An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Since launching Google Play (nee Android Market) in 2008, Google has never made a change to the US store that it didn't want to make -- until now. Having lost the antitrust case brought by Epic Games, Google has implemented the first phase of changes mandated by the court. Developers operating in the Play Store will have more freedom to direct app users to resources outside the Google bubble. However, Google has not given up hope of reversing its loss before it's forced to make bigger changes. Epic began pursuing this case in 2020, stemming from its attempt to sell Fortnite content without going through Google's payment system. It filed a similar case against Apple, but the company fell short there because it could not show that Apple put its thumb on the scale. Google, however, engaged in conduct that amounted to suppressing the development of alternative Android app stores. It lost the case and came up short on appeal this past summer, leaving the company with little choice but to prepare for the worst.

Google has updated its support pages to confirm that it's abiding by the court's order. In the US, Play Store developers now have the option of using external payment platforms that bypass the Play Store entirely. This could hypothetically allow developers to offer lower prices, as they don't have to pay Google's commission, which can be up to 30 percent. Devs will also be permitted to direct users to sources for app downloads and payment methods outside the Play Store. Google's support page stresses that these changes are only being instituted in the US version of the Play Store, which is all the US District Court can require. The company also notes that it only plans to adhere to this policy "while the US District Court's order remains in effect." Judge James Donato's order runs for three years, ending on November 1, 2027.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting ready to dump even more AI-generated posts into your social feeds. From a report: During an earnings call on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said the company will "add yet another huge corpus of content" to its recommendations system as AI "makes it easier to create and remix" work that gets shared online.

"Social media has gone through two eras so far," Zuckerberg said. "First was when all content was from friends, family, and accounts that you followed directly. The second was when we added all of the Creator content." Though Zuckerberg stops short of calling AI the third era of social media, it's clear that the technology will be heavily involved in what comes next.

Zuckerberg said that recommendation systems that "deeply understand" AI-generated posts and "show you the right content" will become "increasingly valuable." The company has already begun embedding AI tools across its apps and is now experimenting with dedicated AI social apps, too.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: The International Criminal Court will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv. The switch comes amid rising concerns about public bodies being reliant on US tech companies to run their services, which have stepped up sharply since the start of US President Donald Trump's second administration.

For the ICC, such concerns are not abstract: Trump has repeatedly lashed out at the court and slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. Earlier this year, the AP also reported that Microsoft had cancelled Khan's email account, a claim the company denies. "We value our relationship with the ICC as a customer and are convinced that nothing impedes our ability to continue providing services to the ICC in the future," a Microsoft spokesperson told Euractiv.

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TypeScript overtook Python and JavaScript in August 2025 to become the most used language on GitHub. The shift marked the most significant language change in more than a decade. The language grew by over 1 million contributors in 2025, a 66% increase year over year, and finished August with 2,636,006 monthly contributors.

Nearly every major frontend framework now scaffolds projects in TypeScript by default. Next.js 15, Astro 3, SvelteKit 2, Qwik, SolidStart, Angular 18, and Remix all generate TypeScript codebases when developers create new projects. Type systems reduce ambiguity and catch errors from large language models before production. A 2025 academic study found 94% of LLM-generated compilation errors were type-check failures. Tooling like Vite, ts-node, Bun, and I.D.E. autoconfig hide boilerplate setup. Among new repositories created in the past twelve months, TypeScript accounted for 5,394,256 projects. That represented a 78% increase from the prior year.

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Представлен выпуск проекта Sculpt 25.10, развивающего операционную систему на базе технологий Genode OS Framework, которая сможет быть использована обычными пользователями для выполнения повседневных задач. Исходные тексты проекта распространяются под лицензией AGPLv3. Для загрузки предлагается системный образ, размером 35 МБ, который можно использовать на ПК, смартфоне PinePhone и ноутбуке MNT Reform. Поддерживается работа на системах с процессорами и графической подсистемой Intel с включёнными расширениями VT-d и VT-x, а также на системах ARM с расширениями VMM.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64144

Опубликовано: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:57:06 GMT
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Сегодня мы будем делать еще один восьмибитный компьютер. Да, я еще не наигрался со всеми этими штуками.Coolsystem - идея компьютера, сочетающего в себе идеи о защищенной среде выполнения (причем в очень-очень специфичном варианте) и способного запускать готовый софт для восьмибитных персоналок 80-х годов. Также он может использоваться для изучения основ схемотехники, своего рода учебный компьютер. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/diy_fest/articles/961420/

Carmakers in the EU are "days away" from closing production lines, the industry has warned, as a crisis over computer chip supplies from China escalates. From a report: The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) issued an urgent warning on Wednesday saying its members, which include BMW, Fiat, Peugeot and Volkswagen, were now working on "reserve stocks but supplies are dwindling."

"Assembly line stoppages might only be days away. We urge all involved to redouble their efforts to find a diplomatic way out of this critical situation," said its director general, Sigrid de Vries. Another ACEA member, Mercedes, is now searching globally for alternative sources of the crucial semiconductors, according to its chief executive, Ola Kallenius. The chip shortage is also causing problems in Japan, where Nissan's chief performance officer, Guillaume Cartier, told reporters at a car show in Tokyo that the company was only "OK to the first week of November" in terms of supply.

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Gallup: After peaking at a record high of 39.9% in 2022, the U.S. adult obesity rate has gradually declined to 37.0% in 2025. This is a statistically meaningful decrease representing an estimated 7.6 million fewer obese adults compared with three years ago. Meanwhile, diagnoses of diabetes -- a lifetime disease that can be managed but not cured -- have now reached an all-time high of 13.8%. Both metrics are part of the ongoing Gallup National Health and Well-Being Index.

[...] Over the past year, more Americans have turned to Type 2 antidiabetic GLP-1 drugs such as semaglutide (brand names Ozempic and Wegovy) for weight loss purposes. The percentage of adults who report taking this class of medicine specifically for weight loss has increased to 12.4%, compared with 5.8% in February 2024 when Gallup first measured it. Usage among women (15.2%) continues to outpace men (9.7%), but both groups have more than doubled their use in the past year. These results dovetail with increased awareness of the drugs used for weight loss, which has risen from 80% to 89% nationally in the same period.

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Britain is facing mounting pressure to ban mercury dental fillings, one of the few countries yet to prevent the practice, as new data reveals alarming contamination levels in the nation's fish and shellfish. The Guardian: Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that can harm the nervous, digestive and immune systems, as well as the lungs, kidneys, skin and eyes, even at low levels of exposure. Its organic form, methylmercury, is particularly dangerous to unborn babies and can move through the food chain building up in insects, fish and birds.

Britain is lagging behind the rest of the world on phasing out mercury dental fillings, with 43 countries having already banned mercury amalgam, including the EU, Sweden, Norway, Tanzania, Uganda, Indonesia and the Philippines. Northern Ireland will outlaw mercury fillings from 2035 but no such ban is planned in the rest of Britain. According to new analysis by the Rivers Trust and Wildlife and Countryside Link, more than 98% of fish and mussels tested in English rivers and coastal waters contain mercury above safety limits proposed by the EU, with more than half containing more than five times the recommended safe level.

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New submitter hadleyburg writes: President Trump has directed the Department of War to restart nuclear weapons testing. The directive appears to be a counter measure to rival nations catching up with the US. The last US nuclear test was an underground test, on September 23, 1992, in Nevada.

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Опубликовано: 2025-10-30T14:09:10+00:00

Откуда на огромном обелиске взялись следы от совковой лопаты? Куда древнеегипетский мастер, пробивая шурф в граните, ставил пивную кружку? Почему в древнеегипетском карьере нет следов присутствия человека и куда девались отходы производства? Александр Соколов продолжает разбор ролика канала «Протоцивилизация» про Асуанский обелиск.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXBxbX9uv4I

Google will offer 18-month free access to its Gemini AI service for all 505 million telecom users of India's Reliance Jio, a tie-up that follows similar freebies from rivals including OpenAI to boost adoption in the world's most populous nation. From a report: The move also comes weeks after Google committed to invest $15 billion in AI infrastructure capacity in India, its biggest investment yet in the critical South Asian market.

[...] The Gemini offer will give Jio users free access to the advanced model of the AI app, two terabytes of cloud storage, and its image and video generation models, in an 18-month offering that is otherwise priced at 35,100 rupees ($399). The companies on Thursday also announced AI partnerships that targeted Indian businesses.

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More than a half dozen federal departments and agencies have backed a proposal to ban future sales of the most popular home routers in the United States on the grounds that the vendor's ties to mainland China make them a national security risk, Washington Post reported Thursday, citing people briefed on the matter. From the report: The proposal, which arose from a months-long risk assessment, calls for blocking sales of networking devices from TP-Link Systems of Irvine, California, which was spun off from a China-based company, TP-Link Technologies, but owns some of that company's former assets in China.

The ban was proposed by the Commerce Department and supported this summer by an interagency process that includes the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense, the people said. "TP-Link vigorously disputes any allegation that its products present national security risks to the United States," Ricca Silverio, a spokeswoman for TP-Link Systems, said in a statement. "TP-Link is a U.S. company committed to supplying high-quality and secure products to the U.S. market and beyond."

If imposed, the ban would be among the largest in consumer history and a possible sign that the East-West divide over tech independence is still deepening amid reports of accelerated Chinese government-supported hacking. Only the legislated ban of Chinese-owned TikTok, which President Donald Trump has averted with executive orders and a pending sale, would impact more U.S. consumers.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: A mother with court-ordered custody of her children has described how Apple's Family Sharing feature can be weaponized by a former partner. Apple support staff were unable to assist her when she reported her former partner using the service in controlling and coercive ways... [...] Namely, Family Sharing gives all the control to one parent, not to both equally. The parent not identified as the organizer is unable to withdraw their children from this control, even when they have a court order granting them custody. As one woman's story shows, this can allow the feature which allows it to be weaponized by an abusive former partner.

Wired reports: "The lack of dual-organizer roles, leaving other parents effectively as subordinate admins with more limited power, can prove limiting and frustrating in blended and shared households. And in darker scenarios, a single-organizer setup isn't merely inconvenient -- it can be dangerous. Kate (name changed to protect her privacy and safety) knows this firsthand. When her marriage collapsed, she says, her now ex-husband, the designated organizer, essentially weaponized Family Sharing. He tracked their children's locations, counted their screen minutes and demanded they account for them, and imposed draconian limits during Kate's custody days while lifting them on his own [...] After they separated, Kate's ex refused to disband the family group. But without his consent, the children couldn't be transferred to a new one. "I wrongly assumed being the custodial parent with a court order meant I'd be able to have Apple move my children to a new family group, with me as the organizer," says Kate. But Apple couldn't help. Support staff sympathized but said their hands were tied because the organizer holds the power." Although users can "abandon the accounts and start again with new Apple IDs," the report notes that doing so means losing all purchased apps, along with potentially years' worth of photos and videos.

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Опубликовано: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:12:25 GMT
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Можно ли доверить свои сервисы домашнему серверу — и не пожалеть? В этой статье разбираем, реально ли организовать надёжный самохостинг без глубоких админских навыков и огромных вложений: от выбора мини‑ПК и установки Ubuntu до безопасной публикации сервисов в сети. Вы узнаете, стоит ли отказываться от VPS, как открыть доступ к серверу из интернета без критических рисков, каких подводных камней ждать при развёртывании и как избежать типичных ошибок новичков. Материал для разработчиков, системных администраторов и IT‑энтузиастов, которые хотят контролировать свою инфраструктуру, но сомневаются в целесообразности самохостинга. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/961174/

Компания Google опубликовала релиз web-браузера Chrome 142. Одновременно доступен стабильный выпуск свободного проекта Chromium, выступающего основой Chrome. Браузер Chrome отличается от Chromium использованием логотипов Google, наличием системы отправки уведомлений в случае краха, модулями для воспроизведения защищённого от копирования видеоконтента (DRM), системой автоматической установки обновлений, постоянным включением Sandbox-изоляции, поставкой ключей к Google API и передачей RLZ-параметров при поиске. Для тех, кому необходимо больше времени на обновление, отдельно поддерживается ветка Extended Stable, сопровождаемая 8 недель. Следующий выпуск Chrome 143 запланирован на 2 декабря.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64142

Опубликовано: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:42:15 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр

В этом тексте я произвел обзор Си-шной реализации протокола iso-15765 (он же ISO-TP), которую можно свободно скачать с сайта github в репозитории DevCoons.Определил достоинства и недостатки данной реализации ISO-TP протокола. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/958354/

Alphabet reported its first-ever $100 billion quarter, fueled by a 34% surge in Google Cloud revenue and booming AI demand. The tech giant also announced an increase in expected capital expenditures for the fiscal year of 2025. CNBC reports: "With the growth across our business and demand from Cloud customers, we now expect 2025 capital expenditures to be in a range of $91 billion to $93 billion," the company said in its earnings report (PDF) Wednesday. "Looking out to 2026, we expect a significant increase in CapEx and will provide more detail on our fourth quarter earnings call," said finance chief Anat Ashkenazi on the earnings call with investors Wednesday.

Earlier this year, the company increased its capital expenditure expectation from $75 billion to $85 billion. Most of that goes toward technical infrastructure such as data centers. The latest earnings show the company is seeing rising demand for its AI services, which largely sit in its cloud unit. It also shows the company is continuing to spend more to try and build out more infrastructure to accomodate the backlog of customer requests. "We continue to drive strong growth in new businesses. Google Cloud accelerated, ending the quarter with $155 billion in backlog," CEO Sundar Pichai said in the earnings release.

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26 октября, после более полугода разработки, состоялся выпуск 9.4.0 библиотеки [ libzim ]( https://github.com/openzim/libzim ) , предназначенной для работы с файлами в формате [ ZIM ]( https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/ZIM_file_format ) . Разработка библиотеки ведётся и спонсируется проектом [ Kiwix ]( https://kiwix.org ) .

ZIM – формат, предназначенный для офлайн-хранения информации, полученной из Web, в виде одного файла. В ZIM-файле в сжатом виде находятся логически связанные между собой HTML-страницы (а иногда и образы сайтов целиком) с работающими гиперссылками, изображениями, звуком и видео.

Проектом Kiwix разрабатывается набор консольных утилит [ zim-tools ]( https://github.com/openzim/zim-tools ) , [ десктопный ]( https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-desktop ) и [ мобильные ]( https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android ) клиенты, и скрипты [ для создания файлов ZIM из дампов проектов Wikimedia ]( https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner ) или [ из HTML ]( https://github.com/openzim/zimit ) .

Также libzim используется в форке словаря GoldenDict – [ GoldenDict-NG ]( https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng ) .

Краткий список возможностей библиотеки:

• создание файлов ZIM cо сжатием данных в формате Zstandard (ранее поддерживались форматы ZIP, LZMA и Bzip2);

• поиск по названиям статей;

• опциональная поддержка [ Xapian ]( https://xapian.org ) для полнотекстового поиска. Множество файлов ZIM можно скачать [ здесь ]( https://download.kiwix.org/zim ) .

Библиотека написана на языке C++ и распространяется по лицензии GNU GPL 2.0.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18127407#cut ) )

Опубликовано: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 07:05:28 GMT
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Amolen, Into-SerendipityВ прошлой статье мы подняли такой интересный вопрос, как создание ткани своими руками. Мы увидели, что это более чем реально, собственно, как об этом не просто утверждает, а, можно сказать, "вопиет" вся история человечества. :-). Создание ткани само по себе, надо думать, достаточно "медитативное" занятие, и хорошо разгружает голову (с пользой для домашнего хозяйства). Однако, в ходе рассмотрения, был и ещё один очень любопытный вопрос, который мы так и не затронули: а как вообще управлять "холодностью" или "тёплостью" тканей?И вопрос этот, как мы увидим далее, достаточно нетривиальный, но, в то же время, очень интересный, так как если мы научимся управлять теплотой тканей, поймём основные принципы, то, это поможет, как в деле гипотетического постапокалиптического "выживальчества", так и может дать ряд новых интересных идей... Итак, посмотрим, как это всё работает... Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/beget/articles/960296/

sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: From enabling life as we know it to greasing the geological machinery of plate tectonics, water can have a huge influence on a planet's behavior. But how do planets get their water? An infant world might be bombarded by icy comets and waterlogged asteroids, for instance, or it could form far enough from its host star that water can precipitate as ice. However, certain exoplanets pose a puzzle to astronomers: alien worlds that closely orbit their scorching home stars yet somehow appear to hold significant amounts of water.

A new series of laboratory experiments, published today in Nature, has revealed a deceptively straightforward solution to this enigma: These planets make their own water. Using diamond anvils and pulsed lasers, researchers managed to re-create the intense temperatures and pressures present at the boundary between these planets' hydrogen atmospheres and molten rocky cores. Water emerged as the minerals cooked within the hydrogen soup. Because this kind of geologic cauldron could theoretically boil and bubble for billions of years, the mechanism could even give hellishly hot planets bodies of water -- implying that ocean worlds, and the potentially habitable ones among them, may be more common than scientists already thought. "They can basically be their own water engines," says Quentin Williams, an experimental geochemist at the University of California Santa Cruz who was not involved with the new work.

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Опубликован первый выпуск pgbalancer, балансировщика нагрузки PostgreSQL на основе искусственного интеллекта с REST API и MQTT. Pgbalancer обеспечивает обработку пула соединений и балансировку нагрузки для PostgreSQL, управляется по протоколу HTTP и поддерживает потоковую передачу событий в режиме реального времени. Проект создан как форк pgpool-II с серьёзными улучшениями для умной маршрутизации запросов. Код написан на языке Си и распространяется под открытой лицензией PostgreSQL.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64140

Marek Olšák, разработчик видеодрайверов из компании AMD, добавил в кодовую базу Mesa изменение, переводящее драйвер RadeonSI на использование по умолчанию промежуточного представления (IR) шейдеров NIR и бэкенда компиляции шейдеров ACO, развиваемого компанией Valve в качестве альтернативы компилятору шейдеров LLVM. Бэкенд ACO нацелен на обеспечение генерации кода, насколько это возможно оптимального для шейдеров игровых приложений, а также на достижение очень высокой скорости компиляции.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64141

Опубликовано: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 05:25:33 GMT
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У меня есть старый «плоскоэкранный» телевизор, произведённый в 2009 году. Он всё ещё жив потому, что я испытываю к нему странную ностальгическую любовь. А ещё потому, что я написал для него очень хорошо работающую автоматизацию, мигрировать с которой было бы трудно.Однако у телевизора есть проблема: он очень часто попадает в резонанс со встроенными динамиками, из-за чего корпус устройства начинает достаточно сильно вибрировать и ужасно шуметь.Чтобы продлить срок жизни этого реликта, я решил вложиться в дешманский саундбар Majority Snowdon II . Благодаря нему удалось решить проблему резонанса, но ей на смену пришли особенности саундбара. А именно, его тупость.Да, это не смарт-устройство, несмотря на то, что его выпустили в 2022 году. У него есть инфракрасный пульт дистанционного управления, несколько физических кнопок, и на этом всё! Однако когда я покупал его, у меня был план. Я думал, что, наверно, смогу сделать его умнее. Поэтому когда пульт в 87-й раз завалился в щель дивана, я решил вскрыть саундбар и разобраться, что с ним можно сделать. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/952802/

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: In March, three months after being forced out of his position as the CEO of Intel and sued by shareholders, Patrick Gelsinger took the reins at Gloo, a technology company made for what he calls the "faith ecosystem" -- think Salesforce for churches, plus chatbots and AI assistants for automating pastoral work and ministry support. [...] Now Gloo's executive chair and head of technology (who's largely free of the shareholder suit), Gelsinger has made it a core mission to soft-power advance the company's Christian principles in Silicon Valley, the halls of Congress and beyond, armed with a fundraised war chest of $110 million. His call to action is also a pitch for AI aligned with Christian values: tech products like those built by Gloo, many of which are built on top of existing large language models, but adjusted to reflect users' theological beliefs.

"My life mission has been [to] work on a piece of technology that would improve the quality of life of every human on the planet and hasten the coming of Christ's return," he said. Gloo says it serves "over 140,000 faith, ministry and non-profit leaders". Though its intended customers are not the same, Gloo's user base pales in comparison with those of AI industry titans: about 800 million active users rely on ChatGPT every week, not to mention Claude, Grok and others.

[...] Gelsinger wants faith to suffuse AI. He has also spearheaded Gloo's Flourishing AI initiative, which evaluates leading large language models' effects on human welfare across seven variables -- in essence gauging whether they are a force for good and for users' religious lives. It's a system adapted from a Harvard research initiative, the Human Flourishing Program. Models like Grok 3, DeepSeek-R1 and GPT-4.1 earn high marks, 81 out of 100 on average, when it comes to helping users through financial questions, but underperform, about 35 out of 100, when it comes to "Faith," or the ability, according to Gloo's metrics, to successfully support users' spiritual growth. Gloo's initiative has yet to visibly attract Silicon Valley's attention. A Gloo spokesperson said the company is "starting to engage" with prominent AI companies. "I want Zuck to care," Gelsinger said.

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schwit1 shares a report from IOL: China has enacted a new law regulating social media influencers, requiring them to hold verified professional qualifications before posting content on sensitive topics such as medicine, law, education, and finance, IOL reported. The new law went into effect on Saturday. The regulation was introduced by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) as part of its broader effort to curb misinformation online.

Under the new rules, influencers must prove their expertise through recognized degrees, certifications, or licenses before discussing regulated subjects. Major platforms such as Douyin (China's TikTok), Bilibili, and Weibo are now responsible for verifying influencer credentials and ensuring that content includes clear citations, disclaimers, and transparency about sources. A separate report notes that if influencers are caught talking about the "serious" topics, they will face a fine of up to 100,000 yuan ($14,000).

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BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: SUSE is making headlines with the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16, the first enterprise Linux distribution to integrate agentic AI directly into the operating system. It uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to securely connect AI models with data sources while maintaining provider freedom. This gives organizations the ability to run AI-driven automation without relying on a single ecosystem. With a 16-year lifecycle, reproducible builds, instant rollback capabilities, and post-2038 readiness, SLES 16 also doubles down on long-term reliability and transparency.

For enterprises, this launch marks a clear step toward embedding intelligence at the infrastructure level. The system can now perform AI-assisted administration via Cockpit or the command line, potentially cutting downtime and operational costs. SUSE's timing might feel late given the AI boom, but its implementation appears deliberate -- balancing innovation with the stability enterprises demand. It's likely to pressure Red Hat and Canonical to follow suit, redefining what "AI-ready" means for Linux in corporate environments.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Substrate, a small U.S. startup, said on Tuesday that it had developed a chipmaking tool capable of competing with the most advanced lithography equipment made by Dutch firm ASML. Substrate's tool is the first step in the startup's ambitious plan to build a U.S.-based contract chip-manufacturing business that would compete with Taiwan's TSMC in making the most advanced AI chips, its CEO James Proud told Reuters in an interview. Proud wants to slash the cost of chipmaking by producing the tools needed much more cheaply than rivals. [...]

An engineering feat that has eluded even large companies, lithography needs extreme precision. ASML is the only company in the world that has been able to make at scale the complex tools that use extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to produce patterns on silicon wafer at a high rate of throughput. Substrate said that it has developed a version of lithography that uses X-ray light and is capable of printing features at resolutions that are comparable to the most advanced chipmaking tools made by ASML that cost more than $400 million apiece. The company said it has conducted demonstrations at U.S. National Laboratories and at its facilities in San Francisco. The company provided high resolution images that demonstrate the Substrate tool's capabilities. "This is an opportunity for the U.S. to recapture this market with a homegrown company," Oak Ridge National Laboratory director Stephen Streiffer, an expert on high-energy x-ray beams, said in an interview. "It's a nationally important effort and they know what they're doing."

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Nvidia is taking a $1 billion stake in Nokia, sending the Finnish telecom giant's shares up 22%. The two companies also struck a partnership to co-develop next-generation 6G and AI-driven networking technology. CNBC reports: The two companies also struck a strategic partnership to work together to develop next-generation 6G cellular technology. Nokia said that it would adapt its 5G and 6G software to run on Nvidia's chips, and will collaborate on networking technology for AI. Nokia said Nvidia would consider incorporating its technology into its future AI infrastructure plans. Nokia, a Finnish company, is best known for its early cellphones, but in recent years, it has primarily been a supplier of 5G cellular equipment to telecom providers.

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Grammarly is rebranding itself as "Superhuman" following its acquisition of the email client, while keeping its existing product names for now. Along with the rebrand, the company is launching "Superhuman Go," an AI assistant that integrates with tools like Gmail, Jira, and Google Drive to enhance writing and automate productivity tasks. "The assistant can use these connections to do tasks like logging tickets or fetching your availability when you're scheduling a meeting," adds TechCrunch. "Superhuman said it plans to add functionality to enable the assistant to fetch data from sources like CRMs and internal systems to suggest changes to your emails."

"Users can try Superhuman Go by turning on a toggle in the Grammarly extension, which will let them connect it to different apps. Users can also try out different agents in the company's agent store, which include a plagiarism checker and a proofreader, launched in August."

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Character.AI said on Wednesday that it would bar people under 18 from using its chatbots starting late next month, in a sweeping move to address concerns over child safety. The rule will take effect Nov. 25, the company said. To enforce it, Character.AI said, over the next month the company will identify which users are minors and put time limits on their use of the app. Once the measure begins, those users will not be able to converse with the company's chatbots. "We're making a very bold step to say for teen users, chatbots are not the way for entertainment, but there are much better ways to serve them," said Karandeep Anand, Character.AI's chief executive. He said the company also plans to establish an AI safety lab.

Last October, a Florida teenager took his own life after interacting for months with Character.AI chatbots imitating fictitious characters from the Game of Thrones. His mother filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging the platform's "dangerous and untested" technology led to his death.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: The FCC adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to rescind and revise certain rules attached to consumer broadband labels. The measure passed on a two-to-one vote, with Commissioner Anna Gomez, the lone Democrat on the FCC, voting no and calling the notice "one of the most anti-consumer items I have seen."

The vote was held at the Commission's open meeting for the month of October. As per a draft notice circulated earlier this month, the FCC is looking to roll back several rules, including requirements that service providers read the label to consumers via phone, itemize state and local pass-through fees, and display labels in consumer account portals, among others. Advocates at Public Knowledge urged the Commission to reconsider, saying in a recent filing that "the Commission could create a permission structure for ISPs to continue to act without accountability."

In her remarks during Tuesday's open meeting, Commissioner Gomez appeared to concur, depicting the move as "anti-consumer" and counter to the goals of Congress. The FCC was mandated via the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to create rules for implementing consumer broadband labels. After a lengthy rulemaking process and discussions with industry and consumer groups, ISPs were required to start displaying labels in 2024.

"I typically vote in favor of notices of proposed rulemaking because I believe in asking balanced questions, even on proposals that I dislike, so that we can encourage fruitful and helpful public comment. Answers to tough questions help us strike the right balance so that our rules can both encourage competition and serve consumers. However, the questions posed in this NPRM are so anti-consumer that I could not bring myself to even agree to them," said Gomez.

Gomez stressed that the notice will harm consumers by enabling ISPs to hide add-on fees and stripping people of their ability to access information in their own language. Moreover, added Gomez, it's unclear why the FCC is doing this. "What adds insult to injury is that the FCC does not even explain why this proposal is necessary. Make it make sense," she added.

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Microsoft shipped its first Xbox handheld nearly two weeks ago. The $600 white Xbox Ally cannot reliably sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep. Neither Microsoft nor Asus would admit there's a problem or offer a timeline to fix it after repeated requests by The Verge. Asus said it needs more time to test.

Installing Bazzite, a Linux-based operating system, solves the problems, the publication reports. The same hardware runs games up to 30% faster than Windows and beats the Steam Deck in all but one benchmark. Steam runs more responsively without Windows bloat. The device can be used like a Nintendo Switch, pausing games with the power button and resuming hours or days later. Bazzite initially had sleep issues but fixed them two days after programmer Antheas Kapenekakis obtained the hardware and consulted with two AMD contacts. The black Xbox Ally X, which doesn't have as many sleep issues, gets a similar speed boost with Bazzite.

Two Xbox Ally units tested on Windows repeatedly woke themselves at random intervals. One lost 10% battery after 12 hours of supposed sleep, the other 23%. After another 12 hours, both had only 30% battery remaining. One tried to apply a Windows Update while asleep. Both units refused to wake from sleep at times and required hard resets. Many users have reported similar issues on Reddit with both Xbox Ally versions.

Further reading: Microsoft's Next Xbox Will Run Full Windows and Eliminate Multiplayer Paywall, Report Says.

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Опубликован выпуск основной ветки nginx 1.29.3, в которой продолжается развитие новых возможностей. В параллельно поддерживаемую стабильную ветку 1.28.x вносятся только изменения, связанные с устранением серьёзных ошибок и уязвимостей. В дальнейшем на базе основной ветки 1.29.x будет сформирована стабильная ветка 1.30. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией BSD.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64139

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said that maintaining the US edge in AI will require a steady approach that ensures China remains hooked on American technology. From a report: The chipmaker is in an "awkward place" as President Donald Trump prepares to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping later this week, Huang told reporters Tuesday at a company conference in Washington. The Nvidia chief praised Trump's commitment to winning but urged careful engagement with China because of the country's massive software developer base and its growing technology capabilities.

During the meeting, Trump and Xi are expected to finalize an agreement to ease trade tensions between the world's two largest economies. When it comes to those negotiations, Huang said he has "no idea" if GPUs -- the chips central to artificial intelligence capabilities -- will be a topic between Trump and Xi.

Huang was careful to leave the negotiating to Trump but encouraged US leadership to think longer term on its overall AI strategy. "A policy that causes America to lose half of the world's developers is not beneficial long-term," Huang said, warning that it was still possible for the US to cede the AI race to China. Keeping US technology in front requires finesse," he said. "It requires balance. It requires long-term thinking."

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An anonymous reader shares a report: The transition to the more-secure HTTPS web protocol has plateaued, according to Google. As of 2020, 95 to 99 percent of navigations in Chrome use HTTPS. To help make it safer for users to click on links, Chrome will enable a setting called Always Use Secure Connections for public sites for all users by default. This will happen in October 2026 with the release of Chrome 154.

The change will happen earlier for those who have switched on Enhanced Safe Browsing protections in Chrome. Google will enable Always Use Secure Connections by default in April when Chrome 147 drops. When this setting is on, Chrome will ask for your permission before it first accesses a public website that doesn't use HTTPS.

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Опубликованы корректирующие выпуски X.Org Server 21.1.19 и DDX-компонента (Device-Dependent X) xwayland 24.1.9, обеспечивающего запуск X.Org Server для организации выполнения X11-приложений в окружениях на базе Wayland. В новых версиях устранены 3 уязвимости, которым присвоен уровень опасности 7.8 из 10. Проблемы потенциально могут быть эксплуатированы для повышения привилегий в системах, в которых X-сервер выполняется с правами root, а также для удалённого выполнения кода в конфигурациях, в которых для доступа используется перенаправление сеанса X11 при помощи SSH.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64138

Blogger and technologist Anil Dash, writing about OpenAI's recently launched browser, Atlas: When I first got Atlas up and running, I tried giving it the easiest and most obvious tasks I could possibly give it. I looked up "Taylor Swift showgirl" to see if it would give me links to videos or playlists to watch or listen to the most popular music on the charts right now; this has to be just about the easiest possible prompt.

The results that came back looked like a web page, but they weren't. Instead, what I got was something closer to a last-minute book report written by a kid who had mostly plagiarized Wikipedia. The response mentioned some basic biographical information and had a few photos. Now we know that AI tools are prone to this kind of confabulation, but this is new, because it felt like I was in a web browser, typing into a search box on the Internet. And here's what was most notable: there was no link to her website.

I had typed "Taylor Swift" in a browser, and the response had literally zero links to Taylor Swift's actual website. If you stayed within what Atlas generated, you would have no way of knowing that Taylor Swift has a website at all.

Unless you were an expert, you would almost certainly think I had typed in a search box and gotten back a web page with search results. But in reality, I had typed in a prompt box and gotten back a synthesized response that superficially resembles a web page, and it uses some web technologies to display its output. Instead of a list of links to websites that had information about the topic, it had bullet points describing things it thought I should know. There were a few footnotes buried within some of those response, but the clear intent was that I was meant to stay within the AI-generated results, trapped in that walled garden.

During its first run, there's a brief warning buried amidst all the other messages that says, "ChatGPT may give you inaccurate information", but nobody is going to think that means "sometimes this tool completely fabricates content, gives me a box that looks like a search box, and shows me the fabricated content in a display that looks like a web page when I type in the fake search box."

And it's not like the generated response is even that satisfying.

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Опубликовано: 2025-10-29T17:19:27+00:00

Как вручную, без современного электроинструмента вырезать узор на камне? Мастера по работе с камнем Владислав Николаев и Денис Гогуев из Петербурга решили показать, как это делается и вырубили на куске известняка рельеф в духе знаменитого стегозавра из храма Та Прум в Камбодже (XII век). Только стегозавра изобразили более анатомически правильного.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqN_PF5isYQ

YouTube says it will automatically upscale videos uploaded below 1080p (full-HD to higher resolution using AI. The Google-owned platform, however, assured that it will give creators and viewers the option to opt out of the enhancement. The feature will apply only to videos uploaded in resolutions from 240p to 720p and will not affect videos that creators have already remastered to 1080p. Creators will retain control over their original files, and viewers will be able to watch videos in their uploaded resolution through a settings option.

YouTube said it plans to support upscaling to 4K in the near future. The company also said it is expanding the video thumbnail size limit from 2MB to 50MB to support 4K images. On videos with tagged products, viewers will soon be able to scan a QR code on TV screens to purchase items directly.

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The best way to innovate in gaming is to have good margins, that's according to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella. He made the comments during an interview days after Bloomberg reported that Microsoft has expected unrealistic profit margins from its gaming division, which the report suggested was a likely reason for studio closures, game cancelations and thousands of layoffs at Xbox.

Nadella used the word "innovation" at least five times during the interview but never offered specifics about what he meant by it. He said Microsoft needs to "invent, maybe, some new interactive media" because gaming's competition is short-form video rather than other games. The CEO described Microsoft's new gaming strategy as being "everywhere, on every platform" after comparing the company's game publishing business to Microsoft Office. He said "the biggest gaming business is the Windows business" and added that he is looking forward to "the next console, the next PC gaming."

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Опубликовано: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:45:12 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

По итогам 2023 года ролики о старых цифровых камерах набрали суммарно более 1 миллиарда просмотров в TikTok. В свою очередь на YouTube блогеры актино обозревают цифромыльницы с призывом приобщиться к тренду. На фоне становления Y2K эстетики и смещения интересов в области фотографии в прошлое я предлагаю заглянуть немного подальше и посмотреть, как всё начиналось.Если вам интересно, как связаны между собой зарождение цифровой эпохи в фотографии, странная самоделка, и причём здесь вынесенная в название оперативная память – добро пожаловать под кат! Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/961358/

Hedge fund Apollo has reached a deal to sell AOL to Italian tech holding group Bending Spoons in a deal valued at roughly $1.5 billion, Axios reported Wednesday From the report: AOL still drives hundreds of millions of dollars of free cash flow. Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari said AOL has around 30 million monthly active users across its email and web content properties. That "incredibly loyal user base," as he called it, could be better served with greater investments in AOL's product and user experience, he noted.

[...] Bending Spoons is a privately held Italian holding company that acquires assets with large user bases and invests in their turnaround with technology improvements. The company tends to sit on their investments long term after acquiring them. Some of the other companies Bending Spoons has acquired include Vimeo, Evernote, WeTransfer, Brightcove.

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[ Представлен ]( https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-43/ ) релиз дистрибутива [ Fedora Linux 43 ]( https://fedoraproject.org/ ) . Для загрузки [ подготовлены ]( https://getfedora.org/ ) продукты [ Fedora Workstation ]( https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/prerelease/ ) , Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, Fedora Server, Fedora IoT, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, [ Fedora IoT Edition ]( https://iot.fedoraproject.org/ ) , [ Fedora Silverblue ]( https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/download ) , Fedora Kinoite и Live-сборки, поставляемые в форме [ спинов ]( https://spins.fedoraproject.org/ ) c пользовательскими окружениями Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, Phosh, Miracle, LXQt, Budgie, Sway и Cosmic. Сборки сформированы для архитектур x86_64, Power64 и ARM64 (AArch64).

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/redhat/18126907#cut ) )

Для Fedora 43 [ введены в строй ]( https://rpmfusion.org/ ) репозитории «free» и «nonfree» от проекта RPM Fusion, в которых доступны пакеты с дополнительными мультимедиа приложениями (MPlayer, VLC, Xine), видео/аудио кодеками, поддержкой DVD, проприетарными драйверами AMD и NVIDIA, игровыми программами и эмуляторами.

GitHub опубликовал отчёт с анализом статистики за 2025 год. Основные тенденции.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64135

Опубликовано: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:01:33 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр

Провели мероприятие в Калифорнийском политехническом государственном университете в Сан-Луис-Обиспо. Докладчиками были: ваш покорный слуга Юрий Панчул, два американских инженера проектирующие чип по ускорению ИИ, и китайский студент из Университета Калифорнии в Санта-Барбаре. Идея мероприятия возникла, когда я встретился с выпускником Cal Poly Стенли на конференции самоделкиных OpenSause, и он поведал мне то, что я уже знал из собеседований американских студентов: они изучают в вузе карты Карно, доходят до конечного автомата светофора, отдельно постигают классический 5-стадийный конвейер MIPS (ныне RISC-V), а потом идут на собеседование на работу, и - хоба! - выясняется что их карты Карно никого в индустрии не интересуют, а вопросы идут про сопряжение конвейера обработки данных (не процессорного!) и FIFO, чего они не проходили.Привожу ниже мой отчет на английском. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/961364/

schwit1 writes: China has enacted a new law regulating social media influencers, requiring them to hold verified professional qualifications before posting content on sensitive topics such as medicine, law, education, and finance, IOL reported. The new law went into effect on Saturday.

The regulation was introduced by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) as part of its broader effort to curb misinformation online. Under the new rules, influencers must prove their expertise through recognized degrees, certifications, or licenses before discussing regulated subjects. Major platforms such as Douyin (China's TikTok), Bilibili, and Weibo are now responsible for verifying influencer credentials and ensuring that content includes clear citations, disclaimers, and transparency about sources.

Audiences expect influencers to be both creative and credible. Yet when they blur the line between opinion and expertise, the impact can be severe. A single misleading financial tip could wipe out someone's savings. A viral health trend could cause real harm. That's why many believe it's time for creators to acknowledge the weight of their influence. However, China's new law raises deeper questions: Who defines "expertise"? What happens to independent creators who challenge official narratives but lack formal credentials? And how far can regulation go before it suppresses free thought?

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Computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have proved that pricing algorithms can drive up prices even when they lack the capacity to collude. Aaron Roth and four colleagues studied so-called no-swap-regret algorithms, which are designed to minimize losses and were previously thought to guarantee competitive pricing. The researchers found that when such an algorithm faces an opponent using a nonresponsive strategy -- one that randomly selects from predetermined price probabilities without reacting to competitor moves -- both players can end up in equilibrium at high prices.

Neither has an incentive to switch strategies because their profits are nearly equal and as high as possible under the circumstances. The nonresponsive strategy cannot express threats because it does not respond to opponent behavior, yet it effectively coaxes the learning algorithm into raising prices. Mallesh Pai, an economist at Rice University not involved in the research, said the finding matters because regulators have no clear grounds to intervene without evidence of threats or agreements. Roth conceded however that he lacks a solution to the regulatory challenge his team identified.

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Nvidia became the world's first $5 trillion company on Wednesday after its stock climbed 5% in early Wall Street trading to push its market capitalization to $5.13 trillion. The Silicon Valley chipmaker reached the milestone three months after hitting $4 trillion and three years after it was valued at roughly $400 billion before the debut of ChatGPT.

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said Tuesday that Nvidia had secured half a trillion dollars in orders for its AI chips over the next five quarters. The stock had already gained 5% on Tuesday and added more than $200 billion to its market value. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he planned to discuss Nvidia's Blackwell chip with China's President Xi Jinping when the two leaders meet later this week. Nvidia's latest generation of graphics processing units is not currently available in China because of US export controls. The company's shares have risen more than 85% in the past six months.

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