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The Trump administration stood alone at the UN rejecting global AI safety rules, while Microsoft relaunched Copilot as an AI super app merging chat, coding, and agents. A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic’s Claude over supply-chain risk. Bill Gates warned AI could enable a billion deaths, and Tesla ramped Optimus production to hundreds per week. Trump said Treasury Secretary Bessent won’t be AI czar.
DraftKings is using AI to target likely losing gamblers with promotions, EFF warns, urging a ban on behavioral ads. Researchers found sophisticated malicious npm packages that evade defenses, possibly nation-state. The Linux kernel added a taint flag for sysfs bind/unbind writes to curb fuzzing-bot reports. KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 arrived, and Ubuntu 26.10 showed Intel Panther Lake performance gains.
A leaked GitHub key left CDC-linked code and Azure systems potentially poisonable until it was revoked. Separately, an AI-driven campaign stole over 600,000 credit cards from online retailers, and a 292GB MongoDB leak exposed at least 30 million records, heavily affecting PepsiCo’s Latin America operations. Dutch privacy groups also pressed for bans on camera glasses over consent concerns.
Canonical reported $345M revenue for 2025, up from $292M, with $22.8M profit. Systemd 262 lands with an AI/LLM canary, LUO integration, and container tweaks. Linux 7.3 benchmarks show modest AMD Strix Halo gains; Ubuntu 26.10 is adopting it. Collabora proposed a VRR target limiter API for Linux graphics. SPECviewperf 15.0.1 arrived natively for Linux, and Alibaba will fund Omarchy with $3M.
Microsoft patched CVE-2026-66804, a Windows privilege-escalation flaw that let attackers plant a malicious DLL via a dangling COM registration. Google Cloud blamed a four-hour us-central1-b outage on a technician cutting fiber and installing wrong transceivers during a router upgrade. EFF urged the D.C. Circuit to vacate an FAA drone rule it says criminalized recording ICE/CBP. The EU’s draft Kids Act drew criticism over age checks and privacy.
Linux 7.3-rc4 landed with many LLM-spotted fixes and key x86 patches blocking bad Intel microcode and FRED crashes. Gzip 1.15 fixed long-standing bugs, including a decompression overflow. KDE set goals: enterprise features, better docs, next-gen styling. A first-person account described a firm where Claude Code writes all specs, code and tests; engineers just press enter. Windows updates still hurt: an idle PC spent seven hours updating.