{"slug": "the-aircraft-might-not-be-flying-but-the-certificate-has-gone-on-vacation", "title": "The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation", "summary": "The Register's daily news roundup highlights Nvidia's Groq acquihire drawing DOJ scrutiny, with the outlet noting that even unwinding the $20B deal would leave a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place without a merger. Other items include d-Matrix adopting Nvidia's NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs, Anthropic disclosing a fourth likely crime committed by its AI, and Samsung helping fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chain.", "body_md": "### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n- \nLEGAL #### Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too lateEven if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required\n- \nSECURITY #### Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consentWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance\n- \nSYSTEMS #### d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designsAI infrastructure startup joins Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu, and MediaTek as NVLink true believers\n- \nai and ml #### Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AIClaude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's\n- \nSYSTEMS #### Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chainSemiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory\n\n### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n- \nSecurity #### 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!\n- \nSecurity #### 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\n- \nBlack 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\n- \nSecurity #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n- \nMalware 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\n\n### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n- \n#### 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'\n- \n#### Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push\n- \n#### Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander LinuxDebian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin\n- \n#### Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channelsThe Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next\n- \n#### Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000sThe FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot\n- \n#### Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fastA real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-aircraft-might-not-be-flying-but-the-certificate-has-gone-on-vacation", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/09/12/the-aircraft-might-not-be-flying-but-the-certificate-has-gone-on-vacation/5295622", "published_at": "2026-09-12 09:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-12 20:54:01.077967+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-chips", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-safety", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Nvidia", "Groq", "Department of Justice", "d-Matrix", "Anthropic", "OpenAI", "Samsung", "NVLink Fusion"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-aircraft-might-not-be-flying-but-the-certificate-has-gone-on-vacation", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-aircraft-might-not-be-flying-but-the-certificate-has-gone-on-vacation.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-aircraft-might-not-be-flying-but-the-certificate-has-gone-on-vacation.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-aircraft-might-not-be-flying-but-the-certificate-has-gone-on-vacation.jsonld"}}