Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off
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- New York imposes a halt on datacenter buildouts exceeding 50 MW to develop environmental and ratepayer protection rules.
- IBM's mainframe sales suffer as customers prioritize AI hardware spending, leading to a significant stock value drop.
- Anthropic's tokenizer complicates AI pricing, indicating token consumption alone doesn't fully represent costs.
- Russian attackers impersonate Signal support for phishing, amid US takedowns of Iranian propaganda sites and marketing data concerns.
- Microsoft's patches fail to resolve on-prem SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities, with additional reports on Chinese surveillance and Ring policies.
- DEF CON's Franklin project expands to include all attendees in efforts to harden critical infrastructure, building on voting village success.
- EQT acquires a majority stake in Acronis at a valuation over $3.5 billion, highlighting growth in cybersecurity investments.
- Ransomware persists a decade after its first corporate attack, with infosec noted as a stable career field.
- Debian releases final x86-32 version 13.6 and 12.15, marking the end of an era for 32-bit support.
- Vulnerabilities in Joomla extensions iCagenda and Balbooa Forms are exploited, affecting millions of sites worldwide.
- Frame, a new X11 server implemented in assembly, joins alternative server projects in the FOSS community.
- Cinnamon 6.8 introduces optional Wayland support, catering to user preferences in display server technology.
- KDE Plasma moves to version 6.6.6, with future updates enforcing Wayland adoption regardless of user choice.
- Collabora releases CODE 26.04 with enhanced features like Markdown support and integrated AI, intensifying competition among FOSS office suites.