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'Godfather of SaaS' Says He Replaced Most of His Sales Team With AI Agents
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2026-01-06 06:22:01
joshuark shares a report from Business Insider: Jason Lemkin, known to some as the Godfather of SaaS, says the time has come to push the limits of AI in the workplace. Lemkin, the founder of SaaStr, the world's largest community of business-to-business founders. In a recent podcast Lemkin said that this means he will stop hiring humans in his sales department. SaaStr is going all in for AI agents, which are commonly defined as virtual assistants that can complete tasks autonomously. They break down problems, outline plans, and take action without being prompted by a user. He said the company now has 20 AI agents automating tasks once handled by a team of 10 sales development representatives and account executives. That move to AI was rapid from an entirely human workforce.
During the SaaStr Annual a yearly gathering of over 10,000 founders, executives, and VCs, two of its high-paid sales representatives abruptly quit. Lemkin said he turned to Amelia Lerutte, SaaStr's chief AI officer, and said, "We're done with hiring humans in sales. We're going to push the limits with agents." Lemkin's calculus was that it just wasn't worth the cost of hiring another junior sales representative for a $150,000 a year position who would eventually quit, when he could use a loyal AI agent instead.
[...] Lemkin said SaaStr is training its agents on its best humans. "Train an agent with your best person, and best script, then that agent can start to become a version of your best salesperson," he said. Lemkin said that the net productivity of agents is about the same as humans. However, he said, agents are more efficient and can scale -- just like software. Many companies are experimenting with AI agents, but risks remain. One of the big ones is the threat of data leaks and cybercrime.
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joshuark shares a report from Business Insider: Jason Lemkin, known to some as the Godfather of SaaS, says the time has come to push the limits of AI in the workplace. Lemkin, the founder of SaaStr, the world's largest community of business-to-business founders. In a recent podcast Lemkin said that this means he will stop hiring humans in his sales department. SaaStr is going all in for AI agents, which are commonly defined as virtual assistants that can complete tasks autonomously. They break down problems, outline plans, and take action without being prompted by a user. He said the company now has 20 AI agents automating tasks once handled by a team of 10 sales development representatives and account executives. That move to AI was rapid from an entirely human workforce.
During the SaaStr Annual a yearly gathering of over 10,000 founders, executives, and VCs, two of its high-paid sales representatives abruptly quit. Lemkin said he turned to Amelia Lerutte, SaaStr's chief AI officer, and said, "We're done with hiring humans in sales. We're going to push the limits with agents." Lemkin's calculus was that it just wasn't worth the cost of hiring another junior sales representative for a $150,000 a year position who would eventually quit, when he could use a loyal AI agent instead.
[...] Lemkin said SaaStr is training its agents on its best humans. "Train an agent with your best person, and best script, then that agent can start to become a version of your best salesperson," he said. Lemkin said that the net productivity of agents is about the same as humans. However, he said, agents are more efficient and can scale -- just like software. Many companies are experimenting with AI agents, but risks remain. One of the big ones is the threat of data leaks and cybercrime.
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Anna's Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension
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2026-01-06 05:22:02
Anna's Archive lost control of its primary .org domain after it was placed on registry-level serverHold -- "an action that's typically taken by the domain name registry," reports TorrentFreak. Despite mounting legal pressure and speculation tied to its Spotify backup, the site remains accessible via multiple alternative domains, underscoring the resilience of shadow libraries. From the report: A few hours ago, the site's original domain name suddenly became unreachable globally. The annas-archive.org domain status was changed to "serverHold," which is typically done by the domain registry. This status effectively means that the domain is suspended and under investigation. Similar action has previously been taken against other pirate sites.
It is rare to see a .org domain involved in domain name suspensions. The American non-profit Public Interest Registry (PIR), which oversees the .org domains, previously refused to suspend domain names voluntarily, including thepiratebay.org. The registry's cautionary stance suggests that the actions against annas-archive.org are backed by a court order.
PIR's marketing director, Kendal Rowe, informs TorrentFreak that "unfortunately, PIR is unable to comment on the situation at this time." It is possible that, in response to the 'DRM-circumventing' Spotify backup, rightsholders requested an injunction targeting the domain name. However, we have seen no evidence of that. In the WorldCat lawsuit, OCLC requested an injunction to force action from intermediaries, including domain registries, but as far as we know, that hasn't been granted yet.
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Anna's Archive lost control of its primary .org domain after it was placed on registry-level serverHold -- "an action that's typically taken by the domain name registry," reports TorrentFreak. Despite mounting legal pressure and speculation tied to its Spotify backup, the site remains accessible via multiple alternative domains, underscoring the resilience of shadow libraries. From the report: A few hours ago, the site's original domain name suddenly became unreachable globally. The annas-archive.org domain status was changed to "serverHold," which is typically done by the domain registry. This status effectively means that the domain is suspended and under investigation. Similar action has previously been taken against other pirate sites.
It is rare to see a .org domain involved in domain name suspensions. The American non-profit Public Interest Registry (PIR), which oversees the .org domains, previously refused to suspend domain names voluntarily, including thepiratebay.org. The registry's cautionary stance suggests that the actions against annas-archive.org are backed by a court order.
PIR's marketing director, Kendal Rowe, informs TorrentFreak that "unfortunately, PIR is unable to comment on the situation at this time." It is possible that, in response to the 'DRM-circumventing' Spotify backup, rightsholders requested an injunction targeting the domain name. However, we have seen no evidence of that. In the WorldCat lawsuit, OCLC requested an injunction to force action from intermediaries, including domain registries, but as far as we know, that hasn't been granted yet.
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shut Down After 58 Years
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2026-01-06 05:22:02
After Congress approved President Donald Trump's rescission package eliminating federal funding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve after 58 years, rather than continue to exist and potentially be "vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse." The shutdown leaves hundreds of local public TV and radio stations facing an uncertain future. Variety reports: The CPB was created by Congress by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 to support the federal government's investment in public broadcasting. The org noted that the rescission of all of CPB's federal funding came after years of political attacks. "For more than half a century, CPB existed to ensure that all Americans -- regardless of geography, income, or background -- had access to trusted news, educational programming, and local storytelling," said CPB president/CEO Patricia Harrison. "When the Administration and Congress rescinded federal funding, our Board faced a profound responsibility: CPB's final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks.
[...] "CPB's support extends to every corner of the country -- urban, rural, tribal, and everywhere in between," the org noted. "In many communities, public media stations are the only free source of trusted news, educational children's programming, and local and national cultural content." The CPB said that without funding, its board determined that "maintaining the corporation as a nonfunctional entity would not serve the public interest or advance the goals of public media. A dormant and defunded CPB could have become vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse, threatening the independence of public media and the trust audiences place in it, and potentially subjecting staff and board members to legal exposure from bad-faith actors."
As it closes, CPB is distributing its remaining funds, and also supporting the American Archive of Public Broadcasting in digitizing and preserving historic content. The CPB's own archives will be preserved at the University of Maryland, which will make it accessible to the public. "Public media remains essential to a healthy democracy," Harrison added. "Our hope is that future leaders and generations will recognize its value, defend its independence, and continue the work of ensuring that trustworthy, educational, and community-centered media remains accessible to all Americans."
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After Congress approved President Donald Trump's rescission package eliminating federal funding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve after 58 years, rather than continue to exist and potentially be "vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse." The shutdown leaves hundreds of local public TV and radio stations facing an uncertain future. Variety reports: The CPB was created by Congress by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 to support the federal government's investment in public broadcasting. The org noted that the rescission of all of CPB's federal funding came after years of political attacks. "For more than half a century, CPB existed to ensure that all Americans -- regardless of geography, income, or background -- had access to trusted news, educational programming, and local storytelling," said CPB president/CEO Patricia Harrison. "When the Administration and Congress rescinded federal funding, our Board faced a profound responsibility: CPB's final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks.
[...] "CPB's support extends to every corner of the country -- urban, rural, tribal, and everywhere in between," the org noted. "In many communities, public media stations are the only free source of trusted news, educational children's programming, and local and national cultural content." The CPB said that without funding, its board determined that "maintaining the corporation as a nonfunctional entity would not serve the public interest or advance the goals of public media. A dormant and defunded CPB could have become vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse, threatening the independence of public media and the trust audiences place in it, and potentially subjecting staff and board members to legal exposure from bad-faith actors."
As it closes, CPB is distributing its remaining funds, and also supporting the American Archive of Public Broadcasting in digitizing and preserving historic content. The CPB's own archives will be preserved at the University of Maryland, which will make it accessible to the public. "Public media remains essential to a healthy democracy," Harrison added. "Our hope is that future leaders and generations will recognize its value, defend its independence, and continue the work of ensuring that trustworthy, educational, and community-centered media remains accessible to all Americans."
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Заметки по выставке CES-2026
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2026-01-06 04:35:05
Опубликовано: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:57:56 GMT
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В эти дни в Лас-Вегасе проходит технологическая выставка CES-2026 (https://www.ces.tech). Главное наблюдение - сдвиг от «гаджетов» к встроенному ИИ как базовой функции. А) Основные наблюдения 1. Сдвиг от облачного ИИ к локальному (on-device AI) ИИ теперь работает на устройстве: в ПК, роботах, автомобилях, промышленном оборудовании. Меньше облачности, меньше задержек, больше автономности и приватности. 2. Связка ИИ-ПК стала реальным рынком, а не концептом CES 2026 закрепил появление массовых компьютеров с выделенными AI-ускорителями (NPU). Говорят, это новый цикл обновления железа, сопоставимый по масштабу с переходом на мобильные устройства. 3. Роботы и автоматизация вышли из стадии “демо” Робототехника на CES 2026 — это не шоу-экспонаты, а конкретные решения для складов, заводов и логистики, готовые к внедрению и масштабированию. 4. Производство стало “умным” системно, а не точечно Промышленный ИИ показан как автономная система управления, а не отдельные датчики или софт — шаг к самоуправляемым фабрикам. 5. CES перестал быть “выставкой гаджетов” Меньше вау-устройств для потребителя — больше инфраструктуры, платформ и экосистем, которые определяют рынок на 5–10 лет вперёд. Б) Что нового показали публичные компании? Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/articles/983102/
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В эти дни в Лас-Вегасе проходит технологическая выставка CES-2026 (https://www.ces.tech). Главное наблюдение - сдвиг от «гаджетов» к встроенному ИИ как базовой функции. А) Основные наблюдения 1. Сдвиг от облачного ИИ к локальному (on-device AI) ИИ теперь работает на устройстве: в ПК, роботах, автомобилях, промышленном оборудовании. Меньше облачности, меньше задержек, больше автономности и приватности. 2. Связка ИИ-ПК стала реальным рынком, а не концептом CES 2026 закрепил появление массовых компьютеров с выделенными AI-ускорителями (NPU). Говорят, это новый цикл обновления железа, сопоставимый по масштабу с переходом на мобильные устройства. 3. Роботы и автоматизация вышли из стадии “демо” Робототехника на CES 2026 — это не шоу-экспонаты, а конкретные решения для складов, заводов и логистики, готовые к внедрению и масштабированию. 4. Производство стало “умным” системно, а не точечно Промышленный ИИ показан как автономная система управления, а не отдельные датчики или софт — шаг к самоуправляемым фабрикам. 5. CES перестал быть “выставкой гаджетов” Меньше вау-устройств для потребителя — больше инфраструктуры, платформ и экосистем, которые определяют рынок на 5–10 лет вперёд. Б) Что нового показали публичные компании? Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/articles/983102/
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Lego's Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain
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2026-01-06 04:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: At CES in Las Vegas today, Lego has unveiled its new Smart Play platform, aimed at taking its distinctly analog plastic blocks and figures into a new world of tech-powered interactive play -- but crucially one without any reliance on screens. Smart Play revolves around Lego's patented sensor- and tech-packed brick. It's the same size as a standard 2 x 4 Lego brick, but it is capable of connecting to compatible Smart Minifigures and Smart Tags and interacting with them in real time. By pairing these components, kids big and small can create context-appropriate sounds and light effects as they play with the Danish company's toys.
[...] Lego is claiming this Smart Play platform developed in house by the company's Creative Play Lab team in collaboration with Capgemini's Cambridge Consultants "features more than 20 patented world-firsts within its technology." The heart of the system is the Smart Brick's custom-made chip, measuring smaller than a standard Lego stud. Other elements crammed into the eight-stud brick are an LED light array, accelerometers, light sensors, and sound sensor, and even a miniature speaker. The internal battery will supposedly work even after years of inactivity, and to avoid any need for cable access to the Smart Brick once it's built into a beloved creation, Lego has also added wireless charging. Indeed, Lego has made a charging pad that will power up several Smart Bricks simultaneously.
That all-important brain chip is a 4.1-millimeter custom mixed-signal ASIC chip running a bespoke Play Engine, which interprets motion, orientation, and magnetic fields. A copper coil assembly enables the brick's tag recognition, while a proprietary "Brick-to-Brick position system" uses these coils to sense distance, direction, and orientation between multiple Smart Bricks. Moreover, Lego claims this use of multiple Smart Bricks creates a "self-organizing network" that requires no setup, no app, no central hub, nor external controllers -- and so no screens. A Bluetooth-based "BrickNet" protocol shares the data between the Smart Bricks.
Sounds are handled by a tiny analog synthesizer putting out real-time audio (thus minimizing memory load) via the brick's miniature speaker, which uses the brick's internal air spaces to amplify sound. As a result, the audio effects are apparently immediate and can be used to enhance play with real-time sound. Lego insists there are no prerecorded clips of lightsabers or other pieces of audio being used as a cheat. Just like the Smart Minifigs, the 2 x 2 studless tile tags trigger sounds, lights, or behaviors tied to where they are placed or how they are played with. They communicate with other components through near-field magnetic connections. Each tile has a unique digital ID, which is read by the brain brick, while the minifigures -- outwardly identical to standard minifigs -- carry their unique digital ID on an internal chip.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: At CES in Las Vegas today, Lego has unveiled its new Smart Play platform, aimed at taking its distinctly analog plastic blocks and figures into a new world of tech-powered interactive play -- but crucially one without any reliance on screens. Smart Play revolves around Lego's patented sensor- and tech-packed brick. It's the same size as a standard 2 x 4 Lego brick, but it is capable of connecting to compatible Smart Minifigures and Smart Tags and interacting with them in real time. By pairing these components, kids big and small can create context-appropriate sounds and light effects as they play with the Danish company's toys.
[...] Lego is claiming this Smart Play platform developed in house by the company's Creative Play Lab team in collaboration with Capgemini's Cambridge Consultants "features more than 20 patented world-firsts within its technology." The heart of the system is the Smart Brick's custom-made chip, measuring smaller than a standard Lego stud. Other elements crammed into the eight-stud brick are an LED light array, accelerometers, light sensors, and sound sensor, and even a miniature speaker. The internal battery will supposedly work even after years of inactivity, and to avoid any need for cable access to the Smart Brick once it's built into a beloved creation, Lego has also added wireless charging. Indeed, Lego has made a charging pad that will power up several Smart Bricks simultaneously.
That all-important brain chip is a 4.1-millimeter custom mixed-signal ASIC chip running a bespoke Play Engine, which interprets motion, orientation, and magnetic fields. A copper coil assembly enables the brick's tag recognition, while a proprietary "Brick-to-Brick position system" uses these coils to sense distance, direction, and orientation between multiple Smart Bricks. Moreover, Lego claims this use of multiple Smart Bricks creates a "self-organizing network" that requires no setup, no app, no central hub, nor external controllers -- and so no screens. A Bluetooth-based "BrickNet" protocol shares the data between the Smart Bricks.
Sounds are handled by a tiny analog synthesizer putting out real-time audio (thus minimizing memory load) via the brick's miniature speaker, which uses the brick's internal air spaces to amplify sound. As a result, the audio effects are apparently immediate and can be used to enhance play with real-time sound. Lego insists there are no prerecorded clips of lightsabers or other pieces of audio being used as a cheat. Just like the Smart Minifigs, the 2 x 2 studless tile tags trigger sounds, lights, or behaviors tied to where they are placed or how they are played with. They communicate with other components through near-field magnetic connections. Each tile has a unique digital ID, which is read by the brain brick, while the minifigures -- outwardly identical to standard minifigs -- carry their unique digital ID on an internal chip.
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GNOME and Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default
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2026-01-06 04:22:01
Both GNOME and Firefox are considering disabling middle-click paste by default, arguing it's a confusing, accident-prone X11 relic that dumps clipboard contents without warning. Phoronix reports: A merge request for GNOME's gsettings-desktop-schemas was opened this weekend to disable the primary-paste functionality by default that allows using the middle mouse button for pasting. Jordan Petridis argued in that GNOME pull request that middle-click paste is an "X11'ism" and that the setting could remain for those wanting to opt-in to enabling the functionality [...].
The gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste true command would be a way of restoring the primary paste (middle click paste) for those desiring the functionality. The decision over the default has been tasked to GNOME's design team for consideration.
Separately, Mozilla is also considering disabling middle mouse button paste by default too. [...] Another option being considered is having the option to enable/disable it at either the GTK toolkit level or Wayland compositor level.
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Both GNOME and Firefox are considering disabling middle-click paste by default, arguing it's a confusing, accident-prone X11 relic that dumps clipboard contents without warning. Phoronix reports: A merge request for GNOME's gsettings-desktop-schemas was opened this weekend to disable the primary-paste functionality by default that allows using the middle mouse button for pasting. Jordan Petridis argued in that GNOME pull request that middle-click paste is an "X11'ism" and that the setting could remain for those wanting to opt-in to enabling the functionality [...].
The gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste true command would be a way of restoring the primary paste (middle click paste) for those desiring the functionality. The decision over the default has been tasked to GNOME's design team for consideration.
Separately, Mozilla is also considering disabling middle mouse button paste by default too. [...] Another option being considered is having the option to enable/disable it at either the GTK toolkit level or Wayland compositor level.
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Viral Reddit Post About Food Delivery Apps Was an AI Scam
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2026-01-06 03:22:01
A viral Reddit "whistleblower" post accusing a major food delivery app of systemic exploitation is "most likely AI-generated," reports the Verge. From the report: The original post by user Trowaway_whistleblow alleged that an unnamed food delivery company regularly delays customer orders, calls couriers "human assets," and exploits their "desperation" for cash, among other indefensible actions. Nearly 90,000 upvotes and four days later, it's become increasingly clear that the post's text is probably AI-generated. Considering the delivery app industry track record of exploitation of its drivers, it's easy to see why so many people believed this was the real thing.
The Verge put the original 586-word Reddit post through several free online AI detectors, in addition to Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The results were mixed: Copyleaks, GPTZero, Pangram, Gemini, and Claude all pegged it as likely AI-generated, but ZeroGPT and QuillBot both reported it as human-written. ChatGPT played it down the middle. Reached by The Verge on Signal, Trowaway_whistleblow provided an image of an Uber Eats employee badge. That image was generated or edited with Google AI, according to Gemini. The image shows an Uber Eats logo above two black boxes, presumably covering an employee name and photo, and the words "senior software engineer." It's odd that an engineer's badge would have the Uber Eats logo, and not the Uber logo, according to Gemini. That, in addition to slightly misaligned words and warped coloration at the edge of the green border, are reasons Gemini thinks it's inauthentic. (Uber later confirmed that Uber Eats-branded employee badges do not exist.) "Not only are the claims fake, but they're also dead wrong," Uber spokesperson Noah Edwardsen told The Verge. Uber Eats' Andrew Macdonald wrote on X, "This post is definitively not about us. I suspect it is completely made up. Don't trust everything you read on the internet."
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu also denied the redditor's "appalling" allegations. "This is not DoorDash, and I would fire anyone who promoted or tolerated the kind of culture described in this Reddit post," Xu said in a post on X.
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2026-01-06 03:22:01
A viral Reddit "whistleblower" post accusing a major food delivery app of systemic exploitation is "most likely AI-generated," reports the Verge. From the report: The original post by user Trowaway_whistleblow alleged that an unnamed food delivery company regularly delays customer orders, calls couriers "human assets," and exploits their "desperation" for cash, among other indefensible actions. Nearly 90,000 upvotes and four days later, it's become increasingly clear that the post's text is probably AI-generated. Considering the delivery app industry track record of exploitation of its drivers, it's easy to see why so many people believed this was the real thing.
The Verge put the original 586-word Reddit post through several free online AI detectors, in addition to Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The results were mixed: Copyleaks, GPTZero, Pangram, Gemini, and Claude all pegged it as likely AI-generated, but ZeroGPT and QuillBot both reported it as human-written. ChatGPT played it down the middle. Reached by The Verge on Signal, Trowaway_whistleblow provided an image of an Uber Eats employee badge. That image was generated or edited with Google AI, according to Gemini. The image shows an Uber Eats logo above two black boxes, presumably covering an employee name and photo, and the words "senior software engineer." It's odd that an engineer's badge would have the Uber Eats logo, and not the Uber logo, according to Gemini. That, in addition to slightly misaligned words and warped coloration at the edge of the green border, are reasons Gemini thinks it's inauthentic. (Uber later confirmed that Uber Eats-branded employee badges do not exist.) "Not only are the claims fake, but they're also dead wrong," Uber spokesperson Noah Edwardsen told The Verge. Uber Eats' Andrew Macdonald wrote on X, "This post is definitively not about us. I suspect it is completely made up. Don't trust everything you read on the internet."
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu also denied the redditor's "appalling" allegations. "This is not DoorDash, and I would fire anyone who promoted or tolerated the kind of culture described in this Reddit post," Xu said in a post on X.
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«Росатом» за 828 млн руб покупает лицензии PostgreSQL Pro под российские процессоры «Эльбрус»
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2026-01-06 02:44:04
Передовая отечественная СУБД мирового класса Postgres Pro Enterprise получила контракт от «Росатом», на покупку лицензий.
«Росатом» получит лицензии на неограниченное число ядер процессоров, совместимость с процессором «Эльбрус» и русскими Linux. Перечень поддерживаемых ОС включает специальные выпуски «Astra Linux Special Edition», дистрибутивы «Альт Линукс» различных версий и редакций, «RED OS», а также «РОСА «ХРОМ»». Поддержка CentOS указана только для версий СУБД на базе PostgreSQL 14. Все перечисленные операционные системы должны иметь действующие сертификаты соответствия.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/proprietary/18187435
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2026-01-06 02:44:04
Передовая отечественная СУБД мирового класса Postgres Pro Enterprise получила контракт от «Росатом», на покупку лицензий.
«Росатом» получит лицензии на неограниченное число ядер процессоров, совместимость с процессором «Эльбрус» и русскими Linux. Перечень поддерживаемых ОС включает специальные выпуски «Astra Linux Special Edition», дистрибутивы «Альт Линукс» различных версий и редакций, «RED OS», а также «РОСА «ХРОМ»». Поддержка CentOS указана только для версий СУБД на базе PostgreSQL 14. Все перечисленные операционные системы должны иметь действующие сертификаты соответствия.
https://www.linux.org.ru/news/proprietary/18187435
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Lightning Image Viewer 0.5.1
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2026-01-06 02:44:04
Lightning Image Viewer – легковесное приложение для просмотра изображений на десктопном компьютере со своеобразным UX, который автор находит наиболее удобным.
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/multimedia/18187363#cut ) )
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2026-01-06 02:44:04
Lightning Image Viewer – легковесное приложение для просмотра изображений на десктопном компьютере со своеобразным UX, который автор находит наиболее удобным.
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/multimedia/18187363#cut ) )
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Amazon's AI Assistant Comes To the Web With Alexa.com
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2026-01-06 02:22:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amazon's AI-powered overhaul of its digital assistant, now known as Alexa+, is coming to the web. On Monday, at the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company announced the official launch of a new website, Alexa.com, which is now rolling out to all Alexa+ Early Access customers. The site will allow customers to use Alexa+ online, much as you can do today with other AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Google's Gemini.
[...] Related to this expansion, Amazon is updating its Alexa mobile app, which will now offer a more "agent-forward" experience. Or, in other words, it's putting a chatbot-style interface on the app's homepage, making it seem more like a typical AI chatbot. (While you could chat with Alexa before in the app, the focus is now on the chatting -- while the other features take a back seat.) On the Alexa.com website, customers can use Alexa+ for common tasks -- for instance, exploring complex topics, creating content, and making trip itineraries. However, Amazon aims to differentiate its assistant from others by focusing on families and their needs in the home.
[...] The Alexa.com website features a navigation sidebar for quicker access to your most-used Alexa features, so you can pick up where you left off on tasks like setting the thermostat, checking your calendar for appointments, reviewing shopping lists, and more. In addition, Amazon aims to convince customers to share their personal documents, emails, and calendar access with Alexa+, so its AI can become a sort of hub to manage the goings-on at home, from kids' school holidays and soccer schedules to doctor's appointments and other things families need to remember -- like when the dog got its last rabies shot, or what day the neighbor's backyard BBQ is taking place. "Seventy-six percent of what customers are using Alexa+ for no other AI can do," says Daniel Rausch, VP of Alexa and Echo at Amazon.
"Ninety-seven percent of Alexa devices support Alexa+, and we see now in adoption from customers that they're using Alexa across all those many years and many generations of devices," Rausch adds. "We support all of Alexa's original capabilities, the tens of thousands of services and devices that Alexa was integrated with already are carried forward to the Alexa+ experience."
The report notes that Alexa.com will initially only be available to Early Access customers who sign in with their Amazon account.
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2026-01-06 02:22:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amazon's AI-powered overhaul of its digital assistant, now known as Alexa+, is coming to the web. On Monday, at the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company announced the official launch of a new website, Alexa.com, which is now rolling out to all Alexa+ Early Access customers. The site will allow customers to use Alexa+ online, much as you can do today with other AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Google's Gemini.
[...] Related to this expansion, Amazon is updating its Alexa mobile app, which will now offer a more "agent-forward" experience. Or, in other words, it's putting a chatbot-style interface on the app's homepage, making it seem more like a typical AI chatbot. (While you could chat with Alexa before in the app, the focus is now on the chatting -- while the other features take a back seat.) On the Alexa.com website, customers can use Alexa+ for common tasks -- for instance, exploring complex topics, creating content, and making trip itineraries. However, Amazon aims to differentiate its assistant from others by focusing on families and their needs in the home.
[...] The Alexa.com website features a navigation sidebar for quicker access to your most-used Alexa features, so you can pick up where you left off on tasks like setting the thermostat, checking your calendar for appointments, reviewing shopping lists, and more. In addition, Amazon aims to convince customers to share their personal documents, emails, and calendar access with Alexa+, so its AI can become a sort of hub to manage the goings-on at home, from kids' school holidays and soccer schedules to doctor's appointments and other things families need to remember -- like when the dog got its last rabies shot, or what day the neighbor's backyard BBQ is taking place. "Seventy-six percent of what customers are using Alexa+ for no other AI can do," says Daniel Rausch, VP of Alexa and Echo at Amazon.
"Ninety-seven percent of Alexa devices support Alexa+, and we see now in adoption from customers that they're using Alexa across all those many years and many generations of devices," Rausch adds. "We support all of Alexa's original capabilities, the tens of thousands of services and devices that Alexa was integrated with already are carried forward to the Alexa+ experience."
The report notes that Alexa.com will initially only be available to Early Access customers who sign in with their Amazon account.
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SanDisk Says Goodbye To WD Blue and Black SSDs, Hello To New 'Optimus' Drives
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2026-01-06 02:22:02
SanDisk is retiring the WD Blue and WD Black SSD brands and replacing them with a new "Optimus" line that carries the same model numbers as its predecessors. The move follows Western Digital's late-2023 decision to split into two companies -- one retaining the WD name for hard drives sold to NAS and data center customers, the other reviving SanDisk for solid-state storage. That separation effectively unwound WD's $19 billion acquisition of SanDisk a decade earlier.
Under the new structure, the entry-level WD Blue SN5100 becomes the SanDisk Optimus 5100, mid-tier WD Black drives shift to Optimus GX, and high-end WD Black SSDs become Optimus GX Pro. The Optimus 5100 uses slower quad-level cell flash, the GX 7100 steps up to triple-level cell memory, and the GX Pro 8100 adds a PCIe 5.0 interface and dedicated DRAM cache. SanDisk offered no timeline for its WD Green and WD Red drives. The rebranding arrives as SSD prices climb on demand from AI data centers -- volatility that prompted Micron last month to discontinue its Crucial-branded consumer drives and RAM.
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2026-01-06 02:22:02
SanDisk is retiring the WD Blue and WD Black SSD brands and replacing them with a new "Optimus" line that carries the same model numbers as its predecessors. The move follows Western Digital's late-2023 decision to split into two companies -- one retaining the WD name for hard drives sold to NAS and data center customers, the other reviving SanDisk for solid-state storage. That separation effectively unwound WD's $19 billion acquisition of SanDisk a decade earlier.
Under the new structure, the entry-level WD Blue SN5100 becomes the SanDisk Optimus 5100, mid-tier WD Black drives shift to Optimus GX, and high-end WD Black SSDs become Optimus GX Pro. The Optimus 5100 uses slower quad-level cell flash, the GX 7100 steps up to triple-level cell memory, and the GX Pro 8100 adds a PCIe 5.0 interface and dedicated DRAM cache. SanDisk offered no timeline for its WD Green and WD Red drives. The rebranding arrives as SSD prices climb on demand from AI data centers -- volatility that prompted Micron last month to discontinue its Crucial-branded consumer drives and RAM.
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VSCode IDE Forks Expose Users To 'Recommended Extension' Attacks
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2026-01-06 01:22:02
An anonymous reader shares a report: Popular AI-powered integrated development environment solutions, such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity, and Trae, recommend extensions that are non-existent in the OpenVSX registry, allowing threat actors to claim the namespace and upload malicious extensions.
These AI-assisted IDEs are forked from Microsoft VSCode, but cannot use the extensions in the official store due to licensing restrictions. Instead, they are supported by OpenVSX, an open-source marketplace alternative for VSCode-compatible extensions. As a result of forking, the IDEs inherit the list of officially recommended extensions, hardcoded in the configuration files, which point to Microsoft's Visual Studio Marketplace.
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2026-01-06 01:22:02
An anonymous reader shares a report: Popular AI-powered integrated development environment solutions, such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity, and Trae, recommend extensions that are non-existent in the OpenVSX registry, allowing threat actors to claim the namespace and upload malicious extensions.
These AI-assisted IDEs are forked from Microsoft VSCode, but cannot use the extensions in the official store due to licensing restrictions. Instead, they are supported by OpenVSX, an open-source marketplace alternative for VSCode-compatible extensions. As a result of forking, the IDEs inherit the list of officially recommended extensions, hardcoded in the configuration files, which point to Microsoft's Visual Studio Marketplace.
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GNOME и Firefox намерены отключить по умолчанию вставку средней кнопкой мыши
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2026-01-06 00:44:03
Для применения в GNOME и Firefox предложены изменения, отключающие по умолчанию одну из полезных функций графических окружений в Linux - возможность быстрой вставки содержимого буфера обмена (PRIMARY selection) нажатием средней кнопки мыши. Изменения находятся на стадии рецензирования и пока окончательно не утверждены.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64567
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2026-01-06 00:44:03
Для применения в GNOME и Firefox предложены изменения, отключающие по умолчанию одну из полезных функций графических окружений в Linux - возможность быстрой вставки содержимого буфера обмена (PRIMARY selection) нажатием средней кнопки мыши. Изменения находятся на стадии рецензирования и пока окончательно не утверждены.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64567
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UK Government's New Pension Portal Operator Tells Users To Wait for AI Before Complaining
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2026-01-06 00:22:01
Capita, the UK outsourcer that won a $323 million contract to administer the nation's Civil Service Pension Scheme for 1.7 million members, has responded to a disastrous portal launch by asking users to hold off on complaints until its new AI chatbots go live.
The service launched on December 1 and immediately ran into problems including unrecognized passwords, broken links and placeholder text scattered across unfinished pages. In a December 17 email to members, The Register reports today, managing director Chris Clements said Capita was "working tirelessly" and promised "one of the biggest services in the United Kingdom with AI at its core" by March.
He asked users whose enquiries were not urgent to wait until the new year before contacting support again.
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2026-01-06 00:22:01
Capita, the UK outsourcer that won a $323 million contract to administer the nation's Civil Service Pension Scheme for 1.7 million members, has responded to a disastrous portal launch by asking users to hold off on complaints until its new AI chatbots go live.
The service launched on December 1 and immediately ran into problems including unrecognized passwords, broken links and placeholder text scattered across unfinished pages. In a December 17 email to members, The Register reports today, managing director Chris Clements said Capita was "working tirelessly" and promised "one of the biggest services in the United Kingdom with AI at its core" by March.
He asked users whose enquiries were not urgent to wait until the new year before contacting support again.
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Google To Kill Gmail's POP3 Mail Fetching
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2026-01-06 00:22:01
Google is quietly killing Gmail's ability to fetch mail from third-party email accounts using POP3, a long-standing feature that has allowed users to consolidate multiple inboxes into a single Gmail interface. The change takes effect this month and also ends Gmailify, the companion feature that applied Gmail's spam filtering and inbox organization to linked third-party accounts.
Google buried the decision in a support note rather than making any formal announcement. The company's suggested workaround -- switching to IMAP -- doesn't work for all affected users. Users can still access third-party accounts through the Gmail mobile app, but the Gmail service itself will no longer retrieve messages from external providers.
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2026-01-06 00:22:01
Google is quietly killing Gmail's ability to fetch mail from third-party email accounts using POP3, a long-standing feature that has allowed users to consolidate multiple inboxes into a single Gmail interface. The change takes effect this month and also ends Gmailify, the companion feature that applied Gmail's spam filtering and inbox organization to linked third-party accounts.
Google buried the decision in a support note rather than making any formal announcement. The company's suggested workaround -- switching to IMAP -- doesn't work for all affected users. Users can still access third-party accounts through the Gmail mobile app, but the Gmail service itself will no longer retrieve messages from external providers.
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Представлены умные часы Pebble Round 2 на открытой платформе PebbleOS
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2026-01-05 23:44:02
Эрик Мигиковски (Eric Migicovsky), основатель компании Pebble Technology, представил умные часы Pebble Round 2, которые будут выпускаться на базе открытой платформы PebbleOS. Новая модель дополнила выпущенную в августе упрощённую модель Pebble 2 Duo и запланированную на март модель Pebble Time 2, и отличается от них использованием круглого экрана. Схемы и проектные файлы (KiCad) для модели Pebble 2 Duo уже доступны на GitHub, а для моделей Pebble Time 2 и Pebble Round 2 будут опубликованы после полной готовности устройств.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64565
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2026-01-05 23:44:02
Эрик Мигиковски (Eric Migicovsky), основатель компании Pebble Technology, представил умные часы Pebble Round 2, которые будут выпускаться на базе открытой платформы PebbleOS. Новая модель дополнила выпущенную в августе упрощённую модель Pebble 2 Duo и запланированную на март модель Pebble Time 2, и отличается от них использованием круглого экрана. Схемы и проектные файлы (KiCad) для модели Pebble 2 Duo уже доступны на GitHub, а для моделей Pebble Time 2 и Pebble Round 2 будут опубликованы после полной готовности устройств.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64565
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Microsoft is Slowly Turning Edge Into Another Copilot App
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2026-01-05 23:22:01
Microsoft has started testing a "significant" visual overhaul for Edge in its Canary and Dev Channel preview builds, and the redesigned interface borrows heavily from the design language that first appeared in the company's standalone Copilot app rather than the Fluent Design system used across Windows 11, Xbox, and Office.
The updated look touches context menus, the new tab page and settings areas, introducing rounder corners and the same color palette and typography found in Copilot. The new interface appears regardless of whether users have Copilot Mode enabled, though the new tab page reverts to MSN news articles and Bing search when Copilot Mode is turned off.
Edge is not alone in this shift, Windows Central writes. Microsoft is also applying the Copilot design language to Copilot Discover, an AI-powered version of MSN.com that may be internally codenamed "Ruby." Windows and Xbox have not yet received similar treatment. The rollout remains uneven -- the refreshed UI is not appearing on all test machines -- and production releases are likely weeks away. If Microsoft continues down this path, Copilot, MSN and Edge will share a visual identity that looks noticeably different from the rest of the company's software lineup, the publication adds.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/1825213/microsoft-is-slowly-turning-edge-into-another-copilot-app?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2026-01-05 23:22:01
Microsoft has started testing a "significant" visual overhaul for Edge in its Canary and Dev Channel preview builds, and the redesigned interface borrows heavily from the design language that first appeared in the company's standalone Copilot app rather than the Fluent Design system used across Windows 11, Xbox, and Office.
The updated look touches context menus, the new tab page and settings areas, introducing rounder corners and the same color palette and typography found in Copilot. The new interface appears regardless of whether users have Copilot Mode enabled, though the new tab page reverts to MSN news articles and Bing search when Copilot Mode is turned off.
Edge is not alone in this shift, Windows Central writes. Microsoft is also applying the Copilot design language to Copilot Discover, an AI-powered version of MSN.com that may be internally codenamed "Ruby." Windows and Xbox have not yet received similar treatment. The rollout remains uneven -- the refreshed UI is not appearing on all test machines -- and production releases are likely weeks away. If Microsoft continues down this path, Copilot, MSN and Edge will share a visual identity that looks noticeably different from the rest of the company's software lineup, the publication adds.
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Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down
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2026-01-05 22:22:01
Scientists at Melbourne's Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity are working on a Crispr-based treatment -- delivered as a nasal spray or injection -- that could stop influenza infections by targeting the virus's RNA and disrupting its ability to replicate inside human cells.
The approach uses the Cas13 enzyme, a lesser-known cousin of the DNA-cutting Cas9, which can be engineered to seek out conserved regions of influenza's genetic code that are found in virtually all flu strains and are crucial to the virus's survival. The delivery mechanism would use lipid nanoparticles to ferry two molecular instructions to flu-infected cells in the respiratory tract: an mRNA that tells cells to produce Cas13 and a guide RNA that directs the enzyme to specific parts of the influenza virus's code.
Cas13 then cuts the viral RNA and effectively stops the infection at the genetic level, Sharon Lewin, the infectious diseases physician leading the project, told Wired. Early safety testing at Harvard's Wyss Institute used a "lung on a chip" model to examine whether human cells producing Cas13 could fight off flu strains including H1N1 and H3N2. The institute's founding director Donald Ingber says the studies showed no off-target effects.
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2026-01-05 22:22:01
Scientists at Melbourne's Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity are working on a Crispr-based treatment -- delivered as a nasal spray or injection -- that could stop influenza infections by targeting the virus's RNA and disrupting its ability to replicate inside human cells.
The approach uses the Cas13 enzyme, a lesser-known cousin of the DNA-cutting Cas9, which can be engineered to seek out conserved regions of influenza's genetic code that are found in virtually all flu strains and are crucial to the virus's survival. The delivery mechanism would use lipid nanoparticles to ferry two molecular instructions to flu-infected cells in the respiratory tract: an mRNA that tells cells to produce Cas13 and a guide RNA that directs the enzyme to specific parts of the influenza virus's code.
Cas13 then cuts the viral RNA and effectively stops the infection at the genetic level, Sharon Lewin, the infectious diseases physician leading the project, told Wired. Early safety testing at Harvard's Wyss Institute used a "lung on a chip" model to examine whether human cells producing Cas13 could fight off flu strains including H1N1 and H3N2. The institute's founding director Donald Ingber says the studies showed no off-target effects.
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'The College Backlash is a Mirage'
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2026-01-05 22:22:01
Public opinion surveys paint a picture of Americans souring dramatically on higher education, as Pew found that the share of adults calling college "very important" dropped from 70% in 2013 to just 35% today, and NBC polling shows that 63% now believe a degree is "not worth the cost," up from 40% over the same period. Yet enrollment data tells a different story.
Four-year institutions awarded 2 million bachelor's degrees in 2023, up from 1.6 million in 2010, and the fraction of 25-year-olds holding a bachelor's degree has steadily increased for the past 15 years. The economic case remains strong. The average bachelor's degree holder earns about 70% more than a high-school graduate of similar work experience, and after factoring in financial aid, the cost of attending a public four-year college has fallen by more than 20% since 2015.
Even after accounting for student-debt payments, college graduates net about $8,000 more annually than those without degrees. Part of the disconnect may stem from misunderstanding how college pricing works. Nearly half of U.S. adults believe everyone pays the same tuition, though fewer than 20% of families actually pay the published sticker price.
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2026-01-05 22:22:01
Public opinion surveys paint a picture of Americans souring dramatically on higher education, as Pew found that the share of adults calling college "very important" dropped from 70% in 2013 to just 35% today, and NBC polling shows that 63% now believe a degree is "not worth the cost," up from 40% over the same period. Yet enrollment data tells a different story.
Four-year institutions awarded 2 million bachelor's degrees in 2023, up from 1.6 million in 2010, and the fraction of 25-year-olds holding a bachelor's degree has steadily increased for the past 15 years. The economic case remains strong. The average bachelor's degree holder earns about 70% more than a high-school graduate of similar work experience, and after factoring in financial aid, the cost of attending a public four-year college has fallen by more than 20% since 2015.
Even after accounting for student-debt payments, college graduates net about $8,000 more annually than those without degrees. Part of the disconnect may stem from misunderstanding how college pricing works. Nearly half of U.S. adults believe everyone pays the same tuition, though fewer than 20% of families actually pay the published sticker price.
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Influencers and OnlyFans Models Dominate US 'Extraordinary' Artist Visas
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2026-01-05 21:22:01
The O-1B visa, a work permit reserved for individuals deemed to possess "extraordinary ability" in the arts, has become the pathway of choice for social media influencers and OnlyFans models seeking to build careers in the United States. Immigration attorneys told the Financial Times that influencers now make up more than half their clientele for O-1B applications, a shift that has accelerated since the Covid-19 pandemic as lawyers and talent managers have adapted the visa's criteria -- originally designed for traditional artists -- to fit the metrics of online fame.
High follower counts and substantial earnings can establish commercial success under the visa's requirements, landing a brand promotion contract can qualify as an endorsement of talent, and appearing at a store opening can count as performing in a "distinguished production." The total number of O-1 visas granted annually increased by more than 50% between 2014 and 2024, even as overall non-immigrant visa issuance grew by just 10%. Fewer than 20,000 O-1 visas were granted in 2024. Some attorneys said they worry the fixation on algorithm-driven metrics could disadvantage traditionally trained artists whose work doesn't generate viral attention.
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2026-01-05 21:22:01
The O-1B visa, a work permit reserved for individuals deemed to possess "extraordinary ability" in the arts, has become the pathway of choice for social media influencers and OnlyFans models seeking to build careers in the United States. Immigration attorneys told the Financial Times that influencers now make up more than half their clientele for O-1B applications, a shift that has accelerated since the Covid-19 pandemic as lawyers and talent managers have adapted the visa's criteria -- originally designed for traditional artists -- to fit the metrics of online fame.
High follower counts and substantial earnings can establish commercial success under the visa's requirements, landing a brand promotion contract can qualify as an endorsement of talent, and appearing at a store opening can count as performing in a "distinguished production." The total number of O-1 visas granted annually increased by more than 50% between 2014 and 2024, even as overall non-immigrant visa issuance grew by just 10%. Fewer than 20,000 O-1 visas were granted in 2024. Some attorneys said they worry the fixation on algorithm-driven metrics could disadvantage traditionally trained artists whose work doesn't generate viral attention.
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Пошаговая GDB отладка прошивки STM32 из консоли cmd
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2026-01-05 20:35:03
Опубликовано: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:52:22 GMT
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Порой бывает так, что вы скачиваете open-source репозиторий, а там нет файлов .project и .сproject для eclipse или файлы .project и .сproject есть, но они по каким-то причинам повреждены и IDE их не может открыть. Тем не менее прошивка собирается командой make all. Ты ее прошиваешь и LED не мигает. Очевидно, что прошивка зависла. Где-то свалилась в HardFault_Handler. В этом случае надо просто взять и запускать пошаговую отладку из консоли. Это классический способ разобраться, где же произошла осечка. Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/articles/979122/
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2026-01-05 20:35:03
Опубликовано: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:52:22 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр
Порой бывает так, что вы скачиваете open-source репозиторий, а там нет файлов .project и .сproject для eclipse или файлы .project и .сproject есть, но они по каким-то причинам повреждены и IDE их не может открыть. Тем не менее прошивка собирается командой make all. Ты ее прошиваешь и LED не мигает. Очевидно, что прошивка зависла. Где-то свалилась в HardFault_Handler. В этом случае надо просто взять и запускать пошаговую отладку из консоли. Это классический способ разобраться, где же произошла осечка. Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/articles/979122/
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Samsung's CES Concepts Disguise AI Speakers as Turntables and Cassette Players
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2026-01-05 20:22:02
Samsung is bringing a pair of retro-styled speaker concepts to CES 2026 that combine old-school aesthetics with OLED screens and AI-powered music recommendations, and the company is positioning them as alternatives to conventional Bluetooth speakers that typically depend on a paired smartphone or tablet for content selection. The "AI OLED Cassette" features a 1.5-inch round OLED display, while the larger "AI OLED Turntable" uses a 13.4-inch round panel, and both allow users to receive music suggestions, browse and select content directly on the device, and set ambient moods using images and video playback.
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2026-01-05 20:22:02
Samsung is bringing a pair of retro-styled speaker concepts to CES 2026 that combine old-school aesthetics with OLED screens and AI-powered music recommendations, and the company is positioning them as alternatives to conventional Bluetooth speakers that typically depend on a paired smartphone or tablet for content selection. The "AI OLED Cassette" features a 1.5-inch round OLED display, while the larger "AI OLED Turntable" uses a 13.4-inch round panel, and both allow users to receive music suggestions, browse and select content directly on the device, and set ambient moods using images and video playback.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/1530247/samsungs-ces-concepts-disguise-ai-speakers-as-turntables-and-cassette-players?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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People of Dubious Character Are More Likely To Enter Public Service
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2026-01-05 20:22:02
A new working paper from researchers at the University of Hong Kong has found that Chinese graduate students who plagiarized more heavily in their master's theses were significantly more likely to pursue careers in the civil service and to climb the ranks faster once inside.
John Liu and co-authors analyzed 6 million dissertations from CNKI, a Chinese academic repository, and cross-referenced them against public records of civil-service exam-takers to identify 120,000 civil servants and their academic work. Those who entered the public sector had plagiarism scores 15.6% above average. Customs and tax officials fared worst -- their scores ran 25% and 26% higher than private-sector peers respectively. Within the civil service, those who plagiarized more were promoted 9% faster during the first five years of their careers. The researchers validated their plagiarism metric through an experiment involving 443 job applicants who were asked to roll dice for rewards without monitoring. Those who had plagiarized more also reported improbably high rolls.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/1452249/people-of-dubious-character-are-more-likely-to-enter-public-service?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2026-01-05 20:22:02
A new working paper from researchers at the University of Hong Kong has found that Chinese graduate students who plagiarized more heavily in their master's theses were significantly more likely to pursue careers in the civil service and to climb the ranks faster once inside.
John Liu and co-authors analyzed 6 million dissertations from CNKI, a Chinese academic repository, and cross-referenced them against public records of civil-service exam-takers to identify 120,000 civil servants and their academic work. Those who entered the public sector had plagiarism scores 15.6% above average. Customs and tax officials fared worst -- their scores ran 25% and 26% higher than private-sector peers respectively. Within the civil service, those who plagiarized more were promoted 9% faster during the first five years of their careers. The researchers validated their plagiarism metric through an experiment involving 443 job applicants who were asked to roll dice for rewards without monitoring. Those who had plagiarized more also reported improbably high rolls.
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Stack Overflow Went From 200,000 Monthly Questions To Nearly Zero
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2026-01-05 19:22:01
Stack Overflow's monthly question volume has collapsed about 300 -- levels not seen since the site launched in 2009, according to data from the Stack Overflow Data Explorer that tracks the platform's activity over its sixteen-year history.
Questions peaked around 2014 at roughly 200,000 per month, then began a gradual decline that accelerated dramatically after ChatGPT's November 2022 launch. By May 2025, monthly questions had fallen to early-2009 levels, and the latest data through early 2026 shows the collapse has only continued -- the line now sits near the bottom of the chart, barely registering.
The decline predates LLMs. Questions began dropping around 2014 when Stack Overflow improved moderator efficiency and closed questions more aggressively. In mid-2021, Prosus acquired Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion. The founders, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, exited before the terminal decline became apparent. ChatGPT accelerated what was already underway. The chatbot answers programming questions faster, draws on Stack Overflow's own corpus for training data, and doesn't close questions for being duplicates.
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2026-01-05 19:22:01
Stack Overflow's monthly question volume has collapsed about 300 -- levels not seen since the site launched in 2009, according to data from the Stack Overflow Data Explorer that tracks the platform's activity over its sixteen-year history.
Questions peaked around 2014 at roughly 200,000 per month, then began a gradual decline that accelerated dramatically after ChatGPT's November 2022 launch. By May 2025, monthly questions had fallen to early-2009 levels, and the latest data through early 2026 shows the collapse has only continued -- the line now sits near the bottom of the chart, barely registering.
The decline predates LLMs. Questions began dropping around 2014 when Stack Overflow improved moderator efficiency and closed questions more aggressively. In mid-2021, Prosus acquired Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion. The founders, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, exited before the terminal decline became apparent. ChatGPT accelerated what was already underway. The chatbot answers programming questions faster, draws on Stack Overflow's own corpus for training data, and doesn't close questions for being duplicates.
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Samsung Co-CEO Says Soaring Memory Chip Prices Will 'Inevitably' Impact Smartphone Costs
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2026-01-05 18:22:01
Samsung's co-CEO TM Roh has warned that product price increases are "inevitable" as an unprecedented global memory chip shortage squeezes margins across the company's consumer electronics lineup -- from smartphones to televisions and home appliances.
The South Korean giant, one of the top two largest smartphone manufacturers, plans to double the number of mobile devices running its Galaxy AI features to 800 million units this year, up from 400 million at the end of 2025. Galaxy AI is powered by Google's Gemini model and Samsung's own Bixby assistant for different tasks. "As this situation is unprecedented, no company is immune to its impact," Roh told Reuters in his first interview since becoming co-CEO in November.
Samsung is working with partners on longer-term strategies to minimize the impact, he said. Market researchers IDC and Counterpoint predict the global smartphone market will shrink this year as the chip shortage threatens to drive up phone prices. The shortage is a boon to Samsung's semiconductor business but pressures margins on its smartphone division, the company's second-largest revenue source.
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2026-01-05 18:22:01
Samsung's co-CEO TM Roh has warned that product price increases are "inevitable" as an unprecedented global memory chip shortage squeezes margins across the company's consumer electronics lineup -- from smartphones to televisions and home appliances.
The South Korean giant, one of the top two largest smartphone manufacturers, plans to double the number of mobile devices running its Galaxy AI features to 800 million units this year, up from 400 million at the end of 2025. Galaxy AI is powered by Google's Gemini model and Samsung's own Bixby assistant for different tasks. "As this situation is unprecedented, no company is immune to its impact," Roh told Reuters in his first interview since becoming co-CEO in November.
Samsung is working with partners on longer-term strategies to minimize the impact, he said. Market researchers IDC and Counterpoint predict the global smartphone market will shrink this year as the chip shortage threatens to drive up phone prices. The shortage is a boon to Samsung's semiconductor business but pressures margins on its smartphone division, the company's second-largest revenue source.
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Участники команды Debian Data Protection Team сложили полномочия
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2026-01-05 18:44:02
Андреас Тилле (Andreas Tille), лидер проекта Debian, опубликовал отчёт, в котором упомянул о проблемах в команде Data Protection Team - три представителя, работавших в данной команде, одновременно сложили с себя полномочия. В качестве причины ухода упоминается отсутствие возможности и энтузиазма продолжать работу. Команда осталась без участников и проект срочно ищет добровольцев их замещения.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64563
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2026-01-05 18:44:02
Андреас Тилле (Andreas Tille), лидер проекта Debian, опубликовал отчёт, в котором упомянул о проблемах в команде Data Protection Team - три представителя, работавших в данной команде, одновременно сложили с себя полномочия. В качестве причины ухода упоминается отсутствие возможности и энтузиазма продолжать работу. Команда осталась без участников и проект срочно ищет добровольцев их замещения.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64563
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[Перевод] Большим GPU не нужны большие PC
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2026-01-05 17:35:04
Опубликовано: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:01:30 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Raspberry Pi / Хабр
С тех пор, как я научил графические карты AMD, Intel и Nvidia работать с Raspberry Pi, меня мучил вопрос:Какой в этом смысл?У Raspberry Pi есть только одна линия шины PCIe Gen 3, доступная для подключения к eGPU. Этого очень мало, особенно учитывая, что у современного десктопа есть как минимум один разъём с 16 линиями шины PCIe Gen 5. То есть разница составляет 8 Гт/с (гигатранзакций/с) против 512 Гт/с. Бой явно неравный.Но мне стало любопытно, действительно ли пропускная способность шины важна всегда.Я хотел наконец покончить с вопросом о полезности, протестировав четыре задачи на разнообразных GPU для сравнения производительности на Raspberry Pi 5 и на современном десктопном PC. Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/980782/
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2026-01-05 17:35:04
Опубликовано: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:01:30 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Raspberry Pi / Хабр
С тех пор, как я научил графические карты AMD, Intel и Nvidia работать с Raspberry Pi, меня мучил вопрос:Какой в этом смысл?У Raspberry Pi есть только одна линия шины PCIe Gen 3, доступная для подключения к eGPU. Этого очень мало, особенно учитывая, что у современного десктопа есть как минимум один разъём с 16 линиями шины PCIe Gen 5. То есть разница составляет 8 Гт/с (гигатранзакций/с) против 512 Гт/с. Бой явно неравный.Но мне стало любопытно, действительно ли пропускная способность шины важна всегда.Я хотел наконец покончить с вопросом о полезности, протестировав четыре задачи на разнообразных GPU для сравнения производительности на Raspberry Pi 5 и на современном десктопном PC. Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/980782/
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As US Communities Start Fighting Back, Many Datacenters are Blocked
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2026-01-05 17:22:01
America's tech companies and data center developers "are increasingly losing fights in communities where people don't want to live next to them, or even near them," reports the Associated Press:
Communities across the United States are reading about — and learning from — each other's battles against data center proposals that are fast multiplying in number and size to meet steep demand as developers branch out in search of faster connections to power sources... [A]s more people hear about a data center coming to their community, once-sleepy municipal board meetings in farming towns and growing suburbs now feature crowded rooms of angry residents pressuring local officials to reject the requests...
A growing number of proposals are going down in defeat, sounding alarms across the data center constellation of Big Tech firms, real estate developers, electric utilities, labor unions and more. Andy Cvengros, who helps lead the data center practice at commercial real estate giant JLL, counted seven or eight deals he'd worked on in recent months that saw opponents going door-to-door, handing out shirts or putting signs in people's yards. "It's becoming a huge problem," Cvengros said. Data Center Watch, a project of 10a Labs, an AI security consultancy, said it is seeing a sharp escalation in community, political and regulatory disruptions to data center development. Between April and June alone, its latest reporting period, it counted 20 proposals valued at $98 billion in 11 states that were blocked or delayed amid local opposition and state-level pushback. That amounts to two-thirds of the projects it was tracking...
For some people angry over steep increases in electric bills, their patience is thin for data centers that could bring still-higher increases. Losing open space, farmland, forest or rural character is a big concern. So is the damage to quality of life, property values or health by on-site diesel generators kicking on or the constant hum of servers. Others worry that wells and aquifers could run dry...
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2026-01-05 17:22:01
America's tech companies and data center developers "are increasingly losing fights in communities where people don't want to live next to them, or even near them," reports the Associated Press:
Communities across the United States are reading about — and learning from — each other's battles against data center proposals that are fast multiplying in number and size to meet steep demand as developers branch out in search of faster connections to power sources... [A]s more people hear about a data center coming to their community, once-sleepy municipal board meetings in farming towns and growing suburbs now feature crowded rooms of angry residents pressuring local officials to reject the requests...
A growing number of proposals are going down in defeat, sounding alarms across the data center constellation of Big Tech firms, real estate developers, electric utilities, labor unions and more. Andy Cvengros, who helps lead the data center practice at commercial real estate giant JLL, counted seven or eight deals he'd worked on in recent months that saw opponents going door-to-door, handing out shirts or putting signs in people's yards. "It's becoming a huge problem," Cvengros said. Data Center Watch, a project of 10a Labs, an AI security consultancy, said it is seeing a sharp escalation in community, political and regulatory disruptions to data center development. Between April and June alone, its latest reporting period, it counted 20 proposals valued at $98 billion in 11 states that were blocked or delayed amid local opposition and state-level pushback. That amounts to two-thirds of the projects it was tracking...
For some people angry over steep increases in electric bills, their patience is thin for data centers that could bring still-higher increases. Losing open space, farmland, forest or rural character is a big concern. So is the damage to quality of life, property values or health by on-site diesel generators kicking on or the constant hum of servers. Others worry that wells and aquifers could run dry...
[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/0445216/as-us-communities-start-fighting-back-many-datacenters-are-blocked?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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ПРОГРАММА КОНТРОЛЛЕРА СЕТИ CAN
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2026-01-05 15:35:02
Опубликовано: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:06:14 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр
Продолжаю публикацию статей по структуре "Умный дом" на основе локальной сети CAN. В этой статье описывается программа, которая записывается в каждый контроллер локальной сети. Программа написана любителем, не профессионалом, поэтому за ошибки прошу не судить строго. К тому же сам признаю, что стиль написания программы несколько устарел, но переучиваться не хочется да и поздно. В общем «не стреляйте в музыканта, он играет как может». Попытался поместить исходный текст программы в статью, но понял что это невозможно из-за большого количества строк программы. Поэтому программу выложил в своем репозитории на github: https://github.com/OldIngineer/MySmartHouse3. И попытался кратко описать основные моменты программы. Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/articles/982958/
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2026-01-05 15:35:02
Опубликовано: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:06:14 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр
Продолжаю публикацию статей по структуре "Умный дом" на основе локальной сети CAN. В этой статье описывается программа, которая записывается в каждый контроллер локальной сети. Программа написана любителем, не профессионалом, поэтому за ошибки прошу не судить строго. К тому же сам признаю, что стиль написания программы несколько устарел, но переучиваться не хочется да и поздно. В общем «не стреляйте в музыканта, он играет как может». Попытался поместить исходный текст программы в статью, но понял что это невозможно из-за большого количества строк программы. Поэтому программу выложил в своем репозитории на github: https://github.com/OldIngineer/MySmartHouse3. И попытался кратко описать основные моменты программы. Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/articles/982958/
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Проект MiDesktop развивает форк KDE 1 для современных систем
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2026-01-05 14:44:03
Представлен первый экспериментальный выпуск проекта MiDesktop, развивающего форк среды рабочего стола KDE 1.1.2, адаптированный для работы в современных системах. Кодовая база KDE 1 портирована на фреймворк Qt 2 для решения проблем и ограничений лицензии, специфичных для ветки Qt 1. В рамках проекта Osiris теми же разработчиками развивается актуализированный форк Qt 2.3.2. Код MiDesktop распространяется под лицензией GPLv2. Готовые сборки сформированы для Debian 13 и Ubuntu 24.04.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64562
lor.opennet
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2026-01-05 14:44:03
Представлен первый экспериментальный выпуск проекта MiDesktop, развивающего форк среды рабочего стола KDE 1.1.2, адаптированный для работы в современных системах. Кодовая база KDE 1 портирована на фреймворк Qt 2 для решения проблем и ограничений лицензии, специфичных для ветки Qt 1. В рамках проекта Osiris теми же разработчиками развивается актуализированный форк Qt 2.3.2. Код MiDesktop распространяется под лицензией GPLv2. Готовые сборки сформированы для Debian 13 и Ubuntu 24.04.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64562
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В GNU Wget2 2.2.1 устранена уязвимость, допускающая перезапись произвольных файлов
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2026-01-05 13:44:03
Доступен выпуск проекта GNU Wget2 2.2.1, развивающего переписанный с нуля и полностью переработанный вариант программы для автоматизации рекурсивной загрузки контента GNU Wget. Wget2 предоставляет набор дополнительных опций, поддерживает загрузку в несколько потоков, позволяет использовать доступную функциональность через библиотеку libwget, поддерживает протоколы HTTP/2 и TLS 1.3, даёт возможность загружать только изменившиеся данные, может сохранять данные с серверов потокового вещания, корректно обрабатывает интернационализированные доменные имена и может перекодировать загружаемое содержимое. Утилита wget2 поставляется под лицензией GPLv3+, а библиотека под LGPLv3+.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64561
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 13:44:03
Доступен выпуск проекта GNU Wget2 2.2.1, развивающего переписанный с нуля и полностью переработанный вариант программы для автоматизации рекурсивной загрузки контента GNU Wget. Wget2 предоставляет набор дополнительных опций, поддерживает загрузку в несколько потоков, позволяет использовать доступную функциональность через библиотеку libwget, поддерживает протоколы HTTP/2 и TLS 1.3, даёт возможность загружать только изменившиеся данные, может сохранять данные с серверов потокового вещания, корректно обрабатывает интернационализированные доменные имена и может перекодировать загружаемое содержимое. Утилита wget2 поставляется под лицензией GPLv3+, а библиотека под LGPLv3+.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64561
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2025 Ends With Release of J. R. R. Tolkein's Unpublished Story
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2026-01-05 13:22:01
2025'S final months finally saw the publication of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Bovadium Fragments, writes the Los Angeles Review of Books:
Anyone who has read Tolkien's letters will know that he is at his funniest when filled with rage, and The Bovadium Fragments is a work brimming with Tolkien's fury — specifically, ire over mankind's obsession with motor vehicles. Tolkien's anger is expressed through a playful satire told from the perspective of a group of future archaeologists who are studying the titular fragments, which tell of a civilization that asphyxiated itself on its own exhaust fumes. Tolkien's fictional fragments use the language of ancient myth, reframing modern issues like traffic congestion and parking with a grandeur that highlights their total absurdity. It is Tolkien at his angriest and funniest, making The Bovadium Fragments a minor treasure in his ever-growing catalog...
As Tolkien put it in one of his private letters, "the spirit of 'Isengard,' if not of Mordor, is of course always cropping up. The present design of destroying Oxford in order to accommodate motor-cars is a case." Readers of The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) will recognize the allusion. In the author's magnum opus, Isengard is a kind of industrial hell, endlessly feeding its furnaces with felled trees... The Bovadium Fragments brings Tolkien's visceral hatred of such machines to the fore for the first time — on the same level as Isengard or the scoured Shire. In Tolkien's story, the words "Motores" and "monsters" are interchangeable. And with his grand, mythic register, Tolkien defamiliarizes the car enough for modern readers to see it as he does — as truly monstrous. "[T]he Motores continued to bring forth an ever larger progeny," Tolkien writes. "[M]any of the citizens harboured the monsters, feeding them with the costly oils and essences which they required, and building houses for them in their gardens...."
One suspects that Tolkien would have preferred to see Oxford return to the era of the donkey cart. That kind of nostalgia is familiar in Tolkien's work — the idea that we developed just a little too far, skipping past an Eden we failed to recognize a generation or two ago. (For Tolkien, the paragon of paradise seems to have been a rural village around the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.) But he also knows that mankind's impulse to develop is something we cannot help. And the inevitable blowback we get from our hubris is something we cannot avoid. That defeatist attitude is suggested in the frame narrative to The Bovadium Fragments, in which the archaeologists smugly declare their superiority to the extinct citizens of old Oxford. "We at any rate are not likely to fall into such folly," one of them says.
In their more enlightened future, we are told, they only pursue the more benign science of longevity. Their wish is that one day they shall "at last conquer mortality, and not 'die like animals.'" But humans are animals, Tolkien argues. And in stretching beyond that, we may find progress and modern conveniences like motorcars. But perhaps we also pave a road to Isengard. And we may not recognize that destination until it is too late — until we are trapped within its walls, suffocating on our own exhaust fumes.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/0313224/2025-ends-with-release-of-j-r-r-tolkeins-unpublished-story?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 13:22:01
2025'S final months finally saw the publication of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Bovadium Fragments, writes the Los Angeles Review of Books:
Anyone who has read Tolkien's letters will know that he is at his funniest when filled with rage, and The Bovadium Fragments is a work brimming with Tolkien's fury — specifically, ire over mankind's obsession with motor vehicles. Tolkien's anger is expressed through a playful satire told from the perspective of a group of future archaeologists who are studying the titular fragments, which tell of a civilization that asphyxiated itself on its own exhaust fumes. Tolkien's fictional fragments use the language of ancient myth, reframing modern issues like traffic congestion and parking with a grandeur that highlights their total absurdity. It is Tolkien at his angriest and funniest, making The Bovadium Fragments a minor treasure in his ever-growing catalog...
As Tolkien put it in one of his private letters, "the spirit of 'Isengard,' if not of Mordor, is of course always cropping up. The present design of destroying Oxford in order to accommodate motor-cars is a case." Readers of The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) will recognize the allusion. In the author's magnum opus, Isengard is a kind of industrial hell, endlessly feeding its furnaces with felled trees... The Bovadium Fragments brings Tolkien's visceral hatred of such machines to the fore for the first time — on the same level as Isengard or the scoured Shire. In Tolkien's story, the words "Motores" and "monsters" are interchangeable. And with his grand, mythic register, Tolkien defamiliarizes the car enough for modern readers to see it as he does — as truly monstrous. "[T]he Motores continued to bring forth an ever larger progeny," Tolkien writes. "[M]any of the citizens harboured the monsters, feeding them with the costly oils and essences which they required, and building houses for them in their gardens...."
One suspects that Tolkien would have preferred to see Oxford return to the era of the donkey cart. That kind of nostalgia is familiar in Tolkien's work — the idea that we developed just a little too far, skipping past an Eden we failed to recognize a generation or two ago. (For Tolkien, the paragon of paradise seems to have been a rural village around the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.) But he also knows that mankind's impulse to develop is something we cannot help. And the inevitable blowback we get from our hubris is something we cannot avoid. That defeatist attitude is suggested in the frame narrative to The Bovadium Fragments, in which the archaeologists smugly declare their superiority to the extinct citizens of old Oxford. "We at any rate are not likely to fall into such folly," one of them says.
In their more enlightened future, we are told, they only pursue the more benign science of longevity. Their wish is that one day they shall "at last conquer mortality, and not 'die like animals.'" But humans are animals, Tolkien argues. And in stretching beyond that, we may find progress and modern conveniences like motorcars. But perhaps we also pave a road to Isengard. And we may not recognize that destination until it is too late — until we are trapped within its walls, suffocating on our own exhaust fumes.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/0313224/2025-ends-with-release-of-j-r-r-tolkeins-unpublished-story?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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EMG TR4401: Оживляем Венгерский Осциллограф
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2026-01-05 12:35:02
Опубликовано: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:05:59 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр
Смотреть видеоверсию статьи в Youtube или в VKА ведь в какой-то момент у меня набралось больше десятка ламповых осциллографов! Целая коллекция различных экспонатов той эпохи. Но, в отличие от Артёма Денисовича я вовремя одумался и избавился почти от всех из них, но вот один — венгерский осциллограф TR-4401 слегка задержался. Появился он у меня пять лет назад, во время ремонта осциллографа С1-54. Привлек меня красивой внешностью и исполинскими размерами, ну как тут не удержаться? Радовался я недолго. Во-первых, он оказался больше и тяжелее чем я думал. Во-вторых, из всех своих 63 ламп в нем стояло меньше половины. Осциллограф — производства Венгрии, в основе — слегка переработанный Tekronix, предположительно 541A. Отдельные части принципиальных схем были схожи как две капли воды, разве что сами радиолампы слегка отличались — вместо американских стояли польские, венгерские и советские аналоги. С другой стороны у меня была родная документация на русском и желание его оживить. Что же внутри ламповой техники?]]>
https://habr.com/ru/companies/timeweb/articles/980644/
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2026-01-05 12:35:02
Опубликовано: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:05:59 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр
Смотреть видеоверсию статьи в Youtube или в VKА ведь в какой-то момент у меня набралось больше десятка ламповых осциллографов! Целая коллекция различных экспонатов той эпохи. Но, в отличие от Артёма Денисовича я вовремя одумался и избавился почти от всех из них, но вот один — венгерский осциллограф TR-4401 слегка задержался. Появился он у меня пять лет назад, во время ремонта осциллографа С1-54. Привлек меня красивой внешностью и исполинскими размерами, ну как тут не удержаться? Радовался я недолго. Во-первых, он оказался больше и тяжелее чем я думал. Во-вторых, из всех своих 63 ламп в нем стояло меньше половины. Осциллограф — производства Венгрии, в основе — слегка переработанный Tekronix, предположительно 541A. Отдельные части принципиальных схем были схожи как две капли воды, разве что сами радиолампы слегка отличались — вместо американских стояли польские, венгерские и советские аналоги. С другой стороны у меня была родная документация на русском и желание его оживить. Что же внутри ламповой техники?]]>
https://habr.com/ru/companies/timeweb/articles/980644/
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Выпуск PCSX2 2.6.0, эмулятора Sony Playstation 2
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 12:44:02
Состоялся релиз проекта PCSX2 2.6.0, развивающего эмулятор игровой консоли PlayStation 2. Эмулятор позволяет на обычном ПК запускать игры, поставляемые для PlayStation 2, и использовать такие расширенные возможности, как изменение разрешения экрана с масштабированием вывода, создание виртуальных и совместно используемых карт памяти, сохранение состояния, наложение патчей на игры и запись видео с игровым процессом. Эмуляция CPU MIPS на системах x86 осуществляется c использованием рекомпиляции и интерпретации в виртуальной машине. Производительности и возможностей эмулятора достаточно для запуска 99% из протестированных 2500 игр, поставлявшихся для Sony Playstation 2, включая Final Fantasy X и Devil May Cry 3. Код проекта написан на языке C++ и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64560
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 12:44:02
Состоялся релиз проекта PCSX2 2.6.0, развивающего эмулятор игровой консоли PlayStation 2. Эмулятор позволяет на обычном ПК запускать игры, поставляемые для PlayStation 2, и использовать такие расширенные возможности, как изменение разрешения экрана с масштабированием вывода, создание виртуальных и совместно используемых карт памяти, сохранение состояния, наложение патчей на игры и запись видео с игровым процессом. Эмуляция CPU MIPS на системах x86 осуществляется c использованием рекомпиляции и интерпретации в виртуальной машине. Производительности и возможностей эмулятора достаточно для запуска 99% из протестированных 2500 игр, поставлявшихся для Sony Playstation 2, включая Final Fantasy X и Devil May Cry 3. Код проекта написан на языке C++ и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64560
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Доступен симулятор транспортных средств Rigs of Rods 2026.01
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 12:44:02
После трёх лет разработки опубликован выпуск проекта Rigs of Rods 2026.02, развивающего реалистичный симулятор автомобилей, кораблей, самолётов, вертолётов, поездов и других видов транспорта. В проекте задействован графический движок OGRE и собственный движок физики деформируемых тел для симуляции движения, повреждений и деформации транспортных средств. Код написан на языке С++ и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64559
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 12:44:02
После трёх лет разработки опубликован выпуск проекта Rigs of Rods 2026.02, развивающего реалистичный симулятор автомобилей, кораблей, самолётов, вертолётов, поездов и других видов транспорта. В проекте задействован графический движок OGRE и собственный движок физики деформируемых тел для симуляции движения, повреждений и деформации транспортных средств. Код написан на языке С++ и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64559
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STATS 2026-01-04
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2026-01-05 12:11:01
TOP20 VISITORS:
[1] 217.197.116.x point=422 web=0 up=29.8MB (24%) <--- naste (18/hr)
[2] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=28.3MB (23%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[3] 127.0.0.x point=95 web=111 up=16.2MB (13%) <--- 127.0.0.x (4/hr)
[4] Amazon point=0 web=457 up=10.9MB (8%)
[5] 94.25.231.x point=15 web=0 up=8.5MB (6%) <--- 94.25.231.x (1/hr)
[6] Google point=2 web=1039 up=8.0MB (6%) <--- Google
[7] PetalBot point=7 web=1388 up=7.6MB (6%) <--- PetalBot
[8] AhrefsBot point=0 web=1050 up=6.4MB (5%)
[9] 216.244.66.x point=0 web=54 up=1.8MB (1%)
[10] TikTok point=2 web=99 up=1.4MB (1%) <--- TikTok
[11] 217.114.158.x point=25 web=0 up=1.0MB (<1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[12] Facebook point=0 web=131 up=0.8MB (<1%)
[13] ChatGPT point=0 web=2 up=0.3MB (<1%)
[14] ClaudeBot point=1 web=17 up=0.1MB (<1%) <--- ClaudeBot
[15] 157.66.56.x point=0 web=2 up=0.1MB (<1%)
[16] 192.168.1.x point=0 web=8 up=97KB
[17] 195.201.110.x point=0 web=1 up=96KB
[18] 43.173.169.x point=0 web=3 up=68KB
[19] 57.129.69.x point=0 web=6 up=47KB
[20] 43.173.181.x point=0 web=4 up=43KB
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 122MB
spnet.stats
root(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 12:11:01
TOP20 VISITORS:
[1] 217.197.116.x point=422 web=0 up=29.8MB (24%) <--- naste (18/hr)
[2] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=28.3MB (23%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[3] 127.0.0.x point=95 web=111 up=16.2MB (13%) <--- 127.0.0.x (4/hr)
[4] Amazon point=0 web=457 up=10.9MB (8%)
[5] 94.25.231.x point=15 web=0 up=8.5MB (6%) <--- 94.25.231.x (1/hr)
[6] Google point=2 web=1039 up=8.0MB (6%) <--- Google
[7] PetalBot point=7 web=1388 up=7.6MB (6%) <--- PetalBot
[8] AhrefsBot point=0 web=1050 up=6.4MB (5%)
[9] 216.244.66.x point=0 web=54 up=1.8MB (1%)
[10] TikTok point=2 web=99 up=1.4MB (1%) <--- TikTok
[11] 217.114.158.x point=25 web=0 up=1.0MB (<1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[12] Facebook point=0 web=131 up=0.8MB (<1%)
[13] ChatGPT point=0 web=2 up=0.3MB (<1%)
[14] ClaudeBot point=1 web=17 up=0.1MB (<1%) <--- ClaudeBot
[15] 157.66.56.x point=0 web=2 up=0.1MB (<1%)
[16] 192.168.1.x point=0 web=8 up=97KB
[17] 195.201.110.x point=0 web=1 up=96KB
[18] 43.173.169.x point=0 web=3 up=68KB
[19] 57.129.69.x point=0 web=6 up=47KB
[20] 43.173.181.x point=0 web=4 up=43KB
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 122MB
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Выпуск Phosh 0.52.0, GNOME-окружения для смартфонов
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 11:44:03
Опубликован релиз Phosh 0.52, экранной оболочки для мобильных устройств, основанной на технологиях GNOME и библиотеке GTK. Окружение изначально развивалось компанией Purism в качестве аналога GNOME Shell для смартфона Librem 5, но затем вошло в число неофициальных проектов GNOME и используется в postmarketOS, Mobian, Droidian, некоторых прошивках для устройств Pine64 и редакции Fedora для смартфонов. Phosh использует композитный сервер Phoc, работающий поверх Wayland, а также собственную экранную клавиатуру. Наработки проекта распространяются под лицензией GPLv3+.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64558
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 11:44:03
Опубликован релиз Phosh 0.52, экранной оболочки для мобильных устройств, основанной на технологиях GNOME и библиотеке GTK. Окружение изначально развивалось компанией Purism в качестве аналога GNOME Shell для смартфона Librem 5, но затем вошло в число неофициальных проектов GNOME и используется в postmarketOS, Mobian, Droidian, некоторых прошивках для устройств Pine64 и редакции Fedora для смартфонов. Phosh использует композитный сервер Phoc, работающий поверх Wayland, а также собственную экранную клавиатуру. Наработки проекта распространяются под лицензией GPLv3+.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64558
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Релиз дистрибутива Manjaro Linux 26.0
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 10:44:02
Представлен релиз дистрибутива Manjaro Linux 26.0, построенного на основе Arch Linux и ориентированного на начинающих пользователей. Дистрибутив примечателен наличием упрощённого и дружественного пользователю процесса установки, поддержкой автоматического определения оборудования и установки необходимых для его работы драйверов. Manjaro поставляется в виде live-сборок с графическими окружениями KDE (5.4 ГБ), GNOME (5.2 ГБ) и Xfce (5.1 ГБ), сформированными для архитектуры x86_64 и различных плат на базе процессоров ARM. При участии сообщества дополнительно развиваются сборки с Budgie, Cinnamon, Deepin, LXQt и i3.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64557
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 10:44:02
Представлен релиз дистрибутива Manjaro Linux 26.0, построенного на основе Arch Linux и ориентированного на начинающих пользователей. Дистрибутив примечателен наличием упрощённого и дружественного пользователю процесса установки, поддержкой автоматического определения оборудования и установки необходимых для его работы драйверов. Manjaro поставляется в виде live-сборок с графическими окружениями KDE (5.4 ГБ), GNOME (5.2 ГБ) и Xfce (5.1 ГБ), сформированными для архитектуры x86_64 и различных плат на базе процессоров ARM. При участии сообщества дополнительно развиваются сборки с Budgie, Cinnamon, Deepin, LXQt и i3.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64557
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Workstation Owner Sadly Marks the End-of-Life for HP-UX
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 10:22:01
Wednesday marked the end of support for the last and final version of HP-UX, writes OSNews.
They call it "the end of another vestige of the heyday of the commercial UNIX variants, a reign ended by cheap x86 hardware and the increasing popularisation of Linux."
I have two HP-UX 11i v1 PA-RISC workstations, one of them being my pride and joy: an HP c8000, the last and fastest PA-RISC workstation HP ever made, back in 2005. It's a behemoth of a machine with two dual-core PA-8900 processors running at 1Ghz, 8 GB of RAM, a FireGL X3 graphics card, and a few other fun upgrades like an internal LTO3 tape drive that I use for keeping a bootable recovery backup of the entire system. It runs HP-UX 11i v1, fully updated and patched as best one can do considering how many patches have either vanished from the web or have never "leaked" from HPE (most patches from 2009 onwards are not available anywhere without an expensive enterprise support contract)...
Over the past few years, I've been trying to get into contact with HPE about the state of HP-UX' patches, software, and drivers, which are slowly but surely disappearing from the web. A decent chunk is archived on various websites, but a lot of it isn't, which is a real shame. Most patches from 2009 onwards are unavailable, various software packages and programs for HP-UX are lost to time, HP-UX installation discs and ISOs later than 2006-2009 are not available anywhere, and everything that is available is only available via non-sanctioned means, if you know what I mean.
Sadly, I never managed to get into contact with anyone at HPE, and my concerns about HP-UX preservation seem to have fallen on deaf ears. With the end-of-life date now here, I'm deeply concerned even more will go missing, and the odds of making the already missing stuff available are only decreasing. I've come to accept that very few people seem to hold any love for or special attachment to HP-UX, and that very few people care as much about its preservation as I do. HP-UX doesn't carry the movie star status of IRIX, nor the benefits of being available as both open source and on commodity hardware as Solaris, so far fewer people have any experience with it or have developed a fondness for it.
As the clocks chimed midnight on New Year's Eve, he advised everyone to "spare a thought for the UNIX everyone forgot still exists."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/0520224/workstation-owner-sadly-marks-the-end-of-life-for-hp-ux?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 10:22:01
Wednesday marked the end of support for the last and final version of HP-UX, writes OSNews.
They call it "the end of another vestige of the heyday of the commercial UNIX variants, a reign ended by cheap x86 hardware and the increasing popularisation of Linux."
I have two HP-UX 11i v1 PA-RISC workstations, one of them being my pride and joy: an HP c8000, the last and fastest PA-RISC workstation HP ever made, back in 2005. It's a behemoth of a machine with two dual-core PA-8900 processors running at 1Ghz, 8 GB of RAM, a FireGL X3 graphics card, and a few other fun upgrades like an internal LTO3 tape drive that I use for keeping a bootable recovery backup of the entire system. It runs HP-UX 11i v1, fully updated and patched as best one can do considering how many patches have either vanished from the web or have never "leaked" from HPE (most patches from 2009 onwards are not available anywhere without an expensive enterprise support contract)...
Over the past few years, I've been trying to get into contact with HPE about the state of HP-UX' patches, software, and drivers, which are slowly but surely disappearing from the web. A decent chunk is archived on various websites, but a lot of it isn't, which is a real shame. Most patches from 2009 onwards are unavailable, various software packages and programs for HP-UX are lost to time, HP-UX installation discs and ISOs later than 2006-2009 are not available anywhere, and everything that is available is only available via non-sanctioned means, if you know what I mean.
Sadly, I never managed to get into contact with anyone at HPE, and my concerns about HP-UX preservation seem to have fallen on deaf ears. With the end-of-life date now here, I'm deeply concerned even more will go missing, and the odds of making the already missing stuff available are only decreasing. I've come to accept that very few people seem to hold any love for or special attachment to HP-UX, and that very few people care as much about its preservation as I do. HP-UX doesn't carry the movie star status of IRIX, nor the benefits of being available as both open source and on commodity hardware as Solaris, so far fewer people have any experience with it or have developed a fondness for it.
As the clocks chimed midnight on New Year's Eve, he advised everyone to "spare a thought for the UNIX everyone forgot still exists."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/0520224/workstation-owner-sadly-marks-the-end-of-life-for-hp-ux?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Двухканальная паяльная станция на базе STM32
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BotHabr(tgi,2) — All
2026-01-05 10:35:02
Опубликовано: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:15:27 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр
Привет, Хабр. С праздниками всех читателей! Меня зовут Павел, и одним из моих хобби является создание различных устройств на базе микроконтроллеров. Это моя первая статья здесь, и я буду рад конструктивной критике со стороны завсегдатаев Хабра. Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/articles/982906/
bot.habr.rss
BotHabr(tgi,2) — All
2026-01-05 10:35:02
Опубликовано: Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:15:27 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр
Привет, Хабр. С праздниками всех читателей! Меня зовут Павел, и одним из моих хобби является создание различных устройств на базе микроконтроллеров. Это моя первая статья здесь, и я буду рад конструктивной критике со стороны завсегдатаев Хабра. Читать далее]]>
https://habr.com/ru/articles/982906/
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Обновление дистрибутива Static Linux, собранного в форме образа для UEFI
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 09:44:03
Обновление дистрибутива Static Linux, основанного на пакетной базе Alpine Linux и предлагающего окружение на основе ядра Linux 6.18.3, стандартной библиотеки Musl и инструментария BusyBox. Графическое окружение основано на композитном сервере Labwc, использующем Wayland, файловом менеджере CoreFM, просмотрщике изображений CoreImage, текстовом редакторе CorePad, эмуляторе терминала CoreTerminal и видеопроигрывателе mpv. В состав также входят утилиты для восстановления данных (ddrescue, testdisk, photorec).
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64556
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 09:44:03
Обновление дистрибутива Static Linux, основанного на пакетной базе Alpine Linux и предлагающего окружение на основе ядра Linux 6.18.3, стандартной библиотеки Musl и инструментария BusyBox. Графическое окружение основано на композитном сервере Labwc, использующем Wayland, файловом менеджере CoreFM, просмотрщике изображений CoreImage, текстовом редакторе CorePad, эмуляторе терминала CoreTerminal и видеопроигрывателе mpv. В состав также входят утилиты для восстановления данных (ddrescue, testdisk, photorec).
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64556
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NEW STATS
idec.talks
shaos(spnet, 2) — All
2026-01-05 08:01:55
Поправил ежедневную статистику ноды ( см. ii://spnet.stats ), чтобы включала еженочный анализ не только access.log.1, но и other_vhosts_access.log.1 - и плюс заодно сделал TOP20 вместо TOP10 - пример:
TOP20 VISITORS:
[1] 217.197.116.x point=426 web=0 up=30.1MB (22%) <--- naste (18/hr)
[2] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=28.2MB (21%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[3] Google point=0 web=1817 up=17.3MB (12%)
[4] 127.0.0.x point=96 web=79 up=17.0MB (12%) <--- 127.0.0.x (4/hr)
[5] Amazon point=0 web=471 up=11.4MB (8%)
[6] 94.25.231.x point=9 web=0 up=9.3MB (6%) <--- 94.25.231.x
[7] AhrefsBot point=0 web=1136 up=7.1MB (5%)
[8] PetalBot point=10 web=1266 up=6.8MB (5%) <--- PetalBot
[9] 216.244.66.x point=0 web=77 up=3.1MB (2%)
[10] Facebook point=0 web=149 up=1.1MB (<1%)
[11] 217.114.158.x point=27 web=1 up=1.1MB (<1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[12] ClaudeBot point=0 web=73 up=0.7MB (<1%)
[13] TikTok point=1 web=58 up=0.3MB (<1%) <--- TikTok
[14] 82.23.183.x point=0 web=3 up=78KB
[15] 82.50.145.x point=0 web=1 up=73KB
[16] 57.129.81.x point=0 web=4 up=65KB
[17] 91.92.241.x point=0 web=2 up=53KB
[18] 57.129.139.x point=0 web=3 up=41KB
[19] 136.144.35.x point=0 web=1 up=32KB
[20] 54.38.38.x point=0 web=4 up=31KB
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 134MB
idec.talks
shaos(spnet, 2) — All
2026-01-05 08:01:55
Поправил ежедневную статистику ноды ( см. ii://spnet.stats ), чтобы включала еженочный анализ не только access.log.1, но и other_vhosts_access.log.1 - и плюс заодно сделал TOP20 вместо TOP10 - пример:
TOP20 VISITORS:
[1] 217.197.116.x point=426 web=0 up=30.1MB (22%) <--- naste (18/hr)
[2] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=28.2MB (21%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[3] Google point=0 web=1817 up=17.3MB (12%)
[4] 127.0.0.x point=96 web=79 up=17.0MB (12%) <--- 127.0.0.x (4/hr)
[5] Amazon point=0 web=471 up=11.4MB (8%)
[6] 94.25.231.x point=9 web=0 up=9.3MB (6%) <--- 94.25.231.x
[7] AhrefsBot point=0 web=1136 up=7.1MB (5%)
[8] PetalBot point=10 web=1266 up=6.8MB (5%) <--- PetalBot
[9] 216.244.66.x point=0 web=77 up=3.1MB (2%)
[10] Facebook point=0 web=149 up=1.1MB (<1%)
[11] 217.114.158.x point=27 web=1 up=1.1MB (<1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[12] ClaudeBot point=0 web=73 up=0.7MB (<1%)
[13] TikTok point=1 web=58 up=0.3MB (<1%) <--- TikTok
[14] 82.23.183.x point=0 web=3 up=78KB
[15] 82.50.145.x point=0 web=1 up=73KB
[16] 57.129.81.x point=0 web=4 up=65KB
[17] 91.92.241.x point=0 web=2 up=53KB
[18] 57.129.139.x point=0 web=3 up=41KB
[19] 136.144.35.x point=0 web=1 up=32KB
[20] 54.38.38.x point=0 web=4 up=31KB
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 134MB
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39 Million Californians Can Now Legally Demand Data Brokers Delete Their Personal Data
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 07:22:01
While California's residents have had the right to demand companies stop collecting/selling their data since 2020, doing so used to require a laborious opting out with each individual company," reports TechCrunch.
But now Californians can make "a single request that more than 500 registered data brokers delete their information" — using the Delete Requests and Opt-Out Platform (or DROP):
Once DROP users verify that they are California residents, they can submit a deletion request that will go to all current and future data brokers registered with the state...
Brokers are supposed to start processing requests in August 2026, then they have 90 days to actually process requests and report back. If they don't delete your data, you'll have the option to submit additional information that may help them locate your records. Companies will also be able to keep first-party data that they've collected from users. It's only brokers who seek to buy or sell that data — which can include your social security number, browsing history, email address, phone number, and more — who will be required to delete it...
The California Privacy Protection Agency says that in addition to giving residents more control over their data, the tool could result in fewer "unwanted texts, calls, or emails" and also decrease the "risk of identity theft, fraud, AI impersonations, or that your data is leaked or hacked."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/0224249/39-million-californians-can-now-legally-demand-data-brokers-delete-their-personal-data?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 07:22:01
While California's residents have had the right to demand companies stop collecting/selling their data since 2020, doing so used to require a laborious opting out with each individual company," reports TechCrunch.
But now Californians can make "a single request that more than 500 registered data brokers delete their information" — using the Delete Requests and Opt-Out Platform (or DROP):
Once DROP users verify that they are California residents, they can submit a deletion request that will go to all current and future data brokers registered with the state...
Brokers are supposed to start processing requests in August 2026, then they have 90 days to actually process requests and report back. If they don't delete your data, you'll have the option to submit additional information that may help them locate your records. Companies will also be able to keep first-party data that they've collected from users. It's only brokers who seek to buy or sell that data — which can include your social security number, browsing history, email address, phone number, and more — who will be required to delete it...
The California Privacy Protection Agency says that in addition to giving residents more control over their data, the tool could result in fewer "unwanted texts, calls, or emails" and also decrease the "risk of identity theft, fraud, AI impersonations, or that your data is leaked or hacked."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/0224249/39-million-californians-can-now-legally-demand-data-brokers-delete-their-personal-data?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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North Dakota Law Included Fake Critical Minerals Using Lawyers' Last Names
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 05:22:01
North Dakota passed a law last May to promote development of rare earth minerals in the state. But the law's language apparently also includes two fake mineral names, according to the Bismarck Tribune, "that appear to be inspired by coal company lawyers who worked on the bill."
The inclusion of fictional substances is being called an embarrassment by one state official, a possible practical joke by coal industry leaders and mystifying by the lawmakers who worked on the bill, the North Dakota Monitor reported.
The fake minerals are friezium and stralium, apparent references to Christopher Friez and David Straley, attorneys for North American Coal who were closely involved in drafting the bill and its amendments. Straley said they were not responsible for adding the fake names. "I assume it was put in to embarrass us, or to make light of it, or have a practical joke," Straley said, adding it could have been a clerical error.
Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring questioned the two substances listed in state law during a recent meeting of the North Dakota Industrial Commission, which is poised to adopt rules based on the legislation... Friezium and stralium first appeared in the bill on the last afternoon of the legislative session as lawmakers hurried to pass several final bills... The amended bill is labeled as prepared by Legislative Council for Rep. Dick Anderson, R-Willow City, the prime sponsor and chair of the conference committee. Anderson said the amendments were prepared by a group of attorneys and legislators, including representatives from the coal industry...
Jonathan Fortner, president of the Lignite Energy Council that represents the coal industry, said it's unfortunate this happened in such an important bill. "From the president on down, everyone's interested in developing domestic critical minerals for national security reasons," Fortner said. "While this may have been a legislative joke between some people that somehow got through, the bigger picture is one that is important and is a very serious matter."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/0027243/north-dakota-law-included-fake-critical-minerals-using-lawyers-last-names?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 05:22:01
North Dakota passed a law last May to promote development of rare earth minerals in the state. But the law's language apparently also includes two fake mineral names, according to the Bismarck Tribune, "that appear to be inspired by coal company lawyers who worked on the bill."
The inclusion of fictional substances is being called an embarrassment by one state official, a possible practical joke by coal industry leaders and mystifying by the lawmakers who worked on the bill, the North Dakota Monitor reported.
The fake minerals are friezium and stralium, apparent references to Christopher Friez and David Straley, attorneys for North American Coal who were closely involved in drafting the bill and its amendments. Straley said they were not responsible for adding the fake names. "I assume it was put in to embarrass us, or to make light of it, or have a practical joke," Straley said, adding it could have been a clerical error.
Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring questioned the two substances listed in state law during a recent meeting of the North Dakota Industrial Commission, which is poised to adopt rules based on the legislation... Friezium and stralium first appeared in the bill on the last afternoon of the legislative session as lawmakers hurried to pass several final bills... The amended bill is labeled as prepared by Legislative Council for Rep. Dick Anderson, R-Willow City, the prime sponsor and chair of the conference committee. Anderson said the amendments were prepared by a group of attorneys and legislators, including representatives from the coal industry...
Jonathan Fortner, president of the Lignite Energy Council that represents the coal industry, said it's unfortunate this happened in such an important bill. "From the president on down, everyone's interested in developing domestic critical minerals for national security reasons," Fortner said. "While this may have been a legislative joke between some people that somehow got through, the bigger picture is one that is important and is a very serious matter."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/05/0027243/north-dakota-law-included-fake-critical-minerals-using-lawyers-last-names?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Are Hybrid Cars Helping America Transition to Electric Vehicles?
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 04:22:01
America's electric car subsidies expired at the end of September, notes Bloomberg. Yet in those last three months, "while fully electric cars and trucks made up 10% of all auto sales in the US... another 15% of transactions were for hybrid vehicles."
The EV market is slowing in the U.S., but analysts expect hybrid sales to continue accelerating. CarGurus Inc., a digital listings platform that covers most of the US auto market, predicts nearly one in six new cars next year will be a hybrid, as automakers green-light more and better machines with the technology. And though these cars and trucks will still burn gas, they will quietly move the needle on both transportation emissions and the transition to fully electric cars and trucks... CarGurus calls hybrids the success story of 2025. Indeed, the fastest-selling car in the country this year has been the Hyundai Palisade Hybrid; it sat on lots for fewer than 14 days on average...
While carmakers have struggled to turn a profit on fully electric vehicles, analysts say their investments in batteries and electric motors are helping them sell more and better hybrid machines. It's also increasingly difficult to discern a hybrid from a solely gas-powered model, said Scott Hardman, assistant director of the Electric Vehicle Research Center at the University of California at Davis. Carmakers today often don't even label a hybrid as such. Consider Toyota's RAV4, one of the best-selling vehicles in America. The 2026 version of the SUV comes in six different variants, all of which include an electric motor and a gas tank. "A hybrid is just a regular car now," Hardman said. "You can buy one by accident...."
While not as clean as an electric vehicle, hybrids offer sneaky carbon cuts as well. Americans, on average, drive about 38 miles a day, which requires about one gallon of gas in most basic hybrids. Contemporary plug-in hybrids, which can run on all-battery power, can cover almost that entire range without the gas engine kicking in. And a small crowd of cars will do even better, stretching their batteries well over 40 miles per charge. All told, hybridization can reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of a vehicle by roughly 20% to 30%, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation.
Some interesting statistics from the article:
By 2030 Ford expects fully or partially electrified vehicles will represent half its global sales. Toyota has already reached 50% ("in part thanks to all those hybrid RAV4s").
Honda is "basing its entire business on hybrids until at least 2030."
Around one-third of America's hybrid drivers "transition to a fully electric vehicle when they next switch cars."
In September 57% of America's car shoppers "were considering a fully electric auto, according to JD Power. However, among hybrid households, that share was almost 70%."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/01/04/2346256/are-hybrid-cars-helping-america-transition-to-electric-vehicles?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 04:22:01
America's electric car subsidies expired at the end of September, notes Bloomberg. Yet in those last three months, "while fully electric cars and trucks made up 10% of all auto sales in the US... another 15% of transactions were for hybrid vehicles."
The EV market is slowing in the U.S., but analysts expect hybrid sales to continue accelerating. CarGurus Inc., a digital listings platform that covers most of the US auto market, predicts nearly one in six new cars next year will be a hybrid, as automakers green-light more and better machines with the technology. And though these cars and trucks will still burn gas, they will quietly move the needle on both transportation emissions and the transition to fully electric cars and trucks... CarGurus calls hybrids the success story of 2025. Indeed, the fastest-selling car in the country this year has been the Hyundai Palisade Hybrid; it sat on lots for fewer than 14 days on average...
While carmakers have struggled to turn a profit on fully electric vehicles, analysts say their investments in batteries and electric motors are helping them sell more and better hybrid machines. It's also increasingly difficult to discern a hybrid from a solely gas-powered model, said Scott Hardman, assistant director of the Electric Vehicle Research Center at the University of California at Davis. Carmakers today often don't even label a hybrid as such. Consider Toyota's RAV4, one of the best-selling vehicles in America. The 2026 version of the SUV comes in six different variants, all of which include an electric motor and a gas tank. "A hybrid is just a regular car now," Hardman said. "You can buy one by accident...."
While not as clean as an electric vehicle, hybrids offer sneaky carbon cuts as well. Americans, on average, drive about 38 miles a day, which requires about one gallon of gas in most basic hybrids. Contemporary plug-in hybrids, which can run on all-battery power, can cover almost that entire range without the gas engine kicking in. And a small crowd of cars will do even better, stretching their batteries well over 40 miles per charge. All told, hybridization can reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of a vehicle by roughly 20% to 30%, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation.
Some interesting statistics from the article:
By 2030 Ford expects fully or partially electrified vehicles will represent half its global sales. Toyota has already reached 50% ("in part thanks to all those hybrid RAV4s").
Honda is "basing its entire business on hybrids until at least 2030."
Around one-third of America's hybrid drivers "transition to a fully electric vehicle when they next switch cars."
In September 57% of America's car shoppers "were considering a fully electric auto, according to JD Power. However, among hybrid households, that share was almost 70%."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/01/04/2346256/are-hybrid-cars-helping-america-transition-to-electric-vehicles?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Fleischer Studios Criticized for Claiming Betty Boop is Not Public Domain
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2026-01-05 03:22:01
Here it is — Betty Boop's first appearance, which became public domain on Thursday. It's a 60-second song halfway through a longer cartoon about a restaurant titled Dizzy Dishes. (The first scene makes it clear this is a restaurant of anthropomorphized animals — which explains why the as-yet-unnamed character has floppy dog ears...)
So Fleischer Studios has now warned that claiming Betty Boop is public domain "is actually not true."
Very often, different versions of a character that have been developed later can independently enjoy copyright protection. Also, names and depictions of a character very frequently will remain separately protected by trademark and other laws, regardless of whether the copyright has expired.
But is that really true? Fleischer Studios went out of business in 1946, notes Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik:
By then it had sold the rights to its cartoons and the Betty Boop character. A new Fleischer Studios was formed in the 1970s by Fleischer descendants, including Max's grandson Mark Fleischer, and set about repurchasing the rights that had been sold. Whether it reacquired the rights to Betty Boop is up for discussion... According to a federal appeals court ruling in 2011, the answer is no. Having navigated its way through the three or four copyright transfers that followed the original rights sale, the appeals court concluded that the original Fleischer studios sold the rights to Betty Boop and the related cartoons to Paramount in 1941 but couldn't verify that the rights to the character had been sold in an unbroken chain placing them with the new studio. The "chain of title" was broken, the appellate judges found — but they didn't say who ended up with Betty Boop.
And last month Cory Doctorow pointed out that "while the Fleischer studio (where Betty Boop was created) renewed the copyright on Dizzy Dishes, there were many other shorts that entered the public domain years ago."
That means that all the aspects of Betty Boop that were developed for Dizzy Dishes are about to enter the public domain. But also, all the aspects of Betty Boop from those non-renewed shorts are already in the public domain. But some of the remaining aspects of Betty Boop's character design — those developed in subsequent shorts that were also renewed — are also in the public domain, because they aren't copyrightable in the first place, because they're "generic," or "trivial," constitute "minuscule variations," or be so standard or indispensable as to be a "scène à faire...." But we're not done yet! Just because some later aspects of the Betty Boop character design are still in copyright, it doesn't follow that you aren't allowed to use them! U.S. Copyright law has a broad set "limitations and exceptions," including fair use.
So while Fleischer Studios insists Betty Boop "will continue to enjoy copyright and trademark protection for years to come," Doctorow has some thoughts on that trademark:
Even the Supreme Court has (repeatedly) upheld the principle that trademark can't be used as a backdoor to extend copyright.
That's important, because the current Betty Boop license-holders have been sending out baseless legal threats claiming that their trademarks over Betty Boop mean that she's not going into the public domain. They're not the only ones, either! This is a routine, petty scam perpetrated by marketing companies that have scooped up the (usually confused and difficult-to-verify) title to cultural icons and then gone into business extracting rent from people and businesses who want to make new works with them.
"Trademarks only prevent you from using character names and depictions in a way that misleads consumers into thinking your work is produced or sponsored by the rightsholder," Duke University clarified in their January 1st explanation of Public Domain Day 2026 — "for example, by putting them on unlicensed merchandise. They do not prevent you from using them in a new creative work clearly unaffiliated with the rights owners..."
"Regardless of who owns the later versions of the character, the original Betty Boop character from 1930 is in the public domain."
This is another reason why copyright expiration is so important: It brings clarity... Under US copyright law, anyone is free to use characters as they appeared in public domain works. If those characters recur in later works that are still under copyright, the rights only extend to the newly added material in those works, not the underlying material from the public domain works — that content remains freely available. Second, with newer versions of characters, copyright only extends to those new features that qualify for such protection...
Dozens of post-1930 Betty Boop cartoons, including Ker-Choo (1932) and Poor Cinderella (1934), did not have renewals. The newly added material in these animations is also in the public domain... To sum up the copyright story so far: in 2026, the underlying Betty Boop character goes into the public domain. She is joined there by the attributes, plot lines, and dialogue that were first introduced in those later cartoons without renewed copyrights, as well as the uncopyrightable attributes of her later instantiations...
Certainly, there would be a risk of consumer confusion if you use Betty Boop as a brand identifier on the kind of merchandise Fleischer sells — jewelry, back packs, water bottles, dolls. Trademark law does protect Fleischer against that risk. Contrast these uses with simply putting the Boop character in a new artistic work. This is exactly what copyright expiration is intended to allow. Were trademark law to prevent this, then trademark rights would be leveraged to obtain the effective equivalent of a perpetual copyright — precisely what the Supreme Court said we cannot do...
If courts have delineated the line between copyright and trademark, why is there so little clarity in this area? Sadly, companies sometimes claim to have more expansive rights than they actually do, capitalizing on fear, uncertainty, and doubt to collect royalties and licensing fees to which they are not legally entitled.
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Here it is — Betty Boop's first appearance, which became public domain on Thursday. It's a 60-second song halfway through a longer cartoon about a restaurant titled Dizzy Dishes. (The first scene makes it clear this is a restaurant of anthropomorphized animals — which explains why the as-yet-unnamed character has floppy dog ears...)
So Fleischer Studios has now warned that claiming Betty Boop is public domain "is actually not true."
Very often, different versions of a character that have been developed later can independently enjoy copyright protection. Also, names and depictions of a character very frequently will remain separately protected by trademark and other laws, regardless of whether the copyright has expired.
But is that really true? Fleischer Studios went out of business in 1946, notes Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik:
By then it had sold the rights to its cartoons and the Betty Boop character. A new Fleischer Studios was formed in the 1970s by Fleischer descendants, including Max's grandson Mark Fleischer, and set about repurchasing the rights that had been sold. Whether it reacquired the rights to Betty Boop is up for discussion... According to a federal appeals court ruling in 2011, the answer is no. Having navigated its way through the three or four copyright transfers that followed the original rights sale, the appeals court concluded that the original Fleischer studios sold the rights to Betty Boop and the related cartoons to Paramount in 1941 but couldn't verify that the rights to the character had been sold in an unbroken chain placing them with the new studio. The "chain of title" was broken, the appellate judges found — but they didn't say who ended up with Betty Boop.
And last month Cory Doctorow pointed out that "while the Fleischer studio (where Betty Boop was created) renewed the copyright on Dizzy Dishes, there were many other shorts that entered the public domain years ago."
That means that all the aspects of Betty Boop that were developed for Dizzy Dishes are about to enter the public domain. But also, all the aspects of Betty Boop from those non-renewed shorts are already in the public domain. But some of the remaining aspects of Betty Boop's character design — those developed in subsequent shorts that were also renewed — are also in the public domain, because they aren't copyrightable in the first place, because they're "generic," or "trivial," constitute "minuscule variations," or be so standard or indispensable as to be a "scène à faire...." But we're not done yet! Just because some later aspects of the Betty Boop character design are still in copyright, it doesn't follow that you aren't allowed to use them! U.S. Copyright law has a broad set "limitations and exceptions," including fair use.
So while Fleischer Studios insists Betty Boop "will continue to enjoy copyright and trademark protection for years to come," Doctorow has some thoughts on that trademark:
Even the Supreme Court has (repeatedly) upheld the principle that trademark can't be used as a backdoor to extend copyright.
That's important, because the current Betty Boop license-holders have been sending out baseless legal threats claiming that their trademarks over Betty Boop mean that she's not going into the public domain. They're not the only ones, either! This is a routine, petty scam perpetrated by marketing companies that have scooped up the (usually confused and difficult-to-verify) title to cultural icons and then gone into business extracting rent from people and businesses who want to make new works with them.
"Trademarks only prevent you from using character names and depictions in a way that misleads consumers into thinking your work is produced or sponsored by the rightsholder," Duke University clarified in their January 1st explanation of Public Domain Day 2026 — "for example, by putting them on unlicensed merchandise. They do not prevent you from using them in a new creative work clearly unaffiliated with the rights owners..."
"Regardless of who owns the later versions of the character, the original Betty Boop character from 1930 is in the public domain."
This is another reason why copyright expiration is so important: It brings clarity... Under US copyright law, anyone is free to use characters as they appeared in public domain works. If those characters recur in later works that are still under copyright, the rights only extend to the newly added material in those works, not the underlying material from the public domain works — that content remains freely available. Second, with newer versions of characters, copyright only extends to those new features that qualify for such protection...
Dozens of post-1930 Betty Boop cartoons, including Ker-Choo (1932) and Poor Cinderella (1934), did not have renewals. The newly added material in these animations is also in the public domain... To sum up the copyright story so far: in 2026, the underlying Betty Boop character goes into the public domain. She is joined there by the attributes, plot lines, and dialogue that were first introduced in those later cartoons without renewed copyrights, as well as the uncopyrightable attributes of her later instantiations...
Certainly, there would be a risk of consumer confusion if you use Betty Boop as a brand identifier on the kind of merchandise Fleischer sells — jewelry, back packs, water bottles, dolls. Trademark law does protect Fleischer against that risk. Contrast these uses with simply putting the Boop character in a new artistic work. This is exactly what copyright expiration is intended to allow. Were trademark law to prevent this, then trademark rights would be leveraged to obtain the effective equivalent of a perpetual copyright — precisely what the Supreme Court said we cannot do...
If courts have delineated the line between copyright and trademark, why is there so little clarity in this area? Sadly, companies sometimes claim to have more expansive rights than they actually do, capitalizing on fear, uncertainty, and doubt to collect royalties and licensing fees to which they are not legally entitled.
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'Fish Mouth' Filter Removes 99% of Microplastics From Laundry Waste
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2026-01-05 01:22:01
"The ancient evolution of fish mouths could help solve a modern source of plastic pollution," writes ScienceAlert.
"Inspired by these natural filtration systems, scientists in Germany have invented a way to remove 99 percent of plastic particles from water. It's based on how some fish filter-feed to eat microscopic prey."
The research team has already filed a patent in Germany, and in the future, they hope their creation will help curb a ubiquitous form of plastic pollution that many are unaware of. Every time a load of laundry is done, millions of microplastics are washed from the fibers of our clothes into local waterways. By some estimates, up to 90 percent of plastic in 'sewage sludge' comes from washing machines. This material is then often used in agriculture as soil or fertilizer, possibly exposing those who eat the resulting crops to these pollutants...
Unlike other plastic filtration systems on the market, this one reduces clogging by 85 percent.
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"The ancient evolution of fish mouths could help solve a modern source of plastic pollution," writes ScienceAlert.
"Inspired by these natural filtration systems, scientists in Germany have invented a way to remove 99 percent of plastic particles from water. It's based on how some fish filter-feed to eat microscopic prey."
The research team has already filed a patent in Germany, and in the future, they hope their creation will help curb a ubiquitous form of plastic pollution that many are unaware of. Every time a load of laundry is done, millions of microplastics are washed from the fibers of our clothes into local waterways. By some estimates, up to 90 percent of plastic in 'sewage sludge' comes from washing machines. This material is then often used in agriculture as soil or fertilizer, possibly exposing those who eat the resulting crops to these pollutants...
Unlike other plastic filtration systems on the market, this one reduces clogging by 85 percent.
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A Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' Fungus Infected 7,000 Americans in 2025
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2026-01-05 00:22:02
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent:
Candida auris, a type of invasive yeast that can cause deadly infections in people with weakened immune systems, has infected at least 7,000 people [in 2025] across 27 U.S. states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The fungus, which can spread easily in healthcare settings such as hospitals and nursing homes, is gaining virulence and spreading at an "alarming" rate, the CDC says. Some strains of the fungus are particularly troublesome — and even considered a superbug — because they're resistant to all types of antibiotics used to treat fungal infections, The Hill reports.
While healthy people may be able to fight off the infection on their own, the fungus can be deadly, especially in healthcare settings, where it can quickly spread amongst a vulnerable population. "If you get infected with this pathogen that's resistant to any treatment, there's no treatment we can give you to help combat it. You're all on your own," Melissa Nolan, an assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of South Carolina, told Nexstar...
A recent study found that Candida auris is gaining virulence and spreading rapidly, not just in the U.S., but also globally. Candida auris has already been found in at least 61 countries on six continents.
Some context from Newsweek:
There are strategies available to combat Candida auris infection. While the superbug can develop ways to evade the immune response, vaccination and treatment strategies are possible, but researchers would like them to be strengthened. Four classes of antifungal drugs are currently available, with varying degrees of efficacy, and three new drugs are currently in trials or at newly approved stages
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2026-01-05 00:22:02
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent:
Candida auris, a type of invasive yeast that can cause deadly infections in people with weakened immune systems, has infected at least 7,000 people [in 2025] across 27 U.S. states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The fungus, which can spread easily in healthcare settings such as hospitals and nursing homes, is gaining virulence and spreading at an "alarming" rate, the CDC says. Some strains of the fungus are particularly troublesome — and even considered a superbug — because they're resistant to all types of antibiotics used to treat fungal infections, The Hill reports.
While healthy people may be able to fight off the infection on their own, the fungus can be deadly, especially in healthcare settings, where it can quickly spread amongst a vulnerable population. "If you get infected with this pathogen that's resistant to any treatment, there's no treatment we can give you to help combat it. You're all on your own," Melissa Nolan, an assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of South Carolina, told Nexstar...
A recent study found that Candida auris is gaining virulence and spreading rapidly, not just in the U.S., but also globally. Candida auris has already been found in at least 61 countries on six continents.
Some context from Newsweek:
There are strategies available to combat Candida auris infection. While the superbug can develop ways to evade the immune response, vaccination and treatment strategies are possible, but researchers would like them to be strengthened. Four classes of antifungal drugs are currently available, with varying degrees of efficacy, and three new drugs are currently in trials or at newly approved stages
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Microsoft's Risky Bet That Windows Can Become The Platform for AI Agents
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2026-01-04 23:22:01
"Microsoft is hoping that Windows can once again serve as the platform where it all takes off," reports GeekWire:
A new framework called Agent Launchers, introduced in December as a preview in the latest Windows Insider build, lets developers register agents directly with the operating system. They can describe an agent through what's known as a manifest, which then lets the agent show up in the Windows taskbar, inside Microsoft Copilot, and across other apps... "We are now entering a phase where we build rich scaffolds that orchestrate multiple models and agents; account for memory and entitlements; enable rich and safe tools use," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a blog post this week looking ahead to 2026. "This is the engineering sophistication we must continue to build to get value out of AI in the real world...." [The article notes Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude will also offer desktop-style agentsthrough browsers and native apps, while Amazon is developing "frontier agents" for automating business processes in the cloud.]
But Microsoft's Windows team is betting that agents tightly linked to the operating system will win out over ones that merely run on top of it, just as a new class of Windows apps replaced a patchwork of DOS programs in the early days of the graphical operating system. Microsoft 365 Copilot is using the Agent Launchers framework for first-party agents like Analyst, which helps users dig into data, and Researcher, which builds detailed reports. Software developers will be able to register their own agents when an app is installed, or on the fly based on things like whether a user is signed in or paying for a subscription...
Agents are meant to maintain this context across apps, ask follow-up questions, and take actions on a user's behalf. That requires a different level of trust than Windows has ever had to manage, which is already raising difficult questions for the company. Microsoft acknowledges that agents introduce unique security risks. In a support document, the company warned that malicious content embedded in files or interface elements could override an agent's instructions — potentially leading to stolen data or malware installation. To address this, Microsoft says it has built a security framework that runs agents in their own contained workspace, with a dedicated user account that has limited access to user folders. The idea is to create a boundary between the agent and what the rest of the system can access. The agentic features are off by default, and Microsoft is advising users to "understand the security implications of enabling an agent on your computer" before turning them on...
There is a business reality driving all of this. In Microsoft's most recent fiscal year, Windows and Devices generated $17.3 billion in revenue — essentially flat for the past three years. That's less than Gaming ($23.5 billion) and LinkedIn ($17.8 billion), and a fraction of the $98 billion in revenue from Azure and cloud services or the nearly $88 billion from Microsoft 365 commercial.
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2026-01-04 23:22:01
"Microsoft is hoping that Windows can once again serve as the platform where it all takes off," reports GeekWire:
A new framework called Agent Launchers, introduced in December as a preview in the latest Windows Insider build, lets developers register agents directly with the operating system. They can describe an agent through what's known as a manifest, which then lets the agent show up in the Windows taskbar, inside Microsoft Copilot, and across other apps... "We are now entering a phase where we build rich scaffolds that orchestrate multiple models and agents; account for memory and entitlements; enable rich and safe tools use," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a blog post this week looking ahead to 2026. "This is the engineering sophistication we must continue to build to get value out of AI in the real world...." [The article notes Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude will also offer desktop-style agentsthrough browsers and native apps, while Amazon is developing "frontier agents" for automating business processes in the cloud.]
But Microsoft's Windows team is betting that agents tightly linked to the operating system will win out over ones that merely run on top of it, just as a new class of Windows apps replaced a patchwork of DOS programs in the early days of the graphical operating system. Microsoft 365 Copilot is using the Agent Launchers framework for first-party agents like Analyst, which helps users dig into data, and Researcher, which builds detailed reports. Software developers will be able to register their own agents when an app is installed, or on the fly based on things like whether a user is signed in or paying for a subscription...
Agents are meant to maintain this context across apps, ask follow-up questions, and take actions on a user's behalf. That requires a different level of trust than Windows has ever had to manage, which is already raising difficult questions for the company. Microsoft acknowledges that agents introduce unique security risks. In a support document, the company warned that malicious content embedded in files or interface elements could override an agent's instructions — potentially leading to stolen data or malware installation. To address this, Microsoft says it has built a security framework that runs agents in their own contained workspace, with a dedicated user account that has limited access to user folders. The idea is to create a boundary between the agent and what the rest of the system can access. The agentic features are off by default, and Microsoft is advising users to "understand the security implications of enabling an agent on your computer" before turning them on...
There is a business reality driving all of this. In Microsoft's most recent fiscal year, Windows and Devices generated $17.3 billion in revenue — essentially flat for the past three years. That's less than Gaming ($23.5 billion) and LinkedIn ($17.8 billion), and a fraction of the $98 billion in revenue from Azure and cloud services or the nearly $88 billion from Microsoft 365 commercial.
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Trump Organization's $499 Smartphone Delayed Again, Now Until the End of January
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2026-01-04 22:22:01
Last June the Trump organization announced sales of a $499 "T1" smartphone with a gold-colored case. But though they originally were scheduled for release in August, this week a customer service representative for the wireless carrier told CBS News the device will be pushed back again, now until the end of January, "attributing the delay to the recent U.S. government shutdown."
Some context from The Independent:
Shortly after the phone was first announced, language describing it as "Made in the USA" was removed from its official website with the vague claim that the devices are "brought to life" in the United States posted in its place... Other information about the phone has also changed or been removed since its first unveiling, The Verge has reported. Trump Mobile initially indicated the T1's screen measured 6.78 inches, but now claims it is 6.25 inches. It also said the phone had 12GB of RAM; however, that claim has now also disappeared.
As the wait for the T1 continues, Trump Mobile has begun offering refurbished Samsung S23s, S24s, and Apple iPhone 15s and 16s for sale on its site, which appear to have no specific Trump branding and are priced considerably higher than customers might pay elsewhere.
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2026-01-04 22:22:01
Last June the Trump organization announced sales of a $499 "T1" smartphone with a gold-colored case. But though they originally were scheduled for release in August, this week a customer service representative for the wireless carrier told CBS News the device will be pushed back again, now until the end of January, "attributing the delay to the recent U.S. government shutdown."
Some context from The Independent:
Shortly after the phone was first announced, language describing it as "Made in the USA" was removed from its official website with the vague claim that the devices are "brought to life" in the United States posted in its place... Other information about the phone has also changed or been removed since its first unveiling, The Verge has reported. Trump Mobile initially indicated the T1's screen measured 6.78 inches, but now claims it is 6.25 inches. It also said the phone had 12GB of RAM; however, that claim has now also disappeared.
As the wait for the T1 continues, Trump Mobile has begun offering refurbished Samsung S23s, S24s, and Apple iPhone 15s and 16s for sale on its site, which appear to have no specific Trump branding and are priced considerably higher than customers might pay elsewhere.
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