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AI-powered Pentesting Tool 'Villager' Combines Kali Linux Tools with DeepSeek AI for Automated Attacks  CybersecurityNews

AI-powered Pentesting Tool 'Villager' Combines Kali Linux Tools with DeepSeek AI for Automated Attacks  CybersecurityNews

AI-powered Pentesting Tool 'Villager' Combines Kali Linux Tools with DeepSeek AI for Automated Attacks  CybersecurityNews

Google Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to the popular spreadsheet-database hybrid Airtable, is shutting down. TechCrunch: In an email sent to Tables users this week, Google said the app will not be supported after December 16, 2025, and advised that users export or migrate their data to either Google Sheets or AppSheet instead, depending on their needs. Launched in 2020, Tables focused on making project tracking more efficient with automation. It was one of the many projects to emerge from Google's in-house app incubator, Area 120, which at the time was devoted to cranking out a number of experimental projects. Some of these projects later graduated to become a part of Google's core offerings across Cloud, Search, Shopping, and more. Tables was one of those early successes: Google said in 2021 that the service was moving from a beta test to become an official Google Cloud product. At the time, the company said it saw Tables as a potential solution for a variety of use cases, including project management, IT operations, customer service tracking, CRM, recruiting, product development and more.

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Fork that: Three alternative kernels show devs don't need Linux  theregister.com

The Swiss government could soon require service providers with more than 5,000 users to collect government-issued identification, retain subscriber data for six months and, in many cases, disable encryption. From a report: The proposal, which is not subject to parliamentary approval, has alarmed privacy and digital-freedoms advocates worldwide because of how it will destroy anonymity online, including for people located outside of Switzerland. A large number of virtual private network (VPN) companies and other privacy-preserving firms are headquartered in the country because it has historically had liberal digital privacy laws alongside its famously discreet banking ecosystem. Proton, which offers secure and end-to-end encrypted email along with an ultra-private VPN and cloud storage, announced on July 23 that it is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland due to the proposed law. The company is investing more than $117 million in the European Union, the announcement said, and plans to help develop a "sovereign EuroStack for the future of our home continent." Switzerland is not a member of the EU. Proton said the decision was prompted by the Swiss government's attempt to "introduce mass surveillance."

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Intel i915 vs. Xe Graphics Driver Benchmarks For Meteor Lake: Extra Performance In 2025  Phoronix

An anonymous reader shares a report: An attempt to ban social media in Nepal ended this week in violent protest with the prime minister ousted, the Parliament in flames and soldiers on the streets of the capital. Now, the very technology the government tried to outlaw is being harnessed to help select the country's next leader, as more than 100,000 citizens are meeting regularly in a virtual chat room to debate the country's future. More than 30 people were killed in clashes with the police during youth-led protests that convulsed the capital in a paroxysm of outrage over wealth inequality, corruption and plans to ban some social media platforms. After the government's collapse on Tuesday, the military imposed a curfew across the capital, Kathmandu, and restricted large gatherings. With the country in political limbo and no obvious next leader in place, Nepalis have taken to Discord, a platform popularized by video gamers, to enact the digital version of a national convention. "The Parliament of Nepal right now is Discord," said Sid Ghimiri, 23, a content creator from Kathmandu, describing how the site has become the center of the nation's political decision making. The conversation inside the Discord channel, taking place in a combination of voice, video, and text chats, is so consequential that it is being discussed on national television and live streamed on news sites.

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Intel Linux Graphics Driver Seeing 2~5% Faster Shader Compilation Times, Up To ~20%  Phoronix

At the AI Horizons Summit in Pittsburgh, Google kicked off the Pennsylvania AI Accelerator for small businesses.

3 Super Useful Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (September 12 - 14)  Yahoo! Tech

The Apache Software Foundation has unveiled a major branding overhaul that retires its three-decade-old feather logo after criticism from Native American activists. In its place is a new oak leaf design to symbolize endurance, resilience, and global reach. Along with the new visual identity, the group will emphasize "The ASF" as its shorthand name while keeping its full legal title intact. Apache.org explained: "The oak is one of the most enduring trees and is found around the world. It grows slowly but steadily, supporting vast ecosystems and lasting for centuries. In the same way, The ASF has served as a stable, resilient steward of open source for more than 25 years and is looking to the long future ahead. Choosing the oak leaf as our new logo represents the enduring power of our ethos: community over code."

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Q4OS 6.1 Distro Is Out Based on Debian 13 with KDE Plasma and Trinity Desktops  9to5Linux

I'm out, says OpenSUSE: We're dropping bcachefs support from next kernel version  theregister.com

London-based designer Paul Cocksedge has taken over the iconic Trafalgar Square working closely with Google Arts & Culture Lab.London-based designer Paul Cocksedge has taken over the iconic Trafalgar Square working closely with Google Arts & Culture Lab.

LMDE 7 Will Be Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”, Linux Mint 22.3 Planned for December  9to5Linux

LMDE 7 Will Be Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”, Linux Mint 22.3 Planned for December  9to5Linux

LMDE 7 Will Be Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”, Linux Mint 22.3 Planned for December  9to5Linux

Nano11 slashes Windows 11 to 2.8GB by cutting 'fluff' — but there’s a catch  Windows Central

These 5 tips made my transition from Windows to Linux much easier  makeuseof.com