# New online tool will check lawyers' sloppy AI-written briefs since they can't seem to be bothered > Source: > Published: 2026-10-16 16:08:35+00:00 ### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai) - #### Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a priceEl Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16 - #### Want your AI chats to stay private? Brave TEEs up end-to-end encryptionBrowser maker using trusted hardware to protect conversations with GLM 5.3 Flash - #### $24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to RustMicrosoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast - #### TSMC sends scouts to check whether America's datacenters can deliverSilicon giant budgets up to $64B for expansion while keeping an eye on construction progress and power supplies - #### Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usageTorvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use ### [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) - #### NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OSIncreasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations - #### 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