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[>] Выпуск Альт Виртуализации 10.4
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2025-03-27 23:44:05


Доступен выпуск на 10 платформе (ветка p10 Aronia), «Альт Виртуализация» 10.4.

Сборка подготовлена на x86_64, AArch64, на базе ядра 6.1 LTS.

Скачать образ

• [ download.basealt.ru ]( https://download.basealt.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p10/images/server-v/ )

• [ mirror.yandex.ru ]( http://mirror.yandex.ru/altlinux/p10/images/server-v/ )

• [ ftp.altlinux.org ]( http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p10/images/server-v/ )

В минорной версии 10.4 обновлена пакетная база.

Подробно в рассылках:
[ altlinux-announce-ru@ ]( https://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/altlinux-announce-ru/2025/000053.html )
[ community@ ]( https://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/community/2025-March/689214.html )

[ Состав дистрибутива ]( https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/p10/images/alt-server-v )

[ Сайт загрузки ]( http://getalt.ru )

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/russia/17925943

[>] Утечка пользовательской базы списка рассылки автора сервиса HaveIBeenPwned
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2025-03-27 23:44:03


Трой Хант (Troy Hunt), известный деятель в области компьютерной безопасности, автор курсов по защите информации, создатель сервиса проверки скомпрометированных паролей "Have I Been Pwned?" и региональный директор Microsoft, раскрыл сведения об утечке базы пользователей собственного списка рассылки. История показательна тем, что даже признанные специалисты в области компьютерной безопасности могут стать жертвами типового фишинга при определённом стечении обстоятельств.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62964

[>] Компания LG опубликовала платформу webOS Open Source Edition 2.28
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2025-03-27 22:44:03


Представлен выпуск открытой платформы webOS Open Source Edition 2.28, которая может применяться на различных портативных устройствах, платах и автомобильных информационно-развлекательных системах. Эталонные готовые сборки сформированы для платы Raspberry Pi 4 и системы виртуализации VirtualBox. Платформа развивается в публичном репозитории под лицензией Apache 2.0, а разработку курирует сообщество, придерживаясь совместной модели управления разработкой. В новой версии осуществлён переход на платформу Yocto 5.0, обновлены браузерные компоненты Enact и задействована ветка библиотеки Qt 6.8.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62965

[>] New Windows Scheduled Task Will Launch Office Apps Faster
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2025-03-27 22:22:01


Microsoft plans to roll out a new Windows scheduled task in May that launches automatically to help Microsoft Office apps load faster. From a report: The company says the "Startup Boost" task will launch in the background on logon, with the roll-out to start in mid-May and worldwide general availability to be reached by late May 2025. On systems where it's toggled on, users will see new Office Startup Boost and Office Startup Boost Logon tasks in the Windows Task Scheduler, which will ensure that Office apps can preload "performance enhancements."

"We are introducing a new Startup Boost task from the Microsoft Office installer to optimize performance and load-time of experiences within Office applications," Microsoft says on the Microsoft 365 message center. "After the system performs the task, the app remains in a paused state until the app launches and the sequence resumes, or the system removes the app from memory to reclaim resources. The system can perform this task for an app after a device reboot and periodically as system conditions allow."

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[>] Satya Nadella Says DeepSeek Is the New Bar For Microsoft's AI Success
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2025-03-27 22:22:01


Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has told employees that DeepSeek's R1 AI model has set "the new bar" for his company's AI ambitions, citing the startup's ability to reach the top of app store rankings. "What's most impressive about DeepSeek is that it's a great reminder of what 200 people can do when they come together with one thought and one play," The Verge cited Nadella as saying.

"Most importantly, not just leaving it there as a research project or an open source project, but to turn it into a product that was number one in the App Store. That's the new bar to me," he added. Microsoft quickly deployed DeepSeek's R1 on its Azure platform in January. The AI model gained recognition for its optimization below Nvidia's CUDA layer, enabling greater efficiency.

[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/27/1714214/satya-nadella-says-deepseek-is-the-new-bar-for-microsofts-ai-success?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

[>] Выпуск дистрибутива Q4OS 5.8, поставляемого с пользовательским окружением Trinity
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2025-03-27 21:44:03


Опубликован выпуск дистрибутива Q4OS 5.8, основанного на пакетной базе Debian и поставляемого с рабочими столами KDE Plasma 5 и Trinity (продолжает развитие кодовой базы KDE 3.5.x). Оба пользовательских окружения могут одновременно сосуществовать в одной системе, и пользователь может переключаться между ними. Дистрибутив позиционируется как нетребовательный к аппаратным ресурсам и предлагающий классическое оформление рабочего стола. Размер загрузочного образа 1.5 ГБ (x86_64).

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62963

[>] iPhone Users Can Now Set WhatsApp as Their Default Calling and Texting App
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2025-03-27 21:22:01


An anonymous reader shares a report: You can now choose WhatsApp as your iPhone's default app for calls and text messages, as noted by WABetaInfo. After updating WhatsApp to version 25.8.74, you'll see the app appear as an option in your Messaging and Calling default app settings.

Apple first announced that it would let iPhone users in the European Union change their default phone and messaging apps, but it later said that everyone would be able to do the same in iOS 18.2.

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[>] UK's First Permanent Facial Recognition Cameras Installed
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2025-03-27 20:22:01


The Metropolitan Police has confirmed its first permanent installation of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras is coming this summer and the location will be the South London suburb of Croydon. From a report: The two cameras will be installed in the city center in an effort to combat crime and will be attached to buildings and lamp posts on North End and London Road. According to the police they will only be turned on when officers are in the area and in a position to make an arrest if a criminal is spotted. The installation follows a two-year trial in the area where police vans fitted with the camera have been patrolling the streets matching passersby to its database of suspects or criminals, leading to hundreds of arrests. The Met claims the system can alert them in seconds if a wanted wrong'un is spotted, and if the person gets the all-clear, the image of their face will be deleted.

[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/27/1556222/uks-first-permanent-facial-recognition-cameras-installed?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

[>] Nintendo Unveils Digital Game Sharing
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2025-03-27 20:22:01


Nintendo has announced plans to introduce Virtual Game Cards for its Switch console in late April, allowing users to share digital games across multiple systems, the Japanese gaming company said during its Nintendo Direct event. The new feature will enable players to virtually load and eject digital games between Nintendo Switch consoles, mimicking the flexibility of physical game cartridges.

Users can play a single digital title on up to two systems, requiring only a one-time local connection between devices. The company has also confirmed that Virtual Game Cards will be compatible with both current and next-generation hardware. The system will also feature a family sharing option, allowing users to lend digital games to family members for two-week periods before automatically returning to the owner's account.

[ Read more of this story ]( https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/03/27/1525215/nintendo-unveils-digital-game-sharing?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

[>] Одомашнивание: как волк стал пекинесом? | Иван Затевахин | Ученые против мифов 23-12
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2025-03-27 19:20:10


Опубликовано: 2025-03-27T14:37:31+00:00

Как из волка получился чихуахуа? Одомашнивание и приручение — это одно и то же? Если взять домой волчонка, он одомашнится? Эволюция и одомашнивание никак не связаны?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmmd8jZ84ao

[>] Inside arXiv - the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
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2025-03-27 19:22:01


Paul Ginsparg, a physics professor at Cornell University, created arXiv nearly 35 years ago as a digital repository where researchers could share their findings before peer review. Today, the platform hosts more than 2.6 million papers, receives 20,000 new submissions monthly, and serves 5 million active users, Wired writes in a profile of the platform.

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!" Ginsparg quotes from The Godfather, reflecting his inability to fully hand over the platform despite numerous attempts. If arXiv stopped functioning, scientists worldwide would face immediate disruption. "Everybody in math and physics uses it," says Scott Aaronson, a computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin. "I scan it every night."

ArXiv revolutionized academic publishing, previously dominated by for-profit giants like Elsevier and Springer, by allowing instant and free access to research. Many significant discoveries, including the "transformers" paper that launched the modern AI boom, first appeared on the platform. Initially a collection of shell scripts on Ginsparg's NeXT machine in 1991, arXiv followed him from Los Alamos National Laboratory to Cornell, where it found an institutional home despite administrative challenges. Recent funding from the Simons Foundation has enabled a hiring spree and long-needed technical updates.

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[>] China Built Hundreds of AI Data Centers To Catch the AI Boom. Now Many Stand Unused.
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2025-03-27 18:22:01


China's ambitious AI infrastructure push has resulted in hundreds of idle data centers with local media reporting up to 80% of newly built computing resources remaining unused. The country announced over 500 data center projects during 2023-2024, with at least 150 completed facilities now struggling to secure customers in a rapidly changing market.

The rise of DeepSeek's open-source reasoning model R1, which matches ChatGPT o1's performance at a fraction of the cost, has fundamentally altered hardware demand. Computing needs now prioritize low-latency infrastructure for real-time reasoning rather than facilities optimized for large-scale training workloads.

Technical misalignment compounds the problem, as many centers were constructed by companies with little AI expertise, MIT Technology Review reports. The facilities, often built in remote regions to capitalize on cheaper electricity and land, now face obsolescence as AI companies require proximity to tech hubs to minimize transmission delays. GPU rental prices have collapsed, with eight-GPU Nvidia H100 server clusters now leasing for 75,000 yuan ($10,333) monthly, down from peaks of 180,000 yuan, making operations financially unsustainable for many data center operators.

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[>] Lug 0.5.0
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2025-03-27 17:44:04


19 марта состоялся выпуск C++ библиотеки [ Lug ]( https://github.com/jwtowner/lug ) , реализующей встраиваемый [ предметно-ориентированный язык ]( https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Предметно-ориентированный_язык ) для выражения синтаксических анализаторов в виде расширенных [ грамматик синтаксических выражений ]( https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Грамматика,_разбирающая_выражение ) , и распространяемой по лицензии MIT.

Возможности библиотеки:

• Естественный синтаксис, напоминающий языки внешних генераторов парсеров, с поддержкой атрибутов и семантических действий.

• Возможность работы с контекстно-зависимыми грамматиками с таблицами символов, условиями и синтаксическими предикатами.

• Сгенерированные парсеры компилируются в байткод и выполняются в виртуальной машине синтаксического анализа.

• Чёткое разделение синтаксических и лексических правил с возможностью настройки неявного пропуска пробельных символов.

• Поддержка прямой и косвенной левой рекурсии, с уровнями старшинства для разграничения подвыражений со смешанными левой и правой рекурсиями.

• Полная поддержка разбора текста в формате UTF-8, включая уровень 1 и частичное соответствие уровню 2 технического стандарта [ UTS #18 Unicode Regular Expressions ]( https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18 ) .

• Обработка ошибок и восстановление с помощью помеченных сбоев, правил восстановления и обработчиков ошибок.

• Автоматическое отслеживание номеров строк и колонок, настраиваемая ширина и выравнивание табуляции.

• Header-only-библиотека, использующая только стандартную библиотеку и возможности стандарта C++17. Перспективно совместима со стандартами C++20 и C++23.

• Относительно небольшой размер библиотеки, с целью содержания общего количества строк во всех заголовочных файлах на уровне менее 6000 строк лаконичного кода.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/development/17925650#cut ) )

[>] Qualcomm Launches Global Antitrust Campaign Against Arm
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2025-03-27 17:22:01


An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: Qualcomm has reportedly filed secret complaints against Arm with the European Commission, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Korea Fair Trade Commission. Qualcomm argues that Arm's open licensing approach helped build a robust hardware and software ecosystem. However, this ecosystem is under threat now as Arm moves to restrict that access to benefit its chip design business, namely compute subsystems (CSS) reference designs for client and datacenter processors and custom silicon based on CSS for large-scale clients.

Qualcomm has presented its case to the EC, U.S. FTC, and Korea FTC behind closed doors and through formal filings, so it does not comment on the matter now. Arm rejected the accusations, stating that it is committed to innovation, competition, and upholding contract terms. The company called Qualcomm's move an attempt to shift attention from a wider commercial dispute between the two companies and use regulatory pressure for its benefit.

Indeed, the antitrust complaints align with Qualcomm's arguments in a recent legal clash with Arm in Delaware. Qualcomm won that trial, as the court ruled that the company did not break the terms of its architecture license agreement (ALA) and technology license agreement (TLA) by acquiring Nuvia and using its IP in its Snapdragon X processors for client PCs. Arm said it would seek a retrial. However, Qualcomm seems to want to ensure that it will have access to Arm's instruction set architecture and technologies by filing complaints with antitrust regulators.

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[>] В Live-образах Debian 12 реализована поддержка повторяемых сборок
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2025-03-27 15:44:03


Разработчики проекта Debian объявили о реализации повторяемых сборок для всех официальных Live-образов Debian 12.10, а также для сборок всех значительных сред рабочего стола из репозиториев Debian 11, 12 и 13 (testing). Подготовлена инструкция, при помощи которой на основе доступных в репозитории исходных текстов пользователи могут сформировать свои Live-образы, на 100% идентичные на бинарном уровне с предоставляемыми проектом готовыми Live-образами.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62961

[>] Space Force Certifies Vulcan For National Security Launches
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2025-03-27 14:22:01


The U.S. Space Force has certified United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket for national security missions after successful test flights and resolution of a booster nozzle issue. This certification allows ULA to join SpaceX in conducting launches under the National Security Space Launch program, with Vulcan missions expected to begin this summer. SpaceNews reports: "Thank you to all our customer partners who have worked hand-in-hand with us throughout this comprehensive certification process. We are grateful for the collaboration and excited to reach this critical milestone in Vulcan development," said Tory Bruno, president and chief executive of United Launch Alliance in a ULA statement about the vehicle's certification.

Bruno said at the roundtable that the next launch by ULA will be of its Atlas 5, carrying a set of Project Kuiper broadband satellites for Amazon. That launch is expected as soon as next month. He said then that would be followed by the first two Vulcan national security launches, missions designated USSF-106 and USSF-87. ULA did not give a schedule for those upcoming Vulcan launches but Space Systems Command, in a summary accompanying its press release, said the first NSSL mission on Vulcan is planned for the summer. Bruno said at the roundtable that the payloads for those missions have "complex processing" requirements beyond a typical mission, and did not state how long it would take them to be ready for a launch.

Bruno said ULA is projecting a dozen launches this year, split roughly evenly between Atlas and Vulcan and between national security and commercial missions. ULA has been stockpiling components, such as BE-4 engines and solid rocket boosters, needed for those missions. "We're all staged up and ready, and as spacecraft show up, we'll be able to fly them," he said. He noted the company wants to get to a "baseline tempo" of two launches a month by the end of this year and perform 20 launches next year.

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[>] В ядро Linux добавлена поддержка работы в качестве хост-системы для Hyper-V
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2025-03-27 13:44:03


В состав кодовой базы ядра Linux, на основе которой формируется выпуск 6.15, принято изменение, добавляющее возможность использования Linux в качестве корневого окружения (Dom0. root partition) для гипервизора Hyper-V (Microsoft Hypervisor). Хост-окружение отвечает за управление гипервизором, организацию запуска гостевых систем, выделение ресурсов и обеспечение взаимодействия виртуальных машин с оборудованием. Управления гипервизором в Linux осуществляется через устройство /dev/mshv. Кроме того, в том же наборе патчей для виртуальных машин, использующих Hyper-V, добавлена возможность отключения на лету отдельных процессорных ядер (CPU offlining).

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62959

[>] Обновление почтового сервера Exim 4.98.2 с устранением уязвимости
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2025-03-27 12:44:02


Опубликован корректирующий выпуск почтового сервера Exim 4.98.2, в котором устранена уязвимость (CVE-2025-30232), потенциально позволяющая поднять свои привилегии. Возможна ли удалённая эксплуатация уязвимости не уточняется.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62960

[>] Surgeons Transplant Genetically Modified Pig Liver Into Chinese Patient
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2025-03-27 11:22:01


Scientists in China successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a brain-dead patient, where it functioned for 10 days. The liver, modified to reduce immune rejection, produced key proteins and bile, showing compatibility and offering hope for future short-term xenotransplants. The Guardian reports: The surgery, at a Chinese hospital last year, is thought to mark the first time a pig liver has been transplanted into a human. It raises the prospect of pig livers serving as a "bridging organ" for patients on the waiting list for a transplant or to support liver function while their own organ regenerates. [...] The latest procedure was carried out in a 50-year-old man diagnosed with brain death after a severe head injury. The patient's own liver was intact and, in a surgery that took more than 10 hours, the organ taken from a genetically modified Bama miniature pig was plumbed into his blood supply as an additional liver.

The pig had six genetic modifications aimed at preventing immune rejection. These included deactivating genes that contribute to the production of sugars on the surface of pig cells, which the human immune system attacks, and introducing genes that express human proteins to "humanize" the liver. After the transplant, the pig liver showed signs of functioning, including producing bile, which helps break down fats in the digestive system, and porcine albumin, a blood protein. The team behind the advance, described in the journal Nature, said it was not clear whether the liver would have been able to fully support the patient, given that he had an existing liver and because the liver was removed after 10 days at the request of his family.

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[>] STATS 2025-03-26
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[>] OpenAI's Viral Studio Ghibli Moment Highlights AI Copyright Concerns
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2025-03-27 08:22:01


An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: It's only been a day since ChatGPT's new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Spirited Away." In the last 24 hours, we've seen AI-generated images representing Studio Ghibli versions of Elon Musk, "The Lord of the Rings", and President Donald Trump. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman even seems to have made his new profile picture a Studio Ghibli-style image, presumably made with GPT-4o's native image generator. Users seem to be uploading existing images and pictures into ChatGPT and asking the chatbot to re-create it in new styles.

OpenAI's latest update comes on the heels of Google's release of a similar AI image feature in its Gemini Flash model, which also sparked a viral moment earlier in March when people used it to remove watermarks from images. OpenAI's and Google's latest tools make it easier than ever to re-create the styles of copyrighted works -- simply by typing a text prompt. Together, these new AI image features seem to reignite concerns at the core of several lawsuits against generative AI model developers. If these companies are training on copyrighted works, are they violating copyright law?

According to Evan Brown, an intellectual property lawyer at the law firm Neal & McDevitt, products like GPT-4o's native image generator operate in a legal gray area today. Style is not explicitly protected by copyright, according to Brown, meaning OpenAI does not appear to be breaking the law simply by generating images that look like Studio Ghibli movies. However, Brown says it's plausible that OpenAI achieved this likeness by training its model on millions of frames from Ghibli's films. Even if that was the case, several courts are still deciding whether training AI models on copyrighted works falls under fair use protections. "I think this raises the same question that we've been asking ourselves for a couple years now," said Brown in an interview. "What are the copyright infringement implications of going out, crawling the web, and copying into these databases?"

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[>] Scientists Record First Sounds Ever Known To Be Made By Sharks
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sciencehabit quotes a report from Science.org: Whales sing, orcas squeal, and sea turtles croak. But sharks are more the strong, silent type. Now, researchers report the first evidence that sharks make sounds, too, described today in Royal Society Open Science. The animals may be making the sounds -- a series of clicking noises -- by snapping their flat rows of teeth, which are blunt for crushing prey. The sharks can hear mostly low-frequency noise, and the clicks they emit are higher pitched, which suggests they are not for communicating with other rigs. It's possible they are a defensive tactic. Marine mammals that eat rigs, such as leopard seals, can hear in the frequency range of the rig clicks, but the researchers question whether a few clicks would deter an attack. The sounds might be part of their response to being startled, the team says.

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[>] JPMorgan Says Quantum Experiment Generated Truly Random Numbers
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JPMorgan Chase used a quantum computer from Honeywell's Quantinuum to generate and mathematically certify truly random numbers -- an advancement that could significantly enhance encryption, security, and financial applications. The breakthrough was validated with help from U.S. national laboratories and has been published in the journal Nature. From a report: Between May 2023 and May 2024, cryptographers at JPMorgan wrote an algorithm for a quantum computer to generate random numbers, which they ran on Quantinuum's machine. The US Department of Energy's supercomputers were then used to test whether the output was truly random. "It's a breakthrough result," project lead and Head of Global Technology Applied Research at JPMorgan, Marco Pistoia told Bloomberg in an interview. "The next step will be to understand where we can apply it."

Applications could ultimately include more energy-efficient cryptocurrency, online gambling, and any other activity hinging on complete randomness, such as deciding which precincts to audit in elections.

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[>] Fidelity Prepares To Unveil Its Own Stablecoin
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According to the Financial Times, Fidelity Investments is in advanced stages of developing its own stablecoin. Binance reports: The Boston-based financial services giant plans for the token to serve as a form of digital cash, according to the report, which cites two people close to the matter. The token would form part of company's strategy to enter the tokenized government bonds market. Stablecoins are a cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to a real-world asset such as the U.S. dollar or gold. They provide a convenient way for crypto traders to preserve their fiat value without having to cash out of the market.

The news emerges just days after Fidelity filed paperwork to register a blockchain-based version of its U.S. dollar money market fund. The company seeks to register an "OnChain" share class of its Treasury Digital Fund (FYHXX), which holds cash and U.S. Treasury securities and is available only to Fidelity's hedge fund and institutional clients. A Fidelity stablecoin could fill the role of cash in this fund. The report comes a day after World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family, launched a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin called USD1.

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[>] Linux Kernel 6.14 Is a Big Leap Forward In Performance, Windows Compatibility
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet, written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols: Despite the minor delay, Linux 6.14 arrives packed with cutting-edge features and improvements to power upcoming Linux distributions, such as the forthcoming Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42. The big news for desktop users is the improved NTSYNC driver, especially those who like to play Windows games or run Windows programs on Linux. This driver is designed to emulate Windows NT synchronization primitives. What that feature means for you and me is that it will significantly improve the performance of Windows programs running on Wine and Steam Play. [...] Gamers always want the best possible graphics performance, so they'll also be happy to see that Linux now supports recently launched AMD RDNA 4 graphics cards. This approach includes support for the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics cards. Combine this support with the recently improved open-source RADV driver and AMD gamers should see the best speed yet on their gaming rigs.

Of course, the release is not just for gamers. Linux 6.14 also includes several AMD and Intel processor enhancements. These boosts focus on power management, thermal control, and compute performance optimizations. These updates are expected to improve overall system efficiency and performance. This release also comes with the AMDXDNA driver, which provides official support for AMD's neural processing units based on the XDNA architecture. This integration enables efficient execution of AI workloads, such as convolutional neural networks and large language models, directly on supported AMD hardware. While Rust has faced some difficulties in recent months in Linux, more Rust programming language abstractions have been integrated into the kernel, laying the groundwork for future drivers written in Rust. [...] Besides drivers, Miguel Ojeda, Rust for Linux's lead developer, said recently that the introduction of the macro for smart pointers with Rust 1.84: derive(CoercePointee) is an "important milestone on the way to building a kernel that only uses stable Rust functions." This approach will also make integrating C and Rust code easier. We're getting much closer to Rust being grafted into Linux's tree.

In addition, Linux 6.14 supports Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile processor, enhancing performance and stability for devices powered by this chipset. That support means you can expect to see much faster Android-based smartphones later this year. This release includes a patch for the so-called GhostWrite vulnerability, which can be used to root some RISC-V processors. This fix will block such attacks. Additionally, Linux 6.14 includes improvements for the copy-on-write Btrfs file system/logical volume manager. These primarily read-balancing methods offer flexibility for different RAID hardware configurations and workloads. Additionally, support for uncached buffered I/O optimizes memory usage on systems with fast storage devices. Linux 6.14 is available for download here.

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[>] Over 4 Million Gen Zers Are Jobless
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Fortune reports that over 4 million Gen Zers are currently not in education, employment, or training (NEET), with experts blaming a broken educational system and "worthless degrees" for failing to deliver on promises of career readiness. From the report: While some Gen Zers may fall into this category because they are taking care of a family member, many have become frozen out of the increasingly tough job market where white-collar jobs are becoming seemingly out of reach. In the U.S., this translates to an estimated over 4.3 million young people not in school or work. Across the pond in the U.K., the situation is also only getting worse, with the number of NEET young people rising by over 100,000 in the last year alone.

A British podcaster went so far as to call the situation a "catastrophe" -- and cast a broad-stroke blame on the education system. "In many cases, young people have been sent off to universities for worthless degrees which have produced nothing for them at all," the political commentator, journalist and author, Peter Hitchens slammed colleges last week. "And they would be much better off if they apprenticed to plumbers or electricians, they would be able to look forward to a much more abundant and satisfying life." With millions of Gen Zers waking up each day feeling left behind, there needs to be a "wake-up call" that includes educational and workplace partners stepping up, Jeff Bulanda, vice president at Jobs for the Future, tells Fortune.

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[>] US Expands Export Blacklist To Keep Computing Tech Out of China
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The U.S. has added 80 entities to its export blacklist to prevent China from acquiring advanced American chips for military development, including AI, quantum tech, and hypersonic weapons. The Verge reports: More than 50 of the new entities added to the list are based in China, with others located in Iran, Taiwan, Pakistan, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates. BIS says the restrictions have been applied to entities that acted "contrary to US national security and foreign policy," and are intended to hinder China's ability to develop high-performance computing capabilities, quantum technologies, advanced artificial intelligence, and hypersonic weapons.

Six of the newly blacklisted entities are subsidiaries of Inspur Group -- China's leading cloud computing service provider and a major customer for US chip makers such as Nvidia, AMD, and Intel -- which BIS alleges had contributed to projects developing supercomputers for the Chinese military. The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence is another addition to the list, which has criticized its inclusion. "American technology should never be used against the American people," said Jeffrey Kessler, Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security. "BIS is sending a clear, resounding message that the Trump administration will work tirelessly to safeguard our national security by preventing U.S. technologies and goods from being misused for high performance computing, hypersonic missiles, military aircraft training, and UAVs that threaten our national security."

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[>] Business Schools Are Back
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An anonymous reader shares a report: After years of decline, the number of applications to the country's two-year MBA programs rebounded in 2024 -- rising 19%, according to a survey by the Graduate Management Admission Council. The pandemic saw a blossoming of new ways to deliver an MBA, but tradition has reasserted itself: The biggest growth last year was in conventional two-year and part-time programs.

As in recent years, the great majority of student demand came from overseas, but applications from the US rose as well. While the two-year class graduating this spring included record levels of international students at many institutions, most of the top 20 schools as ranked by Bloomberg Businessweek welcomed classes last fall with a reduced international presence. Given the Trump administration's hostility to immigration, the graduating class of 2025 could prove to be the high-water mark for international MBA students in the US for at least the near future.

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[>] VMware Sues Siemens For Allegedly Using Unlicensed Software
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VMware has sued industrial giant AG Siemens's US operations for alleged use of unlicensed software and accused it of changing its story negotiations. From a report: The case was filed last Friday in the US District Court for the District Delaware. VMware's complaint [PDF] alleges that Siemens AG's US operations used more VMware software that it had licensed. Siemens's use of VMware became contentious when it tried to arrange extended support for some products.

On September 9, 2024, Siemens apparently produced a list of the VMware software it used and "demanded that VMware accept a purchase order to provide maintenance and support services for the listed products." The complaint states that list mentioned VMware deployments that "far exceeded the number of licenses it [Siemens] had actually purchased."

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[>] Google Will Develop the Android OS Fully In Private
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Android Authority: No matter the manufacturer, every Android phone has one thing in common: its software base. Manufacturers can heavily customize the look and feel of the Android OS they ship on their Android devices, but under the hood, the core system functionality is derived from the same open-source foundation: the Android Open Source Project. After over 16 years, Google is making big changes to how it develops the open source version of Android in an effort to streamline its development. [...] Beginning next week, all Android development will occur within Google's internal branches, and the source code for changes will only be released when Google publishes a new branch containing those changes. As this is already the practice for most Android component changes, Google is simply consolidating its development efforts into a single branch.

This change will have minimal impact on regular users. While it streamlines Android OS development for Google, potentially affecting the speed of new version development and bug reduction, the overall effect will likely be imperceptible. Therefore, don't expect this change to accelerate OS updates for your phone. This change will also have minimal impact on most developers. App developers are unaffected, as it pertains only to platform development. Platform developers, including those who build custom ROMs, will largely also see little change, since they typically base their work on specific tags or release branches, not the main AOSP branch. Similarly, companies that release forked AOSP products rarely use the main AOSP branch due to its inherent instability.

External developers who enjoy reading or contributing to AOSP will likely be dismayed by this news, as it reduces their insight into Google's development efforts. Without a GMS license, contributing to Android OS development becomes more challenging, as the available code will consistently lag behind by weeks or months. This news will also make it more challenging for some developers to keep up with new Android platform changes, as they'll no longer be able to track changes in AOSP. For reporters, this change means less access to potentially revealing information, as AOSP patches often provide insights into Google's development plans. [...] Google will share more details about this change when it announces it later this week. If you're interested in learning more, be sure to keep an eye out for the announcement and new documentation on source.android.com. Android Authority's Mishaal Rahman says Google is "committed to publishing Android's source code, so this change doesn't mean that Android is becoming closed-source."

"What will change is the frequency of public source code releases for specific Android components," says Rahman. "Some components like the build system, update engine, Bluetooth stack, Virtualization framework, and SELinux configuration are currently AOSP-first, meaning they're developed fully in public. Most Android components like the core OS framework are primarily developed internally, although some features, such as the unlocked-only storage area API, are still developed within AOSP."

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[>] Выпуск Zorin OS 17.3, дистрибутива для пользователей, привыкших к Windows или macOS
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После 6 месяцев разработки опубликован релиз Linux-дистрибутива Zorin OS 17.3, основанного на пакетной базе Ubuntu 22.04. Целевой аудиторией дистрибутива являются начинающие пользователи, привыкшие работать в Windows. Для управления оформлением дистрибутив предлагает специальный конфигуратор, позволяющий придать рабочему столу вид, свойственный различным версиям Windows и macOS, а в состав включена подборка программ, близких к программам, к которым привыкли пользователи Windows. Размер загрузочного iso-образа составляет 3.4 ГБ.

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[>] Новая версия музыкального проигрывателя DeaDBeeF 1.10.0
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После почти трёх лет со времени публикации прошлой значительной ветки представлен релиз музыкального плеера DeaDBeeF 1.10.0. Плеер написан на языке Си и может работать с минимальным набором зависимостей. Код распространяется под лицензией Zlib. Интерфейс построен с использованием библиотеки GTK, поддерживает вкладки и может расширяться через виджеты и плагины.

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[>] Dell's Staff Numbers Have Dropped By 25,000 in Just 2 Years
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Computer maker Dell's staff numbers have fallen by 25,000 in the last two years. In its latest 10-K filing, published on Tuesday, the company said that it had about 108,000 global employees as of January 31, 2025. In February 2024, that number was 120,000, marking a 10% annual reduction in the workforce. From a report: Looking back two years, Dell's head count stood at 133,000, meaning that since February 2023, the Texas-based tech company has reduced its workforce by 19%. The decline in Dell's head count comes after a year of both layoffs and RTO mandates. In August, the company significantly restructured its sales division, which it told workers was necessary to prepare for "the world of AI." As part of the restructuring, Dell laid off workers, though it did not specify how many.

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[>] Google переходит к разработке Android за закрытыми дверями с открытием кода после релизов
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Компания Google начиная со следующей недели переходит на новую модель разработки платформы Android, в соответствии с которой релизы будут развиваться за закрытыми дверями, без публикации в открытом доступе промежуточных результатов разработки и без публичного рецензирования изменений в отдельных компонентах. Платформа продолжит быть открытой и распространяться под лицензией Apache 2.0, но исходный код в репозитории AOSP (Android Open Source Project) будет размещаться только после готовности релизов.

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[>] Microsoft Abandons Data Center Projects, TD Cowen Says
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Microsoft has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who attributed the pullback to an oversupply of the clusters of computers that power artificial intelligence. From a report: The analysts, who rattled investors with a February note highlighting leases Microsoft had abandoned in the US, said the latest move also reflected the company's choice to forgo some new business from ChatGPT maker OpenAI, which it has backed with some $13 billion. Microsoft and the startup earlier this year said they had altered their multiyear agreement, letting OpenAI use cloud-computing services from other companies, provided Microsoft didn't want the business itself.

Microsoft's retrenchment in the last six months included lease cancellations and deferrals, the TD Cowen analysts said in their latest research note, dated Wednesday. Alphabet's Google had stepped in to grab some leases Microsoft abandoned in Europe, the analysts wrote, while Meta Platforms had scooped up some of the freed capacity in Europe.

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[>] Who Wins Nobel Prizes?
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The United States has won far more Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, and medicine than any other nation, with the UK and Germany following in second and third place, according to an analysis of nearly 900 prize-winning publications.

Universities account for roughly three-fourths of Nobel Prize-winning research, with a small number of elite institutions producing a disproportionate share of winners. Cambridge University leads with 32 prizes, followed by Harvard (22) and Columbia (13). While prizes are concentrated among researchers from the US, UK, and Germany, 43 countries have produced at least one scientific Nobel laureate.

Outside Europe and the Anglosphere, Japan leads with 11 prizes, while Argentina, China, and India have only one or two each. The average age of Nobel Prize winners has steadily increased from about 45 in the 1920s to 65 in the 2010s, though the age at which scientists perform their groundbreaking work has remained relatively constant at around 40.

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[>] Quitting Your Job Won't Help You Get Paid More Money Right Now
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Here's one more reason to cling to a steady job: It doesn't pay to quit. From a report: Typically workers who snag a new position see higher pay bumps than those holding down the same job. But in February, median wage growth of 4.4% for job stayers surpassed a 4.2% gain for job switchers, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The change, as measured by a three-month moving average, is yet another sign of a softening labor market. White collar workers have been clinging to their jobs in the face of widespread layoffs and workplace reductions. Last month, employers announced the fastest pace of job cuts since 2020, when factoring in government job losses. And now an oversupply of job seekers means workers are having to settle for smaller pay bumps, said Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

"That certainly sounds like a big slackening of the job market," Cappelli said. It's a major reversal from the "Great Resignation" a few years ago, when workers left their jobs at unprecedented rates, demanding more benefits and higher pay from employers. At a peak in July 2022, workers who got new jobs saw their wages grow by a whopping 8.5% compared to 5.9% for those who stayed loyal to their company, Atlanta Fed data show.

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[>] Signal President Blasts WhatsApp's Privacy Claims
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Signal president Meredith Whittaker challenged recent assertions by WhatsApp head Will Cathcart that minimal differences exist between the two messaging platforms' privacy protections. "We're amused to see WhatsApp stretching the limits of reality to claim that they are just like Signal," Whittaker said in a statement published Monday, responding to Cathcart's comments to Dutch journalists last week.

While WhatsApp licenses Signal's end-to-end encryption technology, Whittaker said that WhatsApp still collects substantial user metadata, including "location data, contact lists, when they send someone a message, when they stop, what users are in their group chats, their profile picture, and much more." Cathcart had previously stated that WhatsApp doesn't track users' communications or share contact information with other companies, claiming "we strongly believe in private communication."

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[>] Streaming Services Are Facing Identity Crisis, Research Shows
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Streaming platforms are increasingly indistinguishable to consumers despite high brand awareness, according to Hub Entertainment Research. The annual Evolution of Video Branding report shows major services like Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and Max experiencing year-over-year declines in viewers' ability to articulate what makes each platform unique.

Fewer consumers (37% in 2025, down from 41% in 2023) report signing up for services to watch specific shows, while many can't correctly identify where signature programs like Game of Thrones or The Bear can be viewed. While 58% know Stranger Things streams on Netflix, less than half can properly place other major titles.

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[>] London Bans Most E-Bikes on Public Transport Over Fire Risk
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2025-03-26 19:22:03


Transport for London will ban most e-bikes across its network from March 31 amid growing safety concerns over battery fires, the transport authority announced on Wednesday. The ban, covering London Underground, Overground, Elizabeth Line and DLR trains, exempts only folding e-bikes, which are considered less likely to have been modified and pose a reduced safety risk.

TfL implemented the measure following union strike threats after several incidents, including an e-bike that exploded into flames at Rayners Lane Underground platform last month. The train drivers' union Aslef said the incident could have caused mass casualties.

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[>] Для KDE разрабатывают новый менеджер входа для замены SDDM
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2025-03-26 18:44:03


Дэвид Эдмундсон (David Edmundson) и Оливер Бирд (Oliver Beard) представили в списке рассылки разработчиков KDE проект по созданию нового дисплейного менеджера - Plasma Login Manager. Желание заменить менеджер входа объясняется наличием не решаемых архитектурных проблем в дисплейном менеджере SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager), который начиная с Plasma 5 пришёл на смену KDM.

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[>] Apple Barred From Google Antitrust Trial, $20 Billion Search Deal at Risk
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2025-03-26 18:22:02


A U.S. appeals court has ruled that Apple cannot participate in Google's upcoming antitrust trial, potentially jeopardizing a $20 billion annual deal between the tech giants. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that Apple waited too long to join the proceedings, filing its request 33 days after the government proposed remedies in the case Google lost last August.

"The delay seems difficult to justify," the judges ruled. While Apple can still submit written testimony and file friend-of-court briefs, it cannot present evidence or cross-examine witnesses as it had sought. At stake is Google's practice of paying Apple approximately $20 billion annually to remain the default search engine in Safari browsers across Apple devices. The government's proposed remedies would make such arrangements impermissible.

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[>] Chicago-Sized Iceberg Hid Ancient Ecosystem, Scientists Reveal
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2025-03-26 17:22:02


An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Scientists scrutinizing the seafloor beneath a calving iceberg found a remarkable array of living creatures, switching up notions of how the giant chunks of ice affect their immediate environs. The scientists investigated a region of seafloor recently exposed by the calving of a gigantic iceberg -- A-84 -- which is as large as Chicago. The team found a surprisingly vibrant community of critters on the seafloor below where A-84 was once attached to an ice shelf attached to Antarctica.

Without the 197-square-mile (510-square-kilometer) iceberg in the way, the team was able to scrutinize the seafloor at depths of 4,265 feet (1,300 meters) using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) SuBastian. The team found large corals and sponges supporting other lifeforms, including icefish, giant sea spiders, and octopus. [...] With the icebergs covering the seafloor, organisms below the shelf cannot get nutrients for survival from the surface. The team hypothesized that ocean currents are a critical driver for life beneath the ice sheets. The team also collected data on the larger ice sheet, whose shrinking size spells concern for the animals that live beneath it.

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[>] Компания Cloudflare опубликовала opkssh для аутентификации в SSH через OpenID Connect
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2025-03-26 16:44:03


Компания Cloudflare представила инструментарий opkssh (OpenPubkey SSH), позволяющий интегрировать в OpenSSH средства централизованной аутентификации с возможностью входа через провайдеров OpenID Connect. При помощи opkssh можно избавиться от ручной работы по управлению и настройке SSH-ключей, а также организовать подключение к серверу с любых хостов, без необходимости создания закрытых ключей на каждом клиентском компьютере и без ручного копирования открытых ключей на сервер. Для подключения достаточно выполнить на сервере привязку к учётной записи у провайдера OpenID. Код инструментария написан на языке Go и распространяется под лицензией Apache 2.0.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62952

[>] Google Patches Chrome Sandbox Escape Zero-Day Caught By Kaspersky
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2025-03-26 14:22:02


wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Google late Tuesday rushed out a patch for a sandbox escape vulnerability in its flagship Chrome browser after researchers at Kaspersky caught a professional hacking operation launching drive-by download exploits. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-2783, was chained with a second exploit for remote code execution in what appears to be a nation-state sponsored cyberespionage campaign [dubbed Operation ForumTroll] targeting organizations in Russia.

Kaspersky said it detected a series of infections triggered by phishing emails in the middle of March and traced the incidents to a zero-day that fired when victims simply clicked on a booby-trapped website from a Chrome browser. The Russian anti-malware vendor said victims merely had to click on a personalized, short-lived link, and their systems were compromised when the malicious website was opened in Chrome. Kaspersky said its exploit detection tools picked up on the zero-day, and after reverse-engineering the code, the team reported the bug to Google and coordinated the fix released on Tuesday.

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[>] Выпуск системы проектирования печатных плат LibrePCB 1.3.0
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-03-26 12:44:03


Представлен выпуск свободного пакета для автоматизации проектирования печатных плат LibrePCB 1.3.0. LibrePCB позиционируется как интуитивно понятный пакет для быстрой разработки плат, который отстаёт по функциональности от KiCad, но гораздо проще в работе и при этом учитывает потребности не только начинающих, но и профессиональных инженеров. Программа поставляется в сборках для Linux (Flatpak, Snap, AppImage), FreeBSD, macOS и Windows. Код проекта написан на языке C++ (интерфейс на Qt) и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62951

[>] Опубликован AerynOS 2025.03, первый выпуск после переименования Serpent OS
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2025-03-26 11:44:02


Представлен выпуск дистрибутива AerynOS 2025.03, который стал первым обновлением после переименования проекта Serpent OS. Дистрибутив использует собственный пакетный менеджер и атомарную модель обновления системы. Разработка ведётся старой командой разработчиков дистрибутива Solus, в число которых входят Айки Доэрти (Ikey Doherty) - создатель Solus и Джошуа Стробл (Joshua Strobl) - ключевой разработчик среды рабочего стола Budgie. Сборки сформированы для архитектуры x86_64-v2 и поставляются с рабочим столом GNOME. Среди задействованных новых версий пакетов отмечены ядро Linux 6.13.8, GNOME 48.0, Mesa 25.0.2, Firefox 136.0.2, Vulkan SDK 1.4.309.0 и LLVM 19.1.7.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62950

[>] Ethically Sourced 'Spare' Human Bodies Could Revolutionize Medicine
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2025-03-26 11:22:01


In an op-ed for MIT Technology Review, authors Carsten T. Charlesworth, Henry T. Greely, and Hiromitsu Nakauchi make the case for human "bodyoids" that could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages: Why do we hear about medical breakthroughs in mice, but rarely see them translate into cures for human disease? Why do so few drugs that enter clinical trials receive regulatory approval? And why is the waiting list for organ transplantation so long? These challenges stem in large part from a common root cause: a severe shortage of ethically sourced human bodies. It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human biological materials are an essential commodity in medicine, and persistent shortages of these materials create a major bottleneck to progress.

This imbalance between supply and demand is the underlying cause of the organ shortage crisis, with more than 100,000 patients currently waiting for a solid organ transplant in the US alone. It also forces us to rely heavily on animals in medical research, a practice that can't replicate major aspects of human physiology and makes it necessary to inflict harm on sentient creatures. In addition, the safety and efficacy of any experimental drug must still be confirmed in clinical trials on living human bodies. These costly trials risk harm to patients, can take a decade or longer to complete, and make it through to approval less than 15% of the time.

There might be a way to get out of this moral and scientific deadlock. Recent advances in biotechnology now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain. Many will find this possibility disturbing, but if researchers and policymakers can find a way to pull these technologies together, we may one day be able to create "spare" bodies, both human and nonhuman. These could revolutionize medical research and drug development, greatly reducing the need for animal testing, rescuing many people from organ transplant lists, and allowing us to produce more effective drugs and treatments. All without crossing most people's ethical lines.

Although it may seem like science fiction, recent technological progress has pushed this concept into the realm of plausibility. Pluripotent stem cells, one of the earliest cell types to form during development, can give rise to every type of cell in the adult body. Recently, researchers have used these stem cells to create structures that seem to mimic the early development of actual human embryos. At the same time, artificial uterus technology is rapidly advancing, and other pathways may be opening to allow for the development of fetuses outside of the body. Such technologies, together with established genetic techniques to inhibit brain development, make it possible to envision the creation of "bodyoids" -- a potentially unlimited source of human bodies, developed entirely outside of a human body from stem cells, that lack sentience or the ability to feel pain.

[ Read more of this story ]( https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/03/26/0112257/ethically-sourced-spare-human-bodies-could-revolutionize-medicine?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

[>] STATS 2025-03-25
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2025-03-26 11:11:01


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[>] Выпуск CRIU 4.1, системы для сохранения и восстановления состояния процессов в Linux
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-03-26 10:44:03


После шести месяцев разработки опубликован выпуск инструментария CRIU 4.1 (Checkpoint and Restore In Userspace), предназначенного для сохранения и восстановления процессов в пространстве пользователя. Инструментарий позволяет сохранить состояние одного или группы процессов, а затем возобновить работу с сохранённой позиции, в том числе после перезагрузки системы или на другом сервере без разрыва уже установленных сетевых соединений. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией GPLv2. CRIU применяется в таких системах управления контейнерами, как OpenVZ, LXC/LXD и Docker. Необходимые для работы CRIU изменения включены в основной состав ядра Linux.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62949