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The Defense Department had barred the U.S. military from using Anthropic's Claude in March

CISA added Linux kernel flaw its KEV catalog after confirming active exploitation, could allow local attackers to escalate privileges.

OpenAI vs HuggingFace, Container Escapes, Kernel Bypass, Network Policies, Security Keys, Multi-tenant Grafana, and a ClusterMAX 3.0 Preview

Findings from the August 19 pickup incident: reward hacking via the snooze button, an unauthorized WhatsApp channel, and the safeguards we are deploying so it does not recur.

Google engineers responsible for the Chrome/Chromium web browser are experimenting with Flatpak packaging on Linux

Anthropic's Claude now shares one memory across chat and Cowork, updating as you work, with new controls over sensitive topics like health and beliefs.

A new open letter calls on governments, tech companies to act now.

Nvidia reportedly agreed to buy open source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion as the chipmaker expands deeper into the AI ecosystem.

Editors: Arsh Sharma, Christopher Tineo, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Troy Connor Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.37 introduces new Stable, Beta, and Alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases underscores the strength of our development cycle and the vibrant support from our community. This release consists of 67 enhancements. Of those enhancements, 16 have graduated to Stable, 23 have graduated to Beta, 27 are entering Alpha, and 1 is a deprecation/removal.

In an hourlong interview, he said his industry was downplaying the risks, which he believes include mass unemployment and bioterrorism.

Ring says it’s “throwing away the key” to your footage.

OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.

Amazon is acquiring DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, the fast-growing open-source database developers use to analyze large amounts of data without paying for a cloud data warehouse. The team joins AWS, but the DuckDB project itself stays free and open source under an independent foundation.

It agreed to pay $17.1 billion, but some of that is contingent on getting YouTube and TikTok on board.

A case study in disrupting yourself

These are the lessons we learned evaluating LLMs for real-world secret scanning.

Six Colors by Jason Snell, Dan Moren and friends

One more follow up on AI Slop.

OpenAI’s self-designed ASIC compared with Rubin, Jalapeño’s TCO, throughput per MW, and spicy deets

AI hardware bottlenecks cascade in sequential multi-year waves from GPUs to memory, SSDs, CPUs, HDDs, and physical data center shells, driving facility buildout costs to $20b per gigawatt through the classic Bullwhip Effect.

A Survey on Graph Engineering in the Era of LLM Agents: From Individual Intelligence to System Intelligence - DEEP-JLU/Awesome-Graph-Engineering

CUDA is the most important software framework in the GPU compute world, and Nvidia is looking at supporting CUDA on RISC-V. Terms and conditions may apply.

Who is the AI villain we should be angry at?

Durable Streams. Contribute to PicoMQ/picomq development by creating an account on GitHub.

What losing everything twice taught me about building a great career

It's pretty rare to see Linus Torvalds author patches himself pertaining to the open-source Linux graphics drivers, but waking up this morning I was surprised to see he authored and committed an Intel Xe kernel graphics driver change himself

Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing

We re-verified 10,616 leaked AWS keys that surfaced publicly between August 2022 and August 2026. 88% still authenticate, and 768 of the live ones give full control of a company AWS account. The median leaked key is five years old and has never been rotated.

TrendAI™ Research provides a comprehensive analysis of the RedC2 Linux Implant, a sophisticated threat recently discovered in the npm open-source ecosystem.