RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house Summary RefreshOS 2.5 is a Debian 12-based distribution that uses the KDE Plasma desktop (Plasma 5.27.5) but…
FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP’s emails as spam Summary FTC chair Andrew Ferguson has written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai after a New York Post report claimed Gmail…
Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs Summary Intel accepted a $5.7bn conversion of outstanding CHIPS Act grants into a 10% equity stake held…
Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud Summary The Pentagon has ordered Microsoft to stop using China-based engineers to support Azure services used by US Department…
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has added xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 model to GitHub Copilot as an opt-in public preview…
AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials Summary Amazon says it disrupted a watering-hole campaign run by Russia-linked APT29 (aka Cozy Bear / Midnight Blizzard) that injected malicious…
AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that modern AI web crawlers are aggressively harvesting web content…
AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says Summary The GMP (GNU Multiple Precision) project reports that two AMD Ryzen 9950X CPUs failed while…
xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups Summary More than 30 advocacy organisations, led by Public Citizen and Colour of Change, have written to OMB…
Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Summary Alibaba’s T-Heat division has reportedly developed a new AI accelerator targeted at inference workloads. The move is framed by…
