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The biggest selling point of the TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 laptop is its 1000 nits HDR (High Dynamic Range) mini-LED matte display with 2560×1600 resolution, 100% sRGB, 16:10 aspect ratio, and extremely fast 300 Hz refresh rates. The new display is paired with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 24GB GDDR7 graphics card.

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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has made headlines again with a controversial move that raises serious concerns about privacy and data ethics. According to a recent report by Heise, Meta is updating its privacy policy to explicitly allow user data—including public posts, comments, and interactions—to be used for training its generative AI models.

This news comes in the wake of broader privacy concerns tied to Meta’s messaging platforms, particularly WhatsApp. A deeper dive into how WhatsApp handles private data can be found in this post, which outlines how vague language and shifting terms make it difficult for users to truly understand what data is being collected—and how it’s used.

The implications of this new AI training policy are troubling. Meta’s ability to vacuum up user data and feed it into AI systems doesn’t just raise privacy issues; it highlights a deeper risk we rarely acknowledge: the illusion of safety when talking to or through AI-powered systems.

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AlmaLinux “Purple Lion” is here—fully RHEL 10 compatible with added support for frame pointers, x86-64-v2, Secure Boot, SPICE, and more.

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Powered by the Linux 6.14 kernel series, KaOS Linux 2025.05 ships with the latest KDE Plasma 6.3.5 desktop environment, which is accompanied by the KDE Gear 25.04.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.14 software suites, all built using the latest Qt 6.9 open-source application framework.

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FaceFusion is a face manipulation platform that lets users seamlessly swap faces in both photos and videos. It’s free and open source software.

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DietPi 9.13, a Debian-based Linux distro for SBCs, enforces password changes for all users and software installs.

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Firefox 140 promises a new Unload Tab feature that lets you unload tabs by right-clicking on a tab (or multiple selected tabs to reduce Firefox’s memory and CPU usage, support for adding custom search engines in Search settings, and support for keeping more or fewer pinned vertical tabs in view. For Android users, it adds a “Select All” option for bookmarks.

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When working with text files, it’s extremely helpful to know how to quickly count how many times a specific string appears. This technique can come in handy during log analysis, text processing, or even simple coding exercises. A detailed introduction to symbolic links and how they relate to command-line power usage can be found here, which offers a broader context for understanding Unix utilities.

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In Unix-like systems, links allow files to reference one another under different names or locations. Understanding symbolic (soft) links and hard links is essential for any Linux user, especially when organizing file systems or managing scripts. For a deeper dive into symbolic links, you can also check out this article which expands on practical use cases and tips.

Links work by pointing to file data or file paths. Symbolic links act like shortcuts, while hard links act like alternate names to the same data blocks on the disk. This article will guide you through how to create and use both types effectively, with detailed explanations for each step.

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Learn what DNF5 is, how it differs from older DNF, and the significant improvements in the DNF5 package manager with this introductory guide.

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In today’s digital workplace, the number of accounts and services a company relies on is constantly growing — and so is the risk of password-related breaches. Whether you run a startup or a large enterprise, securing your credentials should be a top priority. That’s why more and more businesses are turning to dedicated password managers.

Here are five compelling reasons why your company should implement a password manager today:

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This tutorial will explain how to install MariaDB on Debian 13. MariaDB is an open-source RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) used to store and retrieve tabular data using the Structured Query Language (SQL). Compared to MySQL, MariaDB is more scalable and offers a higher query speed, even though MySQL is an older database system and MariaDB is a fork of MySQL. MariaDB is written in C, C++, and Perl, has a huge community of developers, and is compatible with multiple OS such as Windows, macOS, and Linux. The data of big companies such as Google, Mozilla, and Wikipedia is stored in MariaDB databases. In the next paragraphs, we will show you how to install MariaDB, manage its service, secure the installation, and some basic commands for creating databases, users, etc.

Installing MariaDB is a straightforward process and should take up to 10 minutes. Let’s get started!

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We focus on open source text-based bookmark managers. Most of the tools featured in this article let you manage your bookmarks for websites, but there are also a few tools that let you bookmark other things such as commands.

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A new social engineering tactic known as “ClickFix” is gaining momentum on TikTok, where seemingly harmless tech tip videos are being used to lure users into downloading malware. These short clips pretend to offer simple fixes for browser issues or system errors, but in reality, they redirect viewers to download malicious files that install infostealers. Even more concerning is that attackers are now starting to experiment with this technique on Linux systems as well — a development covered in detail here: Hackers now testing ClickFix attacks on Linux systems.

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DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi

The project released the new version DietPi v9.13 on May 25th, 2025.

The highlights of this version are:

• DietPi default passwords: Default password ‘dietpi’ must not be used any more for security reasons and has to be changed
• Orange Pi 3B: Added support for the PWM fan
• Radxa ZERO 3: Upgrade to Linux 6.1 based vendor kernel
• Virtual Machines: Future VM images will use initramfs-tools instead of tiny-initramfs
• DietPi-Config: Simplified keyboard layout dialog
• Gitea: Now enabled also for RISC-V systems
• Google AIY, Mycroft AI: Removed deprecated software packages
• Fixes for ASUS Tinker Board 2, Orange Pi 3B v1.1, Orange Pi Zero 3/2W, DietPi-Imager, DietPi-Display, RPi.GPIO, fish, Home Assistant, Redis

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LXD 6.4 system container manager introduces new CLI options, updated UI features, and better shutdowns, clusters, and storage handling.

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TUXEDO Stellaris 16 – Gen7: High-end Linux gaming laptop with RTX 5090, Intel Ultra 9 CPU & HDR mini LED display. Now available for pre-order.

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ClickFix is a new and stealthy type of fileless malware that specifically targets Linux environments. Unlike traditional malware, ClickFix doesn’t rely on writing files to disk. Instead, it lives in memory and abuses legitimate tools and processes within the operating system to carry out its actions.

For a deeper dive into the Linux-specific behavior, see the full analysis at Zemernett. You can also learn a handy trick to track string occurrences in logs here. For those new to Linux, this article on basic Linux commands and this one on gathering system information might be useful.

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Understanding how your system handles data—even when it disappears silently—is crucial in the face of evolving browser vulnerabilities. If you’ve never encountered the concept of dev-null, often referred to as the Linux and Unix data black hole, it’s a good time to learn. A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers—identified as CVE-2025-4664—is putting Windows and Linux users at risk.

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