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A serious security vulnerability is making rounds in the Linux community. The exploit, dubbed CopyFail, gives attackers full root access to personal computers and data center servers alike. Patches are available, but with Linux running countless machines worldwide, the gap between a fix existing and a fix being applied remains dangerously wide.
On the influence front, a nonprofit called Build American AI — with financial ties to executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz — has been quietly paying social media influencers to stoke fears about Chinese artificial intelligence. The campaign raises uncomfortable questions about where organic concern ends and manufactured narrative begins, especially when the funders stand to benefit from the alarm they're helping to spread.
And in the cloud, Meta has made a striking commitment to AWS, renting what Amazon describes as tens of millions of Graviton cores — its own custom-designed processors. It's a significant vote of confidence in Amazon's homegrown silicon, and a notable setback for AMD and Intel, who have long counted hyperscaler partnerships as central to their futures in the data center business.
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