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AI - UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones - Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all - 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 - 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 - 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 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 - 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 - SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux - Red Hat helps teach about tech writing But learns tough lessons about AI in the process - NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations - OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious - 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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