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New submitter optical_phiber writes: In March 2025, the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education discovered that Microsoft Teams had begun collecting students' voice and facial biometric data without their prior knowledge. This occurred after Microsoft enabled a Teams feature called 'voice and face enrollment' by default, which creates biometric profiles to enhance meeting experiences and transcriptions via its CoPilot AI tool. The NSW department learned of the data collection a month after it began and promptly disabled the feature and deleted the data within 24 hours. However, the department did not disclose how many individuals were affected or whether they were notified. Despite Microsoft's policy of retaining data only while the user is enrolled and deleting it within 90 days of account deletion, privacy experts have raised serious concerns. Rys Farthing of Reset Tech Australia criticized the unnecessary collection of children's data, warning of the long-term risks and calling for stronger protections.

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LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

Abstract of a paper featured on NBER: This year marks the 40th anniversary of the NBER Macro Annual Conference, founded in 1986. This paper reviews the evolution of mainstream macroeconomics since then. It presents my views, informed by a survey of a number of researchers who have made important contributions to the field. I develop two main arguments. The first is that, starting from strikingly different positions, there has been substantial convergence, in terms of methodology, architecture, and main mechanisms. Methodology: Explicit micro foundations, explicit treatment of distortions, with, at the same time, an increased willingness to deviate from rational expectations, neoclassical utility and profit maximization. Architecture: The wide acceptance of nominal rigidities as an essential distortion, although with mixed feelings. Mechanisms: The wide nature of the shocks to both the demand and the supply side. The second is that this convergence has been, for the most part, good convergence, i.e. the creation of a generally accepted conceptual and analytical structure, a core to which additional distortions can be added, allowing for discussions and integration of new ideas and evidence, rather than fights about basic methodology. Not everything is right however, with too much emphasis on general equilibrium implications from the start, rather than, first, on partial equilibrium analysis of the phenomenon at hand.

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GE-Proton 10-2 brings some essential fixes for Windows games on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

GE-Proton 10-2 brings some essential fixes for Windows games on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

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Intel Gaudi 3 PCIe Accelerator Cards Now Available - Still Waiting On Upstream Linux Driver  Phoronix

"The Danish government plans to evaluate the prospect of beginning a nuclear power programme," reports the Telegraph, noting that this week Denmark lifted a nuclear power ban imposed 40 years ago. Unlike its neighbours in Sweden and Germany, Denmark has never had a civil nuclear power programme. It has only ever had three small research reactors, the last of which closed in 2001. Most of the renewed interest in nuclear seen around the world stems from the expected growth in electricity demand from AI data centres, but Denmark is different. The Danes are concerned about possible blackouts similar to the one that struck Iberia recently. Like Spain and Portugal, Denmark is heavily dependent on weather-based renewable energy which is not very compatible with the way power grids operate... ["The spinning turbines found in fossil-fuelled energy systems provide inertia and act as a shock absorber to stabilise the grid during sudden changes in supply or demand," explains a diagram in the article, while solar and wind energy provide no inertia.] The Danish government is worried about how it will continue to decarbonise its power grid if it closes all of its fossil fuel generators leaving minimal inertia. There are only three realistic routes to decarbonisation that maintain physical inertia on the grid: hydropower, geothermal energy and nuclear. Hydro and geothermal depend on geographic and geological features that not every country possesses. While renewable energy proponents argue that new types of inverters could provide synthetic inertia, trials have so far not been particularly successful and there are economic challenges that are difficult to resolve. Denmark is realising that in the absence of large-scale hydroelectric or geothermal energy, it may have little choice other than to re-visit nuclear power if it is to maintain a stable, low carbon electricity grid. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the news.

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5 Paid and Donation-Based Linux Distros  Yahoo

All Linux Is Not Free: 5 Distros That Ask for Your Money  How-To Geek

Intel Announces Arc Pro B-Series, "Project Battlematrix" Linux Software Improvements  Phoronix

Open-Source NVIDIA Blackwell + Hopper Support Slated For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Device Memory TCP TX Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Microsoft finally solve the Linux dual-boot issue after 9 months  GamingOnLinux

PowerVR Rogue BXS-4-64 GPU Firmware Uploaded To linux-firmware.git  Phoronix