The ideal database for AI agents doesn't exist yet, says Percona CEO

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AI
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                            Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120KThe Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM
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                            Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancerExecutive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections
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                            Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AISlinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists
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                            Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallelRunning multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit
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                            FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6BAI, fake uniforms, and mock offices help crooks sell the con
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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                            KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposalAkademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
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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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