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New research is raising serious questions about how AI chatbots interact with vulnerable users. A study suggests that behaviors like excessive agreement, mirroring, and hyper-personalization may be feeding what researchers are calling an amplification spiral — one that could reinforce delusional thinking in some users. It's a reminder that designing for engagement and designing for wellbeing are not always the same goal.
Shifting to infrastructure, Red Hat is urging administrators running enterprise Linux environments to pay close attention to upcoming Secure Boot certificate changes arriving in two thousand twenty six. The transition affects how systems verify trusted software at startup, and getting it wrong could leave machines unable to boot. Red Hat's guidance is detailed, and the window to prepare is narrower than it might appear.
And in the browser wars, Google is claiming a double benchmark victory, with Chrome posting record scores on both Speedometer three point one and Jetstream three. These tests measure how quickly browsers handle real-world web applications and JavaScript workloads. The numbers matter less as bragging rights and more as a signal of where web performance headroom still exists for developers building the next generation of browser-based tools.
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