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Iran-Linked Hackers Disrupted US Oil, Gas, Water Sites
The FBI says (PDF) Iran-linked hackers disrupted internet-connected systems used by U.S. oil, gas, and water companies. Even with the recent two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States and Israel, hackers backing Tehran say they won’t end their retaliatory cyberattacks. The Hill reports: The report warned that similar companies across the country should be awa … ⌘ Read more

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Redox OS Establishes AI Policy To Forbid Contributions Made Using LLMs
The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system provided a status update on all of their interesting development activities during the month of March. In addition to a lot of code improvements, Redox OS also enhanced its documentation as well as added an AI policy to reject any contributions relying on large language models… ⌘ Read more

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NYT Claims Adam Back Is Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto
A New York Times investigation by John Carreyrou claims a British cryptographer named Adam Back is the strongest circumstantial candidate yet for being Satoshi Nakamoto. The report citing overlaps in writing style, ideology, technical background, and old posts that outlined key parts of Bitcoin years before its launch. Carreyrou is a renowned investigative journalist … ⌘ Read more

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Amazon Is Ending Support For Older Kindles
Starting May 20th, Amazon will stop Kindle Store access for Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier. After that date, those devices will “no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new content.” Owners can still read content already on the device, but if an affected device is reset or deregistered after the cutoff, it can’t be re-registered. The Verge reports: T … ⌘ Read more

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Iran Demands Bitcoin For Ships Passing Hormuz During Ceasefire
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for laden oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz (source paywalled; alternative source), as it seeks to retain control over passage through the key waterway during the two-week ceasefire. Hamid Hosseini, a spokespers … ⌘ Read more

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Meta Debuts ‘Muse Spark’, First AI Model Under Alexandr Wang
Meta has launched Muse Spark, its first major AI model under Alexandr Wang’s leadership. The model was built over the past nine months and is being positioned as a significant step up from Llama 4. Axios reports: Muse Spark will power queries in the Meta AI app and Meta.ai website immediately, with plans to expand across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Th … ⌘ Read more

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Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates
Microsoft has apparently terminated the account VeraCrypt uses to sign its Windows drivers and bootloader, leaving the encryption project unable to publish Windows updates and throwing future releases into doubt. VeraCrypt’s developer says Microsoft gave no clear explanation or warning for the move. “I didn’t receive any emails fro … ⌘ Read more

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 To Be Priced At $899 USD
At the end of March AMD announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor with both dies having 3D V-Cache. This 16 core processor with 206MB of total cache is quit exciting and will be on sale later this month but AMD refrained from commenting on the price until today… ⌘ Read more

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Valve Releases Native Steam Link App For Apple’s Vision Pro
Valve has released a native Steam Link beta for Apple Vision Pro, letting users stream their existing Steam games onto a large virtual screen in visionOS. It supports up to 4K resolution and will let you dynamically adjust the curve of the display. The Mac Observer reports: Steam Link does not support VR titles in this beta, and Valve clearly states that t … ⌘ Read more

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[$] Ripping CDs and converting audio with fre:ac
It has been a little while since LWN last surveyed tools for managing a digital\
music collection. In the intervening decades, many Linux users have moved on to
music streaming services, found them wanting, and are looking to curate their own
collection once again. There are plenty of choices when it comes to
ripping, managing, and playing digital audio; so many, in fact, that it can be a
bit daunting. After years of tinkering, I’ve found a few tools … ⌘ Read more

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Intel Arc Pro B70 Benchmarks With LLM / AI, OpenCL, OpenGL & Vulkan
Last month Intel announced the Arc Pro B70 with 32GB of GDDR6 video memory for this long-awaited Battlemage G31 graphics card. This new top-end Battlemage graphics card with 32 Xe cores and 32GB of GDDR6 video memory offers a lot of potential for LLM/AI and other use cases, especially when running multiple Arc Pro B70s. Last week Intel sent over four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards for Linux testing at Phoronix. Given the current re-testing for the i … ⌘ Read more

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Apple and Lenovo Have the Least Repairable Laptops, Analysis Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple earned the lowest grades in a report on laptop and smartphone repairability released today by the consumer advocacy group Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. The report, which looks at how easy devices are to disassemble and how easy it is to find repairability … ⌘ Read more

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[$] An API for handling arithmetic overflow
On March 31, Kees Cook shared
a patch set that represents the culmination of more than a year of work
toward eliminating the possibility of silent, unintentional integer overflow in
the kernel. Linus Torvalds was
not pleased with the approach, leading to a detailed discussion about the
meaning of “safe” integer operations and the de … ⌘ Read more

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Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openssl), Fedora (corosync, goose, kea, pspp, and rauc), Mageia (python-pygments, roundcubemail, and tigervnc), SUSE (bind, gimp, google-cloud-sap-agent, govulncheck-vulndb, ignition, ImageMagick, python, python-PyJWT, and python-pyOpenSSL), and Ubuntu (adsys, juju-core, lxd, python-django, and salt). ⌘ Read more

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Lenovo Laptops To Enjoy Better Fan Speed Monitoring With Linux 7.1
Set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is the “Yogafan” hardware monitoring driver to provide fan speed monitoring not only for Lenovo Yoga laptops but also various Legion and IdeaPad laptops too… ⌘ Read more

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CIA Reportedly Used Secret Quantum Tool To Find Downed Airman in Iran
alternative_right quotes a report from the New York Post: The CIA used a futuristic new tool called “Ghost Murmur” to find and rescue the second American airman who was shot down in southern Iran, The Post has learned. The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbea … ⌘ Read more

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Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026.1 With Backend For Llama.cpp, New Hardware Support
Intel’s OpenVINO toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inferencing across their range of hardware platforms is out with its newest quarterly feature update. There is official support for Intel’s latest hardware as well as enabling more large language models and other new AI innovations for this excellent open-source Intel software project… ⌘ Read more

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Chrome 147 Stable Released With New Restrictions, Web Printing API
Google on Tuesday announced the Chrome 147 stable release to all Windows, macOS, and Linux users. There are a number of refinements in this latest routine Chrome stable update paired with various fixes and new developer capabilities… ⌘ Read more

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Hugging Face Contributes Safetensors To PyTorch Foundation To Secure AI Model Execution
Announced today from the PyTorch Conference EU in Paris is word that Hugging Face has contributed their Safetensors project to the PyTorch Foundation, which is an umbrella organization under the Linux Foundation for hosting AI initiatives. Safetensors aims to help mitigate arbitrary code execution risks and more… ⌘ Read more

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Google AI Pro 官方福利:可获得 Producer.ai 每月 10000 点数(约 2000 首 AI 歌曲)
目前 Google AI Pro 订阅用户可以领取福利:AI 音乐生成平台 Producer.ai 每月 10000 点数,相当于 2000 首歌曲。@Appinn 感谢群友 @MQC 同学的推荐。 这是来自 Google AI Pro 官方福利: 具体可以获得: Google AI Pro 会员可 ⌘ Read more

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Sumatra PDF 3.7 预发布版本 – 新增命令行工具,以及 Arm 64、命令面板、深色模式等功能
Sumatra PDF 是一款有着 17 年历史的电子书阅读器,支持 PDF, eBook (epub, mobi), comic book (cbz/cbr), DjVu, XPS, CHM 等格式,甚至支持图片浏览。近日发布 3.6 版本,新增了一些功能。@Appinn 而预发布的 Sumatr ⌘ Read more

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Planet Labs Tests AI-Powered Object Detection On Satellite
BrianFagioli writes: Artificial intelligence has now run directly on a satellite in orbit. A spacecraft about 500km above Earth captured an image of an airport and then immediately ran an onboard AI model to detect airplanes in the photo. Instead of acting like a simple camera in space that sends raw data back to Earth for later analysis, the satellite perfo … ⌘ Read more

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