Linux Networking Continues Being Bombarded With AI Patches
While the Linux WiFi/wireless maintainer just announced taking a stand against AI/LLM generated slop patches with a new “three second review” rule, the broader Linux networking subsystem continues to be bombarded with AI-generated patches… ⌘ Read more

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The US Government’s Mario, Pokemon and Naruto Meme Posting Could Damage These Franchises, Japanese Officials Warn
Japanese officials have repeatedly asked the Trump administration to stop using characters from franchises such as Mario, Pokemon, and Naruto in unauthorized government memes and pro-war videos, warning that the posts could damage the intellectual proper … ⌘ Read more

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IceWM 4.1 Window Manager Brings Bug Fixes
As the first new release since IceWM 4.0 released back on New Year’s Day for this X11 window manager, IceWM 4.1 is now available… ⌘ Read more

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FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap, Claiming Authority Over Limit Set By Congress
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 today to eliminate the National Television Ownership Rule, claiming authority to repeal a limit that was set by Congress over 20 years ago. The rule prohibits any single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent … ⌘ Read more

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Times Magazine Now Serves Ads That Only AI Chatbots Can See
Longtime Slashdot reader mccalli writes: Times Magazine has started serving adverts with “brand messages” to AI crawlers, which are not part of its main page. The aim seems to be to influence chatbots to talk about the brand offerings in a positive light that can’t be traced back to the actual page. Notably, they’ve excluded Google chatbots from this, likely be … ⌘ Read more

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Linux Patched For Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability
Made public minutes ago is the Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability which is now patched in the newest Linux kernel Git code. The Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability stems from improper handling within Linux’s Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigation affecting AMD Zen 1 through Zen 4 processors… ⌘ Read more

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Apple NVMe Linux Driver Sees Fixes After Being Bitten By New Firmware
A set of patches providing fixes for the Apple Silicon NVMe driver for the Linux kernel were sent out today due to new issues cropping up when running newer Apple firmware. Firmware shipped by macOS 15+ is causing issues with the current Apple NVMe open-source Linux driver developed by the Asahi Linux crew… ⌘ Read more

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Meta AI Hacked External Systems During Cybersecurity Testing
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Meta is the latest major AI developer to admit that its models broke loose during cybersecurity testing and hacked external systems. The tech giant said in a statement to the media on Wednesday that the incident occurred during independent evaluations conducted by Israeli AI security startup Irregular. The test … ⌘ Read more

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Broadcaster Wins Broad US Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don’t Exist Yet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Mexican broadcaster TelevisaUnivision (TU) has obtained (PDF) one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions ever issued by a U.S. federal court. After initially targeting five pirate IPTV streaming operations, the case expanded to cover well over 50 … ⌘ Read more

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The Performance Benefits To Upgrading Mesa With Intel Arc B390 On Ubuntu Linux
If you are an early customer of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro or other Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake laptop and using Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, there can be real benefit from upgrading your Mesa stack for the newer Iris Gallium3D and ANV Vulkan drivers. In this article are some benchmarks of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro with Core Ultra X9 388H with Arc B390 Xe3 integrated graphics for looking at the performance impact of using Mesa Git on Ubuntu L … ⌘ Read more

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Linux Accidentally Left Legacy I/O & Memory Handlers Open In Kernel Lockdown Mode
For nearly the past decade has been the kernel lockdown mode for tightening up kernel access from user-space such as when UEFI Secure Boot is enabled. The kernel lockdown mode restricts PCI BAR access, no writing to /dev/mem, and other restrictions so user-space can’t can’t modify the running kernel or access sensitive kernel memory. An oversight has allowed legacy I/O and memory interfaces via sysfs to remain open in lockdown m … ⌘ Read more

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Linux Wireless Maintainer Takes Firm Stance Against AI/LLM Generated Slop Patches
In addition to the Linux kernel staging area now rejecting AI/LLM-generated patches except for real security fixes, the Linux wireless networking code is also seeing some shifts around how it will deal with AI/LLM generated patches… ⌘ Read more

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FDA Approves First mRNA Flu Shot
The FDA has approved the first mRNA flu vaccine in the United States after a clinical trial found it was about 27% more effective than a standard flu shot. Manufactured by Moderna and marketed as mFlusiva, the vaccine is expected to be available this fall for adults ages 50 to 64 and those 65 and older, though approval for the older group is conditional on Moderna conducting an additional clinical trial, N … ⌘ Read more

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Page Alloc Hogger Lets You Better Stress Memory Behavior On Linux For Testing/Debugging
A new kernel feature proposed by a Google engineer is Page Alloc Hogger to allow for fine control over where memory pages are allocated in order to more easily reproduce low-memory conditions, make it simpler to exert memory pressure, and enable other stressful memory conditions for testing/debugging how Linux copes… ⌘ Read more

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AMD GFX1171 Support Merged For Mesa 26.3
Earlier this year we began seeing patches for AMD GFX1170 graphics IP labeled as “RDNA 4m” and that was then completed with also adding GFX1171 and GFX1172 as additional targets for the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end and AMDGPU kernel driver. Merged today for Mesa 26.3 is now adding the GFX1171 target to Mesa 26.3 for the RADV and RadeonSI drivers… ⌘ Read more

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Qualcomm Proposes Synx For The Linux Kernel With “Significant” Power + Performance Benefits
Qualcomm engineers have initiated a discussion over upstreaming Synx to the Linux kernel, which is a global synchronization framework across different parts of SoCs. Qualcomm is already using Synx internally and is reported to provide “significant” power and performance benefits… ⌘ Read more

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SteelSeries’ Latest Arctis Nova 5X & Nova 7 Headsets To Be Supported By Linux 7.3
If you happen to have a gaming headset from the latest SteelSeries Nova 5X or Nova 7 series, the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel will begin properly supporting those headsets… ⌘ Read more

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BMW Blasts Its Cars’ Internal Screens With Aggressive Ads
Longtime Slashdot readers schwit1 and fjo3 shared a report about BMW displaying a Spider-Man promotion on connected vehicle screens in more than 70 markets. According to reports, drivers had to play or dismiss the ad before they could use the infotainment system. Futurism reports: BMW, showing that it was about as in-touch as its drivers are familiar with turn … ⌘ Read more

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New Images of the Sun Show Its Surface In the Finest Detail Yet
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Scientists have captured images of the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet, revealing a strange and dynamic facade. It’s dangerous to look directly at the sun without proper eye protection. But researchers were able to peek at its scorching surface with the help of the National Sc … ⌘ Read more

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Linux 7.3 To Fix Longstanding Gap In The Native Driver For Original Steam Controller
For those with one of the original Valve Steam Controllers from a decade ago and looking to make use of it with the native HID Linux driver outside of the Steam client or SDL, an important addition is coming with the Linux 7.3 kernel release later in the year… ⌘ Read more

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Waymo CEO Explains Why Camera-Only Self-Driving Falls Short
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Electrek: Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov laid out the clearest technical case yet for why cameras alone can’t take a self-driving system to full autonomy, arguing that “weak sensing” hits a safety ceiling long before it reaches superhuman performance. […] Dolgov made the comments in a talk at Y Combinato … ⌘ Read more

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Rust Coreutils 0.10 Released With More Security Hardening, Increased GNU Compatibility
Rust Coreutils 0.10 is out today from the uutils project for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.10 development focused on additional security hardening plus also increasing the GNU test suite compatibility and robustness… ⌘ Read more

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Mesa 26.2 Released With NVK Mesh Shader Support, Many Other Vulkan Improvements
Mesa 26.2 stable is now available as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers typically used on Linux systems… ⌘ Read more

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Anthropic’s AI Used Fake Identities, Malware In Rogue Attack On GitHub Project
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security incidents – the most serious case arising when Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code into an open source software application and created fake identitie … ⌘ Read more

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USB4STREAM Adding Busy Poll Option For Lower Latency At The Cost Of Increased CPU Cycles
One of the nifty new features of Linux 7.2 is USB4STREAM as an Intel-developed solution for quickly sending data between USB4 connected systems. Now for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle, a busy poll mode is being added to provide lower-latency data transfers at the expense of increased CPU activity… ⌘ Read more

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Meta Debuts First AI Coding Agent To Take On Anthropic and OpenAI
Meta has launched Muse Code, its first AI coding agent that’s positioned as a lower-cost rival to Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex. It offers pay-as-you-go pricing and an optional zero-data-retention feature for enterprise users. CNBC reports: Muse Code is the latest major release from AI chief Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta Superinte … ⌘ Read more

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Apple’s ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users’ Real IP Addresses
Security researchers found that Apple’s iCloud Private Relay can expose users’ real IP addresses because some passkey-related requests bypass Safari and its proxy protections at the operating-system level. “In short: any website that supports, or pretends to support, passkeys can see the user’s real IP address despite having iCloud Private Relay on,” security … ⌘ Read more

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Lawmaker Who Wants Data Center Pause Wins Kansas Democratic Primary
Kansas Democrats nominated State Senator Cindy Holscher for governor after she defeated party-backed rival Ethan Corson. “The race became a test of what sort of candidate Democratic voters prefer in what is expected to be a challenging general election race: a more moderate candidate like Mr. Corson with endorsements from party leaders … ⌘ Read more

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Google Overhauls AI Leadership As DeepMind CEO Steps Aside
Google is reshuffling its AI leadership as Demis Hassabis steps away from day-to-day management of DeepMind to become chairman and Alphabet’s chief scientist, while CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu takes operational control. Meanwhile, longtime chief scientist Jeff Dean and several prominent researchers are leaving to launch their own company. Axios reports: Hassabis w … ⌘ Read more

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Cloudflare Announces Open-Source Cloudflare OS As AI ‘Operating System’
Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, an Apache 2.0-licensed platform that lets organizations build AI agents, apps, and workflows using curated company data and tools within isolated, governed environments. Despite the name, it is not a traditional operating system but a framework for securely managing organizational AI workloads … ⌘ Read more

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Denial WM: New Wayland Compositor With Flutter Directly Embedded
The newest Wayland compositor to talk about and discuss is Denial, a Wayland compositor focused on optimal Arch Linux integration and that embeds the Flutter engine directly into the codebase. Denial makes use of the Rust programming language and leverages Smithay to help in the compositor responsibilities… ⌘ Read more

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The Days of Walking Into a T-Mobile Store May Be Numbered
A leaked roadmap suggests T-Mobile plans to make its T-Life app the primary way customers manage their accounts by the end of 2026, “gradually moving one feature at a time into the app” and away from physical stores, reports Android Authority. That includes upgrades, new-line activations, and eventually new-account sign-ups. From the report: According to an … ⌘ Read more

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Senators Demand Crackdown On Wildfire ‘Prediction Markets’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Several US senators have written a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), inquiring about the agency’s “plans to crack down on prediction markets” that offer “contracts for individuals to bet on wildfires.” “Offering bets on destructive wildfires threatens to minimize communities’ suffer … ⌘ Read more

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