Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode

This article is a compilation of recent news items from The Register.

Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks. The US government has taken down several Iranian propaganda websites. A marketing company is asking why it has customer information.

Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack. China is upgrading smartphone surveillance tools, and Ring is easing its anti-snooping stance.

Black Hat and DEF CON: The DEF CON Franklin project is enlisting hackers to harden critical infrastructure, with successful voting village reports leading to the inclusion of the entire DEF CON event.

Security: EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis, valuing the firm at over $3.5 billion.

Malware Month: Ten years since the first corporate ransomware attack, and Mikko Hyppönen believes there's no end in sight for this threat.

KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal, imagining Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user.

Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line, giving the open-source CSS framework a stable long-term home.

Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365, with the Swiss Army sticking a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push.

Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux, with Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin.

Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels, with the Ubuntu Pastebin going in June, and IRC getting demoted next.