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How a Valve Engineer Breathed New Life Into Old AMD GPUs on Linux
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has improved support for AMD's decade-old GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs in the AMDGPU driver. He recounted the work at the XDC2026 conference in Toronto.
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System76 bans AI-generated code across much of the Pop!_OS codebase
The developers of Pop!_OS at System76 have barred AI-generated code from many of the repositories tied to their COSMIC desktop environment.
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ShinyHunters hacker reportedly held in Jordan, helping the FBI
Reuters reports that a ShinyHunters member known online as Rey has been detained in Jordan and is now cooperating with investigators to help locate his alleged co-conspirators.
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Jack Dorsey's Bitchat vanishes from Indian app stores after government order
The decentralized, internet-free messenger has become largely unavailable in India after the IT ministry ordered Apple to pull it from the App Store.
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MI5: Over 100 U.K.-Linked Academics Aided Chinese Spies via Front Institute
Britain's domestic intelligence agency has issued an unprecedented warning: the CGTRI research body funds work serving China's state security ministry, and many academics may not have known who was behind the money.
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Warlock Keeps Exploiting SharePoint Flaws to Hit Critical Infrastructure
The suspected China-linked Warlock group continues to weaponize Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities, disable security tools, and deploy ransomware. Its recent victims span Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries.
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Kolibri: Aleph Alpha's Sovereign Open-Weight Model
German firm Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, an open-weight language model timed to the Day of German Unity: 78B parameters, only 3B active, and a heavy emphasis on "digital sovereignty."
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An OpenAI safety staffer quits and sounds the alarm
David Robinson, who wrote the safety reports for OpenAI's major model releases, has left the company and, in an editorial for The Atlantic, calls the industry's culture 'broken.'
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Danish university DTU breach exposes data of up to 200,000 people
The Technical University of Denmark says attackers broke into its DTUBasen identity system and downloaded information spanning nearly two decades.
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How to Hack Time, With C2PA
Security researcher David Buchanan produced a photo bearing a cryptographically "unforgeable" C2PA timestamp proving he knew the winning lottery numbers hours before the draw. The whole trick turns on one quirk of the C2PA spec.
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Rust comes to CPython: zlib will be the first module
At the Python Language Summit 2026 the Rust for CPython team laid out a roadmap for gradually bringing Rust into the interpreter — starting with an optional implementation of the zlib module in Python 3.16.
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Zig 0.17 released: reworked build system and incremental compilation
The new version of the Zig programming language gathers five months of work: a reworked build system and an improved ELF linker that should finally make incremental compilation work for everyone on x86_64-linux.
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Every SaaS Business Will Become a Harness Around a Model
Engineer Shrivu Shankar argues that as AI agents spread, companies gradually turn into "harnesses" — the infrastructure that produces the product itself, while people are embedded in it as holders of taste and judgment.
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Google Hands gVisor Over to the CNCF
The container sandboxing runtime its own authors jokingly call "the second most mature Linux after Linux" is moving under the governance of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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Sanders files bill to bar the federal government from using Flock
Senator Bernie Sanders has proposed banning federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers and from tapping the data those readers collect.
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Someone Got Doom Running Inside an SQL Database
An enthusiast made the classic Doom run using nothing but a database: around 1,300 lines of SQL render the picture at 35 frames per second.
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A fake gig and a git hook: an attempt to steal developer credentials
REVSYS founder Frank Wiles describes how a supposed client tried to run arbitrary code on his laptop through an innocent-looking git repository.
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Qubes OS 4.3.2 bundles up the accumulated security fixes
The Qubes team has released 4.3.2, a patch build that consolidates every security update and bug fix since the last stable release. The default Fedora template moves to version 44 and the kernel-latest package to Linux 7.2.
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock License-Plate Search Was Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
A judge in Oklahoma found that an officer violated the Fourth Amendment by running a California plate through Flock's automated reader network without a warrant. The nationwide system, she wrote, is approaching "indiscriminate mass surveillance."
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US arrests tech CEO over alleged $300M Nvidia chip smuggling into China
US authorities have detained the head of a technology company accused of illegally shipping about $300 million worth of Nvidia accelerators into China. As Ars Technica notes, Nvidia's chip-smuggling problem is not going away, and the arrests keep coming.
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