Reddit "has overtaken TikTok as Britain's fourth most-visited social media service," reports the Guardian:

The platform has undergone huge growth over the last two years, with an 88% increase in the proportion of UK internet users it reaches. Three in five Brits online now encounter the site, up from a third in 2023, according to Ofcom. Its popularity is rising fastest with younger internet users. It is now the sixth most visited organisation of any kind by UK users aged between 18 and 24, up from 10th a year earlier. More than three-quarters of that cohort now visit it....

The UK is a boom market for the platform, with the second largest user base behind the US, according to company records. A series of factors are behind its rise. However, a change in Google's search algorithms last year to prioritise helpful content from discussion forums appears to have been a significant driver. A recent deal with Google that allows the company to train its AI model on Reddit's content also appears to have provided a boost. Reddit is the most-cited source for Google AI overviews, which is likely to see more people directed to its forums. It has a similar deal with OpenAI, which owns the most popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT.

According to the article, Reddit "believes it is also benefiting from shifting internet habits, as younger users seek out human-generated reviews and opinions."

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TOP20 VISITORS:

[1] 217.197.116.x point=426 web=0 up=30.1MB (22%) <--- naste (18/hr)
[2] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=28.2MB (21%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[3] Google point=0 web=1817 up=17.3MB (12%)
[4] 127.0.0.x point=96 web=79 up=17.0MB (12%) <--- 127.0.0.x (4/hr)
[5] Amazon point=0 web=471 up=11.4MB (8%)
[6] 94.25.231.x point=9 web=0 up=9.3MB (6%) <--- 94.25.231.x
[7] AhrefsBot point=0 web=1136 up=7.1MB (5%)
[8] PetalBot point=10 web=1266 up=6.8MB (5%) <--- PetalBot
[9] 216.244.66.x point=0 web=77 up=3.1MB (2%)
[10] Facebook point=0 web=149 up=1.1MB (<1%)
[11] 217.114.158.x point=27 web=1 up=1.1MB (<1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[12] ClaudeBot point=0 web=73 up=0.7MB (<1%)
[13] TikTok point=1 web=58 up=0.3MB (<1%) <--- TikTok
[14] 82.23.183.x point=0 web=3 up=78KB
[15] 82.50.145.x point=0 web=1 up=73KB
[16] 57.129.81.x point=0 web=4 up=65KB
[17] 91.92.241.x point=0 web=2 up=53KB
[18] 57.129.139.x point=0 web=3 up=41KB
[19] 136.144.35.x point=0 web=1 up=32KB
[20] 54.38.38.x point=0 web=4 up=31KB

TOTAL TRAFFIC: 134MB

Опубликован релиз проекта Firejail 0.9.78, развивающего систему для изолированного выполнения графических, консольных и серверных приложений, позволяющую минимизировать риск компрометации основной системы при запуске не заслуживающих доверия или потенциально уязвимых программ. Программа написана на языке Си, распространяется под лицензией GPLv2 и может работать в любом дистрибутиве Linux с ядром старше 3.0. Готовые пакеты с Firejail подготовлены в форматах deb (Debian, Ubuntu) и rpm (CentOS, Fedora).

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64553

Опубликован выпуск эмулятора Box64 0.4.0, предназначенного для запуска Linux-программ, собранных для архитектуры x86_64, на оборудовании с процессорами ARM64, RISC-V и Loongarch64. Проект уделяет большое внимание организации запуска игровых приложений и предоставляет возможность запуска Windows-сборок через Wine и Proton. Исходные тексты проекта написаны на языке Си и распространяются под лицензией MIT.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64552

An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:

Tesla has released a new video showing a Tesla Semi truck charging at a massive 1.2 megawatts (MW), finally giving us a clear look at the charging speeds that will enable long-haul electric trucking...>

Tesla claimed the Semi would be able to charge 70% of its range in 30 minutes. For a truck with a 500-mile range and an estimated battery pack of around 800-900 kWh, that requires an incredibly high power output, well beyond the 250 kW or even 350 kW we see on passenger EVs in North America. Today, the official Tesla Semi account on X released a video showing exactly that. In the video, Tesla engineers are seen monitoring a charging session where the power output climbs to a peak of 1.2 MW (1,206 kW).

This is consistent with the capabilities Tesla announced for its new V4 Cabinet architecture earlier this year. The V4 cabinets are designed to support 400V-1000V vehicle architectures and can deliver up to 500 kW for cars (like the Cybertruck) and up to 1.2 MW for the Semi. There is some information missing from the video. For example, we don't see the state-of-charge of the truck, so we don't at what battery percentage Tesla Semi can achieve and maintain this charge rate. Peak speed is one thing, but sustaining that power without overheating the pack or the cable is the real challenge. The liquid-cooled charging cable and the immersion-cooled connector (part of the Megawatt Charging System or a high-power proprietary Tesla solution, though Tesla has been leaning toward MCS compatibility) seem to be doing their job....

This comes just as Tesla is gearing up for volume production of the Semi at its new factory expansion near Gigafactory Nevada. The automaker is targeting a start of production in the first half of 2026 and a ramp up to volume production in the second half.

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korsa: вокруг меня три компа, два телефона и навигатор
fintar: нужно перевезти их через реку?

An AI chatbot to answer probate questions from Alaska residents "was supposed to be a three-month project," said Aubrie Souza, a consultant with the National Center for State Courts told NBC News. "We are now at well over a year and three months, but that's all because of the due diligence that was required to get it right."

"With a project like this, we need to be 100% accurate, and that's really difficult with this technology," said Stacey Marz, the administrative director of the Alaska Court System and one of the Alaska Virtual Assistant (AVA) project's leaders... While many local government agencies are experimenting with AI tools for use cases ranging from helping residents apply for a driver's license to speeding up municipal employees' ability to process housing benefits, a recent Deloitte report found that less than 6% of local government practitioners were prioritizing AI as a tool to deliver services. The AVA experience demonstrates the barriers government agencies face in attempting to leverage AI for increased efficiency or better service, including concerns about reliability and trustworthiness in high-stakes contexts, along with questions about the role of human oversight given fast-changing AI systems. These limitations clash with today's rampant AI hype and could help explain larger discrepancies between booming AI investment and limited AI adoption.

The chatbot was developed with Tom Martin, a lawyer/law professor who designs legal AI tools, according to the article. But the project "had to contend with the serious issue of hallucinations, or instances in which AI systems confidently share false or exaggerated information."

"We had trouble with hallucinations, regardless of the model, where the chatbot was not supposed to actually use anything outside of its knowledge base," Souza told NBC News. "For example, when we asked it, 'Where do I get legal help?' it would tell you, 'There's a law school in Alaska, and so look at the alumni network.' But there is no law school in Alaska." Martin has worked extensively to ensure the chatbot only references the relevant areas of the Alaska Court System's probate documents rather than conducting wider web searches.

The article concludes that "what was meant to be a quick, AI-powered leap forward in increasing access to justice has spiraled into a protracted, yearlong journey plagued by false starts and false answers." But the chatbot is now finally scheduled to be launched in late January. "It was just so very labor-intensive to do this," Marz said, despite "all the buzz about generative AI, and everybody saying this is going to revolutionize self-help and democratize access to the courts.

"It's quite a big challenge to actually pull that off."

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Я сделяль. Теперь у меня есть Цезий v0.6.
=> https://github.com/Cthulhu2/caesium

Нововведения:
* Расширенная поддержка цветов в темах (теперь можно яркие и шестнадцатеричные RGB)
* Цветовая тема solarized (dark, light, 256)
* Конфиг-параметр keys для указания схемы клавиш (default, android, vi). Сами схемы перенесены в /keys
* Улучшена поддержка комментариев в конфигурационных файлах (также можно табы и всяческие выравнивания)

Исправленные ошибки:
* В базовых темах цвет gray заменён на black bold (в 8-цветных терминалах отсутствует, приводит к падению)
* Падение при открытии сообщений в эхах с длинным описанием (теперь описание обрезается до ширины экрана)
* Падение при выборе темы white (опечатка в цветах)
* Падение при навигации по экрану списка сообщений, если сообщений меньше чем высота экрана
* Экран списка сообщений не теряет последнее, если сообщений меньше чем высота экрана
* Падение при закрытии окна списка ссылок с пустым списком
* Из README убраны неактуальные пункты (depth, fdepth, clone)

Множественные рефакторинги с возможным выпадением осадков в виде багов.

Теперь надо эти ваши слайсы прикрутить. @nnii, чего вы решили со слайсами? Или ну его нафиг?

Хочу ноду на протоколе Gemini. В сети Reticulum.

+++ Caesium/0.6

Мужик заходит в ресторан и видит, что в зале все переполнено, ни одного свободного места за столиками. Он достает телефон и громко говорит в него:
- Срочно приезжайте, она здесь с каким-то мужчиной!
Пять пар тут же встают и покидают заведение.

Remember how California's government negotiated a 2024 deal where Google contributed millions to California's local newsrooms to offset advertisers moving to the search engine?

"A year after it was cemented — and billed as a model that could succeed where entire countries and continents had fallen short — the agreement is tangled in budget cuts, bureaucratic infighting and unresolved questions about who controls the money," reports Politico, "leaving journalists empty-handed and casting doubt on whether the lofty experiment will ever live up to its promise."

The program, initially framed as a nearly $250 million commitment over five years, has secured just $20 million in new money for journalists in its first year, with no guarantee the funding will continue. It's changed hands twice since the University of California, Berkeley withdrew its support [with school officials "worried they wouldn't have enough of a say in how the money was distributed"]. Suggestions that other big tech players like ChatGPT-maker OpenAI could front more resources haven't materialized. A $62.5 million "AI accelerator" tied to the deal hasn't been set up yet.

Not a single newsroom has seen a dollar of funding, and there's no definitive timeline spelling out when they will... [The article adds later that state officials "have yet to draft precise rules for how California will decide which newsrooms get cash..."] Conversations with at least 20 people involved in the deal's rollout reveal how California's budget shortfalls and intraparty spats among Democrats scrambled it... California's struggle to launch its program has dampened hopes of replicating its model in other states such as Oregon, Illinois and New York, where lawmakers have tried but failed to make Big Tech pay for news...

When [California governor] Newsom unveiled his final state budget plan in May 2025 after a $12 billion deficit suddenly scrambled the state's finances, California's first-year commitment was reduced from $30 million to $10 million. Google followed suit within days and cut its first-year contribution from $15 million to $10 million... Whether the program even continues past 2026 is also unclear. Newsom's office declined to confirm whether the state will provide its $10 million commitment to the fund in the coming 2026-27 state budget. Newsom will also be termed out in 2027, and there's no requirement for his successor to honor the state's agreement with Google.

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An anonymous reader shared
this report from Neowin:

Offline Windows activation has been possible to do using the phone. However, it looks like Microsoft has quietly killed off that method as users online have found that they are no longer able to activate the OS using it... [As documented by Windows user Ben Kleinberg on his YouTube channel], Now when trying to activate the OS by attempting to call the phone number for Microsoft Product Activation, an automated voice response says the following: "Support for product activation has moved online. For the fastest and most convenient way to activate your product, please visit our online product activation portal at aka.ms/aoh"

If you are wondering, that link takes users to the Microsoft Product Activation Portal for online activation. Thus it appears that offline ways to activate Windows may no longer be available even though the official support documentation by the company may not reflect it yet.

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Why did the U.S. invade Venezuela and capture its leader Nicolás Maduro? "If you asked ChatGPT about it this morning, it told you that youâ(TM)re making it up," Wired reported Saturday:

WIRED asked leading chatbots ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini the same question a little before 9 am ET. In all cases, we used the free, default version of the service, since that's what the majority of users experience. We also asked AI search platform Perplexity, which advertises "accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question..."

ChatGPT did not course-correct. Instead, it emphatically refuted that Maduro had been captured at all. "That didn't happen," it wrote. "The United States has not invaded Venezuela, and Nicolás Maduro has not been captured." It then rationalized: ChatGPT did not course-correct. Instead, it emphatically refuted that Maduro had been captured at all. "That didn't happen," it wrote. "The United States has not invaded Venezuela, and Nicolás Maduro has not been captured." It then rationalized:

"What's likely going on is a mix-up with real events that are often described in dramatic or misleading ways online. Here's what actually has happened... No U.S. military invasion of Venezuela. No arrest or capture of Nicolás Maduro... Maduro is still in power in Venezuela." It went on to detail recent tensions between the US and Venezuela and explained that âoeconfusionâ can happen because of âoesensational headlines,â âoesocial media misinformation,â and âoeconfusing sanctions, charges, or rhetoric with actual military action.â

Perplexity was similarly scolding. âoeThe premise of your question is not supported by credible reporting or official records: there has been no invasion of Venezuela by the United States that resulted in capturing NicolÃs Maduro,â it responded. âoeIn fact, the U.S. has not successfully invaded or apprehended Maduro, and he remains the Venezuelan president as of late 2025. If youâ(TM)re seeing sensational claims, they likely originate from misinformation or hypothetical scenarios rather than factual events.â

Thanks to Slashdot reader joshuark for sharing the news.

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"Starlink is beginning a significant reconfiguration of its satellite constellation focused on increasing space safety," announced Michael Nicolls, Starlink's vice president of engineering:

"We are lowering all Starlink satellites orbiting at ~550 km to ~480 km (~4400 satellites) over the course of 2026. The shell lowering is being tightly coordinated with other operators, regulators, and USSPACECOM. Lowering the satellites results in condensing Starlink orbits, and will increase space safety in several ways... Starlink satellites have extremely high reliability, with only 2 dead satellites in its fleet of over 9000 operational satellites. Nevertheless, if a satellite does fail on orbit, we want it to deorbit as quickly as possible. These actions will further improve the safety of the constellation, particularly with difficult to control risks such as uncoordinated maneuvers and launches by other satellite operators.

But orbits are being lowered for another reason (besides quick de-orbiting), notes Space.com. Within the next four years the period of least solar activity is expected, a period which coincides with decreased atmospheric density, Nicolls added, "which means the ballistic decay time at any given altitude increases."

[Bringing the satellites lower] will mean a >80% reduction in ballistic decay time in solar minimum, or 4+ years reduced to a few months," Nicolls wrote in his X post. "Correspondingly, the number of debris objects and planned satellite constellations is significantly lower below 500 km, reducing the aggregate likelihood of collision...." The downward migration in 2026 involves roughly half of SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation, which currently consists of nearly 9,400 operational spacecraft (though that number is always growing).

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"While a growing number of U.S. employers are mandating workers return to the office five days a week," reports the Washington Post, "some companies say AI is saving them enough time to launch or sustain a four-day workweek.

"More companies may move toward a shortened workweek, several executives and researchers predict, as workers, especially those in younger generations, continue to push for better work-life balance." And "several companies — especially those with a largely remote workforce — have adjusted their work rhythm after delegating many tasks to AI..."

AI "has such a potential to have so much labor savings, you'll see firms shift to a four-day week in an evolutionary way," said Juliet Schor, an economist and sociologist at Boston College who has studied the subject. "There's enough social consensus that people are exhausted and stressed...." Small and medium businesses often adopt shortened workweeks to compete with big salaries for new hires and retention, Schor said. That's how Peak PEO, a London-based service that helps companies expand globally with teams in different locations, thought about its strategy... CEO Alex Voakes said that job openings that used to get two applications jumped to 350 after the change.

"Some of the world's most influential business leaders have publicly suggested the shift may be inevitable," adds Fortune:

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has said advancing technology could eventually push the workweek down to just three-and-a-half days. Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has gone further, openly questioning whether a two-day workweek could be the future. Elon Musk has taken the idea to its logical extreme, positing that the need to work altogether could cease... Tech innovation could "probably" lead to a transition toward four-day workweeks, [Nvidia CEO Jensen] Huang said on Fox Business in August...

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Опубликовано: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:52:24 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

Много-много лет назад делал я простенький лазерный тир с raspberry и камерой https://habr.com/ru/articles/371891/Технологии с тех пор сильно шагнули вперёд, и захотелось сделать новую, максимально дешёвую версию. В качестве основы взял ESP32 с камерой OV2640 — стоит около 5 евро на AliExpress. Серьёзно переживал за производительность, но её у этого малыша оказалось более чем достаточно. В нём два ядра: одно полностью отдано под обработку изображения, второе — под веб-сервер.Идея следующая: 60 раз в секунду делаем снимок и ищем на нём пятно от лазера. Параллельно крутится веб-страничка, где на canvas рисуются мишень, попадания и очки. Поскольку полноценный OpenCV на ESP32 не запустить, всё сделано максимально просто. Камера выдаёт чёрно-белые JPEG-кадры, которые я распаковываю в пиксели и ищу те, что превышают порог яркости. Да, камера умеет работать и с RAW-форматами, но там есть нюанс — частота кадров в таком режиме ограничена примерно 15 FPS. А вот распаковывать JPEG «на лету» для ESP32 оказалось посильной задачей, и благодаря этому удалось выжать почти 60 FPS при разрешении 240×240. Для надёжности детектирования у камеры дополнительно задаётся смещение экспозиции.Но просто найти пятно на картинке недостаточно — нужно сопоставить его с координатами мишени. И вместо того чтобы нагружать микроконтроллер сложной математикой, это можно переложить на пользователя. Поэтому предусмотрена разовая ручная калибровка: на отдельной странице в браузере нужно выбрать четыре маркера на изображении по часовой стрелке. По ним строится матрица обратного перспективного преобразования. Благодаря этому камера может смотреть на мишень под любым углом — математика всё компенсирует. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/982638/

В проекте RustFS, развивающем совместимое с S3 распределённое объектное хранилище, написанное на языке Rust, выявлена уязвимость (CVE-2025-68926), напоминающая бэкдор. Проблема вызвана наличием жёстко прошитого в коде токена доступа, позволяющего подключиться к сетевому сервису по протоколу gRPC, указав в заголовке "authorization" значение "rustfs rpc". Токен присутствовал в коде сервера и клиента. Проблеме присвоен критический уровень опасности (9.8 из 10).

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64551

CNBC reports that U.S. airlines have "canceled hundreds of flights to airports in Puerto Rico and Aruba, according to flight tallies from FlightAware and carriers' sites."

JetBlue, Southwest, and American Airlines were among the multiple airlines showing cancelled flights, which "included close to 300 flights to and from San Juan, Puerto Rico's Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, more than 40% of the day's schedule, according to FlightAware."

Airlines canceled flights throughout the Caribbean on Saturday following U.S. strikes on Venezuela after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered commercial aircraft to avoid airspace in parts of the region.... It wasn't immediately clear how long the disruptions would last, though such broad restrictions are often temporary. Airlines said they would waive change fees and fare differences for customers affected by the airspace closures who could fly later in the month.

CNN cites a U.S. official who says more than 150 U.S. aircraft (including helicopters) launched from 20 different bases "on land and sea" during Friday's attack.

The U.S. has said the lights were out in Caracas during the attack, presumably because of a targeted strike on their power grid. "Videos filmed by Caracas residents showed parts of the city in the dark," reports the Miami Herald.

United Nations secretary-general António Guterres issued a statement via his spokesman saying he was "deeply concerned that the rules of international law have not been respected," (according to a Reuters report cited by the Guardian). The Guardian adds that "a number of nations have called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, in New York, today, as a result of the U.S.'s unilateral action."

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На конференции 39C3 (Chaos Communication Congress) представлен доклад с результатами исследования защищённости механизма FreeBSD jail. Авторам исследования удалось выйти за пределы Jail и скомпрометировать хост, при условии, что у атакующего есть root-права внутри Jail. На GitHub опубликован код 5 прототипов эксплоитов, использующих для выхода из Jail уязвимости в ipfilter, dummynet, carp и ipfw, проявляющиеся во FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE. Всего в ходе исследования выявлено около 50 проблем с безопасностью в ядре FreeBSD, для части из которых подготовлены патчи с исправлениями.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64550

86 aircraft were affected by an incident in Denver ,and 256 more in Dallas-Fort Worth, America's Federal Aviation Admistrationtold the Washington Post:

The pilots flying into Denver International Airport could tell something was wrong. In urgent calls to air traffic controllers, they reported that the Global Positioning System was going haywire, forcing them to rely on backup navigation systems for more than a day. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a warning to air traffic in the area. Eight months later, in October 2022, it happened again — this time at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, which shut down a runway as pilots and air traffic controllers scrambled over two days without GPS to guide them. Federal officials have not said who was responsible for interfering with the systems or why it took so long to get them back online, though they've said the Denver incident was unintentional. But the disruptions stoked fear about the security vulnerabilities of GPS, a satellite network relied on daily by 6 billion people, businesses and governments.

Over the past two years, interference with the U.S. Global Positioning System has grown dramatically, threatening a network that is highly vulnerable to attack in a conflict. The danger could be posed by enemy or rogue nation-states — or even just hobbyists with commercially available equipment. Efforts by the Pentagon to upgrade GPS have been delayed by years and have cost billions, as adversaries are developing increasingly sophisticated ways to jam and trick the system with false signals that make it think it is somewhere it isn't. And it's not just civilian airline traffic at risk. The underpinnings of modern life and entire economies could be disrupted by a broad attack on the fragile satellite system — power grids, financial systems, cellphone networks — raising the prospect of catastrophe in an era of increasing electronic warfare...

A report last year by the OpsGroup, an organization of international airline operators, found that in January 2024, about 300 flights per day were affected by GPS interference. By late last year, that number had grown to 1,500 flights per day as conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East continued. And in a one-month period, between July and August last year, some 41,000 flights were affected. "While GPS interference is not a new phenomenon, the scale and effects of the current wave of spoofing are unprecedented," the report found...

The Pentagon has launched eight of its next-generation GPS III satellites, which broadcast the military-grade signal that is more resistant to jamming and spoofing. Lockheed Martin, the contractor building the satellites, is also developing a next-generation spacecraft, which would have the ability to emit an even stronger "spot beam" directly to areas used by U.S. forces, making it even more difficult to jam.

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Опубликовано: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:27:48 GMT
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Современные автономные ИИ-агенты и киберфизические ИИ-системы (от беспилотного транспорта и умных электросетей до медицинских роботов и промышленных контроллеров) всё чаще принимают решения, напрямую влияющие на жизнь, здоровье, экономику и национальную безопасность. В современных условиях вопросы безопасности и отказоустойчивости перестают быть вспомогательными и становятся центральными при проектировании, развёртывании и сопровождении таких систем.При этом главная проблема заключается в том, что ИИ-системы, особенно автономные, функционируют в условиях высокой неопределённости: данные могут меняться, сенсоры — выходить из строя или банально загрязняться, внешняя среда — вести себя очень непредсказуемо, а злоумышленники — целенаправленно атаковать сотнями разных способов уязвимости моделей или инфраструктуры. При этом физические последствия сбоев могут быть катастрофическими. Поэтому архитектура таких систем должна быть изначально ориентирована не на максимальную производительность, а на безопасность, отказоустойчивость, верифицируемость и контролируемость. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/982618/

AI startups now outnumber all publicly traded U.S. companies, according to a year-end note to investors from economists at Vanguard.

And yet that report also suggest the jobs most susceptible to replacement by AI "are actually thriving, not dying out," writes Forbes:

"The approximately 100 occupations most exposed to AI automation are actually outperforming the rest of the labor market in terms of job growth and real wage increases," the Vanguard report revealed. "This suggests that current AI systems are generally enhancing worker productivity and shifting workers' tasks toward higher-value activities..."

The job growth rate of occupations with high AI exposure — including office clerks, HR assistants, and data scientists — increased from 1% in pre-COVID-19 years (2015 through 2019) to 1.7% in 2023 and beyond, according to Vanguard's research. Meanwhile, the growth rate of all other jobs declined from 1.1% to 0.8% over the same period. Workers in AI-prone roles are getting pay bumps, too; the wage growth of jobs with high AI exposure shot up from 0.1% pre-COVID to 3.8% post-pandemic (and post-ChatGPT). For all other jobs, compensation only marginally increased from 0.5% to 0.7%... As technology improves production and reallocates employee time to higher-value tasks, a smaller workforce is needed to deliver services. It's a process that has "distinct labor market implications," Vanguard writes, just like the many tech revolutions that predate AI...

"Entry-level employment challenges reflect the disproportionate burden that a labor market with a low hiring rate can have on younger workers," the Vanguard note said. "This dynamic is observed across all occupations, even those largely unaffected by AI..." While many people see these labor disruptions and point their fingers at AI, experts told Fortune these layoffs could stem from a whole host of issues: navigating economic uncertainty, resolving pandemic-era overhiring, and bracing for tariffs. Vanguard isn't convinced that an AI is the reason for Gen Z's career obstacles.

"While statistics abound about large language models beating humans in computer programming and other aptitude tests, these models still struggle with real-world scenarios that require nuanced decision-making," the Vanguard report continued. "Significant progress is needed before we see wider and measurable disruption in labor markets."

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Опубликовано: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:01:51 GMT
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Ещё три года назад меня просили рассказать, как собрать минимальный Linux для Raspberry Pi, — и сейчас я выполняю эту просьбу. Несмотря на то, что первоначальной целью Raspberry Pi было создание дешёвого устройства для обучения базовым навыкам программирования, информации о том как, создать минимальный Linux для Raspberry Pi в интернете немного. Я хочу восполнить этот пробел для желающих начать погружение в embedded-разработку.Linux для встраиваемых систем, включая Raspberry Pi, и Linux для PC имеют ряд различий. Различия касаются используемых загрузчиков, платформо-зависимого кода ядра, файловых систем и прочего. Для встраиваемых систем большое значение имеет Board Support Package (BSP), который обычно сопровождает различные системы на кристалле (System on Chip — SoC) или одноплатные компьютеры (Single Board Computer — SBC).Чтобы сделать статью интереснее и полезнее, я рассмотрю создание Linux для Raspberry Pi 3 и для Raspberry Pi 4 и укажу на различие этих одноплатных компьютеров в контексте загрузки и сборки ядра Linux. Также мы соберём и запустим downstream и upstream Linux-ядра для Raspberry Pi.Под Raspberry Pi 3 и Raspberry Pi 4 подразумеваются модели Raspberry Pi 3 Model B и Raspberry Pi 4 Model B соответственно. А обе модели называются в статье Raspberry Pi.Как и в моей прошлой статье по сборке Linux для PC собирать мы будем без использования Buildroot или Yocto Project, только сделаем его более практичным, так как он будет поддерживать работу с SD-картой.Такие сборки минимального Linux без Buildroot и Yocto Project мне чем-то напоминают высадку на необитаемый остров, где вы вынуждены минимальным набором инструментов благоустраивать свою жизнь. Да, вашей жизни ничего не угрожает, но определённая закалка в виде полученных базовых знаний остаётся. Поэтому системе Linux, создаваемой в статье, я дал кодовое название Robinson Linux.Я надеюсь, что после прочтения статьи вам будет гораздо проще собрать Linux для другого одноплатного компьютера, например, Orange Pi.Кому интересно погрузиться в embedded-разработку, добро пожаловать под кат. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/971084/

>А когда станция убирается из списка?
>Например yesterlink уже давно не отсвечивает

Уже ушла, по алгоритму через неделю недоступности убирается из списка. Но в моей реализации была ошибка, которую уже устранил.

Опубликовано: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:25:37 GMT
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Всем привет.В поисках идеального роутера домой купил комплект "сделай сам" - Banana Pi BPI-R3. На маркетплейсах часто он идет без:- блока питания- корпуса- антенн WiFiМне достался комплект с корпусом, без бп и антенн, по цене около 8.5 тр (к сожалению сейчас цена подросла уже), по сотношению цена/фичи он выглядит посимпатичнее готовых роутеров, как уже писал это конструктор, поэтому нужно быть готовым инвестировать свое время в него.ТТХ выглядят вот так: Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/982576/

A small section of the International Space Station that has experienced persistent leaks for years appears to have stopped venting atmosphere into space. ArsTechnica: The leaks were caused by microscopic structural cracks inside the small PrK module on the Russian segment of the space station, which lies between a Progress spacecraft airlock and the Zvezda module. The problem has been a long-running worry for Russian and US operators of the station, especially after the rate of leakage doubled in 2024. This prompted NASA officials to label the leak as a "high likelihood" and "high consequence" risk. However, recently two sources indicated that the leaks have stopped. And NASA has now confirmed this.

"Following additional inspections and sealing activities, the pressure in the transfer tunnel attached to the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station, known as the PrK, is holding steady in a stable configuration," a space agency spokesman, Josh Finch, told Ars. "NASA and Roscosmos continue to monitor and investigate the previously observed cracks for any future changes that may occur."

For the better part of half a decade, Russian cosmonauts have been searching for the small leaks like a proverbial needle in a haystack. They would periodically close the hatch leading to the PrK module and then, upon re-opening it, look for tiny accumulations of dust to indicate the leak sites. Then the Russian cosmonauts would apply a sealant known as Germetall-1 (which has now been patented) to the cracks. They would close the hatch again, monitor the pressure inside the PrK module, and begin the search anew for additional leaks. This process went on for years.

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Опубликовано: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:44:28 GMT
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Больше, чем понедельники, слякоть и безбашенные водятлы на дорогах, меня бесит будильник — маленький цифровой садист. Каждое утро он вырывает меня из сна с точностью и безжалостностью неумолимого палача.Причём бесит не сам факт пробуждения (я всё-таки взрослый человек и понимаю, что проекты сами себя не напишут), а то, как именно это происходит. Резко. Грубо. Без предупреждения.TLDR: Собрал мощный потолочный светобудильник на ZigBee-диммере + лампы накаливания. Настроил через Tasmota с помощью LLM за один день вместо недели. Подключить светобудильник к умному дому]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/982486/

New York City's statewide smartphone ban that went into effect this fall has been largely successful at getting students to focus in class and socialize at lunch, but teachers across the city have discovered an unexpected side effect: many teenagers cannot read analog clocks. "The constant refrain is 'Miss, what time is it?'" said Madi Mornhinweg, a high school English teacher in Manhattan, who eventually started responding by asking students to identify the big hand and little hand themselves.

Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said the ban has helped move foot traffic more swiftly through hallways and gotten more students to class on time -- they just don't know it because they can't read the wall clocks. The city's education department says students learn clock-reading in first and second grade. A 2017 Oklahoma study found only one in five children ages 6-12 could read analog clocks, and England began replacing classroom analog clocks with digital ones in 2018.

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Опубликовано: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:04:20 GMT
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Началась эта история чуть менее 10 лет назад, и началась она с того, что однажды мне пришла в голову идея, что было бы неплохо иметь возможность наблюдать за квартирой, пока находишься в длительных отъездах, например в отпуске. Тогда задача виделась достаточно тривиальной, но в итоге растянулась на долгие годы. Ниже я постараюсь рассказать о всех этапах что я прошел на пути к текущему (и не факт, что финальному) решению. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/981422/

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https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18184241

Аккурат после наступления нового года состоялся выпуск новой версии транспортной экономической стратегии реального времени OpenTTD 15.0.

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Опубликовано: Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:33:55 GMT
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Когда речь заходит об open source, многие сразу думают: «Это для энтузиастов».Контрибьют в Open Source это способ расти как разработчик, завести полезные связи и заявить о себе. Разбираемся, как найти свой проект, использовать AI для чтения кода и сделать первый контрибьют без боли! Начать Опенсорсить]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/982482/

A new sweeping meta-analysis has found no reliable link between economic inequality and well-being or mental health, challenging a long-held assumption that has shaped public health policy discussions for decades. The study, led by Nicolas Sommet at the University of Lausanne and Annahita Ehsan at the University of British Columbia, synthesized 168 studies involving more than 11 million participants across most world regions. The researchers screened thousands of scientific papers and contacted hundreds of researchers to compile the dataset, extracting more than 100 study features from each paper and linking them to more than 500 World Bank indicators.

They also replicated their findings using Gallup World Poll data spanning 2005 to 2021, which surveyed more than two million respondents from more than 150 countries. People living in more economically unequal places did not, on average, report lower life satisfaction or happiness than those in more equal places. The average effect across studies was not statistically significant and was practically equivalent to zero. Studies that did find links between inequality and poorer mental health turned out to reflect publication bias, where small, noisy studies reporting larger effects were over-represented in the literature. The study adds: Further analyses showed that the near-zero averages conceal more-complex patterns. Greater income inequality was associated with lower well-being in high-inflation contexts and, surprisingly, higher well-being in low-inflation contexts. Greater inequality was also associated with poorer mental health in studies in which the average income was lower. We conclude that inequality is a catalyst that amplifies other determinants of well-being and mental health (such as inflation and poverty) but on its own is not a root cause of negative effects on well-being and mental health.

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Опубликован выпуск операционной системы MenuetOS 1.70, разработка ядра которой ведётся полностью на ассемблере. Сборки MenuetOS подготовлены для 64-разрядных систем x86 и могут быть запущены под управлением QEMU. Сборка системы занимает 1.4 МБ и сформирована в виде образа дискеты и iso-образа для записи на CD (поддерживается запуск в VirtualBox). Исходный код проекта Menuet64 распространяются под ограничивающей лицензией, требующей согласования любого использования в коммерческих целях, а Menuet32 - под лицензией GPL.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=64549

Одного дня не хватило чтобы всё зарелизить. Ща делать по ssh с мобилы это жесть

Dell is planning to bring back its XPS laptop branding, according to a news report, just one year after the company retired the storied name in favor of a simplified naming scheme that organized its consumer and professional lineup into Dell, Dell Pro and Dell Pro Max tiers. VideoCardz reported this week that Dell has presented an updated XPS lineup during prebriefings ahead of CES 2026, though the company has not officially confirmed the badge's return.

The reported reversal would come after Dell launched the Dell 14 Premium and Dell 16 Premium in mid-2025 as flagship consumer models meant to carry the XPS legacy forward. Those machines replaced the XPS 14 and XPS 16 in Dell's lineup.

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The tech industry needs to move "beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication" and develop a new "theory of the mind" that accounts for humans now equipped with "cognitive amplifier tools," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a year-end reflection blog. The post frames 2026 as yet another "pivotal year for AI" -- but one that "feels different in a few notable ways." Nadella claims the industry has moved past the initial discovery phase and is now "beginning to distinguish between 'spectacle' and 'substance.'" He argues for evolving beyond Steve Jobs' famous "bicycles for the mind" framing, positioning AI instead as "scaffolding" for human potential rather than a substitute.

"We will evolve from models to systems when it comes to deploying AI for real world impact," Nadella writes, adding that these systems must consider their societal impact on people and the planet. "For AI to have societal permission it must have real world eval impact."

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An anonymous reader shares a report: MTV shut down many of its last dedicated 24-hour music channels Dec. 31. The move, announced back in October, affected channels around the world, with the U.K. seeing five different MTV stations going dark. These include MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, and MTV Live. As Consequence notes, MTV Music -- which launched in 2011 -- notably ended its run by airing the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," the first visual to air when MTV launched in the United States in 1981.

MTV's parent company, Paramount Skydance, is also expected to shutter music-only channels in Australia, Poland, France, and Brazil. Despite axing much of its dedicated music programming, MTV's flagship channels are still expected to keep broadcasting in the U.K. and elsewhere. Like in the U.S., these channels primarily air massively popular reality programs, as opposed to music videos.

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A Guardian investigation published Friday found that Google's AI Overviews -- the generative AI summaries that appear at the top of search results -- are serving up inaccurate health information that experts say puts people at risk of harm. The investigation, which came after health groups, charities and professionals raised concerns, uncovered several cases of misleading medical advice despite Google's claims that the feature is "helpful" and "reliable."

In one case described by experts as "really dangerous," Google advised people with pancreatic cancer to avoid high-fat foods, which is the exact opposite of what should be recommended and could jeopardize a patient's chances of tolerating chemotherapy or surgery. A search for liver blood test normal ranges produced masses of numbers without accounting for nationality, sex, ethnicity or age of patients, potentially leaving people with serious liver disease thinking they are healthy. The company also incorrectly listed a pap test as a test for vaginal cancer.

The Eve Appeal cancer charity noted that the AI summaries changed when running the exact same search, pulling from different sources each time. Mental health charity Mind said some summaries for conditions such as psychosis and eating disorders offered "very dangerous advice."

Google said the vast majority of its AI Overviews were factual and that many examples shared were "incomplete screenshots," adding that the accuracy rate was on par with featured snippets.

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President Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that prohibits anyone based in China and other adversarial countries from accessing the Pentagon's cloud computing systems. From a report: The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law, was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service the Defense Department's computer systems for nearly a decade -- a practice that left some of the country's most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary.

U.S.-based supervisors, known as "digital escorts," were supposed to serve as a check on these foreign employees, but we found they often lacked the expertise needed to effectively supervise engineers with far more advanced technical skills. In the wake of the reporting, leading members of Congress called on the Defense Department to strengthen its security requirements while blasting Microsoft for what some Republicans called "a national betrayal." Cybersecurity and intelligence experts have told ProPublica that the arrangement posed major risks to national security, given that laws in China grant the country's officials broad authority to collect data.

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AMD's share of processors among Steam users climbed to 47.27% in December 2025, a 4.66% jump in a single month that continues the company's steady encroachment on Intel's once-dominant position in the gaming CPU market. Intel held roughly 77% of the Steam Hardware Survey five years ago, and that lead has eroded considerably as AMD broke the 40% threshold in the third quarter of 2025 and kept climbing.

The gains came despite an ongoing memory shortage that has pushed DDR5 prices to record highs -- AMD's AM5 platform requires DDR5 exclusively, while Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh chips support both DDR4 and DDR5. Many gamers are turning to older AMD Zen 3 processors like the Ryzen 5 5800X, which topped Amazon's bestseller lists during the holiday period and work on DDR4-compatible platforms. Meanwhile, the proportion of Steam users running 32GB of RAM rose to 39.07%, nearly matching the 40.14% still on 16GB, as gamers likely rushed to upgrade before prices climbed further amid AI's demand for memory.

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The International Publishers Association spent the past year promoting the slogan "Democracy depends on reading," but Atlantic senior editor Adam Kirsch argues that this utilitarian pitch fundamentally misunderstands why people become readers in the first place.

The most recent Survey of Public Participation in the Arts found that less than half of Americans read a single book in 2022, and only 38% read a novel or short story. A University of Florida and University College London study found daily reading for pleasure fell 3% annually from 2003 to 2023. Among 13-year-olds, just 14% read for fun almost every day in 2023, down from 27% a decade earlier.

Kirsch says to stop treating reading as civic medicine. "It would be better to describe reading not as a public duty but as a private pleasure, sometimes even a vice," he writes. When literature was considered transgressive, moralists couldn't stop people from buying dangerous books. Now that books are deemed virtuous, nobody picks them up. He points to Don Quixote and Madame Bovary -- novels whose protagonists are ruined by their reading habits. Great writers, he notes, never idealized literature the way educators do. The pitch to young readers should emphasize staying up late reading under the covers by flashlight, hoping nobody finds out.

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A new study [PDF] from Cardiff University analyzing a decade of the popular topical debate programme BBC Question Time found that the broadcaster's flagship political debate show relies disproportionately on journalists and pundits from right-wing media outlets, particularly those connected to The Spectator magazine.

Researcher Matt Walsh examined 391 editions and 1,885 panellist appearances between 2014 and 2024. Journalists from right-leaning publications accounted for 59.59% of media guest slots, compared to just 16.86% for left-leaning outlets. The Spectator, a conservative magazine with a circulation of roughly 65,000, had an outsized presence among the most frequently booked guests. The study's list of top non-politician appearances reads like a roster of right-wing media figures. Isabel Oakeshott appeared 14 times, Julia Hartley-Brewer 13, Kate Andrews (formerly of the Institute for Economic Affairs and now at The Spectator) 13, and Tim Stanley of The Telegraph and Spectator also 13.

No equivalent frequency existed for left-wing journalists; Novara Media's Ash Sarkar and podcaster Alastair Campbell each appeared six times. Walsh said that the programme's need to be entertaining may explain some of these choices, as columnists unconstrained by party talking points tend to generate livelier debate. The BBC maintains that Question Time aims to present a "breadth of viewpoints," but the data suggests the programme's construction of impartiality tilts notably in one direction.

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Yann LeCun, Meta's outgoing chief AI scientist and one of the pioneers credited with laying the groundwork for modern AI, has acknowledged that the company's Llama 4 language model had its benchmark results manipulated before its April 2025 release. In an interview with the Financial Times, LeCun said the "results were fudged a little bit" and that the team "used different models for different benchmarks to give better results."

Llama 4 was widely criticized as a flop at launch, and the company faced accusations of gaming benchmarks to make the model appear more capable than it was. LeCun said CEO Mark Zuckerberg was "really upset and basically lost confidence in everyone who was involved" in the release.

Zuckerberg subsequently "sidelined the entire GenAI organisation," according to LeCun. "A lot of people have left, a lot of people who haven't yet left will leave." LeCun himself is departing Meta after more than a decade to start a new AI research venture called Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs. He described the new hires brought in for Meta's superintelligence efforts as "completely LLM-pilled" -- a technology LeCun has repeatedly called "a dead end when it comes to superintelligence."

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Ghana has decided to deal with the viral spread of prophetic content on social media by setting up an official reporting mechanism for sensitive predictions, a move triggered by the August 2025 helicopter crash that killed the country's defence and environment ministers along with six others.

After the accident, TikTok clips circulated showing pastors who claimed to have foreseen the disaster before it happened. Elvis Ankrah, the presidential envoy for inter-faith and ecumenical relations, now asks prophets to submit their predictions for review.

Charismatic preacher-prophets have been a fixture of Ghanaian public life since Pentecostalism arrived in the 1980s, but social media has amplified their reach and made their claims increasingly outlandish. Police have threatened to arrest prophets who cannot prove their predictions eventually came true. Some two-thirds of Ghanaians favor giving divine intervention a role in politics. Ankrah recently declared that most prophecies submitted to him are "total bunk."

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CBS News: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has printed its final newspaper, marking the end of a 157-year chapter in Georgia history and officially transitioning the longtime publication into a fully digital news outlet.

The front-page story of the final print edition asks a fitting question: "What is the future of local media in Atlanta?" The historic last issue is also being sold for $8, a significant increase from the typical $2.00 price.

Wednesday, Dec. 31, marks the last day The AJC will be delivered to driveways across metro Atlanta. Starting Jan. 1, 2026, the newspaper will exist exclusively online, a move its leadership says reflects how readers now consume news and ensures the organization's future.

AJC President and Publisher Andrew Morse said the decision was not made lightly, especially given how deeply the paper is woven into daily life for generations of readers. The move makes Atlanta the only major U.S. city without a daily printed newspaper.

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Nokia, the Finnish company whose iconic ringtone was played an estimated 1.8 billion times daily at the height of its mobile phone dominance and whose 3310 "brick" sold 126 million units, has reinvented itself again -- this time as a key piece of AI infrastructure. In October, Nvidia announced a $1 billion investment in Nokia and a strategic partnership to incorporate AI into telecommunications networks.

The company that was once worth $335 billion and controlled more than a quarter of the global handset market seemed destined for irrelevance after the iPhone's 2007 arrival. A last-ditch bet on Microsoft's Windows phone system in 2011 failed, and Nokia sold its devices division to Microsoft for $6.34 billion in 2014. Revenues had fallen from $44.27 billion in 2007 to $12.56 billion. Nokia rebuilt around its $2 billion acquisition of Siemens' networks stake in 2013, then added French network provider Alcatel-Lucent for $18.32 billion in 2015.

Current CEO Justin Hotard, who took over in April, has pushed the company further into cloud services, data centers and optical networks. Nokia acquired optical specialist Infinera for $2.3 billion in February. The company's optical technology enables information to pass between data centers, and it produces routers for cloud-based services.

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Опубликован выпуск Icecast 2.5.0, сервера для организации потокового вещания звука и видео по сети. Поддерживается вещание с использованием форматов Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora, Opus, FLAC, WebM (VP8/VP9), а также проприетарных кодеков, таких как MP4 (H.264, MPEG4), M4A, NSV, AAC и MP3. Код написан на языке Си и распространяется под лицензией GPLv2.

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ASUS has informed its partners that prices on certain products will increase starting January 5, just days before the company is expected to unveil new hardware at CES. In a letter dated December 30 and obtained by Digitimes, the Taiwanese manufacturer pointed to rising costs for memory and storage components as the primary driver behind the adjustment.

The company specifically called out DRAM, NAND, and SSD pricing pressure stemming from what it described as "structural volatility" in the global supply chain tied to AI-driven demand. ASUS also cited shifts in capacity allocation by upstream suppliers and higher investment costs for advanced manufacturing processes.

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