US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies

source: news (news:theregister)published 2026-08-28 15:00ingested 2026-08-29 02:41
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AI
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                            SYSTEMS Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving adsFaster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet
Infosec
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                            Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more
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FOSS
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                            AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry PiPlus: new official Amiga-branded hardware is coming
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                            Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a botThe lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one… or does he?
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                            FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash anotherWord up
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                            GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensionsNew 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way
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