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Tuesday, 27 October 2026
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Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail

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Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists

It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all

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OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra

Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price

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Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure

New rules also shut out solo developers, fledgling projects, and anyone who doesn't speak English

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Private equity giant: AI payoff strictly limited to Big Tech

The Magnificent Seven are galloping off with the profits, while the rest of the S&P 500 see no benefit, claims Apollo

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EXCLUSIVE

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger bets on Nagare Labs to vault the memory wall

SRAM-like bandwidth, DRAM-like density, and NAND-like manufacturing: Z2RAM makes big promises, but the road ahead is arduous and littered with the ruins of failed memory vendors

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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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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

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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

Originally reported by The Register.