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Samsung's Galaxy S25 Phones Once Again Lean Heavily on AI
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2025-01-23 02:22:01
At Galaxy Unpacked today in San Jose, California, Samsung unveiled the new Galaxy S25 series of flagship smartphones loaded with AI capabilities and LLMs. "Currently, the Galaxy S25 range is comprised of the Galaxy S25 ($800), Galaxy S25+ ($1,000), and Galaxy S25 Ultra ($1,300)," reports Wired. "The phones are available for preorder today and will officially go on sale February 7." Since the hardware is relatively unchanged from last year's Galaxy S24 series, here's what Wired has to say about the new AI smarts: The Galaxy S25 is a tale of two AIs: Gemini and Bixby. Yes, while Google's Gemini AI assistant sits at the forefront -- it can finally be triggered through a long press of the power button-- Samsung is bringing its original Bixby voice assistant out from the shadows. Bixby has been enhanced with large language models but is still designed to handle phone functions, like changing device settings. Gemini is meant to be used for general web queries and more complex actions. You can even have two hot words, one for each assistant. I foresee all of this being confusing [...].
The highlight AI feature debuting on the Galaxy S25 series is "cross-app experiences." These are tasks you can ask Gemini to perform, even if the task requires multiple apps. For example, you can ask for the schedule of this season's Arsenal matches and then add it to your calendar; Gemini will then search and add every Arsenal FC game in the season to your schedule. Or you can ask it to find pet-friendly vegan restaurants nearby and text the list to a friend. It even works with images too -- snap a pic of your fridge and ask Gemini to find you a recipe based on the available ingredients. These cross-app experiences work with Google apps, Samsung's Galaxy apps, and select third-party apps, like WhatsApp and Spotify.
All these AI features have culminated in a new app: Now Brief. Samsung calls this proactive assistance (remember Google's Now on Tap?) where a morning brief arrives with the weather, upcoming calendar events, stock details, news articles, and suggestions to trigger routines. There's also an evening brief with a summary of the day's events with photos. Since the feature can plug into email, it'll send reminders about expiring coupons and upcoming travel tickets. Samsung claims it can even suggest changing an 8:45 am alarm even earlier if it sees a 9 am meeting on the schedule. On the lock screen, a "Now Bar" widget persists at the bottom, much like Apple's Live Activities. It'll offer quick access to the Now Brief app, but it will also show updates for favorite sports teams, along with glanceable directions from Google Maps.
The rest of the AI features are playing a bit of catch-up to Apple and Google's Pixel phones. There's Drawing Assist, a generative AI tool to craft new images in different art styles based on sketches or text prompts. AI Select works with the S Pen stylus on the S25 Ultra and understands what is selected -- for example, if a video is selected, it will suggest turning it into a GIF. Audio Eraser is an editing tool to cut out background noise in videos post-capture, canceling out the sound of a crowd's chatter or an ambulance's siren. Finally, Samsung's Generative Edit feature, which lets you erase unwanted objects in images, now works locally on the device and is much more accurate and faster. A full list of specs can be found here. You can watch a recording of the event on YouTube.
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2025-01-23 02:22:01
At Galaxy Unpacked today in San Jose, California, Samsung unveiled the new Galaxy S25 series of flagship smartphones loaded with AI capabilities and LLMs. "Currently, the Galaxy S25 range is comprised of the Galaxy S25 ($800), Galaxy S25+ ($1,000), and Galaxy S25 Ultra ($1,300)," reports Wired. "The phones are available for preorder today and will officially go on sale February 7." Since the hardware is relatively unchanged from last year's Galaxy S24 series, here's what Wired has to say about the new AI smarts: The Galaxy S25 is a tale of two AIs: Gemini and Bixby. Yes, while Google's Gemini AI assistant sits at the forefront -- it can finally be triggered through a long press of the power button-- Samsung is bringing its original Bixby voice assistant out from the shadows. Bixby has been enhanced with large language models but is still designed to handle phone functions, like changing device settings. Gemini is meant to be used for general web queries and more complex actions. You can even have two hot words, one for each assistant. I foresee all of this being confusing [...].
The highlight AI feature debuting on the Galaxy S25 series is "cross-app experiences." These are tasks you can ask Gemini to perform, even if the task requires multiple apps. For example, you can ask for the schedule of this season's Arsenal matches and then add it to your calendar; Gemini will then search and add every Arsenal FC game in the season to your schedule. Or you can ask it to find pet-friendly vegan restaurants nearby and text the list to a friend. It even works with images too -- snap a pic of your fridge and ask Gemini to find you a recipe based on the available ingredients. These cross-app experiences work with Google apps, Samsung's Galaxy apps, and select third-party apps, like WhatsApp and Spotify.
All these AI features have culminated in a new app: Now Brief. Samsung calls this proactive assistance (remember Google's Now on Tap?) where a morning brief arrives with the weather, upcoming calendar events, stock details, news articles, and suggestions to trigger routines. There's also an evening brief with a summary of the day's events with photos. Since the feature can plug into email, it'll send reminders about expiring coupons and upcoming travel tickets. Samsung claims it can even suggest changing an 8:45 am alarm even earlier if it sees a 9 am meeting on the schedule. On the lock screen, a "Now Bar" widget persists at the bottom, much like Apple's Live Activities. It'll offer quick access to the Now Brief app, but it will also show updates for favorite sports teams, along with glanceable directions from Google Maps.
The rest of the AI features are playing a bit of catch-up to Apple and Google's Pixel phones. There's Drawing Assist, a generative AI tool to craft new images in different art styles based on sketches or text prompts. AI Select works with the S Pen stylus on the S25 Ultra and understands what is selected -- for example, if a video is selected, it will suggest turning it into a GIF. Audio Eraser is an editing tool to cut out background noise in videos post-capture, canceling out the sound of a crowd's chatter or an ambulance's siren. Finally, Samsung's Generative Edit feature, which lets you erase unwanted objects in images, now works locally on the device and is much more accurate and faster. A full list of specs can be found here. You can watch a recording of the event on YouTube.
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Anthropic Chief Says AI Could Surpass 'Almost All Humans At Almost Everything' Shortly After 2027
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2025-01-23 02:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that AI models may surpass human capabilities "in almost everything" within two to three years, according to a Wall Street Journal interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Speaking at Journal House in Davos, Amodei said, "I don't know exactly when it'll come, I don't know if it'll be 2027. I think it's plausible it could be longer than that. I don't think it will be a whole bunch longer than that when AI systems are better than humans at almost everything. Better than almost all humans at almost everything. And then eventually better than all humans at everything, even robotics."
Amodei co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela Amodei and five other former OpenAI employees. Not long after, Anthropic emerged as a strong technological competitor to OpenAI's AI products (such as GPT-4 and ChatGPT). Most recently, its Claude 3.5 Sonnet model has remained highly regarded among some AI users and highly ranked among AI benchmarks. During the WSJ interview, Amodei also spoke some about the potential implications of highly intelligent AI systems when these AI models can control advanced robotics. "[If] we make good enough AI systems, they'll enable us to make better robots. And so when that happens, we will need to have a conversation... at places like this event, about how do we organize our economy, right? How do humans find meaning?"
He then shared his concerns about how human-level AI models and robotics that are capable of replacing all human labor may require a complete re-think of how humans value both labor and themselves. "We've recognized that we've reached the point as a technological civilization where the idea, there's huge abundance and huge economic value, but the idea that the way to distribute that value is for humans to produce economic labor, and this is where they feel their sense of self worth," he added. "Once that idea gets invalidated, we're all going to have to sit down and figure it out." The eye-catching comments, similar to comments about AGI made recently by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, come as Anthropic negotiates a $2 billion funding round that would value the company at $60 billion. Amodei disclosed that Anthropic's revenue multiplied tenfold in 2024. Further reading: Salesforce Chief Predicts Today's CEOs Will Be the Last With All-Human Workforces
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that AI models may surpass human capabilities "in almost everything" within two to three years, according to a Wall Street Journal interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Speaking at Journal House in Davos, Amodei said, "I don't know exactly when it'll come, I don't know if it'll be 2027. I think it's plausible it could be longer than that. I don't think it will be a whole bunch longer than that when AI systems are better than humans at almost everything. Better than almost all humans at almost everything. And then eventually better than all humans at everything, even robotics."
Amodei co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela Amodei and five other former OpenAI employees. Not long after, Anthropic emerged as a strong technological competitor to OpenAI's AI products (such as GPT-4 and ChatGPT). Most recently, its Claude 3.5 Sonnet model has remained highly regarded among some AI users and highly ranked among AI benchmarks. During the WSJ interview, Amodei also spoke some about the potential implications of highly intelligent AI systems when these AI models can control advanced robotics. "[If] we make good enough AI systems, they'll enable us to make better robots. And so when that happens, we will need to have a conversation... at places like this event, about how do we organize our economy, right? How do humans find meaning?"
He then shared his concerns about how human-level AI models and robotics that are capable of replacing all human labor may require a complete re-think of how humans value both labor and themselves. "We've recognized that we've reached the point as a technological civilization where the idea, there's huge abundance and huge economic value, but the idea that the way to distribute that value is for humans to produce economic labor, and this is where they feel their sense of self worth," he added. "Once that idea gets invalidated, we're all going to have to sit down and figure it out." The eye-catching comments, similar to comments about AGI made recently by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, come as Anthropic negotiates a $2 billion funding round that would value the company at $60 billion. Amodei disclosed that Anthropic's revenue multiplied tenfold in 2024. Further reading: Salesforce Chief Predicts Today's CEOs Will Be the Last With All-Human Workforces
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Mastercard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years
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2025-01-23 01:22:01
A security researcher discovered and fixed a critical domain name server misconfiguration in Mastercard's systems that persisted undetected for nearly five years, potentially exposing the credit card giant to traffic interception risks.
Philippe Caturegli, founder of security firm Seralys, found that one of Mastercard's five DNS servers incorrectly pointed to "akam.ne" instead of "akam.net" from June 2020 to January 2025. He spent $300 to register the domain through Niger's domain authority to prevent potential exploitation. Mastercard said the typo has been corrected, insisting there was "not a risk to our systems."
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2025-01-23 01:22:01
A security researcher discovered and fixed a critical domain name server misconfiguration in Mastercard's systems that persisted undetected for nearly five years, potentially exposing the credit card giant to traffic interception risks.
Philippe Caturegli, founder of security firm Seralys, found that one of Mastercard's five DNS servers incorrectly pointed to "akam.ne" instead of "akam.net" from June 2020 to January 2025. He spent $300 to register the domain through Niger's domain authority to prevent potential exploitation. Mastercard said the typo has been corrected, insisting there was "not a risk to our systems."
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Выпуск Ventoy 1.1.0, инструментария для загрузки произвольных систем с USB-носителей
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2025-01-23 00:44:03
Опубликован выпуск инструментария Ventoy 1.1.0, предназначенного для создания загрузочных USB-носителей, включающих несколько операционных систем. Программа позволяет загрузить ОС из неизменных ISO-, WIM-, IMG-, VHD- и EFI-образов, не требуя распаковки образа или переформатирования носителя. Достаточно просто скопировать интересующий набор iso-образов на USB Flash с загрузчиком Ventoy и он обеспечит загрузку операционных систем, находящихся внутри образов. В любой момент можно заменить или добавить новые iso-образы просто скопировав новые файлы, что удобно для тестирования и предварительного ознакомления с различными дистрибутивами и операционными системами. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62598
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2025-01-23 00:44:03
Опубликован выпуск инструментария Ventoy 1.1.0, предназначенного для создания загрузочных USB-носителей, включающих несколько операционных систем. Программа позволяет загрузить ОС из неизменных ISO-, WIM-, IMG-, VHD- и EFI-образов, не требуя распаковки образа или переформатирования носителя. Достаточно просто скопировать интересующий набор iso-образов на USB Flash с загрузчиком Ventoy и он обеспечит загрузку операционных систем, находящихся внутри образов. В любой момент можно заменить или добавить новые iso-образы просто скопировав новые файлы, что удобно для тестирования и предварительного ознакомления с различными дистрибутивами и операционными системами. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62598
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YouTube Premium Adds 256kbps Audio 'Experiment' For Music Videos
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2025-01-23 00:22:01
YouTube Premium subscribers can now stream music videos at 256kbps bitrate audio quality, matching the high-fidelity standard previously exclusive to YouTube Music, the video platform said.
The audio upgrade comes as part of an expanded experimental features program that allows Premium users to test multiple new features simultaneously, departing from its previous single-experiment limitation, the company said.
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YouTube Premium subscribers can now stream music videos at 256kbps bitrate audio quality, matching the high-fidelity standard previously exclusive to YouTube Music, the video platform said.
The audio upgrade comes as part of an expanded experimental features program that allows Premium users to test multiple new features simultaneously, departing from its previous single-experiment limitation, the company said.
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Salesforce Chief Predicts Today's CEOs Will Be the Last With All-Human Workforces
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2025-01-23 00:22:01
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Wednesday that current business leaders may be the last generation to manage an exclusively human workforce, as AI transforms the workplace. "We are really moving into a world now of managing humans and agents together," he told Axios.
His company's Agentforce platform, launched in September, has taken over many customer support tasks, prompting plans to move support staff into sales roles. Speaking to Axios at the World Economic Forum, Benioff dismissed Microsoft's AI CoPilot as disappointing and promised to defend his employees against discrimination amid political debates over corporate diversity programs.
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Wednesday that current business leaders may be the last generation to manage an exclusively human workforce, as AI transforms the workplace. "We are really moving into a world now of managing humans and agents together," he told Axios.
His company's Agentforce platform, launched in September, has taken over many customer support tasks, prompting plans to move support staff into sales roles. Speaking to Axios at the World Economic Forum, Benioff dismissed Microsoft's AI CoPilot as disappointing and promised to defend his employees against discrimination amid political debates over corporate diversity programs.
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Заметки Теодора Тс'о о ядре Linux, кодексе поведения, ext4, btrfs и ZFS
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2025-01-22 23:44:03
Перевод размышлений Теодора Тс'о (Theodore Ts'o), создателя файловой системы Ext4, о разработке ext4, файловой системе BcacheFS, ядре Linux, ZFS, кодексе поведения и файловых системах в целом.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62597
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2025-01-22 23:44:03
Перевод размышлений Теодора Тс'о (Theodore Ts'o), создателя файловой системы Ext4, о разработке ext4, файловой системе BcacheFS, ядре Linux, ZFS, кодексе поведения и файловых системах в целом.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62597
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South Carolina To Reboot Giant Nuclear Project to Meet AI Demand
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2025-01-22 23:22:01
Santee Cooper, the big power provider in South Carolina, has tapped financial advisers to look for buyers that can restart construction on a pair of nuclear reactors that were mothballed years ago. From a report: The state-owned utility is betting interest will be strong, with tech giants such as Amazon.com and Microsoft in need of clean energy to fuel data centers for artificial-intelligence capabilities. The details Santee Cooper announced Wednesday it is seeking proposals for buyers to complete the project at South Carolina's sprawling V.C. Summer Nuclear Station, confirming an earlier report from The Wall Street Journal.
The utility is working with bankers at Centerview Partners, which will accept proposals until May 5. Santee Cooper will likely look to tap a consortium that could include a construction firm, a tech company that will use the power and an additional partner for capital, according to people familiar with the matter. It is also looking for another power company partner because it doesn't plan to own or operate the units once they are up and running.
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2025-01-22 23:22:01
Santee Cooper, the big power provider in South Carolina, has tapped financial advisers to look for buyers that can restart construction on a pair of nuclear reactors that were mothballed years ago. From a report: The state-owned utility is betting interest will be strong, with tech giants such as Amazon.com and Microsoft in need of clean energy to fuel data centers for artificial-intelligence capabilities. The details Santee Cooper announced Wednesday it is seeking proposals for buyers to complete the project at South Carolina's sprawling V.C. Summer Nuclear Station, confirming an earlier report from The Wall Street Journal.
The utility is working with bankers at Centerview Partners, which will accept proposals until May 5. Santee Cooper will likely look to tap a consortium that could include a construction firm, a tech company that will use the power and an additional partner for capital, according to people familiar with the matter. It is also looking for another power company partner because it doesn't plan to own or operate the units once they are up and running.
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Adobe Premiere Pro Now Lets You Find Video Clips By Describing Them
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2025-01-22 22:22:01
Search in Premiere Pro has been updated with AI-powered visual recognition, allowing users to find videos by describing the contents of the footage. From a report: It's just one of several quality-of-life features Adobe is adding to Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Frame.io that aim to save video editors time on their projects. Users can enter search terms like "a person skating with a lens flare" to find corresponding clips within their media library.
Adobe says the media intelligence AI can automatically recognize "objects, locations, camera angles, and more," alongside spoken words -- providing there's a transcript attached to the video. The feature doesn't detect audio or identify specific people, but it can scrub through any metadata attached to video files, which allows it to fetch clips based on shoot dates, locations, and camera types. The media analysis runs on-device, so doesn't require an internet connection, and Adobe reiterates that users' video content isn't used to train any AI models.
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2025-01-22 22:22:01
Search in Premiere Pro has been updated with AI-powered visual recognition, allowing users to find videos by describing the contents of the footage. From a report: It's just one of several quality-of-life features Adobe is adding to Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Frame.io that aim to save video editors time on their projects. Users can enter search terms like "a person skating with a lens flare" to find corresponding clips within their media library.
Adobe says the media intelligence AI can automatically recognize "objects, locations, camera angles, and more," alongside spoken words -- providing there's a transcript attached to the video. The feature doesn't detect audio or identify specific people, but it can scrub through any metadata attached to video files, which allows it to fetch clips based on shoot dates, locations, and camera types. The media analysis runs on-device, so doesn't require an internet connection, and Adobe reiterates that users' video content isn't used to train any AI models.
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Microsoft Secures Deal To Restore Amazon Rainforest and Offset AI Emissions
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2025-01-22 22:22:01
Microsoft will pay to restore parts of Brazil's Amazon and Atlantic forests [non-paywalled source] in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of carbon credits, becoming the latest Big Tech player to bet that nature-based solutions can offset an artificial intelligence-driven surge in greenhouse gas emissions. Financial Times: The $3.2tn US company told the Financial Times it had signed a deal to buy 3.5mn credits over 25 years from Re.green, a Brazilian start-up which buys up farming and cattle land. It restores the land by planting native tree species, in projects financed through carbon credits and timber sales. Neither company disclosed a value for the deal, but recent market analysis suggests it could be worth around $200mn.
Microsoft's recent dealmaking has made it one of the biggest buyers of nature-based carbon removals globally. The deal comes as groups including Microsoft, Google and Amazon invest heavily in data centres to cope with the huge demand stemming from the growth of generative AI. But the buildout is leading to a surge in their energy usage and complicating their pledges to investors to curb emissions.
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2025-01-22 22:22:01
Microsoft will pay to restore parts of Brazil's Amazon and Atlantic forests [non-paywalled source] in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of carbon credits, becoming the latest Big Tech player to bet that nature-based solutions can offset an artificial intelligence-driven surge in greenhouse gas emissions. Financial Times: The $3.2tn US company told the Financial Times it had signed a deal to buy 3.5mn credits over 25 years from Re.green, a Brazilian start-up which buys up farming and cattle land. It restores the land by planting native tree species, in projects financed through carbon credits and timber sales. Neither company disclosed a value for the deal, but recent market analysis suggests it could be worth around $200mn.
Microsoft's recent dealmaking has made it one of the biggest buyers of nature-based carbon removals globally. The deal comes as groups including Microsoft, Google and Amazon invest heavily in data centres to cope with the huge demand stemming from the growth of generative AI. But the buildout is leading to a surge in their energy usage and complicating their pledges to investors to curb emissions.
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ChatGPT-Maker To Launch Web Automation Tool 'Operator' This Week
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2025-01-22 21:22:01
OpenAI will release "Operator" this week, letting ChatGPT users automate web tasks through a built-in browser, The Information reported Wednesday. The feature handles restaurant bookings, travel planning, shopping and deliveries, asking follow-up questions like party size for reservations. Users can watch Operator work, take control mid-task, and share workflows with others.
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2025-01-22 21:22:01
OpenAI will release "Operator" this week, letting ChatGPT users automate web tasks through a built-in browser, The Information reported Wednesday. The feature handles restaurant bookings, travel planning, shopping and deliveries, asking follow-up questions like party size for reservations. Users can watch Operator work, take control mid-task, and share workflows with others.
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Поиск в Google больше не будет доступен без JavaScript
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2025-01-22 20:44:05
Компания Google теперь уведомляет пользователей, что для пользования поиском нужно включить JavaScript в браузере. Ранее иностранный ресурс TechCrunch связался с сотрудниками Google для выяснения причин такого решения. Данная мера обусловлена борьбой с ботами, а также тем, что большинство пользователей пользуются поисковиком с включенным JavaScript, и многие даже не знают как его отключить. Только 0.1% пользователей поиска Google отключали его.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/internet/17856389
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-01-22 20:44:05
Компания Google теперь уведомляет пользователей, что для пользования поиском нужно включить JavaScript в браузере. Ранее иностранный ресурс TechCrunch связался с сотрудниками Google для выяснения причин такого решения. Данная мера обусловлена борьбой с ботами, а также тем, что большинство пользователей пользуются поисковиком с включенным JavaScript, и многие даже не знают как его отключить. Только 0.1% пользователей поиска Google отключали его.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/internet/17856389
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Wine 10.0
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-01-22 20:44:05
Спустя год разработки и 29 предварительных версий был выпущен стабильный релиз открытого проекта реализации Win32 API — Wine 10.0. В новую версию вошло свыше 6000 изменений. Среди ключевых нововведений стоит отметить полную поддержку архитектуры ARM64EC, улучшенную работу на дисплеях с высокой плотностью пикселей, включённый по умолчанию драйвер Wayland, новые панели для настройки экрана и джойстика, использование мультимедийного бэкенда на базе FFmpeg, драйвер для Bluetooth, а также поддержку Vulkan 1.4 и возможность эмуляции переключения режимов видеовывода.
На данный момент Wine обеспечивает стабильную работу 5372 программ для Windows. Ещё 4435 приложений функционируют корректно при настройке или использовании внешних библиотек DLL. Для 4020 программ зафиксированы незначительные неполадки, которые не влияют на выполнение их основных задач.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17856214
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-01-22 20:44:05
Спустя год разработки и 29 предварительных версий был выпущен стабильный релиз открытого проекта реализации Win32 API — Wine 10.0. В новую версию вошло свыше 6000 изменений. Среди ключевых нововведений стоит отметить полную поддержку архитектуры ARM64EC, улучшенную работу на дисплеях с высокой плотностью пикселей, включённый по умолчанию драйвер Wayland, новые панели для настройки экрана и джойстика, использование мультимедийного бэкенда на базе FFmpeg, драйвер для Bluetooth, а также поддержку Vulkan 1.4 и возможность эмуляции переключения режимов видеовывода.
На данный момент Wine обеспечивает стабильную работу 5372 программ для Windows. Ещё 4435 приложений функционируют корректно при настройке или использовании внешних библиотек DLL. Для 4020 программ зафиксированы незначительные неполадки, которые не влияют на выполнение их основных задач.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17856214
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Plex Adds Public Reviews, Profiles in Social Push
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2025-01-22 20:22:01
Streaming platform Plex has introduced public reviews and user profiles, expanding social features launched last October. Users can now comment on others' reviews and make their profiles, watchlists and viewing history searchable, with customizable privacy settings ranging from public to private. Plex Pass subscribers are additionally also gaining access to HEVC encoding for improved visual quality.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/1558219/plex-adds-public-reviews-profiles-in-social-push?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
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2025-01-22 20:22:01
Streaming platform Plex has introduced public reviews and user profiles, expanding social features launched last October. Users can now comment on others' reviews and make their profiles, watchlists and viewing history searchable, with customizable privacy settings ranging from public to private. Plex Pass subscribers are additionally also gaining access to HEVC encoding for improved visual quality.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/1558219/plex-adds-public-reviews-profiles-in-social-push?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Netflix Raises Prices Again
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2025-01-22 20:22:01
Netflix will raise prices on most U.S. and Canadian subscription tiers after adding a record 19 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2024, bringing its global total to 302 million users.
The standard plan without ads will increase to $17.99 from $15.49, while its premium tier rises $2 to $24.99. The ad-supported tier will cost $7.99, up $1. The streaming service's quarterly revenue topped $10 billion for the first time, jumping 16%, while operating income rose 52% to $2.3 billion. The company credited recent successes including the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul boxing match and "Squid Game" season two for the subscriber surge.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/1521250/netflix-raises-prices-again?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-01-22 20:22:01
Netflix will raise prices on most U.S. and Canadian subscription tiers after adding a record 19 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2024, bringing its global total to 302 million users.
The standard plan without ads will increase to $17.99 from $15.49, while its premium tier rises $2 to $24.99. The ad-supported tier will cost $7.99, up $1. The streaming service's quarterly revenue topped $10 billion for the first time, jumping 16%, while operating income rose 52% to $2.3 billion. The company credited recent successes including the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul boxing match and "Squid Game" season two for the subscriber surge.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/1521250/netflix-raises-prices-again?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Google Invests Another $1 Billion in AI Developer Anthropic
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2025-01-22 19:22:01
Alphabet's Google is backing AI developer Anthropic with a further $1 billion, building its stake in one of the most promising rivals to OpenAI. From a report: The new funding comes in addition to more than $2 billion that Google has already invested in Anthropic, according to a person familiar with the deal, who asked not to be named discussing a private matter. Google has a business agreement with Anthropic that covers the use of a suite of online tools and services.
Amazon counts among its biggest backers. San Francisco-based Anthropic is best known for its Claude family of large language models, which compete with OpenAI's GPT. Like its peers, the company has been raising significant sums to sustain investment in expanding its computing capabilities and keep pace in a race to advance AI. The new deal comes weeks after Bloomberg News reported that Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2 billion in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners that would value the startup at $60 billion.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/1426231/google-invests-another-1-billion-in-ai-developer-anthropic?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
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2025-01-22 19:22:01
Alphabet's Google is backing AI developer Anthropic with a further $1 billion, building its stake in one of the most promising rivals to OpenAI. From a report: The new funding comes in addition to more than $2 billion that Google has already invested in Anthropic, according to a person familiar with the deal, who asked not to be named discussing a private matter. Google has a business agreement with Anthropic that covers the use of a suite of online tools and services.
Amazon counts among its biggest backers. San Francisco-based Anthropic is best known for its Claude family of large language models, which compete with OpenAI's GPT. Like its peers, the company has been raising significant sums to sustain investment in expanding its computing capabilities and keep pace in a race to advance AI. The new deal comes weeks after Bloomberg News reported that Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2 billion in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners that would value the startup at $60 billion.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/1426231/google-invests-another-1-billion-in-ai-developer-anthropic?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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9front с новой файловой системой getfs
plan.9
hugeping(ping,1) — All
2025-01-22 19:38:07
Вышел новый релиз 9front: https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62590
Очень интересно посмотреть на новую ФС: getfs. Интересно, потому что действительно cwfs слабо подходила для "личных" нужд. Судя по описанию: https://orib.dev/gefs.html действительно в getfs проблемы других фс решены.
plan.9
hugeping(ping,1) — All
2025-01-22 19:38:07
Вышел новый релиз 9front: https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62590
Очень интересно посмотреть на новую ФС: getfs. Интересно, потому что действительно cwfs слабо подходила для "личных" нужд. Судя по описанию: https://orib.dev/gefs.html действительно в getfs проблемы других фс решены.
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Клон acme: anvil
plan.9
hugeping(ping,1) — All
2025-01-22 19:33:39
В комментариях на opennet заметил упоминание такого редактора: http://anvil-editor.net/
Очередной клон acme, но выглядит качественно. Вряд ли я буду им пользоваться (у меня есть red), но тем не менее, возможно кому-то будет интересно. Написан на go.
plan.9
hugeping(ping,1) — All
2025-01-22 19:33:39
В комментариях на opennet заметил упоминание такого редактора: http://anvil-editor.net/
Очередной клон acme, но выглядит качественно. Вряд ли я буду им пользоваться (у меня есть red), но тем не менее, возможно кому-то будет интересно. Написан на go.
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DDoS Attacks Soar 53% To 21.3 Million, Cloudflare Reports
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2025-01-22 18:22:01
Cloudflare blocked 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, including a record-breaking 5.6 terabit-per-second strike that targeted an Asian internet service provider last October. The yearly total marked a 53% increase from 2023.
The 80-second October attack, which originated from over 13,000 compromised Internet of Things devices running Mirai malware variant, highlighted an alarming trend: hyper-volumetric attacks exceeding 1 terabit per second grew by 1,885% in the fourth quarter compared to the previous quarter. Ransom DDoS attacks, where criminals threatened organizations with service disruptions unless paid, rose 78% in the same period.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/140247/ddos-attacks-soar-53-to-213-million-cloudflare-reports?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
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2025-01-22 18:22:01
Cloudflare blocked 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, including a record-breaking 5.6 terabit-per-second strike that targeted an Asian internet service provider last October. The yearly total marked a 53% increase from 2023.
The 80-second October attack, which originated from over 13,000 compromised Internet of Things devices running Mirai malware variant, highlighted an alarming trend: hyper-volumetric attacks exceeding 1 terabit per second grew by 1,885% in the fourth quarter compared to the previous quarter. Ransom DDoS attacks, where criminals threatened organizations with service disruptions unless paid, rose 78% in the same period.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/140247/ddos-attacks-soar-53-to-213-million-cloudflare-reports?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Calm Tech Certification 'Rewards' Less Distracting Tech
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2025-01-22 16:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: [Amber Case is a speaker and author of Calm Technology.] Case's book, inspired by the work of Xerox PARC researchers Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown, outlines eight principles for calm technology; examples include the idea that technology "should require the smallest possible amount of attention" while in use, and that it "should work even when it fails." The book's ideas gained the attention of major technology companies, including Microsoft and Amazon, and Case gave talks at TED and the Thinking Digital Conference, among others. "But that wasn't enough," says Case. While her ideas received plenty of interest, she noticed that interest didn't translate to concrete action. Companies designing new products were unclear on what was right, or wrong, and uncertain about how they might put calm technology ideals into practice.
So, Case decided on a new approach. She founded the Calm Tech Institute in May 2024 to develop and promote a Calm Tech certification. "A standard is a good way of rewarding that behavior," says Case. The certification includes 81 points that span six categories: attention, periphery, durability, light, sound, and materials. Some of the certification's specifications are quite stringent. It outlines minimum standards for user interface (UI) design, such as consistent use of icons and font typography, asks that all but the "most crucial" notifications be turned off by default, and requires an instruction booklet with a list of replacements and compatible parts.
The first handful of devices that earned the Calm Tech certification were announced at, or just before, CES 2025. This first batch included, for example, the reMarkable Paper Pro. Released on September 4, 2024, the Paper Pro looks like an iPad and has a color eInk display, but it's tightly focused on writing and organizing notes with the tablet's included stylus. ReMarkable purposefully constrains the device's features to maintain a distraction-free experience. Though it can sync notes online, the Paper Pro doesn't have an app store, a web browser, or widgets. It doesn't even display the time. [...]
Another early adopter was Mui Labs, creator of the Mui Board, a smart home device that looks like a piece of finely finished decorative wood but, when touched, illuminates to reveal a smart home interface. [...] Several other devices earned certification in late 2024. These include the AirThings View Plus, an air quality monitor with a simple eInk display that I highlighted during the 2021 wildfire season; the Daylight Computer, a portable PC with an eInk display and custom OS meant to reduce distractions; and Unpluq, a physical dongle that can lock apps on Android and iOS devices until the dongle is moved close to the device. Calm Tech Institute's certification is not yet publicly available, though it does hope to have it published "soon," says Case.
Spectrum notes that Calm is "also exploring research into calm technology and working with neuroscientists to study the 'cognitive need for dimensionality and texture' in user interfaces."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/056208/calm-tech-certification-rewards-less-distracting-tech?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-01-22 16:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: [Amber Case is a speaker and author of Calm Technology.] Case's book, inspired by the work of Xerox PARC researchers Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown, outlines eight principles for calm technology; examples include the idea that technology "should require the smallest possible amount of attention" while in use, and that it "should work even when it fails." The book's ideas gained the attention of major technology companies, including Microsoft and Amazon, and Case gave talks at TED and the Thinking Digital Conference, among others. "But that wasn't enough," says Case. While her ideas received plenty of interest, she noticed that interest didn't translate to concrete action. Companies designing new products were unclear on what was right, or wrong, and uncertain about how they might put calm technology ideals into practice.
So, Case decided on a new approach. She founded the Calm Tech Institute in May 2024 to develop and promote a Calm Tech certification. "A standard is a good way of rewarding that behavior," says Case. The certification includes 81 points that span six categories: attention, periphery, durability, light, sound, and materials. Some of the certification's specifications are quite stringent. It outlines minimum standards for user interface (UI) design, such as consistent use of icons and font typography, asks that all but the "most crucial" notifications be turned off by default, and requires an instruction booklet with a list of replacements and compatible parts.
The first handful of devices that earned the Calm Tech certification were announced at, or just before, CES 2025. This first batch included, for example, the reMarkable Paper Pro. Released on September 4, 2024, the Paper Pro looks like an iPad and has a color eInk display, but it's tightly focused on writing and organizing notes with the tablet's included stylus. ReMarkable purposefully constrains the device's features to maintain a distraction-free experience. Though it can sync notes online, the Paper Pro doesn't have an app store, a web browser, or widgets. It doesn't even display the time. [...]
Another early adopter was Mui Labs, creator of the Mui Board, a smart home device that looks like a piece of finely finished decorative wood but, when touched, illuminates to reveal a smart home interface. [...] Several other devices earned certification in late 2024. These include the AirThings View Plus, an air quality monitor with a simple eInk display that I highlighted during the 2021 wildfire season; the Daylight Computer, a portable PC with an eInk display and custom OS meant to reduce distractions; and Unpluq, a physical dongle that can lock apps on Android and iOS devices until the dongle is moved close to the device. Calm Tech Institute's certification is not yet publicly available, though it does hope to have it published "soon," says Case.
Spectrum notes that Calm is "also exploring research into calm technology and working with neuroscientists to study the 'cognitive need for dimensionality and texture' in user interfaces."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/056208/calm-tech-certification-rewards-less-distracting-tech?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Релиз мультимедийной библиотеки SDL 3
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-01-22 13:44:03
Представлен релиз библиотеки SDL 3.2.0 (Simple DirectMedia Layer), который помечен как первый официальный стабильный выпуск ветки SDL 3. Библиотека нацелена на упрощение написания игр и мультимедийных приложений, и предоставляет такие возможности, как аппаратно-ускоренный вывод 2D- и 3D-графики, обработка ввода, воспроизведение звука и вывод 3D через OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Metal, Direct3D или Vulkan. Код написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией Zlib. Предоставляются обвязки для использования SDL в проектах на различных языках программирования.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62596
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-01-22 13:44:03
Представлен релиз библиотеки SDL 3.2.0 (Simple DirectMedia Layer), который помечен как первый официальный стабильный выпуск ветки SDL 3. Библиотека нацелена на упрощение написания игр и мультимедийных приложений, и предоставляет такие возможности, как аппаратно-ускоренный вывод 2D- и 3D-графики, обработка ввода, воспроизведение звука и вывод 3D через OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Metal, Direct3D или Vulkan. Код написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией Zlib. Предоставляются обвязки для использования SDL в проектах на различных языках программирования.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62596
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Men Have Grown Twice As Much As Women Over Past Century, Study Shows
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2025-01-22 13:22:01
According to a new study published in the journal Biology Letters, men around the world have gained height and weight twice as fast as women over the past century. The Guardian reports: "We're seeing insights into how sexual selection has shaped the male and female body and how improved environments, in terms of food and a lower burden of disease, have freed us from our shackles," said Prof Lewis Halsey at the University of Roehampton. Halsey and his colleagues used data from the World Health Organization, overseas authorities and UK records to see how height and weight have changed with living conditions. The latter was measured by the human development index (HDI), a score based on life expectancy, time in education and per capita income, which ranges from zero to one.
Analysis of records from dozens of countries found that for every 0.2 point increase in HDI, women were on average 1.7cm taller and 2.7kg heavier, while men were 4cm taller and 6.5kg heavier. This suggests that as living conditions improve, both height and weight increase, but more than twice as fast in men than women. To see whether similar trends played out within countries, the researchers delved into historical height records in the UK where HDI rose from 0.8 in 1900 to 0.94 in 2022. During the first half of the century, average female height increased 1.9% from 159cm to 162cm, while average male height rose 4% from 170cm to 177cm. "To put this in perspective, about one in four women born in 1905 was taller than the average man born in 1905, but this dropped to about one in eight women for those born in 1958," Halsey said.
Writing in Biology Letters in a study titled "The sexy and formidable male body: men's height and weight are condition-dependent, sexually selected traits," the scientists speculate that women's sexual preferences may have fueled a trend for taller, more muscular men -- although in an age of obesity, heavy does not necessarily mean muscular. Stature and physique are prime indicators of health and vitality, Halsey said, while sexual selection also favors men who are better able to protect and defend their partners and offspring against others. "Women can find men's height attractive because, potentially, it makes them more formidable, but also because being taller suggests they are well-made," said Halsey. "As they've grown up, they haven't been affected by the slings and arrows of a bad environment, so they've reached more of their height potential. It's an indicator that they're well-made."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/0452210/men-have-grown-twice-as-much-as-women-over-past-century-study-shows?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
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2025-01-22 13:22:01
According to a new study published in the journal Biology Letters, men around the world have gained height and weight twice as fast as women over the past century. The Guardian reports: "We're seeing insights into how sexual selection has shaped the male and female body and how improved environments, in terms of food and a lower burden of disease, have freed us from our shackles," said Prof Lewis Halsey at the University of Roehampton. Halsey and his colleagues used data from the World Health Organization, overseas authorities and UK records to see how height and weight have changed with living conditions. The latter was measured by the human development index (HDI), a score based on life expectancy, time in education and per capita income, which ranges from zero to one.
Analysis of records from dozens of countries found that for every 0.2 point increase in HDI, women were on average 1.7cm taller and 2.7kg heavier, while men were 4cm taller and 6.5kg heavier. This suggests that as living conditions improve, both height and weight increase, but more than twice as fast in men than women. To see whether similar trends played out within countries, the researchers delved into historical height records in the UK where HDI rose from 0.8 in 1900 to 0.94 in 2022. During the first half of the century, average female height increased 1.9% from 159cm to 162cm, while average male height rose 4% from 170cm to 177cm. "To put this in perspective, about one in four women born in 1905 was taller than the average man born in 1905, but this dropped to about one in eight women for those born in 1958," Halsey said.
Writing in Biology Letters in a study titled "The sexy and formidable male body: men's height and weight are condition-dependent, sexually selected traits," the scientists speculate that women's sexual preferences may have fueled a trend for taller, more muscular men -- although in an age of obesity, heavy does not necessarily mean muscular. Stature and physique are prime indicators of health and vitality, Halsey said, while sexual selection also favors men who are better able to protect and defend their partners and offspring against others. "Women can find men's height attractive because, potentially, it makes them more formidable, but also because being taller suggests they are well-made," said Halsey. "As they've grown up, they haven't been affected by the slings and arrows of a bad environment, so they've reached more of their height potential. It's an indicator that they're well-made."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/0452210/men-have-grown-twice-as-much-as-women-over-past-century-study-shows?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Обновление VirtualBox 7.1.6
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-01-22 12:44:03
Компания Oracle опубликовала корректирующий релиз системы виртуализации VirtualBox 7.1.6, в котором отмечено 9 изменений. Одновременно сформировано обновление прошлой ветки VirtualBox 7.0.24 с 15 исправлениями. Помимо перечисленных ниже изменений в новых версиях устранены 2 уязвимости (максимальный уровень опасности 7.3 из 10), позволяющие локальному пользователю повысить свои привилегии.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62595
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-01-22 12:44:03
Компания Oracle опубликовала корректирующий релиз системы виртуализации VirtualBox 7.1.6, в котором отмечено 9 изменений. Одновременно сформировано обновление прошлой ветки VirtualBox 7.0.24 с 15 исправлениями. Помимо перечисленных ниже изменений в новых версиях устранены 2 уязвимости (максимальный уровень опасности 7.3 из 10), позволяющие локальному пользователю повысить свои привилегии.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62595
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STATS 2025-01-21
spnet.stats
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2025-01-22 12:11:01
TOP10 VISITORS:
[1] 45.135.180.x point=225 web=0 up=18.2MB (52%) <--- yesterlink (9/hr)
[2] 80.87.199.x point=68 web=0 up=6.4MB (18%) <--- tgi (3/hr)
[3] Google point=1 web=333 up=5.7MB (16%) <--- Google
[4] 24.130.121.x point=21 web=3 up=1.7MB (4%) <--- spnet (1/hr)
[5] Facebook point=0 web=247 up=1.5MB (4%)
[6] 217.114.158.x point=24 web=0 up=0.9MB (2%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[7] TikTok point=0 web=111 up=0.3MB (<1%)
[8] 178.176.69.x point=0 web=4 up=31KB
[9] 77.90.7.x point=0 web=1 up=28KB
[10] 194.59.186.x point=0 web=1 up=18KB
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 34MB
spnet.stats
root(spnet, 1) — All
2025-01-22 12:11:01
TOP10 VISITORS:
[1] 45.135.180.x point=225 web=0 up=18.2MB (52%) <--- yesterlink (9/hr)
[2] 80.87.199.x point=68 web=0 up=6.4MB (18%) <--- tgi (3/hr)
[3] Google point=1 web=333 up=5.7MB (16%) <--- Google
[4] 24.130.121.x point=21 web=3 up=1.7MB (4%) <--- spnet (1/hr)
[5] Facebook point=0 web=247 up=1.5MB (4%)
[6] 217.114.158.x point=24 web=0 up=0.9MB (2%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[7] TikTok point=0 web=111 up=0.3MB (<1%)
[8] 178.176.69.x point=0 web=4 up=31KB
[9] 77.90.7.x point=0 web=1 up=28KB
[10] 194.59.186.x point=0 web=1 up=18KB
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 34MB
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Обновление Java SE, MySQL, VirtualBox, Solaris и других продуктов Oracle с устранением уязвимостей
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2025-01-22 10:44:02
Компания Oracle опубликовала плановый выпуск обновлений своих продуктов (Critical Patch Update), нацеленный на устранение критических проблем и уязвимостей. В январском обновлении устранено 318 уязвимостей.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62594
lor.opennet
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2025-01-22 10:44:02
Компания Oracle опубликовала плановый выпуск обновлений своих продуктов (Critical Patch Update), нацеленный на устранение критических проблем и уязвимостей. В январском обновлении устранено 318 уязвимостей.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62594
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Microsoft Loses Status as OpenAI's Exclusive Cloud Provider
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2025-01-22 10:22:02
Microsoft, the biggest investor in OpenAI and its principal cloud partner, is losing its designation as exclusive provider of computing capacity for the artificial intelligence startup. CNBC: In a blog post on Tuesday, Microsoft said that it's still in a favorable position with OpenAI. Going forward, when OpenAI seeks additional capacity, Microsoft will have the "right of first refusal" before OpenAI checks with other parties. The change in their relationship was disclosed as part of President Donald Trump's announcement of the Stargate Project, a joint venture with OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank to invest billions of dollars in AI infrastructure in the U.S.
Executives from those companies committed to invest an initial $100 billion and up to $500 billion over the next four years in the project, which will be set up as a separate company. Oracle is a "key initial technology partner" alongside Arm, Microsoft and Nvidia in setting up data center infrastructure, OpenAI said in a blog post. JPMorgan, in a note to clients: My takeaway is that MSFT is somewhat reading the room on capex. Softbank and Oracle are taking on some of the financial burden (in order to get some skin in the game) while MSFT still maintains access to OpenAI IP through to 2030 and has right of first refusal on any OpenAI new capacity. Feels like a good outcome for MSFT to me.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/0522224/microsoft-loses-status-as-openais-exclusive-cloud-provider?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-01-22 10:22:02
Microsoft, the biggest investor in OpenAI and its principal cloud partner, is losing its designation as exclusive provider of computing capacity for the artificial intelligence startup. CNBC: In a blog post on Tuesday, Microsoft said that it's still in a favorable position with OpenAI. Going forward, when OpenAI seeks additional capacity, Microsoft will have the "right of first refusal" before OpenAI checks with other parties. The change in their relationship was disclosed as part of President Donald Trump's announcement of the Stargate Project, a joint venture with OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank to invest billions of dollars in AI infrastructure in the U.S.
Executives from those companies committed to invest an initial $100 billion and up to $500 billion over the next four years in the project, which will be set up as a separate company. Oracle is a "key initial technology partner" alongside Arm, Microsoft and Nvidia in setting up data center infrastructure, OpenAI said in a blog post. JPMorgan, in a note to clients: My takeaway is that MSFT is somewhat reading the room on capex. Softbank and Oracle are taking on some of the financial burden (in order to get some skin in the game) while MSFT still maintains access to OpenAI IP through to 2030 and has right of first refusal on any OpenAI new capacity. Feels like a good outcome for MSFT to me.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/0522224/microsoft-loses-status-as-openais-exclusive-cloud-provider?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Выпуск системы шифрования дисковых разделов VeraCrypt 1.26.18
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2025-01-22 09:44:03
Опубликован выпуск проекта VeraCrypt 1.26.18, развивающего форк системы шифрования дисковых разделов TrueCrypt, прекратившей своё существование. VeraCrypt примечателен заменой используемого в TrueCrypt алгоритма RIPEMD-160 на SHA-512 и SHA-256, увеличением числа итераций хэширования, упрощением процесса сборки для Linux и macOS, устранением проблем, выявленных в процессе аудита исходных текстов TrueCrypt. Разработанный проектом VeraCrypt код распространяется под лицензией Apache 2.0, а заимствования из TrueCrypt продолжают поставляться под лицензией TrueCrypt License 3.0. Готовые сборки формируются для Linux, FreeBSD, Windows и macOS.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62593
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-01-22 09:44:03
Опубликован выпуск проекта VeraCrypt 1.26.18, развивающего форк системы шифрования дисковых разделов TrueCrypt, прекратившей своё существование. VeraCrypt примечателен заменой используемого в TrueCrypt алгоритма RIPEMD-160 на SHA-512 и SHA-256, увеличением числа итераций хэширования, упрощением процесса сборки для Linux и macOS, устранением проблем, выявленных в процессе аудита исходных текстов TrueCrypt. Разработанный проектом VeraCrypt код распространяется под лицензией Apache 2.0, а заимствования из TrueCrypt продолжают поставляться под лицензией TrueCrypt License 3.0. Готовые сборки формируются для Linux, FreeBSD, Windows и macOS.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62593
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Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Pardoned
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2025-01-22 09:22:01
Slashdot readers jkister and databasecowgirl share the news of President Donald Trump issuing a pardon to Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. An anonymous reader shares a report from the BBC: US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold. Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in a narcotics and money laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison. Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he had called Ulbricht's mother to inform her that he had granted a pardon to her son. Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013 after police arrested Ulbricht, sold illegal drugs using Bitcoin, as well as hacking equipment and stolen passports.
"The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me," Trump said in his post online on Tuesday evening. "He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!" Ulbricht was found guilty of charges including conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking. During his trial, prosecutors said Ulbricht's website, hosted on the hidden "dark web", sold more than $200 million worth of drugs anonymously.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/0434225/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-pardoned?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-01-22 09:22:01
Slashdot readers jkister and databasecowgirl share the news of President Donald Trump issuing a pardon to Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. An anonymous reader shares a report from the BBC: US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold. Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in a narcotics and money laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison. Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that he had called Ulbricht's mother to inform her that he had granted a pardon to her son. Silk Road, which was shut down in 2013 after police arrested Ulbricht, sold illegal drugs using Bitcoin, as well as hacking equipment and stolen passports.
"The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me," Trump said in his post online on Tuesday evening. "He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!" Ulbricht was found guilty of charges including conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking. During his trial, prosecutors said Ulbricht's website, hosted on the hidden "dark web", sold more than $200 million worth of drugs anonymously.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/0434225/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-pardoned?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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'Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative To the Tech Oligarchy'
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2025-01-22 08:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes an op-ed from 404 Media's Jason Koebler: If it wasn't already obvious, the last 72 hours have made it crystal clear that it is urgent to build and mainstream alternative, decentralized social media platforms that are resistant to government censorship and control, are not owned by oligarchs and dominated by their algorithms, and in which users own their follower list and can port it elsewhere easily and without restriction. [...] Mastodon's ActivityPub and Bluesky's AT.Protocol have provided the base technology layer to make this possible, and have laid important groundwork over the last few years to decorporatize and decentralize the social internet.
The problem with decentralized social media platforms thus far is that their user base is minuscule compared to platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram, meaning the cultural and political influence has lagged behind them. You also cannot directly monetize an audience on Bluesky or Mastodon -- which, to be clear, is a feature, not a bug -- but also means that the value proposition for an influencer who makes money through the TikTok creator program or a small business that makes money selling chewing gum on TikTok shop or a clothes brand that has figured out how to arbitrage Instagram ads to sell flannel shirts is not exactly clear. I am not advocating for decentralized social media to implement ads and creator payment programs. I'm just saying that many TikTok influencers were directing their collective hundreds of millions of fans to follow them to Instagram or YouTube, not a decentralized alternative.
This doesn't mean that the fediverse or that a decentralized Instagram or TikTok competitor that runs on the AT.Protocol is doomed. But there is a lot of work to do. There is development work that needs to be done (and is being done) to make decentralized protocols easier to join and use and more interoperable with each other. And there is a massive education and recruitment challenge required to get the masses to not just try out decentralized platforms but to earnestly use them. Bluesky's growing user base and rise as a legitimately impressive platform that one can post to without feeling like it's going into the void is a massive step forward, and proof that it is possible to build thriving alternative platforms. The fact that Meta recently blocked links to a decentralized Instagram alternative shows that big tech sees these platforms, potentially, as a real threat. "This is all to say that it is possible to build alternatives to Elon Musk's X, Mark Zuckerberg's Instagram, and whatever TikTok will become," concludes Koebler. "It is happening, and it is necessary. The richest, most powerful people in the world have all aligned themselves and their platforms with Donald Trump. But their platforms' relevance and importance doesn't necessarily have to last forever. A different way is possible, if we build it."
Further reading: 'The Tech Oligarchy Arrives' (The Atlantic)
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/2252212/decentralized-social-media-is-the-only-alternative-to-the-tech-oligarchy?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-01-22 08:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes an op-ed from 404 Media's Jason Koebler: If it wasn't already obvious, the last 72 hours have made it crystal clear that it is urgent to build and mainstream alternative, decentralized social media platforms that are resistant to government censorship and control, are not owned by oligarchs and dominated by their algorithms, and in which users own their follower list and can port it elsewhere easily and without restriction. [...] Mastodon's ActivityPub and Bluesky's AT.Protocol have provided the base technology layer to make this possible, and have laid important groundwork over the last few years to decorporatize and decentralize the social internet.
The problem with decentralized social media platforms thus far is that their user base is minuscule compared to platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram, meaning the cultural and political influence has lagged behind them. You also cannot directly monetize an audience on Bluesky or Mastodon -- which, to be clear, is a feature, not a bug -- but also means that the value proposition for an influencer who makes money through the TikTok creator program or a small business that makes money selling chewing gum on TikTok shop or a clothes brand that has figured out how to arbitrage Instagram ads to sell flannel shirts is not exactly clear. I am not advocating for decentralized social media to implement ads and creator payment programs. I'm just saying that many TikTok influencers were directing their collective hundreds of millions of fans to follow them to Instagram or YouTube, not a decentralized alternative.
This doesn't mean that the fediverse or that a decentralized Instagram or TikTok competitor that runs on the AT.Protocol is doomed. But there is a lot of work to do. There is development work that needs to be done (and is being done) to make decentralized protocols easier to join and use and more interoperable with each other. And there is a massive education and recruitment challenge required to get the masses to not just try out decentralized platforms but to earnestly use them. Bluesky's growing user base and rise as a legitimately impressive platform that one can post to without feeling like it's going into the void is a massive step forward, and proof that it is possible to build thriving alternative platforms. The fact that Meta recently blocked links to a decentralized Instagram alternative shows that big tech sees these platforms, potentially, as a real threat. "This is all to say that it is possible to build alternatives to Elon Musk's X, Mark Zuckerberg's Instagram, and whatever TikTok will become," concludes Koebler. "It is happening, and it is necessary. The richest, most powerful people in the world have all aligned themselves and their platforms with Donald Trump. But their platforms' relevance and importance doesn't necessarily have to last forever. A different way is possible, if we build it."
Further reading: 'The Tech Oligarchy Arrives' (The Atlantic)
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/2252212/decentralized-social-media-is-the-only-alternative-to-the-tech-oligarchy?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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macOS Sequoia 15.3 and iOS 18.3 Enable Apple Intelligence Automatically
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2025-01-22 06:22:01
Apple's upcoming updates -- macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3, and iPadOS 18.3 -- will enable Apple Intelligence by default on compatible devices, requiring users to manually disable it if undesired. From Apple's developer release notes: "For users new or upgrading to iOS 18.3, Apple Intelligence will be enabled automatically during iPhone onboarding. Users will have access to Apple Intelligence features after setting up their devices. To disable Apple Intelligence, users will need to navigate to the Apple Intelligence & Siri Settings pane and turn off the Apple Intelligence toggle. This will disable Apple Intelligence features on their device." MacRumors reports: With macOS Sequoia 15.1, macOS Sequoia 15.2, iOS 18.1, and iOS 18.2, Apple Intelligence was opt-in rather than opt-out, and users who wanted the feature needed to turn it on in the Settings app. Going forward, it will be enabled by default, and Mac, iPhone, and iPad users who do not want to use the feature will need to turn it off. The report notes that macOS Sequoia 15.3 introduces Genmoji, allowing Mac users to create custom emoji characters, and enhances Notification summaries with clearer indicators for AI-generated information.
Public releases of this and other software updates are expected next week, following today's release candidate versions.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/2258241/macos-sequoia-153-and-ios-183-enable-apple-intelligence-automatically?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-01-22 06:22:01
Apple's upcoming updates -- macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3, and iPadOS 18.3 -- will enable Apple Intelligence by default on compatible devices, requiring users to manually disable it if undesired. From Apple's developer release notes: "For users new or upgrading to iOS 18.3, Apple Intelligence will be enabled automatically during iPhone onboarding. Users will have access to Apple Intelligence features after setting up their devices. To disable Apple Intelligence, users will need to navigate to the Apple Intelligence & Siri Settings pane and turn off the Apple Intelligence toggle. This will disable Apple Intelligence features on their device." MacRumors reports: With macOS Sequoia 15.1, macOS Sequoia 15.2, iOS 18.1, and iOS 18.2, Apple Intelligence was opt-in rather than opt-out, and users who wanted the feature needed to turn it on in the Settings app. Going forward, it will be enabled by default, and Mac, iPhone, and iPad users who do not want to use the feature will need to turn it off. The report notes that macOS Sequoia 15.3 introduces Genmoji, allowing Mac users to create custom emoji characters, and enhances Notification summaries with clearer indicators for AI-generated information.
Public releases of this and other software updates are expected next week, following today's release candidate versions.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/2258241/macos-sequoia-153-and-ios-183-enable-apple-intelligence-automatically?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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IMDb Founder Steps Down As CEO After 35 Years
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2025-01-22 05:22:01
IMDb founder Col Needham is stepping down as CEO after 35 years, transitioning to executive chair. He will be succeeded by Nikki Santoro, who has served as the chief operating officer since 2021. TechCrunch reports: Santoro's appointment is significant, as she is the first woman to become the CEO and only the second person to hold the position. Needham founded IMDb in 1990 at the age of 23, steering the company into a powerhouse within the entertainment industry. After 35 years, he'll transition to a new role as executive chair.
According to Needham, Santoro's ascension is well deserved. [...] Santoro has been with the company since 2016, leading the company in expanding its database and improving its IMDbPro membership. She previously held leadership positions at Amazon, Microsoft, and The Weather Channel. "Nikki's strategic vision, deep understanding of our customers and products, and commitment to innovation have already delivered impressive business results during her tenure as COO," said Needham in a statement. "Her track record of driving growth and enhancing our products and services makes her the ideal person to guide IMDb into a new era."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/2232241/imdb-founder-steps-down-as-ceo-after-35-years?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-01-22 05:22:01
IMDb founder Col Needham is stepping down as CEO after 35 years, transitioning to executive chair. He will be succeeded by Nikki Santoro, who has served as the chief operating officer since 2021. TechCrunch reports: Santoro's appointment is significant, as she is the first woman to become the CEO and only the second person to hold the position. Needham founded IMDb in 1990 at the age of 23, steering the company into a powerhouse within the entertainment industry. After 35 years, he'll transition to a new role as executive chair.
According to Needham, Santoro's ascension is well deserved. [...] Santoro has been with the company since 2016, leading the company in expanding its database and improving its IMDbPro membership. She previously held leadership positions at Amazon, Microsoft, and The Weather Channel. "Nikki's strategic vision, deep understanding of our customers and products, and commitment to innovation have already delivered impressive business results during her tenure as COO," said Needham in a statement. "Her track record of driving growth and enhancing our products and services makes her the ideal person to guide IMDb into a new era."
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Wine 10.0 Released
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2025-01-22 04:22:02
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: The Wine team has officially released Wine 10.0, marking a full year of extensive development with over 6,000 changes. This stable release introduces major updates designed to enhance performance, compatibility, and visual experience when running Windows applications on Linux and other non-Windows platforms. Here's a list of the new changes and features:
- Full ARM64EC Support: Now on par with ARM64, allowing the creation of hybrid ARM64X modules blending ARM64EC and ARM64 code in a single binary.
- 64-bit x86 Emulation: Leverages ARM64EC to run internal processes natively, reducing the need for resource-intensive emulation.
- High-DPI Scaling Overhaul: Automatic adjustments for non-DPI-aware applications on high-resolution displays with customizable compatibility flags.
- Vulkan Improvements: Support for Vulkan child window rendering under X11 and compatibility with Vulkan 1.4.303.
- Direct3D Updates: Fixed-function pipeline for legacy Direct3D versions and introduced Dynamic Vulkan extensions to reduce stuttering.
- Experimental FFmpeg Backend: Better multimedia playback for applications with complex media pipelines.
- New Display Configuration Tool: Allows inspection and modification of settings, including virtual desktop resolutions.
- Wayland Graphics Driver: Enabled by default on Linux, with support for OpenGL and improved popup window placement (X11 takes precedence unless disabled).
- Input Device Improvements: Enhanced touchscreen support for X11 and expanded Bluetooth functionality.
- Internationalization Enhancements: Updated Unicode character tables and timezone data for better global compatibility.
- Upgraded Libraries: Includes FluidSynth, LibPng, and Vkd3d, alongside new developer tools like the Clang Static Analyzer and improved ARM64 support for C++ exceptions.
You can download Wine 10.0 and learn more about the release here.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/2221250/wine-100-released?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-01-22 04:22:02
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: The Wine team has officially released Wine 10.0, marking a full year of extensive development with over 6,000 changes. This stable release introduces major updates designed to enhance performance, compatibility, and visual experience when running Windows applications on Linux and other non-Windows platforms. Here's a list of the new changes and features:
- Full ARM64EC Support: Now on par with ARM64, allowing the creation of hybrid ARM64X modules blending ARM64EC and ARM64 code in a single binary.
- 64-bit x86 Emulation: Leverages ARM64EC to run internal processes natively, reducing the need for resource-intensive emulation.
- High-DPI Scaling Overhaul: Automatic adjustments for non-DPI-aware applications on high-resolution displays with customizable compatibility flags.
- Vulkan Improvements: Support for Vulkan child window rendering under X11 and compatibility with Vulkan 1.4.303.
- Direct3D Updates: Fixed-function pipeline for legacy Direct3D versions and introduced Dynamic Vulkan extensions to reduce stuttering.
- Experimental FFmpeg Backend: Better multimedia playback for applications with complex media pipelines.
- New Display Configuration Tool: Allows inspection and modification of settings, including virtual desktop resolutions.
- Wayland Graphics Driver: Enabled by default on Linux, with support for OpenGL and improved popup window placement (X11 takes precedence unless disabled).
- Input Device Improvements: Enhanced touchscreen support for X11 and expanded Bluetooth functionality.
- Internationalization Enhancements: Updated Unicode character tables and timezone data for better global compatibility.
- Upgraded Libraries: Includes FluidSynth, LibPng, and Vkd3d, alongside new developer tools like the Clang Static Analyzer and improved ARM64 support for C++ exceptions.
You can download Wine 10.0 and learn more about the release here.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/2221250/wine-100-released?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Managing AI Agents As Employees Is the Challenge of 2025, Says Goldman Sachs CIO
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2025-01-22 04:22:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: This year, artificial intelligence will be dominated by the maturation of AI code as corporate "workers" that can take over corporate processes and be managed just like employees, according to a year-outlook blog post disseminated by investment bank Goldman Sachs featuring its chief information officer, Marco Argenti. "The capabilities of AI models to plan and execute complex, long-running tasks on humans' behalf will begin to mature," writes Argenti. "This will create the conditions for companies to eventually 'employ' and train AI workers to be part of hybrid teams of humans and AIs working together."
"There's a great opportunity for capital to move towards the application layer, the toolset layer," says Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti. "I think we will see that shift happening, most likely as early as next year." Argenti predicts that corporate HR offices will have to manage "human and machine resources," and there may even be AI "layoffs" as programs are replaced by more highly capable versions. [...]
Among other predictions offered by Argenti is that the most-capable AI models will be like PhD graduates -- so-called expert AI systems that have "industry-specific knowledge" for finance, medicine, etc. [...] "The intersection of LLMs and robotics will increasingly bring AI into, and enable it to experience, the physical world, which will help enable reasoning capabilities for AI," he writes. Argenti sees "responsible AI" increasing in importance as a board-room priority in 2025, and, in something of a repeat of last year's predictions, he expects that the largest generative AI models -- the "frontier" models of OpenAI and others -- will become the province of only a handful of institutions with budgets large enough to pursue their enormous training costs. That is the "Formula One" version of AI, where the "engines" of AI are made by a handful of powerful providers. Everyone else will work on smaller-model development, Argenti predicts. Further reading: Nvidia's Huang Says That IT Will 'Become the HR of AI Agents'
[ Read more of this story ]( https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/2213230/managing-ai-agents-as-employees-is-the-challenge-of-2025-says-goldman-sachs-cio?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-01-22 04:22:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: This year, artificial intelligence will be dominated by the maturation of AI code as corporate "workers" that can take over corporate processes and be managed just like employees, according to a year-outlook blog post disseminated by investment bank Goldman Sachs featuring its chief information officer, Marco Argenti. "The capabilities of AI models to plan and execute complex, long-running tasks on humans' behalf will begin to mature," writes Argenti. "This will create the conditions for companies to eventually 'employ' and train AI workers to be part of hybrid teams of humans and AIs working together."
"There's a great opportunity for capital to move towards the application layer, the toolset layer," says Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti. "I think we will see that shift happening, most likely as early as next year." Argenti predicts that corporate HR offices will have to manage "human and machine resources," and there may even be AI "layoffs" as programs are replaced by more highly capable versions. [...]
Among other predictions offered by Argenti is that the most-capable AI models will be like PhD graduates -- so-called expert AI systems that have "industry-specific knowledge" for finance, medicine, etc. [...] "The intersection of LLMs and robotics will increasingly bring AI into, and enable it to experience, the physical world, which will help enable reasoning capabilities for AI," he writes. Argenti sees "responsible AI" increasing in importance as a board-room priority in 2025, and, in something of a repeat of last year's predictions, he expects that the largest generative AI models -- the "frontier" models of OpenAI and others -- will become the province of only a handful of institutions with budgets large enough to pursue their enormous training costs. That is the "Formula One" version of AI, where the "engines" of AI are made by a handful of powerful providers. Everyone else will work on smaller-model development, Argenti predicts. Further reading: Nvidia's Huang Says That IT Will 'Become the HR of AI Agents'
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Trump To Announce Up To $500 Billion In AI Infrastructure Investment
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2025-01-22 03:22:01
According to CBS News, President Trump plans to announce billions of dollars in private sector investment to build AI infrastructure in the United States. From the report: OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle are planning a joint venture called Stargate, according to multiple people familiar with the deal. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is expected at the White House Tuesday afternoon, along with Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle. Executives from the companies are expected to say they plan to commit $100 billion initially and pour up to $500 billion into Stargate over the next four years.
Other details of the new partnership were not immediately available. Stargate will start with a data center project in Texas, sources said, and eventually expand to other states. Other investors are expected to join the venture, but it was not immediately clear which ones. Further reading: Scale AI CEO To Trump: 'America Must Win the AI War'
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2025-01-22 03:22:01
According to CBS News, President Trump plans to announce billions of dollars in private sector investment to build AI infrastructure in the United States. From the report: OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle are planning a joint venture called Stargate, according to multiple people familiar with the deal. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is expected at the White House Tuesday afternoon, along with Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle. Executives from the companies are expected to say they plan to commit $100 billion initially and pour up to $500 billion into Stargate over the next four years.
Other details of the new partnership were not immediately available. Stargate will start with a data center project in Texas, sources said, and eventually expand to other states. Other investors are expected to join the venture, but it was not immediately clear which ones. Further reading: Scale AI CEO To Trump: 'America Must Win the AI War'
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EA's Origin App For PC Gaming Will Shut Down In April
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2025-01-22 02:22:01
EA's Origin PC client will be shut down on April 17, 2025, as Microsoft ends support for 32-bit software. "Anyone still using Origin will need to swap over to the EA app before that date," adds Engadget. From the report: For those PC players who have not migrated over to the EA app, the company has an FAQ explaining the latest system requirements. The EA app runs on 64-bit architecture, and requires a machine using Windows 10 or Windows 11. [...] If you're simply downloading the EA app on a current machine, players won't need to re-download their games. And if you have cloud saves enabled, all of your data should transfer without any additional steps.
However, it's always a good idea to have physical backups with this type of transition, especially since not all games support cloud saves, and those titles will need to have saved game data manually transferred. Mods also may not automatically make the switch, and EA recommends players check with mod creators about transferring to the EA app.
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2025-01-22 02:22:01
EA's Origin PC client will be shut down on April 17, 2025, as Microsoft ends support for 32-bit software. "Anyone still using Origin will need to swap over to the EA app before that date," adds Engadget. From the report: For those PC players who have not migrated over to the EA app, the company has an FAQ explaining the latest system requirements. The EA app runs on 64-bit architecture, and requires a machine using Windows 10 or Windows 11. [...] If you're simply downloading the EA app on a current machine, players won't need to re-download their games. And if you have cloud saves enabled, all of your data should transfer without any additional steps.
However, it's always a good idea to have physical backups with this type of transition, especially since not all games support cloud saves, and those titles will need to have saved game data manually transferred. Mods also may not automatically make the switch, and EA recommends players check with mod creators about transferring to the EA app.
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Cutting-Edge Chinese 'Reasoning' Model Rivals OpenAI O1
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2025-01-22 02:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released its new R1 model family under an open MIT license, with its largest version containing 671 billion parameters. The company claims the model performs at levels comparable to OpenAI's o1 simulated reasoning (SR) model on several math and coding benchmarks. Alongside the release of the main DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1 models, DeepSeek published six smaller "DeepSeek-R1-Distill" versions ranging from 1.5 billion to 70 billion parameters. These distilled models are based on existing open source architectures like Qwen and Llama, trained using data generated from the full R1 model. The smallest version can run on a laptop, while the full model requires far more substantial computing resources.
The releases immediately caught the attention of the AI community because most existing open-weights models -- which can often be run and fine-tuned on local hardware -- have lagged behind proprietary models like OpenAI's o1 in so-called reasoning benchmarks. Having these capabilities available in an MIT-licensed model that anyone can study, modify, or use commercially potentially marks a shift in what's possible with publicly available AI models. "They are SO much fun to run, watching them think is hilarious," independent AI researcher Simon Willison told Ars in a text message. Willison tested one of the smaller models and described his experience in a post on his blog: "Each response starts with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of thought used to help generate the response," noting that even for simple prompts, the model produces extensive internal reasoning before output. Although the benchmarks have yet to be independently verified, DeepSeek reports that R1 outperformed OpenAI's o1 on AIME (a mathematical reasoning test), MATH-500 (a collection of word problems), and SWE-bench Verified (a programming assessment tool).
TechCrunch notes that three Chinese labs -- DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI's Kimi, have released models that match o1's capabilities.
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2025-01-22 02:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released its new R1 model family under an open MIT license, with its largest version containing 671 billion parameters. The company claims the model performs at levels comparable to OpenAI's o1 simulated reasoning (SR) model on several math and coding benchmarks. Alongside the release of the main DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1 models, DeepSeek published six smaller "DeepSeek-R1-Distill" versions ranging from 1.5 billion to 70 billion parameters. These distilled models are based on existing open source architectures like Qwen and Llama, trained using data generated from the full R1 model. The smallest version can run on a laptop, while the full model requires far more substantial computing resources.
The releases immediately caught the attention of the AI community because most existing open-weights models -- which can often be run and fine-tuned on local hardware -- have lagged behind proprietary models like OpenAI's o1 in so-called reasoning benchmarks. Having these capabilities available in an MIT-licensed model that anyone can study, modify, or use commercially potentially marks a shift in what's possible with publicly available AI models. "They are SO much fun to run, watching them think is hilarious," independent AI researcher Simon Willison told Ars in a text message. Willison tested one of the smaller models and described his experience in a post on his blog: "Each response starts with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of thought used to help generate the response," noting that even for simple prompts, the model produces extensive internal reasoning before output. Although the benchmarks have yet to be independently verified, DeepSeek reports that R1 outperformed OpenAI's o1 on AIME (a mathematical reasoning test), MATH-500 (a collection of word problems), and SWE-bench Verified (a programming assessment tool).
TechCrunch notes that three Chinese labs -- DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI's Kimi, have released models that match o1's capabilities.
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Стабильный релиз Wine 10.0
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2025-01-22 01:44:03
После года разработки и 29 экспериментальных версий представлен стабильный релиз открытой реализации Win32 API - Wine 10.0, который вобрал в себя более 6000 изменений. Из ключевых достижений в новой версии выделяется полная поддержка архитектуры ARM64EC, масштабирование на экранах с высокой плотностью пикселей, включение по умолчанию драйвера Wayland, реализация панелей для настройки экрана и джойстика, альтернативный мультимедийный бэкенд на базе FFmpeg, драйвер Bluetooth, поддержка Vulkan 1.4, возможность эмуляции переключения видеорежимов.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62592
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2025-01-22 01:44:03
После года разработки и 29 экспериментальных версий представлен стабильный релиз открытой реализации Win32 API - Wine 10.0, который вобрал в себя более 6000 изменений. Из ключевых достижений в новой версии выделяется полная поддержка архитектуры ARM64EC, масштабирование на экранах с высокой плотностью пикселей, включение по умолчанию драйвера Wayland, реализация панелей для настройки экрана и джойстика, альтернативный мультимедийный бэкенд на базе FFmpeg, драйвер Bluetooth, поддержка Vulkan 1.4, возможность эмуляции переключения видеорежимов.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62592
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Game Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses' AI Initiatives
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2025-01-22 00:22:01
More than half of video game developers reported their companies are using generative AI in game development, according to an annual survey released Tuesday. The Game Developers Conference (GDC) report found that 52% of developers worked at companies using AI tools, while 30% felt negatively about the technology, up from 18% last year. Only 13% believed AI had a positive impact on games, down from 21% in 2024.
One in 10 developers lost their jobs over the past year, with some reporting extended periods of unemployment. One developer cited in a Wired story said they submitted 500 job applications without success, while another reported being laid off three times in the last year. Covid-era over-expansion, unrealistic expectations, and poor management are being identified as key factors behind the industry's troubles.
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More than half of video game developers reported their companies are using generative AI in game development, according to an annual survey released Tuesday. The Game Developers Conference (GDC) report found that 52% of developers worked at companies using AI tools, while 30% felt negatively about the technology, up from 18% last year. Only 13% believed AI had a positive impact on games, down from 21% in 2024.
One in 10 developers lost their jobs over the past year, with some reporting extended periods of unemployment. One developer cited in a Wired story said they submitted 500 job applications without success, while another reported being laid off three times in the last year. Covid-era over-expansion, unrealistic expectations, and poor management are being identified as key factors behind the industry's troubles.
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UK To Launch Digital Wallet For Passports, Driving Licences, and More
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2025-01-21 23:22:01
Britain will launch a digital wallet app later this year allowing citizens to store government documents on their smartphones, UK Science Secretary Peter Kyle announced on Tuesday. The GOV.UK Wallet, available on Android and iOS, will first support veteran cards followed by driver's licenses in late 2025, with plans to eventually include passports, marriage certificates and benefit documents.
The app will use facial recognition for security. "The overflowing drawer rammed with letters from the government and hours spent on hold to get a basic appointment will soon be consigned to history," Kyle said. The Labour government aims to have all UK agencies offering digital alternatives to physical documents by 2027. Officials said users can recover their digital credentials if phones are lost, adding the system complies with existing data protection laws.
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2025-01-21 23:22:01
Britain will launch a digital wallet app later this year allowing citizens to store government documents on their smartphones, UK Science Secretary Peter Kyle announced on Tuesday. The GOV.UK Wallet, available on Android and iOS, will first support veteran cards followed by driver's licenses in late 2025, with plans to eventually include passports, marriage certificates and benefit documents.
The app will use facial recognition for security. "The overflowing drawer rammed with letters from the government and hours spent on hold to get a basic appointment will soon be consigned to history," Kyle said. The Labour government aims to have all UK agencies offering digital alternatives to physical documents by 2027. Officials said users can recover their digital credentials if phones are lost, adding the system complies with existing data protection laws.
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US To Exit WHO
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2025-01-21 22:22:01
The United States will withdraw from the World Health Organization, according to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, who cited WHO's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and demands for "unfairly onerous payments" from Washington.
The order -- which takes a year to go into effect -- halts U.S. funding to WHO and recalls American personnel working with the organization. It also revokes a January 2021 letter that had kept the U.S. in WHO after an earlier withdrawal attempt. The White House ordered officials to find new partners to take over WHO-led activities and directed a review of the 2024 U.S. Global Health Security Strategy.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/1810255/us-to-exit-who?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-01-21 22:22:01
The United States will withdraw from the World Health Organization, according to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, who cited WHO's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and demands for "unfairly onerous payments" from Washington.
The order -- which takes a year to go into effect -- halts U.S. funding to WHO and recalls American personnel working with the organization. It also revokes a January 2021 letter that had kept the U.S. in WHO after an earlier withdrawal attempt. The White House ordered officials to find new partners to take over WHO-led activities and directed a review of the 2024 U.S. Global Health Security Strategy.
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Scale AI CEO To Trump: 'America Must Win the AI War'
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2025-01-21 22:22:01
Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang is taking out a full-page ad in The Washington Post on Tuesday with a succinct message for the new US commander-in-chief: "Dear President Trump, America must win the AI war." From a report: The ad also pointed readers to a five-point plan that would reorient the federal government to invest more in the technology and overhaul priorities for that funding. In an exclusive interview with Semafor, Wang said he was motivated to make his recommendations by a new White House that is both planning to aggressively support new technology and courting input from the industry.
"They're listening," he said. "This incoming administration wants to move fast and take a lot of action and really be quite ambitious about a lot of these issues." [...] "What's undeniable, if you think about what the future is going to look like, is the degree to which the amount of computational capability you have will be directly related to how strong your AI capabilities are," Wang said before he arrived at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Wang also recommends the US government should make a larger effort to cut the red tape on new energy production, inviting pent-up demand for private sector investment in the area.
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2025-01-21 22:22:01
Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang is taking out a full-page ad in The Washington Post on Tuesday with a succinct message for the new US commander-in-chief: "Dear President Trump, America must win the AI war." From a report: The ad also pointed readers to a five-point plan that would reorient the federal government to invest more in the technology and overhaul priorities for that funding. In an exclusive interview with Semafor, Wang said he was motivated to make his recommendations by a new White House that is both planning to aggressively support new technology and courting input from the industry.
"They're listening," he said. "This incoming administration wants to move fast and take a lot of action and really be quite ambitious about a lot of these issues." [...] "What's undeniable, if you think about what the future is going to look like, is the degree to which the amount of computational capability you have will be directly related to how strong your AI capabilities are," Wang said before he arrived at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Wang also recommends the US government should make a larger effort to cut the red tape on new energy production, inviting pent-up demand for private sector investment in the area.
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SoftBank-Backed Fish Startup Allegedly Faked Most of Its Sales
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2025-01-21 21:22:01
EFishery, one of Indonesia's most prominent startups, may have inflated its revenue and profit over several years, according to an internal investigation triggered by a whistleblower's claim about the company's accounting. Bloomberg News: A preliminary, ongoing probe into the agritech startup, backed by investors including SoftBank and Temasek, estimates that management inflated revenue by almost $600 million in the nine months through September last year, according to a 52-page draft report circulated among investors and reviewed by Bloomberg News. That would mean more than 75% of the reported figures were fake, the report said.
EFishery, which deploys feeders to fish and shrimp farmers in Indonesia, was a darling of the nation's startup scene and scored a valuation of $1.4 billion when G42, an AI firm controlled by United Arab Emirates royal Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, backed its latest funding round. It has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in an attempt to modernize the country's fish industry, providing farmers with smart feeding devices as well as feed, and then buying their produce to sell into the broader market.
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2025-01-21 21:22:01
EFishery, one of Indonesia's most prominent startups, may have inflated its revenue and profit over several years, according to an internal investigation triggered by a whistleblower's claim about the company's accounting. Bloomberg News: A preliminary, ongoing probe into the agritech startup, backed by investors including SoftBank and Temasek, estimates that management inflated revenue by almost $600 million in the nine months through September last year, according to a 52-page draft report circulated among investors and reviewed by Bloomberg News. That would mean more than 75% of the reported figures were fake, the report said.
EFishery, which deploys feeders to fish and shrimp farmers in Indonesia, was a darling of the nation's startup scene and scored a valuation of $1.4 billion when G42, an AI firm controlled by United Arab Emirates royal Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, backed its latest funding round. It has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in an attempt to modernize the country's fish industry, providing farmers with smart feeding devices as well as feed, and then buying their produce to sell into the broader market.
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Thalassa 0.3.50
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2025-01-21 20:44:04
Выпущена новая версия [ Thalassa CMS ]( http://thalassa.croco.net/ ) под номером 0.3.50.
В этой версии переписан фильтр HTML-тегов для комментариев.
Разработчиком CMS является Андрей Викторович Столяров, также известный как /img/tuxlor.png [ Croco ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/people/Croco/profile ) .
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/internet/17854390
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2025-01-21 20:44:04
Выпущена новая версия [ Thalassa CMS ]( http://thalassa.croco.net/ ) под номером 0.3.50.
В этой версии переписан фильтр HTML-тегов для комментариев.
Разработчиком CMS является Андрей Викторович Столяров, также известный как /img/tuxlor.png [ Croco ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/people/Croco/profile ) .
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/internet/17854390
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VMware Migrations Will Be Long, Expensive, and Risky, Warns Gartner
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2025-01-21 20:22:01
Migrating from VMware's virtualization platform could take up to four years and cost organizations between $300 and $3,000 per virtual machine, Gartner has warned in a new report. Companies running 2,000 or more virtual machines will need up to 10 full-time staff for initial assessment and another six employees for a nine-month technical evaluation, according to Gartner.
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2025-01-21 20:22:01
Migrating from VMware's virtualization platform could take up to four years and cost organizations between $300 and $3,000 per virtual machine, Gartner has warned in a new report. Companies running 2,000 or more virtual machines will need up to 10 full-time staff for initial assessment and another six employees for a nine-month technical evaluation, according to Gartner.
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Great Barrier Reef Hit By Its Most Widespread Coral Bleaching, Study Finds
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2025-01-21 20:22:01
More than 40% of individual corals monitored around a Great Barrier Reef island were killed last year in the most widespread coral bleaching outbreak to hit the reef system, a study has found. The Guardian: Scientists tracked 462 colonies of corals at One Tree Island in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef after heat stress began to turn the corals white in early 2024. Researchers said they encountered "catastrophic" scenes at the reef.
Only 92 coral colonies escaped bleaching entirely and by July, when the analysis for the study ended, 193 were dead and a further 113 were still showing signs of bleaching. Prof Maria Byrne, a marine biologist at the University of Sydney and lead author of the study, has been researching and visiting the island for 35 years.
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2025-01-21 20:22:01
More than 40% of individual corals monitored around a Great Barrier Reef island were killed last year in the most widespread coral bleaching outbreak to hit the reef system, a study has found. The Guardian: Scientists tracked 462 colonies of corals at One Tree Island in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef after heat stress began to turn the corals white in early 2024. Researchers said they encountered "catastrophic" scenes at the reef.
Only 92 coral colonies escaped bleaching entirely and by July, when the analysis for the study ended, 193 were dead and a further 113 were still showing signs of bleaching. Prof Maria Byrne, a marine biologist at the University of Sydney and lead author of the study, has been researching and visiting the island for 35 years.
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Re: Массивное обновление станции ping
std.hugeping.micro
hugeping(ping,1) — doesnm
2025-01-21 20:56:25
doesnm> Особо в глаза изменения не бросаются (хотя вот не помню была ли раньше шапка в gemini)
doesnm> А вот комментарии по email я так и не нашёл
Изменения в коде, которые многое упростили в реализации и позволят мне скоро открыть код сервера. Так как раньше все службы были захордкожены прям в go. Сейчас через подобие cgi-bin.
Комментарии по email я прикрутил к постам в gemini. Открываешь любую статью и в конце оно есть.
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hugeping(ping,1) — doesnm
2025-01-21 20:56:25
doesnm> Особо в глаза изменения не бросаются (хотя вот не помню была ли раньше шапка в gemini)
doesnm> А вот комментарии по email я так и не нашёл
Изменения в коде, которые многое упростили в реализации и позволят мне скоро открыть код сервера. Так как раньше все службы были захордкожены прям в go. Сейчас через подобие cgi-bin.
Комментарии по email я прикрутил к постам в gemini. Открываешь любую статью и в конце оно есть.
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Brendan Carr is Officially in Charge of the FCC
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2025-01-21 19:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Brendan Carr is now formally the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, giving him the power to set the agency's agenda and usher through a host of regulations with major implications for the tech and media industries as soon as he has a Republican majority. In a statement, Carr named a few areas of focus: "issues ranging from tech and media regulation to unleashing new opportunities for jobs and growth through agency actions on spectrum, infrastructure, and the space economy."
Carr's priorities might also be gleaned from a document you might have already heard about: Project 2025. That's because he authored the FCC chapter of the Heritage Foundation's wishlist for a Donald Trump presidency. In that chapter, Carr proposes actions including: limiting immunity for tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, requiring disclosures about how platforms prioritize content, requiring tech companies to pay into a program that funds broadband access in rural areas, and more, quickly approving applications to launch satellites from companies like Elon Musk's Starlink.
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2025-01-21 19:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Brendan Carr is now formally the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, giving him the power to set the agency's agenda and usher through a host of regulations with major implications for the tech and media industries as soon as he has a Republican majority. In a statement, Carr named a few areas of focus: "issues ranging from tech and media regulation to unleashing new opportunities for jobs and growth through agency actions on spectrum, infrastructure, and the space economy."
Carr's priorities might also be gleaned from a document you might have already heard about: Project 2025. That's because he authored the FCC chapter of the Heritage Foundation's wishlist for a Donald Trump presidency. In that chapter, Carr proposes actions including: limiting immunity for tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, requiring disclosures about how platforms prioritize content, requiring tech companies to pay into a program that funds broadband access in rural areas, and more, quickly approving applications to launch satellites from companies like Elon Musk's Starlink.
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China's Installed Renewables Achieved Yet Another Record in 2024
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2025-01-21 18:22:01
China broke its own record in installing renewable power in 2024, as the world's top polluter continues to push its energy transition while the US shifts away from fighting climate change. From a report: The world's second-largest economy added roughly 277 gigawatts of solar last year, surpassing the previous year's record of 217 gigawatts, the National Energy Administration said in a statement on Tuesday.
It also added nearly 80 gigawatts of wind, according to the statement. The record installation means China has hit its 2030 renewables target six years early. This stands in contrast to the US, the world's second-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, where new President Donald Trump has started implementing a hard pivot back to fossil fuels and withdrawn from the Paris climate pact.
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2025-01-21 18:22:01
China broke its own record in installing renewable power in 2024, as the world's top polluter continues to push its energy transition while the US shifts away from fighting climate change. From a report: The world's second-largest economy added roughly 277 gigawatts of solar last year, surpassing the previous year's record of 217 gigawatts, the National Energy Administration said in a statement on Tuesday.
It also added nearly 80 gigawatts of wind, according to the statement. The record installation means China has hit its 2030 renewables target six years early. This stands in contrast to the US, the world's second-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, where new President Donald Trump has started implementing a hard pivot back to fossil fuels and withdrawn from the Paris climate pact.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/143251/chinas-installed-renewables-achieved-yet-another-record-in-2024?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Trump Revokes Biden Executive Order On Addressing AI Risks
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2025-01-21 17:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence poses to consumers, workers and national security. Biden's order required developers of AI systems that pose risks to U.S. national security, the economy, public health or safety to share the results of safety tests with the U.S. government, in line with the Defense Production Act, before they were released to the public. Four days before leaving office, Biden issued a comprehensive cybersecurity executive order that also targeted AI usage. The directive aimed to leverage AI's security benefits, implement digital identities for citizens, and address vulnerabilities that have allowed Chinese and Russian intrusions into U.S. government systems, among other things. It's unclear at this time if it, too, will be revoked.
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2025-01-21 17:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence poses to consumers, workers and national security. Biden's order required developers of AI systems that pose risks to U.S. national security, the economy, public health or safety to share the results of safety tests with the U.S. government, in line with the Defense Production Act, before they were released to the public. Four days before leaving office, Biden issued a comprehensive cybersecurity executive order that also targeted AI usage. The directive aimed to leverage AI's security benefits, implement digital identities for citizens, and address vulnerabilities that have allowed Chinese and Russian intrusions into U.S. government systems, among other things. It's unclear at this time if it, too, will be revoked.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/0514231/trump-revokes-biden-executive-order-on-addressing-ai-risks?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.