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Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On Reddit, Hacker News and other places where people in software development talk to each other, more and more people are becoming disillusioned with the promise of code generated by large language models. Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often 
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Windows Update Is Getting Automatic Rollbacks For Faulty Drivers
Microsoft is adding a Windows Update feature called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery that can automatically roll back faulty drivers to a previously known-good version without waiting for hardware makers or users to fix the problem manually. PCWorld reports: The way faulty drivers work today is that the hardware partner is responsible for pushing 
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Berichte ĂŒber Herausforderer fĂŒr Starmer
Die britischen Regionalwahlen mit einer herben Wahlniederlage fĂŒr die Labour-Partei haben eine historische Regierungskrise ausgelöst. Bisher wehrte Premier Keir Starmer alle RĂŒcktrittsaufrufe ab. Ungeachtet der Regierungskrise eröffnete König Charles III. am Mittwoch das Sitzungsjahr im britischen Parlament und verlas die Gesetzesvorhaben. Unklar ist allerdings, wer diese Vorhaben in den kommenden Monaten umsetzen wird. ⌘ Read more

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DHS Plans Experiment Running ‘Reconnaissance’ Drones Along the US-Canada Border
Autonomous drones and ground vehicles will stream “battlefield intelligence” over 5G along the US-Canada border in a bilateral DHS experiment this fall. ⌘ Read more

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Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A new Linux local privilege escalation flaw called Fragnesia has been disclosed as a Dirty Frag-like vulnerability, allowing arbitrary byte writes into the kernel page cache of read-only files through a separate ESP/XFRM logic bug. Phoronix reports: Proof of concept code for Fragnesia is already out there. There is a 
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Face au bulldozer BollorĂ©, le mouvement cherche Ă  s’élargir
Un mois aprĂšs le licenciement du patron de Grasset, les auteurs dĂ©missionnaires de la maison d’édition se sont rĂ©unis Ă  Paris, mercredi 13 mai, avec d’autres personnalitĂ©s engagĂ©es Ă  leurs cĂŽtĂ©s. Ensemble, ils rĂ©flĂ©chissent Ă  une Ă©volution de leur statut et Ă  la maniĂšre de contrer l’agenda politique du milliardaire d’extrĂȘme droite. ⌘ Read more

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Gauche «non mĂ©lenchoniste»: un jeu de massacre et un fiasco Ă  l’horizon
Incapables de s’organiser pour proposer une alternative Ă  LFI Ă  la prĂ©sidentielle, les «unitaires» offrent un spectacle de division pathĂ©tique. Si une partie d’entre eux appelle Ă  un Ă©niĂšme «sursaut», certains envisagent dĂ©sormais d’envoyer leurs Ă©lecteurs directement dans les bras d’Édouard Philippe. ⌘ Read more

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LinkedIn Planning To Lay Off 5% of Staff In Latest Tech-Sector Cuts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a widening of technology sector cuts this year. The Microsoft-owned social network plans to cut about 5% of its headcount as it reorganizes teams and focuses personnel on areas where 
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Russische Angriffe mit Hunderten Drohnen
Mit Hunderten Drohnen hat Russland am Mittwoch die Ukraine auch bei Tageslicht angegriffen. Mindestens sechs Menschen wurden laut dem ukrainischen PrĂ€sidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj getötet. Die Angriffe zielten auf kritische Infrastruktur im Westen des Landes. Das Nachbarland Polen ließ vorsorglich Kampfjets aufsteigen. Der Luftraum wurde laut polnischer Armee aber nicht verletzt. Die Slowakei schloss aus SicherheitsgrĂŒnden vorĂŒbergehend ihre Grenze zum Westen der Ukraine. ⌘ Read more

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Linux Driver Posted For Intel Silicon Security Engine Interface “ISSEI”
Since Intel Meteor Lake has been the Intel Silicon Security Engine to serve as a silicon root-of-trust for secure firmware loading, boot measurements, and similar functionality. This Intel Silicon Security Engine has been built on with Lunar Lake and Panther Lake as well as set to take on more importance with future Intel hardware platforms. We are now seeing a Linux driver come for this silicon RoT with the Intel Silicon Security Engine Inte 
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KDE Receives $1.4 Million Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund
The German Sovereign Tech Fund has invested 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million USD) in KDE Plasma technologies to help strengthen the structural reliability and security of the desktop environment’s core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services. Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin shares an excerpt fro 
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Les autoritĂ©s n’ont jamais enregistrĂ© autant de faits de corruption en France
Les derniĂšres statistiques des services de police et de gendarmerie situent les atteintes Ă  la probitĂ© Ă  un niveau record. 451 faits de corruption ont Ă©tĂ© recensĂ©s en 2025 en France. Soit prĂšs de trois fois plus qu’il y a dix ans. ⌘ Read more

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[$] Friction in Fedora’s over AI developer desktop initiative
A push by Red Hat employees to create a Fedora “AI Developer
Desktop” with support for out-of-tree kernel drivers and AI toolkits
has been met with objections from some long-time members of the Fedora
community. After more than a month of sometimes heated discussion, the
Fedora\‹Council had voted
to approve the initiative; however, a last-minut 
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Viele Probleme, wenig Ressourcen
Die Zahl der Kinder und Jugendlichen, die psychiatrische Hilfe benötigen, ist seit der Beginn der Pandemie gestiegen. Besonders MĂ€dchen sind betroffen, wie der Jahresbericht des Vereins VertretungsNetz am Mittwoch zeigte. Auch die Zahl jener Kinder und Jugendlichen, die gegen oder ohne ihren Willen in Kliniken behandelt werden, wuchs, wĂ€hrend die Behandlungsdauer schrumpfte. Ein Grund dafĂŒr ist der Ressourcenmangel vor allem im stationĂ€ren Bereich. Der Kinderpsychiater Paul Plener sah im GesprĂ€ch mit OR 
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«J’avais un mĂ©lange de peur et de sidĂ©ration»: dans l’affaire Bruel, une masseuse tĂ©moigne, deux nouvelles plaintes dĂ©posĂ©es
Selon nos informations, deux femmes se sont constituĂ©es partie civile contre le chanteur, mardi 12 mai, au tribunal judiciaire de Nanterre. L’une dĂ©nonce une agression sexuelle en 2019, l’autre une tentative de viol en 2010. Patrick Bruel conteste toute «contrainte» ou «violence». ⌘ Read more

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Harvard Votes On Limiting ‘A’ Grades
Harvard faculty are voting on a proposal (PDF) to curb grade inflation by limiting solid A grades to 20% of students in a class, plus four additional A’s per course. Axios reports: Grade inflation is at a tipping point at Harvard. A move to make A grades harder to come by at one of the world’s leading universities could influence grading debates at peer institutions. Solid A’s account for nearly two-thi 
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La Bosnie-HerzĂ©govine, nouveau terrain de bataille entre l’Europe et les États-Unis
Christian Schmidt, haut reprĂ©sentant international en Bosnie-HerzĂ©govine, a annoncĂ© dimanche 10 mai sa dĂ©mission. Il pourrait ĂȘtre la premiĂšre victime de la guerre de l’énergie ouverte dans les Balkans, qui risque aussi de faire sombrer l’architecture institutionnelle de la fĂ©dĂ©ration. ⌘ Read more

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Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Following last week’s disclosure of the Dirty Frag vulnerability for the Linux kernel, which only finished being patched up in mainline on Monday, Fragnesia is now public as a similar local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability
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Yet another Dirty Frag type vulnerability: Fragnesia
Sam James has sent an announcement
to the OSS Security mailing list about another
local-privilege-escalation (LPE) exploit in the same class as Dirty Frag, called
“Fragnesia”. From the disclosure:

This is a separate bug in the ESP/XFRM from dirtyfrag which has received its own patch. However, it is in the same surface 
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Meta Employees Launch Protest Against Mouse-Tracking Tech At US Offices
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta employees distributed flyers at multiple U.S. offices on Tuesday to protest the company’s recent installation of mouse-tracking software on their computers, according to photos of the pamphlets seen by Reuters. The flyers, which appeared in meeting rooms, on vending machines and 
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ProcÚs libyen en appel: le parquet général réclame sept ans de prison contre Nicolas Sarkozy
Les trois magistrats reprĂ©sentant l’accusation ont requis une peine de sept ans de prison ferme, 300 000 euros d’amende et une inĂ©ligibilitĂ© de cinq ans contre l’ancien prĂ©sident. Des peines de prison, ferme ou avec sursis, ont Ă©galement Ă©tĂ© rĂ©clamĂ©es contre ses ex-ministres Claude GuĂ©ant, Brice Hortefeux et Éric Woerth. ⌘ Read more

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[$] Managing pages outside of the direct map
When Brendan Jackman proposed
a session for the 2026 Linux Storage,\‹Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, his topic was “a
pagetable library for the kernel”. During the actual
memory-management-track session, though, he stated that the idea had
“fizzled” and he was going to cover related topics instead. What
resulted was a session on ways to efficiently mana 
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