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AI and ML
OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter
With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once
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The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey
The newly renamed SpaceXAI wants you to believe little ol' Grok is all grown up
ai and ml
Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks
Third-party testing shows heterogeneous compute platform combining H200s and SN50 RDUs churning out 763 tok/s in MiniMax M2.7
ai and ML
Former GitHub CEO launches competitor designed for the age of vibe coding
As GitHub struggles to manage AI load, challengers take aim
AI and ML
AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top
Inference is become a commodity except for frontier models
Infosec #
Security
Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks
PLUS: 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 attack
PLUS: 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 infrastructure
Voting 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 Acronis
Went 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 sight
On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career
FOSS #
KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives
6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not
Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up
Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default
Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form
Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK
Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'
More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well
Nextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another
History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system
When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'