Компания Canonical выпустила официальный драйвер Intel NPU для Linux в Snap Store.Новый драйвер [ Intel NPU в формате Snap ]( https://snapcraft.io/intel-npu-driver ) объединяет множество компонентов, включая прошивку устройства, драйвер пользовательского пространства и компилятор, а также приложение для проверки драйвера пользовательского режима и компилятора. Иными словами: драйвер включает все, что нужно для использования ускорителей инференса ИИ, встроенных в последние процессоры [ Intel Core Ultra ]( https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/processors/core-ultra.html ) (серии «Meteor Lake» и выше).Чтобы этот драйвер действительно работал, вам необходимо использовать ПО, инструменты и приложения, которые знают, как использовать его для выполнения ИИ-задач. Кроме инструментов командной строки для LLM/ML, сейчас существуют плагины OpenVINO AI для GIMP и Audacity, которые могут использовать Intel NPU для выполнения конкретных ИИ-задач.Если вы счастливый обладатель подходящего процессора, скачать драйвер Intel NPU на Ubuntu можно прямо сейчас.sudo snap install --beta intel-npu-driverВ настоящее время драйвер Intel NPU в формате Snap находится в бета-версии, так что стабильность не гарантирована.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17773661

AeroGarden, which sells Wi-Fi-connected indoor gardening systems, is going out of business on January 1. While Scotts Miracle-Gro has continued selling AeroGarden products after announcing the impending shutdown, the future of the devices' companion app is uncertain.

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После года разработки вышла значительная версия Wayland-композитора и тайлового оконного менеджера Sway [ 1.10 ]( https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases ) .
Новые возможности после перехода на Wlroots 0.18:
код отрисовки переписан с использованием нового scene graph API из Wlroots, что увеличивает производительность;
реализован механизм восстановления после сбросов GPU;
добавлена команда для применения ICC-профиля к конкретному выводу.
Новые протоколы:
добавлена поддержка протокола tearing-control-v1 для специфических игровых юзкейсов;
добавлена поддержка протокола ext-transient-seat-v1, что позволяет создавать независимые сеансы ввода для таких программ, как wayvnc;
добавлена поддержка протокола ext-foreign-toplevel-list-v1, который может быть полезен для сторонних панелей задач и переключателей окон;
добавлена поддержка xdg-shell v5 с изменением положения всплывающих окон и скрытием кнопок «Развернуть/Свернуть» в CSD.
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Households on individual streets will be targeted with personalised adverts under plans being rolled out by Channel 4. The channel is to use new technology which will allow brands to tailor who sees their advert by enabling them to select a demographic within a specific location down to street level. For example, someone watching Made in Chelsea on Channel 4's streaming service could be served an ad for a fashion brand in a local outlet to them if a particular fashion trend is being discussed.
Advertisers can further optimise their campaign by selecting from 26 programme genres, as well as time of day and device the show is being watched on. It forms part of a wider update to Channel 4's streaming platform that the broadcaster hopes could boost revenues by as much as $13m. The company will launch a new private marketplace enabling brands to buy advertising space directly in real-time. This will allow advertisers to amend their campaigns to respond to events, whether that be real-world events such as local weather or developments in fictional storylines within TV shows. Channel 4's new ad targeting also includes more detailed data to track whether a viewer has made a purchase after seeing an ad, as well as new viewer profiles for brands to target.

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Компания Qualcomm опубликовала характеристики Snapdragon 8 Elite — своего следующего флагманского чипа, ориентированного на мобильные игры и вычисления.
Процессор произведён по техпроцессу класса «3 нм» и состоит из 8 ядер — 2× Oryon Prime с частотой до 4.32 GHz и общим 12 MiB L2-кэшем и 6× Oryon Performance с частотой до 3.53 GHz и общим L2-кэшем на 12 MiB. В SoC будет интегрирована память LPDDR5X-5300, работающая на эффективной частоте от 4800 MT/s до 5333.5 MT/s.
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The big financial moments in life used to be marked with a flourish of a pen. Buying a house. A car. Breakfast. Not anymore. Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express dropped the requirement to sign for charges like restaurant checks in 2018. They don't look at our scribbles to verify identity or stop fraud. Taps, clicks and electronic signatures took over the heavy lifting for many everyday purchases -- and many contracts, loan applications and even Social Security forms. The John Hancock was written off as a relic useful mainly to inflate the value of sports memorabilia. But signatures didn't die.
We continue to be asked to sign with ink on paper or using fingers on touch screens at many restaurants, bars and other businesses. And people keep signing card receipts out of habit -- even when there is no blank space for it -- because it feels weird not to, payment networks and retail groups say. "Traditions have this odd way of sticking around," said Doug Kantor, general counsel of the National Association of Convenience Stores. Signatures had been used to verify identity and agree to financial terms for centuries. Banks kept records of customer signatures to check against, but the sheer number of transactions and advancements in technology eventually made that impractical.
By the 1980s, charges could be processed electronically. Signatures were still used in cases of fraud or stolen cards. Banks could call merchants and ask them to present a signed receipt. Yet given how easy signatures are to forge, they proved limited as a fraud prevention tool. Now there are more sophisticated ways to determine whether cards are stolen or misused, according to Mark Nelsen, global head of consumer payments at Visa.

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[ Доступен ]( https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/132.0/ ) Firefox 132.Среди новшеств этого выпуска:Linux: [ Налажена ]( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1751467 ) возможность открыть скачанный файл в программах, установленных с помощью Flatpak.
В режиме [ строгой защиты от отслеживания ]( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop#w_strict-enhanced-tracking-protection ) теперь [ блокируются ]( https://bugzil.la/1918037 ) все [ куки со сторонних сайтов ]( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/Third-party_cookies ) .
[ Включена ]( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1919097 ) (security.tls.enable_kyber) поддержка алгоритма обмена ключами TLS [ mlkem768x25519 ]( https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kwiatkowski-tls-ecdhe-mlkem/02/ ) (комбинация X25519 ECDH и ML-KEM (CRYSTALS-Kyber), устойчивая к подбору как на обычном, так и на квантовом компьютере).
[ Обновлён ]( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1911889 ) значок на вкладке, свидетельствующий о том, что вкладка воспроизводит звук. Новый значок лучше смотрится при вертикальном расположении вкладок, чем старый.
Для большинства [ примитивов фильтров SVG ]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG_filter_effects#SVG_filter_primitives ) (feBlend, feColorMatrix, feComponentTransfer, feComposite, feDropShadow, feFlood, feGaussianBlur, feMerge и feOffset) включено аппаратное ускорение рендеринга WebRender.
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Apple's $3,499 Vision Pro is struggling to attract major software-makers to develop apps for the device, a challenge that threatens to slow the progress of the company's biggest new product in a decade. WSJ: New apps released on the Vision Pro every month have slowed since its launch in January. Some of the most successful virtual-reality software developers have so far opted not to build apps for the headset. Without enough killer apps, certain users have found the device less useful and are opting to sell it. "It's a chicken-or-egg problem," said Bertrand Nepveu, who previously worked on the Vision Pro at Apple and is now an investor in this area at Triptyq Capital.
Nepveu and app developers think Apple should fund app makers to give them an incentive to port over their existing apps from other headsets or to develop fresh content. This practice has become common in the industry, with headset leader Meta Platforms funding many developers and even buying several app makers. The social-media company is a formidable competitor to Apple, with a market share of all headsets reaching 74% in the second quarter this year, according to Counterpoint Research.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The code that runs Redbox DVD rental machines has been dumped online, and, in the wake of the company's bankruptcy, a community of tinkerers and reverse engineers are probing the operating system to learn how it works. Naturally, one of the first things people did was make one of the machines run Doom. As has been detailed in several great articles elsewhere, the end of Redbox has been a clusterfuck, with pharmacies, grocery stores, and other retailers stuck with very large, heavy, abandoned DVD rental kiosks. To many people's surprise, many of the kiosks remain operational even with the bankruptcy of Redbox's parent company, which has led some people to "liberate" DVDs from the abandoned kiosks. Reddit is full of posts by people who say they have taken dozens of DVDs from kiosks all over the country. Free DVDs is one thing. But in recent days, people have realized that they can, in some cases, get free Redbox kiosks. In an August filing, Walgreens told the bankruptcy court that it has 5,400 abandoned kiosks at its stores, and that it is spending $184,000 a month keeping them powered. "Walgreens should not be required to continue to 'store' and power Redbox kiosks across the country without any form of payment," the company wrote. And so tinkerers and reverse engineers have begun asking stores whether they can take the devices off their hands. There are also posts on Reddit by contractors who are selling them, and I was able to find various Redbox DVD kiosks being advertised for sale on Facebook Marketplace. (There are far more listings on Facebook Marketplace from people who have obtained hundreds or thousands of Redbox DVDs and are now selling them.)

Recently the operating system for Redbox kiosks was dumped online, and this community is now probing it to see how it works. In a thread on Mastodon, reverse engineer Foone Turing has been posting some of her findings, which include the fact that Redbox machines contain a file that has "a complete list of titles ever rented, and the email addresses of the people who rented them, and where and when." She also found that the first six and last four digits of credit card information was logged. She said that the records on the particular unit that she was looking at contained 2,471 different transactions and had records on it dating back to 2015. Other reverse engineers have found that Redbox kiosks contained information about the physical locations of every other kiosk. The server that they communicated with is currently offline (because the company is bankrupt). But people have also been putting together information about what different error codes in the software mean (for example, the error code "0020BDT" would happen when an obstruction was detected in the machine). They have also found and dumped service manuals for different parts of the device and have found a few login passwords (one password is "US#1Choice4movierentals"). [...] There has also been discussion about how the machines could be modified to talk to a new server, or whether the operating system could be put on a DIY Redbox device. Another person installed Minecraft on their Redbox. It is still very early days, but, with the bankruptcy of Redbox's parent company, ironically these devices are being given new life.

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Alphabet, материнская компания Google, сообщает о большом росте выручки и прибыли в третьем квартале 2024 года.Доходы были увеличены до $88.25 миллиардов, а чистая прибыль до $26.3 миллиардов.Основным фактором успеха стало использование генеративного ИИ, который пишет четверть всего создаваемого кода. Благодаря этому корпорация также смогла уволить порядка 1100 человек, заменив их ИИ.Реакцией акций Alphabet на эти новости стал рост с $169.38 до более чем $181.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/google/17776862

The parents of a Massachusetts student are suing his school after he was penalized for using AI in a Social Studies project, claiming it was for research purposes only. The student received a detention and a lower grade, which his parents argue could harm his college prospects. The school is defending its AI policy and fighting to dismiss the case. The Register reports: "The Plaintiff Student will suffer irreparable harm that far outweighs any harm that may befall the Defendants," their filing reads [PDF]. "He is applying to elite colleges and universities given his high level of academic and personal achievement. Early decision and early action applications in a highly competitive admissions process are imminent and start in earnest on October 1, 2024. Absent the grant of an injunction by this Court, the Student will suffer irreparable harm that is imminent."

The school, however, is fighting back with a motion to dismiss [PDF] the case. The school argues that RNH, along with his classmates, was given a copy of the student handbook in the Fall of last year, which specifically called out the use of AI by students. The class was also shown a presentation about the school's policy. Students should "not use AI tools during in-class examinations, processed writing assignments, homework or classwork unless explicitly permitted and instructed," the policy states. "RNH unequivocally used another author's language and thoughts, be it a digital and artificial author, without express permission to do so," the school argues. "Furthermore, he did not cite to his use of AI in his notes, scripts or in the project he submitted. Importantly, RNH's peers were not allowed to cut corners by using AI to craft their projects; thus, RNH acted 'unfairly in order to gain an advantage.'"

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Cреди самого вкусного, на взгляд автора новости:
DNF переписали на С++ и он стал сильно быстрее и компактнее (необходимости в MicroDNF больше нет), к тому же его открутили от PackageKit.
Gnome обновили до версии 47.
KDE обновили до 6.2.
Пакеты, относящиеся к xorg-server, стали опциональными, по умолчанию не ставятся. Это можно считать признаком движения к полному отказу от X11 вообще.
Поддержка конфигурации сети через ifcfg убрана, теперь только NetworkManager.
Поддержка Python 2 прекращена, пакет с версией 2.7 удалён.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/redhat/17776913

According to The Verge, Meta has "begun laying off employees across various departments, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs." From the report: Rather than a mass, companywide layoff, these smaller cuts seem to coincide with reorganizations of specific teams. Some Meta employees have started posting that they've been laid off. Among them is Jane Manchun Wong, who gained notoriety for reporting on unannounced features coming to apps before joining the Threads team in 2023. Meta laid off 11,000 employees in 2022 and then cut 10,000 more people as part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's "year of efficiency" in 2023.

Further reading: Tech Layoffs Highest Since Dot-Com Crash

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30 октября состоялся выпуск 0.10.0 консольного интерпретатора и встраиваемой библиотеки языка [ Pluto ]( https://pluto-lang.org ) – альтернативной реализации языка Lua 5.4 со множеством изменений и улучшений в синтаксисе, стандартной библиотеке и интерпретаторе.
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Apple is enhancing its Business Connect tool, allowing companies to customize how they appear in emails, phone calls, and payment interfaces on iPhones. The Verge reports: Each registered business can confirm its info is accurate and add additional details like photos or special offers. Collecting verified, up-to-date business information could be useful for Apple if it ever launches its own search engine or inside features for Apple Intelligence instead of sending users to outside sources like Google, Yelp, or Meta. Branded Mail is a feature businesses can sign up for today before it starts rolling out to users later this year, potentially making emails easier to identify in a sea of unread messages.

Additionally, if companies opt into Business Caller ID, Apple will display their name, logo, and department on an iPhone's inbound call screen. This feature should come in handy when you're trying to figure out whether the random number that's calling you is spam, or if it's a legitimate business. It will start rolling out next year. A smaller update coming to Apple's Tap to Pay service will let companies show their logo when accepting payments instead of just displaying a category icon. You can read more about it in Apple's press release.

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Qucs-S это программа для моделирования аналоговых электронных схем. В качестве движка моделирования можно использовать как [ Ngspice ]( https://ngspice.sourceforge.io/ ) для схем общего назначения, так и QucsatorRF (поставляется вместе с Qucs-S) для СВЧ устройств.
31 октября этого года представлен очередной релиз 24.4.0.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Robinhood launched its long-awaited desktop platform and added futures and index options trading features to its mobile app on Wednesday, as the fintech firm aims to take market share from traditional brokerages. The 11-year-old commission-free trading app, which became synonymous with mom-and-pop investors in 2021, is now seeking to mature into a full-fledged financial services provider and compete with established brokerages that serve institutional investors. The Menlo Park, California-based company said its desktop trading platform, dubbed "Robinhood Legend," will focus on active traders.

The platform, available at no additional cost, will offer advanced trading tools, real-time data, as well as custom and preset layouts.
Meanwhile, the app will allow users to trade futures on the benchmark S&P 500 index, oil and bitcoin, among others. Customers can also trade index options. [...] Subscribers to Robinhood's premium Gold tier will be able to trade futures for as low as 50 cents per contract, while non-Gold users will need to pay a commission of 75 cents. You can tune in to the company's live product announcement on YouTube.

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Вышла новая, улучшенная версия мощного одноплатного компьютера (SBC, Single Board Computer) [ Radxa Rock 5b+ ]( https://radxa.com/products/rock5/5bp ) на чипсете RK3588 и с поддержкой NVME SSD.
Этот одноплатник может использоваться как удачное и дешёвое решение для экспериментов и разработки. 8Гб-версия с доставкой в Россию будет стоить около 110$.
После покупки можно сразу установить [ загрузчик EDK2 ]( https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588/ ) , который позволит устанавливать любой дистрибутив под ARM64, включая Debian 12 bookworm.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/hardware/17778353

wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Dane Stuckey, the former Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of big data analytics and AI firm Palantir, has joined OpenAI CISO. Stuckey served in senior security roles at Palantir for more than ten years, including 6 plus years as the company's CISO. In his new role, Stuckey said he would be working alongside Matt Knight, Head of Security at OpenAI. "Security is germane to OpenAI's mission," said Stuckey in a post on X. "It is critical we meet the highest standards for compliance, trust, and security to protect hundreds of millions of users of our products, enable democratic institutions to maximally benefit from these technologies, and drive the development of safe AGI for the world."

"I am so excited for this next chapter, and can't wait to help secure a future where AI benefits us all," Stuckey added.

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В qBittorrent была закрыта 14-летняя уязвимость, связанная с некорректной проверкой SSL/TLS-сертификатов. Обновление до версии 5.0.1 устранило эту уязвтмость, которая существовала с 2010 года.
В течение этого времени программа принимала любые сертификаты, включая поддельные, что делало её уязвимой к атаке типа «человек посередине» (MitM). Это позволяло злоумышленникам незаметно изменять сетевой трафик, потенциально подвергая пользователей риску скачивания и выполнения вредоносного кода при обновлении продукта по ссылке из уведомления о выходе новой версии, а так же при загрузке бинарников Python на Windows. Уязвимость была не только теоретической, но и реализуемой на практике.
Так же отсутствие валидации сертификатов позволяло MitM подменять содержимое RSS и базы данных MaxMind Geo IP.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/security/17780128

A new study counters the widely held belief that standing desks are good for your health, discovering that it does not reduce the risk of diseases such as stroke and heart failure. In fact, it "found that being on your feet for more than two hours a day may increase the risk of developing problems such as deep vein thrombosis and varicose veins," reports The Guardian. The findings have been published in the International Journal of Epidemiology. From the report: To establish if standing provided any health benefits, the researchers studied data from 83,013 adults who are part of the UK Biobank health records database. These people did not have heart disease at the start of the study and wore devices on their wrists to track movement. The team found that for every extra 30 minutes spent standing beyond two hours, the risk of circulatory disease increased by 11%. Standing was not found to reduce the risk of heart conditions such as stroke, heart failure and coronary heart disease, the researchers said. "The key takeaway is that standing for too long will not offset an otherwise sedentary lifestyle and could be risky for some people in terms of circulatory health," said Dr Matthew Ahmadi, of the University of Sydney's faculty of medicine and health. "We found that standing more does not improve cardiovascular health over the long-term and increases the risk of circulatory issues."

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Фанат Amazon Kindle? Это ненадолго! Начинается предзаказ самой фантастической электронной читалки 2024 года с полностью открытыми железными спеками - [ PineNote ]( https://pine64.com/product/pinenote-community-edition-coming-soon/ ) от легендарного производителя опенсорсных девайсов [ Pine64 ]( https://pine64.com/ ) .( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17780613#cut0 ) )

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Real-time video deepfakes are a growing threat for governments, businesses, and individuals. Recently, the chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations mistakenly took a video call with someone pretending to be a Ukrainian official. An international engineering company lost millions of dollars earlier in 2024 when one employee was tricked by a deepfake video call. Also, romance scams targeting everyday individuals have employed similar techniques. "It's probably only a matter of months before we're going to start seeing an explosion of deepfake video, face-to-face fraud," says Ben Colman, CEO and cofounder at Reality Defender. When it comes to video calls, especially in high-stakes situations, seeing should not be believing.

The startup is laser-focused on partnering with business and government clients to help thwart AI-powered deepfakes. Even with this core mission, Colman doesn't want his company to be seen as more broadly standing against artificial intelligence developments. "We're very pro-AI," he says. "We think that 99.999 percent of use cases are transformational -- for medicine, for productivity, for creativity -- but in these kinds of very, very small edge cases the risks are disproportionately bad." Reality Defender's plan for the real-time detector is to start with a plug-in for Zoom that can make active predictions about whether others on a video call are real or AI-powered impersonations. The company is currently working on benchmarking the tool to determine how accurately it discerns real video participants from fake ones. Unfortunately, it's not something you'll likely be able to try out soon. The new software feature will only be available in beta for some of the startup's clients.

As Reality Defender works to improve the detection accuracy of its models, Colman says that access to more data is a critical challenge to overcome -- a common refrain from the current batch of AI-focused startups. He's hopeful more partnerships will fill in these gaps, and without specifics, hints at multiple new deals likely coming next year. After ElevenLabs was tied to a deepfake voice call of US president Joe Biden, the AI-audio startup struck a deal with Reality Defender to mitigate potential misuse. [...] "We don't ask my 80-year-old mother to flag ransomware in an email," says Colman. "Because she's not a computer science expert." In the future, it's possible real-time video authentication, if AI detection continues to improve and shows to be reliably accurate, will be as taken for granted as that malware scanner quietly humming along in the background of your email inbox.

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Вышла новая версия каталогизатора электронных книг с открытым исходным кодом [ Calibre 7.20 ]( https://calibre-ebook.com/ ) .В этой версии появился новый движок для преобразования PDF-файлов в другие форматы электронных книг, такие как EPUB или MOBI. Теперь он способен автоматически определять заголовки и подзаголовки на основе анализа документа.( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17780466#cut0 ) )

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Via Satellite: SpaceX submitted a request to the FCC to modify the second generation, Gen2, of its Starlink satellite system with changes that SpaceX said will allow the constellation to deliver gigabit-speed broadband. SpaceX submitted the filing to the FCC on Oct. 11, and it was made public on Tuesday. The operator wants to make changes to the orbital configuration and operational parameters, and requests modifications for its Gen2 frequency authorization.

These modifications "will enable the Gen2 system to deliver gigabit-speed, truly low-latency broadband and ubiquitous mobile connectivity to all Americans and the billions of people globally who still lack access to adequate broadband," Jameson Dempsey, SpaceX director of Satellite Policy said in the filing. For comparison, Starlink's current statement on service speeds is that users typically experience download speeds between 25 and 220 Mbps, and a majority of users experience speeds over 100 Mbps. In 2022, the FCC partially approved SpaceX to deploy a Gen2 Starlink constellation of up to 7,500 satellites for fixed satellite services (FSS) in the Ku- and Ka-bands, then later authorized Gen2 operations using additional frequencies in the E- and V-bands. SpaceX reported that since then, it has deployed more than 3,000 satellites in the Gen2 system and the full Starlink constellation serves more than four million people.

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Разработчики из проекта KDE [ приступили ]( https://blogs.kde.org/2024/10/29/akademy-2024-experience/#an-operating-system-of-our-own ) к созданию нового независимого дистрибутива [ KDE Linux ]( https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux ) , [ развиваемого ]( https://community.kde.org/KDE_Linux ) под кодовым именем «Project Banana». Дистрибутив изначально развивается как универсальный продукт, пригодный как для разработчиков KDE, так и для обычных пользователей и OEM-производителей оборудования. Для отслеживания состояния разработки [ ежедневно формируется ]( https://files.kde.org/kde-linux/ ) системный образ, пригодный для загрузки с USB-накопителей.Целью проекта является создание официального поддерживаемого сообществом дистрибутива, оптимально сочетаемого с технологиями KDE и рекомендованного для пользователей и OEM-производителей. Помимо предоставления высококачественного графического интерфейса среди поставленных перед проектом задач упоминается простой механизм восстановления в случае сбоев, поддержание высокого уровня защищённости, акцентирование на самые современные технологии, удобство предустановки и адаптации для нового оборудования, возможность использования в качестве основной платформы для разработчиков KDE, простота переключения между разными редакциями и релизами, создание базиса для распространения KDE в других атомарно обновляемых дистрибутивах.Планируется развивать три базовые редакции дистрибутива: Testing - обновляется ежедневно, отражает состояние master-ветки в Git и рассчитана на тестирование, контроль за качеством и отслеживание процесса разработки.
Enthusiast - нацелена на опытных пользователей и энтузиастов. Выпуски синхронизированы c формированием релизов и тестовых версий KDE (новые сборки публикуются сразу после релизов и бета-версий KDE Plasma).
Stable - включает только стабильные релизы компонентов KDE и выходит с задержкой после релизов KDE из-за проведения дополнительного тестирования и работы по стабилизации.
Системное окружение в KDE Linux представляет собой неделимый образ, формируемый на основании содержимого из репозиториев Arch Linux, но поставляемый без разбивки на отдельные пакеты, монтируемый в режиме только для чтения и обновляемый атомарно. Для обновления используются два дисковых раздела - обновление загружается в пассивный раздел, который после перезагрузки становится активным, а прошлый активный раздел переводится в пассивный режим и ожидает установки следующего обновления. Установка и откат обновлений, а также автоматическое резервное копирование и переключение между разными версиями реализовано через механизм снапшотов, предоставляемый файловой системой Btrfs. Для отделения системы от приложений дополнительные программы устанавливаются только в формате Flatpak. Дистрибутивом поддерживаются повторяемые сборки, позволяющие любому желающему верифицировать процесс сборки дистрибутива. Все пользовательские (/home) и изменяемые системные данные хранятся в зашифрованных разделах. В качестве загрузчика задействован systemd-boot. В графическом окружении по умолчанию применяется протокол Wayland. Из специфичных приложений отмечается интерфейс для управления резервными копиями в стиле Apple Time Machine и конфигуратор на базе [ KConfig XT ]( https://develop.kde.org/docs/features/configuration/kconfig_xt/ ) .

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/kde/17780669

The Cybersecurity Association of China (CSAC) has recommended a security review of Intel's products sold in China, accusing the U.S. chipmaker of harming national security and citing vulnerabilities in its chips. Reuters reports: While CSAC is an industry group rather than a government body, it has close ties to the Chinese state and the raft of accusations against Intel, published in a long post on its official WeChat account, could trigger a security review from China's powerful cyberspace regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). "It is recommended that a network security review is initiated on the products Intel sells in China, so as to effectively safeguard China's national security and the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese consumers," CSAC said. [...]

CSAC in its post accuses Intel chips, including Xeon processors used for artificial intelligence tasks, of carrying several vulnerabilities, concluding that Intel "has major defects when it comes to product quality, security management, indicating that it is extremely irresponsible attitude towards customers." The industry group goes on to state that operating systems embedded in all Intel processors are vulnerable to backdoors created by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). "This poses a great security threat to the critical information infrastructures of countries all over the world, including China...the use of Intel products poses a serious risk to national security." CSAC said.

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Программа ratarmount (random access tar mount) предназначена для монтирования архивных файлов в файловую систему и позволяет монтировать через FUSE не только файлы tar (сжатые bz2, gz, xz или zstd) TAR, но и zip и rar. Новый релиз 1.0.0 доступен к установке из pip и AppImage.( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17781866#cut0 ) )

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Hackread: The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has indicted two Sudanese nationals for their alleged role in operating the hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan. The group claimed fame for conducting "tens of thousands" of large-scale and crippling Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS attacks) targeting critical infrastructure, corporate networks, and government agencies globally. Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer, 22, and Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer, 27, stand accused of conspiracy to damage protected computers. Ahmed Salah faces additional charges for damaging protected computers. The duo is believed to have controlled Anonymous Sudan, which, since early 2023, launched attacks on high-profile entities such as ChatGPT, UAE's Flydubai Airline, London Internet Exchange, Microsoft, and the Israeli BAZAN Group.

The group and its clients also utilized the Distributed Cloud Attack Tool (DCAT) to conduct over 35,000 DDoS attacks. These attacks targeted sensitive government and critical infrastructure in the U.S. and globally, including the Department of Justice, Department of Defense, FBI, State Department, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The attacks, which sometimes lasted days, reportedly caused major damage, often crippling websites and networks. For instance, the attack on Cedars-Sinai Medical Center forced the redirection of incoming patients for eight hours, causing over $10 million in damages to U.S. victims.

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Состоялся релиз Lime3DS версии 2119. Lime3DS – форк эмулятора Citra (эмулятор Citra разрабатывали те же люди, что и Yuzu), разработка которого была прекращена в марте 2024 года. Lime3DS – эмулятор Nintendo 3DS, нативно доступный на Windows, Android, Linux, macOS и chromeOS.
Что нового:
Появилась начальная поддержка Pretendo (аналог XLink Kai для мультиплеера игр Nintendo Wii U и Nintendo 3DS).
Добавлена полноценная поддержка Android 15.
Добавлена функция настройки «Расположение маленького экрана».
Исправлена ​​ошибка, из-за которой Vulkan мог быть недоступен при использовании AppImage в сеансе Wayland.
Исправлен рендерер Vulkan, вызывавший сбои на устройствах, не поддерживающих Vulkan 1.3.
У приложения Lime3DS теперь есть значок приложения и тема оформления Material You. Это актуально для смартфонов Google Pixel, которые используют ванильный Android.
Проведен масштабный внутренний ребрендинг, в ходе которого все упоминания Citra заменены на Lime3DS.
Теперь в меню «Themes» можно выбрать несколько предустановленных цветовых тем.
Помимо вышеуказанного, исправлены различные ошибки.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/games/17782721

An anonymous reader shares a report: Impact, an app that describes itself as "AI-powered infrastructure for shaping and managing narratives in the modern world," is testing a way to organize and activate supporters on social media in order to promote certain political messages. The app aims to summon groups of supporters who will flood social media with AI-written talking points designed to game social media algorithms.
In video demos and an overview document provided to people interested in using a prototype of the app that have been viewed by 404 Media, Impact shows how it can send push notifications to groups of supporters directing them at a specific social media post and provide them with AI-generated text they can copy and paste in order to flood the replies with counter arguments.

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После 2 лет разработки вышла бета-версия лучшей свободной гоночной игры SuperTuxKart 1.5. В этой версии разработчики предлагают нам ряд изменений, затрагивающих все аспекты, начиная от базового игрового движка и пользовательского интерфейса, и заканчивая сетевыми функциями и объявлениями результатов во время онлайн-игр для нескольких игроков.( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/games/17782784#cut0 ) )

South Korea will prepare stronger measures in a bid to prevent overseas leaks of business secrets amid intensifying competition for advanced technologies, the finance minister said on Thursday. From a report: "We will prevent illegal leaks of advanced technologies to raise the global competitiveness of our companies and strengthen technology leadership," Minister Choi Sang-mok said.
The government will set up a "big data" system aimed at preventing technology leaks at the patent agency and introduce new regulations to ensure stronger punishment for culprits, Choi said. He did not specify what the stronger penalties would be under the new regulations. In the past five years, there have been 97 attempts to leak business secrets to a foreign country, with 40 of them in the semiconductor industry, according to the National Intelligence Service.

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Команда Manjaro Linux начала тестирование сервиса MDD (Manjaro Data Donor) для сбора данных о пользователях и отправки их на внешний сервер проекта.Изначально планировалось, что эта функция будет включена по умолчанию, но это решение столкнулось с возражением других мейнтейнеров проекта. По информации на данный момент, телеметрия появится в виде опции, требующей согласия пользователя при первом запуске ОС. ( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/linux-general/17784056#cut0 ) )

An anonymous reader shares a report: Starting on October 14, 2024, news outlets including Yahoo and NME reported that year-over-year, the U.S. vinyl market was down 33 percent. The data for these articles came from a weekly report from Billboard called "Market Watch," which automatically updates with data provided by the company Luminate. Amid the vinyl revolution, this news signified a shift in buyer habits: a sales decline among vinyl for the first time in 17 years.
On October 15, Discogs contacted Chris Muratore, director of partnerships at Luminate, who confirmed that the reported data is incorrect. Vinyl sales are actually up 6.2 percent. Billboard has since added language to their "Market Watch" report, clearing up the error. Luminate has been the gold standard for physical music sales numbers for decades. However, at the beginning of this year, the company changed its reporting process, frustrating many record store owners and industry personnel.

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Состоялся выпуск 8.11.0 консольной утилиты и библиотеки [ curl ]( https://curl.se ) , написанных на языке C и распространяемых по лицензии [ curl ]( https://spdx.org/licenses/curl.html ) .
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/internet/17785079#cut ) )

More than half the world's food production will be at risk of failure within the next 25 years as a rapidly accelerating water crisis grips the planet, unless urgent action is taken to conserve water resources and end the destruction of the ecosystems on which our fresh water depends, experts have warned in a landmark review. From a report: Half the world's population already faces water scarcity, and that number is set to rise as the climate crisis worsens, according to a report from the Global Commission on the Economics of Water published on Thursday.
Demand for fresh water will outstrip supply by 40% by the end of the decade, because the world's water systems are being put under "unprecedented stress," the report found. The commission found that governments and experts have vastly underestimated the amount of water needed for people to have decent lives. While 50 to 100 litres a day are required for each person's health and hygiene, in fact people require about 4,000 litres a day in order to have adequate nutrition and a dignified life. For most regions, that volume cannot be achieved locally, so people are dependent on trade -- in food, clothing and consumer goods -- to meet their needs.
Some countries benefit more than others from "green water," which is soil moisture that is necessary for food production, as opposed to "blue water" from rivers and lakes. The report found that water moves around the world in "atmospheric rivers" which transport moisture from one region to another.

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После почти 3 лет разработки состоялся выпуск GSmartControl 2.0.0 – графической утилиты для отслеживания состояния HDD и SSD дисков по технологии S.M.A.R.T.
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schwit1 writes: The Department of Defense wants technology so it can fabricate online personas that are indistinguishable from real people.
The United States' secretive Special Operations Command is looking for companies to help create deepfake internet users so convincing that neither humans nor computers will be able to detect they are fake, according to a procurement document reviewed by The Intercept.
The plan, mentioned in a new 76-page wish list by the Department of Defense's Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, outlines advanced technologies desired for country's most elite, clandestine military efforts. "Special Operations Forces (SOF) are interested in technologies that can generate convincing online personas for use on social media platforms, social networking sites, and other online content," the entry reads.

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Для браузера Chrome [ разработано расширение ]( https://github.com/denizzzka/jobchan-chrome-extension ) , которое дает возможность комментировать и обсуждать вакансии на известных российских сайтах по поиску работы.
Расширение не требует создания аккаунта и входа на сайт с вакансиями. Оно не собирает никакой идентифицирующей информации. Все, что расширение знает о пользователях, — это URL просмотренной вакансии.
В настоящее время поддерживаются сайты:
career.habr.com
hh.ru
rabota.ru
zarplata.ru

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17787286

The business world's favourite software program enters its 40th year. The Economist: Excel has featured in plenty of workplace blunders -- though its defenders will be quick to blame human error. The financial world is littered with tales of costly spreadsheet errors. Excel has also been blamed for botching gene names in over a third of genomics papers (because it labelled them as dates); underreporting covid-19 cases in England (because it only had a limited number of rows in which to record the results); and disrupting the trial of January 6th rioters in America (because sensitive information was left in hidden cells).
Such snafus have not dented Excel's dominance. Might artificial intelligence (AI) steal its crown? With whizzy new tools powered by the technology promising to make data analysis easier, the familiar grid of numbers and calculations could soon feel outdated. Rather than replacing spreadsheets, though, AI might make them even better. Last month Microsoft introduced an AI assistant for Excel which lets users crunch data using natural-language prompts. Excel, and its faithful, aren't ready to be filtered out just yet.

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Разработчик компании «Яндекс» Ахтям Сакаев разместил свой pull request на GitHub в первых числах октября. Запрос висел около месяца и был отклонён.
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К обсуждению [ удаления 11 мэйнтейнеров ядра Linux из РФ ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/linux-general/17766938 ) присоединился Джеймс Боттомли (James Bottomley), мэйнтейнер подсистемы SCSI, ранее занимавший посты члена совета директоров и председателя технического консультативного совета Linux Foundation. Джеймс извинился за то, как было произведено удаление, и пояснил, что удаление связано с санкциями против компаний из РФ, которые попали в список OFAC SDN, опубликованный Министерством финансов США. По словам Джеймса, возможность сотрудничать с компаниями из США для работников компаний, находящихся в санкционном списке, ограничена и подобные работники не могут находится в числе мэйнтейнеров ядра Linux.Если удаление произведено по ошибке и текущий работодатель не находится в указанном списке, то разработчику следует предоставить информацию об этом Грегу Кроа-Хартману (это именно та документация, о которой шла речь в первом сообщении об удалении). В любом случае Джеймс пообещал при необходимости добавить в файл CREDITS упоминание о вкладе удалённых участников в разработку ядра. Причиной следования санкциям названо нахождение в США всей инфраструктуры для разработки ядра Linux и большого числа сопровождающих. Из-за этого при разработке ядра невозможно игнорировать требования законодательства США.( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/linux-general/17770319#cut0 ) )

Вышло обновление графического редактора AliveColors от пермской компании [ AKVIS ]( https://akvis.com/ru/index.php ) . Это многофункциональный графический редактор, который содержит множество инструментов и настроек для создания и редактирования изображений, включает в себя коллекцию эффектов, нейронных фильтров, библиотеку пресетов и текстур, а также набор встроенных плагинов AKVIS и некоторые другие разработки компании. Первый релиз программы состоялся 4 июля 2017 года.
Программа AliveColors доступна в трех вариантах: бесплатная версия Free и лицензии Home (4800 руб.) и Business (14742 руб.). Для образовательных учреждений цены на лицензию Business снижены.
Для установки и обновления программы разработчиками подготовлены репозитории для дистрибутивов Альт, Астра, РедОС, РОСА, Debian, OpenSUSE, RedHat, Ubuntu и пакетного менеджера Flatpak. Программа также доступна для Windows и MacOS.
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С момента выхода прошлого обновления мы большую часть времени посвятили оптимизации кода и подготовке к будущим обновлениям.
Но вместе с тем в движок были внесены существенные правки, касающиеся редактора и искусственного интеллекта, а также улучшения интерфейса и переводов, о которых мы хотим рассказать в сегодняшней публикации.( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/games/17771209#cut0 ) )

15 сентября вышла новая версия открытого воксельного игрового движка и платформы для создания игр Luanti, также известного как Minetest. Движок поддерживает Windows NT, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, macOS, android и предоставляет API для написания модов.
Изменения в версии 5.9.1:
- Удалены оптимизации рендеринга, вызывающие глитчи.
- Исправлены ошибки обработки ввода на Android.
- Для платформы Windows удалено автоопределение сенсорного экрана, поскольку эта опция не поддерживается в сборках без SDL.
Напомним, что совсем недавно объявлено о переименовании движка Minetest, теперь он называется Luanti (с подробностями этого решения можно ознакомиться, например, [ на портале OpenNet ]( https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62084 ) , а обсудить [ непосредственно на ЛОРе ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/forum/talks/17770576 ) ).

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Chipmaker Qualcomm has indefinitely paused production and support of its Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows, citing quality concerns. Qualcomm says the product "has not met our usual standards of excellence." The cancellation comes shortly after the recent launch of over 30 Snapdragon X-series powered PCs.

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Вышел минорный релиз дистрибутива «Альт Рабочая станция К 10.4» (ветка p10 Aronia). Эта версия работает на процессорах архитектуры x86_64, построена на базе ядра 6.1 LTS и включает [ KDE Frameworks 5.116 ]( https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.116.0 ) .
[ Скачать релизный образ ]( https://download.basealt.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p10/images/kworkstation/ )
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In a press release today, the FCC said it is requiring all mobile phones sold in the U.S. to be compatible with hearing aids. TechCrunch reports: The FCC has not yet issued a specific timeline for compliance, only noting that the rules will be fully in effect "after a transition period." The rules discourage handset makers from instituting proprietary Bluetooth coupling, which could limit device compatibility with over-the-counter hearing aids. Under the new rules, companies will be required to note on their website if a given handset is compatible with hearing aids. Two years ago, the FDA announced that hearing aids would no longer require a prescription. The agency also recently approved Apple AirPods as hearing aids.

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Alma Linux решила клонировать CentOS Stream 10 и представила производный дистрибутив под кодовым названием Kitten 10. Установочные сборки дистрибутива сформированы для архитектур x86_64, x86_64_v2, aarch64, ppc64le и s390x.
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