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Linux 6.19 Will Finally Support Intel's Adaptive Sharpness Filter "CASF" With Lunar Lake  Phoronix

Not a fan of systemd? This alternative init Linux distro just got a big update  Yahoo! Tech

Not a fan of systemd? This alternative init Linux distro just got a big update  How-To Geek

I went from Windows to Linux... then back again, and the grass isn't always greener  XDA

AWS today announced Fastnet, a subsea fiber-optic cable that will link Maryland's Eastern Shore to County Cork, Ireland. The project marks Amazon's first wholly-owned subsea cable system after previously participating in similar ventures through consortiums. The cable will carry data at speeds exceeding 320 terabits per second. Amazon did not disclose construction costs but expects the system to begin operations in 2028. The company is burying the cable roughly one and a half meters deep across the ocean floor. Installers will bore a horizontal tunnel from shore to shore. Amazon has added protective steel wiring to guard against ship anchors and deliberate sabotage.

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Dick Cheney, who served four Republican presidents and became one of the most powerful and controversial vice presidents in American history as an architect of the post-9/11 war on terror, died at 84. His family said he died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Cheney served as vice president under George W. Bush for two terms beginning in 2001 and relentlessly advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Many Americans came to view the war as a strategic and humanitarian disaster. The conflict had far-reaching policy and political consequences that helped turn the public against intervention and upheaved Republican politics. Cheney continued to defend the invasion long after leaving office in 2009. He had heart disease for most of his life and underwent a transplant in 2012. That allowed him to live to see his daughter Liz Cheney follow in his political footsteps to become a House GOP leader. Before serving as vice president, Cheney was defense secretary under George H.W. Bush and chief of staff to Gerald Ford at age 34.

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Use these 7 Linux commands to keep your system tidy and fast  How-To Geek

Amazon's data-center expansion turned Umatilla, Oregon into an unlikely nerve center for American infrastructure investment. The community of roughly 8,000 residents has seen home prices double and local government budgets surge from $7 million in 2011 to a hundred and $44 million in the past fiscal year. Yesenia Leon-Tejeda, a Realtor and daughter of Mexican-born farmhands who once worked 12-hour shifts at a distribution center, is now on pace to close 35 deals this year. Federal data shows investment in software and information-processing equipment drove most of America's GDP growth in the first half of 2025. Goldman Sachs estimated that roughly 72% of all server-farm capacity sat in just 1% of counties as of July. The region's hydroelectric dams and cheap power attracted Amazon Web Services more than a decade ago. Growth has brought rising costs for housing and child care. Political tensions over spending erupted this year when Mayor Caden Sipe sued the city manager and council members.

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Russian hackers abuse Hyper-V to hide malware in Linux VMs  BleepingComputer

Russian hackers abuse Hyper-V to hide malware in Linux VMs  BleepingComputer

Russian hackers abuse Hyper-V to hide malware in Linux VMs  BleepingComputer

8 essential shell functions to improve your Linux command line  How-To Geek

AMD's Zen 5 RDSEED Issue Is Causing Headaches For Optimized CachyOS Builds  Phoronix

Linux Adoption Rate Surges on Steam Thanks to Support of SteamOS  The FPS Review

SUSE Enterprise Linux 16 is here, and its killer feature is digital sovereignty  ZDNET

Learn more about live lane guidance from Google Maps, coming to Polestar 4s first.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: U.S. prosecutors have charged two rogue employees of a cybersecurity company that specializes in negotiating ransom payments to hackers on behalf of their victims with carrying out ransomware attacks of their own. Last month, the Department of Justice indicted Kevin Tyler Martin and another unnamed employee, who both worked as ransomware negotiators at DigitalMint, with three counts of computer hacking and extortion related to a series of attempted ransomware attacks against at least five U.S.-based companies. Prosecutors also charged a third individual, Ryan Clifford Goldberg, a former incident response manager at cybersecurity giant Sygnia, as part of the scheme. The three are accused of hacking into companies, stealing their sensitive data, and deploying ransomware developed by the ALPHV/BlackCat group. [...] According to an FBI affidavit filed in September, the rogue employees received more than $1.2 million in ransom payments from one victim, a medical device maker in Florida. They also targeted several other companies, including a Virginia-based drone maker and a Maryland-headquartered pharmaceutical company.

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CVE-2024-1086 Vulnerability: Critical Privilege Escalation Flaw in Linux Kernel Exploited in the Ransomware Attacks  SOC Prime

Live exploitation of CVE-2024-1086 across older Linux versions flagged by CISA  Digital Watch Observatory

Systemd-Free Debian, Devuan Version 6.0 "Excalibur" is Available Now  It's FOSS News