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Linux 7.0 Now Defaults To Intel TSX Auto Mode For Performance Benefits On Newer CPUs  Phoronix

T-Mobile is opening registration today for a beta test of Live Translation, an AI-powered feature that will translate live phone calls into more than 50 languages when it launches this spring. The feature operates at the network level, so it doesn't require any specific app or device -- beta participants simply dial 87 to activate it on a call. T-Mobile President of Technology and CTO John Saw told The Verge that Live Translation works over VoLTE, VoNR and VoWiFi, meaning it isn't limited to 5G. The only requirement is that a T-Mobile customer must initiate the translation. The beta will be free, though T-Mobile has not said whether the feature will eventually be paywalled.

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OpenVPN 2.7 Released with Support for DCO Linux Kernel Module, mbedTLS 4  9to5Linux

OpenVPN 2.7 Released With Multi-Socket Server & DCO Linux Kernel Driver Support  Phoronix

KiCad Aims to Ease Linux Installation, Moves to Self-Contained AppImage Distribution  Hackster.io

KiCad Aims to Ease Linux Installation, Moves to Self-Contained AppImage Distribution  Hackster.io

IPFire DBL Launches as a Community-Powered Domain Blocking for Everyone  9to5Linux

This new Linux-powered ereader could tempt me away from the Kindle Scribe and reMarkable Paper Pro  TechRadar

An anonymous reader shares a report: The Food and Drug Administration has refused to start a review of Moderna's application for its experimental flu shot, the company announced Tuesday, in another sign of the Trump administration's influence on tightening vaccine regulations in the U.S. Moderna said the move is inconsistent with previous feedback from the agency from before it submitted the application and started phase three trials on the shot, called mRNA-1010. The drugmaker said it has requested a meeting with the FDA to "understand the path forward." Moderna noted that the agency did not identify any specific safety or efficacy issues with the vaccine, but instead objected to the study design, despite previously approving it. The company added that the move won't impact its 2026 financial guidance. Moderna's jab showed positive phase three data last year, meeting all of the trial goals. At the time, Moderna said the stand-alone flu shot was key to its efforts to advance a combination vaccine targeting both influenza and Covid-19.

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Parrot 7.1 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with Enlightenment Spin, Updated Tools  9to5Linux

Parrot OS 7.1 Released with Linux kernel 6.17  Linuxiac

Linux 7.0 Scores +12% In UDP Network Performance Test From Manually Inlining Function  Phoronix

Upstream Wine Making Progress On Patches For Satisfying Adobe Photoshop  Phoronix

APT36 Targets Linux Systems With New Disruption Tools  Cyber Press

SSHStalker botnet targets Linux servers with legacy exploits and SSH scanning  Security Affairs

SSHStalker botnet targets Linux servers with legacy exploits and SSH scanning  Security Affairs

SSHStalker Botnet Uses IRC C2 to Control Linux Systems via Legacy Kernel Exploits  The Hacker News

Discord has moved to calm a user backlash over its upcoming age verification mandate by clarifying that the "vast majority" of people will never be asked to confirm their age through a face scan or government ID. The platform said it will instead rely on an internal "age prediction" model that draws on account information, device and activity data, and behavioral patterns across its communities to estimate whether someone is an adult. Users whose age the model cannot confidently determine will still need to submit a video selfie or ID. Those not verified as adults or identified as under 18 will be placed in a "teen-appropriate" experience that blocks access to age-restricted servers and channels. The clarification came after users threatened to leave the platform and cancel Nitro subscriptions, and after a third-party vendor used by Discord for age verification suffered a data breach last year that exposed user information and a small number of uploaded ID cards.

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VoidLink Linux C2 Showcases LLM-Generated Malware Capabilities  Cyber Press

An anonymous reader shares a report: The most seductive narrative in American work culture right now isn't that AI will take your job. It's that AI will save you from it. That's the version the industry has spent the last three years selling to millions of nervous people who are eager to buy it. Yes, some white-collar jobs will disappear. But for most other roles, the argument goes, AI is a force multiplier. You become a more capable, more indispensable lawyer, consultant, writer, coder, financial analyst -- and so on. The tools work for you, you work less hard, everybody wins. But a new study published in Harvard Business Review follows that premise to its actual conclusion, and what it finds there isn't a productivity revolution. It finds companies are at risk of becoming burnout machines. As part of what they describe as "in-progress research," UC Berkeley researchers spent eight months inside a 200-person tech company watching what happened when workers genuinely embraced AI. What they found across more than 40 "in-depth" interviews was that nobody was pressured at this company. Nobody was told to hit new targets. People just started doing more because the tools made more feel doable. But because they could do these things, work began bleeding into lunch breaks and late evenings. The employees' to-do lists expanded to fill every hour that AI freed up, and then kept going.

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