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Outlaw Cybergang Launches Global Attacks on Linux Environments with New Malware  GBHackers News

Outlaw Cybergang Launches Global Attacks on Linux Environments with New Malware  GBHackers News

Outlaw Cybergang Launches Global Attacks on Linux Environments with New Malware  GBHackers News

Outlaw Cybergang Launches Global Attacks on Linux Environments with New Malware  GBHackers News

Outlaw Cybergang Launches Global Attacks on Linux Environments with New Malware  GBHackers News

Outlaw Cybergang Launches Global Attacks on Linux Environments with New Malware  GBHackers News

Bitcoin mining has crossed a critical economic threshold, with costs now exceeding market value for most operators. According to data cited by CoinShares, large public mining companies spend over $82,000 to produce a single Bitcoin -- nearly double last quarter's figure -- while smaller operations face even steeper costs of approximately $137,000 per coin. With Bitcoin currently trading around $94,703, the math no longer works for most miners. The economics become particularly challenging in high-electricity-cost regions like Germany, where mining a single coin requires approximately $200,000. Industry analysts suggest larger mining operations are adapting by optimizing energy consumption and positioning their computational infrastructure for alternative uses. These companies can potentially lease their mining setups for other computational tasks during unprofitable mining periods, then resume mining when market conditions improve. For individual miners, however, the era of profitable home operations appears effectively over, as industrial-scale facilities with strategic positioning and optimized technology have fundamentally altered the mining landscape.

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Learning a language isn’t just about textbooks or exercises. It’s about curiosity, and seizing every tiny opportunity to learn—whether it’s ordering a coffee, catching a…

AlmaLinux 9.6 Beta released: Here’s what Linux users need to know  BetaNews

An anonymous reader shares a report: Reddit's top lawyer, Ben Lee, said the company is considering legal action against researchers from the University of Zurich who ran what he called an "improper and highly unethical experiment" by surreptitiously deploying AI chatbots in a popular debate subreddit. The University of Zurich told 404 Media that the experiment results will not be published and said the university is investigating how the research was conducted. As we reported Monday, researchers at the University of Zurich ran an "unauthorized" and secret experiment on Reddit users in the r/changemyview subreddit in which dozens of AI bots engaged in debates with users about controversial issues. In some cases, the bots generated responses which claimed they were rape survivors, worked with trauma patients, or were Black people who were opposed to the Black Lives Matter movement. The researchers used a separate AI to mine the posting history of the people they were responding to in an attempt to determine personal details about them that they believed would make their bots more effective, such as their age, race, gender, location, and political beliefs.

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Learn more about new Google Wallet updates, including new ways to use your digital ID for age and identity verification.Learn more about new Google Wallet updates, including new ways to use your digital ID for age and identity verification.

Go behind the scenes in this new Lab Session and learn how Indian music icon Shankar Mahadevan used Music AI Sandbox to help create the song ''Rubaroo''.Go behind the scenes in this new Lab Session and learn how Indian music icon Shankar Mahadevan used Music AI Sandbox to help create the song ''Rubaroo''.

Learn more about NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews feature and its expansion to more than 50 languages.Learn more about NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews feature and its expansion to more than 50 languages.

Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42 Hit A Long Sought Milestone With HDR Support Working Well On The Linux Desktop Review  Phoronix

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The AlmaLinux project has published a new beta snapshot. The new development release seeks to improve performance and security for the 9.x series. The release announcement states: "AlmaLinux 9.6 Beta continues to enhance performance, development tools, and security. Updated module streams improve support for web applications, while new....

Hackers working for governments were responsible for the majority of attributed zero-day exploits used in real-world cyberattacks last year, per new research from Google. From a report: Google's report said that the number of zero-day exploits -- referring to security flaws that were unknown to the software makers at the time hackers abused them -- had dropped from 98 exploits in 2023 to 75 exploits in 2024. But the report noted that of the proportion of zero-days that Google could attribute -- meaning identifying the hackers who were responsible for exploiting them -- at least 23 zero-day exploits were linked to government-backed hackers. Among those 23 exploits, 10 zero-days were attributed to hackers working directly for governments, including five exploits linked to China and another five to North Korea.

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AI Workflows Get New Open Source Tools to Advance Document Intelligence, Data Quality, and Decentralized AI with IBM's Contribution of 3 projects to Linux Foundation AI and Data  PR Newswire

AI Workflows Get New Open Source Tools to Advance Document Intelligence, Data Quality, and Decentralized AI with IBM's Contribution of 3 projects to Linux Foundation AI and Data  The Victoria Advocate

AI Workflows Get New Open Source Tools to Advance Document Intelligence, Data Quality, and Decentralized AI with IBM's Contribution of 3 projects to Linux Foundation AI and Data  PR Newswire

The Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) district, which serves 70,000 students and employs more than 5,000 educators, faced the challenge of providing engaging, personalize…