L'esca lanciata da uno scienziato britannico attira 18 ricercatori internazionali
Sintesi redazionale: Il programma "Global Talent" mira ad attrarre scienziati insoddisfatti provenienti da paesi quali gli Stati Uniti. Fonte originale: https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/06/08/uk-boffin-bait-lands-18-international-researchers/5252046
<p>### TOP STORIES</p><p>### AI</p><p>-<br>SECURITY</p><p>#### Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent</p><p>War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance</p><p>-<br>SYSTEMS</p><p>#### d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs</p><p>AI infrastructure startup joins Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu, and MediaTek as NVLink true believers</p><p>-<br>ai and ml</p><p>#### Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI</p><p>Claude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's</p><p>-<br>SYSTEMS</p><p>#### Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chain</p><p>Semiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory</p><p>-<br>AI+ML</p><p>#### Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas</p><p>See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad</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 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' 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's a good bet for a long, stable career</p><p>### FOSS</p><p>-<br>#### Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line</p><p>Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'</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'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><p>-<br>#### Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast</p><p>A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone</p>