Category Archives: Linux

Avalue Introduces ACP-PI Boards as Raspberry Pi Alternatives

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Avalue Technology has introduced two industrial single-board computers designed to match the Raspberry Pi form factor while addressing the requirements of edge computing and IoT integration. The new models, ACP-3566-PI and ACP-IMX8-PI, offer ARM-based platforms for different embedded applications and performance demands. The ACP-3566-PI is based on the Rockchip RK3566 quad-core Cortex-A55 processor operating at […]

Meta’s Latest Move: Why You Shouldn’t Trust AI with Everything You Say

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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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Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux Hardware

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Phoronix has made it another year. Today marks 21 years since I started Phoronix.com with a focus on providing Linux hardware reviews. Linux hardware support is a night and day difference then to today as is the overall ecosystem with all the major hardware vendors these days having some — often significant — levels of interest in Linux support. No longer is it typically a worry of whether your mouse, 56K modem, WiFi adapter, or other basic peripherals working but most often just a matter of how well the performance is on Linux, whether there is LVFS/Fwupd firmware updating support, and if other non-show-stopping features are supported. We still haven’t managed the “year of the Linux desktop” but it’s been wild with Chrome OS and Android being based on Linux, Linux coming to dominate the server world, Linux being ubiquitous to cloud computing, and Valve revolutionizing the Linux gaming space…

The Exploitation Layer: Who Builds Open Source and Who Profits?

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Open-source software is built on contributions from both volunteers and corporations, but an emerging body of research and commentary suggests that unpaid or underpaid contributors are often exploited to sustain enterprise-backed projects. Companies frequently benefit from community labor under the pretexts of “learning opportunities,” “future job prospects,” “developer prestige,” or doing “service” for the community. Below, we examine evidence of this dynamic across major projects and foundations, and how ideological frameworks like meritocracy help justify the extraction of free labor.

[$] Device-initiated I/O

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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.

Strategy 2028 update (Fedora Community Blog)

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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“.

[$] Two sessions on faster networking

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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.