AI
Microsoft's Azure Linux gets 470-plus security fixes in one almighty patching sessionA mountain of CVEs, a certificate cleanup, and yet more work for Microsoft's patching teams
PyTorch 2.15 tackles the 'one bad GPU' problemTechnical debt shoveled aside to make large-scale AI training more resilient
Meta brings Conductor on board its model trainAgent orchestration startup gets its exit
Bare metal boom: On-prem server sales for HPC and AI up 20% this yearFirms still want kit on-premises, but spike in revenue is as much about increased costs as higher sales
Windows pushed AI PCs, but now it's hit a wall of RAM pricesCustomers sweating assets amid tight budgets, as Microsoft execs get creative with sales pitches
Infosec
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
Crowd fave Linux Mint update approaches, fresh from autumn release of Cinnamon desktopMint 27 to land before Christmas, with stable Wayland display upgrades, as punters try out Cinnamon 6.8
openSUSE Leap 16.1 gives Linux users the right to remain immutableOne installer now offers conventional and read-only systems as separate Micro distro bows out
Achieving nirvana: Enlightenment 0.28 hits the desktopVery nearly 30something environment gets spruced up… and there's a new Trinity, too
Architect creates open source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hiddenOpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale
AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OSCombining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland
Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core DesktopCanonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing
source & further reading
theregister.com — original article
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PyTorch 2.15 tackles the 'one bad GPU' problem