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AI
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SAAS
Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says
Show us the money
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ai and ml
AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC
Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature
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DEVOPS
Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords
v 1.27 expands generics to support methods
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EDGE AND IOT
Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla
5 nm ML accelerators promise 1,000+ TOPS, ultra-low latency
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SYSTEMS
AMD inches closer to its goal of making AI suck less ... energy
House of Zen claims latest systems already 4x more efficient than two years ago
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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FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another
Word up
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GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions
New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way
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A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32
New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15
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Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites
Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide
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Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly
Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan
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Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it
Next version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server
Facts Only
* Salesforce partners are not seeing meaningful revenue from the Agentforce AI platform.
* AI companies are burning resources, leading to complaints to the FTC.
* 5 nm ML accelerators promise 1,000+ TOPS and ultra-low latency.
* AMD is working toward making AI less energy-intensive.
* Waymo designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla.
* Microsoft patched failures on on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack.
* Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks.
* EQT bought a majority share in Swiss cybersecurity firm Acronis.
* Debian released versions 13.6 and 12.15.
* Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS.
Executive Summary
Full Take
The narrative presents a tension between rapid technological advancement and tangible, stable economic or systemic security outcomes. The AI sector is characterized by a disconnect: high-level innovation and resource expenditure contrasted with immediate, grounded revenue realization for specific entities, suggesting a gap in value capture or deployment strategy within the market structure. Simultaneously, the hardware and systems layer demonstrates focused, low-level engineering pushing boundaries—improving efficiency (AMD) and achieving specific performance targets (ML accelerators, Waymo chip). The security dimension highlights fragmentation and vulnerability; state actors exploiting communication protocols and corporate patching failures coexist with the maturation of the commercial cybersecurity landscape evidenced by acquisitions. The FOSS community’s actions suggest a reassertion of control over foundational systems, challenging proprietary monopolies. This dynamic implies that cognitive sovereignty is threatened not just by external threats, but by the internal asymmetry between technological potential and operational reality. The core implication is whether advancements in efficiency and capability translate into equitable security and economic benefit for all stakeholders, or if they serve to exacerbate existing power imbalances.
Bridge Questions: If resource consumption is a systemic constraint on AI deployment, what governance frameworks are necessary to align innovation incentives with sustainability goals? How does the erosion of trust in foundational software (FOSS) intersect with state-level cyber operations? What mechanisms can bridge the gap between cutting-edge hardware development and widespread, resilient cybersecurity implementation?