Новый systemd к нам мчится! Чем же порадует энтузиастов GNU/Linux самый распространённый системный менеджер в последнем релизе уходящего года?

• расширение интерфейса Varlink IPC (догоняем D-Bus);

• опция ExecReloadPost= для юнитов (стреляет после перечитывания конфигурации сервисом);

• конфиги /etc/systemd/systemd-sysext.conf и /etc/systemd/systemd-confext.conf для соответствующих сервисов;

• systemd-vmspawn научился пробрасывать системного пользователя внутрь виртуалки с помощью --bind-user=/--bind-user-shell=;

• опцию --recovery-key= у homectl теперь можно использовать и при операции update, а не только при создании пользователя;

• systemd-machined и systemd-importd теперь можно запускать отдельно для каждого пользователя;

• run0 получил опцию --empower (использует соответствующую системную группу) для повышения привилегий через механизм capabilities без смены UID - меньше шансов создать файлы от рута или ещё как-то напортачить ненароком;

• расширения конфиг файлов (которые в чё-то.d/ папке) с суффиксом .ignore теперь, ожидаемо, игнорируются;

• множество не менее праздничных нововведений и улучшений.

Поддержка скриптов System V объявлена устаревшей и планируется к удалению – системы и пакеты, пребывающие в состоянии летаргии, нужно из него вывести.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/linux-general/18171416

U.S. video game hardware spending fell 27% year over year in November to $695 million, according to market analyst company Circana. "This is the lowest video game hardware spending total for a November month since the $455 million reached during the November 2005 tracking period," Circana says. Furthermore, only 1.6 million units of hardware were sold in the U.S. in November, which is "the lowest total for a November month since 1995 (1.4 million)." The Verge reports: The rising costs of consoles probably didn't help. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series of consoles both turned five in November, but customers looking to pick up one of the consoles brand new are having to grapple with higher prices following price hikes this year. Those hikes have led to an "all-time November high" for the average price paid for a new unit of video game hardware of $439, Circana says -- a number that's up 11 percent from 2024. (In November 2019, the average price was $235, according to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella.)

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Опубликовано: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:01:30 GMT
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Картинка: freepik.comМы привыкли к тому, что технологическое использование света всё больше и больше находит применение в нашей цивилизации: оптические развязки электронных схем, оптические линии связи (в том числе между спутниками), даже прогнозирующийся переход на оптические схемы и оптические процессоры (в относительно недалёком будущем)…Но есть и ещё одна область использования света, которая будет, наверное, не так широко знакома широкой публике, но тем не менее любопытна сама по себе — назовём её условно «оптические линии ближнего радиуса». Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/976530/

Альянс AOUSD (Alliance for OpenUSD), курируемый организацией Linux Foundation, опубликовал спецификацию OpenUSD Core Specification 1.0, определяющую универсальный формат и язык для описания 3D-сцен, оптимизированный для совместной работы над 3D-контентом. Спецификация преподносится как открытый стандарт для создания 3D-контента и обмена данными между разными 3D-редакторами и платформами. В разработке спецификации приняли участие такие компании, как Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Apple, Amazon, Autodesk, NVIDIA, Sony, Intel и Meta. О поддержке стандарта заявили такие компании, как Hexagon, PTC, Renault, Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, Siemens; Amazon, IKEA, Epic Games, Cesium и Esri.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64445

Опубликовано: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:00:55 GMT
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Привет, Хабр! На связи Владимир Туров, разработчик в Selectel. В рекомендациях одного маркетплейса мне попалось чудо китайской киберпанковой мысли — часы и по совместительству пиксельный дисплей Divoom Timegate. Мне понравился визуальный стиль и потенциальная возможность выводить любую информацию. У часов есть свое приложение с регистрацией, что навевает грустные мысли… Вдруг часы управляются исключительно через серверы производителя? Я купил девайс и немного разобрался в его интерфейсах. В этой статье проведу минимальный обзор устройства и расскажу про возможности API и локального управления на примере шуточной интеграции с Baldur’s Gate 3. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/selectel/articles/975270/

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64444

Опубликовано: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:01:18 GMT
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Кемпинг я начинал строить с нуля. В первый год это был скромный палаточный лагерь с минимальными удобствами. Со временем он вырос в полноценный автокемпинг: с умывальниками и душевыми, питьевой водой во всех кранах, общей кухней, вечерним кинотеатром, вендинговыми стиральными машинами, розетками во всех палатках, кофемашиной, посудомоечной машиной, быстрым Wi-Fi, охраной территории, поливом газонов, освещением — и с гостями круглый год.Кемпинг я строил сам, своими руками. В одиночку много и быстро не построишь, поэтому делал все не спеша, но качественно, не экономя на материалах. Удобства появлялись поэтапно, а не все сразу. Например, одни только ворота с электроприводом я варил и устанавливал почти полгода. Я сразу понимал, что объект коммерческий, а значит все строения и оборудование должны быть удобными, надежными и рассчитанными на долгую работу.На каждом этапе строительства я сразу внедрял автоматизацию там, где это имело смысл. В этой статье я расскажу, как автоматизировал свой автокемпинг: почему ушел от Wi-Fi и облаков, как устроены водопровод и полив, душевые и вендинговые стиральные машины с автоподачей геля, как ведется учет ресурсов и как я контролирую все это хозяйство. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/wirenboard/articles/977898/

Опубликовано: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:05:30 GMT
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Если попробовать выбрать наиболее технологичный и, в то же время, интересный, а также существенно повлиявший на историю цивилизации способ сохранения информации, то, среди таковых, несомненно, особняком будет стоять магнитная запись на проволоку! Появившись достаточно давно, она положила начало целым направлениям в науке и технике и, любопытным следствиям из этого, которые сулят интересные перспективы! Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/beget/articles/976388/

Опубликовано: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:13:35 GMT
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В этой статье — компактный DIY-проект на стыке 3D-печати, механики и минимальной электроники: шариковая машинка, упакованная в прозрачную ёлочную игрушку. Автор показывает сборку по шагам: печать деталей, мотор + шестерни, пайка питания, аккуратное сверление сферы и сборка «внутренностей» так, чтобы механизм стабильно работал в замкнутом объёме. По ходу — практические нюансы (вплоть до направления вращения мотора) и честный результат: работает, медитативно, но шумно. Посмотреть сборку]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/otus/articles/977836/

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Ars Technica: Every other week, it seems, a new Chinese launch company pops up with a rocket design and a plan to reach orbit within a few years. For a long time, the majority of these companies revealed designs that looked a lot like SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. The first of these copy cats, the medium-lift Zhuque-3 rocket built by LandSpace, launched earlier this month. Its primary mission was nominal, but the Zhuque-3 rocket failed its landing attempt, which is understandable for a first flight. Doubtless there will be more Chinese Falcon 9-like rockets making their debut in the near future. However, over the last year, there has been a distinct change in announcements from China when it comes to new launch technology. Just as SpaceX is seeking to transition from its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket -- which has now been flying for a decade and a half -- to the fully reusable Starship design, so too are Chinese companies modifying their visions.

The trend began with the Chinese government. In November 2024 the government announced a significant shift in the design of its super-heavy lift rocket, the Long March 9. Instead of the previous design, a fully expendable rocket with three stages and solid rocket boosters strapped to the sides, the country's state-owned rocket maker revealed a vehicle that mimicked SpaceX's fully reusable Starship. Around the same time, a Chinese launch firm named Cosmoleap announced plans to develop a fully reusable "Leap" rocket within the next few years. An animated video that accompanied the funding announcement indicated that the company seeks to emulate the tower catch-with-chopsticks methodology that SpaceX has successfully employed.

But wait, there's more. In June a company called Astronstone said it too was developing a stainless steel, methane-fueled rocket that would also use a chopstick-style system for first stage recovery. Astronstone didn't even pretend to not copy SpaceX, saying it was "fully aligning its technical approach with Elon Musk's SpaceX." And then, on Friday, the state-aligned China.com reported that a company called "Beijing Leading Rocket Technology" took things a step further. It has named its vehicle "Starship-1," adding that the new rocket will have enhancements from AI and is billed as a "fully reusable AI rocket."

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Я своими глазами видел, как чувак у нас на работе запускал DeepSeek (тот самый первый) через ламу на не очень мощном ноуте - задавал ему вопросы и тот чото даже неспешно печатал в ответ :)

Организация Open Source Initiative (OSI), занимающаяся проверкой лицензий на предмет соответствия критериям Open Source, опубликовала рейтинг популярности открытых лицензией. Позиции в рейтинге вычислены на основе числа просмотров страниц с информацией о каждой лицензии. Данные представлены с учётом отсеивания ботов. С большим отрывом лидирует лицензия MIT, за которой следуют лицензии Apache 2.0, BSD3, BSD2, GPL 2 и GPL 3. По сравнению со статистикой за 2024 год лицензия Apache 2.0 сместила лицензию BSD3 со второго на третье место, а лицензии LGPLv3 и OFL-1.1 поднялись на восьмое и девятое места, сместив на десятое место лицензию LGPLv2.1.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64443

Deepseek нормальный не потянет на домашнем пк, но можно попробовать Qwen, Gemma или gpt-oss (последнюю хвалят даже на 20b)
Вместо ollama лучше использовать llama.cpp ибо позволяет настроить больше опций/оптимизаций

Опубликован выпуск мультимедийного проигрывателя VLC 3.0.23. Код написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией LGPLv2.1. Выпуск сформирован спустя две недели после релиза VLC 3.0.22 и включает в основном исправления ошибок и уязвимостей, выявленных по горячим следам.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64442

Опубликован выпуск библиотеки libmdbx 0.13.10 (MDBX) с реализацией высокопроизводительной компактной встраиваемой базы данных класса ключ-значение. Код libmdbx распространяется под лицензией Apache 2.0. Поддерживаются все актуальные операционные системы и архитектуры, а также российский Эльбрус 2000. Для libmdbx предлагается развитое API для C++, а также поддерживаемые энтузиастами привязки к языкам Rust, Haskell, Python, NodeJS, Ruby, Go, Nim, Deno, Scala. Из проектов, использующих libmdbx, можно отметить Isar, Erigon и Reth, а также разработки компаний StarkWare и Positive Technologies.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64441

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) community is grieving after the "shocking" shooting death of the director of its plasma science and fusion center, according to officials. Nuno FG Loureiro, 47, had been shot multiple times at his home in the affluent Boston suburb of Brookline on Monday night when police said they received a call to investigate. Emergency responders brought Loureiro to a hospital, and the award-winning scientist was pronounced dead there Tuesday morning, the Norfolk county district attorney's office said in a statement.

The Boston Globe reported speaking with a neighbor of Loureiro who heard gunshots, found the academic lying on his back in the foyer of their building and then called for help alongside the victim's wife. The statement from the Norfolk district attorney's office said an investigation into Loureiro's slaying remained ongoing later Tuesday. But the agency did not immediately release any details about a possible suspect or motive in the killing, which gained widespread attention across academic circles, the US and in Loureiro's native Portugal.

Portugal's minster of foreign affairs announced Loureiro's death in a public hearing Tuesday, as CNN reported. Separately, MIT president Sally Kornbluth issued a university-wide letter expressing "great sadness" over the death of Loureiro, whose survivors include his wife. "This shocking loss for our community comes in a period of disturbing violence in many other places," said Kornbluth's letter, released after a weekend marred by deadly mass shootings at Brown University in Rhode Island -- about 50 miles away from MIT -- as well as on Australia's Bondi Beach. The letter concluded by providing a list of mental health resources, saying: "It's entirely natural to feel the need for comfort and support."

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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Politico: The Senate on Wednesday approved Jared Isaacman for the top job at NASA -- an unprecedented comeback after President Donald Trump yanked his nomination this spring. Senators confirmed the billionaire private astronaut in a 67-30 vote. Trump renominated Isaacman for NASA administrator in November, after pulling his original nomination in May. He cited Isaacman's relationship with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, with whom Trump had just had a falling out, as the rationale for his decision. Isaacman's surprise rebound followed months of political jockeying and help from high-profile figures in Trump's orbit. [...] Isaacman garnered backing from lawmakers during his hearing by confirming his support for NASA's Artemis moon-landing mission, a key prerogative for Capitol Hill. He also committed to instilling urgency at the space agency, citing China's space ambitions.

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The Academy has struck a multi-year deal to move the Oscars to YouTube starting in 2029, ending decades on ABC and making the ceremony free to stream worldwide with YouTube holding exclusive global rights. Variety reports: The Oscars, including red carpet coverage, behind-the-scenes content and Governors Ball, will be available live and for free on YouTube to viewers around the world, as well as to YouTube TV subscribers in the United States. Architects of the agreement said they hope the move to YouTube will help make the Oscars more accessible to "the Academy's growing global audience through features such as closed captioning and audio tracks available in multiple languages." [...]

The Academy had been seeking a new broadcast licensing agreement for the better part of 2025. Over the summer, several expected and unconventional buyers, including NBCUniversal and Netflix, had come into the mix as potential suitors. Insiders believe that YouTube shelled out over nine figures for the Oscars, besting the high eight-figure offers from Disney/ABC and NBCUniversal. Under the most recent contract, Disney was paying around $100 million annually for the Oscars -- but given the ratings declines for the kudocast, Disney/ABC were reportedly looking to spend less on license fees.

[...] It's not a secret that the Academy and Disney/ABC would occasionally have disagreements over the best path for the Oscars, including the show's length, which awards to present and who should host. Now, on a streamer with no time limits, the Oscars can be any length, and the Academy likely has carte blanche to do whatever it wants with the telecast. "They can do whatever they want," says one insider. "You can have a six-hour Oscars hosted by MrBeast."

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Meta has paused its third-party Horizon OS headset program, effectively canceling planned VR headsets from Asus and Lenovo as it refocuses on "building the world-class first-party hardware and software needed to advance the VR market." Road to VR reports: A little over a year and a half ago, Meta made an "industry-altering announcement," as I called the move in my reporting: the company was rebranding the Quest operating system to 'Horizon OS' and announced it was working with select partners to launch third-party VR headsets powered by the operating system. Meta specifically named Asus and Lenovo as the first partners it was working with to build new Horizon OS headsets. Asus was said to be building an "all-new performance gaming headset," while Lenovo was purportedly working on "mixed reality devices for productivity, learning, and entertainment."

But as we've now learned, neither headset is likely to see the light of day. Meta say it has frozen the third-party Horizon OS headset program. "We have paused the program to focus on building the world-class first-party hardware and software needed to advance the VR market," a Meta spokesperson told Road to VR. "We're committed to this for the long term and will revisit opportunities for 3rd-party device partnerships as the category evolves."

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Netflix on Wednesday said it will add a soccer simulation title to its gaming portfolio, as the streaming giant looks to leverage the FIFA World Cup 2026 tournament to deepen its video game push. The soccer title will be developed and published by Delphi Interactive, which is also helping create a premium James Bond game called "007 First Light," and in association with the sport's governing body, FIFA. Netflix said the game will launch in time for the world's most-watched sporting event, scheduled to start June next year in the U.S.

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Опубликовано: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:01:35 GMT
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Всем привет, сегодня будем скрашивать никак не наступающую зиму всякими забавными штуками типа заливания прошивки в esp32, и установки тотальной слежки за всеми внутри квартиры. Основа всех этих изысканий вот эта статья. Вся магия будет происходить исключительно тыканием в кнопки UI и написанием yaml. Основная идея - прошить несколько esp32 прошивкой которая будет будет стучать про слышимые BLE девайсы через wifi в HomeAssistant и раскидать их по квартире. Нам понадобится Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/977918/

GitHub will begin charging $0.002 per minute for self-hosted Actions runners used on private repositories starting in March. "At the same time, GitHub noted in a Tuesday blog post that it's lowering the prices of GitHub-hosted runners beginning January 1, under a scheme it calls 'simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions,'" reports The Register. "Self-hosted runner usage on public repositories will remain free." From the report: Regardless of the public repo distinction, enterprise-scale developers who rely on self-hosted runners were predictably not pleased about the announcement. "Github have just sent out an email announcing a $0.002/minute fee for self-hosted runners," Reddit user markmcw posted on the DevOps subreddit. "Just ran the numbers, and for us, that's close to $3.5k a month extra on our GitHub bill." [...]

"Historically, self-hosted runner customers were able to leverage much of GitHub Actions' infrastructure and services at no cost," the repo host said in its blog FAQ. "This meant that the cost of maintaining and evolving these essential services was largely being subsidized by the prices set for GitHub-hosted runners." The move, GitHub said, will align costs more closely with usage. Like many similar changes to pricing models pushed by tech firms, GitHub says "the vast majority of users ... will see no price increase."

GitHub claims that 96 percent of its customers will see no change to their bill, and that 85 percent of the 4 percent affected by the pricing update will actually see their Actions costs decrease. The company says the remaining 15 percent of impacted users will face a median increase of about $13 a month. For those using self-hosted runners and worried about increased costs, GitHub has updated its pricing calculator to include the cost of self-hosted runners.

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Longtime Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that the Linux kernel has received its first CVE tied to Rust code. Phoronix reports: This first CVE (CVE-2025-68260) for Rust code in the Linux kernel pertains to the Android Binder rewrite in Rust. There is a race condition that can occur due to some noted unsafe Rust code. That code can lead to memory corruption of the previous/next pointers and in turn cause a crash. This CVE for the possible system crash is for Linux 6.18 and newer since the introduction of the Rust Binder driver. At least though it's just a possible system crash and not any more serious system compromise with remote code execution or other more severe issues.

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Угу - на моём железе он будет по одной букве в минуту выдавать - так что таки да - более менее весомых ответов надо будет ждать несколько часов :)

Конечно, в отдельную эху, с определённым периодом опроса. "Чиста спросить". :) И ждать ответа полдня, чтобы ощущение офлайновости сохранялось ;)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google began its transition to Gemini 3 a few weeks ago with the launch of the Pro model, and the arrival of Gemini 3 Flash kicks it into high gear. The new, faster Gemini 3 model is coming to the Gemini app and search, and developers will be able to access it immediately via the Gemini API, Vertex AI, AI Studio, and Antigravity. Google's bigger gen AI model is also picking up steam, with both Gemini 3 Pro and its image component (Nano Banana Pro) expanding in search.

This may come as a shock, but Google says Gemini 3 Flash is faster and more capable than its previous base model. As usual, Google has a raft of benchmark numbers that show modest improvements for the new model. It bests the old 2.5 Flash in basic academic and reasoning tests like GPQA Diamond and MMMU Pro (where it even beats 3 Pro). It gets a larger boost in Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), which tests advanced domain-specific knowledge. Gemini 3 Flash has tripled the old models' score in HLE, landing at 33.7 percent without tool use. That's just a few points behind the Gemini 3 Pro model. Gemini 3 Flash has been been significantly improved in terms of factual accuracy, scoring 68.7% on Simple QA Verified, which is up from 28.1% in the previous model. It's also designed as a high-efficiency model that's suitable for real-time and high-volume workloads.

According to Google, Gemini 3 Flash is now the default model for AI Mode in Google Search.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting complete and extended conversations from users' AI conversations and selling them for marketing purposes, according to data collected from the Google and Microsoft pages hosting them.

Security firm Koi discovered the eight extensions, which as of late Tuesday night remained available in both Google's and Microsoft's extension stores. Seven of them carry "Featured" badges, which are endorsements meant to signal that the companies have determined the extensions meet their quality standards. The free extensions provide functions such as VPN routing to safeguard online privacy and ad blocking for ad-free browsing. All provide assurances that user data remains anonymous and isnâ(TM)t shared for purposes other than their described use.

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Опубликован корректирующий выпуск почтового сервера Exim 4.99.1, в котором устранена уязвимость (CVE-2025-67896), позволяющая удалённому атакующему повредить содержимое памяти вне выделенного буфера. Потенциально проблема может использоваться для удалённого выполнения кода на сервере, но рабочий эксплоит пока не подготовлен.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64440

Алекс Контос (Alex Kontos), основатель Waterfox, модификации Firefox, сфокусированной на конфиденциальности, производительности и исключении излишеств, заявил, что в обозримом будущем проект Waterfox не станет интегрировать функциональность, использующую большие языковые модели, по крайней мере в том виде, в котором её развивают в Firefox. Речь про применение больших языковых моделей, влияющих на поведение браузера и выполняющих действия от имени пользователя. Локальное применение систем машинного обучения, например, для перевода с одного языка на другой, допускается.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64438

The conventional wisdom that English prose has gotten easier to read because sentences have gotten shorter is wrong, according to a new analysis published in Works in Progress by writer and Mercatus Center research fellow Henry Oliver. The real transformation happened centuries ago in the 1500s and 1600s when Bible translators like William Tyndale and Thomas Cranmer developed a "plain style" built on logical syntax rather than the older rhythmic, periodic structures inherited from medieval prose.

Oliver argues that much of what modern datasets measure as declining sentence length is actually just changing punctuation habits. Writers now use periods where earlier generations used colons and semicolons. One dataset shows semicolon usage dropped from one every 90 words in 1781 to one every 390 words today. The cognitive complexity of a paragraph often remains the same regardless of how it's punctuated. Even wildly popular modern books don't follow the "short sentences equal readable" formula. Oliver points to Onyx Storm, the 2025 fantasy novel that has sold tens of millions of copies, which opens with sentences of 24 and 30 words. The 30-word sentence has a subordinate clause twice as long as its main clause. The book reads easily not because sentences are short but because the language is plain and the syntax is logical.

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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in his Wednesday Senate testimony that the agency he governs "is not an independent agency, formally speaking." Axios: During his testimony, the word "independent" was removed from the FCC's mission statement on its website. The extraordinary statement speaks to a broader trend of regulatory agencies losing power to the executive branch during the Trump era. Last week, the Supreme Court appeared poised to allow President Trump to fire members of the Federal Trade Commission during oral arguments over the issue.

Sen. Ben Ray LujÃn (D-N.M.) began the line of questioning, citing the FCC's website, which said the agency was independent as of Wednesday morning. By Wednesday afternoon, the FCC's mission statement no longer said it was independent. Chairman Carr would not respond directly to questions about whether he believed the president was his boss. He would not answer whether it's appropriate if the president were to pressure him to go after media companies. He suggested the president has the power to fire him and other FCC commissioners.

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A comprehensive database built by scientists in Switzerland and Norway has catalogued 16,000 chemicals linked to plastic materials, and the findings paint a troubling picture of what Americans are actually eating when they prepare food in their kitchens. Of those 16,000 chemicals, more than 5,400 are considered hazardous to human health by government and industry standards, while just 161 are classified as not hazardous. The remaining 10,700-plus chemicals simply don't have enough data to determine their safety.

The chemicals enter food through multiple pathways. Black plastic utensils and trays often contain brominated flame retardants because they're made from recycled electronic waste. Nonstick pans and compostable plates frequently contain PFAS. One California study found phthalates in three-quarters of tested foods, and a Consumer Reports analysis last year detected BPA or similar chemicals in 79% of foods tested. According to CDC data, more than 90% of Americans have measurable levels of these chemicals in their bodies. A 10-fold increase in maternal levels of brominated flame retardants is associated with a 3.7-point IQ drop in children.

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Coursera announced on Wednesday that it will acquire rival online learning platform Udemy in an all-stock deal that values the combined company at $2.5 billion, a move that brings together two of the largest U.S.-based players in an industry that has struggled since pandemic-era enrollment highs faded. Under the terms of the agreement, Udemy shareholders will receive 0.8 shares of Coursera for each share they hold, valuing Udemy at roughly $930 million. Based on Coursera's last closing price, the offer works out to $6.35 per Udemy share, an 18.3% premium. The deal is expected to close in the second half of next year, pending regulatory and shareholder approvals.

The two companies are betting that a combined platform will be better positioned to pursue corporate customers seeking to retrain workers in artificial intelligence, data science and software development. Coursera has built its business on partnerships with universities and institutions to offer degree programs and professional certificates, while Udemy operates a marketplace where independent instructors sell courses directly to consumers and businesses. Both stocks have significantly underperformed this year. Udemy shares have fallen about 35% and Coursera is down roughly 7%, leaving both trading well below their post-IPO highs as investors remain cautious about competition and pricing pressure in the sector.

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Грег Кроа-Хартман анонсировал первую уязвимость с присвоенным CVE в части кода на Rust в Mainline-ядре.Уязвимость обнаружена в коде подсистемы Binder, переписанном на Rust. Возможное состояние гонки в unsafe блоке может повредить указатели связанного списка и привести к краху ядра.Уязвимость воспроизводится в ядре 6.18 при использовании нового, переписанного на Rust драйвера Binder.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/security/18170738

Google is suing a Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group it says is responsible for a massive wave of scam text messages sent to Americans this year, according to a legal complaint filed Tuesday. From a report: The group, known as Darcula, sells software that allows users to send phishing text messages en masse, impersonating organizations like the IRS or the U.S. Postal Service in scams. The lawsuit is designed to give Google legal standing so U.S. courts will allow it to seize websites the group uses, hampering their operations, a spokesperson said.

Darcula is possibly the most prominent name in an emerging, loosely affiliated cybercrime world that creates and sells hacking programs for aspiring scammers to use. Darcula's signature program, called Magic Cat, provides an easy-to-use, intuitive way for cybercriminals without advanced hacking skills to quickly spam millions of phone numbers with links to fake websites impersonating businesses like YouTube's premium service, then steal the credit card numbers victims put in.

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Meta is informing some users that they will soon be restricted in how many link posts they can share each month, unless they pay for its Meta Verified subscription service. As per the notification message: "Starting December 16, certain Facebook profiles without Meta Verified, including yours, will be limited to sharing links in 2 organic posts per month. Subscribe to Meta Verified to share more links on Facebook, plus get a verified badge and additional benefits to help protect your brand."

To be clear, right now this is a limited test, so relatively few Pages are impacted. But understandably, a lot of users are also seeking more information on the change, and whether it could be expanded to all Pages. So, Meta's seeking to boost take-up of Meta Verified, in order to make more money out of its subscription option, which, for business users, costs between $14.99 and $499 per month, depending on which package you choose.

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Warner Bros Discovery's board spurned Paramount Skydance's $108.4 billion hostile takeover bid on Wednesday, calling the offer "illusory" as it accused the studio giant of misleading shareholders about its financing. From a report: Paramount has been in a race with Netflix to win control of Warner Bros, and with it, its prized film and television studios, HBO Max streaming service and franchises like "Harry Potter." After Warner Bros accepted the streaming giant's offer, Paramount launched a hostile offer to outdo that bid.

In a letter to shareholders on Wednesday, the Warner Bros board wrote that Paramount had "consistently misled" Warner Bros shareholders that its $30-per-share cash offer was fully guaranteed, or "backstopped," by the Ellison family, led by billionaire and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.

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С ии надо аккуратно - народ может не понять и сбежать совсем. Можно где-то сбоку приделать отдельной эхой, чтобы не путалось с живым общением. Я давно хотел на своём домашнем железе запустить какой-нибудь открытый движок типа DeepSeek и к нему можно доступ по ii организовать…

Доступен выпуск свободной PaaS-платформы Cozystack 0.38, построенной на базе Kubernetes. Проект нацелен на предоставление готовой платформы для хостинг-провайдеров и фреймворка для построения частных и публичных облаков. Платформа устанавливается напрямую на серверы и охватывает все аспекты подготовки инфраструктуры для предоставления управляемых сервисов. Cozystack позволяет запускать и предоставлять кластеры Kubernetes, базы данных и виртуальные машины. Код платформы доступен на GitHub и распространяется под лицензией Apache-2.0.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64436

В вошедшем в состав ядра Linux 6.18 механизме межпроцессного взаимодействия Binder, написанном на языке Rust, устранена уязвимость (CVE-2025-68260). Проблема вызвана состоянием гонки при выполнении операций в блоках unsafe, напрямую работающих с указателями на предыдущий и следующий элементы списка. При успешной эксплуатации уязвимость в Binder ограничивается аварийным завершением и не приводит к повреждению памяти.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64439

OpenAI is in discussions with Amazon about a potential investment and an agreement to use its AI chips, CNBC confirmed on Tuesday. From the report: The details are fluid and still subject to change but the investment could exceed $10 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the talks are confidential. The discussions come after OpenAI completed a restructuring in October and formally outlined the details of its partnership with Microsoft, giving it more freedom to raise capital and partner with companies across the broader AI ecosystem.

Microsoft has invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI and backed the company since 2019, but it no longer has a right of first refusal to be OpenAI's compute provider, according to an October release. OpenAI can now also develop some products with third parties. Amazon has invested at least $8 billion into OpenAI rival Anthropic, but the e-commerce giant could be looking to expand its exposure to the booming generative AI market. Microsoft has taken a similar step and announced last month that it will invest up to $5 billion into Anthropic, while Nvidia will invest up to $10 billion in the startup.

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Состоялся релиз десктоп-ориентированной операционной системы MidnightBSD 4.0, основанной на FreeBSD с элементами, портированными из DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD и NetBSD. Базовое десктоп-окружение построено на основе Xfce (опционально можно установить связку GNUstep + Window Maker + GWorkspace). В отличие от других десктоп-сборок FreeBSD, ОС MidnightBSD изначально развивалась как форк FreeBSD 6.1-beta, который в 2011 году был синхронизирован с кодовой базой FreeBSD 7 и впоследствии вобрал в себя многие возможности из веток FreeBSD 9-13. Для управления пакетами в MidnightBSD задействована система mport, которая использует БД SQLite для хранения индексов и метаданных, или инструментарий Ravenports. Для загрузки подготовлен установочный образ размером 1 ГБ (i386, amd64).

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64437

Опубликовано: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:24:39 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Робототехника / Хабр

После публикации компании #Tesla видео с андроидом Optimus, на котором была показана скорость бега около 13,5 км/ч, пользователь X Йоаким Вискинд тегнул основателя Figure Бретта Эдкока, написав: «Ваш ход». Эдкок принял вызов, опубликовав короткий ролик. Получилось очень круто! Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/977786/

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Two of the largest food-delivery app companies have made a last-ditch effort to overturn tipping laws in New York City that go into effect in January just as its next mayor, who has been highly critical of the companies and the app industry, takes office. Tips to delivery workers have plummeted since some food-delivery apps switched to showing the tipping option only after a purchase had been completed; that change came after New York City established the country's first minimum pay-rate for the workers in 2023. The new laws will require the apps to suggest a minimum tip of 10 percent at checkout, though customers can contribute more or less, or nothing at all.

Two of the app companies, DoorDash and Uber, filed a joint federal lawsuit in the Southern District of New York late last week targeting the City Council legislation, arguing that the new rules violated the First Amendment by requiring them to "speak a government-mandated message" and exceeded the Council's authority. Although tipping will be optional under the law, the companies wrote in the suit that a "mandated pre-delivery 10 percent tip suggestion" would cause customers to use the app less because they were suffering from "tipping fatigue." "Lessened engagement would result in fewer orders," the suit said.

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U.S. senators are probing whether Big Tech data centers are driving up local electricity bills by socializing grid upgrade costs onto residents. Some of the tactics they're using include NDAs, shell companies, and lobbying. Ars Technica reports: In letters (PDF) to seven AI firms, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) cited a study estimating that "electricity prices have increased by as much as 267 percent in the past five years" in "areas located near significant data center activity." Prices increase, senators noted, when utility companies build out extra infrastructure to meet data centers' energy demands -- which can amount to one customer suddenly consuming as much power as an entire city. They also increase when demand for local power outweighs supply. In some cases, residents are blindsided by higher bills, not even realizing a data center project was approved, because tech companies seem intent on dodging backlash and frequently do not allow terms of deals to be publicly disclosed.

AI firms "ask public officials to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) preventing them from sharing information with their constituents, operate through what appear to be shell companies to mask the real owner of the data center, and require that landowners sign NDAs as part of the land sale while telling them only that a 'Fortune 100 company' is planning an 'industrial development' seemingly in an attempt to hide the very existence of the data center," senators wrote. States like Virginia with the highest concentration of data centers could see average electricity prices increase by another 25 percent by 2030, senators noted. But price increases aren't limited to the states allegedly striking shady deals with tech companies and greenlighting data center projects, they said. "Interconnected and interstate power grids can lead to a data center built in one state raising costs for residents of a neighboring state," senators reported.

Under fire for supposedly only pretending to care about keeping neighbors' costs low were Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Equinix, Digital Realty, and CoreWeave. Senators accused firms of paying "lip service," claiming that they would do everything in their power to avoid increasing residential electricity costs, while actively lobbying to pass billions in costs on to their neighbors. [...] Particularly problematic, senators emphasized, were reports that tech firms were getting discounts on energy costs as utility companies competed for their business, while prices went up for their neighbors.

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- что лучше всего подчёркивает талийю?
- лучше всего талийю подчёркивает Word

Опубликовано: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:51:17 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр

В конце ноября Российский Альянс RISC-V при участии «Группы Астра» и Baikal Electronics, собрал на одной площадке разработчиков чипов, производителей АСУ ТП, разработчиков ОС, инструментов разработки и конечных заказчиков. Повод - круглый стол "Доверенные АСУ ТП на базе RISC-V: от технологического ядра к промышленной экосистеме".И специально для вас мы собрали краткую выжимку самого интересного из обсуждений проходивших на мероприятии. Всем кому интересно - добро пожаловать под кат! Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/riscvalliance/articles/977428/

Отдельную эху сделать и бота туда запулить. Я бы сделал у себя, но я в этом не разбираюсь. Мож когда-нибудь и приделаю.