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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Says Company Will Spin Off Non-Core Units
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2025-04-01 05:22:02
Intel Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan said the chipmaker will spin off assets that aren't central to its mission and create new products including custom semiconductors to try to better align itself with customers. From a report: Intel needs to replace the engineering talent it has lost, improve its balance sheet and better attune manufacturing processes to meet the needs of potential customers, Tan said. Speaking at his first public appearance as CEO, at the Intel Vision conference Monday in Las Vegas, Tan didn't specify what parts of Intel he believes are no longer central to its future.
"We have a lot of hard work ahead," Tan said, addressing the company's customers in the audience. "There are areas where we've fallen short of your expectations." The veteran semiconductor executive is trying to restore the fortunes of a company that dominated an industry for decades, but now finds itself chasing rivals in most of the areas that define success in the field. A key question confronting its leadership is whether a turnaround is best served by the company remaining whole or splitting up its key product and manufacturing operations. Tan gave no indication that he will seek to divest either part of Intel. Instead, he highlighted the problems he needs to fix to get both units performing more successfully. Intel's chips for data center and AI-related work in particular are not good enough, he said. "We fell behind on innovation," the CEO said. "We have been too slow to adapt and meet your needs."
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Intel Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan said the chipmaker will spin off assets that aren't central to its mission and create new products including custom semiconductors to try to better align itself with customers. From a report: Intel needs to replace the engineering talent it has lost, improve its balance sheet and better attune manufacturing processes to meet the needs of potential customers, Tan said. Speaking at his first public appearance as CEO, at the Intel Vision conference Monday in Las Vegas, Tan didn't specify what parts of Intel he believes are no longer central to its future.
"We have a lot of hard work ahead," Tan said, addressing the company's customers in the audience. "There are areas where we've fallen short of your expectations." The veteran semiconductor executive is trying to restore the fortunes of a company that dominated an industry for decades, but now finds itself chasing rivals in most of the areas that define success in the field. A key question confronting its leadership is whether a turnaround is best served by the company remaining whole or splitting up its key product and manufacturing operations. Tan gave no indication that he will seek to divest either part of Intel. Instead, he highlighted the problems he needs to fix to get both units performing more successfully. Intel's chips for data center and AI-related work in particular are not good enough, he said. "We fell behind on innovation," the CEO said. "We have been too slow to adapt and meet your needs."
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'There is No Vibe Engineering'
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2025-04-01 06:22:02
Software engineer Sergey Tselovalnikov weighs in on the new hype: The term caught on and Twitter quickly flooded with posts about how AI has radically transformed coding and will soon replace all software engineers. While AI undeniably impacts the way we write code, it hasn't fundamentally changed our role as engineers. Allow me to explain.
[...] Vibe coding is interacting with the codebase via prompts. As the implementation is hidden from the "vibe coder", all the engineering concerns will inevitably get ignored. Many of the concerns are hard to express in a prompt, and many of them are hard to verify by only inspecting the final artifact. Historically, all engineering practices have tried to shift all those concerns left -- to the earlier stages of development when they're cheap to address. Yet with vibe coding, they're shifted very far to the right -- when addressing them is expensive.
The question of whether an AI system can perform the complete engineering cycle and build and evolve software the same way a human can remains open. However, there are no signs of it being able to do so at this point, and if it one day happens, it won't have anything to do with vibe coding -- at least the way it's defined today.
[...] It is possible that there'll be a future where software is built from vibe-coded blocks, but the work of designing software able to evolve and scale doesn't go away. That's not vibe engineering -- that's just engineering, even if the coding part of it will look a bit different.
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2025-04-01 06:22:02
Software engineer Sergey Tselovalnikov weighs in on the new hype: The term caught on and Twitter quickly flooded with posts about how AI has radically transformed coding and will soon replace all software engineers. While AI undeniably impacts the way we write code, it hasn't fundamentally changed our role as engineers. Allow me to explain.
[...] Vibe coding is interacting with the codebase via prompts. As the implementation is hidden from the "vibe coder", all the engineering concerns will inevitably get ignored. Many of the concerns are hard to express in a prompt, and many of them are hard to verify by only inspecting the final artifact. Historically, all engineering practices have tried to shift all those concerns left -- to the earlier stages of development when they're cheap to address. Yet with vibe coding, they're shifted very far to the right -- when addressing them is expensive.
The question of whether an AI system can perform the complete engineering cycle and build and evolve software the same way a human can remains open. However, there are no signs of it being able to do so at this point, and if it one day happens, it won't have anything to do with vibe coding -- at least the way it's defined today.
[...] It is possible that there'll be a future where software is built from vibe-coded blocks, but the work of designing software able to evolve and scale doesn't go away. That's not vibe engineering -- that's just engineering, even if the coding part of it will look a bit different.
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First Flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum Rocket Lasted Just 40 Seconds
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2025-04-01 08:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The first flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket didn't last long on Sunday. The booster's nine engines switched off as the rocket cartwheeled upside-down and fell a short distance from its Arctic launch pad in Norway, punctuating the abbreviated test flight with a spectacular fiery crash into the sea. If officials at Isar Aerospace were able to pick the outcome of their first test flight, it wouldn't be this. However, the result has precedent. The first launch of SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket in 2006 ended in similar fashion. "Today, we know twice as much about our launch system as yesterday before launch," Daniel Metzler, Isar's co-founder and CEO, wrote on X early Monday. "Can't beat flight testing. Ploughing through lots of data now."
Isar Aerospace, based in Germany, is the first in a crop of new European rocket companies to attempt an orbital launch. If all went according to plan, Isar's Spectrum rocket would have arced to the north from Andoya Spaceport in Norway and reached a polar orbit. But officials knew there was only a low chance of reaching orbit on the first flight. For this reason, Isar did not fly any customer payloads on the Spectrum rocket, designed to deliver up to 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms) of payload mass to low-Earth orbit. [...] Isar declared the launch a success in its public statements, but was it? [...] Metzler, Isar's chief executive, was asked last year what he would consider a successful inaugural flight of Spectrum. "For me, the first flight will be a success if we don't blow up the launch site," he said at the Handelsblatt innovation conference. "That would probably be the thing that would set us back the most in terms of technology and time."
This tempering of expectations sounds remarkably similar to statements made by Elon Musk about SpaceX's first flight of the Starship rocket in 2023. By this measure, Isar officials can be content with Sunday's result. The company is modeling its test strategy on SpaceX's iterative development cycle, where engineers test early, make fixes, and fly again. This is in stark contrast to the way Europe has traditionally developed rockets. The alternative to Isar's approach could be to "spend 15 years researching, doing simulations, and then getting it right the first time," Metzler said. With the first launch of Spectrum, Isar has tested the rocket. Now, it's time to make fixes and fly again. That, Isar's leaders argue, will be the real measure of success. "We're super happy," Metzler said in a press call after Sunday's flight. "It's a time for people to be proud of, and for Europe, frankly, also to be proud of." You can watch a replay of the live launch webcast on YouTube.
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2025-04-01 08:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The first flight of Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket didn't last long on Sunday. The booster's nine engines switched off as the rocket cartwheeled upside-down and fell a short distance from its Arctic launch pad in Norway, punctuating the abbreviated test flight with a spectacular fiery crash into the sea. If officials at Isar Aerospace were able to pick the outcome of their first test flight, it wouldn't be this. However, the result has precedent. The first launch of SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket in 2006 ended in similar fashion. "Today, we know twice as much about our launch system as yesterday before launch," Daniel Metzler, Isar's co-founder and CEO, wrote on X early Monday. "Can't beat flight testing. Ploughing through lots of data now."
Isar Aerospace, based in Germany, is the first in a crop of new European rocket companies to attempt an orbital launch. If all went according to plan, Isar's Spectrum rocket would have arced to the north from Andoya Spaceport in Norway and reached a polar orbit. But officials knew there was only a low chance of reaching orbit on the first flight. For this reason, Isar did not fly any customer payloads on the Spectrum rocket, designed to deliver up to 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms) of payload mass to low-Earth orbit. [...] Isar declared the launch a success in its public statements, but was it? [...] Metzler, Isar's chief executive, was asked last year what he would consider a successful inaugural flight of Spectrum. "For me, the first flight will be a success if we don't blow up the launch site," he said at the Handelsblatt innovation conference. "That would probably be the thing that would set us back the most in terms of technology and time."
This tempering of expectations sounds remarkably similar to statements made by Elon Musk about SpaceX's first flight of the Starship rocket in 2023. By this measure, Isar officials can be content with Sunday's result. The company is modeling its test strategy on SpaceX's iterative development cycle, where engineers test early, make fixes, and fly again. This is in stark contrast to the way Europe has traditionally developed rockets. The alternative to Isar's approach could be to "spend 15 years researching, doing simulations, and then getting it right the first time," Metzler said. With the first launch of Spectrum, Isar has tested the rocket. Now, it's time to make fixes and fly again. That, Isar's leaders argue, will be the real measure of success. "We're super happy," Metzler said in a press call after Sunday's flight. "It's a time for people to be proud of, and for Europe, frankly, also to be proud of." You can watch a replay of the live launch webcast on YouTube.
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Редактор GIMP меняет название
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2025-04-01 08:44:05
Привет, ЛОР!
Как ты, наверное, слышал, в течение многих лет графический редактор GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP, в переводе «калека») сталкивается с критикой своего названия, которое, по мнению многих активистов, является оскорбительным. Из-за этого даже был создан форк под названием [ Glimpse ]( https://github.com/joshgiesbrecht/Glimpse ) .
Авторы GIMP наконец решили прислушаться к мнению сообщества и после недолгого обсуждения остановились на новом названии: FOSS Arts & Graphics (FAG). Такое название выбрано как более толерантное к лицам с ограниченными возможностями, а так же чтобы подчеркнуть независимость от проекта GNU, который в свою очередь в последнее время так же подвергся массивной критике. Официально миграция на новое название начнётся с 1 апреля этого года, все работы планируется завершить к лету.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17927659
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2025-04-01 08:44:05
Привет, ЛОР!
Как ты, наверное, слышал, в течение многих лет графический редактор GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP, в переводе «калека») сталкивается с критикой своего названия, которое, по мнению многих активистов, является оскорбительным. Из-за этого даже был создан форк под названием [ Glimpse ]( https://github.com/joshgiesbrecht/Glimpse ) .
Авторы GIMP наконец решили прислушаться к мнению сообщества и после недолгого обсуждения остановились на новом названии: FOSS Arts & Graphics (FAG). Такое название выбрано как более толерантное к лицам с ограниченными возможностями, а так же чтобы подчеркнуть независимость от проекта GNU, который в свою очередь в последнее время так же подвергся массивной критике. Официально миграция на новое название начнётся с 1 апреля этого года, все работы планируется завершить к лету.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17927659
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Anthropic Will Begin Sweeping Offices For Hidden Devices
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2025-04-01 10:22:01
Anthropic said it will start sweeping physical offices for hidden devices as part of a ramped-up security effort as the AI race intensifies. From a report: The company, backed by Amazon and Google, published safety and security updates in a blog post on Monday, and said it also plans to establish an executive risk council and build an in-house security team. Anthropic closed its latest funding round earlier this month at a $61.5 billion valuation, which makes it one of the highest-valued AI startups.
In addition to high-growth startups, tech giants including Google, Amazon and Microsoft are racing to announce new products and features. Competition is also coming from China, a risk that became more evident earlier this year when DeepSeek's AI model went viral in the U.S. Anthropic said in the post that it will introduce "physical" safety processes, such as technical surveillance countermeasures -- or the process of finding and identifying surveillance devices that are used to spy on organizations. The sweeps will be conducted "using advanced detection equipment and techniques" and will look for "intruders."
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2025-04-01 10:22:01
Anthropic said it will start sweeping physical offices for hidden devices as part of a ramped-up security effort as the AI race intensifies. From a report: The company, backed by Amazon and Google, published safety and security updates in a blog post on Monday, and said it also plans to establish an executive risk council and build an in-house security team. Anthropic closed its latest funding round earlier this month at a $61.5 billion valuation, which makes it one of the highest-valued AI startups.
In addition to high-growth startups, tech giants including Google, Amazon and Microsoft are racing to announce new products and features. Competition is also coming from China, a risk that became more evident earlier this year when DeepSeek's AI model went viral in the U.S. Anthropic said in the post that it will introduce "physical" safety processes, such as technical surveillance countermeasures -- or the process of finding and identifying surveillance devices that are used to spy on organizations. The sweeps will be conducted "using advanced detection equipment and techniques" and will look for "intruders."
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Выпуск системы резервного копирования Restic 0.18. Атака на CDC
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2025-04-01 11:44:03
Представлен выпуск системы резервного копирования Restic 0.18, позволяющей хранить резервные копии в зашифрованном виде в версионированном репозитории с поддержкой дедупликации. Система изначально рассчитана на то, что резервные копии сохраняются в окружениях не заслуживающих доверия, и попадание резервной копии в чужие руки не должно скомпрометировать систему. При создании резервной копии возможно определение гибких правил для включения и исключения файлов и каталогов (формат правил напоминает rsync или gitignore). Поддерживается работа в Linux, macOS, Windows и BSD-системах. Код проекта написан на языке Go и распространяется под лицензией BSD.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62996
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Представлен выпуск системы резервного копирования Restic 0.18, позволяющей хранить резервные копии в зашифрованном виде в версионированном репозитории с поддержкой дедупликации. Система изначально рассчитана на то, что резервные копии сохраняются в окружениях не заслуживающих доверия, и попадание резервной копии в чужие руки не должно скомпрометировать систему. При создании резервной копии возможно определение гибких правил для включения и исключения файлов и каталогов (формат правил напоминает rsync или gitignore). Поддерживается работа в Linux, macOS, Windows и BSD-системах. Код проекта написан на языке Go и распространяется под лицензией BSD.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62996
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Apple открыли исходный код эмулятора PS5
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2025-04-01 12:44:05
Apple открыли исходный код эмулятора PlayStation 5. Эмулятор называется Ojina. Эмулятор доступен нативно на Маках, iPhone, iPad, все линуксы (ARM64 и AMD64), chromeOS и Android. Доступен под лицензией GNU GPL. Разработка эмулятора шла два года.
Название Ojina происходит от BlackBerry. Эмулятор Ojina поддерживает на играбельном уровне без проблем все игры PS5. Ojina поддерживает геймпады DualSense, Xbox Series Controller, Xbox Elite Controller и геймпады аля GameSir X2s и BackBone One.
Эмулятор поддерживает как пиратские копии игр PS5, так и лицензионные диски PS5. Для лицензионных дисков PS5 Apple продают внешний [ 4K-Blu-Ray-привод ]( https://www.apple.com/ ) на USB-C за 50 долларов. Данный привод, совместим со всеми устройствами - как Apple-устройства, так и не Apple-устройства. Для лицензионного гейминга Apple сделали в эмуляторе PS5 поддержку PSN.
Apple создали эмулятор PS5 для улучшения и распространения гейминга на Apple-устройствах, Linux и смартфонах.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/games/17929561
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2025-04-01 12:44:05
Apple открыли исходный код эмулятора PlayStation 5. Эмулятор называется Ojina. Эмулятор доступен нативно на Маках, iPhone, iPad, все линуксы (ARM64 и AMD64), chromeOS и Android. Доступен под лицензией GNU GPL. Разработка эмулятора шла два года.
Название Ojina происходит от BlackBerry. Эмулятор Ojina поддерживает на играбельном уровне без проблем все игры PS5. Ojina поддерживает геймпады DualSense, Xbox Series Controller, Xbox Elite Controller и геймпады аля GameSir X2s и BackBone One.
Эмулятор поддерживает как пиратские копии игр PS5, так и лицензионные диски PS5. Для лицензионных дисков PS5 Apple продают внешний [ 4K-Blu-Ray-привод ]( https://www.apple.com/ ) на USB-C за 50 долларов. Данный привод, совместим со всеми устройствами - как Apple-устройства, так и не Apple-устройства. Для лицензионного гейминга Apple сделали в эмуляторе PS5 поддержку PSN.
Apple создали эмулятор PS5 для улучшения и распространения гейминга на Apple-устройствах, Linux и смартфонах.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/games/17929561
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Alan Turing Institute Plans Revamp in Face of Criticism and Technological Change
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2025-04-01 15:22:01
Britain's flagship AI agency will slash the number of projects it backs and prioritize work on defense, environment and health as it seeks to respond to technological advances and criticism of its record. From a report: The Alan Turing Institute -- named after the pioneering British computer scientist -- will shut or offload almost a quarter of its 101 current initiatives and is considering job cuts as part of a change programme that led scores of staff to write a letter expressing their loss of confidence in the leadership in December.
Jean Innes, appointed chief executive in July 2023, argued that huge advances in AI meant the Turing needed to modernise after being founded as a national data science institute by David Cameron's government a decade ago this month. "The Turing has chalked up some really great achievements," Innes said in an interview. "[But we need] a big strategic shift to a much more focused agenda on a small number of problems that have an impact in the real world." A review last year by UK Research and Innovation, the government funding body, found "a clear need for the governance and leadership structure of the Institute to evolve." It called for a move away from the dominance of universities to a structure more representative of AI in UK.
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2025-04-01 15:22:01
Britain's flagship AI agency will slash the number of projects it backs and prioritize work on defense, environment and health as it seeks to respond to technological advances and criticism of its record. From a report: The Alan Turing Institute -- named after the pioneering British computer scientist -- will shut or offload almost a quarter of its 101 current initiatives and is considering job cuts as part of a change programme that led scores of staff to write a letter expressing their loss of confidence in the leadership in December.
Jean Innes, appointed chief executive in July 2023, argued that huge advances in AI meant the Turing needed to modernise after being founded as a national data science institute by David Cameron's government a decade ago this month. "The Turing has chalked up some really great achievements," Innes said in an interview. "[But we need] a big strategic shift to a much more focused agenda on a small number of problems that have an impact in the real world." A review last year by UK Research and Innovation, the government funding body, found "a clear need for the governance and leadership structure of the Institute to evolve." It called for a move away from the dominance of universities to a structure more representative of AI in UK.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/01/1036204/alan-turing-institute-plans-revamp-in-face-of-criticism-and-technological-change?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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В ядро Linux 6.15 приняты значительные оптимизации сетевой подсистемы и exFAT
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2025-04-01 16:44:04
В состав кодовой базы ядра Linux, на основе которой формируется выпуск 6.15, принят набор изменений с оптимизациями, в ряде ситуаций значительно повышающих производительность сетевых операций.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62995
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2025-04-01 16:44:04
В состав кодовой базы ядра Linux, на основе которой формируется выпуск 6.15, принят набор изменений с оптимизациями, в ряде ситуаций значительно повышающих производительность сетевых операций.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62995
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Релиз X12 и его эталонной реализации Xero: Новый конкурент Wayland
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2025-04-01 17:44:04
30 Марта 2025 года – В мире графических систем для Linux произошло значимое событие: анонсирован выход X12 и его эталонной реализации Xero, которые уже сейчас заявляют о себе как серьёзные конкуренты для популярного протокола Wayland. Разработчики уверены, что их новое творение принесёт пользователям множество преимуществ, которые помогут преодолеть недостатки более старой технологии.
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[ Страница протокола X12 ]( https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/X12/ )
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[ Страница проекта Xero ]( http://f1046282.xsph.ru/index2.html )
Преимущества Xero:
Одним из ключевых достоинств Xero является его высокая производительность. Новый протокол разработан с учётом современных графических технологий и оптимизирован для работы с многоядерными процессорами, что позволяет значительно улучшить скорость рендеринга. В результате, пользователи смогут наслаждаться более плавной и отзывчивой графикой.
Кроме того, Xero предлагает расширенные возможности для настройки. Новая система управления разрешениями и доступом предоставляет разработчикам гибкость в управлении графическими ресурсами, что иногда является проблемой в Wayland. Это позволяет создавать более сложные и динамичные интерфейсы.
Также стоит отметить, что Xero обеспечивает лучшую интеграцию с современными видеокартами и графическими API, такими как Vulkan и OpenGL. Это делает его предпочтительным выбором для разработчиков игр и приложений, желающих использовать последние достижения в области графики.
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Совместимость с Legacy-приложениями: Благодаря встроенной подсистеме XLegacyBridge, Xero обеспечивает высокий уровень совместимости с устаревшими приложениями, которые до сих пор используют X11, что делает переход на новую систему более плавным.
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Работа с графикой: Подсистема XRenderBoost в Xero предлагает значительно улучшенное качество рендеринга за счет поддержки аппаратного ускорения и расширенной работы с OpenGL. Это позволяет разработчикам создавать более эффективные и визуально привлекательные приложения.
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API для управления окнами: Новый API XeroWindowAPI упрощает управление окнами, предоставляя разработчикам возможность легко добавлять, скрывать и перемещать окна, а также использовать события, связанные с взаимодействием пользователя.
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API для реализации круглых окон XeroRaundWin преобразует любое окно в круглое или овальное, это будущая снова дня нового типа окон в Gnome45, так как в этой версии предполагается отказ от устаревших окон прямоугольной формы.
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Безопасность и изолированность приложений: Xero внедряет концепцию изолированного выполнения через подсистему AppSandbox, что обеспечивает надежную защиту пользовательских данных и минимизирует риски, связанные с вредоносными программами.
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Поддержка сетевых протоколов: Новая подсистема XNetProtocol обеспечивает стабильную работу приложений в сетевых средах, позволяя использовать удаленное отображение графики без потери производительности.
Недостатки Wayland:
Хотя Wayland стал стандартом для многих дистрибутивов, он всё ещё имеет ряд недостатков. Например, ограниченная поддержка устаревших приложений и систем может стать проблемой для пользователей, использующих более старые программные решения. Кроме того, иногда возникают сложности с совместимостью — некоторые программы могут работать нестабильно из-за особенностей реализации протокола.
Xero, в свою очередь, стремится решить эти проблемы, предлагая лучший уровень совместимости и поддержку более широкого спектра приложений. Это делает новую реализацию привлекательной для аудитории, которая хочет использовать как старые, так и новые технологии без ограничений.
Выпуск X12 и Xero знаменует собой существенно новый этап в развитии графических систем для Linux. Поскольку пользователи всё больше ожидают от своих систем высокой производительности и гибкости, такое появление конкурента Wayland может изменить правила игры на рынке. Теперь разработчикам и пользователям остаётся только подождать и посмотреть, как новая система будет себя проявлять в реальных условиях.
>>> [ Xero API Documentation ]( https://xero-project.org.example.com/documentation )
>>> [ Xero Git Repository ]( https://github.com.example.com/xero12-project )
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17929753
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30 Марта 2025 года – В мире графических систем для Linux произошло значимое событие: анонсирован выход X12 и его эталонной реализации Xero, которые уже сейчас заявляют о себе как серьёзные конкуренты для популярного протокола Wayland. Разработчики уверены, что их новое творение принесёт пользователям множество преимуществ, которые помогут преодолеть недостатки более старой технологии.
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[ Страница протокола X12 ]( https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/X12/ )
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[ Страница проекта Xero ]( http://f1046282.xsph.ru/index2.html )
Преимущества Xero:
Одним из ключевых достоинств Xero является его высокая производительность. Новый протокол разработан с учётом современных графических технологий и оптимизирован для работы с многоядерными процессорами, что позволяет значительно улучшить скорость рендеринга. В результате, пользователи смогут наслаждаться более плавной и отзывчивой графикой.
Кроме того, Xero предлагает расширенные возможности для настройки. Новая система управления разрешениями и доступом предоставляет разработчикам гибкость в управлении графическими ресурсами, что иногда является проблемой в Wayland. Это позволяет создавать более сложные и динамичные интерфейсы.
Также стоит отметить, что Xero обеспечивает лучшую интеграцию с современными видеокартами и графическими API, такими как Vulkan и OpenGL. Это делает его предпочтительным выбором для разработчиков игр и приложений, желающих использовать последние достижения в области графики.
•
Совместимость с Legacy-приложениями: Благодаря встроенной подсистеме XLegacyBridge, Xero обеспечивает высокий уровень совместимости с устаревшими приложениями, которые до сих пор используют X11, что делает переход на новую систему более плавным.
•
Работа с графикой: Подсистема XRenderBoost в Xero предлагает значительно улучшенное качество рендеринга за счет поддержки аппаратного ускорения и расширенной работы с OpenGL. Это позволяет разработчикам создавать более эффективные и визуально привлекательные приложения.
•
API для управления окнами: Новый API XeroWindowAPI упрощает управление окнами, предоставляя разработчикам возможность легко добавлять, скрывать и перемещать окна, а также использовать события, связанные с взаимодействием пользователя.
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API для реализации круглых окон XeroRaundWin преобразует любое окно в круглое или овальное, это будущая снова дня нового типа окон в Gnome45, так как в этой версии предполагается отказ от устаревших окон прямоугольной формы.
•
Безопасность и изолированность приложений: Xero внедряет концепцию изолированного выполнения через подсистему AppSandbox, что обеспечивает надежную защиту пользовательских данных и минимизирует риски, связанные с вредоносными программами.
•
Поддержка сетевых протоколов: Новая подсистема XNetProtocol обеспечивает стабильную работу приложений в сетевых средах, позволяя использовать удаленное отображение графики без потери производительности.
Недостатки Wayland:
Хотя Wayland стал стандартом для многих дистрибутивов, он всё ещё имеет ряд недостатков. Например, ограниченная поддержка устаревших приложений и систем может стать проблемой для пользователей, использующих более старые программные решения. Кроме того, иногда возникают сложности с совместимостью — некоторые программы могут работать нестабильно из-за особенностей реализации протокола.
Xero, в свою очередь, стремится решить эти проблемы, предлагая лучший уровень совместимости и поддержку более широкого спектра приложений. Это делает новую реализацию привлекательной для аудитории, которая хочет использовать как старые, так и новые технологии без ограничений.
Выпуск X12 и Xero знаменует собой существенно новый этап в развитии графических систем для Linux. Поскольку пользователи всё больше ожидают от своих систем высокой производительности и гибкости, такое появление конкурента Wayland может изменить правила игры на рынке. Теперь разработчикам и пользователям остаётся только подождать и посмотреть, как новая система будет себя проявлять в реальных условиях.
>>> [ Xero API Documentation ]( https://xero-project.org.example.com/documentation )
>>> [ Xero Git Repository ]( https://github.com.example.com/xero12-project )
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17929753
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Разработчики Gnome удалят из С++ лишние фичи
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Как всем известно, язык программирования С++, пожалуй, самый большой по объему из ЯП. Даже программисты, которые пишут на нем десятки лет не могут похвастаться, что знают его полностью. В связи с чем комитет по стандартизации С++ принял нелегкое решение: чтобы язык оставался конкурентоспособным перед напирающими новыми ЯП, например rust, нужно удалить из него все легаси фичи, написаные непонятно какими гоблинами в мохнатые восьмидесятые. В этом помогут хорошо известные на этом форуме разработчики Gnome, которые в свое время удалили все лишние фичи из своей DE, тем самым сделав ее вне конкуренции. Они будут удалять все фичи, пока не удалят все «плюсы» и не дойдут до С, из которого и вылез C++, но на этом не остановятся, оставят от языка только минимальный C--. В частности:
• шаблоны удалят и заменят их опциональной динамической типизацией (просадка производительности будет не существенна для современных компьютеров)
• исключения будут заменены кодами ошибки в гошном стиле if err != nil
• будет удалена необходимость в системах сборки, вместо этого будет ПМ в стиле composer для PHP
• множественное наследование будет удалено вместе с свободными функциями, теперь все будет объектом, и все объекты будут наследоваться от базового класса Object
• удалить undefined behavior полностью нельзя из-за стокгольмского синдрома у разработчиков, поэтому все UB будут автоматом оборачиваться в юнит тест, выполняемый 10 раз, и программисту будет сообщатся, какой именно behavior выбрал компилятор в большинстве случаев
Основатель языка Бьярн Страус-труп уже высказался скептически о изменениях, аргументируя это тем, что разработчики Gnome не пользуются ни C++, ни Gnome.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17929941
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Как всем известно, язык программирования С++, пожалуй, самый большой по объему из ЯП. Даже программисты, которые пишут на нем десятки лет не могут похвастаться, что знают его полностью. В связи с чем комитет по стандартизации С++ принял нелегкое решение: чтобы язык оставался конкурентоспособным перед напирающими новыми ЯП, например rust, нужно удалить из него все легаси фичи, написаные непонятно какими гоблинами в мохнатые восьмидесятые. В этом помогут хорошо известные на этом форуме разработчики Gnome, которые в свое время удалили все лишние фичи из своей DE, тем самым сделав ее вне конкуренции. Они будут удалять все фичи, пока не удалят все «плюсы» и не дойдут до С, из которого и вылез C++, но на этом не остановятся, оставят от языка только минимальный C--. В частности:
• шаблоны удалят и заменят их опциональной динамической типизацией (просадка производительности будет не существенна для современных компьютеров)
• исключения будут заменены кодами ошибки в гошном стиле if err != nil
• будет удалена необходимость в системах сборки, вместо этого будет ПМ в стиле composer для PHP
• множественное наследование будет удалено вместе с свободными функциями, теперь все будет объектом, и все объекты будут наследоваться от базового класса Object
• удалить undefined behavior полностью нельзя из-за стокгольмского синдрома у разработчиков, поэтому все UB будут автоматом оборачиваться в юнит тест, выполняемый 10 раз, и программисту будет сообщатся, какой именно behavior выбрал компилятор в большинстве случаев
Основатель языка Бьярн Страус-труп уже высказался скептически о изменениях, аргументируя это тем, что разработчики Gnome не пользуются ни C++, ни Gnome.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17929941
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Xiaomi EV Involved in First Fatal Autopilot Crash
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2025-04-01 17:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: China's Xiaomi said on Tuesday that it was actively cooperating with police after a fatal accident involving a SU7 electric vehicle on March 29 and that it had handed over driving and system data. The incident marks the first major accident involving the SU7 sedan, which Xiaomi launched in March last year and since December has outsold Tesla's Model 3 on a monthly basis. Xiaomi's shares, which had risen by 34.8% year to date, closed down 5.5% on Wednesday, underperforming a 0.2% gain in the Hang Seng Tech index. Xiaomi did not disclose the number of casualties but said initial information showed the car was in the Navigate on Autopilot intelligent-assisted driving mode before the accident and was moving at 116 kph (72 mph).
A driver inside the car took over and tried to slow it down but then collided with a cement pole at a speed of 97 kph, Xiaomi said. The accident in Tongling in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui killed the driver and two passengers, Chinese financial publication Caixin reported on Tuesday citing friends of the victims. In a rundown of the data submitted to local police posted on a Weibo account of the company, Xiaomi said NOA issued a risk warning of obstacles ahead and its subsequent immediate takeover only happened seconds before the collision. Local media reported that the car caught fire after the collision. Xiaomi did not mention the fire in the statement. The report notes that the car was a "so-called standard version of the SU7, which has the less-advanced smart driving technology without LiDAR."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/01/1129255/xiaomi-ev-involved-in-first-fatal-autopilot-crash?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: China's Xiaomi said on Tuesday that it was actively cooperating with police after a fatal accident involving a SU7 electric vehicle on March 29 and that it had handed over driving and system data. The incident marks the first major accident involving the SU7 sedan, which Xiaomi launched in March last year and since December has outsold Tesla's Model 3 on a monthly basis. Xiaomi's shares, which had risen by 34.8% year to date, closed down 5.5% on Wednesday, underperforming a 0.2% gain in the Hang Seng Tech index. Xiaomi did not disclose the number of casualties but said initial information showed the car was in the Navigate on Autopilot intelligent-assisted driving mode before the accident and was moving at 116 kph (72 mph).
A driver inside the car took over and tried to slow it down but then collided with a cement pole at a speed of 97 kph, Xiaomi said. The accident in Tongling in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui killed the driver and two passengers, Chinese financial publication Caixin reported on Tuesday citing friends of the victims. In a rundown of the data submitted to local police posted on a Weibo account of the company, Xiaomi said NOA issued a risk warning of obstacles ahead and its subsequent immediate takeover only happened seconds before the collision. Local media reported that the car caught fire after the collision. Xiaomi did not mention the fire in the statement. The report notes that the car was a "so-called standard version of the SU7, which has the less-advanced smart driving technology without LiDAR."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/01/1129255/xiaomi-ev-involved-in-first-fatal-autopilot-crash?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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FreeCAD приступает к сбору телеметрии
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Проект FreeCAD [ анонсировал ]( https://blog.freecad.org/2025/03/30/freecad-telemetry-addon-is-now-available/ ) сбор телеметрии в приложении. Данные помогут разработчикам составить объективную картину об использовании FreeCAD — без эмоций, которыми переполнены трекер ошибок и пользовательский форум.
Какие данные собираются:
• Системная информация (ОС, архитектура).
• Пользовательские предпочтения (тема, конфигурация интерфейса).
• Список установленных аддонов и макросов от сторонних разработчиков.
• Крэш-логи.
• Ошибки, которые пользователь совершает при использовании программы, такие как избыточное использование ограничителей.
• Содержание чертежей и моделей.
Чтобы не нарушать GDPR и различные законы о защите персональных данных, пользователям будет назначаться рандомный UUID.
Сбор телеметрии выключен по умолчанию. Функция уже доступна в свежих еженедельных сборках и будет одним из главных новшеств последующего мажорного релиза (1.2).
В качестве встречного сервиса, аддон анализирует открытые в приложении модели, сравнивает их с базами данных зарегистрированных патентов и при отсутствии совпадений автоматически формирует заявку на патент. При успешной регистрации патента проект будет получать процент от патентных отчислений. Это позволит разработчикам FreeCAD наконец-то купить собственную кофе-машину для стенда FOSDEM.
Кроме того, тестируется [ ИИ-аддон ]( https://github.com/FreeCAD/FPA-grant-proposals/issues/12 ) , который на основании данных телеметрии будет говорить пользователям Sketcher «да не так, неуч, вот, смотри, как надо» и исправлять чертежи. Аддон был изначально разработан для обучения студентов-инженеров, но отраслевая практика показала жизненную необходимость существенно расширить его применение.
Запланирован аналогичный аддон для верстака сборки, который будет определять ошибки в сборке, красочно и в шокирующих подробностях анимировать сопутствующие механические повреждения конструкции при помощи библиотеки [ Bullet ]( https://pybullet.org/wordpress/ ) , а затем автоматически расставлять ограничения для соединений Revolute, Cylindrical и Slider.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17929964
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Проект FreeCAD [ анонсировал ]( https://blog.freecad.org/2025/03/30/freecad-telemetry-addon-is-now-available/ ) сбор телеметрии в приложении. Данные помогут разработчикам составить объективную картину об использовании FreeCAD — без эмоций, которыми переполнены трекер ошибок и пользовательский форум.
Какие данные собираются:
• Системная информация (ОС, архитектура).
• Пользовательские предпочтения (тема, конфигурация интерфейса).
• Список установленных аддонов и макросов от сторонних разработчиков.
• Крэш-логи.
• Ошибки, которые пользователь совершает при использовании программы, такие как избыточное использование ограничителей.
• Содержание чертежей и моделей.
Чтобы не нарушать GDPR и различные законы о защите персональных данных, пользователям будет назначаться рандомный UUID.
Сбор телеметрии выключен по умолчанию. Функция уже доступна в свежих еженедельных сборках и будет одним из главных новшеств последующего мажорного релиза (1.2).
В качестве встречного сервиса, аддон анализирует открытые в приложении модели, сравнивает их с базами данных зарегистрированных патентов и при отсутствии совпадений автоматически формирует заявку на патент. При успешной регистрации патента проект будет получать процент от патентных отчислений. Это позволит разработчикам FreeCAD наконец-то купить собственную кофе-машину для стенда FOSDEM.
Кроме того, тестируется [ ИИ-аддон ]( https://github.com/FreeCAD/FPA-grant-proposals/issues/12 ) , который на основании данных телеметрии будет говорить пользователям Sketcher «да не так, неуч, вот, смотри, как надо» и исправлять чертежи. Аддон был изначально разработан для обучения студентов-инженеров, но отраслевая практика показала жизненную необходимость существенно расширить его применение.
Запланирован аналогичный аддон для верстака сборки, который будет определять ошибки в сборке, красочно и в шокирующих подробностях анимировать сопутствующие механические повреждения конструкции при помощи библиотеки [ Bullet ]( https://pybullet.org/wordpress/ ) , а затем автоматически расставлять ограничения для соединений Revolute, Cylindrical и Slider.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/17929964
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Average Person Will Be 40% Poorer If World Warms By 4C, New Research Shows
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2025-04-01 18:22:01
Economic models have systematically underestimated how global heating will affect people's wealth, according to a new study that finds 4C warming will make the average person 40% poorer -- an almost four-fold increase on some estimates. The Guardian: The study by Australian scientists suggests average per person GDP across the globe will be reduced by 16% even if warming is kept to 2C above pre-industrial levels. This is a much greater reduction than previous estimates, which found the reduction would be 1.4%.
Scientists now estimate global temperatures will rise by 2.1C even if countries hit short-term and long-term climate targets. Criticisms have mounted in recent years that a set of economic tools known as integrated assessment models (IAM) -- used to guide how much governments should invest in cutting greenhouse gas emissions -- have failed to capture major risks from climate change, particularly extreme weather events. The new study, in the journal Environmental Research Letters, took one of the most popular economic models and enhanced it with climate change forecasts to capture the impacts of extreme weather events across global supply chains.
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Economic models have systematically underestimated how global heating will affect people's wealth, according to a new study that finds 4C warming will make the average person 40% poorer -- an almost four-fold increase on some estimates. The Guardian: The study by Australian scientists suggests average per person GDP across the globe will be reduced by 16% even if warming is kept to 2C above pre-industrial levels. This is a much greater reduction than previous estimates, which found the reduction would be 1.4%.
Scientists now estimate global temperatures will rise by 2.1C even if countries hit short-term and long-term climate targets. Criticisms have mounted in recent years that a set of economic tools known as integrated assessment models (IAM) -- used to guide how much governments should invest in cutting greenhouse gas emissions -- have failed to capture major risks from climate change, particularly extreme weather events. The new study, in the journal Environmental Research Letters, took one of the most popular economic models and enhanced it with climate change forecasts to capture the impacts of extreme weather events across global supply chains.
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Gmail is Making It Easier For Businesses To Send Encrypted Emails To Anyone
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2025-04-01 19:22:01
Google is rolling out a new encryption model for Gmail that allows enterprise users to send encrypted messages without requiring recipients to use custom software or exchange encryption certificates. The feature, launching in beta today, initially supports encrypted emails within the same organization, with plans to expand to all Gmail inboxes "in the coming weeks" and third-party email providers "later this year."
Unlike Gmail's current S/MIME-based encryption, the new system lets users simply toggle "additional encryption" in the email draft window. Non-Gmail recipients will receive a link to access messages through a guest Google Workspace account, while Gmail users will see automatically decrypted emails in their inbox.
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Google is rolling out a new encryption model for Gmail that allows enterprise users to send encrypted messages without requiring recipients to use custom software or exchange encryption certificates. The feature, launching in beta today, initially supports encrypted emails within the same organization, with plans to expand to all Gmail inboxes "in the coming weeks" and third-party email providers "later this year."
Unlike Gmail's current S/MIME-based encryption, the new system lets users simply toggle "additional encryption" in the email draft window. Non-Gmail recipients will receive a link to access messages through a guest Google Workspace account, while Gmail users will see automatically decrypted emails in their inbox.
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London Mayor Axes Cyber Crime Victim Support Line
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2025-04-01 20:22:01
London's mayor has axed a cyber crime helpline for the victims of online abuse, triggering a backlash from campaigners who argue that women and girls will be left struggling to access vital support. From a report: The service, which was shut down on Tuesday, assisted victims of fraud, revenge porn and cyberstalking to protect their digital identity. During its 18-months of operation it led to 2,060 cases being opened. The helpline was launched in 2023 as a one-year pilot scheme with $220,000 in funding from the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (Mopac), and was later extended by six months.
Conservative London Assembly member Emma Best said an informal evaluation showed the helpline "was working" and was going to be extended for another year. However, Sadiq Khan said that the scheme would be closed. "It was a pilot and pilots are what they say on the tinâ... we will receive an end of project report, we have collected the data and the results of that report will inform our future work," he said, speaking at Mayor's Question Time.
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2025-04-01 20:22:01
London's mayor has axed a cyber crime helpline for the victims of online abuse, triggering a backlash from campaigners who argue that women and girls will be left struggling to access vital support. From a report: The service, which was shut down on Tuesday, assisted victims of fraud, revenge porn and cyberstalking to protect their digital identity. During its 18-months of operation it led to 2,060 cases being opened. The helpline was launched in 2023 as a one-year pilot scheme with $220,000 in funding from the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (Mopac), and was later extended by six months.
Conservative London Assembly member Emma Best said an informal evaluation showed the helpline "was working" and was going to be extended for another year. However, Sadiq Khan said that the scheme would be closed. "It was a pilot and pilots are what they say on the tinâ... we will receive an end of project report, we have collected the data and the results of that report will inform our future work," he said, speaking at Mayor's Question Time.
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Study Reveals Why Credit Card Interest Rates Remain Stubbornly High
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2025-04-01 20:22:01
Credit card interest rates, which averaged 23% in 2023, are significantly higher than any other major loan product primarily due to non-diversifiable default risk and banks' market power, according to research published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The comprehensive study, which analyzed 330 million monthly credit card accounts, found that while high default losses contribute to elevated rates, they explain only part of the picture. Even high-FICO borrowers pay spreads exceeding 7% above the federal funds rate. Researchers determined that credit card banks have substantial pricing power, achieved through exceptionally high operating expenses -- about 4-5% of dollar balances annually -- with marketing costs ten times higher than those at other banks.
"Credit card charge-off rates are highly correlated with default rates on banks' other loans as well as on corporate bonds," the researchers said, noting that default risk cannot be diversified away across lending markets, particularly during economic downturns. The study estimated that exposure to aggregate default risk carries a premium of 5.3% per year, which fully explains the relationship between return on assets and credit scores.
Credit cards are ubiquitous in American finance, with 74% of adults owning at least one card, and the payment method accounting for 70% of retail spending. According to the research, 60% of accounts carry balances month-to-month.
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2025-04-01 20:22:01
Credit card interest rates, which averaged 23% in 2023, are significantly higher than any other major loan product primarily due to non-diversifiable default risk and banks' market power, according to research published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The comprehensive study, which analyzed 330 million monthly credit card accounts, found that while high default losses contribute to elevated rates, they explain only part of the picture. Even high-FICO borrowers pay spreads exceeding 7% above the federal funds rate. Researchers determined that credit card banks have substantial pricing power, achieved through exceptionally high operating expenses -- about 4-5% of dollar balances annually -- with marketing costs ten times higher than those at other banks.
"Credit card charge-off rates are highly correlated with default rates on banks' other loans as well as on corporate bonds," the researchers said, noting that default risk cannot be diversified away across lending markets, particularly during economic downturns. The study estimated that exposure to aggregate default risk carries a premium of 5.3% per year, which fully explains the relationship between return on assets and credit scores.
Credit cards are ubiquitous in American finance, with 74% of adults owning at least one card, and the payment method accounting for 70% of retail spending. According to the research, 60% of accounts carry balances month-to-month.
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DeepMind is Holding Back Release of AI Research To Give Google an Edge
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2025-04-01 21:22:02
Google's AI arm DeepMind has been holding back the release of its world-renowned research, as it seeks to retain a competitive edge in the race to dominate the burgeoning AI industry. From a report: The group, led by Nobel Prize-winner Sir Demis Hassabis, has introduced a tougher vetting process and more bureaucracy that made it harder to publish studies about its work on AI, according to seven current and former research scientists at Google DeepMind. Three former researchers said the group was most reluctant to share papers that reveal innovations that could be exploited by competitors, or cast Google's own Gemini AI model in a negative light compared with others.
The changes represent a significant shift for DeepMind, which has long prided itself on its reputation for releasing groundbreaking papers and as a home for the best scientists building AI. Meanwhile, huge breakthroughs by Google researchers -- such as its 2017 "transformers" paper that provided the architecture behind large language models -- played a central role in creating today's boom in generative AI. Since then, DeepMind has become a central part of its parent company's drive to cash in on the cutting-edge technology, as investors expressed concern that the Big Tech group had ceded its early lead to the likes of ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
"I cannot imagine us putting out the transformer papers for general use now," said one current researcher. Among the changes in the company's publication policies is a six-month embargo before "strategic" papers related to generative AI are released. Researchers also often need to convince several staff members of the merits of publication, said two people with knowledge of the matter.
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Google's AI arm DeepMind has been holding back the release of its world-renowned research, as it seeks to retain a competitive edge in the race to dominate the burgeoning AI industry. From a report: The group, led by Nobel Prize-winner Sir Demis Hassabis, has introduced a tougher vetting process and more bureaucracy that made it harder to publish studies about its work on AI, according to seven current and former research scientists at Google DeepMind. Three former researchers said the group was most reluctant to share papers that reveal innovations that could be exploited by competitors, or cast Google's own Gemini AI model in a negative light compared with others.
The changes represent a significant shift for DeepMind, which has long prided itself on its reputation for releasing groundbreaking papers and as a home for the best scientists building AI. Meanwhile, huge breakthroughs by Google researchers -- such as its 2017 "transformers" paper that provided the architecture behind large language models -- played a central role in creating today's boom in generative AI. Since then, DeepMind has become a central part of its parent company's drive to cash in on the cutting-edge technology, as investors expressed concern that the Big Tech group had ceded its early lead to the likes of ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
"I cannot imagine us putting out the transformer papers for general use now," said one current researcher. Among the changes in the company's publication policies is a six-month embargo before "strategic" papers related to generative AI are released. Researchers also often need to convince several staff members of the merits of publication, said two people with knowledge of the matter.
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Релиз Firefox 137 с поддержкой группировки вкладок
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2025-04-01 21:44:03
Состоялся релиз web-браузера Firefox 137 и сформированы обновления прошлых веток с длительным сроком поддержки - 115.22.0 и 128.9.0. На стадию бета-тестирования переведена ветка Firefox 138, релиз которой намечен на 29 апреля.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62997
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Состоялся релиз web-браузера Firefox 137 и сформированы обновления прошлых веток с длительным сроком поддержки - 115.22.0 и 128.9.0. На стадию бета-тестирования переведена ветка Firefox 138, релиз которой намечен на 29 апреля.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62997
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Windows переходит на BSD-совместимое ядро
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2025-04-01 21:44:05
Как заявил глава Microsoft Сатья Наделла, в данный момент ведутся работы по адаптации userspace части популярной операционной системы Windows к новому собственному гибридному ядру, основанному на исходных кодах ядра ОС FreeBSD. Таким образом, Windows 12 является последней ОС от Microsoft, которая получит морально устаревшее ядро NT: последующие же релизы получат новое ядро, получившее кодовое название «Tomato».
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/proprietary/17929787#cut ) )
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Как заявил глава Microsoft Сатья Наделла, в данный момент ведутся работы по адаптации userspace части популярной операционной системы Windows к новому собственному гибридному ядру, основанному на исходных кодах ядра ОС FreeBSD. Таким образом, Windows 12 является последней ОС от Microsoft, которая получит морально устаревшее ядро NT: последующие же релизы получат новое ядро, получившее кодовое название «Tomato».
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/proprietary/17929787#cut ) )
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Larry Fink Says Bitcoin Could Replace the Dollar as the World's Reserve Currency Because of National Debt
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2025-04-01 23:22:01
With America's national debt sitting comfortably over the $36.2 trillion mark, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is warning the burden could one day be the reason the dollar is dethroned as the reserve currency of the world.
From a report: He argues that decentralized currencies like Bitcoin could replace the dollar as worldwide organizations lose faith in national currencies and seek an independent solution. Fink explained his theory in his 2025 letter to shareholders, writing: "The U.S. has benefited from the dollar serving as the world's reserve currency for decades. But that's not guaranteed to last forever.
"The national debt has grown at three times the pace of GDP since Times Square's debt clock started ticking in 1989. This year, interest payments will surpass $952 billion -- exceeding defense spending. By 2030, mandatory government spending and debt service will consume all federal revenue, creating a permanent deficit. If the U.S. doesn't get its debt under control, if deficits keep ballooning, America risks losing that position to digital assets like Bitcoin."
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With America's national debt sitting comfortably over the $36.2 trillion mark, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is warning the burden could one day be the reason the dollar is dethroned as the reserve currency of the world.
From a report: He argues that decentralized currencies like Bitcoin could replace the dollar as worldwide organizations lose faith in national currencies and seek an independent solution. Fink explained his theory in his 2025 letter to shareholders, writing: "The U.S. has benefited from the dollar serving as the world's reserve currency for decades. But that's not guaranteed to last forever.
"The national debt has grown at three times the pace of GDP since Times Square's debt clock started ticking in 1989. This year, interest payments will surpass $952 billion -- exceeding defense spending. By 2030, mandatory government spending and debt service will consume all federal revenue, creating a permanent deficit. If the U.S. doesn't get its debt under control, if deficits keep ballooning, America risks losing that position to digital assets like Bitcoin."
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MCP: the New 'USB-C For AI' That's Bringing Fierce Rivals Together
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2025-04-02 00:22:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic -- two competitors in the AI assistant market -- to get along? Despite a fundamental difference in direction that led Anthropic's founders to quit OpenAI in 2020 and later create the Claude AI assistant, a shared technical hurdle has now brought them together: How to easily connect their AI models to external data sources. The solution comes from Anthropic, which developed and released an open specification called Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024. MCP establishes a royalty-free protocol that allows AI models to connect with outside data sources and services without requiring unique integrations for each service.
"Think of MCP as a USB-C port for AI applications," wrote Anthropic in MCP's documentation. The analogy is imperfect, but it represents the idea that, similar to how USB-C unified various cables and ports (with admittedly a debatable level of success), MCP aims to standardize how AI models connect to the infoscape around them. So far, MCP has also garnered interest from multiple tech companies in a rare show of cross-platform collaboration. For example, Microsoft has integrated MCP into its Azure OpenAI service, and as we mentioned above, Anthropic competitor OpenAI is on board. Last week, OpenAI acknowledged MCP in its Agents API documentation, with vocal support from the boss upstairs. "People love MCP and we are excited to add support across our products," wrote OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on X last Wednesday.
MCP has also rapidly begun to gain community support in recent months. For example, just browsing this list of over 300 open source servers shared on GitHub reveals growing interest in standardizing AI-to-tool connections. The collection spans diverse domains, including database connectors like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and vector databases; development tools that integrate with Git repositories and code editors; file system access for various storage platforms; knowledge retrieval systems for documents and websites; and specialized tools for finance, health care, and creative applications. Other notable examples include servers that connect AI models to home automation systems, real-time weather data, e-commerce platforms, and music streaming services. Some implementations allow AI assistants to interact with gaming engines, 3D modeling software, and IoT devices.
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2025-04-02 00:22:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic -- two competitors in the AI assistant market -- to get along? Despite a fundamental difference in direction that led Anthropic's founders to quit OpenAI in 2020 and later create the Claude AI assistant, a shared technical hurdle has now brought them together: How to easily connect their AI models to external data sources. The solution comes from Anthropic, which developed and released an open specification called Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024. MCP establishes a royalty-free protocol that allows AI models to connect with outside data sources and services without requiring unique integrations for each service.
"Think of MCP as a USB-C port for AI applications," wrote Anthropic in MCP's documentation. The analogy is imperfect, but it represents the idea that, similar to how USB-C unified various cables and ports (with admittedly a debatable level of success), MCP aims to standardize how AI models connect to the infoscape around them. So far, MCP has also garnered interest from multiple tech companies in a rare show of cross-platform collaboration. For example, Microsoft has integrated MCP into its Azure OpenAI service, and as we mentioned above, Anthropic competitor OpenAI is on board. Last week, OpenAI acknowledged MCP in its Agents API documentation, with vocal support from the boss upstairs. "People love MCP and we are excited to add support across our products," wrote OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on X last Wednesday.
MCP has also rapidly begun to gain community support in recent months. For example, just browsing this list of over 300 open source servers shared on GitHub reveals growing interest in standardizing AI-to-tool connections. The collection spans diverse domains, including database connectors like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and vector databases; development tools that integrate with Git repositories and code editors; file system access for various storage platforms; knowledge retrieval systems for documents and websites; and specialized tools for finance, health care, and creative applications. Other notable examples include servers that connect AI models to home automation systems, real-time weather data, e-commerce platforms, and music streaming services. Some implementations allow AI assistants to interact with gaming engines, 3D modeling software, and IoT devices.
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Второй предварительный выпуск мессенджера Pidgin 3.0
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2025-04-02 00:44:02
Представлен второй экспериментальный выпуск клиента для мгновенного обмена сообщениями Pidgin 3.0 (2.91), позволяющего одновременно работать в нескольких сетях с разными протоколами и переключаться между чатами при помощи вкладок. Выпуск отмечен как имеющий уровень качества предварительной альфа-версии, не рассчитанной на повседневное применение. Сборки подготовлены в формате Flatpak (пока доступен только архив с кодом).
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62999
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2025-04-02 00:44:02
Представлен второй экспериментальный выпуск клиента для мгновенного обмена сообщениями Pidgin 3.0 (2.91), позволяющего одновременно работать в нескольких сетях с разными протоколами и переключаться между чатами при помощи вкладок. Выпуск отмечен как имеющий уровень качества предварительной альфа-версии, не рассчитанной на повседневное применение. Сборки подготовлены в формате Flatpak (пока доступен только архив с кодом).
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=62999
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Arkansas Social Media Age Verification Law Blocked By Federal Judge
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2025-04-02 01:22:01
A federal judge struck down Arkansas' Social Media Safety Act, ruling it unconstitutional for broadly restricting both adult and minor speech and imposing vague requirements on platforms. Engadget reports: In a ruling (PDF), Judge Timothy Brooks said that the law, known as Act 689 (PDF), was overly broad. "Act 689 is a content-based restriction on speech, and it is not targeted to address the harms the State has identified," Brooks wrote in his decision. "Arkansas takes a hatchet to adults' and minors' protected speech alike though the Constitution demands it use a scalpel." Brooks also highlighted the "unconstitutionally vague" applicability of the law, which seemingly created obligations for some online services, but may have exempted services which had the "predominant or exclusive function [of]... direct messaging" like Snapchat.
"The court confirms what we have been arguing from the start: laws restricting access to protected speech violate the First Amendment," NetChoice's Chris Marchese said in a statement. "This ruling protects Americans from having to hand over their IDs or biometric data just to access constitutionally protected speech online." It's not clear if state officials in Arkansas will appeal the ruling. "I respect the court's decision, and we are evaluating our options," Arkansas Attorney general Tim Griffin said in a statement.
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2025-04-02 01:22:01
A federal judge struck down Arkansas' Social Media Safety Act, ruling it unconstitutional for broadly restricting both adult and minor speech and imposing vague requirements on platforms. Engadget reports: In a ruling (PDF), Judge Timothy Brooks said that the law, known as Act 689 (PDF), was overly broad. "Act 689 is a content-based restriction on speech, and it is not targeted to address the harms the State has identified," Brooks wrote in his decision. "Arkansas takes a hatchet to adults' and minors' protected speech alike though the Constitution demands it use a scalpel." Brooks also highlighted the "unconstitutionally vague" applicability of the law, which seemingly created obligations for some online services, but may have exempted services which had the "predominant or exclusive function [of]... direct messaging" like Snapchat.
"The court confirms what we have been arguing from the start: laws restricting access to protected speech violate the First Amendment," NetChoice's Chris Marchese said in a statement. "This ruling protects Americans from having to hand over their IDs or biometric data just to access constitutionally protected speech online." It's not clear if state officials in Arkansas will appeal the ruling. "I respect the court's decision, and we are evaluating our options," Arkansas Attorney general Tim Griffin said in a statement.
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FTC Says 23andMe Purchaser Must Uphold Existing Privacy Policy For Data Handling
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2025-04-02 02:22:01
The FTC has warned that any buyer of 23andMe must honor the company's current privacy policy, which ensures consumers retain control over their genetic data and can delete it at will. FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson emphasized that such promises must be upheld, given the uniquely sensitive and immutable nature of genetic information. The Record reports: The letter, sent to the DOJ's United States Trustee Program, highlights several assurances 23andMe makes in its privacy policy, including that users are in control of their data and can determine how and for what purposes it is used. The company also gives users the ability to delete their data at will, the letter says, arguing that 23andMe has made "direct representations" to consumers about how it uses, shares and safeguards their personal information, including in the case of bankruptcy.
Pointing to statements that the company's leadership has made asserting that user data should be considered an asset, Ferguson highlighted that 23andMe's privacy statement tells users it does not share their data with insurers, employers, public databases or law enforcement without a court order, search warrant or subpoena. It also promises consumers that it only shares their personal data in cases where it is needed to provide services, Ferguson added. The genetic testing and ancestry company is explicit that its data protection guidelines apply to new entities it may be sold or transferred to, Ferguson said.
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2025-04-02 02:22:01
The FTC has warned that any buyer of 23andMe must honor the company's current privacy policy, which ensures consumers retain control over their genetic data and can delete it at will. FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson emphasized that such promises must be upheld, given the uniquely sensitive and immutable nature of genetic information. The Record reports: The letter, sent to the DOJ's United States Trustee Program, highlights several assurances 23andMe makes in its privacy policy, including that users are in control of their data and can determine how and for what purposes it is used. The company also gives users the ability to delete their data at will, the letter says, arguing that 23andMe has made "direct representations" to consumers about how it uses, shares and safeguards their personal information, including in the case of bankruptcy.
Pointing to statements that the company's leadership has made asserting that user data should be considered an asset, Ferguson highlighted that 23andMe's privacy statement tells users it does not share their data with insurers, employers, public databases or law enforcement without a court order, search warrant or subpoena. It also promises consumers that it only shares their personal data in cases where it is needed to provide services, Ferguson added. The genetic testing and ancestry company is explicit that its data protection guidelines apply to new entities it may be sold or transferred to, Ferguson said.
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Donkey Kong Champion Wins Defamation Case Against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst
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2025-04-02 02:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A professional YouTuber in Queensland has been ordered to pay $350,000 plus interest and costs to the former world record score holder for Donkey Kong, after the Brisbane district court found the YouTuber had defamed him "recklessly" with false claims of a link between a lawsuit and another YouTuber's suicide. William "Billy" Mitchell, an American gamer who had held world records in Donkey Kong and Pac-Man going back to 1982, as recognized by the Guinness World Records and the video game database Twin Galaxies, brought the case against Karl Jobst, seeking $400,000 in general damages and $50,000 in aggravated damages.
Jobst, who makes videos about "speed running" (finishing games as fast as possible), as well as gaming records and cheating in games, made a number of allegations against Mitchell in a 2021 YouTube video. He accused Mitchell of cheating, and "pursuing unmeritorious litigation" against others who had also accused him of cheating, the court judgment stated. The court heard Mitchell was accused in 2017 of cheating in his Donkey Kong world records by using emulation software instead of original arcade hardware. Twin Galaxies investigated the allegation, and subsequently removed Mitchell's scores and banned him from participating in its competitions. The Guinness World Records disqualified Mitchell as a holder of all his records -- in both Donkey Kong and Pac-Man -- after the Twin Galaxies decision. The judgment stated that Jobst's 2021 video also linked the December 2020 suicide of another YouTuber, Apollo Legend, to "stress arising from [his] settlement" with Mitchell, and wrongly asserted that Apollo Legend had to pay Mitchell "a large sum of money."
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2025-04-02 02:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A professional YouTuber in Queensland has been ordered to pay $350,000 plus interest and costs to the former world record score holder for Donkey Kong, after the Brisbane district court found the YouTuber had defamed him "recklessly" with false claims of a link between a lawsuit and another YouTuber's suicide. William "Billy" Mitchell, an American gamer who had held world records in Donkey Kong and Pac-Man going back to 1982, as recognized by the Guinness World Records and the video game database Twin Galaxies, brought the case against Karl Jobst, seeking $400,000 in general damages and $50,000 in aggravated damages.
Jobst, who makes videos about "speed running" (finishing games as fast as possible), as well as gaming records and cheating in games, made a number of allegations against Mitchell in a 2021 YouTube video. He accused Mitchell of cheating, and "pursuing unmeritorious litigation" against others who had also accused him of cheating, the court judgment stated. The court heard Mitchell was accused in 2017 of cheating in his Donkey Kong world records by using emulation software instead of original arcade hardware. Twin Galaxies investigated the allegation, and subsequently removed Mitchell's scores and banned him from participating in its competitions. The Guinness World Records disqualified Mitchell as a holder of all his records -- in both Donkey Kong and Pac-Man -- after the Twin Galaxies decision. The judgment stated that Jobst's 2021 video also linked the December 2020 suicide of another YouTuber, Apollo Legend, to "stress arising from [his] settlement" with Mitchell, and wrongly asserted that Apollo Legend had to pay Mitchell "a large sum of money."
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Mozilla To Launch 'Thunderbird Pro' Paid Services
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2025-04-02 03:22:01
Mozilla plans to introduce a suite of paid professional services for its open-source Thunderbird email client, transforming the application into a comprehensive communication platform. Dubbed "Thunderbird Pro," the package aims to compete with established ecosystems like Gmail and Office 365 while maintaining Mozilla's commitment to open-source software.
The Pro tier will include four core services: Thunderbird Appointment for streamlined scheduling, Thunderbird Send for file sharing (reviving the discontinued Firefox Send), Thunderbird Assist offering AI capabilities powered by Flower AI, and Thundermail, a revamped email client built on Stalwart's open-source stack.
Initially, Thunderbird Pro will be available free to "consistent community contributors," with paid access for other users.
Mozilla Managing Director Ryan Sipes indicated the company may consider limited free tiers once the service establishes a sustainable user base. This initiative follows Mozilla's 2023 announcement about "remaking" Thunderbird's architecture to modernize its aging codebase, addressing user losses to more feature-rich competitors.
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2025-04-02 03:22:01
Mozilla plans to introduce a suite of paid professional services for its open-source Thunderbird email client, transforming the application into a comprehensive communication platform. Dubbed "Thunderbird Pro," the package aims to compete with established ecosystems like Gmail and Office 365 while maintaining Mozilla's commitment to open-source software.
The Pro tier will include four core services: Thunderbird Appointment for streamlined scheduling, Thunderbird Send for file sharing (reviving the discontinued Firefox Send), Thunderbird Assist offering AI capabilities powered by Flower AI, and Thundermail, a revamped email client built on Stalwart's open-source stack.
Initially, Thunderbird Pro will be available free to "consistent community contributors," with paid access for other users.
Mozilla Managing Director Ryan Sipes indicated the company may consider limited free tiers once the service establishes a sustainable user base. This initiative follows Mozilla's 2023 announcement about "remaking" Thunderbird's architecture to modernize its aging codebase, addressing user losses to more feature-rich competitors.
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YouTube Could Be Worth $550 Billion as Analyst Crowns Platform 'New King of All Media'
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2025-04-02 04:22:01
MoffettNathanson has crowned YouTube the "New King of All Media" as the Alphabet-owned video platform has become a major force in Hollywood, dominating time spent watching TV. From a report: The firm estimates that YouTube as a standalone business could be worth as much as $550 billion -- or nearly 30% of the tech giant's current valuation. The figure is based on the firm's analysis of enterprise value as a multiple of revenue in 2024 for Netflix (10.5x revenue), Meta (8.8x), Roku (2.4x), Warner Bros. Discovery (1.4x), Fox (1.3x) and Disney (1.3x).
In 2024, YouTube was the second-largest media company by revenue at $54.2 billion, trailing behind only Disney. However, the MoffettNathanson analysts predict YouTube will take the top spot in 2025, becoming a leader in both engagement and revenue. "YouTube has the potential to become the central aggregator for all things professional video, positioning itself to capture a share of the $85 billion consumer Pay TV market and the ~$30 billion streaming ex. Netflix market in the U.S.," they wrote in a Monday research note. "On monetization, when comparing YouTube's massive TV screen engagement to its estimated TV revenue, it remains significantly under-monetized relative to its scaled reach and differentiated offering. This signals a substantial runway for improving its monetization strategy."
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MoffettNathanson has crowned YouTube the "New King of All Media" as the Alphabet-owned video platform has become a major force in Hollywood, dominating time spent watching TV. From a report: The firm estimates that YouTube as a standalone business could be worth as much as $550 billion -- or nearly 30% of the tech giant's current valuation. The figure is based on the firm's analysis of enterprise value as a multiple of revenue in 2024 for Netflix (10.5x revenue), Meta (8.8x), Roku (2.4x), Warner Bros. Discovery (1.4x), Fox (1.3x) and Disney (1.3x).
In 2024, YouTube was the second-largest media company by revenue at $54.2 billion, trailing behind only Disney. However, the MoffettNathanson analysts predict YouTube will take the top spot in 2025, becoming a leader in both engagement and revenue. "YouTube has the potential to become the central aggregator for all things professional video, positioning itself to capture a share of the $85 billion consumer Pay TV market and the ~$30 billion streaming ex. Netflix market in the U.S.," they wrote in a Monday research note. "On monetization, when comparing YouTube's massive TV screen engagement to its estimated TV revenue, it remains significantly under-monetized relative to its scaled reach and differentiated offering. This signals a substantial runway for improving its monetization strategy."
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Stablecoin Issuer Circle Files For IPO
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2025-04-02 04:22:01
Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has filed for an IPO aiming for a $5 billion valuation. It marks the company's second attempt at going public amid renewed momentum in the crypto sector and signs of recovery in tech IPO markets. CNBC reports: A prior merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) collapsed in late 2022 amid regulatory challenges. Since then, Circle has made strategic moves to position itself closer to the heart of global finance, including the announcement last year that it would relocate its headquarters from Boston to One World Trade Center in New York.
Circle reported $1.68 billion in revenue and reserve income in 2024, up from $1.45 billion in 2023 and $772 million in 2022. The company reported net income last year of about $156 million., down from $268 million a year earlier. A successful IPO would make Circle one of the most prominent pure-play crypto companies to list on a U.S. exchange. Coinbase went public through a direct listing in 2021 and has a market cap of about $44 billion.
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Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has filed for an IPO aiming for a $5 billion valuation. It marks the company's second attempt at going public amid renewed momentum in the crypto sector and signs of recovery in tech IPO markets. CNBC reports: A prior merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) collapsed in late 2022 amid regulatory challenges. Since then, Circle has made strategic moves to position itself closer to the heart of global finance, including the announcement last year that it would relocate its headquarters from Boston to One World Trade Center in New York.
Circle reported $1.68 billion in revenue and reserve income in 2024, up from $1.45 billion in 2023 and $772 million in 2022. The company reported net income last year of about $156 million., down from $268 million a year earlier. A successful IPO would make Circle one of the most prominent pure-play crypto companies to list on a U.S. exchange. Coinbase went public through a direct listing in 2021 and has a market cap of about $44 billion.
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Substack Says It'll Legally Defend Writers 'Targeted By the Government'
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2025-04-02 05:22:02
Substack has announced it will legally support foreign writers lawfully residing in the U.S. who face government targeting over their published work, partnering with the nonprofit FIRE to expand its existing Defender program. The Verge reports: In their announcement, Substack and FIRE mention the international Tufts University student who was arrested by federal agents last week. Her legal team links her arrest to an opinion piece she co-wrote for the school's newspaper last year, which criticized Tufts for failing to comply with requests to divest from companies with connections to Israel. "If true, this represents a chilling escalation in the government's effort to target critics of American foreign policy," Substack and FIRE write.
The initiative builds on Substack's Defender program, which already offers legal assistance for independent journalists and creators on the platform. The company says it has supported "dozens" of Substack writers facing claims of defamation and trademark infringement since it launched the program in the US in 2020. It has since brought Substack Defender to writers in Canada and the UK.
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Substack has announced it will legally support foreign writers lawfully residing in the U.S. who face government targeting over their published work, partnering with the nonprofit FIRE to expand its existing Defender program. The Verge reports: In their announcement, Substack and FIRE mention the international Tufts University student who was arrested by federal agents last week. Her legal team links her arrest to an opinion piece she co-wrote for the school's newspaper last year, which criticized Tufts for failing to comply with requests to divest from companies with connections to Israel. "If true, this represents a chilling escalation in the government's effort to target critics of American foreign policy," Substack and FIRE write.
The initiative builds on Substack's Defender program, which already offers legal assistance for independent journalists and creators on the platform. The company says it has supported "dozens" of Substack writers facing claims of defamation and trademark infringement since it launched the program in the US in 2020. It has since brought Substack Defender to writers in Canada and the UK.
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Nuclear Is Now 'Clean Energy' In Colorado
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2025-04-02 06:22:01
With the signing of HB25-1040 on Monday, Colorado now defines nuclear as a "clean energy resource" since it doesn't release large amounts of climate-warming emissions. "The category was previously reserved for renewables like wind, solar and geothermal, which don't carry the radioactive stigma that's hobbled fission power plants following disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima," notes Colorado Public Radio. From the report: In an emailed statement, Ally Sullivan, a spokesperson for the governor's office, said the law doesn't advance any specific nuclear energy project, and no utility has proposed building a nuclear power plant in Colorado. It does, however, allow nuclear energy to potentially serve as one piece of the state's plan to tackle climate change. "If nuclear energy becomes sufficiently cost-competitive, it could potentially become part of Colorado's clean energy future. However, it must be conducted safely, without harming communities, depleting other natural resources or replacing other clean energy sources," Sullivan said.
By redefining nuclear energy as "clean," the law would let future fission-based power plants obtain local grants previously reserved for other carbon-free energy sources, and it would allow those projects to contribute to Colorado's renewable energy goals. It also aligns state law with a push to reshape public opinion of nuclear energy. Nuclear energy proponents promise new reactor designs are smaller and safer than hulking power plants built in the 20th century. By embracing those systems, bill supporters claimed Colorado could meet rising energy demand without abandoning its ambitious climate goals.
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With the signing of HB25-1040 on Monday, Colorado now defines nuclear as a "clean energy resource" since it doesn't release large amounts of climate-warming emissions. "The category was previously reserved for renewables like wind, solar and geothermal, which don't carry the radioactive stigma that's hobbled fission power plants following disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima," notes Colorado Public Radio. From the report: In an emailed statement, Ally Sullivan, a spokesperson for the governor's office, said the law doesn't advance any specific nuclear energy project, and no utility has proposed building a nuclear power plant in Colorado. It does, however, allow nuclear energy to potentially serve as one piece of the state's plan to tackle climate change. "If nuclear energy becomes sufficiently cost-competitive, it could potentially become part of Colorado's clean energy future. However, it must be conducted safely, without harming communities, depleting other natural resources or replacing other clean energy sources," Sullivan said.
By redefining nuclear energy as "clean," the law would let future fission-based power plants obtain local grants previously reserved for other carbon-free energy sources, and it would allow those projects to contribute to Colorado's renewable energy goals. It also aligns state law with a push to reshape public opinion of nuclear energy. Nuclear energy proponents promise new reactor designs are smaller and safer than hulking power plants built in the 20th century. By embracing those systems, bill supporters claimed Colorado could meet rising energy demand without abandoning its ambitious climate goals.
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Firefox 137
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2025-04-02 07:44:07
[ Доступен ]( https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/137.0/ ) Firefox 137, в котором включено аппаратное ускорение HEVC, реализована группировка вкладок и множество улучшений адресной строки.
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/mozilla/17930459#cut0 ) )
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[ Доступен ]( https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/137.0/ ) Firefox 137, в котором включено аппаратное ускорение HEVC, реализована группировка вкладок и множество улучшений адресной строки.
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Cheap TVs' Incessant Advertising Reaches Troubling New Lows
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2025-04-02 08:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes an op-ed from Ars Technica's Scharon Harding: TVs offer us an escape from the real world. After a long day, sometimes there's nothing more relaxing than turning on your TV, tuning into your favorite program, and unplugging from the realities around you. But what happens when divisive, potentially offensive messaging infiltrates that escape? Even with streaming services making it easy to watch TV commercial-free, it can still be difficult for TV viewers to avoid ads with these sorts of messages. That's especially the case with budget brands, which may even force controversial ads onto TVs when they're idle, making users pay for low-priced TVs in unexpected, and sometimes troubling, ways. [...]
Buying a budget TV means accepting some trade-offs. Those trade-offs have historically been around things like image quality and feature sets. But companies like Vizio are also asking customers to accept questionable advertising decisions as they look to create new paths to ad revenue. Numerous factors are pushing TV OS operators deeper into advertising. Brands are struggling to grow profits as people buy new TVs less frequently. As the TV market gets more competitive, hardware is also selling for cheaper, with some companies selling TVs at a loss with hopes of making up for it with ad sales. There's concern that these market realities could detract from real TV innovation. And as the Secretary Noem ad reportedly shown to Vizio TV owners has highlighted, another concern is the lack of care around which ads are being shown to TV owners -- especially when all they want is simple "ambient background" noise.
Today, people can disable ambient mode settings that show ads. But with some TV brands showing poor judgment around where they sell and place ads, we wouldn't bank on companies maintaining these boundaries forever. If the industry can't find a way to balance corporate needs with appropriate advertising, people might turn off not only their TVs more often, but also unplug from those brands completely. Some of the worst offenders highlighted in the article include Vizio TVs' "Scenic Mode," which activates when the TV is idle and displays "relaxing, ambient content" accompanied by ads. Roku City takes a similar approach with its animated cityscape screensaver, saturated with brand logos and advertisements. Even Amazon Fire TV and premium brands like LG have adopted screensaver ads, showing that this intrusive trend isn't limited to budget models.
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An anonymous reader quotes an op-ed from Ars Technica's Scharon Harding: TVs offer us an escape from the real world. After a long day, sometimes there's nothing more relaxing than turning on your TV, tuning into your favorite program, and unplugging from the realities around you. But what happens when divisive, potentially offensive messaging infiltrates that escape? Even with streaming services making it easy to watch TV commercial-free, it can still be difficult for TV viewers to avoid ads with these sorts of messages. That's especially the case with budget brands, which may even force controversial ads onto TVs when they're idle, making users pay for low-priced TVs in unexpected, and sometimes troubling, ways. [...]
Buying a budget TV means accepting some trade-offs. Those trade-offs have historically been around things like image quality and feature sets. But companies like Vizio are also asking customers to accept questionable advertising decisions as they look to create new paths to ad revenue. Numerous factors are pushing TV OS operators deeper into advertising. Brands are struggling to grow profits as people buy new TVs less frequently. As the TV market gets more competitive, hardware is also selling for cheaper, with some companies selling TVs at a loss with hopes of making up for it with ad sales. There's concern that these market realities could detract from real TV innovation. And as the Secretary Noem ad reportedly shown to Vizio TV owners has highlighted, another concern is the lack of care around which ads are being shown to TV owners -- especially when all they want is simple "ambient background" noise.
Today, people can disable ambient mode settings that show ads. But with some TV brands showing poor judgment around where they sell and place ads, we wouldn't bank on companies maintaining these boundaries forever. If the industry can't find a way to balance corporate needs with appropriate advertising, people might turn off not only their TVs more often, but also unplug from those brands completely. Some of the worst offenders highlighted in the article include Vizio TVs' "Scenic Mode," which activates when the TV is idle and displays "relaxing, ambient content" accompanied by ads. Roku City takes a similar approach with its animated cityscape screensaver, saturated with brand logos and advertisements. Even Amazon Fire TV and premium brands like LG have adopted screensaver ads, showing that this intrusive trend isn't limited to budget models.
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Tailscale теперь поддерживает Plan 9
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2025-04-02 08:44:05
Tailscale — [ основанное на WireGuard ]( https://tailscale.com/kb/1035/wireguard ) решение для построения mesh-сетей. Plan 9 позволяет это умножить на приватные пространства имён, используемые для построения распределённых систем. Теперь пользователь может не просто прозрачно работать с множеством систем как с одной, но и подключать их как если бы они находились в одной сети.
Интеграция Tailscale и Plan 9 открывает новые возможности для пользователей Plan 9:
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/clusters/17930415#cut ) )
Пообщаться с разработчиками можно будет в среду в [ 19:00 по Москве ]( https://everytimezone.com/s/1c736089?t=67ec7e00,960 ) : [ https://ftp.plan9.ts.net/webinar ]( https://ftp.plan9.ts.net/webinar )
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2025-04-02 08:44:05
Tailscale — [ основанное на WireGuard ]( https://tailscale.com/kb/1035/wireguard ) решение для построения mesh-сетей. Plan 9 позволяет это умножить на приватные пространства имён, используемые для построения распределённых систем. Теперь пользователь может не просто прозрачно работать с множеством систем как с одной, но и подключать их как если бы они находились в одной сети.
Интеграция Tailscale и Plan 9 открывает новые возможности для пользователей Plan 9:
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/clusters/17930415#cut ) )
Пообщаться с разработчиками можно будет в среду в [ 19:00 по Москве ]( https://everytimezone.com/s/1c736089?t=67ec7e00,960 ) : [ https://ftp.plan9.ts.net/webinar ]( https://ftp.plan9.ts.net/webinar )
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OpenAI Accused of Training GPT-4o on Unlicensed O'Reilly Books
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2025-04-02 09:22:01
A new paper [PDF] from the AI Disclosures Project claims OpenAI likely trained its GPT-4o model on paywalled O'Reilly Media books without a licensing agreement. The nonprofit organization, co-founded by O'Reilly Media CEO Tim O'Reilly himself, used a method called DE-COP to detect copyrighted content in language model training data.
Researchers analyzed 13,962 paragraph excerpts from 34 O'Reilly books, finding that GPT-4o "recognized" significantly more paywalled content than older models like GPT-3.5 Turbo. The technique, also known as a "membership inference attack," tests whether a model can reliably distinguish human-authored texts from paraphrased versions.
"GPT-4o [likely] recognizes, and so has prior knowledge of, many non-public O'Reilly books published prior to its training cutoff date," wrote the co-authors, which include O'Reilly, economist Ilan Strauss, and AI researcher Sruly Rosenblat.
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A new paper [PDF] from the AI Disclosures Project claims OpenAI likely trained its GPT-4o model on paywalled O'Reilly Media books without a licensing agreement. The nonprofit organization, co-founded by O'Reilly Media CEO Tim O'Reilly himself, used a method called DE-COP to detect copyrighted content in language model training data.
Researchers analyzed 13,962 paragraph excerpts from 34 O'Reilly books, finding that GPT-4o "recognized" significantly more paywalled content than older models like GPT-3.5 Turbo. The technique, also known as a "membership inference attack," tests whether a model can reliably distinguish human-authored texts from paraphrased versions.
"GPT-4o [likely] recognizes, and so has prior knowledge of, many non-public O'Reilly books published prior to its training cutoff date," wrote the co-authors, which include O'Reilly, economist Ilan Strauss, and AI researcher Sruly Rosenblat.
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Выпуск дистрибутива GoboLinux 017.01 с собственной иерархией файловой системы
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2025-04-02 09:44:04
Представлен релиз дистрибутива GoboLinux 017.01, в котором вместо традиционной для Unix-систем иерархии файлов используется стековая организация дерева каталогов, при которой каждая программа устанавливается в отдельный каталог. Размер установочного образа с поддержкой загрузки в Live-режиме - 2.3 ГБ (x86_64).
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63000
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Представлен релиз дистрибутива GoboLinux 017.01, в котором вместо традиционной для Unix-систем иерархии файлов используется стековая организация дерева каталогов, при которой каждая программа устанавливается в отдельный каталог. Размер установочного образа с поддержкой загрузки в Live-режиме - 2.3 ГБ (x86_64).
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63000
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Ngrok заблокировал Россию
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2025-04-02 09:44:05
Популярный сервис для обхода NAT провайдера и проброса портов на подключениях с серым IP больше не работает с российскими IP. При попытке воспользоваться сервисом появляется ошибка:
ERROR: authentication failed: We do not allow agents to connect to ngrok from your IP address (89.222.217.50).
ERROR:
ERROR: ERR_NGROK_9040
ERROR: https://ngrok.com/docs/errors/err_ngrok_9040
ERROR:
Текст ошибки посылает прямиком на официальный сайт, который блокирует запросы с российских IP адресов, даже не показывая страницу с ошибкой. Подключившись с IP-адреса другой страны, удалось получить такое сообщение:
Как компании, базирующейся в Соединенных Штатах Америки, нам больше не разрешается вести бизнес с организациями, против которых правительство Соединенных Штатов ввело санкции.
Теперь пользователям с серым IP придётся искать другие способы открыть порты, либо арендовать внешний IP у провайдера, либо проксировать соединения через VPS.
P.S.: К сожалению, это не первоапрельская шутка.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/internet/17930261
lor.opennet
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2025-04-02 09:44:05
Популярный сервис для обхода NAT провайдера и проброса портов на подключениях с серым IP больше не работает с российскими IP. При попытке воспользоваться сервисом появляется ошибка:
ERROR: authentication failed: We do not allow agents to connect to ngrok from your IP address (89.222.217.50).
ERROR:
ERROR: ERR_NGROK_9040
ERROR: https://ngrok.com/docs/errors/err_ngrok_9040
ERROR:
Текст ошибки посылает прямиком на официальный сайт, который блокирует запросы с российских IP адресов, даже не показывая страницу с ошибкой. Подключившись с IP-адреса другой страны, удалось получить такое сообщение:
Как компании, базирующейся в Соединенных Штатах Америки, нам больше не разрешается вести бизнес с организациями, против которых правительство Соединенных Штатов ввело санкции.
Теперь пользователям с серым IP придётся искать другие способы открыть порты, либо арендовать внешний IP у провайдера, либо проксировать соединения через VPS.
P.S.: К сожалению, это не первоапрельская шутка.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/internet/17930261
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Why Watts Should Replace mAh as Essential Spec for Mobile Devices
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2025-04-02 11:22:01
Tech manufacturers continue misleading consumers with impressive-sounding but less useful specs like milliamp-hours and megahertz, while hiding the one measurement that matters most: watts. The Verge argues that the watt provides the clearest picture of a device's true capabilities by showing how much power courses through chips and how quickly batteries drain. With elementary math, consumers could easily calculate battery life by dividing watt-hours by power consumption. The Verge: The Steam Deck gaming handheld is my go-to example of how handy watts can be. With a 15-watt maximum processor wattage and up to 9 watts of overhead for other components, a strenuous game drains its 49Wh battery in roughly two hours flat. My eight-year-old can do that math: 15 plus 9 is 24, and 24 times 2 is 48. You can fit two hour-long 24-watt sessions into 48Wh, and because you have 49Wh, you're almost sure to get it.
With the least strenuous games, I'll sometimes see my Steam Deck draining the battery at a speed of just 6 watts -- which means I can get eight hours of gameplay because 6 watts times 8 hours is 48Wh, with 1Wh remaining in the 49Wh battery. Unlike megahertz, wattage also indicates sustained performance capability, revealing whether a processor can maintain high speeds or will throttle due to thermal constraints. Watts is also already familiar to consumers through light bulbs and power bills, but manufacturers persist with less transparent metrics that make direct comparisons difficult.
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Tech manufacturers continue misleading consumers with impressive-sounding but less useful specs like milliamp-hours and megahertz, while hiding the one measurement that matters most: watts. The Verge argues that the watt provides the clearest picture of a device's true capabilities by showing how much power courses through chips and how quickly batteries drain. With elementary math, consumers could easily calculate battery life by dividing watt-hours by power consumption. The Verge: The Steam Deck gaming handheld is my go-to example of how handy watts can be. With a 15-watt maximum processor wattage and up to 9 watts of overhead for other components, a strenuous game drains its 49Wh battery in roughly two hours flat. My eight-year-old can do that math: 15 plus 9 is 24, and 24 times 2 is 48. You can fit two hour-long 24-watt sessions into 48Wh, and because you have 49Wh, you're almost sure to get it.
With the least strenuous games, I'll sometimes see my Steam Deck draining the battery at a speed of just 6 watts -- which means I can get eight hours of gameplay because 6 watts times 8 hours is 48Wh, with 1Wh remaining in the 49Wh battery. Unlike megahertz, wattage also indicates sustained performance capability, revealing whether a processor can maintain high speeds or will throttle due to thermal constraints. Watts is also already familiar to consumers through light bulbs and power bills, but manufacturers persist with less transparent metrics that make direct comparisons difficult.
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Релиз Rockbox 4.0, открытой прошивки для аудиоплееров
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2025-04-02 12:44:03
После пяти с половиной лет разработки состоялся релиз проекта Rockbox 4.0, развивающего альтернативную прошивку для различных моделей аудиоплееров. По сравнению с штатными прошивками Rockbox предоставляет поддержку дополнительных форматов, функций и плагинов. Проект не основан на Linux и поставляется с собственным POSIX-совместимым ядром. Код написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией GPL. Rockbox может быть загружен с карты памяти, без удаления основной прошивки плеера.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63001
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2025-04-02 12:44:03
После пяти с половиной лет разработки состоялся релиз проекта Rockbox 4.0, развивающего альтернативную прошивку для различных моделей аудиоплееров. По сравнению с штатными прошивками Rockbox предоставляет поддержку дополнительных форматов, функций и плагинов. Проект не основан на Linux и поставляется с собственным POSIX-совместимым ядром. Код написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией GPL. Rockbox может быть загружен с карты памяти, без удаления основной прошивки плеера.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63001
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James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rotate Clockwise
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2025-04-02 13:22:01
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that a surprising majority of galaxies rotate clockwise, challenging the long-held belief in a directionally uniform universe; this anomaly could suggest either our universe originated inside a rotating black hole or that astronomers have been misinterpreting the universe's expansion due to observational biases. Smithsonian Magazine reports: The problem is that astronomers have long posited that galaxies should be evenly split between rotating in one direction or the other, astronomer Dan Weisz from the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved with the study, wrote for Astronomy back in 2017. "This stems from the idea that we live in an 'isotropic' universe, which means that the universe looks roughly the same in every direction. By extension, galaxies shouldn't have a preferred direction of spin from our perspective," he added. According to Shamir, there are two strong potential explanations for this discrepancy. One explanation is that the universe came into existence while in rotation. This theory would support what's known as black hole cosmology: the hypothesis that our universe exists within a black hole that exists within another parent universe. In other words, black holes create universes within themselves, meaning that the black holes in our own universe also lead to other baby universes.
"A preferred axis in our universe, inherited by the axis of rotation of its parent black hole, might have influenced the rotation dynamics of galaxies, creating the observed clockwise-counterclockwise asymmetry," Nikodem Poplawski, a theoretical physicist at the University of New Haven who was not involved in the study, tells Space.com's Robert Lea. "The discovery by the JWST that galaxies rotate in a preferred direction would support the theory of black holes creating new universes, and I would be extremely excited if these findings are confirmed."
Another possible explanation involves the Milky Way's rotation. Due to an effect called the Doppler shift, astronomers expect galaxies rotating opposite to the Milky Way's motion to appear brighter, which could explain their overrepresentation in telescopic surveys. "If that is indeed the case, we will need to re-calibrate our distance measurements for the deep universe," Shamir explains in the statement. "The re-calibration of distance measurements can also explain several other unsolved questions in cosmology such as the differences in the expansion rates of the universe and the large galaxies that according to the existing distance measurements are expected to be older than the universe itself."
The findings have been published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that a surprising majority of galaxies rotate clockwise, challenging the long-held belief in a directionally uniform universe; this anomaly could suggest either our universe originated inside a rotating black hole or that astronomers have been misinterpreting the universe's expansion due to observational biases. Smithsonian Magazine reports: The problem is that astronomers have long posited that galaxies should be evenly split between rotating in one direction or the other, astronomer Dan Weisz from the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved with the study, wrote for Astronomy back in 2017. "This stems from the idea that we live in an 'isotropic' universe, which means that the universe looks roughly the same in every direction. By extension, galaxies shouldn't have a preferred direction of spin from our perspective," he added. According to Shamir, there are two strong potential explanations for this discrepancy. One explanation is that the universe came into existence while in rotation. This theory would support what's known as black hole cosmology: the hypothesis that our universe exists within a black hole that exists within another parent universe. In other words, black holes create universes within themselves, meaning that the black holes in our own universe also lead to other baby universes.
"A preferred axis in our universe, inherited by the axis of rotation of its parent black hole, might have influenced the rotation dynamics of galaxies, creating the observed clockwise-counterclockwise asymmetry," Nikodem Poplawski, a theoretical physicist at the University of New Haven who was not involved in the study, tells Space.com's Robert Lea. "The discovery by the JWST that galaxies rotate in a preferred direction would support the theory of black holes creating new universes, and I would be extremely excited if these findings are confirmed."
Another possible explanation involves the Milky Way's rotation. Due to an effect called the Doppler shift, astronomers expect galaxies rotating opposite to the Milky Way's motion to appear brighter, which could explain their overrepresentation in telescopic surveys. "If that is indeed the case, we will need to re-calibrate our distance measurements for the deep universe," Shamir explains in the statement. "The re-calibration of distance measurements can also explain several other unsolved questions in cosmology such as the differences in the expansion rates of the universe and the large galaxies that according to the existing distance measurements are expected to be older than the universe itself."
The findings have been published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Brain Interface Speaks Your Thoughts In Near Real-time
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2025-04-02 14:22:01
Longtime Slashdot reader backslashdot writes: Commentary, video, and a publication in this week's Nature Neuroscience herald a significant advance in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, enabling speech by decoding electrical activity in the brain's sensorimotor cortex in real-time. Researchers from UC Berkeley and UCSF employed deep learning recurrent neural network transducer models to decode neural signals in 80-millisecond intervals, generating fluent, intelligible speech tailored to each participant's pre-injury voice. Unlike earlier methods that synthesized speech only after a full sentence was completed, this system can detect and vocalize words within just three seconds. It is accomplished via a 253-electrode array chip implant on the brain. Code and the dataset to replicate the main findings of this study are available in the Chang Lab's public GitHub repository.
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Longtime Slashdot reader backslashdot writes: Commentary, video, and a publication in this week's Nature Neuroscience herald a significant advance in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, enabling speech by decoding electrical activity in the brain's sensorimotor cortex in real-time. Researchers from UC Berkeley and UCSF employed deep learning recurrent neural network transducer models to decode neural signals in 80-millisecond intervals, generating fluent, intelligible speech tailored to each participant's pre-injury voice. Unlike earlier methods that synthesized speech only after a full sentence was completed, this system can detect and vocalize words within just three seconds. It is accomplished via a 253-electrode array chip implant on the brain. Code and the dataset to replicate the main findings of this study are available in the Chang Lab's public GitHub repository.
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Zelle Is Shutting Down Its App
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2025-04-02 17:22:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Zelle is shutting down its stand-alone app on Tuesday, according to a company blog post. This news might be alarming if you're one of the over 150 million customers in the U.S. who use Zelle for person-to-person payments. But only about 2% of transactions take place via Zelle's app, which is why the company is discontinuing its stand-alone app.
Most consumers access Zelle via their bank, which then allows them to send money to their phone contacts. Zelle users who relied on the stand-alone app will have to re-enroll in the service through another financial institution. Given the small user base of the Zelle app, it makes sense why the company would decide to get rid of it -- maintaining an app takes time and money, especially one where people's financial information is involved.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/02/0654238/zelle-is-shutting-down-its-app?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-04-02 17:22:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Zelle is shutting down its stand-alone app on Tuesday, according to a company blog post. This news might be alarming if you're one of the over 150 million customers in the U.S. who use Zelle for person-to-person payments. But only about 2% of transactions take place via Zelle's app, which is why the company is discontinuing its stand-alone app.
Most consumers access Zelle via their bank, which then allows them to send money to their phone contacts. Zelle users who relied on the stand-alone app will have to re-enroll in the service through another financial institution. Given the small user base of the Zelle app, it makes sense why the company would decide to get rid of it -- maintaining an app takes time and money, especially one where people's financial information is involved.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/02/0654238/zelle-is-shutting-down-its-app?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Выпуск почтового клиента Betterbird 128.9.0, форка Thunderbird
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2025-04-02 17:44:03
Представлен релиз почтового клиента Betterbird, являющегося soft-форком Mozilla Thunderbird, развиваемого силами сообщества и основанного на технологиях Mozilla Firefox. Betterbird 128.9 построен на кодовой базе ветки с длительным сроком поддержки Thunderbird 128.9.0 ESR, обновления для которой выпускаются в течение года. Для загрузки доступны установочные пакеты для Windows и macOS, а также бинарные сборки для Linux. Поддерживается локализация интерфейса для русского и украинского языков.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63004
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2025-04-02 17:44:03
Представлен релиз почтового клиента Betterbird, являющегося soft-форком Mozilla Thunderbird, развиваемого силами сообщества и основанного на технологиях Mozilla Firefox. Betterbird 128.9 построен на кодовой базе ветки с длительным сроком поддержки Thunderbird 128.9.0 ESR, обновления для которой выпускаются в течение года. Для загрузки доступны установочные пакеты для Windows и macOS, а также бинарные сборки для Linux. Поддерживается локализация интерфейса для русского и украинского языков.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63004
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Nintendo Switch 2 Arrives on June 5, Priced at $450
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2025-04-02 18:22:01
Nintendo's Switch 2, priced at $450, launches June 5 with a 7.9-inch LCD screen offering 1080p resolution, HDR support, and 120Hz refresh capability. The device maintains the original Switch's 13.99mm thickness while increasing internal storage to 256GB from the previous 32GB.
The console outputs at 4K/60fps when docked, with the dock featuring a built-in cooling fan. Two USB-C ports handle accessories and charging. The system supports microSD Express cards but not original Switch microSD cards. Joy-Con controllers now attach via magnets instead of sliding rails and feature mouse-like functionality with compatible games. Both Joy-Cons and the new Pro Controller include a "C" button that activates a chat menu for the new "Game Chat" feature.
Game cards for Switch 2 will be red rather than black. The system maintains backward compatibility with original Switch cartridges and introduces a "Game Share" feature for local game sharing between consoles.
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2025-04-02 18:22:01
Nintendo's Switch 2, priced at $450, launches June 5 with a 7.9-inch LCD screen offering 1080p resolution, HDR support, and 120Hz refresh capability. The device maintains the original Switch's 13.99mm thickness while increasing internal storage to 256GB from the previous 32GB.
The console outputs at 4K/60fps when docked, with the dock featuring a built-in cooling fan. Two USB-C ports handle accessories and charging. The system supports microSD Express cards but not original Switch microSD cards. Joy-Con controllers now attach via magnets instead of sliding rails and feature mouse-like functionality with compatible games. Both Joy-Cons and the new Pro Controller include a "C" button that activates a chat menu for the new "Game Chat" feature.
Game cards for Switch 2 will be red rather than black. The system maintains backward compatibility with original Switch cartridges and introduces a "Game Share" feature for local game sharing between consoles.
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Lawmakers Propose Cap on Credit Card Interest Rates
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2025-04-02 20:22:01
Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Anna Paulina Luna introduced bipartisan legislation in March to cap credit card interest rates at 10% annually as Americans' debt hits record levels. "Credit cards with high interest rates regularly trap working people in endless cycles of debt," Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement.
Credit card debt has reached $1.2 trillion in Q4 2024, up from $720 billion in the same quarter of 2004, according to Federal Reserve Bank of New York data. Average annual percentage rates nearly doubled to 21% in 2024 from 12% in 2003. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported a record number of cardholders making only minimum payments in Q3 2024, "showing signs of consumer stress."
Further reading: Study Reveals Why Credit Card Interest Rates Remain Stubbornly High.
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2025-04-02 20:22:01
Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Anna Paulina Luna introduced bipartisan legislation in March to cap credit card interest rates at 10% annually as Americans' debt hits record levels. "Credit cards with high interest rates regularly trap working people in endless cycles of debt," Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement.
Credit card debt has reached $1.2 trillion in Q4 2024, up from $720 billion in the same quarter of 2004, according to Federal Reserve Bank of New York data. Average annual percentage rates nearly doubled to 21% in 2024 from 12% in 2003. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported a record number of cardholders making only minimum payments in Q3 2024, "showing signs of consumer stress."
Further reading: Study Reveals Why Credit Card Interest Rates Remain Stubbornly High.
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Alleged Deel Spy Confesses To Coordinating with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz
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2025-04-02 20:22:01
Newcomer: Keith O'Brien, the man who allegedly spied for Deel while working at Rippling, is apparently clearing his conscience, according to a sworn Irish affidavit. O'Brien says in the affidavit that Deel paid him to spy on Rippling and that he coordinated directly with Deel's CEO, Alex Bouaziz.
For some background, Alex Bouaziz is Deel's CEO and Philippe Bouaziz is his father, Deel's CFO. Rippling, which competes directly with Deel, has sued Deel over the alleged spying. O'Brien says in the affidavit: I decided to cooperate after I got a text from a friend on March 25, 2025 saying, "the truth will set you free." I was also driving with a family member to meet my solicitors and she told me that if I had done something wrong that I should "just tell the truth." I was having bad thoughts at the time; it was a horrible time for me. I was getting sick concealing this lie. I realised that I was harming myself and my family to protect Deel. I was concerned, and I am still concerned, about how wealthy and powerful Alex and Philippe are, but I know that what I was doing was wrong. After I spoke with my solicitors at Fenecas Law, I started to feel a sense of relief. I want to do what I can to start making amends and righting these wrongs. Deel CEO allegedly agreed to pay O'Brien 5000 euros a month.
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2025-04-02 20:22:01
Newcomer: Keith O'Brien, the man who allegedly spied for Deel while working at Rippling, is apparently clearing his conscience, according to a sworn Irish affidavit. O'Brien says in the affidavit that Deel paid him to spy on Rippling and that he coordinated directly with Deel's CEO, Alex Bouaziz.
For some background, Alex Bouaziz is Deel's CEO and Philippe Bouaziz is his father, Deel's CFO. Rippling, which competes directly with Deel, has sued Deel over the alleged spying. O'Brien says in the affidavit: I decided to cooperate after I got a text from a friend on March 25, 2025 saying, "the truth will set you free." I was also driving with a family member to meet my solicitors and she told me that if I had done something wrong that I should "just tell the truth." I was having bad thoughts at the time; it was a horrible time for me. I was getting sick concealing this lie. I realised that I was harming myself and my family to protect Deel. I was concerned, and I am still concerned, about how wealthy and powerful Alex and Philippe are, but I know that what I was doing was wrong. After I spoke with my solicitors at Fenecas Law, I started to feel a sense of relief. I want to do what I can to start making amends and righting these wrongs. Deel CEO allegedly agreed to pay O'Brien 5000 euros a month.
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95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years, Microsoft CTO Says
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2025-04-02 20:22:01
Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott has predicted that AI will generate 95% of code within five years. Speaking on the 20VC podcast, Scott said AI would not replace software engineers but transform their role. "It doesn't mean that the AI is doing the software engineering job.... authorship is still going to be human," Scott said.
According to Scott, developers will shift from writing code directly to guiding AI through prompts and instructions. "We go from being an input master (programming languages) to a prompt master (AI orchestrator)," he said. Scott said the current AI systems have significant memory limitations, making them "awfully transactional," but predicted improvements within the next year.
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2025-04-02 20:22:01
Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott has predicted that AI will generate 95% of code within five years. Speaking on the 20VC podcast, Scott said AI would not replace software engineers but transform their role. "It doesn't mean that the AI is doing the software engineering job.... authorship is still going to be human," Scott said.
According to Scott, developers will shift from writing code directly to guiding AI through prompts and instructions. "We go from being an input master (programming languages) to a prompt master (AI orchestrator)," he said. Scott said the current AI systems have significant memory limitations, making them "awfully transactional," but predicted improvements within the next year.
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Amazon Said To Make a Bid To Buy TikTok in the US
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2025-04-02 21:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of TikTok, the popular video app, as it approaches an April deadline to be separated from its Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States, according to three people familiar with the bid.
Various parties who have been involved in the talks do not appear to be taking Amazon's bid seriously, the people said. The bid came via an offer letter addressed to Vice President JD Vance and Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, according to a person briefed on the matter. Amazon's bid highlights the 11th-hour maneuvering in Washington over TikTok's ownership. Policymakers in both parties have expressed deep national security concerns over the app's Chinese ownership, and passed a law last year to force a sale of TikTok that was set to take effect in January.
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2025-04-02 21:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of TikTok, the popular video app, as it approaches an April deadline to be separated from its Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States, according to three people familiar with the bid.
Various parties who have been involved in the talks do not appear to be taking Amazon's bid seriously, the people said. The bid came via an offer letter addressed to Vice President JD Vance and Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, according to a person briefed on the matter. Amazon's bid highlights the 11th-hour maneuvering in Washington over TikTok's ownership. Policymakers in both parties have expressed deep national security concerns over the app's Chinese ownership, and passed a law last year to force a sale of TikTok that was set to take effect in January.
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Релиз-кандидат Альт Сервер 11.0
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2025-04-02 22:44:04
Доступен выпуск релиз-кандидата «Альт Сервер» 11.0. Сборка подготовлена на x86_64, на базе ядра 6.12 (LTS).
Скачать образ
• [ ftp.altlinux.org ]( http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/beta/server/x86_64/ )
В новом образе
• Вход в rescue запрашивает логин root с пустым паролем.
• Установка системы происходит в минимальном режиме - с графикой или без нее. Для установки доступны редакции «Альт Сервер» и «Альт Домен».
• В дистрибутиве представлена новая версия Альтератора - [ Альтератор на D-Bus ]( https://www.altlinux.org/Alterator_on_D-Bus ) .
• Набор клиентских приложений - alterator-browser, adt, alteratorctl.
• Новый модуль ЦУС «Управление компонентами» (приложение [ alt-components ]( https://www.altlinux.org/Alt-components ) ).
• В графической версии дистрибутива используется рабочая среда GNOME.
Обновлены версии приложений
• OpenSSL 3.3.
• Python 3.12.
• PHP 8.3 и 8.4.
• Qt6, поддержка Qt5.
• Kerberos 1.21.
• Samba 4.20.
Подробнее читайте в рассылке:
[ community@ ]( https://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/community/2025-April/689215.html )
[ Другие дистрибутивы ALT на сайте загрузки ]( http://getalt.ru )
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/russia/17931088
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-04-02 22:44:04
Доступен выпуск релиз-кандидата «Альт Сервер» 11.0. Сборка подготовлена на x86_64, на базе ядра 6.12 (LTS).
Скачать образ
• [ ftp.altlinux.org ]( http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/beta/server/x86_64/ )
В новом образе
• Вход в rescue запрашивает логин root с пустым паролем.
• Установка системы происходит в минимальном режиме - с графикой или без нее. Для установки доступны редакции «Альт Сервер» и «Альт Домен».
• В дистрибутиве представлена новая версия Альтератора - [ Альтератор на D-Bus ]( https://www.altlinux.org/Alterator_on_D-Bus ) .
• Набор клиентских приложений - alterator-browser, adt, alteratorctl.
• Новый модуль ЦУС «Управление компонентами» (приложение [ alt-components ]( https://www.altlinux.org/Alt-components ) ).
• В графической версии дистрибутива используется рабочая среда GNOME.
Обновлены версии приложений
• OpenSSL 3.3.
• Python 3.12.
• PHP 8.3 и 8.4.
• Qt6, поддержка Qt5.
• Kerberos 1.21.
• Samba 4.20.
Подробнее читайте в рассылке:
[ community@ ]( https://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/community/2025-April/689215.html )
[ Другие дистрибутивы ALT на сайте загрузки ]( http://getalt.ru )
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/russia/17931088
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AI Masters Minecraft: DeepMind Program Finds Diamonds Without Being Taught
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2025-04-02 23:22:02
An AI system has for the first time figured out how to collect diamonds in the hugely popular video game Minecraft -- a difficult task requiring multiple steps -- without being shown how to play. Its creators say the system, called Dreamer, is a step towards machines that can generalize knowledge learned in one domain to new situations, a major goal of AI. From a report: "Dreamer marks a significant step towards general AI systems," says Danijar Hafner, a computer scientist at Google DeepMind in San Francisco, California. "It allows AI to understand its physical environment and also to self-improve over time, without a human having to tell it exactly what to do." Hafner and his colleagues describe Dreamer in a study in Nature published on 2 April.
In Minecraft, players explore a virtual 3D world containing a variety of terrains, including forests, mountains, deserts and swamps. Players use the world's resources to create objects, such as chests, fences and swords -- and collect items, among the most prized of which are diamonds. Importantly, says Hafner, no two experiences are the same. Every time you play Minecraft, it's a new, randomly generated world," he says. This makes it useful for challenging an AI system that researchers want to be able to generalize from one situation to the next. "You have to really understand what's in front of you; you can't just memorize a specific strategy," he says.
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2025-04-02 23:22:02
An AI system has for the first time figured out how to collect diamonds in the hugely popular video game Minecraft -- a difficult task requiring multiple steps -- without being shown how to play. Its creators say the system, called Dreamer, is a step towards machines that can generalize knowledge learned in one domain to new situations, a major goal of AI. From a report: "Dreamer marks a significant step towards general AI systems," says Danijar Hafner, a computer scientist at Google DeepMind in San Francisco, California. "It allows AI to understand its physical environment and also to self-improve over time, without a human having to tell it exactly what to do." Hafner and his colleagues describe Dreamer in a study in Nature published on 2 April.
In Minecraft, players explore a virtual 3D world containing a variety of terrains, including forests, mountains, deserts and swamps. Players use the world's resources to create objects, such as chests, fences and swords -- and collect items, among the most prized of which are diamonds. Importantly, says Hafner, no two experiences are the same. Every time you play Minecraft, it's a new, randomly generated world," he says. This makes it useful for challenging an AI system that researchers want to be able to generalize from one situation to the next. "You have to really understand what's in front of you; you can't just memorize a specific strategy," he says.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/02/1829253/ai-masters-minecraft-deepmind-program-finds-diamonds-without-being-taught?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.