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Dino Crisis 1 and 2 arrive on Steam but they need tweaks to run on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Meta plans to add facial recognition technology to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, New York Times reported Friday, five years after the social giant shut down facial recognition on Facebook and promised to find "the right balance" for the controversial technology. The feature, internally called "Name Tag," would let wearers identify people and retrieve information about them through Meta's AI assistant, the report added. An internal memo from May acknowledged the feature carries "safety and privacy risks" and noted that political tumult in the United States would distract civil society groups that might otherwise criticize the launch. The company is exploring restrictions that would prevent the glasses from functioning as a universal facial recognition tool, potentially limiting identification to people connected on Meta platforms or those with public accounts.

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Linux Gets Rid Of Intel 440BX EDAC Driver For Old Pentium CPUs After Being Broken For 19+ Years  Phoronix

4 Linux commands that will make your terminal look incredible  How-To Geek

A Few More ASUS Motherboards Now Support Sensor Reporting With Linux 7.0  Phoronix

Following intense backlash to its partnership with Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company that works with law enforcement agencies, Ring has announced it is canceling the integration. From a report: In a statement published on Ring's blog and provided to The Verge ahead of publication, the company said: "Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated. We therefore made the joint decision to cancel the integration and continue with our current partners ... The integration never launched, so no Ring customer videos were ever sent to Flock Safety." [...] Over the last few weeks, the company has faced significant public anger over its connection to Flock, with Ring users being encouraged to smash their cameras, and some announcing on social media that they are throwing away their Ring devices. The Flock partnership was announced last October, but following recent unrest across the country related to ICE activities, public pressure against the Amazon-owned Ring's involvement with the company started to mount. Flock has reportedly allowed ICE and other federal agencies to access its network of surveillance cameras, and influencers across social media have been claiming that Ring is providing a direct link to ICE.

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Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS arrives with cumulative security and bug fixes  Help Net Security

An anonymous reader shares a report: U.S. messenger app WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms, has been completely blocked in Russia for failing to comply with local law, the Kremlin said on Thursday, suggesting Russians turn to a state-backed "national messenger" instead. "Due to Meta's unwillingness to comply with Russian law, such a decision was indeed taken and implemented," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, proposing that Russians switch to MAX, Russia's state-owned messenger.

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Is Linux Finally Ready for Mainstream PC Gaming? | Outlook Respawn  Outlook Respawn

Is Linux Finally Ready for Mainstream PC Gaming? | Outlook Respawn  Outlook Respawn

Microsoft has patched a high-severity vulnerability in Windows 11's Notepad that allowed attackers to silently execute local or remote programs when a user clicked a specially crafted Markdown link, all without triggering any Windows security warning. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20841 and fixed in the February 2026 Patch Tuesday update, stemmed from Notepad's relatively new Markdown support -- a feature Microsoft added after discontinuing WordPad and rewriting Notepad to serve as both a plain text and rich text editor. An attacker only needed to create a Markdown file containing file:// links pointing to executables or special URIs like ms-appinstaller://, and a Ctrl+click in Markdown mode would launch them. Microsoft's fix now displays a warning dialog for any link that doesn't use http:// or https://, though the company did not explain why it chose a prompt over blocking non-standard links entirely. Notepad updates automatically through the Microsoft Store.

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Atomic and Immutable Linux Distros Gain Momentum  findarticles.com

Linux 7.0 MM Changes Bring Some Very Nice Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

Intel Posts 2026 Update For Cache Aware Scheduling On Linux  Phoronix

Not sure if you'll like Linux? Try it from your browser  How-To Geek

Linux vs Windows Server Response Time and Throughput Benchmarks Statistics 2026  commandlinux.com

Forget "tiny" distros: How I built my own minimal Linux using Debian  How-To Geek

Arch Linux Running Well On LoongArch - Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Now Available With Linux 6.17 HWE Kernel  Phoronix