Linus Torvalds says Linux kernel is out of ‘stabilization phase’ and using ‘much healthier model’ for AI contributions
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Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use
A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession
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Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan
How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot
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Domestic droid gone amok? Don't worry, you're covered
Insurance firms look to insulate domestic humanoid robot owners against the inevitable chaos they will bring
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Google's search revenue Ferrari hits an AI-powered speed bump
Just wait 'til we add more AI and this thing'll really fly
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AWS installs an AI accelerator every 14 seconds and eyes $1 trillion annual revenue
Before long, we could be writing about a cloud company with a retail side hustle
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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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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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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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AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS
Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland
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Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core Desktop
Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing
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Systemd adds support for Rust
What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!
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FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases
Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions
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SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive
Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux
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Red Hat helps teach about tech writing
But learns tough lessons about AI in the process