Friday, 23 October 2026
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AI Helping To Improve Linux's AMD Zen CPU Microarchitecture Detection
A request for comments (RFC) was sent out last night on the Linux kernel mailing list in seeking to clean-up the AMD Zen microarchitecture detection within the kernel. This is for enhancing the kernel where there are code paths specific to a certain generation of AMD Zen processors or select generations such as Zen 3 through Zen 5 CPUs. AI was leveraged in helping to clean-up this AMD Zen code…
Modular's MAX Source Code Now Fully Opened, Under New MAX License
Back in August Modular's Mojo language was open-sourced following the acquisition of Chris Lattner's company by Qualcomm. The latest achievement now out of the company is their MAX software being fully opened up with the entire source tree available...
Meta shocked by $25B fine after N.M. refused to join multistate settlement
Meta will appeal a ruling imposing the largest fine Mark Zuckerberg has ever seen.
Disgraced Indian cert issuer leaves the cert issuing business
We didn't want to issue SSL/TLS certs anyway, Indian firm suggests after one private key turns out to be the number 4
US-backed vaccine trial on babies canceled after international outcry
The decried trial was canceled last week before police seized vaccine doses.
PHP2Shell puts dozens of UK government services out of service
Ministers report 32 unavailable and four partly disrupted, but no confirmed compromise
This emulator reimagines Nintendo’s Virtual Boy with a full color display
Tile-based color palettes go way beyond the four shades of red on original hardware.
Linux 7.4 Improves Scheduling Latency For Short-Slice Tasks, NVIDIA Vera SMT Preference
The scheduler updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel to deliver several nice scheduling enhancements...
Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability
Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.
Apple App Store review process hits a traffic jam
Apple log jam? Apple fast lane pie-lup? We're here all week, on stage...
When the attacker becomes the user: Rethinking account takeover
SPONSORED FEATURE: AI makes phishing easier than ever
Sauron recruits his future Ringwraiths in Rings of Power S3 trailer
"I will take my place as the conqueror, a sorcerer, a king."
Singapore boffins weave a GUI into fabric, and it's machine washable too
For those who find taking a phone out of their pocket just so last century
x86 Kernel Shadow Stacks Being Worked On For Linux As Powerful Control Flow Protection
Linux user-space for several years had shadow stack support for hardware-enforced control-flow enforcement in defending against return oriented programming (ROP) attacks. Intel Tigerlake and newer CPUs or AMD Zen 3 and newer have the necessary hardware shadow stacks support. Shadow stacks have been effective for helping user-space software fend ROP attacks while now there is new work toward…
Forget "Malaise 2.0," GM says it's still all-in on EVs and autonomy
General Motors' plans will require quite a lot of customers' trust.
Nvidia's Huang: Don't mention the AI-pocalypse
GPU chief doesn't want to hear about job losses or the end of human civilization
Hackers pile on PHP2Shell as AWS reveals attacks began before disclosure
Cloudflare reports millions of exploit attempts, while Amazon spotted attackers trying their luck four days before patches landed
Mesa Loosens Rules Around AI Agents For Code Comments / Commit Messages
The Mesa 3D graphics driver project has loosened its rules laid out in their AGENTS.md for AI agents to permit AI/LLM assistance in generating code comments and commit/patch messages, as long as a human is ultimately reviewing/editing it in the end...
Myrlyn 1.1 Released For SUSE/openSUSE GUI Package Manager
Myrlyn, the package manager GUI that began as YQPkg during a SUSE Hack Week and has evolved quite well, is out with version 1.1 as the first new feature update since the beginning of the year...
333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email
For 3 days this month, 333 exit nodes were hacked in hopes of stealing sensitive data.
Microsoft says ConnectWise breach let Chinese spies loose on 2,250 cloud tenants
AI agents did the dirty work, with hackers gaining privileged access in some environments in under three hours
UN says we're going to blow past 1.5º warming, offers a "now what?" answer
Best case is now an overshoot to 1.8º C, accompanied by massive carbon removal.
Veteran ESA probe rolls out welcome mat for Japan's Phobos mission
Mars Express could support MMX's 2027 arrival as another 'last ever' extension keeps old spacecraft in flight
Mesa RADV Change Satisfies More Steam Play Games On Aging AMD GFX8 GPUs
Valve landed a patch in Mesa 27.0 and to be back-ported to current Mesa stable series to satisfy more games running under Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton for working on AMD GFX8 GPUs like Polaris...
Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List
Seemingly as an accident, overnight several new Linux kernel vulnerability reports were posted to the public Linux kernel mailing list rather than the private security mailing list. The vulnerabilities have yet to be patched on mainline but at least in some cases there are patches undergoing testing or queued in "-next" branches. The CVSS scores are as high as 9.0...
IT department and auditors at major pharmacy chain got into a rip-roaring fight about using 'password' on Cisco firewall
Misaligned incentives led to an intractable argument
Linux 7.4 Adapts AMD Zen 6 For Less Costly CPU Security Mitigation
The x86/bugs pull request was merged this week for the Linux 7.4 kernel. Most notable here is adjusting the CPU security mitigations for AMD Zen 6 processors...
UK government hasn't the foggiest how much it's spending on digital transformation
Years of promises, but officials unable to put a figure on investment
Vendors asking forward deployed engineers to make good on trillion-dollar AI bet
They might earn more than $200k but who do they work for? Tech buyers need to put some checks in place on FDEs
Why the immediate future of liquid cooling is hybrid
PARTNER CONTENT: AI is driving liquid cooling adoption, but hybrid architectures will help operators balance density, flexibility, and operational realities
Certification authority eMudhra defends its laughably weak private keys
Says it passed audits and made just a minor mystery error
IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem
90 percent of the performance at ten percent of the price, in just two or three racks, is hard to beat
Philippine government suspends top tech official for alleged misconduct
Founder of offshore software development firm investigated for possibly giving his former outfit government contracts
To help world gorge on GPUs, Nvidia brings cash bucket to fatten wafer-thin supply chain
Signs Samsung to build substrates, bolsters spend with other players
Linux 7.4 Begins Landing Patches To Speed Up The Kernel Build Process
There are notable patches by Arm engineer Lorenzo Stoakes that have begun landing in Linux 7.4 for speeding up the Linux kernel build process. This work can provide some significant reductions in the Linux kernel build time...
PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk
'Coordinated vulnerability disclosure, unless there's evidence of active exploits in the wild,' Chainguard CEO tells The Reg
FCC chair warns media not to run the "fake polls" Trump keeps complaining about
Ex-FCC chairs say Brendan Carr aims to scare broadcasters into self-censorship.
Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought
Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves.
Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse
Survey of 2,018 IT heads at big firms points to a lack of leverage.
Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3
Tesla’s once-booming energy storage business also shrank in Q3 2026.
Linus Torvalds Eliminates Unsafe __get_user() & __put_user() Functions In Linux 7.4
Linus Torvalds continues with his recent uptick in kernel patches himself, assisted in part by AI with Claude Code. Merged today was removing the historical and unsafe __get_user() and __put_user() kernel functions...
OpenClaw creator says he spent $10 million in tokens last month
Good thing it's somebody else's money
Reach new heights of laziness by burning tokens to let an AI tap your smartphone screen for you
Nothing will ruin your faith in humanity like an AI that operates your smartphone slowly, struggles with basic tasks, and can charge you for it
Linux 7.4 Kernel Crypto Library Enjoying Optimized AES Implementations On x86 & RISC-V
The latest Linux kernel cryptographic subsystem performance work carried out by Google engineer Eric Biggers is migrating x86/x86_64 and RISC-V optimized implementations of different AES modes into the lib/crypto kernel crypto library to enjoy faster performance there...
The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world
Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.
RIP BioWare: EA shuts down storied RPG studio after over three decades
Next Mass Effect project canceled as parent company lays off 400.
OpenAI's latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity
Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.
Report: Musk ordered Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, then blamed it on Trump
Musk and Trump both denied ordering Starlink slowdown. WSJ reports it was Musk.
Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits
Trump’s EPA can't unilaterally dismiss SpaceXAI pollution lawsuit, court rules.
Does opting out of smart TV tracking work? Research finds “suspicious” traffic.
OS operators throwing out that data is "unlikely," research author tells Ars.
SpaceX to attempt Starship catch on next flight, with eye on rapid cadence increase
"We have had significant constructive engagement with the FAA."
The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using
OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.
Snapdragon X2 Performance On Linux Exceeding Expectations In Initial Benchmarks
For your viewing pleasure today are the first Linux benchmarks of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme on Linux using the new Ubuntu 26.10 X1E Concept ISO for Snapdragon X laptop support on Linux. The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme flagship SoC is tested within the ASUS Zenbook A16 UX3607OA laptop.
PHP Updates Released For Two Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities
PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 were just released to fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow for unauthenticated remote code execution. Server administrators are advised to update immediately...
AMD Working On Ryzen Overclocking Driver For Linux
AMD recently published patches for the Linux kernel to implement AOD, an AMD Overclocking driver for Ryzen processors. Linux enthusiasts have long sought an official AMD Ryzen CPU overclocking driver for Linux akin to Ryzen Master on Windows and it's finally coming, at least from the kernel driver perspective...
Linux 7.4 To Close Files Synchronously For close_range, exec & exit
Of the many VFS changes to be merged for Linux 7.4 is now closing files synchrously for close_range, exec, and exit calls. In turn when needing to close many file descriptors this provides for much lower latency than the status quo...
Fwupd Working Toward Proper Android Integration
Google Chromebooks already have a mandate for nice Fwupd support with the Linux Vendor Firmware (LVFS) while now there is work on improving the Android integration for Fwupd/LVFS...
Meta Makes Improvements To Kernfs Scalability With Linux 7.4
Kernfs as the functions/frameworks used for creating pseudo file-systems on Linux like sysfs and configfs have seen some nice scalability work carried out by Meta. After Meta engineers discovered some system daemons getting stuck for minutes on their massive fleet of servers, they uncovered some scalability bottlenecks within Kernfs that now look to be resolved for Linux 7.4...
AMD HIPRT 3.2 Released With Medusa APU Support
AMD HIPRT 3.2 released today as the first update to this HIP ray-tracing library since the beginning of 2026...
XFS Sees Small Performance Optimizations & Bug Fixes For Linux 7.4
The XFS file-system updates have landed for the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel...