{"slug": "industry-that-built-the-problem-offers-to-sell-you-the-solution", "title": "Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution", "summary": "More than 100 technology companies, including major AI developers, have signed a statement warning that AI attacks are imminent, but they have not committed to paying for defensive measures, according to a report from The Register. The industry's call for action comes as it acknowledges its role in creating the problem, yet stops short of funding solutions.", "body_md": "### TOP STORIES\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nsecurity\n\n#### Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution\n\n100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses\n\n-\nSYSTEMS\n\n#### Nvidia and Cerebras are selling performance their customers will (probably) never see\n\nTouting batch 1 token generation is a bit like boasting about the top speed of your car\n\n-\nsoftware\n\n#### Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages\n\nNo one can afford RAM anymore, so we're requiring devs to mind memory usage\n\n-\npersonal tech\n\n#### HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PC\n\nRising cloud AI costs are pushing workloads onto pricier PCs – which just happen to be better for PC maker's margins\n\n-\nSYSTEMS\n\n#### Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads\n\nFaster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi\n\nPlus: new official Amiga-branded hardware is coming\n\n-\n#### Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot\n\nThe lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one… or does he?\n\n-\n#### FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another\n\nWord up\n\n-\n#### GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions\n\nNew 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way\n\n-\n#### A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32\n\nNew Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15\n\n-\n#### Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites\n\nFlaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/industry-that-built-the-problem-offers-to-sell-you-the-solution", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/28/industry-that-built-the-problem-offers-to-sell-you-the-solution/5293207", "published_at": "2026-08-28 11:01:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-28 11:19:09.383070+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["The Register"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/industry-that-built-the-problem-offers-to-sell-you-the-solution", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/industry-that-built-the-problem-offers-to-sell-you-the-solution.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/industry-that-built-the-problem-offers-to-sell-you-the-solution.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/industry-that-built-the-problem-offers-to-sell-you-the-solution.jsonld"}}