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The FBI has dismantled a massive AI-powered phishing operation called Outsider Enterprise, seizing servers, Telegram bots, and funds tied to over one million fraudulent URLs. The service was harvesting credit card data and passwords at industrial scale, and its takedown is a reminder of how sophisticated criminal infrastructure has become.
Turning to the debate over young people and social media, BBC technology editor Zoe Kleinman is weighing in on sweeping new restrictions coming for minors online. The conversation is a familiar one, but the policy momentum is real. Kleinman's framing is measured — bold moves, yes, but no single rule fixes a problem this deeply woven into how young people live.
And on the quieter end of the open-source world, there are rumblings about a next-generation Flatpak, the Linux application packaging system. The project has been largely dormant for years, but new architectural discussions are raising flags for developers who prefer to keep systemd out of their stacks. It is early, but for the FOSS community, the direction of travel matters.
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