AI
Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominanceCommitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers
TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B dealAdvanced packaging tech is essential to the domestic production of high-performance semiconductors used in AI datacenters
Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file systemBut don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right?
Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop UltraPoverty-spec model starts at $2,599 with 24 GB of RAM and 512GB of storage with 128 GB models topping $5,899
Rails originator roasted over Rust boosterismDavid Heinemeier Hansson's agent-coded bakeoff produced curious results
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
OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficultiesPersistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious
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'
source & further reading
theregister.com — original article
AWS launches open-source AI agent sandbox to prevent YOLO mode disasters
Poetry is the new AI security threat as PoeLLM malware infects 3K+ servers
Rails originator roasted over Rust boosterism