AI
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
Pi coding agent pulls a 180 and adds MCP supportTo maintain minimalism, a new harness layer has been folded into a separate component
Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCPHoma is a rethink of networks for the AI age
Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wienersJust ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.
Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in ChinaThe chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says
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
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
Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander LinuxDebian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin
Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channelsThe Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next
source & further reading
theregister.com — original article
Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP
KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited
Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines