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Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price
El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16
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Want your AI chats to stay private? Brave TEEs up end-to-end encryption
Browser maker using trusted hardware to protect conversations with GLM 5.3 Flash
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$24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust
Microsoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast
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TSMC sends scouts to check whether America's datacenters can deliver
Silicon giant budgets up to $64B for expansion while keeping an eye on construction progress and power supplies
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Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usage
Torvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Red Hat helps teach about tech writing
But learns tough lessons about AI in the process
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NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS
Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations
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OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties
Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious
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Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text
GNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again
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Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care
All this, and angry NeoVim users
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Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*
Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin