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Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team is raising alarms after attackers embedded malicious code inside a Mistral AI software package distributed through Python's package ecosystem. It's a sharp reminder that the AI tooling supply chain is becoming a prime target, and developers pulling down popular libraries may not always be getting what they think they are.
Turning to the storage world, Sandisk has open sourced a technology called SPRandom, which dramatically cuts the time needed to pre-condition solid state drives before testing. What used to take days can now take hours, a change that matters enormously for data centers and AI infrastructure operators, even if it won't do much for your home gaming rig.
And a story that will resonate with anyone who has scrolled past a suspicious ad on Facebook or Instagram — Meta is facing yet another lawsuit, this one alleging the company fails to adequately protect seniors and other vulnerable users from scammers running fraudulent promotions across its platforms. The case adds to a growing body of legal pressure on the company to take that problem more seriously.
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