"In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC,"
writes the blog It's FOSS.

It ran Steam games and emulators using the PS5's on-board hardware. But this week Andy announced he's "stopping all my work on PS5 Linux" and "stepping away from the PS5 scene."
stopping work on porting the project to the PS5 Pro, which would've shipped sometime in 2027.



Andy Nguyen: After pouring my heart and months of my life into it, including plans to finish PS5 Pro support and release in 2027, it's all down the sink.

The scene used to be a group of highly talented researchers, but now it is just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don't even understand. Slop kiddies found the only hypervisor bug left, which I had also found a while ago, and decided to report to Sony. I asked them to at least wait for GTA 6 to come out so that people would have the opportunity to legally purchase the game and also enjoy Linux. They agreed to wait, but not a day passed and they decided to waste it instead.



Or, as It's FOSS tells it:

Running Linux on a PlayStation console is possible because the PS5 Linux project was able to find a way past the hypervisor using exploits Sony had already patched, covering firmware 3.00 through 7.61. ..

[The bug's discoverer writes it was] found with what he calls his "trusty ai clanker machine" and no help from anyone else. He had even agreed to Andy's request to not disclose the findings. Unexpectedly, a third person, still unnamed, found the same bug using AI a few hours later. Anticipating that there would be more people finding the same bug, [he] decided to post the flaw on HackerOne.
The project's GitHub page and all the related repositories are still there. Nothing has been archived as of today, and if you wanted to, you could start contributing to the PS5 Linux project by taking over any pending work or cooking up new improvements... The PS5 Pro support Andy was building never reached the repository, so you would have to start from scratch... While Andy's departure is a blow to the plan for supporting newer PS5 firmware and the PS5 Pro, other contributors have shown that they can deliver work on the loader without him, and I am hopeful more will follow.

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U.S. military intelligence received an inaccurate report this spring that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program, reports CNN.

"The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode."

Armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship [according to two of the sources]. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said. It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of AI — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.

The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also "almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.


Across the US military and the intelligence community, officials are pushing to weave AI into nearly every facet of their work, from analyzing the huge volumes of raw intelligence the US collects and selecting targets for strikes, to more mundane applications like managing budgeting, logistics and supply chains. But the episode underscores the profound risks of using this powerful, new and relatively poorly understood technology for targeting in the middle of a war...

Officials say the US can't afford to fall behind in integrating AI in case it must one day fight China or another adversary who would potentially be able to stay one step ahead of the US. In January, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth released his agency's "Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Strategy" in a bid to speed up the military's use of AI. "We will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus our investments and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI," Hegseth said in a speech announcing the strategy.


Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader stabiesoft for sharing the news.

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Players in Everton v Ipswich Town match wear black armbands as supporters join in minute’s applause

Players wore black armbands during Everton’s home match against Ipswich Town on Saturday, as part of a tribute to three-year-old Noah Woods, whose body was found after he went missing in Suffolk this week.

A photograph of the boy was shown on the big screen before the Premier League game in Liverpool and three minutes after kick-off both sets of supporters stood to applaud in memory of Noah.

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Leader says party ‘won’t give up the fight’ to defeat ‘nasty populism’ in first-day speech to delegates

The Liberal Democrats’ leader, Sir Ed Davey, took aim at Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and Elon Musk on the first day of his party’s annual conference, saying that they “won’t give up the fight” to defeat “nasty populism” and the far-right party’s “£72m arsenal of hate and lies”.

Speaking from the main stage at Brighton Centre, Davey called on the assembled delegates not to be deterred in the face of Reform’s hope “that the anger and the hatred and the lies will grind us down until eventually we just give up”, and praised earlier speakers for showing “why we care and why we fight”.

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Elor Azaria’s conviction in 2017 for manslaughter of man who stabbed soldier continues to divide country

Israel’s president has pardoned a combat medic who shot dead a badly wounded Palestinian attacker who had stabbed a soldier in the occupied West Bank, in a case that divided the country a decade ago.

Elor Azaria’s conviction in 2017 for manslaughter and his release after serving two-thirds of his 18-month sentence drew enormous attention in Israel, where military service is compulsory for most Jewish men.

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The ballroom extravaganza is back – and for the first time ever, the hosts are generating more excitement than the contestants. How will the new presenting trio fare?

Remember, there’s no voting tonight. And when it does return for next week’s opening live show, you will only be able to vote online. The phone vote was scrapped last series. The ceaseless march of time continues. The robots are coming.

Bring on the shortest show until November. With a lean, mean running time of 110 minutes, tonight’s episode is the snappiest we’ll get for a few weeks, until the 15-strong field is whittled down. Next Saturday’s opening live show will clock in at a whopping 150 minutes, for example.

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Anna Malos and Georgie bonded over their shared love of travel and horses. By their third date, an awkward encounter cemented their relationship

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Georgie and I met at a kick-boxing club in London in 2004. We sparred together in a few beginner classes, just hitting soft pads. Although I didn’t pay her too much attention initially, I immediately recognised she was tall, elegant and very good looking.

It wasn’t until the club’s Christmas drinks that things kicked off between us. We started talking and couldn’t stop. We’d both travelled and worked in Latin America, and also loved horses – Georgie had volunteered with a horse-riding business for tourists in Ecuador. The sparks were flying all over the place.

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The 76-year-old rocker on her pre-gig routine, the one reality show she’d go on and who she’d cast as herself in a film about her life

Your new album is called Freedom and the title track interpolates The Girl Can’t Help It. You’re going to be rocking until they take you out in a box, aren’t you?

When I was 35, a journalist stupidly asked me, “When are you going to retire?” I said, “I will retire when I go on stage, turn my back on the audience, shake my ass, and there’s silence.” This followed me my whole career, so when I got to 65, I said, “I will retire when I go on stage, turn my back on the audience and my ass shakes by itself.”

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In a novel approach to urban housing, some residents have pooled their time and finances into redeveloping single dwellings. It’s a herculean task – with feel-good results

Melbourne architect Chris Gilbert had run out of eggs. He texted a neighbour and within minutes, he says, their child arrived with some. “Then I made brownies and my kids took some over to the neighbours’ house.”

It sounds like a flashback to a bygone era, but this neighbourly exchange took place this month, at the Davison Collaborative, a novel housing project in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. In 2020 the townhouse development replaced one past-its-prime brick veneer house with three architecturally designed three-bedroom family dwellings, trebling the lot’s density and future proofing it “for at least the next 50 years,” says Liam Wallis, from the sustainability focused property development and consultancy company Hip V. Hype.

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From old love letters to pieces of string, our homes are stuffed with stuff. When it comes time to empty a parent’s home, sorting the junk from the memory can be overwhelming

Soon after her marriage in 1952, Ellen Rogers’ mother, Fay, bought a coordinated bedroom ensemble – a floral dressing gown and matching bedspread. The day I talk on the phone with Rogers, she has made a tough decision – she is putting the gown and bedspread in a garbage bag to be sent off to a charity shop. “I feel so bad,” she says.

Fay died in May aged 97, and had lived in the same terrace house in Camperdown in inner Sydney her whole life. Rogers grew up in the house and returned three years ago to be a live-in carer for her mother. Now she’s cleaning out the house so it can be sold. The decisions she must make are endless; which pile for what item – family, rubbish or charity? “It’s overwhelming – there’s so much,” Rogers says, “including every bloody card she ever received.”

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De film ‘Flesh Suit’ heeft de vijftiende editie van het 48 Hour Film Project Rotterdam gewonnen. Twee onervaren en totaal verraste jonge filmmakers kregen zaterdagavond de hoofdprijs uitgereikt in LantarenVenster. "Ik ben een beetje sprakeloos", klonk het vertwijfeld.

I first heard of SKYbrary when it was mentioned in an episode of Mayday during a binge-watch. It is a European aviation-safety reference site developed by EUROCONTROL and other aviation-safety organizations, covering everything from wake turbulence and runway incursions to controlled flight into terrain, human factors, phraseology, weather and emergency procedures.

The accidents and incidents section collects investigation summaries and links them to contributing factors and related safety material. There is also a bookshelf of reports, studies, guidance material and regulatory documents. The human factors material goes well beyond "human error" as an explanation, covering fatigue, distraction, ineffective monitoring, authority gradients, plan-continuation bias, spatial disorientation, workload, communication and decision-making. There is also material on crew resource management, including situational awareness, teamwork and task allocation. It is a little like Wikipedia for aviation safety, except that many of the articles trace accidents back to the procedures, checklists and regulations that were changed or introduced afterward. There are several U.S. counterparts. The NTSB aviation database contains official accident and incident investigations going back to 1962. The FAA's Lessons Learned from Civil Aviation Accidents library turns selected accidents into case studies of what happened, what changed afterwards, and why. NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System, run at Ames Research Center, takes a different approach: confidential voluntary reports from pilots, controllers, mechanics, flight attendants and dispatchers about incidents, mistakes and near-misses. The searchable ASRS database contains the de-identified narratives, an enormous archive of "this did not become an accident, but let me tell you what happened."

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PARIJS (ANP/AFP) - Twee Duitsers zijn zaterdag aangehouden in Parijs, omdat ze met plakband twee schilderijen hadden opgehangen in het Louvre, melden bronnen bij de politie. Ze hingen de nepkunstwerken op in de zaal waar ook de Mona Lisa hangt. Er ontstond lichte schade aan de muren van de historische zaal.

Op een van de werken was een van de twee mannen te zien in een harnas. Op de andere was het tweetal samen met een vrouw afgebeeld. De beveiligingsdienst van het museum heeft de mannen aangehouden en de politie ingeschakeld. De mannen hebben verklaard dat het om een grap ging.

De bewakers van het Louvre constateerden lichte beschadigingen aan de muur toen ze de twee schilderijen van de muur haalden. De Mona Lisa, het wereldberoemde kunstwerk van Leonardo da Vinci, had geen schade opgelopen.

De beveiliging van het Louvre ligt onder een vergrootglas nadat vorig jaar een bende inbrekers in enkele minuten tijd kroonjuwelen met een geschatte waarde van 88 miljoen euro wist te stelen.

Rapidly changing technology, wielded by a lawless enemy, may be the future of war.