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AI
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Microsoft's Azure Linux gets 470-plus security fixes in one almighty patching session
A mountain of CVEs, a certificate cleanup, and yet more work for Microsoft's patching teams
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PyTorch 2.15 tackles the 'one bad GPU' problem
Technical debt shoveled aside to make large-scale AI training more resilient
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Meta brings Conductor on board its model train
Agent orchestration startup gets its exit
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Bare metal boom: On-prem server sales for HPC and AI up 20% this year
Firms still want kit on-premises, but spike in revenue is as much about increased costs as higher sales
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Windows pushed AI PCs, but now it's hit a wall of RAM prices
Customers sweating assets amid tight budgets, as Microsoft execs get creative with sales pitches
Infosec
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Security
Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks
PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!
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Security
Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack
PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more
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Black Hat and DEF CON
DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure
Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included
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Security
EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis
Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified
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Malware Month
Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight
On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career
FOSS
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Crowd fave Linux Mint update approaches, fresh from autumn release of Cinnamon desktop
Mint 27 to land before Christmas, with stable Wayland display upgrades, as punters try out Cinnamon 6.8
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openSUSE Leap 16.1 gives Linux users the right to remain immutable
One installer now offers conventional and read-only systems as separate Micro distro bows out
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Achieving nirvana: Enlightenment 0.28 hits the desktop
Very nearly 30something environment gets spruced up… and there's a new Trinity, too
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Architect creates open source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hidden
OpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale
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AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS
Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland
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Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core Desktop
Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing