Friday, 18 September 2026
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Intel Granite Rapids WS vs. AMD Threadripper Zen 5 SMT Performance
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.
Rust Issues Warning Over Key Developers Being Targeted For Compromise
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...
China's Salt Typhoon backdoors Latin American orgs with new snooping malware
Beware the SparroWocky, my son! The backdoor that bites…
Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool
Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?
Mojo 1.1 Released, Now Accepting Community Contributions To The Compiler
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...
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 4 ISOs Published
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...
London property manager breach may have exposed bank details and lockbox codes
City Relay says intruders accessed its Metabase Cloud instance twice and extracted customer data
Proposal Raised To Finally Standardize Video Memory Stats Reporting Under Linux
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...
Microsoft configuration change leaves SharePoint pages drawing a blank
Validation? Apparently that comes after deployment
Grassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI's $140M machine
QuitGPT-led pledge targets Leading the Future's push for lighter regulation ahead of the midterms
Microsoft patch gives domain-joined Windows PCs trust issues
Machine Identity Isolation policies can reject valid credentials unless controllers meet the Server 2025 functional level
Fujitsu Formally Announces Their MONAKA 144 Core CPU
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...
Intel Compute Stack Enables LEO For Nova Lake, Introduces Intel Portable ISA "PISA"
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...
AI model watermarking changes agent behavior
Lasso Security sees differences in tool handling and model refusals
Cisco drops another exploited zero-day, this time a perfect 10
ISE authentication bypass under active attack just days after another Cisco zero-day sent admins scrambling to patch
Microsoft AI chief warns Anthropic not to put ideas in Claude's head
Mustafa Suleyman claims model welfare language could make future systems harder to control – while sparing OpenAI the same scrutiny
New Linux Driver Coming To Improve ASUS Zenbook Snapdragon X2 Support
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...
Test environment let anyone access live customer data
Even a temporary staging server needs to be locked down.
Omarchy gains $18.5M in backing, fresh converts – and fierce critics
DHH's Arch-based desktop becomes the latest front in FOSS's culture wars
Intel NPU Linux Driver Adding Command-Queue Priority ioctl For Linux 7.4
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...
Rust Coreutils 0.12 Released With Fixes Sought By Ubuntu
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...
Ofcom discovers issuing Online Safety Act fines is easier than collecting them
Platforms comply just enough to avoid being blocked, leaving the regulator chasing debt
Dragonfly 2.0 Delivers More Performance For This Modern Replacement To Redis & Memcached
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...
libinput 1.32 Released With Circular Scrolling Support For Circular Touchpads
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...
Government Digital Service move 'grinds gears' in UK's e-government
As team responsible for tech strategy shunted to third department in three years, experts fear exodus of talent
Judge orders Microsoft to spill internal docs and scour execs' comms in secondhand licensing case
Yes, the 'Secondhand Software Presentation' does sound like it might be an adverse document...
Fujitsu ready to sell its custom ‘Monaka’ Arm chip, maybe to rival server-makers
Clouds, the sovereign-sensitive, and the inferencing-interested are also about to get sales calls
Swift 6.4 unifies building across Linux, macOS, Windows
Swift Build is now the default engine for the Swift Package Manager
OpenAI admits its agents went off the rails another six times
Startup says it’s learned from these mistakes and that they shouldn’t happen again … which is just what Zuck has said about 100 times
Mir/Wayland-Powered Miracle-WM 0.11 Released With New Overview Mode, Window Urgency
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...
If a Mac mini is agentic overkill, try this glowing pyramid that runs personal bots
'Intern 2' offers an isolated environment and cloudy inference to automate your world
AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so
This is a test - it is only a test
Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI
Planned 2029 debut could make this Apple’s first enterprise server in decades.
Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in them
Survivors appalled nobody will tell them if they’re in Epstein’s CSAM collection.
Nvidia goes green to keep grid capacity from zapping its revenues
GPUzilla woos neoclouds into another walled garden, promising smarter, more efficient, and profitable bit barns
Mesa 26.2.3 Released With AMD GFX1171 Support, Other Fixes
Mesa 26.2.3 is out today as the newest stable point release in this quarter's Mesa 26.2 series...
Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by "critical blow" from a cyberattack
Group plans to be largely out of commission for several weeks.
Lionsgate releases a new trailer for Sunrise on the Reaping
Also: Laika Studios debuts a stunning full-length trailer for its stop-motion feature, Wildwood .
Not just Proton: Getting to know Valve's new SteamOS compatibility layers
New system-level tools bring Arm chipsets, Android APKs into the Steam ecosystem.
California may gut state net neutrality law to comply with Trump admin demand
Trump admin broadband grants forbid states from enforcing net neutrality laws.
Researchers swap in human brain cells for a mouse's cortex
The results are only a slight improvement over missing the entire brain structure.
Scientists develop new method for deciphering ancient scrolls
Even a handheld XRF scanner is sufficient to determine most promising scrolls for further analysis.
The Specialized Diverge 4 Pro makes rough gravel your playground
The Diverge 4 Pro is happiest when the road gets ugly.
Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Can Provide A Nice Boost For Low-End/Budget Hardware
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.
It’s OK to tell ICE their actions will haunt them, judge rules in speech fight
Man wins fight to block ICE threat over off-the-cuff angry email.
Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data
War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand.
GNOME 51 Released With Improved Frame Scheduling, Many App Improvements
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...
What happens when neutrinos swap identities inside a supernova?
Identity-fluid particles may carry some energy out, leading to direct collapse.
macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica review
It's both a "Snow Leopard update" and a major leap for Apple Intelligence.
The world’s best racing driver is about to race 100 karts at once
Red Bull, Disney+, and ESPN are streaming the race at noon Eastern today.
Lawmakers target Flock cameras with a threat to highway funding
A bipartisan bill would restrict Flock cameras to a handful of public safety uses.
Crash-Safe & Copy-On-Write GEFS As The "Good Enough File-System" For OpenBSD
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...
Linux Randomly Picking Idle CPU Cores Shows Modest Win On High Core Count Systems
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...
AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Enabling SEV-TIO TDISP With PCIe 6.0
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...
Ubuntu 26.10 Moves cp, mv & rm Over To Rust Coreutils For 100% Transition
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...
How chimps teach their kids tool tricks
Adults first demonstrate tool use, then hand over the implements to their infants, who copy the behavior.
The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA's expectations
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the first NASA observatory designed for in-space refueling.
“Filmmaker” suing PassThePopcorn may be banned user out for revenge
Allegedly fake filmmaker targeted trackers like PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, and HDBits.
18-year-old dies of measles in PA from severe neurological complication
Teen developed acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a known measles complication.
SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbit, sets launch date next week
Reaching orbit would mark a significant milestone.