An anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian:

The number of deaths linked to superbugs that do not respond to frontline antibiotics increased by 17% in England last year, according to official figures that raise concerns about the ongoing increase in antimicrobial resistance.

The figures, released by the UK Health Security Agency, also revealed a large rise in private prescriptions for antibiotics, with 22% dispensed through the private sector in 2024. The increase in private prescribing is partly explained by the Pharmacy First scheme, a flagship policy of Rishi Sunak's government that allows patients to be prescribed antibiotics for common illnesses without seeing a GP, raising questions about whether the shift in prescribing patterns risks contributing to the rise in resistance.
"Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest health threats we face," said the UKHSA's chief executive, Prof Susan Hopkins. "More people than ever are acquiring infections that cannot be effectively treated by antibiotics. This puts them at greater risk of serious illness and even death, with our poorest communities hit the hardest... It's positive that we've seen antibiotic use fall in England within the NHS but we need to go further, faster," said Hopkins.
"Please remember to only take antibiotics if you have been told to do so by a healthcare professional. Do not save some for later or share them with friends and family. If you have leftover antibiotics, please bring them to a pharmacy for appropriate disposal."

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From the Business Standard:

Apple has accelerated its succession plans as the company prepares for Chief Executive Tim Cook to potentially step down as early as next year, Financial Times reported. Apple's board and senior leaders have recently increased their focus on a smooth leadership transition after Cook's more than 14 years at the helm of the $4 trillion tech giant, the news report said.

John Ternus, senior Vice-President of hardware engineering, is seen by many inside Apple as the top contender to become the next CEO. However, no final decision has been made yet. The leadership shift has been in the works for years and is not connected to its present performance, the news report said. Apple expects a strong year-end sales season, especially for the iPhone... Cook, who turned 65 this month, became Apple's CEO in 2011 after the passing of co-founder Steve Jobs. Under his leadership, Apple's market value has grown from around $350 billion in 2011 to $4 trillion today. Apple's stock is near a record high following strong results last month.

Apple "is unlikely to introduce a new CEO before its earnings report in late January, which covers the crucial holiday quarter," the article points out. "An early-year announcement would allow the next leadership team time to settle before Apple's major annual events — the Worldwide Developers Conference in June and the iPhone launch in September..."

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli points out that top-contender
Ternus "is deeply technical and has been central to Apple Silicon and the hardware comeback in the Mac line."

If Apple elevates him, that would be an unmistakable signal that the board wants a return to stronger, more grounded hardware leadership. The company may finally realize that accessories aren't enough to keep Apple fans excited, and that expensive experiments are not a substitute for devices people can actually use and afford... Financial success can only hide hardware misfires for so long. Apple needs a leader who can reconnect the company with its reputation for creating devices people can't live without, not ones people return or ignore.

Tech blogger John Gruber "absolutely loves" the idea of Cook's successor "being a product person like Ternus, and Ternus is young enoughâ — â50, the same age Cook was in 2011 when he took the reins from Steve Jobsâ — âto hold the job for a long stretch."

Ternus took over iPhone hardware engineering in 2020, and was promoted to senior vice president of hardware engineering in January 2021, when Dan Riccio stepped aside. Apple's hardware, across all product lines and including silicon, has been exemplary under Ternus's leadership. And Ternus clearly loves and understands the Mac. I would also bet that Cook moves into the role of executive chairman, and will still play a significant, if not leading, role for the company.

And Gruber makes another observation about that Financial Times article.
"That 'several people' spoke to the FT about this says to me that those sources (members of the board?) did so with Cook's blessing, and they want this announcement to be no more than a little surprising."

[ Read more of this story ]( https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/11/16/228215/apple-speeds-planning-for-replacing-ceo-tim-cook-next-year?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:

[T]he computing power of crypto mining generates a lot of
heat, most which just ends up vented into the air. According to
digital assets brokerage, K33, the bitcoin mining industry generates about 100 TWh of heat annually — enough to heat all of
Finland.This energy waste within a very energy-intense
industry is leading entrepreneurs to look for ways to repurpose
the heat for homes, offices, or other locations, especially in colder
weather months.

During a frigid snap earlier this year, The
New York Times reviewed HeatTrio, a $900 space heater that also
doubles as a bitcoin mining rig. Others use the heat from their own
in-home cryptocurrency mining to spread warmth throughout their
house. "I've seen bitcoin rigs running quietly in attics, with
the heat they generate rerouted through the home's ventilation
system to offset heating costs. It's a clever use of what would
otherwise be wasted energy," said Jill Ford, CEO of Bitford
Digital, a sustainable bitcoin mining company based in Dallas...
"Same price as heating the house, but the perk is that you are
mining bitcoin," Ford said...

The crypto-heated future may be unfolding in the town of Challis,
Idaho, where Cade Peterson's company, Softwarm, is repurposing
bitcoin heat to ward off the winter. Several shops and businesses in
town are experimenting with Softwarm's rigs to mine and heat. At TC
Car, Truck and RV Wash, Peterson says, the owner was spending $25 a
day to heat his wash bays to melt snow and warm up the water.
"Traditional heaters would consume energy with no returns. They
installed bitcoin miners and it produces more money in bitcoin than
it costs to run," Peterson said. Meanwhile, an industrial concrete
company is offsetting its $1,000 a month bill to heat its
2,500-gallon water tank by heating it with bitcoin. Peterson has
heated his own home for two-and-a-half years using bitcoin mining
equipment and believes that heat will power almost everything in the
future. "You will go to Home Depot in a few years and buy a water
heater with a data port on it and your water will be heated with
bitcoin," Peterson said.

Derek Mohr, clinical associate professor at the University of
Rochester Simon School of Business, remains skeptical.

Bitcoin mining is so specialized now that a home computer, or even
network of home computers, would have almost zero chance of being
helpful in mining a block of bitcoin, according to Mohr, with mining
farms use of specialized chips that are created to mine bitcoin much
faster than a home computer... "The bitcoin heat devices I have
seen appear to be simple space heaters that use your own electricity
to heat the room..."

CNBC also spoke to Andrew Sobko, founder of Argentum AI (which is
building a marketplace for sharing computing power), who says the
idea makes the most sense in larger settings. "We're working
with partners who are already redirecting compute heat into building
heating systems and even agricultural greenhouse warming. That's
where the economics and environmental benefits make real sense.
Instead of trying to move the heat physically, you move the compute
closer to where that heat provides value."

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Android's security team published a blog post this week about their experience using Rust. Its title? "Move fast and fix things."

Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yields durable and compounding gains. This year we look at how this approach isn't just fixing things, but helping us move faster.

The 2025 data continues to validate the approach, with memory safety vulnerabilities falling below 20% of total vulnerabilities for the first time. We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android's C and C++ code. But the biggest surprise was Rust's impact on software delivery. With Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one... Data shows that Rust code requires fewer revisions. This trend has been consistent since 2023. Rust changes of a similar size need about 20% fewer revisions than their C++ counterparts... In a self-reported survey from 2022, Google software engineers reported that Rust is both easier to review and more likely to be correct. The hard data on rollback rates and review times validates those impressions.

Historically, security improvements often came at a cost. More security meant more process, slower performance, or delayed features, forcing trade-offs between security and other product goals. The shift to Rust is different: we are significantly improving security and key development efficiency and product stability metrics.

With Rust support now mature for building Android system services and libraries, we are focused on bringing its security and productivity advantages elsewhere. Android's 6.12 Linux kernel is our first kernel with Rust support enabled and our first production Rust driver. More exciting projects are underway, such as our ongoing collaboration with Arm and Collabora on a Rust-based kernel-mode GPU driver. [They've also been deploying Rust in firmware for years, and Rust "is ensuring memory safety from the ground up in several security-critical Google applications," including Chromium's parsers for PNG, JSON, and web fonts.]

2025 was the first year more lines of Rust code were added to Android than lines of C++ code...

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"Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation's space station Friday," reports the Associated Press, "after more than a week's delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from being hit by space debris."

The team left their Shenzhou-20 spacecraft in orbit and came back using the recently arrived Shenzhou-21, which had ferried a three-person replacement crew to the station, China's Manned Space Agency said.
The original return plan was scrapped because a window in the Shenzhou-20 capsule had tiny cracks, most likely caused by impact from space debris, the space agency said Friday... Their return was delayed for nine days, and their 204-day stay in space was the longest for any astronaut at China's space station...

China developed the Tiangong space station after the country was excluded from the International Space Station over U.S. national security concerns. China's space program is controlled by its military.

[ Read more of this story ]( https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/17/0135228/chinese-astronauts-return-from-their-space-station-after-delay-blamed-on-space-debris-damage?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

"Windows is evolving into an agentic OS," Microsoft's president of Windows Pavan Davuluri posted on X.com, "connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere."

But former Uber software engineer and engineering manager Gergely Orosz was unimpressed. "Can't see any reason for software engineers to choose Windows with this weird direction they are doubling down on. So odd because Microsoft has building dev tools in their DNA... their OS doesn't look like anything a builder who wants OS control could choose. Mac or Linux it is for devs."

Davuluri "has since disabled replies on his original post..." notes the blog Windows Central, "which some people viewed as an attempt to shut out negative feedback." But he also replied to that comment...

Davuluri says "we care deeply about developers. We know we have work to do on the experience, both on the everyday usability, from inconsistent dialogs to power user experiences. When we meet as a team, we discuss these pain points and others in detail, because we want developers to choose Windows..." The good news is Davuluri has confirmed that Microsoft is listening, and is aware of the backlash it's receiving over the company's obsession with AI in Windows 11. That doesn't mean the company is going to stop with adding AI to Windows, but it does mean we can also expect Microsoft to focus on the other things that matter too, such as stability and power user enhancements.

Elsewhere on X.com, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared his own thoughts on "the net benefit of the AI platform wave ." The Times of India reports:

Nadella said tech companies should focus on building AI systems that create more value for the people and businesses using them, not just for the companies that make the technology. He cited Bill Gates to emphasize the same: "A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it exceeds the value of the company that creates it."Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to Nadella's post with a facepalm emoji.

Nadella said this idea matters even more during the current AI boom, where many firms risk giving away too much of their own value to big tech platforms. "The real question is how to empower every company out there to build their own AI-native capabilities," he wrote. Nadella says Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI is an example of zero-sum mindset industry... [He also cited Microsoft's "work to bring AMD into the fleet."]

More from Satya Nadella's post:

Thanks to AI, the [coding] category itself has expanded and may ultimately become one of the largest software categories. I don't ever recall any analyst ever asking me about how much revenue Visual Studio makes! But now everyone is excited about AI coding tools. This is another aspect of positive sum, when the category itself is redefined and the pie becomes 10x what it was! With GitHub Copilot we compete for our share and with GitHub and Agent HQ we also provide a platform for others.

Of course, the real test of this era won't be when another tech company breaks a valuation record. It will be when the overall economy and society themselves reach new heights. When a pharma company uses AI in silico to bring a new therapy to market in one year instead of twelve. When a manufacturer uses AI to redesign a supply chain overnight. When a teacher personalizes lessons for every student. When a farmer predicts and prevents crop failure.That's when we'll know the system is working.

Let us move beyond zero-sum thinking and the winner-take-all hype and focus instead on building broad capabilities that harness the power of this technology to achieve local success in each firm, which then leads to broad economic growth and societal benefits.
And every firm needs to make sure they have control of their own destiny and sovereignty vs just a press release with a Tech/AI company or worse leak all their value through what may seem like a partnership, except it's extractive in terms of value exchange in the long run.

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Опубликовано: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:30:07 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

Я поставил ИИ на службу своему времени. Вместо бесконечного скроллинга и сотен открытых вкладок мой личный дайджест сам приходит ко мне в Telegram. Всё, что для этого нужно — n8n, GigaChat и готовый пайплайн, который я разобрал в статье. Экономьте часы в неделю, доверив рутину low code алгоритму. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/966928/

Опубликован проект IDEmacs, нацеленный на создание конфигураций текстового редактора Emacs, по оформлению, клавиатурным комбинациям и стилю работы приближенных к популярным графическим редакторам кода и интегрированным средам разработки. Первым опубликован набор компонентов для эмуляции редактора кода VSCode (Visual Studio Code). Похожее на VSCode окружение воссоздано при помощи настроек, темы оформления и плагинов, таких как боковая панель для навигации по файлам Treemacs и панель вкладок Centaur Tabs, а также около 20 пакетов для изменения поведения и реализации расширенной функциональности в Emacs. Наработки проекта распространяются как общественное достояние.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64263

Да и в самом ii/idec не так активно, лишь иногда бывают всплески, но это погрешности

"To be clear, the current economics of space-based data centers don't make sense," writes the Wall Street Journal.

"But they could in the future, perhaps as soon as a decade or so from now, according to an analysis by Phil Metzger, a research professor at the University of Central Florida and formerly of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration."

"Space enthusiasts (comme moi) have long sought a business case to enable human migration beyond our home world," he posted on X amid the new hype. "I think AI servers in space is the first real business case that will lead to many more...."

The argument essentially boils down to the belief that AI's needs are eventually going to grow so great that we need to move to outer space. There the sun's power can be more efficiently harvested. In space, the sun's rays can be direct and constant for solar panels to collect — no clouds, no rainstorms, no nighttime. Demands for cooling could also be cut because of the vacuum of space. Plus, there aren't those pesky regulations that executives like to complain about, slowing construction of new power plants to meet the data-center needs. In space, no one can hear the Nimbys scream.
"We will be able to beat the cost of terrestrial data centers in space in the next couple of decades," Bezos said at a tech conference last month. "Space will end up being one of the places that keeps making Earth better."

It's still early days. At Alphabet, Google's plans sound almost conservative. The search-engine company in recent days announced Project Suncatcher, which it describes as a moonshot project to scale machine learning in space. It plans to launch two prototype satellites by early 2027 to test its hardware in orbit. "Like any moonshot, it's going to require us to solve a lot of complex engineering challenges," Pichai posted on social media. Nvidia, too, has announced a partnership with startup Starcloud to work on space-based data centers. Not to be outdone, Elon Musk has been painting his own updated vision for the heavens... in recent weeks he has been talking more about how he can use his spaceships to deploy new versions of his solar-powered Starlink satellites equipped with high-speed lasers to build out in-space data centers.

On Friday, Musk further reiterated how those AI satellites would be able to generate 100 gigawatts of annual solar power — or, what he said, would be roughly a quarter of what the U.S. consumes on average in a year. "We have a plan mapped out to do it," he told investor Ron Baron during an event. "It gets crazy." Previously, he has suggested he was four to five years away from that ability. He's also touted even wilder ideas, saying on X that 100 terawatts a year "is possible from a lunar base producing solar-powered AI satellites locally and accelerating them to escape velocity with a mass driver." Simply put, he's suggesting a moon base will crank out satellites and throw them into orbit with a catapult. And those satellites' solar panels would generate 100,000 gigawatts a year. "I think we'll see intelligence continue to scale all the way up to where...most of the power of the sun is harnessed for compute," Musk told a tech conference in September.

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Серво – экспериментальный веб-движок на языке Rust.
Так как проект находится в зачаточной стадии разработки,
то адекватного ченджлога нет, но основные изменения можно посмотреть [ тут ]( https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-October-2025 ) .

В данном выпуске появился servoshell – это демо-браузер,
запускаемый и конфигурируемый из командной строки.
Для его сборки требуется rustc-1.88 (отсутствует в
убунту старше 25.10) и [ набор библиотек X11 ]( https://book.servo.org/running-servoshell.html )
(последнее, вероятно, можно считать косвенным свидетельством отсутствия поддержки Wayland).

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/mozilla/18145020

Опубликовано: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:05:35 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр

Статья о небольшой эпопее с поиском ошибки в работе WiFi на плате ESP32-C3 SuperMini, с которой пришлось разбираться в процессе отладки кода прошивки для контроллера батареи АКБ (О контроллере батареи ИБП (вопрос к читателям Хабра) и О контроллере батареи ИБП (часть 2)).Симптоматика проблемы с WiFi следующая: после включения питания и начала авторизации по WiFi плата ESP32-C3 SuperMini через какое-то время зависает, вплоть до срабатывания сторожевого таймера. Поиск решения проблемы в интернете не помог, но было замечено, что в эти моменты на плате очень сильно нагревается стабилизатор напряжения 3.3V, да так, что даже рука не терпит, тогда как при работе тестовых примеров (где WiFi работает нормально) такого эффекта не наблюдается.Из-за этого решил копать именно в этом направлении. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/beget/articles/956868/

Опубликовано: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:05:51 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Робототехника / Хабр

Сегодня достаточно скачать с GitHub-a открытый стек автопилота, прикрутить пару камер или лидаров с AliExpress к небольшой электрической платформе, прокатить ее по парковке — и проект уже называют «автономным». Но заставить машину без водителя в реальных условиях выполнять задачи бизнеса, например, перевозить тонны груза в -30 °C и +50 °C, и, при этом, зарабатывать деньги — это совсем другая лига, где сходят с дистанции даже стартапы с сотнями миллионов долларов инвестиций. Я — Дмитрий Куликов, последние 2,5 года руковожу разработкой ПО в Evocargo. Мы с нуля разрабатываем, проектируем, производим и внедряем автономные электрогрузовики максимально высокого на сегодня серийно-эксплуатируемого уровня автономности. Уже 5 лет они работают на десятках коммерческих объектов по всей России. Как пробиться в лигу успешных проектов в автономном вождении, как мы приняли решение строить собственную платформу и почему Маск всё ещё не прав — расскажу в этой статье. К сказу...]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/evocargo_it/articles/967066/

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Опубликован релиз дистрибутива OmniOS Community Edition r151056, основанного на наработках проекта Illumos, продолжающего развитие ядра, сетевого стека, файловых систем, драйверов, библиотек и базового набора системных утилит OpenSolaris. OmniOS примечателен предоставлением поддержки гипервизоров bhyve и KVM, виртуального сетевого стека Crossbow, файловой системы ZFS и средств запуска легковесных Linux-контейнеров. Дистрибутив может применяться для построения масштабируемых web-систем, виртуализации и создания систем хранения.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64265

655"Just a little more than a month after reaching an all-time high, Bitcoin has erased the more than 30% gain registered since the start of the year..." reports Bloomberg:

The dominant cryptocurrency fell below US$93,714 on Sunday, pushing the price beneath the closing level reached at the end of last year, when financial markets were rallying following President Donald Trump's election victory. Bitcoin soared to a record US$126,251 on Oct 6, only to begin tumbling four days later after unexpected comments on tariffs by Trump sent markets into a tailspin worldwide. "The general market is risk-off," said Matthew Hougan, the San Francisco-based chief investment officer for Bitwise Asset Management. "Crypto was the canary in the coal mine for that, it was the first to flinch."

Over the past month, many of the biggest buyers — from exchange-traded fund allocators to corporate treasuries — have quietly stepped back, depriving the market of the flow-driven support that helped propel the token to records earlier this year. For much of the year, institutions were the backbone of Bitcoin's legitimacy and its price. ETFs as a cohort took in more than US$25 billion, according to Bloomberg data, pushing assets as high as roughly US$169 billion. Their steady allocation flows helped reframe the asset as a portfolio diversifier — a hedge against inflation, monetary debasement and political disarray. But that narrative — always tenuous — is fraying afresh, leaving the market exposed to something quieter but no less destabilising: disengagement. "The selloff is a confluence of profit-taking by LTHs, institutional outflows, macro uncertainty, and leveraged longs getting wiped out," said Jake Kennis, senior research analyst at Nansen. "What is clear is that the market has temporarily chosen a downward direction after a long period of consolidation/ranging..."

Boom and bust cycles have been a constant since Bitcoin burst into the mainstream consciousness with a more than 13,000% surge in 2017, only to be followed by a plunge of almost 75% the following year... Bitcoin has whipsawed investors through the year, dropping to as low as US$74,400 in April as Trump unveiled his tariffs, before rebounding to record highs ahead of the latest retreat... The market downturn has been even tougher on smaller, less liquid tokens that traders often gravitate toward because of their higher volatility and typical outperformance during rallies. A MarketVector index tracking the bottom half of the largest 100 digital assets is down around 60% this year.

[ Read more of this story ]( https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/17/024220/bitcoin-erases-years-gain-as-crypto-bear-market-deepens?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

Опубликовано: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:01:36 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Assembler / Хабр

Любительские радиостанции — интересный способ знакомства с работой радиоспектра; что ещё более важно, это встроенные устройства, на которых могут быть установлены странные чипы/прошивки! Мне стало любопытно, насколько просто взломать мою Yaesu FT-70D, поэтому я приступил к расследованию. Единственный ресурс по радиостанциям Yaesu — это пост на Reddit о кастомной прошивке для Yaesu FT1DR.Пользователь Reddit написал, что если выполнить процесс обновления прошивки через USB, то радиостанция раскрывает микроконтроллер Renesas H8SX, флэш-память которого можно изменить при помощи Renesas SDK. Отличное многообещающее начало, но SDK было не так легко настроить, а я не был даже уверен, сможет ли он сдампить прошивку... поэтому долгое время не брался за него. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/966464/

Linux kernel maintainers "are grappling with how to integrate AI-generated contributions without compromising the project's integrity," reports WebProNews:

The latest push comes from a proposal by Sasha Levin, a prominent kernel developer at NVIDIA, who has outlined guidelines for tool-generated submissions. Posted to the kernel mailing list, these guidelines aim to standardize how AI-assisted patches are handled. According to Phoronix, the v3 iteration of the proposal [posted by Intel engineer Dave Hansen] emphasizes transparency and accountability, requiring developers to disclose AI involvement in their contributions. This move reflects broader industry concerns about the quality and copyright implications of machine-generated code.

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, has weighed in on the debate, advocating for treating AI tools no differently than traditional coding aids. As reported by heise online, Torvalds sees no need for special copyright treatment for AI contributions, stating that they should be viewed as extensions of the developer's work. This perspective aligns with the kernel's pragmatic approach to innovation. The proposal, initially put forward by Levin in July 2025, includes a 'Co-developed-by' tag for AI-assisted patches, ensuring credit and traceability. OSTechNix details how tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude are specifically addressed, with configurations to guide their use in kernel development... ZDNET warns that without official policy, AI could 'creep' into the kernel and cause chaos...

The New Stack provides insight into how AI is already assisting kernel maintainers with mundane tasks. According to The New Stack, large language models (LLMs) are being used like 'novice interns' for drudgery work, freeing up experienced developers for complex problems... The Linux kernel's approach could set precedents for other open-source projects. With AI integration accelerating, projects like those in the Linux Foundation are watching closely... Recent kernel releases, such as 6.17.7, include performance improvements that indirectly support AI applications, as noted in Linux Compatible.

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Jeff Bezos has founded an AI startup called Project Prometheus and will serve as its co-chief executive. This is his first formal operational role since stepping down as chief executive of Amazon in July 2021. The company has raised $6.2 billion in funding, The New York Times reports, partly from Bezos. The funding makes Project Prometheus one of the most well-financed early-stage startups in the world.

Bezos's co-founder and co-chief executive is Vik Bajaj, a physicist and chemist who worked closely with Google co-founder Sergey Brin at Google X. Dr. Bajaj was among the founders of Verily in 2015 and co-founded Foresite Labs in 2018. He recently left that position to focus on Project Prometheus. The company is focusing on AI for engineering and manufacturing in computers, aerospace, and automobiles. The startup has already hired nearly 100 employees, the report said. Researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta are among the hires. Project Prometheus is building AI systems that learn from physical experiments rather than just analyzing digital text.

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Представлен проект Marathon OS, развивающий дистрибутив Linux для мобильных устройств, сочетающий наработки из дистрибутива PostmarketOS с графической оболочкой Marathon Shell. Пользовательское окружение написано с использованием Qt и QML, и базируется на собственном композитном сервере, использующем протокол Wayland и воссоздающем модель управления жестами в стиле операционной системы BlackBerry 10. Код проекта написан на языках C++ и QML, и распространяется под лицензией MIT.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64269

An anonymous reader shares a report: Elementary-school students would have to learn how to write in cursive, under a bill set to be vetted by a House committee next week. Sen. Erin Grall, R-Vero Beach, filed a similar proposal (SB 444) on Monday. The House Student Academic Success Subcommittee is set to review the measure (HB 127) on Nov. 18.

Sponsored by Rep. Toby Overdorf, R-Palm City, the bill would require cursive instruction in second through fifth grades. The proposal, filed for consideration for the legislative session that begins Jan. 13, also would require students to demonstrate proficiency in cursive by the end of fifth grade.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he's uneasy about how much power a handful of tech leaders -- including himself -- have over the future of artificial intelligence. From a report: "I think I'm deeply uncomfortable with these decisions being made by a few companies, by a few people," Amodei told Anderson Cooper in a "60 Minutes" episode that aired Sunday. "Like who elected you and Sam Altman?" asked Anderson. "No one. Honestly, no one," Amodei replied.

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Я живу в небольшом зеленом городе Пензенской области, в котором благодаря инженерам-выходцам из градообразующего завода работает несколько десятков производств. Разработчики систем охраны, завод коммунальных машин, мебельные фабрики, изготовители технологического оборудования для мойки деталей и вакуумных прессов и другие. Основное, с чем ассоциируется город у всех, кто в нем побывал - это чистота и уют. Это заслуга в том числе, местных предприятий. В силу своей профессии я был практически во всех цехах городских компаний и знаком с конструкторами и главными инженерами.В статье поделюсь с вами историей моего земляка Артема Юнкина, который сконструировал компактный пылесос для уборки дворов и парков нашего города. Это история о том, как делали для себя, а переросло в стартап инженерной мысли. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/967354/

Hotel cancellation policies have transformed over the past seven years. Travelers once could cancel reservations up until the day before check-in without penalty. That flexibility has largely vanished.

The shift began around 2018 when third-party travel-booking sites deployed "cancel-rebook" strategies, the Atlantic writes. These platforms would monitor hotel rates after securing initial reservations. When prices dropped, the sites automatically canceled existing bookings and rebooked customers at lower rates. Hotels lost already-booked revenue whenever they reduced prices to fill empty rooms.

Hotels responded by introducing tiered pricing structures. Travelers now encounter prepaid non-refundable rates at the lowest price point, mid-range rates with two- or three-day cancellation deadlines, and higher rates for same-day cancellation flexibility. The cancel-rebook sites could still swap reservations until deadlines arrived, but the damage to hotels diminished.

Christopher Anderson, a professor at Cornell University's Nolan School of Hotel Administration, told the outlet that hotel cancellations differ from airline cancellations. Most hotels operate as franchises rather than centrally-owned properties. A canceled Ithaca Marriott reservation cannot be converted to credit at a New York Marriott Marquis because different owners operate each location. Anderson suggests travelers call hotels directly to request exceptions. Hilton confirmed it evaluates cancellation waivers case-by-case and extends broad waivers during natural disasters or major disruptions.

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Global internet freedom declined for a 15th consecutive year, according to Freedom House's annual report. Semafor: "Always grim reading," this year's is particularly sobering, Tech Policy Press noted, with the lowest-ever portion of users living in countries categorized as "free." Conditions declined in 27 of the 72 countries assessed, with those in Kenya -- where anti-corruption protests were quelled, in part, by a seven-hour internet shutdown -- deteriorating the most. China and Myanmar tied for least-free, and the US' ranking dropped, while Iceland retained its top spot for the freest digital environment. Bangladesh improved the most. The most consistent trend observed over 15 years, Freedom House noted, is the growing digital influence of state actors: "Online spaces are more manipulated than ever."

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The UK government has been warned that its plan to ban operators of critical national infrastructure from paying ransoms to hackers is unlikely to stop cyber attacks and could result in essential services collapsing. From a report: The proposal, announced by the Home Office in July, is designed to deter cyber criminals by making it clear any attempt to blackmail regulated companies such as hospitals, airports and telecoms groups will not succeed. If enacted, the UK would be the first country to implement such a ban.

But companies and cyber groups have told government officials that making paying ransoms illegal would remove a valuable tool in negotiations where highly sensitive data or essential services could be compromised, according to two people familiar with the matter. "An outright ban on payments sounds tough on crime, but in reality it could turn a solvable crisis into a catastrophic one," said Greg Palmer, a partner at law firm Linklaters.

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Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, which operates publishing labels including GTA-maker Rockstar Games and 2K, said on Monday that although gaming consoles are not going away, the industry is moving toward PCs in the next decade. From a report: "I think it's moving towards PC and business is moving towards open rather than closed," Zelnick told CNBC's "Squawk Box."

"But if you define console as the property, not the system, then the notion of a very rich game that you engage in for many hours that you play on a big screen -- that's never going away." Zelnick said the current split between console and mobile is about even in the market, but mobile is growing more rapidly than consoles.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: The use of AI in the latest Call of Duty has prompted a US lawmaker to call for regulations to prevent artificial intelligence from taking jobs away from human workers. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who represents a large swathe of Silicon Valley, took aim at Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 after buyers noticed the popular shooter contains a significant amount of AI-generated icons, posters, and achievements. Gamers are criticizing it as filled with "AI slop."

On Friday, Khanna tweeted: "We need regulations that prevent companies from using AI to eliminate jobs to extract greater profits." He added, "Artists at these companies need to have a say in how AI is deployed. They should share in the profits. And there should be a tax on mass displacement."

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Саймон Йозефссон (Simon Josefsson), сопровождающий 170 пакетов в Debian, представил проект Debian Libre Live Images, предоставляющий сборки Debian GNU/Linux, избавленные от несвободных компонентов, таких как блобы для прошивок. В соответствии с принятым в 2022 году решением, в состав официальных iso-образов Debian включены как свободные прошивки из репозитория main, так и проприетарные прошивки, распространяемые через репозиторий non-free-firmware. Представленный проект начал формирование редакций официальных live-образов для архитектуры amd64, позволяющих запустить или установить Debian 13 без использования несвободных компонентов.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64271

Authorities in Iran have sprayed clouds with chemicals to induce rain, in an attempt to combat the country's worst drought in decades. From a report: Known as cloud-seeding, the process was conducted over the Urmia lake basin on Saturday, Iran's official news agency Irna reported. Urmia is Iran's largest lake, but has largely dried out leaving a vast salt bed. Further operations will be carried out in east and west Azerbaijan, the agency said.

Rainfall is at record lows and reservoirs are nearly empty. Last week President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that if there is not enough rainfall soon, Tehran's water supply could be rationed and people may be evacuated from the capital. Cloud seeding involves injecting chemical salts including silver or potassium iodide into clouds via aircraft or through generators on the ground. Water vapour can then condense more easily and turn into rain. The technique has been around for decades, and the UAE has used it in recent years to help address water shortages. Iran's meteorological organisation said rainfall had decreased by about 89% this year compared with the long-term average, Irna reported.

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Abstract of a paper on NBER: This paper documents video consumption among school-aged children in the U.S. and explores its impact on human capital development. Video watching is common across all segments of society, yet surprisingly little is known about its developmental consequences. With a bunching identification strategy, we find that an additional hour of daily video consumption has a negative impact on children's noncognitive skills, with harmful effects on both internalizing behaviors (e.g., depression) and externalizing behaviors (e.g., social difficulties). We find a positive effect on math skills, though the effect on an aggregate measure of cognitive skills is smaller and not statistically significant. These findings are robust and largely stable across most demographics and different ways of measuring skills and video watching. We find evidence that for Hispanic children, video watching has positive effects on both cognitive and noncognitive skills -- potentially reflecting its role in supporting cultural assimilation. Interestingly, the marginal effects of video watching remain relatively stable regardless of how much time children spend on the activity, with similar incremental impacts observed among those who watch very little and those who watch for many hours.

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Разработчики дистрибутива openSUSE представили проект zssh, в котором предпринята попытка реализации протокола SSH на языке Zig. Реализация включает код для разбора протокола и работы со связанными с SSH примитивами, такими как ключи, сертификаты и механизм обмена сообщениями с ssh-agent. Реализации алгоритмов шифрования заимствованы из существующих библиотек. Код проекта распространяется под лицензией GPLv3.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64272

An anonymous reader shares a report: Harvard is ramping up its holdings in cryptocurrency. The nation's oldest university reported a $443 million investment in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust in the third quarter. The school now holds 6.8 million shares of the exchange-traded fund, up from 1.9 million in the second quarter.

The digital currency amounts to a little less than 1% of the school's $57 billion endowment. Other schools are bullish on crypto as well. Brown University reported holding $13 million of the BlackRock bitcoin ETF in the second quarter and Emory University reported holding $20 million of Grayscale's Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF as of March.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: When Nigel Morris tells you he's worried about the economy, you listen. As industry observers know, Morris co-founded Capital One and pioneered lending to subprime borrowers, building an empire on understanding exactly how much financial stress the average American can handle. Now, as an early investor in Klarna and other buy-now-pay-later companies like Aplazo in Mexico, he's watching something that makes him deeply uncomfortable.

"To see that people are using [BNPL services] to buy something as basic and fundamental as groceries," Morris told me on stage at Web Summit in Lisbon this week, "I think is a pretty clear indication that a lot of people are struggling." The statistics back up his unease. Buy-now-pay-later services have exploded to 91.5 million users in the United States, according to the financial services firm Empower, with 25% using the services to finance their groceries as of earlier this year, according to survey data released in late October by lending marketplace Lending Tree.

These aren't discretionary purchases -- the designer bags and latest Apple headphones that BNPL was marketed for originally. Borrowers aren't paying it all back, either. According to Lending Tree, default rates are accelerating: 42% of BNPL users made at least one late payment in 2025, up from 39% in 2024 and 34% in 2023.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft's Azure, and Alphabet's Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union's crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study the platforms' market power. The European Commission wants to decide if any of the trio should face a raft of new restrictions under the bloc's Digital Markets Act (source paywalled; alternative source), according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The plan for a market probe follows several major outages in the cloud industry that wrought havoc across global services, highlighting the risks of relying on a mere handful of players.

To date, the world's largest cloud providers have avoided the DMA because a large part of their business comes via enterprise contracts, making it difficult to count the number of individual users, one of the EU's main benchmarks for earmarking Silicon Valley services for extra oversight. Under the investigation's remit, regulators will asses whether the top cloud operators -- regardless of the challenge of counting user numbers -- should be forced to contend with a raft of fresh obligations including increased interoperability with rival software and better data portability for users, as well as restrictions on tying and bundling.

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NetChoice is suing Virginia to block a new law that limits kids under 16 to one hour of daily social media use unless parents approve more time, arguing the rule violates the First Amendment and introduces serious privacy risks through mandatory age-verification. The Verge reports: In addition to restricting access to legal speech, NetChoice alleges that Virginia's incoming law (SB 854) will require platforms to verify user ages in ways that would pose privacy and security risks. The law requires platforms to use "commercially reasonable methods," which it says include a screen that prompts the user to enter a birth date. However, NetChoice argues that Virginia could go beyond this requirement, citing a post from Governor Youngkin on X, stating "platforms must verify age," potentially referring to stricter methods, like having users submit a government ID or other personal information.

NetChoice, which is backed by tech giants like Meta, Google, Amazon, Reddit, and Discord, alleges that the law puts a burden on minors' ability to engage or consume speech online. "The First Amendment prohibits the government from placing these types of restrictions on accessing lawful and valuable speech, just in the same way that the government can't tell you how long you could spend reading a book, watching a television program, or consuming a documentary," Paul Taske, the co-director of the Netchoice Litigation Center, tells The Verge.

"Virginia must leave the parenting decisions where they belong: with parents," Taske says. "By asserting that authority for itself, Virginia not only violates its citizens' rights to free speech but also exposes them to increased risk of privacy and security breaches."

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fjo3 shares a report from TheWrap: There are already at least 175,000 AI-generated podcast episodes on platforms like Spotify and Apple. That's thanks to Inception Point AI, a startup with just eight employees cranking out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from localized weather reports and pollen trackers to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk's assassination and its cultural impact, to a biography series on Anna Wintour. Its podcasting network Quiet Please has generated 12 million lifetime episode downloads and amassed 400,000 subscribers -- so, yes, people are really listening to AI podcasts.

Inception Point CEO Jeanine Wright believes the tool is proof that automation can make podcasting scalable, profitable and accessible without human writers, editors or hosts. "The price is now so inexpensive that you can take a lot of risks,â Wright told TheWrap. âoeYou can make a lot of content and a lot of different genres that were never commercially viable before and serve huge audiences that have really never had content made for them." At a cost of $1 an episode, Wright takes a quantity-over-quality approach. "I think very quickly we get to a place where AI is a default way that content is made, not just across audio, but across television and film and commercials and imagery, and everything. And then we will disclose when things are not made with AI instead of that they were made with AI," Wright said. "But for now, we are perfectly happy leading the way."

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Security Affairs: On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a single Australian endpoint. Azure's global protection network filtered the traffic, keeping services online. The attack came from the Aisuru botnet, a Turbo Mirai-class IoT botnet using compromised home routers and cameras.

The attack used massive UDP floods from more than 500,000 IPs hitting a single public address, with little spoofing and random source ports that made traceback easier. It highlights how attackers are scaling with the internet: faster home fiber and increasingly powerful IoT devices keep pushing DDoS attack sizes higher. "On October 24, 2025, Azure DDOS Protection automatically detected and mitigated a multi-vector DDoS attack measuring 15.72 Tbps and nearly 3.64 billion packets per second (pps). This was the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud and it targeted a single endpoint in Australia," reads a report published by Microsoft. "The attack originated from Aisuru botnet."

"Attackers are scaling with the internet itself. As fiber-to-the-home speeds rise and IoT devices get more powerful, the baseline for attack size keeps climbing," concludes the post. "As we approach the upcoming holiday season, it is essential to confirm that all internet-facing applications and workloads are adequately protected against DDOS attacks."

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Even after disabling remote control and officially ending support for early Nest Learning Thermostats, Google is still receiving detailed sensor and activity data from these devices, including temperature changes, motion, and ambient light. The Verge reports: After digging into the backend, security researcher Cody Kociemba found that the first- and second-generation Nest Learning Thermostats are still sending Google information about manual temperature changes, whether a person is present in the room, if sunlight is hitting the device, and more. Kociemba made the discovery while participating in a bounty program created by FULU, a right-to-repair advocacy organization cofounded by electronics repair technician and YouTuber Louis Rossmann.

FULU challenged developers to come up with a solution to restore smart functionality to Nest devices no longer supported by Google, and that's exactly what Kociemba did with his open-source No Longer Evil project. But after cloning Google's API to create this custom software, he started receiving a trove of logs from customer devices, which he turned off. "On these devices, while they [Google] turned off access to remotely control them, they did leave in the ability for the devices to upload logs. And the logs are pretty extensive," Kociemba tells The Verge. [...] "I was under the impression that the Google connection would be severed along with the remote functionality, however that connection is not severed, and instead is a one-way street," Kociemba says.

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Проект [ IDEmacs ]( https://codeberg.org/IDEmacs/IDEmacs ) , основной задачей которого является подготовка пресетов настроек для emacs, делающих его похожим на популярные IDE, опубликовал первый подготовленный набор → для [ VSCode ]( https://code.visualstudio.com/ ) .

Набор включает в себя тему оформления, сочетания горячих клавиш, а также всяческие боковые меню и панели, свойственные VSCode.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/development/18145872#cut ) )

Chinese automakers are rapidly expanding across South America, boosted by the new Chinese-built Port of Chancay, aggressive pricing, local partnerships, and growing regional demand. Reuters reports: China has been ramping up sales since the opening last year of the Port of Chancay, north of Lima. The Chinese-built megaport has halved trans-Pacific shipping times just as Chinese manufacturers face rising barriers to entry in the United States and greater trade restrictions in Europe.

BYD, which makes EVs, plug-in hybrids and combustion engine cars, plans to open a fourth dealership in Lima by the end of this year, while Chery and Geely have more than a dozen in total in Peru. Chinese carmakers face a profit-destroying price war at home and a growing surplus of new cars rolling out of Chinese factory lines. Much of this excess is being shipped overseas to the Middle East, Central Asia and Latin America, according to global automotive analyst Felipe Munoz at JATO Dynamics.

The Chinese have "carved out space," across both electric and petrol-powered cars, said Martin Bresciani, president of Chile's automotive business chamber, CAVEM. "The Chinese have already demonstrated that they match global standards in quality." Chinese brands reached 29.6% of all new passenger car sales in Chile in the first quarter of this year. [...] Part of China's success has been partnering with trusted local importers to offer more affordable models tailored to regional tastes, according to seven dealerships Reuters spoke to in Peru, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina.

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alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A new study from researchers in Australia reveals that the people who never forget faces look "smarter, not harder." In other words, they naturally focus on a person's most distinguishing facial features. "Their skill isn't something you can learn like a trick," explains lead author James Dunn, a psychology researcher at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney. "It's an automatic, dynamic way of picking up what makes each face unique."

To see what super-recognizers see, Dunn and his colleagues used eye-tracking technology to reconstruct how people surveyed new faces. They did this with 37 super-recognizers and 68 people with ordinary facial recognition skills, noting where and for how long participants looked at pictures of faces displayed on a computer screen. The researchers then fed the data into machine learning algorithms trained to recognize faces. The algorithms, a type known as deep neural networks, were tasked with deciding if two faces belonged to the same person. "These findings suggest that the perceptual foundations of individual differences in face recognition ability may originate at the earliest stages of visual processing -- at the level of retinal encoding," Dunn and colleagues write in their paper.

The findings have been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For the first time, scientists are tracking the migration of monarch butterflies across much of North America, actively monitoring individual insects on journeys from as far away as Ontario all the way to their overwintering colonies in central Mexico. This long-sought achievement could provide crucial insights into the poorly understood life cycles of hundreds of species of butterflies, bees and other flying insects at a time when many are in steep decline.

The breakthrough is the result of a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200. Researchers have tagged more than 400 monarchs this year and are now following their journeys on a cellphone app created by the New Jersey-based company that makes the tags, Cellular Tracking Technologies. Most monarchs weigh 500 to 600 milligrams, so each tag-bearing migrator making the transcontinental journey is, by weight, equivalent to a half-raisin carrying three uncooked grains of rice.

Researchers are tracking more than 400 tagged monarch butterflies as they fly toward winter colonies in central Mexico. The maps [in the article] follow six butterflies. [...] Tracking the world's most famous insect migration may also have a big social impact, with monarch lovers able to follow the progress of individual butterflies on the free app, called Project Monarch Science. Many of the butterflies are flying over cities and suburbs where pollinator gardens are increasingly popular. Some tracks could even lead to the discovery of new winter hideaways. "There's nothing that's not amazing about this," said Cheryl Schultz, a butterfly scientist at Washington State University and the senior author of a recent study documenting a 22 percent drop in butterfly abundance in North America over a recent 20-year period. "Now we will have answers that could help us turn the tide for these bugs."

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Опубликовано: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:16:52 GMT
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В этой статье я хочу рассказать о своем опыте создания IoT самоделки и интеграции ее в облако Tuya (также известного как Smart Life) Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/967442/

Эмма Смит (Emma Smith) и Кирилл Подопригора (Kirill Podoprigora), входящие в число ключевых разработчиков Python (core team), опубликовали предварительное предложение (Pre-PEP) о постепенном добавлении возможности использования языка Rust в кодовой базе CPython, эталонной реализации языка программирования Python. Изначально Rust предлагают использовать для необязательных модулей стандартной библиотеки, размещаемых в директории Modules/. В перспективе, к версии Python 3.17, Rust может стать обязательной зависимостью при сборке CPython.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64275

Доступен выпуск дистрибутива AlmaLinux 9.7, синхронизированный c новым выпуском Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7 и содержащий все предложенные в данном выпуске изменения. Установочные образы подготовлены для архитектур x86_64, ARM64, ppc64le и s390x в форме загрузочного (1 ГБ), минимального (2 ГБ) и полного образа (10 ГБ). Позднее будут сформированы Live-сборки с GNOME, KDE, MATE и Xfce, а также образы для плат Raspberry Pi, контейнеров, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) и облачных платформ.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64276

UC Berkeley researchers working with Project CETI discovered that sperm whales produce vowel-like sounds embedded in their click codas, suggesting a far more complex communication system than previously understood. "It was striking just how structured the system was. I've never seen anything like that before with other animals," Begus, a UC Berkeley linguistics professor and the linguistics lead at Project CETI, told SFGATE. "We're showing the world that there's more than meets the eye in sperm whales and that, if one cares to look closely, they're not as alien. We're much more similar to each other than we used to think." SFGATE reports: With the help of a machine-learning model to identify patterns, Begus and his team combed through recordings collected from social units of sperm whales off the coast of the island of Dominica between 2005 and 2018. When they sped up the audio, removing the silences between clicks, they heard new patterns. They found acoustic properties that share similarities with two vowels -- a and i -- and several vowel combinations.

"Before, people were looking just at the timing and the number of clicks exchanged between sperm whales, but now we have to look at the frequencies, too. A whole new set of patterns have appeared," Begus said. "Now, it's one of the most complex non-human communication systems we have observed." [...] Begus said the research only shows how much more we have to learn about whales' style of communicating. He is particularly interested in exploring how the system may differ for whales between regions and how whale babies learn to communicate in this way. Most importantly, he wants to understand the meaning behind the sounds, as a "window into whale thoughts and lives." The research was published in the journal Open Mind.

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Опубликовано: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 07:27:36 GMT
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Плата разработки программно-определяемого радио (SDR) PLUTOSDR NANO (далее именуемая SDR) является производной от ADALM-PLUTO, выпускаемой Analog Devices. Оба устройства используют комплексное проектное решение на основе радиочастотного трансивера AD9363 и ПЛИС ZYNQ7010, представляя собой мощные устройства программно-определяемого радио, которые могут предоставить пользователям широкий частотный диапазон и мощные вычислительные возможности. Ниже приведено краткое руководство по быстрому тестированию после распаковки, включающее этапы: проверка при распаковке, подключение устройства, тестирование основных функций и тестирование функций связи. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/967476/

Опубликовано: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 07:00:08 GMT
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Всем привет! Я Андрей, в Яндексе работаю над IoT‑железками в Городских сервисах. Но сегодня речь пойдёт не о них. Эта история началась с неожиданной находки в новой квартире — с обычной, на первый взгляд, трубки домофона. Кажется: ну трубка и трубка. Но вот что бросилось в глаза: она была подключена по Ethernet. А если есть Ethernet, значит, внутри что‑то с TCP/IP, то есть уже маленький компьютер.Любопытство победило, и я решил разобраться, как же устроена эта железка и что она умеет. Провёл небольшое техническое расследование: от осмотра корпуса до анализа сетевых пакетов и выяснения, какие протоколы вообще использует домофон.Я давно увлекаюсь железками и автоматизацией дома — эдакий «полу‑умный» дом, который вроде бы и работает сам, но иногда всё же требует вмешательства человека. Поэтому, обнаружив Ethernet‑домофон, я и решил разобраться в нём. Основная цель эксперимента — научить трубку открывать дверь по решению автоматизации в Home Assistant. Побочная — внести вклад в сообщество и, возможно, помочь самому вендору, если в процессе вскроются любопытные особенности или проблемы.  Открыть дверь]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/yandex/articles/963474/

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