"The intended audience for this could be organizations with strict data residency or compliance requirements. So think healthcare providers, legal firms, and financial institutions that cannot afford sensitive internal data flowing through third-party AI services."
From the article: "The word ‘privilege escalation’ undersells this: the outcome is full instance takeover.”
Q Day is "the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades’ worth of secrets belonging to militaries, banks, governments, and nearly every individual on earth."
This isn't a big deal for a .10 release, however there's the assumption that the changes will then roll into a later LTS release. For Ubuntu desktop users, this seems fairly reasonable, but for Ubuntu server users, it's nice to be able to swap out disks without re-building the /boot partition.
"It is simply a standardized field in the user record file that other projects can build age verification compliance on top of—distros that do not need it can ignore it entirely."
Thanks, Joan! 💙
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"Google calls the illicit activity “model extraction” and considers it intellectual property theft, which is a somewhat loaded position, given that Google’s LLM was built from materials scraped from the Internet without permission."
“The use of CVE-2026-21509 demonstrates how quickly state-aligned actors can weaponize new vulnerabilities, shrinking the window for defenders to patch critical systems”
"In the fourth quarter of 2025, TollBit estimates that an average of one out of every 31 visits to its customers’ websites was from an AI scraping bot. In the first quarter, that figure was only one out of every 200."
"France has decided that it is done using US-based videoconferencing software across its governmental organizations. Come 2027, every French government department will use Visio instead of Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, or any other non-European platform."
"While most of the content on Moltbook is amusing, a core problem with these kinds of communicating AI agents is that deep information leaks are entirely plausible if they have access to private information."
“Anyone who used [AI] while Urban VPN was installed [+ Ubran ad blocker + a few others] after July 9, 2025 should assume those conversations are now on Urban's servers. Medical questions, financial details, proprietary code, personal dilemmas—all of it, sold for ‘marketing analytics purposes.'”
“Once it’s no longer prominent on the website and the owner, the CEO, says it’s now called [x] and not [twitter], I don’t know how you beat an abandonment argument.”
Running a React Server? Update NOW. "React versions 19.0.1, 19.1.2, or 19.2.1 contain the vulnerable code."
"The device also supports external add-on modules, where you can attach a LoRa radio for Meshtastic, a multimeter, or a logic analyzer depending on your needs."
