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AI - Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra - Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs Like OpenClaw but with access control - INTERVIEW Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute? - Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows Exploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk 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 - 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' - Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push
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