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Richi Jennings

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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Judge spares Google’s ad-tech business from a breakup computerworld.com/article/4218... via @computerworld.com & @sjvn.bsky.social Golly, who'd have guessed the judge would roll over and let #Google get away with it? Me for one. Antitrust cases are a joke.
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Judge spares Google’s ad-tech business from a breakup
Really, did you expect anything else?
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Unveiling Hidden Exoplanets at the Cosmic Edge ….and how Wind River helped. (My coworkers are SO excited about it!) An explainer about what makes this thing so cool. I did my best to make this worth your time. www.windriver.com/blog/NASA-Na...
photo of the nancy roman telescope
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This #AI tool found 6 Curl vulnerabilities Mythos and Codex missed – even Greg KH is impressed www.zdnet.com/innovation/a... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social You may not know Aisle, but the best open-source maintainers know it & like it. Why? Because it finds bugs that others don’t.
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This AI tool found 6 Curl vulnerabilities Mythos and Codex missed - even Greg KH is impressed - ZDNET
Aisle found six Curl flaws after Mythos and Codex reported none.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: Surprise! Free Software Foundation Does Bluesky fossforce.com/2026/09/surp...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
SpaceX designed an orbital Vera Rubin. Radiation comes next.: thenewstack.io/spacex-nvidi... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social SpaceX & Nvidia say they are adapting the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale AI platform for use in orbit. Good luck. First, they must deal with heating and radiation.
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SpaceX designed an orbital Vera Rubin. Radiation comes next.
SpaceX and Nvidia want to put Vera Rubin AI racks in orbit by 2027. Cooling, radiation, and repairability make that leap far harder than it sounds.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My interview with RMS: The FOSS Force Interview With Richard Stallman - FOSS Force buff.ly/i7kP4Pn
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The FOSS Force Interview With Richard Stallman - FOSS Force
Richard Stallman on why free software remains the essential question—and discusses LLMs, SaaSS, connected devices, and digital surveillance.
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Marco Fioretti @mfioretti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Meta’s victory on children is even bigger and uglier than I said, not to mention another case of US playing de-facto lawmaker for the whole world, local parliaments be damned: mfioretti.substack.com/p/metas-vict...
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: LibreOffice 26.8 Again Proves Open Source Is About More Than Code fossforce.com/2026/08/libr...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount theregister.com/columnists/2... via @theregister.com & @sjvn.bsky.social Golly, AI is a lot more dangerous and unsafe than the AI leaders have been preaching. Who knew!?
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Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount
And as for getting US government to help – uncontrolled AI is not as dangerous as AI under the control of the technically clueless
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Marco Fioretti @mfioretti.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#Meta strikes huge VICTORY in landmark #socialmedia trial Yes, victory. Read this to know why, and tell every PARENT to do the same: mfioretti.substack.com/p/meta-strik...
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: GNU Emacs 31.1: Approaching Fifty and Still Improving fossforce.com/2026/08/gnu-...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
'Just a hobby, won't be big': Linus Torvalds introduced Linux 35 years ago - and almost called it Freax www.zdnet.com/article/just... Via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Here's how #Linux started.
zdnet.com
'Just a hobby, won't be big': Linus Torvalds introduced Linux 35 years ago - and almost called it Freax
It's been 35 years since Finnish graduate student Linus Torvalds drafted a brief note saying he was starting a hobby operating system. The world will never be the same.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In the Kubernetes 1.37 release, codenamed Garhwal, new scheduling capabilities were built for AI and machine-learning training jobs that need groups of pods to start and scale together.  www.networkworld.com/article/4214...
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Kubernetes 1.37 advances workload-aware scheduling and cluster networking
In the Kubernetes 1.37 release, codenamed Garhwal, new scheduling capabilities were built for AI and machine-learning training jobs that need groups of pods to start and scale together.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ubuntu on Windows outgrowing native installs? Not, according to Canonical's Jon Seager zdnet.com/article/ubun... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social There's some confusion about Ubuntu's popularity on Windows Subsystem for #Linux, so I asked Canonical directly.
zdnet.com
Ubuntu on Windows outgrowing native installs? Not according to Canonical's Jon Seager
There's some confusion about Ubuntu's popularity on Windows Subsystem for Linux, so I asked Canonical directly.
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Why HPSC Is a Big Deal for Space Exploration HPSC is not only about speeding up spacecraft computers. It enables entirely new ways to explore the solar system. www.windriver.com/blog/Why-HPS...
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Why HPSC Is a Big Deal for Space Exploration
Learn what HPSC hardware enables, how developers can take advantage of that computing power safely and reliably in mission-critical environments — and how Wind River can help.
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Marco Fioretti @mfioretti.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The latest lawsuit against #Facebook & #Instagram IS better than the previous ones, but it still has serious issues that may greatly limit its effectiveness:. Here is "What 29 US states suing Meta got wrong, or completely forgot": mfioretti.substack.com/p/what-29-us...
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What 29 US states suing Meta got wrong, or completely forgot
There are two wrong demands, and two huge absences, in the “biggest threat yet to Instagram and Facebook”.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
venturebeat.com/orchestratio... NVIDIA's open-source Nemotron 3.5 Lightning delivers 4x faster throughput while its Switchyard router cuts agent costs to a third
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Nvidia's Switchyard router reshuffles AI models mid-task, cutting task costs to a third in its own tests
Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning pairs with its NeMo Switchyard router, which reassigns models mid-task and cuts task costs to a third in Nvidia's own tests.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: Alpha-Stage NeoSearch Brings Openness to Search fossforce.com/2026/08/alph...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Why space is actually a terrible place to cool a data center: thenewstack.io/spacex-and-n... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social #AI data centers in space sound great, but practically speaking, they may be nearly impossible.
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Why space is actually a terrible place to cool a data center
AI data centers in space sound great, but practically speaking, they may be next to impossible.
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
6 Ways Aptiv is Investing in Cybersecurity With cyberthreats growing and regulatory expectations tightening, Aptiv is investing in security across every platform, from embedded systems and in‑vehicle networks to cloud connectivity and over‑the‑air updates. www.aptiv.com/en/insights/...
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Cybersecurity by Design: How Aptiv Secures Complex Systems From Edge to Cloud
A layered approach to security encompasses several integrated efforts, exemplified by these ongoing Aptiv programs.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The open-source Malloy semantic modeling language gets some 'Credible' backing to build out AI context. "It's the same pain point people have had for 30 years, the lack of governed data analysis," Kyle Nesbit told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview. venturebeat.com/data/57-of-e...
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Credible bets open source on AI context layer | VentureBeat
A VB Pulse survey of 101 enterprises found most AI agent errors trace to missing context. Credible raised $10M to build a portable, open-source alternative.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential zdnet.com/article/open... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social You may think the #AI war is between China and the US, but it's really a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs.
zdnet.com
Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war's afoot, and the stakes are existential
It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: “Oopsies!” FreeBSD Devs Say There’s Still GPL in the Kernel fossforce.com/2026/07/oops...
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The Register @theregister.com · 23/07/2026
Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files
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Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files
Who needs a working security badge when you know how to talk your way into the records room?
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Sharon Fisher @slfisher.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Part of the challenge for any of the proposals would be defining an “AI company,” as well as what size would qualify as “big enough.” “If we build any sort of fund on a sloppy or gray definition of what an #AI company is, we’re in treacherous waters,” said Navarre. www.vktr.com/ai-ethics-la...
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AI Wealth-Sharing Plans Gain Support From Trump and Sanders
Giving the American public a piece of AI companies is actually something President Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders agree on.
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Marco Fioretti @mfioretti.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Even #Trump can be 100% right. Especially when it's about "election vulnerabilities". He's right here. Just not in the way you think: mfioretti.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: The XZ Backdoor Long Con Chronicled in ‘Half a Second’ fossforce.com/2026/07/the-...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Linus Torvalds puts his foot down, tells anti-AI programmers to 'fork it' zdnet.com/article/linu... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social "#AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one." If you don't like it, you can fork #Linux or get out.
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Linus Torvalds puts his foot down, tells anti-AI programmers to 'fork it'
'AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.'
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Tristan Louis @tnl.net · 06/07/2026
A mystery: who changed the punctuation of the Declaration of independence? tnl.net/blog/2026/07... #America250 #DeclarationOfIndependence #History
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A 250-Year-Old Matter of Punctuation – TNL.net
A tiny punctuation mark in the Declaration may have reshaped America’s promise—not just freedom from government, but rights for all.
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 28/04/2026
What happens when amateur hackers have the tools to iterate through exploits at machine speed? I wrote about the neu script kiddies, what happens after Mythos, and how companies can prepare. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia.... with insight from @k8em0.bsky.social Dan Guido, Joshua Saxe, & Tim Becker.
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Attack of the killer script kiddies
“It’s now or never. There’s a tidal wave coming.”
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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
What happens when amateur hackers have the tools to iterate through exploits at machine speed? @yaelwrites.com on neu script kiddies, what happens after Mythos, and how companies can prepare: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
venturebeat.com/data/the-ret... RAG is not dead it is being enhanced - it's an approach I call the retrieval rebuild ->Why 22% of enterprises have stepped back from RAG — and what Q1 data says about what comes next
venturebeat.com
Enterprise RAG rebuild: hybrid retrieval adoption tripled in Q1 2026
Enterprise intent to adopt hybrid retrieval tripled from 10.3% to 33.3% in Q1 as first-gen RAG architecture failed at agentic scale, VB survey data shows.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Just published on FOSS Force: ‘Mentoring Mondays’ Is Otto Kekäläinen’s Way to Support New Debian Devs fossforce.com/2026/04/ment...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Meta abandons open-source Llama for proprietary Muse Spark: thenewstack.io/meta-abandon... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social If you're still using the #opensource #AI Llama, Meta's left you without a migration path.
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Meta abandons open-source Llama for proprietary Muse Spark
Meta has shifted from Llama to its new proprietary AI model Muse Spark, leaving open-source developers searching for alternatives and migration paths.
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Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Former head of #L3Harris​’s #Trenchant “offensive cyber” division admits to stealing weapons-grade exploit chain worth $35 million and then selling it for personal gain. Raises important questions about national security risks of outsourcing such weaponry. In #SBBlogwatch, we go out with a whimper:
securityboulevard.com
US Defense Contractor Boss Sold Zero Days to Russia — Cops a Plea
So long and thanks for all the fish: Peter Williams admits to selling unpatched iPhone bugs to a shady Russian broker.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
How To Get Bare-Metal GPU Performance in Confidential VMs: thenewstack.io/how-to-get-b... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social A top #NVIDIA engineer explains how you can keep your AI workloads both safe and fast using Kata Containers and Confidential Computing.
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How To Get Bare-Metal GPU Performance in Confidential VMs
For when you want to make darn sure that your AI data, model and their use are all secure from snoopers.
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Pam Baker @pambaker.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the 'USB-C of LLM,' and every bit as hot as AI itself. Find out why in my latest article in InformationWeek www.informationweek.com/responsible-...
informationweek.com
Why CIOs Should Put MCP on Their Radar Now
Model Context Protocol is the 'USB-C of LLM,' and every bit as hot as AI itself. Here's why.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
AI is supposed to give humans less work and make things easier...right? Maybe not according to some new research from Snowflake that 77% say their data engineering teams' workloads are getting heavier, not lighter. venturebeat.com/data-infrast...
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Just published on FOSS Force: Percona’s New CEO Peter Farkas Returns to a Company He Never Really Left fossforce.com/2025/10/perc...
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Percona's New CEO Peter Farkas Returns to a Company He Never Really Left - FOSS Force
In an exclusive conversation, newly minted Percona CEO Peter Farkas explains why the company’s open source-first approach still works -- and how he plans to build on it across global teams and new database...
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Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
One notorious center for the grotesquely evil practice of #PigButchering is #Myanmar. This week, #SpaceX is crowing about how it’s blocked 2,500 #Starlink satellite internet terminals being used by these scumbags to reach their victims. In #SBBlogwatch, we wonder what took Elon so long.
securityboulevard.com
Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘is Facilitating’ Scams via Starlink
Low Earth Pork: Pig-butchering scammers in Myanmar lose use of 2,500 Starlink terminals.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Just published on FOSS Force: All Things Open Has More in Store for 2025, Including an Added Measure of AI fossforce.com/2025/10/all-...
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All Things Open Has More in Store for 2025, Including an Added Measure of AI - FOSS Force
The ATO 2025 conference may be in the books, but the organization has more events planned before year’s end—and new events are already on its 2026 dance card.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Usually each new Wi-Fi spec offers the promise of more speed..but speed isn't the only thing that users need. Wi-Fi 8 could be the most important networking spec in a generation. @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4073...
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Wi-Fi 8 is coming and it's going to make AI a lot faster
Wi-Fi 8 prioritizes consistent performance under challenging conditions and introduces dynamic spectrum management and hardware-accelerated telemetry designed for AI workloads at the network edge.
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam www.zdnet.com/article/euro... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Europe is really sick of US policies and tech companies, so they're turing to #OpenSource -based European companies.
zdnet.com
Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam
One topic dominated the recent 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, and it wasn't AI.
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Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
#Microsoft​’s #Windows security update rollup is badly buggy this month. #WinRE recovery environment doesn’t work with most keyboards and mice. And a fix for a cryptography bypass bug is causing failures. Leading to concerns about the #Windows dev process. In #SBBlogwatch, we grab a Linux ISO:
securityboulevard.com
October Patch Tuesday Fails Hard — Windows Update Considered Harmful?
Satya fiddles while Redmond burns? Showstopper bugs with security certificates—plus failing USB keyboards and mice—cause QA questions.
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 15/12/2024
People have a right to speak. They don’t have a right for anyone else to have to listen. That’s why block lists etc exist. I don’t give people the benefit of assuming good faith in the same way I wouldn’t if someone followed me down the street demanding I debate them. I’d call the cops, to be honest
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Just published on FOSS Force: MX Linux 23.6 Libreto: High Performance on Legacy or Bleeding-Edge Hardware fossforce.com/2025/10/mx-l...
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MX Linux 23.6 Libreto: High Performance on Legacy or Bleeding-Edge Hardware - FOSS Force
Whether reviving old gear or maxing out new silicon, MX Linux 23.6 Libretto stays cool, collected, and gets the job done.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Enterprises expanding AI deployments are hitting an invisible performance wall. The culprit? Static speculators that can't keep up with shifting workloads. The answer would be a new type of self-adaptive system. venturebeat.com/ai/together-...
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email www.zdnet.com/article/germ... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social If European governments can dump Microsoft software and services for #Linux and #opensource software, why can't everyone?
zdnet.com
German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email
Digital sovereignty isn't a phrase you often hear in the US, but it's a big deal in Europe. Here's why.
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Proximity Networking: Essential Wireless Standards Sharing data wirelessly over a relatively short range is accomplished with a set of technologies called proximity networking. Want to come up to speed on RFID, NFC, Bluetooth, and Qi? Start here. www.aptiv.com/en/insights/...
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Proximity Networking: Essential Wireless Standards
Sharing data wirelessly over a relatively short range is accomplished with a set of technologies called proximity networking.
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Richi Jennings @richi.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Anything any #Android app can display is vulnerable to #Pixnapping attack—including #2FA codes. “It’s like Rowhammer, but for the screen,” quips one wag. Google thought it had already fixed the previously undisclosed flaw. But the group’s demo says not. In #SBBlogwatch, we blur the pels:
securityboulevard.com
#Pixnapping: Android Timing Attack Sends Google Back to the Drawing Board
If at first you don’t succeed: Researchers discover a new way to steal secrets from Android apps.
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