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An anonymous reader quotes a report from SecurityWeek: Insurance giant Aflac is notifying roughly 22.65 million people that their personal information was stolen from its systems in June 2025. The company disclosed the intrusion on June 20, saying it had identified suspicious activity on its network in the US on June 12 and blaming it on a sophisticated cybercrime group. The company said it immediately contained the attack and engaged with third-party cybersecurity experts to help with incident response. Aflac's operations were not affected, as file-encrypting ransomware was not deployed. [...] The compromised information, the insurance giant says, includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, government ID numbers, medical and health insurance information, and other data. "The review of the potentially impacted files determined personal information associated with customers, beneficiaries, employees, agents, and other individuals related to Aflac was involved," Aflac said in a notification (PDF) on its website. The company is providing the affected individuals with 24 months of free credit monitoring, identity theft protection, and medical fraud protection services.

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Linux 6.19 Kernel Benchmarks With X86_NATIVE_CPU Optimization  Phoronix

Fedora Linux 2025: Key Innovations in Versions 42 and 43  WebProNews

CachyOS Challenges Ubuntu In New Server Benchmarks  Dataconomy

InputPlumber 0.70 Released With Expanded Hardware Support  Phoronix

Recovered Unix v4 tape quickly yields a usable operating system — nostalgia addicts can now boot up Unix v4 in a browser window  Tom's Hardware

Recovered Unix v4 tape quickly yields a usable operating system — nostalgia addicts can now boot up Unix v4 in a browser window  Tom's Hardware

Meta has agreed to acquire viral AI agent startup Manus, "a Singapore-based AI startup that's become the talk of Silicon Valley since it materialized this spring with a demo video so slick it went instantly viral," reports TechCrunch. "The clip showed an AI agent that could do things like screen job candidates, plan vacations, and analyze stock portfolios. Manus claimed at the time that it outperformed OpenAI's Deep Research." From the report: By April, just weeks after launch, the early-stage firm Benchmark led a $75 million funding round that assigned Manus a post-money valuation of $500 million. General partner Chetan Puttagunta joined the board. Per Chinese media outlets, some other big-name backers had already invested in Manus at that point, including Tencent, ZhenFund, and HSG (formerly known as Sequoia China) via an earlier $10 million round. Though Bloomberg raised questions when Manus started charging $39 or $199 a month for access to its AI models (the outlet noted the pricing seemed "somewhat aggressive... for a membership service still in a testing phase,") the company recently announced it had since signed up millions of users and crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue. That's when Meta started negotiating with Manus, according to the WSJ, which says Meta is paying $2 billion -- the same valuation Manus was seeking for its next funding round. For Zuckerberg, who has staked Meta's future on AI, Manus represents something new: an AI product that's actually making money (investors have grown increasingly twitchy about Meta's $60 billion infrastructure spending spree). Meta says it'll keep Manus running independently while weaving its agents into Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, where Meta's own chatbot, Meta AI, is already available to users.

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D7VK 1.1 adds experimental Direct3D 6 support for classic PC games on Linux  VideoCardz.com

Running Linux on Sony’s PlayStation 2 is Easier Than You Think  TechEBlog -

Three Linux Conflicts That Still Shape the OS You Use Today  gHacks Technology News

Three Linux Conflicts That Still Shape the OS You Use Today  gHacks Technology News

Three Linux Conflicts That Still Shape the OS You Use Today  gHacks Technology News

Three Linux Conflicts That Still Shape the OS You Use Today  gHacks Technology News

Three Linux Conflicts That Still Shape the OS You Use Today  gHacks Technology News

Three Linux Conflicts That Still Shape the OS You Use Today  gHacks Technology News

Three Linux Conflicts That Still Shape the OS You Use Today  gHacks Technology News

Three Linux Conflicts That Still Shape the OS You Use Today  gHacks Technology News