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New submitter sabbede shares a report from CNN Politics: A sprawling Chinese influence operation -- accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official's use of ChatGPT -- focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials, according to a new report from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. The Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT like a diary to document the alleged covert campaign of suppression, OpenAI said. In one instance, Chinese operators allegedly disguised themselves as US immigration officials to warn a US-based Chinese dissident that their public statements had supposedly broken the law, according to the ChatGPT user. In another case, they describe an effort to use forged documents from a US county court to try to get a Chinese dissident's social media account taken down. "This is what Chinese modern transnational repression looks like," Ben Nimmo, principal investigator at OpenAI, told reporters ahead of the report's release. "It's not just digital. It's not just about trolling. It's industrialized. It's about trying to hit critics of the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] with everything, everywhere, all at once." Michael Horowitz, a former Pentagon official focused on emerging technologies, said the report from OpenAI "clearly demonstrates the way that China is actively employing AI tools to enhance information operations. US-China AI competition is continuing to intensify. This competition is not just taking place at the frontier, but in how China's government is planning and implementing the day-to-day of their surveillance and information apparatus."

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Linux Explores New Developer Authentication System  findarticles.com

Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project Expands Premier Membership with NVIDIA  The AI Journal

Kali Linux Introduces AI-Driven Penetration Testing Through Claude Integration  LinkedIn

CIQ Launches RLC Pro Enterprise Linux Subscription for Production AI and HPC Environments  HPCwire

CIQ Launches RLC Pro Enterprise Linux Subscription for Production AI and HPC Environments  HPCwire

Apple's iPhone and iPad running iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have become the first consumer mobile devices cleared for NATO-restricted classified data. No special software or settings are required. MacRumors reports: Apple's devices are the first and only consumer mobile products that have reached this government certification level after security testing and evaluation by the German government. iPhones and iPads running iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 are now certified for use with classified data in all NATO nations. In an announcement of the security clearance, Apple touted its security features: "Apple designs security into all of its products from the start, ensuring the most sophisticated protections are built in across hardware, software, and Apple silicon. This unique approach allows Apple users to benefit from industry-leading security protections such as best-in-class encryption, biometric authentication with Face ID, and groundbreaking features like Memory Integrity Enforcement. These same protections are now recognized as meeting stringent government and international security requirements, even for restricted data."

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Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code - here's how it works  ZDNET

Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project Expands Premier Membership with NVIDIA  PR Newswire

Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project Expands Premier Membership with NVIDIA  PR Newswire

Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project Expands Premier Membership with NVIDIA  PR Newswire

Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project Expands Premier Membership with NVIDIA  PR Newswire

Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project Expands Premier Membership with NVIDIA  Aspen Daily News

Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project Expands Premier Membership with NVIDIA  PR Newswire

10 Powerful Ways to Use PowerShell Across Windows, Linux, and macOS  TechRepublic

Tails 7.5 comes with several security improvements and updated packages  Notebookcheck

Mozilla has released Firefox 148 for Windows, macOS and Linux, bringing a new AI Settings section that lets users disable all of the browser's AI-powered features in one click and then selectively re-enable the ones they actually want, such as the local translation tool that works locally rather than in the cloud. The update also patches more than 50 security vulnerabilities -- none known to be under active exploitation -- over half of which Mozilla classifies as high risk, including five sandbox escape flaws and eight use-after-free bugs in the JavaScript engine that could allow code execution.

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9 open source operating systems that aren't Linux  How-To Geek

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