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Sam Altman Had a Bad Day In Court
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: As the trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI ended its second week, the Tesla CEO started scoring points against Sam Altman. His witnesses landed three solid punches in testimony about how Altman runs OpenAI as CEO, raising concerns about his dedication to AI safety, the nonprofit’s mission, and his honesty as a leader of the organization. [
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Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions
One week after the Copy Fail vulnerability, a new Linux local privilege escalation bug has been made public. This time around there are no patches or CVEs yet for this “Dirty Frag” vulnerability as the embargo was broken early and thus the security researcher went ahead and published earlier than anticipated
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IMF Warns New AI Models Risk ‘Systemic’ Shock To Finance
The IMF is warning that advanced AI-powered cyberattacks pose a serious threat to global financial stability. “IMF analysis suggests that extreme cyber-incident losses could trigger funding strains, raise solvency concerns, and disrupt broader markets,” the lender warned in a new report. The report urged greater international cooperation and emphasized resilience, 
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60% of MD5 Password Hashes Are Crackable In Under an Hour
In honor of World Password Day, Kaspersky researchers revisited their study on the crackability of real-world passwords and found that 60% of MD5-hashed passwords could be cracked in under an hour with a single Nvidia RTX 5090, and 48% could be cracked in under a minute. “The bottom line is that passwords protected only by fast hashing algorithms such as MD5 are 
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AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux’s Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support
Following Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out i486 CPU support and in turn drivers like those for the old AMD Elan SoCs now being removed, for Linux 7.2 the processor support removal is going further to now include some i586 and i686 class processors
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Trump Pivots on AI Regulation, Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office, and Hantavirus Explained
Today on Uncanny Valley, we’re diving into recent reports that the Trump administration is considering an executive order that would establish some sort of federal oversight over new AI models. ⌘ Read more

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CEOs Want Tariff Refunds As Earnings Take a Hit
Companies including Philips and Pandora say they plan to seek tariff reimbursements after the Supreme Court ruled Trump’s sweeping duties illegal, with the U.S. potentially facing up to $175 billion in refunds. Many firms say tariffs hurt earnings, but CFO survey results suggest companies applying for refunds are unlikely to pass savings back to consumers through lower prices. CN 
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Dirty Frag: a zero-day universal Linux LPE
Hyunwoo Kim has announced
the Dirty\‹Frag security flaw, a
local-privilege-escalation (LPE) vulnerability similar to the
recently disclosed Copy Fail
flaw:

Because the embargo has now been broken, no patches or CVEs exist for
these vulnerabilities. After consultation with the linux-distros@vs.openwall.org
maintainers, and at the maintainers’ re 
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Microsoft Issues Warning About Linux ‘Copy Fail’ Vulnerability
joshuark shares a report from Linux Magazine: Microsoft has issued a warning that a vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 has been found in the Linux kernel. The vulnerability in question is tagged CVE-2026-31431 and, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), “This Linux Kernel Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres 
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Google Unveils Screenless Fitbit Air, Google Health App To Replace Fitbit
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Wearables have really come full circle. The early Fitbits didn’t have screens, but the move to smartwatches put a screen on everyone’s wrist. Now, devices like Whoop and Hume are designed as data trackers first and foremost without so much as a clock. Google’s newest wearable 
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«Il est en train de mourir»: dans le Pas-de-Calais, les images insoutenables de l’interpellation de Zakariyya
«Mediapart» rĂ©vĂšle les images de l’interpellation brutale de Zakariyya dans le Pas-de-Calais. On le voit faire plusieurs malaises sous les mains de policiers. Selon nos informations, le parquet de BĂ©thune a ouvert une enquĂȘte pour violences volontaires par personne dĂ©positaire de l’autoritĂ© publique. ⌘ Read more

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Le militant antibassines Julien Le Guet condamné à six mois de bracelet aprÚs Sainte-Soline
Le porte-parole du mouvement contre les mĂ©gabassines est condamnĂ© Ă  six mois de prison ferme, peine amĂ©nagĂ©e en assignation Ă  rĂ©sidence avec bracelet Ă©lectronique. En parallĂšle, dans la nuit de mercredi Ă  jeudi, l’Amicale pour le dĂ©bĂąchage permanent du Poitou a revendiquĂ© le sabotage de deux bassines. ⌘ Read more

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LinkedIn Profile Visitor Lists Belong to the People, Says Noyb
A LinkedIn user in the EU is challenging Microsoft’s refusal to provide a full list of profile visitors under GDPR Article 15, arguing that the data should be available for free because LinkedIn processes it and sells a more complete version to Premium users. Privacy group Noyb says the case could set a broader precedent over whether companies can mone 
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Master Poulet: «ArrĂȘtons de surveiller l’assiette des pauvres, rĂ©flĂ©chissons Ă  nos pratiques alimentaires»
L’affaire du poulet rĂŽti de Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, conflit local devenu affaire nationale, a pris une ampleur dĂ©mesurĂ©e. Mais elle soulĂšve des questions majeures sur la gentrification urbaine et l’accĂšs Ă  une nourriture saine pour touts et toutes. ⌘ Read more

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Motherboard Sales ‘Collapse’ By More Than 25%
Motherboard sales are sharply declining as AI demand drives shortages and price hikes for memory, storage, CPUs, and other PC components. “Because of this, users who don’t have deep pockets are putting off upgrading their PCs and holding on to their current devices longer,” reports Tom’s Hardware. From the report: Asus, which sold 15 million motherboards in 2025, has only shipped a 
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Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet
The Realtek RTL8159 has been appearing in some 10G-rated USB network adapters at online retailers, some for less than $100 USD. But currently the RTL8159 is only supported by Realtek’s out-of-tree Linux kernel driver, but fortunately there will be mainline support coming with the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer
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Anthropic Raises Claude Code Usage Limits, Credits New Deal With SpaceX
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At its Code with Claude developer conference on Wednesday, Anthropic announced a deal with SpaceX to utilize the entire compute capacity of the latter’s data center in Memphis, Tennessee. On stage at the conference, CEO Dario Amodei said the deal was intended to increase usage limits 
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AMD RadeonSI Code Reorganized To Support Multimedia-Only Driver Builds
Merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel was a reorganization of the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code to better separate the graphics and multimedia acceleration code from the rest of the driver
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Affaire Patrick Bruel: quinze nouvelles femmes mettent en cause le chanteur
De nouveaux rĂ©cits recueillis par «Mediapart» dĂ©noncent le comportement de Patrick Bruel en marge de ses concerts, tournages, rencontres professionnelles ou encore lors de massages, entre 1991 et 2019. Une femme l’accuse de l’avoir violĂ©e alors qu’elle Ă©tait mineure. Le chanteur conteste toute” “«contrainte» ou «violence». ⌘ Read more

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Richard Dawkins ‘Convinced’ AI Is Conscious
Mirnotoriety shares a report from The Telegraph: Richard Dawkins has said chatbots should be considered conscious (source paywalled; alternative source) after spending two days interacting with the Claude AI engine. The evolutionary biologist said he had the “overwhelming feeling” of talking to a human during conversations with Claude, and said it was hard not to treat the program as “a genuine 
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[$] A new era for memory-management maintainership
On April 21, Andrew Morton let\‹it be known that he intends to begin stepping away from the
maintainership of kernel’s memory-management subsystem — a responsibility
he has carried since before memory management was even seen as its own
subsystem. At the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and
BPF Summit, one of the first sessions in the memory-management track was
devoted to how the 
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Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems
The Flattened Image Tree “FIT” 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file
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An update on KDE’s Union style engine
Arjen Hiemstra has published
an article on the status of the Union project: a
single system to support all of KDE’s technologies used for styling
applications.

The work on Union’s Breeze implementation has progressed to the
point where it is very hard to distinguish whether or not you are
running the Union version. We have also tested with a bunch of
applications and 
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