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Submission + - Systemd creator launches Amutable for Linux integrity.

An anonymous reader writes: Systemd Creator Launches Amutable for Linux Integrity.

Lennart Poettering, the creator of systemd, and Christian Brauner, a Linux kernel maintainer, just left Microsoft to launch Amutable. The company announced today it will “deliver verifiable integrity to Linux workloads everywhere” by replacing heuristic-based security with deterministic verification.

All three founders—Poettering, Brauner, and CEO Chris Kühl—came from Microsoft’s Linux infrastructure team, raising immediate questions about timing, IP ownership, and whether they’re building a Microsoft competitor or spinout.

Comment The year of the Linux phone has arrived (Score 1) 29

I have a Fairphone 4 (FP4). FP4 has stable 20.04 channel on Ubuntu touch, but I never bothered investigating it because of the ease of using Android and f-Droid giving me so many apps that are good and are actively maintained

Google overplaying their hands with power users will mean that, finally, enough people will have had enough of Android - as people said, what's the point of Android if you can't install the software you want?

(Dramatic dum roll)

The year of the Linux phone has arrived

Submission + - Elon Musk Says X Outages Were Caused by a Cyberattack From Ukraine 1

hcs_$reboot writes: Elon Musk’s X hit by waves of outages in what he claims is a massive cyberattack from Ukraine[paywall]. Mr. Musk on Monday quickly blamed Ukraine[no paywall] without providing evidence. X, which Mr. Musk purchased in 2022, experienced intermittent outages on Monday, mostly on its app, according to Downdetector, which tracks reports of problems from users on websites. The first outages were reported before 6 a.m. Eastern time, after which the site and app seemed to resume functioning. But about 10 a.m. more problems arose, and there were 41,000 reports of outages on X, according to Downdetector. Shortly after 11 a.m., a third spike of reported outages emerged, and the site remained down for many users.

“There was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area,” Mr. Musk said during a Monday interview with Fox’s Larry Kudlow.

Submission + - DeepSeek, China and the Japanese art of 'kaizen' (ft.com)

berghem writes: An Article on FT.com (paywalled) reports how behind China’s recent achievements — in LLMs like DeepSeek, electric cars, robotics, electronics, etc — some version of kaizen is at work.

Kaizen is a patient process of iterative improvement of product and process, which Japan made famous in the 70s and 80s.

According to Japanese recruitment agents, China these days employs older and experienced "Japanese semiconductor, railway and robotics engineers as consultants". Japan did not pay these engineers very much, and China has found that they can tempt them away from their own country with better pay and by valuing their expertise. "Kaizen is fundamentally a process of trial and error, and an experienced engineer can impart the invaluable, cost-saving nod on what was tried but didn’t work."

Comment of course, nothing to do with this other news... (Score 1) 27

Italians detain Iranian citizen. Iranians want their citizen back, who is waiting for extradition from Italy to the USA. Iranians detain Italian journalist https://apnews.com/article/ita...
Meloni meets Trump: "Meloni met US president-elect Donald Trump at the weekend, when the journalist's detention is thought to have been discussed" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art...
Italian journalist released https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art...
Meloni gives massive Italian Government contract to Musk (this post)
--> Expect release of Iranian detainee to close the circle

Submission + - Elon Musk now controls two thirds of all active satellites (yahoo.com)

DogFoodBuss writes: SpaceX deployed its 7000th Starlink satellite this week, making the vast majority of active satellites around earth part of a single megaconstellation. The Starlink communications system is now orders of magnitude larger than it's nearest competitors, offering unprecedented access to low-latency broadband from anywhere on the planet.

Comment from the "browser wars" onwards... (Score 2) 39

from the "browser wars" onwards... the US have preferred having "tech champions" ruling the waves around the world to any effective anti-monopoly action. a choice was made in decades past to block the monopoly of standard oil and co. However the distributed and international nature of the internet makes monopoly busting far harder and the US does not have the discipline to do this. now the US is living with the consequences of these choices. we are all behold to trillion-dollar companies which own and control the "data" of the whole population, in the US and everywhere else. these companies have an almost unlimited financial and political clout, a fact that is starting to tear apart the whole edifice of the country. good luck to you if you want to rein them in now. any attempts to stop their collection of our data will be met by an impenetrable wall of dollars influencing the political process, which will derail the attempt.

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