- Nvidia introduces a double-dipping datacenter financing scheme to maximize payments.
- Companies adding more AI also increase hiring, but it may not align with business needs.
- SoftBank enters the GPU rental market for AI training, leveraging its US server farm.
- UN warns that AI capabilities outpace governance, urging global rules to prevent risks.
- Oracle highlights numerous risk factors related to its heavy investment in AI.
- Russian attackers impersonate Signal support for phishing, amid other security incidents.
- Microsoft's patches fail to fix on-prem SharePoint vulnerabilities, now under zero-day attack.
- DEF CON expands its Franklin project to involve hackers in securing critical infrastructure.
- EQT acquires a majority stake in Acronis at a valuation over $3.5 billion.
- Mikko Hyppönen notes no end in sight for corporate ransomware, a decade after its first appearance.
- Collabora releases CODE 26.04 with Markdown and AI features, though AI is off by default.
- GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form for retro-computing enthusiasts.
- Bcachefs exits experimental status with a performance release, including more Rust but AI-related issues.
- France's digital sovereignty push faces challenges in moving users away from Microsoft Office.
- CentOS's history shows how a hobby project became a default enterprise OS after community efforts.
- Netflix engineer open-sources Project Headroom to reduce AI costs significantly.