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Supports several Chinese chips and GPUs – and of course it has AI inside

China’s KylinSoft has delivered a major update to its flagship Linux, which Beijing hailed as a great leap forward for the nation’s ambition to develop operating systems that match and exceed the capabilities of western products.…

Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries

China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FBI cyber official.…

They use AI more but also check it more

For those who thought AI vibe coding was just for the youngsters, newly published research shows that developers with over 10 years of experience are more than twice as likely to do it.…

My brain hurts a lot

Claude creator Anthropic has given customers using its Free, Pro, and Max plans one month to prevent the engine from storing their chats for five years by default and using them for training.…

Microsoft AI honcho insists partnership with Sam Altman's brainbox behemoth is alive and well

Microsoft has introduced two home-grown machine learning models, potentially complicating negotiations with its current favored model supplier, OpenAI.…

13 governments sound the alarm about ongoing unpleasantness

China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies continue their years-long hacking campaign targeting critical industries around the world, according to a joint security alert from cyber and law enforcement agencies across 13 countries.…

But private cloud contender sees upside in its modernization mission

Donald Trump's DOGE cost-cutting unit has made it harder to do business with the US federal government, according to private cloud contender Nutanix.…

Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formats

FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.…

Harvard researchers find model guardrails tailor query responses to user's inferred politics and other affiliations

OpenAI's ChatGPT appears to be more likely to refuse to respond to questions posed by fans of the Los Angeles Chargers football team than to followers of other teams.…

Our drones are OK, but those other drones?

The US Department of Homeland Security has revealed plans to spend more than $100 million on systems designed to take out hostile drones.  …

Web browsing belongs to the people, not the bots

Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Norway-based browser maker Vivaldi, believes the tech industry's efforts to automate web browsing using generative AI models have gone too far.…

$6.4M VerifTools marketplace offline

The FBI and Dutch police today said that they seized two domains and a blog tied to VerifTools, an international criminal marketplace that sold identity documents for as little as $9.…

'The homeland is no longer secure,' says Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency leader

The Pentagon outfit responsible for preventing foriegn agents from infiltrating defense agencies says the US isn't doing a very good job of preventing state secrets from falling into Chinese hands.…

Attackers steal OAuth tokens to access third-party sales platform, then CRM data in 'widespread campaign'

UPDATE  Google says a recent spate of Salesforce-related breaches was caused by attackers stealing OAuth tokens from the third-party Salesloft Drift app.…

Only a few Android phones will be able to support the service

Users of Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones could soon find themselves able to make voice calls via a satellite connection, if Skylo Technologies can get all its ducks in a row.…

The DevOps dance has new steps, but Virtzilla thinks it can teach ops folks to tango

Private clouds are all about keeping developers happy and productive, according to Krish Prasad, senior veep and general manager of Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation division.…

Also, not one but two new models of the classic 1200

The new native 68K AmigaOS web browser leans on the machines' underlying emulation system to offer modern facilities on a retro OS.…

VMware tweaked its licenses to suit submarines

VMware has tweaked its software licensing so submarines can keep their computers running when they’re beneath the waves.…

Think BYOC will solve all your sovereignty and privacy worries? You might be missing the point

INTERVIEW  Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is a concept gaining traction as companies seek ways to resolve sovereignty and privacy issues, but its implementation can vary widely depending on interpretation.…

Because not every bot wants to live inside Microsoft's walled garden

Google and code editor company Zed Industries have introduced the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) as a standard way for AI agents to integrate with an IDE, with the idea that this will prevent developers getting locked into VS Code.…