AMD's Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but it doesn't come cheap

Science

Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma

Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM simulate a soup of molten salts and techno babble in pursuit of tritium

AI and ML

Software engineers can still rake in big bucks by working for fast-growing companies

AI's impact on tech business is complicated

In a volatile world, a consistent sustainability policy is critical

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systems

Madlad builds homebrew GPU using 8,192 RISC-V chips

The next version will have 32,000 MCUs

columnists

Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...

Barney Rubble points to bubble trouble

DEVOPS

GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues

A purported jab of Sony’s physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself.

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C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability

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Confidential computing's core trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist

• Science

Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma

• Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM simulate a soup of molten salts and techno babble in pursuit of tritium

• AI and ML

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• AI's impact on tech business is complicated

• software

Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams

• Xbox chief says company can't afford to mistake longevity for inevitability

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Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme

• What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course

Infosec

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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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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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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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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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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

Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up

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Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form

• Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK

Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'

• More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too

France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well

• Nextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another

History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system

• When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'

Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it

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