# Backdoored robot tries its hand at finger chopping and cat cooking > Source: > Published: 2026-10-22 19:57:59+00:00 ### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/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](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) - #### 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