# High-severity Nvidia bug could crash GPU monitoring on exposed servers > Source: > Published: 2026-10-08 18:17:08+00:00 ### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/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](https://beta.theregister.com/security) - 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](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/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'