wolfSSL has detailed several embedded security updates covering deterministic networking, post-quantum cryptography and automotive hardware security. The updates include the wolfIP TCP/IP stack, NIST-validated post-quantum algorithms in wolfCrypt, native Falcon and FrodoKEM implementations, and wolfHSM support for Infineon’s AURIX TC4xx family. The networking portion centers on wolfIP, a lightweight TCP/IP stack designed for bare-metal and […]
Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX)
for many years at Apple, Google, and other companies. Now, he's trying to convince
open-source projects to experiment more and drive the desktop beyond the age-old "windows, icons, menus,
pointer" (WIMP) model. At Akademy 2026, KDE's annual developer
conference, he shared his complaints and ideas in a talk aimed
at convincing those in attendance to take the lead on desktop design.
Intel engineers have been quietly developing dxvk-igdext as their own component for DXVK Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 atop the Vulkan API for leveraging Intel Direct3D 11 Graphics Extensions...
Systemd v262 has been released. Some of the notable new features include the
ability to build systemd as a single statically linked binary for small
containers, support for the kernel coredump socket protocol introduced with
Linux 6.17, addition of OpenSSL 4 support, and many other changes. See
the release
notes for a full list of changes.
Cheap frontier tokens won't last. Plus an email client on the edge, an inbox for background agents. Check out the latest Local AI Weekly newsletter.
The Radicle peer-to-peer
code-collaboration project has disclosed
two critical vulnerabilities in the network protocol used by Radicle
nodes. The first flaw is that the network protocol used by Radicle "does not
give the confidentiality it was expected to give", which allows anyone who
can observe the network between two nodes to read the data exchanged. The second
is that peer authentication is broken and allows impersonation, so an attacker
can spoof their Node ID and read private repositories they should not be able to
read.
In practice, the two flaws are most useful when they can be exploited
together: an attacker on the path sees the Node IDs at both ends of a
connection, and both are normally on the allow-list. That attacker can read
whatever is exchanged while they watch, and can then use a Node ID they saw to
fetch the whole repository on demand. The realistic threat is anyone on the path
between your node and node it syncs with, and no setting or allow-list protects
against them.
We are publishing this before the security update is available. You can act
on it today, and no fix we release later can undo an exposure that has already
happened.
See the post for workarounds that can be used today; a major update that will
be backward-incompatible is underway.
With the recent release of Java/OpenJDK 27 I began some fresh benchmarks in not having looked at the OpenJDK Java performance in a few years. Carried away, I ended up re-testing all the major OpenJDK versions going back to the venerable JDK 8.
For all its positives, Brazil doesn't quite stand out as a Linux hotbed. But hand it to Brazilians for trying . . . and often succeeding. This week's Distro of the Week is Brazil's Mauna Linux 25.3, which is based on Debian and does a good job upholding the nation's reputation in the Linuxsphere.
A critical
vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress's get_page_template()
function for page-template resolution that could allow remote-code execution
(RCE) by an unauthenticated attacker, in some limited circumstances. The project
has provided an update for the most recent branch of WordPress, as well as
backports of the fix for branches back to 4.7. See the
vulnerability report for the conditions required for an RCE attack to be successful.
The vulnerability also
affects the ClassicPress fork of
WordPress, though a security update has not been provided for that project
yet. LWN covered ClassicPress in
2024. Users of either content-management system should update soon.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (coreutils, postgresql18-postgis, and postgresql:16), Debian (memcached), Fedora (chromium, cyrus-imapd, dotnet10.0, dotnet8.0, dotnet9.0, freeipmi, kernel, libxmp, perl-Net-DNS, and postgresql16-anonymizer), Mageia (cpio, diffutils, perl-Dancer2, and rest), Oracle (389-ds-base and firefox), Red Hat (opentelemetry-collector and osbuild-composer), SUSE (amazon-cloudwatch-agent, amazon-ssm-agent, apko, apptainer, bazel-rules-python-source, bind, cups, firefox, freeipmi, gdb, google-osconfig-agent, kernel, kyverno, libipa_hbac-devel, libsoup, libsoup-3_0-0, libtpms, openssl-certs, perl-Authen-SASL, php-composer2, python313-PyMuPDF, thunderbird, and util-linux), and Ubuntu (gzip, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-aws-fips, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx, linux-azure, linux-oracle, linux-azure-7.0, linux-azure-fde-6.8, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-raspi, openssh, and sudo).
The Anaconda installer in Fedora 45 will introduce a new option for storage configuration: Stratis, a modern solution for local storage management. Stratis isn’t a completely new technology, it uses existing tools and technologies like device mapper, LUKS, and XFS and integrates them into an easy to use package. The idea is to provide modern […]
NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 was released this morning as the newest update to this FUSE-based open-source driver for NTFS file-system support...
Yesterday Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 as quite an interesting mobile SoC. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 features Adreno 850 graphics and already one-day later their engineers are out with initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the A850 with the MSM kernel driver...
Like your smaller and more unusual horror experiences? O.B.O.L is a new release that sees you coin flip for your life against a mysterious old man.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
August 15: $62,991
September 23: $86,456
Bitcoin shot up 37% over the last 39 days, reaching an eight-month high on Monday. "Bitcoin is back," declares Yahoo Finance:
The token held near $86,000 on Tuesday after a stunning multisession rally... [Fundstrat head of digital assets Sean Farrell told Yahoo Finance on Monday] "I think the crypto winter is over, although that does not necessarily mean the path higher will be linear." For now, momentum is on crypto's side, with bitcoin jumping more than 5% on Friday and another 6% on Monday. "We believe crypto is in the early innings of a new bull market and we see few signs of overheating," Compass Point analyst Ed Engel wrote on Tuesday.
The move looks "like a combination of renewed ETF demand and a large short squeeze," Nicolai Søndergaard, senior research analyst at Nansen, said as traders betting against bitcoin are forced to buy it back, adding further fuel to the rally.
Bitcoin got bad news and then good news last week. After the U.S. Congress failed Thursday to pass a cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act', America's Securities and Exchange Commission instead announced a tokenized-stock experiment. It's a five-year "innovation exemption" that "creates a path for tokenized U.S. stocks to trade through automated market makers on public blockchain," according to CoinDesk. Yahoo Finance notes that Bitcoin and other altcoins surged after the announcement.
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NVIDIA released the NVIDIA 595.104.02 graphics driver today for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris operating systems, a small update to their production-ready series that addresses some bugs and crashes.
Barely Breathing is an upcoming fishy physics platformer that looks really funny, with a demo available - and they just added a little Linux Easter Egg.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
In addition to AMD working on AVX10_V2_AUX support for the GCC compiler, this summer they also posted AVX10_V2_AUX support for the LLVM/Clang compiler. As of yesterday that enablement was merged for LLVM 24 for that important step toward AI Compute Extensions (ACE)...
This new Rush mode might be my favourite way to play Counter-Strike 2, giving you a faster-paced experience with shorter matches.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Merged at the start of the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle was adding Logitech Bolt USB receiver support for Logitech HID++ devices to the hid-logitech-dj driver code. That has resulted in too many bug reports of early Linux 7.3 users encountering varying issues with their Logitech mice that the functionality is now being reverted until it can be better developed...
Having trouble with games not launching on a SteamOS device like the Steam Deck, Steam Machine or Steam Frame? Here's some steps you can take.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Respect The Horde mixes together survival, tower defense and horde games to interesting effect - and now it has a Native Linux playtest.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Mozilla released Firefox 156.0.1 today as the first maintenance update to the latest Firefox 156 series of this widely used open-source, free, and cross-platform web browser for Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows.
When I eventually get my hands on the Steam Frame, it will most likely end up as a Beat Saber machine. You can join me too, with a first discount on it.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
NVIDIA just released another small update to their recommended stable driver series with version 595.104.02 now available.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Microsoft's security blog describes the fight against a new "AI-powered cybercrime platform" offering phishing-as-a-service, with AI-tailored lures and analyses of compromised inboxes (to identify high-value targets). The site compromised more than 12,000 inboxes in over 10,000 organizations around the world, compromising business accounts "at scale" with automated attacks and prebuilt phishing templates. AI tools could even sift through a victim's mailbox to help engineer better phishing messages.
To disrupt EvilTokens Microsoft worked with other organizations, including Cloudflare, Coinbase, OpenAI, Railway, SpyCloud, Shadowserver Foundation, and TRM Labs to Health-ISAC (a non-profit helping health sector organizations share cyber threat information).
"Fifty sites seized and 150 domains disabled in a single action is only possible when the hosting providers, the exchanges, the model providers and the data holders all move at the same time," security company SpyCloud told The Hacker News.
From Microsoft's security blog:
Microsoft also notified affected customers, helped remediate compromised accounts, and shared intelligence to support further defensive and investigative action... Microsoft worked closely with specialist officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's cybercrime team, sharing intelligence that enabled officers to take operational action in the United Kingdom. On September 11, 2026, officers arrested two men, aged 32 and 38, and seized digital devices and other items for examination... While EvilTokens used AI to identify targets and prioritize fraud opportunities, Microsoft investigators used reverse engineering and AI-powered tools to analyze evidence, accelerate the investigation, and identify the infrastructure supporting the service...
Campaigns leveraging EvilTokens have impacted organizations in various industries, including wholesale distribution, construction, financial services, real estate, higher education, and healthcare, with the highest concentrations of observed victim activity in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, India, and France. Working with partners, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) facilitated a coordinated disruption of infrastructure used to operate the EvilTokens service.
Sometimes stolen tokens were used to give new devices access to a victim's inbox. (A code authenticating the new device was sent to the targeted user, who unknowingly authorize the threat actor's session and grants access to their account...) But "AI was not simply helping attackers write more convincing messages," says another Microsoft blog post. "It helped them decide who to target, who to impersonate, and how to most effectively exploit the relationship to extract as much money as possible."
The significance of EvilTokens extends beyond its rapid growth and global reach. It offers an early warning of what happens when cybercriminals combine stolen access with AI capable of understanding how an organization works... Its AI tools could summarize and translate emails, surface financial conversations, map organizational roles, identify trusted relationships, and recommend potential targets. Preset prompts offered to find wire-transfer discussions, identify the organization's "money movers," locate vendor invoices, and determine the best people to impersonate. Sold through Telegram for a $1,500 initiation fee and a recurring $500 subscription, EvilTokens combined account compromise, mailbox analysis, target selection, and fraud preparation in a single service. Capabilities that once required experience across identity attacks, cloud systems, social engineering, and financial fraud were available through a ready-made interface.
Investigators found evidence that large portions of EvilTokens had been "vibe coded," with AI helping its creators build the platform itself. They also determined that EvilTokens drew on capabilities from multiple AI models. The result was more than a collection of attack tools. EvilTokens packaged much of the fraud process into a commercially run service, complete with subscription pricing, customer support, management dashboards, and tools designed to move customers from account access toward financial exploitation.
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The Discord team have just revealed a revamped age verification system, where hopefully most of you won't need to do anything at all.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Valve just released SteamOS 3.8.28 Beta, along with a Steam Client Beta for all platforms with more fixes.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Token, harness, quantization, open weight, you've seen these words everywhere in local AI discussions. Take this quiz and see if you really know these "buzzwords".
Giada 1.6 is out today as a major update to this open-source, free, minimalist, hardcore music production app designed for DJs, live performers, and electronic musicians.
Valve is testing Pyrowave, a new low-latency Steam Remote Play codec available on Linux and SteamOS through the experimental SteamRT3 client.
U.S. President Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday. And a half hour in, after decrying immigration, Trump pivoted to add that "The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now."
But then he added "hereinafter officially called super intelligence, changing the name, in that the use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake. It makes it sound fake, and it is not fake. It's actually... amazing. But we have to be careful — in fact, it is exactly the opposite of what it purports. From this point forward, all of United States documents and hopefully the world's will be changed to use the much more accurate term super as opposed to artificial. So it's super intelligence."
TRUMP: In other words, welcome to the new world of super intelligence — SI. SI. Let's see if that goes. It sounds much better. It is much better, and it's much more accurate. Let's see if I have any power. Maybe I do and maybe I don't. We're going to find out pretty soon. Super intelligence.
Every major new technology brings challenges, and super intelligence is no exception. Yet the very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming, a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling not warming, and nobody was dead — these are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all. That robots are going to attack us, and that everything is going to be a total disaster — same group of people. This is the group that came up with the Russia Russia Russia hoax, the Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine hoax. Climate change, open borders.
Whoever wins AI — you have to remember this — and now I say, whoever wins SI, whoever wins super intelligent [sic] — wins. That's the group that wins. And we're leading now over China by a lot, and everyone else, and we're going to keep it that way. We're going to keep it very — very straight and very strong. I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution. Many say, bigger than the Industrial Revolution or the internet itself.
And we will be very careful, and that's why we have a Department of Justice that we've already used it, having to do with this very subject, and used it very powerfully. Everything worked out very well and very quickly. And other law enforcement bodies that will rein things in if we have to do that.
But we will only encourage super intelligence. We're gonna encourage it, not rein it in. We're gonna watch it closely, through the Department of Justice. The United States leads the world in Super Intelligence, and will continue to do so, safely and responsibly.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader
ArchieBunker for suggesting the story.
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As a friendly reminder in case you missed it from over the weekend, the Phoronix autumn "Oktoberfest" premium sale is taking place through the rest of this week for those wishing to help support the site while enjoying ad-free viewing, multi-page articles rendered on a single page, and other benefits while helping for the site to survive and continue producing daily original content...
The Nouveau Linux kernel graphics driver for open-source NVIDIA driver support has new patches posted for enabling HDMI Deep Color support...
VLC 3.0.24 has been released today as the latest stable version of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform media player software for GNU/Linux, Android, macOS, tvOS, and Windows systems.
On academic mentoring platform Nova Learning, Computer Science and AI, "once the dominant choice among students... is losing ground fast, while Engineering has nearly doubled its share." It's a small survey, but "The steepest proportional decline is in Software & Data Science, the most traditional 'learn to code' pathway, which lost 44% of its 2025 share. AI saw the largest absolute drop of any single subject in the survey, down 6.2 points.
"The category did not decline uniformly. Students moved away fastest from the pathway most associated with entry-level software work, while the more applied and human-facing subfields held their ground better."
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes:
Nova Learning says the share of surveyed middle and high school students naming Computer Science and AI as their primary academic interest fell from 42.3 percent in 2025 to 27.9 percent in 2026, while Engineering rose from 11.9 percent to 23 percent. The biggest gains came from Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering...
[B]roader enrollment data points in the same direction. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported declines in Computer and Information Science enrollment at four year institutions, even as Engineering grew. AI coding tools are not proven to be the cause, but as software development changes and AI handles more coding tasks, students may be starting to rethink what a future in technology should look like. [Undergraduate enrollment in CS programs at four-year institutions fell 8.1%, to approximately 606,000 students.]
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KDE’s 2026–2028 goals include stronger enterprise support, consolidated documentation, and a unified styling system.
The company’s permanently free security platform for up to 25 machines is now available to organizations running Debian and Ubuntu, as well as AlmaLinux.
Last week I ran some benchmarks showing performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" on Ubuntu 26.10. Then shortly after that testing on its daily state, which used the Linux 7.2 kernel, Canonical switched to Linux 7.3 as the Ubuntu 26.10 kernel. Here are some Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" with the Framework Desktop...
In 2024 Canonical generated nearly $300M USD in revenue for this company behind Ubuntu Linux and other services and software solutions. For 2025, they not only broke $300M but well exceeded it with $345M in revenue...
The lightweight distro will ship the XLibre display server in its upcoming Debian and Devuan ISO refreshes, and it says it has no plans to switch to Wayland for the foreseeable future.
The movie Coyote vs. Acme earned more than Warner Bros.' $30 million tax write-off in just two weeks. And last week the movie officially earned more than its production budget of $70 million. But today the movie passed the $100 million mark. "You asked for it, we delivered, and you showed up!" distributor Ketchup Entertainment posted on social media (adding "Thank you to the fans for making this a massive hit!")
With a break-even number of $120 million, the movie "will probably make up any theatrical deficit (should there be any) with its impending releases on video on demand and streaming," writes ScreenRant. Almost three years after the completed film was initially shelved for a $30 million write-off, its
cumulative domestic box office has apparently even beat Warner Bros. dinosaur movie The End of Oak Street:
In addition to officially joining the chart of the Top 30 movies of the year so far at the domestic box office, by surpassing The End of Oak Street, Coyote vs. Acme has outgrossed five of the eight movies that Warner Bros. has put out in domestic theaters this year.... [It's just $17.6 million behind Supergirl, and within $30 million of Mortal Kombat II and Wuthering Heights.] Their anticipated sci-fi sequel Dune: Part Three also seems guaranteed to land higher than 2026's Coyote vs. Acme on the chart (2021's Dune earned $108.9 million in domestic theaters, while Dune: Part Two earned $282.1 million).
With its a small marketing budget of just $10 million, the movie seems to be relying on
oddball marketing stunts like their AMA on Reddit's r/movies. And commemorating the spirit of the movie, Crayon-maker Crayola even released a special "Coyote Secret Plan" web page for children to print and color — and partnered with the film's stars for a video on the importance of creativity:
Lana Condor: Crayola is all about encouraging kids and grown-ups to turn imagination into action.
Will Forte: Which is exactly what Coyote does in Coyote versus Acme. He sees a problem and thinks, "Could this be solved with a rocket, a catapult, or a suspiciously affordable mail order anvil?"
Lana Condor: Usually no.
Will Forte: Usually very no.
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The 2026 Open Data Infrastructure Report finds 62% of current users already run OpenSearch for AI workloads.
More Steam Machine modding customization is here, with the launch of the JSAUX E-Ink and Pixel Matrix Faceplates.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
More big news coming out of Microsoft / XBOX today, with their big reset continuing with hundreds more staff being let go along with studio shuffles.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
A new proposal being discussed is introducing a Linux user-space API to be able to specify frame rate targets for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) handling on the Linux desktop...
Pierre-Emmanuel Patry and Arthur Cohen gave a talk at
RustConf 2026 on the
status of the Rust frontend for GCC (gccrs), with a particular eye toward the
goal of
compiling the Linux kernel. Patry gave a follow-up talk for a more
kernel-focused audience at
Kangrejos the next week, which Cohen could not attend. The
gccrs project is
making good progress overall, but it will still be some time until the compiler
is usable.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (apr-util, corosync, curl, freerdp, gstreamer1-plugins-base, libarchive, libtiff, libxml2, openexr, openssh, rsyslog, sudo, tomcat, unbound, webkit2gtk3, yggdrasil, and yggdrasil-worker-package-manager), Debian (chromium), Fedora (alsa-plugins, amarok, aqualung, atomes, attract-mode, audacious-plugins, audacity, baresip, blender, calibre, cantata, cef, chromaprint, chromium, digikam, doctl, dragon, ffmpeg, ffmpegthumbnailer, ffmpegthumbs, ffms2, fooyin, glaxnimate, goldendict-ng, gpac, gstreamer1-plugin-libav, guacamole-server, guvcview, haruna, hedgewars, icecat, janus, k3b, kdenlive, kf5-kfilemetadata, kf6-kfilemetadata, kpipewire, lazygal, lego, libcamera-apps, libheif, libopenshot, libopenshot-audio, libvncserver, localsearch, mat2, minidlna, mivisionx, mixxx, mlt, monado, mpd, mpv, mpv-mpris, neatvnc, notcurses, nv-codec-headers13.0, obs-studio, obs-studio-plugin-droidcam, obs-studio-plugin-pwvideo, obs-studio-plugin-vaapi, obs-studio-plugin-vkcapture, obs-studio-plugin-webkitgtk, olive, openal-soft, OpenBoard, opencv, openmw, opustags, os-autoinst, patool, Pencil2D, perl-HTML-FormHandler, pianobar, prometheus-podman-exporter, python-audioread, python-torchaudio, python-torchvision, qmmp, qmmp-plugin-pack, qmplay2, qt5-qtwebengine, qt6-qtmultimedia, qt6-qtwebengine, qtox, retroarch, rocdecode, rocdecode7.2, rsgain, siril, squeezelite, swayimg, tigervnc, timg, unpaper, vlc, vtk, waypipe, wf-recorder, wivrn, wxsvg, xine-lib, xmms2, xpra, xscreensaver, yle-dl, znc, and znc-clientbuffer), Mageia (nmap, pcre2, and vim), Oracle (curl, openssl-fips-provider, sudo, tomcat, webkit2gtk3, yggdrasil, and yggdrasil-worker-package-manager), Slackware (util-linux), SUSE (cadvisor, chromium, coredns, fake-gcs-server, freeciv, gh, glibc, google-guest-agent, google-osconfig-agent, hugo, kbd, kbfs, keybase-client, libheif, libpcap, mbedtls, pcre2, python-asteval, python-jwcrypto, python311, python313-ansi2html, shadowsocks-rust, sofia-sip, and trivy), and Ubuntu (clamav, expat, ghostscript, glib2.0, gst-plugins-base1.0, gst-plugins-good1.0, libsoup2.4, libsoup3, libssh2, libxml2, linux-azure-6.8, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde-7.0, linux-azure-fde, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-ibm, linux-xilinx, linux-ibm, linux-nvidia-bos, linux-raspi, memcached, openjdk-17, openjdk-21, openjdk-25, openjdk-8, openjdk-lts, rsyslog, and strongswan).
SPEC back in May 2025 introduced SPECViewPerf 15 as the newest major release of this industry-standard workstation graphics benchmark. Sadly, the Linux support once again fell behind with SPECViewPerf 15 only debuting on Microsoft Windows. Today though Linux has caught up with SPEC releasing a Linux-native build of SPECViewPerf 15.0.1...
Systemd 262 made it out today as the newest feature update to this Linux init system and service manager. As with most systemd releases, it's heavy on new features and functionality...
The open-source YSERVER project as a modern X11 sever written in the Rust programming language with the help of Claude Code is out today with a new feature release. Most notable for this AI Rust X11 server is X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) support for multi-user shared desktops...
Two U.S. missiles hit an elementary school in Iran, killing over 150 people including 123 children on the first day of the Iran War. But Gizmodo notes that a new Bloomberg investigation cites U.S. officials involved in an unreleased internal Pentagon review who blame "a cascade of preventable failures that included an overreliance on an AI tool built by Palantir."
According to the officials who spoke to Bloomberg, some personnel inside U.S. Central Command leaned too hard on the AI inside the Maven Smart System, an AI-powered data integration and targeting platform developed by Palantir to accelerate intelligence analysis and decision-making. The Defense Department has reportedly made the software tool a cornerstone of military operations over the past year... Officials said some users expected Maven to flag stale records or contradictions in the intelligence assembled for potential targets, though it is not clear why they thought the system would do that. The Minab [elementary school] site, which was cataloged as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facility due to outdated data, was fed into Maven with other candidates and came out as a recommended day-one target. Target-list work that once took hours was condensed into minutes.
A Palantir spokesperson told Bloomberg the company "is not responsible for the underlying data nor identifying intelligence deficiencies" and that there is no evidence its software was at fault. Two people familiar with Palantir's Pentagon contracts said the government keeps primary responsibility for the quality of the information that's fed into Maven. After the strike, Palantir added features that "re-review underlying intelligence to identify factors that would disqualify a target and flag inconsistencies and inaccuracies that human review may have missed," a person familiar with the work said. That new functionality is said to have already caught some anomalies...
More than 1,000 Iranian targets were hit in the first 24 hours, and according to Bloomberg's sources, that pace compressed the time available for additional confirmations. Staffing on civilian harm mitigation teams across the U.S. Department of Defense had also fallen by roughly 90% over recent years, shrinking to fewer than 20 people overall. The U.S. Central Command's group shrank from 10 people to one. No member of those teams reviewed the Minab site before the missiles were up in the air.
A separate inquiry by the United Nations' Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran this week reached the conclusion that there were reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed the war crime of launching an indiscriminate attack.
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The Omarchy project announced today that Alibaba Cloud will be contributing a total of three million USD to their foundation for helping development of this Linux distribution and working to make it an "ideal agentic operating system"...
A resurfacing firmware lock is catching out new buyers and tinkerers who want to revive dead hardware.
Sent out today was a new HID subsystem pull request of fixes for the week to the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides some conventional bug fixes are also supporting some additional devices via quirks and new IDs...
The feature is currently in testing on Android, with iOS support still a bit far away.
The Hollowing is an atmospheric first-person horror flight sim where you fly alone across a mist-shrouded Megastructure, from the Lorn's Lure developer.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Happy Wheels is a game all about getting from A to B, and failing constantly while creating a rather amusing bloody mess.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Later this week it looks like the latest round of Cache Aware Scheduling fixes will be merged for enhancing this kernel scheduler functionality for grouping related tasks together on CPU cores that share the same last level cache (LLC). Cache Aware Scheduling can lead to better cache locality and lower latency by avoiding the costs of potential cache bouncing -- that is when bugs don't get in the way...
A convenient addition that surprisingly hasn't been added to the Linux kernel until now is /sys/devices/system/cpu/sev/sev_status as a new sysfs interface for reporting the AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) status...
ZLUDA as the open-source project working on CUDA for non-NVIDIA GPUs like AMD Radeon graphics cards now has implemented support for some of NVIDIA's core cuFFT APIs...
AMD sent out their latest Linux kernel graphics driver patches today for enabling some new hardware IP blocks. And as part of that, preparing for GDDR7 video memory with the AMDGPU driver...
It seems the KDE developers want to allow some use of generative AI / LLMs, as they're working on a policy of guidelines for it.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
DRM-free ebooks on programming from the prestigious No Starch Press. Part of your purchase gets donated to EFF.
Mechabellum is an auto-battler that's a bit like future space chess in a way, it has some truly epic battles and just had a massive upgrade with a free edition.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Monday Google opened preorders for its "Googlebook" laptops, pricing them at $899. A Google's blog post added that "At launch, you can choose between Intel Core Ultra Series 3 and Snapdragon X Elite processors" (paired with NPUs to power AI features).
"Devices will hit shelves on October 4 in the U.S. and on October 5 in Canada, the U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, and Australia," TechCrunch points out. But "the real pull for the new devices is that they'll prominently feature Gemini's latest capabilities in a new format: the laptop."
Google is trying to offer a laptop with unique features like an AI-powered cursor, vibe-coded widgets, and support for AI-enhanced dictation. The latter is a feature called Rambler, which cleans up messy, rambling brain dumps into readable text. The move is a bet that AI, specifically Google's Gemini, could be enough of a draw to get people to buy a new laptop that bakes in AI instead of running them via desktop apps you install or access through the browser... On the Googlebook, Google is trying to reinvent the "point-and-click" experience of desktop computing to now include an AI element: The cursor serves as a conduit to Gemini. The company suggests various ways this could be used, like highlighting content on a web page for Gemini to work with, asking Gemini to see if an email you've hovered your cursor over is suspicious, or selecting images and then asking Gemini to visualize them together...
What's more interesting about the Googlebook is how it's seemingly part of Google's longer-term plan to capture a large part of the K-12 market that currently relies on Chromebooks and push them toward the company's Gemini AI. There are somewhere around 50 million Chromebooks in schools, used by students and educators, Google has said. In May, the company told TechCrunch that its current Chromebooks would continue to be supported, though many would become eligible to transition to the new Googlebook experience in the future...
Flagship devices in the new range are being built by Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, with materials like aluminum, magnesium alloy, and carbon fiber... Google says the device will offer up to 14 hours of battery life.
Googlebooks will be decorated with an exterior Glowbar "which dances when you boot up, sweeps to show battery level, and supports other playful patterns," according to Google's blog post. "We're also opening Glowbar access to developers to build custom, interactive animations."
After testing actual Googlebooks, The Verge's reviewer first acknowledges that "it might be just another Trojan horse for Gemini." Still, "The hardware is polished (since it's based on current laptops). The OS is familiar (if you've ever used a Chromebook). But most impressive, it integrates your Android phone with your PC so they feel more like one device. It's the culmination of a series of new ideas that blur the two devices together.
"After my first look, I went from doubtful to excited by the prospect of Google pulling it all off..."
The Asus was incredibly lightweight; the Lenovo has plenty of ports and an optional mouse with a matching Glowbar light; the Acer's convertible form factor allows some tablet-like use (and it's pretty affordable for a Panther Lake laptop). The HP had a great-looking screen and a latticeless keyboard I surprisingly didn't hate, and the Dell is basically a gold XPS 13 (which is excellent) but with a different chip...
But everything really special about Googlebooks comes down to software... You can cast apps from an Android phone directly to a Googlebook, even without touching your phone. Googlebooks essentially have two app drawers: a G-logo start menu for installed Googlebook apps and a second one beside it that pulls up mobile apps from your phone. Click a phone app and you can fully use that app with the mouse and keyboard or the Googlebook's touchscreen. It's a bit like iPhone Mirroring on macOS, but the apps are individually extracted to the desktop OS instead of showing your whole phone interface.
Googlebooks also have a nifty feature called Continue On where the icons of apps you're currently using on your phone appear in the bottom bar — allowing you to click it on the laptop and hand it off to the Googlebook. These app handoffs can transition to a native app or a web app, depending on how developers have programmed it... The other big way Googlebooks interact with an Android phone is Quick Access, allowing you to see and access all the files stored on your phone right in the desktop Files app... If you have an iPhone then you're limited to a Link to iOS app that just does some message syncing and replying... [W]hen it comes to mainline gaming, Nvidia's GeForce Now service is also coming to Googlebooks, and the first year is free with one of Google's new laptops.
"It's not every day we get a new player in the desktop operating system and laptop spaces," the reviewer points out. "There seems to be a higher ceiling of potential with Googlebooks than there was with Chromebooks, along with some cool features, but Google has a lot to prove at higher prices than people are used to paying for its laptops."
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