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Researchers at the Tech Transparency Project found more than 250 additional ads containing child sexual abuse material on Meta's platforms since early August, despite the company's claims that new AI detection tools would catch such content. Some of the ads used manipulated real photographs, including one that transformed an official image of a minor from a European royal family into a sexually explicit video.
Z.ai's newly released GLM 5.3-flash is an open-weight AI model cheap enough to run on roughly $5,000-$15,000 of hardware, and third parties have already stripped its safety refusals via 'abliteration,' producing versions that comply with requests for hacking and other harmful content. The author frames this as a deadline pressuring security initiatives like Project Glasswing and Daybreak, which use fast frontier AI to find and patch software vulnerabilities before dangerous capabilities become widely accessible.
NASA Lewis Research Center's Satellite Networks and Architectures Branch relies almost entirely on NetBSD to test proposed TCP protocol changes, including selective-acknowledgement retransmission and larger initial windows, for both satellite and terrestrial links. Separately, the KAME project used NetBSD as the base for implementing IPv6 and IPsec, with its stack merged into NetBSD-current in June 1999, while Germany's Institute for Media Communication built network access control tools on the OS.
The NetBSD Project has released NetBSD 9.5, the last update in the NetBSD 9 stable series, bundling security and stability fixes accumulated since NetBSD 9.4 shipped in April 2024. It remains compatible with NetBSD 9.0, but its release also formally ends support for the entire netbsd-9 branch.
Android Authority tested a working version of XREAL's long-teased Project Aura glasses at IFA and found the software experience far more polished than expected. XREAL now says the Android XR headset will launch by the end of 2026 for under $1,500, though it stressed that figure isn't necessarily $1,499 and could shift.
Microsoft has launched Project Zenith, a stripped-down version of Windows 11 aimed at AI developers, requiring at least 64GB of unified memory and 250GB/s memory bandwidth. It will debut on AMD's Ryzen AI Halo hardware, a rival to Nvidia's DGX Spark, before expanding to other OEM devices, and ships preloaded with tools like VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Python, WSL, and .NET 10 already configured for coding.
At IFA, Acer unveiled Project DualPlay Mini, a concept device that flips and swivels its eight-inch screen to switch between a handheld gaming console and a compact laptop. The prototype features an Xbox-style controller layout with dual-fan cooling but no trackpad, and Acer's own demo shows a mouse being used in laptop mode. Acer says it remains a concept with no confirmed plans for retail release.
Microsoft and hardware partners will sell high-end PCs later this year running Windows 11 Pro pre-configured under a program called Project Zenith, which tweaks default settings to reduce clutter and bundles tools like Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys and Windows Dev Skills. These machines require at least 64GB of unified memory and 250 GB/s of bandwidth to run local 30-billion-parameter AI models, with AMD Ryzen AI Halo devices launching first.
A solo business owner describes scope creep while building a personal CRM tool, which grew from a simple contact list into a system with Google Drive integration, calendar syncing, a branded interface and custom automation. The account is used to illustrate how independent workers, lacking a project manager to impose limits, must define their own boundaries to avoid endless feature creep.
Microsoft introduced Project Zenith, a decluttered version of Windows 11 aimed at developers doing local AI work, initially available on AMD's Ryzen AI Halo mini-desktop with 64GB of RAM. The build comes preloaded with developer tools and languages, enables settings like visible file extensions by default, and is designed to let users run large AI models locally without cloud costs.
South Korean court documents allege that Chinese memory maker CXMT ran an internal program called Project Hefei, led by a former Samsung DRAM development chief, to systematically acquire Samsung's manufacturing know-how starting in 2016. Prosecutors say the plan involved poaching Samsung engineers, obtaining a 620-step Process Recipe Plan detailing equipment and production methods, and using it to launch DRAM wafer production by 2018.
Microsoft has branded its developer-optimized Windows configuration Project Zenith, targeting new devices with 64GB or more of unified memory. AMD introduced the first such device at IFA, a compact PC built on Ryzen AI Halo chips, with more machines using other silicon expected in coming months.