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Man bribes girlfriend with cruise vaction to use Linux for a week, relationship somehow survives  Boing Boing

An anonymous reader shares a report: An attorney for the Federal Trade Commission told a judge that Facebook, fearing the competitive threat of Instagram posted to their social media network, acquired both as a way to "neutralize" the rival. "They decided that competition was too hard," the FTC's attorney, Daniel Matheson, said in his opening statement in the government's antitrust case against the Meta Platforms social media empire. He argued that with Meta's monopoly in social media, "consumers do not have reasonable alternatives they can turn to," even as satisfaction has declined. At stake is the potential breakup of Facebook-parent Meta, as the government has zeroed in on the 2012 acquisition of Instagram and 2014 purchase of WhatsApp.

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Open Source Security at Risk From Poor Oversight  LinuxInsider

Nvidia has announced plans to manufacture AI supercomputers entirely within the United States, commissioning over 1 million square feet of manufacturing space across Arizona and Texas. Production of Blackwell chips has begun at TSMC's Phoenix facilities, while supercomputer assembly will occur at new Foxconn and Wistron plants in Houston and Dallas respectively. "The engines of the world's AI infrastructure are being built in the United States for the first time," said Jensen Huang, Nvidia's founder and CEO. "Adding American manufacturing helps us better meet the incredible and growing demand for AI chips and supercomputers, strengthens our supply chain and boosts our resiliency." The company will deploy its own AI, robotics, and digital twin technologies in these facilities, using Nvidia Omniverse to create digital twins of factories and Isaac GR00T to build manufacturing automation robots. Nvidia projects an ambitious $500 billion in domestic AI infrastructure production over the next four years, with manufacturing expected to create hundreds of thousands of jobs.

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Dolphin researchers are using Gemma and Google Pixel phones to try to decipher how dolphins talk to one another.Dolphin researchers are using Gemma and Google Pixel phones to try to decipher how dolphins talk to one another.

Play cards, manage clones, explore unique planets and outsmart aliens in Clonizer  gamingonlinux.com

PipeWire 1.4.2 Adds Extra MIDI Checks to Avoid 100% CPU Usage on Older Kernels  9to5Linux

PipeWire 1.4.2 Adds Extra MIDI Checks to Avoid 100% CPU Usage on Older Kernels  9to5Linux

America's Department of Energy launched a federally funded R&D center in 1946 called the Argonne National Laboratory, and its research became the basis for all of the world's commercial nuclear reactors. But it's now developed an AI-based tool that can "help operators run nuclear plants," reports the Wall Street Journal, citing comments from a senior nuclear engineer in the lab's nuclear science and engineering division: Argonne's plan is to offer the Parameter-Free Reasoning Operator for Automated Identification and Diagnosis, or PRO-AID, to new, tech-forward nuclear builds, but it's also eyeing the so-called dinosaurs, some of which are being resurrected by companies like Amazon and Microsoft to help power their AI data centers. The global push for AI is poised to fuel a sharp rise in electricity demand, with consumption from data centers expected to more than double by the end of the decade, the International Energy Agency said Thursday. The owners of roughly a third of U.S. nuclear plants are in talks with tech companies to provide electricity for those data centers, the Wall Street Journal has reported. PRO-AID performs real-time monitoring and diagnostics using generative AI combined with large language models that notify and explain to staff when something seems amiss at a plant. It also uses a form of automated reasoning — which uses mathematical logic to encode knowledge in AI systems — to mimic the way a human operator asks questions and comes to understand how the plant is operating [according to Richard Vilim, a senior nuclear engineer within the lab's nuclear science and engineering division]. The tool can also help improve the efficiency of the personnel needed to operate a nuclear plant, Vilim said. That's especially important as older employees leave the workforce. "If we can hand off some of these lower-level capabilities to a machine, when someone retires, you don't need to replace him or her," he said... Part of the efficiency in updating technology will come from consolidating the monitoring staff at a utility's nuclear plants at a single, centralized location — much as gas-powered plants already do. It hasn't found its way into a commercial nuclear plant yet, the article acknowledges. But the senior nuclear engineer points out that America's newer gas-powered plants ended up being more automated with digital monitoring tools. Meanwhile the average age of America's 94 operating nuclear reactors is 42 years old, and "nearly all" of them have had their licenses extended, according to the article. (Those nuclear plants still provide almost 20% of America's electricity.)

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Intel Begins Linux Preparations For Bartlett Lake  Phoronix

Electronic music rhythm game Spin Rhythm XD recently added Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Electronic music rhythm game Spin Rhythm XD recently added Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Electronic music rhythm game Spin Rhythm XD recently added Linux / Steam Deck support  gamingonlinux.com

Electronic music rhythm game Spin Rhythm XD recently added Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The MX Linux project has announced a new version, MX Linux 23.6, which is based on Debian 12. "MX Linux 23.6 is the sixth refresh of our MX 23 release, consisting of bug fixes, kernel updates and application updates since our original release of MX 23. If you....

MX Linux 23.6 Is Out Now Based on Debian 12.10 and Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14  9to5Linux

MX Linux 23.6 Is Out Now Based on Debian 12.10 and Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14  9to5Linux

MX Linux 23.6 Is Out Now Based on Debian 12.10 and Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14  9to5Linux

MX Linux 23.6 Is Out Now Based on Debian 12.10 and Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14  9to5Linux

MX Linux 23.6 Is Out Now Based on Debian 12.10 and Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14  9to5Linux