Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, promises not to squeeze too hard

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AI
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                            ai and ml Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note
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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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                            Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included
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                            Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career
FOSS
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                            Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000sThe FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot
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                            Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fastA real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone
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                            Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas
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                            Debian votes to let contributors code with AIDisclosure optional, quality mandatory
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                            LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AIIt looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer
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                            Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is comingGRUB's up for furry new update

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