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[>] London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why.
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2025-10-21 20:22:02


London police finally understand why 80,000 phones disappeared from the city's streets last year. The answer involves budget cuts [non-paywalled source] that hollowed out British policing in the 2010s, the arrival of electric bikes that made theft easy, and a lucrative black market in China where stolen British phones retain full functionality. The Metropolitan Police discovered an industrial-scale operation in December when officers traced a woman's iPhone to a Heathrow warehouse on Christmas Eve. Boxes labeled as batteries and bound for Hong Kong contained almost 1,000 stolen iPhones. The police arrested two men in their thirties in September as suspected ringleaders of a group that sent up to 40,000 stolen phones to China.

The epidemic took root after Conservative-led austerity measures reduced police numbers and budgets. In 2017 the Metropolitan Police announced it would stop investigating low-level crimes to focus resources on serious violence and sexual offenses. Thieves on rented electric bikes began mounting sidewalks to snatch phones at high speed while wearing balaclavas and hoods. Police data shows only 495 people were charged out of 106,000 phones reported stolen between March 2024 and February 2025. Thieves earn up to $401 per device. The phones sell for up to $5,000 in China because Chinese network providers do not subscribe to the international blacklist for stolen devices.

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[>] US Narrows Who Pays $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee
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2025-10-21 20:22:02


President Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee will apply only to new visa applicants outside the country, the government confirmed in new guidance on Monday. From a report: That means that under the new policy, employers won't need to pay the fee for anyone already living in the U.S., such as international students. The new guidance: Under the new guidance published on Monday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the $100,000 fee will apply only to new applicants living outside the country. Employers will need to pay the fee after their prospective employee's visa is approved, allowing them to move to the U.S.

Previously, the White House had said the fee would apply to all new visa applicants, except those who work for companies or industries that have secured a special waiver. In 2024, roughly 54% of the 141,000 new H-1B visas issued went to immigrants who were already in the U.S. on a different visa type, according to government statistics. If that trend holds, the new fee wouldn't apply to over half of the applicants.

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[>] Japanese Convenience Stores Are Hiring Robots Run By Workers in the Philippines
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2025-10-21 19:22:01


Filipino workers in Manila are remotely operating robots that restock convenience store shelves across Tokyo. The partnership represents a new economic model where physical labor can be offshored through telepresence. Around 60 workers at Astro Robotics monitor the machines and intervene when problems occur about 4% of the time. They earn between $250 and $315 per month. Japan faces severe labor shortages but has resisted expanding immigration. Offshoring the work through robots solves this while dramatically reducing costs.

Filipino workers are also training the AI systems designed to eliminate the need for human operators entirely. Tokyo-based Telexistence has collected extensive data from its workers and is providing it to a San Francisco startup building fully autonomous robots. The combination of automation and offshoring creates what one University of Michigan professor called a "double whammy" for workers in developed nations. It also exploits workers in developing countries who build the tools meant to replace them. The market for AI agents is expected to grow eightfold to $43 billion by 2030. Human-only work is forecast to drop 27% over the next five years.

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[>] Amazon Plans To Avoid Hiring 600,000 Workers Through Automation by 2033, Leaked Documents Show
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2025-10-21 18:22:01


Amazon executives believe the company can avoid hiring more than 160,000 workers in the United States by 2027 through robotic automation. Internal documents viewed by The New York Times show the automation would save approximately 30 cents on each item the company picks, packs and delivers. The documents reveal that executives told Amazon's board last year they hoped automation would allow the company to flatten its U.S. workforce growth over the next decade.

Amazon expects to sell twice as many products by 2033. That projection translates to more than 600,000 positions Amazon would not need to fill. Amazon opened its most advanced warehouse in Shreveport, Louisiana last year as a template for future facilities. The site uses a thousand robots and employed a quarter fewer workers than it would have without automation. The company plans to replicate this design in approximately 40 facilities by the end of 2027. A facility in Stone Mountain, Georgia currently employs roughly 4,000 workers. After a planned robotic retrofit, internal analyses project it will process 10% more items but need as many as 1,200 fewer employees. The documents show Amazon's robotics team has set a goal to automate 75% of its operations.

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[>] Lloyds Banking Group Claims Microsoft Copilot Saves Staff 46 Minutes a Day
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2025-10-21 17:22:01


An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Lloyds Banking Group claims employees save 46 minutes daily using Microsoft 365 Copilot, based on a survey of 1,000 users among nearly 30,000 deployed licenses. According to Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), the rollout is "helping teams summarize documents, prepare for meetings, and reduce administrative tasks." Almost 5,000 engineers are also using GitHub Copilot. Vic Weigler, chief technology officer at the finance corp, said in a statement: "We converted 11,000 lines of code across 83 files in half the expected time."

An insider at the bank, a self-professed fan of the technology, listed some of the ways it was being used in their business area. These ranged from the mundane -- drafting and summarizing emails, transcribing meetings, and comparing documents to group standards -- to the eyebrow-raising, such as drafting legal clauses, undertaking due diligence, and creating complex Excel formulas. They told us the next step is creating bots and agents to perform repetitive data-based tasks and rolling out the technology to customer-facing processes. That said, they also noted the AI tools occasionally make mistakes. The "golden rule," is to "never use the output without checking it."

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[>] Релиз среды рабочего стола KDE Plasma 6.5
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2025-10-21 16:44:03


После четырёх месяцев разработки опубликован релиз среды рабочего стола KDE Plasma 6.5. Для оценки работы новых выпусков KDE можно воспользоваться сборками от проектов KDE Neon и openSUSE (Argon, основанный на openSUSE Leap, и Krypton, основанный на openSUSE Tumbleweed).

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64089

[>] 27 лет Linux.org.ru
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2025-10-21 14:44:05


27 лет назад, в октябре 1998 года, был зарегистрирован домен Linux.org.ru.

По традиции просьба написать в комментариях, что бы вы хотели изменить на сайте, чего не хватает и какие функции стоит дальше развивать. Интересны и идеи по развитию, и мелочи, которые хотелось бы поменять, например, мешающие проблемы юзабилити и баги.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/linux-org-ru/18117921

[>] Alibaba Cloud Says It Cut Nvidia AI GPU Use By 82% With New Pooling System
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2025-10-21 14:22:01


Alibaba Cloud claims its new Aegaeon GPU pooling system cuts Nvidia GPU use by 82%, letting 213 H20 accelerators handle workloads that previously required 1,192. The advancements have been detailed in a paper (PDF) at the 2025 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems (SOSP) in Seoul. Tom's Hardware reports: Unlike training-time breakthroughs that chase model quality or speed, Aegaeon is an inference-time scheduler designed to maximize GPU utilization across many models with bursty or unpredictable demand. Instead of pinning one accelerator to one model, Aegaeon virtualizes GPU access at the token level, allowing it to schedule tiny slices of work across a shared pool. This means one H20 could serve several different models simultaneously, with system-wide "goodput" -- a measure of effective output -- rising by as much as nine times compared to older serverless systems.

The system was tested in production over several months, according to the paper, which lists authors from both Peking University and Alibaba's infrastructure division, including CTO Jingren Zhou. During that window, the number of GPUs needed to support dozens of different LLMs -- ranging in size up to 72 billion parameters -- fell from 1,192 to just 213. While the paper does not break down which models contributed most to the savings, reporting by the South China Morning Post says the tests were conducted using Nvidia's H20, one of the few accelerators still legally available to Chinese buyers under current U.S. export controls.

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[>] Как написать собственную кинематику для робота-манипулятора и заставить его ловить объекты на лету
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Опубликовано: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:20:54 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Робототехника / Хабр

Привет, Хабр! Одна из задач при управлении роботами-манипуляторами – расчет обратной кинематики. Данный вид кинематики позволяет вычислить углы наклона суставов робота (joints) таким образом, чтобы захват (grip) робота пришел в заданные трехмерные координаты с правильным углом наклона. Для многих роботов уже есть алгоритмы и формулы вычисления обратной кинематики, мы (команда Zebrains) столкнулись с отсутствием готового решения для робота xArm 2.0. В статье мы подробно опишем с какими сложностями столкнулись при управлении данным роботом, как получили формулы для расчета двух видов кинематики для данного робота и поделимся кодом на C++. В проекте использовался ROS2, ноды которого были написаны на C++. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/958194/

[>] Intel и AMD стандартизируют механизм ChkTag для защиты от уязвимостей при работе с памятью
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2025-10-21 12:44:03


Компании Intel и AMD совместно развивают расширенный набор инструкций ChkTag (x86 Memory Tagging), который будет стандартизирован для унифицированной реализации в x86-процессорах различных производителей. По своим возможностям ChkTag напоминает расширение MTE (MemTag), уже поставляемое в процессорах ARM, и также позволяет блокировать эксплуатацию уязвимостей, вызванных обращением к уже освобождённым блокам памяти, переполнением буфера или обращением к памяти до инициализации.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64091

[>] Как устроен умный дом, который можно выключить
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2025-10-21 11:35:03


Опубликовано: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:01:01 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

Чаще всего мы приезжаем на новые объекты, где умный дом только что установили. Мы видим аккуратно собранный щит — десятки модулей, контроллер, кабели, автоматы — но не видим, как с этим живут люди.Эта поездка оказалась другой. Мы побывали в двухуровневой квартире, где система автоматизации работает с 2020 года, и хозяин не просто использует ее, а пишет сценарии в Node-RED. Система автоматизации квартиры управляет климатом, освещением и шторами. Мы получили от Константина, ее владельца, обратную связь после нескольких лет эксплуатации. И ею мы хотим поделиться.Но главная особенность этого проекта в другом: умный дом здесь можно выключить. Обычным переключателем система переводится в «ручной» режим — автоматика отключается, и свет работает как в обычной квартире, через стандартные выключатели и фазу.Нам подобное резервирование кажется избыточным. А вот хозяину нравится. Кто прав — решать вам. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/wirenboard/articles/958434/

[>] Как мы делаем Neko — гаджет, чтобы кайфовать от игры на гитаре в XXI веке
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2025-10-21 11:35:02


Опубликовано: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:07:03 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

Привет, Хабра. Я — Вадим. Когда-то здесь рассказывал, как делал WhammyD — педальки-контроллеры для Digitech Whammy. Это была весёлая история, но закончилась она остановкой проекта, потому что устройства были, прямо скажем, мало кому нужны.В этой статье расскажу про новый проект — Neko. Это гаджет, чтобы каждый человек мог кайфануть от игры на гитаре, реализовать свои музыкальные идеи и почувствовать себя музыкантом, даже если на это остаётся 15 минут после рабочего дня. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/957736/

[>] Выпуск свободной гоночной игры SuperTuxKart 1.5
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2025-10-21 11:44:03


После почти трёх лет разработки опубликован релиз Supertuxkart 1.5, свободной гоночной игры с большим количеством картов, трасс и возможностей. Код игры распространяется под лицензией GPLv3. Бинарные сборки доступны для Linux, Android, Windows и macOS.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64090

[>] SpaceX Launches 10,000th Starlink Satellite
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2025-10-21 11:22:01


SpaceX surpassed the 10,000-satellite milestone for its Starlink constellation after two Falcon 9 launches on Oct. 19 added 56 more satellites to orbit. The company now operates about two-thirds of all active satellites worldwide and continues to break reuse records. Space.com reports: A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink internet satellites lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base today at 3:24 p.m. EDT (1924 GMT; 12:24 p.m. local California time). Those 28 included the 10,000th Starlink spacecraft ever to reach orbit, which a SpaceX employee noted on the company's launch webcast: "From Tintin to 10,000! Go Starlink, go Falcon, go SpaceX!"

It was also the 132nd Falcon 9 liftoff of the year, equaling the mark set by the rocket last year -- and there are still nearly 2.5 months to go in 2025. [...] This launch was the second of the day for SpaceX; less than two hours earlier, another Falcon 9 sent 28 more Starlink satellites up from Florida's Space Coast. That earlier liftoff was the 31st for that Falcon 9's first stage, setting a new reuse record.

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[>] STATS 2025-10-20
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TOP10 VISITORS:

[1] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=27.0MB (37%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[2] 45.135.180.x point=240 web=0 up=20.8MB (28%) <--- yesterlink (10/hr)
[3] PetalBot point=4 web=1025 up=6.0MB (8%) <--- PetalBot
[4] Amazon point=0 web=110 up=3.0MB (4%)
[5] Google point=1 web=174 up=1.3MB (1%) <--- Google
[6] 217.114.158.x point=25 web=0 up=0.9MB (1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[7] 148.113.128.x point=0 web=89 up=0.5MB (<1%)
[8] 167.114.139.x point=0 web=85 up=0.5MB (<1%)
[9] 54.39.6.x point=0 web=79 up=0.5MB (<1%)
[10] 15.235.27.x point=0 web=74 up=0.5MB (<1%)

TOTAL TRAFFIC: 72MB

[>] Разработчик из Valve оптимизировал драйвер RADV для работы с Llama.cpp
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2025-10-21 10:44:03


В кодовую базу, на основе которой формируется выпуск Mesa 25.3, приняты изменения, существенно увеличивающих скорость работы движка выполнения больших языковых моделей Llama.cpp при использовании Vulkan-бэкенда на системах с GPU AMD и Mesa-драйвером RADV. Оптимизированный драйвер RADV в некоторых тестах llama-bench стал быстрее проприетарного драйвера AMDVLK и стека ROCm на 31% при обработке запросов (тесты "pp" - prompt processing) и на 4% при генерации токенов (тесты "tg" - token generation). Оптимизацию выполнил Рис Перри (Rhys Perry) из компании Valve, участвующий в разработке драйвера Vulkan RADV и компилятора шейдеров ACO.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64086

[>] Программирование Роботов — разбор задач «квалификации» соревнования от МТС — немного кода, видео и геометрии
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Опубликовано: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:12:02 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Робототехника / Хабр

Отборочный этап "TrueTechChamp" завершился и можно поговорить о подходах к задачам. Здесь будут описаны наивные решения программиста, почти незнакомого с робототехникой, впрочем, зато по всем трем задачам - из чего автор делает вывод что узкоспециальные познания тут не требуются - это развлечение доступное, в общем-то, всем :) Задачи были такие: 1) проехать по известному "лабиринту" из двух комнат с фиксированными препятствиями, т.е. запрограммировать фиксированный маршрут - кое-кто бился над этим неделю и больше - но всё же решений около сотни; 2) проехать неизвестный лабиринт из стенок под прямыми углами - с этим справились вчетверо меньше команд; 3) проехать по змеевидной платформе, используя камеру глубины, и не упасть за край - мне известно примерно о двух с половиной решениях её.Сейчас подробно рассмотрим какие были сложности и как с ними можно справиться. И да, организационные проблемы преследовали мероприятие до последнего дня, но об этом уже немало сказано, в том числе в сильных выражениях :) В любом это вне "фокуса" данной статьи. Сосредоточимся на задачах! Погнали!]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/958518/

[>] [Перевод] Решение проблемы двойного букинга: паттерны проектирования систем
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Опубликовано: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:18:40 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Системное программирование / Хабр

Давно прошло то время, когда люди стояли в длинных очередях для покупки билетов на концерты, авиарейсы, фильмы, матчи и другие события.Технологические компании наподобие Ticketmaster, BookMyShow, Airbnb, Delta Airlines и так далее сделали бронирование делом одного клика, позволившим покупать билеты из дома.Эта простота стала возможной благодаря технологическим платформам и сервисам, которые прячут от пользователей всю сложность и решают неординарные инженерные задачи. Одна из таких задач — предотвращение бронирования одного места несколькими пользователями.Представьте, в каком положении окажутся два пользователя, купивших одно и то же место на мероприятие и осознавших это только перед его началом. Из-за этого организатор теряет доверие покупателей, а пользователи дважды задумаются, прежде чем покупать билеты на следующее мероприятие.Поэтому важно создать надёжное решение классической задачи — двойного букинга.Из этой статьи вы узнаете, как эту задачу решают разные технологические компании. У каждой компании свои особенности, поэтому единого универсального решения нет.Мы рассмотрим различные архитектурные паттерны и разберёмся в их плюсах и минусах. Статья поможет вам обрести глубокое понимание и наработать знания в системном мышлении. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/957954/

[>] Mystery Object From 'Space' Strikes United Airlines Flight Over Utah
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2025-10-21 08:22:01


An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Sunday that it is investigating an airliner that was struck by an object in its windscreen, mid-flight, over Utah. "NTSB gathering radar, weather, flight recorder data," the federal agency said on the social media site X. "Windscreen being sent to NTSB laboratories for examination." The strike occurred Thursday, during a United Airlines flight from Denver to Los Angeles. Images shared on social media showed that one of the two large windows at the front of a 737 MAX aircraft was significantly cracked. Related images also reveal a pilot's arm that has been cut multiple times by what appear to be small shards of glass.

The captain of the flight reportedly described the object that hit the plane as "space debris." This has not been confirmed, however. After the impact, the aircraft safely landed at Salt Lake City International Airport after being diverted. Images of the strike showed that an object made a forceful impact near the upper-right part of the window, showing damage to the metal frame. Because aircraft windows are multiple layers thick, with laminate in between, the window pane did not shatter completely. The aircraft was flying above 30,000 feet -- likely around 36,000 feet -- and the cockpit apparently maintained its cabin pressure.

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[>] $62 SanDisk Memory Card Found Intact At Titan Wreck Site
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2025-10-21 06:22:02


Investigators recovered the OceanGate Titan sub's underwater camera nearly intact, discovering a SanDisk SD card that survived the 2023 implosion and still contained 12 images and 9 videos. TechSpot reports: Scott Manley, the science communication YouTuber, gamer, astrophysicist, and programmer, posted about the latest find: a hardened SubC-branded Rayfin Mk2 Benthic Camera containing the undamaged SD card. The titanium and synthetic sapphire crystal camera is rated to withstand depths of up to 6,000 meters (19,685 feet) -- the Titan imploded at around 3,300 meters (10,827 feet). The casing is intact, though the lens is shattered and the PCBs are slightly damaged.

Incredibly the SD card inside the camera was undamaged. Tom's Hardware reports that it's almost certainly a SanDisk Extreme Pro 512GB, which costs around $62 on Amazon. The camera's SD card was found to be fully encrypted, divided into a small partition for operating system updates and a larger one for user data. Due to impact damage from the accident, several components of the system-on-module (SOM) board -- including connectors and the microcontroller -- were broken, complicating the data extraction process. [...] After determining the data wasn't encrypted beyond the file system level, they successfully accessed the SD card contents using the manufacturer's proprietary equipment and procedures.

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[>] Foreign Hackers Breached a US Nuclear Weapons Plant Via SharePoint Flaws
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Foreign hackers breached the National Nuclear Security Administration's Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC) by exploiting unpatched Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities. The intrusion happened in August and is possibly linked to either Chinese state actors or Russian cybercriminals. CSO Online notes that "roughly 80% of the non-nuclear parts in the nation's nuclear stockpile originate from KCNSC," making it "one of the most sensitive facilities in the federal weapons complex." From the report: The breach targeted a plant that produces the vast majority of critical non-nuclear components for US nuclear weapons under the NNSA, a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy (DOE) that oversees the design, production, and maintenance of the nation's nuclear weapons. Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (FM&T) manages the Kansas City campus under contract to the NNSA. [...] The attackers exploited two recently disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities -- CVE-2025-53770, a spoofing flaw, and CVE-2025-49704, a remote code execution (RCE) bug -- both affecting on-premises servers. Microsoft issued fixes for the vulnerabilities on July 19.

On July 22, the NNSA confirmed it was one of the organizations hit by attacks enabled by the SharePoint flaws. "On Friday, July 18th, the exploitation of a Microsoft SharePoint zero-day vulnerability began affecting the Department of Energy," a DOE spokesperson said. However, the DOE contended at the time, "The department was minimally impacted due to its widespread use of the Microsoft M365 cloud and very capable cybersecurity systems. A very small number of systems were impacted. All impacted systems are being restored." By early August, federal responders, including personnel from the NSA, were on-site at the Kansas City facility, the source tells CSO.

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[>] iOS 26.1 Beta 4 Lets Users Control Liquid Glass Transparency With New Toggle
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2025-10-21 04:22:01


An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: With the fourth betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1, Apple has introduced a new setting that's designed to allow users to customize the look of Liquid Glass. The toggle lets users select from a clear look for Liquid Glass, or a tinted look. Clear is the current Liquid Glass design, which is more transparent and shows the background underneath buttons, bars, and menus, while tinted increases the opacity of Liquid Glass and adds more contrast.

Apple says that the new toggle was added because during the beta testing period over the summer, user feedback suggested that some people would prefer to have a more opaque option for Liquid Glass. The added setting provides additional customization in iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1. Increasing opacity and adding contrast applies to Liquid Glass throughout the operating system, including in apps and Lock Screen notifications.

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[>] Chess Influencer and Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky Dies At 29
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2025-10-21 04:22:01


U.S. Grandmaster and beloved chess commentator Daniel Naroditsky has tragically passed away at the age of 29. "The news has sent shockwaves around the chess community, which is grieving the loss of one of the most beloved and influential voices," reports Chess.com. From the report: The devastating news was first shared by Naroditsky's club, Charlotte Chess Center, on Monday, and confirmed by Chess.com with multiple sources: "It is with great sadness that we share the unexpected passing of Daniel Naroditsky. Daniel was a talented chess player, educator, and cherished member of the chess community. He was also a loving son, brother, and loyal friend. We ask for privacy for Daniel's family during this extremely difficult time. Let us honor Daniel by remembering his passion for chess and the inspiration he brought to us all."

Naroditsky, who was three weeks away from turning 30, has long been known as one of United States' most talented players. He achieved his grandmaster title at the age of 18 in 2013, and placed fifth among the highest-ranked juniors in 2015. His last FIDE-rating is 2619, which places him among the top 150 in the world, or the 17th highest-ranked in the United States. He has a peak rating of 2647 from 2017. He leaves a legacy that spans strong over-the-board competition and highly popular chess instruction and commentary on streaming platforms.

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[>] Florida Issues Criminal Subpoenas To Roblox Over Child Safety
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2025-10-21 04:22:01


Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has issued criminal subpoenas to Roblox, calling it a "breeding ground for predators" and accusing the platform of profiting while failing to protect children. NBC News reports: The subpoenas will allow prosecutors to gather more information about the alleged criminal activity on the platform, including evidence related to suspected predators and victims, according to Uthmeier. The concerns prompted Roblox to invest heavily in protecting younger users on its platform by tightening messaging rules for children under 13, intensive content moderation and AI-powered monitoring.

In an emailed statement to Reuters, Roblox said it prohibits sharing images and videos in chat, uses filters designed to block the exchange of personal information, and is working to implement age estimation for all users accessing chat features. "While no system is perfect, our trained teams and automated tools continuously monitor communications to detect and remove harmful content," a Roblox spokesperson said.

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[>] Kohler Unveils a Camera For Your Toilet
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2025-10-21 03:22:01


Kohler has launched the Dekoda, a $599 smart toilet camera that analyzes users' waste to track hydration, gut health, and detect potential issues like blood. "It also comes with a rechargeable battery, a USB connection, and a fingerprint sensor to identify who's using the toilet," reports TechCrunch. From the report: The Dekoda is currently available for preorder, with shipments scheduled to begin on October 21. In addition to the hardware purchase fee, customers will need to pay between $70 and $156 per year for a subscription. If you're uneasy about the privacy implications of putting a camera right below your private parts, the company says, "Dekoda's sensors see down into your toilet and nowhere else." It also notes that the resulting data is secured via end-to-end encryption.

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[>] Claude Code Gets a Web Version
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2025-10-21 02:22:01


An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Anthropic has added web and mobile interfaces for Claude Code, its immensely popular command-line interface (CLI) agentic AI coding tool. The web interface appears to be well-baked at launch, but the mobile version is limited to iOS and is in an earlier stage of development. The web version of Claude Code can be given access to a GitHub repository. Once that's done, developers can give it general marching orders like "add real-time inventory tracking to the dashboard."

As with the CLI version, it gets to work, with updates along the way approximating where it's at and what it's doing. The web interface supports the recently implemented Claude Code capability to take suggestions or requested changes while it's in the middle of working on a task. (Previously, if you saw it doing something wrong or missing something, you often had to cancel and start over.) Developers can run multiple sessions at once and switch between them as needed; they're listed in a left-side panel in the interface.

Alongside this web and mobile rollout, Anthropic has also introduced a new sandboxing runtime to Claude Code that, along with other things, aims to make the experience both more secure and lower friction. In the past, Claude Code worked by asking permission before making most changes and steps along the way. Now, it can instead be given permissions for specific file system folders and network servers. That means fewer approval steps, but it's also more secure overall against prompt injection and other risks. You can learn more about "Claude Code on the web" through the company's blog and official YouTube channel.

Note: the new features are available in beta as a research preview, and they are available to Claude users with Pro or Max subscriptions.

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[>] Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials
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2025-10-21 02:22:01


An anonymous reader shares a report: A hacking group that recently doxed hundreds of government officials, including from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has now built dossiers on tens of thousands of U.S. government officials, including NSA employees, a member of the group told 404 Media. The member said the group did this by digging through its caches of stolen Salesforce customer data. The person provided 404 Media with samples of this information, which 404 Media was able to corroborate.

As well as NSA officials, the person sent 404 Media personal data on officials from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), members of the Air Force, and several other agencies.

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[>] Louvre Museum Security 'Outdated and Inadequate' at Time of Heist
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2025-10-21 01:22:01


A Court of Accounts report written before Sunday's theft of crown jewels from the Louvre revealed the museum's security systems were outdated and inadequate [non-paywalled source]. The report noted a lack of basic CCTV equipment across multiple wings. Cameras had mainly been installed only when rooms were refurbished due to repeated postponements of scheduled modernization. In the Denon wing where the Apollo Gallery was targeted, a third of rooms had no CCTV cameras. Three-quarters of rooms in the Richelieu wing and nearly two-thirds in the Sully wing lacked cameras.

The thieves were caught on camera at one point but were masked and impossible to identify, according to Paris public prosecutor Laure Beccuau. The alarm system activated when thieves cut open display cases, but they threatened staff who left the area. Culture minister Rachida Dati confirmed new CCTV cameras would be installed. President Macron had earmarked $186.30 million to upgrade the Louvre's security systems under a renaissance plan launched in June.

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[>] В Rust переименовали главную ветку rust-lang/rust с master на main
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2025-10-21 00:44:03


Свершилось! Разработчики языка программирования Rust переименовали главную ветку проекта с master на гендерно-нейтральное main.

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[>] Nvidia CEO Says Company Went from 95% to 0 Market Share in China
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2025-10-21 00:22:01


Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says his company has lost all access to China's market after U.S. export restrictions eliminated what was once a 95% share. Speaking in an interview with Citadel Securities, Huang questioned the wisdom of policies that cost America one of the world's largest markets.

The Biden Administration imposed rules in 2022 to restrict exports of Nvidia's most advanced AI chips to China. The Trump Administration blocked additional chip sales in April and later granted export licenses for certain Nvidia and AMD chips in exchange for 15% of revenues. Chinese regulators responded by telling domestic tech companies to avoid Nvidia chips designed to meet U.S. export requirements. Beijing also placed strict limits on exports of rare earths. Huang noted that about half the world's AI researchers are in China and called it a mistake not to have them build AI on American technology.

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[>] Google To Let 'Superfans' Test In-Development Pixel Phones
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2025-10-21 00:22:01


Google plans to let Pixel smartphone enthusiasts test out the company's next handset ahead of its public introduction. From a report: Google has invited members of its "Superfans" group to apply to test future Pixel hardware, asking entrants to profess their knowledge and passion for the brand in hopes of being able to beta test forthcoming products.

Consumer tech companies often let small groups of customers try out unreleased products under strict secrecy to gather feedback during development. But it's incredibly rare for a company of Google's size to do it with something as high-profile as the Pixel lineup.

The search giant will select 15 people from the pool of entrants, and winners must all sign a non-disclosure agreement to receive devices, according to official rules for the contest reviewed by Bloomberg News. "The Trusted Tester program is an opportunity to provide feedback and help shape a Pixel phone currently in development," the document reads.

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[>] Для ядра Linux предложен драйвер ntfsplus с новой реализацией NTFS
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2025-10-20 23:44:03


Намджэ Чон (Namjae Jeon), участник проекта Samba, сопровождающий драйвер EXFAT и сервер KSMBD в ядре Linux, предложил включить в ядро новую реализацию файловой системы NTFS - ntfsplus. Предполагается, что более качественный и сопровождаемый NTFS-драйвер позволит улучшить совместимость Linux-систем с Windows-устройствами и упростить работу пользователей.

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[>] OpenAI's 'Embarrassing' Math
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2025-10-20 23:22:01


An anonymous reader writes: "Hoisted by their own GPTards." That's how Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5's supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, "this is embarrassing." The Decoder reports that in a since-deleted tweet, OpenAI VP Kevin Weil declared that "GPT-5 found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdos problems and made progress on 11 others." ("Erdos problems" are famous conjectures posed by mathematician Paul Erdos.)

However, mathematician Thomas Bloom, who maintains the Erdos Problems website, said Weil's post was "a dramatic misrepresentation" -- while these problems were indeed listed as "open" on Bloom's website, he said that only means, "I personally am unaware of a paper which solves it." In other words, it's not accurate to claim GPT-5 was able to solve previously unsolved problems. Instead, Bloom wrote, "GPT-5 found references, which solved these problems, that I personally was unaware of."

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[>] The Sims Mobile is Shutting Down Next Year
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2025-10-20 22:22:01


The Sims is in a period of transition -- and as part of that, the ongoing mobile version will be shutting down in a few months. From a report: EA announced that today's update for The Sims Mobile will be its last, and that on January 20th, 2026 the game "will no longer be accessible to play and will be sunset." The mobile iteration of the franchise first launched in 2018, and has seen more than 50 updates since then. EA says that starting today players will no longer be able to spend real money in the game, and that it will be delisted on both iOS and Android tomorrow before the servers shut down completely next year, making it entirely unplayable.

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[>] China Accuses NSA of Hacking National Timekeeping Agency
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2025-10-20 22:22:01


China says it has uncovered what it describes as irrefutable evidence of American government cyber attacks targeting the National Time Service Center. The Ministry of State Security said the National Security Agency exploited vulnerabilities in employees' mobile phones beginning March 25, 2022, and later used stolen login credentials to access the center's computers starting April 18, 2023.

The facility in Xi'an provides high-precision timekeeping service for the government, civil society, and various industries. It also supplies data used to calculate international standard time. Chinese authorities said investigators found that private servers worldwide were employed to conceal the attacks' origin. The accusations emerge against a backdrop of mutual cyber-espionage claims between Washington and Beijing. Western governments and companies have repeatedly blamed Chinese hackers for intrusions in recent years.

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[>] Experts Hail 'Remarkable' Success of Electronic Implant in Restoring Sight
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2025-10-20 21:22:02


An electronic eye implant has restored reading ability to patients blinded by geographic atrophy, a form of dry age-related macular degeneration. Results published Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that 84% of trial participants regained the ability to read letters, numbers, and words after receiving the Prima device.

The microchip measures two millimetres by two millimetres and is implanted beneath the center of the retina. Patients wear augmented reality glasses containing a camera that projects images onto the chip. The device converts light into electrical pulses transmitted to the brain.

Frank Holz, the study's lead author and chair of ophthalmology at the University Hospital of Bonn, called the implant "a paradigm shift in treating late-stage age-related macular degeneration." Mahi Muqit, a consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, said the trial enabled "meaningful central vision restoration, which has never been done before." The procedure takes less than two hours and requires intensive rehabilitation. Science Corporation, which manufactures the device, has applied for clinical authorization in the United States and Europe.

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[>] MyLibrary 4.2.1
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2025-10-20 20:44:04


MyLibrary каталогизирует файлы книг в формате fb2, epub, pdf, djvu, odt, txt, md, как доступные напрямую, так и упакованные в архивы (zip, 7z, jar, cpio, iso, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.xz, rar), и создаёт собственную базу данных, не изменяя исходные файлы и не меняя их положения. Для каталогизации также доступен формат fbd (файл книги упакованный в архив вместе с файлом с расширением fbd, содержащем тэг description формата fb2). В формате fbd могут храниться любые файлы, не только книги. Контроль целостности коллекции и её изменений осуществляется за счёт создания базы данных хэш-сумм файлов и архивов.

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[>] Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows
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2025-10-20 20:22:01


Food allergies in children dropped sharply in the years after new guidelines encouraged parents to introduce infants to peanuts, a study has found. The New York Times: For decades, as food allergy rates climbed, experts recommended that parents avoid exposing their infants to common allergens. But a landmark trial in 2015 found that feeding peanuts to babies could cut their chances of developing an allergy by over 80%. [non-paywalled source.] In 2017, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases formally recommended the early-introduction approach and issued national guidelines.

The new study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, found that food allergy rates in children under 3 fell after those guidelines were put into place -- dropping to 0.93% between 2017 and 2020, from 1.46% between 2012 and 2015. That's a 36% reduction in all food allergies, driven largely by a 43% drop in peanut allergies. The study also found that eggs overtook peanuts as the No. 1 food allergen in young children.

The study did not examine what infants ate, so it does not show that the guidelines caused the decline. Still, the data is promising. While all food allergies can be dangerous, 80% of people never outgrow one.

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[>] India Draft Plan Reveals $21 Trillion Net-Zero Investment Need
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2025-10-20 20:22:01


India will need as much as $21 trillion to achieve its climate goals and lift its population out of poverty, according to a draft government plan seen by Bloomberg. From the report: The estimate offers a first glimpse of how the country intends to live up to its target of net zero emissions by 2070. The updated scenario implies hitting peak emissions in 2045, which is a decade earlier than the current trajectory.

India is already being severely battered by the fallout of climate change, as deadly floods and heat waves become more destructive each year. But the need to mitigate the emissions that feed climate change has historically been at odds with India's priorities of economic growth and energy security, with the latter still mostly provided through coal. The new plan shows India will seek to achieve climate and economic development goals simultaneously, with low-carbon options envisaged for much of its yet-to-be-built residential and industrial infrastructure.

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[>] Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity?
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2025-10-20 19:22:01


Test scores across OECD countries peaked around 2012 and have declined since. IQ scores in many developed countries appear to be falling after rising throughout the twentieth century. Nataliya Kosmyna at MIT's Media Lab began noticing changes around two years ago when strangers started emailing her to ask if using ChatGPT could alter their brains. She posted a study in June tracking brain activity in 54 students writing essays. Those using ChatGPT showed significantly less activity in networks tied to cognitive processing and attention compared to students who wrote without digital help or used only internet search engines. Almost none could recall what they had written immediately after submitting their work.

She received more than 4,000 emails afterward. Many came from teachers who reported students producing passable assignments without understanding the material. A British survey found that 92% of university students now use AI and roughly 20% have used it to write all or part of an assignment. Independent research has found that more screen time in schools correlates with worse results. Technology companies have designed products to be frictionless, removing the cognitive challenges brains need to learn. AI now allows users to outsource thinking itself.

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[>] AWS Outage Takes Thousands of Websites Offline for Three Hours
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2025-10-20 18:22:02


AWS experienced a three-hour outage early Monday morning that disrupted thousands of websites and applications across the globe. The cloud computing provider reported DNS problems with DynamoDB in its US-EAST-1 region in northern Virginia starting at 12:11 a.m. Pacific time. Over 4 million users reported issues, according to Downdetector. Snapchat saw reports spike from more than 22,000 to around 4,000 as systems recovered. Roblox dropped from over 12,600 complaints to fewer than 500. Reddit and the financial platform Chime remained affected longer. Perplexity, Coinbase and Robinhood attributed their platform disruptions directly to AWS.

Gaming platforms including Fortnite, Clash Royale and Clash of Clans went offline. Signal confirmed the messaging app was down. In Britain, Lloyd Bank, Bank of Scotland, Vodafone, BT, and the HMRC website faced problems. United Airlines reported disrupted access to its app and website overnight. Some internal systems were temporarily affected. Delta experienced a small number of minor flight delays. By 3:35 a.m. Pacific time, AWS said the issue had been fully mitigated. Most service operations were succeeding normally though some requests faced throttling during final resolution. AWS holds roughly one-third of the cloud infrastructure market ahead of Microsoft and Google.

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[>] Should We Edit Nature to Help It Survive Climate Change?
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2025-10-20 16:22:01


A recent article in Noema magazines explores the issues in "editing nature to fix our failures."

"It turns out playing God is neither difficult nor expensive," the article points out. "For about $2,000, I can go online and order a decent microscope, a precision injection rig, and a vial of enough CRISPR-Cas9 — an enzyme-based genome-editing tool — to genetically edit a few thousand fish embryos..." So when going beyond the kept-in-captivity Dire Wolf to the possibility of bringing back forests of the American chestnut tree, "The process is deceptively simple; the implications are anything but..."

If scientists could use CRISPR to engineer a more heat-tolerant coral, it would give coral a better chance of surviving a marine environment made warmer by climate change. It would also keep the human industries that rely on reefs afloat. But should we edit nature to fix our failures? And if we do, is it still natural...? Evolution is not keeping pace with climate change, so it is up to us to give it an assist [according to Christopher Preston, an environmental philosopher from the University of Montana, who wrote a book on CRISPR called "Ma href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262537094/the-synthetic-age/">The Synthetic Age."] In some cases, the urgency is so great that we may not have time to waste. "There's no doubt there are times when you have to act," Preston continued. "Corals are a case where the benefits of reefs are just so enormous that keeping some alive, even if they're genetically altered, makes the risks worth it."

Kate Quigley, a molecular ecologist and a principal research scientist at Australia's Minderoo Foundation, says "Engineering the ocean, or the atmosphere, or coral is not something to be taken lightly. Science is incredible. But that doesn't mean we know everything and what the unintended consequences might be." Phillip Cleves, a principal investigator at the Carnegie Institute for Science's embryology department, is already researching whether coral could be bioengineered to be more tolerant to heat.

But both of them have concerns:
For all the research Quigley and Cleves have dedicated to climate-proofing coral, neither wants to see the results of their work move from experimentation in the lab to actual use in the open ocean. Needing to do so would represent an even greater failure by humankind to protect the environment that we already have. And while genetic editing and selective breeding offer concrete solutions for helping some organisms adapt, they will never be powerful enough to replace everything lost to rising water temperatures. "I will try to prepare for it, but the most important thing we can do to save coral is take strong action on climate change," Quigley told me. "We could pour billions and billions of dollars — in fact, we already have — into restoration, and even if, by some miracle, we manage to recreate the reef, there'd be other ecosystems that would need the same thing. So why can't we just get at the root issue?"

And then there's the blue-green algae dilemma:

George Church, the Harvard Medical School professor of genetics behind Colossal's dire wolf project, was part of a team that successfully used CRISPR to change the genome of blue-green algae so that it could absorb up to 20% more carbon dioxide via photosynthesis. Silicon Valley tech incubator Y Combinator seized on the advance to call for scaled-up proposals, estimating that seeding less than 1% of the ocean's surface with genetically engineered phytoplankton would sequester approximately 47 gigatons of CO2 a year, more than enough to reverse all of last year's worldwide emissions.

But moving from deploying CRISPR for species protection to providing a planetary service flips the ethical calculus. Restoring a chestnut forest or a coral reef preserves nature, or at least something close to it. Genetically manipulating phytoplankton and plants to clean up after our mistakes raises the risk of a moral hazard. Do we have the right to rewrite nature so we can perpetuate our nature-killing ways?

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[>] Выпуск браузерного движка Servo 0.0.1
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-10-20 15:44:02


Опубликован первый отдельный выпуск браузероного движка Servo, написанного на языке Rust. До сих пор проектом формировались только ночные сборки. В примечании к выпуску отмечено только то, что по функциональности он аналогичен ночной сборке от 19 октября, для которой проведено дополнительное ручное тестирование. Выпуск также ознаменовал начало формирования сборок для систем Apple с macOS на базе процессоров с архитектурой ARM. Готовые сборки предоставлены для Linux, Android, macOS и Windows.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64083

[>] Когда робот учится чувствовать: имитируемые эмоции и этика взаимодействия с машинами
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BotHabr(tgi,2) — All
2025-10-20 15:35:05


Опубликовано: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:24:19 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Робототехника / Хабр

Можно ли научить машину не просто распознавать эмоции, а действительно чувствовать? Что вообще значит “эмоция” для нейронной сети, у которой нет тела, боли и страха? В статье разбираюсь, как инженеры, программисты и философы одновременно пытаются встроить человечность в код, что из этого выходит на практике, и почему всё это не только про технологии, но и про нас самих. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/958284/

[>] Chrome и Android прекратят использование многих технологий, созданных проектом Privacy Sandbox
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-10-20 14:44:03


Вице-президент Google, курирующий проект Privacy Sandbox, объявил о сворачивании разработки и исключении из Chrome и Android части технологий, развиваемых для достижения компромисса между потребностью пользователей сохранить конфиденциальность и желанием рекламных сетей и сайтов отслеживать предпочтения посетителей. Большинство API, разработанных проектом Privacy Sandboх, предназначались для использования вместо сторонних Cookie, поддержку которых планировали прекратить в Chrome.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64080

[>] Система отслеживания домашних животных с VHF и MESH
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2025-10-20 14:35:02


Опубликовано: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:51:22 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр

Этот проект представляет собой систему GPS-позиционирования и отслеживания для домашних животных от G-NiceRF, объединяющую VHF-связь и самоорганизующуюся MESH-сеть, обеспечивающую удалённое позиционирование, ретрансляцию данных и взаимодействие с приложением. Система разделяет устройства на облегчённые низкопотребляющие трекеры для животных и более мощные базовые станции с большим радиочастотным потенциалом, вычислительными и энергетическими возможностями, что делает ношение устройства животным лёгким и энергоэффективным, а покрытие и функции обеспечиваются базовыми станциями и ретрансляторами. В системе используются модуль определения местоположения GPS01, высокоскоростной RF-модем SV6500PRO, RF-модем SV610Pro и маячковый модуль Beacon600, что делает её подходящей для повседневного надзора и наружного отслеживания. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/958224/

[>] 'The AI Revolution's Next Casualty Could Be the Gig Economy'
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2025-10-20 12:22:01


"The gig economy is facing a reckoning," argues Business Insider's BI Today newsletter."

Two stories this past week caught my eye. Uber unveiled a new way for its drivers to earn money. No, not by giving rides, but by helping train the ride-sharing company's AI models instead. On the same day, Waymo announced a partnership with DoorDash to test driverless grocery and meal deliveries.

Both moves point toward the same future: one where the very workers who built the gig economy may soon find themselves training the technology that replaces them.

Uber's new program allows drivers to earn cash by completing microtasks, such as taking photos and uploading audio clips, that aim to improve the company's AI systems. For drivers, it's a way to diversify income. For Uber, it's a way to accelerate its automated future. There's an irony here. By helping Uber strengthen its AI, drivers could be accelerating the very driverless world they fear... Uber already offers autonomous rides in Waymo vehicles in Atlanta and Austin, and plans to expand. Meanwhile, Waymo is rolling out its pilot partnership with DoorDash [for driverless grocery/meal deliveries] starting in Phoenix.

[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/20/0616223/the-ai-revolutions-next-casualty-could-be-the-gig-economy?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

[>] STATS 2025-10-19
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2025-10-20 11:11:02


TOP10 VISITORS:

[1] ChatGPT point=2 web=457 up=46.1MB (39%) <--- ChatGPT
[2] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=27.0MB (22%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[3] 45.135.180.x point=240 web=0 up=20.8MB (17%) <--- yesterlink (10/hr)
[4] PetalBot point=2 web=1024 up=6.0MB (5%) <--- PetalBot
[5] Amazon point=0 web=183 up=5.4MB (4%)
[6] TikTok point=1 web=49 up=1.0MB (<1%) <--- TikTok
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[>] Началось бета-тестирование Linux-версии проприетарной САПР КОМПАС-3D
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-10-20 11:44:03


Компания Аскон, занимающаяся разработкой САПР с 1989 года, объявила о проведении открытого бета-тестирования версии системы автоматизированного проектирования КОМПАС-3D для платформы Linux. Продукт предназначен для двухмерного и трёхмерного проектирования деталей, механизмов и конструкций, применяемых в машиностроении, приборостроении и строительстве. Поддерживается параметрическое моделирование и режимы объектного, листового, поверхностного и твердотельного проектирования.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64078

[>] Мой первый pet-проект: процесс-менеджер synd3
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2025-10-20 10:35:06


Опубликовано: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 05:21:19 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Системное программирование / Хабр

Всем привет!Пишу этот пост, чтобы поделиться своим опытом и получить критику или советы от людей с большим опытом.Мне 22 года, я из Латвии. По образованию я судовой механик, но уже около 4 лет увлекаюсь программированием. Долгое время это оставалось хобби: пробовал сайты, простые игры — но они не приносили настоящего удовольствия. Я считал, что в программировании нужно было разбираться ещё со школы, и долго не верил, что могу найти себя в этой сфере.Переломный момент наступил, когда я заинтересовался системным программированием. Каждый раз, когда узнаю, как работает низкоуровневая часть ОС, у меня будто открывается новый мир. Особенно зацепила тема процессорного планирования: все говорят «железо, CPU, видеокарта», но на практике даже реализация планировщика процессов может заметно влиять на производительность. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/958104/