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AI - Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model - HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon Mystery silicon and mirrored SSDs set to touch down before year's end - 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 - 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 - $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 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 - 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 - Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care All this, and angry NeoVim users - Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?* Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin
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