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Fedora BIOS Boot SIG Launched For Those Wanting To Maintain Legacy BIOS Support

Fedora will keep around its legacy BIOS support that was decided earlier this month after a proposal to deprecate legacy BIOS support to focus resources on UEFI-only booting. However, Fedora will be relying more on the community to maintain that legacy boot support and as such the Fedora BIOS Boot SIG (Special Interest Group) is now established…

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News / Security

Koo, an app touted as India's answer to Twitter, has self-verification features that Elon Musk may want but shows risks of handing over data to the government (Nilesh Christopher/Rest of World)

Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: Koo, an app touted as India’s answer to Twitter, has self-verification features that Elon Musk may want but shows risks of handing over data to the government  —  “Already doing what Elon Musk wants to do is such a high,” co-founder of Koo, Aprameya Radhakrishna, posted on Twitter.  —  • BENGALURU, INDIA

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Cloud / News

YC-backed DeFi startup Stablegains faces a lawsuit after losing $44M of users' funds by investing them in UST, after earlier claiming it was investing in USDC (Timothy Craig/Crypto Briefing)

Timothy Craig / Crypto Briefing: YC-backed DeFi startup Stablegains faces a lawsuit after losing $44M of users’ funds by investing them in UST, after earlier claiming it was investing in USDC  —  Stablegains has been accused of misleading customers about where their money was going.  —  Key Takeaways

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Hardware / News

Snapchat is testing Family Center, which lets parents see who their teens are friends with and whom they are texting; teens have the option to not participate (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Snapchat is testing Family Center, which lets parents see who their teens are friends with and whom they are texting; teens have the option to not participate  —  Snapchat is preparing to introduce a new parental control feature dubbed “Family Center,” which will allow parents to see who their teen …

Snapchat is testing Family Center, which lets parents see who their teens are friends with and whom they are texting; teens have the option to not participate (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Read More
Hardware / News

(PR) ZADAK Announces TWSG4S PCIe Gen4 x4 SSD

here’s another hot new ZADAK product on the market, and this one is going to take gamers one step beyond. It’s the TWSG4S M.2 PCIe Gen4 x4 SSD, and it delivers read-write speeds that many Gen4 x4 SSDs can’t – 7,400 and 7,000 MB/s, respectively. This is an ideal expansion SSD for new game consoles and PCs, giving players the chance to dominate their games. It ships with two powerful heatsinks in the box. One is made of ultra-thin graphene …

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Linux To Introduce The Ability To Set The Hostname Before Userspace Starts

While the hostname on Linux systems is widely relied upon for different applications, setting the hostname is usually left up to user-space by the init system at boot. However, should any user-space processes try to read the system hostname prior to it being set, it could lead to unintended results. So now finally in 2022 there is a kernel parameter working its way upstream with “hostname=” should you want to ensure the hostname is set before user-space is started…

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FTC warns edtech companies to not use children's data for commercial purposes like ads without parental consent, saying it will “vigilantly enforce” COPPA (Tonya Riley/CyberScoop)

Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: FTC warns edtech companies to not use children’s data for commercial purposes like ads without parental consent, saying it will “vigilantly enforce” COPPA  —  The Federal Trade Commission voted 5- on Thursday to issue a policy statement warning education tech companies …

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News / Security

A Meta executive told employees to stop discussing abortion on Workplace, citing “an increased risk” that the company is seen as a “hostile work environment” (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Alex Heath / The Verge: A Meta executive told employees to stop discussing abortion on Workplace, citing “an increased risk” that the company is seen as a “hostile work environment”  —  Employees say the stance runs counter to Meta policies on discussing Black Lives Matter and trans rights

A Meta executive told employees to stop discussing abortion on Workplace, citing “an increased risk” that the company is seen as a “hostile work environment” (Alex Heath/The Verge) Read More
Hardware / News

KeysFan Unveils the Big Software Sale: New Low Prices on Software You Need

KeysFan brings you a golden opportunity to save big on genuine software you need, so you can spend more on hardware this Summer, and build the gaming PC of your dreams. Get Genuine Windows 10 Pro at just $7.43. The latest and greatest Windows 11 Pro can be had for just $10.24. Pair it with Genuine Office 2021 Professional Plus going for $30.74 standalone, or in combos for as low as $34.07. Save even more by pairing other editions of …

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