To thwart reverse engineering by agents, dev proposes blinding them

A poke in the AI with a sharp stick

AMD winds up Zen 6 cores for faster clock speeds

Chips boast up to 256 cores, clocks up to 5.3 GHz, and IPC gains of 20 to 31 percent, just not all on the same SKU

A closer look at Verano, AMD's first step toward a Zen-based superchip to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin

Cores, clocks, memory, and interconnects all perfectly balanced for a singular mission: keeping instinct fed.

Fireworks AI gets burned twice as customer data exposure widens

Inference biz pins latest breach on cloud provider and LLMJacking miscreants

Microsoft's Azure Linux gets 470-plus security fixes in one almighty patching session

A mountain of CVEs, a certificate cleanup, and yet more work for Microsoft's patching teams

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

Crowd fave Linux Mint update approaches, fresh from autumn release of Cinnamon desktop

Mint 27 to land before Christmas, with stable Wayland display upgrades, as punters try out Cinnamon 6.8

openSUSE Leap 16.1 gives Linux users the right to remain immutable

One installer now offers conventional and read-only systems as separate Micro distro bows out

Achieving nirvana: Enlightenment 0.28 hits the desktop

Very nearly 30something environment gets spruced up… and there's a new Trinity, too

Architect creates open source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hidden

OpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale

AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS

Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland

Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core Desktop

Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing