AI
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
Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights modelsNew embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows
Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere visionContainerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all feature in Berlin keynote interrupted by environmental protesters
Nvidia's grand plan for speeding up datacenter deployments: AI trailer parksGPUzilla boasts modular bit barns could speed up deployments from six months to just two weeks
The spec is the new code, so brush up on your prose, says Kaseya CTODomain expertise and clear writing will matter more than syntax, and yes, that means documentation
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
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
Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin
source & further reading
theregister.com — original article
PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk
LiteLLM supply chain attack hoovers up passwords and secrets
UK finance watchdog wants firms to report AI failures and close calls