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Sidero Labs to Extend Scope of Talos Linux Platform for Kubernetes  Cloud Native Now

Intrusions with Cisco SNMP bug facilitate Linux rootkit deployment  SC Media

Maj. Gen. William Taylor told reporters at the Association of the US Army Conference in Washington this week that he and the Eighth Army he commands out of South Korea are regularly using AI for decision-making. Taylor said he has been asking AI chatbots to help build models for personal decisions that affect his organization and overall readiness. The general referred to his chatbot companion as "Chat" and said the technology has been useful for predictive analysis in logistical planning and operational purposes.

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The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it's seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online encyclopedia because more people are getting the information that's on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking through to the site. 404 Media: The Wikimedia Foundation said that this poses a risk to the long term sustainability of Wikipedia. "We welcome new ways for people to gain knowledge. However, AI chatbots, search engines, and social platforms that use Wikipedia content must encourage more visitors to Wikipedia, so that the free knowledge that so many people and platforms depend on can continue to flow Sustainably," the Foundation's Senior Director of Product Marshall Miller said in a blog post. "With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work."

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Ubuntu 25.10 Performance On System76 Thelio Astra / Ampere Altra  Phoronix

Google & PwC's AI Works for Governments report outlines steps for public sector AI adoption in emerging economies.Google & PwC's AI Works for Governments report outlines steps for public sector AI adoption in emerging economies.

joshuark writes: Not all jobs are created equal, according to the new American Job Quality Study. The nationally representative survey of roughly 18,000 Americans finds that just 40% of U.S. workers hold "quality jobs," "Quality jobs" are defined as roles with fair compensation, safe environments, growth opportunities, agency and manageable schedules. Quality jobs are linked to higher satisfaction and wellbeing, yet most U.S. workers face gaps in pay, advancement, scheduling and fairness. As former obsolete technology COM guru Don Box stated: COM sucks but pays my bucks. Now it sucks and no bucks.

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AES-GCM Crypto Performance Up To ~74% Faster For AMD Zen 3 With Linux 6.19  Phoronix

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Heise: The European Commission has revised the Ecodesign requirements for external power supplies (EPS). The new rules aim to increase consumer convenience, resource efficiency, and energy efficiency. Manufacturers have three years to prepare for the changes. The new regulations apply to external power supplies that charge or power devices such as laptops, smartphones, Wi-Fi routers, and computer monitors. Starting in 2028, these products must meet higher energy efficiency standards and become more interoperable. Specifically, USB chargers on the EU market must have at least one USB Type-C port and function with detachable cables. With the regulation, the EU is also establishing minimum requirements for the efficiency of power supplies with an output power of up to 240 watts that charge via USB Power Delivery (USB-PD), among other things, under other things, minimum requirements. Power supplies with an output power exceeding 10 watts will also have to meet minimum energy efficiency values in partial load operation (10 percent of rated power) in the future, which is intended to reduce unnecessary energy losses. The EU Commission says the new requirements are expected to save around 3% of energy consumption over the lifecycle of external chargers by 2035. Additionally, greenhouse gas emissions are expected to decrease by 9% and pollutant emissions by about 13%. "The EU also calculates that consumer spending could decrease by around 100 million euros per year by 2035," reports Heise.

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A collection of Google's latest security features and updates for Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025.

A collection of Google's latest security features and updates for Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025.

The popular physics sandbox game Brick Rigs has added Native Linux support  GamingOnLinux

3 Obscure but Cool Linux Apps to Install This Weekend (October 17 - 19)  How-To Geek

Together AI founder suggests an AI consortium to preserve competition  The Business Journals

LinkPro Rootkit Attacking GNU/Linux Systems Using eBPF Module to Hide Malicious Activities  Cyber Security News

LinkPro Rootkit Attacking GNU/Linux Systems Using eBPF Module to Hide Malicious Activities  Cyber Security News

New Linux Kernel Patches From Intel Delivering +18% Database Performance  Phoronix

Physicists using SLAC's X-ray free-electron laser discovered two new laser phenomena that allowed them to generate the shortest, highest-energy X-ray pulses ever recorded (60-100 attoseconds). These breakthroughs could let scientists observe electron motion and chemical bond formation in real time. Physicists Uwe Bergmann and Thomas Linker write in an article for The Conversation: In this new study we used X-rays, which have 100 million times shorter wavelengths than microwaves and 100 million times more energy. This meant the resulting new X-ray laser pulses were split into different X-ray wavelengths corresponding to Rabi frequencies in the extreme ultraviolet region. Ultraviolet light has a frequency 100 million times higher than radio waves. This Rabi cycling effect allowed us to generate the shortest high-energy X-ray pulses to date, clocking in at 60-100 attoseconds. While the pulses that X-ray free-electron lasers currently generate allow researchers to observe atomic bonds forming, rearranging and breaking, they are not fast enough to look inside the electron cloud that generates such bonds. Using these new attosecond X-ray laser pulses could allow scientists to study the fastest processes in materials at the atomic-length scale and to discern different elements. In the future, we also hope to use much shorter X-ray free-electron laser pulses to better generate these attosecond X-ray pulses. We are even hoping to generate pulses below 60 attoseconds by using heavier materials with shorter lifespans, such as tungsten or hafnium. These new X-ray pulses are fast enough to eventually enable scientists to answer questions such as how exactly an electron cloud moves around and what a chemical bond actually is. The findings have been published in the journal Nature.

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Linux Graphics Driver Fixes Readied For Linux 6.18-rc2  Phoronix

Looks like Farlight 84 is now broken on Linux with their latest anti-cheat video calling it out  GamingOnLinux

Looks like Farlight 84 is now broken on Linux with their latest anti-cheat video calling it out  GamingOnLinux