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AI - Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers - TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B deal Advanced packaging tech is essential to the domestic production of high-performance semiconductors used in AI datacenters - Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right? - Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra Poverty-spec model starts at $2,599 with 24 GB of RAM and 512GB of storage with 128 GB models topping $5,899 - Rails originator roasted over Rust boosterism David Heinemeier Hansson's agent-coded bakeoff produced curious results 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 - 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 - KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user - Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'
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