AI vendors' response to security flaws: It wasn't me
…Anthropic paid a $100 bounty, upgraded the critical severity from a 9.3 to 9.4, and updated a " security considerations " section in its documentation. Google paid a $1,337 reward for…
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Amazon thanks loyal Kindle devotees by bricking their kit
Personal Tech Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers To 'minimize disruption,' Bezoscorp offers a 20% discount on new hardware you didn't want UPDATED Amazon…
DuckDB uses RDBMS to tackle lakehouse 'small changes' issue
…and then the catalog has to make an update. This is very inefficient, because formats like Parquet really don't want to store a single row, they want to store a million…
GitHub backs down, kills Copilot PR ‘tips’ after backlash
AI + ML GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager UPDATED Microsoft has done a 180. Following…
Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools
…When he joined, however, Teams told Saayman his software was out of date, and he needed to install an update to continue. "This was the RAT," he wrote in the post-mortem…
SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support
OSes SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis The latest update to the handy SystemRescue is here…
Linux 7.0 debuts as Linus Torvalds ponders AI's impact
…GKH also last week made a pull request that delivered what he described as “some documentation updates to the security-bugs.rst file to hopefully tell the AI tools (and any users…
Obsolete Google nag drowns out late-bar notice in Sweden
…The Uppsala Konsert & Kongress (UKK) building was inaugurated in 2007 and is an attractive structure to this writer's eye, even if some of the screens within are running outdated software. Henrik…
'Several dozen' orgs targeted by a new extortion crew
…Google has also spotted the miscreants using fake security software updates to trick victims into downloading remote access malware. MORE CONTEXT Smooth criminals talking their way into cloud environments, Google says Months…
Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave
…Please make sure to update your software now to include a native systemd unit file instead of a legacy System V script. The following components have been removed: • systemd-rc-local-generator…