# Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they're... quite good > Source: > Published: 2026-07-14 15:38:59+00:00 ### MOST POPULAR [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai) - ai and ml #### New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts 50 MW-plus bit barn builds on hold while Empire State hashes out rules to protect the environment and ratepayers - on-prem #### IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock loses more than a quarter of its value CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing' - AI and ML #### Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored - systems #### Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company - AI and ML #### The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costs Cheap can be expensive [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) - #### Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide - #### Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan - #### Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it Next version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server - #### KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives 6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not - #### Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default - #### Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK