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Windows 11 Identifier Code Used to Arrest 19-Year-Old Over Alleged Ransomware Spree

robot — 2026-07-05 22:22:01

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America's Justice Department and FBI teamed joined Finland's National Bureau of Investigation to arrest a teenager they say is part of one of the world's biggest cybercrime syndicates, reports Tom's Hardware. The "Scattered Spider" syndicate has extorted over $100 million in ransom payments, according to Department of Justice figures:

19-year-old Peter Stokes is a dual U.S.-Estonian citizen who was trying to board a flight to Japan from Helsinki, when law enforcement caught up with him. [T]he main criminal complaint against Stokes stems from a May 2025 attack on a luxury jewelry dealer based in the United States. The attackers apparently called the company's IT helpdesk using Google Voice, posing as employees. They were able to convince the help desk into resetting their credentials, which allowed them to infiltrate three accounts, two of which had admin privileges. From there, the group, allegedly including Stokes, stole important data and held the jeweler at ransom, demanding an $8 million payment in crypto. The company ultimately regained access to their infrastructure and avoided paying the ransom, but the operational disruption still caused a purported $2 million in losses. This served as the spark that led to Stokes' eventual arrest in Helsinki, as the prosecutors slowly followed the paper and digital trail laid by the attackers.

Microsoft played a key role in the process by providing GDID [Global Device Identifier] data to the FBI to help them apprehend the alleged criminal... [I]t's a unique identifier assigned to every Windows install that tracks device-specific telemetry. It's the reason why sometimes changing a major component in your PC can revoke your Windows license... [T]he court documents from the case reveal that Stokes used Windows, from which investigators were able to link his physical hardware to specific internet activity and locations... Stokes' web activity, videogame history, IP addresses, tool usage (including Ngrok), Azure status, and more were logged with timestamps, and were provided to the investigators by Microsoft...

Stokes was carrying two hard drives full of incriminating evidence with him when boarding his flight to Japan... His real identity has actually been known since 2024, but since he was a minor living across Estonia and the UAE at the time, he could only be monitored until the time was right.

The official criminal complaint even includes a selfie photo that Stokes posted on Snapchat (hiding his face behind dozens of hundred dollar bills). It then notes that behind Stokes the wallpaper, carpet, and furniture match New York's Empire Hotel — and that Stokes had visited the hotel's web site in Germany before then flying to New York...

"Following the arrest, Stokes was extradited to the U.S., where he appeared in front of a federal court in Chicago for the first time on June 30, 2026, and he remains in custody," adds Tom's Hardware.

"The accused is now awaiting trial, having been charged with conspiracy, cyber intrusion, and fraud..."

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Short Story Accused of Being AI-written Goes on to Win Contest's First Prize

robot — 2026-07-05 21:22:01

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"A story widely accused on social media of being written using AI has gone on to win the overall Commonwealth short story prize," reports the Guardian.

In mid-May the story had been selected as a regional winner, but with critics on X and Bluesky "claiming it showed 'obvious markers' of AI use."

In the wake of the controversy, the Commonwealth Foundation conducted a review of the regional winners, which it said involved looking at drafts, time-stamped documents and notes. "We are satisfied with the testimonies of our writers and their confirmation that AI was not used in their writing," said foundation director-general Razmi Farook... Judging chair Louise Doughty described Nazir's piece as "an original, poetic and deeply moving story...." In a film released by the Commonwealth Foundation on Tuesday, Nazir... adds that he wrote six or seven drafts of his prize-winning story, and also speaks about his use of speech-to-text software, explaining that he could only see three or four lines of text on his phone screen at any one time, so he would perfect each line before moving on, which is how his story ended up being "highly polished"...

Initial social media reactions to the Commonwealth Foundation's announcement of Nazir's win were negative, with one X user writing: "immensely disappointing and disheartening. it feels like they wanted to stick to their guns after the entire GenAI uproar. I might think twice now before submitting my stories here". After Nazir was announced as the regional winner in May, some social media users reported running his story through AI-detection software. "Pangram flags at 100% but also, come on, if you know you know", said Wharton professor Ethan Mollick. However, the reliability of AI-detection software has been called into question.

In a statement to the Guardian, Farook said that "rather than surrender our judgment to AI-detection software, we asked our winners to show their working drafts, outlines, the evidence of an artistic journey. That software, it must be said, is not infallible: it returns inconsistent verdicts and, in doing so, corrodes the very trust on which a prize depends."
"When the machine's default voice is the metropolitan one, the writer who does not fit the expected mould is the first to fall under suspicion," she added. "The more startling her gift, the more her unfamiliar brilliance unsettles, the more readily she is accused of being a machine. A young writer in Kingston or Kolkata, in Kuala Lumpur or Kigali, must now prove not only her talent but her very humanity."

Nazir's story beat 7,806 other stories, the video points out (adding that their prize "demonstrates that in a world increasingly driven by algorithms, the human voice still matters.")

The Guardian notes that the winning story "includes multiple 'not x, but y' constructions and lists of three, which some consider to be signs of AI use," and that critics also drew attention to particular lines like "Sun on galvanise is a cruel instrument" and "Marsha lived two bends down."

In a new interview with the Times of India Nazir says "Now I'm frightened about publishing new work because the attacks haven't stopped."

Q: Which passages attracted the most criticism, and why do you think they were misunderstood?

Nazir: People criticised a line where I wrote: 'She had the kind of walking that made benches become men.' That's magical realism. Think Salman Rushdie or Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It's a literary technique. In my story, the character 'Zoongie' believes she is so beautiful that even when no men are around, she imagines the benches becoming men who admire her. It exists only in her imagination. People interpreted it literally. There was another line about light reflecting from a sink. That came directly from my childhood. Our kitchen faced east, and my mother liked to keep everything spotless. We used to polish the sink, and when the morning sun hit it, it glittered brightly. People claimed that the image must have been AI-generated. But it's from my lived experience...

I've lived with diabetes for 62 years, which has damaged the nerves in my fingers and feet, and I'm currently undergoing chemotherapy. That's why I began using speech-to-text on my Android phone... I hope this episode leads to a better understanding of the difference between assistive technology and AI-generated writing...

Q: Many acclaimed writers like Ursula K Le Guin, Mary Shelley, and JRR Tolkien have also been falsely flagged by AI detectors. Where does this leave writers?

Nazir: What these AI detectors are saying is that if a piece of writing is too polished, it must have been written by AI. I refuse to accept that. AI was trained on human writing. Large language models, to me, are tools, much like a word processor. They don't replace the human spirit behind creative writing. Ask an AI to write a prize-winning story on its own and see what it produces. You still need human imagination and judgment to create literature.

Nazir added, "What I don't understand is why people continue to question the judges' decision."

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GoDaddy Warns India's Crackdown on Fake Site Registrars Could Upend Internet Privacy Everywhere

robot — 2026-07-05 20:22:01

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"The internet is filled with fakes," writes Gizmodo. "A court in India is setting out to address the problem by requiring more transparency from domain registrars to make it easier to crack down on fraud. And while the intentions might be good, Reuters is reporting that major American domain registrar GoDaddy is sounding the warning bells that the court's decision could fundamentally reshape the internet well beyond India's borders."

GoDaddy argues the move would even make the internet less safe, reports Reuters :

[Online fraud] is a key challenge for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, which last year received 2.4 million complaints of alleged cyber fraud amounting to $2.4 billion. Starting in 2019, lawsuits were brought by dozens of Indian and global firms — Amazon against fake shopping sites trading on its name and McDonald's complaining against bogus sites offering franchises. [More than 20 companies filed a complaint, the article notes, including Microsoft.] In December, an Indian court blocked more than 1,100 such websites. The New Delhi judge however went further, ordering sweeping new measures that tech experts say have rewritten rules of internet governance: Domain sellers should not offer buyers free privacy protection by default, the buyer's details should be released to anyone with a "legitimate interest" within 72 hours, and website addresses that are variations of protected brand names must be prohibited.

U.S.-based GoDaddy has challenged the directives before a larger bench of judges at the Delhi High Court, according to a Reuters review of non-public filings. It says the ruling will affect legitimate businesses that have names similar to big brands. Stopping privacy-by-default features, GoDaddy said, will result in public disclosure of name, address, telephone and email of legitimate website owners, exposing them to "foreseeable privacy and security risks" such as stalking and harassment.

As domain names operate globally, not locally, the order could force GoDaddy to regulate website addresses across the world, it said. On the court's order imposing a 72-hour deadline on companies to provide registration details to anyone with "legitimate interest", GoDaddy argues it has no wherewithal to assess who has legitimate interest or not. The "commercially destabilising" directives may force domain name companies to "exit India", said one of GoDaddy's appeal documents that ran into 5,121 pages... GoDaddy rivals, Arizona-based Namecheap and Netherlands-based Hosting Concepts, have also challenged the New Delhi ruling, court records show, although Reuters could not ascertain details of their appeals...

GoDaddy argues that diluting the privacy feature will run contrary to India's data protection law and the European Union GDPR law which mandates a "privacy by default" approach. Farzaneh Badii, a New York-based researcher on internet governance, criticised the New Delhi ruling, noting that Europe redacted such details because publishing them had been abused by harassment and targeted phishing. "The people exposed will be journalists, activists, small business owners, and private individuals. The brand impersonators will not," she said...

While the sweeping December directives were issued by a court, they followed government's submissions, documents showed... The judges will hear the appeals on July 16.

GoDaddy manages 80 million domains and serves over 20 million users, the article points out, with
annual revenue over $5 billion.

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fheroes2 1.1.17: Режим автоматического тестирования карт, улучшение ИИ и интерфейса

robot — 2026-07-05 19:44:03

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Дорогие поклонники Heroes of Might and Magic II и проекта fheroes2!

Каждый новый релиз делает проект немного лучше, и версия 1.1.17 не стала исключением, затронув практически все аспекты игры.

Главное нововведение релиза — режим автоматического тестирования карт.
Теперь создатели карт могут автоматически запускать прохождение своих сценариев игроками ИИ, наблюдать за их поведением, анализировать баланс карты и просто смотреть, как развиваются события без какого-либо вмешательства. Подобной возможности не было ни в одной игре серии Heroes of Might and Magic, и мы надеемся, что она поможет как в тестировании движка, так и в создании новых карт.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/games/18333412#cut0 ) )

Опубликован BSDun, модуль для запуска исполняемых файлов FreeBSD в Linux

robot — 2026-07-05 17:44:03

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Опубликован проект BSDun, развивающий модуль для ядра Linux, позволяющий распознавать, загружать и запускать в Linux немодифицированные исполняемые файлы в формате ELF, собранные для FreeBSD. Для запуска применяется эмулируемое окружение FreeBSD, размещаемое в каталоге /compat/freebsd. В целом проект является полной противоположностью FreeBSD Linuxulator. Код распространяется под лицензией GPLv2+ и написан с использованием AI-ассистента Claude Code.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65846

EV Batteries Defy Expectations, Last Hundreds of Thousands of Miles

robot — 2026-07-05 17:22:01

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247,000 miles on an EV battery? So says the owner of a U.K.-based used-car sales company that specializes in Evs, who tells the Wall Street Journal EV batteries keep performing well even after several hundred thousand miles. "They are proving themselves to be exceptionally reliable."

After five years on the road, the average EV will still be able to drive up to 95% of its original range, according to Recurrent, a data-science company that provides a battery-monitoring tool for EVs — better than many in the auto industry expected...

Potential new car buyers' fear of having to pay for a battery replacement is the number one reason they choose to steer clear of EVs, according to a 2025 survey from industry research firm AutoPacific. When early EVs hit the market, buyers' concerns were well-founded. Roughly one in 12 EVs built from 2011 to 2016 have had to have battery replacements. But new data shows that more modern EVs are doing better so far. Among EVs built from 2022 on, 0.3% have had battery replacements, according to a 2025 study from Recurrent. As battery technology has advanced, EVs have avoided problems like the ones that plagued the original Nissan Leaf when it hit the market in 2010, for example. Those cars lacked the battery-cooling technology that is in newer EVs, and they made headlines for wearing down quickly. Buyer perception hasn't quite caught up, according to Scott Case, co-founder and chief executive of Recurrent...

The newest battery-powered EVs have lifespans comparable to internal-combustion-engine vehicles, even when driven more miles, according to Viet Nguyen-Tien, a research officer at the London School of Economics who focuses on Evs. Improvements in car batteries' chemical contents, battery-management systems and thermal regulation have been the difference in making batteries last longer and cost less, Nguyen-Tien said. Battery prices have fallen more than 90% since 2010, according to a BloombergNEF report from late last year. Industry analysts say battery-replacement costs are also improving as more EVs are designed for repairability in the long-haul. An out-of-warranty battery replacement can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $16,000, depending on the manufacturer, according to Recurrent. But many EV manufacturers have shifted to allow smaller components of their battery packs to be repaired, which can allow owners to avoid the full costs of a battery replacement, Case said.

EV batteries aren't without their challenges, though. A battery that is frequently fast-charged with high power loses its range, on average, at twice the rate of a battery charged at a lower power, according to telematics company Geotab. Frequently charging a battery to 100%, or letting it rest at 0% for extended periods, can also reduce range long-term. And EVs regularly deliver less range in extreme cold or heat.
The article also includes two new projections on EV adoption:

"The share of new EVs sold is expected to nearly double to 11% of new-car sales in the U.S. by 2030, according to industry consulting firm AlixPartners."
"Globally, EVs already make up 15% of new-car sales and are expected to form nearly a quarter of the global market by 2030, according to AlixPartners."

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В ReactOS продемонстрирован запуск игры Half-Life 2 и реализован первый системный вызов из Windows Vista

robot — 2026-07-05 16:44:02

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Разработчики открытой операционной системы ReactOS, нацеленной на обеспечение совместимости с программами и драйверами Microsoft Windows, добились успешного запуска игры Half-Life 2, который был продемонстрирован на реальном оборудовании. Игра была запущена с разрешением 2560x1440 на компьютере с видеокартой NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 и звуковой карой SoundBlaster Audigy, для работы с которыми был задействован проприетарный видеодрайвер NVIDIA 368.61 и звуковой драйвер из набора Audigy SupportPack 7.0. Месяц назад в ReactOS удалось запустить игры Half-Life и Unreal Tournament 2004.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65848

В ядре Linux намерены прекратить поддержку старых ARM-платформ, ФС EFS и 32-разрядных MSR-интерфейсов

robot — 2026-07-05 15:44:03

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Арнд Бергман (Arnd Bergmann), отвечающий за пакеты с ядром в SUSE.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65847

Apple представила Apple Container 1.0, программу, позволяющую запускать Linux-контейнеры прямо на macOS

robot — 2026-07-05 14:44:03

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Проект стал развитием ранее открытого решения, которое компания показала около года назад как альтернативу классическим контейнерным платформам вроде Docker. По сути, это CLI-утилита, с помощью которой можно создавать, запускать и публиковать OCI-совместимые контейнеры, с интеграцией в macOS и собственным способом их запуска.

Так как macOS не поддерживает Linux-контейнеры напрямую, Apple использовала подход с легкими виртуальными машинами. Каждый контейнер запускается внутри изолированного Linux-окружения, фактически получая собственную микросистему. Это чем-то напоминает WSL от Microsoft.

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Calibre 9.11

robot — 2026-07-05 14:44:03

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Опубликован выпуск [ Calibre 9.11 ]( https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new ) — свободного менеджера электронных книг, совмещающего библиотеку, просмотрщик, конвертер форматов и систему загрузки новостных источников. Релиз датирован 2 июля 2026 года, а главным изменением стала возможность [ экспортировать аннотации в виде отдельной HTML-страницы ]( https://linuxiac.com/calibre-9-11-e-book-manager-adds-html-export-for-e-book-annotations/ ) , которую можно открыть в любом браузере.

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Экспорт аннотаций в HTML — выделения и заметки теперь можно сохранить как самостоятельную веб-страницу. Такой файл поддерживает светлую и тёмную темы, поиск по тексту и фильтрацию по стилю выделения, что удобно для конспектов, обзоров и работы с цитатами.

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Улучшение Ask AI во вьювере — в свободных запросах к ИИ теперь можно использовать плейсхолдер [ {selected} ]( https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new ) , подставляющий выделенный фрагмент текста. Это упрощает разбор конкретной цитаты или абзаца без ручного копирования.

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Исправление интерфейса просмотрщика — устранена ошибка, из-за которой текстовая область не всегда корректно меняла размер при изменении окна, если была включена полоса прокрутки.

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Исправление регрессий Calibre 9.10 — снова заработали Python-шаблоны в панели сведений о книге, а при добавлении новых книг теперь корректно применяются значения по умолчанию для пользовательских колонок.

Также обновлены встроенные механизмы загрузки новостей для Scientific American и Phoronix. Сборки Calibre доступны для [ Windows, macOS, Linux и в portable-варианте ]( https://calibre-ebook.com/download ) .

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18332553

Hobbit-like Humans May Have Scavenged Komodo Dragons' Leftovers to Survive

robot — 2026-07-05 13:22:02

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CNN reports:

Prehistoric human relatives, nicknamed "hobbits" due to their short stature, may have been scavengers, rather than skilled hunters capable of taking down big game or building cooking fires, according to new research. The study adds to growing evidence that Homo floresiensis, which had a brain only slightly bigger than that of a chimpanzee, wasn't as advanced as scientists previously believed....

The researchers believe that much like how Komodo dragons hunt water buffaloes today, they were using their venomous bite to take down Stegodons — and after the scene was clear, Homo floresiensis swept in to cleave meat from what remained... The new study reinforces a long-held suspicion that Homo floresiensis is not a dwarfed form of Homo erectus but a descendant of a more primitive Homo habilis-like or Australopithecus-like form that arrived on the island more than1 million years ago, said Dr. Chris Stringer, a research leader specializing in human origins and paleoanthropology at London's Natural History Museum.

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STATS 2026-07-04

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TOP20 VISITORS:

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Возобновлена публикация Android-прошивки CalyxOS, не привязанной к сервисам Google

robot — 2026-07-05 09:44:02

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Опубликован выпуск проекта CalyxOS 7.2.2.0, развивающего прошивку на основе платформы Android, избавленную от привязок к сервисам Google и предоставляющую дополнительные средства для обеспечения конфиденциальности и безопасности. CalyxOS 7.2.2.0 стал первым стабильным выпуском после приостановки публикации обновлений в августе прошлого года, вызванной необходимостью переработки процесса формирования релизов, проведения полного аудита и изменения криптографических ключей после ухода основателя проекта и технического лидера, имевших доступ к ключам для цифровых подписей. Новый выпуск переведён на кодовую базу Android 16 и доступен в сборках для устройств Pixel 4-9, Fairphone 4/5, Motorola Moto G32-G84 и SHIFTphone 8.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65845

New Google Ad Imagines America's 'Declaration of Independence' Written With AI Help

robot — 2026-07-05 09:22:02

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An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch:

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?
With the tagline "Group project, but make it 1776," the ad depicts a largely unseen Thomas Jefferson mid-draft when he gets a nagging text from Ben Franklin, leading to a very Google-centric collaboration process. Edits are suggested in Google Docs, a meeting gets scheduled in Google Calendar and conducted remotely via Google Meet (with every single attendee apparently turning their camera off?), then the whole thing is finalized with e-signatures; cue the fireworks.

Of course, since this is an ad from a tech company in the year 2026, AI has a role to play. The fictionalized founders use Google's "help me visualize" AI tool to try out different animals on the national seal, Gemini takes notes on the meeting, and the founders also ask the chatbot for advice before declining King George III's document access request.

TechCrunch call it "very tongue-in-cheek," noting that at one point Samuel Adams even asks, "Can we settle this over beers?" And they argue that "the AI evangelism is relatively discreet when compared to many other recent ads."

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Are Wars Blurring Lines Between Corporate and National Security?

robot — 2026-07-05 06:22:01

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Subsea cables. Ukrainian power stations. Russian oil refineries. Even airports, water-desalination plants and Amazon data centers.

They've all become targets in wartime, notes the Wall Street Journal, and around the world now arguments "are already brewing between companies and governments over new regulations and potential costs."

In Germany, powerful associations representing private companies and municipal utilities have pushed back against new standards for physical protection, warning they could spell financial ruin. New Zealand's government has faced resistance from industry groups over a proposal to fine critical-infrastructure companies and their directors for cybersecurity breaches... A sign of how lines are blurring: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 32 countries last year agreed that as part of a pact to spend 5% of economic output on defense and security, 1.5% would go to military-adjacent needs including protecting critical infrastructure and networks. Spending targets range from cybersecurity and industrial capacity to railroads, bridges and ports needed for military logistics... "We need a wide concept of defense — defense is no longer just military," said Italian Adm. Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, NATO's top military adviser.

Adding to the complexity, companies now need to protect the data networks that serve as gateways to critical infrastructure. Hackers increasingly target not just computer files to steal information but also systems managing vital functions like building access and factory control, remotely causing physical damage or enabling espionage. U.S. authorities in April warned that Iranian hackers were trying to disrupt American drinking-water systems by targeting computer equipment that connects hardware with software. A year earlier, suspected Russian hackers remotely manipulated valves on a Norwegian hydroelectric dam...

Another challenge will be parsing jurisdictions and liability for assets that cross international waters or are damaged in combat — such as subsea data cables or energy pipelines. Turf battles between law enforcement and militaries are already complicating efforts... "The private owner can invest in redundancy, monitoring, and repair capacity, but only governments and militaries can really deter, patrol, attribute, or respond to hostile state activity," said Marc Glasser, who worked on cybersecurity and infrastructure security for three decades at the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Department of Homeland Security.... Companies say they need greater clarity from governments on what protections they will provide and subsidies to help them defend privately owned assets that provide a public good. Most governments don't provide incentives for companies to invest more than the minimum legal resilience requirements.

The article notes that in May the chief executive of California's Port of Long Beach "launched a cyber-defense operations center to thwart tens of thousands of cyberattacks daily, which jeopardize computer systems and all equipment connected to them."

The article also points out that the EU adopted new regulations requiring countries to reduce vulnerabilities, and new laws proposed in the U.K. now "seek to increase penalties for subsea sabotage, updating codes that date to when telegraph cables were first laid in the 19th century."

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New DNA Tech Identifies Soldier Killed in America's Revolution in 1780

robot — 2026-07-05 02:22:01

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South Carolina's pine forests "have spent centuries hiding a secret as old as America itself," reports CBS News:

In August 1780, British and American soldiers clashed there, leading to a terrible defeat for the Continental army [fighting for the 13 colonies rebelling against England]. Battlefield archaeologists Jim Legg and Steve Smith have been studying the site for decades, but recently, they made a shocking discovery: The sandy soil was home to several sets of remains buried in shallow graves. Metal buttons suggested the men had been Continental soldiers, but there was no other identification... About 2,000 Continental soldiers were killed, wounded or captured, and some men never returned home.

Their families could only guess at their fates. But Legg and Smith's discovery, paired with an explosion in DNA technology, is changing what's possible. A set of remains, previously known only as 9B, has been identified as John Pumphrey, a young man from Maryland who enlisted in the Continental Army's 7th Maryland Regiment as young as 13... Pumphrey likely marched more than a thousand miles with the regiment. The unit fought in battles with then-Gen. George Washington in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Pumphrey likely marched more than a thousand miles with the regiment. The unit fought in battles with then-Gen. George Washington in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In late June, members of the extended Pumphrey family came together to hear his story and say his name for the first time in centuries. His remains are interred in South Carolina, where he and the other soldiers were discovered, but the tombstone, once marked "Unknown," will soon have his name carved on it.

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842,000 American Households Lost Power Today During a Heatwave

robot — 2026-07-05 01:22:01

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As America began celebrating its 250th birthday Saturday, 842,000 homes reported power outages, notes ABC News. Figures from tracking site PowerOutage showed states in America's Northeast and Midwest were impacted by severe weather and extreme heat.

That number, which will fluctuate throughout the day as crews work to restore power, is for households, meaning that the number of people impacted by these outages is likely to be much larger... Millions of Americans, however, will be contending with a heatwave that is blanketing much of the country, including in Philadelphia where the Salute to Independence Semiquincentennial Parade that had been set for Friday was canceled due to the dangerous heat wave, according to Philadelphia ABC station WPVI. Elsewhere, America's Independence Day Parade, which was scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on July 4 in downtown Washington, D.C. was canceled by organizers late Friday evening due to the extreme heat in the District of Columbia... Amtrak announced it will be canceling a number of trains due to heat-related conditions.

The outages seemed to last throughout the day, with 790,103 household outages still in effect by 4:30 p.m. EST. Ironically, the power outages hit several American states that were among the country's original 13 freedom-declaring colonies, including New Jersey (143,072 outages), Pennsylvania (40,944 outages), and Virginia (27,392 outages).

CNBC adds that America's largest power grid operator said Friday "it was under a federal alert to cut electricity consumption across its territory as it battled generator outages, massive overloading on its transmission lines and a surge in air conditioning use from prolonged sweltering heat."

PJM said it told utilities to reduce electricity to customers who are under contract to reduce consumption during emergencies. PJM serves 67 million people in the Mid-Atlantic, South and Washington, D.C., area. Spot wholesale electricity prices in northern Virginia, home to the largest collection of data centers in the world, have surged beyond $2,000 per megawatt hour this week. That compares to about $40 per MWh when PJM is not in distress.

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Did Microsoft Shift Its Profits to Low-Tax Countries?

robot — 2026-07-05 00:22:01

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Microsoft is apparently shifting its profits to countries with low taxes — and out of countries where they have many more employees and significant sales. Back in 2005 Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer even said that a low corporate tax rate "is part of the overall advantage of doing business in Ireland," remembers long-time Slashdot reader theodp. (Ballmer added "It would be disingenuous to say otherwise.")

But in 2026 the EU now requires a country-by-country compliance report, and the New York Times notes that Microsoft "was most likely the first major U.S. technology company to make a so-called country by country report of its finances to comply..."

Like other big companies, Microsoft uses transactions between subsidiaries to shift profits around to reduce its tax bill. The report revealed a consistent pattern: high returns in low-tax jurisdictions and slim margins in higher-tax ones. The report showed the sometimes absurd results. Microsoft said it had generated almost 40 percent of its pretax income in tax-friendly Ireland, where it employed about 3 percent of its global work force. In higher-tax Germany, the largest economy in Europe, Microsoft earned barely half of 1 percent of its global profits, it said.

Excluding Ireland, the company said, it generated less than 2 percent of its worldwide pretax earnings in Europe... [In Luxembourg Microsoft said it had $283 million in pretax income with only 34 employees.]

[America's] Internal Revenue Service is challenging profit-shifting transactions used by Microsoft, and is seeking back taxes of nearly $29 billion4. The company has said it disagrees with the I.R.S. and said in a securities filing that it "will vigorously contest" the proposed tax bills.

This week a Microsoft blog post offered their own "context," arguing that tax is "one important measure of contribution, but it is not the only one.

"Our investments, partnerships, infrastructure, and long-term presence in countries around the world also reflect a commitment to helping strengthen the economies and communities where we operate, today and for the future."

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FSF Shares Update on 'LibrePhone' and New Automated Site Monitoring Tool

robot — 2026-07-04 23:22:01

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At the end of 2025, the FSF launched LibrePhone project, which is working to "better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) system on a chip designs available today." The FSF's summer newsletter shares this update:

We started with researching the proprietary files in Android phones supported by the Lineage project, an Android-based volunteer-led mobile phone operating system with much free software already in it. Our current, primary focus is on the radio blobs that control WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, and cellular communications.

The software freedom issues with mobile computing have been around for a long time, with the most challenging issue being the baseband/modem firmware that relies heavily on proprietary software. This creates a technical and legal maze that is nearly impossible to break free from, but that doesn't mean we should ever stop working to create free systems. It certainly doesn't mean we shouldn't liberate the software that we know can be free software. Now, half a year into this project, lead developer Rob Savoye has extracted firmware from over 200 Lineage install packages, processed 85GB of files, and imported the results of these analyses into a PostgreSQL database for cross-device comparison... [M]uch of the software and blobs we need to work through are shared across multiple devices; this means even greater strides for mobile phone freedom...

As insurmountable as it may seem at times, every blob we manage to free up will be progress. The FSF has proven time and time again that it can bring the free software philosophy to life, not just by advocating for it, but by making it so.

The bulletin also describes how waves of botnets from "aggressive LLM scrapers, vulnerability scanners, poorly optimized CI/CD servers" inspired the FSF to create a new free-as-in-freedom automated monitoring tool:

In our efforts to combat the botnets, we optimized several detection rules to ban abusive behavior. We found the upper limit of fail2ban and replaced it with reaction, an efficient alternative with our configuration that uses ipset. We also split several monolithic machines into many separate machines so that when a web service is overwhelmed the other functions of the service do not go down with it... We found quite a few ways to respond to and prevent botnet attacks, but still faced a significant related challenge: communicating when a website or service is down...

Uptime Kuma is a human-readable, automated monitoring addition to our systems... You can check out our recently-launched self-hosted Uptime Kuma instance at https://status.fsf.org/. When you see the page, you will also likely say, "Wow! The FSF and GNU sure do run a ton of services!" and you would be right... If you maintain websites and services, and are looking for a simple way to communicate publicly with your users, consider using Uptime Kuma or another free software solution instead of choosing a proprietary monitoring solution."

There's also an article on the state of free-as-in-freedom videogame console emulators.

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Mageia 10

robot — 2026-07-04 22:44:15

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Почти через 3 года после выхода Mageia 9 наконец-то вышла Mageia 10.

Основные новшества:

• Ядро 6.18, Mesa 26.0, X.Org 21.1, Wayland.

• Для 32-бит: требуется процессор с SSE2, поддержка урезана.

• Оформление: новые обои высокого разрешения (до 4K) в формате JXL.

• Установка: запрос часового пояса в начале (для корректной проверки подписей), поддержка Wi-Fi (с бета-версии), улучшена система восстановления.

• Пакетный менеджер: RPM 4.20, DNF v5 (альтернатива urpmi), добавлена поддержка AppStream.

• Инструменты: обновлены MCC, MageiaWelcome, Isodumper, dnfdragora, manafirewall, python-manatools (новая графическая абстракция для Qt6/GTK4/текста).

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/linux-general/18332512#cut0 ) )

AOL's Owner Bending Spoons Hits Wall Street with $1.7 billion IPO

robot — 2026-07-04 22:22:01

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"The owner of AOL and other tech businesses hit Wall Street with a $1.7 billion initial public offering Wednesday," reports the Associated Press:

The company is getting $1 billion in proceeds, while the rest is going to shareholders. The stock surged 39.7% in its first day of trading under the symbol "BSP" on the Nasdaq, giving it a market value of $25.2 billion.

Among the company's well-known holdings are the event creation and ticketing company Eventbrite, and the video hosting service Vimeo... AOL itself went public in 1992 and was a vanguard of technology and communication. It reached a market value of $164 billion in 2000 shortly before merging with Time Warner. It then crashed along with the rest of the industry following the bursting of the dot-com bubble. It has been bought and sold several times over the last two decades...

[Italy-based Bending Spoons] was founded by three friends in 2013 following the failure of their first attempt at building a technology startup. It has since grown by buying more than 50 companies. The acquired companies are reorganized, and AI technology is often a key tool in the redesign. The focus remains on subscription-based revenue from the portfolio of businesses. The company said it had net income of $27.5 million on revenue of $601 million during the first three months of 2026. It had more than 500 million monthly active users and 9 million monthly paying customers as of March. The company has debt of just under $4.4 billion. It plans to use proceeds from the offering to invest in new acquisitions.

The article notes that in the company's prospectus, it says they chose the name Bending Spoons because "We were about to attempt to create a world-class company with $40,000, a team of five, and a track record that read 0 for 1. A touch of irony seemed appropriate."

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EchoStar's US Satellite Pay-TV Provider Dish DBS Files for Bankruptcy

robot — 2026-07-04 21:22:01

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EchoStar's satellite pay-TV unit Dish DBS has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection, reports Reuters. The move also applies to its wireless subsidiaries, according to the article, and "facilitates the wind-down of Dish Wireless's 5G network operations following an unexpected delay in a spectrum license sale to AT&T... under which EchoStar agreed to sell about 50 megahertz of its nationwide spectrum for $23 billion."

Some context from Deadline.com:

Charlie Ergen, who co-founded EchoStar and Dish, recently returned as chairman and CEO to steer the company through its recent challenges...
Even prior to the merger, Ergen had been working to pivot from the pay-TV business, where Dish now has just 5 million subscribers and streaming sibling Sling TV has another 2 million, toward wireless telecom. With wireless spectrum hitting the market due to the Sprint-T-Mobile merger and then Elon Musk's Starlink looking to ramp up in the sector, it seemed more attractive than the cord-cutting-ravaged pay-TV business. But it is still entails plenty of risk, especially given how tightly regulated the spectrum is due to security concerns.

Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the news.

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Decades-Old Bash Tricks Expose AI Coding Agents To Supply Chain Attacks

robot — 2026-07-04 20:22:01

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Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: AI security researchers have uncovered a structural security flaw dubbed GuardFall that allows decades-old Bash shell tricks to bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents. By exploiting shell behaviors such as quote removal and variable expansion, attackers can hide malicious commands in repositories, README files, Makefiles, or other content consumed by AI agents. If executed — particularly in auto-approve or CI environments—the commands can steal credentials, compromise developer systems, or enable software supply chain attacks. According to researchers at Adversa AI, the 11 popular open source AI coding agents tested, only one successfully blocked all of the Bash trick techniques.

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What Is a Quantum Computer Good For? Absolutely Nothing - Yet

robot — 2026-07-04 19:22:01

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The Verge argues that researchers "have made genuine progress in quantum computing — it's just been largely incremental and too esoteric to immediately capture the public's imagination."

And there are predictions that quantum computers will finally do something useful as soon as 2028:

The drama can overshadow the real progress in quantum computing...
Researchers have improved the qubits themselves, so they hold onto information longer. When they hold onto information longer, you can fit in more operations and do more complicated algorithms. Last November, Andrew Houck of Princeton University and his colleagues reported that they'd made a superconducting qubit that can hold onto information three times longer than the previous record holder... And in the last two years, researchers have made substantial strides in what's known as quantum error correction... In addition, researchers have developed algorithms to correct errors while the quantum computer operates... Microsoft claimed, which experts dispute, that it made an object made of electrons known as a Majorana particle [which should make fewer errors and be easier to scale up]...

"We 100 percent stand behind our results. We stand by our roadmap," Microsoft's quantum lead, Chetan Nayak, responded in an interview with The Verge. In an email statement, he added that Microsoft's "papers do show that we are creating and controlling Majorana [particles]... Microsoft's supporting evidence is unconvincing [according to [Henry Legg, a physicist from the University of St. Andrews and a longtime Microsoft critic]Rnqyq. What it claimed as evidence of a Majorana particle, he says, could actually be due to quantum dots forming in its device. Quantum dots are electron-containing objects that are not useful for Microsoft's quantum computer. It also bases its claim on data from a single device, says Legg. He wants to see Microsoft replicate the results in multiple chips. "If you repeatedly try and find Jesus in your toast, eventually you'll find Jesus in your toast," he says. "But that one piece of toast doesn't mean you had some kind of epiphany."

"While we appreciate the religious fervor, our data maintains the strength and consistency of our roadmap, as we have for the past several years across previous milestones. We look forward to delivering the world's first quantum machine and sharing the energy of our achievements with the world," wrote Nayak in response.

Past spurious work from Microsoft-affiliated researchers adds to the doubt. In 2021, the journal Nature retracted an article from Microsoft-affiliated researchers in which they'd claimed strong experimental evidence that they'd created a Majorana particle.

"Even hopeful experts have varying opinions about when a quantum computer will demonstrate something useful," the article acknowledges.

But quantum computing lecturer Eleanor Crane of King's College London predicts
researchers will have demonstrated a useful scientific simulation on a quantum computer by 2028.

Thanks to Slashdot reader joshuark for sharing the article.

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Startup Targets Datacenters With 3D-Printed Nuclear Reactor Module

robot — 2026-07-04 15:22:01

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Startup Ampera has unveiled what it calls the first 3D-printed nuclear reactor module, built around a silicon-carbide core and pressure vessel designed for a thorium-based microreactor. The company says future systems could deliver 15 or 30 megawatts for up to 30 years without refueling. When The Register asked about availability, their spokesperson said: "We expect the power generation portion of the system to be available as early as 2027, with the nuclear module being available to customers about 2030 based on regulatory approval." From the report: Founder and CEO Brian Matthews revealed the prototype microreactor, which features a fully 3D-printed silicon carbide reactor core and pressure vessel. "This next-generation nuclear core and pressure vessel sets the foundation for factory-built, mass-produced nuclear energy," Matthews said. "The advanced technology and additive manufacturing used demonstrate a clear commercial path for new nuclear technology coming to market in an accelerated manner." His company is developing a subcritical, solid-state, factory-built thorium-based nuclear reactor. Subcritical means the fuel cannot sustain a nuclear chain reaction on its own, which prevents a runaway power excursion.

Ampera uses "solid-state" to describe a design with solid rather than liquid fuel. The proposed fuel uses tristructural isotropic, or TRISO, particles, consisting of a fuel kernel containing thorium, surrounded by multiple ceramic and carbon layers. [...] "Thorium is the future for ultra-safe, clean power production," Matthews said at the time. "By producing TRISO thorium kernels in the United States, we can ensure ample access to the needed fuel supply as we scale up and also minimize price volatility risk."

Ampera also describes the heart of the reactor as as a spherical monolithic gyroid core. A gyroid, as far as we can fathom, is a complex shape that provides a massive surface area relative to its volume, making it well-suited for heat transfer. Its complexity makes it difficult to produce using conventional manufacturing methods, which is where additive manufacturing comes in. The core is 3D-printed using silicon carbide and designed to operate for up to 30 years without refueling, the firm claims. Ampera says its planned systems will provide 15 or 30 MWe, depending on the configuration, enough to supply a typical datacenter. Larger configurations are planned. Matthews said that his company expects to be the first to industrialize factory-built nuclear power with near-term deployment timelines.

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Carbon, движок EVE Online, стал открытым

robot — 2026-07-04 12:44:04

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Fenris Creations, ранее известная как CCP Games, открыла исходный код [ Carbon ]( https://github.com/carbonengine ) — собственного движка, на котором работают EVE Online и EVE Frontier. На [ официальном сайте ]( https://fenris.com/carbon ) Carbon описан как кроссплатформенный фреймворк для создания больших виртуальных миров, где ключевые компоненты можно изучать, использовать и дорабатывать сообществом.

Выложен не один демонстрационный модуль, а набор репозиториев организации [ CARBON Engine на GitHub ]( https://github.com/carbonengine ) : Trinity, Destiny, Scheduler, Core, IO, аудиокомпоненты, инструменты для ресурсов и другие части инфраструктуры. [ Trinity ]( https://github.com/carbonengine/trinity ) отвечает за графический движок Carbon и опубликован под лицензией MIT, но отдельно оговаривается, что она не даёт прав на торговые марки и игровой контент CCP/Fenris. [ Destiny ]( https://github.com/carbonengine/destiny ) описан как ядро симуляции игрового мира для MMO семейства EVE и также распространяется под лицензией MIT.

Fenris выделяет Destiny как систему физики и поиска пути, связанную с рекордными массовыми PvP-сражениями EVE, включая битвы на тысячи участников. CarbonIO отвечает за сетевой слой, CarbonUI — за интерфейс, CarbonAudio — за обработку звука в массовых сценах, а скриптовая часть опирается на Python.

Тем не менее, это не означает, что теперь можно просто собрать свободную EVE Online из исходников. Например, [ README Destiny прямо указывает ]( https://github.com/carbonengine/destiny ) , что для сборки нужны зависимости из Perforce и переменная CCP_EVE_PERFORCE_BRANCH_PATH. В Fenris объясняют открытие Carbon ставкой на прозрачность и долговечность: движок создавался для живых миров, способных существовать десятилетиями, а открытый код должен дать разработчикам возможность изучать и развивать эту основу.

>>> [ Официальный сайт ]( https://fenris.com/carbon )

>>> [ GitHub ]( https://github.com/carbonengine )

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/games/18332639

Возвращение в Ubuntu утилиты cp из Rust Coreutils привело к сбою при сборке livecd-rootfs

robot — 2026-07-04 12:44:03

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Разработчики Ubuntu вернули вариант утилиты cp из набора GNU Coreutils после выявления несовместимости в реализации cp из состава Rust Coreutils, из-за которой стал завершаться ошибкой скрипт для сборки Live-образов (livecd-rootfs).

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65842

Ядро Linux оказалось на первом месте по числу CVE-идентификаторов уязвимостей

robot — 2026-07-04 11:44:03

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Грег Кроа-Хартман (Greg Kroah-Hartman), отвечающий за поддержку стабильной и "staging" веток ядра Linux, сообщил, что за первые 6 месяцев 2026 года в ядре Linux было выявлено 2308 уязвимостей, которым присвоены отдельные CVE-идентификаторы. Таким образом ядро Linux поднялось со второго на первое место по числу присвоенных CVE-идентификаторов среди производителей ПО. Подобный показатель не является объективным, так как большинство производителей присваивают CVE-идентификаторы только опасным уязвимостям, в то время как в ядре Linux учитываются все потенциальные уязвимости, независимо от степени опасности.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65841

Video Game History Foundation Says Piracy Remains the Only Viable Preservation Method

robot — 2026-07-04 11:22:01

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechSpot: Video Game History Foundation founder Frank Cifaldi recently supported claims that piracy is the only effective way to preserve video games. The comments lay the blame squarely on game companies' refusal to keep legacy content available or allow archivists to build legal repositories. Sony's announcement that all PlayStation games will be digital-only from 2028 onward has sparked concern that titles will become harder to preserve and more easily vanish, since the company's servers will become the sole point of distribution. In an official statement, Cifaldi noted that the end of physical PlayStation games has surprisingly little impact on the Foundation's efforts because the majority of games from the last two decades are already digital-only.

According to the Foundation, most games nowadays are not released for consoles, let alone on physical discs. Furthermore, many discs for major titles require downloading updates before they are playable, although the DoesItPlay database reveals that, even today, most are playable offline out of the box. Cifaldi claimed that the true reason piracy remains the best option for preservation is that the Entertainment Software Association, which lobbies for game publishers, has closed off other routes. For example, in 2018, the Association opposed efforts to grant copyright exemptions for museums, libraries, and archives to retain copies of abandoned online games for research.

This is the same organization that recently helped defeat a proposed California bill to preserve premium-priced online-only games by falsely claiming that community servers are illegal. The Foundation accused the ESA of repeatedly blocking attempts by cultural heritage institutions to reform DRM legislation. Cifaldi also described the Library of Congress' outdated software preservation process, which currently only requires tiny snippets of source code. For example, Capcom once asked the Foundation to provide the LoC with "the first and last ten pages of code" for a Mega Man game. Unable to discern where digital records began and ended, the group simply chose random segments. Platform holders' habit of closing online storefronts and removing media from users' accounts is also unhelpful. "What continues to baffle us is what the industry expects institutions like ours to do about it," the Video Game History Foundation said. "If platform owners are deciding to eliminate physical media and older digital storefronts, then we'd also like to see trade groups like the Entertainment Software Association offer meaningful solutions for archives and museums to legally preserve digital-only content and make it accessible for research.

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STATS 2026-07-03

root — 2026-07-04 11:11:01

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TOP20 VISITORS:

[1] PetalBot point=4 web=1235 up=7.9MB (21%) <--- PetalBot
[2] Amazon point=1 web=600 up=4.8MB (12%) <--- Amazon
[3] 216.244.66.x point=1 web=71 up=4.1MB (10%) <--- 216.244.66.x
[4] ClaudeBot point=0 web=252 up=3.8MB (10%)
[5] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=2.6MB (7%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[6] Google point=0 web=215 up=1.3MB (3%)
[7] 217.114.158.x point=25 web=0 up=1.2MB (3%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[8] 62.84.185.x point=0 web=13 up=1.1MB (2%)
[9] 81.167.26.x point=0 web=13 up=1.0MB (2%)
[10] 145.239.69.x point=0 web=8 up=0.7MB (1%)
[11] 104.250.53.x point=0 web=72 up=0.6MB (1%)
[12] 65.108.125.x point=0 web=6 up=0.5MB (1%)
[13] 51.75.119.x point=0 web=8 up=0.5MB (1%)
[14] TikTok point=0 web=95 up=0.5MB (1%)
[15] 88.89.67.x point=0 web=5 up=0.5MB (1%)
[16] 217.182.195.x point=0 web=5 up=0.4MB (1%)
[17] 51.83.7.x point=0 web=5 up=0.4MB (1%)
[18] 147.135.213.x point=0 web=6 up=0.4MB (<1%)
[19] Facebook point=1 web=79 up=0.3MB (<1%) <--- Facebook
[20] 51.68.234.x point=0 web=4 up=0.3MB (<1%)

TOTAL TRAFFIC: 36MB

В KDE улучшена анимация и прекращена поддержка OpenGL в KWin. Уязвимость в обработчике "Open New Window"

robot — 2026-07-04 10:44:03

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Опубликован очередной еженедельный отчёт о разработке KDE, в котором представлена порция изменений для ветки KDE Plasma 6.8, релиз которой запланирован на 14 октября. Среди недавних изменений.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65840

Alibaba To Ban Claude Code In Workplace Over Alleged Backdoor Risks

robot — 2026-07-04 06:22:01

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Alibaba has reportedly banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code and directed them to its own Qoder platform amid a growing dispute over features that can help identify China-linked users. Reuters reports: The ban is part of a deepening spat between the two companies after Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting its Claude AI model capabilities -- a dispute that highlights the frantic race between the U.S. and China to take the lead in artificial intelligence. [...] Anthropic said last month that it had suffered a strike by Alibaba, which it described as a "distillation" effort that involves training a less capable model on the outputs of a stronger one. The distillation helps accelerate China's ability to reach Anthropic's advanced Mythos Preview capabilities, it said in a letter seen by Reuters that was sent to two U.S. senators.

Alibaba's ban comes just days after developers said Claude Code contained mechanisms that inspected user environments, including timezone and proxy-related information, and inserted subtle markers into prompts sent to Anthropic's servers. An Anthropic employee wrote on Tuesday on X that the feature was "an experiment we launched in March" intended to prevent account abuse by unauthorized resellers and protect against model distillation. The person who spoke to Reuters about Alibaba's ban said that Anthropic's restrictions targeting China were difficult to enforce on individual users who can deploy servers in the United States and make traffic appear as if it originated there. But companies were more aware of legal and compliance risks, the person added.

[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/26/07/03/1645222/alibaba-to-ban-claude-code-in-workplace-over-alleged-backdoor-risks?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

Valve Open-Sources Steam Machine's E-Ink Display

robot — 2026-07-04 00:22:02

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Valve has open-sourced the design for a customizable e-ink front panel for the Steam Machine, dubbed the "Inkterface." "All of it is available on their GitLab under the MIT license, which goes over everything you need to make your own and stick it on the front of your fancy new Steam Machine," reports GamingOnLinux. From the report:

They're now calling it the "Inkterface" and there's a good few things you'll need to make it including:
1 x Adafruit ESP32 Feather with 2MB PSRAM.
1 x Adafruit eInk Breakout Friend.
1 x Adafruit 5.83" Monochrome eInk Panel.
13 x M2.5 x 5mm Pan Head Machine Screws.
4 x 1/4" x 1/4" x 3/16" Stepped Magnet SB443-OUT.

Valve even provided a video on the GitLab showing it being put together [...].

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В Fedora приостановлена деятельность "Community Initiatives"

robot — 2026-07-03 23:44:03

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Управляющий совет проекта Fedora (Fedora Council) объявил о приостановке деятельности процесса Community Initiatives, созданного для реализации в дистрибутиве крупных долгосрочных проектов, внедрение которых не укладывается в рамки шестимесячного цикла подготовки релизов Fedora Linux. Предполагалось, что Community Initiatives направит усилия сообщества на реализацию крупных идей, а также позволит получить необходимые ресурсы и поддержку от управляющего совета. Проекты, уже запущенные в рамках процесса Community Initiatives, такие как Fedora Forge, Atomic и Fedora Docs 2026, продолжат работу при полной поддержке управляющего совета и будут доведены до конца в соответствии с намеченным планом.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65838

Уязвимость в пакетном менеджере Guix, допускающая удалённое выполнение кода в системе

robot — 2026-07-03 19:44:03

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В пакетном менеджере Guix выявлены уязвимости (CVE не назначены) в реализации внутренней команды "guix substitute", автоматически вызываемой фоновым процессом guix-daemon при выполнении операций установки пакетов. Команда применяется для загрузки уже собранных бинарных пакетов с внешних серверов с проверкой их целостности при помощи цифровой подписи. Наиболее опасная уязвимость позволяет удалённо организовать выполнение кода на системе пользователя с правами под которыми выполняется фоновый процесс guix-daemon.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65837

New PamStealer macOS Malware Uses Clever Tradecraft To Remain Stealthy

robot — 2026-07-03 19:22:01

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers have found a never-before-seen piece of macOS malware that combines a series of clever tradecraft to infect Macs with stealthy, custom-developed credential-stealing code. The malware is delivered in two stages. The first is distributed in a disk image that masquerades as Maccy, a clipboard manager for Macs. It's compiled as AppleScript that is notable for the way it delivers the second stage. The malware is named PamStealer because the Rust-written infostealer uses the Pluggable Authentication Modules interface built into macOS to validate the target's login password before sending it to an attacker-controlled server.

[...] PamStealer shows a native password prompt designed to resemble a system authorization request. Text that appears with the prompt says: "Maccy wants to make changes. Enter your password to allow this." As noted earlier, once a target complies, the malware validates it locally through the PAM API. "This check is done entirely through PAM: there is no call out to dscl, security, osascript or any spawned process to verify the password, as many commodity macOS stealers do," [said Jamf, a security firm for macOS users]. "The result is a quieter routine that keeps only a verified password, and one fewer process chain for defenders to detect on."

If the validation fails, PamStealer displays the prompts again until it receives the correct one. Once the target enters the correct password, PamStealer displays a message stating that the file is damaged and can't be installed. This is designed to be a decoy to prevent the target from suspecting anything is amiss. The malware uses tactics to maximize the information it can steal. One tactic is to request the target grant full disk access to the fake Maccy app. It also contains code designed to access ethereum accounts. The various techniques -- particularly the Script Editor lure, a self-contained JXA dropper, a Rust-based second stage, and local validation of credentials through PAM are all noteworthy.

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Представлен новый движок симуляции физических процессов Box3D

robot — 2026-07-03 14:44:03

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Эрин Катто (Erin Catto), автор проекта Box2D, объявил о создании нового движка симуляции физических процессов Box3D, который представляет собой форк Box2D, имеющий идентичную архитектуру, но переработанный и расширенный для использования в трёхмерных играх. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией MIT. Поддерживается сборка для Linux, Windows и macOS.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65835

US Life Expectancy On Track To Reach Record High

robot — 2026-07-03 14:22:02

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The US age-adjusted death rate fell to a record low in 2025, likely pushing life expectancy to a record high as overdose deaths declined and mortality improved across all age groups. CNN reports: There were about 689 deaths for every 100,000 people in the US in 2025, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- the lowest rate recorded in more than a century of tracking. The age-adjusted rate has fallen 22% since 2021, landing about 4% lower than it was just before the pandemic in 2019. [...] The top causes of death in the US in 2025 followed longstanding patterns: Heart disease led with nearly 695,000 deaths, followed by cancer with nearly 623,000 deaths.

Unintentional injuries, which includes drug overdoses, were the third leading cause of death. Overdose deaths are still high -- about 70,000 people died from an overdose in 2025, preliminary CDC data shows -- but experts say that sharp declines probably played a large role in bringing the age-adjusted death rate down in the US.

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Представлен crustc - компилятор rustc, переведённый на язык Си

robot — 2026-07-03 11:44:03

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Опубликован crustc, компилятор для языка Rust, созданный путём трансляции кода штатного компилятора rustc 1.98.0-nightly на язык Си. На выходе получилось 46 млн строк кода на Си, которые можно собрать при помощи GCC и утилиты make. Собранный таким способом компилятор успешно проходит тесты компиляции Rust-кода, такого как стандартные rust-библиотеки.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65834

STATS 2026-07-02

root — 2026-07-03 11:11:01

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TOP20 VISITORS:

[1] PetalBot point=2 web=1270 up=8.1MB (20%) <--- PetalBot
[2] ClaudeBot point=0 web=308 up=5.2MB (13%)
[3] 216.244.66.x point=0 web=99 up=3.2MB (8%)
[4] Amazon point=7 web=201 up=3.1MB (8%) <--- Amazon
[5] 37.252.14.x point=143 web=0 up=2.6MB (6%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[6] Google point=0 web=259 up=2.1MB (5%)
[7] 145.239.195.x point=0 web=1 up=1.5MB (3%)
[8] 217.114.158.x point=25 web=0 up=1.3MB (3%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[9] 147.135.253.x point=0 web=1 up=1.3MB (3%)
[10] DataForSeoBot point=0 web=22 up=1.0MB (2%)
[11] 134.101.150.x point=0 web=6 up=0.9MB (2%)
[12] 65.108.2.x point=0 web=6 up=0.9MB (2%)
[13] 62.84.185.x point=0 web=7 up=0.9MB (2%)
[14] 51.83.9.x point=0 web=8 up=0.8MB (2%)
[15] 104.250.53.x point=0 web=99 up=0.8MB (1%)
[16] Facebook point=0 web=99 up=0.8MB (1%)
[17] 135.181.180.x point=0 web=1 up=0.6MB (1%)
[18] 95.217.109.x point=0 web=4 up=0.5MB (1%)
[19] 65.108.125.x point=0 web=1 up=0.4MB (1%)
[20] 217.182.195.x point=0 web=1 up=0.4MB (<1%)

TOTAL TRAFFIC: 38MB

Firefox обогнал Safari по статистике StatCounter для десктоп-систем

robot — 2026-07-03 10:44:02

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По данным рейтинга StatCounter, осуществляющего мониторинг общемировой статистики использования web-браузеров, доля Firefox за месяц выросла с 3.79% до 6.44% в рейтинге браузеров для десктоп-систем, что позволило обогнать браузер Safari, доля которого оценена в 5.19%. Лидером рейтинга остаётся Chrome с долей 72.24%, а второе место занимает Edge (10.45%). Рейтинг замыкают Opera (1.81%) и Samsung Internet (1.41%). Год назад доля Firefox составляла 5.84%, Safari - 7.34%, Chrome - 66.59%, Edge - 13.06%, Opera - 2.63%.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65833

Amazon Has Enough Satellites To Launch Its Starlink Competitor

robot — 2026-07-03 10:22:01

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Amazon says its Leo satellite network now has enough spacecraft in orbit to begin limited commercial internet service, with 396 satellites providing "continuous service across initial latitudes." Early performance will likely be uneven, however, and well behind Starlink. "It'll be years before Amazon can boast similar performance numbers as it continues to launch a planned 3,232 Leo satellites," reports The Verge. From the report: SpaceX went live with its "Better than nothing beta" back in 2020 when it had almost 900 satellites operating in low-Earth orbit. It initially served a narrow band of users in the upper US and Canada, who complained about frequent service interruptions and high sensitivity to obstructions, with speeds between 50Mbps and 150Mbps, and latency from 20ms to 40ms. By 2022, the service and coverage areas had already dramatically improved. [...]

SpaceX currently has over 10,000 Starlink satellites in operation, providing robust internet connectivity on land, sea, and air in over 160 countries. Performance varies by the dish, service level paid for, time of day, and location of the user, but we're now talking 200Mbps median download speeds, 10Mbps to 40Mbps uploads, and latency hovering around 25ms.

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ReactOS получил первый syscall из Windows NT6

robot — 2026-07-03 08:44:03

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1 июля [ ReactOS ]( https://github.com/reactos/reactos ) , свободная ОС с бинарной совместимостью с приложениями и драйверами Windows, [ получила ]( https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/9184 ) первый реализованный системный вызов из семейства Windows NT6.

Добавлены: NtGetCurrentProcessorNumberEx (возвращает номер логического процессора, на котором в данный момент выполняется вызывающий поток), тест для этой функции, реализация в NTOS:KE и NTDLL, а также связанные NT6+ функции уровня RTL/NTDLL, включая RtlGetCurrentProcessorNumberEx и RtlIsProcessorFeaturePresent.

Это изменение символически важно, поскольку ReactOS исторически ориентировался в первую очередь на совместимость с Windows Server 2003 / NT 5.2, но в [ официальном описании данной ОС ]( https://github.com/reactos/reactos ) подчёркивается, что он также смотрит в сторону совместимости с Windows Vista и последующими релизами Windows NT. Как отмечает Phoronix, это очередной шаг в сторону совместимости с ними.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18331850

Sitting For More Than 30 Minutes At a Time Linked To Higher Risk of Cancer Death

robot — 2026-07-03 06:22:02

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Researchers who tracked more than 90,000 people over a decade found that sitting or lying down while awake for more than 30 minutes in one period each day was associated with an increased risk of cancer death. The risk increases for every additional hour of continuous inactivity, the findings suggest. However, the researchers also found breaking up periods of sedentary behavior longer than 30 minutes with bursts of physical activity could help reduce the risk. Getting up every half-hour, even for a short walk around the office, could do wonders for your health, they said.

[...] The findings, published in Plos Medicine, focused on the health effects of prolonged sedentary behavior on a daily basis. [...] The team analyzed data from wearable devices worn by more than 91,000 UK Biobank participants, who were followed for an average of 12 years. The findings suggest prolonged inactivity lasting more than 30 minutes was associated with cancer risks. Each additional hour of prolonged inactivity every day was associated with a 10% increase in risk of cancer death. However, replacing long spells of inactivity with movement appeared to reduce that risk. Substituting one hour of sedentary behavior each day with light physical activity, such as ironing or washing up, was associated with a 12% lower risk of cancer death.

Replacing 30 minutes of inactivity each day with 30 minutes of moderate physical activity, such as walking at an average pace, was associated with an 8% lower risk. The risk was 22% lower when five minutes of inactivity was replaced with five minutes of vigorous physical activity each day, the study suggested. There were limitations to the research, including the fact that the researchers performed a statistical analysis of an observational study, so could not prove causation.

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Labor Force Participation Rate Falls To Lowest In 50 years

robot — 2026-07-03 01:22:01

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The US unemployment rate fell to 4.2% in June largely because 720,000 people left the labor force, pushing participation to 61.5%. Excluding the Covid-era jobs market, that's the lowest participation rate since June 1976. CNBC reports: The decline in the labor force marks a "massive exodus" driven by multiple factors, said Mike Reid, head of U.S. economics at RBC. "The unemployment rate fell to 4.2% as both the number of unemployed workers and the size of the labor force pulled back," Reid wrote in a post-report commentary. "This may well be a story of retirements but could also be a story of prior job seekers dropping out of the labor force."

[...] [T]he rolls of those counted as not in the labor force, a group that includes the unemployed and those not looking for work, jumped by 832,000. And while the establishment survey, which counts jobs filled, showed growth for the month of 57,000, the survey of households, which counts the actual level of those working, tumbled by 507,000. On a year-over-year basis, the labor force is down by just over 1 million, while the level of the employed also has fallen by 1.06 million and the ranks of the unemployed have risen by 40,000. The employment-to-population ratio slipped to 59% in June, the lowest since October 2021. All that has happened while the unemployment rate has risen by just one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.2%.

The drop in participation is sometimes attributed to a shrinking immigrant population and retiring baby boomers and Gen Xers. However, in June the biggest plunge came from what is defined as "prime age" workers, or those between the ages of 25 and 54. That rate fell 0.6 percentage point to 83.3%, its lowest since December 2023. "Looking at the statistics now, that argument doesn't hold up so well," North said of the retirement and immigration rationale. "I hate to use the word 'alarming,'" he added, but said the numbers are cause for concern.

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Проблемы с очисткой ключей шифрования диска из ОЗУ при переходе Linux в ждущий режим

robot — 2026-07-03 00:44:02

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В ходе портирования для NixOS инструментария cryptsetup-suspend была выявлена ошибка в подсистеме дискового шифрования LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup), из-за которой начиная с ядра Linux 6.9 (проблемный коммит), выпущенного в мае 2024 года, перестала работать очистка ключей шифрования из оперативной памяти при переходе системы в ждущий режим.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65831

AI Agent Executes 'First' End-To-End Ransomware Attack

robot — 2026-07-03 00:22:01

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Sysdig says it has documented the first ransomware attack carried out end to end by an AI agent, which autonomously exploited exposed systems, stole credentials, established persistence, compromised a production database, and destroyed data. The research team named the attacker "JadePuffer" and said it gained initial access to an internet-facing Langflow instance by exploiting CVE-2025-3248. "The most striking characteristic, however, was the LLM's behavior," Sysdig director of threat research Michael Clark said in a blog post. An anonymous reader quotes an excerpt from The Register: JadePuffer's "self-narrating" payloads "contained natural language reasoning, target prioritization, and the kind of detailed annotations that human operators don't often write but LLM-generated code produces reflexively," Clark added. "The operation also adapted in real time, retrying failed steps within refined parameters. In one sequence, it went from a failed login to a working fix in 31 seconds." After exploiting CVE-2025-3248, a missing authentication vulnerability in Langflow that allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary Python on the host, the AI agent began scanning for and collecting secrets, including LLM provider API keys, cloud credentials "with explicit coverage of Chinese providers" including Alibaba, Aliyun, Tencent, and Huawei, while also scanning for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform, cryptocurrency wallets, and database credentials.

The AI also installed a crontab entry on the Langflow server to maintain persistence and call back to the attacker's infrastructure every 30 minutes. JadePuffer's intended target was a separate internet-exposed production server running a MySQL database and an Alibaba Nacos configuration service, we're told. Nacos is an open-source service-discovery and dynamic configuration platform developed by Alibaba and used in the cloud provider's microservices applications. The agent connected to the server's exposed MySQL port using root credentials, although Sysdig doesn't know how the attacker obtained them. These credentials weren't stolen from the victim's environment.

JadePuffer then attacked Nacos via multiple vectors including an authorization bypass flaw (CVE-2021-29441) and forging a valid JSON web token (JWT) using Nacos's default signing key. Additionally, using its root database access, the LLM injected a backdoor administrator into the Nacos backing database. It ultimately encrypted all 1,342 Nacos service configuration items using MySQL's built-in AES encryption function, and created an extortion demand, ransom note, Bitcoin payment address, and a Proton Mail contact [...]. However, according to the threat hunters, the victim can't recover the encrypted data, even if they paid the ransom demand, because the agent escalated "from row-level deletion to dropping entire database schemas, narrating its own targeting rationale," without backing up any of the encrypted data.

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Godot Game Engine No Longer Accepts AI Code

robot — 2026-07-02 23:22:02

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The Godot Foundation will stop accepting AI-authored code, agent-submitted pull requests, and AI-generated text in contributor communications after maintainers were overwhelmed by low-effort submissions. "It is time for us to recognize that these problems aren't going away and therefore we need to take steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while ensuring we still have a pipeline to mentor new contributors to become future maintainers," the Godot Foundation said in a blog post. Contributors may still use AI for limited "menial things" if they disclose it, but humans must understand, own, and be able to fix the code they submit. PC Gamer reports: The Foundation says the pileup of Godot pull requests pending review isn't all bad: It's a sign that interest in using and contribution to Godot is increasing. But the influx of contributions authored or submitted by AI is sapping the projects' maintainers of their willingness to confront the "already tedious" work of reviewing pull requests. "If your feedback on PRs is just being absorbed by a machine and not going towards mentoring a potential future maintainer, it becomes much harder to justify spending your free time on PR review," the Foundation said.

As the problem becomes increasingly unsustainable, the Godot Foundation says it's in the process of updating its contribution policies, focusing on "adding barriers to low-effort slop" contributions, encouraging maintainers to review code, developing new contributors into future maintainers, and crucially, requiring that all contributions come from humans who are accountable for their code -- and fixing it if it fails. "AI cannot take responsibility, and we can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it," the Foundation said.

The Foundation says we can expect Godot's contributing policy to soon include explicit rejections of AI-authored code, noting that contributors should only use AI assistance for "menial things" and must disclose its use. Additionally, the Foundation will reject any AI-generated text in human-to-human communications, saying it's "a basic principle of respect" -- though it says machine translations "are still acceptable" if the original text was human-authored. "Things change every day with respect to the current suite of AI tools available," the Foundation said. "We will continue taking a conservative approach in our policies towards them, but we will re-evaluate as things evolve."

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Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features

robot — 2026-07-02 22:22:01

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Meta is introducing a subscription for expanded access to advanced smart-glasses features. According to Wired, "[U]sers will need the Meta One Premium Plan to unlock expanded access to some features for their smart glasses, whether it's the Ray-Ban, Oakley, or Meta-branded version." They'll still be usable with a subscription, but "certain features will be limited," the report says. From the report: Specifically, a feature called Conversation Focus, which boosts the audio of the person you're speaking with so you can hear them better in loud environments. You'll get three hours per month without a subscription, but if you want to use it more often, then you'll need to pay up. Though even then, you're still capped at 15 hours. Subscribing also nets you "Premium Device Support," where you'll get faster access to what Meta says are "human experts" trained on the smart glasses' features, should any problems arise. Guess humans are better at some things after all.

A Meta spokesperson tells WIRED that this is "not an AI rate limit." Rate limits are common on other AI platforms -- users get free access to a feature until they hit a certain cap, then they'll need to subscribe to use it more until the limit resets at the end of the month. However, the Conversation Focus feature runs on-device, meaning it doesn't need to head to Meta's servers for AI processing. There's no real-time way to monitor how many hours you've used Conversation Focus, but you'll receive a notification when you get near the limit.

"The subscription supports that ongoing work and gives power users expanded access along with premium device support," the spokesperson says. "We're going to start testing new optional subscription plans that offer more premium features and advanced capabilities for those who want to unlock more from our apps and AI glasses."

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На kernel.org по ошибке удалили со всех зеркал архивы с кодом ядра

robot — 2026-07-02 22:44:04

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Из-за ошибки при настройке нового первичного зеркала сайта kernel.org и внесении изменений в инфраструктуру, обеспечивающую работу первичных и вторичных зеркал, на существующих зеркалах оказалась удалены все данные в иерархии kernel.org/pub/, в которой среди прочего хранились архивы с кодом всех выпусков ядра, патчи и файлы со списками изменений. Эталонные данные не пострадали, удалены оказались лишь копии на зеркалах, что привело к показу пустого каталога при обращении к kernel.org/pub/. В настоящее время ведётся работа по восстановлению содержимого зеркал.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65830