FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B

<p>### TOP STORIES</p><p>### AI</p><p>-<br>#### Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K</p><p>The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM</p><p>-<br>#### Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancer</p><p>Executive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections</p><p>-<br>#### Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI</p><p>Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain&#x27;t just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists</p><p>-<br>#### Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel</p><p>Running multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit</p><p>-<br>#### FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B</p><p>AI, fake uniforms, and mock offices help crooks sell the con</p><p>### Infosec</p><p>-<br>Security</p><p>#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks</p><p>PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks &#x27;Why Do We Have Your Information?&#x27; And more!</p><p>-<br>Security</p><p>#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack</p><p>PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more</p><p>-<br>Black Hat and DEF CON</p><p>#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure</p><p>Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included</p><p>-<br>Security</p><p>#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis</p><p>Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified</p><p>-<br>Malware Month</p><p>#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight</p><p>On the plus side, infosec&#x27;s a good bet for a long, stable career</p><p>### FOSS</p><p>-<br>#### KDE turns 30 and someone&#x27;s brought an AI-native desktop proposal</p><p>Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user</p><p>-<br>#### Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform&#x27;s bottom line</p><p>Acquisition gives open source CSS framework &#x27;a stable long-term home&#x27;</p><p>-<br>#### Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365</p><p>Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push</p><p>-<br>#### Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux</p><p>Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin</p><p>-<br>#### Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels</p><p>The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next</p><p>-<br>#### Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it&#x27;s from the early 2000s</p><p>The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot</p>