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schwit1 writes: An IT blunder has revealed an apparent smuggling ring that has moved at least $90bn of Russian oil and is playing a central role in funding the Kremlin's war in Ukraine. Financial Times has identified 48 seemingly independent companies working from different physical addresses that appear to be operating together to disguise the origin of Russian oil, particularly from Kremlin-controlled Rosneft. The network was discovered because they all share a single private email server. The report adds: The FT was able to identify 442 web domains whose public registrations show they all use a single private server for their email, "mx.phoenixtrading.ltd," showing that they share back-office functions. The FT was then able to identify companies by comparing the names in the domain to those of entities that appear in Russian and Indian customs records as involved in carrying Russian oil.

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Linux VPN server Deployment Statistics 2026  commandlinux.com

Linux 7.0 Shows Significant PostgreSQL Performance Gains On AMD EPYC Review  Phoronix

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Friday President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs that he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies, rejecting one of his most contentious assertions of his authority in a ruling with major implications for the global economy. From a report: The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, upheld a lower court's decision that the Republican president's use of this 1977 law exceeded his authority. The court ruled that the Trump administration's interpretation that the law at issue - the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA - grants Trump the power he claims to impose tariffs would intrude on the powers of Congress and violate a legal principle called the "major questions" doctrine. The doctrine, embraced by the conservative justices, requires actions by the government's executive branch of "vast economic and political significance" to be clearly authorized by Congress. The court used the doctrine to stymie some of Democratic former President Joe Biden's key executive actions.

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Google and YouTube are celebrating America's 250th anniversary.

Google and YouTube are celebrating America's 250th anniversary.

Users are ditching Windows for Linux. Here’s why  The Business Standard

Users are ditching Windows for Linux. Here’s why  The Business Standard

An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon's cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools [non-paywalled source], leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant's push to roll out these coding assistants. Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter. The people said the agentic tool, which can take autonomous actions on behalf of users, determined that the best course of action was to "delete and recreate the environment." Amazon posted an internal postmortem about the "outage" of the AWS system, which lets customers explore the costs of its services. Multiple Amazon employees told the FT that this was the second occasion in recent months in which one of the group's AI tools had been at the centre of a service disruption.

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3 handy Linux apps to try this weekend (February 20 - 22)  How-To Geek

US President Donald Trump says he will direct US agencies, including the defence department, to "begin the process of identifying and releasing" government files on aliens and extraterrestrial life. From a report: Trump made the declaration in a post on Truth Social, after he accused Barack Obama earlier in the day of revealing classified information when the former president said "aliens are real" on a podcast last week. "He's not supposed to be doing that," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, adding: "He made a big mistake." Asked if he also thinks aliens are real, Trump answered: "Well, I don't know if they're real or not." Former US President Obama told podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen that he thinks aliens are real in an interview released last Saturday. "They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in Area 51," Obama said. "There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the president of the United States."

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Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations For PCIe 7.0  Phoronix

RetroDECK for Linux & Steam Deck to remove Nintendo Switch emulation "forever" in face of DMCA strikes  PC Guide

RetroDECK for Linux & Steam Deck to remove Nintendo Switch emulation "forever" in face of DMCA strikes  PC Guide

RetroDECK for Linux & Steam Deck to remove Nintendo Switch emulation "forever" in face of DMCA strikes  PC Guide

RetroDECK for Linux & Steam Deck to remove Nintendo Switch emulation "forever" in face of DMCA strikes  PC Guide

RetroDECK for Linux & Steam Deck to remove Nintendo Switch emulation "forever" in face of DMCA strikes  PC Guide

RetroDECK for Linux & Steam Deck to remove Nintendo Switch emulation "forever" in face of DMCA strikes  PC Guide

RetroDECK for Linux & Steam Deck to remove Nintendo Switch emulation "forever" in face of DMCA strikes  PC Guide

Linux 7.0 Brings Apple Type-C PHY, Snapdragon X2 & Rockchip HDMI 2.1 FRL Additions  Phoronix

Xubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Wallpaper Contest Is Open for Submissions  9to5Linux