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Во Франции прошло награждение лучших проектов открытой науки 2025 года
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2025-12-25 01:44:03
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
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2025-12-25 01:44:03
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
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China Is Worried AI Threatens Party Rule
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2025-12-25 01:22:01
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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2025-12-25 01:22:01
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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Выпуск дистрибутива Альт Рабочая станция К 11.2
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2025-12-25 00:44:02
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
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2025-12-25 00:44:02
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
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Доступен дистрибутив для создания сетевых хранилищ OpenMediaVault 8.0
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2025-12-25 00:44:02
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
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2025-12-25 00:44:02
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
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An Amateur Codebreaker May Have Just Solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac Killings
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2025-12-25 00:22:01
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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2025-12-25 00:22:01
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."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/187259/an-amateur-codebreaker-may-have-just-solved-the-black-dahlia-and-zodiac-killings?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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European Leaders Condemn US Visa Bans as Row Over 'Censorship' Escalates
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2025-12-25 00:22:01
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."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/1919250/european-leaders-condemn-us-visa-bans-as-row-over-censorship-escalates?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-12-25 00:22:01
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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[Перевод] Минимальный планировщик с eBPF, sched_ext и C
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2025-12-24 23:35:05
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/
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2025-12-24 23:35:05
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/
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Russia Plans a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon Within a Decade
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2025-12-24 23:22:01
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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2025-12-24 23:22:01
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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Re: пустовато тут
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shaos(spnet, 2) — nnii
2025-12-24 23:47:07
Ты уверен, что ты хочешь всё это читать? ;)
> Всего сообщений: 86457 • Всего тем: 5332 • Всего пользователей: 6450
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shaos(spnet, 2) — nnii
2025-12-24 23:47:07
Ты уверен, что ты хочешь всё это читать? ;)
> Всего сообщений: 86457 • Всего тем: 5332 • Всего пользователей: 6450
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Some of DOJ's Careful Redactions Can Be Defeated With Copy-Paste
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2025-12-24 22:22:01
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.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/1710233/some-of-dojs-careful-redactions-can-be-defeated-with-copy-paste?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-12-24 22:22:01
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.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/1710233/some-of-dojs-careful-redactions-can-be-defeated-with-copy-paste?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Выпуск графического редактора Pinta 3.1
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-12-24 22:44:03
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
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2025-12-24 22:44:03
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
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Выпуск Wayback 0.3, прослойки для запуска рабочих столов X11, используя компоненты Wayland
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2025-12-24 21:44:02
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
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-12-24 21:44:02
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
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What Rules Govern Hallmark Christmas Movies?
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2025-12-24 21:22:02
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.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/1632200/what-rules-govern-hallmark-christmas-movies?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-12-24 21:22:02
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.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/1632200/what-rules-govern-hallmark-christmas-movies?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Альт Рабочая станция К 11.2
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2025-12-24 20:44:08
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).
Скачать образ
• [ ftp.altlinux.org ]( http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p11/images/kworkstation/ )
• [ download.basealt.ru ]( https://download.basealt.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p11/images/kworkstation/ )
• [ mirror.yandex.ru ]( https://mirror.yandex.ru/altlinux/p11/images/kworkstation/ )
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.
Обновлены версии приложений
• KDE Plasma 6 (Mesa 25.1, драйверы NVIDIA 580, Qt 6.9)
• Mesa 25.1
• Драйверы NVIDIA 580
• Qt 6.9
[ Техническая информация ]( https://www.altlinux.org/Альт_Рабочая_станция_К_11#Основные_новшества_в_11.2 )
Подробнее читайте на ресурсах сообщества:
• [ altlinux-announce-ru@ ]( https://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/altlinux-announce-ru/2025/000063.html )
• [ community@ ]( https://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/community/2025-December/689422.html )
[ Анонс «Альт Рабочая станция» 11.1 ]( https://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/community/2025-August/689277.html )
[ Новость на basealt.ru ]( https://www.basealt.ru/about/news/archive/view/obnovlenie-alt-rabochei-stancii-k-112-udobnaja-nastroika-seti-novye-funkcii-dlja-ljudei-s-ogranichennymi-vozmozhnostjami-zdorovja )
[ Другие дистрибутивы ALT на сайте загрузки ]( http://getalt.ru )
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/russia/18177534
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2025-12-24 20:44:08
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).
Скачать образ
• [ ftp.altlinux.org ]( http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p11/images/kworkstation/ )
• [ download.basealt.ru ]( https://download.basealt.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p11/images/kworkstation/ )
• [ mirror.yandex.ru ]( https://mirror.yandex.ru/altlinux/p11/images/kworkstation/ )
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.
Обновлены версии приложений
• KDE Plasma 6 (Mesa 25.1, драйверы NVIDIA 580, Qt 6.9)
• Mesa 25.1
• Драйверы NVIDIA 580
• Qt 6.9
[ Техническая информация ]( https://www.altlinux.org/Альт_Рабочая_станция_К_11#Основные_новшества_в_11.2 )
Подробнее читайте на ресурсах сообщества:
• [ altlinux-announce-ru@ ]( https://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/altlinux-announce-ru/2025/000063.html )
• [ community@ ]( https://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/community/2025-December/689422.html )
[ Анонс «Альт Рабочая станция» 11.1 ]( https://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/community/2025-August/689277.html )
[ Новость на basealt.ru ]( https://www.basealt.ru/about/news/archive/view/obnovlenie-alt-rabochei-stancii-k-112-udobnaja-nastroika-seti-novye-funkcii-dlja-ljudei-s-ogranichennymi-vozmozhnostjami-zdorovja )
[ Другие дистрибутивы ALT на сайте загрузки ]( http://getalt.ru )
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/russia/18177534
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25.2% of Energy EU Used in 2024 Came From Renewables
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2025-12-24 20:22:01
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%).
[ Read more of this story ]( https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/1430253/252-of-energy-eu-used-in-2024-came-from-renewables?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-12-24 20:22:01
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%).
[ Read more of this story ]( https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/1430253/252-of-energy-eu-used-in-2024-came-from-renewables?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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YouTube Has a Firm Grip on Daytime TV
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2025-12-24 19:22:01
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.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/1329210/youtube-has-a-firm-grip-on-daytime-tv?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-12-24 19:22:01
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.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/1329210/youtube-has-a-firm-grip-on-daytime-tv?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Why Are There No Large Market Cap Companies Globally in Edtech?
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2025-12-24 18:22:01
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.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/0846214/why-are-there-no-large-market-cap-companies-globally-in-edtech?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-12-24 18:22:01
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.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/0846214/why-are-there-no-large-market-cap-companies-globally-in-edtech?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Re: пустовато тут
idec.talks
nnii(naste, 2) — shaos
2025-12-24 17:11:32
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.
idec.talks
nnii(naste, 2) — shaos
2025-12-24 17:11:32
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.
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[Перевод] Ёлочная игрушка, на которой запустили Doom
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2025-12-24 17:35:02
Опубликовано: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:01:28 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр
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/
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2025-12-24 17:35:02
Опубликовано: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:01:28 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр
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/
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US Bars Five Europeans It Says Pressured Tech Firms To Censor American Viewpoints Online
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2025-12-24 17:22:01
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.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/0319202/us-bars-five-europeans-it-says-pressured-tech-firms-to-censor-american-viewpoints-online?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-12-24 17:22:01
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.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/0319202/us-bars-five-europeans-it-says-pressured-tech-firms-to-censor-american-viewpoints-online?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2015 Radio Interview Frames AI As 'High-Level Algebra'
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2025-12-24 14:22:02
Longtime Slashdot reader MrFreak shares a public radio interview from 2015 discussing artificial intelligence as inference over abstract inputs, along with scaling limits, automation, and governance models, where for-profit engines are constrained by nonprofit oversight: Recorded months before OpenAI was founded, the conversation treats intelligence as math plus incentives rather than something mystical, touching on architectural bottlenecks, why "reasoning" may not simply emerge from brute force, labor displacement, and institutional design for advanced AI systems. Many of the themes align closely with current debates around large language models and AI governance.
The recording was revisited following recent remarks by Sergey Brin at Stanford, where he acknowledged that despite Google's early work on Transformers, institutional hesitation and incentive structures limited how aggressively the technology was pursued. The interview provides an earlier, first-principles perspective on how abstraction, scaling, and organizational design might interact once AI systems begin to compound.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/12/23/2242225/2015-radio-interview-frames-ai-as-high-level-algebra?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-12-24 14:22:02
Longtime Slashdot reader MrFreak shares a public radio interview from 2015 discussing artificial intelligence as inference over abstract inputs, along with scaling limits, automation, and governance models, where for-profit engines are constrained by nonprofit oversight: Recorded months before OpenAI was founded, the conversation treats intelligence as math plus incentives rather than something mystical, touching on architectural bottlenecks, why "reasoning" may not simply emerge from brute force, labor displacement, and institutional design for advanced AI systems. Many of the themes align closely with current debates around large language models and AI governance.
The recording was revisited following recent remarks by Sergey Brin at Stanford, where he acknowledged that despite Google's early work on Transformers, institutional hesitation and incentive structures limited how aggressively the technology was pursued. The interview provides an earlier, first-principles perspective on how abstraction, scaling, and organizational design might interact once AI systems begin to compound.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/12/23/2242225/2015-radio-interview-frames-ai-as-high-level-algebra?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Выпуск XLibre 25.1.0
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-12-24 13:44:08
Спустя полгода после создания форка и первого выпуска создан стабильный выпуск сервера X11 XLibre 25.1.0. Этот сервер был создан из-за несогласия отдельных разработчиков с политикой проекта FreeDesktop.org, направленной на сворачивание поддержки и отказ от релизов X-сервера в пользу Wayland.
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18176833#cut ) )
lor.opennet
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2025-12-24 13:44:08
Спустя полгода после создания форка и первого выпуска создан стабильный выпуск сервера X11 XLibre 25.1.0. Этот сервер был создан из-за несогласия отдельных разработчиков с политикой проекта FreeDesktop.org, направленной на сворачивание поддержки и отказ от релизов X-сервера в пользу Wayland.
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18176833#cut ) )
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Lua 5.5.0
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-12-24 13:44:08
15 декабря, спустя примерно шесть месяцев после публикации [ предварительной бета версии ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18015519 ) , утверждён, сформирован и опубликован стабильный выпуск 5.5.0 языка программирования [ Lua ]( https://lua.org ) .
Финальное уведомление сообщества о событии произошло вчера, 22 декабря, в [ списке рассылки ]( https://groups.google.com/g/lua-l/c/jW6vCnhVy_s ) .
Lua – это встраиваемый, интерпретируемый язык программирования, используемый в [ огромном числе программных продуктов ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/development/17612736 ) как язык-компаньон.
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/development/18176474#cut ) )
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-12-24 13:44:08
15 декабря, спустя примерно шесть месяцев после публикации [ предварительной бета версии ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18015519 ) , утверждён, сформирован и опубликован стабильный выпуск 5.5.0 языка программирования [ Lua ]( https://lua.org ) .
Финальное уведомление сообщества о событии произошло вчера, 22 декабря, в [ списке рассылки ]( https://groups.google.com/g/lua-l/c/jW6vCnhVy_s ) .
Lua – это встраиваемый, интерпретируемый язык программирования, используемый в [ огромном числе программных продуктов ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/development/17612736 ) как язык-компаньон.
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/development/18176474#cut ) )
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Ламповый компьютер, аппаратная трассировка, логика на пневмонике: «Битовые маски» с Артёмом Кашкановым
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2025-12-24 12:35:02
Опубликовано: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:59:32 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр
«Битовые маски» — это подкаст о системном программировании, разработке процессоров и связанных темах. Недавно мы завершили первый сезон подкаста — 25 выпусков, насыщенных интересными беседами. В новой серии статей мы вспоминаем яркие моменты прошедших эпизодов. И начнем с 24-го, где гостем стал Артём Кашканов, известный энтузиаст в области ретроэлектроники, создатель проектов BrainfuckPC и DekatronPC. Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/companies/yadro/articles/980018/
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2025-12-24 12:35:02
Опубликовано: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:59:32 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр
«Битовые маски» — это подкаст о системном программировании, разработке процессоров и связанных темах. Недавно мы завершили первый сезон подкаста — 25 выпусков, насыщенных интересными беседами. В новой серии статей мы вспоминаем яркие моменты прошедших эпизодов. И начнем с 24-го, где гостем стал Артём Кашканов, известный энтузиаст в области ретроэлектроники, создатель проектов BrainfuckPC и DekatronPC. Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/companies/yadro/articles/980018/
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Сравнение числа ошибок в коде, написанном людьми и AI
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2025-12-24 12:44:02
Исследователи из компании CodeRabbit проанализировали 470 pull-запросов (350 - созданные AI, 150 - написанные вручную) в открытых проектах на GitHub и пришли к выводу, что в изменениях, сгенерированных AI-ассистентами, присутствует в 1.7 раза больше значительных дефектов и в 1.4 раза больше критических проблем, чем во вручную написанном коде. В среднем в сгенерированных через AI pull-запросах присутствовало 10.83 проблем, в то время как в созданных вручную изменениях данный показатель составил 6.45.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64485
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-12-24 12:44:02
Исследователи из компании CodeRabbit проанализировали 470 pull-запросов (350 - созданные AI, 150 - написанные вручную) в открытых проектах на GitHub и пришли к выводу, что в изменениях, сгенерированных AI-ассистентами, присутствует в 1.7 раза больше значительных дефектов и в 1.4 раза больше критических проблем, чем во вручную написанном коде. В среднем в сгенерированных через AI pull-запросах присутствовало 10.83 проблем, в то время как в созданных вручную изменениях данный показатель составил 6.45.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64485
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STATS 2025-12-23
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2025-12-24 12:11:01
TOP10 VISITORS:
[1] 217.197.116.x point=420 web=0 up=29.6MB (29%) <--- naste (18/hr)
[2] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=28.1MB (27%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[3] Google point=0 web=968 up=10.0MB (9%)
[4] ClaudeBot point=0 web=402 up=6.7MB (6%)
[5] PetalBot point=3 web=1027 up=6.0MB (5%) <--- PetalBot
[6] Amazon point=0 web=134 up=5.0MB (4%)
[7] 144.76.32.x point=0 web=77 up=3.9MB (3%)
[8] 216.244.66.x point=0 web=59 up=1.9MB (1%)
[9] 217.114.158.x point=26 web=0 up=1.0MB (<1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[10] TikTok point=2 web=35 up=0.7MB (<1%) <--- TikTok
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 100MB
spnet.stats
root(spnet, 1) — All
2025-12-24 12:11:01
TOP10 VISITORS:
[1] 217.197.116.x point=420 web=0 up=29.6MB (29%) <--- naste (18/hr)
[2] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=28.1MB (27%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[3] Google point=0 web=968 up=10.0MB (9%)
[4] ClaudeBot point=0 web=402 up=6.7MB (6%)
[5] PetalBot point=3 web=1027 up=6.0MB (5%) <--- PetalBot
[6] Amazon point=0 web=134 up=5.0MB (4%)
[7] 144.76.32.x point=0 web=77 up=3.9MB (3%)
[8] 216.244.66.x point=0 web=59 up=1.9MB (1%)
[9] 217.114.158.x point=26 web=0 up=1.0MB (<1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[10] TikTok point=2 web=35 up=0.7MB (<1%) <--- TikTok
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 100MB
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Ассемблер для гоферов. Стек. Особенности amd64, arm64 и arm. Часть 3
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2025-12-24 11:35:03
Опубликовано: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:01:13 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Assembler / Хабр
В этой части мы научимся создавать и использовать локальные переменные на стеке в наших ассемблерных функциях, а также поговорим о различиях процессорных архитектур и о том, как их использовать в Go-ассемблере. Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/979326/
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2025-12-24 11:35:03
Опубликовано: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:01:13 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Assembler / Хабр
В этой части мы научимся создавать и использовать локальные переменные на стеке в наших ассемблерных функциях, а также поговорим о различиях процессорных архитектур и о том, как их использовать в Go-ассемблере. Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/979326/
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What Might Adding Emojis and Pictures To Text Programming Languages Look Like?
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2025-12-24 11:22:02
theodp writes: We all mix pictures, emojis, and text freely in our communications. So why not in our code? That's the premise of "Fun With Python and Emoji: What Might Adding Pictures to Text Programming Languages Look Like?" (two-image Bluesky explainer; full slides), which takes a look at what mixing emoji with Python and SQL might look like. A GitHub repo includes a Google Colab-ready Python notebook proof of concept that does rudimentary emoji-to-text translation via an IPython input transformer.
So, in the Golden Age of AI -- some 60+ years after Kenneth Iverson introduced the chock-full-of-symbols APL -- are valid technical reasons still keeping symbols and pictures out of code, or is their absence more of a programming dogma thing?
[ Read more of this story ]( https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/0323250/what-might-adding-emojis-and-pictures-to-text-programming-languages-look-like?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-12-24 11:22:02
theodp writes: We all mix pictures, emojis, and text freely in our communications. So why not in our code? That's the premise of "Fun With Python and Emoji: What Might Adding Pictures to Text Programming Languages Look Like?" (two-image Bluesky explainer; full slides), which takes a look at what mixing emoji with Python and SQL might look like. A GitHub repo includes a Google Colab-ready Python notebook proof of concept that does rudimentary emoji-to-text translation via an IPython input transformer.
So, in the Golden Age of AI -- some 60+ years after Kenneth Iverson introduced the chock-full-of-symbols APL -- are valid technical reasons still keeping symbols and pictures out of code, or is their absence more of a programming dogma thing?
[ Read more of this story ]( https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/12/24/0323250/what-might-adding-emojis-and-pictures-to-text-programming-languages-look-like?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Оценка производительности драйвера AMDGPU, включённого в ядре 6.19 для видеокарт GCN 1.x
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2025-12-24 10:44:02
Ресурс Phoronix сравнил производительность графических операций при использовании видеокарты Radeon HD 7950 в окружении Ubuntu 25.10 с ядром Linux 6.18 с драйвером Radeon и ядром 6.19-rc1 с драйвером AMDGPU в конфигурации c Mesa 26.0-devel. Ядро 6.19, релиз которого ожидается в феврале, примечательно активацией по умолчанию драйвера AMDGPU для видеокарт семейства GCN 1.0 "Southern Island" и 1.1 "Sea Islands".
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64481
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-12-24 10:44:02
Ресурс Phoronix сравнил производительность графических операций при использовании видеокарты Radeon HD 7950 в окружении Ubuntu 25.10 с ядром Linux 6.18 с драйвером Radeon и ядром 6.19-rc1 с драйвером AMDGPU в конфигурации c Mesa 26.0-devel. Ядро 6.19, релиз которого ожидается в феврале, примечательно активацией по умолчанию драйвера AMDGPU для видеокарт семейства GCN 1.0 "Southern Island" и 1.1 "Sea Islands".
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64481
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Meta* использует планировщик для Steam Deck на своих серверах
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2025-12-24 09:44:06
На конференции Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 инженеры компании Meta* рассказали о преимуществах использования scx_lavd на своих серверах. В докладе объясняют, какие сложности возникают при выборе планировщика и почему алгоритм для переносного игрового устройства интересен для решения задач в дата-центрах.
scx_lavd (Latency-criticality Aware Virtual Deadline scheduler) разрабатывается по контракту с Valve для использования в Steam Deck. Он основан на механизме sched_ext ядра Linux, который позволяет реализовывать планировщики с помощью BPF и динамически подключать их «на лету».
Попробовать scx_lavd и другие scx планировщики можно самостоятельно, следуя инструкциям [ scx ]( https://github.com/sched-ext/scx ) для своего дистрибутива.
* Meta, в том числе ее продукты Facebook и Instagram, признана экстремистской организацией в России.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/linux-general/18176898
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-12-24 09:44:06
На конференции Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 инженеры компании Meta* рассказали о преимуществах использования scx_lavd на своих серверах. В докладе объясняют, какие сложности возникают при выборе планировщика и почему алгоритм для переносного игрового устройства интересен для решения задач в дата-центрах.
scx_lavd (Latency-criticality Aware Virtual Deadline scheduler) разрабатывается по контракту с Valve для использования в Steam Deck. Он основан на механизме sched_ext ядра Linux, который позволяет реализовывать планировщики с помощью BPF и динамически подключать их «на лету».
Попробовать scx_lavd и другие scx планировщики можно самостоятельно, следуя инструкциям [ scx ]( https://github.com/sched-ext/scx ) для своего дистрибутива.
* Meta, в том числе ее продукты Facebook и Instagram, признана экстремистской организацией в России.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/linux-general/18176898
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Inside Uzbekistan's Nationwide License Plate Surveillance System
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2025-12-24 08:22:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Across Uzbekistan, a network of about a hundred banks of high-resolution roadside cameras continuously scan vehicles' license plates and their occupants, sometimes thousands a day, looking for potential traffic violations. Cars running red lights, drivers not wearing their seatbelts, and unlicensed vehicles driving at night, to name a few. The driver of one of the most surveilled vehicles in the system was tracked over six months as he traveled between the eastern city of Chirchiq, through the capital Tashkent, and in the nearby settlement of Eshonguzar, often multiple times a week. We know this because the country's sprawling license plate-tracking surveillance system has been left exposed to the internet.
Security researcher Anurag Sen, who discovered the security lapse, found the license plate surveillance system exposed online without a password, allowing anyone access to the data within. It's not clear how long the surveillance system has been public, but artifacts from the system show that its database was set up in September 2024, and traffic monitoring began in mid-2025. The exposure offers a rare glimpse into how such national license plate surveillance systems work, the data they collect, and how they can be used to track the whereabouts of any one of the millions of people across an entire country. The lapse also reveals the security and privacy risks associated with the mass monitoring of vehicles and their owners, at a time when the United States is building up its nationwide array of license plate readers, many of which are provided by surveillance giant Flock.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/12/23/2220226/inside-uzbekistans-nationwide-license-plate-surveillance-system?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-12-24 08:22:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Across Uzbekistan, a network of about a hundred banks of high-resolution roadside cameras continuously scan vehicles' license plates and their occupants, sometimes thousands a day, looking for potential traffic violations. Cars running red lights, drivers not wearing their seatbelts, and unlicensed vehicles driving at night, to name a few. The driver of one of the most surveilled vehicles in the system was tracked over six months as he traveled between the eastern city of Chirchiq, through the capital Tashkent, and in the nearby settlement of Eshonguzar, often multiple times a week. We know this because the country's sprawling license plate-tracking surveillance system has been left exposed to the internet.
Security researcher Anurag Sen, who discovered the security lapse, found the license plate surveillance system exposed online without a password, allowing anyone access to the data within. It's not clear how long the surveillance system has been public, but artifacts from the system show that its database was set up in September 2024, and traffic monitoring began in mid-2025. The exposure offers a rare glimpse into how such national license plate surveillance systems work, the data they collect, and how they can be used to track the whereabouts of any one of the millions of people across an entire country. The lapse also reveals the security and privacy risks associated with the mass monitoring of vehicles and their owners, at a time when the United States is building up its nationwide array of license plate readers, many of which are provided by surveillance giant Flock.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/12/23/2220226/inside-uzbekistans-nationwide-license-plate-surveillance-system?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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iOS 26.3 Brings AirPods-Like Pairing To Third-Party Devices In EU Under DMA
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2025-12-24 06:22:01
Under pressure from the Digital Markets Act, Apple's iOS 26.3 adds AirPods-style proximity pairing and notification support for third-party accessories in the EU. The changes will roll out to European users in 2026. MacRumors reports: The Digital Markets Act requires Apple to provide third-party accessories with the same capabilities and access to device features that Apple's own products get. In iOS 26.3, EU wearable device makers can now test proximity pairing and improved notifications.
Here are the new capabilities that Apple is adding:
- Proximity pairing - Devices like earbuds will be able to pair with an iOS device in an AirPods-like way by bringing the accessory close to an iPhone or iPad to initiate a simple, one-tap pairing process. Pairing third-party devices will no longer require multiple steps.
- Notifications - Third-party accessories like smart watches will be able to receive notifications from the iPhone. Users will be able to view and react to incoming notifications, which is functionality normally limited to the Apple Watch. Notifications can only be forwarded to one connected device at a time, and turning on notifications for a third-party device disables notifications to an Apple Watch.
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Under pressure from the Digital Markets Act, Apple's iOS 26.3 adds AirPods-style proximity pairing and notification support for third-party accessories in the EU. The changes will roll out to European users in 2026. MacRumors reports: The Digital Markets Act requires Apple to provide third-party accessories with the same capabilities and access to device features that Apple's own products get. In iOS 26.3, EU wearable device makers can now test proximity pairing and improved notifications.
Here are the new capabilities that Apple is adding:
- Proximity pairing - Devices like earbuds will be able to pair with an iOS device in an AirPods-like way by bringing the accessory close to an iPhone or iPad to initiate a simple, one-tap pairing process. Pairing third-party devices will no longer require multiple steps.
- Notifications - Third-party accessories like smart watches will be able to receive notifications from the iPhone. Users will be able to view and react to incoming notifications, which is functionality normally limited to the Apple Watch. Notifications can only be forwarded to one connected device at a time, and turning on notifications for a third-party device disables notifications to an Apple Watch.
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John Carreyou and Other Authors Bring New Lawsuit Against Six Major AI Companies
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A group of authors led by John Carreyrou has filed a new lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the AI firms of training models on pirated copies of their books. TechCrunch reports: If this sounds familiar, it's because another set of authors already filed a class action suit against Anthropic for these same acts of copyright infringement. In that case, the judge ruled that it was legal for Anthropic and similar AI companies to train on pirated copies of books, but that it was not legal to pirate the books in the first place.
While eligible writers can receive about $3,000 from the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement, some authors were dissatisfied with that resolution -- it doesn't hold AI companies accountable for the actual act of using stolen books to train their models, which generate billions of dollars in revenue. The plaintiffs in the new lawsuit say the proposed Anthropic settlement "seems to serve [the AI companies], not creators."
"LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates, eliding what should be the true cost of their massive willful infringement."
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A group of authors led by John Carreyrou has filed a new lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the AI firms of training models on pirated copies of their books. TechCrunch reports: If this sounds familiar, it's because another set of authors already filed a class action suit against Anthropic for these same acts of copyright infringement. In that case, the judge ruled that it was legal for Anthropic and similar AI companies to train on pirated copies of books, but that it was not legal to pirate the books in the first place.
While eligible writers can receive about $3,000 from the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement, some authors were dissatisfied with that resolution -- it doesn't hold AI companies accountable for the actual act of using stolen books to train their models, which generate billions of dollars in revenue. The plaintiffs in the new lawsuit say the proposed Anthropic settlement "seems to serve [the AI companies], not creators."
"LLM companies should not be able to so easily extinguish thousands upon thousands of high-value claims at bargain-basement rates, eliding what should be the true cost of their massive willful infringement."
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Meta Is Using The Linux Scheduler Designed For Valve's Steam Deck On Its Servers
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2025-12-24 05:22:01
Phoronix's Michael Larabel writes: An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck... On Meta Servers. Meta has found that the scheduler can actually adapt and work very well on the hyperscaler's large servers. [...]
The presentation at LPC 2025 by Meta engineers was in fact titled "How do we make a Steam Deck scheduler work on large servers." At Meta they have explored SCX_LAVD as a "default" fleet scheduler for their servers that works for a range of hardware and use-cases for where they don't need any specialized scheduler. They call this scheduler built atop sched_ext as "Meta's New Default Scheduler."
LAVD they found to work well across the growing CPU and memory configurations of their servers, nice load balancing between CCX/LLC boundaries, and more. Those wishing to learn more about Meta's use and research into SCX-LAVD can find the Linux Plumbers Conference presentation embedded below along with the slide deck (PDF).
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Phoronix's Michael Larabel writes: An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck... On Meta Servers. Meta has found that the scheduler can actually adapt and work very well on the hyperscaler's large servers. [...]
The presentation at LPC 2025 by Meta engineers was in fact titled "How do we make a Steam Deck scheduler work on large servers." At Meta they have explored SCX_LAVD as a "default" fleet scheduler for their servers that works for a range of hardware and use-cases for where they don't need any specialized scheduler. They call this scheduler built atop sched_ext as "Meta's New Default Scheduler."
LAVD they found to work well across the growing CPU and memory configurations of their servers, nice load balancing between CCX/LLC boundaries, and more. Those wishing to learn more about Meta's use and research into SCX-LAVD can find the Linux Plumbers Conference presentation embedded below along with the slide deck (PDF).
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ServiceNow To Buy Armis For $7.75 Billion As It Bets Big On Cybersecurity For AI
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2025-12-24 04:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MarketWatch: ServiceNow announced a deal to acquire cybersecurity company Armis on Tuesday, marking a new milestone in the software giant's artificial-intelligence business strategy. The $7.75 billion all-cash transaction is part of ServiceNow's goal of advancing governance and trust in autonomous AI agents, and the company's largest transaction to date. "The acquisition of Armis will extend and enhance ServiceNow's Security, Risk, and [Operational Technology] portfolios in critical and fast-growing areas of cybersecurity and drive increased AI adoption by strengthening trust across businesses' connected environments," the company wrote in a press release.
While ServiceNow built its foundation IT service management products, the company has positioned itself as an "AI control tower" that orchestrates workflows across HR, customer service and security operations. Organizations today are operating in increasingly complex environments, with assets spanning from laptops and servers to smart grid devices, Gina Mastantuono, chief financial officer of ServiceNow, told MarketWatch on Tuesday. "But at the same time, cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated and more complex," she added.
ServiceNow's Security and Risk business crossed $1 billion in annual contract value earlier this year, and the Armis acquisition is expected to triple ServiceNow's market opportunity in the sector. Armis currently has over $340 million in annual recurring revenue, with growth exceeding 50% year-over-year, according to the press release. The Armis acquisition would allow ServiceNow to create an "end-to-end proactive cybersecurity exposure and operations stack that enables enterprises to see, decide and act across a business' entire technology footprint," Mastantuono said.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MarketWatch: ServiceNow announced a deal to acquire cybersecurity company Armis on Tuesday, marking a new milestone in the software giant's artificial-intelligence business strategy. The $7.75 billion all-cash transaction is part of ServiceNow's goal of advancing governance and trust in autonomous AI agents, and the company's largest transaction to date. "The acquisition of Armis will extend and enhance ServiceNow's Security, Risk, and [Operational Technology] portfolios in critical and fast-growing areas of cybersecurity and drive increased AI adoption by strengthening trust across businesses' connected environments," the company wrote in a press release.
While ServiceNow built its foundation IT service management products, the company has positioned itself as an "AI control tower" that orchestrates workflows across HR, customer service and security operations. Organizations today are operating in increasingly complex environments, with assets spanning from laptops and servers to smart grid devices, Gina Mastantuono, chief financial officer of ServiceNow, told MarketWatch on Tuesday. "But at the same time, cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated and more complex," she added.
ServiceNow's Security and Risk business crossed $1 billion in annual contract value earlier this year, and the Armis acquisition is expected to triple ServiceNow's market opportunity in the sector. Armis currently has over $340 million in annual recurring revenue, with growth exceeding 50% year-over-year, according to the press release. The Armis acquisition would allow ServiceNow to create an "end-to-end proactive cybersecurity exposure and operations stack that enables enterprises to see, decide and act across a business' entire technology footprint," Mastantuono said.
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Ireland's Diarmuid Early Wins World Microsoft Excel Title
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2025-12-24 04:22:01
Irish competitor Diarmuid Early, dubbed the "Lebron James of Excel spreadsheets," has won the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship in Las Vegas, dethroning three-time champion Andrew Ngai. The BBC reports: The esport showpiece in December attracted competitors worldwide as 256 spreadsheet heads battled it out across knockout rounds to join the final 24 in Vegas. [...] A three-time champion in the financial Excel tournaments, this win was Diarmuid's first in the overall competition. He held the triple-world champion Andrew Ngai to second place, and won the $5,000 prize and title belt. [...]
Excel esports transforms a common office tool into a dynamic sport. More than 20 years old, the competitive scene has evolved from being finance based to now involving more general problem solving. Although it might help, Diarmuid said "it doesn't require accounting or finance knowledge." He described an example where Excel is used in solving a maze, scoring poker hands, or even sorting Kings and Queens into the battles in which they fought.
Generally there is a 30 minute challenge, with each challenge broken up into levels. The questions increase gradually in difficulty, with each correct answer gaining a player points. Whoever gets the most points wins, and in a tie, it is whoever got there first. "It's just, can you think on your feet and do things quickly in Excel?" he said. "If you solve the earlier levels in a neat way, that'll let you hit the ground running faster on the later ones."
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Irish competitor Diarmuid Early, dubbed the "Lebron James of Excel spreadsheets," has won the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship in Las Vegas, dethroning three-time champion Andrew Ngai. The BBC reports: The esport showpiece in December attracted competitors worldwide as 256 spreadsheet heads battled it out across knockout rounds to join the final 24 in Vegas. [...] A three-time champion in the financial Excel tournaments, this win was Diarmuid's first in the overall competition. He held the triple-world champion Andrew Ngai to second place, and won the $5,000 prize and title belt. [...]
Excel esports transforms a common office tool into a dynamic sport. More than 20 years old, the competitive scene has evolved from being finance based to now involving more general problem solving. Although it might help, Diarmuid said "it doesn't require accounting or finance knowledge." He described an example where Excel is used in solving a maze, scoring poker hands, or even sorting Kings and Queens into the battles in which they fought.
Generally there is a 30 minute challenge, with each challenge broken up into levels. The questions increase gradually in difficulty, with each correct answer gaining a player points. Whoever gets the most points wins, and in a tie, it is whoever got there first. "It's just, can you think on your feet and do things quickly in Excel?" he said. "If you solve the earlier levels in a neat way, that'll let you hit the ground running faster on the later ones."
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Judge Blocks Texas App Store Age Verification Law
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2025-12-24 03:22:01
A federal judge blocked Texas' app store age-verification law, ruling it likely violates the First Amendment by forcing platforms to gate speech and collect data in an overly broad way. The law was set to go into effect on January 1, 2026. The Verge reports: In an order granting a preliminary injunction on the Texas App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420), Judge Robert Pitman wrote that the statute "is akin to a law that would require every bookstore to verify the age of every customer at the door and, for minors, require parental consent before the child or teen could enter and again when they try to purchase a book." Pitman has not yet ruled on the merits of the case, but his decision to grant the preliminary injunction means he believes its defenders are unlikely to prevail in court.
Pitman found that the highest level of scrutiny must be applied to evaluate the law under the First Amendment, which means the state must prove the law is "the least restrictive means of achieving a compelling state interest." The judge found this is not the case and that it wouldn't even survive intermediate scrutiny, because Texas has so far failed to prove that its goals are connected to its methods. Since Texas already has a law requiring age verification for porn sites, Pitman said that "only in the vast minority of applications would SB 2420 have a constitutional application to unprotected speech not addressed by other laws." Though Pitman acknowledged the importance of safeguarding kids online, he added, "the means to achieve that end must be consistent with the First Amendment. However compelling the policy concerns, and however widespread the agreement that the issue must be addressed, the Court remains bound by the rule of law." "The Texas App Store Accountability Act is the first among a series of similar state laws to face a legal challenge, making the ruling especially significant, as Congress considers a version of the statute," notes The Verge. "The laws, versions of which also passed in Utah and Louisiana, aim to impose age verification standards at the app store level, making companies like Apple and Google responsible for transmitting signals about users' ages to app developers to block users from age-inappropriate experiences."
"The state can still appeal the ruling with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has a history of reversing blocks on internet regulations."
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A federal judge blocked Texas' app store age-verification law, ruling it likely violates the First Amendment by forcing platforms to gate speech and collect data in an overly broad way. The law was set to go into effect on January 1, 2026. The Verge reports: In an order granting a preliminary injunction on the Texas App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420), Judge Robert Pitman wrote that the statute "is akin to a law that would require every bookstore to verify the age of every customer at the door and, for minors, require parental consent before the child or teen could enter and again when they try to purchase a book." Pitman has not yet ruled on the merits of the case, but his decision to grant the preliminary injunction means he believes its defenders are unlikely to prevail in court.
Pitman found that the highest level of scrutiny must be applied to evaluate the law under the First Amendment, which means the state must prove the law is "the least restrictive means of achieving a compelling state interest." The judge found this is not the case and that it wouldn't even survive intermediate scrutiny, because Texas has so far failed to prove that its goals are connected to its methods. Since Texas already has a law requiring age verification for porn sites, Pitman said that "only in the vast minority of applications would SB 2420 have a constitutional application to unprotected speech not addressed by other laws." Though Pitman acknowledged the importance of safeguarding kids online, he added, "the means to achieve that end must be consistent with the First Amendment. However compelling the policy concerns, and however widespread the agreement that the issue must be addressed, the Court remains bound by the rule of law." "The Texas App Store Accountability Act is the first among a series of similar state laws to face a legal challenge, making the ruling especially significant, as Congress considers a version of the statute," notes The Verge. "The laws, versions of which also passed in Utah and Louisiana, aim to impose age verification standards at the app store level, making companies like Apple and Google responsible for transmitting signals about users' ages to app developers to block users from age-inappropriate experiences."
"The state can still appeal the ruling with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has a history of reversing blocks on internet regulations."
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LimeWire Re-Emerges In Online Rush To Share Pulled '60 Minutes' Segment
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2025-12-24 02:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: CBS cannot contain the online spread of a "60 Minutes" segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, "Inside CECOT," featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or suffered physical or sexual abuse at a notorious Salvadoran prison, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism. "Welcome to hell," one former inmate was told upon arriving, the segment reported, while also highlighting a clip of Donald Trump praising CECOT and its leadership for "great facilities, very strong facilities, and they don't play games."
Weiss controversially pulled the segment on Monday, claiming it could not air in the US because it lacked critical voices, as no Trump officials were interviewed. She claimed that the segment "did not advance the ball" and merely echoed others' reporting, NBC News reported. Her plan was to air the segment when it was "ready," insisting that holding stories "for whatever reason" happens "every day in every newsroom." But Weiss apparently did not realize that the "Inside CECOT" would still stream in Canada, giving the public a chance to view the segment as reporters had intended.
Critics accusing CBS of censoring the story quickly shared the segment online Monday after discovering that it was available on the Global TV app. Using a VPN to connect to the app with a Canadian IP address was all it took to override Weiss' block in the US, as 404 Media reported the segment was uploaded to "to a variety of file sharing sites and services, including iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent," including on the recently revived file-sharing service LimeWire. It's currently also available to stream on the Internet Archive, where one reviewer largely summed up the public's response so far, writing, "cannot believe this was pulled, not a dang thing wrong with this segment except it shows truth." "Yo what," joked Reddit user Howzitgoin, highlighting only the word "LimeWire." Another user responded, "man, who knew my nostalgia prof pic would become relevant again, WTF."
"Bringing back LimeWire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit," a Bluesky user wrote.
"We need a champion against the darkness," a Reddit commenter echoed. "I side with LimeWire."
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: CBS cannot contain the online spread of a "60 Minutes" segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, "Inside CECOT," featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or suffered physical or sexual abuse at a notorious Salvadoran prison, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism. "Welcome to hell," one former inmate was told upon arriving, the segment reported, while also highlighting a clip of Donald Trump praising CECOT and its leadership for "great facilities, very strong facilities, and they don't play games."
Weiss controversially pulled the segment on Monday, claiming it could not air in the US because it lacked critical voices, as no Trump officials were interviewed. She claimed that the segment "did not advance the ball" and merely echoed others' reporting, NBC News reported. Her plan was to air the segment when it was "ready," insisting that holding stories "for whatever reason" happens "every day in every newsroom." But Weiss apparently did not realize that the "Inside CECOT" would still stream in Canada, giving the public a chance to view the segment as reporters had intended.
Critics accusing CBS of censoring the story quickly shared the segment online Monday after discovering that it was available on the Global TV app. Using a VPN to connect to the app with a Canadian IP address was all it took to override Weiss' block in the US, as 404 Media reported the segment was uploaded to "to a variety of file sharing sites and services, including iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent," including on the recently revived file-sharing service LimeWire. It's currently also available to stream on the Internet Archive, where one reviewer largely summed up the public's response so far, writing, "cannot believe this was pulled, not a dang thing wrong with this segment except it shows truth." "Yo what," joked Reddit user Howzitgoin, highlighting only the word "LimeWire." Another user responded, "man, who knew my nostalgia prof pic would become relevant again, WTF."
"Bringing back LimeWire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit," a Bluesky user wrote.
"We need a champion against the darkness," a Reddit commenter echoed. "I side with LimeWire."
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'Fragmented' Microsoft Tools Undercut Efficiency at Amazon and Whole Foods, Internal Deloitte Review Finds
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An anonymous reader shares a report: It's been more than eight years since Amazon bought Whole Foods, but the two companies still haven't aligned their setup for the Microsoft software their employees use. That disconnect was flagged in an 8-week Deloitte review of Whole Foods' use of Microsoft 365 apps earlier this year, according to an internal document obtained by Business Insider. Deloitte found that Whole Foods relies on "fragmented" Microsoft toolsets, has loose security and data-retention practices, and employs a complex user-management setup -- all of which contribute to inefficiencies and lower productivity when working with Amazon employees.
The consulting firm recommended a 24-month integration plan that would first move Whole Foods' corporate employees onto Amazon's backend system, followed by its frontline workers. The phased approach would ensure a "smooth transition for users and minimal disruption to business processes," while generating cost savings, the document said. The review, completed in May, highlights Amazon's ongoing challenges in integrating Whole Foods. Since acquiring the chain in 2017, the company has struggled to scale the business and integrate operations, resulting in frequent reorganizations and shifting strategic priorities.
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An anonymous reader shares a report: It's been more than eight years since Amazon bought Whole Foods, but the two companies still haven't aligned their setup for the Microsoft software their employees use. That disconnect was flagged in an 8-week Deloitte review of Whole Foods' use of Microsoft 365 apps earlier this year, according to an internal document obtained by Business Insider. Deloitte found that Whole Foods relies on "fragmented" Microsoft toolsets, has loose security and data-retention practices, and employs a complex user-management setup -- all of which contribute to inefficiencies and lower productivity when working with Amazon employees.
The consulting firm recommended a 24-month integration plan that would first move Whole Foods' corporate employees onto Amazon's backend system, followed by its frontline workers. The phased approach would ensure a "smooth transition for users and minimal disruption to business processes," while generating cost savings, the document said. The review, completed in May, highlights Amazon's ongoing challenges in integrating Whole Foods. Since acquiring the chain in 2017, the company has struggled to scale the business and integrate operations, resulting in frequent reorganizations and shifting strategic priorities.
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Is the Dictionary Done For?
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2025-12-24 01:22:01
In the late 1980s, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary sat on the New York Times best-seller list for 155 consecutive weeks and eventually sold 57 million copies, a figure believed to be second only to the Bible in the United States -- but those days are thoroughly gone. Stefan Fatsis's new book "Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary" chronicles what Louis Menand describes in The New Yorker as "a losing struggle" for legacy dictionaries to survive in the internet age.
The profession has been decimated: an estimated 200 full-time lexicographers worked in the US 25 years ago, and Fatsis believes that number is "probably closer to thirty" today. "By the time I finished this book," Fatsis writes, "it wasn't clear how long flesh-bone-and-blood lexicographers would be needed to chronicle the march of the English language."
Merriam-Webster is now owned by Encycloaedia Britannica, another print-era giant that stopped publishing physical volumes in 2012. The company's free website draws about a billion page views annually, but the content has shifted dramatically -- word games, trending slang and ads dominate rather than lexicographic depth. The scale of the challenge facing dictionaries is staggering. One study of digitized library books found the English lexicon grew from about 600,000 words in 1950 to over a million by 2000, and concluded that 52% of English words in printed books are "lexical dark matter" that appears in no standard reference work.
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In the late 1980s, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary sat on the New York Times best-seller list for 155 consecutive weeks and eventually sold 57 million copies, a figure believed to be second only to the Bible in the United States -- but those days are thoroughly gone. Stefan Fatsis's new book "Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary" chronicles what Louis Menand describes in The New Yorker as "a losing struggle" for legacy dictionaries to survive in the internet age.
The profession has been decimated: an estimated 200 full-time lexicographers worked in the US 25 years ago, and Fatsis believes that number is "probably closer to thirty" today. "By the time I finished this book," Fatsis writes, "it wasn't clear how long flesh-bone-and-blood lexicographers would be needed to chronicle the march of the English language."
Merriam-Webster is now owned by Encycloaedia Britannica, another print-era giant that stopped publishing physical volumes in 2012. The company's free website draws about a billion page views annually, but the content has shifted dramatically -- word games, trending slang and ads dominate rather than lexicographic depth. The scale of the challenge facing dictionaries is staggering. One study of digitized library books found the English lexicon grew from about 600,000 words in 1950 to over a million by 2000, and concluded that 52% of English words in printed books are "lexical dark matter" that appears in no standard reference work.
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Europe's Public Institutions Are Quietly Ditching US Cloud Providers
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2025-12-24 00:22:01
European public institutions are quietly migrating away from American cloud providers and office software, driven less by policy ambitions in Brussels than by the mundane legal reality that GDPR-mandated risk assessments keep flagging the US CLOUD Act as an unacceptable threat to citizen data.
Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism moved 1,200 employees to the open-source platform Nextcloud in four months. Germany's Schleswig-Holstein has already transitioned 24,000 of its 30,000 civil servants to LibreOffice, Nextcloud and Thunderbird. The International Criminal Court in The Hague announced in November 2025 that it would replace Microsoft office software after chief prosecutor Karim Khan was temporarily locked out of his Outlook account.
Competition economist Cristina Caffarra estimates that 90% of Europe's digital infrastructure is now controlled by non-European companies. Forrester predicts no European enterprise will fully abandon US hyperscalers in 2026, but these targeted migrations for sensitive government applications are already underway.
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European public institutions are quietly migrating away from American cloud providers and office software, driven less by policy ambitions in Brussels than by the mundane legal reality that GDPR-mandated risk assessments keep flagging the US CLOUD Act as an unacceptable threat to citizen data.
Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism moved 1,200 employees to the open-source platform Nextcloud in four months. Germany's Schleswig-Holstein has already transitioned 24,000 of its 30,000 civil servants to LibreOffice, Nextcloud and Thunderbird. The International Criminal Court in The Hague announced in November 2025 that it would replace Microsoft office software after chief prosecutor Karim Khan was temporarily locked out of his Outlook account.
Competition economist Cristina Caffarra estimates that 90% of Europe's digital infrastructure is now controlled by non-European companies. Forrester predicts no European enterprise will fully abandon US hyperscalers in 2026, but these targeted migrations for sensitive government applications are already underway.
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Samsung's 2026 Gaming Monitors Promise 6K, 3D, and Up To 1,040Hz
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Samsung is breaking new ground with its 2026 lineup of gaming monitors, with the Odyssey 3D G90XH becoming the first to feature a 6K display with "glasses-free 3D." The new monitor comes with a 32-inch IPS panel, offering real-time eye-tracking that "adjusts depth and perspective" based on your position, along with a speedy 165Hz refresh rate that you can boost to 330Hz with a Dual Mode feature that switches to 3K.
[...] A 6K 3D display isn't the only notable upgrade coming to Samsung's lineup; the company is launching the Odyssey G6 G60H, which it says is the "world's first" 1,040Hz gaming monitor. The 27-inch monitor only supports this ultra-fast refresh rate in HD, while its native 1440p resolution still offers speeds up to a very fast 600Hz. It's also compatible with AMD FreeSync Premium and NVIDIA G-Sync.
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Samsung is breaking new ground with its 2026 lineup of gaming monitors, with the Odyssey 3D G90XH becoming the first to feature a 6K display with "glasses-free 3D." The new monitor comes with a 32-inch IPS panel, offering real-time eye-tracking that "adjusts depth and perspective" based on your position, along with a speedy 165Hz refresh rate that you can boost to 330Hz with a Dual Mode feature that switches to 3K.
[...] A 6K 3D display isn't the only notable upgrade coming to Samsung's lineup; the company is launching the Odyssey G6 G60H, which it says is the "world's first" 1,040Hz gaming monitor. The 27-inch monitor only supports this ultra-fast refresh rate in HD, while its native 1440p resolution still offers speeds up to a very fast 600Hz. It's also compatible with AMD FreeSync Premium and NVIDIA G-Sync.
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Основатель QEMU и FFmpeg опубликовал JavaScript-движок Micro QuickJS
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2025-12-23 23:44:02
Французский математик Фабрис Беллар (Fabrice Bellard), основавший в своё время проекты QEMU, FFmpeg, BPG, QuickJS, TinyGL и TinyCC, опубликовал новый JavaScript-движок для встраиваемых систем - Micro QuickJS, способный компилировать и выполнять JavaScript-программы, потребляя всего 10 КБ ОЗУ. Вместе с Си-библиотекой движок занимает примерно 100 КБ постоянной памяти. Возможна компиляция JavaScript в байткод и отдельный запуск байткода. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией MIT.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64483
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Французский математик Фабрис Беллар (Fabrice Bellard), основавший в своё время проекты QEMU, FFmpeg, BPG, QuickJS, TinyGL и TinyCC, опубликовал новый JavaScript-движок для встраиваемых систем - Micro QuickJS, способный компилировать и выполнять JavaScript-программы, потребляя всего 10 КБ ОЗУ. Вместе с Си-библиотекой движок занимает примерно 100 КБ постоянной памяти. Возможна компиляция JavaScript в байткод и отдельный запуск байткода. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией MIT.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64483
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Remote Work is Officially Dead, Says the World's Largest Recruiter
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2025-12-23 23:22:02
The great return-to-office battle has effectively concluded and a clear pecking order has emerged, according to Sander van 't Noordende, the CEO of Randstad, a staffing giant that places around half a million workers in jobs every week. Remote work is becoming a status symbol reserved for star performers and those possessing rare skills. "You have to be very special to be able to demand a 100% remote job," van 't Noordende told Fortune. "That's increasingly the story. You have to have very special technology skills or some expertise."
The equilibrium appears to be settling at a hybrid model of three to four days in office for most workers. Van 't Noordende noted that apart from some banks in major cities, the five-day office week isn't returning as the norm despite hardline mandates from companies like Amazon and JPMorgan. Korn Ferry predicted this "hybrid hierarchy" at the start of 2025, forecasting that flexibility would become a perk reserved for top talent. At some companies, high performers are already being offered flexible schedules as a bonus while mid-range employees don't get the privilege, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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The great return-to-office battle has effectively concluded and a clear pecking order has emerged, according to Sander van 't Noordende, the CEO of Randstad, a staffing giant that places around half a million workers in jobs every week. Remote work is becoming a status symbol reserved for star performers and those possessing rare skills. "You have to be very special to be able to demand a 100% remote job," van 't Noordende told Fortune. "That's increasingly the story. You have to have very special technology skills or some expertise."
The equilibrium appears to be settling at a hybrid model of three to four days in office for most workers. Van 't Noordende noted that apart from some banks in major cities, the five-day office week isn't returning as the norm despite hardline mandates from companies like Amazon and JPMorgan. Korn Ferry predicted this "hybrid hierarchy" at the start of 2025, forecasting that flexibility would become a perk reserved for top talent. At some companies, high performers are already being offered flexible schedules as a bonus while mid-range employees don't get the privilege, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Australia Poised for Desalination Boom as Water Shortages Loom
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2025-12-23 22:22:01
Australia is on track for a significant expansion of desalination capacity -- converting seawater to freshwater -- to meet the needs of a swelling population at a time of declining average rainfall. From a report: The world's driest inhabited continent is projected to build or expand 11 desalination plants worth more than A$23 billion ($15 billion) over the next 10 years, according to a research report by Dominic McNally at Oxford Economics.
"Our population growth forecasts imply an additional 190GL/year in household water demand across major cities by 2035, while the booming data center industry also threatens to rapidly expand urban water use," he said. "This growing demand coincides with falling average rainfall in major population centers, increasing the vulnerability of existing infrastructure." Water construction activity slowed after 2010 as a severe drought receded. However, recent dry periods have reignited interest in water security and coincide with a new boom in water infrastructure investment, including desalination, McNally said.
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Australia is on track for a significant expansion of desalination capacity -- converting seawater to freshwater -- to meet the needs of a swelling population at a time of declining average rainfall. From a report: The world's driest inhabited continent is projected to build or expand 11 desalination plants worth more than A$23 billion ($15 billion) over the next 10 years, according to a research report by Dominic McNally at Oxford Economics.
"Our population growth forecasts imply an additional 190GL/year in household water demand across major cities by 2035, while the booming data center industry also threatens to rapidly expand urban water use," he said. "This growing demand coincides with falling average rainfall in major population centers, increasing the vulnerability of existing infrastructure." Water construction activity slowed after 2010 as a severe drought receded. However, recent dry periods have reignited interest in water security and coincide with a new boom in water infrastructure investment, including desalination, McNally said.
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5K Gaming Is Too Hard, Even for an RTX 5090D
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2025-12-23 22:22:01
Asus has been showcasing its new 5K 27-inch ROG Strix 27 Pro gaming monitor running at 5,120 x 2,880 resolution and up to 180Hz, but even Nvidia's flagship RTX 5090 struggles to deliver smooth frame rates at this demanding pixel count. In testing conducted by Asus, the RTX 5090D -- a Chinese-exclusive variant with weaker AI performance -- achieved just 51 frames per second in a Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark at ultra ray traced settings. The test system ran an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D processor, had DLSS set to balanced, and kept frame generation disabled. The same configuration running at 4K managed 77 fps, around 50% higher.
The underlying math is simple: 5K resolution requires rendering 78% more pixels than 4K. That 218 PPI pixel density delivers impressive sharpness up close, but Asus chose an IPS panel over OLED technology to reach it, trading away deeper black levels and faster response times. Asus appears to be positioning the monitor as a dual-mode display -- 5K for productivity and video, 1440p at up to 330Hz for gaming. Early Chinese listings have it priced at the equivalent of $800, roughly what you'd pay for a larger 4K OLED panel.
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2025-12-23 22:22:01
Asus has been showcasing its new 5K 27-inch ROG Strix 27 Pro gaming monitor running at 5,120 x 2,880 resolution and up to 180Hz, but even Nvidia's flagship RTX 5090 struggles to deliver smooth frame rates at this demanding pixel count. In testing conducted by Asus, the RTX 5090D -- a Chinese-exclusive variant with weaker AI performance -- achieved just 51 frames per second in a Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark at ultra ray traced settings. The test system ran an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D processor, had DLSS set to balanced, and kept frame generation disabled. The same configuration running at 4K managed 77 fps, around 50% higher.
The underlying math is simple: 5K resolution requires rendering 78% more pixels than 4K. That 218 PPI pixel density delivers impressive sharpness up close, but Asus chose an IPS panel over OLED technology to reach it, trading away deeper black levels and faster response times. Asus appears to be positioning the monitor as a dual-mode display -- 5K for productivity and video, 1440p at up to 330Hz for gaming. Early Chinese listings have it priced at the equivalent of $800, roughly what you'd pay for a larger 4K OLED panel.
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Ryanair Fined $301M Over 'Abusive Strategy' To Limit Ticket Sales By Online Travel Agencies
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Speaking of Italy's competition authority , it has fined Ryanair $301 million for abusing its dominant market position to limit sales of tickets by online travel agents. The Guardian: The authority said Europe's largest airline had "implemented an abusive strategy to hinder travel agencies" via an "elaborate strategy" of technical obstacles for agents and passengers to make it difficult for online travel agents to sell Ryanair tickets and instead force sales through its own website.
The fine related to Ryanair's conduct between April 2023 and at least until April 2025, the authority said on Tuesday. It said Ryanair had prevented online travel agents from selling tickets on its flights in combination with other airlines and services, weakening competition. Ryanair said it would immediately appeal against the "legally flawed" ruling.
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2025-12-23 21:22:01
Speaking of Italy's competition authority , it has fined Ryanair $301 million for abusing its dominant market position to limit sales of tickets by online travel agents. The Guardian: The authority said Europe's largest airline had "implemented an abusive strategy to hinder travel agencies" via an "elaborate strategy" of technical obstacles for agents and passengers to make it difficult for online travel agents to sell Ryanair tickets and instead force sales through its own website.
The fine related to Ryanair's conduct between April 2023 and at least until April 2025, the authority said on Tuesday. It said Ryanair had prevented online travel agents from selling tickets on its flights in combination with other airlines and services, weakening competition. Ryanair said it would immediately appeal against the "legally flawed" ruling.
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Опубликован postmarketOS 25.12, Linux-дистрибутив для смартфонов и мобильных устройств
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2025-12-23 20:44:02
После 6 месяцев разработки представлен выпуск проекта postmarketOS 25.12, развивающего дистрибутив Linux для мобильных устройств, базирующийся на пакетной базе Alpine Linux, стандартной Си-библиотеке Musl и наборе утилит BusyBox. Целью проекта является предоставление Linux-дистрибутива для смартфонов и планшетов, не зависящего от жизненного цикла поддержки официальных прошивок и не привязанного к типовым решениям основных игроков индустрии. Сборки подготовлены для 62 устройств, включая PINE64 PinePhone Pro, Purism Librem 5, OnePlus 6, Fairphone 5, Google Nexus 10, Google Pixel 3a, Nokia N900, Lenovo A60xx, ASUS MeMo Pad 7, а также различные модели Samsung Galaxy и Xiaomi. Ограниченная экспериментальная поддержка предоставлена для более чем 600 устройств.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64482
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После 6 месяцев разработки представлен выпуск проекта postmarketOS 25.12, развивающего дистрибутив Linux для мобильных устройств, базирующийся на пакетной базе Alpine Linux, стандартной Си-библиотеке Musl и наборе утилит BusyBox. Целью проекта является предоставление Linux-дистрибутива для смартфонов и планшетов, не зависящего от жизненного цикла поддержки официальных прошивок и не привязанного к типовым решениям основных игроков индустрии. Сборки подготовлены для 62 устройств, включая PINE64 PinePhone Pro, Purism Librem 5, OnePlus 6, Fairphone 5, Google Nexus 10, Google Pixel 3a, Nokia N900, Lenovo A60xx, ASUS MeMo Pad 7, а также различные модели Samsung Galaxy и Xiaomi. Ограниченная экспериментальная поддержка предоставлена для более чем 600 устройств.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64482
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Apple and Google Asking Some Employees With H-1B Visas To Avoid International Travel
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2025-12-23 20:22:01
Tech giants Google and Apple are asking some employees with H-1B visas to reconsider international travel, as their legal teams warned that visa processing delays could keep employees abroad for months, according to Business Insider. From a report: Law firms representing the tech giants sent memos advising staff who require visa stamps for reentry to stay in the U.S., warning that international travel could entangle them in visa screening delays following the introduction of a new social media screening requirement, according to the news agency. The policy subjects H-1B workers and their dependents to reviews of their social media histories.
"Please be aware that some US Embassies and Consulates are experiencing significant visa stamping appointment delays, currently reported as up to 12 months," BAL Immigration Law, which represents Google, said in a memo obtained by Business Insider. The law firm said the delays were affecting H-1B, H-4, F, J and M visas.
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Tech giants Google and Apple are asking some employees with H-1B visas to reconsider international travel, as their legal teams warned that visa processing delays could keep employees abroad for months, according to Business Insider. From a report: Law firms representing the tech giants sent memos advising staff who require visa stamps for reentry to stay in the U.S., warning that international travel could entangle them in visa screening delays following the introduction of a new social media screening requirement, according to the news agency. The policy subjects H-1B workers and their dependents to reviews of their social media histories.
"Please be aware that some US Embassies and Consulates are experiencing significant visa stamping appointment delays, currently reported as up to 12 months," BAL Immigration Law, which represents Google, said in a memo obtained by Business Insider. The law firm said the delays were affecting H-1B, H-4, F, J and M visas.
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