Опубликована стабильная версия набора базовых системных утилит GNU Coreutils 9.10, в состав которого входят такие программы, как sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln и ls.

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European security officials believe two Russian space vehicles have intercepted the communications of at least a dozen key satellites over the continent. From a report: Officials believe that the likely interceptions, which have not previously been reported, risk not only compromising sensitive information transmitted by the satellites but could also allow Moscow to manipulate their trajectories or even crash them.

Russian space vehicles have shadowed European satellites more intensively over the past three years, at a time of high tension between the Kremlin and the West following Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. For several years, military and civilian space authorities in the West have been tracking the activities of Luch-1 and Luch-2 -- two Russian objects that have carried out repeated suspicious maneuvers in orbit.

Both vehicles have made risky close approaches to some of Europe's most important geostationary satellites, which operate high above the Earth and service the continent, including the UK, as well as large parts of Africa and the Middle East. According to orbital data and ground-based telescopic observations, they have lingered nearby for weeks at a time, particularly over the past three years. Since its launch in 2023, Luch-2 has approached 17 European satellites.

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Microsoft has finally delivered on its promise to integrate Sysmon -- the long-standing system monitoring tool from its Sysinternals suite -- directly into Windows, a move that should make life considerably easier for enterprise administrators who have struggled with deploying and managing the utility across thousands of endpoints.

The functionality landed this week in Windows Insider builds 26300.7733 (Dev channel) and 26220.7752 (Beta channel). Sysmon allows administrators to capture system events through custom configuration files, filter for specific activity, and pipe the data into standard Windows event logs for pickup by security tools and SIEM pipelines. Mark Russinovich, Microsoft technical fellow and Winternals co-founder, has previously noted the lack of official customer support for Sysmon in production environments -- a gap this integration addresses. The feature ships disabled by default and requires PowerShell to enable. Microsoft notes that any existing Sysmon installation must be uninstalled before activating the built-in version.

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BMW may have retreated from its controversial plan to charge monthly fees for heated seats, but the German automaker is pressing ahead with subscription-based vehicle features through its ConnectedDrive platform.

A company spokesperson told The Drive that BMW "remains fully committed" to ConnectedDrive as part of its global aftersales strategy. Features requiring data connectivity will likely carry recurring fees.

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Valve has pushed back the launch of its Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Controller hardware from its original Q1 2026 window to a vaguer "first half of the year" target, blaming the ongoing memory and storage shortage that has been squeezing the tech industry.

The company said in a post today that rising component prices and limited availability forced it to revisit both its shipping schedule and pricing plans. Valve had previously indicated the Steam Machine would be priced at the entry level of the PC space.

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В репозиторий системы виртуализации VirtualBox добавлены изменения, позволяющие использовать встроенный в ядро Linux гипервизор KVM вместо специфичного модуля ядра VirtualBox (vboxdrv). Реализация подготовлена сотрудниками Oracle и не пересекается с бэкендом VirtualBox-KVM, параллельно развиваемым компанией Cyberus Technology. Отмечается, что Oracle начала работу над KVM-бэкендом несколько лет назад, но из-за нехватки инженерных ресурсов его разработка затянулась.

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alternative_right writes: The city of Munich has developed its own measurement instrument to assess the digital sovereignty of its IT infrastructure. The so-called Digital Sovereignty Score (SDS) visually resembles the Nutri-Score and identifies IT systems based on their independence from individual providers and 'foreign' legal spheres. The Technical University of Munich was involved in the development.

In September and October 2025, the IT Department already conducted a first comprehensive test. Out of a total of 2780 municipal application services, 194 particularly critical ones were selected and evaluated based on five categories. The analysis already showed a high degree of digital sovereignty: 66% of the 194 evaluated services reached the highest levels (SDS 1 and 2), only 5% reached the critical level 4, and 21% reached the most critical level 5. The SDS evaluates not only technical dependencies but also legal and organizational risks.

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Компания JetBrains объявила о решении включить по умолчанию поддержку работы с использованием протокола Wayland в интегрированных средах разработки на базе будущего выпуска IntelliJ 2026.1. До релиза протестировать поддержку Wayland можно воспользовавшись EAP-сборками IntelliJ IDEA (Early Access Program). IDE, основанные на IntelliJ, теперь смогут напрямую запускаться в средах рабочего стола на базе Wayland без использования XWayland. Поддержка бэкенда XToolkit для X11 будет оставлена в качестве опции.

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Состоялся официальный выпуск 9.10 GNU Coreutils — фактического стандартного набора основных утилит в системах Linux и некоторых других платформах.К числу существенных изменений относятся:

• Модифицирован процесс генерации man-страниц. Опции командной строки, описанные в man-странице, возможно сделать гиперссылками.

• timeout теперь перехватывает все сигналы, приводящие к завершению процесса, и гарантированно завершает дочернюю команду перед собственным завершением.

• В paste(1) исправлена работа с многобайтовыми символами.

• Исправлен бесконечный цикл в cp, install и mv при копировании разрежённых файлов с помощью SEEK_HOLE.

• stat и tail теперь распознают тип файловой системы guest-memfd.

• tail теперь поддерживает опцию --debug для отладки.

• cksum, du и wc теперь выводят запрос на завершение работы при получении сообщения об ошибке записи, что значительно экономит время при обработке большого количества входных файлов.

• du теперь может обрабатывать каталоги с 10000 и более записей в 9 раз быстрее при использовании файловой системы Lustre.

[ Официальный анонс в почтовой рассылке ]( https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils-announce/2026-02/msg00000.html ) [ Релизы на GitHub ]( https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/releases )

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После почти четырёх месяцев разработки состоялся выпуск 0.40 консольной утилиты [ nwipe ]( https://github.com/martijnvanbrummelen/nwipe ) , предназначенной для надёжного стирания содержимого дисков с использованием многих методов стирания и генераторов псевдослучайных чисел (ГПСЧ). Она может стирать как один диск, так и несколько одновременно.
nwipe является форком команды dwipe проекта [ Darik’s Boot and Nuke ]( https://dban.org ) (DBAN) с многочисленными улучшениями и оптимизациями.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18212278#cut ) )

Sony announced last month that it plans to pass control of its home entertainment division -- including the two-decade-old Bravia television brand -- to Chinese electronics group TCL through a joint venture in which TCL would hold a 51% stake. The Japanese company was long ago overtaken in sales by South Korea's Samsung and LG and now holds just 2% of the global television market. Sony stopped making its own LCD screens in 2011.

Chinese companies supplied 71% of television panels made in Asia last year, according to TCL, and less than 10% are now produced in Japan and Korea. TCL is close to overtaking Samsung as the world's largest television maker. Sony retains valuable intellectual property in image rendering, and the Bravia brand still carries consumer recognition, but its OLED screens are already supplied by Samsung and LG. The company has been shifting toward premium cameras, professional audio, and its entertainment businesses in film, music, and games -- areas where intellectual property is less exposed to Chinese manufacturing scale.

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Джеймс Моррис (James Morris), мэйнтенер подсистемы обеспечения безопасности ядра Linux, возглавляющий в компании Microsoft команду "Linux Emerging Technologies", представил проект Litebox, позиционируемый как сфокусированная на безопасности операционная система в форме библиотеки (Library OS). Litebox может использоваться в программах или ядрах как дополнительный слой изоляции, блокирующий доступ к излишней функциональности ядер или API для снижения поверхности атак. Код проекта написан на языке Rust и открыт под лицензией MIT.

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Первый крупный релиз Document Foundation в 2026 году посвящён производительности, совместимости и форматам файлов, то есть устранению тех проблем, которые действительно мешают работе, а не добавлению эффектных функций или, что более важно, погоне за ажиотажем вокруг ИИ, как это делают другие офисные пакеты.Новые возможности:

• LibreOffice 26.2 позволяет импортировать и экспортировать файлы в формате Markdown (.md), в том числе через буфер обмена. Также во время импорта Markdown можно использовать шаблоны ODT/DOCX для мгновенного форматирования контента в соответствии с определённым стилем оформления.

• Base, база данных от LibreOffice, теперь действительно поддерживает многопользовательский режим. Вы можете работать с базами данных одновременно с другими пользователями, не сталкиваясь с раздражающими проблемами блокировки файлов, которые заставляют вас «по очереди» редактировать данные.

• Благодаря поддержке формата буфера обмена BIFF12, Calc позволяет вставлять большие массивы данных из Excel без ограничений по размеру. Теперь в качестве целевой папки для сохранения файлов XLSX по умолчанию используется «Электронная таблица Excel 2010–365», поэтому вам не нужно выбирать её вручную каждый раз, когда вы хотите поделиться файлом.

• В диалог сортировки добавлены параметры естественной (натуральной) сортировки, благодаря которым такие элементы, как номера версий и IP-адреса, сортируются в логическом порядке, а не в числовом. Например, версия 1.2.10 правильно сортируется после 1.2.9, а не перед 1.2.2. Ваши предпочтения сортировки также сохраняются в файле.

• В Writer система отслеживания изменений более эффективно обрабатывает конфликты «взаимозависимого редактирования», позволяя вам самостоятельно решать, какие изменения принять, вместо того чтобы гадать за вас и вызывать сбои в работе документа с отсутствующими абзацами и запутанной историей правок.

• В Writer также добавлены опции выравнивания начала и конца абзацев, которые адаптируются к направлению текста. Это упрощает повторное использование стилей в документах на разных языках. Кроме того, добавлена дополнительная функция автоматического определения, которая меняет направление текста по мере ввода. [ Полный список изменений ]( https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2 )

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Kalshi, the largest U.S. prediction market, accused a small data startup called Juice Reel of "extortion" after a stock analyst used the company's transaction-level data to argue that prediction market users lose money faster than gamblers on traditional betting apps -- then walked the allegation back hours later.

The equity research analyst Jordan Bender at Citizens found that the bottom quarter of prediction market users lost about 28 cents of every dollar wagered in their first three months, compared to roughly 11 cents per dollar on sites like FanDuel and DraftKings. Kalshi's head of communications told Bloomberg the report was "flat-out wrong" and called the data an extortion attempt. Juice Reel CEO Ricky Gold said Kalshi had actually pressured him to tell Bloomberg the data was inaccurate. Kalshi later issued an updated statement saying it continued to dispute the findings but "after further review, we don't believe the intention was extortion." The company did not provide any data to counter the analysis.

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The FBI has been unable to access a Washington Post reporter's seized iPhone because it was in Lockdown Mode, a sometimes overlooked feature that makes iPhones broadly more secure, according to recently filed court records. 404Media: The court record shows what devices and data the FBI was able to ultimately access, and which devices it could not, after raiding the home of the reporter, Hannah Natanson, in January as part of an investigation into leaks of classified information. It also provides rare insight into the apparent effectiveness of Lockdown Mode, or at least how effective it might be before the FBI may try other techniques to access the device.

"Because the iPhone was in Lockdown mode, CART could not extract that device," the court record reads, referring to the FBI's Computer Analysis Response Team, a unit focused on performing forensic analyses of seized devices. The document is written by the government, and is opposing the return of Natanson's devices.

The FBI raided Natanson's home as part of its investigation into government contractor Aurelio Perez-Lugones, who is charged with, among other things, retention of national defense information. The government believes Perez-Lugones was a source of Natanson's, and provided her with various pieces of classified information. While executing a search warrant for his mobile phone, investigators reviewed Signal messages between Pere-Lugones and the reporter, the Department of Justice previously said.

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Spotify is planning to let premium subscribers in the U.S. and U.K. buy hardcovers and paperbacks directly through its app starting this spring, partnering with Bookshop.org to handle pricing, inventory and fulfillment.

The Swedish streaming company, which entered the audiobook market in 2022, will also introduce a feature called Page Match that lets users scan a page from a physical book or e-reader and jump to the exact spot in the audiobook edition. Spotify will earn an undisclosed affiliate fee on each purchase.

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Amazon plans to use AI to speed up the process for making movies and TV shows even as Hollywood fears that AI will cut jobs and permanently reshape the industry. From a report: At the Amazon MGM Studio, veteran entertainment executive Albert Cheng is leading a team charged with developing new AI tools that he said will cut costs and streamline the creative process. Amazon plans to launch a closed beta program in March, inviting industry partners to test its AI tools. The company expects to have results to share by May. [...] Amazon is leaning on its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, for help and plans to work with multiple large language model providers to give creators a wider array of options for pre- and post-production filmmaking.

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Western Digital this week laid out a roadmap that stretches its 3.5-inch hard drive platform to 14 platters and pairs it with a new vertical-emitting laser for heat-assisted magnetic recording, a combination the company says will push individual drive capacities beyond 140 TB in the 2030s.

The vertical laser, developed over six years and already working in WD's labs, emits light straight down onto the disk rather than from the edge, delivering more thermal energy while occupying less vertical space -- enabling areal densities up to 10 TB per platter, up from today's 4 TB, and room for additional platters in the same enclosure. WD's first commercial HAMR drives arrive in late 2026 at 40-44 TB on an 11-platter design, ramping into volume production in 2027. A 12-platter platform follows in 2028 at 60 TB, and WD expects to hit 100 TB by around 2030.

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Сформирован выпуск основной ветки nginx 1.29.5, в рамках которой продолжается развитие новых возможностей, а также выпуск параллельно поддерживаемой стабильной ветки nginx 1.28.2, в которую вносятся только изменения, связанные с устранением серьёзных ошибок и уязвимостей. В обновлениях устранена уязвимость (CVE-2026-1642), позволяющая атакующему, имеющему возможность вклиниться (MITM) в канал связи между nginx и upstream-сервером, подставить отправляемые клиенту ответы. Проблема затрагивает конфигурации, проксирующие запросы (HTTP 1.x, HTTP/2, gRPC или uWSGI) к вышестоящему серверу с использованием TLS-шифрования.

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Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4.6, its most capable model yet, at a moment when the company's AI tools have already spooked markets over fears that they are disrupting traditional software development and other sectors.

The new model improves on Opus 4.5's coding abilities, the company said -- it plans more carefully, sustains longer agentic tasks, handles larger codebases more reliably, and catches its own mistakes through better debugging. It is also the first Opus-class model to feature a 1M token context window, currently in beta.

On GDPval-AA, an independent benchmark measuring performance on knowledge-work tasks in finance, legal and other domains, Opus 4.6 outperformed OpenAI's GPT-5.2 by roughly 144 Elo points. Anthropic also introduced agent teams in Claude Code, allowing multiple agents to work in parallel on tasks like codebase reviews. Pricing remains at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens.

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Automattic and the Internet Archive have released a free, open-source WordPress plugin that automatically detects broken outbound links on a site and redirects visitors to archived Wayback Machine copies instead of serving them a 404 error.

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer, which launched last fall and is available on WordPress.org, runs in the background scanning posts for dead links, checking for existing archived versions, and requesting new snapshots when none exist. It also archives a site's own posts whenever they are updated. If the original link comes back online, the plugin stops redirecting.

Pew Research has found that 38% of the web has disappeared over the past decade, and WordPress powers more than 40% of websites online.

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Elon Musk told podcast host Dwarkesh Patel and Stripe co-founder John Collison that space will become the most economically compelling location for AI data centers in less than 36 months, a prediction rooted not in some exotic technical breakthrough but in the basic math of electricity supply: chip output is growing exponentially, and electrical output outside China is essentially flat.

Solar panels in orbit generate roughly five times the power they do on the ground because there is no day-night cycle, no cloud cover, no atmospheric loss, and no atmosphere-related energy reduction. The system economics are even more favorable because space-based operations eliminate the need for batteries entirely, making the effective cost roughly 10 times cheaper than terrestrial solar, Musk said. The terrestrial bottleneck is already real.

Musk said powering 330,000 Nvidia GB300 chips -- once you account for networking hardware, storage, peak cooling on the hottest day of the year, and reserve margin for generator servicing -- requires roughly a gigawatt at the generation level. Gas turbines are sold out through 2030, and the limiting factor is the casting of turbine vanes and blades, a process handled by just three companies worldwide.

Five years from now, Musk predicted, SpaceX will launch and operate more AI compute annually than the cumulative total on Earth, expecting at least a few hundred gigawatts per year in space. Patel estimated that 100 gigawatts alone would require on the order of 10,000 Starship launches per year, a figure Musk affirmed. SpaceX is gearing up for 10,000 launches a year, Musk said, and possibly 20,000 to 30,000.

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has announced that astronauts on the upcoming Crew-12 and Artemis II missions will be allowed to carry iPhones and other modern smartphones into orbit and to the Moon -- a reversal of long-standing agency rules that had left crews relying on a 2016 Nikon DSLR and decade-old GoPros for the historic lunar flyby.

Isaacman framed the move as part of a broader push to challenge what he called bloated qualification requirements, where hardware approvals get mired in radiation characterization, battery thermal tests, outgassing reviews and vibration testing. "That operational urgency will serve NASA well as we pursue the highest-value science and research in orbit and on the lunar surface," he wrote.

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A federal court in California has ruled that YouTube creators who use stream-ripping tools to download clips for reaction and commentary videos may face liability under the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions -- a decision that could reshape how one of the platform's most popular content genres operates.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi of the Northern District of California denied a motion to dismiss in Cordova v. Huneault, a creator-versus-creator dispute, finding that YouTube's "rolling cipher" technology qualifies as an access control measure under section 1201(a) even though the underlying videos are freely viewable by the public. The distinction matters because it separates the act of watching a video from the act of downloading it.

The defense had argued that no ripping tools were actually used and that screen recording could account for the copied footage. Judge DeMarchi allowed the claim to proceed to discovery regardless, noting that the plaintiff had adequately pled the circumvention allegation. The ruling opens a legal avenue beyond standard copyright infringement for creators who want to go after rivals. Reaction channels have long leaned on fair use as a blanket defense, but plaintiff's attorney Randall S. Newman told TorrentFreak that circumventing copy protections under section 1201 is a separate violation unaffected by any fair use finding.

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The European Commission is preparing to trial a communications platform built on Matrix, the open source messaging protocol already used by the French government, German healthcare providers and European armed forces, as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams.

Signal currently serves as the backup tool but has proven too inflexible for an organization the Commission's size, it said. The Matrix-based solution could also eventually connect the Commission to other EU bodies like the Parliament.

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Google's Quick Share-AirDrop interoperability, which has been exclusive to the Pixel 10 series since its surprise launch last year, is headed to a much broader set of Android devices in 2026.

Eric Kay, Google's Vice President of Engineering for the Android platform, confirmed the expansion during a press briefing at the company's Taipei office, saying Google is "working with our partners to expand it into the rest of the ecosystem" and that announcements are coming "very soon." Nothing is the only OEM to have publicly confirmed it's working on support, though Qualcomm has also hinted at enabling the feature on Snapdragon-powered phones.

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Открыта регистрация на детско-юношеские соревнования по Linux - "Linux-skills", которые пройдут в рамках фестиваля технического творчества "ТехноКакТУС". Соревнования проводятся в двух номинациях: Alt-skills (ALT Linux) и Calculate-skills (Calculate Linux), в трёх возрастных группах: 10-13 лет, 14-17 лет, 18-22 лет.

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В открытый доступ попали новые подробности о продвижении операционной системы Aluminium, развиваемой Google для ноутбуков, мини-ПК и планшетов в соответствии с планом по слиянию платформ Android и Chrome OS. В транскрипции выступления представителя Google на судебном заседании, связанном с антимонопольным разбирательством Министерства юстиции США против Google, упоминается, что поддержка устройств Chromebook с операционной системой ChromeOS продлится до 2034 года, а первые массовые продукты на платформе Aluminium запланированы на 2028 год. При этом тестовые решения на базе Aluminium намерены начать публиковать уже в конце этого года.

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Опубликован девятый выпуск среды рабочего стола Orbitiny Desktop, написанной с нуля с использованием фреймворка Qt. Проект пытается совместить некоторые инновационные идеи, которые раньше не встречались в пользовательских окружениях, с традиционными элементами, такими как панель с поддержкой плагинов, меню приложений и рабочий стол, на котором можно размещать ярлыки. Работа пока сосредоточена на запуск в окружениях на базе X-сервера, но в будущем не исключается добавление поддержки Wayland. Код написан на языке C++ и распространяется под лицензией GPL.

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The CIA has shut down The World Factbook, one of its oldest and most recognizable public-facing intelligence publications, ending a run that began as a classified reference document in 1962 and evolved into a freely accessible digital resource that drew millions of views each year.

The agency offered no explanation for the decision. Originally titled The National Basic Intelligence Factbook, the publication first went unclassified in 1971, was renamed a decade later, and moved online at CIA.gov in 1997. It served researchers, news organizations, teachers, students and international travelers. The site hosted more than 5,000 copyright-free photographs, some donated by CIA officers from their personal travel. Every page now redirects to a farewell announcement.

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Niels Möller

Я рад объявить о новом крупном релизе GNU Nettle, низкоуровневой библиотеки криптографических функций. Этот релиз включает в себя несколько изменений API, некоторые из которых довольно существенны, а также удаление устаревших функций. Есть одна заметная новая функция: поддержка SLH-DSA подписей (алгоритм цифровой подписи на основе хеширования без сохранения состояния).Это новый крупный релиз. Он включает в себя поддержку SLH-DSA. Внесены несколько изменений в API Nettle, а также удалены устаревшие функции. Кроме того, улучшен ABI, в результате чего API остался практически неизменным, в частности, уменьшены контекстные структуры для ряда алгоритмов...

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31 января, после полутора лет непрерывной разработки, состоялся выпуск 1.0 лёгкой и портативной кроссплатформенной библиотеки векторной графики [ ThorVG ]( https://www.thorvg.org ) , предназначенной для визуализации векторных сцен и анимаций. Поддерживается загрузка файлов в форматах [ Lottie ]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_(file_format) ) и [ SVG Tiny 1.2 ]( https://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12 ) ( [ список реализованных возможностей SVG Tiny в Wiki проекта ]( https://github.com/thorvg/thorvg/wiki/SVG-Support ) ).

Библиотекой предоставляются [ удобные API ]( https://www.thorvg.org/apis ) для импорта, создания и отображения векторной графики, а также для её экспорта в различные графические форматы, что делает её универсальной для использования в различных программных платформах и приложениях для визуализации графического контента.
Также поставляются консольные утилиты lottie2gif и svg2png.

ThorVG используется для рендеринга векторной графики в таких проектах, как [ Tizen OS ]( https://www.tizen.org ) , [ Godot Engine ]( https://godotengine.org ) , [ LVGL ]( https://lvgl.io ) и плееров [ dotLottie ]( https://dotlottie.io/players ) .

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Камилла Мораес (Camilla Moraes), менеджер по продукту из компании GitHub, начала обсуждение добавления в GitHub возможности для автоматической блокировки мусорных pull-запросов, сгенерированных в AI-ассистентах, отправленных без ручной проверки и не соответствующих требованиям качества. Подобные изменения создают дополнительную нагрузку на сопровождающих, которые вынуждены тратить время на разбор бесполезного кода.

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Bitcoin has fallen roughly 44% from its October peak, and while the drawdown isn't crypto's deepest ever on a percentage basis, Bloomberg's Odd Lots newsletter lays out a case that this is the industry's worst winter yet. The macro backdrop was supposed to favor Bitcoin: public confidence in the dollar is shaky, the Trump administration has been crypto-friendly, and fiat currencies are under perceived stress globally. Yet gold, not Bitcoin, has been the safe haven of choice.

The "we're so early" narrative is dead -- crypto ETFs exist, barriers to entry are zero, and the online community that once rallied holders through downturns has largely hollowed out. Institutional adoption arrived but hasn't lifted existing tokens like ETH or SOL; Wall Street cares about stablecoins and tokenization, not the coins themselves. AI is pulling both talent and miners toward data centers. Quantum computing advances threaten Bitcoin's encryption. And MicroStrategy and other Bitcoin treasury companies, once steady buyers during the bull run, are now large holders who may eventually become forced sellers.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a sweeping plan to shore up the country's auto industry and accelerate its electric vehicle transition, the latest in a series of moves to reduce Canada's deep economic dependence on the United States as American tariffs continue to batter the sector.

The plan includes financial incentives for carmakers to invest in Canada, a new tariff credit scheme for manufacturers like General Motors and Toyota, and the reintroduction of EV buyer rebates. Canada will also enact stricter vehicle emissions standards and has set a goal of EVs comprising 90% of car sales by 2040. Carney at the same time scrapped a 2023 EV sales mandate introduced by former PM Justin Trudeau that automakers had called too costly.

The announcements follow a deal last month with China to ease tariffs on Chinese EVs and an agreement with South Korea to encourage Korean car manufacturing in Canada. Roughly 90% of Canadian-made vehicles are exported to the US, and thousands of auto workers have lost their jobs since Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian cars and parts last year.

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TikTok's endless scroll of irresistible content, tailored for each person's tastes by a well-honed algorithm, has helped the service become one of the world's most popular apps. Now European Union regulators say those same features that made TikTok so successful are likely illegal. From a report: On Friday, the regulators released a preliminary decision that TikTok's infinite scroll, auto-play features and recommendation algorithm amount to an "addictive design" that violated European Union laws for online safety. The service poses potential harm to the "physical and mental well-being" of users, including minors and vulnerable adults, the European Commission, the 27-nation bloc's executive branch, said in a statement.

The findings suggest TikTok must overhaul the core features that made it a global phenomenon, or risk major fines. European officials said it was the first time that a legal standard for social media addictiveness had been applied anywhere in the world. "TikTok needs to change the basic design of its service," the European Commission said in a statement.

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German newspaper Bild reported in January that some ski jumpers have been injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid ahead of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics -- the theory being that temporarily enlarged genitalia would yield looser-fitting suits when measured by 3D scanners, and those looser suits could act like sails to produce longer jumps.

A study published last October in the scientific journal Frontiers found that a 2cm suit change translated to an extra 5.8 metres in jump distance. No specific athletes have been accused. The World Anti-Doping Agency said Thursday it would investigate if presented with evidence, noting its powers extend to banning practices that violate the "spirit of sport." The claims arrive as ski jumping already faces scrutiny -- two Norwegian coaches and an equipment manager received 18-month bans in January for illegally manipulating suit stitching.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: KPMG, one of the world's largest auditors of public and private companies, negotiated lower fees from its own accountant by arguing that AI will make it cheaper to do the work, according to people familiar with the matter. The Big Four firm told its auditor, Grant Thornton UK, it should pass on cost savings from the rollout of AI and threatened to find a new accountant if it did not agree to a significant fee reduction, the people said.

The discussions last year came amid an industry-wide debate about the impact of new technology on audit firms' business and traditional pricing models. Firms have invested heavily in AI to speed up the planning of audits and automate routine tasks, but it is not yet clear if this will generate savings that are passed on to clients.

Grant Thornton is auditor to KPMG International, the UK-based umbrella organisation that co-ordinates the work of KPMG's independent, locally owned partnerships around the world. Talks with Grant Thornton were led by Michaela Peisger, a longtime audit partner and executive from KPMG's German member firm, who became KPMG International's chief financial officer at the beginning of 2025.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft each reported hundreds of billions in RPO (remaining performance obligations) -- signed contracts for cloud computing services that can't yet be filled and haven't yet hit the books. Collectively, the big three cloud providers reported a $1.1 trillion backlog of revenue.

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Kris Marszalek, the co-founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com, has paid $70 million for the domain AI.com -- the highest price ever publicly disclosed for a website name, according to the deal's broker Larry Fischer of GetYourDomain.com.

The entire sum was paid in cryptocurrency to an undisclosed seller. Marszalek plans to debut the site during a Super Bowl ad this weekend, offering a personal "AI agent" that lets consumers send messages, use apps and trade stocks. The previous domain sale record was nearly $50 million for Carinsurance.com, per GoDaddy.

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Состоялся выпуск 9.5.0 библиотеки [ libzim ]( https://github.com/openzim/libzim ) , предназначенной для работы с файлами в формате [ ZIM ]( https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/ZIM_file_format ) . Разработка библиотеки ведётся и спонсируется проектом [ Kiwix ]( https://kiwix.org ) .

ZIM — формат, предназначенный для офлайн-хранения информации, полученной из Интернета, в виде одного файла. В ZIM-файле в сжатом виде находятся логически связанные между собой HTML-страницы (а иногда и образы сайтов целиком) с работающими гиперссылками, изображениями, звуком и видео.

Проектом Kiwix разрабатывается набор консольных утилит [ zim-tools ]( https://github.com/openzim/zim-tools ) , [ десктопный ]( https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-desktop ) и [ мобильные ]( https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android ) клиенты, и скрипты [ для создания файлов ZIM из дампов проектов Wikimedia ]( https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner ) или [ из HTML ]( https://github.com/openzim/zimit ) .

Также libzim используется в форке словаря GoldenDict – [ GoldenDict-NG ]( https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng ) .

Краткий список возможностей библиотеки:

• создание файлов ZIM cо сжатием данных в формате Zstandard (ранее также поддерживались форматы ZIP, LZMA и Bzip2);

• поиск по названиям статей;

• опциональная поддержка [ Xapian ]( https://xapian.org/ ) для полнотекстового поиска. Множество файлов ZIM можно скачать [ здесь ]( https://download.kiwix.org/zim ) .

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An investigation has uncovered a sprawling network of hidden cameras in Chinese hotel rooms that livestream guests -- including couples having sex -- to paying subscribers on Telegram. Over 18 months, the BBC identified six websites and apps on the messaging platform that claimed to operate more than 180 spy cams across Chinese hotels, not just recording but broadcasting live.

One site, monitored for seven months, cycled through 54 different cameras, roughly half active at any given time. Subscribers pay 450 yuan (~$65) per month for access to multiple live feeds, archived clips, and a library of more than 6,000 edited videos dating back to 2017.

The BBC traced one camera to a hotel room in Zhengzhou, where researchers found it hidden inside a wall ventilation unit and hardwired into the building's electricity supply. A commercially available hidden-camera detector failed to flag it. China introduced regulations last April requiring hotel owners to check for hidden cameras, but the BBC found the livestreaming sites still operational.

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Опубликован релиз свободного звукового редактора Ardour 9.0, предназначенного для многоканальной записи, обработки и микширования звука. В Ardour предоставляется мультитрековая шкала времени, неограниченный уровень отката изменений на всем протяжении работы с файлом (даже после закрытия программы), поддержка разнообразных аппаратных интерфейсов. Программа позиционируется как свободный аналог профессиональных средств ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix и Sequoia. Код распространяется под лицензией GPLv2. В ближайшее время неофициальные сборки для Linux будут сформированы в формате Flatpak.

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Salesforce is essentially shutting down Heroku as an evolving product, moving the cloud platform that helped define modern app deployment to a "sustaining engineering model" focused entirely on stability, security and support.

Existing customers on credit card billing see no changes to pricing or service, but enterprise contracts are no longer available to new buyers. Salesforce said it is redirecting engineering investment toward enterprise AI.

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Memory prices across DRAM, NAND and HBM have surged 80 to 90% quarter-over-quarter in Q1 2026, according to Counterpoint Research's latest Memory Price Tracker. The price of a 64GB RDIMM has jumped from a Q4 2025 contract price of $450 to over $900, and Counterpoint expects it to cross $1,000 in Q2.

NAND, relatively stable last quarter, is tracking a parallel increase. Device makers are cutting DRAM content per device, swapping TLC SSDs for cheaper QLC alternatives, and shifting orders from the now-scarce LPDDR4 to LPDDR5 as new entry-level chipsets support the newer standard. DRAM operating margins hit the 60% range in Q4 2025 -- the first time conventional DRAM margins surpassed HBM -- and Q1 2026 is on track to set all-time highs.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Republicans' tax cuts shaved billions off Amazon's tax bill, new government filings show. The company says it ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, and even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion.

That's largely because of the generous new depreciation breaks GOP lawmakers included in their One Big Beautiful Bill, something that's particularly important to Amazon which -- in addition to maintaining a vast infrastructure for its ubiquitous delivery business -- has been spending billions to build out artificial intelligence data centers.

Also helping, though less important: The law's expanded breaks for businesses research and development expenses. The company has long been criticized by Democrats for paying little in tax, and it appeared to be bracing for criticism in the wake of the report to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Hollywood's recent attempts to build entertainment around AI have consistently underperformed or outright flopped, whether the AI in question is a plot device or a production tool. The horror sequel M3GAN 2.0, Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning, and Disney's Tron: Ares all disappointed at the box office in 2025 despite centering their narratives on AI.

The latest casualty is Mercy, a January 2026 crime thriller in which Chris Pratt faces an AI judge bot played by Rebecca Ferguson; one reviewer has already called it "the worst movie of 2026," and its ticket sales have been mediocre. AI-generated content hasn't fared any better. Darren Aronofsky executive-produced On This Day...1776, a YouTube web series that uses Google DeepMind video generation alongside real voice actors to dramatize the American Revolution. Viewer response has been brutal -- commenters mocked the uncanny faces and the fact that DeepMind rendered "America" as "Aamereedd."

A Taika Waititi-directed Xfinity commercial set to air during this weekend's Super Bowl, which de-ages Jurassic Park stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, has already been mocked for producing what one viewer called "melting wax figures."

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Waymo's robotaxis have racked up at least 24 safety violations involving school buses in Austin since the start of the 2025 school year, and a voluntary software recall the company issued in December after a federal investigation has not fixed the problem.

Austin Independent School District initially reported at least 19 incidents of Waymo vehicles failing to stop for buses during loading and unloading -- illegal in all 50 states -- prompting NHTSA to open a probe. At least four more violations have occurred since the software update, including a January 19th incident where a robotaxi drove past a bus as children waited to cross the street and the stop arm was extended.

Waymo also acknowledged that one of its vehicles struck a child outside a Santa Monica elementary school on January 23rd, causing minor injuries. Austin ISD has asked Waymo to stop operating near schools during bus hours until the issue is resolved. Waymo refused. Three federal investigations have been opened in three months.

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Опубликован экспериментальный выпуск открытой реализации Win32 API - Wine 11.2. С момента выпуска 11.1 было закрыто 32 отчёта об ошибках и внесено 238 изменений.

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В качестве демонстрации возможности автономно создавать крупные проекты при помощи новой AI-модели Claude Opus 4.6 компания Anthropic сгенерировала компилятор для языка Си - claudes-c-compiler, пригодный для сборки ядра Linux, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, FFmpeg, GNU coreutils, Busybox, CPython, QEMU, Doom, LuaJIT и ещё около 150 протестированных известных открытых проектов. Результирующие сборки успешно прошли предоставляемые проектами тестовые наборы. Код компилятора сгенерирован на языке Rust и опубликован как общественное достояние (CC0). Поддерживается компиляция проектов для архитектур x86_64, i686, AArch64 и RISC-V 64.

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