Pibroch(CiH) writes: According to the obituary linked, Stewart Cheifet of Computer Chronicles fame has died. The obituary states he passed Dec 28, 2025. Cheifet and Digital Research founder Gary Kildall hosted the public television show The Computer Chronicles starting in 1984, and Stewart continued to host the show well into the 1990s. He was well-known for his affable presence and adeptness at interviewing guests and finding out the straight dope about their products. He had recently undergone spinal surgery and had somewhat disappeared from public view after the death of his wife Peta in 2024.

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Warren Buffett is retiring as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at age 95, ending a 55-year run that reshaped how generations of Americans think about investing. "The 95-year-old, often referred to as the 'Oracle of Omaha' and the 'billionaire next door,' will relinquish the title after a career that saw him turn a failing textile firm into one of the most successful asset managers in the world," reports NBC News. From the report: Greg Abel, the 63-year-old lesser-known CEO of Berkshire's energy business, will take the helm of the conglomerate on Thursday. Buffett will remain its chairman.

Under Buffett's leadership, Nebraska-based Berkshire has thrived at the intersection of Wall Street and Main Street, with investments in industries ranging from railroads and insurance to candy and ice cream.

Along the way, while living in the same house he bought for just over $30,000 in the late 1950s, he redefined investing for the American public with his folksy and practical advice, became one of the wealthiest people on Earth and dedicated much of that fortune to philanthropy. Berkshire's most significant tech bet was initiated in 2016 when it invested $1 billion. Apple has since become Berkshire Hathaway's largest single holding, representing over 20% of the portfolio and valued at more than $65 billion.

While Buffett largely avoided pure tech for decades, Buffett long considered technology a blind spot, famously saying "I wish I had" bought Apple earlier.

Throughout the years, Buffett expressed his disinterest in cryptocurrency and said he would "never own bitcoin," referring to it as "probably rat poison squared" and a "gambling token."

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For a while, it seemed the notion that light drinking was good for the heart had gone by the wayside, debunked by new studies and overshadowed by warnings that alcohol causes cancer. Now the American Heart Association has revived the idea in a scientific review that is drawing intense criticism, setting off a new round of debate about alcohol consumption. The paper, which sought to summarize the latest research and was aimed at practicing cardiologists, concluded that light drinking -- one to two drinks a day -- posed no risk for coronary disease, stroke, sudden death and possibly heart failure, and may even reduce the risk of developing these conditions.

Controversy over the influential organization's review has been simmering since it was published in the association's journal Circulation in July. Public health groups and many doctors have warned on the basis of recent studies that alcohol can be harmful even in small amounts. Groups like the European Heart Network and the World Heart Federation have stressed that even modest drinking increases the odds of cardiovascular disease. "It says in all our guidelines right now, 'If you don't drink, don't start.' There's not enough evidence to suggest conclusively that it prevents heart disease," said Dr. Mariell Jessup, the chief science and medical officer at the heart association, adding that the review was not meant to serve as a guideline and that the group's advice to patients has not changed.

Critics argue that suggesting any heart-health benefits from alcohol is dangerous given its well-documented risks, and they accuse the heart association of selectively weighing studies. They also say a past tie to the alcohol industry by one author should have disqualified him from participating.

"The cardiovascular benefits of moderate drinking are questionable at best," said Dr. Elizabeth Farkouh, an internist and alcohol researcher. "But even if there was a benefit, there are so many other ways to reduce cardiovascular risk that don't come with an associated cancer risk."

The new review's conclusion is also at odds with the CDC's guidance on alcohol, which notes that "even moderate drinking may increase your risk of death and other alcohol-related harms, compared to not drinking." It also seems to diverge from the heart association's diet and lifestyle recommendation to consume "limited or preferably no alcohol," along with its 2023 statement that recent research suggests there is "no safe level of alcohol use."

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Представлен релиз библиотеки SDL 3.4.0 (Simple DirectMedia Layer). Библиотека нацелена на упрощение написания игр и мультимедийных приложений, и предоставляет такие возможности, как аппаратно-ускоренный вывод 2D- и 3D-графики, обработка ввода, воспроизведение звука и вывод 3D через OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Metal, Direct3D или Vulkan. Код написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией Zlib. Предоставляются обвязки для использования SDL в проектах на различных языках программирования.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64537

Истекло время штатного сопровождения последней редакции UNIX-системы HP-UX, выпускаемой компанией Hewlett-Packard для оборудования на базе архитектуры PA-RISC (HP 9000) и Intel Itanium (HPE Integrity). Стандартная поддержка ветки ОС HP-UX 11i v3, выпущенной в феврале 2007 года, завершилась для серверов HPE Integrity 31 декабря 2025 года (для серверов HP 9000 стандартная поддержка прекращена в 2021 году). Расширенная поддержка HP-UX 11i v3 будет осуществляться до 31 декабря 2028 года. Расширенная поддержка HP-UX 11i v2 (HP 9000 и Integrity) и HP-UX 11i v1 (HP 9000) истекла 31 декабря 2025 года.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64538

NASA is closing its largest research library at the Goddard Space Flight Center amid budget cuts and campus consolidation, putting tens of thousands of largely non-digitized historical and scientific documents at risk of being warehoused or discarded. The New York Times reports: Jacob Richmond, a NASA spokesman, said the agency would review the library holdings over the next 60 days and some material would be stored in a government warehouse while the rest would be tossed away. "This process is an established method that is used by federal agencies to properly dispose of federally owned property," Mr. Richmond said.

The shutdown of the library at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is part of a larger reorganization under the Trump administration that includes the closure of 13 buildings and more than 100 science and engineering laboratories on the 1,270-acre campus by March 2026. "This is a consolidation not a closure," said NASA spokeswoman Bethany Stevens. The changes were part of a long-planned reorganization that began before the Trump administration took office, she said. She said that shutting down the facilities would save $10 million a year and avoid another $63.8 million in deferred maintenance.

Goddard is the nation's premiere spaceflight complex. Its website calls it "the largest organization of scientists, engineers, and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments, and new technology to study Earth, the Sun, our solar system, and the universe." [...] The library closure on Friday follows the shutdown of seven other NASA libraries around the country since 2022, and included three libraries this year. As of next week, only three -- at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. -- will remain open.

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Опубликован выпуск набора интернет-приложений SeaMonkey 2.53.23, объединяющего в одном продукте web-браузер, почтовый клиент, клиент NNTP-конференций, систему агрегации новостных лент (RSS/Atom) и WYSIWYG-редактор html-страниц Composer. В форме предустановленных дополнений предлагаются IRC-клиент ChatZilla, набор средств для web-разработчиков DOM Inspector и календарь-планировщик Lightning. В новый выпуск перенесены исправления и изменения из актуальной кодовой базы Firefox (SeaMonkey 2.53 основан на браузерном движке Firefox 60.8 с портированием связанных с безопасностью исправлений и некоторых улучшений из актуальных веток Firefox).

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64539

После полутора лет разработки представлен релиз библиотеки ncurses 6.6, предназначенной для создания многоплатформенных интерактивных консольных пользовательских интерфейсов и поддерживающей эмуляцию программного интерфейса curses из System V Release 4.0 (SVr4). Выпуск ncurses 6.6 совместим на уровне исходных текстов с ветками ncurses 5.x и 6.x, но расширяет ABI. Из популярных приложений, построенных с использованием ncurses, можно отметить aptitude, lynx, mutt, ncftp, vim, vifm, minicom, mosh, screen, tmux, emacs, less.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64540

TOP10 VISITORS:

[1] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=28.2MB (41%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[2] PetalBot point=5 web=1018 up=6.0MB (8%) <--- PetalBot
[3] Amazon point=0 web=160 up=4.5MB (6%)
[4] 216.244.66.x point=0 web=74 up=4.3MB (6%)
[5] Google point=0 web=365 up=3.9MB (5%)
[6] ClaudeBot point=2 web=228 up=3.3MB (4%) <--- ClaudeBot
[7] 94.25.231.x point=4 web=0 up=3.3MB (4%) <--- 94.25.231.x
[8] 144.76.32.x point=0 web=55 up=2.9MB (4%)
[9] ChatGPT point=0 web=5 up=1.2MB (1%)
[10] 217.114.158.x point=27 web=0 up=1.1MB (1%) <--- fox (1/hr)

TOTAL TRAFFIC: 67MB

Всех с НГ

А когда станция убирается из списка?
Например yesterlink уже давно не отсвечивает

Доступен выпуск инструментария shadow-utils 4.19.0, включающего утилиты для управления учётными данными пользователей и групп, а также хранения паролей в отдельном файле /etc/shadow, доступном только пользователю root и группе shadow. В состав входят такие утилиты, как useradd, userdel, usermod, pwconv, groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, pwunconv, pwck, lastlog, su и login. Код инструментария написан на Си и распространяется под лицензией BSD.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64541

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A UK-based company has successfully powered up a microwave-sized space factory in orbit, proving it can run a 1,000C furnace to manufacture ultra-pure semiconductor materials in microgravity. "The work that we're doing now is allowing us to create semiconductors up to 4,000 times purer in space than we can currently make here today," says Josh Western, CEO of Space Forge. "This sort of semiconductor would go on to be in the 5G tower in which you get your mobile phone signal, it's going to be in the car charger you plug an EV into, it's going to be in the latest planes." The BBC reports: Conditions in space are ideal for making semiconductors, which have the atoms they're made of arranged in a highly ordered 3D structure. When they are being manufactured in a weightless environment, those atoms line up absolutely perfectly. The vacuum of space also means that contaminants can't sneak in. The purer and more ordered a semiconductor is, the better it works.

[...] The company's mini-factory launched on a SpaceX rocket in the summer. Since then the team has been testing its systems from their mission control in Cardiff. Veronica Viera, the company's payload operations lead, shows us an image that the satellite beamed back from space. It's taken from the inside of the furnace, and shows plasma - gas heated to about 1,000C -- glowing brightly. [...]

The team is now planning to build a bigger space factory -- one that could make semiconductor material for 10,000 chips. They also need to test the technology to bring the material back to Earth. On a future mission, a heat shield named Pridwen after the legendary shield of King Arthur will be deployed to protect the spacecraft from the intense temperatures it will experience as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the San Francisco Chronicle: A long stretch of curb in San Francisco's Mission District might contain a whole menagerie of parked vehicles: hatchbacks, SUVs, dusty pick-ups, chic Teslas. And recently, Waymo robotaxis. That's what Kyle Grochmal saw walking through the northeast Mission District on Monday afternoon. Cutting down York Street, he glimpsed a tell-tale white electric Jaguar in one of the coveted one-hour spots, its sensors spinning. The Waymo sat there for at least 20 minutes, Grochmal said. He whipped out his cell phone and started recording. After the Waymo drove off, another one showed up within an hour and took the same spot.

"This is something I started to notice about six months ago," Grochmal said, recalling how disorienting it was to be strolling down a largely deserted sidewalk, and suddenly hear the purring motor and soft click of autonomous vehicle cameras. He'd look up to see a Waymo "just sitting there, not loading anyone." But Waymo's use of public curb space raised questions for Grochmal, who wonders whether San Franciscans are prepared to have their infrastructure dominated by autonomous vehicles. "Say Tesla gets to self-driving, so people have personal AVs," he said. "So then do people from Palo Alto get dropped off in San Francisco and let their cars drive around all day searching for free parking?"

Such a future seems particularly unsettling in the northeast Mission, where snug streets couldn't handle much traffic, and competition for parking is already fierce. A recent influx of Artificial Intelligence companies brought many more workers and cars, as well as robotaxis that trawl the blocks, waiting for fares. It makes sense, to Grochmal, that some of them wind up squatting in one-hour spaces. [...] Still, it's conceivable that residents will lose patience with Waymo, and other AV companies, as the fleets scale up and the vehicles compete more aggressively with humans for parking.

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Опубликовано: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:01:36 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

Картинка: freepik.com - vecstockПри построении разнообразных автоматизированных систем часто возникает потребность, чтобы эта система предоставляла какую-то обратную связь. В этой связи большинство идут самым простым путём: мигающие лампочки, светодиоды, мониторы разных мастей с выведением на них текстовой/графической информации…Однако есть одна очень интересная тема, которую почему-то незаслуженно самодельщики обходят стороной — речь о микроконтроллерах!Потому что, согласитесь, «мигание лампочек» — это, конечно, прекрасно и даже в некотором роде волшебно (особенно когда это происходит в первый раз в жизни и твоя программа наконец начинает работать :-) ). Но куда веселее, когда машина отвечает тебе голосом! :-) Поэтому посмотрим, какие здесь возможности имеются...  Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/980276/

Опубликовано: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:51:55 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

Хотели треш статью в новогодние выходные 26 года? Получайте. Киберпанк, который мы заслужили. Дисклеймер — в статье есть фото «изобретений», которые может быть для кого‑то сложно развидеть, поэтому впечатлительным лучше пройти мимо. Написать этот текст меня вдохновил американский сериал «Побег» (Prison Break, 2005-2017) с актёром Вентворт Миллером в главной роли (Адреналиновый триллер. Оценка 8.4 на Кинопоиске). Он там с помощью ложки, наколки и своих мозгов убежал из самой охраняемой тюрьмы в Соединённых штатах и ещё вытащил с собой сколько-то человек. Думаю, кто-нибудь из читателей Хабра даже и смотрел. Фильм так хорошо зашёл, что даже в России в 2010 году сняли свою версию с одноименным названием на русский манер. Получилось не очень, но речь не об этом. Я подумал, а что если бы мы в ограниченных условиях, получили задачу сделать некое инженерное устройство на современный манер. А? Ну, что например? Пусть это будет миниплотер. Например, для реализации автокликера по экрану смартфона. Зачем не спрашивайте, это же фильм, тут логики искать не надо. Просто есть задача. Заморочимся? Давай заморочимся]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/982264/

Instagram head Adam Mosseri closed out 2025 by acknowledging what many have long suspected: the era of trusting photographs as accurate records of reality is over, and the platform he runs will need to fundamentally adapt to an age of "infinite synthetic content."

In a slideshow posted to Instagram, Mosseri wrote that for most of his life he could safely assume photographs or videos were largely accurate captures of moments that happened, adding that this is clearly no longer the case. He predicted a shift from assuming what we see is real by default to starting with skepticism and paying attention to who is sharing something and why.

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Mark Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, takes over as CERN's director general this week, and one of his first major decisions during his five-year tenure will be shutting down the Large Hadron Collider for an extended upgrade. The shutdown starts in June to make way for the high-luminosity LHC -- a major overhaul involving powerful new superconducting magnets that will squeeze the collider's proton beams and increase their brightness. The upgrade will raise collisions tenfold and strengthen the detectors to better capture subtle signs of new physics. The machine won't restart until Thomson's term is nearly over.

Thomson is far from disconsolate about the downtime. "The machine is running brilliantly and we're recording huge amounts of data," he told The Guardian. "There's going to be plenty to analyse over the period." Beyond the upgrade, Thomson must shepherd CERN's plans for the Future Circular Collider, a proposed 91km machine more than three times the size of the current collider. Member states vote on the project in 2028; the first phase carries an estimated price tag of 15 billion Swiss francs (nearly $19 billion).

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The European Space Agency has acknowledged yet another security incident after a cybercriminal posted an offer on BreachForums the day after Christmas claiming to have stolen over 20GB of data including source code, confidential documents, API tokens and credentials.

The attacker claims they gained access to ESA-linked external servers on December 18 and remained connected for about a week, during which they allegedly exfiltrated private Bitbucket repositories, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform files and hardcoded credentials. ESA said that the breach may have affected only "a very small number of external servers" used for unclassified engineering and scientific collaboration, and that it has initiated a forensic security analysis.

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1 января 2026 года состоялся выпуск оконного менеджера IceWM 4.0.

Основные изменения касаются быстрого переключателя окон по Alt+Tab:

• теперь он может обрабатывать большое количество окон приложений как в вертикальном, так и в горизонтальном режиме;

• при нажатии первой буквы названия класса приложений выбирается следующее окно этого класса приложений;

• приложение теперь можно выбрать нажатием на одну из клавиш-цифр;

• в горизонтальном режиме приложение теперь можно выбрать с помощью мыши;

• добавлена поддержка навигации при быстром выборе при помощи клавиш навигации;

• при нажатии кнопки меню открывается системное меню;

• добавлен новый режим для предпросмотра приложений QuickSwitchPreview. Превью обновляются пока активирован быстрый выбор.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18184669#cut0 ) )

As the calendar flips to January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 are entering the US public domain alongside sound recordings from 1925, making them free to copy, share, remix and build upon without permission or licensing fees. The literary haul includes William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Dashiell Hammett's full novel The Maltese Falcon, Agatha Christie's first Miss Marple mystery The Murder at the Vicarage, and the first four Nancy Drew books. The popular illustrated version of The Little Engine That Could also joins the commons. Betty Boop makes her public domain debut through her first appearance in the Fleischer Studios cartoon Dizzy Dishes.

The original iteration of Disney's Pluto -- then named Rover -- enters as well. Nine additional Mickey Mouse cartoons and ten Silly Symphonies from 1930 are now available for reuse. Films entering the public domain include the Academy Award-winning All Quiet on the Western Front, the Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers, and John Wayne's first leading role in The Big Trail. Musical compositions going public include George and Ira Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm," Hoagy Carmichael's "Georgia on My Mind," and "Dream a Little Dream of Me."

Sound recordings from 1925 now available include Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong's "The St. Louis Blues" and Marian Anderson's "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." Piet Mondrian's Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow rounds out the artistic entries.

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Илья Чугин (x512) опубликовал первый тестовый выпуск набора драйверов для видокарт NVIDIA под операционную систему Haiku. Поддерживаются карты начиная с серии Turing и выше. Проект опубликован под названием "Nebula", чтобы избежать путаницы с официальными драйверами NVIDIA и Linux-драйвером Nouveau. Набор основан на открытых модулей для ядра Linux, публикуемых компанией NVIDIA и задействованных в её проприетарных драйверах, а также Vulkan-драйвера NVK и OpenGL-драйвере Zink из состава Mesa.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64542

An anonymous reader shares a report: Only the government could spend 20 years creating a national ID that no one wanted and that apparently doesn't even work as a national ID. But that's what the federal government has accomplished with the REAL ID, which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) now considers unreliable, even though getting one requires providing proof of citizenship or lawful status in the country.

In a December 11 court filing [PDF], Philip Lavoie, the acting assistant special agent in charge of DHS' Mobile, Alabama, office, stated that, "REAL ID can be unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship." Lavoie's declaration was in response to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed in October by the Institute for Justice, a public-interest law firm, on behalf of Leo Garcia Venegas, an Alabama construction worker. Venegas was detained twice in May and June during immigration raids on private construction sites, despite being a U.S. citizen. In both instances, Venegas' lawsuit says, masked federal immigration officers entered the private sites without a warrant and began detaining workers based solely on their apparent ethnicity.

And in both instances officers allegedly retrieved Venegas' Alabama-issued REAL ID from his pocket but claimed it could be fake. Venegas was kept handcuffed and detained for an hour the first time and "between 20 and 30 minutes" the second time before officers ran his information and released him.

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Three decades after RFC 1883 promised to future-proof the internet by expanding the available pool of IP addresses from around 4.3 billion to over 340 undecillion, IPv6 has yet to achieve the dominance its creators envisioned. Data from Google, APNIC and Cloudflare analyzed by The Register shows less than half of all internet users rely on IPv6 today.

"IPv6 was an extremely conservative protocol that changed as little as possible," APNIC chief scientist Geoff Huston told The Register. "It was a classic case of mis-design by committee." The protocol's lack of backward compatibility with IPv4 meant users had to choose one or run both in parallel. Network address translation, which allows thousands of devices to share a single public IPv4 address, gave operators an easier path forward. Huston adds: "These days the Domain Name Service (DNS) is the service selector, not the IP address," Huston told The Register. "The entire security framework of today's Internet is name based and the world of authentication and channel encryption is based on service names, not IP addresses."

"So folk use IPv6 these days based on cost: If the cost of obtaining more IPv4 addresses to fuel bigger NATs is too high, then they deploy IPv6. Not because it's better, but if they are confident that they can work around IPv6's weaknesses then in a largely name based world there is no real issue in using one addressing protocol or another as the transport underlay." But calling IPv6 a failure misses the point. "IPv4's continued viability is largely because IPv6 absorbed that growth pressure elsewhere -- particularly in mobile, broadband, and cloud environments," said John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers. "In that sense, IPv6 succeeded where it was needed most." Huawei has sought 2.56 decillion IPv6 addresses and Starlink appears to have acquired 150 sextillion.

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Iran is offering to sell advanced weapons systems including ballistic missiles, drones and warships to foreign governments for cryptocurrency, in a bid to use digital assets to bypass western financial controls. From a report: Iran's Ministry of Defence Export Center, known as Mindex, says it is prepared to negotiate military contracts that allow payment in digital currencies, as well as through barter arrangements and Iranian rials, according to promotional documents and payment terms analysed by the Financial Times.

The offer, introduced during the past year, appears to mark one of the first known instances in which a nation state has publicly indicated its willingness to accept cryptocurrency as payment for the export of strategic military hardware. Mindex, a state-run body responsible for Iran's overseas defence sales, says it has client relationships with 35 countries and advertises a catalogue of weapons that includes Emad ballistic missiles, Shahed drones, Shahid Soleimani-class warships and short-range air defence systems.

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Costco's consistency -- from its $1.50 hot dog and drink combo to its functional shopping carts and satisfied employees -- has produced what The Atlantic calls a "cultlike loyalty" among members at more than 600 locations across the U.S.

Its annual membership costs $65. The model traces back to Fedco, a nonprofit wholesale collective for federal employees founded in Los Angeles in the 1940s. Costco's private label Kirkland Signature has become one of the world's largest consumer packaged goods brands while maintaining deliberately understated branding. The company relies on word-of-mouth marketing from satisfied members rather than traditional advertising.

Atlantic staff writer Jake Lundberg, who shops at the Granger, Indiana location, describes the stores as spaces of "cooperation, courtesy, and grown-ups mostly acting like grown-ups." Shoppers follow unwritten rules: move along, don't block the way, step aside to check your phone. Checkout lines form orderly queues. The exceptions come near sample stations and before major holidays, when spatial awareness and common courtesy break down.

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Опубликовано: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:37:12 GMT
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Здравствуй Хабр! В этой статье я хочу поделиться своим опытом модификации популярной машинки в масштабе 1/64. Цель модификации - сделать машинку радиоуправляемой. В качестве пульта управления будет использоваться android телефон. В статье рассмотрим три основных этапа: разработка встраиваемого программного обеспечения для управления приводом поворота колес и ходового мотора, проектирование шасси и приложение для телефона. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/963138/

Доступен выпуск легковесного оконного менеджера IceWM 4.0.0. IceWM предоставляет полноценное управление через клавиатурные комбинации, возможность использования виртуальных рабочих столов, панели задач и меню-приложений, для группировки окон можно использовать вкладки. Оконный менеджер настраивается через достаточно простой файл конфигурации, возможно использование тем оформления. Поддерживается объединение окон в форме вкладок. Доступны встроенные апплеты для мониторинга CPU, памяти, трафика. Отдельно развивается несколько сторонних GUI для настройки, реализаций рабочего стола и редакторов меню. Код написан на языке С++ и распространяется под лицензией GPLv2.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64544

Every human body contains a small population of cells that are not genetically its own -- cells that crossed the placenta during pregnancy and that persist for decades after birth. These "microchimeric" cells, named after the lion-goat-serpent hybrid of Greek mythology, have been found in every organ studied so far, though they are exceedingly rare: one such cell exists for every 10,000 to 1 million of a person's own cells.

The cells were first noticed in the late 1800s when pathologist Georg Schmorl described placenta-like "giant cells" in the lungs of people who had died from eclampsia. In 1969, researchers detected Y-chromosome-containing white blood cells in people who would later give birth to boys. For more than two decades, scientists presumed these cells were temporary. That changed in 1993 when geneticist Diana Bianchi found Y-chromosome cells in women who had given birth to sons up to 27 years earlier.

The cells appear to have regenerative properties, transforming into blood vessels or skin cells to promote wound healing. They also challenge a central assumption of immunology -- that the immune system classifies cells as either "self" or "non-self" and rejects foreign material. Microchimeric cells should trigger rejection but do not. Higher-than-typical concentrations have been found in people with autoimmune conditions including diabetes, lupus, and scleroderma.

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Apple's Chinese manufacturing partner Luxshare halted production of the Vision Pro headset at the start of 2025, according to market research firm IDC, after the device shipped 390,000 units during its 2024 launch year. The $3,499 headset has also seen its digital advertising budget cut by more than 95% year to date in the US and UK, according to market intelligence group Sensor Tower.

IDC expects Apple to ship just 45,000 new units in the fourth quarter of 2025. Apple launched an upgraded M5 version in October featuring a more powerful chip, extended battery life, and a redesigned headband. The company sells the device directly in 13 countries and did not expand availability in 2025.

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MacRumors: Apple is not expected to release a standard iPhone 18 model this year, according to a growing number of reports that suggest the company is planning a significant change to its long-standing annual iPhone launch cycle.

Despite the immense success of the iPhone 17 in 2025, the iPhone 18 is not expected to arrive until the spring of 2027, leaving the iPhone 17 in the lineup as the latest standard model for over 18 months. This would mark the first time Apple skips an entire calendar year without releasing a new generation of its flagship non-Pro iPhone.

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Australia's largest pension fund is planning to reduce its allocation to global equities this year, amid signs that the AI boom in the US stock market could be running out of steam. Financial Times: John Normand, head of investment strategy at the A$400bn (US$264bn) AustralianSuper, told the Financial Times that not only did valuations of big US tech companies look high relative to history, but the leverage being used to fund AI investment was increasing "very rapidly," as was the pace of fundraising through mergers, venture capital and public listings.

"I can see some forces lining up that we are looking for less public equity allocation at some point next year. It's the basic intersection of the maturing AI cycle with a shift towards Fed[eral Reserve] tightening in 2027," Normand said in an interview.

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Представлен выпуск дистрибутива Devuan 6.1 "Excalibur", форка Debian GNU/Linux, поставляемого без системного менеджера systemd. Для загрузки подготовлены Live-сборки со средой рабочего стола Xfce (1.7 ГБ и 879 МБ) и установочные iso-образы (4.2 ГБ, 593 МБ) для архитектуры amd64. Пакеты собираются для архитектур i386, amd64, armel, armhf, arm64, ppc64el и riscv64. Образы для систем ARM и виртуальных машин предлагается формировать самостоятельно при помощи инструментариев arm-sdk и vm-sdk.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64545

Опубликован выпуск проекта Snoop 1.4.3, развивающего криминалистический OSINT-инструмент, разыскивающего учётные записи пользователей в публичных данных (разведка на основе открытых источников). Программа анализирует различные сайты, форумы и социальные сети на предмет наличия искомого имени пользователя, т.е. позволяет определить на каких сайтах имеется пользователь с указанным ником. Проект разработан на материалах исследовательской работы в области скрапинга публичных данных. Сборки подготовлены для Linux и Windows.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64543

Представлен пятый экспериментальный выпуск клиента для мгновенного обмена сообщениями Pidgin 3.0 (2.94). Выпуск отмечен как имеющий уровень качества предварительной альфа-версии, не рассчитанной на повседневное применение. Сборки подготовлены в формате Flatpak и размещены в beta-репозитории на Flathub.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64546

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Опубликовано: Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:05:22 GMT
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Привет, Хабр!Пожалуй, одним из первых устройств, которые подключаются к умному дому (конечно, после модуля управления освещением), является домашняя метеостанция. Вот и мне на новом месте и в новом умном доме потребовалось реализовать данное устройство. Но есть одна проблема: находясь вдалеке от своей домашней лаборатории, я имею минимальный набор инструментов и лишен таких благ цивилизации, как лазерный мини-ЧПУ для изготовления плат и 3D-принтер. Поэтому для реализации проекта будем работать по старинке, в режиме жесткого DIY-хардкора (или в режиме «Очумелых ручек»). Впереди много картинок и термоклея, так что включайте ваши паяльники и поехали! Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/timeweb/articles/981768/

Опубликован выпуск проекта OneScript 2.0.0, развивающего независимую от компании 1С кроссплатформенную виртуальную машину и компилятор для выполнения скриптов на языке 1С:Предприятие. Система самодостаточна и позволяет выполнять скрипты на языке 1С без установки платформы 1С:Предприятие и специфичных для неё библиотек. Виртуальную машину OneScript можно использовать как для прямого исполнения сценариев на языке 1С, так и для встраивания поддержки их исполнения в приложения, написанные на других языках. Код проекта написан на языке С# и распространяется под лицензией MPL-2.0. Поддерживается работа в Linux, Windows и macOS.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64547

ASUS has informed its partners that prices on certain products will increase starting January 5, just days before the company is expected to unveil new hardware at CES. In a letter dated December 30 and obtained by Digitimes, the Taiwanese manufacturer pointed to rising costs for memory and storage components as the primary driver behind the adjustment.

The company specifically called out DRAM, NAND, and SSD pricing pressure stemming from what it described as "structural volatility" in the global supply chain tied to AI-driven demand. ASUS also cited shifts in capacity allocation by upstream suppliers and higher investment costs for advanced manufacturing processes.

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Опубликован выпуск Icecast 2.5.0, сервера для организации потокового вещания звука и видео по сети. Поддерживается вещание с использованием форматов Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, Opus, FLAC, WebM (VP8/VP9), а также проприетарных кодеков, таких как MP4 (H.264, MPEG4), M4A, NSV, AAC и MP3. Код написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией GPLv2.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64548

Nokia, the Finnish company whose iconic ringtone was played an estimated 1.8 billion times daily at the height of its mobile phone dominance and whose 3310 "brick" sold 126 million units, has reinvented itself again -- this time as a key piece of AI infrastructure. In October, Nvidia announced a $1 billion investment in Nokia and a strategic partnership to incorporate AI into telecommunications networks.

The company that was once worth $335 billion and controlled more than a quarter of the global handset market seemed destined for irrelevance after the iPhone's 2007 arrival. A last-ditch bet on Microsoft's Windows phone system in 2011 failed, and Nokia sold its devices division to Microsoft for $6.34 billion in 2014. Revenues had fallen from $44.27 billion in 2007 to $12.56 billion. Nokia rebuilt around its $2 billion acquisition of Siemens' networks stake in 2013, then added French network provider Alcatel-Lucent for $18.32 billion in 2015.

Current CEO Justin Hotard, who took over in April, has pushed the company further into cloud services, data centers and optical networks. Nokia acquired optical specialist Infinera for $2.3 billion in February. The company's optical technology enables information to pass between data centers, and it produces routers for cloud-based services.

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CBS News: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has printed its final newspaper, marking the end of a 157-year chapter in Georgia history and officially transitioning the longtime publication into a fully digital news outlet.

The front-page story of the final print edition asks a fitting question: "What is the future of local media in Atlanta?" The historic last issue is also being sold for $8, a significant increase from the typical $2.00 price.

Wednesday, Dec. 31, marks the last day The AJC will be delivered to driveways across metro Atlanta. Starting Jan. 1, 2026, the newspaper will exist exclusively online, a move its leadership says reflects how readers now consume news and ensures the organization's future.

AJC President and Publisher Andrew Morse said the decision was not made lightly, especially given how deeply the paper is woven into daily life for generations of readers. The move makes Atlanta the only major U.S. city without a daily printed newspaper.

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Ghana has decided to deal with the viral spread of prophetic content on social media by setting up an official reporting mechanism for sensitive predictions, a move triggered by the August 2025 helicopter crash that killed the country's defence and environment ministers along with six others.

After the accident, TikTok clips circulated showing pastors who claimed to have foreseen the disaster before it happened. Elvis Ankrah, the presidential envoy for inter-faith and ecumenical relations, now asks prophets to submit their predictions for review.

Charismatic preacher-prophets have been a fixture of Ghanaian public life since Pentecostalism arrived in the 1980s, but social media has amplified their reach and made their claims increasingly outlandish. Police have threatened to arrest prophets who cannot prove their predictions eventually came true. Some two-thirds of Ghanaians favor giving divine intervention a role in politics. Ankrah recently declared that most prophecies submitted to him are "total bunk."

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Yann LeCun, Meta's outgoing chief AI scientist and one of the pioneers credited with laying the groundwork for modern AI, has acknowledged that the company's Llama 4 language model had its benchmark results manipulated before its April 2025 release. In an interview with the Financial Times, LeCun said the "results were fudged a little bit" and that the team "used different models for different benchmarks to give better results."

Llama 4 was widely criticized as a flop at launch, and the company faced accusations of gaming benchmarks to make the model appear more capable than it was. LeCun said CEO Mark Zuckerberg was "really upset and basically lost confidence in everyone who was involved" in the release.

Zuckerberg subsequently "sidelined the entire GenAI organisation," according to LeCun. "A lot of people have left, a lot of people who haven't yet left will leave." LeCun himself is departing Meta after more than a decade to start a new AI research venture called Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs. He described the new hires brought in for Meta's superintelligence efforts as "completely LLM-pilled" -- a technology LeCun has repeatedly called "a dead end when it comes to superintelligence."

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A new study [PDF] from Cardiff University analyzing a decade of the popular topical debate programme BBC Question Time found that the broadcaster's flagship political debate show relies disproportionately on journalists and pundits from right-wing media outlets, particularly those connected to The Spectator magazine.

Researcher Matt Walsh examined 391 editions and 1,885 panellist appearances between 2014 and 2024. Journalists from right-leaning publications accounted for 59.59% of media guest slots, compared to just 16.86% for left-leaning outlets. The Spectator, a conservative magazine with a circulation of roughly 65,000, had an outsized presence among the most frequently booked guests. The study's list of top non-politician appearances reads like a roster of right-wing media figures. Isabel Oakeshott appeared 14 times, Julia Hartley-Brewer 13, Kate Andrews (formerly of the Institute for Economic Affairs and now at The Spectator) 13, and Tim Stanley of The Telegraph and Spectator also 13.

No equivalent frequency existed for left-wing journalists; Novara Media's Ash Sarkar and podcaster Alastair Campbell each appeared six times. Walsh said that the programme's need to be entertaining may explain some of these choices, as columnists unconstrained by party talking points tend to generate livelier debate. The BBC maintains that Question Time aims to present a "breadth of viewpoints," but the data suggests the programme's construction of impartiality tilts notably in one direction.

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Опубликовано: Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:32:49 GMT
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В этой статье попробуем разобраться, почему игрушечные машинки за условные 1000р ездят лучше, чем серьезные модели из конструкторов с электрикой за 10000р, и что с этим можно сделать, если вы разбираетесь в Arduino. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/982466/

The International Publishers Association spent the past year promoting the slogan "Democracy depends on reading," but Atlantic senior editor Adam Kirsch argues that this utilitarian pitch fundamentally misunderstands why people become readers in the first place.

The most recent Survey of Public Participation in the Arts found that less than half of Americans read a single book in 2022, and only 38% read a novel or short story. A University of Florida and University College London study found daily reading for pleasure fell 3% annually from 2003 to 2023. Among 13-year-olds, just 14% read for fun almost every day in 2023, down from 27% a decade earlier.

Kirsch says to stop treating reading as civic medicine. "It would be better to describe reading not as a public duty but as a private pleasure, sometimes even a vice," he writes. When literature was considered transgressive, moralists couldn't stop people from buying dangerous books. Now that books are deemed virtuous, nobody picks them up. He points to Don Quixote and Madame Bovary -- novels whose protagonists are ruined by their reading habits. Great writers, he notes, never idealized literature the way educators do. The pitch to young readers should emphasize staying up late reading under the covers by flashlight, hoping nobody finds out.

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AMD's share of processors among Steam users climbed to 47.27% in December 2025, a 4.66% jump in a single month that continues the company's steady encroachment on Intel's once-dominant position in the gaming CPU market. Intel held roughly 77% of the Steam Hardware Survey five years ago, and that lead has eroded considerably as AMD broke the 40% threshold in the third quarter of 2025 and kept climbing.

The gains came despite an ongoing memory shortage that has pushed DDR5 prices to record highs -- AMD's AM5 platform requires DDR5 exclusively, while Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh chips support both DDR4 and DDR5. Many gamers are turning to older AMD Zen 3 processors like the Ryzen 5 5800X, which topped Amazon's bestseller lists during the holiday period and work on DDR4-compatible platforms. Meanwhile, the proportion of Steam users running 32GB of RAM rose to 39.07%, nearly matching the 40.14% still on 16GB, as gamers likely rushed to upgrade before prices climbed further amid AI's demand for memory.

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