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AI - Domestic droid gone amok? Don't worry, you're covered Insurance firms look to insulate domestic humanoid robot owners against the inevitable chaos they will bring - Google's search revenue Ferrari hits an AI-powered speed bump Just wait 'til we add more AI and this thing'll really fly - AWS installs an AI accelerator every 14 seconds and eyes $1 trillion annual revenue Before long, we could be writing about a cloud company with a retail side hustle - Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030 - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse 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 - AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland - Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core Desktop Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing - Systemd adds support for Rust What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd! - FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions - SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux - Red Hat helps teach about tech writing But learns tough lessons about AI in the process
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