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BrianFagioli writes:
Grassroots organizers in Venezuela are using Bitcoin to raise money for earthquake relief without relying on banks or large foreign intermediaries. The campaigns are hosted on Agora and support volunteer medical teams, displaced children, and emergency internet access for shelters.
Donations are sent in sats directly to the people doing the work on the ground. Supporters say the effort shows how Bitcoin can function as borderless money when traditional fundraising channels are slow, expensive, or inaccessible.
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BrianFagioli writes:
Cloudflare has launched Precursor, a new behavioral bot detection system that monitors mouse movement, typing cadence, scrolling, clipboard activity, page visibility, and other signals across an entire browsing session. The system is designed to catch advanced bots that can run JavaScript, use real browsers, and pass traditional CAPTCHA challenges.
Cloudflare says Precursor does not record actual keystrokes and instead studies timing and rhythm. The company also says the data is not tied to user identities or persistent profiles. Even so, software that watches how people move and type throughout a visit raises privacy concerns, especially as Cloudflare claims bots now generate roughly 57 percent of all Internet requests.
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BrianFagioli writes:
Fastmail is opening a new data center in Amsterdam and will begin moving European customers to EU hosted infrastructure in August. The primary copy of customer data will be stored inside the European Union, which could help with compliance and improve performance for users in the region.
There is one important catch. Fastmail says European customer data will still be replicated to the United States for resiliency. That means the service is not fully EU only, even though the primary copy will remain in Amsterdam.
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BrianFagioli writes:
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns companies not to give AI firms their secrets
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says businesses may be paying twice for artificial intelligence: once with money, and again with the proprietary knowledge they feed into AI systems to make them useful. He calls this the Reverse Information Paradox, arguing that prompts, corrections, evaluations, workflows, and other usage data can gradually expose how a company actually operates.
Nadella says enterprises should keep control of their own models, memory, feedback, and internal learning loops while avoiding dependence on a single AI provider. The warning is notable coming from Microsoft, which sells the cloud infrastructure and AI services needed to build exactly that kind of private environment.
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BrianFagioli writes:
Remember the Atari Jaguar? The ill-fated 64-bit game console from 1993 just pulled off something nobody expected over 30 years later: it now boots Linux. Developer cakehonolulu managed to port uClinux to the aging hardware, overcoming the Jaguar’s lack of an MMU, tiny 2MB RAM limit, and quirky architecture by writing platform-specific code, custom drivers, and taking advantage of Linux’s existing Motorola 68000 support. The system now reaches a BusyBox shell on both real hardware and in emulation, though input is currently limited to a serial connection. The developer published a detailed technical write-up explaining the process, from kernel memory layout to timer initialization and debugging compiler issues.
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BrianFagioli writes:
Crypto projects lost nearly $1 billion in the first half of 2026, but the bigger story is that hackers set a new record for attack volume while walking away with much less money than in previous years.
According to Immunefi, the industry suffered 207 hack incidents during H1 2026, yet total losses fell to about $972 million, less than half of H1 2025. The company says stronger security practices, including bug bounty programs and security audits, are helping reduce the financial impact of attacks, even as the number of exploits continues to climb. A billion dollars in losses is still nothing to celebrate, but the trend is moving in the right direction.
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BrianFagioli writes:
The Linux Foundation intends to launch the Open Health Stack Software Foundation, a new vendor-neutral home for the Google Open Health Stack project.
Google is contributing the project code and assets while Google.org is providing a $3 million grant. The initiative is also backed by Microsoft, Anthropic, and the World Health Organization, with the goal of building open source, AI-ready digital health infrastructure.
Will moving the project under Linux Foundation governance accelerate adoption, or is this simply another foundation that most developers will never interact with?
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BrianFagioli writes:
IBM and Red Hat have officially launched Lightwell, the open source security platform they first announced earlier this year. The commercial rollout introduces Lightwell Network, which provides access to thousands of digitally signed and remediated open source dependencies, along with Lightwell Clearinghouse Premier, designed to help organizations coordinate secure vulnerability disclosures and patch distribution.
The companies say the platform is intended to help enterprises reduce software supply chain risk and automate vulnerability remediation as AI workloads continue to increase.
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BrianFagioli writes:
DuckDuckGo has added built-in YouTube ad blocking to its browser, allowing users to skip most pre-roll and mid-roll ads while watching videos on the YouTube website. The feature is enabled by default on Windows, macOS, and iPhone, with Android support rolling out by default soon. DuckDuckGo says it uses community-maintained filter lists from the uBlock Origin project, along with its own compatibility rules, to keep pace with changes to YouTube ad delivery. While the feature will likely be welcomed by users tired of interruptions, it also raises questions about YouTube Premium and how creators are compensated when ad revenue is bypassed.
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BrianFagioli writes:
Apple announced a new multiyear agreement with Broadcom expected to exceed $30 billion. The deal will result in more than 15 billion chips being manufactured in the United States while funding a $1.5 billion expansion of Broadcoms facility in Fort Collins, Colorado.
The components produced there include advanced radio frequency technologies and wireless connectivity hardware used across Apples product lineup. Apple says the agreement is its largest commitment yet under the companys American Manufacturing Program and will support hundreds of US jobs.
Despite the investment, this does not mean iPhones or Macs will suddenly be assembled in America. Instead, the announcement focuses on increasing domestic production of key components that go inside Apple devices.
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BrianFagioli writes:
Valveâ has released Proton 11.0-1, a major update to its Windows compatibility layer for Linux that makes more games playable while fixing a long list of bugs affecting existing titles.
The release restores compatibility for many EA games after a recent EA App update, moves classics like Resident Evil (1996), Resident Evil 2 (1998), Dino Crisis, and SHOGUN: Total War from Proton Experimental into the stable release, and adds support for games including Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, Breath of Fire IV, and Deadly Premonition.
Valve also fixed crashes in HELLDIVERS 2, restored No Manâ(TM)s Sky VR support, improved Steam Overlay compatibility with EA games, addressed KDE and GNOME desktop issues, and rebased Proton on Wine 11.0 with updated graphics components.
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BrianFagioli writes:
A new Nitro survey of more than 1,300 executives, managers, and directors suggests enterprise AI has not eliminated one of the biggest office headaches: manual document work.
The report found that while 84 percent of executives consider AI a high priority and 85 percent say it has been deployed across at least part of their organizations, many employees are still spending six to 15 hours each week editing PDFs, converting files, extracting data, and handling other repetitive document tasks. It also found that 96 percent of organizations still rely on print-sign-scan workflows for at least some documents.
Nitro argues that much of the problem comes from organizations using standalone AI tools instead of integrating AI directly into document workflows.
Do you think AI is actually making office work more productive, or are workers just adding another tool to an already bloated workflow?
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BrianFagioli writes:
Philips has announced the Sonicare DiamondClean 9900 Prestige, an electric toothbrush that uses on-device AI to provide real-time brushing guidance. The toothbrush features a built-in mouth map that highlights missed areas, a light ring for instant feedback, and smart pressure sensing that automatically adjusts intensity if users brush too hard. Philips says the new model removes up to 2,000 percent more plaque and promotes up to 1,500 percent healthier gums than manual brushing, based on its own testing. The toothbrush will be available on Amazon in September in Quartz Black, Silver White, and Satin Mauve.
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BrianFagioli writes:
IBM has announced new compact versions of its z17 and LinuxONE 5 platforms, introducing single-frame and rack-mount configurations across its IBM Z and LinuxONE portfolio. The new systems target organizations facing rising data center costs and limited space while adding AI acceleration, post-quantum cryptography, Terraform-based infrastructure management, and support for enterprise Linux workloads.
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BrianFagioli writes:
An IDC study sponsored by Canonical and Google Cloud found that while 70 percent of organizations require critical vulnerabilities to be patched within 24 hours, only about 40 percent are confident they can actually meet that goal. The survey of 500 IT decision makers also found that skills shortages, poor visibility into software dependencies, and manual patching processes continue to slow software supply chain security. Seven in 10 organizations consider open source essential for mission critical workloads, but many still struggle to manage increasingly complex software stacks.
