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Fox Corp is buying Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $22 billion in a bet that pairing its sports and news programming with a top TV streaming platform will strengthen its position as ​audiences shift online.

The federal government is planning to let a rule regulating federal data center operations sunset in September with no replacement.

Community repo freezes new accounts after attackers swamp it with poisoned package updates

A who’s who of tech elites brainstormed strategies to fight the billionaire tax on a private Signal chat — then set out separately to destroy it.

Coding agent orchestration for engineering teams — shipped as a spec plus a working reference implementation. - vdaubry/bottega

A first look at the new features and improvements in the upcoming Audacity 4 open-source audio editor for Linux.

Just a day after Arch Linux developers believed they got their malware AUR incident under control with 1,500+ packages affected by malware, another round of of AUR malware is now being discovered

As AI coding shifts from prompts to loops, verification becomes the ultimate challenge for cloud-native engineering teams.

A conversation with Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.), who joined Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Ca.) in introducing a discussion draft of comprehensive AI legislation.

Restricting Fable and Mythos has the same unintended consequence of harming defense while doing nothing to impede attackers. We can't export control our way to cyber resilience.

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One of the exciting additions to the Linux 7.1 kernel is the introduction of the new NTFS file-system kernel driver

The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware

The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.

This ensures that all agent activity adheres to the company’s specific commercial licenses, internal security policies, visibility needs, and governance standards.

Anthropic is walking back a hidden policy that researchers say sabotaged their work.

Facebook and Instagram users reported issues with accessing the platforms, according to the third-party outage-tracking website DownDetector.com.

Day three with Swamp: The first commands and interactions.

The Arch Linux User Repository 'AUR' was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised.

The new "Fractal" operating system kernel, developed at MIT, gives researchers a clearer look at how computer chips work internally. It was used to study the branch predictors inside Apple's M1 processor, where it revealed a potential vulnerability to major speculative attacks.

As Seattle halts new data centers, Amazon reveals data showing how outside air and wastewater partnerships have slashed its global water use.

This is my favorite news from all of WWDC this week. I mean that. In a small way I mean it because I so loathe this aspect of MacOS Tahoe. But in a large way I mean it because it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team.

Brutal self-assessment paints a picture of a Microsoft gaming division in crisis.

Hyper-vigilant safety classifiers turn Fable into cautionary tale

Google shares what it has to say about a German court attempting to hold it accountable for errors in AI Overviews.

The company changed course after researchers spoke out against the policy, which would have covertly limited Claude’s ability to develop competing AI models.

PostgreSQL in-database durable execution. Contribute to microsoft/pg_durable development by creating an account on GitHub.

Zero-config, fast `io_uring`-based HTTPS server. Contribute to losfair/zeroserve development by creating an account on GitHub.