Could 'dark photons' explain dark matter?
Fonte: Space.com
New research suggests that if dark matter is composed of "dark photons," it would not have heated the early cosmos like scientists thought.…
Science Daily
Scientists discover how gut bacteria “train” the intestine to fight inflammation
Fonte: Science Daily
A compound made when gut bacteria break down dietary fiber may do more than briefly calm inflammation—it could leave a lasting protective “memory” in the gut. N…
Partial lunar eclipse live: Latest news, viewing tips and live updates from Aug. 27-28 eclipse
Daisy Dobrijevic · Space.com
Follow our live coverage as we count down to the deepest partial lunar eclipse until December 2028, with the latest news, viewing tips and live updates.…
Science Daily
Ozempic does something unexpected to the brain’s hunger neurons
Fonte: Science Daily
Ozempic may work in the brain in almost the opposite way scientists expected, activating hunger-linked neurons that appear essential for sustaining fat loss. Th…
Rust Blog
Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly
Fonte: Rust Blog
After nearly 4 years of active development, the next-generation trait solver is close to stabilization. We are enabling it by default on nightly to surface any …
Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation for Ubuntu
Sourav Rudra · itsFOSS
Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust.…
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[$] Considering the OpenMDW license
Fonte: LWN.net
The open-source world has been struggling for a few years now to understand how to approach large language models (LLMs) and the licensing applied to them. What…
Linux 7.3 Lands Improvements For Voodoo 3 / 4 / 5 & Vintage Atari Computers In 2026
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
At a time when Linux continues dropping older hardware drivers due to the influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports and patches for hardware extremely unlikely to …
AI Is Learning to Write Genetic Code
Bruce Schneier · Schneier on Security
This sort of research is both exciting and terrifying: The two models in question were told to generate complete genomes for a viable bacteriophage—a type of vi…
Security updates for Friday
Fonte: LWN.net
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (ansible-core and pcp), Debian (chromium, libgit2, python-httplib2, and sabnzbdplus), Fedora (dokuwiki, domoticz,…
Framework Laptop 16 With GeForce RTX 5070 12GB, One-Piece Keyboard & Haptic Touchpad
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
While the past few weeks have been quite busy with the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro testing with that all-new laptop model and paired with Intel's Core Ultra Ser…
More Incidents of AIs Going Rogue in Cybersecurity Challenges
Bruce Schneier · Schneier on Security
The AI Security Institute has a new report of AI systems engaging in “unsanctioned behavior”—what I have been calling “genie behavior—while being tested on thei…
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[$] A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit
Fonte: LWN.net
Quickshell is a toolkit for building desktop components, such as toolbars or menus. It uses QML, which is a declarative language for designing GUI applications.…
Nginx Dark Mode Support For Error Pages Remains Elusive
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
In early 2025 I wrote about the upstream Nginx web server rejecting dark mode support for its error pages on the basis of wanting to keep the default error page…
EFF Deeplinks
EFF and Civil Society Groups Call on Nottinghamshire Police to Halt Live Face Recognition
Paige Collings · EFF Deeplinks
This week, EFF, along with Big Brother Watch, Defend Digital Me, Liberty, Open Rights Group, Race Equality First, Statewatch, and Stopwatch, wrote to Nottingham…
Intel Computer Vision Sensing Driver Now Ready For Nova Lake
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
The main set of media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. Notable this round is the Intel Computer Vision Sensing "CVS" d…
Hardware
Brasileiro monta PC com três Radeon HD 4890 para reviver CrossFire e brinca: “só preciso de um patrocinador de fonte”
William R. Plaza · Hardware
Brasileiro reúne três Radeon HD 4890 para ressuscitar uma configuração CrossFire. O desafio agora é encontrar uma fonte que dê conta da configuração.…
Linux 7.3 Cleans Up Stack Randomization, Ensures It Happen As Early As Possible
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Merged this week for the Linux 7.3 kernel was a big clean-up to the stack randomization code for better security on Linux systems and helping unify some of the …
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Hardware
Samsung vê procura por chips disparar com IA e passa a cobrar até 15% mais
William R. Plaza · Hardware
Samsung elevou em até 15% o preço de alguns serviços de fabricação de chips após a demanda por IA ocupar suas linhas mais avançadas.…
Intel Compute Runtime 26.31.39395.13 Continues Prepping For Crescent Island, OpenCL LEO
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Intel today released the Compute Runtime 26.31.39395.13 open-source GPU compute stack update for Windows and Linux systems. Big ongoing trends for the Intel Com…
Linux 7.3 Ready With CXL Type-2 Driver Support For AMD Solarflare NICs
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
With the mainline Linux 7.2 kernel there is now the basic support in place for CXL Type-2 accelerator drivers within the CXL core subsystem code. The first in-t…
Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, "Enormously Helped" By AI
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
It's pretty rare to see Linus Torvalds author patches himself pertaining to the open-source Linux graphics drivers, but waking up this morning I was surprised t…
Intel Mesa Linux Drivers Now Treating Nova Lake S / U / H / HX As Stable
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
Intel's open-source Mesa drivers for Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV (Vulkan) on Linux are no longer treating next-gen Nova Lake processors with integrated grap…
Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs
Michael Larabel · Phoronix
All of the networking subsystem feature updates were merged today for the Linux 7.3 kernel's merge window. There are a lot of wired and wireless networking impr…
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