AI - personal tech HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PCRising cloud AI costs are pushing workloads onto pricier PCs – which just happen to be better for PC maker's margins - SYSTEMS Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving adsFaster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet - AI and ML Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em looseEight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces - ON-PREM EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacentersState and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits - SYSTEMS OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin Infosec - Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! - Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more - Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included - Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified - Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long,