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- The Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM are simulating molten salts to address the tritium fuel challenge in fusion energy.
- AI's impact on tech businesses is complex, with software engineers still earning high salaries at fast-growing companies despite AI advancements.
- Microsoft is restructuring its commercial and Xbox teams, acknowledging rapid global changes and the need to adapt beyond longevity.
- AMD's Ryzen AI Halo offers local AI capabilities but comes at a high cost of $4,000 with 128 GB of memory.
- Nvidia introduces a datacenter financing scheme that allows double payments, aiming to maximize revenue.
- Russian actors are impersonating Signal support for phishing attacks, while the US disrupts Iranian propaganda sites and a marketing company faces data privacy questions.
- Microsoft's patches fail to fix on-prem SharePoint vulnerabilities, leaving it vulnerable to zero-day attacks, alongside China enhancing smartphone surveillance and Ring adjusting anti-snooping policies.
- DEF CON's Franklin project engages hackers to strengthen critical infrastructure, with the entire conference now involved in such efforts.
- EQT acquires a majority stake in Acronis at a valuation exceeding $3.5 billion, signaling growth in cybersecurity investments.
- Ten years after the first corporate ransomware attack, infosec expert Mikko Hyppönen predicts continued threats but notes the field offers stable career opportunities.
- Collabora releases CODE 26.04 with Markdown support and improved formula handling, though AI features are disabled by default in the competitive FOSS office suite market.
- GIMP 0.54 is revived via Flatpak for retro-computing enthusiasts, marking a nostalgic return to the Motif interface before GTK adoption.
- Bcachefs moves out of experimental status with performance enhancements, incorporating more Rust code but facing challenges from AI-generated content.
- France's push for digital sovereignty struggles against Microsoft's dominance, with Nextcloud highlighting difficulties in transitioning users from Office to local storage solutions.
- CentOS evolved from a biochemist's hobby project into a default enterprise OS, driven by community efforts after Red Hat's shift towards Windows.
- Netflix engineer open-sources Project Headroom, an app designed to significantly reduce AI-related costs for users.