Daily News Roundup
Technology
Agents for financial services and insurance
We’re releasing ten ready-to-run agent templates for the most time-consuming work in financial services: building pitchbooks, writing credit memos, screening KYC files, and closing the books at month-end.
Security
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.
Gaming
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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