—shit at Meta was bad enough, comes Reuters' Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show. Don Marti explains how some ways that Facebook ads are optimized for deceptive advertising.
Smart is as Smart Does
[$] Bootc for workstation use
The bootc project allows users to create a bootable Linux system image using the container tooling that many developers are already familiar with. It is an evolution of OSTree (now called libostree), which is used to create Fedora Silverblue and other image-based distributions. While creating custom images is still a…
Security updates for Friday
Who’s your agent?
M.G. Siegler says AI is Breaking the Browser's Back. His problem starts with OpenAI's GPT Atlas, which some publishers won't let view their contents on the Web. For example, if you are reading this blog post with an Atlas browser, this link to the NYTimes will get you…
Mastodon 4.5 released
Version 4.5 of the Mastodon decentralized social-media platform has been released. Notable features in this release include quote posts, native emoji support, as well as enhanced moderation and blocking features for server administrators. The project also has a post detailing new features in 4.5 for developers of clients and…
Freedesktop.org now hosts the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
hosted and stewarded" by Freedesktop.org.
For those who are unaware, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is the definition for POSIX operating systems to organize…
[$] Toward fast, containerized, user-space filesystems
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 6, 2025
- Front: Python thread safety; Namespace reference counting; Merigraf; Speeding up short reads; Julia 1.12; systemd security.
- Briefs: CHERIoT 1.0; Chromium XSLT; Arm KASLR; Bazzite; Devuan 6.0; Incus 6.18; LXQt 2.3.0; Rust 1.91.0; Quotes; ...
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and…
