AI
Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLsLike OpenClaw but with access control
INTERVIEW #### Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI acceleratorsWho said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute? #
Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack showsExploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says
Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenterGrid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk
Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunchMeanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price
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
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
KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposalAkademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom lineAcquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'
Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push
source & further reading
theregister.com — original article
Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what
Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows
Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report