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Linux 7.1 started phasing out support for Intel's 37-year-old i486 processor. Linux 7.2 removed drivers for the old AMD Elan 32-bit systems on a chip.
And now some i586 and i686 class processors are being removed, reports Phoronix:
Supporting those vintage GPUs without the Time Stamp Counter "TSC" instruction are becoming a burden... TSC-capable Intel Pentium processors and the likes will still be supported with this just being for TSC-less i586/i686 CPUs. Among the CPUs impacted by this latest change is
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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OpenAI has merged the ChatGPT app with Codex, but many users feel disappointed with the change. Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is purging a federal elections commission. What’s happening? This is not the Federal Election Commission being purged, but rather the Election Assistance […] Read more ›
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We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or therapists. What follows is our reading of published research, not advice. The studies here are mostly observational or small, and a pattern across a group of people is not a prescription for any one reader’s life. When we feel stressed, most of us reach for something ... Read more Read more ›
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In a filing, Apple says former employees who left for OpenAI had access to its systems after leaving. Read more ›
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Google's Magic Pointer could change how you interact with Gemini on Googlebooks. Read more ›
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Speed limits aren't the same from one state to another. Prima facie speed limits may sound like legal jargon, but they can affect how tickets are handled. Read more ›
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The iPhone-maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details. Read more ›
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Apple sued OpenAI on Friday, accusing the AI startup of stealing Apple trade secrets as part of a “systematic effort” to develop its own AI-powered devices for consumers. The lawsuit says that OpenAI has recruited more than 400 former Apple employees to work at the company and names two of those Apple alumni as defendants: Tang Tan, OpenAI’s chief hardware officer, and Chang Liu, a member of OpenAI’s technical staff.... Read more ›
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A new analysis found Google’s AI Overviews answered factual questions correctly about 90% of the time, yet more than half of those correct responses weren’t fully supported by the sources Google cited. Google’s AI-powered search is getting better at answering ... Read more ›
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Lawsuit marks collapse of relationship between two of the biggest names in Silicon Valley Read more ›
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Some iPhone screens can get down to a single nit of brightness, but these tricks will help it appear even dimmer. Read more ›
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As more fleets turn to electric vehicles in Europe, it’s worth asking just how drivers are experiencing the transition. The transition from diesel to electric freight transport isn’t simply a matter of switching vehicles; it changes how routes are planned, where drivers stop, how they take breaks, and how they interact with their vehicles throughout ... Read more ›
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OpenAI on Thursday launched ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent embedded inside its flagship chatbot that aims to transform ChatGPT from a question-and-answer tool into an autonomous work platform capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks across users' email, calendars, code repositories, and messaging apps.The product is powered by OpenAI's latest flagship model, GPT-5.6, and is designed to go far beyond generating text. ChatGPT Work can gather context from connected apps,... Read more ›
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Apple today accused OpenAI of stealing Apple trade secrets and intellectual property in its effort to develop an AI hardware device. In a lawsuit filed with the Northern District of California, Apple said it uncovered evidence of a months-long scheme to steal confidential information. Apple says OpenAI hardware lead and former Apple designer Tang Tan and former electrical engineer Chang Liu directed Apple employees interviewing with OpenAI to provide details... Read more ›
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Let's be real, OpenAI isn't giving up on the browser market, it is just changing its strategy. Read more ›
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Samsung's foldable phone launch will take place later this month in London. We'll be there. Read more ›
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Alibaba has reportedly banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code and directed them to its own Qoder platform amid a growing dispute over features that can help identify China-linked users. Reuters reports: The ban is part of a deepening spat between the two companies after Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting its Claude AI model capabilities -- a dispute that highlights the frantic race between the U.S. and China to... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechSpot: Video Game History Foundation founder Frank Cifaldi recently supported claims that piracy is the only effective way to preserve video games. The comments lay the blame squarely on game companies' refusal to keep legacy content available or allow archivists to build legal repositories. Sony's announcement that all PlayStation games will be digital-only from 2028 onward has sparked concern that titles will become... Read more ›
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Startup Ampera has unveiled what it calls the first 3D-printed nuclear reactor module, built around a silicon-carbide core and pressure vessel designed for a thorium-based microreactor. The company says future systems could deliver 15 or 30 megawatts for up to 30 years without refueling. When The Register asked about availability, their spokesperson said: "We expect the power generation portion of the system to be available as early as 2027, with... Read more ›
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The Verge argues that researchers "have made genuine progress in quantum computing — it's just been largely incremental and too esoteric to immediately capture the public's imagination." And there are predictions that quantum computers will finally do something useful as soon as 2028: The drama can overshadow the real progress in quantum computing... Researchers have improved the qubits themselves, so they hold onto information longer. When they hold onto information... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: AI security researchers have uncovered a structural security flaw dubbed GuardFall that allows decades-old Bash shell tricks to bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents. By exploiting shell behaviors such as quote removal and variable expansion, attackers can hide malicious commands in repositories, README files, Makefiles, or other content consumed by AI agents. If executed — particularly in auto-approve or CI environments—the commands can... Read more ›
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EchoStar's satellite pay-TV unit Dish DBS has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, reports Reuters. The move also applies to its wireless subsidiaries, according to the article, and "facilitates the wind-down of Dish Wireless's 5G network operations following an unexpected delay in a spectrum license sale to AT&T... under which EchoStar agreed to sell about 50 megahertz of its nationwide spectrum for $23 billion." Some context from Deadline.com: Charlie Ergen,... Read more ›
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"The owner of AOL and other tech businesses hit Wall Street with a $1.7 billion initial public offering Wednesday," reports the Associated Press: The company is getting $1 billion in proceeds, while the rest is going to shareholders. The stock surged 39.7% in its first day of trading under the symbol "BSP" on the Nasdaq, giving it a market value of $25.2 billion. Among the company's well-known holdings are the... Read more ›
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At the end of 2025, the FSF launched LibrePhone project, which is working to "better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) system on a chip designs available today." The FSF's summer newsletter shares this update: We started with researching the proprietary files in Android phones supported by the Lineage project, an Android-based volunteer-led mobile phone operating system with much free software... Read more ›
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Microsoft is apparently shifting its profits to countries with low taxes — and out of countries where they have many more employees and significant sales. Back in 2005 Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer even said that a low corporate tax rate "is part of the overall advantage of doing business in Ireland," remembers long-time Slashdot reader theodp. (Ballmer added "It would be disingenuous to say otherwise.") But in 2026 the... Read more ›
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As America began celebrating its 250th birthday Saturday, 842,000 homes reported power outages, notes ABC News. Figures from tracking site PowerOutage showed states in America's Northeast and Midwest were impacted by severe weather and extreme heat. That number, which will fluctuate throughout the day as crews work to restore power, is for households, meaning that the number of people impacted by these outages is likely to be much larger... Millions... Read more ›
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