# Devs in the trenches are stressed from the mandate to automate everything, but Render thinks it can help > Source: > Published: 2026-06-19 10:15:00+00:00 ### MOST POPULAR [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai) - security #### Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate Campaigners say tech is unable to reliably distinguish between kids and adults at the boundary where use is planned - ai and ml #### Devs in the trenches are stressed from the mandate to automate everything, but Render thinks it can help San Francisco plays host to hosting company's Localhost conference - ai + ml #### Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light' The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention - AI AND ML #### Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger - OS platforms #### Canonical reveals Myna, its local speech-to-text app Bird-branded AI will ride on Stonking Stingray [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security) - 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](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS) - #### 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 - #### Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped Red Hat’s free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend - #### LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business Like AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in