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AI

- SECURITY

Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance

- SYSTEMS

d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs

AI infrastructure startup joins Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu, and MediaTek as NVLink true believers

- ai and ml

Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI

Claude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's

- SYSTEMS

Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chain

Semiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory

- AI+ML

Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas

See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad

Infosec

- Security

Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks

PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!

- Security

Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack

PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more

- Black Hat and DEF CON

DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure

Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included

- Security

EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis

Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified

- Malware Month

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight

On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career

FOSS

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Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'

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Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365

Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push

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Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux

Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin

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Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels

The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next

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Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000s

The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot

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Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast

A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone