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Voyager 1 is Running Out of Power. NASA Just Switched Part of It Off

robot — 2026-04-20 04:22:01

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After 49 years of space travel, Voyager 1 "is running out of power," reports NPR:

The spacecraft runs on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator — a device that converts heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. It carries no solar panels, no rechargeable batteries. Just the slow, steady release of nuclear warmth, which diminishes by about 4 watts each year. After nearly five decades, that decline has become critical.

During a routine maneuver in late February, Voyager 1's power levels fell unexpectedly, bringing the probe dangerously close to triggering an automatic fault-protection shutdown — a self-preservation response that would have forced engineers into a lengthy and risky recovery process. The team needed to act first. On April 17, mission engineers sent a sequence of commands to deactivate the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, known as the LECP, which is one of Voyager 1's remaining science instruments. The LECP has measured ions, electrons, and cosmic rays originating from both our solar system and the galaxy beyond it, helping scientists map the structure of interstellar space in a way no other instrument could...

Voyager 1 now carries two operational science instruments: one that listens for plasma waves, and one that measures magnetic fields. Engineers believe the latest shutdown could buy the mission roughly another year of breathing room. The team is also developing a more sweeping power conservation plan they informally call "the Big Bang" — a coordinated swap of several powered components all at once, trading older systems for lower-power alternatives. If testing on Voyager 2, planned for May and June 2026, goes well, the same procedure will be attempted on Voyager 1 no sooner than July. If it works, there is even a slim chance the LECP could once more continue to work.
The engineers say they hope to keep at least one instrument operating on each spacecraft into the 2030s. It would leave both still reporting from places no machine has ever gone before.111
Voyager 1 is now 15 billion miles from Earth, the article points out. (Radio signals take 23 hours to arrive...)
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Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Predicts Humankind Won't Survive Another 50 Years

robot — 2026-04-20 02:22:02

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Live Science spoke with physicist David Gross, who today received the $3 million "Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics". He was part of a trio that won the 2004 physics Nobel prize for research that helped complete the Standard Model of particle physics. But when asked if physics will reach a unified theory of the fundamental forces of nature within 50 years, Gross has a surprising answer. "Currently, I spend part of my time trying to tell people... that the chances of you living 50 [more] years are very small."
Cold War estimates for a 1% chance of nuclear war each year seem low, Gross says. "The chances are more likely 2%. So that's a 1-in-50 chance every year."

David Gross: The expected lifetime, in the case of 2% [per year], is about 35 years. [The expected lifetime is the average time it would take to have had a nuclear war by then. It is calculated using similar equations as those used to determine the "half-life" of a radioactive material.]
Live Science: So what do you suggest as remedies to lower that risk?

Gross: We had something called the Nobel Laureate Assembly for reducing the risk of nuclear war in Chicago last year. There are steps, which are easy to take — for nations, I mean. For example, talk to each other. In the last 10 years, there are no treaties anymore. We're entering an incredible arms race.

We have three super nuclear powers. People are talking about using nuclear weapons; there's a major war going on in the middle of Europe; we're bombing Iran; India and Pakistan almost went to war. OK, so that's increased the chance [of nuclear war]. I would really like to have a solid estimate — it might be more, and I think I'm being conservative — but a 2% estimate [of nuclear war] in today's crazy world.
Live Science: Do you think we'll ever get to a place where we get rid of nuclear weapons?
Gross: We're not recommending that. That's idealistic, but yes, I hope so. Because if you don't, there's always some risk an AI 100 years from now [could launch nuclear weapons], but chances of [humanity] living, with this estimate, 100 years, is very small, and living 200 years is infinitesimal. So [the answer to] Fermi's question of "Where are the civilizations, all the intelligent organisms around the galaxy, and why don't they talk to us?" is that they've killed themselves...

There are now nine nuclear powers. Even three is infinitely more complicated than two. The agreements, the norms between countries, are all falling apart. Weapons are getting crazier. Automation, and perhaps even AI, will be in control of those instruments pretty soon... It's going to be very hard to resist making AI make decisions because it acts so fast.

He points out that with the threat of climate change, "people have done something," even though "It's a much harder argument to make than about nuclear weapons.

"We made them; we can stop them."

Thanks to hwstar (Slashdot reader #35,834) for sharing the article.

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Is the Iran War Driving a Surge of Interest in Electric Cars?

robot — 2026-04-20 00:22:03

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In October and through November, America's EV sales reached their lowest point since 2022 after government subsidies expired, remembers Time. "But first-quarter data for 2026 shows that used EV sales were 12% higher than the same time last year and 17% higher than the previous quarter.

"One factor likely helping push buyers toward these cars is high gas prices, which recently topped $4.00 a gallon for the first time in four years," they write — but it's not just in the U.S. Instead, they argue the conflict "is driving a global surge of interest in electric vehicles..."

In the U.K., electric car sales reached a record high, with 86,120 vehicles sold in March... The French online used-car retailer Aramisauto reported its share of EV sales nearly doubled from February 16 to March 9, rising to 12.7% from 6.5%, while sales of fueled models dropped to 28% of sales from 34%, and sales of diesel models dropped to 10% from 14%. Germany's largest online car market, mobile.de, told Reuters that the share of EV searches on its website has tripled since the start of March — from 12% to 36%, with car dealers receiving 66% more enquiries for used EVs than in February.
South Korea reported that registrations for electric vehicles more than doubled in March compared to the prior year, due in part to rising fuel prices and government subsidies... In New Zealand, more than 1,000 EVs were registered in the week that ended on March 22, close to double the week before, making it the country's biggest week for electric vehicle registrations since the end of 2023, according to the country's Transport Minister, Chris Bishop.

In America, Bloomberg also reports 605 high-speed EV charging stations switched on in just the first three months of 2025, "a 34% increase over the year-earlier period," according to their analysis of federal data. A data platform focused on EV infrastructure tells Bloomberg that speedier and more reliable chargers are convincing more drivers to go electric and use public plugs.

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Pancreatic Cancer MRNA Vaccine Shows Lasting Results In Early Trial

robot — 2026-04-19 23:22:01

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NBC News reports on a 16-person clinical trial of "personalized messenger RNA vaccines" which use the immune system to fight cancer cells. "The goal is not to eliminate existing tumors, but instead to stamp out lingering, undetected cancer cells, and later any new cells that form before they can cause a recurrence."
Patients still have surgery to remove tumors. After that, the mRNA vaccines are personalized for each individual using genetic material taken from their unique tumor cells. In the clinical trial, after getting the vaccine, the patients also received chemotherapy, which is standard post-op treatment for operable pancreatic cancer... [The article notes that less than 13% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer live for more than five years, making it "one of the deadliest cancers."]
[E]xperts have long believed that people with pancreatic cancer could not generate an immune response against tumors. But after nine doses of the personalized vaccine, [clinical trial participant Donna] Gustafson is one of eight people in the 16-person Phase 1 trial who did just that, producing an army of immune cells called T cells that seek out and destroy tumor cells... [Dr. Vinod Balachandran, a vaccine center director who is leading the trial, said] it was unclear whether the immune response would last and lead to the patients living longer... New data collected during the trial's six-year follow-up period shows that it may. Those findings will be presented Monday at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting in San Diego. Six years after treatment, Gustafson and six others who responded to the treatment are still alive...

More research is still needed. Genentech and BioNTech, the two drugmakers behind the vaccine, have already launched a larger Phase 2 clinical trial... Another team is working on an off-the-shelf vaccine that targets a protein called KRAS that is present in as many as 90% of pancreatic cancers. In a small, early trial, about 85% of the participants mounted an immune response to the protein.

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Motorola Sues Social Media Platforms and Creators in India

robot — 2026-04-19 22:22:01

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"Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators," reports TechCrunch, "over posts it alleges are defamatory..."
The lawsuit, filed in a Bengaluru court and obtained by TechCrunch, names platforms such as X, YouTube, and Instagram along with dozens of content creators, and seeks takedown of the content as well as broader restraint on what it describes as false or defamatory material related to the company's devices. In its over 60-page filing, Motorola has sought a permanent injunction restraining the defendants from publishing or sharing what it describes as false or defamatory content about its products, including reviews, videos, comments, and boycott campaigns.
The complaint cites hundreds of posts across platforms, including videos alleging device issues and phones catching fire. But it is also targeting unfavorable product reviews and user commentary that the company alleges are false or defamatory. In a statement after publication, a Motorola spokesperson said it had initiated legal action "in the interest of public safety" against what it described as demonstrably false claims that its devices had exploded or caught fire.

One online creator told TechCrunch "they expect more such legal action in the future, as evolving rules around online content increase liability for creators and platforms — a trend reflected in recently proposed changes to India's IT rules aimed at tightening oversight of online content."
A Motorola spokesperson "said the company did not seek to suppress legitimate reviews or criticism and was reviewing the scope of the proceedings, adding that it apologized to creators affected inadvertently."

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Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant

robot — 2026-04-19 22:22:01

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"Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports the Associated Press. "All without a warrant."

The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices. The state is allowed more than 250 queries a month using the tool, which allows officers to track a device's location over long stretches of time and enables them to see what Fog calls "patterns of life," according to company documents from 2022. It can help them deduce where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit, according to privacy experts... Traditionally, police must obtain a warrant from a judge to access cellphone location information — a process that can take days or weeks. And while cellphone users may be aware that they are sharing their location through apps such as Google Maps, critics say few are aware that such information can make its way to police...

Other agencies in Nevada have been known to use technology similar to Fog. In 2013, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department acquired something known as a cell-site simulator that mimics cellphone towers and can sweep up signals from entire areas to track individuals, with some models capable of intercepting texts and calls. Police have not released detailed information about the technology since then.

"Police in other states have said the technology (and its low price tag) has helped expand investigatory capacity," the article adds.

But it also points out that Fog Data Science has a web page letting individuals opt out of all their data sets.

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Astra Migration

robot — 2026-04-19 20:44:03

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«Группа Астра» объявляет о коммерческом релизе нового продукта — Astra Migration, инструмента для автоматической миграции с ОС Windows на ОС Astra Linux. Продукт позволяет переводить на отечественную ОС более 100 рабочих мест параллельно, ускоряя процесс миграции в десятки раз по сравнению с ручным переходом. Astra Migration [ уже доступен для оформления заказа ]( https://astra.ru/software-services/application-software-astra-group/migration/ ) и призван решить одну из ключевых задач российского ИТ-рынка — массовый и управляемый переход организаций на отечественное программное обеспечение.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/russia/18270434#cut ) )

Первая публичная демонстрация Astra Migration состоится [ 20 апреля 2026 года на стенде «Группы Астра» в рамках конференции АКПО-Конф. ]( https://stream.kontur.ru/landings/228eb724-b5ac-4793-95d2-74f9ebc8f3da )

HP Will Discontinue 'HP Anyware' Remote Desktop, Trusted Zero Clients

robot — 2026-04-19 20:22:01

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kriston (Slashdot reader #7,886) writes:

HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued.
"Maintenance and support for customers and partners with multi-year terms will continue until 31 October, 2029," a href="https://anyware.hp.com/hp-anyware-end-of-life">according to HP's announcement.

But HP is also announcing the planned End of Life for Anyware Trust Center and Trusted Zero Clients, with support now limited to setup and troubleshooting, no new updates or patches, and support ending in a little over six months on October 31, 2026. While for Desktop Access customers — Tera2 Zero Clients and PCoIP Management Console — "the previously announced EOL date remains December 31, 2029," sales have already ended for other customers. HP Anyware renewals are available for purchase through October 31 of 2027, but with a maximum one year term, with support ending October 31, 2028.

HP says the decision "enables us to focus our resources on product categories where we can deliver the greatest customer value and drive long-term innovation."

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Disney Creates Its Own IMAX for 'Avengers: Doomsday' After Losing Screens to 'Dune: Part 3'

robot — 2026-04-19 19:22:02

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Ahead of December's release of Avengers: Doomsday, Disney has unveiled "Infinity Vision," reports Kotaku, which they describe as "a new theater-going experience that will be certain to transform your pedestrian $15 night out into an exotic $43 one." (Though those prices appear to be estimates...)

Disney's announcement calls it "a new certification for premium large format (PLF) theaters," helping ticket-buyers find "a huge screen with the sharpest, clearest color and sound," including laser projection "for superior brightness and clarity ") and "premium audio formats for fully immersive sound".

Light on specifics, Disney says they will be certifying premium large format theaters for the Infinity Vision experience, highlighting laser projection and immersive audio quality. The new program will begin in the summer for a theater run of 2019's Avengers: Endgame ahead of Doomsday's holiday release.

Now you might be thinking: Giant screen? Booming audio? That sounds an awful lot like IMAX. The most consumer-recognized premium movie-going screen is the coveted throne for big blockbuster events, from Avatar to One Battle After Another. Unfortunately for Doomsday, IMAX screens are already booked for the holiday season by Dune: Part Three, the anticipated return to Arrakis, where Timothée Chalamet's Muad'Dib will begin to go worm-mode. Locked out of the popular choice for doubling your ticket price, Disney appears to have made up a new one...

Disney says they aim to certify 75 theaters in the United States and 300 internationally for the Infinity Vision program.

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ICMP-туннель на уровне ядра Linux: передаём TCP/UDP-трафик через эхо-запросы

BotHabr — 2026-04-19 18:35:04

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Опубликовано: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:46:18 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Системное программирование / Хабр

Недавно я наткнулся на статью о том, что в ICMP-пакеты можно вставлять произвольные данные. Сразу возникла мысль: а почему бы не попробовать загнать весь трафик через ICMP (да, о существовании ICMP-туннеля я тоже ничего не знал). Так появился проект — ICMP?туннель на уровне ядра, который: Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025264/

Как я убрал чаты из оформления заявок на бетонном заводе: Bitrix24, 1С и отдельное приложение

BotHabr — 2026-04-19 18:35:01

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Опубликовано: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:26:46 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

Хотел бы рассказать про один проект, где я участвовал сразу в двух ролях: и как разработчик, и как аналитик. Это не история про идеальную архитектуру и не кейс в духе "сделали красиво с первого раза". Скорее наоборот: через боль и страдания, несколько не самых очевидных решений и пара довольно проблемных мест. Но в итоге что-то да получилось.На старте у нас был бетонный завод с полностью самописной 1С. В ней жила вся управленческая часть, но менеджеров туда лишний раз не пускали. Поэтому начали внедрять Bitrix24, чтобы менеджеры работали в CRM, а всё, что нужно, дальше уже делалось в 1С.Сначала идея выглядела достаточно прямой. На стороне 1С отдельный разработчик настраивал приём и передачу данных. Я на стороне Bitrix24 поднимал API-часть: получать контрагентов и номенклатуру, передавать обратно заявки и отправлять их в 1С при переходе на нужную стадию. Между менеджером и заводом оставались операторы: они проверяли заявку, и только потом она уходила в производство. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025276/

Удалённое выполнение кода в форке почтового сервера qmail от проекта Sagredo

robot — 2026-04-19 13:44:03

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В развиваемом проектом Sagredo форке почтового сервера qmail выявлена уязвимость (CVE-2026-41113), позволяющая добиться удалённого выполнения произвольных команд на сервере с правами пользователя qmailr. Уязвимость вызвана отсутствием экранирования спецсимволов в имени хоста, возвращаемого DNS-сервером при определении MX-шлюза, в сочетании с передачей полученного имени в команду popen без должного разделения и фильтрации аргументов при вызове shell. Уязвимость устранена в выпуске 2026.04.07. В открытом доступе опубликован инструментарий для эксплуатации уязвимости.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65241

[Перевод] Структуры данных на практике. Глава 12: Кучи и очереди с приоритетом

BotHabr — 2026-04-19 12:35:02

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Опубликовано: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:13:43 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр

«Плохие программисты беспокоятся о коде. Хорошие программисты беспокоятся о структурах данных и их взаимосвязях», — Линус ТорвальдсСпоры о планировщикеНаша команда вела спор о структурах данных. Нам нужен был планировщик задач операционной системы реального времени, способный:Вставлять новые задачи с приоритетом (O(log n))Запрашивать задачу с наибольшим приоритетом (O(1))Удалять задачу с наибольшим приоритетом (O(log n))Кто-то предложил: «Давайте используем отсортированный массив». Но вставка будет занимать O(n) — придётся сдвигать элементы.Кто-то ещё сказал: «Возьмём связанный список». Однако поиск наибольшего выполняется за O(n) — необходимо сканировать весь список.Третий вспомнил о двоичном дереве поиска. Но из Главы 9 мы уже знаем, что BST ужасно ведут себя с кэшем.Споры продолжались, пока кто-то не упомянул двоичные кучи. Покончить с разногласиями позволили результаты бенчмарка Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1016636/

Выпуск криптографической библиотеки LibreSSL 4.3

robot — 2026-04-19 12:44:03

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Разработчики проекта OpenBSD представили выпуск переносимой редакции пакета LibreSSL 4.3.0, в рамках которого развивается форк OpenSSL, нацеленный на обеспечение более высокого уровня безопасности. Проект LibreSSL ориентирован на качественную поддержку протоколов SSL/TLS с удалением излишней функциональности, добавлением дополнительных средств защиты и проведением значительной чистки и переработки кодовой базы. Выпуск LibreSSL 4.3.0 рассматривается как экспериментальный, в котором развиваются возможности, которые войдут в состав OpenBSD 7.9. Следом сформирован выпуск LibreSSL 4.3.1, в котором исправлена проблема со сборкой.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65240

Remembering Zip Drives - the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s

robot — 2026-04-19 12:22:01

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Back in the 1990s, floppy disks "had a mere capacity of 1.44MB," remembers XDA Developers, "which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about."

Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while we got "superfloppy" formats that were physically larger and had more capacity, those were pretty unwieldy as portable storage. Enter 1994, when a company called Iomega introduced its variant of a "superfloppy", the Zip drive... [T]he initial capacity introduced in 1994 reached a whopping 100MB, which was huge number when put up against the traditional floppy disk. Zip drives also had major performance benefits, with read speeds that could average 1.4MB/s, as opposed to the comparatively sluggish 16kB/s speeds of a traditional floppy disk, as well as a seek time of around 28ms seconds, whereas a floppy disk averaged 200ms. Zip drives weren't quite as fast as desktop HDDs, but for portable storage, this was a huge step forward...

[I]n 1998, Iomega introduced the Zip 250 disks, which increased the capacity to 250MB, and, already in the new millennium, we got the Zip 750, which took that further to 750MB... It was an appealing enough proposition that big computer manufacturers like Dell started including a Zip drive in some of their PCs. Even Apple included Zip drives in some of its Power Macintosh models from the mid-to-late 90s. However, things started to shift towards the end of the decade as other portable formats rose to prominence, most notably CDs and USB flash drives.

Despite their initial success, it didn't take long for users to start noticing a major drawback of Zip drives: many times, they would just fail. It wasn't necessarily related to age or any particular misuse of the disks, it just happened. It was a big enough phenomenon that it became known as the "click of death", and once it happened, your drive was gone. The problem was estimated by Iomega to affect around 0.5% of Zip drives, but while that sounds like a small number, when you sell products by the thousands, it becomes fairly widespread. It was a big enough issue that, in September 1998, a class action lawsuit was filed against Iomega for the common problems. Some of the complaints in that lawsuit were eventually dismissed by the court of Delaware, but others were not, and once the public became aware of the problems with Zip drives, it was hard for the brand to make a comeback.
It didn't help that this happened around the same time as formats such as CDs were becoming more popular... And eventually, USB flash drives became the most popular way to carry data around since they were smaller and offered much faster speeds... Eventually, after seeing its profits plummet by the mid-2000s, Iomega was sold to a company called EMC in 2008, and in 2013, EMC and Lenovo formed a joint venture that took over Iomega's business and removed all of the Iomega branding from its products.
The article does note that "as late as 2014, some aviation companies were still using Zip drives to distribute updates for navigation databases." Are there any Slashdot readers who still remember their own Zip drive experiences?
Share your memories in the comments of that once-so-trendy storage technology from the 1990s...

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[11] TikTok point=0 web=54 up=0.8MB (2%)
[12] 135.181.213.x point=0 web=1 up=0.8MB (1%)
[13] 54.36.60.x point=0 web=6 up=0.6MB (1%)
[14] 193.70.33.x point=0 web=5 up=0.4MB (1%)
[15] 145.239.65.x point=0 web=6 up=0.4MB (1%)
[16] 141.94.101.x point=0 web=1 up=0.4MB (1%)
[17] 51.83.5.x point=0 web=5 up=0.4MB (1%)
[18] 5.135.131.x point=0 web=4 up=0.3MB (<1%)
[19] 217.182.195.x point=0 web=1 up=0.3MB (<1%)
[20] 178.150.14.x point=0 web=1 up=0.3MB (<1%)

TOTAL TRAFFIC: 39MB

Счётчик воды для Home Assistant из датчика протечки Tuya

BotHabr — 2026-04-19 10:35:02

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Опубликовано: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:10:24 GMT
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После реализации в прошлой статье многотарифного учёта электроэнергии в квартире, было решено реализовать и учёт расхода воды.В продаже есть несколько уже готовых решений, которые могут подключаться к Home Assistant, передавать данные сразу в Водоканал и другие компании ЖКХ. Но стоимость устройств начинается от 3000 руб, а если стояки с подачей холодной и горячей воды разнесены далеко, то придётся покупать 2 датчика и бюджет проекта заметно вырастает.Поэтому в рамках данной статьи расскажу, как реализовать счетчик расхода воды на базе дешевого датчика Tuya (около 450 руб.) и настроить отображение данных в Home Assistant. Также реализуем подсчёт общего объёма водоотведения и сигнализацию о возможном затоплении. Схема применима к счётчикам, которые создают импульсный сигнал по типу Геркон. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025148/

Duolingo CEO Says They've Stopped Tracking Employees' AI Use for Performance Reviews

robot — 2026-04-19 08:22:01

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Last May Duolingo's stock peaked at $529.05. But while the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and 50 million daily active users, today its stock price has dropped more than 81%, to $100.51.

And there's been other changes, reports Entrepreneur:

In April 2025, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn made headlines after writing a memo calling the company "AI-first." In the memo, von Ahn announced that the language-learning platform would track employees' AI use in performance reviews. Now, a year later, von Ahn is backtracking and rethinking how he measures employee performance. He told the Silicon Valley Girl podcast earlier this month that Duolingo no longer considers AI use in performance reviews.

The change arose after employees started to ask, "Do you just want us to use AI for AI's sake?" von Ahn explained. "We said no, look — the most important thing in your performance is that you are doing whatever your job is as well as possible. A lot of times, AI can help you with that, but if it can't, I'm not going to force you to do that," von Ahn said on the podcast. He felt as though the company was "trying to push something that in some cases did not fit" instead of "being held accountable for the actual outcome." The CEO is, however, still sticking to other "constructive constraints" he introduced in the April 2025 memo, including stopping contractor hiring in cases where AI can assume their workload...
Von Ahn also mentioned that a few months ago, Duolingo had a day dedicated to vibe coding, or prompting AI to create an app without manually writing a single line of code. Every single person at the company, from engineers to human resources professionals, had to vibe code an app. Vibe coding has made an impact at the company. One of Duolingo's latest offerings, a course teaching users how to play chess, arose when two people vibe-coded the first prototype of it, the CEO said. Neither of them knew how to play chess or program, but they managed to use AI to create the whole chess curriculum and a prototype of the app in about six months last year. Now chess is Duolingo's fastest-growing course, according to von Ahn. "At this point, we have seven million daily active users that are learning chess," the CEO said on the podcast.

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SpaceX, Blue Origin Compete For 'Artemis III' Mission

robot — 2026-04-19 06:22:01

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After Artemis II's astronauts returned to earth, "NASA has Artemis III in its sights," reports the Associated Press:

In a mission recently added to the docket for next year, Artemis III's yet-to-be -named astronauts will practice docking their Orion capsule with a lunar lander or two in orbit around Earth. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin are racing to have their company's lander ready first. Musk's Starship and Bezos' Blue Moon are vying for the all-important Artemis IV moon landing in 2028. Two astronauts will aim for the south polar region, the preferred location for [NASA Administrator Jared] Isaacman's envisioned $20 billion to $30 billion moon base. Vast amounts of ice are almost certainly hidden in permanently shadowed craters there — ice that could provide water and rocket fuel.
The docking mechanism for Artemis III's close-to-home trial run is already at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The latest model Starship is close to launching on a test flight from South Texas, and a scaled-down version of Blue Moon will attempt a lunar landing later this year.

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DIY: Экранчик для «умного дома»

BotHabr — 2026-04-19 05:35:01

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Опубликовано: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:53:35 GMT
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Есть такая штука, как "дисплей покупателя" - это тот самый экран на кассе, где пишут сколько денег вы должны заплатить. И есть такое народное развлечение - делать из этих экранов всякое разное - ну например, "часы или метеостанцию" (с)Фишка тут в том, что можно приобрести их б/у за копейки, и получить при этом винтажный газоразрядный экран, приятного зеленого или синего цвета. Пусть алфавитно-цифровой - для часов этого более чем достаточно. Поскольку сервер времени я себе уже сделал - дай-ка, думаю, и эту штуку попробую освоить, будут часы с синхронизацией по NTP. А еще можно приспособить их для полезного дела - показывать температуру воды в котле, например - чтобы не бегать смотреть на основные экраны "умного дома", и не хвататься за телефон.Итак, под руку попался Wincor Nixdorf BA64-2: 2 строки по 20 символов, газоразрядный, аккуратный черный корпус. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025130/

New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer

robot — 2026-04-19 03:22:01

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"A trailer has been released for the first film to star an authorised generative AI version of a major Hollywood actor," writes The Guardian:

Val Kilmer was cast in western As Deep As the Grave before his death in April 2025. Production delays meant he never shot any scenes, but the creative team worked with UK-based company Sonantic to create an AI speaking voice based on his old recordings. His estate and daughter Mercedes collaborated with the film-makers on the visual deepfake of the actor. Kilmer, who was diagnosed with throat cancer, was also assisted by technology for his cameo in 2022's Top Gun: Maverick...
Writer-director Coerte Voorhees confirmed that Kilmer is seen for around an hour of the film's running time... Voorhees has said that the production followed Sag-Aftra [union] guidelines, and that Kilmer's estate — which provided archival material for them to use — was compensated financially.

"Kilmer's likeness can be seen portraying Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist," adds The Hollywood Reporter. But the AV Club calls it "ghoulish puppet show time."

"Having your AI Val Kilmer puppet whisper 'Don't fear the dead, and don't fear me' in a movie trailer is a bold choice..."

He is accompanied (per Variety) by a whole host of disclaimers, caveats, and explanations offered by writer-director Coerte Voorhees and his associates: Kilmer deeply wanted to be in the movie, but was too sick to do so. His family endorses and supports his inclusion. He was a big fan of technology, including, presumably, its use in turning his own image into a digital avatar to then shove into movies...

The fact is, of course, that nobody would be paying a fraction of this attention to As Deep As The Grave — about early female archeologist Ann Axtell Morris — if it weren't now being used as the stage on which Voorhees was very publicly accepting the dare to go full-on ghoulish with AI tech.

"The filmmakers said they hoped they were showing Hollywood how to use the technology in a positive way..." notes Australia's ABC News. But their articles add that "Some have called the trailer 'terrifying' and 'disgusting' on social media."
Mashable writes:
"Very fitting that this trailer includes a scene where a corpse is unceremoniously yanked out of the ground," read one of the top comments on As Deep as the Grave's trailer at time of writing... [O]nline commenters have labelled it disgusting and disrespectful, not only for digitally reanimating Kilmer but also for the damaging precedent As Deep as the Grave's use of AI could set for the film industry as a whole.

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Old Cars 'Tell Tales' by Storing Data That's Never Wiped

robot — 2026-04-19 02:22:01

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Slashdot reader Bismillah shared this report from ITNews:

Research and development engineer Romain Marchand of Paris headquartered Quarkslab obtained a telematic control unit (TCU) from a salvage yard in Poland... Marchand tore down the TCU, which is based on a Qualcomm system on a chip, and extracted the Linux-based file system from the Micron multi-chip package (MCP) which contained NAND-based non-volatile storage memory. The non-volatile storage contained sensitive information, including system configuration data and more importantly, logs that revealed the vehicle's GPS positions over time.

None of that information was encrypted, Marchand told iTnews, which made it possible to collect and retrieve sensitive data of interest. What's more, the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) logs with GPS positions covered the BYD's full journey from the factory in China to its operational life in the United Kingdom, and to its final wrecking in Poland, Marchand explained in an analysis... The issue is not restricted to BYD, and Marchand added that the hardware architecture of the Chinese car maker's TCU is broadly similar to what can be found in other brands.

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Fewer US College Students Major in CS. More Choose Data Science, Engineering

robot — 2026-04-19 01:22:01

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"From 2008 to 2024, the number of four-year computer science degrees granted rose about fivefold..." reports the Washington Post. Then in 2025 CS suddenly dropped from the fourth-largest undergraduate major to sixth, they report (citing data from the nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse, which compiles numbers from 97% of U.S. universities.

The 54,000-student drop was "the biggest one-year drop of any major discipline going back to at least 2020." But what major are they choosing instead?

Sarah Karamarkovich, a research associate with the National Student Clearinghouse, pointed to an explanation from the data that we had overlooked. Enrollments in two interdisciplinary majors, data analytics and data science, topped a combined 35,000 in the fall of 2025. That was up from a few hundred when those disciplines were broken out into their own majors in 2020. Those relatively new categories reflect colleges' zeal to create specialized majors, including in AI, data science, robotics and cybersecurity. Some of those disciplines may be counted in the national enrollment data as computer science. Others are not.

The numbers suggest that some of the disappearing computer science majors didn't flee so much as they splintered into related disciplines.... The 8 percent decline in computer science majors last fall was nearly mirrored by a 7.3 percent increase in engineering majors, according to the National Student Clearinghouse data. Within engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering major enrollments increased by the largest absolute amounts — a jump of 11 percent and 14 percent, respectively.

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US Congress Fails to Pass Long-Term FISA Extension, Authorizes It Through April 30

robot — 2026-04-19 00:22:01

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Yesterday the U.S. Congress approved "a short-term extension" of a FISA law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets, reports CNN — but only until April 30. Republican congressional leaders had sought an 18-month extension, but "failed to secure" the votes after "clamoring from some of their members for reforms to protect Americans' privacy."

The warrantless surveillance law, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was set to expire on Monday night. Members are hoping the additional time will allow them to come to agreement without ending authorization for the intelligence gathering program, which permits US officials to monitor phone calls and text messages from foreign targets... There was an hour of suspense in the Senate Friday morning when it appeared possible that Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, a longtime critic of FISA 702, might block the House-passed extension. But ultimately, he said his House colleagues had assured him "this short-term extension makes reform more likely, and expiration makes reform less likely," and so he chose not to object....

House Republican leaders believed Thursday night they had struck a deal with conservative holdouts who harbor deep and longstanding concerns that a key piece of the law infringes on Americans' privacy rights. But in a pair of after-midnight votes, more than a dozen rank-and-file Republicans rejected the long-term reauthorization plan on the floor, which was the result of days of tense negotiations among leadership, lawmakers and the White House.

The law allows authorized US officials to gather phone calls and text messages of foreign targets, but they can also incidentally collect the data of Americans in the process. Senior national security officials have for years said the law is critical for thwarting terror attacks, stemming the flow of fentanyl into the US and stopping ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure. Civil liberties groups on the left and the right, meanwhile, argue the surveillance authority risks infringing on Americans' privacy.

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Я хотел починить стиральную машину. В итоге пришлось проектировать свой разделительный трансформатор

BotHabr — 2026-04-19 00:35:01

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Опубликовано: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:15:54 GMT
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У меня дома сломалась стиральная машина. Я решил попробовать починить ее сам. Но очень быстро выяснилось, что в России почти невозможно купить новую плату управления, а для диагностики нужен не только осциллограф, но и мощный разделительный трансформатор. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025112/

Выпуск GhostBSD 26.1

robot — 2026-04-19 00:44:03

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Представлен релиз десктоп-ориентированного дистрибутива GhostBSD 26.01, построенного на базе FreeBSD 15 и предлагающего сборки с пользовательскими окружениями Gershwin, MATE и Xfce. По умолчанию в GhostBSD применяется файловая система ZFS. Поддерживается как работа в Live-режиме, так и установка на жесткий диск (используется собственный инсталлятор ginstall, написанный на языке Python). Загрузочные образы сформированы для архитектуры x86_64.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65239

30 WordPress Plugins Turned Into Malware After Ownership Change

robot — 2026-04-18 23:22:01

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Wednesday BleepingComputer reported that more than 30 WordPress plugins "have been compromised with malicious code that allows unauthorized access to websites running them."

A malicious actor planted the backdoor code last year but only recently started pushing it to users via updates, generating spam pages and causing redirects, as per the instructions received from the command-and-control (C2) server. The compromise affects plugins with hundreds of thousands of active installations and was spotted by Austin Ginder, the founder of managed WordPress hosting provider Anchor Hosting, after receiving a tip about one add-on containing code that allowed third-party access.

Further investigation by Ginder revealed that a backdoor had been present in all plugins within the EssentialPlugin package since August 2025, after the project was acquired in a six-figure deal by a new owner.... "The injected code was sophisticated. It fetched spam links, redirects, and fake pages from a command-and-control server. It only showed the spam to Googlebot, making it invisible to site owners," explained Ginder.

"WordPress.org's v2.6.9.1 update neutralized the phone-home mechanism in the plugin," Ginder writes in a blog post. "But it did not touch wp-config.php. The SEO spam injection was still actively serving hidden content to Googlebot.

"And here is the wildest part. It resolved its C2 domain through an Ethereum smart contract, querying public blockchain RPC endpoints. Traditional domain takedowns would not work because the attacker could update the smart contract to point to a new domain at any time."

This has happened before. In 2017, a buyer using the alias "Daley Tias" purchased the Display Widgets plugin (200,000 installs) for $15,000 and injected payday loan spam. That buyer went on to compromise at least 9 plugins the same way.... The WordPress plugin marketplace has a trust problem... The Flippa listing for Essential Plugin was public. The buyer's background in SEO and gambling marketing was public. And yet the acquisition sailed through without any review from WordPress.org.

WordPress.org has no mechanism to flag or review plugin ownership transfers. There is no "change of control" notification to users. No additional code review triggered by a new committer. The Plugins Team responded quickly once the attack was discovered. But 8 months passed between the backdoor being planted and being caught.

Thanks to Slashdot reader axettone for sharing the news.

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Опубликованы VPN WireGuard для Windows и WireGuardNT 1.0

robot — 2026-04-18 23:44:03

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Джейсон Доненфилд (Jason A. Donenfeld), автор VPN WireGuard, представил первый значительный релиз клиентского ПО WireGuard для Windows 1.0, а также драйверов WireGuardNT 1.0 с портом VPN WireGuard для ядра Windows 10 и 11, поддерживающий архитектуры AMD64, x86 и ARM64. Код компонентов для ядра Windows распространяется под лицензией GPLv2, а клиентского ПО под лицензией MIT.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65238

Опубликованы VPN WireGuard для Windows и WireGuardNT 1.0

robot — 2026-04-18 23:44:03

Релиз дистрибутива Solus 4.9

robot — 2026-04-18 23:44:03

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Опубликован релиз Linux-дистрибутива Solus 4.9, не основанного на пакетах других дистрибутивов и развивающего собственный установщик, пакетный менеджер и конфигуратор. Ранее в составе дистрибутива развивался рабочий стол Budgie, но теперь он выделен в независимый проект. Следующую ветку Solus 5 решено развивать на технологиях дистрибутива AerynOS. Код наработок проекта распространяется под лицензией GPLv2, для разработки используются языки Си и Vala. Предоставляются сборки с рабочими столами Budgie, GNOME, KDE Plasma и Xfce. Размер iso-образов 2.6-2.9 ГБ (x86_64).

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65237

Fructose Isn't Just Sugar. It Acts More Like a Hormone

robot — 2026-04-18 22:22:01

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Slashdot reader smazsyr writes: A new review says we've had fructose wrong for decades. The nine authors, led by Richard Johnson at the University of Colorado Anschutz, argue that fructose "is not just another calorie." It is a signal. It tells the liver to make fat and brace for a famine that never comes. That made sense for a bear fattening up on autumn berries. It makes less sense for a person drinking soda in March.

The review reframes the WHO's sugar guideline, argues ScienceBlog.com, as "less a recommendation about calories and more a warning about a signalling molecule we have been dosing ourselves with, several times a day, for most of a century."

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20-Year-Old Enters Prison for Historic Breach, Ransoming of Massive Student Database

robot — 2026-04-18 21:22:01

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20-year-old Matthew Lane sent a text message to ABC News as his parents drove him to federal prison in Connecticut. "I'm just scared," he said, calling the whole situation "extremely sad."

Barely a year earlier, while still a teenager, he helped launch what's been described as the biggest cyberattack in U.S. education history — a data breach that concerned authorities so much, it prompted briefings with senior government officials inside the White House Situation Room. The breach pierced the education technology company PowerSchool — used by 80% of school districts in North America... [and operating in about 90 countries around the world]. With threats to expose social security numbers, dates of birth, family information, grades, and even confidential medical information, the breach cornered PowerSchool into paying millions of dollars in ransom.

"I think I need to go to prison for what I did," Lane told ABC News in an exclusive interview, speaking publicly for the first time about the headline-grabbing heist and his life as a cybercriminal. "It was disgusting, it was greedy, it was rooted in my own insecurities, it was wrong in every aspect," he said in the interview, two days before reporting to prison... At about 6:30 on a Tuesday morning last April, FBI agents started banging on the door of Lane's second-floor dorm room. "FBI! We have a search warrant," Lane recalled them shouting. They seized his devices and many of the luxury items he bought with "dirty" money, as he put it. He said he felt a "wave of relief.... I'm honestly thankful for the FBI," he said. "After they left, I was like, 'It's over ... I'm done with this'..."

A federal judge in Massachusetts sentenced him to four years in federal prison and ordered him to pay more than $14 million in restitution.

"In the wake of the breach, PowerSchool offered two years' worth of credit-monitoring and identity protection services to concerned customer," the article points out. But it also notes two other arrests in September of teenaged cybercriminals:
- A 15-year-old boy in Illinois who allegedly attacked Las Vegas casinos, reportedly costing MGM Resorts alone more than $100 million
- A British national who when he was 16 helped breach over 110 companies around the world and extort $115 million.

But ironically, Lane tells ABC News it all started on Roblox, where he'd met cheaters, password-stealers, and cybercriminals sharing photos of their stacks of money, creating a "sense of camaraderie"
Lane and others warn that online forums also attract criminal groups seeking to recruit potential hackers. "The bad guys are on all the platforms watching the kids playing," Hay said. "And when they see an elite-level performer, they go approach that kid, masquerading as another kid, and they go, 'Hey, you want to earn some [money]? ... Here are the tools, here are the techniques'...."

According to Lane, he spent his "ill-gotten gains" on designer clothes, diamond jewelry, DoorDash deliveries, Airbnb rentals for him and his friends, and drugs — "lots of drugs." He said he would numb ever-present feelings of guilt with drugs — from high-potency marijuana to acid. But it was hacking that gave him the strongest high. "It's indescribable the adrenaline you get when you do something like that," he said. "It's way more than driving 120 miles per hour. ... Incomparable to any drug at all, as well."

"On Monday, Roblox announced that, starting in June, it will offer age-checked accounts for younger users that limit what games they can play, and add 'more closely align content access, communication settings, and parental controls with a user's age.'"

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Can the 'Attention Liberation Movement' Foment a Rebellion Against Screens?

robot — 2026-04-18 21:22:01

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The Associated Press looks at the small-but-growing "rebellion" against attention-hogging devices, citing "a growing body of literature calling for people to move away from screens and pay attention to life."

D. Graham Burnett is a historian of science at Princeton University and one of the authors of " Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement," making him a pillar of the growing backlash against the corporate harvesting of human attention. Along with MS NOW host Chris Hayes' bestselling " The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource," his work is part of a growing body of literature calling for people to move away from screens and pay attention to life. Burnett says the "attention liberation movement" is about throwing off the yoke of time-sucking apps. People "need to rewild their attention. Their attention is the fullness of their relationship to the world"....

There are several dozen "attention activism" groups across the United States and Canada, and the movement has also cropped up in Spain, Italy, Croatia, France and England. Burnett said he expects it to spread further.

Some examples cited in the article:

"More than a dozen millennials gathered in a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn and placed their phones in a metal colander before two hours of reading, drawing and conversation."
A few miles away "Nearly 20 people in their 30s stared at their cellphones for a few minutes. Then they set them down and looked at their bared palms for a while. Then those of their neighbors."
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader destinyland for sharing the article.

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FSF to OnlyOffice: You Can't Use the GNU (A)GPL to Take Software Freedom Away

robot — 2026-04-18 20:22:01

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Nextcloud joined a project to create a sovereign replacement for Microsoft Office called "Euro-Office". But after that project forked OnlyOffice, OnlyOffice suspended its partnership with Nextcloud. "They removed all references to our brand/attribute as required by our license," argued OnlyOffice CEO Lev Bannov on March 30th. ("The core issue here isn't just about what the AGPL license states, but about the additional provisions we, as the authors, have included... If the Euro-Office team believes our approach conflicts with the AGPLv3 license, we invite them to submit an official request to FSF for review.")

But this week the FSF responded (as "the steward of the GNU family of General Public Licenses"), criticizing OnlyOffice's "attempt to impose an additional restriction on the AGPLv3" and calling it "inconsistent with the freedoms granted by the license," in a blog post from FSF licensing/compliance manager Krzysztof Siewicz:

It is possible to modify the (A)GPLv3 with additional terms, but only by adhering to the terms of the license... The (A)GPLv3 makes it clear that it permits all licensees to remove any additional terms that are "further restrictions" under the (A)GPLv3. It states, "[i]f the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term"...

We urge OnlyOffice to clarify the situation by making it unambiguous that OnlyOffice is licensed under the AGPLv3, and that users who already received copies of the software are allowed to remove any further restrictions. Additionally, if they intend to continue to use the AGPLv3 for future releases, they should state clearly that the program is licensed under the AGPLv3 and make sure they remove any further restrictions from their program documentation and source code. Confusing users by attaching further restrictions to any of the FSF's family of GNU General Public Licenses is not in line with free software.

"If FSF determines that our license and project align with AGPLv3, we will continue as an open-source initiative," OnlyOffice's CEO had written in March. "However, if the decision goes against us, we are ready to consider other options."

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US Government Now Wants Anthropic's 'Mythos', Preparing for AI Cybersecurity Threats

robot — 2026-04-18 19:22:01

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Friday Anthropic's CEO met with top U.S. officials and "discussed opportunities for collaboration," according to a White House spokesperson itedd by Politico, "as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling this technology."

CNN notes the meeting happens at the same time Anthropic "battles the Trump administration in court for blacklisting its Claude AI model..."

The meeting took place as the US government is trying to balance its hardline approach to Anthropic with the national security implications of turning its back on the company's breakthrough technology — including its Mythos tool that can identify cybersecurity threats but also present a roadmap for hackers to attack companies or the government... The Office of Management and Budget has already told agencies it is preparing to give them access to Mythos to prepare, Bloomberg reported. Axios reported the White House is also in discussion to gain access to Mythos.

The Trump administration "recognizes the power" of Mythos, reports Axios, "and its highly sophisticated — and potentially dangerous — ability to breach cybersecurity defenses."

"It would be grossly irresponsible for the U.S. government to deprive itself of the technological leaps that the new model presents," a source close to negotiations told us. "It would be a gift to China"... Some parts of the U.S. intelligence community, plus the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA, part of Homeland Security), are testing Mythos. Treasury and others want it.

The White House added they plan to invite other AI companies for similar discussions, Politico reports. But Mythos "is also alarming regulators in Europe, who have told POLITICO they have not been able to gain access..."

U.S. government agency tech leaders sought access to the model after Anthropic earlier this year began testing the model and granted limited access to a select group of companies, including JPMorgan, Amazon and Apple... after finding it had hacking capabilities far outstripping those of previous AI models. This includes the ability to autonomously identify and exploit complex software vulnerabilities, such as so-called zero-day flaws, which even some of the sharpest human minds are unable to patch. The AI startup also wrote that the model could carry out end-to-end cyberattacks autonomously, including by navigating enterprise IT systems and chaining together exploits. It could also act as a force-multiplier for research needed to build chemical and biological weapons, and in certain instances, made efforts to cover its tracks when attacking systems, according to Anthropic's report on the model's capabilities and its safety assessments.

Those findings and others have inspired fears that the model could be co-opted to launch powerful cyberattacks with relative ease if it fell into the wrong hands. Logan Graham, a senior security researcher at Anthropic, previously told POLITICO that researchers and tech firms had been given early access to Mythos so they could find flaws in their critical code before state-backed hackers or cybercriminals could exploit them. "Within six, 12 or 24 months, these kinds of capabilities could be just broadly available to everybody in the world," Graham said.

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Time-management платформа Cal.com переходит на закрытую модель разработки

robot — 2026-04-18 18:44:04

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14 апреля 2026 года компания объявила, что Cal.com уходит в closed source. 15 апреля это было закреплено и в changelog v6.4: открытая часть проекта перезапускается под именем Cal.diy, а код коммерческой редакции Cal.com больше не будет публиковаться. При этом команда подчёркивает, что раньше коммерческая часть была не fully open source, а source-available; теперь она становится уже просто закрытой.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/proprietary/18269392#cut ) )

Разработчики Linux Mint объявили о переходе на более длинный цикл разработки

robot — 2026-04-18 18:44:04

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Разработчики Linux Mint объявили о переходе на более длинный цикл разработки. Следующий крупный релиз, Linux Mint 23, теперь ожидается лишь к концу 2026 года, а сам проект намерен отказаться от прежнего более частого ритма выпусков, чтобы уделять больше времени не тестированию и упаковке релизов, а собственно разработке новых возможностей.

Одновременно в проекте сообщили ещё об одном заметном изменении: Linux Mint собирается использовать тот же установщик, что и LMDE, то есть live-installer. При этом окончательная схема будущих выпусков пока не утверждена — команда ещё решает, каким именно будет новый цикл, сохранятся ли промежуточные версии и появятся ли альфа-релизы.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/linux-general/18269394

В состав ядра 7.1 принят новый драйвер NTFS

robot — 2026-04-18 18:44:04

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Линус Торвальдс принял в состав ядра Linux 7.1, релиз которого ожидается в середине июня, набор изменений с новой реализацией драйвера для файловой системы NTFS. Новый драйвер включён под именем «ntfs», которое ранее использовалось для удалённого из ядра старого драйвера, работавшего в режиме только для чтения. До сих пор основным NTFS-драйвером в ядре оставался ntfs3, добавленный несколько лет назад компанией Paragon Software.

Новая реализация подготовлена разработчиком ядра Намджэ Чжоном (Namjae Jeon), ранее участвовавшим в развитии exFAT, KSMBD и других подсистем. Работа над драйвером велась около четырёх лет и представляет собой переработку исходного NTFS-драйвера ядра с более чистой кодовой базой, в которую добавлены поддержка записи, более современные возможности и улучшенная интеграция с актуальными механизмами ядра Linux.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/kernel/18269518#cut ) )

В KDE добавлена поддержка восстановления сеансов при использовании Wayland

robot — 2026-04-18 16:44:03

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Опубликован очередной еженедельный отчёт о разработке KDE, в котором представлены изменения для ветки KDE Plasma 6.7, релиз которой ожидается в июне. Среди недавно внесённых изменений.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65236

Управление фазой аппаратного PWM сигнала на STM32

BotHabr — 2026-04-18 16:35:02

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Опубликовано: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:13:47 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр

На микроконтроллерах STM32 можно генерировать аппаратные PWM сигналы. Это всегда применяют для регулирования яркости свечения, управления температурой нагревателей, управления крутящим моментом на моторах. При этом легко можно регулировать частоту, заполнение и инвертировать фазу меняя полярность. Однако как непрерывно регулировать фазу PWM?. В этом тексте я написал три способа управлять фазой PWM сигнала. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1023940/

Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies

robot — 2026-04-18 15:22:02

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Some failed startups are reportedly selling old Slack messages, emails, and other internal records to AI companies as training data, creating a new way to cash out after shutting down. Fast Company reports: Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and Jira ticket as training data for "hundreds of thousands of dollars."

This isn't a one-off scenario. SimpleClosure, a startup that helps companies like Cielo24 shut down, told Forbes that there's been major interest from AI companies trying to get their hands on workplace data. Because of this, SimpleClosure launched a new tool that allows companies to sell their wealth of internal communications -- from Slack archives to email chains -- to AI labs. The company said it's processed 100 such deals in the past year. Payouts ranged from $10,000 to $100,000. "I think the privacy issues here are quite substantial," Marc Rotenberg, founder of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, told Forbes. "Employee privacy remains a key concern, particularly because people have become so dependent on these new internal messaging tools like Slack. ... It's not generic data. It's identifiable people."

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Дружба Linux и Windows, или как поиграться с ИИ-моделями на втором компьютере без видеокарты

BotHabr — 2026-04-18 14:35:01

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Опубликовано: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:15:54 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

Работаете под Windows? Есть лишний компьютер? Нет видеокарты, но хотите сами запускать ИИ-модели? Тогда делаем как на картинке, по шагам.]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1024950/

Доступены Wine 11.7, Wine-staging 11.7 и бета-версия Proton 11.0

robot — 2026-04-18 13:44:02

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Опубликован экспериментальный выпуск открытой реализации Win32 API - Wine 11.7. С момента выпуска 11.6 было закрыто 35 отчётов об ошибках и внесено 311 изменений.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65234

Юбилей легенды

BotHabr — 2026-04-18 13:35:01

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Опубликовано: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:01:40 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

Сегодня, в Международный день радиолюбителя, я хотел бы вернуться к теме легендарного радиолюбительского трансивера «Радио-76». Тем более, в этом году исполняется ровно пятьдесят лет со дня публикации его конструкции. Трансивер разрабатывался в лаборатории журнала «Радио» с целью создать простую любительскую радиостанцию с хорошей повторяемостью. И это разработчикам трансивера Б. Степанову (UW3AX) и Г. Шульгину (UA3ACM) удалось. Есть, конечно, у «Радио-76» недостатки, но у многих начинающих радиолюбителей и у меня тоже именно он был первым трансивером в собственности, поэтому дальше — только с любовью и нежностью. Читать с любовью]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/1016910/

Как я собрал себе C2 на малинке за один вечер

BotHabr — 2026-04-18 12:35:03

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Опубликовано: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:02:27 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Raspberry Pi / Хабр

Давно хотел поднять свой C2-сервер. Ну, чтобы как большие мальчики с доменом, прокси, шифрованным туннелем. Но покупать VPS с 8GB RAM и платить за Cobalt Strike как‑то жирновато. Решил: будет малинка.ВНИМАНИЕ: Эта статья предназначена для ознакомления начинающим исследователям в области Кибербезопасности. Я не предоставляю инструкций по атакам на инфраструктуру. Я не буду тут показывать как обходить защиту windows и какие либо системы обнаружения угроз. Перед загрузкой вредоносного файла я отключил защиту в windows. Такая атака не сработает в боевых условиях это лишь материал для начального ознакомления! Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1024918/

NASA Restarts Work To Support Europe's Uncrewed Trip To Mars After Years of Setbacks

robot — 2026-04-18 11:22:01

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NASA has revived support for the European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover mission. According to the space agency, the current plan is to launch via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy no earlier than 2028. Engadget reports: This is a partnership between NASA and the ESA, with the European agency providing the rover, the spacecraft and the lander. The US will provide braking engines for the lander, heater units for the rover's internal systems and, of course, assistance with the actual launch.

The rover will be outfitted with scientific instruments to look for signs of ancient life on the red planet. These include a state-of-the-art mass spectrometer and an organic molecule analyzer, which will come in handy as the vehicle collects samples at the Oxia Planum landing site. The mission has been stuck in development limbo since 2001, with delays caused by budget problems, technical issues, shifting international partners, and geopolitical fallout. After NASA dropped out, Russia stepped in, then was cut loose after invading Ukraine, and now -- despite NASA rejoining in 2024 and fresh political budget threats -- the rover is tentatively back on track for a 2028 launch.

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STATS 2026-04-17

root — 2026-04-18 11:11:02

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В состав ядра Linux 7.1 принят новый драйвер для NTFS

robot — 2026-04-18 10:44:03

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Линус Торвальдс принял в состав ядра Linux 7.1, релиз которого ожидается в середине июня, набор патчей с новой реализацией файловой системы NTFS, развивавшейся под именем ntfsplus. Новый драйвер включён под именем "ntfs", которое ранее использовалось для удалённого из ядра старого драйвера, работавшего в режиме только для чтения. Драйвер ntfsplus разработал Намджэ Чон (Namjae Jeon), участник проекта Samba, сопровождающий драйвер EXFAT и сервер KSMBD в ядре Linux.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65233

Critical Atlantic Current Significantly More Likely To Collapse Than Thought

robot — 2026-04-18 08:22:02

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic. Scientists called the new finding "very concerning" as a collapse would have catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa and the Americas. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a major part of the global climate system and was already known to be at its weakest for 1,600 years as a result of the climate crisis. Scientists spotted warning signs of a tipping point in 2021 and know that the Amoc has collapsed in the Earth's past.

Climate scientists use dozens of different computer models to assess the future climate. However, for the complex Amoc system, these produce widely varying results, ranging from some that indicate no further slowdown by 2100 to those suggesting a huge deceleration of about 65%, even when carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning are gradually cut to net zero. The research combined real-world ocean observations with the models to determine the most reliable, and this hugely reduced the spread of uncertainty. They found an estimated slowdown of 42% to 58% in 2100, a level almost certain to end in collapse.

The Amoc is a major part of the global climate system and brings sun-warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. A collapse would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50-100cm to already rising sea levels around the Atlantic. The slowdown has to do with the Arctic's rapidly rising temperatures from global warming. "Warmer water is less dense and therefore sinks into the depths more slowly," explains the Guardian. "This slowing allows more rainfall to accumulate in the salty surface waters, also making it less dense, and further slowing the sinking and forming an Amoc feedback loop."

The new research has been published in the journal Science Advances.

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Online Personalities and Comedians Overtake TV and Newspapers as Primary News Sources

robot — 2026-04-18 03:22:01

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A new Ipsos poll finds Americans are increasingly getting news from online personalities and comedians instead of traditional TV or newspapers. The survey says nearly 70% get news online in a given week, versus 55% from TV and 25% from newspapers, with figures like Joe Rogan, Greg Gutfeld, Sean Hannity, and late-night hosts ranking prominently depending on political leanings. From the Hollywood Reporter: The poll, which was conducted in March, actually found the conservative politicians and cabinet members, including President Trump, were the top news influencers. When politicos were excluded, Joe Rogan led the list, followed by Fox News personalities Greg Gutfeld and Sean Hannity, and then TuckerCarlson and Ben Shapiro. The only three influencers to crack 10 percent were Trump, Rogan, and JD Vance. Among people who voted for Kamala Harris, the top news personalities were late night hosts, led by ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, followed by CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert, and Daily Show host Jon Stewart.

Just under 70 percent of respondents said they get their news online in a given week, compared to 55 percent for TV, and 25 percent for newspapers. [...] Of traditional media outlets, TV dominated, with Fox News, the broadcast networks, and CNN topping the list of sources. Facebook, YouTube and Instagram were the most popular online news sources. "On these platforms opinionated personalities and comedians appear to drown out anyone who would fit in the traditional journalist category," said assistant professor of practice and Jordan Center Executive Director Steven L Herman. "Even in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries, sensationalist and polarizing voices in print and later on air were among the most influential in the political landscape -- such as political satirist Mark Twain and populist Father Charles Coughlin."

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