EVA Tech BriefIT/DevOps

2026-08-02 - 7:30 PM PKT

Frontier LLMs

OpenAI disrupts AI-assisted criminal scam operation

OpenAI says it disrupted a Cambodia-based criminal network that used ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation scams. The case shows how general-purpose AI can be incorporated into multilingual fraud workflows and how providers are responding to coordinated abuse.

GPUs and Silicon

AMD Zen 6 may target smoother gaming through per-core optimization

A report says AMD's upcoming Zen 6 processors could use per-core thermal and power optimizations to reduce microstutters and improve 1% low frame rates. The changes could make gaming performance more consistent even where headline average frame rates move less dramatically.

First open-source AM5 firmware launches for MSI B850

Dasharo v0.9.0 brings Coreboot and AMD openSIL to the MSI B850-P WiFi, marking the first officially launched open-source firmware for the AM5 platform. It gives Zen 4 APU users a more transparent alternative to conventional proprietary motherboard firmware.

Cloud and Infra

Pakistan Tech

Security

Coldcard firmware flaw linked to $70 million Bitcoin theft

Researchers linked a rapid theft of roughly $70.2 million in Bitcoin to a firmware flaw affecting Coldcard hardware wallets. A 2021 integration error reportedly routed seed generation through a deterministic software pseudorandom number generator, exposing keys to attackers.

Dev Tools

NetBSD 11.0 released

The NetBSD project has released version 11.0 of its portable open-source operating system. The milestone delivers the latest platform, kernel, driver, and userland work from the project to developers and system operators.

Cloudflare details Meerkat for leaderless global coordination

Cloudflare introduced Meerkat, an internal strongly consistent control-plane service built on the QuePaxa consensus algorithm. Unlike Raft-based designs, it permits leaderless writes while maintaining strong consistency, aiming to improve availability across a globally distributed network.