RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house Summary RefreshOS 2.5 is a Debian 12 (effectively 12.11) distribution that uses KDE Plasma 5.27.5 for the…
FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP’s emails as spam Summary Federal Trade Commission chair Andrew Ferguson wrote to Google CEO Sundar Pichai after a New York Post report alleged…
Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs Summary Intel has accepted the US government’s conversion of outstanding CHIPS Act grant money into a 10%…
Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud Summary The US Department of Defense has ordered Microsoft to stop using China-based engineers to support Azure cloud services…
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has begun rolling out xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 as an opt-in public preview in GitHub…
AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials Summary Amazon said it disrupted a watering‑hole campaign run by Russia‑linked APT29 (aka Cozy Bear / Midnight Blizzard) that aimed to…
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 strip-mining the open web,…
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 processors were damaged…
xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups Summary More than 30 advocacy organisations led by Public Citizen and Color of Change have written to Office…
Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Summary Alibaba has reportedly developed a new AI accelerator aimed at inference (serving models), stepping up efforts to reduce reliance…
