# Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China > Source: > Published: 2026-10-26 21:27:37+00:00 ### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai) - #### Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measureNew rules also shut out solo developers, fledgling projects, and anyone who doesn't speak English - #### Private equity giant: AI payoff strictly limited to Big TechThe Magnificent Seven are galloping off with the profits, while the rest of the S&P 500 see no benefit, claims Apollo - EXCLUSIVE #### Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger bets on Nagare Labs to vault the memory wallSRAM-like bandwidth, DRAM-like density, and NAND-like manufacturing: Z2RAM makes big promises, but the road ahead is arduous and littered with the ruins of failed memory vendors - #### Britain bets big on AI to defend against the threats AI is helping createWhitehall wants agents guarding critical infrastructure as part of a wider £600M spending spree - #### Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patchesKernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good ### [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) - #### SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendriveInteresting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux - #### Red Hat helps teach about tech writingBut learns tough lessons about AI in the process - #### NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OSIncreasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations - #### OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficultiesPersistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious - #### Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-textGNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again - #### Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of careAll this, and angry NeoVim users