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Zed 1.15

robot — 2026-08-12 23:44:03

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12 августа состоялся [ стабильный выпуск Zed 1.15.0 ]( https://zed.dev/releases/stable/1.15.0 ) , высокопроизводительного редактора кода, написанного преимущественно на Rust. Zed разрабатывается создателями Atom и Tree-sitter, поддерживает Linux, macOS и Windows, а его исходный код [ преимущественно распространяется под лицензией GPL-3.0-or-later ]( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed ) . Предварительная сборка Zed 1.15.0 появилась 5 августа, а спустя неделю изменения были перенесены в стабильный канал.

Одним из основных новшеств стала настройка [ git.diff_base ]( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/61501 ) , позволяющая выбрать базу для отображения изменений Git. По умолчанию Zed, как и прежде, сравнивает незакоммиченные изменения с HEAD, но теперь редактор можно переключить в режим сравнения всей текущей ветки с точкой её расхождения с основной веткой репозитория. Настройка влияет на индикаторы изменений на полях редактора, цвета состояния файлов и команду git: diff, а в графическом интерфейсе доступна под названием Diff Against Default Branch.

Дополнительно появилась настройка [ gutter.git_gutter_width ]( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/61304 ) , позволяющая менять ширину индикаторов Git diff на полях редактора.

Для пользователей Linux заметным изменением стала [ поддержка перетаскивания файлов ]( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/61947 ) из Project Panel во внешние приложения при работе в Wayland. Аналогичная возможность реализована для macOS. Ранее drag-and-drop из панели проекта во внешние Wayland-приложения не поддерживался.

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LACT 0.10

robot — 2026-08-12 23:44:03

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Основные изменения версии 0.10.0 связаны с видеокартами NVIDIA. Разработчики [ добавили поддержку PowerMizer Mode ]( https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT/pull/1092 ) , позволяющую принудительно удерживать GPU в наиболее производительном P-state. По назначению этот режим похож на настройку уровня производительности у видеокарт AMD.

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Релиз дистрибутива Manjaro Linux 26.1

robot — 2026-08-12 23:44:02

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Представлен релиз дистрибутива Manjaro Linux 26.1, построенного на основе Arch Linux и ориентированного на начинающих пользователей. Дистрибутив примечателен наличием упрощённого и дружественного пользователю процесса установки, поддержкой автоматического определения оборудования и установки необходимых для его работы драйверов. Manjaro поставляется в виде live-сборок с графическими окружениями KDE (5.2 ГБ), GNOME (5 ГБ) и Xfce (4.9 ГБ), сформированными для архитектуры x86_64 и различных плат на базе процессоров ARM. При участии сообщества дополнительно развиваются сборки с Budgie, Cinnamon, Deepin, LXQt и i3.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66071

DEF CON Crowd Suspected In Fake-Hotspot Attack On Delta Flight

robot — 2026-08-12 23:22:02

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, passengers aboard Delta flight 591 going from Las Vegas to Atlanta allegedly spoofed the onboard Wi-Fi, raising the attention of federal law enforcement. The incident came one day after the DEF CON security conference concluded in Las Vegas, and was first described on social media accounts that follow publicly available air-to-ground messages, known as ACARS.

According to the "ACARS Drama" account, a message was sent by pilots from the plane stated: "NO INFO AS OF NOW WE HAVE A BUNCH OF PAX THAT WERE AT A CYBER CONFERENCE IN LAS THEY WERE ABLE TO JAM OUR WIFI AND BROADCAST THEIR SIGNAL." A description of the incident posted to Reddit further stated that these passengers created a fake hotspot ("Delta WiFi Fast"), with a phishing landing page "designed to harvest passengers' personal credentials."

This technique, sometimes known as an "evil twin" attack, has been long-known to the IT security community. It involves setting up a fake Wi-Fi network and then capturing login credentials and other data. "One initial finding is an unauthorized WiFi network, which was not provided, operated, or supplied by Delta, was present onboard the aircraft for a short time during the flight," said a Delta spokesperson. Delta further noted that the flight's safety was "never in question and no aircraft operating systems were affected," and that no emergency was declared.

Ars notes that the "actual onboard Wi-Fi was disabled for 30 minutes."

[ Read more of this story ]( https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/08/12/064220/def-con-crowd-suspected-in-fake-hotspot-attack-on-delta-flight?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

The Pixel Tag Is Google's Answer To the AirTag

robot — 2026-08-12 22:22:01

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Google has unveiled the $29 Pixel Tag, its long-awaited AirTag rival that combines UWB with Bluetooth 6.0 Channel Sounding for two forms of precision tracking. It launches November 11. The Verge reports: The Pixel Tag is a slim oblong device available in one grayish color -- Fog -- that weighs about 12g, or 0.4oz. Like the AirTag, it has no built-in hooks or clips for attaching to objects you want to track. There's a single button that will trigger a sound on your phone, for the rare occasion when you've got the Tag but have lost your main device. It also has an IP67 rating, so it should be safe from dust and rain. As for the battery, the Pixel Tag takes CR2032 coin batteries, and says one battery should last for over a year.

Naturally, it'll be compatible with Google's Find Hub network, which leverages the Bluetooth capabilities of Android devices worldwide to help locate lost objects. [...] Once you're close enough to the Pixel Tag, UWB lets the Find Hub app display the distance and direction to the tracker, so long as you're using a phone with a UWB chip. Channel Sounding is a newer development that can display the exact distance, but not direction, and it will work with any phone or tablet that includes Bluetooth 6.0. The Moto Tag 2 is the only other tracker to currently support it.

[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/12/1525222/the-pixel-tag-is-googles-answer-to-the-airtag?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

German Advocacy Group Lodges Criminal Complaint Over Meta AI Glasses

robot — 2026-08-12 21:22:01

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A German digital-rights group has filed a criminal complaint against Meta, Ray-Ban parent EssilorLuxottica, and several retailers over Meta's AI smart glasses, arguing the devices can enable covert recording in violation of German privacy law. Prosecutors have begun a preliminary review, while Germany's network regulator says smart glasses are legal "as long as the recording function is clearly visible." Reuters reports: "There's no place to escape from smart glasses. You have to expect at any moment to be filmed and then exposed on the internet," said HateAid managing director Josephine Ballon. The organization reported the management of Meta, units of spectacles maker EssilorLuxottica including Ray-Ban, as well as retailers Fielmann, Apollo-Optik, Mister Spex and MediaMarkt to the Frankfurt-based digital crime prosecution unit ZIT. HateAid said its complaint was based on a federal digital data protection law that prohibits the sale of communication devices designed to film people without them noticing.

ZIT confirmed it received a complaint from HateAid invoking that law, saying it would routinely investigate on a preliminary basis whether there are grounds for a deeper probe. MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group said it was taking the complaint very seriously, adding that its suppliers had contractual obligations for all goods to be compliant with the law. Mister Spex said it had not been officially notified of a complaint and that it was taking protection of privacy very seriously.

[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/12/1518258/german-advocacy-group-lodges-criminal-complaint-over-meta-ai-glasses?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

Google Unveils Pixel 11 Lineup

robot — 2026-08-12 20:22:01

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At its Made by Google 2026 event today, Google unveiled a slew of new devices, headlined by the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold. Here's a breakdown of the company's latest smartphones, provided by TechCrunch: Pixel 11: The standard Pixel 11 gets a redesigned camera bar that is thinner than the one on the previous generation. Google says the new camera bar is more than 40% thinner and now uses an all-glass surface that stretches across the width of the phone. Google is also increasing the base storage to 256GB, doubling the previous starting capacity. The starting price for the new model is set at $899, reflecting a $100 increase compared to the Pixel 10. This price hike comes with the decision to drop the 128GB storage option. Plus, the ongoing RAM supply shortage plays a part in this increase.

Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL: Google is making durability a bigger part of the Pro lineup. The company says the Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL have improved drop resistance and a new anti-scratch display coating that provides more than twice the scratch resistance of the Pixel 10 Pro models. The Pixel 11 Pro starts at $1,099, compared to $999 for the Pixel 10 Pro.

Pixel 11 Pro Fold: Google says the new foldable is nearly 10% lighter and almost 1mm thinner than the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. It also has slimmer bezels, a 48-megapixel main camera, and 30x Super Zoom. The company is also building on the IP68 water and dust resistance introduced with the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. The Pixel 11 Pro Fold uses a glass-fiber composite back cover designed to better withstand cracking, while a redesigned hinge offers additional protection for the inner display. Google says the changes make the model three times more durable than its predecessor. There were also several new Gemini-powered features unveiled at the event. Google is expanding "Live Transcribe" to support American Sign Language, using the Pixel Camera to translate signing into text in real time. A new voice-input feature called "Rambler" is designed to understand natural, unstructured speech, including filler words and run-on sentences. Google is also integrating "Circle to Search" more directly into the Pixel Camera for identifying objects, translating text, and asking questions about what users see.

[ Read more of this story ]( https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/12/1536211/google-unveils-pixel-11-lineup?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

mold 2.42.0

robot — 2026-08-12 19:44:03

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После четырёх месяцев разработки состоялся выпуск 2.42.0 высокопроизводительного кроссплатформенного линкера [ mold ]( https://github.com/rui314/mold ) .

Проект написан на языке C++ (стандарт C++20) и распространяется по лицензии MIT.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/development/18357840#cut ) )

US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers

robot — 2026-08-12 19:22:01

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The FAA says its push to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers has helped it hire more than 2,000 trainees, reaching 94% of its hiring goal. Another 2,000-plus candidates are in the pipeline. CBS News reports: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a recent social media post that the federal agency's recruitment campaign to recruit gamers as air traffic controllers has been a "game changer" for the Federal Aviation Administration. [...] When Duffy announced the initiative in April, he acknowledged that the Transportation Department needed to extend its reach to recruit prospective air traffic controllers.

"A lot of what they do playing games ... is what they do ... controlling traffic in the air," Duffy told CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave in an interview on Tuesday at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport. Duffy added that many current trainees started out as gamers. Only about 25% of controllers hold a traditional college degree, while former controllers note that gaming requires many of the same skills that air traffic controllers use on the job, such as thinking quickly, staying focused and managing multiple sources of information as they guide more than 80,000 flights to their destinations daily.

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Египтянин плетёт верёвку из пальмового волокна, как тысячи лет назад #primitivetechnology

BotYouTube — 2026-08-12 15:15:01

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Опубликовано: 2026-08-12T10:39:17+00:00

В Египте, как и в некоторых других странах, до сих пор распространены традиционные ремёсла. Например, там многое делают из природных материалов, таких, как пальмовый лист. Это видео снял наш товарищ Мухамед, проживающий в Луксоре в двух шагах от Долины Царей. Это не реконструкция, это обычный рабочий процесс изготовления верёвки из пальмового волокна.

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QEMU 11.1

robot — 2026-08-12 15:44:05

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11 августа состоялся [ выпуск QEMU 11.1.0 ]( https://www.qemu.org/download/ ) , свободного эмулятора процессорных архитектур и платформы виртуализации. По данным [ официального объявления в списке рассылки qemu-devel ]( https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel%40nongnu.org/msg1214845.html ) , в релиз вошло более 3200 коммитов от 285 разработчиков. Это второй функциональный выпуск QEMU в 2026 году после QEMU 11.0, опубликованного в апреле.

Одним из основных направлений развития стала архитектура RISC-V. В QEMU появилась [ поддержка big-endian для доступа RISC-V к данным ]( https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/target-riscv.html ) : состояние порядка байтов контролируется битами MBE, SBE и UBE, а для моделирования процессоров, работающих только в big-endian, предусмотрено свойство big-endian. При этом выборка инструкций RISC-V по-прежнему остаётся little-endian.

Кроме того, для RISC-V в [ QEMU 11.1 реализованы ]( https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel%40nongnu.org/msg1214845.html ) :

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GCLI 2.13.0

robot — 2026-08-12 15:44:05

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5 августа состоялся выпуск консольной утилиты [ GCLI ]( https://github.com/herrhotzenplotz/gcli ) , поддерживающей API нескольких популярных сервисов хостинга Git-проектов, и позволяет создавать, просматривать и взаимодействовать с проблемами, запросами на слияние, метками и комментариями к ним, проверять состояние CI и конвейеров, искать репозитории и многое другое.
В отличие от [ GitHub CLI ]( https://cli.github.com ) , GCLI поддерживает не только API GitHub, но и API Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea, GitLab и Bugzilla.

Утилита написана на языке C и распространяется по лицензии BSD-2.

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Swarms of Tiny Robots Remove Microplastics From Soil and Water

robot — 2026-08-12 15:22:02

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alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Scientists from the Czech Republic have created microscopic cleanup robots that successfully removed microplastics from both soil and aquatic environments in the lab. Details of their work are published in the journal npg Asia Materials. To build the robots, researchers started with microscopic MXene particles made of ultrathin, stacked layers. The material has a large surface area and surface chemistry that help it attract and hold plastic. They then coated the particles with magnetic nickel nanoparticles so rotating magnetic fields could drive the tiny robots.

Then came the testing phase. The team placed swarms of these microbots into water and soil samples contaminated with plastic. The externally generated magnetic fields made the robots spin and tumble through the liquid and squeeze through tiny water-filled gaps in the soil. "In soil environments, the microrobots can navigate through water-permeated soil microenvironments, actively disrupt microplastic entrapment within soil matrices, and extract them," the study authors commented in their paper. As they moved, their sticky surfaces collided with microplastics, binding to them and dragging them along. The researchers then used a magnet to pull the microrobots, along with their trapped plastic cargo, out of the samples.

They performed well. In water, they removed about 94% of test polystyrene particles and 89% of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) in around an hour. In the model soil, they removed about 81% of the polystyrene and 72% of PET. This outperformed the same MXene material used without magnetic motion, which relied on passive adsorption rather than actively moving through soil and water.

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Behold the 'Glueball,' a Strange New Form of Matter

robot — 2026-08-12 11:22:01

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sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: For more than half a century, physicists have searched for one of the strangest particles predicted by modern theory. It would be made almost entirely of gluons, the elusive subatomic particles that carry the strong nuclear force. Now, using a particle collider in Beijing, researchers say they have effectively proved the existence of such a "glueball."

In a preprint posted last month on arXiv and in a presentation last week at the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP), the researchers argue that a particle called X(2370), which they produced by smashing electrons into positrons at high energies, has the properties expected of a glueball. "It's an experimental triumph," says Colin Morningstar, a particle physicist at Carnegie Mellon University who was not involved in the finding. "It's the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature."

[ Read more of this story ]( https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/08/12/0551225/behold-the-glueball-a-strange-new-form-of-matter?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

STATS 2026-08-11

root — 2026-08-12 11:11:01

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TOP20 VISITORS:

[1] PetalBot point=6 web=1284 up=8.5MB (30%) <--- PetalBot
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[3] Amazon point=0 web=210 up=1.5MB (5%)
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TOTAL TRAFFIC: 27MB

Mojo 1.0

robot — 2026-08-12 10:44:04

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[ Представлен ]( https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here ) стабильный релиз языка программирования [ Mojo 1.0 ]( https://mojolang.org/ ) , который ознаменовал стабилизацию языка и реализацию всех базовых возможностей. Выпуск оценивается как готовый к повсеместному использованию и позволяющий начать разрабатывать крупные проекты, не опасаясь появления в языке изменений, нарушающих совместимость.

В состав [ платформы ]( https://pypi.org/project/modular/ ) включены компоненты, необходимые для разработки приложений на языке Mojo, включая компилятор, runtime, интерактивную REPL-оболочку для сборки и запуска программ, отладчик, дополнение к редактору кода Visual Studio Code (VS Code) с поддержкой автодополнения ввода, форматирования кода и подсветки синтаксиса, модуль для интеграции с Jupyter для сборки и запуска Mojo notebook. Исходный код стандартной библиотеки Mojo [ открыты ]( https://github.com/modular/modular/tree/main/mojo/stdlib ) под лицензией Apache 2.0 c исключениями от проекта LLVM, допускающими смешивание с кодом под лицензией GPLv2. Исходный код компилятора планируют [ открыть ]( https://github.com/modular/modular/tree/main/mojo/ ) после завершения стабилизации внутренней архитектуры.

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OpenAI выпустила официальный ChatGPT Desktop для Linux

robot — 2026-08-12 10:44:04

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11 августа OpenAI [ объявила о выпуске официального приложения ChatGPT Desktop для Linux ]( https://community.openai.com/t/codex-in-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-is-now-in-preview/1390027 ) . Версия пока имеет статус preview и объединяет в одном настольном клиенте обычный ChatGPT, агентный режим ChatGPT Work и предназначенный для разработки Codex. До этого новый объединённый клиент официально распространялся для Windows и macOS.

На первом этапе OpenAI официально поддерживает:

• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS и Ubuntu 26.04 LTS;

• Debian 13;

• Fedora 43 и Fedora 44;

• архитектуры x86-64 и ARM64;

• пакеты .deb и .rpm.

В опубликованном списке пока нет Arch Linux, openSUSE, RHEL и других дистрибутивов. Также OpenAI не заявила пакеты Flatpak, Snap или AppImage. Скачать Linux-версию предлагается через [ ссылку в официальном анонсе ]( https://community.openai.com/t/codex-in-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-is-now-in-preview/1390027 ) .

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/proprietary/18357385#cut ) )

Компания OpenAI начала тестирование десктоп-приложения ChatGPT для Linux

robot — 2026-08-12 10:44:03

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Компания OpenAI объявила о доступности предварительной версии десктоп-приложения ChatGPT для платформы Linux, предоставляющего интерфейс для использования ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work и AI-агента Codex. Приложение доступно для загрузки в форматах deb и rpm в сборках для архитектур x64 и ARM64. Заявлена поддержка дистрибутивов Ubuntu 24.04/26.04, Debian 13 и Fedora 43/44.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66070

Выпуск эмулятора QEMU 11.1.0

robot — 2026-08-12 10:44:03

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Представлен релиз проекта QEMU 11.1.0. В качестве эмулятора QEMU позволяет запустить программу, собранную для одной аппаратной платформы на системе с совершенно иной архитектурой, например, выполнить приложение для ARM на x86-совместимом ПК. В режиме виртуализации в QEMU производительность выполнения кода в изолированном окружении близка к аппаратной системе за счёт прямого выполнения инструкций на CPU и задействования гипервизора Xen или модуля KVM в Linux, или модуля NVMM в NetBSD.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66069

Contiguous US Breaks Its Record For Hottest Month Ever, NOAA Says

robot — 2026-08-12 08:22:01

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The contiguous United States sizzled to its hottest month ever last month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. July averaged 76.89 degrees Fahrenheit (24.94 degrees Celsius) across the Lower 48 states, eclipsing the Dust Bowl's July 1936 by an eighth of a degree. Records go back to 1895. [...] Although it was unusually cool in Alaska, hotter-than-normal conditions blanketed the Lower 48, with the most excessive heat in the Mountain West, Southwest, Northern Plains and Southeast. The heat was so widespread that every one of the Lower 48 states was at least 1 degree Fahrenheit (nearly 0.6 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 20th century average, said Russ Vose, chief of monitoring at NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information.

[...] The biggest driver of the record heat was nighttime lows that smashed the old mark for hottest minimums by 0.7 degrees, NOAA said. Hotter nights are a classic sign of human-caused climate change, according to scientists and several studies in peer-reviewed literature. NOAA's calculation is based on averaging 24 hours of temperature, not just highs or lows. "If you're talking heat waves, that nighttime low is incredibly important for determining total heat stress," [said meteorologist Jeff Masters of Yale Climate Connections]. "So if it doesn't cool off at night, your body doesn't have time to readjust to all the heat." As nighttime temperatures increase, more people die and lose sleep, studies show.

The years 2021 and 1936 tie for America's hottest summer, which is June through August. Through July, 2026 is a shade cooler than 2021, which was powered by record heat in June. Because of climate change, Masters said, "this may be one of the coolest years we're gonna experience for the rest of our lives." What's needed, Masters said, is "to stop burning so many fossil fuels. We also need to be spending money to adapt to the new climate that we've put in place."

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Linux Desktop Use Surged To 22% On One Workday, Cloudflare Data Shows

robot — 2026-08-12 03:22:02

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Cloudflare data suggests desktop Linux usage in North America has climbed to 6.4%, up from 4.1% a year earlier, with one post-holiday workday briefly spiking to 22%. ZDNet reports: [B]elieve it or not, on Monday, July 6, when people were back after the July 4 holiday, Linux usage jumped to a high of 22%. The users of these systems are not AI agents or bots, but real people. I set Cloudflare to count humans rather than bots. If you include people and bots, Linux has a 9.7% market share. That proportion is similar to StatCounter's score. By Cloudflare's count, bots alone come to 19%.

These numbers tell us that workers are leading the way to the Linux desktop. [...] However, past performance doesn't explain present trends. So, why are we now seeing such a bump in Linux desktop growth? Experts believe this trend is largely AI developers and Linux users running AI Agents. For example, as David Linthicum, former managing director and chief cloud strategy officer at Deloitte Consulting and AI and cloud influencer, recently observed, while "Windows 11 can technically run local AI workloads, but as you begin using multiple tools, managing different projects, and installing various dependencies, the friction starts to build," it's a different story for Linux users.

Linthicum continued: "Linux delivered what I can only describe as a true 'AI desktop' experience. Setup was straightforward, mainstream AI instructions matched what you'd actually see in your environment, and GPU-accelerated apps simply worked -- consistently. I spent far less time troubleshooting and far more time actually executing on projects." As for agents, Linux Foundation CEO Jim Zemlin summed up their role succinctly: "Linux is the OS of choice for AI agents." Desktop Linux is also gaining momentum as frustration with Windows 11 and the end of Windows 10 support push users to alternatives, particularly on older PCs that can't officially upgrade. At the same time, Linux has become much easier to use, install software on, and game with, lowering many of the traditional barriers to switching.

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Freenet Creator Ian Clarke Shares Progress on Its New Decentralized Network

robot — 2026-08-12 02:22:01

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Ian Clarke (aka ancient Slashdot reader Sanity), designer of the peer-to-peer communication platform Freenet, is back with an update on the project's progress following the launch of its P2P network in March. He writes: Earlier this year, Slashdot covered the launch of the completely redesigned Freenet. I recently gave a talk about what we've been building since then. Unlike traditional web applications, apps on Freenet have no central server or database; instead application state is distributed across the network. These now include decentralized group chat, publishing, search, and fully decentralized Git hosting. The talk also gets into some of Freenet's internals, including how we use machine learning for network routing.

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Релиз языка программирования Mojo 1.0

robot — 2026-08-12 01:44:03

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Представлен стабильный релиз языка программирования Mojo 1.0, который ознаменовал стабилизацию языка и реализацию всех базовых возможностей. Выпуск оценивается как готовый к повсеместному использованию и позволяющий начать разрабатывать крупные проекты, не опасаясь появления в языке изменений, нарушающих совместимость.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66066

Выпуск OpenSSH 10.5

robot — 2026-08-12 01:44:03

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Опубликован выпуск OpenSSH 10.5, открытой реализации клиента и сервера для работы по протоколам SSH 2.0 и SFTP. Основные изменения.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66065

Google Gemini Hits 1 Billion Users In Record Time

robot — 2026-08-12 01:22:02

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Gemini has become Google's fastest-growing product ever, reaching 1 billion monthly active users faster than any of the company's 13 other billion-user services. Ars Technica reports: Gemini has wormed its way into virtually every Google product and service, powering email organization in Gmail, document summary in Drive, and much more. Gemini is also core to Google's flagship search experience, with AI Mode and AI Overviews becoming increasingly hard to avoid. The 1 billion-user metric has nothing to do with any of that, though.

These 1 billion users may also be encountering Gemini in all those places, but that's not the MAU metric. Pichai is talking only about people who are opening the Gemini app or visiting the Gemini web interface to enter a prompt or access Gemini Live. If you used Gemini only once in the past month, you are part of this cohort.

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A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices On a Call

robot — 2026-08-12 00:22:01

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on Tuesday, disclosing vulnerabilities in the video conferencing platform Zoom that could have been exploited to take over targets' devices. Anyone on a call that involved screen sharing, whether participants or the host, would have been vulnerable to a silent attack that could be carried out with no indication and no interaction from the victim.

Researchers from the digital defense firm A Security say thebugwas discovered in early June using publicly available AI models, and that it took fewer than 20 prompts to uncover the vulnerabilities and create a working attack. Zoom issued a security advisory on Tuesday, including details about fixes the company has already begun rolling out to address the flaws, which affected devices running all operating systems that Zoom supports -- Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.

The vulnerabilities were specifically in the protocol used to facilitate real-time annotation during screen sharing. The researchers say that their AI bug hunting systems specifically delved into this component because, like human bug hunters, they have been trained that convoluted and obscure functions often contain overlooked vulnerabilities. This is particularly true with proprietary, closed-source software. An established company like Zoom presumably does extensive code review and vetting on all components and functions, but without the benefit of public, open review, esoteric yet complex features like annotation are more likely to contain mistakes. The bugs are now patched, with Zoom issuing both server and client-side fixes—or patches for both Zoom's own servers and the applications that run on customer devices. But the researchers emphasize that it was alarming to contemplate bugs that could have been exploited to take over a target device simply by getting someone onto a Zoom call. "What is interesting for us and what we believe is dangerous is the democratization of these capabilities -- the barrier to entry is dropping rapidly," A Security cofounder Omer Gull told WIRED ahead of the disclosure. "Before it would have taken a team of five people maybe six months with a lot of refining and iteration to find this. Now people can reach the same results with under 20 prompts. And Zoom is an important type of target because people assume trust when using it. They don't see it as a threat."

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Spotify Will Label 'AI Persona' Profiles, Exclude Their Music From Recommendations

robot — 2026-08-11 23:22:01

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Spotify will begin labeling AI-generated artist identities with "AI Persona" badges and exclude their music from editorial, algorithmic, and personalized recommendations unless users explicitly follow them. The company says the designation applies to whether an artist profile represents a real person, not whether AI was used to make the music, and will allow appeals for mislabeling. TechCrunch reports: While Spotify will allow artists to identify themselves as AI Personas, the company says it won't rely on self-disclosure alone. It will also review artist profiles and identify those where the artist's name and imagery appear to represent photorealistic AI-generated identities. Spotify said it will begin its review with profiles that have met pre-defined audience thresholds to ensure the more listened-to artists are covered first.

Once labeled, the AI Persona badges will appear on the artist's profile in the banner and the About section, in Search, and on track rows across playlists. By default, Spotify won't include AI Personas in its editorial or algorithmic recommendations, nor will it add AI Personas' music to users' personalized recommendations -- unless they happen to follow an AI Persona. Only users can choose to follow an artist, so it's an explicit signal that the user wants to hear more music from that person or group. Spotify wrote in its announcement that, "while we believe all artists have creative choice in determining how they present themselves, Spotify's programming is focused on elevating music from authentic artists building careers in music."

"Although there's a broad spectrum in how artists use AI as a creative tool, the question of whether a profile represents an actual human is one where Spotify can help make a clear determination. This badge is about the artist's public identity, not about how the music was made," the company said.

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FastFlowLM 1.0

robot — 2026-08-11 22:44:04

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FastFlowLM предназначен для NPU архитектуры AMD XDNA2 и [ поддерживает семейства Ryzen AI Strix Point, Strix Halo, Kraken Point и Gorgon Point ]( https://github.com/ROCm/FastFlowLM ) . Проект позволяет запускать на NPU языковые и vision-language модели, модели распознавания речи, embeddings и MoE. Заявлена поддержка контекстного окна вплоть до 256 тыс. токенов для некоторых моделей. Размер самого runtime составляет около 17 МБ.

Основные изменения FastFlowLM 1.0:

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/ai/18357231#cut ) )

Paramount Considers Leaving California Amid Antitrust Suit

robot — 2026-08-11 22:22:01

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Paramount CEO David Ellison is threatening to begin moving the studio out of California on October 1 if state Attorney General Rob Bonta refuses to enter settlement talks over the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. The company would reportedly move its Los Angeles headquarters first and shift most studio jobs out of the state over five years, with Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee under consideration. Variety reports: Ellison's threat to relocate Paramount in retaliation for California's Bonta leading the charge to kill the WBD deal -- a move that would include much of its studio operations, over time -- was first reported by industry newsletter Puck. In response, Bonta called Ellison's planned exit from the state an "attempt to blackmail the state into letting an illegal deal through."

"Paramount has lost the plot as it continues to lose in court," the attorney general wrote in a post on X. "It didn't work the first time -- on the eve of our July lawsuit -- and it won't work this time." Bonta has not publicly said what concessions from Paramount-WBD he would consider acceptable enough to take the lawsuit off the table. But the Democratic attorney general has said any remedies would need to be "structural" (i.e., divestments) rather than "behavioral" (e.g., imposing certain production quotas).

Oct. 1 is when Paramount will begin accruing a "ticking fee" payable to Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders of $7 million per day. The trial in the state AGs' lawsuit is scheduled to start March 2, 2027, roughly five months after that, so Paramount would be on the hook to pay around $1.2 billion to WBD shareholders by the time the trial is scheduled to conclude. (Paramount's ticking-fee payments to WBD are not due until the deal closes.) At the Aug. 5 meeting on Paramount's lot, Ellison told his 12-member senior executive team he expects Paramount to prevail in the antitrust case against the states. However, he also said that if Bonta balks at talks, Paramount will start packing up and moving out of the Golden State in less than two months.

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France Bans Unsolicited Telemarking Calls

robot — 2026-08-11 21:22:02

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Starting today, unsolicited telemarking calls are banned in France unless consumers explicitly consent to them. Companies that violate the law can face fines of up to 375,000 euros per call, though existing customers can still be contacted with related offers. Le Monde reports: The government says the law is a response to years of consumer complaints. Authorities estimate that about three-quarters of people in France receive at least one unsolicited sales call every week, and many receive more. In 2024, 11 consumer organizations issued a joint call for a ban, denouncing "relentless harassment of consumers through countless unwanted telemarketing calls to both landlines and mobile phones -- an intrusion that has become a regular part of their daily lives."

Now, "businesses are prohibited from contacting consumers without their prior consent," said Alice Vilcot, chief of staff at the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Prevention of Fraud. "That consent can be withdrawn at any time." [...] Previously in France, people who wanted to avoid marketing calls had to register their number with a government-run service, but consumer groups said some call centers ignored the list. Vilcot noted that an Ireland-based company was fined 6 million euros ($6.9 million) last year for violating France's previous telemarketing rules by calling people on the no-call list.

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OpenSSH 10.5

robot — 2026-08-11 20:44:04

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11 августа состоялся [ выпуск OpenSSH 10.5 ]( https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-10.5 ) , свободной реализации протокола SSH 2.0, включающей клиент и сервер SSH, средства SFTP, перенаправления портов, управления ключами и аутентификации. Новый выпуск последовал примерно через пять недель после OpenSSH 10.4 и преимущественно посвящён исправлению проблем безопасности и ошибок.

Разработчики отдельно объяснили необычно короткий интервал между выпусками [ ростом количества поступающих сообщений об уязвимостях ]( https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-10.5 ) , многие из которых обнаружены моделями искусственного интеллекта или при помощи ИИ. Значительная часть таких отчётов после анализа не представляет практической угрозы, однако команда OpenSSH отметила случаи, когда найденная ИИ проблема позднее независимо обнаруживалась другим исследователем. По мнению разработчиков, это указывает на возможность использования подобных средств злоумышленниками, которые не станут сообщать проектам СПО о найденных ошибках. В связи с этим команда намерена пока [ выпускать исправления чаще ]( https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-10.5 ) , не накапливая их до следующего планового релиза.

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England Set To Eliminate Hepatitis C

robot — 2026-08-11 20:22:01

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: England is on track to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, a dangerous virus that attacks the liver, figures show. The target of treating 80% of all known cases has already been met, and deaths from the virus have fallen by 36% in the last decade, just short of what is needed by 2030. Taking antiviral tablets for 8 to 12 weeks can cure more than 95% of cases. Initiatives including A&E blood tests, GP registration testing and free at-home tests have helped to find people who were previously undiagnosed, says NHS England.

NHS England says that since 2015, more than 100,000 people have been diagnosed and treated for hepatitis C, meaning the country is already meeting that target. Another goal -- a 65% reduction in hepatitis C-related mortality compared with 2015 levels -- has yet to be met, but might be before the 2030 target date. Around 50,200 adults are living with hepatitis C, figures for England in 2024 suggest. Estimates indicate 84.6% of those living with hepatitis C have been diagnosed -- just short of the 90% target. The Hepatitis C Trust says England is "on the cusp" of one of the most significant public health achievements in our country's history.

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Zuckerberg's Superyacht Reportedly Declined To Help Stranded Boat

robot — 2026-08-11 19:22:01

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Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from The Guardian: Mark Zuckerberg has faced questions over why a small cruise ship in south-east Alaska rescued a stranded skiff and its crew when his 387ft superyacht had been closer. The Silicon Valley billionaire's yacht, worth a reported $300 million, is said to have "repeatedly" declined to assist when a nearby boat called for help last week. Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms, was not on board at the time, a spokesperson told Forbes.

When a nearby 21ft skiff ran out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau, the Alaska Beacon reported operators of a cruise ship that was further away than Zuckerberg's yacht came to the rescue. "I'm on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son," a passenger on the UnCruise Adventures ship Wilderness Legacy posted on Bluesky. "Our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg's yacht -- which was closer -- and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)." A spokesperson for Zuckerberg told Forbes that the yacht crew had been operating on a different radio channel and "the assist was already under way" by the time they discovered the broadcast.

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Reddit Bans 11-Year Account for GPL Game Post, Testing the EU's DSA

robot — 2026-08-11 16:22:01

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Longtime Slashdot reader DF5JT writes: On July 26, I posted a single announcement in r/backgammon: GNU Backgammon for Android, GPLv3, the first standalone backgammon engine on F-Droid. Reddit's spam filter removed the post and permanently banned my 11-year, 30,000-karma account -- the result is publicly visible at reddit.com/user/OE1FEU. To this day, Reddit has given no reason whatsoever, although Article 17 of the EU's Digital Services Act makes a statement of reasons mandatory. The only appeal channel is a 250-character web form that sends no confirmation and has never been answered; Reddit's own help text admits: "you may not have received a message to your inbox." A GDPR export of 11 years of data came to 7.2 MB; every post was truncated after a few lines, with zero data about the ban decision.

So I spent one day escalating through every mechanism the EU provides: certified out-of-court dispute settlement at Austria's RTR, complaints with the Austrian and Dutch Digital Services Coordinators, the data protection authority (citing the ECJ's SCHUFA ruling on automated decisions), noyb, and Austria's consumer association. Bonus finding: the European Commission's DSA Transparency Database contains 14,067 Reddit statements of reasons for that week -- none for my ban -- and the Commission's own feedback form limits reports to 500 characters and crashed with a 500 Server Error. Is the DSA enforceable for ordinary users, or just paperwork?

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Как историки не пускают строителей в Баальбек | Соколов смотрит Председателя СНТ #история #факты

BotYouTube — 2026-08-11 14:15:01

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Опубликовано: 2026-08-11T09:46:39+00:00

Правда ли, что историки не пускают в Баальбек специалистов по строительству? Александр Соколов смотрит ролик Председателя СНТ, посвященный знаменитому античному храмовому комплексу в Ливане.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rskmy4fmi8E

The Roboguard Revolution Is Short-Circuiting

robot — 2026-08-11 12:22:01

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alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Robotics companies promise that video-camera-toting security robots can deter and detect crime. But many companies are rethinking the approach after a trail of canceled contracts and questions about whether the artificial intelligence-powered bots are meeting the needs of businesses and local governments. Proof News found evidence of at least 21 security robot deployments since 2015. We contacted contract holders and combed news articles and determined that at least 13 of those programs have ended. Silicon Valley-based Knightscope secured the most security robot contracts, according to Proof's analysis, and also suffered the bulk of cancellations.

For example, New York City's then-Mayor Eric Adams installed a Knightscope robot on the overnight shift at the Times Square subway station, but the program was scrapped when the pilot expired in 2024. City leaders did not respond to Proof News' questions about why the robot wasn't renewed. By the end of its assignment, it was reportedly gathering dust in an empty storefront. Outside Columbus, Ohio, the city of Dublin pulled the plug on a Knightscope robot in May, ending its two-year pilot program after less than 10 months. The city enlisted the robot, dubbed DubBot, to patrol a downtown park, but city spokeswoman Robyn Gray said it "did not fully meet our operational needs," and failed to identify any criminal incidents or lead to any tickets or arrests.

[...] Seeking a new path forward in the security industry, Knightscope CEO William Santana Li said the company is forging a new model, combining its robots and AI-powered software with another key ingredient: human security guards. Knightscope announced it purchased Event Risk LLC, a national security guard firm, earlier this year. Knightscope has incurred net losses since inception in 2013, according to its most recent quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and is $273 million in debt. Knightscope hopes its pivot to incorporate people will give it a greater share of the physical security market -- which the company believes is worth an estimated $230 billion annually. Li declined to answer questions about the disbanded programs, but said in an email, "Technology cannot do everything -- and neither can people -- but the combination can be very powerful."

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STATS 2026-08-10

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TOP20 VISITORS:

[1] 93.123.109.x point=0 web=4 up=12.7MB (23%)
[2] PetalBot point=4 web=1417 up=8.5MB (15%) <--- PetalBot
[3] 86.233.44.x point=0 web=3 up=4.9MB (9%)
[4] 37.252.14.x point=143 web=0 up=2.6MB (4%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[5] 5.9.120.x point=0 web=116 up=2.3MB (4%)
[6] Amazon point=1 web=303 up=2.2MB (4%) <--- Amazon
[7] 199.101.189.x point=0 web=3 up=1.8MB (3%)
[8] 176.134.58.x point=0 web=3 up=1.7MB (3%)
[9] 217.114.158.x point=25 web=0 up=1.4MB (2%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[10] 51.75.119.x point=0 web=13 up=1.0MB (1%)
[11] 92.142.213.x point=0 web=5 up=0.9MB (1%)
[12] 77.143.29.x point=0 web=3 up=0.9MB (1%)
[13] 81.167.26.x point=0 web=10 up=0.6MB (1%)
[14] 216.244.66.x point=0 web=18 up=0.5MB (<1%)
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[16] 90.116.185.x point=0 web=1 up=0.5MB (<1%)
[17] Google point=0 web=75 up=0.4MB (<1%)
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TOTAL TRAFFIC: 53MB

Linux Mint опубликовал HWE-сборку с ядром Linux 7.0

robot — 2026-08-11 10:44:03

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Разработчики дистрибутива Linux Mint опубликовали обновлённые iso-образы, поставляемые с более новой версией ядра Linux. Для выпуска Linux Mint 22.3, изначально поставляемого с ядром 6.14, опубликовано HWE-обновление (Hardware Enablement) с версией ядра 7.0, перенесённой из Ubuntu 26.04 и подготовленной для включения в Ubuntu 26.04.5 LTS. Предполагается, что публикация подобных промежуточных обновлений iso-образов решит возникающие у пользователей проблемы с поддержкой нового оборудования, на фоне продления цикла подготовки релизов и решении опубликовать следующий выпуск Linux Mint в конце декабря 2026 года, а не в начале сентября.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66063

Сотрудники Mozilla случайно разместили на GitHub закрытый GPG-ключ Firefox и Thunderbird

robot — 2026-08-11 10:44:03

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Компания Mozilla объявила о замене GPG-ключа, применяемого для заверения цифровой подписью артефактов релизов Firefox и Thunderbird, таких как tar-архивы, RPM-пакеты и файлы с контрольными суммами. Замена произведена в связи с инцидентом, в результате которого назашифрованная копия ключа была по недосмотру добавлена в приватный репозиторий компании на GitHub, доступный ограниченному числу участников проекта, которые имели доступ к применению ключа через внутренние сервисы.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66062

Apache NetBeans 31

robot — 2026-08-11 09:44:04

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10 августа состоялся [ релиз Apache NetBeans 31 ]( https://netbeans.apache.org/front/main/download/nb31/ ) — очередной выпуск свободной интегрированной среды разработки, платформы инструментов разработчика и фреймворка для создания приложений. NetBeans ориентирован прежде всего на Java, но также предоставляет средства для PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS и ряда других технологий. Проект развивается под эгидой Apache Software Foundation и распространяется под лицензией Apache 2.0.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/java/18356771#cut ) )

Второй тестовый выпуск композитного сервера Xfwl4 от проекта Xfce

robot — 2026-08-11 09:44:03

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Представлен второй предварительный выпуск композитного сервера Xfwl4, использующего протокол Wayland. Xfwl4 написан на языке Rust с использованием библиотеки Smithay. Проект не пересекается с кодовой базой оконного менеджера xfwm4, но нацелен на реализацию всей имеющейся в xfwm4 функциональности, вплоть до возможности использования существующих настроек xfconf и интерфейса конфигурации с учётом специфики использования Wayland вместо X11. Функциональность Xfwl4 намерены довести до уровня, при котором пользователь сможет переключаться между Xfwl4 и xfwm4, не замечая различий.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66061

Выпуск сборочной системы Meson 1.12.0

robot — 2026-08-11 09:44:03

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Опубликован релиз сборочной системы Meson 1.12.0, которая используется для сборки таких проектов, как X.Org Server, Mesa, QEMU, Lighttpd, systemd, GStreamer, Wayland, GNOME и GTK. Код Meson написан на языке Python и поставляется под лицензией Apache 2.0.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66060

Taxi Drivers Rarely Die of Alzheimer's

robot — 2026-08-11 09:22:01

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An anonymous reader shares a report from The Conversation, written by Hatim Sharif, a civil and environmental engineer who has "spent more than two decades staring at maps" and spatial data. Sharif finds one connection especially fascinating: the link between spatial reasoning and why taxi drivers seem to have lower rates of Alzheimer's. From the report: Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer's disease. That was the surprising result of a 2024 study examining the death certificates of nearly 9 million people in the U.S. [...] Of the 9 million death certificates from January 2020 to December 2022 that researchers examined, taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest risk of dying from Alzheimer's disease out of 443 occupations. After adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity and education, roughly 1 in 100 taxi and ambulance drivers died of Alzheimer's, compared with 1 in 60 people overall. This pattern did not extend to other driving jobs.

The researchers concluded that the key to reducing the risk of Alzheimer's was not driving itself but continuous real-time navigation: the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change. Drivers whose jobs relied on fixed or predetermined routes, like bus drivers and aircraft pilots, didn't seem to experience a similar advantage. Researchers believe the association between navigation-heavy work and lower Alzheimer's risk centers on the hippocampus, a part of the brain that governs memory and spatial navigation. It's one of the first brain regions that Alzheimer's damages: Problems with spatial navigation and orientation are among the earliest signs of the disease, sometimes surfacing before obvious memory loss.

In one landmark 2000 study, neuroscientists compared the brains of licensed London taxi drivers with those of people who did not drive cabs. Their findings provided the first evidence via structural imaging that regions of the adult brain can measurably change under sustained navigational demand. To earn a license, London cabbies must memorize more than 25,000 streets within a 6-mile radius of Charing Cross, a challenge known as "The Knowledge" that takes three to four years.

The researchers found that London taxi drivers had measurably more gray matter in the posterior hippocampus, a brain area tied to storing large-scale spatial maps. That volume tracked with experience: The longer someone had driven, the larger that part of the brain. The change was built through practice, not inherited. While people who are good at navigation might gravitate to this kind of job, the job itself does have an impact on the brain. Together, these two studies make a coherent case: Work that intensively exercises the hippocampus may reshape it, and that reshaping may protect against one of the most feared diseases of aging.

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Cyber Vulnerability Sweep Picks Up Royal Navy Drones Sending Data To China

robot — 2026-08-11 03:22:01

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A routine security assessment found that cameras aboard Royal Navy Kraken unmanned surface vessels were sending "heartbeat" signals to an IP address in China. "A thorough investigation found no evidence of MoD data or systems being accessed, compromised or transmitted externally," said a Ministry of Defense spokesperson. "Our assurance and testing processes are designed to identify and address potential vulnerabilities early, and we continue to undertake routine security activity across our systems and equipment." The Register reports: According to reports, the talkative components were cameras sourced by Kraken from a third-party supplier. The incident raises questions about supply chains, audits, and cybersecurity in the British armed forces. The spokesperson said: "The first duty of government is national security, and we take the security of our equipment, networks, and data extremely seriously."

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A Data Breach At Shipping Giant Ceva Logistics Is Rippling Across Banks, Retailers, Steam Gamers, and Beyond

robot — 2026-08-11 02:22:01

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Ceva Logistics, one of the world's largest shipping and logistics giants, has been hacked. Several companies that rely on Ceva for shipping their products to their customers say that their personal information was also stolen in the breach. The cyberattack on Ceva is affecting at least eight warehouses across Europe used for shipping goods across the continent, the company told TechCrunch. Industry news site FreightWaves reports that the hack began on July 29 and is causing shipping delays for many of the goods in affected warehouses.

Ceva is a France-headquartered shipping and logistics giant that companies around the world rely on to deliver their goods from their assembly lines to customer homes. The company, which brought in $18.3 billion in revenue in 2025, has over a thousand warehouses across the world. [...] The hack at Ceva also resulted in a data breach, affecting a large amount of personal information belonging to retail customers that Ceva relies on for delivering goods to people's home addresses. Several companies reported that hackers took their customers' names, home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses used to place their orders from Ceva's systems.

Dutch online retail giant Bol said on its website that hackers gained access to systems of its warehousing partner, Ceva, and warned that their customers' data may have been taken. Bol also said that it expects delays and some customer orders to be canceled as a result of the incident. De Bijenkorf, another Dutch luxury retailer, similarly confirmed order delays following the theft of its customers' data, per local media. Football club Ajax, banking giant ING, and eyeglass maker Ace & Tate also reported that customers' shipping information was affected. Video game giant Valve told customers that it learned on August 7 that data was taken from Ceva's systems, and alerted customers who recently bought its Steam hardware that they had personal information taken in the incident. Valve said in its note to customers, posted to Reddit, that Ceva stores their shipping and delivery information for 90 days following their order. So far, Ceva says the agency has received data breach reports from 10 organizations in relation to the incident.

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Purism выпустила защищённый Linux-ноутбук Librem 16

robot — 2026-08-11 01:44:04

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Компания Purism выпустила 16-дюймовый ноутбук Librem 16, ориентированный на пользователей, которым важны свободное ПО, конфиденциальность и возможность аппаратного отключения потенциально опасных компонентов. Официальный [ анонс устройства состоялся 23 июня 2026 года ]( https://puri.sm/posts/librem-16-product-launch/ ) , хотя ряд СМИ обратил внимание на модель только сейчас.

Librem 16 поставляется с разработанным Purism дистрибутивом [ PureOS ]( https://puri.sm/products/librem-16/ ) , основанным на Debian. PureOS состоит из свободного ПО и входит в [ список рекомендованных Free Software Foundation дистрибутивов GNU/Linux ]( https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-adds-pureos-to-list-of-endorsed-gnu-linux-distributions-1 ) . Purism заявляет об отсутствии в системе рекламы, запросов на сбор пользовательских данных и фоновых сервисов, передающих сторонним компаниям телеметрию.

Одной из главных особенностей Librem 16 стали [ два физических переключателя ]( https://puri.sm/products/librem-16/ ) , расположенные над клавиатурой. Первый аппаратно отключает камеру и микрофон, второй — Wi-Fi и Bluetooth. В документации подчёркивается, что при переводе переключателя в положение OFF соответствующие устройства [ физически отсоединяются и перестают работать ]( https://docs.puri.sm/Hardware/l16/overview/getting_started.html ) , то есть отключение не зависит от состояния операционной системы или драйверов.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/hardware/18356532#cut ) )

Релиз ALT Workstation 11.2

robot — 2026-08-11 01:44:04

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Вышло обновление рабочей станции ALT Workstation 11.2. Сборка основана на ядре 6.12 LTS, в составе — свежее окружение GNOME 48 и множество улучшений.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/russia/18356587#cut ) )

Подробнее читайте на ресурсах сообщества:

• [ altlinux-announce-ru@ ]( https://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/altlinux-announce-ru/2026/000071.html )

• [ community@ ]( https://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/community/2026-August/689512.html )

[ Новость на basealt.ru ]( https://www.basealt.ru/about/news/archive/view/alt-rabochaja-stancija-112-gnome-48-novye-instrumenty-upravlenija-prilozhenija-i-besshovnaja-migracija )

[ Другие дистрибутивы ALT на сайте загрузки ]( http://getalt.ru )

Valve Slowly Expands SteamOS Support On Non-Valve Hardware

robot — 2026-08-11 01:22:02

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Valve is continuing to broaden SteamOS support beyond its own hardware, with the latest beta adding "initial gamepad support" for a few recent gaming handhelds and improving compatibility for a few others. Ars Technica reports: Those newly supported handhelds include MSI's Claw 8 EX AI+, the extremely expensive, extremely powerful handheld built around Intel's Arc G3 processor that launched this summer. While SteamOS has long included beta support for "other AMD powered handhelds," Valve has only recently been working on offering compatibility with Intel-based handhelds like the MSI Claw line. This weekend's update suggests the company hasn't abandoned those efforts and that Intel chips aren't being left out of the SteamOS conversation.

SteamOS 3.8.25 also newly supports the controllers built into Ayaneo's Android-focused Pocket S2 and the more recently released Windows-based Konkr Fit. Valve also says the new OS offers "improved support" for older MSI Claw devices and the OneXPlayer line of portable gaming PCs. This weekend's update follows June's SteamOS 3.8 update, which stressed "improved compatibility with recent Intel and AMD platforms." That update specifically called out improved controller support on handhelds from the likes of GPD Win, Anbernic, and OrangePi, as well as improvements for various Lenovo Legion Go, MSI Claw, and OneXPlayer devices. The report notes that the new SteamOS update also updates the Linux driver powering the new Steam Controller, "allowing it to work with 'native controller applications' even when Steam is not running."

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Представлен ReTransmission, форк BitTorrent-клиента Transmission

robot — 2026-08-11 00:44:03

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В рамках проекта ReTransmission началась разработка форка BitTorrent-клиента Transmission. К разработке форка подключились Чарльз Керр (Charles Kerr), ключевой разработчик проекта, внёсший большинство изменений, а также Ят Хо (Yat Ho), занимающий третье место по числу коммитов. В качестве причины создания форка упоминается урегулирование конфликта между сопровождающими по вопросу целесообразности добавления новых сопровождающих.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66057

First Rival Android App Store Arrives In the US Play Store

robot — 2026-08-11 00:22:01

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Aptoide has become the first third-party Android app store available directly through Google Play in the U.S. "The change is a direct result of Google's litigation with Epic, which saw a judge rule in 2024 that the Play Store would have to open up to third-party stores," notes The Verge. The change makes rival storefronts far easier to discover and install, potentially opening the door for Epic, Amazon, Samsung, Microsoft and others to distribute their own app stores through Google's store. From the report: Third-party app stores have always been available on Android, which is a more open platform than iOS in that respect. However, until now they've only been available if pre-installed on a device -- as with the Amazon Appstore on Fire tablets or Samsung's Galaxy Store -- or installed via sideloading. Listing rival storefronts within the Play Store makes them much easier for users to find and access.
[...]

Aptoide itself is relatively little known, but it's likely to be the first of many alternative app stores. It's presumably only a matter of time before the Epic Store makes its own appearance, and the likes of Amazon, Samsung, and other phone manufacturers may also want to put their stores in front of potential customers.

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