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Ubuntu Website Down Amid Sustained DDoS Attack
The official Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and related resources have become unavailable amid a confirmed, ongoing distributed denial-of-service attack.
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US bars Microsoft, Adobe, and major IT firms from skilled-worker green card program
The Trump administration is suspending several tech companies from a permanent-residency program, accusing them of fraud. The list also includes Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro.
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Nova Driver Keeps Advancing: A Rust-Based NVIDIA Kernel Driver Aiming for Official Use
At the LPC2026 conference in Prague, engineers from NVIDIA and Red Hat shared the progress on Nova — an open-source Linux kernel driver for NVIDIA GPUs written in Rust.
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China's Manus raises over $500M after failed Meta deal
It's the startup's first funding round since Chinese authorities forced it to abandon a $2 billion acquisition by Meta. Investors include Boyu Capital, IDG Capital, Tencent and others.
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Google unveils a one-stop Gemini agent for your work tasks
At its Gemini at Work event the company showed a "universal" AI agent that runs in the background and handles assignments from a single interface. For now access is limited to enterprise customers in a private preview.
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Classic demoscene productions run in the browser — recompiled to WebAssembly
The demoscene-recomp project takes the original DOS code of legendary early-1990s demos and turns it into WebAssembly instruction by instruction, preserving exact cycle timing.
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Migrating Git Repos to SHA-256: An Adventure With Submodules
A hands-on account of moving a Git repository to the SHA-256 object format — and why the official documentation turns into meaningless soup the moment submodules enter the picture.
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ASOS Blames Data Breach on Social Engineering and Stolen Credentials
UK online fashion retailer ASOS has confirmed that its recent data breach stemmed from attackers tricking an employee out of login credentials and using them to reach the company's third-party platforms.
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Pwn2Own Ireland Day Two: Galaxy S26 Falls Three More Times
On the second day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2026, researchers earned $232,500 by demonstrating 45 unique zero-day vulnerabilities. Samsung's flagship was once again the star of the show.
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U.S. Offers Up to $10 Million for Information on HAFNIUM Suspect Zhang Yu
The State Department is willing to pay up to $10 million for information on Chinese national Zhang Yu, charged in the U.S. over the 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server attacks.
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Steam Beta Now Runs Non-Steam Windows Binaries Through Proton by Default
Valve has shipped a new Steam client beta in which non-Steam Windows applications now default to running through Proton.
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Microsoft Ships First Release of Its LiteBox Sandboxing Library OS
Microsoft has tagged the first release of LiteBox, an open-source, Rust-based library operating system built for sandboxing applications.
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Microsoft Unveils New AI-Friendly Hardware and Windows Changes
At its event, Microsoft announced AI-oriented devices and Windows updates — the company promises even more AI, both inside the OS and on the desktop.
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“Software is over”: a developer ships AI-built open source clones of Adobe
An ambitious tinkerer is pitting free, open source alternatives against Adobe's Creative Cloud — built with the Opus model. The projects are bold and open, but nowhere near finished.
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Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments
The founder of MonsterCloud has been charged with fraud: instead of the proprietary decryption technology he advertised, prosecutors say he quietly paid the attackers themselves — while billing clients many times more.
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TP-Link's US woes deepen: FCC router ban and four state lawsuits
Networking vendor TP-Link faces mounting pressure in the United States: an FCC ban that keeps its newest routers off the market and lawsuits in four separate states.
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ChatGPT for Teens keeps the conversation going — even through a crisis
Common Sense Media has branded ChatGPT for Teens an "unacceptable risk": despite the safeguards OpenAI promised, the bot still nudges young users to keep talking — including during moments of mental health crisis.
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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5: cheaper, but with a token catch
Anthropic's new fast, low-cost model matches the price of OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna — but only up to 100,000 tokens, and with a less generous tokenizer.
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ChatGPT's 'Intelligent UI' turns answers into charts, diagrams, and buttons
OpenAI is rolling out Intelligent UI: alongside GPT-6, the chatbot can now pair its text replies with interactive diagrams, forms, and built-in tools.
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curl 8.23.0 ships early over a serious vulnerability
The curl project is bringing version 8.23.0 forward to October 14, bundling a fix for one HIGH-severity flaw together with twenty-one lesser ones.
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