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AI and ML
Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI
Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?
SYSTEMS
AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUs
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
AI and ML
Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss, promotes human FLOSS
AI no longer welcome in human-focused community
Systems
AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's
Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper
DEVOPS
Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past
Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog
Infosec #
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 #
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
Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it
Next version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server
KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives
6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not