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Google will offer 18-month free access to its Gemini AI service for all 505 million telecom users of India's Reliance Jio, a tie-up that follows similar freebies from rivals including OpenAI to boost adoption in the world's most populous nation. From a report: The move also comes weeks after Google committed to invest $15 billion in AI infrastructure capacity in India, its biggest investment yet in the critical South Asian market. [...] The Gemini offer will give Jio users free access to the advanced model of the AI app, two terabytes of cloud storage, and its image and video generation models, in an 18-month offering that is otherwise priced at 35,100 rupees ($399). The companies on Thursday also announced AI partnerships that targeted Indian businesses.

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KDE Plasma 6.5 arrives followed very closely by a bug-fix  theregister.com

Android or Linux: the big platform question ahead  findarticles.com

Android or Linux: the big platform question ahead  findarticles.com

More than a half dozen federal departments and agencies have backed a proposal to ban future sales of the most popular home routers in the United States on the grounds that the vendor's ties to mainland China make them a national security risk, Washington Post reported Thursday, citing people briefed on the matter. From the report: The proposal, which arose from a months-long risk assessment, calls for blocking sales of networking devices from TP-Link Systems of Irvine, California, which was spun off from a China-based company, TP-Link Technologies, but owns some of that company's former assets in China. The ban was proposed by the Commerce Department and supported this summer by an interagency process that includes the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense, the people said. "TP-Link vigorously disputes any allegation that its products present national security risks to the United States," Ricca Silverio, a spokeswoman for TP-Link Systems, said in a statement. "TP-Link is a U.S. company committed to supplying high-quality and secure products to the U.S. market and beyond." If imposed, the ban would be among the largest in consumer history and a possible sign that the East-West divide over tech independence is still deepening amid reports of accelerated Chinese government-supported hacking. Only the legislated ban of Chinese-owned TikTok, which President Donald Trump has averted with executive orders and a pending sale, would impact more U.S. consumers.

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LibreOffice 25.2.7 Is Out as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 25.8  9to5Linux

New Linux Patch Expands The Range Of AMD Zen 6 CPU Models  Phoronix

A look at a new mini docu-series on three projects in Brazil that are each taking a unique approach to tackle CO2 and superpollutants.A look at a new mini docu-series on three projects in Brazil that are each taking a unique approach to tackle CO2 and superpollutants.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: A mother with court-ordered custody of her children has described how Apple's Family Sharing feature can be weaponized by a former partner. Apple support staff were unable to assist her when she reported her former partner using the service in controlling and coercive ways... [...] Namely, Family Sharing gives all the control to one parent, not to both equally. The parent not identified as the organizer is unable to withdraw their children from this control, even when they have a court order granting them custody. As one woman's story shows, this can allow the feature which allows it to be weaponized by an abusive former partner. Wired reports: "The lack of dual-organizer roles, leaving other parents effectively as subordinate admins with more limited power, can prove limiting and frustrating in blended and shared households. And in darker scenarios, a single-organizer setup isn't merely inconvenient -- it can be dangerous. Kate (name changed to protect her privacy and safety) knows this firsthand. When her marriage collapsed, she says, her now ex-husband, the designated organizer, essentially weaponized Family Sharing. He tracked their children's locations, counted their screen minutes and demanded they account for them, and imposed draconian limits during Kate's custody days while lifting them on his own [...] After they separated, Kate's ex refused to disband the family group. But without his consent, the children couldn't be transferred to a new one. "I wrongly assumed being the custodial parent with a court order meant I'd be able to have Apple move my children to a new family group, with me as the organizer," says Kate. But Apple couldn't help. Support staff sympathized but said their hands were tied because the organizer holds the power." Although users can "abandon the accounts and start again with new Apple IDs," the report notes that doing so means losing all purchased apps, along with potentially years' worth of photos and videos.

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Valve fix some games on Linux / Steam Deck having incorrect Steam Play settings and added a chat warning  GamingOnLinux

Valve fix some games on Linux / Steam Deck having incorrect Steam Play settings and added a chat warning  GamingOnLinux

Now's the Best Time to Ditch Windows and Mac for Linux  How-To Geek

Hackers are using these malicious npm packages to target developers on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems – here’s how to stay safe  IT Pro

Hackers are using these malicious npm packages to target developers on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems – here’s how to stay safe  IT Pro

Hackers are using these malicious npm packages to target developers on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems – here’s how to stay safe  IT Pro

Hackers are using these malicious npm packages to target developers on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems – here’s how to stay safe  IT Pro

Hackers are using these malicious npm packages to target developers on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems – here’s how to stay safe  IT Pro

Hackers are using these malicious npm packages to target developers on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems – here’s how to stay safe  IT Pro

Millions of Jio users will get access to the Google AI Pro plan at no extra cost for 18 months.

Python 3.14 Arrives on Azure App Service for Linux  Windows Report