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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.

The post AlmaLinux 10 Released, This Is What’s New appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20250605 (linux-next) Released:2025-06-05

BigLinux is a Brazilian Linux distribution localised into Brazilian Portuguese (with support for English). It is was originally based on Kubuntu, but starting from 2017 the distribution was re-born based on deepin. It then offered two desktop environments - Cinnamon and Deepin. In 2021 the distribution switched bases and desktop environments again, migrating to Manjaro Linux running KDE Plasma.

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: OpenH264 in Fedora; Wallabag; Safety certification; 6.16 Merge window; Bounce buffering; Hardening repository problems; Device-initiated I/O; Faster networking; OSPM 2025; Free software in science.
• Briefs: Kea vulnerabilities; Alpine Linux 3.22.0; Fedora strategy; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Peer-to-peer DMA (P2PDMA) has been part of the kernel since the 4.20 release in 2018; it provides a framework that allows devices to transfer data between themselves directly, without using system RAM for the transfer. At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Stephen Bates led a combined storage, filesystems, and memory-management session on device-initiated I/O, which is perhaps what P2PDMA is evolving toward. Two years ago, he led a session on P2PDMA at the summit; this year's session was a brief update on P2PDMA with a look at where it may be heading.

Outgoing Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller has posted an update on Fedora's high-level plan through 2028:

[Fedora] Council members identified potential Initiatives that we believe are important to work on next. We came up with a list of thirteen — which is way more than we can handle at once. We previously set a limit of four Initiatives at a time. We decided to keep to that rule, and are planning to launch four initiatives in the next months

The initiatives are: making Fedora releases block on accessibility issues, experimenting with a "GitOps" workflow for packaging, migrating from Pagure to Forgejo, and "making sure Fedora Linux is ready for people who want to work on machine learning and AI development".

Cong Wang and Daniel Borkmann each led session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit about their respective plans to speed up networking in the Linux kernel. Both sessions described ways to remove unnecessary operations in the networking stack, but they focused on different areas. Wang spoke about using BPF to speed up socket operations, while Borkmann spoke about eliminating the overhead of networking operations on virtual machines.

Free software plays a critical role in science, both in research and in disseminating it. Aspects of software freedom are directly relevant to simulation, analysis, document preparation and preservation, security, reproducibility, and usability. Free software brings practical and specific advantages, beyond just its ideological roots, to science, while proprietary software comes with equally specific risks. As a practicing scientist, I would like to help others—scientists or not—see the benefits from free software in science.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.15.1, 6.14.10, 6.12.32, 6.6.93, 6.1.141, 5.15.185, 5.10.238, and 5.4.294 stable kernels. As usual, each contains a set of important fixes.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (git, krb5, perl-CPAN, and rsync), Debian (tcpdf), Fedora (libmodsecurity, lua-http, microcode_ctl, and nextcloud), Red Hat (osbuild-composer), SUSE (389-ds, avahi, ca-certificates-mozilla, docker, expat, freetype2, glib2, gnuplot, gnutls, golang-github-teddysun-v2ray-plugin, golang-github-v2fly-v2ray-core, govulncheck-vulndb, helm, iperf, kernel, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_2, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_4, krb5, libarchive, libsoup, libsoup2, libtasn1, libX11, libxml2, libxslt, orc, podman, python-Jinja2, python-requests, python3-setuptools, python310, python311, python39, rubygem-rack, sslh, SUSE Manager Client Tools, SUSE Manager Client Tools and Salt Bundle, ucode-intel, util-linux, and wget), and Ubuntu (libvpx, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-oracle, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-aws, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws-fips, linux-azure-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-aws-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-azure-fde, linux-fips, and linux-intel-iot-realtime, linux-realtime).

Version:6.15.1 (stable) Released:2025-06-04 Source:linux-6.15.1.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.15.1.tar.sign Patch:full ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.15.1

Version:6.14.10 (stable) Released:2025-06-04 Source:linux-6.14.10.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.14.10.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.14.10

Version:6.12.32 (longterm) Released:2025-06-04 Source:linux-6.12.32.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.32.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.32

Version:6.6.93 (longterm) Released:2025-06-04 Source:linux-6.6.93.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.93.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.93

Version:6.1.141 (longterm) Released:2025-06-04 Source:linux-6.1.141.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.141.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.141

Version:5.15.185 (longterm) Released:2025-06-04 Source:linux-5.15.185.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.15.185.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.185

Version:5.10.238 (longterm) Released:2025-06-04 Source:linux-5.10.238.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.10.238.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.10.238

Version:5.4.294 (longterm) Released:2025-06-04 Source:linux-5.4.294.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.4.294.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.4.294

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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