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- OpenAI's GPT-Live improves ChatGPT's conversational abilities by enabling simultaneous talking, listening, and answer formulation.
- SpaceXAI, formerly known for controversial outputs, rebrands as a legal advisor and Excel tool, positioning itself as more mature.
- SambaNova, backed by Intel, boosts Nvidia GPU performance with its SN50 RDUs, achieving 763 tok/s in benchmarks for MiniMax M2.7.
- A former GitHub CEO launches a competitor targeting 'vibe coding' as GitHub faces challenges with AI workload management.
- AI inference is becoming commoditized, creating a bargain hunter's market except for frontier models, which remain premium.
- Russian attackers impersonate Signal support for phishing, while US shuts down Iranian propaganda sites and a marketing firm queries data possession.
- Microsoft's patches fail to secure on-prem SharePoint from zero-day attacks; China enhances smartphone surveillance and Ring changes its privacy policy.
- DEF CON expands its Franklin project to involve hackers in hardening critical infrastructure, building on successes like the voting village reports.
- EQT acquires a majority stake in Acronis at over $3.5 billion valuation, though the specific portion sold is undisclosed.
- After ten years of corporate ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen predicts no end but notes cybersecurity offers stable career prospects.
- KDE Plasma 6.6.6 introduces changes, with Wayland forced in version 6.8, moving away from user preferences.
- Collabora releases CODE 26.04 with Markdown, improved formulas, and optional AI, intensifying competition among open-source office suites.
- GIMP 0.54 is revived via Flatpak, offering retro-computing nostalgia with its Motif-based interface instead of GTK.
- Bcachefs exits experimental status in a performance release but faces issues with AI-generated content and increased Rust usage.
- France's digital sovereignty efforts struggle against Microsoft dominance; Nextcloud shows storage control is easier than transitioning from Office.
- CentOS evolved from a hobby project to the enterprise default after community collaboration, sparked by Red Hat's shift toward Windows.