# Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections > Source: > Published: 2026-09-29 21:34:39+00:00 ### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai) - #### Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injectionsIt's a worm attack, AI-style - #### Zuckerberg touts enterprise AI push because Meta would never do anything to damage your reputationNew business unit to be led by former MongoDB CEO 'CJ' Desai - #### AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrifiedRegular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap - #### Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatmentEquinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself - #### Investors are pricing in a 32.6% AI productivity boost for software engineersEconomists turn stock movements into an estimate of anticipated gains – while warning that markets can get carried away ### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security) - Security #### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: 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 attackPLUS: 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 infrastructureVoting 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 AcronisWent 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 sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career ### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS) - #### KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposalAkademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user - #### Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom lineAcquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home' - #### Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push - #### Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander LinuxDebian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin - #### Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channelsThe Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next - #### Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000sThe FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot