GitHub has disabled Rockchip's Media Process Platform repository after an FFmpeg developer filed a DMCA takedown notice, nearly two years after the open-source project first publicly accused the Chinese chipmaker of license violations. The notice, filed December 18, claims Rockchip copied thousands of lines of code from FFmpeg's libavcodec library -- including decoders for H.265, AV1, and VP9 formats -- stripped the original copyright notices, falsely claimed authorship and redistributed the code under Apache's permissive license rather than the original LGPL.

FFmpeg first called out Rockchip in February 2024 for "blatantly copy and pasting FFmpeg code" into its driver, but the chipmaker's last response suggested no intention to resolve the matter. The DMCA notice requests either removal of the infringing files or restoration of proper attribution and an LGPL-compatible license.

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Опубликовано: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:21:13 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр

В этом тексте я написал про то как работать с UART на микроконтроллерах.Вы узнаете как пользоваться UART до того, как он будет включен.Допустим вы решили делать в своей прошивке printf- отладку. Или даже забабахать UART-CLI (Shell). Или у ваc есть какое -то внешнее устройство конфигурируемое по UART. Например микросхема U-Blox со своим UBX протоколом. Или LTE модуль с AT-командами. Первое с чем Вы столкнетесь - это настроить UART-трансивер. Как же реализовать алгоритм работы с UART периферией? Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/981028/

Опубликовано: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:43:58 GMT
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Описание прокачки младшей модели генератора сигналов Uni-T UTG932 до 60 МГц и построения формирователя сигнала для встроенного частотомера, который позволит измерять частоту сигналов ранее недоступных для него.Формирователь не привязан к конкретной модели генератора сигналов и может быть использован с любой другой, имеющей TTL-совместимый вход.Описанные доработки не требуют значительных вложений и доступны начинающим электронщикам. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/981024/

Two years after generative AI was supposed to render India's $250 billion IT services industry obsolete, the sector is finding that enterprises still need someone to handle the unglamorous plumbing work that large-scale AI deployment demands. Less than 15% of organizations are meaningfully deploying the new technology, according to investment bank UBS, and Indian IT firms are positioning themselves to capture the preparatory work -- data cleanup, cloud migration, system integration -- that channel checks suggest could take two to three years before enterprise-wide AI becomes feasible.

The financials have held up better than the doomsday predictions suggested. Infosys now calls AI-led volume opportunities a bigger tailwind than the deflation threat, a reversal from 2024, and orderbooks held steady in the third quarter even as pricing pressure filtered through renewals. Infosys expects its orderbook to grow more than 50% this quarter, anchored by an NHS deal worth $1.6 billion over 15 years.

The companies have been restructuring accordingly. TCS cut headcount by 2% and invested in a 1GW data-centre network while acquiring Salesforce advisory firm Coastal Cloud. HCLTech reduced margins by 100 basis points and became one of the first large systems integrators to partner with OpenAI; this week it announced acquisitions of Jaspersoft for $240 million and Belgian firm Wobby to expand agentic AI capabilities.

The bear case for the Indian IT sector assumed that AI would work out of the box. Two years in, it does not.

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Доступно обновление свободного векторного графического редактора Inkscape 1.4.3. Редактор предоставляет гибкие инструменты для рисования и обеспечивает поддержку чтения и сохранения изображений в форматах SVG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, WMF, EMF, sk1, PDF, EPS, PostScript и PNG. Готовые сборки Inkscape подготовлены для Linux (AppImage, ожидается публикация Snap и Flatpak), macOS и Windows.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64509

Состоялся релиз программы для шифрования текста и файлов Stirlitz. Программа написана на языке С++ и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3. Приложение адаптировано для работы в операционных системах семейства Linux, Windows и Android. Для пользователей Arch Linux в AUR доступен сценарий сборки пакета. Для пользователей Windows доступен экспериментальный инсталлятор. Для пользователей Android доступен экспериментальный пакет в формате apk.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64508

While stock investors have pushed AI-related shares to repeated highs this year, debt markets are telling a more cautious story as newer AI infrastructure companies find themselves paying significantly elevated interest rates to borrow money. Applied Digital, a data center builder, sold $2.35 billion of debt in November at a 9.25% coupon -- roughly 3.75% above similarly rated companies, or about 70% more in interest costs. The pattern has repeated across several deals.

Wulf Compute, a subsidiary of Bitcoin-miner-turned-data-center-operator Terawulf, raised $3.2 billion in mid-October at 7.75%, well above the 5.5% average yield for similarly rated issuers. Cipher Compute sold $1.7 billion in early November at just over 7%. CoreWeave, which rents data centers and installs computing systems for companies like OpenAI and Meta, raised $1.75 billion in July at 9%. The company's bonds have since fallen to around 90 cents on the dollar, pushing the effective yield above 12% -- nearly double the average for companies at its single-B rating level.

"We just have to be much more pessimistic and not buy into the hype," said Will Smith, a portfolio manager at AllianceBernstein. Construction delays and uncertain demand for AI computing power remain key concerns for lenders who, unlike equity investors, have no upside beyond getting their principal back.

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While America's largest corporations are riding a wave of surging profits and AI-fueled stock market enthusiasm to record highs, small businesses across the country are cutting staff and scaling back operations as years of high inflation, cautious consumers and tariff confusion take their toll.

Private firms with fewer than 50 workers have steadily shed jobs over the past six months, according to payroll processor ADP, cutting 120,000 positions in November alone. Midsize and large firms continued adding jobs during the same period. The divergence mirrors what's happening among American consumers.

The Federal Reserve's latest beige book noted that overall consumer spending declined further even as higher-end retail spending remained resilient. Workers at small businesses tend to earn less than those at large companies, and stock market gains from large public company shares flow mostly to wealthier Americans. Small businesses -- those with up to 500 workers -- employ nearly half the American workforce and represent more than 40% of GDP, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. But their profits are slightly lower than a year ago, per a Bank of America Institute analysis. Net income at S&P 500 companies rose 12.9% from a year earlier in the third quarter.

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В школе вычислительной техники при Университете Юты (США) нашли и восстановили магнитную ленту, на которой оказалась единственная из известных копий операционной системы Unix v4 — первой, чьё ядро, драйверы и основные утилиты были написаны на новомодном в те времена языке C.

Восстановленные данные заняли всего 40 Мбайт — они доступны для скачивания вместе с инструкцией по запуску ОС. Unix v4 работал на продвинутом по тем временам мини-компьютере DEC PDP-11, который эмулировали при помощи SimH. На момент выпуска система оставалась экспериментальным проектом.

[ Анонс ]( https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw )

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18179619

Western carmakers retreating from electric vehicles amid softening government mandates could find themselves in a precarious position as Chinese rivals continue gaining ground in the EV market they're choosing to de-prioritize. The EU on December 16th dropped its earlier plan to ban petrol car sales outright from 2035, instead requiring carmakers to cut emissions from new vehicles by 90% from 2021 levels. The day before, Ford announced a $19.5 billion asset writedown as it rethinks its EV strategy and ends sales of the all-electric F-150 pickup.

In the U.S., the Trump administration has rolled back incentives and other measures that supported EVs. But Chinese brands controlled 10.7% of the all-electric car market in western Europe in the first ten months of 2025, up a percentage point from a year earlier, despite EU tariffs on Chinese EVs imposed in October 2024. Sales of Chinese hybrids, which aren't subject to those tariffs, have surged. EVs will eventually become the cheaper option as production expands and costs fall, meaning Western carmakers that slow down now risk giving competitors an unassailable lead.

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The global smartphone and PC markets face potential contractions of up to 5.2% and 8.9% respectively in 2026, according to downside risk scenarios from IDC that trace the problem to memory chip manufacturers shifting production capacity away from consumer electronics toward AI data centers. Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology have pivoted their limited cleanroom space toward high-bandwidth memory for AI servers, restricting supply of the conventional DRAM and NAND used in phones and laptops.

IDC expects 2026 DRAM supply growth to hit 16% year-on-year, below historical norms. The smartphone industry's decade-long trend of bringing flagship features to affordable devices is reversing. Memory represents 15-20% of the bill of materials for mid-range phones, and thin-margin vendors like Xiaomi, Realme and Transsion will bear the brunt. Apple and Samsung have long-term supply agreements securing components up to 24 months ahead. PC vendors including Lenovo, Dell, HP, Acer and ASUS have warned clients of 15-20% price increases heading into the second half of 2026.

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Опубликовано: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:01:05 GMT
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Впереди зима (а зима может быть долгой :-)), поэтому самое время озаботиться извлечением пользы из инженерных навыков. Что нам могло бы помочь пережить зиму? В голову приходят два основных критических фактора: тепло и электроэнергия.Причём зачастую эти факторы требуются при нахождении вне помещения, то есть на улице.И, что интересно, обе эти потребности мы можем попытаться, в теории, закрыть (хотя бы частично) довольно неожиданным образом — получая тепло и электроэнергию прямо на ходу! Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/978880/

An anonymous reader shares a report: China on Friday launched three venture capital funds to invest in "hard technology" areas, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The capital contribution plans for the funds have been finalised, each with more than 50 billion yuan ($7.14 billion), according to the report. The funds will primarily invest in early-stage startups and the targets should be valued at less than 500 million yuan, an official said on Friday, adding that no single investment would amount to more than 50 million yuan.

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Опубликовано: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:55:47 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Системное программирование / Хабр

Привет, Хабр! Сегодня поговорим про один из самых незаметных, но любопытных моментов языка C. Если вы пишете на C, скорее всего вы никогда не использовали ключевое слово restrict. А зря — этот квалификатор указателя может дать вашему коду неплохой прирост производительности. Правда, для этого придётся дать компилятору честное слово насчёт своих указателей. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/otus/articles/978524/

В рамках проекта Phoenix предпринята попытка создания с нуля нового X-сервера, не использующего наработки X.org Server и нацеленного на создание современной альтернативы, расширяющей протокол X11 и предоставляющей возможности для совместимости с Wayland. На текущем этапе развития Phoenix пока не готов к повседневному использованию, но уже позволяет организовать работу с простыми приложениями, использующими для вывода графики GLX, EGL или Vulkan, при вложенном запуске Phoenix поверх существующего X-сервера. Код написан на языке Zig и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64506

Опубликовано: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:46:36 GMT
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Всем привет!Думаю, многим из тех, кто решил покорять литературу на английском знакома эта ситуация: читаешь книгу (в моем случае - на читалке Kindle), честно выделяешь незнакомые слова, думая: «Вот дочитаю главу/книгу, выпишу их и выучу».Но есть загвоздка :-) Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/980792/

The relentless climb in memory prices driven by the AI boom's insatiable demand for datacenter hardware has renewed an old debate about whether modern software has grown inexcusably fat, a column by the Register argues. The piece points to Windows Task Manager as a case study: the current executable occupies 6MB on disk and demands nearly 70MB of RAM just to display system information, compared to the original's 85KB footprint.

"Its successor is not orders of magnitude more functional," the column notes. The author draws a parallel to the 1970s fuel crisis, when energy shortages spurred efficiency gains, and argues that today's memory crunch could force similar discipline. "Developers should consider precisely how much of a framework they really need and devote effort to efficiency," the column adds. "Managers must ensure they also have the space to do so."

The article acknowledges that "reversing decades of application growth will not happen overnight" but calls for toolchains to be rethought and rewards given "for compactness, both at rest and in operation."

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Опубликовано: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:01:30 GMT
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Что может быть общего у новогодних праздников, технической реконструкции и электровакуумных приборов? О чём тут можно поговорить, в атмосфере всеобщего «Джингл бенс — джингл бенс»? Разумеется, это световое оформление праздника — светящиеся украшения, гирлянды. Современные светодиодные их варианты, естественно, отметаем, как и не станем смотреть на прорву обычных скучных пластиковых фонариков со стандартными миниатюрными лампочками накаливания. Пороемся и поищем более или менее оригинальные в техническом смысле украшения или, по крайней мере, интересные решения их отдельных узлов. Тёплые ламповые, да. Исследуемое время и пространство ограничим просторами нашей необъятной Родины, скажем — «то, что могло попасть в руки среднестатистическому гражданину СССР». Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/978768/

Окружной суд штата Калифорния вынес предварительное решение в инициированном правозащитной организацией Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) судебном разбирательстве против компании Vizio, обвиняемой в невыполнении требований лицензии GPL при распространении прошивок к умным телевизорам на базе платформы SmartCast. Суд постановил, что компания Vizio обязана предоставить доступ к исходному коду в форме, позволяющей третьим лицам загружать и изменять код. При этом суд принял ходатайство компании Vizio и согласился с тем, что применение лицензий GPLv2 и LGPLv2.1 не даёт оснований требовать у производителя информации, необходимой для установки модифицированного варианта прошивки на принадлежащий пользователю телевизор.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64505

Опубликовано: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:16:24 GMT
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Для чего нужен Умный дом и почему я разработала свое устройствоИстория о разработке устройства умного дома без опыта, с минимальными ресурсами и максимальными приключениями в течение 6 лет. МУЗА — одно простое устройство для управления всеми основными функциями Умного дома, умная колонка с Алисой, датчиками и камерой в одном корпусе. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/980734/

Опубликовано: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:23:05 GMT
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Всем привет, давно хотелось соорудить свое оконечное устройство на Zigbee, и оказалось это не сильно сложно. Тем более что основа в виде Home Assistant на Raspberry Pi 4 со свистком Zigbee 3 SONOFF USB Dongle Plus-E есть и работает. Правда до этого в нем были только фабричные zigbee устройства, в основном Aqara. Итак погнали.Что нам нужно кроме вышеуказанного... Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/980738/

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Michael Truell, the 25-year-old CEO and cofounder of Cursor, is drawing a sharp distinction between careful AI-assisted development and the more hands-off approach commonly known as "vibe coding." Speaking at a conference, Truell described vibe coding as a method where users "close your eyes and you don't look at the code at all and you just ask the AI to go build the thing for you." He compared it to constructing a house by putting up four walls and a roof without understanding the underlying wiring or floorboards. The approach might work for quickly mocking up a game or website, but more advanced projects face real risks.

"If you close your eyes and you don't look at the code and you have AIs build things with shaky foundations as you add another floor, and another floor, and another floor, and another floor, things start to kind of crumble," Truell said. Truell and three fellow MIT graduates created Cursor in 2022. The tool embeds AI directly into the integrated development environment and uses the context of existing code to predict the next line, generate functions, and debug errors. The difference, as Truell frames it, is that programmers stay engaged with what's happening under the hood rather than flying blind.

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Опубликовано: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:58:30 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Assembler / Хабр

Компиляторы то и дело удивляют меня очень хитрыми трюками. Когда я впервые увидел эту оптимизацию, то едва смог поверить в её реальность. Я изучал оптимизацию циклов и написал простую функцию, суммирующую все числа до заданного значения... Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/980702/

Опубликовано: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:58:30 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Assembler / Хабр

Компиляторы то и дело удивляют меня очень хитрыми трюками. Когда я впервые увидел эту оптимизацию, то едва смог поверить в её реальность. Я изучал оптимизацию циклов и написал простую функцию, суммирующую все числа до заданного значения... Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/980702/

Apple's Developer Academy in Detroit has spent roughly $30 million over four years training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps, but not everyone lands coding jobs right away, according to a WIRED story published this week.

The program launched in 2021 as part of Apple's $200 million response to the Black Lives Matter protests and costs an estimated $20,000 per student -- nearly twice what state and local governments budget for community colleges. About 600 students have completed the 10-month course at Michigan State University. Academy officials say 71% of graduates from the past two years found full-time jobs across various industries.

The program provides iPhones, MacBooks and stipends ranging from $800 to $1,500 per month, though one former student said many participants relied on food stamps. Apple contributed $11.6 million to the academy. Michigan taxpayers and the university's regular students covered about $8.6 million -- nearly 30% of total funding. Two graduates said their lack of proficiency in Android hurt their job prospects. Apple's own US tech workforce went from 6% Black before the academy opened to about 3% this year.

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Проект Arch Linux ограничил доступ к сайту archlinux.org из-за DDoS-атаки. До урегулирования ситуации доступ к сайту через IPv4 отключён и оставлен только для запросов через IPv6. Отмечается, что это вынужденная мера из-за невозможности решить проблему оперативно - для блокирования атаки требуется помощь хостинг-провайдера (Hetzner), но в праздничные дни возможность обращения в службу поддержки оказалась проблематичной.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64504

Google appears to be testing a feature that would let users change their @gmail.com address for the first time, according to an official support document. The support page exists only in Hindi, suggesting an India-first rollout, and Google notes that users will "gradually begin to see this option."

The feature would let users switch to a new @gmail address while retaining full access to their old one, effectively giving a single account two working email addresses. Emails sent to either address would arrive in the same inbox, and existing data in Drive and Photos would remain unaffected. Users who switch cannot register another new address for 12 months. Google has not officially announced the feature.

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Apple has agreed to a settlement with Brazil's antitrust regulator that will require the company to allow third-party app stores on iPhones and permit developers to direct users to external payment options, marking another country where Apple's tightly controlled App Store model is being pried open by government action.

Brazil's Administrative Council of Economic Defense approved the settlement this week, resolving an investigation that began in 2022 into whether Apple's restrictions on app distribution and payments limited competition. Under the new rules, developers can offer third-party payment methods within their apps alongside Apple's own system. The fee structure varies: purchases through Apple's system remain subject to a 10% or 25% commission plus a 5% transaction fee. Apps that include a clickable link to external payment will face a 15% fee, while static text directing users elsewhere incurs no charge. Third-party app stores will pay a 5% Core Technology Commission.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: A typosquatted domain impersonating the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool was used to distribute malicious PowerShell scripts that infect Windows systems with the 'Cosmali Loader'. BleepingComputer has found that multiple MAS users began reporting on Reddit yesterday that they received pop-up warnings on their systems about a Cosmali Loader infection.

Based on the reports, attackers have set up a look-alike domain, "get[dot]activate[dot]win," which closely resembles the legitimate one listed in the official MAS activation instructions, "get[dot]activated[dot]win." Given that the difference between the two is a single character ("d"), the attackers bet on users mistyping the domain.

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Представлен релиз проекта QEMU 10.2.0. В качестве эмулятора QEMU позволяет запустить программу, собранную для одной аппаратной платформы на системе с совершенно иной архитектурой, например, выполнить приложение для ARM на x86-совместимом ПК. В режиме виртуализации в QEMU производительность выполнения кода в изолированном окружении близка к аппаратной системе за счёт прямого выполнения инструкций на CPU и задействования гипервизора Xen или модуля KVM в Linux, или модуля NVMM в NetBSD.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64500

Goldman Sachs analysts have identified a notable shift in how investors respond to corporate layoff announcements, finding that even job cuts attributed to automation and AI-driven restructuring are now causing stock prices to fall rather than rise. The investment bank linked recent layoff announcements to public companies' earnings reports and stock market data, concluding that stocks dropped by an average of 2% following such announcements, and companies citing restructurings faced even harsher punishment.

The traditional Wall Street playbook held that layoffs tied to strategic restructuring would boost stock prices, while cuts driven by declining sales would hurt them. That distinction appears to have collapsed.

Goldman's analysts suggest investors simply don't believe what companies are saying -- firms announcing layoffs have experienced higher capex, debt and interest expense growth alongside lower profit growth compared to industry peers this year. The real driver, analysts suspect, may be cost reduction to offset rising interest expenses and declining profitability rather than any forward-looking efficiency play.

Goldman expects layoffs to keep rising, motivated in part by companies' stated desire to use AI to reduce labor costs.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Chinese social media users criticized two key government policies, rare signs of public dissent in the country where the internet is heavily censored. The death of the former head of China's one-child policy agency -- which for decades forced women to carry out abortions and sterilizations -- sparked criticism of the demographic effort, with one netizen lamenting the "children who were lost."

Others, meanwhile, criticized Beijing's leadership over its ongoing row with Tokyo, sparked by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi saying her country could intervene to defend Taiwan in a potential Chinese attack on the self-ruled island, which Beijing claims as its own.

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Опубликовано: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:25:31 GMT
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Windows 10 нинужон!Запускаем 3D симуляцию самого популярного в мире редактора УП для станков с ЧПУ CIMCO Edit 2025 (2025.01.25) в операционной системе Microsoft Windows 7. И ещё переводим на русский язык саму программу. Читать далее всё это безобразие...]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/980632/

Framework has announced yet another price increase for memory modules, the second in roughly a month, and the company is now actively encouraging customers to source their own RAM elsewhere if they can find better deals. The laptop maker cited "extreme memory shortages and price volatility" as the reason for the hike, noting that 32GB modules and smaller currently cost around $10 per gigabyte while 48GB modules run approximately $13 per gigabyte.

Framework said it expects to raise prices again by January as its suppliers continue increasing costs, a trend analysts predict will persist through 2026. Framework plans to add a direct link to PCPartPicker in its configurators so DIY Edition buyers can compare prices and find cheaper alternatives. The company said its pricing still compares favorably to Apple's roughly $25 per gigabyte and pledged to stay as close as possible to acquisition costs. Storage price increases are also on the horizon, Framework warned.

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Waymo's fleet of autonomous robotaxis can navigate city streets and compete with human taxi drivers, but they become stranded when a passenger leaves a door ajar -- prompting the company to pay tow truck operators around $20 to $24 through an app called Honk just to push a door shut. The owner of a towing company in Inglewood, California, completes up to three such jobs a week for Waymo, sometimes freeing vehicles by removing seat belts caught in doors. Another Los Angeles tow operator said locating stuck robotaxis can take 10 minutes to an hour because the precise location isn't always provided, forcing workers to search on foot through narrow streets too narrow for flatbed rigs.

Tow operators also retrieve Waymos that run out of battery before reaching charging stations, earning $60 to $80 per tow -- rates that aren't always profitable after factoring in fuel and labor. During a San Francisco power outage last weekend, multiple operators received a flurry of retrieval requests as robotaxis blocked intersections across the city. One San Francisco tow company manager declined because Waymo's offered rate fell below his standard $250 flatbed fee.

Waymo said in a blog post that the outage caused a "backlog" in requests to remote human workers who help vehicles navigate defunct traffic signals. San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood called for a hearing into Waymo's operations, saying the traffic disruptions were "dangerous and unacceptable." A retired Carnegie Mellon engineering professor who studied autonomous vehicles for nearly 30 years said paying humans to close doors and retrieve stalled cars is expensive and will need to be minimized as Waymo scales up. The company is testing next-generation Zeekr vehicles in San Francisco that feature automatic sliding doors.

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Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq, a designer of high-performance artificial intelligence accelerator chips, for $20 billion in cash, according to Alex Davis, CEO of Disruptive, which led the startup's latest financing round in September. From a report: Davis, whose firm has invested more than half a billion dollars in Groq since the company was founded in 2016, said the deal came together quickly.

Groq raised $750 million at a valuation of about $6.9 billion three months ago. Investors in the round included Blackrock and Neuberger Berman, as well as Samsung, Cisco, Altimeter and 1789 Capital, where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner. Groq said in a blog post on Wednesday that it's "entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia for Groq's inference technology," without disclosing a price. With the deal, Groq founder and CEO Jonathan Ross along with Sunny Madra, the company's president, and other senior leaders "will join Nvidia to help advance and scale the licensed technology," the post said.

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Проект CoMaps, развивающий полностью открытый коммьюнити-форк мобильного картографического приложения Organic Maps, опубликовал релиз 2025.12.19 и отчёт о состоянии проекта и сообщества. Код проекта распространяется под лицензией Apache 2.0. Приложение доступно в каталогах F-Droid, Google Play и Apple App Store, а также напрямую на Codeberg.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64497

The Trump administration has announced it would replace the lottery programme used to grant H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers with a system that prioritises higher-paid individuals. From a report: The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin to implement a "weighted" selection process to give an advantage to higher-skilled and higher-paid applicants from February, according to a statement posted on its website. Matthew Tragesser, Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson, said: "The existing random selection process of H-1B registrations was exploited and abused by US employers who were primarily seeking to import foreign workers at lower wages than they would pay American workers."

The move is the latest in a broad crackdown on US immigration by President Donald Trump, who has dramatically stepped up deportations of immigrants and sent enforcement agents into cities across the country to carry out arrests. The change also follows moves earlier this year to curb the number of applicants for the H-1B visa, which is popular among technology and professional services companies, including charging an additional $100,000 fee.

Beryl Howell, a federal judge on the US District Court for the District of Columbia, late on Tuesday ruled the White House could move forward with the application charge after the US Chamber of Commerce had sued in October to block the six-figure fee.

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Опубликовано: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 13:01:53 GMT
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Привет, Хабр! Я продолжаю совершенствовать любимые электрогитары, и сегодня подробно расскажу о текущих доработках одной из них — дизайнерского суперстрата Tinar GT500.Речь пойдёт о выборе доступных недорогих звукоснимателей, их правильной фазировке и маленьких секретах темброблока, способных весьма расширить исполнительские возможности инструмента. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/949182/

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: It's harder than ever to mine bitcoin. And less profitable, too. But mining-company stocks are still flying, even with cryptocurrency prices in retreat. That's because these firms have something in common with the hottest investment theme on the planet: the massive, electricity-hungry data centers expected to power the artificial-intelligence boom. Some companies are figuring out how to remake themselves as vital suppliers to Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other "hyperscalers" bent on AI dominance.

Bitcoin-mining -- using vast computer power to solve equations to unlock the digital currency -- has been a lucrative and cutting-edge pursuit in its own right. Lately, however, increased competition and other challenges have eroded profit margins. But just as the bitcoin-mining business began to cool, the AI build-out turned white hot. The AI arms race has created an insatiable demand for some assets the miners already have: data centers, cooling systems, land and hard-to-obtain contracts for electrical power -- all of which can be repurposed to train and power AI models.

It's not a seamless process. Miners often have to build new, specialized facilities, because running AI requires more-advanced cooling and network systems, as well as replacing bitcoin-mining computers with AI-focused graphics processing units. But signing deals with miners allows AI giants to expand faster and cheaper than starting new facilities from scratch. These companies still mine some bitcoin, but the transition gives miners a new source of deep-pocketed customers willing to commit to longer-term leases for their data centers.

"The opportunity for miners to convert to AI is one of the greatest opportunities I could possibly imagine," said Adam Sullivan, chief executive of Core Scientific, which has pivoted to AI data centers. The shift has boosted miners' stocks. The CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF has surged about 90% this year, a rally that has accelerated even as bitcoin erased its gains for 2025. The ETF holds shares of miners including Cipher Mining and IREN, both of which have surged following long-term deals with companies such as Amazon and Microsoft. Shares of Core Scientific quadrupled in 2024 after the company signed its first AI contract that February. The stock has gained 10% this year. The company now expects to exit bitcoin mining entirely by 2028.

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Опубликовано: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:00:45 GMT
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Наверняка у вас тоже было такое, что сервис работает себе спокойно, радует пользователей своей стабильностью и производительностью, а вас зелёным мониторингом. А в следующий момент хлоп - и нет его. Вы на панике смотрите в логи ошибок, а там или невнятный сегфолт, или просто ничего. Что делать – непонятно, и вообще надо прод спасать, поэтому вы поднимаете его обратно и всё работает как и раньше. Вы ещё пытаетесь разобраться в причинах случившегося, но со временем переключаетесь на другие задачи, а этот случай отходит на дальний план или вообще забывается.Но это всё хорошо когда вы один, а вот если у вас много клиентов, то рано или поздно у вас возникает ощущение что что-то не так и надо разобраться с этими всплесками энтропии, чтобы найти первопричину подобных событий.В этой статье описано наше исследование длиною в год,  из которого вы узнаете, почему PostgreSQL(и любое другое приложение) может падать из-за бага в ядре Linux, причём тут XFS и почему очистка памяти может быть не так полезна, как вы о ней думали. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/postgrespro/articles/980218/

Состоялся релиз Ruby 4.0.0, динамического объектно-ориентированного языка программирования, сосредоточенного на высокой эффективности разработки программ и вобравшего в себя лучшие черты Perl, Java, Python, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada и Lisp. Код проекта распространяется под лицензиями BSD ("2-clause BSDL") и "Ruby", которая ссылается на последний вариант лицензии GPL и совместима с GPLv3.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64494

alternative_right shares a report from Euronews: France's President Emmanuel Macron discovered news of his own supposed overthrow, after he received a message of concern, along with a link to a Facebook video. "On Sunday (14 December) one of my African counterparts got in touch, writing 'Dear president, what's happening to you? I'm very worried,'" Macron told readers of French local newspaper La Provence on December 16.

Alongside the message, a compelling video showcasing a swirling helicopter, military personnel, crowds and -- what appears to be -- a news anchor delivering a piece to camera. "Unofficial reports suggest that there has been a coup in France, led by a colonel whose identity has not been revealed, along with the possible fall of Emmanuel Macron. However, the authorities have not issued a clear statement," she says.

Except, nothing about this video is authentic: it was created with AI. After discovering the video, Macron asked Pharos -- France's official portal for signaling online illicit content -- to call Facebook's parent company Meta, to get the fake video removed. But that request was turned down, as the platform claimed it did not violate its "rules of use." [...] The original video ... racked up more than 12 million views [...].The teenager running the account is based in Burkina Faso and makes money running courses focusing on how to monetize AI. He eventually took the video down more than a week after its initial publication, due to political -- and public -- controversy. "I tend to think that I have more power to apply pressure than other people," Macron said. "Or rather, that it's easier to say something is serious if I am the one calling, but it doesn't work."

"These people are mocking us," he added. "They don't care about the serenity of public debates, they don't care about democracy, and therefore they are putting us in danger."

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Опубликовано: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 09:05:14 GMT
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Продолжение статьи «Как я скрещивал Ардуино и лего». Если вкратце, я столкнулся с проблемой выбора контроллера для обучения детей среднего школьного возраста (5-8 класс), мне не понравились готовые решения, и я решил разработать свой контроллер на базе Arduino Nano, со встроенными драйверами двигателей и закрытым корпусом, совместимым с Lego. Но по большому счету я это делал, потому что могу :)С момента прошлой статьи прошло более полугода. За это время многое произошло. Я разработал новые и переработал старые корпуса для датчиков и контроллера. Собрал небольшую партию устройств. Запустил сайт и даже разработал свой блочный/кодовый редактор для контроллера ZERO и других Arduino подобных плат. Но обо всем по порядку... Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/timeweb/articles/975948/

Опубликовано: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 08:24:57 GMT
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Если вы уже работали с приёмниками SDR и программами SDRSharp и SDR++, то, скорее всего, умеете «ловить» с их помощью FM-радио или радиостанции авиационного диапазона. Об этом я рассказывал в статьях «Этот увлекательный мир радиоприёмников» и «Цифровая радиотехника, первые шаги. Repka Pi + SDR = Сканируем Радиоэфир». Но что если вам нужно создать свой нестандартный приёмник или другую радиосистему на базе устройства SDR, да ещё без паяльника и составления программ?Для этого пригоден фреймворк GnuRadio, позволяющий с помощью блочного конструктора собрать нужную цепочку обработки сигналов из готовых или созданных вами блоков. В результате из нарисованной диаграммы вы получите готовую программу для взаимодействия с устройствами SDR и для обработки сигналов. Расскажу подробнее в этом материале. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/first/articles/978992/

Опубликован выпуск высокопроизводительного HTTP-сервера и многопротокольного прокси-сервера Angie 1.11.0, ответвлённого от Nginx группой бывших разработчиков проекта, уволившихся из компании F5 Network. Исходные тексты Angie доступны под лицензией BSD. Проект получил сертификаты совместимости с российскими операционными системами Ред ОС, Astra Linux Special Edition, Роса Хром Сервер, Альт и ФСТЭК-версии Альт.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64495

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Опубликовано: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:00:02 GMT
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Системы управления инженерными сетями, в отличие от самих инженерных систем, редко проектируют с расчетом на десятилетия эксплуатации. Проблема чаще связана не со сроком службы оборудования, а с невозможностью модернизации и отсутствием запасных частей.В статье разбираем кейс замены автоматики системы отопления в квартире с централизованным теплоснабжением. Исходная система проработала около 15 лет, после чего стала неремонтопригодной.Тем не менее выход существует. Покажем, как удалось обойти существующие ограничения и вернуть управляемость отопления в квартире, получив при этом удаленный доступ со смартфона и возможность дальнейшего развития логики управления. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/wirenboard/articles/980250/

Опубликовано: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:05:03 GMT
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MyLMTSМеня всегда привлекали несколько парадоксальные устройства из техники, которые, не содержат практически ни одной детали, но, в то же время, выполняют свою функцию — по сути своей, они представляют собой идеальное техническое устройство, так как в нём идея минимизации количества компонентов (и максимизации надёжности, соответственно), доведена до абсолюта. И сегодня мы рассмотрим ещё одно такое интересное устройство... ;-) Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/beget/articles/978824/