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MX Linux 25.2 now available with plenty of fixes and package updates  Notebookcheck

Intel Working On pmtctl Tool For Linux In Dealing With Platform Telemetry Data  Phoronix

PipeWire 1.6.6 Improves the Pulse Server, Volume Initialization in Filter Graph  9to5Linux

A love letter to the Quake series, free and open source FPS Quetoo is out now  GamingOnLinux

The Flipper One is the Linux cyberdeck I wish my Raspberry Pi could be  ZDNET

Colorado And California Shield Linux From OS-Level Age Verification Rules  Open Source For You

AerynOS Gets Linux 7.0, COSMIC 1.0.13, and KDE Plasma 6.6.5  Linuxiac

A bill to mandate age verification for Linux users is facing heavy criticism and is being amended.  GIGAZINE

GNOME 51 Development Officially Begins as ‘A Coruña’ Cycle Gets Underway  Linux Journal

Graduation season is here, and here is the 2026 Commencement Speech for George Mason Law School by Luke Nichols, who is a practicing attorney but probably best known as the owner of the popular YouTube Channel Outdoor Boys which includes a lot wilderness hunting, fishing, and bushcraft (“survivalist”) content.

I’m a follower of his channel and I appreciate that he makes content based on his own personal interests and adventures, as opposed to creating trendy content specifically to chase clicks or followers or viral popularity. In fact, he recently stopped making any new videos entirely because he became “too famous” and it started to affect his day-to-day life.

This 9-minute speech has a personal finance tilt and I think it’s worth sending out to any other new grads who might appreciate his perspective. Nichols includes a good personal story about how having some money in the bank can change your life in many ways. Having money isn’t just about living in a nicer place or a nicer car. It’s about having the optionality to take asymmetrical risks and really pursue the life that you want. For example, you might be able to take the lower-paying opportunity with a great mentor.

Linus says Linux's trivial fixes are getting out of hand, and AI reviewers are making it worse  XDA

Linus says Linux's trivial fixes are getting out of hand, and AI reviewers are making it worse  XDA

Linus says Linux's trivial fixes are getting out of hand, and AI reviewers are making it worse  XDA

Linus says Linux's trivial fixes are getting out of hand, and AI reviewers are making it worse  XDA

Linus says Linux's trivial fixes are getting out of hand, and AI reviewers are making it worse  XDA

Linus says Linux's trivial fixes are getting out of hand, and AI reviewers are making it worse  XDA

Linus says Linux's trivial fixes are getting out of hand, and AI reviewers are making it worse  XDA

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) -- the controversial privacy feature used by nearly all its rivals -- arguing it makes users less safe. E2EE means only the sender and recipient of a direct message can view its contents, making it the most secure form of communication available to the general public. Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and X have embraced it because they say their priority is maximizing user privacy. But critics have said E2EE makes it harder to stop harmful content spreading online, because it means tech firms and law enforcement have no way of viewing any material sent in direct messages. The situation is made more complex because TikTok has long faced accusations that ties to the Chinese state may put users' data at risk. TikTok has consistently denied this, but earlier this year the social media firm's US operations were separated from its global business on the orders of US lawmakers. TikTok told the BBC it believed end-to-end encryption prevented police and safety teams from being able to read direct messages if they needed to. It confirmed its approach to the BBC in a briefing about security at its London office, saying it wanted to protect users, especially young people from harm. It described this stance as a deliberate decision to set itself apart from rivals. "Grooming and harassment risks are very real in DMs [direct messages] so TikTok now can credibly argue that it's prioritizing 'proactive safety' over 'privacy absolutism' which is a pretty powerful soundbite," said social media industry analyst Matt Navarra. But Navarra said the move also "puts TikTok out of step with global privacy expectations" and might reinforce wariness for some about its ownership.

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Continuing its product launches this week, Apple today announced the "MacBook Neo," an all-new, low-cost Mac featuring the A18 Pro chip. It starts at $599 and begins shipping on Wednesday, March 11. MacRumors reports: The MacBook Neo is the first Mac to be powered by an iPhone chip; the A18 Pro debuted in 2024's iPhone 16 Pro models. Apple says it is up to 50% faster for everyday tasks than the bestselling PC with the latest shipping Intel Core Ultra 5, up to 3x faster for on-device AI workloads, and up to 2x faster for tasks like photo editing. The MacBook Neo features a 13-inch Liquid Retina display with a 2408-by-1506 resolution, 500 nits of brightness, and an anti-reflective coating. The display does not have a notch, instead featuring uniform, iPad-style bezels. It is available in Silver, Indigo, Blush, and Citrus color options. The colored finishes extend to the Magic Keyboard in lighter shades and come with matching wallpapers. It weighs 2.7 pounds. There are two USB-C ports. One is a USB-C 2 port with support for speeds up to 480 Mb/s and one is a USB-C 3 port with support for speeds up to 10 Gb/s. There is also a headphone jack. The MacBook Neo also offers a 16-hour battery life, 8GB of unified memory, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 6 connectivity, a 1080p front-facing camera, dual mics with directional beamforming, and dual side-firing speakers with Spatial Audio.

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Intel has formally unveiled its Xeon 6+ "Clearwater Forest" data-center processor with up to 288 cores, built on the company's new Intel 18A process and using Foveros Direct packaging. The chip targets telecom, cloud, and edge-AI workloads with massive parallelism, large caches, and high-bandwidth DDR5-8000 memory. Tom's Hardware reports: Intel's Xeon 6+ processors with up to 288 cores combine 12 compute chiplets containing 24 energy-efficient Darkmont cores per tile that are produced using 18A manufacturing technology, two I/O tiles made on Intel 7 production node, as well as three active base tiles made on Intel 3 fabrication process. The compute tiles are stacked on top of the base dies using Intel's Foveros Direct 3D technology, whereas lateral connections are enabled by Intel's EMIB bridges. Intel's 'Darkmont' efficiency cores have received rather meaningful microarchitectural upgrades. Each core integrates a 64 KB L1 instruction cache, a broader fetch and decode pipeline, and a deeper out-of-order engine capable of tracking more in-flight operations. The number of execution ports has also been increased in a bid to improve both scalar and vector throughput under heavily threaded server workloads. From a cache hierarchy standpoint, the design groups cores into four-core blocks that share approximately 4 MB of L2 cache per block. As a result, the aggregate last-level cache across the full package surpasses 1 GB, roughly 1,152 MB in total. This unusually large pool is intended to keep data close to hundreds of active cores and reduce dependence on external memory bandwidth, which in turn is meant to both increase performance and lower power consumption. Platform-wise, the processor remains drop-in compatible with the current Xeon server socket, so the CPU has 12 memory channels that support DDR5-8000, 96 PCIe 5.0 lanes with 64 lanes supporting CXL 2.0.

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