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New Linux Backdoor Attacking Linux Users Via Installation Packages  GBHackers

EROFS Adds Zstd & Btrfs Gets Minor Performance Work In Linux 6.10  Phoronix

Sysctl Sentinel Bloat Removal Wrapping Up In Linux 6.10  Phoronix

Data center construction levels are at an all-time high. And more than ever, companies that need them have already called dibs. From a report: In the first quarter of 2024, what amounts to about half of the existing supply of data center megawattage in the US is under construction, according to real estate services firm CBRE. And 84% of that is already leased. Typically that rate had been about 50% the last few years -- already notably higher than other real estate classes. "I'm astonished and impressed by the demand for facilities yet to be fully constructed," CBRE Data Center Research Director Gordon Dolven told Sherwood. That advanced interest means that despite the huge amount of construction, there's still going to be a shortage of data centers to meet demand. In other words, data center vacancy rates are staying low and rents high. Nationwide the vacancy rates are near record lows of 3.7% and average asking rent for data centers was up 19% year over year, according to CBRE. It was up 42% in Northern Virginia, where many data centers are located. These sorts of price jumps are "unprecedented" compared with other types of real estate. For comparison, rents for industrial and logistics real estate, another hot asset class used in e-commerce, is expected to go up 8% this year.

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Kimsuky APT Deploying Linux Backdoor Gomir in South Korean Cyber Attacks  The Hacker News

For International Museum Day, we're sharing 3 simple but effective tips to help cultural partners reach more audiences across platforms.

Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix: Following Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund providing significant funding for GNOME, Rust Coreutils, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and numerous other free software projects, the FFmpeg multimedia library is the latest beneficiary to this funding from the Germany government. The Sovereign Tech Fund notes that the FFmpeg project is receiving 157,580 euros for 2024 and 2025. An announcement on the FFmpeg.org project site notes: "The FFmpeg community is excited to announce that Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has become its first governmental sponsor. Their support will help sustain the [maintenance] of the FFmpeg project, a critical open-source software multimedia component essential to bringing audio and video to billions around the world everyday."

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Google invests $2 million in INSAIT, the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology in Sofia, Bulgaria.Google invests $2 million in INSAIT, the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology in Sofia, Bulgaria.

ESET Research: Ebury botnet alive & growing; 400k Linux servers compromised for cryptocurrency theft and  EIN News

Kinsing malware exploits Apache Tomcat on Linux clouds  DataCentreNews UK

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: It's amazing, and a little sad, to think that something created in 1989 that changed how people used and viewed the then-nascent Internet had nearly vanished by 2024. Nearly, that is, because the dogged researchers and enthusiasts at The Serial Port channel on YouTube have found what is likely the last existing copy of Archie. Archie, first crafted by Alan Emtage while a student at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, allowed for the searching of various "anonymous" FTP servers around what was then a very small web of universities, researchers, and government and military nodes. It was groundbreaking; it was the first echo of the "anything, anywhere" Internet to come. And when The Serial Port went looking, it very much did not exist. While Archie would eventually be supplanted by Gopher, web portals, and search engines, it remains a useful way to index FTP sites and certainly should be preserved. The Serial Port did this, and the road to get there is remarkable and intriguing. You are best off watching the video of their rescue, along with its explanatory preamble. But I present here some notable bits of the tale, perhaps to tempt you into digging further.

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Buy a $50 IKEA eGift card, get bonus $10 eGift Card. That’s $10 off every $60 of IKEA stuff, which seems pretty good. Limit $500 total gift cards purchased ($100 in bonus gift cards). The website URL is funky, but it is linked directly from the IKEA.com gift card page, so looks legit. Set to run 5/15 through 5/21/24, but this offer has ended early in the past. Terms and conditions:

*Valid in U.S. only. Limited quantities of Bonus Cards available. Valid on Digital Gift Card purchases of $50 or more only from IKEA-USA.com. Not valid on physical or in-store Gift Card purchases. Offer will apply automatically at check-out if purchase qualifies. Additional $10 Digital Gift Card (“Bonus Card”) will be emailed automatically to the purchaser’s email address provided at check-out within 24-48 hours. LIMIT: $500 in Digital Gift Cards/10 Bonus Cards per purchaser during offer period. Gift Cards not redeemable for cash (unless required by law). Except for purchase limits set forth above, offer subject to IKEA Gift Card terms and conditions, https://www.ikea.com/us/en/customer-service/gift-cards-pub3d1efe50. Other restrictions may apply. See IKEA-USA.com for details. ©Inter IKEA Systems B.V. 2024.

Note the waiting period of 24-48 hours for the bonus gift card to show up. Found via Doctor of Credit.

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Update May 2024. New 1.5% asset transfer promo. Brokerage app Moomoo is offering a 1.5% bonus on assets transferred (up to a $300 bonus on $20,000 transferred). The minimum hold period is 90 days. Valid only for new customers. Full terms here.

(Side note: The alternative offer of “Magnificent 7” stocks is worth only ~$35 total, so I would skip that and wait for a better offer. For example, many of the post comments below were for a previous offer that included Tesla stock and was worth $300+.)

Your ACAT transfer must settle by 5/28/24 and must be coming from one of the following broker-dealers:

• Robinhood
• Webull
• TD Ameritrade (including ThinkorSwim)
• Interactive Brokers
• Fidelity
• E-Trade
• Cash App
• Charles Schwab
• Ally Invest
• Firstrade
• Merrill Lynch

Transfers from other broker-dealers are not eligible for this promotion. The value of the assets is determined at the time of settlement and not at the time you initiate the transfer.

Here is their definition of new customer:

1. HAVE opened a brokerage account, but have not made a deposit yet, and plan to make the first eligible ACATS transfer that settles before May 28, 2024, 23:59 PM ET.

2. HAVE NOT opened a brokerage account before April 01, 2024, 04:00 AM ET.

3. HAVE opened a brokerage account, but have not made a deposit yet, and plan to make the first deposit that settles before May 28, 2024, 23:59 PM ET.

Compared to the Robinhood 1% transfer bonus, this offer is 50% more money (1.5% vs. 1%) and the hold period is 85%+ shorter (90 days vs. 720 days). The main drawback is the cap at $300 bonus on $20,000 in asset transferred, but there are a few other wrinkles as well.

What Moomoo calls a “Cash Reward” is not a cash credit to your account like what Robinhood does; it works like a coupon that rebates a future stock trade. In my experience, it applied automatically but you to have to make a trade to claim it. In the past, I have chosen to just buy (and then sell) enough SGOV to trigger it (amount varies) if you don’t have other stock trades you plan to make.

Another potential drawback is that some people have noted that Moomoo does not participate in the ACAT system if you want to transfer out later. Instead, you must use the “DTC FOP” system and follow the directions here. All the major brokers I checked with can handle this, it’s just a bit different process. There is also a $75 transfer out fee (which you may seek to be rebated by your future broker).

* FOP (Free of Payment ) is a method to transfer US stocks between Moomoo Financial Inc. and another brokerage firm directly through The Depository Trust Company (DTC), without using the ACATS (Automated Customer Account Transfer Service) system.

If possible, you may instead consider transferring over enough assets to trigger the bonus without big unrealized gains, and then just sell after 90 days and withdraw the cash.

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Seven Spirals writes: NetBSD committers are now banned from using any AI-generated code from ChatGPT, CoPilot, or other AI tools. Time will tell how this plays out with both their users and core team. "If you commit code that was not written by yourself, double check that the license on that code permits import into the NetBSD source repository, and permits free distribution," reads NetBSD's updated commit guidelines. "Check with the author(s) of the code, make sure that they were the sole author of the code and verify with them that they did not copy any other code. Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft's Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta's Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core."

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According to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the U.S. has officially surpassed 5 million solar installations. "The 5 million milestone comes just eight years after the U.S. achieved its first million in 2016 -- a stark contrast to the four decades it took to reach that initial milestone since the first grid-connected solar project in 1973," reports Electrek. From the report: Since the beginning of 2020, more than half of all U.S. solar installations have come online, and over 25% have been activated since the Inflation Reduction Act became law 20 months ago. Solar arrays have been installed on homes and businesses and as utility-scale solar farms. The U.S. solar market was valued at $51 billion in 2023. Even with changes in state policies, market trends indicate robust growth in solar installations across the U.S. According to SEIA forecasts, the number of solar installations is expected to double to 10 million by 2030 and triple to 15 million by 2034. The residential sector represents 97% of all U.S. solar installations. This sector has consistently set new records for annual installations over the past several years, achieving new highs for five straight years and in 10 out of the last 12 years. The significant growth in residential solar can be attributed to its proven value as an investment for homeowners who wish to manage their energy costs more effectively. California is the frontrunner with 2 million solar installations, though recent state policies have significantly damaged its rooftop solar market. Meanwhile, other states are experiencing rapid growth. For example, Illinois, which had only 2,500 solar installations in 2017, now boasts over 87,000. Similarly, Florida has seen its solar installations surge from 22,000 in 2017 to 235,000 today. By 2030, 22 states or territories are anticipated to surpass 100,000 solar installations. The U.S. has enough solar installed to cover every residential rooftop in the Four Corners states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico.

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In a press release today, the best music player of the 1990s announced that it'll open up its source code to developers worldwide. "Winamp will open up its code for the player used on Windows, enabling the entire community to participate in its development," said the company. "This is an invitation to global collaboration, where developers worldwide can contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help this iconic software evolve." Alexandre Saboundjian, CEO of Winamp, explains: "This is a decision that will delight millions of users around the world. Our focus will be on new mobile players and other platforms. We will be releasing a new mobile player at the beginning of July. Still, we don't want to forget the tens of millions of users who use the software on Windows and will benefit from thousands of developers' experience and creativity. Winamp will remain the owner of the software and will decide on the innovations made in the official version."

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Sony Music Group, one of the world's biggest record labels, warned AI companies and music streaming platforms not to use the company's content without explicit permission. From a report: Sony Music, whose artists include Lil Nas X and Celine Dion, sent letters to more than 700 companies in an effort to protect its intellectual property, which includes album cover art, metadata, musical compositions and lyrics, from being used for training AI models. "Unauthorized use" of Sony Music Group content in the "training, development or commercialization of AI systems" deprives the company and its artists of control and compensation for those works, according to the letter, which was obtained by Bloomberg News. [...] Sony Music, along with the rest of the industry, is scrambling to balance the creative potential of the fast-moving technology while also protecting artists' rights and its own profits. "We support artists and songwriters taking the lead in embracing new technologies in support of their art," Sony Music Group said in statement Thursday. "However, that innovation must ensure that songwriters' and recording artists' rights, including copyrights, are respected."

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MEDIA ADVISORY: CIQ White Paper Quantifies Volume of Back-Ported Bugs in Stable Branches of Popular Linux Builds  PR Web

After shutting down its awards system last July, Reddit announced that it is bringing it back, with much of the same and some new features. There'll be "a new design for awards, a new award button under eligible posts and a leaderboard showing top awards earned for a comment or a post," reports TechCrunch. From the report: The company sunset its awards program last year along with the ability for users to purchase coins. At the same time, Reddit introduced "Golden Upvotes," which were purchased directly through cash. In a new post, the company said the system wasn't as expressive as awards. "While the golden upvote was certainly simpler in theory, in practice, it missed the mark. It wasn't as fun or expressive as legacy awards, and it was unclear how it benefited the recipient," the social network said. Users who want to give awards to posts and comments will need to buy "gold," which kind of replaces coins. On a support page, the company mentioned that, on average, awards cost anywhere between 15 to 50 gold. Gold packages in Reddit's mobile apps currently start at $1.99 for 100 gold. Users can buy as much as 2,750 gold for $49.99. The company is also adding some safeguards to the awards system, such as disabling awards in NSFW subreddits, trauma and addiction support subreddits, and subreddits with mature content. Additionally, users will be able to report awards to avoid them being used for moderator removals.

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Take-Two Interactive is doubling down Grand Theft Auto VI's release date, saying the long-awaited sequel will be out fall 2025 despite rumors of a possible delay into 2026. From a report: Take-Two announced GTA 6's updated release window in its latest earnings report, saying that its current outlook is based on the new date. "We do feel highly confident that we'll deliver [Grand Theft Auto VI] in fall of 2025," Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick told IGN in an interview when asked if he was concerned that GTA 6 may get delayed.

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