article)
The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.5 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, armv7, aarch64, powerpc, powerpcspe, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites.…
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OpenBGPD 9.2 released (opens external article)
A sure sign that a new OpenBSD will soon be ready is that a new OpenBGPD release appears. On August 6th, 2026, the project released OpenBGPD version 9.2. The announcement reads, List: openbsd-announce Subject: OpenBGPD 9.2 released From: Claudio Jeker <claudio () openbsd ! org> Date: 2026-08-06 13:22:26 Message-ID: anSKksatjxeom0lQ () diehard ! n-r-g ! com We have released OpenBGPD 9.2, which wil…
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DebConf26 closes in Santa Fe and DebConf27 announced (opens external article)
On Saturday 25 July 2026, the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference came to a close.…
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Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions (opens external article)
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud provider Snowflake. Connor Riley Moucka, of Kitchener, Ontario, also admitted to stealing call and text history records of more than 100 million AT&T customers. A surveillan…
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Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8) (opens external article)
Returning readers of this site may have noticed that the pace of development in relayd(8) and httpd(8) has been picking up recently. Now Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@) has a new blog post out titled Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8) where he tells the story. The article starts with Start with WHY As I mentioned in my OpenBSD 7.8 highlights post, development of r…
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Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction (opens external article)
The Senate Commerce Committee will vote this week on several censorious and privacy invasive bills: KOSA, the SCREEN Act, Youth AI Privacy Act, and CHATBOT Act. While we appreciate that the Committee is taking the time to look at these bills separately, it’s still impossible to ignore the message Congress is sending to the world: Age-gate the internet and block young people from speaking and acces…
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Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA (opens external article)
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has endorsed a commonsense technical interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a law not usually given to such interpretation. Amazon had sued Perplexity AI to try to shut down its Comet browser, claiming the browser’s optional agentic AI “Assistant” that can browse websites like Amazon for comparison shopping purposes, violated the CFAA because…
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Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds (opens external article)
Developers Must Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Users’ PrivacySAN FRANCISCO – Some software development kits (SDKs) provided by advertising companies to help developers monetize their apps are automatically feeding users’ location data into systems that location data brokers use to track people, an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) report found. EFF began investigating the location-sharing…
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Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location Privacy (opens external article)
Across mobile platforms, advertising companies provide developers with software development kits (SDKs) that make it easy to monetize their apps. But those same SDKs can automatically feed users’ location data into ad systems that location data brokers use to track people. Many developers may not even be aware of this privacy violation, let alone the users who are directly affected. When developer…
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Technology's Power in the Hands of the People (opens external article)
In the scorching heat of every Las Vegas summer, EFF joins thousands of hackers, makers, policy analysts, and activists for the world's largest computer security gathering. If you're there during this summer security week, be sure to say hello to us at BSides Las Vegas, Black Hat Briefings, and DEF CON 34. While tech companies align with governments to target the people, our community is harnessin…
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Call for testing: OpenBSD vmm(4)/vmd(8) fd-ification (opens external article)
Thanks to the tireless work of among others Dave Voutila (dv@), development of the OpenBSD/amd64 virtualization system vmm(4)/vmd(8) continues to make progress. Now breaking changes, but with with potential benefits in both process isolation and compartmentalization of functionality, are on the way. It almost goes without saying that this code needs testing. In a message to the tech@ mailing list…
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The Senate Should Reject KOSA's Privacy Risks (opens external article)
Update: The Senate Commerce Committee voted to advance this bill on August 5, 2026. EFF continues to oppose the bill, which still needs approval from the full Senate. The Senate Commerce Committee is once again considering legislation that would dramatically expand age verification, and undermine privacy for everyone. Alongside the SCREEN Act, the CHATBOT Act, and the Youth AI Privacy Act, the Ki…
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EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act (opens external article)
EFF joined a group of 18 civil society organizations to send a letter encouraging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to veto Senate Bill 9934A, the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. The letter states: While framed as a measure to protect local journalism, this legislation harms free expression and establishes a dangerous precedent by effectively deanonymizing and criminalizing automated access…
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EFF Joins Call for FTC to Drop Its Disastrous AI Policy Proposal (opens external article)
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in July issued a proposed policy statement “concerning the suppression of accuracy in artificial intelligence systems.” We urge the FTC to withdraw this misguided proposal and instead focus on its core strengths and mission to protect consumers. The new proposed policy builds on, and directly references, the Trump administration’s “Preventing Woke AI in the Fed…
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The Youth AI Privacy Act’s Privacy Paradox (opens external article)
Update: The Senate Commerce Committee voted to advance this bill on August 5, 2026. EFF continues to oppose the bill, which still needs approval from the full Senate. The Senate Commerce Committee is poised to consider the Youth AI Privacy Act, a bill that would require AI companies to create kids-only privacy rules and implement so-called “safe design features,” which would—like three other bill…
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New committer: Faraz Vahedi (src)…
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Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick (opens external article)
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user’s Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking new analysis finds these devices also routinely spoof themselves as mobile phones clicking ads on AI-generated websites as part of a sprawl…
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LLVM toolchain coming to OpenBSD/sparc64 (opens external article)
Yes, you read that right. Modern development tools in the form of the LLVM compiler infrastructure is well on its way to supporting OpenBSD/sparc64 along with other more conventional architectures. The support is now ready for testing, via a patch set presented by Kirill A. Korinsky (kirill@) in a message to the tech@ mailing list, with the subject LLVM toolchain for sparc64. The message reads, L…
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New committer: Minsoo Choo (src)…
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April-June 2026 Status Report (opens external article)
The April to June Status Report is now available with 41 entries.…
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Ports Repository Frozen (opens external article)
The ports repository has been frozen to revert a very large commit. There is no concern that the tree has been compromised. More information about the freeze can be found on the 2026 Ports Freeze page.…
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LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps (opens external article)
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a…
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Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws (opens external article)
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence. Nearly 60 of the bugs qua…
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Security support for Bookworm handed over to the LTS team (opens external article)
On 12 July 2026, three years after the initial release, the regular support for Debian 12, alias bookworm, has come to an end. The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team is taking over security support from the Security and Release Teams.…
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Updated Debian 12: 12.15 released (opens external article)
The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifteenth and final update of its oldstable distribution Debian 12 (codename bookworm). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories have already been published separately and are referenced where available.…
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Updated Debian 13: 13.6 released (opens external article)
The Debian project is pleased to announce the sixth update of its stable distribution Debian 13 (codename trixie). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories have already been published separately and are referenced where available.…
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FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE Available (opens external article)
Release Information page.…