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- AI: Quantum computers and AI are being explored to solve fusion fuel issues, with simulations by the Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM.
- AI and ML: Software engineers can earn high salaries at fast-growing companies, despite AI's complex impact on the tech business.
- Software: Microsoft is restructuring commercial and Xbox teams, citing rapid global changes and the need to avoid complacency.
- AI and ML: AMD's Ryzen AI Halo facilitates local AI but is expensive, priced at $4K with 128 GB of memory.
- AI and ML: Nvidia introduces a double-dipping financing scheme for datacenters to maximize payments.
- Security: Russian phishing attacks impersonate Signal support, while the US targets Iranian propaganda and a marketing company raises data privacy concerns.
- Security: Microsoft patches fail to protect on-prem SharePoint from zero-day attacks, amid other security updates from China and Ring.
- Black Hat and DEF CON: DEF CON expands its Franklin project to include hackers in hardening critical infrastructure, with voting village successes.
- Security: EQT acquires a majority stake in Acronis at a $3.5B+ valuation, strengthening cybersecurity investments.
- Malware Month: Ten years after the first corporate ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen predicts ongoing threats but notes infosec as a stable career.
- FOSS: Collabora releases CODE 26.04 with Markdown support and AI integration, intensifying competition among open-source office suites.
- FOSS: GIMP 0.54 is revived via Flatpak for retro-computing, using the original Motif interface instead of GTK.
- FOSS: Bcachefs exits experimental status in a performance release, but faces challenges with AI-related issues.
- FOSS: France's digital sovereignty push struggles to move away from Microsoft, as shown by Nextcloud's rollout challenges.
- FOSS: The history of CentOS traces its evolution from a hobby project to a default enterprise OS after community efforts post-Red Hat.
- FOSS: Netflix creates and open-sources Project Headroom to reduce AI costs, offering potential savings for users.