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systems
Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years
Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits
Devops
Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen
93% of organizations report infrastructure incidents attributable to AI
ai and ml
Loop engineering, latest AI buzzword, still needs humans in the loop
Prompting less and automating more comes with a price
ai and ml
OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions
Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost
DATABASES
21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI
Annual report reveals workforce fell from 162,000 to 141,000 in a year as company pours billions into datacenter expansion
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 #
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'
Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it
Project Headroom could save you big money, too
OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge
Sixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak