Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon'

TOP STORIES AI - ai and ml Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon' While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often - ai and ml With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet) - security AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit Adding insult to injury - ai and ml Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it worked More compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable - Security Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks The model provider gave METR the credits for free. An actual customer would not have been so lucky Infosec - 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! - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15 Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas - Debian votes to let contributors code with AI Disclosure optional, quality mandatory - LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer - Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming GRUB's up for furry new update - AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi Plus: new official Amiga-branded hardware is coming - Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one… or does he?