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Выпуск Apache Cloudberry 2.0.0, открытой альтернативы СУБД Greenplum
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2025-09-02 23:44:02
Представлен выпуск распределённой СУБД Apache Cloudberry 2.0.0, продолжающей развитие открытой кодовой базы СУБД Greenplum, которая была превращена компанией Broadcom в закрытый продукт после приобретения VMware. Apache Cloudberry 2.0.0 отмечен как первый выпуск проекта, после передачи кода сообществу Apache. Проект пока находится в инкубаторе Apache и будет переведён в число первичных проектов Apache после готовности инфраструктуры и сопровождающих.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63812
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Представлен выпуск распределённой СУБД Apache Cloudberry 2.0.0, продолжающей развитие открытой кодовой базы СУБД Greenplum, которая была превращена компанией Broadcom в закрытый продукт после приобретения VMware. Apache Cloudberry 2.0.0 отмечен как первый выпуск проекта, после передачи кода сообществу Apache. Проект пока находится в инкубаторе Apache и будет переведён в число первичных проектов Apache после готовности инфраструктуры и сопровождающих.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63812
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Laravel Inventor Tells Devs To Quit Writing 'Cathedrals of Complexity'
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2025-09-02 23:22:01
Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework. From a report: Developers are sometimes drawn to building "cathedrals of complexity that aren't so easy to change," he said, speaking in a podcast for maintainable.fm, a series produced by Ruby on Rails consultancy Planet Argon.
Software, he said, should be "simple and disposable and easy to change." Some problems are genuinely complex, but in general, if a developer finds a "clever solution" which goes beyond the standard documented way in a framework such as Laravel or Ruby on Rails, "that would be like a smell."
A code smell -- for the uninitiated in the The Reg readership -- is a term developers use for code that works but may cause problems at a later date. Otwell described himself as a "pretty average programmer" but reckons many others are the same, solving basic problems as quickly and efficiently as they can.
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2025-09-02 23:22:01
Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework. From a report: Developers are sometimes drawn to building "cathedrals of complexity that aren't so easy to change," he said, speaking in a podcast for maintainable.fm, a series produced by Ruby on Rails consultancy Planet Argon.
Software, he said, should be "simple and disposable and easy to change." Some problems are genuinely complex, but in general, if a developer finds a "clever solution" which goes beyond the standard documented way in a framework such as Laravel or Ruby on Rails, "that would be like a smell."
A code smell -- for the uninitiated in the The Reg readership -- is a term developers use for code that works but may cause problems at a later date. Otwell described himself as a "pretty average programmer" but reckons many others are the same, solving basic problems as quickly and efficiently as they can.
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Poor Amazon Rains Linked To Brazil Deforestation
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2025-09-02 22:22:01
For decades, the dry season in the Amazon rainforest has been getting drier. A new study, published on Tuesday, found that about 75% of the decrease in rainfall is directly linked to deforestation. From a report: The study, in Nature Communications, also found that tree loss was partly responsible for increased heat across the Amazon. Since 1985, the hottest days in the Amazon have warmed by about 2 degrees Celsius. About 16% of that increase, the researchers found, was because of deforestation.
Marco Franco, an assistant professor at the University of Sao Paulo who led the study, said he was surprised by the findings. "We were expecting to see deforestation as a driver, but not this much," he said. "It tells us a lot about what's going on in the biome." The Amazon rainforest is often called the lungs of the planet because its trees help to regulate the global climate by absorbing planet-warming carbon dioxide. But decades of large-scale logging and burning in the forest have recently flipped that script, and parts of the region have become net producers of greenhouse gases.
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2025-09-02 22:22:01
For decades, the dry season in the Amazon rainforest has been getting drier. A new study, published on Tuesday, found that about 75% of the decrease in rainfall is directly linked to deforestation. From a report: The study, in Nature Communications, also found that tree loss was partly responsible for increased heat across the Amazon. Since 1985, the hottest days in the Amazon have warmed by about 2 degrees Celsius. About 16% of that increase, the researchers found, was because of deforestation.
Marco Franco, an assistant professor at the University of Sao Paulo who led the study, said he was surprised by the findings. "We were expecting to see deforestation as a driver, but not this much," he said. "It tells us a lot about what's going on in the biome." The Amazon rainforest is often called the lungs of the planet because its trees help to regulate the global climate by absorbing planet-warming carbon dioxide. But decades of large-scale logging and burning in the forest have recently flipped that script, and parts of the region have become net producers of greenhouse gases.
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YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren't Watching From the Same Address
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2025-09-02 22:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: If you're sharing an ad-free YouTube Premium or YouTube Music account with friends or family who live outside of your home, you could lose your premium privileges. Customers who lose these can still watch YouTube or listen to music with ads -- but let's be real, it's not the same.
Multiple reports have shown people who have the service have been receiving notices that their premium service will be paused for 15 days due to violating a policy that's been in place since 2023. On its support page, YouTube says that an account manager can add up to five family members in a household to their Premium membership. But, the post says, "Family members sharing a YouTube family plan must live in the same household as the family manager."
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2025-09-02 22:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: If you're sharing an ad-free YouTube Premium or YouTube Music account with friends or family who live outside of your home, you could lose your premium privileges. Customers who lose these can still watch YouTube or listen to music with ads -- but let's be real, it's not the same.
Multiple reports have shown people who have the service have been receiving notices that their premium service will be paused for 15 days due to violating a policy that's been in place since 2023. On its support page, YouTube says that an account manager can add up to five family members in a household to their Premium membership. But, the post says, "Family members sharing a YouTube family plan must live in the same household as the family manager."
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32GB of RAM On Track To Become the New Majority For Gamers
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2025-09-02 21:22:01
Steam's August 2025 hardware survey shows 32GB RAM configurations reached 35.42% of users while 16GB systems fell to 41.67%, continuing a six-month trend that positions 32GB to become the dominant memory configuration among PC gamers before year's end.
Windows 11 crossed 60% adoption among Steam users. The RTX 4060 continues gaining market share despite newer RTX 5060 availability. Display resolutions at 2560x1600 pixels saw the largest growth, primarily from gaming laptops.
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2025-09-02 21:22:01
Steam's August 2025 hardware survey shows 32GB RAM configurations reached 35.42% of users while 16GB systems fell to 41.67%, continuing a six-month trend that positions 32GB to become the dominant memory configuration among PC gamers before year's end.
Windows 11 crossed 60% adoption among Steam users. The RTX 4060 continues gaining market share despite newer RTX 5060 availability. Display resolutions at 2560x1600 pixels saw the largest growth, primarily from gaming laptops.
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Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds
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2025-09-02 21:22:01
America is becoming a nation of economic pessimists. WSJ reports: A new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll [PDF] finds that the share of people who say they have a good chance of improving their standard of living fell to 25%, a record low in surveys dating to 1987. More than three-quarters said they lack confidence that life for the next generation will be better than their own, the poll found.
Nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream -- that if you work hard, you will get ahead -- no longer holds true or never did, the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys. Republicans in the survey were less pessimistic than Democrats, reflecting the longstanding trend that the party holding the White House has a rosier view of the economy. An index that combined six poll questions found that 55% of Republicans, as well as 90% of Democrats, held a negative view of prospects for themselves and their children.
The discontent reaches across demographic lines. By large majorities, both women and men held a pessimistic view in the combined questions. So did both younger and older adults, those with and without a college degree and respondents with more than $100,000 in household income, as well as those with less.
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2025-09-02 21:22:01
America is becoming a nation of economic pessimists. WSJ reports: A new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll [PDF] finds that the share of people who say they have a good chance of improving their standard of living fell to 25%, a record low in surveys dating to 1987. More than three-quarters said they lack confidence that life for the next generation will be better than their own, the poll found.
Nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream -- that if you work hard, you will get ahead -- no longer holds true or never did, the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys. Republicans in the survey were less pessimistic than Democrats, reflecting the longstanding trend that the party holding the White House has a rosier view of the economy. An index that combined six poll questions found that 55% of Republicans, as well as 90% of Democrats, held a negative view of prospects for themselves and their children.
The discontent reaches across demographic lines. By large majorities, both women and men held a pessimistic view in the combined questions. So did both younger and older adults, those with and without a college degree and respondents with more than $100,000 in household income, as well as those with less.
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Amazon Ends Shared Prime Free Shipping Outside Your Home
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2025-09-02 21:22:01
Speaking of Amazon Prime, Amazon is axing the program that lets Prime members share their free shipping perk with people outside their household. The Verge: In an update to its support page, Amazon says it will cut off Prime benefit sharing on October 1st, 2025, prompting invitees who don't live with the account holder to sign up for their own subscription at a discounted $14.99 rate for an entire year (and then $14.99 per month after that).
Instead, Amazon is replacing this program with Amazon Family, which lets account holders share Prime benefits -- but only with people they live with. Amazon says everyone in a "Family" must live at the same primary residential address, defined as "the address you consider to be your home and where you spend the majority of your time."
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2025-09-02 21:22:01
Speaking of Amazon Prime, Amazon is axing the program that lets Prime members share their free shipping perk with people outside their household. The Verge: In an update to its support page, Amazon says it will cut off Prime benefit sharing on October 1st, 2025, prompting invitees who don't live with the account holder to sign up for their own subscription at a discounted $14.99 rate for an entire year (and then $14.99 per month after that).
Instead, Amazon is replacing this program with Amazon Family, which lets account holders share Prime benefits -- but only with people they live with. Amazon says everyone in a "Family" must live at the same primary residential address, defined as "the address you consider to be your home and where you spend the majority of your time."
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What Every Argument About Sideloading Gets Wrong
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2025-09-02 21:22:01
Developer Hugo Tunius, writing in a blog post: Sideloading has been a hot topic for the last decade. Most recently, Google has announced further restrictions on the practice in Android. Many hundreds of comment threads have discussed these changes over the years. One point in particular is always made: "I should be able to run whatever code I want on hardware I own." I agree entirely with this point, but within the context of this discussion it's moot.
When Google restricts your ability to install certain applications they aren't constraining what you can do with the hardware you own, they are constraining what you can do using the software they provide with said hardware. It's through this control of the operating system that Google is exerting control, not at the hardware layer. You often don't have full access to the hardware either and building new operating systems to run on mobile hardware is impossible, or at least much harder than it should be. This is a separate, and I think more fruitful, point to make. Apple is a better case study than Google here. Apple's success with iOS partially derives from the tight integration of hardware and software. An iPhone without iOS is a very different product to what we understand an iPhone to be. Forcing Apple to change core tenets of iOS by legislative means would undermine what made the iPhone successful.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1434208/what-every-argument-about-sideloading-gets-wrong?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-09-02 21:22:01
Developer Hugo Tunius, writing in a blog post: Sideloading has been a hot topic for the last decade. Most recently, Google has announced further restrictions on the practice in Android. Many hundreds of comment threads have discussed these changes over the years. One point in particular is always made: "I should be able to run whatever code I want on hardware I own." I agree entirely with this point, but within the context of this discussion it's moot.
When Google restricts your ability to install certain applications they aren't constraining what you can do with the hardware you own, they are constraining what you can do using the software they provide with said hardware. It's through this control of the operating system that Google is exerting control, not at the hardware layer. You often don't have full access to the hardware either and building new operating systems to run on mobile hardware is impossible, or at least much harder than it should be. This is a separate, and I think more fruitful, point to make. Apple is a better case study than Google here. Apple's success with iOS partially derives from the tight integration of hardware and software. An iPhone without iOS is a very different product to what we understand an iPhone to be. Forcing Apple to change core tenets of iOS by legislative means would undermine what made the iPhone successful.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1434208/what-every-argument-about-sideloading-gets-wrong?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Опубликованы Linux From Scratch 12.4 и Beyond Linux From Scratch 12.4
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2025-09-02 20:44:03
Представлены новые выпуски руководств Linux From Scratch 12.4 (LFS) и Beyond Linux From Scratch 12.4 (BLFS), а также редакций LFS и BLFS с системным менеджером systemd. В Linux From Scratch приведены инструкции по созданию с нуля базовой Linux-системы, используя лишь исходные тексты необходимого программного обеспечения. Beyond Linux From Scratch дополняет инструкции LFS информацией о сборке и настройке около 1000 программных пакетов, охватывающих различные области применения, от СУБД и серверных систем, до графических оболочек и медиапроигрывателей.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63814
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2025-09-02 20:44:03
Представлены новые выпуски руководств Linux From Scratch 12.4 (LFS) и Beyond Linux From Scratch 12.4 (BLFS), а также редакций LFS и BLFS с системным менеджером systemd. В Linux From Scratch приведены инструкции по созданию с нуля базовой Linux-системы, используя лишь исходные тексты необходимого программного обеспечения. Beyond Linux From Scratch дополняет инструкции LFS информацией о сборке и настройке около 1000 программных пакетов, охватывающих различные области применения, от СУБД и серверных систем, до графических оболочек и медиапроигрывателей.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63814
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KDE представила обновления Karton с интеграцией SPICE и новым пользовательским интерфейсом
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2025-09-02 19:44:04
Менеджер виртуальных машин KDE Karton заменил virt-viewer собственным SPICE-клиентом на Qt с рендерингом дисплея и аудиоподдержкой. Qt-альтернатива GNOME Boxes использует libosinfo для конфигурации ВМ и добавила извлечение ISO.
Karton создается как альтернатива существующим GTK-решениям для управления виртуальными машинами в Linux, включая GNOME Boxes и virt-manager.
Karton больше не зависит от virt-install для создания виртуальных машин. Вместо данного инструмента приложение теперь генерирует XML-конфигурации доменов libvirt напрямую.
Для идентификации установочных носителей и заполнения конфигурационных данных используется библиотека libosinfo. Система автоматически генерирует необходимые параметры: UUID, MAC-адреса и настройки виртуального оборудования.
Разработчики отказались от использования virt-viewer в пользу собственного решения. Karton теперь включает встроенный SPICE-клиент и просмотрщик, созданные с использованием Qt.
Новый клиент обрабатывает:
• рендеринг дисплея;
• перенаправление ввода;
• аудиопотоки;
• полноэкранный режим;
• базовое изменение размера окна.
Интерфейс приложения претерпел заметные изменения. Список виртуальных машин перемещен в боковую панель, а детальная информация и превью-изображения отображаются в правой части окна.
Karton сохраняет последний кадр виртуальной машины при завершении работы. Функция позволяет пользователям быстро идентифицировать машины перед их повторным запуском.
Добавлена опция извлечения медиа-дисков, которая дает возможность удалять установочные ISO-образы после завершения настройки системы.
Разработчики определили приоритетные направления для дальнейшего развития Karton:
• улучшение производительности отображения с использованием SPICE gl-scanout;
• внедрение улучшенного масштабирования;
• поддержка передачи файлов между хостом и гостевой системой;
• функция передачи буфера обмена;
• полная поддержка снимков виртуальных машин;
• рассматривается возможность упаковки приложения в формат Flatpak и включения в официальное пространство имен KDE.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/kde/18068097
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2025-09-02 19:44:04
Менеджер виртуальных машин KDE Karton заменил virt-viewer собственным SPICE-клиентом на Qt с рендерингом дисплея и аудиоподдержкой. Qt-альтернатива GNOME Boxes использует libosinfo для конфигурации ВМ и добавила извлечение ISO.
Karton создается как альтернатива существующим GTK-решениям для управления виртуальными машинами в Linux, включая GNOME Boxes и virt-manager.
Karton больше не зависит от virt-install для создания виртуальных машин. Вместо данного инструмента приложение теперь генерирует XML-конфигурации доменов libvirt напрямую.
Для идентификации установочных носителей и заполнения конфигурационных данных используется библиотека libosinfo. Система автоматически генерирует необходимые параметры: UUID, MAC-адреса и настройки виртуального оборудования.
Разработчики отказались от использования virt-viewer в пользу собственного решения. Karton теперь включает встроенный SPICE-клиент и просмотрщик, созданные с использованием Qt.
Новый клиент обрабатывает:
• рендеринг дисплея;
• перенаправление ввода;
• аудиопотоки;
• полноэкранный режим;
• базовое изменение размера окна.
Интерфейс приложения претерпел заметные изменения. Список виртуальных машин перемещен в боковую панель, а детальная информация и превью-изображения отображаются в правой части окна.
Karton сохраняет последний кадр виртуальной машины при завершении работы. Функция позволяет пользователям быстро идентифицировать машины перед их повторным запуском.
Добавлена опция извлечения медиа-дисков, которая дает возможность удалять установочные ISO-образы после завершения настройки системы.
Разработчики определили приоритетные направления для дальнейшего развития Karton:
• улучшение производительности отображения с использованием SPICE gl-scanout;
• внедрение улучшенного масштабирования;
• поддержка передачи файлов между хостом и гостевой системой;
• функция передачи буфера обмена;
• полная поддержка снимков виртуальных машин;
• рассматривается возможность упаковки приложения в формат Flatpak и включения в официальное пространство имен KDE.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/kde/18068097
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Опубликован исходный код игры Русская рулетка 2: Закрытые планеты
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2025-09-02 19:44:02
Опубликован исходный код игры "Русская рулетка 2: Закрытые планеты" и набор игровых данных, сохранившиеся у одного из разработчиков - Святослава Образцова (suavik). Игра представляет собой трёхмерный шутер от первого лица, в котором игроку необходимо выполнять задания различных враждующих фракций, использовать различные транспортные боевые средства и перемещаться между мирами.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63813
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2025-09-02 19:44:02
Опубликован исходный код игры "Русская рулетка 2: Закрытые планеты" и набор игровых данных, сохранившиеся у одного из разработчиков - Святослава Образцова (suavik). Игра представляет собой трёхмерный шутер от первого лица, в котором игроку необходимо выполнять задания различных враждующих фракций, использовать различные транспортные боевые средства и перемещаться между мирами.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63813
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The US Population Could Shrink in 2025, For the First Time Ever
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2025-09-02 18:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: The United States is on the precipice of a historic, if dubious, achievement. If current trends hold, 2025 could be the first year on record in which the US population actually shrinks.
The math is straightforward. Population growth has two sources: natural increase (births minus deaths) and net immigration (arrivals minus departures). Last year, births outnumbered deaths by 519,000 people. That means any decline in net immigration in excess of half a million could push the U.S. into population decline. A recent analysis of Census data by the Pew Research Center found that between January and June, the US foreign-born population fell for the first time in decades by more than one million. While some economists have questioned the report, a separate analysis by the American Enterprise Institute predicted that net migration in 2025 could be as low as negative 525,000. In either case, annual population growth this year could easily turn negative.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1242252/the-us-population-could-shrink-in-2025-for-the-first-time-ever?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 18:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: The United States is on the precipice of a historic, if dubious, achievement. If current trends hold, 2025 could be the first year on record in which the US population actually shrinks.
The math is straightforward. Population growth has two sources: natural increase (births minus deaths) and net immigration (arrivals minus departures). Last year, births outnumbered deaths by 519,000 people. That means any decline in net immigration in excess of half a million could push the U.S. into population decline. A recent analysis of Census data by the Pew Research Center found that between January and June, the US foreign-born population fell for the first time in decades by more than one million. While some economists have questioned the report, a separate analysis by the American Enterprise Institute predicted that net migration in 2025 could be as low as negative 525,000. In either case, annual population growth this year could easily turn negative.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1242252/the-us-population-could-shrink-in-2025-for-the-first-time-ever?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Amazon US Prime Sign-Ups Slow Despite Expanded Promotion, Data Shows
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2025-09-02 18:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon doubled its Prime Day discount sales to four days this year and touted blowout numbers days after the event. But by one critical metric, it missed the mark. Sign-ups in the U.S. failed to meet last year's total and even the company's own target, according to internal company data reviewed by Reuters.
The world's largest online retailer registered 5.4 million U.S. sign-ups over the 21-day run-up to Prime Day and its four-day sales event from July 8 to July 11. That was around 116,000 fewer than for the same period a year earlier and 106,000 below the company's own goal, a roughly 2% decline in both metrics.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1230217/amazon-us-prime-sign-ups-slow-despite-expanded-promotion-data-shows?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
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2025-09-02 18:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon doubled its Prime Day discount sales to four days this year and touted blowout numbers days after the event. But by one critical metric, it missed the mark. Sign-ups in the U.S. failed to meet last year's total and even the company's own target, according to internal company data reviewed by Reuters.
The world's largest online retailer registered 5.4 million U.S. sign-ups over the 21-day run-up to Prime Day and its four-day sales event from July 8 to July 11. That was around 116,000 fewer than for the same period a year earlier and 106,000 below the company's own goal, a roughly 2% decline in both metrics.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1230217/amazon-us-prime-sign-ups-slow-despite-expanded-promotion-data-shows?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Chinese Cluster Now World's Top Innovation Hotspot, UN Says
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2025-09-02 18:22:01
Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou has overtaken Tokyo-Yokohama to become the world's top cluster for innovation, the United Nations said Monday. From a report: The UN's World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said the Chinese cluster had leapfrogged its Japanese rival in its 2025 Global Innovation Index. The change at the top of the world's 100 leading innovation clusters was down to WIPO broadening the criteria to include venture capital investments to formulate the annual rankings.
The UN agency dealing with patenting and innovation previously only used patent filing and scientific publishing data to identify local concentrations of world-leading innovation activity. "Venture capital investment activity helps capture how scientific and technological knowledge translates into start-up creation and, ultimately, new goods and services in the marketplace," WIPO said. The agency said Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou and Tokyo-Yokohama "make a massive contribution to global scientific publications and patenting outputs", together accounting for nearly one in five patent applications filed globally.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/0837225/chinese-cluster-now-worlds-top-innovation-hotspot-un-says?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 18:22:01
Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou has overtaken Tokyo-Yokohama to become the world's top cluster for innovation, the United Nations said Monday. From a report: The UN's World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said the Chinese cluster had leapfrogged its Japanese rival in its 2025 Global Innovation Index. The change at the top of the world's 100 leading innovation clusters was down to WIPO broadening the criteria to include venture capital investments to formulate the annual rankings.
The UN agency dealing with patenting and innovation previously only used patent filing and scientific publishing data to identify local concentrations of world-leading innovation activity. "Venture capital investment activity helps capture how scientific and technological knowledge translates into start-up creation and, ultimately, new goods and services in the marketplace," WIPO said. The agency said Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou and Tokyo-Yokohama "make a massive contribution to global scientific publications and patenting outputs", together accounting for nearly one in five patent applications filed globally.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/0837225/chinese-cluster-now-worlds-top-innovation-hotspot-un-says?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Water Menus Gain Traction as Restaurants Seek Non-Alcoholic Revenue Streams
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 18:22:01
Premium bottled water is emerging as restaurants' answer to declining alcohol consumption as establishments offer curated water menus featuring bottles priced up to $25.70. La Popote in Cheshire has introduced a seven-water selection ranging from $6.75 Peak District spring water to $25.70 Portuguese Vidago, served in wine glasses at room temperature.
Water sommelier Doran Binder, who created the menu and founded Crag spring water, reports 7 million monthly social media views for water content. The movement extends beyond Britain -- over a dozen US restaurants maintain water lists, while new producers like Hampshire's Chorq plan champagne-style bottles with corks. Michael Mascha's FineWaters has certified more than 100 water sommeliers globally as demand grows for waters distinguished by mineral content ranging from 14 to 3,300 milligrams per liter of dissolved solids.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/0623209/water-menus-gain-traction-as-restaurants-seek-non-alcoholic-revenue-streams?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 18:22:01
Premium bottled water is emerging as restaurants' answer to declining alcohol consumption as establishments offer curated water menus featuring bottles priced up to $25.70. La Popote in Cheshire has introduced a seven-water selection ranging from $6.75 Peak District spring water to $25.70 Portuguese Vidago, served in wine glasses at room temperature.
Water sommelier Doran Binder, who created the menu and founded Crag spring water, reports 7 million monthly social media views for water content. The movement extends beyond Britain -- over a dozen US restaurants maintain water lists, while new producers like Hampshire's Chorq plan champagne-style bottles with corks. Michael Mascha's FineWaters has certified more than 100 water sommeliers globally as demand grows for waters distinguished by mineral content ranging from 14 to 3,300 milligrams per liter of dissolved solids.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/0623209/water-menus-gain-traction-as-restaurants-seek-non-alcoholic-revenue-streams?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Google Says Gmail Security Alert Claims Are False
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2025-09-02 18:22:01
Google denied claims Monday that it had issued a security warning to Gmail users about a major vulnerability. The company stated that recent reports claiming a broad Gmail security alert were "entirely false." Google said its email service blocks more than 99.9% of phishing and malware attempts from reaching users' inboxes.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/0419231/google-says-gmail-security-alert-claims-are-false?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 18:22:01
Google denied claims Monday that it had issued a security warning to Gmail users about a major vulnerability. The company stated that recent reports claiming a broad Gmail security alert were "entirely false." Google said its email service blocks more than 99.9% of phishing and malware attempts from reaching users' inboxes.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/0419231/google-says-gmail-security-alert-claims-are-false?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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[Творчество] Делимся своими рукотворными картинками
ping.local
artur(ping,3) — All
2025-09-02 18:53:11
Предисловие:
Ограничения для картинок, указанные тут (rOf069UX8K24yAzvWa9N), очень понравились. На любом (почти) уважающем себя форуме обычно (почти) присутствуют такие темы.
ТАК ВОТ: мои работы:
Первая картинка:
Моя переделка картинки, которую я нашёл в галерее на сайте blackstrip.ru (декабрь 2006; а сайт по разработке программок на J2me и прочих штук).
Вторая картинка:
Тоже переделка, сделанная на основе одного из экраноснимков игры, которую Valve разрабатывали ещё до первой Half-Life в 90-ых, под названием Prospero.
Третья картинка:
Тоже по мотивам Prospero; Переделанный концепт-рисунок разработчиков.Очень уж атмосферный.
ping.local
artur(ping,3) — All
2025-09-02 18:53:11
Предисловие:
Ограничения для картинок, указанные тут (rOf069UX8K24yAzvWa9N), очень понравились. На любом (почти) уважающем себя форуме обычно (почти) присутствуют такие темы.
ТАК ВОТ: мои работы:
Первая картинка:
Моя переделка картинки, которую я нашёл в галерее на сайте blackstrip.ru (декабрь 2006; а сайт по разработке программок на J2me и прочих штук).
Вторая картинка:
Тоже переделка, сделанная на основе одного из экраноснимков игры, которую Valve разрабатывали ещё до первой Half-Life в 90-ых, под названием Prospero.
Третья картинка:
Тоже по мотивам Prospero; Переделанный концепт-рисунок разработчиков.Очень уж атмосферный.
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Perl-Conf.Ru/25
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 14:44:05
Perl-Conf.Ru/25 — это ежегодная встреча Perl разработчиков в России.
В 2025 г. конференция пройдёт в субботу 27 сентября. Happy birthday to Larry!
Миссия Perl-Conf.Ru — поддерживать российское Perl-сообщество, способствовать обмену опытом и лучшими практиками, быть площадкой для общения коллег, аккумулировать экспертизу по Perl.
Конференция проходит в гибридном формате: оффлайн в Москве и онлайн трансляция для тех, кто не сможет присутствовать лично.
Программа
17:30 Сбор участников
18:00 Открытие конференции
18:10 Test2: жизнь после Test::More
18:40 Turbo Perl batteries debugger included
19:10 Перерыв
19:40 Описание typemap для передачи структур в XS
20:10 Perl & Postgres: трудный путь, потому что это проще
20:40 Закрытие конференции
21:00 Неофициальная часть в баре (место уточняется)
Стоимость участия
Мероприятие полностью подготовлено за собственные средства. Участие в событии бесплатно. При желании, можете поддержать организатора финансово. Разумная величина вашей поддержки: 0 — 2000 ₽.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/conference/18067800
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 14:44:05
Perl-Conf.Ru/25 — это ежегодная встреча Perl разработчиков в России.
В 2025 г. конференция пройдёт в субботу 27 сентября. Happy birthday to Larry!
Миссия Perl-Conf.Ru — поддерживать российское Perl-сообщество, способствовать обмену опытом и лучшими практиками, быть площадкой для общения коллег, аккумулировать экспертизу по Perl.
Конференция проходит в гибридном формате: оффлайн в Москве и онлайн трансляция для тех, кто не сможет присутствовать лично.
Программа
17:30 Сбор участников
18:00 Открытие конференции
18:10 Test2: жизнь после Test::More
18:40 Turbo Perl batteries debugger included
19:10 Перерыв
19:40 Описание typemap для передачи структур в XS
20:10 Perl & Postgres: трудный путь, потому что это проще
20:40 Закрытие конференции
21:00 Неофициальная часть в баре (место уточняется)
Стоимость участия
Мероприятие полностью подготовлено за собственные средства. Участие в событии бесплатно. При желании, можете поддержать организатора финансово. Разумная величина вашей поддержки: 0 — 2000 ₽.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/conference/18067800
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STATS 2025-09-01
spnet.stats
root(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 11:11:02
TOP10 VISITORS:
[1] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=24.9MB (57%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[2] PetalBot point=2 web=1016 up=6.0MB (13%) <--- PetalBot
[3] TikTok point=1 web=256 up=2.5MB (5%) <--- TikTok
[4] BLEXBot point=0 web=45 up=1.9MB (4%)
[5] Amazon point=0 web=115 up=1.5MB (3%)
[6] ClaudeBot point=0 web=83 up=1.3MB (3%)
[7] ChatGPT point=1 web=12 up=1.2MB (2%) <--- ChatGPT
[8] 217.114.158.x point=28 web=2 up=1.1MB (2%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[9] 174.170.19.x point=0 web=57 up=0.6MB (1%)
[10] Google point=1 web=97 up=0.6MB (1%) <--- Google
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 43MB
spnet.stats
root(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 11:11:02
TOP10 VISITORS:
[1] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=24.9MB (57%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[2] PetalBot point=2 web=1016 up=6.0MB (13%) <--- PetalBot
[3] TikTok point=1 web=256 up=2.5MB (5%) <--- TikTok
[4] BLEXBot point=0 web=45 up=1.9MB (4%)
[5] Amazon point=0 web=115 up=1.5MB (3%)
[6] ClaudeBot point=0 web=83 up=1.3MB (3%)
[7] ChatGPT point=1 web=12 up=1.2MB (2%) <--- ChatGPT
[8] 217.114.158.x point=28 web=2 up=1.1MB (2%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[9] 174.170.19.x point=0 web=57 up=0.6MB (1%)
[10] Google point=1 web=97 up=0.6MB (1%) <--- Google
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 43MB
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85% of College Students Report AI Use
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2025-09-02 06:22:02
College students have integrated generative AI into their academic routines at an unprecedented scale as 85% report usage for coursework in the past year, according to new Inside Higher Ed survey data. The majority employ AI tools for brainstorming ideas, seeking tutoring assistance, and exam preparation rather than wholesale academic outsourcing. Only 25% admitted using AI to complete assignments entirely, while 19% generated full essays.
Students overwhelmingly reject institutional policing approaches, with 53% favoring education on ethical AI use over detection software deployment. Despite widespread adoption, 35% of respondents report no change in their perception of college value, while 23% view their degrees as more valuable in the AI era.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/2328220/85-of-college-students-report-ai-use?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 06:22:02
College students have integrated generative AI into their academic routines at an unprecedented scale as 85% report usage for coursework in the past year, according to new Inside Higher Ed survey data. The majority employ AI tools for brainstorming ideas, seeking tutoring assistance, and exam preparation rather than wholesale academic outsourcing. Only 25% admitted using AI to complete assignments entirely, while 19% generated full essays.
Students overwhelmingly reject institutional policing approaches, with 53% favoring education on ethical AI use over detection software deployment. Despite widespread adoption, 35% of respondents report no change in their perception of college value, while 23% view their degrees as more valuable in the AI era.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/2328220/85-of-college-students-report-ai-use?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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US Tourism Suffers 8.2% Decline
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 04:22:01
International tourism to the United States faces an unprecedented 8.2% decline in 2025, with the World Travel and Tourism Council projecting a $12.5 billion loss in visitor spending -- the only decline among 184 economies analyzed. Canadian visitors, traditionally comprising 28% of international arrivals, have dropped by approximately 25% through July.
Seattle tour operators report 30-50% fewer Canadian customers with many explicitly citing recent tariff policies and political rhetoric as deterrents. The newly implemented $250 "visa integrity fee" for certain countries compounds existing concerns about immigration policies and National Guard deployments in major cities. Tourism Economics now projects full recovery to pre-pandemic levels won't occur until 2029, three years later than initially forecast.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/2339241/us-tourism-suffers-82-decline?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 04:22:01
International tourism to the United States faces an unprecedented 8.2% decline in 2025, with the World Travel and Tourism Council projecting a $12.5 billion loss in visitor spending -- the only decline among 184 economies analyzed. Canadian visitors, traditionally comprising 28% of international arrivals, have dropped by approximately 25% through July.
Seattle tour operators report 30-50% fewer Canadian customers with many explicitly citing recent tariff policies and political rhetoric as deterrents. The newly implemented $250 "visa integrity fee" for certain countries compounds existing concerns about immigration policies and National Guard deployments in major cities. Tourism Economics now projects full recovery to pre-pandemic levels won't occur until 2029, three years later than initially forecast.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/2339241/us-tourism-suffers-82-decline?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Salesforce CEO Says AI Enabled Him To Cut 4,000 Jobs
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 03:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Speaking to The Logan Bartlett Show on Friday, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said the use of AI agents had enabled him to "rebalance" his headcount in the customer support division by trimming 4,000 jobs. "I've reduced it from 9,000 head to about 5,000 because I need less heads," Benioff said. Benioff called the first eight months of 2025, during which an estimated 10,000 jobs have been lost to AI, "eight of the most exciting months of my career."
"There were more than 100 million leads that we have not called back at Salesforce in the last 26 years because we have not had enough people," Benioff said. "We just couldn't call them back. But we now have an agentic sales that is calling back every person that contacts us."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/2314206/salesforce-ceo-says-ai-enabled-him-to-cut-4000-jobs?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-02 03:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Speaking to The Logan Bartlett Show on Friday, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said the use of AI agents had enabled him to "rebalance" his headcount in the customer support division by trimming 4,000 jobs. "I've reduced it from 9,000 head to about 5,000 because I need less heads," Benioff said. Benioff called the first eight months of 2025, during which an estimated 10,000 jobs have been lost to AI, "eight of the most exciting months of my career."
"There were more than 100 million leads that we have not called back at Salesforce in the last 26 years because we have not had enough people," Benioff said. "We just couldn't call them back. But we now have an agentic sales that is calling back every person that contacts us."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/2314206/salesforce-ceo-says-ai-enabled-him-to-cut-4000-jobs?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Re: Краткая информация по этому узлу
ping.local
hugeping(ping,1) — artur
2025-09-02 00:12:17
artur> Красивости всякие. Примерно как в моём сообщении выше (микрозасмешки в картинках, человечки, котики и это вот всё)
Тогда новую тему просто начни, а то мы сейчас пишем в информации об узле.
ping.local
hugeping(ping,1) — artur
2025-09-02 00:12:17
artur> Красивости всякие. Примерно как в моём сообщении выше (микрозасмешки в картинках, человечки, котики и это вот всё)
Тогда новую тему просто начни, а то мы сейчас пишем в информации об узле.
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EU To Boost Satellite Defences Against GPS Jamming, Defence Commissioner Says
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 23:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: The European Union will deploy additional satellites in low Earth orbit to strengthen resilience against GPS interferences and will improve capabilities to detect it, EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said on Monday. His remarks followed an incident on Sunday in which the GPS system aboard European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's aircraft was jammed en route to Bulgaria. Bulgarian authorities suspect the jamming was due to due to interference by Russia, an EU spokesperson said.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/1847244/eu-to-boost-satellite-defences-against-gps-jamming-defence-commissioner-says?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 23:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: The European Union will deploy additional satellites in low Earth orbit to strengthen resilience against GPS interferences and will improve capabilities to detect it, EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said on Monday. His remarks followed an incident on Sunday in which the GPS system aboard European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's aircraft was jammed en route to Bulgaria. Bulgarian authorities suspect the jamming was due to due to interference by Russia, an EU spokesperson said.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/1847244/eu-to-boost-satellite-defences-against-gps-jamming-defence-commissioner-says?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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The Age of Cheap Online Shopping is Ending
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 23:22:01
The century-old duty-free import exemption that transformed American online shopping has ended, The Atlantic argues, closing a loophole that allowed packages valued under $800 to enter the United States without tariffs. The de minimis threshold, raised from $200 in 2016, processed millions of daily shipments directly from overseas sellers to American consumers.
China lost access earlier this year; the exemption now terminates for all countries. Platforms including Shein, Temu, and marketplace sellers on Amazon, Etsy, and eBay built business models around direct shipping from manufacturing hubs in Asia and elsewhere. Import duties will apply to all international packages regardless of value, with tariffs reaching 50% for some countries. The policy shift affects everything from $30 specialty faucet parts shipped from Britain to handmade crafts from India, fundamentally altering the economics of cross-border e-commerce that emerged over the past decade.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/1818247/the-age-of-cheap-online-shopping-is-ending?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 23:22:01
The century-old duty-free import exemption that transformed American online shopping has ended, The Atlantic argues, closing a loophole that allowed packages valued under $800 to enter the United States without tariffs. The de minimis threshold, raised from $200 in 2016, processed millions of daily shipments directly from overseas sellers to American consumers.
China lost access earlier this year; the exemption now terminates for all countries. Platforms including Shein, Temu, and marketplace sellers on Amazon, Etsy, and eBay built business models around direct shipping from manufacturing hubs in Asia and elsewhere. Import duties will apply to all international packages regardless of value, with tariffs reaching 50% for some countries. The policy shift affects everything from $30 specialty faucet parts shipped from Britain to handmade crafts from India, fundamentally altering the economics of cross-border e-commerce that emerged over the past decade.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/1818247/the-age-of-cheap-online-shopping-is-ending?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Выпуск дистрибутива AerynOS 2025.08, ранее известного как Serpent OS
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 22:44:02
Представлен выпуск дистрибутива AerynOS 2025.08, который стал вторым обновлением после переименования проекта Serpent OS. Дистрибутив использует собственный пакетный менеджер и атомарную модель обновления системы. Разработка ведётся старой командой разработчиков дистрибутива Solus, в число которых входят Айки Доэрти (Ikey Doherty) - создатель Solus и Джошуа Стробл (Joshua Strobl) - ключевой разработчик среды рабочего стола Budgie. Загрузочный iso-образ сформирован (2 ГБ) для архитектуры x86_64-v2 и поставляется с рабочим столом GNOME.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63810
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 22:44:02
Представлен выпуск дистрибутива AerynOS 2025.08, который стал вторым обновлением после переименования проекта Serpent OS. Дистрибутив использует собственный пакетный менеджер и атомарную модель обновления системы. Разработка ведётся старой командой разработчиков дистрибутива Solus, в число которых входят Айки Доэрти (Ikey Doherty) - создатель Solus и Джошуа Стробл (Joshua Strobl) - ключевой разработчик среды рабочего стола Budgie. Загрузочный iso-образ сформирован (2 ГБ) для архитектуры x86_64-v2 и поставляется с рабочим столом GNOME.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63810
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Re: Краткая информация по этому узлу
ping.local
artur(ping,3) — hugeping
2025-09-01 22:42:45
Красивости всякие. Примерно как в моём сообщении выше (микрозасмешки в картинках, человечки, котики и это вот всё)
Ограничения в размерах и палитры -- вот это самое крутое.
А картинка выше -- это моя переделка картинки, которую я нашёл в галерее на сайте blackstrip.ru (декабрь 2006; а сайт по разработке программок на J2me и прочих штук).
ping.local
artur(ping,3) — hugeping
2025-09-01 22:42:45
Красивости всякие. Примерно как в моём сообщении выше (микрозасмешки в картинках, человечки, котики и это вот всё)
Ограничения в размерах и палитры -- вот это самое крутое.
А картинка выше -- это моя переделка картинки, которую я нашёл в галерее на сайте blackstrip.ru (декабрь 2006; а сайт по разработке программок на J2me и прочих штук).
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Re: Краткая информация по этому узлу
ping.local
hugeping(ping,1) — artur
2025-09-01 22:30:42
artur> А в этом разделе форума (ping.local) можно тему с картинками сделать?
Там просто жесткие ограничения на размер и есть некоторая избыточность. То-есть, приходится ужимать в палитре итд. Такое искуственное ограничение под ретро получается...
А какого рода картинки?
ping.local
hugeping(ping,1) — artur
2025-09-01 22:30:42
artur> А в этом разделе форума (ping.local) можно тему с картинками сделать?
Там просто жесткие ограничения на размер и есть некоторая избыточность. То-есть, приходится ужимать в палитре итд. Такое искуственное ограничение под ретро получается...
А какого рода картинки?
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Re: rein с SDL3
std.rein
hugeping(ping,1) — artur
2025-09-01 22:29:15
artur> Это можно будет, условно, совмещать метапарсер с какой-нибудь графикой на rein?
Ну да, в целом план такой. Я даже периодически начинаю писать, но потом снова работа и быт начинают мешать. В выходные попробую ещё раз :)
std.rein
hugeping(ping,1) — artur
2025-09-01 22:29:15
artur> Это можно будет, условно, совмещать метапарсер с какой-нибудь графикой на rein?
Ну да, в целом план такой. Я даже периодически начинаю писать, но потом снова работа и быт начинают мешать. В выходные попробую ещё раз :)
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Azure Budget Alerts Go Berserk After Microsoft Account Migration Misfire
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 21:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Some Microsoft Azure customers have had a worrying few days after a problematic account migration caused forecast costs for the cloud service to skyrocket, triggering budget alerts.
An alarmed Register reader got in touch after receiving warnings from Azure's automated systems that they had significantly exceeded their budgets, and a glance at Microsoft's support forums indicates their issue was not isolated.
The problem was that costs had suddenly ramped up. One user, with a budget threshold of $85, received an automated alert indicating that their spend was forecast to reach $1,027. Another said: "We're actively seeing the same issue, costs have blown up by a crazy amount. No official notice or announcement from Microsoft either, it's appalling."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/1621214/azure-budget-alerts-go-berserk-after-microsoft-account-migration-misfire?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 21:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Some Microsoft Azure customers have had a worrying few days after a problematic account migration caused forecast costs for the cloud service to skyrocket, triggering budget alerts.
An alarmed Register reader got in touch after receiving warnings from Azure's automated systems that they had significantly exceeded their budgets, and a glance at Microsoft's support forums indicates their issue was not isolated.
The problem was that costs had suddenly ramped up. One user, with a budget threshold of $85, received an automated alert indicating that their spend was forecast to reach $1,027. Another said: "We're actively seeing the same issue, costs have blown up by a crazy amount. No official notice or announcement from Microsoft either, it's appalling."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/1621214/azure-budget-alerts-go-berserk-after-microsoft-account-migration-misfire?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Americans Are Having Less Sex Than Ever
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 20:22:01
Americans are having a record low amount of sex -- even less than they did during the Covid-19 pandemic -- according to a new study led by researchers at the Institute for Family Studies. WSJ: This continues the downward shift in sexual activity that has been worrying sociologists and psychologists for decades. For the report, called "The Sex Recession," researchers at the IFS analyzed the data on sex and intimacy in the latest General Social Survey produced by NORC at the University of Chicago, which was collected in 2024 and released in May. They found that just 37% of people age 18-64 reported having sex at least once a week, down from 55% in 1990. The decline is even more striking for young adults: Almost a quarter of people age 18-29, or 24%, said they had not had sex in the past year; this is twice as many as in 2010.
Much has been written in recent years about the trend of young people having less sex, attributed to everything from stunted social skills to a rise in internet pornography. Yet the IFS study shows that the same trend holds true for people up to the age of 64, of all sexual orientations, both married and single. (After age 64, there was no significant change in the amount of sex people have, largely because this group reports having sex less frequently to begin with, the researchers said.)
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/1614253/americans-are-having-less-sex-than-ever?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 20:22:01
Americans are having a record low amount of sex -- even less than they did during the Covid-19 pandemic -- according to a new study led by researchers at the Institute for Family Studies. WSJ: This continues the downward shift in sexual activity that has been worrying sociologists and psychologists for decades. For the report, called "The Sex Recession," researchers at the IFS analyzed the data on sex and intimacy in the latest General Social Survey produced by NORC at the University of Chicago, which was collected in 2024 and released in May. They found that just 37% of people age 18-64 reported having sex at least once a week, down from 55% in 1990. The decline is even more striking for young adults: Almost a quarter of people age 18-29, or 24%, said they had not had sex in the past year; this is twice as many as in 2010.
Much has been written in recent years about the trend of young people having less sex, attributed to everything from stunted social skills to a rise in internet pornography. Yet the IFS study shows that the same trend holds true for people up to the age of 64, of all sexual orientations, both married and single. (After age 64, there was no significant change in the amount of sex people have, largely because this group reports having sex less frequently to begin with, the researchers said.)
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/1614253/americans-are-having-less-sex-than-ever?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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'Why Do Waymos Keep Loitering in Front of My House?'
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 20:22:01
Waymo robotaxis are repeatedly selecting identical parking spots in front of specific Los Angeles and Arizona homes between rides, puzzling residents who document the same vehicles returning to precise locations daily. The company states its vehicles choose parking based on local regulations, existing vehicle distribution, and proximity to high-demand areas but cannot explain the algorithmic specificity.
Carnegie Mellon autonomous vehicle expert Phil Koopman attributes the behavior to machine learning systems optimizing for specific spots without variation. Waymo said it had received neighbor complaints and has designated certain locations as no-parking zones for its fleet. The vehicles comply with three-hour parking limits, according to Los Angeles Department of Transportation regulations, governing commercial passenger vehicles under 22 feet.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/1512223/why-do-waymos-keep-loitering-in-front-of-my-house?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 20:22:01
Waymo robotaxis are repeatedly selecting identical parking spots in front of specific Los Angeles and Arizona homes between rides, puzzling residents who document the same vehicles returning to precise locations daily. The company states its vehicles choose parking based on local regulations, existing vehicle distribution, and proximity to high-demand areas but cannot explain the algorithmic specificity.
Carnegie Mellon autonomous vehicle expert Phil Koopman attributes the behavior to machine learning systems optimizing for specific spots without variation. Waymo said it had received neighbor complaints and has designated certain locations as no-parking zones for its fleet. The vehicles comply with three-hour parking limits, according to Los Angeles Department of Transportation regulations, governing commercial passenger vehicles under 22 feet.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/1512223/why-do-waymos-keep-loitering-in-front-of-my-house?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Our Preoccupation With Protein Intake
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 20:22:01
A review of published meta-analyses examining protein supplementation found no evidence supporting intake beyond 1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight daily, according to an analysis by cardiologist Eric Topol. The review examined multiple randomized controlled trials encompassing thousands of participants. The most widely cited Morton study, which included 1,863 participants across 49 trials, showed no statistically significant benefit at higher protein levels, with a p-value of 0.079.
Recent research from Washington University identified the essential amino acid leucine as activating mTOR in macrophages, promoting atherosclerosis progression. The mechanism was demonstrated in both mouse models and human studies measuring circulating monocyte changes following acute high-protein challenges increasing dietary protein from 22% to 50% of energy intake. Current USDA data indicates 55% of American men and 35% of women already exceed the 0.8 g/kg/day recommendation from the National Academy of Medicine. The protein supplement industry, exemplified by David bars containing 28 grams of protein in 150 calories using a modified plant fat called EPG, projects $180 million in 2025 sales.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/143252/our-preoccupation-with-protein-intake?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 20:22:01
A review of published meta-analyses examining protein supplementation found no evidence supporting intake beyond 1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight daily, according to an analysis by cardiologist Eric Topol. The review examined multiple randomized controlled trials encompassing thousands of participants. The most widely cited Morton study, which included 1,863 participants across 49 trials, showed no statistically significant benefit at higher protein levels, with a p-value of 0.079.
Recent research from Washington University identified the essential amino acid leucine as activating mTOR in macrophages, promoting atherosclerosis progression. The mechanism was demonstrated in both mouse models and human studies measuring circulating monocyte changes following acute high-protein challenges increasing dietary protein from 22% to 50% of energy intake. Current USDA data indicates 55% of American men and 35% of women already exceed the 0.8 g/kg/day recommendation from the National Academy of Medicine. The protein supplement industry, exemplified by David bars containing 28 grams of protein in 150 calories using a modified plant fat called EPG, projects $180 million in 2025 sales.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/143252/our-preoccupation-with-protein-intake?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Выпуск volt-gui 1.2.0, GUI для оптимизации настроек, влияющих на работу игр в Linux
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 17:44:03
Состоялся релиз приложения volt-gui 1.2.0, предоставляющего графический интерфейс для оптимизации работы игр в Linux. Программа упрощает настройку параметров графических драйверов, Mesa и ядра Linux. Например, предоставляются опции для выбора режима работы планировщика задач, управления использованием VSync, кэшированием шейдеров, включением различных оптимизаций и подменой выдаваемой информации о версиях OpenGL и Vulkan. Код написан на языке Python и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63809
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 17:44:03
Состоялся релиз приложения volt-gui 1.2.0, предоставляющего графический интерфейс для оптимизации работы игр в Linux. Программа упрощает настройку параметров графических драйверов, Mesa и ядра Linux. Например, предоставляются опции для выбора режима работы планировщика задач, управления использованием VSync, кэшированием шейдеров, включением различных оптимизаций и подменой выдаваемой информации о версиях OpenGL и Vulkan. Код написан на языке Python и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63809
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27 сентября в Москве пройдёт конференция разработчиков на языке Perl
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 16:44:03
В субботу 27 сентября в Москве состоится ежегодная встреча разработчиков, использующих язык программирования Perl. Мероприятие пройдёт в день рождения Ларри Уолла, создателя языка.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63808
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 16:44:03
В субботу 27 сентября в Москве состоится ежегодная встреча разработчиков, использующих язык программирования Perl. Мероприятие пройдёт в день рождения Ларри Уолла, создателя языка.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63808
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Blizzard's 'Diablo' Devs Unionize. There's Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 16:22:01
PC Gamer reports:
The Diablo team is the next in line to unionize at Blizzard. Over 450 developers across multiple disciplines have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), and they're now the fourth major Blizzard team to do so... A wave of unions have formed at Blizzard in the last year, including the World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Story and Franchise Development teams. Elsewhere at Microsoft, Bethesda, ZeniMax Online Studios and ZeniMax QA testers have also unionized...
The CWA says over 3,500 Microsoft workers have now organized to fight for fair compensation, job security, and improved working conditions.
CWA is America's largest communications and media labor union, and in a statement, local 9510 president Jason Justice called the successful vote "part of a much larger story about turning the tide in an industry that has long overlooked its labor. Entertainment workers across film, television, music, and now video games are standing together to have a seat at the table. The strength of our movement comes from that solidarity."
And CWA local 6215 president Ron Swaggerty said "Each new organizing effort adds momentum to the nationwide movement for video game worker power."
"What began as a trickle has turned into an avalanche," writes the gaming news site Aftermath, calling the latest vote "a direct result of the union neutrality deal Microsoft struck with CWA in 2022 when it was facing regulatory scrutiny over its $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard."
We've come a long way since small units at Raven and Blizzard Albany fended off Activision Blizzard's pre-acquisition attempts at union busting in 2022 and 2023, and not a moment too soon: Microsoft's penchant for mass layoffs has cut some teams to the bone and left others warily counting down the days until their heads land on the chopping block. This new union, workers hope, will act as a bulwark...
[B]ased on preliminary conversations with prospective members, they can already hazard a few guesses as to what they'll be arm-wrestling management over at the bargaining table: pay equity, AI, crediting, and remote work.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/0413204/blizzards-diablo-devs-unionize-theres-now-3500-unionized-microsoft-workers?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 16:22:01
PC Gamer reports:
The Diablo team is the next in line to unionize at Blizzard. Over 450 developers across multiple disciplines have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), and they're now the fourth major Blizzard team to do so... A wave of unions have formed at Blizzard in the last year, including the World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Story and Franchise Development teams. Elsewhere at Microsoft, Bethesda, ZeniMax Online Studios and ZeniMax QA testers have also unionized...
The CWA says over 3,500 Microsoft workers have now organized to fight for fair compensation, job security, and improved working conditions.
CWA is America's largest communications and media labor union, and in a statement, local 9510 president Jason Justice called the successful vote "part of a much larger story about turning the tide in an industry that has long overlooked its labor. Entertainment workers across film, television, music, and now video games are standing together to have a seat at the table. The strength of our movement comes from that solidarity."
And CWA local 6215 president Ron Swaggerty said "Each new organizing effort adds momentum to the nationwide movement for video game worker power."
"What began as a trickle has turned into an avalanche," writes the gaming news site Aftermath, calling the latest vote "a direct result of the union neutrality deal Microsoft struck with CWA in 2022 when it was facing regulatory scrutiny over its $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard."
We've come a long way since small units at Raven and Blizzard Albany fended off Activision Blizzard's pre-acquisition attempts at union busting in 2022 and 2023, and not a moment too soon: Microsoft's penchant for mass layoffs has cut some teams to the bone and left others warily counting down the days until their heads land on the chopping block. This new union, workers hope, will act as a bulwark...
[B]ased on preliminary conversations with prospective members, they can already hazard a few guesses as to what they'll be arm-wrestling management over at the bargaining table: pay equity, AI, crediting, and remote work.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/0413204/blizzards-diablo-devs-unionize-theres-now-3500-unionized-microsoft-workers?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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IceWM 3.9.0
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 15:44:05
31 августа состоялся выпуск 3.9.0 быстрого и простого оконного менеджера для X Window [ IceWM ]( https://ice-wm.org ) .
Проект написан на языке C++ и распространяется по лицензии GNU LGPL 2.
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18066859#cut ) )
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-01 15:44:05
31 августа состоялся выпуск 3.9.0 быстрого и простого оконного менеджера для X Window [ IceWM ]( https://ice-wm.org ) .
Проект написан на языке C++ и распространяется по лицензии GNU LGPL 2.
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18066859#cut ) )
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Новый формат статистики в ii.stat
idec.talks
shaos(spnet, 2) — All
2025-09-01 13:06:54
Теперь ii://ii.stat буду посылать помесячную статистику (раньше была понедельная) - вот как оно выглядит за август:
P.S. spnet.stats должен быть 31 по идее - наверное предыдущий снапшот не совсем 1 августа был сделан...
idec.talks
shaos(spnet, 2) — All
2025-09-01 13:06:54
Теперь ii://ii.stat буду посылать помесячную статистику (раньше была понедельная) - вот как оно выглядит за август:
Echoareas ──────────────────────── bot.slashdot.........530 ██████████████████████████████████████████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ lor.opennet..........166 ██████████████████████████████████████████████████▒▒▒ spnet.stats...........29 █████████████████████████████ idec.talks.............8 ████████ std.rein...............2 ██ plan.9.................1 █ ──────────────────────── Total 736
P.S. spnet.stats должен быть 31 по идее - наверное предыдущий снапшот не совсем 1 августа был сделан...
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Re: Исходники Naste.ne
idec.talks
shaos(spnet, 2) — doesnm
2025-09-01 13:02:52
Вот нашёл у себя в архивах:
http://shaos.net/files/nastene-0.6.tar.gz (279K)
http://shaos.net/files/nastene-retro-98.tar.gz (120K)
http://shaos.net/files/nastene-0.7.tar.gz (70K)
http://shaos.net/files/nastene-retro-99.tar.gz (127K)
Это точно те файлы, какие распространял автор - работают или нет не знаю...
idec.talks
shaos(spnet, 2) — doesnm
2025-09-01 13:02:52
Вот нашёл у себя в архивах:
http://shaos.net/files/nastene-0.6.tar.gz (279K)
http://shaos.net/files/nastene-retro-98.tar.gz (120K)
http://shaos.net/files/nastene-0.7.tar.gz (70K)
http://shaos.net/files/nastene-retro-99.tar.gz (127K)
Это точно те файлы, какие распространял автор - работают или нет не знаю...
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Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You 'Buy' a Long-Term Streaming Rental
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2025-09-01 12:22:01
"Typically when something is available to "buy," ownership of that good or access to that service is offered in exchange for money," writes Ars Technica.
"That's not really the case, though, when it comes to digital content."
Often, streaming services like Amazon Prime Video offer customers the options to "rent" digital content for a few days or to "buy" it. Some might think that picking "buy" means that they can view the content indefinitely. But these purchases are really just long-term licenses to watch the content for as long as the streaming service has the right to distribute it — which could be for years, months, or days after the transaction. A lawsuit recently filed against Prime Video challenges this practice and accuses the streaming service of misleading customers by labeling long-term rentals as purchases. The conclusion of the case could have implications for how streaming services frame digital content...
[The plaintiff's] complaint stands a better chance due to a California law that took effect in January banning the selling of a "digital good to a purchaser with the terms 'buy,' 'purchase,' or any other term which a reasonable person would understand to confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good, or alongside an option for a time-limited rental." There are some instances where the law allows digital content providers to use words like "buy." One example is if, at the time of transaction, the seller receives acknowledgement from the customer that the customer is receiving a license to access the digital content; that they received a complete list of the license's conditions; and that they know that access to the digital content may be "unilaterally revoked...."
The case is likely to hinge on whether or not fine print and lengthy terms of use are appropriate and sufficient communication. [The plaintiff]'s complaint acknowledges that Prime Video shows relevant fine print below its "buy" buttons but says that the notice is "far below the 'buy movie' button, buried at the very bottom" of the page and is not visible until "the very last stage of the transaction," after a user has already clicked "buy."
Amazon is sure to argue that "If plaintiff didn't want to read her contract, including the small print, that's on her," says consumer attorney Danny Karon. But he tells Ars Technica "I like plaintiff's chances. A normal consumer, after whom the California statute at issue is fashioned, would consider 'buy' or 'purchase' to involve a permanent transaction, not a mere rental... If the facts are as plaintiff alleges, Amazon's behavior would likely constitute a breach of contract or statutory fraud."
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2025-09-01 12:22:01
"Typically when something is available to "buy," ownership of that good or access to that service is offered in exchange for money," writes Ars Technica.
"That's not really the case, though, when it comes to digital content."
Often, streaming services like Amazon Prime Video offer customers the options to "rent" digital content for a few days or to "buy" it. Some might think that picking "buy" means that they can view the content indefinitely. But these purchases are really just long-term licenses to watch the content for as long as the streaming service has the right to distribute it — which could be for years, months, or days after the transaction. A lawsuit recently filed against Prime Video challenges this practice and accuses the streaming service of misleading customers by labeling long-term rentals as purchases. The conclusion of the case could have implications for how streaming services frame digital content...
[The plaintiff's] complaint stands a better chance due to a California law that took effect in January banning the selling of a "digital good to a purchaser with the terms 'buy,' 'purchase,' or any other term which a reasonable person would understand to confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good, or alongside an option for a time-limited rental." There are some instances where the law allows digital content providers to use words like "buy." One example is if, at the time of transaction, the seller receives acknowledgement from the customer that the customer is receiving a license to access the digital content; that they received a complete list of the license's conditions; and that they know that access to the digital content may be "unilaterally revoked...."
The case is likely to hinge on whether or not fine print and lengthy terms of use are appropriate and sufficient communication. [The plaintiff]'s complaint acknowledges that Prime Video shows relevant fine print below its "buy" buttons but says that the notice is "far below the 'buy movie' button, buried at the very bottom" of the page and is not visible until "the very last stage of the transaction," after a user has already clicked "buy."
Amazon is sure to argue that "If plaintiff didn't want to read her contract, including the small print, that's on her," says consumer attorney Danny Karon. But he tells Ars Technica "I like plaintiff's chances. A normal consumer, after whom the California statute at issue is fashioned, would consider 'buy' or 'purchase' to involve a permanent transaction, not a mere rental... If the facts are as plaintiff alleges, Amazon's behavior would likely constitute a breach of contract or statutory fraud."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/051247/lawsuit-says-amazon-prime-video-misleads-when-you-buy-a-long-term-streaming-rental?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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ii stat for August 2025
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2025-09-01 12:57:45
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2025-09-01 12:57:45
Echoareas ──────────────────────── bot.slashdot.........530 ██████████████████████████████████████████████████▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ lor.opennet..........166 ██████████████████████████████████████████████████▒▒▒ spnet.stats...........29 █████████████████████████████ idec.talks.............8 ████████ std.rein...............2 ██ plan.9.................1 █ ──────────────────────── Total 736
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STATS 2025-08-31
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2025-09-01 11:11:01
TOP10 VISITORS:
[1] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=24.9MB (55%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[2] TikTok point=1 web=290 up=3.3MB (7%) <--- TikTok
[3] AwarioBot point=1 web=69 up=3.2MB (7%) <--- AwarioBot
[4] PetalBot point=3 web=432 up=2.5MB (5%) <--- PetalBot
[5] BLEXBot point=0 web=75 up=2.1MB (4%)
[6] Amazon point=0 web=116 up=1.9MB (4%)
[7] 217.114.158.x point=26 web=0 up=0.9MB (1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[8] Facebook point=0 web=75 up=0.8MB (1%)
[9] Google point=0 web=102 up=0.6MB (1%)
[10] 174.170.19.x point=0 web=34 up=0.4MB (<1%)
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 44MB
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TOP10 VISITORS:
[1] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=24.9MB (55%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[2] TikTok point=1 web=290 up=3.3MB (7%) <--- TikTok
[3] AwarioBot point=1 web=69 up=3.2MB (7%) <--- AwarioBot
[4] PetalBot point=3 web=432 up=2.5MB (5%) <--- PetalBot
[5] BLEXBot point=0 web=75 up=2.1MB (4%)
[6] Amazon point=0 web=116 up=1.9MB (4%)
[7] 217.114.158.x point=26 web=0 up=0.9MB (1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[8] Facebook point=0 web=75 up=0.8MB (1%)
[9] Google point=0 web=102 up=0.6MB (1%)
[10] 174.170.19.x point=0 web=34 up=0.4MB (<1%)
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 44MB
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Исходники Naste.ne
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2025-09-01 10:50:18
У кого-то остался архив с Nastene 0.6 или 0.7? В веб архиве нет, да и источник давно недоступен
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У кого-то остался архив с Nastene 0.6 или 0.7? В веб архиве нет, да и источник давно недоступен
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First 'AI Music Creator' Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry?
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2025-09-01 08:22:02
"I have no musical talent at all," says Oliver McCann. "I can't sing, I can't play instruments, and I have no musical background at all!"
But the Associated Press describes 37-year-old McCann as a British "AI music creator" — and last month McCann signed with an independent record label "after one of his tracks racked up 3 million streams, in what's billed as the first time a music label has inked a contract with an AI music creator."
McCann is an example of how ChatGPT-style AI song generation tools like Suno and Udio have spawned a wave of synthetic music, a movement most notably highlighted by a fictitious group, Velvet Sundown, that went viral even though all its songs, lyrics and album art were created by AI. Experts say generative AI is set to transform the music world. However, there are scant details, so far, on how it's impacting the $29.6 billion global recorded music market, which includes about $20 billion from streaming.
The most reliable figures come from music streaming service Deezer, which estimates that 18% of songs uploaded to its platform every day are purely AI generated, though they only account for a tiny amount of total streams, hinting that few people are actually listening. Other, bigger streaming platforms like Spotify haven't released any figures on AI music... "It's a total boom. It's a tsunami," said Josh Antonuccio, director of Ohio University's School of Media Arts and Studies. The amount of AI generated music "is just going to only exponentially increase" as young people grow up with AI and become more comfortable with it, he said. [Antonuccio says later the cost of making a hit record "just keeps winnowing down from a major studio to a laptop to a bedroom. And now it's like a text prompt — several text prompts." Though there's a lack of legal clarity over copyright issues.]
Generative AI, with its ability to spit out seemingly unique content, has divided the music world, with musicians and industry groups complaining that recorded works are being exploited to train AI models that power song generation tools... Three major record companies, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Records, filed lawsuits last year against Suno and Udio for copyright infringement. In June, the two sides also reportedly entered negotiations that could go beyond settling the lawsuits and set rules for how artists are paid when AI is used to remix their songs.
GEMA, a German royalty collection society, has sued Suno, accusing it of generating music similar to songs like "Mambo No. 5" by Lou Bega and "Forever Young" by Alphaville. More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and Damon Albarn, released a silent album to protest proposed changes to U.K. laws on AI they fear would erode their creative control.
Meanwhile, other artists, such as will.i.am, Timbaland and Imogen Heap, have embraced the technology. Some users say the debate is just a rehash of old arguments about once-new technology that eventually became widely used, such as AutoTune, drum machines and synthesizers.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/0136236/first-ai-music-creator-signed-by-record-label-more-ahead-or-just-a-copyright-quandry?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-09-01 08:22:02
"I have no musical talent at all," says Oliver McCann. "I can't sing, I can't play instruments, and I have no musical background at all!"
But the Associated Press describes 37-year-old McCann as a British "AI music creator" — and last month McCann signed with an independent record label "after one of his tracks racked up 3 million streams, in what's billed as the first time a music label has inked a contract with an AI music creator."
McCann is an example of how ChatGPT-style AI song generation tools like Suno and Udio have spawned a wave of synthetic music, a movement most notably highlighted by a fictitious group, Velvet Sundown, that went viral even though all its songs, lyrics and album art were created by AI. Experts say generative AI is set to transform the music world. However, there are scant details, so far, on how it's impacting the $29.6 billion global recorded music market, which includes about $20 billion from streaming.
The most reliable figures come from music streaming service Deezer, which estimates that 18% of songs uploaded to its platform every day are purely AI generated, though they only account for a tiny amount of total streams, hinting that few people are actually listening. Other, bigger streaming platforms like Spotify haven't released any figures on AI music... "It's a total boom. It's a tsunami," said Josh Antonuccio, director of Ohio University's School of Media Arts and Studies. The amount of AI generated music "is just going to only exponentially increase" as young people grow up with AI and become more comfortable with it, he said. [Antonuccio says later the cost of making a hit record "just keeps winnowing down from a major studio to a laptop to a bedroom. And now it's like a text prompt — several text prompts." Though there's a lack of legal clarity over copyright issues.]
Generative AI, with its ability to spit out seemingly unique content, has divided the music world, with musicians and industry groups complaining that recorded works are being exploited to train AI models that power song generation tools... Three major record companies, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Records, filed lawsuits last year against Suno and Udio for copyright infringement. In June, the two sides also reportedly entered negotiations that could go beyond settling the lawsuits and set rules for how artists are paid when AI is used to remix their songs.
GEMA, a German royalty collection society, has sued Suno, accusing it of generating music similar to songs like "Mambo No. 5" by Lou Bega and "Forever Young" by Alphaville. More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and Damon Albarn, released a silent album to protest proposed changes to U.K. laws on AI they fear would erode their creative control.
Meanwhile, other artists, such as will.i.am, Timbaland and Imogen Heap, have embraced the technology. Some users say the debate is just a rehash of old arguments about once-new technology that eventually became widely used, such as AutoTune, drum machines and synthesizers.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/0136236/first-ai-music-creator-signed-by-record-label-more-ahead-or-just-a-copyright-quandry?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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400 'Tech Utopian' Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State
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2025-09-01 05:22:01
"Nearly 400 students, many of them entrepreneurs, have so far made the journey to Forest City to study everything from coding to unconventional theories on statehood," reports Bloomberg.
"They're building crypto projects, fine-tuning their physiques and testing whether a shared ideology — rather than just shared territory — can bind a community."
They have descended on Forest City to attend Network School, the brainchild of former Coinbase Inc. executive and "The Network State" author Balaji Srinivasan. In this troubled megaproject once envisaged to house some 50 times its current population, they're conducting a real-life experiment of sorts with Srinivasan's vision of "startup societies" defined less by historical territory than shared beliefs in technology, cryptocurrency and light regulation... Mornings are spent in product sprints and coding sessions; afternoons in seminars exploring topics from the Meiji Restoration to Singapore's statecraft and the mechanics of decentralized governance. Guest lectures double as both technological deep dives and ideological sermons, according to half a dozen students interviewed by Bloomberg. The campus also mirrors Silicon Valley's infatuation with longevity and health, right down to a commercial-grade gym and specially designed workout routines. Students follow a protein-heavy diet...
After co-founding DNA testing startup Counsyl in 2008 and serving as its chief technology officer, Srinivasan spent five years at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, first as general partner and then as board partner. He joined Coinbase as CTO in 2018 when the crypto exchange bought a portfolio company he oversaw and left after a little over a year, according to his LinkedIn profile. In a 2013 speech at Y Combinator's Startup School, Srinivasan brought his ideas about what he saw as a fundamental conflict between some modern nation-states and innovation to a wider audience. In the address, he advocated for Silicon Valley's "ultimate exit" from the U.S., which he argued was obsolete and hostile to innovators. In essence: If the society you live in is broken, why not just "opt out" and create a new one?
"The Network State: How To Start a New Country," published in 2022, expanded on Srinivasan's "exit" concept to outline how online, ideologically aligned communities can use crypto and digital tools to form new, decentralized states. A network state can be geographically dispersed and bound together by the internet and blockchains, he says, and the aim is to gain diplomatic recognition... On the Moment of Zen podcast in September 2023, he outlined how the "Gray Tribe" — entrepreneurs, innovators and thinkers — can retake control of San Francisco from the Blues using a variety of tactics, like allying with local police. The effort would involve gaining control of territory, according to Srinivasan, who didn't advocate for violence. "Elections are just the cherry on the cake," he said. "Elections are just a reflection of your total control of the streets."
The cost of attending Network School "starts at $1,500 per month, including lodging and food, for those who opt for a shared room."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/01/0047230/400-tech-utopian-refuges-consider-new-crypto-friendly-state?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-09-01 05:22:01
"Nearly 400 students, many of them entrepreneurs, have so far made the journey to Forest City to study everything from coding to unconventional theories on statehood," reports Bloomberg.
"They're building crypto projects, fine-tuning their physiques and testing whether a shared ideology — rather than just shared territory — can bind a community."
They have descended on Forest City to attend Network School, the brainchild of former Coinbase Inc. executive and "The Network State" author Balaji Srinivasan. In this troubled megaproject once envisaged to house some 50 times its current population, they're conducting a real-life experiment of sorts with Srinivasan's vision of "startup societies" defined less by historical territory than shared beliefs in technology, cryptocurrency and light regulation... Mornings are spent in product sprints and coding sessions; afternoons in seminars exploring topics from the Meiji Restoration to Singapore's statecraft and the mechanics of decentralized governance. Guest lectures double as both technological deep dives and ideological sermons, according to half a dozen students interviewed by Bloomberg. The campus also mirrors Silicon Valley's infatuation with longevity and health, right down to a commercial-grade gym and specially designed workout routines. Students follow a protein-heavy diet...
After co-founding DNA testing startup Counsyl in 2008 and serving as its chief technology officer, Srinivasan spent five years at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, first as general partner and then as board partner. He joined Coinbase as CTO in 2018 when the crypto exchange bought a portfolio company he oversaw and left after a little over a year, according to his LinkedIn profile. In a 2013 speech at Y Combinator's Startup School, Srinivasan brought his ideas about what he saw as a fundamental conflict between some modern nation-states and innovation to a wider audience. In the address, he advocated for Silicon Valley's "ultimate exit" from the U.S., which he argued was obsolete and hostile to innovators. In essence: If the society you live in is broken, why not just "opt out" and create a new one?
"The Network State: How To Start a New Country," published in 2022, expanded on Srinivasan's "exit" concept to outline how online, ideologically aligned communities can use crypto and digital tools to form new, decentralized states. A network state can be geographically dispersed and bound together by the internet and blockchains, he says, and the aim is to gain diplomatic recognition... On the Moment of Zen podcast in September 2023, he outlined how the "Gray Tribe" — entrepreneurs, innovators and thinkers — can retake control of San Francisco from the Blues using a variety of tactics, like allying with local police. The effort would involve gaining control of territory, according to Srinivasan, who didn't advocate for violence. "Elections are just the cherry on the cake," he said. "Elections are just a reflection of your total control of the streets."
The cost of attending Network School "starts at $1,500 per month, including lodging and food, for those who opt for a shared room."
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OpenAI Is Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police
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2025-09-01 04:22:01
Futurism reports:
Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT's propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it's scanning users' conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening.
"When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our usage policies and who are authorized to take action, including banning accounts," it wrote. "If human reviewers determine that a case involves an imminent threat of serious physical harm to others, we may refer it to law enforcement."
The announcement raised immediate questions. Don't human moderators judging tone, for instance, undercut the entire premise of an AI system that its creators say can solve broad, complex problems? How is OpenAI even figuring out users' precise locations in order to provide them to emergency responders? How is it protecting against abuse by so-called swatters, who could pretend to be someone else and then make violent threats to ChatGPT in order to get their targets raided by the cops...? The admission also seems to contradict remarks by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who recently called for privacy akin to a "therapist or a lawyer or a doctor" for users talking to ChatGPT.
"Others argued that the AI industry is hastily pushing poorly-understood products to market, using real people as guinea pigs, and adopting increasingly haphazard solutions to real-world problems as they arise..."
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the news.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/31/2311231/openai-is-scanning-users-chatgpt-conversations-and-reporting-content-to-police?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-09-01 04:22:01
Futurism reports:
Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT's propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it's scanning users' conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening.
"When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our usage policies and who are authorized to take action, including banning accounts," it wrote. "If human reviewers determine that a case involves an imminent threat of serious physical harm to others, we may refer it to law enforcement."
The announcement raised immediate questions. Don't human moderators judging tone, for instance, undercut the entire premise of an AI system that its creators say can solve broad, complex problems? How is OpenAI even figuring out users' precise locations in order to provide them to emergency responders? How is it protecting against abuse by so-called swatters, who could pretend to be someone else and then make violent threats to ChatGPT in order to get their targets raided by the cops...? The admission also seems to contradict remarks by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who recently called for privacy akin to a "therapist or a lawyer or a doctor" for users talking to ChatGPT.
"Others argued that the AI industry is hastily pushing poorly-understood products to market, using real people as guinea pigs, and adopting increasingly haphazard solutions to real-world problems as they arise..."
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the news.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/31/2311231/openai-is-scanning-users-chatgpt-conversations-and-reporting-content-to-police?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy
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2025-09-01 03:22:01
Graphic designer Lisa Carstens "spends a good portion of her day working with startups and individual clients looking to fix their botched attempts at AI-generated logos," reports NBC News:
Such gigs are part of a new category of work spawned by the generative AI boom that threatened to displace creative jobs across the board: Anyone can now write blog posts, produce a graphic or code an app with a few text prompts, but AI-generated content rarely makes for a satisfactory final product on its own... Fixing AI's mistakes is not their ideal line of work, many freelancers say, as it tends to pay less than traditional gigs in their area of expertise. But some say it's what helps pay the bills....
As companies struggle to figure out their approach to AI, recent data provided to NBC News from freelance job platforms Upwork, Freelancer and Fiverr also suggest that demand for various types of creative work surged this year, and that clients are increasingly looking for humans who can work alongside AI technologies without relying on or rejecting them entirely. Data from Upwork found that although AI is already automating lower-skilled and repetitive tasks, the platform is seeing growing demand for more complex work such as content strategy or creative art direction. And over the past six months, Fiverr said it has seen a 250% boost in demand for niche tasks across web design and book illustration, from "watercolor children story book illustration" to "Shopify website design." Similarly, Freelancer saw a surge in demand this year for humans in writing, branding, design and video production, including requests for emotionally engaging content like "heartfelt speeches...."
The low pay from clients who have already cheaped out on AI tools has affected gig workers across industries, including more technical ones like coding. For India-based web and app developer Harsh Kumar, many of his clients say they had already invested much of their budget in "vibe coding" tools that couldn't deliver the results they wanted. But others, he said, are realizing that shelling out for a human developer is worth the headaches saved from trying to get an AI assistant to fix its own "crappy code." Kumar said his clients often bring him vibe-coded websites or apps that resulted in unstable or wholly unusable systems.
"Even outside of any obvious mistakes made by AI tools, some artists say their clients simply want a human touch to distinguish themselves from the growing pool of AI-generated content online..."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/31/2216231/humans-are-being-hired-to-make-ai-slop-look-less-sloppy?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-09-01 03:22:01
Graphic designer Lisa Carstens "spends a good portion of her day working with startups and individual clients looking to fix their botched attempts at AI-generated logos," reports NBC News:
Such gigs are part of a new category of work spawned by the generative AI boom that threatened to displace creative jobs across the board: Anyone can now write blog posts, produce a graphic or code an app with a few text prompts, but AI-generated content rarely makes for a satisfactory final product on its own... Fixing AI's mistakes is not their ideal line of work, many freelancers say, as it tends to pay less than traditional gigs in their area of expertise. But some say it's what helps pay the bills....
As companies struggle to figure out their approach to AI, recent data provided to NBC News from freelance job platforms Upwork, Freelancer and Fiverr also suggest that demand for various types of creative work surged this year, and that clients are increasingly looking for humans who can work alongside AI technologies without relying on or rejecting them entirely. Data from Upwork found that although AI is already automating lower-skilled and repetitive tasks, the platform is seeing growing demand for more complex work such as content strategy or creative art direction. And over the past six months, Fiverr said it has seen a 250% boost in demand for niche tasks across web design and book illustration, from "watercolor children story book illustration" to "Shopify website design." Similarly, Freelancer saw a surge in demand this year for humans in writing, branding, design and video production, including requests for emotionally engaging content like "heartfelt speeches...."
The low pay from clients who have already cheaped out on AI tools has affected gig workers across industries, including more technical ones like coding. For India-based web and app developer Harsh Kumar, many of his clients say they had already invested much of their budget in "vibe coding" tools that couldn't deliver the results they wanted. But others, he said, are realizing that shelling out for a human developer is worth the headaches saved from trying to get an AI assistant to fix its own "crappy code." Kumar said his clients often bring him vibe-coded websites or apps that resulted in unstable or wholly unusable systems.
"Even outside of any obvious mistakes made by AI tools, some artists say their clients simply want a human touch to distinguish themselves from the growing pool of AI-generated content online..."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/31/2216231/humans-are-being-hired-to-make-ai-slop-look-less-sloppy?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.