•Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes AI agent, is finalizing a new funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation.
•The round, led by Robot Ventures with participation from USV, aims to raise at least $75 million to expand Hermes' products and business model.
•Hermes is a widely adopted AI agent with built-in skills for tasks like web search and coding, available for local deployment or via a cloud-hosted version.
•Slopsquatting is a new supply chain attack that exploits AI coding assistants' hallucinations to generate fictitious software package names.
•Threat actors register these hallucinated package names, populate them with malicious code, and developers unknowingly integrate them into their projects.
•Unlike traditional typosquatting, slopsquatting bypasses existing registry defenses because AI generates plausible *new* package names rather than simple misspellings.
•An artificial intelligence system reportedly identified a critical root-level vulnerability within the Linux kernel that had remained undetected for 15 years.
•This discovery highlights the growing capability of AI in uncovering deep-seated, complex software flaws that have eluded human experts over long periods.
•While specific details about the bug and the AI's methodology are currently unknown, the event signals a significant shift in proactive cybersecurity and code auditing.
•As Windows 10 approaches end-of-life, more users are considering Linux as a viable alternative, moving beyond Windows 11.
•Linux desktop market share surpassed 5% in 2025, indicating a significant increase in mainstream adoption.
•A first-time user found Ubuntu challenging to install but ultimately a "cleaner and simpler" experience compared to Windows 11, highlighting its potential for broader appeal.
•Researchers have introduced QCI Connect, a modular, full-stack quantum computing platform designed to connect diverse quantum hardware with end-users via cloud access.
•The platform's open-source, hardware-agnostic architecture and standardized APIs improve quantum system component integration times by a factor of four, accelerating development.
•QCI Connect aims to foster a community-driven application ecosystem, reduce vendor lock-in, and lower barriers to entry for quantum algorithm and application development.
•Apple has officially taken control of the community-driven Swift Package Index (SPI), a crucial registry for Swift developers.
•The tech giant plans to remove the SPI's existing dependency on GitHub, signaling a move towards more internal control over key Swift infrastructure.
•This acquisition is expected to bring greater stability, deeper integration, and enhanced supply chain security for Swift developers and their projects.
•Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC Media Player, has launched Kyber, an infrastructure layer for real-time control of remote devices like robots and drones.
•Kyber's core SDK synchronizes video, audio, sensor data, and control inputs with minimal latency, addressing a critical need for emerging physical AI applications.
•The Paris-based startup, backed by Lightspeed, offers an open-source core and an enterprise product, aiming to manage millions of devices with robust scalability and observability.
•Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes AI agent, is finalizing a new funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation.
•The round, led by Robot Ventures with participation from USV, aims to raise at least $75 million to expand Hermes' products and business model.
•Hermes is a widely adopted AI agent with built-in skills for tasks like web search and coding, available for local deployment or via a cloud-hosted version.
•Slopsquatting is a new supply chain attack that exploits AI coding assistants' hallucinations to generate fictitious software package names.
•Threat actors register these hallucinated package names, populate them with malicious code, and developers unknowingly integrate them into their projects.
•Unlike traditional typosquatting, slopsquatting bypasses existing registry defenses because AI generates plausible *new* package names rather than simple misspellings.
•An artificial intelligence system reportedly identified a critical root-level vulnerability within the Linux kernel that had remained undetected for 15 years.
•This discovery highlights the growing capability of AI in uncovering deep-seated, complex software flaws that have eluded human experts over long periods.
•While specific details about the bug and the AI's methodology are currently unknown, the event signals a significant shift in proactive cybersecurity and code auditing.
•As Windows 10 approaches end-of-life, more users are considering Linux as a viable alternative, moving beyond Windows 11.
•Linux desktop market share surpassed 5% in 2025, indicating a significant increase in mainstream adoption.
•A first-time user found Ubuntu challenging to install but ultimately a "cleaner and simpler" experience compared to Windows 11, highlighting its potential for broader appeal.
•Researchers have introduced QCI Connect, a modular, full-stack quantum computing platform designed to connect diverse quantum hardware with end-users via cloud access.
•The platform's open-source, hardware-agnostic architecture and standardized APIs improve quantum system component integration times by a factor of four, accelerating development.
•QCI Connect aims to foster a community-driven application ecosystem, reduce vendor lock-in, and lower barriers to entry for quantum algorithm and application development.
•Apple has officially taken control of the community-driven Swift Package Index (SPI), a crucial registry for Swift developers.
•The tech giant plans to remove the SPI's existing dependency on GitHub, signaling a move towards more internal control over key Swift infrastructure.
•This acquisition is expected to bring greater stability, deeper integration, and enhanced supply chain security for Swift developers and their projects.
•Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC Media Player, has launched Kyber, an infrastructure layer for real-time control of remote devices like robots and drones.
•Kyber's core SDK synchronizes video, audio, sensor data, and control inputs with minimal latency, addressing a critical need for emerging physical AI applications.
•The Paris-based startup, backed by Lightspeed, offers an open-source core and an enterprise product, aiming to manage millions of devices with robust scalability and observability.
