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This Operating System Quietly Powers AI — and Many of Tomorrow’s Jobs  ucstrategies.com

Sony will ship its last batch of Blu-ray recorders this month, according to Kyodo News, ending the company's decades-long run in a product category it helped create. The recorders targeted exclusively the Japanese domestic market, where households used them to record broadcast television. Sony had already stopped manufacturing the devices and recordable discs about a year ago, and the final shipments are clearing out remaining inventory. Kyodo attributes the segment's death to the rise of streaming services. Sony will continue selling Blu-ray players "for the time being." The broader Blu-ray ecosystem remains intact. Asus, LG, and Pioneer still produce PC drives in internal and external USB form factors. Panasonic and Verbatim continue manufacturing Blu-ray media. The format turned 20 last year, having debuted at CES 2006 -- one year before Netflix launched its streaming platform.

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I automated my most annoying daily Linux tasks and saved hours every week  MakeUseOf

Linux 7.0 Now Defaults To Intel TSX Auto Mode For Performance Benefits On Newer CPUs  Phoronix

T-Mobile is opening registration today for a beta test of Live Translation, an AI-powered feature that will translate live phone calls into more than 50 languages when it launches this spring. The feature operates at the network level, so it doesn't require any specific app or device -- beta participants simply dial 87 to activate it on a call. T-Mobile President of Technology and CTO John Saw told The Verge that Live Translation works over VoLTE, VoNR and VoWiFi, meaning it isn't limited to 5G. The only requirement is that a T-Mobile customer must initiate the translation. The beta will be free, though T-Mobile has not said whether the feature will eventually be paywalled.

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OpenVPN 2.7 Released with Support for DCO Linux Kernel Module, mbedTLS 4  9to5Linux

OpenVPN 2.7 Released With Multi-Socket Server & DCO Linux Kernel Driver Support  Phoronix

KiCad Aims to Ease Linux Installation, Moves to Self-Contained AppImage Distribution  Hackster.io

KiCad Aims to Ease Linux Installation, Moves to Self-Contained AppImage Distribution  Hackster.io

IPFire DBL Launches as a Community-Powered Domain Blocking for Everyone  9to5Linux

This new Linux-powered ereader could tempt me away from the Kindle Scribe and reMarkable Paper Pro  TechRadar

An anonymous reader shares a report: The Food and Drug Administration has refused to start a review of Moderna's application for its experimental flu shot, the company announced Tuesday, in another sign of the Trump administration's influence on tightening vaccine regulations in the U.S. Moderna said the move is inconsistent with previous feedback from the agency from before it submitted the application and started phase three trials on the shot, called mRNA-1010. The drugmaker said it has requested a meeting with the FDA to "understand the path forward." Moderna noted that the agency did not identify any specific safety or efficacy issues with the vaccine, but instead objected to the study design, despite previously approving it. The company added that the move won't impact its 2026 financial guidance. Moderna's jab showed positive phase three data last year, meeting all of the trial goals. At the time, Moderna said the stand-alone flu shot was key to its efforts to advance a combination vaccine targeting both influenza and Covid-19.

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Parrot 7.1 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with Enlightenment Spin, Updated Tools  9to5Linux

Parrot OS 7.1 Released with Linux kernel 6.17  Linuxiac

Linux 7.0 Scores +12% In UDP Network Performance Test From Manually Inlining Function  Phoronix

Upstream Wine Making Progress On Patches For Satisfying Adobe Photoshop  Phoronix

APT36 Targets Linux Systems With New Disruption Tools  Cyber Press

SSHStalker botnet targets Linux servers with legacy exploits and SSH scanning  Security Affairs

SSHStalker botnet targets Linux servers with legacy exploits and SSH scanning  Security Affairs

SSHStalker Botnet Uses IRC C2 to Control Linux Systems via Legacy Kernel Exploits  The Hacker News