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

TOP10 VISITORS:

[1] 217.197.116.x point=421 web=0 up=29.7MB (30%) <--- naste (18/hr)
[2] 37.252.14.x point=145 web=0 up=28.1MB (28%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[3] PetalBot point=7 web=1018 up=6.3MB (6%) <--- PetalBot
[4] Google point=1 web=625 up=6.2MB (6%) <--- Google
[5] ClaudeBot point=0 web=424 up=5.7MB (5%)
[6] Amazon point=0 web=148 up=5.1MB (5%)
[7] 195.178.110.x point=0 web=3 up=4.0MB (4%)
[8] 144.76.32.x point=0 web=69 up=3.7MB (3%)
[9] 216.244.66.x point=3 web=66 up=2.9MB (2%) <--- 216.244.66.x
[10] 217.114.158.x point=27 web=0 up=1.2MB (1%) <--- fox (1/hr)

TOTAL TRAFFIC: 98MB

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/

With NASA's Mars Sample Return mission delayed into the 2030s, engineers are certifying the Perseverance rover to keep operating for many more years while it continues collecting and safeguarding Martian rock samples. Ars Technica reports: The good news is that the robot, about the size of a small SUV, is in excellent health, according to Steve Lee, Perseverance's deputy project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). "Perseverance is approaching five years of exploration on Mars," Lee said in a press briefing Wednesday at the American Geophysical Union's annual fall meeting. "Perseverance is really in excellent shape. All the systems onboard are operational and performing very, very well. All the redundant systems onboard are available still, and the rover is capable of supporting this mission for many, many years to come."

The rover's operators at JPL are counting on sustaining Perseverance's good health. The rover's six wheels have carried it a distance of about 25 miles, or 40 kilometers, since landing inside the 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer) Jezero Crater in February 2021. That is double the original certification for the rover's mobility system and farther than any vehicle has traveled on the surface of another world. Now, engineers are asking Perseverance to perform well beyond expectations. An evaluation of the rover's health concluded it can operate until at least 2031. The rover uses a radioactive plutonium power source, so it's not in danger of running out of electricity or fuel any time soon. The Curiosity rover, which uses a similar design, has surpassed 13 years of operations on Mars.

There are two systems that are most likely to limit the rover's useful lifetime. One is the robotic arm, which is necessary to collect samples, and the other is the rover's six wheels and the drive train that powers them. "To make sure we can continue operations and continue driving for a long, long way, up to 100 kilometers (62 miles), we are doing some additional testing," Lee said. "We've successfully completed a rotary actuator life test that has now certified the rotary system to 100 kilometers for driving, and we have similar testing going on for the brakes. That is going well, and we should finish those early part of next year."

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Фонд свободного ПО объявил о получении двух неожиданных пожертвований, суммарным размером 900 тысяч долларов. Средства переданы анонимными доброжелателями с использованием криптовалюты Monero, разработанной для обеспечения полной анонимности и невозможности отследить платежи. Полученные пожертвования помогут укрепить независимость организации и будут потрачены на поддержку технической команды и инфраструктуры, а также расширение проводимых кампаний, образовательной деятельности, работы с лицензиями и инициатив по продвижению СПО.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64493

После полугода разработки опубликован выпуск проекта XLibre 25.1.0, развивающего форк X.Org Server. Первый выпуск ветки XLibre XServer 25.1.0 позиционируется как имеющий качество бета-версии и предназначен для тестирования и выявления возможных недоработок. Следом планируют выпустить ещё две бета-версии, после чего в выпуске 25.1.3 объявить ветку стабильной.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64492

Опубликовано: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:10:25 GMT
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Ученые из университетов Пенсильвании и Мичигана создали самых маленьких в мире автономных и программируемых роботов. Размер около 200 микрометров — примерно вдвое больше ширины человеческого волоса.  Каждый робот способен воспринимать окружающую среду, «думать» и действовать независимо, без внешних указаний. Цель технологии – отслеживать состояние отдельных клеток в нашем организме, адресно доставлять лекарства или значительно улучшить разработку микроэлектроники. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/980312/

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Post: A Texas power developer is proposing to repurpose nuclear reactors from Navy warships to power the United States grid as the Trump administration pushes to secure massive amounts of energy for the artificial intelligence boom. HGP Intelligent Energy LLC filed an application to the Energy Department to redirect two retired reactors to a data center project proposed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, according to a letter submitted to the agency's Office of Energy Dominance Financing. The project, filed for the White House's Genesis Mission, would produce about 450-520 megawatts of around-the-clock electricity, or enough to power roughly 360,000 homes. The proposal would rewire reactors from naval vessels, originally built by Westinghouse Electric Company and General Electric, at a fraction of the cost of new builds.

According to the report, The developer expects to seek a loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy and raise roughly $1.8-$2.1 billion in private capital to prepare the reactors for civilian use, targeting initial completion by 2029. The approach is technically feasible but would break new ground by adapting military nuclear assets for the commercial grid. Bloomberg first reported the story.

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"In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we're missing when we stop taking risks," writes author Janus Rose in an article for 404 Media. Here's an excerpt: There are lots of advantages to the cassette lifestyle. Unlike vinyl records, tapes are compact and super-portable, and unlike streaming, you never have to worry about a giant company suddenly taking them away from you. They can be easily duplicated, shared, and made into mixtapes using equipment you find in a junk shop. When I was a kid, the first music I ever owned were tapes I recorded from MTV with a Kids' Fisher Price tape recorder. I had no money, so I would listen to those tapes for hours, relishing every word Kim Gordon exhaled on my bootlegged copy of Sonic Youth's "Bull in the Heather." Just like back then, my rediscovery of cassettes has led me to start listening more intentionally and deeply, devoting more and more time to each record without the compulsion to hit "skip." Most of the cassettes I bought in Tokyo had music I probably never would have found or spent time with otherwise.

Getting reacquainted with tapes made me realize how much has been lost in the streaming era. Over the past two decades, platforms like Spotify co-opted the model of peer-to-peer filesharing pioneered by Napster and BitTorrent into a fully captured ecosystem. But instead of sharing, this ecosystem was designed around screen addiction, surveillance, and instant gratification -- with corporate middlemen and big labels reaping all the profits. Streaming seeks to virtually eliminate what techies like to call "user friction," turning all creative works into a seamless and unlimited flow of data, pouring out of our devices like water from a digital faucet. Everything becomes "Content," flattened into aesthetic buckets and laser-targeted by "perfect fit" algorithms to feed our addictive impulses. Thus the act of listening to music is transformed from a practice of discovery and communication to a hyper-personalized mood board of machine-optimized "vibes."

What we now call "AI Slop" is just a novel and more cynically efficient vessel for this same process. Slop removes human beings as both author and subject, reducing us to raw impulses -- a digital lubricant for maximizing viral throughput. Whether we love or hate AI Slop is irrelevant, because human consumers are not its intended beneficiaries. In the minds of CEOs like OpenAI's Sam Altman, we're simply components in a machine built to maintain and accelerate information flows, in order to create value for an insatiably wealthy investor class. [...]

Tapes and other physical media aren't a magic miracle cure for late-stage capitalism. But they can help us slow down and remember what makes us human. Tapes make music-listening into an intentional practice that encourages us to spend time connecting with the art, instead of frantically vibe-surfing for something that suits our mood from moment-to-moment. They reject the idea that the point of discovering and listening to music is finding the optimal collection of stimuli to produce good brain chemicals. More importantly, physical media reminds us that nothing good is possible if we refuse to take risks. You might find the most mediocre indie band imaginable. Or you might discover something that changes you forever. Nothing will happen if you play it safe and outsource all of your experiences to a content machine designed to make rich people richer.

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Apple will allow alternative iOS app stores and external payment systems in Brazil after settling an antitrust case with the country's competition authority, following a lawsuit brought by MercadoLibre back in 2022. Thurrott reports: Yesterday, Brazil's Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Economica (CADE) explained in its press release that it has approved a Term of Commitment to Cease (TCC) submitted by Apple. To settle the lawsuit, the iPhone maker has agreed to allow third-party iOS app stores in Brazil and to let developers use external payment systems. The company will also use neutral wording in the warning messages about third-party app stores and external payment systems that iOS users in Brazil will see.

As part of the settlement, Apple has 105 days to implement these changes to avoid a fine of up to $27.1 million. A separate report from Brazilian blog Tecnoblog revealed that Apple will still take a 5% "Core Technology Commission" fee on transactions going through alternative app stores. Additionally, the company will take a 15% cut on in-app purchases for App Store apps when developers redirect users to their own payment systems.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Two years ago, Lizmary Fernandez took a detour from studying to be an immigration attorney to join a free Apple course for making iPhone apps. The Apple Developer Academy in Detroit launched as part of the company's $200 million response to the Black Lives Matter protests and aims to expand opportunities for people of color in the country's poorest big city. But Fernandez found the program's cost-of-living stipend lacking -- "A lot of us got on food stamps," she says -- and the coursework insufficient for landing a coding job. "I didn't have the experience or portfolio," says the 25-year-old, who is now a flight attendant and preparing to apply to law school. "Coding is not something I got back to."

Since 2021, the academy has welcomed over 1,700 students, a racially diverse mix with varying levels of tech literacy and financial flexibility. About 600 students, including Fernandez, have completed its 10-month course of half-days at Michigan State University, which cosponsors the Apple-branded and Apple-focused program. WIRED reviewed contracts and budgets and spoke with officials and graduates for the first in-depth examination of the nearly $30 million invested in the academy over the past four years -- almost 30 percent of which came from Michigan taxpayers and the university's regular students. As tech giants begin pouring billions of dollars into AI-related job training courses across the country, the Apple academy offers lessons on the challenges of uplifting diverse communities.

[...] The program gives out iPhones and MacBooks and spends an estimated $20,000 per student, nearly twice as much as state and local governments budget for community colleges. [...] About 70 percent of students graduate, which [Sarah Gretter, the academy leader for Michigan State] describes as higher than typical for adult education. She says the goal is for them to take "a next step," whether a job or more courses. Roughly a third of participants are under 25, and virtually all of them pursue further schooling. [...] About 71 percent of graduates from the last two years went onto full-time jobs across a variety of industries, according to academy officials. Amy J. Ko, a University of Washington computer scientist who researches computing education, calls under 80 percent typical for the coding schools she has studied but notes that one of her department's own undergraduate programs has a 95 percent job placement rate.

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Adult children across the United States are increasingly reporting that their aging parents have developed what looks remarkably like the smartphone addiction [non-paywalled source] typically associated with teenagers, a phenomenon The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel has dubbed "phone-based retirement." A 2019 Pew Research Center study found people 60 and older spend more than half their daily leisure time -- four hours and 16 minutes -- in front of screens. Nielsen reported this year that adults 65 and up watch YouTube on their TVs nearly twice as much as they did two years ago. 40% of adults aged 59 to 77 reported feeling anxious without device access in a 2,000-person survey.

Ipsit Vahia, chief of geriatric psychiatry at Mass General Brigham's McLean Hospital, cautioned against treating all older adults as a monolithic group. The COVID-19 pandemic drove significant tech adoption among seniors as Zoom became essential for family gatherings, church services, and telehealth. Some research suggests device use may be linked to better cognitive function for people over 50, and Vahia noted that technology use in older adults appears to protect them from isolation and loneliness -- the opposite of its effect on teenagers.

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After Anna's Archive published a massive scrape containing 86 million songs and metadata from Spotify, the streaming giant responded by disabling the nefarious accounts responsible. A spokesperson for Spotify told Recorded Future News that it "has identified and disabled the nefarious user accounts that engaged in unlawful scraping."

"We've implemented new safeguards for these types of anti-copyright attacks and are actively monitoring for suspicious behavior," the spokesperson said. "Since day one, we have stood with the artist community against piracy, and we are actively working with our industry partners to protect creators and defend their rights." The Record reports: The spokesperson added that Anna's Archive did not contact them before publishing the files. They also said it did not consider the incident a "hack" of Spotify. The people behind the leaked database systematically violated Spotify's terms by stream-ripping some of the music from the platform over a period of months, a spokesperson said. They did this through user accounts set up by a third party and not by accessing Spotify's business systems, they added.

Anna's Archive published a blog post about the cache this weekend, writing that while it typically focuses its efforts on text, its mission to preserve humanity's knowledge and culture "doesn't distinguish among media types." "Sometimes an opportunity comes along outside of text. This is such a case. A while ago, we discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale. We saw a role for us here to build a music archive primarily aimed at preservation," they said. "This Spotify scrape is our humble attempt to start such a 'preservation archive' for music. Of course Spotify doesn't have all the music in the world, but it's a great start."

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Microsoft has denied any plans to rewrite Windows 11 using AI and Rust after a LinkedIn post from one of its top-level engineers sparked a wave of online backlash by claiming the company's goal was to "eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030."

Galen Hunt, a principal software engineer responsible for several large-scale research projects at Microsoft, made the claim in what was originally a hiring post for his team. His original wording described a "North Star" of "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code" and outlined a strategy to "combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft's largest codebases." The repeated use of "our" in the post led many to interpret it as an official company direction rather than a personal research ambition.

Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft's head of communications, told Windows Latest that the company has no such plans. Hunt subsequently edited his LinkedIn post to clarify that "Windows is NOT being rewritten in Rust with AI" and that his team's work is a research project focused on building technology to enable language-to-language migration. He characterized the reaction as "speculative reading between the lines."

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Italy's antitrust regulator Italian Competition Authority ordered Meta to suspend a policy that blocks rival AI chatbots from using WhatsApp's business APIs, citing potential abuse of market dominance. "Meta's conduct appears to constitute an abuse, since it may limit production, market access, or technical developments in the AI Chatbot services market, to the detriment of consumers," the Authority wrote. "Moreover, while the investigation is ongoing, Meta's conduct may cause serious and irreparable harm to competition in the affected market, undermining contestability." TechCrunch reports: The AGCM in November had broadened the scope of an existing investigation into Meta, after the company changed its business API policy in October to ban general-purpose chatbots from being offered on the chat app via the API. Meta has argued that its API isn't designed to be a platform for the distribution of chatbots and that people have more avenues beyond WhatsApp to use AI bots from other companies. The policy change, which goes into effect in January, would affect the availability of AI chatbots from the likes of OpenAI, Perplexity, and Poke on the app.

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Amazon finds itself caught between two competing impulses as AI shopping agents from OpenAI, Google, Perplexity and Microsoft mushroom across the e-commerce space -- block them to protect its dominant position, or partner with them to avoid being left behind. The company has largely played defense so far. Amazon recently updated its website code to block external AI agents from crawling it, and as of this week had blocked 47 bots including those from all major AI companies. In November, Amazon sued Perplexity over an agent in the startup's Comet browser that can make purchases on users' behalf, alleging the company concealed its agents to continue scraping Amazon's site. But Amazon's stance appears to be shifting, CNBC reports.

CEO Andy Jassy said on an October earnings call that Amazon expects to partner with third-party agents and has engaged in conversations with some providers. The company is now hiring a corporate development leader to forge strategic partnerships in "agentic commerce." Amazon is also investing in its own tools. The company launched shopping chatbot Rufus last February and has been testing an agent called Buy For Me that can purchase products from other sites within Amazon's app.

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Опубликовано: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:13:09 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр

Неудачники, эволюционировавшие и перспективные языки программирования в разрезе надежности и безопасности. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/980288/

В Университете Париж-Сакле прошла церемония вручения премии Open Science Awards, присуждаемой во Франции за достижения в области открытой науки. Министерство высшего образования и исследований Франции вручило награды в трёх категориях: свободное программное обеспечение, открытые данные и диссертации, демонстрирующие принципы открытой науки. Всего было отмечено 8 лауреатов среди открытых данных, 3 проекта свободного ПО и 8 диссертаций. Каждый проект-лауреат получил премию в 5000 евро, а лауреаты в категории диссертаций - 2500 евро и памятный приз.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64488

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: Concerned that artificial intelligence could threaten Communist Party rule, Beijing is taking extraordinary steps to keep it under control. Although China's government sees AI as crucial to the country's economic and military future, regulations and recent purges of online content show it also fears AI could destabilize society. Chatbots pose a particular problem: Their ability to think for themselves could generate responses that spur people to question party rule.

In November, Beijing formalized rules it has been working on with AI companies to ensure their chatbots are trained on data filtered for politically sensitive content, and that they can pass an ideological test before going public. All AI-generated texts, videos and images must be explicitly labeled and traceable, making it easier to track and punish anyone spreading undesirable content. Authorities recently said they removed 960,000 pieces of what they regarded as illegal or harmful AI-generated content during three months of an enforcement campaign. Authorities have officially classified AI as a major potential threat, adding it alongside earthquakes and epidemics to its National Emergency Response Plan.

Chinese authorities don't want to regulate too much, people familiar with the government's thinking said. Doing so could extinguish innovation and condemn China to second-tier status in the global AI race behind the U.S., which is taking a more hands-off approach toward policing AI. But Beijing also can't afford to let AI run amok. Chinese leader Xi Jinping said earlier this year that AI brought "unprecedented risks," according to state media. A lieutenant called AI without safety like driving on a highway without brakes. There are signs that China is, for now, finding a way to thread the needle.

Chinese models are scoring well in international rankings, both overall and in specific areas such as computer coding, even as they censor responses about the Tiananmen Square massacre, human-rights concerns and other sensitive topics. Major American AI models are for the most part unavailable in China. It could become harder for DeepSeek and other Chinese models to keep up with U.S. models as AI systems become more sophisticated. Researchers outside of China who have reviewed both Chinese and American models also say that China's regulatory approach has some benefits: Its chatbots are often safer by some metrics, with less violence and pornography, and are less likely to steer people toward self-harm. "The Communist Party's top priority has always been regulating political content, but there are people in the system who deeply care about the other social impacts of AI, especially on children," said Matt Sheehan, who studies Chinese AI at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think tank. "That may lead models to produce less dangerous content on certain dimensions."

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Всё не надо :)

Доступно обновление дистрибутива Linux «Альт Рабочая станция К 11.2», предлагающего среду рабочего стола KDE и ориентированного для работы в офисе и дома. Сборка подготовлена для архитектуры x86_64 и построена на 11 платформе ALT. Для загрузки сформированы установочный iso-образ (8.8 ГБ) и отдельная Live-сборка (5.4 ГБ).

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64490

После почти двух лет с момента формирования прошлой значительной ветки опубликован стабильный релиз дистрибутива OpenMediaVault 8.0, позволяющего быстро развернуть сетевое хранилище (NAS, Network-Attached Storage). Проект OpenMediaVault основан в 2009 году после раскола в стане разработчиков дистрибутива FreeNAS, в результате которого наряду с основанным на FreeBSD классическим FreeNAS было создано ответвление, разработчики которого поставили перед собой цель перевести дистрибутив на ядро Linux и пакетную базу Debian. Для загрузки подготовлены установочные образы OpenMediaVault для архитектуры x86_64 (1.4 ГБ).

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64489

Los Angeles Times (non-paywalled source): When police questioned Marvin Margolis following the murder of Elizabeth Short -- who became known as the Black Dahlia -- he lied about how well he had known her. The 22-year-old Short had been found mutilated in a weedy lot in South Los Angeles, severed neatly in half with what detectives thought was surgical skill. Margolis was on the list of suspects. He was a sullen 21-year-old premed student at USC, a shell-shocked World War II veteran who had expressed an eagerness to practice surgery. He was "a resentful individual who shows ample evidence of open aggression," a military psychiatrist had concluded.

At first, Margolis did not tell detectives that he had lived with Short for 12 days at a Hollywood Boulevard apartment, three months before her January 1947 murder. Margolis later admitted they had lived together in Apartment 726 at the Guardian Arms Apartments. But he soon moved to Chicago and changed his name, frustrating further attempts to question him. Among many suspects, a district attorney investigator would note, Margolis was "the only pre-medical student who ever lived as a boy friend with Beth Short."

A generation later and hundreds of miles north, a killer who called himself the Zodiac terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area with five seemingly random murders from 1968 to 1969, taunting police and media for years with letters and cryptograms. The toughest to decipher was the letter he sent in April 1970 to the San Francisco Chronicle, with the words "My name is -" followed by a 13-character string of letters and symbols. It came to be called the Z13 cipher, and its brevity has stymied generations of PhDs and puzzle prodigies.

Alex Baber, a 50-year-old West Virginia man who dropped out of high school and taught himself codebreaking, now says he has cracked the Zodiac killer's identity -- and in the process solved the Black Dahlia case as well. "It's irrefutable," said Baber, obsessive, hyperfocused and cocksure in manner, his memory encyclopedic and his speech a firehose of dates, locations and surprising linkages.

[...] To attack the problem, Baber used artifical intelligence and generated a list of 71 million possible 13-letter names. Using known details of the Zodiac killer, based on witness descriptions, he cross-checked those names against military, marriage, census and other public records. "This takes me nine months of working 18-20 hour days," he said. "I'm starting to kill this onion. I'm starting to eliminate layers: Too tall, too short, or wrong race." The candidates narrowed to 185, to 14, and then, he said, to one. The name he found buried in the Z13 code: "Marvin Merrill."

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European leaders including Emmanuel Macron have accused Washington of "coercion and intimidation," after the US imposed a visa ban on five prominent European figures who have been at heart of the campaign to introduce laws regulating American tech companies. From a report: The visa bans were imposed on Tuesday on Thierry Breton, the former EU commissioner and one of the architects of the bloc's Digital Services Act (DSA), and four anti-disinformation campaigners, including two in Germany and two in the UK.

The other individuals targeted were Imran Ahmed, the British chief executive of the US-based Center for Countering Digital Hate; Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon of the German non-profit HateAid; and Clare Melford, co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index. Justifying the visa bans, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, wrote on X: "For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organised efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose. The Trump administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship."

Macron condemned the visa ban in furious terms. "These measures amount to intimidation and coercion aimed at undermining European digital sovereignty," he wrote, also on X. "The European Union's digital regulations were adopted following a democratic and sovereign process by the European Parliament and the Council. They apply within Europe to ensure fair competition among platforms, without targeting any third country, and to ensure that what is illegal offline is also illegal online. The rules governing the European Union's digital space are not meant to be determined outside Europe."

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Опубликовано: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:03:59 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Системное программирование / Хабр

Планировщик Linux долгое время оставался зоной, куда можно было заглянуть, но почти невозможно вмешаться без пересборки ядра. С появлением sched_ext эта граница сдвинулась: теперь логику планирования можно описывать кодом на C и загружать в ядро через eBPF. В статье разберём минимальный рабочий планировщик, посмотрим, как он взаимодействует с ядром, и обсудим, какие новые возможности это открывает для экспериментов и диагностики поведения системы под нагрузкой. Вникнуть в ядро]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/otus/articles/980206/

Russia plans to put a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next decade to supply its lunar space programme and a joint Russian-Chinese research station, as major powers rush to explore the earth's only natural satellite. Reuters: Ever since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space in 1961, Russia has prided itself as a leading power in space exploration, but in recent decades it has fallen behind the United States and, increasingly, China. Russia's ambitions suffered a massive blow in August 2023 when its unmanned Luna-25 mission smashed into the surface of the moon while attempting to land, and Elon Musk has revolutionised the launch of space vehicles - once a Russian speciality.

Russia's state space corporation, Roscosmos, said in a statement that it planned to build a lunar power plant by 2036 and signed a contract with the Lavochkin Association aerospace company to do it. Roscosmos did not say explicitly that the plant would be nuclear but it said the participants included Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom and the Kurchatov Institute, Russia's leading nuclear research institute. Roscosmos said the purpose of the plant was to power Russia's lunar programme, including rovers, an observatory and the infrastructure of the joint Russian-Chinese International Lunar Research Station.

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The Justice Department justified its delayed release of sensitive files by citing the need to carefully redact information that could identify victims, but at least some of those redactions have proven to be technically ineffective and can be bypassed by simply copying and pasting the blacked-out text into a new document.

A 2022 complaint filed by the US Virgin Islands seeking damages from Jeffrey Epstein's estate appeared on the DOJ's "Epstein Library" website with black boxes throughout. Techdirt founder Mike Masnick and others shared on Bluesky that the redactions could be trivially circumvented. The exposed text includes allegations that a co-executor signed over $400,000 in foundation checks "payable to young female models and actresses, including a former Russian model," and details about an immigration lawyer allegedly "involved in one or more forced marriages arranged among Epstein's victims."

Separately, Drop Site News was also apparently able to guess URLs of files not yet published by extrapolating the format.

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Опубликован релиз открытого растрового графического редактора Pinta 3.1, основанного в 2010 году в качестве попытки создать более простой аналог программы Paint.NET, написанный с использованием GTK. Редактор ориентирован на начинающих пользователей и предоставляет базовый набор возможностей для рисования и обработки изображений. Интерфейс по возможности упрощён. Редактор поддерживает неограниченный буфер отката изменений, позволяет работать с несколькими слоями, укомплектован набором инструментов для наложения различных эффектов и корректировки изображений. Код Pinta распространяется под лицензией MIT. Проект написан на языке C# с использованием .NET и обвязки Gtk#. Бинарные сборки созданы для Linux (Flatpak, Snap), macOS и Windows.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64487

После четырёх месяцев разработки опубликован выпуск проекта Wayback 0.3, позволяющего запускать десктоп-окружения, завязанные на протокол X11, используя компоненты на базе Wayland. Wayback представляет собой урезанный композитный сервер Wayland, поддерживающий только возможности, необходимые для запуска полноэкранного сеанса X11 при помощи Xwayland. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией MIT.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64486

Hallmark has released more than 300 Christmas-themed TV movies since 2000, and a detailed internal rulebook obtained by film data analyst Stephen Follows explains how the company manages to produce nearly one new holiday film per week during the final quarter of each year without the whole operation collapsing into creative chaos.

The document, referred to as Hallmark's "bible" by writers and producers who have worked on these films, specifies everything from script length (105-110 pages across a rigid nine-act structure) to prohibited activities (no bowling, no karaoke). Christmas movies must include snow or its remnants and feature characters engaged in seasonal activities like baking cookies, ice skating, and drinking hot chocolate.

The target demographic is women aged 25-54, and the content must be watchable by an 80-year-old grandmother and a 5-year-old niece simultaneously. The economics differ sharply from theatrical filmmaking. Licensed titles from outside production companies carry budgets around $500,000 or less, while Hallmark's in-house productions can exceed $2 million. About three-quarters of the library comes from external producers. The formula appears to work. Hallmark TV movies have averaged a 6.3 IMDb user score over the past 14 years, compared to 5.9 for feature films worldwide.

Further reading: Using Data To Determine if 'Die Hard' is a Christmas Movie.

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Доступен минорный релиз операционной системы «Альт Рабочая станция К» 11.2. Сборка подготовлена на x86_64 Одиннадцатой платформы (ветка p11 Salvia), на базе ядра 6.12 (LTS).

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В новом образе

• При установке системы появился выбор - активировать поддержку LVFS для удобных автоматических обновлений BIOS и прошивок устройств или отключить для полной ручной настройки в критически важных средах.

• Центр приложений Discover теперь поддерживает установку RPM-пакетов из файлов.

• Упрощена и стабилизирована система управления пакетами: поддержка SNAP удалена из установочного образа.

• По умолчанию включен фоновый сервис packagekit-background для предварительной загрузки пакетов, что ускоряет процесс обновления системы.

• Пользователи из групп wheel и netadmin теперь могут создавать системные подключения для всех пользователей в стандартном NetworkManager.

• В Kdenlive добавлена поддержка универсального формата проектов OpenTimeLineIO (OTIO) для совместной работы с другими видеоредакторами.

• Ключевые компоненты KDE теперь защищены от непреднамеренного удаления.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2024, 25.2% of gross final energy consumption in the EU came from renewable sources, up by 0.7 percentage points compared with 2023. This share is 17.3 pp short of meeting the 2030 target (42.5%), which would require an annual average increase of 2.9 pp from 2025 to 2030.

Among the EU countries, Sweden recorded the highest share of its gross final energy consumption coming from renewable sources (62.8%). Sweden primarily relied on solid biomass, hydro and wind. Finland followed with 52.1%, relying on solid biomass, wind and hydro, while Denmark came in third with 46.8%, with most of its renewable energy sourced from solid biomass, wind and biogas. The lowest shares of renewables were recorded in Belgium (14.3%), Luxembourg (14.7%), and Ireland (16.1%).

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YouTube has been winning the streaming wars for years, but its real competitive advantage comes not from prime-time viewing but from its stranglehold on daytime hours when Americans are meditating, exercising, cooking, or simply looking for background noise. At 11 a.m. in October, YouTube commanded an average audience of 6.3 million viewers compared to Netflix's 2.8 million, according to Nielsen data. Amazon drew about a million viewers at that hour, and HBO Max, Paramount+ and Peacock each pulled fewer than 600,000.

The gap narrows significantly at night -- Netflix's audience swells to over 11 million at 9 p.m., trailing YouTube's 12 million -- but YouTube's dominance reasserts itself in overnight hours and through the next day. Netflix is responding by bringing at least 34 video podcasts to its service next year, including "The Breakfast Club," "The Bill Simmons Podcast," and "Pardon My Take." Amazon added the Kelce brothers' "New Heights" podcast to Prime Video in September. The strategy is intentional: roughly 75 percent of all podcast listening happens between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., according to Edison Research. YouTube said viewers watched 700 million hours of video podcasts on living room devices in October alone, a 75% increase from the previous year.

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Goldman Sachs, in a note this week, via India Dispatch: There are various reasons that explains this: (i) A large part of the global education spend goes towards formal education (schools, colleges and universities), which are typically either run by governments or are not-for-profit institutions;

(ii) It is difficult to replicate education quality at scale in our view, since most teachers would have a different pedagogy, and thus standardization is harder to achieve vs that in other internet categories;

(iii) Education is fragmented - it includes various fields (schools, undergrad courses, medicine, engg, management, etc.), each with their own curriculum, and the same being vastly different across countries globally; this makes scalability difficult beyond a few certain specializations and regions.

Additionally, we believe the ability for online education to capture a sizable value share of supplemental education is limited since the perceived value of offline, including that from community, in-person engagement and doubt solving, rigour, etc., is typically higher.

However, we note that before China's double reduction policy in 2021, TAL and EDU had market caps of up to US$50 bn; these companies were mostly domestic focused and on the K-12 tutoring segment, which has large volumes. Similarly in India, Byju's reached a peak valuation of US$20 bn+ (link; again, focused on K-12), before issues around governance etc. impacted the business.

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ну и перевёл бы его целиком или частично на ii. кстати, проблема та же, что я указывал в 2014 - в некоторых форумах темы с 0, с 2 или около того сообщениями, и чтобы всё прочитать, надо всё прокликивать. я бы хотел просто одним списком почитать все последние сообщения за последний год, например, прокликивать все форумы мне неудобно.

Опубликовано: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:01:28 GMT
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Близятся Новый год и Рождество, а значит, ёлки и всё связанное с ними: гирлянды, украшения и, разумеется, игрушки. Праздник слишком уж весёлый, и я решил, что ему не хватает мрачной игры, поэтому напечатал маленькую ёлочную игрушку в виде модели IBM PC, засунул в неё самый маленький ЖК-дисплей, который смог найти, добавил туда процессор и логику, а также аккумулятор. Это устройство может висеть на ёлке и показывать демонстрационный режим Doom со звуком и музыкой. Но и это ещё не всё: если подключить ней любую BLE-клавиатуру или джойстик, то можно будет самому убивать миллиметровых зомби, какодемонов и импов. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/978176/

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. The Europeans, characterized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as "radical" activists and "weaponized" nongovernmental organizations, fell afoul of a new visa policy announced in May to restrict the entry of foreigners deemed responsible for censorship of protected speech in the United States. "For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose," Rubio posted on X. "The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship."

The five Europeans were identified by Sarah Rogers, the under secretary of state for public diplomacy, in a series of posts on social media. [...] The five Europeans named by Rogers are: Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate; Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, leaders of HateAid, a German organization; Clare Melford, who runs the Global Disinformation Index; and former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who was responsible for digital affairs. Rogers in her post on X called Breton, a French business executive and former finance minister, the "mastermind" behind the EU's Digital Services Act, which imposes a set of strict requirements designed to keep internet users safe online. This includes flagging harmful or illegal content like hate speech. She referred to Breton warning Musk of a possible "amplification of harmful content" by broadcasting his livestream interview with Trump in August 2024 when he was running for president.

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