OpenAI is acquiring tech news podcast TBPN, a fast-growing daily show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays. OpenAI says TBPN will keep its editorial independence, even though the acquisition is widely viewed as part of a broader effort to influence public discourse around AI. CNBC reports: In the announcement, OpenAI CEO of AGI Deployment Fidji Simo wrote that their mission of bringing artificial general intelligence comes with a responsibility to have a space for "constructive conversation about the changes AI creates." Altman has appeared on TBPN multiple times and is a frequent presence across media and podcasts, even hitting NBC's "Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" in December.

The announcement says TBPN will maintain editorial independence and continue to choose its own guests. "TBPN is my favorite tech show. We want them to keep that going and for them to do what they do so well," Altman wrote in a post on X. "I don't expect them to go any easier on us, am sure I'll do my part to help enable that with occasional stupid decisions." OpenAI did not disclose the terms of the deal but said TBPN will be housed within its strategy organization. "While we've been critical of the industry at times, after getting to know Sam and the OpenAI team, what stood out most was their openness to feedback and commitment to getting this right," wrote Hays in a statement. "Moving from commentary to real impact in how this technology is distributed and understood globally is incredibly important to us."

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schwit1 shares a report from the Kathmandu Post: In Nepal, helicopter rescue on high altitude is, by any measure, a genuine lifesaving operation. At high altitude, where oxygen thins and weather changes without warning, the ability to airlift a stricken trekker to Kathmandu within hours has saved countless lives. But threaded through that legitimate system, exploiting its urgency, its opacity, and its distance from oversight, is one of the most sophisticated insurance fraud networks in the world. Nepal's fake rescue scam is not new. The Kathmandu Post first exposed it in 2018. Months later, the government convened a fact-finding committee, produced a 700-page report, and announced reforms. In February 2019, The Kathmandu Post published a long investigative report. Last year, Nepal Police's Central Investigation Bureau reopened the file, and what they found is that the fraud did not stop -- instead it was growing.

The mechanics of the fake rescue racket are straightforward: stage a medical emergency, call in a helicopter, check a tourist into a hospital, and file an insurance claim that bears little resemblance to what actually happened. But the sophistication lies in how each link in the chain is compensated, and how difficult it is for a foreign insurer -- operating from Australia and the United Kingdom -- to verify events that occurred at 3,000 metres in a remote Himalayan valley. The CIB investigation identifies two primary methods for manufacturing an "emergency." The first involves tourists who simply don't want to walk back. After completing a demanding trek -- an Everest Base Camp trek, for instance, can take up to two weeks on foot -- guides offer an alternative: pretend to be sick, and a helicopter will come. The guide handles the rest. The second method is more troubling. At altitudes above 3,000 meters, mild symptoms of altitude sickness are common. Blood oxygen saturation can drop, hands and feet tingle, headaches develop. In most cases, rest, hydration or a gradual descent is all that is needed. But guides and hotel staff, according to the CIB investigation, have been trained to terrify trekkers at precisely this moment. They tell them they are at risk of dying, that only immediate evacuation will save them. In some cases, investigators found that Diamox (Acetazolamide) tablets, used to prevent altitude sickness, were administered alongside excessive water intake to induce the very symptoms that would justify a rescue call.

In at least one case cited in the investigation, baking powder was mixed into food to make tourists physically unwell. Once a "rescue" is called, the financial choreography begins. A single helicopter carries multiple passengers. But separate, full-price invoices are submitted to each passenger's insurance company, as if each had their own dedicated flight. A $4,000 charter becomes a $12,000 claim. Fake flight manifests and load sheets are fabricated. At the hospital, medical officers prepare discharge summaries using the digital signatures of senior doctors who were never involved in the case. In some cases, these are done without those doctors' knowledge. Fake admission records are created for tourists who were, in some documented instances, drinking beer in the hospital cafeteria at the time they were supposedly receiving treatment. In one case, an office assistant at Shreedhi Hospital admitted that he had provided his own X-ray report taken about a year ago at a different hospital, to be used as a case for treatment of foreign trekkers to claim insurance. The commission structure that holds the network together was described in detail during police interrogations. Hospitals pay 20 to 25 percent of the insurance payment to trekking companies and a further 20 to 25 percent to helicopter rescue operators in exchange for patient referrals. Trekking guides and their companies benefit from inflated invoices. In some cases, tourists themselves are offered cash incentives to participate.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Responding to public health concerns about microplastics and pharmaceuticals in the nation's drinking water, the Trump administration for the first time has placed them on a draft list of contaminants maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA announced the move Thursday, touting it as a "historic step" for the Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement, which often raises concerns about toxic chemicals and plastic pollution in our food and environment. Also Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a $144 million initiative, called STOMP, to develop tools to measure and monitor microplastics in drinking water and in a later stage, to remove them.

The Safe Drinking Water Act requires the EPA to publish an updated version of its Contaminant Candidate List every five years. This is the sixth iteration of the list. Microplastics and pharmaceuticals appear in the draft of the upcoming list, alongside per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, and dozens of other chemicals and microbes. Their inclusion on the list gives local regulators a tool to evaluate risks in their water supply, the EPA says, and it can set the stage for more research and regulatory action -- but doesn't actually guarantee that will happen.

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Опубликовано: Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:59:11 GMT
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Предполагается, что многопоточный вариант софт-ядра, позволит эффективнее встраивать его в FPGA-проекты в качестве управляющего, контролирующего блока. Выделенные теневые регистры состояний позволят упростить переключение контента между программными задачами и, дополнительно, упростят блок обработки прерываний. Следование концепции архитектуры RISC-V в некоторых моментах упрощает написание и поддержку программного кода на языках высокого уровня хотя в практике относительно небольших, или сильно специфических проектов выгоднее работать в рамках виртуальных языковых машин, или разрабатывать DSL. . В предложенной реализации микроархитектуры контексты потоков сохраняются в наборах т.н. теневых регистров, отображаемых в момент выполнения потока на регистры общего назначения x0-x31 и программный счетчик (PC). Предлагаемая концепция управления потоками выполнения предназначена, прежде всего, для софт-процессоров, и для систем с одним уровнем привилегий – машинным – уровень микроконтроллерных встраиваемых систем. Все потоки предполагаются равноправными и работающими в едином адресном пространстве. Защита данных потоков и контроль за доступом к общим переменным выносится на уровень программного обеспечения. Рассмотрение ведётся для минимального набора инструкций I+Zicsr (целочисленные операции плюс работа с регистрами специального назначения (CSR). Для управления и настройки параметров потоков предлагается задействовать набор CSR-регистров. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1018752/

Опубликовано: Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:48:41 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр

Получив макетные платы, стало необходимостью запустить демо проект. Для него потребуется также JTAG, компилятор и OpenOCD. Сам JTAG использовался DirtyJTAG. Ну а дальше разбираемся. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1018758/

Александр Гомес Гайгалас (Alexandre Gomes Gaigalas), автор библиотеки coral для создания переносимых shell-скриптов, опубликовал C89cc.sh, компилятор для языка Си, написанный целиком на Shell. Компилятор поддерживает стандарт C89 и может генерировать исполняемые файлы в формате ELF64 для систем x86-64. Код содержит около восьми тысяч строк и открыт под лицензией ISC.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65133

Сопровождающий NPM-пакет axios, для которого на днях были выпущены вредоносные обновления, раскрыл подробности атаки, в результате которой атакующим удалось получить доступ к его компьютеру и всем учётных данным. Атака была проведена с использованием типового метода социального инжиниринга, который ранее уже использовался для компрометации разработчиков криптокошельков и AI-платформ.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65134

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Renewables made up nearly half of global installed electricity capacity by the end of 2025, "accounting for 85.6% of global capacity expansion," reports the Register, citing the International Renewable Energy Agency's (IRENA) 2026 Renewable Capacity Statistics report. "Per IRENA's data, that aforementioned 85.6 percent share of new power capacity additions was actually a decrease from 2024, when renewables were about 92 percent of global capacity additions. Yes, the share of total installed power capacity in 2025 rose again, but non-renewable capacity additions also rebounded sharply last year." From the report: Solar, in turn, was the dominant renewable technology, accounting for nearly three-quarters of last year's renewable capacity additions. Those additions totaled 692 GW in 2025, lifting installed renewable capacity by a record 15.5 percent year over year, IRENA noted. By the end of last year, renewables accounted for 49.4 percent of global installed electricity capacity, while variable renewable sources such as solar and wind represented roughly 35 percent of total capacity. For reference, it was only in 2023 that renewable energy sources crossed the threshold of generating 30 percent of the world's electricity.

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В неофициальном Telegram-клиенте Nekogram выявлен обфусцированный код, скрыто отправляющий боту "@nekonotificationbot" номера телефонов пользователей, вошедших в приложение, в привязке к индентификатору пользователя. Изменение для сбора номеров телефонов присутствует только в готовых APK-пакетах, распространяемых через Google Play, GitHub и Telegram-канал проекта. В исходном коде на GitHub и в APK-пакенте из каталога F Droid собирающее телефоны изменение отсутствует.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65130

Опубликовано: Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:10:34 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Робототехника / Хабр

В робототехнике давно умеют делать машины, которые быстро двигаются, не падают на ровной поверхности и производят впечатление на видео. Но в 2026 году планка выросла. Теперь всех заботит целый ряд вопросов… А способен ли робот сохранять управление на высокой скорости? Сможет ли без падений передвигаться даже по льду, траве, песку, снегу? Что он будет делать, если дорожка из щебня перейдет в газон или внезапно возникнет препятствие? Как отреагирует на столкновение? Новая концепция, которую для красочности нарекли «рожденный двигаться» (Born to Run), отвечает на этот вопрос. Новый класс роботов проектируют для движения в условиях постоянной неопределенности — наконец-то все как в жизни, а не на демонстрационной трассе.Разбираем работу ученых Северо-Западного университета. Исследователи представили legged metamachines — модульных роботов, собранных из автономных, напоминающих детальки конструктора Lego блоков с собственными мотором, батареей и вычислителем. Эти системы могут объединяться в разные конфигурации, менять структуру, восстанавливаться после повреждений и продолжать движение. Для отрасли это означает, что устойчивость больше не зависит от качества одного контроллера, она становится свойством всей архитектуры робота, от компоновки и привода до алгоритма принятия решений и способности системы реорганизоваться под новую задачу. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ru_mts/articles/1018598/

Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot writes: CU Boulder researchers are reporting that they have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain metabolically healthy. The findings were published in the journal Natural Metabolism on March 19, 2026.

Pythons can grow as big as a telephone pole, swallow an antelope whole, and go months or even years without eating -- all while maintaining a healthy heart and plenty of muscle mass. In the hours after they eat, research has shown, their heart expands 25% and their metabolism speeds up 4,000-fold to help them digest their meal. The team measured blood samples from ball pythons and Burmese pythons, fed once every 28 days, immediately after they ate a meal. In all, they found 208 metabolites that increased significantly after the pythons ate. One molecule, called para-tyramine-O-sulfate (pTOS) soared 1,000-fold.

Further studies, done with Baylor University researchers, showed that when they gave high doses of pTOS to obese or lean mice, it acted on the hypothalamus, the appetite center of the brain, prompting weight loss without causing gastrointestinal problems, muscle loss or declines in energy. The study found that pTOS, which is produced by the snake's gut bacteria, is not present in mice naturally. It is present in human urine at low levels and does increase somewhat after a meal. But because most research is done in mice or rats, pTOS has been overlooked. "We've basically discovered an appetite suppressant that works in mice without some of the side-effects that GLP-1 drugs have," said senior author Leslie Leinwand, a distinguished professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology who has been studying pythons in her lab for two decades. Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy act on the hormone glucagon-like petide-1 (GLP-1).

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Представлен первый альфа-выпуск клиента для мгновенного обмена сообщениями Pidgin 3.0 (2.95). Выпуск отмечен как ещё не готовый для повседневного применения. Сборки подготовлены в формате Flatpak и размещены в beta-репозитории на Flathub.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65136

Опубликовано: Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:02:00 GMT
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История эта началась, когда мне предложили забрать неисправный электропроигрыватель «Вега ЭП-122С». Подумав, я решил, что дарёным «вертушкам» в механизм не заглядывают, и забрал эту «Вегу» с собой. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/1006270/

Опубликовано: Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:20:58 GMT
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Прежде чем начать, хочу сказать спасибо @metalstiv за вдохновение и отличную статью «DIY мультирум: переключаем ТВ между комнатами с помощью смартфона». Именно после её прочтения у меня созрела идея повторить и немного адаптировать решение под свои задачи — но с одним важным отличием: я решил доверить написание кода и текста искусственному интеллекту. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1019078/

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Perplexity's AI search engine encourages users to go deeper with their prompts by engaging in chat sessions that a lawsuit has alleged are often shared in their entirety with Google and Meta without users' knowledge or consent. "This happened to every user regardless of whether or not they signed up for a Perplexity account," the lawsuit alleged, while stressing that "enormous volumes of sensitive information from both subscribed and non-subscribed users" are shared.

Using developer tools, the lawsuit found that opening prompts are always shared, as are any follow-up questions the search engine asks that a user clicks on. Privacy concerns are seemingly worse for non-subscribed users, the complaint alleged. Their initial prompts are shared with "a URL through which the entire conversation may be accessed by third parties like Meta and Google." Disturbingly, the lawsuit alleged, chats are also shared with personally identifiable information (PII), even when users who want to stay anonymous opt to use Perplexity's "Incognito Mode." That mode, the lawsuit charged, is a "sham."

"'Incognito' mode does nothing to protect users from having their conversations shared with Meta and Google," the complaint said. "Even paid users who turned on the 'Incognito' feature still had their conversations shared with Meta and Google, along with their email addresses and other identifiers that allowed Meta and Google to personally identify them." "Perplexity's failure to inform its users that their personal information has been disclosed to Meta and Google or to take any steps to halt the continued disclosure of users' information is malicious, oppressive, and in reckless disregard" of users' rights, the lawsuit alleged.

"Nothing on Perplexity's website warns users that their conversations with its AI Machine will be shared with Meta and Google," Doe alleged. "Much less does Perplexity warn subscribed users that its 'Incognito Mode' does not function to protect users' private conversations from disclosure to companies like Meta and Google."

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Despite hundreds of billions of dollars in investment, nearly half of planned U.S. data center projects are being delayed or canceled. "One major reason behind these setbacks is the availability of key electrical components -- such as transformers, switchgear, and batteries -- that are used both at data center sites and outside of them," reports Tom's Hardware. "Meanwhile, grid infrastructure is also stressed by electric vehicles and electrified heating systems." Tom's Hardware reports: Approximately 12 gigawatts (12 GW) of data center capacity is expected to come online in the U.S. in 2026, according to data by market intelligence firm Sightline Climate cited by Bloomberg. Yet only about one-third of that capacity is currently under active construction because of various constraints.

Electrical infrastructure represents less than 10% of total data center cost, but it is as vital as compute hardware. A delay in any single element of the power chain can halt the entire project, which makes transformers, switchgear, and similar devices critical items despite their relatively small share of CapEx. Due to high demand, lead times for high-power transformers have expanded dramatically in the U.S.: delivery typically took 24 to 30 months before 2020, but waiting periods can stretch to as long as five years today, according to Sightline Climate cited by Bloomberg. For AI data centers, this is a catastrophe as their deployment cycles are under 18 months.

To address shortages, companies are turning to global markets. As a result, Canada, Mexico, and South Korea became the biggest suppliers of high-power transformers for AI data centers to AI data centers. At the same time, imports of high-power transformers from China surged from fewer than 1,500 units in 2022 to more than 8,000 units in 2025 through October, according to Wood Mackenzie data cited by Bloomberg. The volatility of exports from China does not end with transformers, as the PRC accounts for over 40% of U.S. battery imports, while its share in certain transformer and switchgear categories remains near 30%, according to Bloomberg.

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Tony Isaac shares a report from NPR: When it comes to using AI, it seems some lawyers just can't help themselves. Last year saw a rapid increase in court sanctions against attorneys for filing briefs containing errors generated by artificial intelligence tools. The most prominent case was that of the lawyers for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who were fined $3,000 each for filing briefs containing fictitious, AI-generated citations. But as a cautionary tale, it doesn't seem to have had much effect. The numbers started taking off last year, and the rate is still increasing. He counts a total of more than 1,200 to date, of which about 800 are from U.S. courts. "I am surprised that people are still doing this when it's been in the news," says Carla Wale, associate dean of information & technology and director of the law library at the University of Washington School of Law. "Whatever the generative AI tool gives you -- as in, 'Look at these cases' -- you, under the rules of professional conduct, you have to read those cases. You have to read the cases to make sure what you are citing is accurate."

"I think that lawyers who understand how to effectively and ethically use generative AI replace lawyers who don't," she says. "That's what I think the future is."

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Опубликовано: Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:37:44 GMT
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Если вы помните первую статью, я рассказывал про небольшое macOS‑приложение для фоновой записи таун‑холлов и других “скучных” встреч. Оно работает локально, без облака, транскрибирует прямо на Mac и не требует подписки - это просто инструмент для одной задачи, а не продукт‑мессия.Скачиваний и отзывов у приложения было немного, но я сам продолжаю им пользоваться почти каждый день. В результате накопилось несколько мелких, но неприятных “щелчков” в UX: не хватает языков, неудобен плеер, нет понятного индикатора записи и т.п.. Решил: раз я использую этот инструмент сам, почему бы не довести его до того вида, который будет удобен именно для меня. Тем более некоторые мои друзья так же начали его использовать и стали делиться обратной связью. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1019096/

The Wall Street Journal shares the "wild behind-the-scenes story" of how the world's largest and most destructive botnet was uncovered and taken down, writes Slashdot reader sturgeon. "At times, the network known as Kimwolf included more than a million compromised home Android devices and digital photo frames -- enough DDoS firepower to disrupt internet traffic across the U.S. and beyond." From the report: Sitting in his dorm room at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Benjamin Brundage was closing in on a mystery that had even seasoned internet investigators baffled. A cat meme helped him crack the case. A growing network of hacked devices was launching the biggest cyberattacks ever seen on the internet. It had become the most powerful cyberweapon ever assembled, large enough to knock a state or even a small country offline. Investigators didn't know exactly who had built it -- or how. Brundage had been following the attacks, too -- and, in between classes, was conducting his own investigation. In September, the college senior started messaging online with an anonymous user who seemed to have insider knowledge.

As they chatted on Discord, a platform favored by videogamers, Brundage was eager to get more information, but he didn't want to come off as too serious and shut down the conversation. So every now and then he'd send a funny GIF to lighten the mood. Brundage was fluent in the memes, jokes and technical jargon popular with young gamers and hackers who are extremely online. "It was a bit of just asking over and over again and then like being a bit unserious," said Brundage. At one point, he asked for some technical details. He followed up with the cat meme: a six-second clip that showed a hand adjusting a necktie on a fluffy gray cat. Brundage didn't expect it to work, but he got the information. "It took me by surprise," he said.

Eventually the leaker hinted there was a new vulnerability on the internet. Brundage, who is 22, would learn it threatened tens of millions of consumers and as much as a quarter of the world's corporations. As he unraveled the mystery, he impressed veteran researchers with his findings -- including federal law enforcement, which took action against the network two weeks ago. Chad Seaman, a researcher at Akamai, joked at one point that the internet could go down if Brundage spent too much time on his exams.

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Ошибка вызвана автоматической обработкой содержимого каталога a .git/, когда он размещён в одном каталоге с открываемым файлом. В этом случае Emacs при открытии файла запускает команды git ls-files и git status, выполняемые в контексте содержимого .git/. Для выполнения кода достаточно открыть в Emacs файл из каталога, в котором имеется подкаталог .git/ с файлом конфигурации config, включающим опцию core.fsmonitor с указанной атакующим командой для запуска.
Сопровождающие GNU Emacs отцы отказались устранять уязвимость, переведя стрелки на разрабов git.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/security/18257164

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Today at a hearing of the Colorado Senate Business, Labor, and Technology committee, lawmakers voted unanimously to move Colorado state bill SB26-090 -- titled Exempt Critical Infrastructure from Right to Repair -- out of committee and into the state senate and house for a vote. The bill modifies Colorado's Consumer Right to Repair Digital Electronic Equipment act, which was passed in 2024 and went into effect in January 2026. While the protections secured by that act are wide, the new SB26-090 bill aims to "exempt information technology equipment that is intended for use in critical infrastructure from Colorado's consumer right to repair laws."

The bill is supported by tech manufacturers like Cisco and IBM, according to lobbying disclosures. These are companies that have vested interests in manufacturing things like routers, server equipment, and computers and stand to profit if they can control who fixes their products and the tools, components, and software used to make those upgrades and repairs. They also cite cybersecurity concerns, saying that giving people access to the tools and systems they would need to repair a device could also enable bad actors to use those methods for nefarious means. (This is a common argument manufacturers make when opposing right-to-repair laws.)

[...] During the hearing, more than a dozen repair advocates spoke from organizations like Pirg, the Repair Association, and iFixit opposing the bill. YouTuber and repair advocate Louis Rossmann was there. The main problem, repair advocates say, is that the bill deliberately uses vague language to make the case for controlling who can fix their products. [...] The Colorado Labor and Technology committee advanced the bill, but it still needs to go through votes on the Colorado Senate and House floors before going into effect. Those votes may take place as early as next week. Regardless of how the bill goes in the state, it's likely that manufacturers will continue their push to alter or undo repair legislation in other states across the country. "The 'information technology' and 'critical infrastructure' thing is as cynical as you can possibly be about it," says Nathan Proctor, the leader of Pirg's US right-to-repair campaign. "It sounds scary to lawmakers, but it just means the internet."

The current wording of the bill "leaves it up to the manufacturers to determine which items they will need to provide repair tools and parts to owners and independent repairers and which ones they don't," says Danny Katz, executive director CoPIRG, the Colorado branch of the consumer advocate group Pirg. "This is a bad policy and would be a big step back for Coloradans' repair rights."

iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said in the hearing: "There's a general principle in cybersecurity that obscurity is not security," iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said in the hearing. "The money that's behind the scenes, that's what's driving the bill."

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Представлен выпуск мобильной платформы /e/OS 3.6, сфокусированной на конфиденциальности пользовательских данных. Платформа основана Гаэлем Дювалем (Gaël Duval), создателем дистрибутива Mandrake Linux. Проект поддерживает 287 моделей смартфонов и формирует сборки прошивок для наиболее популярных из них. На базе смартфонов OnePlus, Fairphone, Teracube, HIROH и Pixel подготовлены собственные редакции устройств, распространяемые с предустановленной прошивкой /e/OS под брендами Murena One, Murena 2, Murena Fairphone 4/5/6, Murena Teracube 2e, Murena Pixel 5/7 и Murena SHIFTphone 8.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65139

Archive of Our Own (AO3) is officially dropping its "beta" label after 17 years. The Organization for Transformative Works, the nonprofit behind the fanfiction site, said the site will keep evolving with new improvements even though it's no longer technically in beta.

"As the AO3 software has been stable for a long time, the change is mostly cosmetic and does not indicate that everything is finalized or perfectly working," the organizations says. "Exiting beta doesn't mean we'll stop continuing to improve AO3 -- our volunteer coders and community contributors will still be working to add to and improve AO3 every day."

Some of the features it's introduced over the years include a tag system, offline fanworks downloads, privacy settings that let creators restrict access to their work, and new modes for multi-chapter works. As it stands, the site says it has more than 10 million registered users and 17 million fanworks.

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Опубликован релиз платформы OpenCloud 6.0, позволяющей развернуть на своём сервере систему для обмена файлами и совместной работы над контентом. Проект преподносится как открытая альтернатива проприетарным системам Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive и Dropbox, соответствующая требованиям действующего в Европейском союзе постановления GDPR.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65137

На Гитхабе выложен компилятор C89 в ELF64 на языке shell (sh, не bash). 7796 строк, лицензия [ ISC (isc.org) ]( https://www.isc.org/licenses/ ) (эквивалентна MIT).

[ Новость на opennet.ru ]( https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65133 )

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18257905

A Rome court ruled that several Netflix price hikes in Italy were unlawful because the company's contracts didn't adequately explain or justify future pricing changes. As a result, Netflix has been ordered to issue refunds that could total roughly 500 euros for some long-term subscribers. Ars Technica reports: The lawsuit was brought by Italian consumer advocacy group Movimento Consumatori, which alleged that the price hikes violate the Consumer Code, Italian legislation that aims to protect consumer rights. The Consumer Code says it's unlawful for a "professional to unilaterally modify the clauses of the contract, or the characteristics of the product or service to be provided, without a justified reason indicated in the contract itself," according to a Google-provided translation.

The court's April 1 ruling determined that Netflix's contracts were required to explain in advance why prices or other terms might change in the future. Because the price hikes were found to be imposed without providing customers with valid justifications, the court ruled that the new prices are invalid and ordered Netflix to refund affected subscribers. This comes despite Netflix reportedly providing a 30-day advance notice of the higher fees and allowing customers to cancel their subscriptions to avoid price hikes.

The court gave Netflix 90 days to inform millions of current and former customers via email, mail, its website, and Italian newspapers of their right to refunds or else face a penalty of 700 euros per day, Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore reported today. Per Italian law, price increases that Netflix has issued or will issue beyond April 2025 are legal. At that time, Netflix adjusted its terms to state that contract terms could one day change due to technological, security, or regulatory needs, to clarify clauses, or to provide changes to the service, Il Sole 24 Ore reported.

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Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion in Japan from 2026 to 2029 to expand AI infrastructure, boost local cloud capacity, train 1 million engineers and developers, and deepen cybersecurity cooperation with the Japanese government. Reuters reports: The investment includes the training of 1 million engineers and developers by 2030, Microsoft said, which was unveiled during a visit to Tokyo by Vice Chair and President Brad Smith. In a statement, the company said the plan aligns with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's goal to boost growth through advanced, strategic technologies while safeguarding national security.

Microsoft will work with domestic firms including SoftBank and Sakura Internet to expand Japan-based AI computing capacity, allowing Ecompanies and government agencies to keep sensitive data within the country while accessing Microsoft Azure services, it said. It will also deepen cooperation with Japanese authorities on sharing intelligence related to cyber threats and crime prevention.

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Iranian strikes have reportedly knocked out key AWS availability zones in Bahrain and Dubai, leaving parts of both regions effectively offline for an extended period and forcing Amazon to urge teams and customers to shift workloads elsewhere. "These two regions continue to be impaired, and services should not expect to be operating with normal levels of redundancy and resiliency," an internal Amazon communication memo reads. "We are actively working to free and reserve as much capacity as possible in the region for customers, and services should be scaled to the minimal footprint required to support customer migration." Big Technology reports: With the war now nearing its sixth week, Iran has made Amazon infrastructure in the Gulf an economic target and is now eyeing its peers. Amazon's Bahrain facilities have been hit multiple times, including a Wednesday strike that caused a fire. And its facilities in the UAE also sustained multiple hits. The IRGC is threatening multiple other U.S. tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, and Apple.

Amazons infrastructure in Bahrain and Dubai each have three 'availability zones' or clusters of compute. Both Bahrain and Dubai have a zones that are "hard down" and and "impaired but functioning," per the internal communication. "We do not have a timeline for when DXB and BAH will return to normal operations," the internal post said.

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"Consumer PC parts aren't the only things being gobbled up by the 'AI' industry," writes PCWorld's Michael Crider. "A Starcraft-inspired strategy game is shutting down its multiplayer servers because the hosting company got bought out for 'AI.'" The game will still be playable offline for now, but the shutdown highlights the ripple effects of the AI boom on the gaming industry. Amid the ongoing hardware shortages, AI companies are basically gobbling up as much infrastructure as they can to repurpose it for AI workloads. From the report: The game in question is Stormgate, a crowdfunded revival of the real-time strategy genre that has languished in the last decade or so. The developer Frost Giant Studios told its players on Discord (spotted by PC Gamer) that it would be unable to continue multiplayer access past the end of this month. The "game server orchestration partner" was bought by an AI company -- the developer's words, not mine -- which means that the multiplayer aspects of the game will have a "planned outage."

The devs say the game will be patched for offline play, presumably including its single-player campaign mode and co-op modes, but "online modes will not be available at that point." They're hoping to bring back online play in a later update, but that'll depend on "finding a partner to support ongoing operations." That sounds like old-fashioned player-hosted games with lobbies aren't in the cards, at least not yet.

Frost Giant's server provider is Hathora, which was bought by a company called Fireworks AI last month. Fireworks describes its offerings as "open-source AI models at blazing speed, optimized for your use case, scaled globally with the Fireworks Inference Cloud." So, yeah, Hathora's infrastructure will likely be used for yet more generative "AI." And according to GamesBeat, it's planning to shut down the game service aspect of its company completely. That means Stormgate probably isn't going to be the last game affected. Hathora also provides online services for Splitgate 2, among others. I'm contacting Hathora for comment and will update this story if I receive a response.

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Опубликовано: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:15:53 GMT
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Убирался в комнате, наткнулся на старый Xiaomi 11T в ящике — 8 ГБ ОЗУ, Dimensity 1200, лежит без дела. Решил превратить его в персональный AI-сервер: поднял OpenClaw через Termux, подключил бесплатную модель через OpenRouter и теперь у меня в Telegram отвечает свой AI-ассистент. Бесплатно. Четыре способа установки, борьба с Android за живучесть процесса и подробный раздел про безопасность. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1019164/

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The Artemis II crew has passed 100,000 miles from Earth and is now on a "free-return" path around the moon after a successful "translunar" injection burn. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am so, so excited to be able to tell you that for the first time since 1972 during Apollo 17, human beings have left Earth orbit," NASA's Dr Lori Glaze told a news conference. The Guardian reports: The astronauts -- the Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and a Canadian, Jeremy Hansen -- spent their first day in space performing checks on the spacecraft, which had never carried humans before. Later they had time to speak to US TV networks. "I've got to tell you, there is nothing normal about this," Wiseman told ABC News from the cramped interior of the capsule. "Sending four humans 250,000 miles away is a herculean effort, and we are now just realising the gravity of that."

Orion will travel about 4,000 miles (6,400km) beyond the moon before turning back, providing unprecedented and illuminated views of the lunar far side. If all proceeds smoothly, the astronauts will set a record by venturing farther from Earth than any human before -- more than 250,000 miles. The mission is part of a longer-term plan to repeatedly return to the moon, with the aim of establishing a permanent base that will offer a platform for further exploration. After the final engine burn, NASA said Wiseman took two "spectacular" images of Earth.

The first photo, called Hello, World, "shows the vast expanse of blue that is the Atlantic Ocean, framed by a thin glow of the atmosphere as the Earth eclipses the Sun and green auroras at either pole," reports the BBC. Another photo shows the view of Earth from inside the Orion spacecraft.

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Опубликован экспериментальный выпуск открытой реализации Win32 API - Wine 11.6. С момента выпуска 11.5 было закрыто 28 отчётов об ошибках и внесено 261 изменение.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65140

Исследователи из нескольких университетов США и Австралии разработали две атаки класса Rowhammer - GDDRHammer и GeForge, позволяющие при выполнении непривилегированного ядра CUDA на GPU NVIDIA добиться искажения отдельных битов в чипах видеопамяти GDDR. В отличие от представленного в прошлом году метода GPUHammer, новые атаки не ограничиваются воздействием на данные, обрабатываемые в памяти GPU, а позволяют получить полный доступ ко всей основной памяти, относящейся к адресному пространству CPU. Исследователями продемонстрированы эксплоиты, предоставляющие root-доступ к основной системе при выполнении непривилегированного CUDA-ядра на GPU.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65141

Colorado is rolling out an average-speed camera system that tracks vehicles across multiple points instead of catching them at a single camera, making it much harder for drivers to dodge tickets with apps like Waze and Radarbot. Motor1 reports: The state's new automated vehicle identification systems (AVIS) use several cameras to calculate your average speed between them, and if it is 10 miles per hour or more over the limit, you get a ticket. No longer will you be able to slow down as you approach a camera and speed back up after passing it, not that you should be speeding on public roads in the first place.

Colorado began deploying this new camera system after legislators changed the law in 2023, allowing AVIS for law enforcement use. The systems, installed on various roads and highways throughout the state, first began issuing warnings, but police began issuing tickets late last year.

The most recent section of road to fall under surveillance is a stretch of I-25 north of Denver, which brought the state's growing panopticon to our attention. It began issuing tickets on April 2. The Colorado Department of Transportation installed the cameras along a construction zone. The fine is $75 and zero points for exceeding the speed limit, and the police issue it to the vehicle's owner, regardless of who is driving.

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Опубликовано: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:40:28 GMT
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Собрал вторую версию DIY брелока "Игра на реакцию"Пару месяцев назад на канале выходила статья про первую версию. Это был мини-брелок для двух игроков на базе ATmega328P. Если пропустили — обязательно посмотрите, там я подробнее рассказываю о сути проекта.После того, как я собрал свою первую версию и она заработала, я понял, что мне надо прокачивать свои навыки. Поэтому я решил серьёзно улучшить брелок. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1019218/

Опубликовано: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:05:09 GMT
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В этой статье мы разберем надежный способ подключения ИК-контроллера ZS05 Zigbee к Home Assistant через связку Zigbee2MQTT и SmartIR. Вы узнаете, почему стандартная инструкция часто не работает, как правильно конвертировать коды Broadlink в формат Raw MQTT и какие нюансы прописать в конфигурации, чтобы управление кондиционером и телевизором работало безотказно. Гайд основан на личном опыте и поможет избежать типичных ошибок при настройке, сэкономив ваше время на поиск решений на форумах. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1019238/

Опубликовано: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:50:59 GMT
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Умный дом - одна из самых спорных тем для обсуждений и понимания. Для одних это обязательное голосовое управление, для других - наличие умных сценариев управления светом, для третьих комплексное управление светом, климатом безопасностью с одного устройства. Для лучшего восприятия ограничимся определением умного дома как комплексным управлением светом (основной свет, подсветка, шторы), управления климатом (обогреватели, кондиционеры, осушители, увлажнители) и безопасностью (замки, датчики присутствия). Поведение устройств может определяться как изолировано (включение/выключение света в гостиной), так и объединено в единые сценарии (ночной режим, основной режим, режим охраны). В этом смысле умный дом это не просто набор программируемых или удаленных (смартфон, умная колонка) переключателей, а единая система управления, связанная единой целью с понятной логикой.Одна из основных проблем при проектировании заключается в противоречии между гибкостью управления и удобством. Привычная модель поведения подразумевает для управления наличие простых выключателей, приближенных к зоне влияния (выключатель света находится в той же комнате, выключатель света рабочей зоны располагается рядом с рабочей зоной). С другой стороны умный дом предполагает дополнительный комфорт, позволяющий сразу включать или выключать свет в разных зонах в соответствии со сценариями. Сценарий "Сон" может предполагать, например, общее выключение света, закрытие штор и снижение температуры. При этом Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1019234/

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users. On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review to detect reasoning or factual flaws in responses. On the other side are those who routinely outsource their critical thinking to what they see as an all-knowing machine. Recent research goes a long way to forming a new psychological framework for that second group, which regularly engages in "cognitive surrender" to AI's seemingly authoritative answers. That research also provides some experimental examination of when and why people are willing to outsource their critical thinking to AI, and how factors like time pressure and external incentives can affect that decision.

Overall, across 1,372 participants and over 9,500 individual trials, the researchers found subjects were willing to accept faulty AI reasoning a whopping 73.2 percent of the time, while only overruling it 19.7 percent of the time. The researchers say this "demonstrate[s] that people readily incorporate AI-generated outputs into their decision-making processes, often with minimal friction or skepticism." In general, "fluent, confident outputs [are treated] as epistemically authoritative, lowering the threshold for scrutiny and attenuating the meta-cognitive signals that would ordinarily route a response to deliberation," they write. These kinds of effects weren't uniform across all test subjects, though. Those who scored highly on separate measures of so-called fluid IQ were less likely to rely on the AI for help and were more likely to overrule a faulty AI when it was consulted. Those predisposed to see AI as authoritative in a survey, on the other hand, were much more likely to be led astray by faulty AI-provided answers.

Despite the results, though, the researchers point out that "cognitive surrender is not inherently irrational." While relying on an LLM that's wrong half the time (as in these experiments) has obvious downsides, a "statistically superior system" could plausibly give better-than-human results in domains such as "probabilistic settings, risk assessment, or extensive data," the researchers suggest. "As reliance increases, performance tracks AI quality," the researchers write, "rising when accurate and falling when faulty, illustrating the promises of superintelligence and exposing a structural vulnerability of cognitive surrender." In other words, letting an AI do your reasoning means your reasoning is only ever going to be as good as that AI system. As always, let the prompter beware.

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Опубликовано: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:45:51 GMT
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Знаете, бывают проекты, которые начинаются как «сделать быстренько за выходные», а превращаются в эпопею на несколько лет. Вот у меня именно так и вышло.Всё началось с того, что решил я сделать себе каротажную станцию. Идея возникла не просто так. Когда‑то давно закончив РГГРУ и не работая по специальности но имея определенный багаж знаний и желание... решение было принято. Сразу скажу, что более ленивого человека чем я, встречать мне не доводилось, поэтому задача была следующая: сделать универсальный зонд (все методы в одном и желательно в него запихнуть еще видеокаротаж). Спойлер‑ видеокаротаж так и не запихнул). Начнем с того, что станция нужна была для исследований скважин на воду в Московском регионе. Наиболее подходящие методы: ГК (гамма каротаж), кс (электро каротаж), резистивиметрия, термометрия, кавернометрия, решил зачем то еще запихнуть магнитометр (как оказалось отлично показывает фильтра и трубы в скважине). И всё это нужно фиксировать в реальном времени, даже не просто в реальном времени а относительно глубины спуска прибора, с записью на компьютер, с индикацией глубины, с фильтрацией шумов, чтобы потом не мучиться с обработкой. Вроде‑бы только начал писать статью и понимаю что одной статьи будет мало, надо делать несколько‑ слишком большой объем работы. Поэтому сделаем так: я напишу сейчас вкратце что было сделано, если будут комментарии и какое‑то оживление, то уже буду писать несколько статей поэтапных, так как создание данного аппарата включает в себя токарные работы, чертежные, программирование прибора, создание регистратора данных, несколько утопленных приборов, кучу ошибок и провалов. Поэтому начнем с прибора а дальше посмотрим. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1019260/

Инженер из компании Amazon выявил регрессию, специфичную для ядра Linux 7.0, релиз которого ожидается 13 апреля. Изменение настроек планировщика задач привело к существенному снижению пропускной способности и отзывчивости при работе СУБД PostgreSQL на системах с архитектурой ARM64. При использовании ядра 7.0 показатели производительности при прохождении теста pgbench "simple-update" снизились почти в два раза - с 98565 до 50751.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65143

Long-time GNOME/OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice contributor
Michael Meeks is now general manager of Collabora Productivity. And earlier this month he complained when LibreOffice decided to bring back its LibreOffice Online project, as reported by Neowin, which had been inactive since 2022. After the original project went dormant — to which Collabora was a major contributor — they forked the code and created their own product, Collabora Online.

But this week Meeks blogged about even more changes, writing that the Document Foundation (the nonprofit behind LibreOffice) "has decided to eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners.
That includes over thirty people who have contributed faithfully to LibreOffice for many years." Meeks argues the ejections were "based on unproven legal concerns and guilt by association."

This includes seven of the top ten core committers of all time (excluding release engineers) currently working for Collabora Productivity. The move is the culmination of TDF losing a large number of founders from membership over the last few years with: Thorsten Behrens, Jan 'Kendy' Holesovsky, Rene Engelhard, Caolan McNamara, Michael Meeks, Cor Nouws and Italo Vignoli no longer members. Of the remaining active founders, three of the last four are paid TDF staff (of whom none are programming on the core code).

The blog It's FOSS calls it "LibreOffice Drama." They've confirmed the removals happened, also noting recently adopted Community Bylaws requiring members to step down if they're affiliated with a company in an active legal dispute with the Foundation. But The Documentation Foundation "also makes clear that a membership revocation is not a ban from contributing, with the project remaining open to anyone, and expects Collabora to keep contributing 'when the time comes.'"

Collabora's Meeks adds in his blog post that there's "bold and ongoing plans to create an entirely new, cut-down, differentiated Collabora Office for users that is smoother, more user friendly, and less feature dense than our Classic product (which will continue to be supported for years for our partners).

This gives a chance to innovate faster in a separate place on a smaller, more focused code-base with fewer build configurations, much less legacy, no Java, no database, web-based toolkit and more. We are excited to get executing on that.

To make this process easier, and to put to bed complaints about having our distro branches in TDF gerrit [for code review], and to move to self-hosted FOSS tooling we are launching our own gerrit to host our existing branch of core...
We will continue to make contributions to LibreOffice where that makes sense (if we are welcome to), but it clearly no longer makes much sense to continue investing heavily in building what remains of TDF's community and product for them — while being excluded from its governance. In this regard, we seem to be back where we were fifteen years ago.

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Amazon "must negotiate with a labor union representing some 5,000 workers at a company warehouse on Staten Island," reports Reuters, citing a ruling Wednesday from America's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The union formed in 2022, according to the article, and "has been seeking to negotiate with Amazon over pay, working conditions and other matters."

The NLRB said in its ruling that Amazon "has engaged in unfair labor practices" by refusing to bargain with the labor group or to recognize its legitimacy... Amazon said on Thursday it disagreed with the NLRB's ruling. "Representatives of the NLRB improperly influenced this election," the company said in a statement, suggesting it planned to appeal. "We're confident an unbiased court will overturn the original certification, and we look forward to the opportunity for our team to fairly voice their opinions." An appeal would likely preclude Amazon from having to comply with the NLRB's order while it makes its way through the courts...

Related to the Staten Island case, Amazon has argued that the NLRB itself is unconstitutional and sued to block the agency from ruling on it. The matter is still pending.

After forming independently, that union "has since aligned with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters," the article points out. The Teamsters represent 1.3 million American workers, according to a statement they issued this week, which also includes this quote from the president of Amazon Labor Union-e Local 1. "We are making history at Amazon, and we are doing it through undiluted worker power..."
Their statement adds that the ruling "came only one day after the union announced another historic victory that upheld Amazon Teamsters' right to strike."

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Состоялся релиз десктоп-ориентированной операционной системы MidnightBSD 4.0.4, основанной на FreeBSD с элементами, портированными из DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD и NetBSD. Базовое десктоп-окружение построено на основе Xfce (опционально можно установить связку GNUstep + Window Maker + GWorkspace). В отличие от других десктоп-сборок FreeBSD, ОС MidnightBSD изначально развивалась как форк FreeBSD 6.1-beta, который в 2011 году был синхронизирован с кодовой базой FreeBSD 7 и впоследствии вобрал в себя многие возможности из веток FreeBSD 9-13. Для управления пакетами в MidnightBSD задействована система mport, которая использует БД SQLite для хранения индексов и метаданных, или инструментарий Ravenports. Для загрузки подготовлен установочный образ размером 1 ГБ (i386, amd64).

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65145

Опубликовано: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:54:13 GMT
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PwrBlock (Power Block) — открытый программируемый источник питания для тестовых стендов и автоматизации проверки электроники.Его уже можно потрогать руками, а скоро — заказать себе такой или собрать самостоятельно: проект полностью open source. Рассказываю, из чего он сделан, что уже работает, что показал тест на максимальной мощности и какие выводы появились после первых измерений. Установить клеммы!]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1016928/

"The April 1st timing should have been your first clue," writes Gadget Review. TechSpot's false story was just an April Fool's prank — although Gadget Review thinks it's still funny how "something about this particular piece of satire felt uncomfortably plausible."

Maybe it's because AMD stock sits around $196 while Intel hovers near $41, or perhaps it's the poetic justice of the underdog finally eating the giant. The semiconductor world has witnessed stranger reversals, but none quite this dramatic. Your gaming rig's CPU battle represents decades of corporate warfare, legal grudges, and technological leapfrogging that makes Game of Thrones look like a friendly board game.

Picture this: In 1975, AMD reverse-engineered Intel's 8080 processor, creating the Am9080 clone. The audacity was breathtaking — AMD spent 50 cents per chip to manufacture something they sold for $700. That's a 1,400% markup on borrowed technology, making today's GPU prices look reasonable. This relationship evolved from copying to partnership to bitter rivalry. The companies signed second-sourcing deals in the late 1970s, with AMD becoming Intel's official backup supplier. Then came the lawsuits. AMD sued Intel for antitrust violations in 2005, eventually settling for $1.25 billion in 2009. That settlement money helped fund the Ryzen revolution that's currently eating Intel's lunch. The historical irony runs deeper than your typical tech rivalry. AMD literally started as Intel's shadow, creating chips by studying Intel's designs under microscopes. Today, Intel engineers probably study AMD's Zen architecture the same way...

This April Fool's joke works because it captures something true about power shifts in technology.

The site TipRanks notes that both companies saw their stock price rise Wednesday, though that might not be related to the false article. "Positive analyst coverage from Wells Fargo could be acting as a catalyst for AMD stock today. Intel also announced plans to buy back its 49% equity interest in a joint venture with Apollo Global Management APO."

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Anthropic's making a big and sudden change — and connecting its Claude AI to third-party agentic tools "is about to get a lot more expensive," writes the Verge:

Beginning April 4th at 3PM ET, users will "no longer be able to use your Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw," according to an email sent to users on Friday evening. Instead, if users want to use OpenClaw with Claude, they'll have to use a "pay-as-you-go option" that will be billed separate from their Claude subscription.

Anthropic's announcement added these extra usage bundles are "now available at a discount." Users can also try Anthropic's API, notes VentureBeat, "which charges for every token of usage rather than allowing for open-ended usage up to certain limits, as the Pro and Max plans have allowed so far. "

The technical reality, according to Anthropic, is that its first-party tools like Claude Code, its AI vibe coding harness, and Claude Cowork, its business app interfacing and control tool, are built to maximize "prompt cache hit rates" — reusing previously processed text to save on compute. Third-party harnesses like OpenClaw often bypass these efficiencies... [Claude Code creator Boris Cherny explained on X that "I did put up a few PRs to improve prompt cache hit rate for OpenClaw in particular, which should help for folks using it with Claude via API/overages."] Growth marketer Aakash Gupta observed on X that the "all-you-can-eat buffet just closed," noting that a single OpenClaw agent running for one day could burn $1,000 to $5,000 in API costs. "Anthropic was eating that difference on every user who routed through a third-party harness," Gupta wrote. "That's the pace of a company watching its margin evaporate in real time."

However, Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw who was recently hired by OpenAI, took a more skeptical view of the "capacity" argument."Funny how timings match up," Steinberger posted on X. "First they copy some popular features into their closed harness, then they lock out open source." Indeed, Anthropic recently added some of the same capabilities that helped OpenClaw catch-on — such as the ability to message agents through external services like Discord and Telegram — to Claude Code...

User @ashen_one, founder of Telaga Charity, voiced a concern likely shared by other small-scale builders: "If I switch both [OpenClaw instances] to an API key or the extra usage you're recommending here, it's going to be far too expensive to make it worth using. I'll probably have to switch over to a different model at this point."
"I know it sucks," Cherny replied. "Fundamentally engineering is about tradeoffs, and one of the things we do to serve a lot of customers is optimize the way subscriptions work to serve as many people as possible with the best mode..." OpenAI appears to be positioning itself as a more "harness-friendly" alternative, potentially using this moment as a customer acquisition channel for disgruntled Claude power users.

By restricting subscription limits to their own "closed harness," Anthropic is asserting control over the UI/UX layer. This allows them to collect telemetry and manage rate limits more granularly, but it risks alienating the power-user community that built the "agentic" ecosystem in the first place. Anthropic's decision is a cold calculation of margins versus growth. As Cherny noted, "Capacity is a resource we manage thoughtfully." In the 2026 AI landscape, the era of subsidized, unlimited compute for third-party automation is over. For the average user on Claude.ai, the experience remains unchanged; for the power users running autonomous offices, the bell has tolled.

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MarketWatch looks at "surveillance wages," pay rates "based not on an employee's performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees' knowledge."

According to Nina DiSalvo, policy director at labor advocacy group Towards Justice, some systems use signals associated with financial vulnerability — including data on whether a prospective employee has taken out a payday loan or has a high credit-card balance — to infer the lowest pay a candidate might accept. Companies can also scrape candidates' public personal social-media pages, she said...

A first-of-its-kind audit of 500 labor-management artificial-intelligence companies by Veena Dubal, a law professor at University of California, Irvine, and Wilneida Negrón, a tech strategist, found that employers in the healthcare, customer service, logistics and retail industries are customers of vendors whose tools are designed to enable this practice. Published by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a progressive economic think tank, the August 2025 report... does not claim that all employers using these systems engage in algorithmic wage surveillance. Instead, it warns that the growing use of algorithmic tools to analyze workers' personal data can enable pay practices that prioritize cost-cutting over transparency or fairness...

Surveillance wages don't stop at the hiring stage — they follow workers onto the job, too. The vendors that provide such services also offer tools that are built to set bonus or incentive compensation, according to the report. These tools track their productivity, customer interactions and real-time behavior — including, in some cases, audio and video surveillance on the job. Nearly 70% of companies with more than 500 employees were already using employee-monitoring systems in 2022, such as software that monitors computer activity, according to a survey from the International Data Corporation. "The data that they have about you may allow an algorithmic decision system to make assumptions about how much, how big of an incentive, they need to give to a particular worker to generate the behavioral response they seek," DiSalvo said.

The article notes that Colorado introduced the "Prohibit Surveillance Data to Set Prices and Wages Act" to ban companies from setting pay rates with algorithms that use payday-loan history, location data or Google search behavior for algorithmically set.

Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader sinij for sharing the article.

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Опубликовано: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:45:59 GMT
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В самом базовом случае нода Meshtastic, как и Meshcore, состоит из двух обязательных половинок: LoRa модем и микроконтроллер с WiFi/Bluetooth/USB. А в дополнение к этому могут идти разные опции: антенна, корпус, аккумулятор, управление зарядом и питанием, дисплей. Но обязательны только две платы/модуля: микроконтроллер и LoRa, а в качестве антенны подойдет и кусочек проволоки. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1019364/