Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action

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AI
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                            ON-PREM EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacentersState and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits
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                            SYSTEMS OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin
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                            SYSTEMS What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gambleGemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators
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                            ON-PREM US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping
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                            ai and ML AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doingYour irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity
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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                            Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a botThe lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one… or does he?
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                            FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash anotherWord up
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                            GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensionsNew 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way
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                            A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15
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                            Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websitesFlaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide
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                            Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assemblyJoins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan

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