# The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation > Source: > Published: 2026-09-12 09:00:00+00:00 ### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai) - LEGAL #### 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 - SECURITY #### Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consentWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance - SYSTEMS #### 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 - ai and ml #### Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AIClaude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's - SYSTEMS #### 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 ### [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) - #### 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 - #### 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 - #### Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fastA real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone