Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor Ukraine has unveiled a new jet-powered drone interceptor designed to counter Russian drones, according to a report from The Register. The native design aims to provide a cost-effective defense against aerial threats, with the interceptor featuring a jet engine for high-speed pursuit. The announcement comes amid ongoing conflict, highlighting Ukraine's focus on domestic drone innovation. TOP STORIES AI https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai - SYSTEMS What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators - ON-PREM US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years ... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping - ai and ML AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity - SAAS Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says Show us the money - ai and ml AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature Infosec https://beta.theregister.com/security - Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks PLUS: 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 attack PLUS: 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 infrastructure Voting 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 Acronis Went 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 sight On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career FOSS https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS - Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one… or does he? - FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another Word up - GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way - A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32 New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15 - Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide - Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan