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Kali Linux 2025.4 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with KDE Plasma 6.5, GNOME 49  9to5Linux

Kali Linux 2025.4 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with KDE Plasma 6.5, GNOME 49  9to5Linux

Kali Linux 2025.4 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with KDE Plasma 6.5, GNOME 49  9to5Linux

Kali Linux 2025.4 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with KDE Plasma 6.5, GNOME 49  9to5Linux

Kali Linux 2025.4 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with KDE Plasma 6.5, GNOME 49  9to5Linux

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. government will require artificial intelligence vendors to measure political "bias" to sell their chatbots to federal agencies, according to a Trump administration statement (PDF) released on Thursday. The requirement will apply to all large language models bought by federal agencies, with the exception of national security systems, according to the statement. President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies in July to avoid buying large language models that he labeled as "woke." Thursday's statement gives more detail to that directive, saying that developers should not "intentionally encode partisan or ideological judgments" into a chatbot's outputs. Further reading: Trump Signs Executive Order For Single National AI Regulation Framework, Limiting Power of States

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The pro-Russian CyberVolk group resurfaced with a Telegram-based ransomware-as-a-service platform, but fatally undermined its own operation by hardcoding master encryption keys in plaintext. The Register reports: First, the bad news: the CyberVolk 2.x (aka VolkLocker) ransomware-as-a-service operation that launched in late summer. It's run entirely through Telegram, which makes it very easy for affiliates that aren't that tech savvy to lock files and demand a ransom payment. CyberVolk's soldiers can use the platform's built-in automation to generate payloads, coordinate ransomware attacks, and manage their illicit business operations, conducting everything through Telegram. But here's the good news: the ransomware slingers got sloppy when it came time to debug their code and hardcoded the master keys -- this same key encrypts all files on a victim's system -- into the executable files. This could allow victims to recover encrypted data without paying the extortion fee, according to SentinelOne senior threat researcher Jim Walter, who detailed the gang's resurgence and flawed code in a Thursday report.

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Phoebe Gates, Bill Gates' youngest daughter, has raised $30 million for the AI shopping app she built in her Stanford dorm room with classmate Sophia Kianni. The app is called Phia and is pitched as a way to simplify price comparison and secondhand shopping. "Its AI-powered search engine -- available as an app and as a browser extension for Chrome and Safari -- pulls listings from more than 40,000 retail and resale sites so users can compare prices, surface real-time deals, and determine whether an item's cost is typical, high or fair," reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The app has reached 750,000 downloads in eight months and is valued at $180 million. From the report: Gates told Elle that when she first floated the idea to her parents, they urged her to keep it as a side project -- advice she followed by enrolling in Stanford's night program after moving to New York and finishing her degree in 2024. "They were like, 'Okay, you can do this as a side thing, but you need to stay in school.' I don't think people would expect that from my family, to be honest," she said. Her father dropped out of Harvard University in 1975 to launch Microsoft. Kianni even paused her degree temporarily "to learn, as quickly as possible, as much as we could about the industry that we would be operating in," she told Vogue. Bill Gates has not invested in the company, though he has publicly supported its mission.

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Kali Linux 2025.4 Released With 3 New Hacking Tools (Desktop Environments, Wayland & Halloween Mode)  LinkedIn

I moved more of my Linux workflow to the terminal, and now I can’t stop  MakeUseOf

Lets finish setting up your PC  Thurrott.com

Papermoon: A Space-Grade Linux for the NewSpace Era  The New Stack

Linux 6.19 Lands x2AVIC Patches For AMD SVM Handling Up To 4096 vCPUs  Phoronix

New Patches Lay Out Linux Kernel Adjustments For RISC-V RVA23 Hardware  Phoronix

Kali Linux 2025.4 arrives with GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.5, and much more  How-To Geek

Kali Linux 2025.4 Released With 3 New Hacking Tools and Wifipumpkin3  CybersecurityNews

Kali Linux 2025.4 Released With 3 New Hacking Tools and Wifipumpkin3  CybersecurityNews

Kali Linux 2025.4 Released With 3 New Hacking Tools and Wifipumpkin3  CybersecurityNews

Kali Linux 2025.4 Released With 3 New Hacking Tools and Wifipumpkin3  CybersecurityNews

Kali Linux 2025.4 Released With 3 New Hacking Tools and Wifipumpkin3  CybersecurityNews