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France Confirms Data Breach At Government Agency That Manages Citizens’ IDs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The French government agency that handles the issuing and management of citizens’ identity documents, including national IDs, passports, and immigration documents, confirmed Wednesday that it experienced a data breach. In an announcement, the Agence Nationale des Titres Secur … ⌘ Read more

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released
Ubuntu 26.04 (“Resolute Raccoon”) LTS has been released
on schedule.

This release brings a significant uplift in security, performance,
and usability across desktop, server, and cloud environments. Ubuntu
26.04 LTS introduces TPM-backed full-disk encryption, expanded use of
memory-safe components, improved application permission controls, and
Livepatch support for Arm systems, helping reduce downtime and
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Tim Cook Calls Apple Maps Launch His ‘First Really Big Mistake’ as CEO
In a recent town hall meeting reported by Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple CEO Tim Cook named the troubled 2012 launch of Apple Maps as his “first really big mistake” in the role. “The product wasn’t ready, and we thought it was because we were testing more of local kind of stuff,” Cook told staff. MacRumors reports: Reflecting on the deba … ⌘ Read more

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Microsoft Plans First-Ever Voluntary Employee Buyout
Microsoft plans to offer voluntary buyouts for the first time. According to CNBC, “about 7% of U.S. employees are eligible,” with the program being “available to U.S. workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or higher.” Further details will be provided on May 7. From the report: Last year Microsoft removed some costs throu … ⌘ Read more

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New York Sues Coinbase and Gemini, Seeking To Halt Unlicensed Prediction Market Businesses
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: New York is suing Coinbase and Gemini, two of the newest players in the prediction market industry, arguing that the companies’ unregulated and unlicensed platforms are illegal gambling operations. Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsu … ⌘ Read more

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Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages
Ubuntu LTS releases on the desktop have automatically installed OEM vendor kernels where needed and hardware enablement “HWE” kernels in later point releases by default. This provides a better out-of-the-box experience for Ubuntu desktop users and one less chore post-install if desiring a newer/better kernel. With Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS, the server installer is finally doing the same… ⌘ Read more

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Intel Lands Tesla As First Major Customer For 14A Chip Technology
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday the EV maker plans to use Intel’s next-generation 14A manufacturing process to make chips at its Terafab project, an advanced AI chip complex Musk has envisioned in Austin. The contract would mark Intel’s first major customer for the technology, a breakt … ⌘ Read more

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System76 Thelio Major Workstation Updated For Better Thermals, More Performance
Following the recently-launched Thelio Mira redesign, System76 today announced the new Thelio Major workstation with improved thermals and more performance… ⌘ Read more

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[$] Famfs, FUSE, and BPF
The famfs filesystem first showed up on the\
mailing lists in early 2024; since then, it has been the topic of
regular discussions at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management and
BPF (LSFMM+BPF) Summit. It has also, as result of those discussions, been
through some significant changes since that initial posting. So it is not
surprising that a suggestion that it needed to be rewritten yet again was
not entirely well received. How much more … ⌘ Read more

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Ubuntu 26.04 Allows “sudo apt install rocm” But It’s Months Out-Of-Date
Canonical announced last year that in collaboration with AMD they would be bringing the ROCm software libraries into the Ubuntu archive for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The plan has been to ship AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC libraries in the Ubuntu archive so it would be as easy as sudo apt install rocm for getting started with AMD’s open-source GPU compute stack. With today being the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release day, I decided to revisit the topic… ⌘ Read more

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Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and osbuild-composer), Debian (cpp-httplib, firefox-esr, gimp, and packagekit), Fedora (chromium, composer, libcap, pgadmin4, pie, python3-docs, python3.14, and sudo), Mageia (gvfs), Oracle (.NET 8.0, delve, freerdp, giflib, ImageMagick, kernel, OpenEXR, and osbuild-composer), SUSE (erlang, giflib, google-guest-agent, GraphicsMagick, ignition, imagemagick, kea, kernel, kissfft, libraw, libssh, ocaml-patch, opam, openCryptoki, … ⌘ Read more

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OpenBLAS 0.3.33 Released With Automatic “BIGNUMA” For More Than 256 CPU Cores
OpenBLAS 0.3.33 is out today as the latest update to this vendor-neutral, optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms “BLAS” library… ⌘ Read more

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53 Nations Gather To Plan a Fossil Fuel Phaseout
Ancient Slashdot reader hwstar shares a report from The Conversation: For the first time ever, more than 50 nations will gather next week in Colombia to hash out how to wind down and end their dependence on coal, oil and gas. The history-making conference was planned before the Iran war. But this year’s energy crisis has greatly raised the stakes. […] Around 80% of the trap … ⌘ Read more

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Many USB Improvements & New Hardware Merged For Linux 7.1
Ready to go ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window closing at week’s end are numerous new USB device support additions and other USB subsystem enhancements… ⌘ Read more

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Cloudflare 把邮箱改了:一封邮件,就是一次 AI 调用
Cloudflare 电子邮件服务已经可以同时支持收邮件和发邮件了。不同的是,这一次,无论收还是发,邮件都可以直接进入 AI 处理流程。 注意:使用 Cloudflare 发邮件需要订阅 Workers 套餐,最低 5 美元/月,收免费。 旧功能:收邮件(Email Routing) Cloudfl ⌘ Read more

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Your Phone’s Next Speed Boost May Come From Magnetic Chips
alternative_right writes: A new technology has been proposed that could fundamentally solve the issue of smartphones overheating during high-spec gaming or extended video streaming. Researchers at KAIST have discovered the principle of processing signals using the minute vibrations of magnets (spin waves) instead of electrons. This method significantly reduc … ⌘ Read more

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安装 Windows 11 时,终于可以跳过系统更新了
以往在安装 Windows 11 时,会自动且强制进行系统更新,少则几十分钟,多则苦等一个小时,让用户失去对新设备的兴奋与耐心。 现在 Windows 11 的最新版本 ISO 中,已经添加了跳过系统更新功能: 只需要在此时点击 Update later(稍后更新)就可以跳过了,直接进入桌面了。 另 ⌘ Read more

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Nearly Half of US Children Are Breathing Dangerous Levels of Air Pollution
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump’s expansive rollback of protections will make the situation worse. The 27th annual air quality report from the American L … ⌘ Read more

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