Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute

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AI
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                            SYSTEMS AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLinkIntel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack
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                            AI AND ML Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to failAmerican model devs are trying to convince Washington to cement their dominance
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                            on-prem Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harderTax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing
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                            LEGAL Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too lateEven if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required
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                            SECURITY Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consentWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance
Infosec
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                            Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!
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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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                            Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified
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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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                            Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom lineAcquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'
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                            Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push
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                            Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander LinuxDebian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin
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                            Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channelsThe Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next
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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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