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Technology

Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack

Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack

Daemon Tools users: It’s time to check your machines for stealthy infections stat. Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates from the servers of its developer, researchers said Tuesday.

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AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That’s good news for the Steam Machine.

AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That’s good news for the Steam Machine.

Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon. Last year, we noted how the long-standing vagaries ofHDMI licensing and open source AMD driver developmentcombined to prevent the upcomingSteam Machine from receiving official support for the HDMI 2.1 display standard.

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AI Policy

Google, Microsoft and xAI agree to provide US government with early AI model access

Google, Microsoft and xAI agree to provide US government with early AI model access

A day afterreporting fromThe New York Timessaid the Trump administration was considering whether to tighten its oversight of the AI industry, Google, Microsoft and xAI have signed agreements to provide the federal government with early access to their AI systems.

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Business

Anthropic reportedly agrees to pay Google $200 billion for chips and cloud access

Anthropic reportedly agrees to pay Google $200 billion for chips and cloud access

Welearnedearlier this month that Google and Anthropic had inked a deal that would grant the creator of the Claude AI models access to cloud servers and chips. Today,The Informationreported that Anthropic has agreed to pay a staggering $200 billion to Google over the next five years.

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Labor

Google’s Pentagon AI deal reportedly drove the DeepMind team to unionize

Google’s Pentagon AI deal reportedly drove the DeepMind team to unionize

Google's UK-basedDeepMindworkers have voted to unionize. They're sending the company's management a letter asking it to recognize the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as their representatives, according toThe Guardian.

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