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Look back on Google AI news in 2025 across Gemini, Search, Pixel and more products.Look back on Google AI news in 2025 across Gemini, Search, Pixel and more products.

AI Startup Quilter Designs Linux Board in One Week with 40 Hours Input  WebProNews

The video games industry in 2025 finds itself caught between the familiar forces of consolidation and job losses that have plagued creative industries, and a newer development: governments and the ultra-wealthy have begun treating games as tools of political influence. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund closed a $55 billion deal for EA this year and acquired Niantic, the makers of Pokemon Go, in March. Microsoft's 2023 acquisition of Activision already signaled the direction of travel. The workforce has borne the costs of this consolidation. More than 5,000 jobs have been lost in the industry this year, and several studios have shuttered, including Monolith Productions. The instability has pushed unions into greater prominence: United Videogame Workers formed in the US and Canada in March as part of the Communications Workers of America, and the firing of 30 staff from Rockstar Games in the UK brought the IWGB Game Workers Union into the spotlight. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has posted AI-generated images of the president as Halo's Master Chief and used Pokemon and Halo memes to recruit for ICE.

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BrianFagioli writes: Samsung is bringing Google Gemini directly into the kitchen, starting with a refrigerator that can see what you eat. At CES 2026, the company plans to show off a new Bespoke AI Refrigerator that uses a built in camera system paired with Gemini to automatically recognize food items, including leftovers stored in unlabeled containers. The idea is to keep an always up to date inventory without manual input, track what is added or removed, and surface suggestions based on what is actually inside the fridge. It is the first time Google's Gemini AI is being integrated into a refrigerator, pushing generative AI well beyond phones and laptops.

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Today, Alphabet announced a definitive agreement to acquire Intersect, which provides data center and energy infrastructure solutions. The acquisition will enable more d…

PoC Exploit Released for Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's POSIX CPU Timers Implementation  CybersecurityNews

PoC Exploit Released for Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's POSIX CPU Timers Implementation  CybersecurityNews

PoC Exploit Released for Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's POSIX CPU Timers Implementation  CybersecurityNews

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows  theregister.com

Beverly Hills High School has deployed an AI-powered surveillance apparatus that includes facial recognition cameras, behavioral analysis software, smoke detector-shaped bathroom listening devices from Motorola, drones, and license plate readers from Flock Safety -- a setup the district spent $4.8 million on in the 2024-2025 fiscal year and considers necessary given the school's high-profile location in Los Angeles. Similar systems are spreading to campuses nationwide as schools try to stop mass shootings that killed 49 people on school property this year, 59 in 2024, and 45 in 2023. A 2023 ACLU report found that eight of the ten largest school shootings since Columbine occurred at schools that already had surveillance systems, and 32% of students surveyed said they felt like they were always being watched. The technology has a spotty track record, however. Gun detection vendor Evolv, used by more than 800 schools including Beverly Hills High, was reprimanded by the FTC in 2024 for claiming its AI could detect all weapons after it failed to flag a seven-inch knife used to stab a student in 2022. Evolv has also flagged laptops and water bottles as guns. Rival vendor Omnilert flagged a 16-year-old student at a Maryland high school reaching for an empty Doritos bag as a possible gun threat; police held the teenager at gunpoint. Not every school is buying in. Highline Schools in Washington state cancelled its $33,000 annual ZeroEyes contract this year and spent the money on defibrillators and Ford SUVs for its safety team instead.

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Linux 6.19's Significant ~30% Performance Boost For Old AMD Radeon GPUs  Phoronix

A new Linux Mint beta is here with improved troubleshooting tools  How-To Geek

This Linux distro makes your old laptop feel like a Mac - and it's free  ZDNET

Colin Angle, the founder of iRobot who built the company from his living room over 35 years and sold more than 50 million Roomba vacuums, watched his creation file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month after what he describes as an "avoidable" regulatory ordeal that killed Amazon's $1.7 billion acquisition bid. In an interview with TechCrunch, Angle recounted the 18-month investigation by the FTC and European regulators that preceded Amazon's January 2024 decision to abandon the deal. The process consumed over 100,000 documents and a significant portion of iRobot's discretionary earnings. Angle said the deal should have taken "three, four weeks of investigation" given iRobot's declining market position -- 12% and falling in Europe, where the leading competitor was only three years old. During his deposition, Angle said he walked the halls of the FTC and noticed examiners had "printouts of deals blocked, like trophies" on their office doors. He entered the process "looking for a friend" and instead encountered the question: "Why should we ever let them do this?" Further reading: WSJ Editorial Board Says Lina Khan Killed iRobot.

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PoC Exploit Released for Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Linux Kernel POSIX CPU Timers  gbhackers.com

PoC Exploit Released for Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Linux Kernel POSIX CPU Timers  gbhackers.com

PoC Exploit Released for Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Linux Kernel POSIX CPU Timers  gbhackers.com

How To Find Get Your IP Address in Linux  commandlinux.com

Linux in DevOps & CI/CD Pipeline Adoption Statistics  commandlinux.com