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Anbernic RG Vita Pro Shown Off Running Linux and Android  Retro Handhelds

Intel Preps A Lot Of Xe3 Code For Linux 7.1 Kernel  Phoronix

sizzlinkitty shares a Reuters report detailing how drone strikes in the Middle East conflict with Iran damaged AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, disrupting core cloud services and causing "prolonged" outages. Following the initial report, where Reuters said "objects" had triggered a fire at the data centers, the article was updated with additional information: A strike on the UAE facility marks the first time a major U.S. tech company's data center has been disrupted by military action. It raises questions around Big Tech's pace of expansion in the region. "In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impact to our infrastructure," Amazon's cloud unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) said in an update on its status page. "These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage," AWS said. "We are working to restore full service availability as quickly as possible, though we expect recovery to be prolonged given the nature of the physical damage involved," it added. Financial institutions that use AWS services have been affected by the outage, one person with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. "Even as we work to restore these facilities, the ongoing conflict in the region means that the broader operating environment in the Middle East remains unpredictable," AWS said. The AWS outage disrupted a dozen core cloud services and the company advised customers to back up critical data and shift operations to servers in unaffected AWS regions. Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank said its platforms and mobile app were unavailable due to a region-wide IT disruption, although it did not directly link the outage to the AWS incident. "In previous conflicts, regional adversaries such as Iran and its proxies targeted pipelines, refineries, and oil fields in Gulf partner states. In the compute era, these actors could also target data centers, energy infrastructure supporting compute, and fiber chokepoints," Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies said last week.

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Stop! These 4 Linux distros are not as safe as you think for beginners  How-To Geek

Linux Release Roundup (February 2026)  OMG! Ubuntu

3 lessons I learned after replacing my Windows PC with a Linux laptop  How-To Geek

ARCTIC Cooling Publishes ARCTIC Fan Controller Driver For Linux  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.6.2 Improves Support for High-Resolution Mice on Remote Desktops  9to5Linux

The Library of Congress has restored Gugusse et l'Automate, an 1897 short by Georges Melies that likely features the first robot ever shown on film. Long thought lost, the reel was discovered in a box of decaying nitrate films donated from a Michigan family collection. NPR reports: The film, which can be viewed on the Library of Congress' website, depicts a child-sized robot clown who grows to the size of an adult and then attacks a human clown with a stick. The human then decimates the machine with a hammer. In an Instagram post, Library of Congress moving image curator Jason Evans Groth said the film represents, "probably the first instance of a robot ever captured in a moving image." (The word "robot" didn't appear until 1921, when Czech dramatist Karel Capek coined it in his science fiction play R.U.R..) "Today, many of us are worried about AI and robots," said archivist and filmmaker Rick Prelinger, in an email to NPR. "Well, people were thinking about robots in 1897. Very little is new."

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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 51: It’s Not Easy Being Green  GamingOnLinux

Resident Evil Requiem benchmark shows Linux hits 145 FPS vs 129 FPS on Windows 11 with Frame Generation  Notebookcheck

Resident Evil Requiem benchmark shows Linux hits 145 FPS vs 129 FPS on Windows 11 with Frame Generation  Notebookcheck

Resident Evil Requiem benchmark shows Linux hits 145 FPS vs 129 FPS on Windows 11 with Frame Generation  Notebookcheck

Linux Foundation Hosts Production-Grade Open Source Stack For 5G And Early 6G  Open Source For You

Volunteer-Run Linux Projects Must Build Age-Tracking APIs Under New California Mandate  Open Source For You

Volunteer-Run Linux Projects Must Build Age-Tracking APIs Under New California Mandate  Open Source For You

Volunteer-Run Linux Projects Must Build Age-Tracking APIs Under New California Mandate  Open Source For You

Duo Access Gateway for Linux  Cisco Duo

AerynOS 2026.02 Alpha Released: Advancing a Modern Atomic Linux Vision  Linux Journal

Windows vs macOS vs Linux vs ChromeOS: Which Operating System Is Best for You in 2026?  Tech Times