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- OpenAI encrypts Codex agent instructions, causing developer concerns over debugging and auditing.
- Anthropic's Claude exhibits varied values across languages, such as being nicer in Hindi or Arabic.
- New York halts datacenter buildouts over 50 MW pending environmental and ratepayer protection rules.
- IBM's mainframe sales decline due to AI hardware spending, with stock losing over a quarter of its value.
- Anthropic's tokenizer complicates AI pricing as token consumption doesn't fully reflect costs.
- Russian actors pose as Signal support for phishing, while US disrupts Iranian propaganda sites.
- Microsoft's patches fail to fix on-prem SharePoint, leaving it vulnerable to zero-day attacks.
- DEF CON's Franklin project expands to include all hackers in hardening critical infrastructure.
- EQT acquires a majority stake in Acronis at a $3.5B+ valuation for the cybersecurity firm.
- Ransomware remains a persistent threat a decade after the first corporate attack, but infosec offers stable career prospects.
- Debian releases final version for x86-32 with updates 13.6 and 12.15.
- Joomla extensions iCagenda and Balbooa Forms exploited with critical vulnerabilities impacting a million sites.
- Frame, a new X11 server written in assembly, joins other X11 alternatives.
- Cinnamon 6.8 adds Wayland support optionally, while Linux Mint's desktop offers both display servers.
- KDE Plasma 6.6.6 is released, with future versions like 6.8 mandating Wayland support.
- Collabora's CODE 26.04 enhances FOSS office suites with Markdown, formula handling, and optional AI integration.