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Linux 6.19 Kernel Adds PCIe Link Encryption for Secure Computing  WebProNews

Arm’s MPAM Extension Hits Linux 6.19 for Optimized Data Center Performance  WebProNews

Linux Kernel 6.19 Enhances HID for Gaming Peripherals and Security  WebProNews

AMD Proposes Push-Based Load Balancing for Linux Kernel on Epyc CPUs  WebProNews

Linux 6.19: Enhancements and Early Performance Regressions Uncovered  WebProNews

An overview of Google’s latest funding announcement for computer science education and the newest AI Quest.An overview of Google’s latest funding announcement for computer science education and the newest AI Quest.

We’re introducing a new, shoppable fashion discovery feed in Doppl, an experimental AI app from Google Labs that helps you explore your style and see how new outfits mig…

Linux Fu: The SSD Super Cache  Hackaday

2025 Wayland-NVIDIA GPU Compatibility Leap for Linux Users  WebProNews

Google DeepMind UX Engineer Anna Bortsova asks Gemini to draft detailed prompts for her videos — and the results are show-stopping.Google DeepMind UX Engineer Anna Bortsova asks Gemini to draft detailed prompts for her videos — and the results are show-stopping.

A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake has shaken Japan, prompting tsunami warnings and orders for residents to evacuate. From a report: A tsunami as high as 3 metres (10ft) could hit the country's north-eastern coast after the earthquake occurred offshore at 11.15pm local time (2.15pm GMT), the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. Tsunami warnings were issued for the prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori and Iwate, and tsunamis from 20-50cm (7-18in) high were observed at several ports, JMA said. The epicentre of the quake was 50 miles (80km) off the coast of Aomori prefecture, at a depth of 30 miles, the agency added. On Japan's one-to-seven scale of seismic intensity, the tremor registered as an "upper six" in Aomori prefecture -- a quake strong enough to make it impossible to keep standing or move without crawling. In such tremors, most heavy furniture can collapse and wall tiles and windowpanes are damaged in many buildings.

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This Is What I Used to Automate My Linux Desktop, Without Touching the Terminal  Make Tech Easier

Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland  Phoronix

Snap vs. Flatpak: How to decide which Linux package manager is right for you  ZDNET

An investigation has revealed how stablecoins -- cryptocurrencies pegged to the US dollar that exist largely beyond traditional financial oversight -- have become a practical tool for criminals and sanctioned individuals to move funds across borders almost instantly and convert them back into spendable money, often without detection. A Chainalysis report from February estimated that up to $25 billion in illicit transactions involved stablecoins last year. A New York Times reporter tested the system by converting $40 cash at a crypto ATM in Weehawken, New Jersey, into stablecoins and then using a Telegram bot to generate a Visa payment card without any identity verification. The card-issuing service, WantToPay, is incorporated in Hong Kong and led by a Russian entrepreneur in Thailand; it advertises to Russians blocked by US sanctions. Britain last month arrested members of a billion-dollar money laundering network that had purchased a bank in Kyrgyzstan to convert proceeds from drug trafficking and human trafficking into Tether, the most popular stablecoin. Further reading: China's Central Bank Flags Money Laundering and Fraud Concerns With Stablecoins.

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Tech giants including Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon have all extended the estimated useful lives of their servers and AI equipment over the past five years, sparking a debate among investors about whether these accounting changes are artificially inflating profits. Meta this year increased its depreciation timeline for most servers and network assets to 5.5 years, up from four to five years previously and as little as three years in 2020. The company said the change reduced its depreciation expense by $2.3 billion for the first nine months of 2025. Alphabet and Microsoft now use six-year periods, up from three in 2020. Amazon extended to six years by 2024 but cut back to five years this year for some servers and networking equipment. Michael Burry, the investor portrayed in "The Big Short," called extending useful lives "one of the more common frauds of the modern era" in an article last month. Meta's total depreciation expense for the nine-month period was almost $13 billion against pretax profit exceeding $60 billion.

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Early Benchmarks Of Linux 6.19 Git Raising Some Concerns  Phoronix

Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflix in a months-long bidding war for the legacy assets, the company said Monday. CNBC: Paramount will go straight to WBD shareholders with an all-cash, $30-per-share offer. That's the same bid WBD rejected last week, according to people familiar with the bid who asked not to be named because the details were private. The offer is backstopped with equity financing from the Ellison family and the private-equity firm RedBird Capital and $54 billion of debt commitments from Bank of America, Citi and Apollo Global Management. "We're really here to finish what we started," Ellison told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" Monday. "We put the company in play." On Friday, Netflix announced a deal to acquire WBD's studio and streaming assets for $72 billion. David Ellison-run Paramount had been bidding for the entirety of Warner Bros. Discovery, including those assets and the company's TV networks like CNN and TNT Sports.

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AMD Working On Push-Based Load Balancing For Linux To Further Enhance Performance  Phoronix

Hardening the Backbone: Strengthening Linux Server Security with Preemptive Defense  Morphisec