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TOP STORIES AI - cyber-crime Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack Data protection chiefs call for 'immediate review' of data protection models - SYSTEMS AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink Intel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack - AI AND ML Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail American model devs are trying to convince Washington to cement their dominance - on-prem Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder Tax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing - LEGAL Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required 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 - Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home' - Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push - Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin - Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next - Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000s The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot - Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone