Inconsistent Privacy Labels Don't Tell Users What They Are Getting
Data privacy labels are a great idea for mobile apps, but the current versions just aren't good enough.
Apple Breaks Precedent, Patches DarkSword for iOS 18
Even organizations with users unwilling or unable to adopt iOS 26 can now protect themselves from a severe mobile OS-cracking tool.
Blast Radius of TeamPCP Attacks Expands Amid Hacker Infighting
As organizations disclose breaches tied to TeamPCP's supply chain attacks, ShinyHunters and Lapsus$ are getting involved, taking credit, and creating a murky situation for enterprises.
Picking Up 'Skull Vibrations'? Could Be XR Headset Authentication
"Skull vibration harmonics generated by vital signs" can be used to sign in to VR, AR, and MR headsets, according to emerging research.
Claude Source Code Leak Highlights Big Supply Chain Missteps
Or, why the software supply chain should be treated as critical infrastructure with guardrails built in at every layer.
[$] Ubuntu's GRUBby plans
<p><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/">GNU GRUB 2</a>, mostly just referred to as GRUB these days, is the most widely used boot loader for x86_64 Linux systems. It <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manu…
No kidding: Gentoo GNU/Hurd
<p>On April 1, the Gentoo Linux project published a blog post announcing that it was switching to <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/">GNU Hurd</a> as its primary kernel as an April Fool's joke. While that is not…
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (freerdp, grafana, kernel, rsync, and thunderbird), <b>Debian</b> (chromium, inetutils, and libpng1.6), <b>Fedora</b> (bind9-next, nginx-mod-modsecurity, and openbao)…
SFC: What the FCC router ban means for FOSS
<p>Denver Gingerich of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has published an <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/02/fcc-router-ban/">article</a> on the impact of the <a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/at…
[$] IPC medley: message-queue peeking, io_uring, and bus1
The kernel provides a number of ways for processes to communicate with each other, but they never quite seem to fit the bill for many users. There are currently a few proposals for interprocess communication (IPC) enhan…
Day 23 - What is eBPF?
<p> By: Ania Kapuścińska (<a href="https://twitter.com/lambdanis">@lambdanis</a>)<br /> Edited by: Shaun Mouton (<a href="https://twitter.com/sdmouton">@sdmouton</a> ) </p> <p> Like many engineers, for a long…
Day 22 - So, You're Incident Commander, Now What?
<p> By: Joshua Timberman (<a href="https://twitter.com/jtimberman">@jtimberman</a>)<br /> </p> <p> You’re the SRE on call and, while working on a project, your phone buzzes with an alert: “Elevated 500s from API.” </…
Day 20 - To Deploy or Not to Deploy? That is the question.
<p> By: Jessica DeVita (<a href="https://twitter.com/ubergeekgirl">@ubergeekgirl</a>)<br /> Edited by: Jennifer Davis (<a href="https://twitter.com/sigje">@sigje</a>) </p> <p> Deployment Decision-Making during…
Day 19 - Into the World of Chaos Engineering
<p> By: Julie Gunderson (<a href="https://twitter.com/Julie_Gund">@Julie_Gund</a>)<br /> Edited by: Kerim Satirli (<a href="https://twitter.com/ksatirli">@ksatirli</a>) </p> <h2>Intro</h2> <p> I recently left m…
Day 18 - Minimizing False Positive Monitoring Alerts with Checkmk
<p> By: Elias Voelker (<a href="https://twitter.com/Elijah2807">@Elijah2807</a>) and Faye Tandog (<a href="https://twitter.com/fayetandog">@fayetandog</a><br /> Edited by: Jennifer Davis (<a href="https://twitter…
DySCo: Dynamic Semantic Compression for Effective Long-term Time Series Forecasting
arXiv:2604.01261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series forecasting (TSF) is critical across domains such as finance, meteorology, and energy. While extending the lookback window theoretically provides richer histor…
Sven: Singular Value Descent as a Computationally Efficient Natural Gradient Method
arXiv:2604.01279v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Sven (Singular Value dEsceNt), a new optimization algorithm for neural networks that exploits the natural decomposition of loss functions into a sum over indi…
Forecasting Supply Chain Disruptions with Foresight Learning
arXiv:2604.01298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anticipating supply chain disruptions before they materialize is a core challenge for firms and policymakers alike. A key difficulty is learning to reason reliably about i…
UQ-SHRED: uncertainty quantification of shallow recurrent decoder networks for sparse sensing via engression
arXiv:2604.01305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstructing high-dimensional spatiotemporal fields from sparse sensor measurements is critical in a wide range of scientific applications. The SHallow REcurrent Decoder…
An Online Machine Learning Multi-resolution Optimization Framework for Energy System Design Limit of Performance Analysis
arXiv:2604.01308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing reliable integrated energy systems for industrial processes requires optimization and verification models across multiple fidelities, from architecture-level siz…
Simulate realistic users to evaluate multi-turn AI agents in Strands Evals
In this post, we explore how ActorSimulator in Strands Evaluations SDK addresses the challenge with structured user simulation that integrates into your evaluation pipeline.
Scaling seismic foundation models on AWS: Distributed training with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and expanding context windows
This post describes how TGS achieved near-linear scaling for distributed training and expanded context windows for their Vision Transformer-based SFM using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. This joint solution cut training time…
Control which domains your AI agents can access
In this post, we show you how to configure AWS Network Firewall to restrict AgentCore resources to an allowlist of approved internet domains. This post focuses on domain-level filtering using SNI inspection — the first l…
Rocket Close transforms mortgage document processing with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Textract
Through a strategic partnership with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC), Rocket Close developed an intelligent document processing solution that has significantly reduced processing time, making the proces…
Persist session state with filesystem configuration and execute shell commands
In this post, we go through how to use managed session storage to persist your agent's filesystem state and how to execute shell commands directly in your agent's environment.
df Command in Linux: Disk Space, Inodes & Real Fixes
The post <a href="https://www.tecmint.com/df-command-linux-disk-space/">df Command in Linux: Disk Space, Inodes & Real Fixes</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.tecmint.com">Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guid…
How to Use fsck to Check and Repair Linux Filesystem Errors
The post <a href="https://www.tecmint.com/fsck-repair-file-system-errors-in-linux/">How to Use fsck to Check and Repair Linux Filesystem Errors</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.tecmint.com">Tecmint: Linux Howto…
How to Create HTTPS Local Domains for Your Projects
The post <a href="https://www.tecmint.com/setup-https-local-domain-linux/">How to Create HTTPS Local Domains for Your Projects</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.tecmint.com">Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Gu…
How to Create, Extract and List RAR Files in Linux
The post <a href="https://www.tecmint.com/how-to-open-extract-and-create-rar-files-in-linux/">How to Create, Extract and List RAR Files in Linux</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.tecmint.com">Tecmint: Linux Howt…
YT-DLP: The Easiest Way to Download Videos and Songs from YouTube
The post <a href="https://www.tecmint.com/download-mp3-song-from-youtube-videos/">YT-DLP: The Easiest Way to Download Videos and Songs from YouTube</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.tecmint.com">Tecmint: Linux H…
NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules
<p>With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older. We will replace the <code>nvidia</code> package with <code>nvidia-open</code>, <code>nvidia-dkms</code> with…
.NET packages may require manual intervention
<p>The following packages may require manual intervention due to the upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0:</p> <ul> <li>aspnet-runtime</li> <li>aspnet-targeting-pack</li> <li>dotnet-runtime</li> <li>dotnet-sdk</li> <li>dotnet-source…
waydroid >= 1.5.4-3 update may require manual intervention
<p>The <code>waydroid</code> package prior to version <code>1.5.4-2</code> (including <code>aur/waydroid</code>) creates Python byte-code files (.pyc) at runtime which were untracked by pacman. This issue has been fixed…
dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention
<p>The dovecot 2.4 release branch has made breaking changes which result in it being incompatible with any <= 2.3 configuration file.</p> <p>Thus, the dovecot service will no longer be able to start until the configur…
Recent service outages
<p>We want to provide an update on the recent <a href="https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/EU4NXRX6DDJAACOWIRZNU4S5KVXEUI72/">service outages</a> affecting our infrastructure…
Plex Error: Unable to set up server: std::exception (N2DB9ExceptionE)
<p>My Plex server crashed with the Error: Unable to set up server: std::exception (N2DB9ExceptionE) on Unraid. After manual SQLite repair failed, a scheduled backup restored it in minutes. Here's the full process and why…
How to access Ollama from another PC on your local network
<p>Want to run Ollama on your GPU desktop and use it from a laptop, NAS, or mobile device? This guide shows you how to access Ollama from another PC on your LAN with no extra software needed.</p> <p>The post <a href="htt…
How to Install Ollama on a Different Drive in Windows
<p>Want to run AI models locally without filling up your C: drive? This guide shows you how to install Ollama on a different drive in Windows, store models on a custom path, and get it running automatically on boot.</p>…
How to Automatically Turn Off Docker Containers On Unraid
<p>Automatically turn off Docker containers on Unraid during off-hours using the User Scripts plugin. Simple scheduling solution for resource management on your Unraid homelab.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.blackm…
Authentik Initial Setup Not Found Error Fix
<p>Authentik "Not Found" error when accessing the initial setup page on http://your-ip:9000/if/flow/initial-setup/ by manually creating the admin user and applying default authentication flow blueprints.</p> <p>The post…
Proton Launches Workspace and Meet, Takes Aim at Google and Microsoft
These two launches ought to keep Big Tech on their toes.
FOSS Weekly #26.14: Open Source Office Drama, Ubuntu MATE Troubles, Conky With Ease, Session Management in Wayland and More Linux Stuff
Controversies all around.
LibreOffice Drama: TDF Removes Collabora Developers in One Sweep
TDF has used a bylaw Collabora publicly opposed to strip over 30 of its most active developers of their membership.
Proposal to Centralize Per-User Environment Variables Under Systemd in Fedora Rejected
It was rejected due to insufficient consideration for systemd-less environments like containers.
Arch Installer Goes 4.0 With a New Face and Fewer 'Curses'
The release drops curses in favor of Textual, but that's just the highlight.