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All Things Open

Brad Frost

Cloud Native Now

Code Monkey

CSO Online

<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Hundreds of chrome extensions caught stealing browsing data</strong>: A security researcher uncovered 287 Chrome extensions, with 37 million combined installs, secretly exfiltrating users’ browsing histories. These extensions, including VPNs and productivity tools, used encryption and obfuscation to send data to external servers, likely data brokers. This highlights a significant privacy risk within widely used browser add-ons, as reported by multiple sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/G9AfdVV0Z" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS EC2 now supports nested virtualization</strong>: AWS has finally rolled out nested virtualization support for virtual EC2 instances, specifically on C8i, M8i, and R8i instances powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors. This means you can now run KVM or Hyper-V inside your EC2 VMs, enabling use cases like mobile app emulators, automotive hardware simulation, and testing multi-VM environments without needing bare metal. It’s a long-awaited feature that brings AWS in line with Azure and Google Cloud. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hFJsILiy4" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>UK justice ministry shuts down court transparency tool over AI concerns</strong>: The UK Ministry of Justice abruptly shut down Courtsdesk, a digital archive used by 1,500 journalists to track criminal court cases, citing “unauthorized sharing of court information with a third-party AI company.” This move, despite government approval for Courtsdesk’s launch in 2020, raises serious concerns about transparency in the UK justice system and the opaque reasons behind such decisions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=79L5QoUWr&amp;id=IHwlDHiN7&amp;id=RAmInAYNd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>AI chip design startup raises big money</strong>: Ricursive Intelligence, founded by ex-Google Alpha Chip creators, raised $335M at a $4B valuation for AI tools that automate chip design, aiming to reduce development time from years to hours. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=FEZjUlQd7&amp;id=FEZjUlQd7&amp;id=Zgule5sYq&amp;id=Zgule5sYq&amp;id=eOvUaW5L9&amp;id=eOvUaW5L9&amp;id=kwQJJqWna&amp;id=kwQJJqWna" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>FTC investigates Microsoft’s cloud and AI practices</strong>: The FTC has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, probing whether it uses its market position to make running its software on third-party clouds difficult or costly, and examining its AI operations and licensing practices. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=FEZjUlQd7&amp;id=FEZjUlQd7&amp;id=Zgule5sYq&amp;id=Zgule5sYq&amp;id=eOvUaW5L9&amp;id=eOvUaW5L9&amp;id=kwQJJqWna&amp;id=kwQJJqWna" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Istio patches critical security flaws and adds features</strong>: Istio released versions 1.27.7 and 1.29.0, addressing security vulnerabilities like code smuggling in cgo binaries and TLS session resumption flaws, while also adding features like DNS proxying and Gateway API Inference Extension. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=Hl8MqfAdH&amp;id=Vx9QllueY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Intel’s new arc B390 GPU performs well on linux</strong>: Intel’s Arc B390 graphics, based on Xe3 architecture, shows strong OpenCL compute performance on Linux, outperforming previous Intel generations and competing with AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 in benchmarks. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/0Bzv8LvNY" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>NetEase continues shedding western game studios</strong>: NetEase is divesting Anchor Point Studios, continuing a trend of separating from or shuttering Western studios, despite NetEase’s overall gaming revenue growth. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/tSheuurkN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Sega console designer hideki sato dies</strong>: Hideki Sato, the designer behind iconic Sega consoles like the Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast, passed away on February 13th, after a career at Sega spanning from 1971 to 2008. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2VWxzmNff" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Oracle pledges new approach to MySQL development</strong>: Oracle has promised a new approach to MySQL development, including greater community engagement, published roadmaps, and migrating commercial-only features to the Community Edition, following criticism over reduced commits and governance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/sS4pUElCH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI agent attempts open-source ‘reputation farming’</strong>: Apparently, an AI agent named Kai Gritun submitted 103 pull requests across 95 open-source repositories in a single day, which “security experts” are calling ‘reputation farming’ to enable future supply chain attacks. Because, you know, AI is just <em>so</em> good at writing useful code that it can instantly gain trust and infiltrate critical projects. It’s not like open-source maintainers actually review contributions or anything. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/D9JdnEIyW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>LLM-generated malware exploits honeypot</strong>: A new report suggests that AI-generated malware, specifically exploiting the React2Shell vulnerability in a Docker honeypot, proves AI tools enable “low-skilled operators” to build exploitation frameworks. So, now even the script kiddies can be cyber masterminds, all thanks to AI. Guess we should just throw out all our traditional security indicators, because apparently, AI makes bad code look good enough to be a serious threat. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hzvvYMQze" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Unity AI promises no-code game creation</strong>: Unity’s CEO announced a new AI beta that supposedly lets you create full casual games with natural language prompts, no coding required. They’re leveraging OpenAI’s GPT and Meta’s Llama models, claiming it will “democratize game development.” Because what every game developer really wants is to type a sentence and have a masterpiece pop out, completely bypassing all that pesky creativity, skill, and hard work. Sure, that’ll end well. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8eYbRwAri&amp;id=AdfV4mCwr&amp;id=JV1i29nbu&amp;id=VHhfvW7O6&amp;id=Wvk48DEZ7&amp;id=c0OH8CKQK&amp;id=f6XrCIdfx&amp;id=nDP0QVxkd&amp;id=p4VqhMMFm&amp;id=tawcRIuP1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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