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X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project
AMD’s Threadripper Halo workstation offers up to 576 GB HBM3e and 16 TB/s bandwidth for AI research. Nvidia’s $12.9 billion AI-firm acquisition raises antitrust concerns. Meta will release an open-weights model; Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash provides fast, cheap inference. Ransomware now uses AI agents, Russian phishers mimic Signal support, and a recent Microsoft SharePoint patch introduced a zero-day. EQT’s majority stake in Acronis values the cybersecurity company at about $3.5 billion. Debian and Xfce receive updates, Ubuntu closes a chat channel, Audacity redesigns its UI, Haiku OS launches Beta 6, and Debian adds AI-assisted contribution tools.