The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation

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.

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