AI
Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wienersJust ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.
Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in ChinaThe chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says
Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injectionsIt's a worm attack, AI-style
Zuckerberg touts enterprise AI push because Meta would never do anything to damage your reputationNew business unit to be led by former MongoDB CEO 'CJ' Desai
AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrifiedRegular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap
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
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'
Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push
Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander LinuxDebian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin
Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channelsThe Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next
source & further reading
theregister.com — original article
KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited
Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections
AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies