In a landmark collaboration across 22 labs, neuroscientists have created the first brain-wide map of decision-making in mice, tracking over 620,000 neurons across nearly 280 brain regions. They found that decision-making is distributed much more broadly than previously thought, involving not just "cognitive" centers but also regions linked to movement. From a report: The task was deceptively simple task. Mice sat in front of a screen that intermittently displayed a black-and-white striped circle for a brief amount of time on either the left or right side. A mouse could earn a sip of sugar water if they quickly moved the circle toward the center of the screen by operating a tiny steering wheel in the same direction, often doing so within one second. On some trials, the circle was faint, requiring the animal to rely on past experience to make a guess, which allowed researchers to study how expectations influence future decisions. While the mice performed the task, researchers recorded brain activity using high-density electrodes that allowed them to monitor hundreds of neurons across many regions simultaneously. The work was divided across the participating labs, so that each lab mapped a particular region of the mouse brain. The pooled dataset covers 620,000 neurons recorded from 139 mice in 12 labs, encompassing nearly the entire brain. The resulting map revealed that decision-making activity is distributed across the brain, including in areas traditionally associated with movement rather than cognition. The findings have been published in two papers in the journal Nature.

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Проект Openwall опубликовал модуль ядра LKRG 1.0.0 (Linux Kernel Runtime Guard), предназначенный для проверки целостности структур ядра и выявления попыток эксплуатации уязвимостей в ядре. Отмечается, что присвоение номера версии 1.0.0 ознаменовало достижение проектом зрелого состояния. Код проекта распространяется под лицензией GPLv2.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63827

3–5 октября в [ Институте программных систем РАН ]( http://www.psi-ras.ru ) в Переславле-Залесском Ярославской области пройдёт XXI конференция разработчиков свободного программного обеспечения (OSSDEVCONF). На мероприятии соберутся разработчики и энтузиасты свободного ПО и открытого аппаратного обеспечения, чтобы обсудить новейшие достижения в области СПО, OSHW и перспективы их развития, наладить личные и профессиональные контакты и обменяться опытом, инициировать создание новых проектов. Формат конференции предполагает открытую встречу докладчиков и слушателей, а также личное общение.

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В основном, новшества в версии 22.2 касаются проекта XApps — попытки разработчиков Mint создать набор «универсальных» дефолтных приложений для любой десктопной среды на GTK. Теперь в XApps есть приложение для настройки сканера отпечатков пальцев, libAdwaita была заставлена нормально работать с темами дистрибутива, а сама libAdwaita от греха подальше была также форкнута в libAdapta. Разные улучшения получили XViewer, генераторы миниатюр и другие компоненты XApps. Кроме того, появился клиент Warpinator для iOS.По-прежнему по умолчанию отключён snap, а flatpak теперь доходчиво объясняет пользователю разницу между собой и системными пакетами deb. Звук теперь сделан на Pipewire.Остальные изменения в основном косметические — тут интерфейс подправили, там уголки закруглили.Не обошлось, впрочем, и без некоторых недочётов: к релизу прилагается список известных накладок по части виртуализации — [ https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zara.php ]( https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zara.php )

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/ubuntu/18070316

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Вышло обновление пакета программ для работы в Фидонет. Комплект содержит набор последних версий классических программ ФИДО (только свободное ПО): мейлер для получения почты через Интернет, тоссер для обработки сообщений и редактор сообщений.

Кратко об основных изменениях в этой версии:

• улучшена поддержка платформ: Linux, Android (в Termux), FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD и Dragonfly BSD.

• конфигуратор пакета теперь позволяет настроить адрес прокси-сервер для работы мейлера binkd и загрузки обновлений списка узловых станций (нодлиста);

• в узловых конфигурациях для мейлера binkd, если он собран с поддержкой perl, автоматически включаются perl-hooks для разбора поступивших обновлений списка узловых станций (нодлиста);

• для отчетов о состоянии узла ФИДО, которые публикуются в эху .robots, написана новая утилита sysmon (как отдельный проект здесь: [ https://sysmon.sourceforge.io ]( https://sysmon.sourceforge.io ) ). Она выводит информацию о текущем состоянии операционной системы и для работы не требует привилегий суперпользователя;

• в новом разделе загрузок linux ( [ https://sourceforge.net/projects/fidoip/files/linux/ ]( https://sourceforge.net/projects/fidoip/files/linux/ ) ) выложены образы дистрибутива FIDOSlax Retro Edition, в котором пакет fidoip уже встроен.

• разделе загрузок videoguide ( [ https://sf.net/projects/fidoip/files/media/videoguide/ ]( https://sf.net/projects/fidoip/files/media/videoguide/ ) ) выложены новые видеоролики по настройке поинта и узла для разных операционных систем.

Комплект fidoip прост в настройке. Используя его, вы можете легко подключиться к Фидонет (предварительно нужно связаться с системными операторами сети, список которых приведен в документации), а также быстро поднять свой узел ФИДО.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18070604

Компания Mozilla объявила о прекращении поддержки 32-разрядных Linux-систем начиная с выпуска Firefox 145, запланированного на 11 ноября 2025 года. Отмечается, что сопровождение Firefox на 32-разрядных платформах становится все более сложным и ненадёжным, при том, что поддержка 32-разрядных сборок уже прекращена в большинстве дистрибутивов Linux.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63829

Доступен графический редактор GIMP 3.1.4, который стал вторым выпуском в экспериментальной ветке 3.1, формирующей функциональность будущей стабильной ветки GIMP 3.2. В ветке GIMP 3.2 развивается поддержка слоёв-ссылок (Link layer) и векторных слоёв (Vector layer), а также возможностей, связанных с поддержкой цветовой модели CMYK и управлением цветом. Готовые сборки опубликованы для Linux (AppImage и Flatpak для архитектур x86 и ARM64), macOS и Windows.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63818

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Fine-particulate air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia by triggering the formation of toxic clumps of protein that destroy nerve cells as they spread through the brain, research suggests. Exposure to the airborne particles causes proteins in the brain to misfold into the clumps, which are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease. The finding has "profound implications" for preventing the neurodegenerative disorder, which affects millions worldwide, with scientists calling for a concerted effort to improve air quality by cutting emissions from industrial activity and vehicle exhausts, improving wildfire management and reducing wood burning in homes.

The researchers began by analyzing hospital records of the 56.5 million US Medicare patients. They looked at those who were admitted for the first time between 2000 and 2014 with the protein damage. Armed with the patients' zip codes, the scientists estimated their long-term exposure to PM2.5 pollution, airborne particles that are smaller than 2.5 thousandths of a millimeter. These can be inhaled deep into the lungs and are found in the bloodstream, brain and other organs. They found that long-term exposure to PM2.5 raised the risk of Lewy body dementia, but had less of an impact on rates of another neurodegenerative brain disease that is not driven by the toxic proteins. Lewy bodies are made from a protein called alpha-synuclein. The protein is crucial for healthy brain functioning, but can misfold in various ways to produce different kinds of harmful Lewy bodies. These can kill nerve cells and cause devastating disease by spreading through the brain.

To see if air pollution could trigger Lewy bodies, the team exposed mice to PM2.5 pollution every other day for 10 months. Some were normal mice, but others were genetically modified to prevent them making alpha-synuclein. The results were striking: in normal mice, nerve cells died off, leading to brain shrinkage and cognitive decline. The genetically modified mice were largely unaffected. Further work in mice showed that PM2.5 pollution drove the formation of aggressive, resilient and toxic clumps of alpha-synuclein clumps that looked very similar to Lewy bodies in humans. Although the work is in mice, the findings are considered compelling evidence. The work has been published in the journal Science.

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Amazon's Project Kuiper has landed its first airline deal with JetBlue and plans to offer satellite-powered in-flight Wi-Fi starting in 2027. The Verge reports: Yesterday, Amazon's Panos Panay showed off a speed test using an "enterprise-grade customer terminal" (aka, dish) to achieve a download speed of just over a gigabit. Fine, but we'll have to wait to see how it performs once individuals using consumer dishes at scale. Amazon says the first customers will start using the service this year, ahead of a broader rollout in 2026.

Project Kuiper-powered Wi-Fi will be available on "select" aircraft initially. Amazon says its satellites will provide lower latency and "more reliable service" for passengers, as they orbit between 367 and 391 miles above Earth -- far closer than the geostationary satellites that orbit around 22,369 miles above the planet. Amazon has also struck a deal with Airbus to build Project Kuiper's satellite internet service into its aircraft.

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A UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot found no clear productivity gains despite user satisfaction with tasks like summarizing meetings and writing emails. While the tool sped up some routine work, it actually slowed down more complex tasks like Excel analysis and PowerPoint creation, often producing lower-quality results. The Register reports: The Department for Business and Trade received 1,000 licenses for use between October and December 2024, with the majority of these allocated to volunteers and 30 percent to randomly selected participants. Some 300 of these people consented to their data being analyzed. An evaluation of time savings, quality assurance, and productivity was then calculated in the assessment (PDF). Overall, 72 percent of users were satisfied or very satisfied with their digital assistant and voiced disappointment when the test ended. However, the reality of productivity gains was more nuanced than Microsoft's marketing materials might suggest. Around two-thirds of the employees in the trial used M365 at least once a week, and 30 percent used it at least once a day -- which doesn't sound like great value for money. [...]

According to the M365 Copilot monitoring dashboard made available in the trial, an average of 72 M365 Copilot actions were taken per user. "Based on there being 63 working days during the pilot, this is an average of 1.14 M365 Copilot actions taken per user per day," the study says. Word, Teams, and Outlook were the most used, and Loop and OneNote usage rates were described as "very low," less than 1 percent and 3 percent per day, respectively. "PowerPoint and Excel were slightly more popular; both experienced peak activity of 7 percent of license holders using M365 Copilot in a single day within those applications," the study states. The three most popular tasks involved transcribing or summarizing a meeting, writing an email, and summarizing written comms. These also had the highest satisfaction levels, we're told.

Participants were asked to record the time taken for each task with M365 Copilot compared to colleagues not involved in the trial. The assessment report adds: "Observed task sessions showed that M365 Copilot users produced summaries of reports and wrote emails faster and to a higher quality and accuracy than non-users. Time savings observed for writing emails were extremely small. "However, M365 Copilot users completed Excel data analysis more slowly and to a worse quality and accuracy than non-users, conflicting time savings reported in the diary study for data analysis. PowerPoint slides [were] over 7 minutes faster on average, but to a worse quality and accuracy than non-users." This means corrective action was required.

A cross-section of participants was asked questions in an interview -- qualitative findings -- and they claimed routine admin tasks could be carried out with greater efficiency with M365 Copilot, letting them "redirect time towards tasks seen as more strategic or of higher value, while others reported using these time savings to attend training sessions or take a lunchtime walk." Nevertheless, M365 Copilot did not necessarily make them more productive, the assessment found. This is something Microsoft has worked on with customers to quantify the benefits and justify the greater expense of a license for M365 Copilot.

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Uber's Indian arm has started using its app to offer rideshare and delivery drivers the chance to make money by classifying data used by AI systems. From a report: Megha Yethadka, global head of Uber AI Solutions, revealed the new gigs in a Thursday LinkedIn post in which she said drivers sometimes have downtime during the day or might want to make some extra cash after hours. Yethadka said the work can involve reviewing photos, counting objects, classifying text, recording audio, or digitizing receipts.

She said the gigs are "Powering our enterprise customers worldwide for their gen AI models or consumer applications." "Until now, these tasks were completed by independent contractors outside the app," Yethadka wrote. "The early results are very promising, and we're eager to scale this further." In an accompanying video, she mentioned "worldwide" expansion for the offering. Prabhjeet Singh, Uber's president for India and South Asia, said the gigs are available in 12 cities and that "tens of thousands of drivers" are already performing what Uber calls "digital tasks."

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Google's CEO Sundar Pichai stood smiling in a leafy-green California garden in September 2020 and declared that the tech behemoth was entering the "most ambitious decade yet" in its climate action. "Today, I'm proud to announce that we intend to be the first major company to operate carbon free -- 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year," he said, in a video announcement at the time.

Pichai added that he knew the "road ahead would not be easy," but Google "aimed to prove that a carbon-free future is both possible and achievable fast enough to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change." Five years on, just how hard Google's "energy journey" would become is clear. In June, Google's Sustainability website proudly boasted a headline pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2030. By July, that had all changed. An investigation by Canada's National Observer has found that Google's net-zero pledge has quietly been scrubbed, demoted from having its own section on the site to an entry in the appendices of the company's sustainability report.

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Panasonic's market value has remained flat at approximately $25 billion over the past decade while rivals Hitachi, Sony and NEC have increased their valuations sixfold during the same period. The Osaka-based conglomerate announced a restructuring plan in May 2025 to eliminate 10,000 positions and streamline operations across its six operating companies and hundreds of product lines. The company generates $57 billion in annual revenue and maintains dominant positions in several markets. Financial Times reports: Within Panasonic's six operating companies and hundreds of product lines are industrial technology gems. The company supplies 70 per cent of the world's in-flight entertainment systems, its facial recognition technology is being used to measure brain health, and its EV battery plants are among the world's most efficient, according to auto industry insiders.
Panasonic chief said in January that AI-driven hardware and software solutions would constitute 30% of revenues by 2035, compared to approximately 10% currently. But Goldman Sachs analyst Ryo Harada wrote recently that investors are seeking a growth strategy beyond the announced reforms.

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Alphabet's Google was hit with a $3.45 billion EU antitrust fine on Friday for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative adtech business, marking its fourth penalty in its decade long fight with EU competition regulators. From a report: The move by the European Commission was triggered by a complaint from the European Publishers Council and comes amid a threat by U.S. President Donald Trump to retaliate against the European Union for any push against Big Tech.

The EU competition enforcer had originally planned to hand out the fine on Monday but opposition from EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic on concerns about the impact on U.S. tariffs on European cars derailed EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera's plan. The Commission said Google favored its own online display technology services to the detriment of rivals and online publishers and that it abused its market power since 2014 until today.

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Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton has warned that AI will concentrate wealth among a small elite while impoverishing most workers. The computer scientist, who pioneered neural network research in the 1980s, told Financial Times that rich people will use AI to replace workers, creating massive unemployment and profit increases.

Hinton, who left Google in 2023 after selling his AI startup for $44 million a decade earlier, dismissed universal basic income as insufficient to address human dignity concerns from job losses. The 77-year-old physicist predicts superintelligent AI will arrive within five to twenty years. He blamed capitalism rather than AI technology itself for the coming economic disruption, stating the system ensures AI will primarily benefit the wealthy rather than solve grand problems like hunger or poverty.

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Much of the world favors protecting 30% of the world's land and water for nature by 2030, according to new research that has found overwhelming public support for the goal across eight countries on five continents. The Guardian: Nearly 200 nations agreed in 2022 to set aside 30% of the world's land and 30% of marine areas for nature. But just 17.6% of the world's land and 8.6% of the seas are now under global protection, and more than 100 nations are less than halfway to meeting the target, which was established under the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Governments will need to implement swift changes if they are to achieve the target within the next five years. But setting aside more space for nature can be a political pitfall. Often it can mean restricting people's access to land, halting resource extraction and relocating human settlements. These issues, along with possible effects on economic growth, are often cited by countries as barriers to expanding protecting areas. Research published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, however, suggests that more than 80% of the public across eight sampled countries support the policy.

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Anthropic is blocking its services from Chinese-controlled companies, saying it's taking steps to prevent a US adversary from advancing in AI and threatening American national security. From a report: The San Francisco-based startup is widening existing restrictions on "authoritarian" regimes to cover any company that's majority-owned by entities from countries such as China. That includes their overseas operations, it said in a statement. Foreign-based subsidiaries could be used to access its technology and further military applications, the startup added.

Anthropic's Dario Amodei has publicly advocated technological sanctions on China, particularly after DeepSeek stunned Silicon Valley with an advanced model this year. While Anthropic didn't name any companies, Chinese big tech firms from Alibaba to ByteDance have joined DeepSeek in an intensifying race to build AI services that can rival the likes of OpenAI in the US. Chinese entities "could use our capabilities to develop applications and services that ultimately serve adversarial military and intelligence services and broader authoritarian objectives," Anthropic said in its Friday post.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Can AI help "smooth over" discussion on abortion, racism, immigration, or Israel-Palestine? Columbia University sure hopes so. The Verge has learned that the university recently began testing Sway, an AI debate program currently in beta. Developed by two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Sway matches up students with opposing views to chat one-on-one about hot-button issues and "facilitates better discussions between them," according to the tool's website. Nicholas DiBella, a postdoctoral scholar at CMU who helped develop Sway, told The Verge that about 3,000 students from more than 30 colleges and universities have used the tool.

One of those may soon be Columbia. News of the potential partnership comes after more than two years of escalating tensions at Columbia between students, administrators, and the federal government. The university has spent years at the center of controversy after controversy: expulsions of pro-Palestinian student protesters, a string of police raids, and demands from the federal government.

People at Columbia's Teachers College are testing Sway in order to potentially integrate it into the conflict resolution curriculum and "bridge-building initiatives at Columbia," DiBella said. He said there's also been interest from other teams at Columbia in using Sway for the fall 2026 semester and onward. Simon Cullen, an assistant professor at CMU and the other developer behind Sway, told The Verge that the company is also in touch with Columbia University Life.

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Networks of pipes and heat exchangers can transfer excess heat from buildings into nearby bodies of water -- but as the world warms, the cooling potential of some water courses is now diminishing, Wired reports. Paris's district cooling network, which pipes Seine river water to cool 800 buildings including the Louvre Museum, faces diminishing returns as climate change warms water temperatures. The system achieves coefficients of performance between 4 and 15 -- significantly higher than conventional air conditioning -- by transferring building heat through heat exchangers to the river. The Seine briefly exceeded 27C this summer, approaching the 30C regulatory limit for returned water.

The network currently spans 100 kilometers of pipes and will expand to 245 kilometers by 2042 to serve 3,000 buildings. Similar installations operate in Toronto using lake water from 83-meter depths and at Cornell University drawing 4C water from Lake Cayuga at 76 meters. Rotterdam and other cities are developing comparable systems as cooling demand rises.

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Microsoft is giving away Microsoft 365 Personal subscriptions to all US college students. From a report: This subscription gives students free access to Microsoft's Office apps and the Copilot AI assistant integration for a year, after which the students are eligible for a 50 percent discount to continue the subscription.

While most students have access to education versions of Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, Microsoft's offer is for student's own personal Microsoft accounts, and is available to claim until October 31st. Microsoft 365 Personal is usually $99.99 a year, or $9.99 a month, and includes 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage.

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A first-of-its-kind global research expedition has extracted freshwater samples from beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor off Cape Cod, documenting a massive aquifer stretching from New Jersey to Maine. The three-month Expedition 501, funded at $25 million by the National Science Foundation and European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling, drilled up to 1,289 feet into the seabed at sites 20-30 miles offshore.

Samples registered salinity as low as 1 part per thousand -- meeting U.S. freshwater standards -- with some readings even lower. Scientists collected nearly 50,000 liters for laboratory analysis to determine whether the water originates from ancient glacial melt or current terrestrial groundwater systems. The UN projects global freshwater demand will exceed supply by 40% within five years.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Deadline: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class action fund as part of a settlement of litigation brought by a group of book authors. The sum, disclosed in a court filing on Friday, "will be the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history, larger than any other copyright class action settlement or any individual copyright case litigated to final judgment," the attorneys for the authors wrote.

The settlement also includes a provision that releases Anthropic only for its conduct up the August 25, meaning that new claims could be filed over future conduct, according to the filing. Anthropic also has agreed to destroy the datasets used in its models. The settlement figure amounts to about $3,000 per class work, according to the filing. You can read the terms of Anthropic's copyright settlement here (PDF). A hearing in the case is scheduled for Sept. 8.

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Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney developed an AI-powered bug-hunting agent that mimics human vulnerability discovery, validating flaws with proof-of-concept exploits. The Register reports: Ziyue Wang (Nanjing) and Liyi Zhou (Sydney) have expanded upon prior work dubbed A1, an AI agent that can develop exploits for cryptocurrency smart contracts, with A2, an AI agent capable of vulnerability discovery and validation in Android apps. They describe A2 in a preprint paper titled "Agentic Discovery and Validation of Android App Vulnerabilities."

The authors claim that the A2 system achieves 78.3 percent coverage on the Ghera benchmark, surpassing static analyzers like APKHunt (30.0 percent). And they say that, when they used A2 on 169 production APKs, they found "104 true-positive zero-day vulnerabilities," 57 of which were self-validated via automatically generated proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits. One of these included a medium-severity flaw in an Android app with over 10 million installs.

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Mozilla announced today that they will end 32-bit Linux support for Firefox in 2026, with version 144 being the last release and ESR 140 as the fallback option. Phoronix reports: Firefox has continued providing 32-bit Linux binaries even with most other web browsers and operating systems going all-in on x86_64 support. But given that 32-bit Linux support is waning by distributions and the vast majority of distributions aren't even shipping i686 install images anymore, they will be removing 32-bit Linux builds in 2026.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration would impose tariffs on semiconductor imports from companies not shifting production to the U.S., speaking ahead of a dinner with major technology company CEOs. "Yeah, I have discussed it with the people here. Chips and semiconductors -- we will be putting tariffs on companies that aren't coming in. We will be putting a tariff very shortly," Trump said without giving an exact time or rate.

"We will be putting a very substantial tariff, not that high, but fairly substantial tariff with the understanding that if they come into the country, if they are coming in, building, planning to come in, there will not be a tariff," Trump told reporters. "If they are not coming in, there is a tariff," Trump said in his comments on semiconductors. "Like, I would say (Apple CEO) Tim Cook would be in pretty good shape," he added, as Cook sat across the table. Further reading: Trump Basks in Tech Leaders' Spending Vows at White House Dinner

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Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from CBC News: Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a plan to force automakers to hit minimum sales levels for electric vehicles. The move is part of a series of measures the government announced Friday to help the sectors most affected by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. The EV mandate will be paused as the government conducts a 60-day review of the policy, and will be waived for 2026 models. Sources told CBC News that the review will look at the entire mandate and next steps.

"We have an auto sector which, because of the massive change in U.S. policy, is under extreme pressure. We recognize that," Carney said at a news conference in Mississauga, Ont. "They've got enough on their plate right now. So we're taking that off." The government is using the review as part of broader look at all the government's climate measures, he added. [...]

Brian Kingston, president of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers' Association, called it "an important first step." "The EV mandate imposes unsustainable costs on auto manufacturers, putting at risk Canadian jobs and investment in this critical sector of the economy," he said in a statement. "A full repeal of the regulation is the most effective way to provide immediate relief to the industry and keep it competitive."

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Grady Martin writes: Natron Energy has announced the immediate cessation of all operations, including its manufacturing plant in Holland, Michigan, and plans to build a $1.4 billion "gigafactory" in North Carolina. A company representative cited "efforts to raise sufficient new funding [being] unsuccessful" as the rationale for the decision.

When previously covered by Slashdot, comments on the merits of sodium-ion included the ability to use aluminum in lieu of heavier, more expensive copper anodes; a charge rate ten times that of lithium-ion; and Earth's abundance of sodium -- though at least one anonymous coward predicted the cancellation of the project.

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Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro is finding real traction in niche enterprise use, like CAE's pilot training, Lowe's kitchen design visualization, and Dassault's engineering workflows. "Over the last few weeks, I had an opportunity to try out some of those applications, and they are game-changers, albeit within their specific domains," writes Steven Rosenbush via the Wall Street Journal. "Companies should pay attention now to what's going on in these niche markets. Based on what I saw, these systems are having an impact on the way users integrate content development and engineering, which has implications for the way companies approach roles, teams and workflow." From the report: Home-improvement retailer Lowe's has deployed the Vision Pro at five locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and five locations in the Austin, Texas area. Customers use them to visualize how design ideas will look in their actual kitchen. The company plans to scale the effort to 100 of approximately 1,700 stores by the end of the year, eventually ramping up to 400 locations in markets with sufficient scale to justify the investment, Chief Digital and Information Officer Seemantini Godbole told me. [...]

Dassault Systemes, the French industrial software company, has long created virtual worlds for commercial use. Scientists, manufacturing experts, product managers and others use its platforms to design and engineer molecules for drug development, as well as data centers, factories, aircraft and electric cars. The 3DExperience platform was launched more than a decade ago, pulling together a range of Dassault brands including 3DExcite on the premise that "everything is going to become an experience," 3DExcite Chief Executive Tom Acland said. In February, Dassault Systemes and Apple announced a collaboration to produce the 3DLive App, which went live February 7. Users include Hyundai, Virgin Galactic and Deutsche Aircraft, he said.

[...] Canadian aircraft training company CAE is using Vision Pro to provide pilot training that complements full-motion flight simulator experience required for certification and recurrent checks, according to Chief Technology and Product Officer Emmanuel Levitte. The company has employed mixed reality and immersive training for at least 10 years. The Vision Pro has unlocked new capabilities, he said. The display is as sharp and readable as the controls in a real cockpit, which Levitte found not to be the case with other devices. The haptic feedback and audio quality also contribute to a more realistic training experience, he said. Remote crew members will also be able to be co-located virtually, enabling training that was previously only possible when individuals were physically in the same cockpit, according to Levitte.

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В кодовую базу Wine, на основе которой через неделю будет сформирован выпуск 10.15, добавлена поддержка драйвера ntsync, позволяющего существенно поднять производительность Windows-игр, запускаемых при помощи Wine. Драйвер входит в состав ядра Linux начиная с выпуска 6.14 и реализует символьное устройство /dev/ntsync и набор примитивов для синхронизации, применяемых в ядре Windows NT.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63830

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[2] PetalBot point=6 web=1009 up=5.9MB (11%) <--- PetalBot
[3] ChatGPT point=0 web=281 up=5.5MB (10%)
[4] Google point=1 web=380 up=3.3MB (6%) <--- Google
[5] TikTok point=0 web=305 up=2.9MB (5%)
[6] Amazon point=0 web=130 up=2.5MB (4%)
[7] BLEXBot point=0 web=75 up=1.8MB (3%)
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[9] 217.114.158.x point=25 web=0 up=0.9MB (1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[10] ClaudeBot point=0 web=95 up=0.8MB (1%)

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Исследователи из компании GitGuardian выявили массовую атаку на пользователей GitHub, в ходе которой был получен контроль над 327 учётными записями и осуществлена подстановка вредоносного обработчика Github Action в 817 репозиториев. Атака привела к утечке 3325 секретов, используемых в системах непрерывной интеграции и передаваемых через переменные окружения, включая токены доступа к PyPI, GitHub, NPM, DockerHub и различным облачным хранилищам.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63831

Сформировано первое корректирующее обновление дистрибутива Debian 13, в которое включены обновления пакетов, выпущенные за месяц с момента релиза новой ветки, и устранены недоработки в инсталляторе. Выпуск включает 72 обновления с устранением проблем со стабильностью и 16 обновлений с устранением уязвимостей.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63833

Проект KDE представил первый альфа-выпуск собственного дистрибутива KDE Linux, который позиционируется как эталонная реализация Linux-дистрибутива для рабочего стола и приложений KDE, оптимально сочетаемая с технологиями KDE и развиваемая без посредников разработчиками KDE. Для установки доступны системные образы (5 ГБ) для создания загрузочных USB-накопителей, работающих в Live-режиме.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63834

Сегодня, 6 сентября 2025 года, вышел очередной релиз открытого симулятора электронных схема Qucs-S. В качестве движка моделирования для Qucs-S можно использовать Ngspice (рекомендуется и устанавливается по зависимостям) или QucsatorRF (для моделирования СВЧ схем, поставляется вместе с программой).

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Опубликован выпуск проекта uutils coreutils 0.2.0 (Rust Coreutils), развивающего аналог пакета GNU Coreutils, написанный на языке Rust. В состав coreutils входит более ста утилит, включая sort, cat, chmod, chown, chroot, cp, date, dd, echo, hostname, id, ln и ls. Целью проекта является создание кроссплатформенной альтернативной реализации Coreutils, среди прочего способной работать на платформах Windows, Redox и Fuchsia.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63835

Опубликован выпуск Linux-дистрибутива Armbian 25.8, предоставляющего компактное системное окружение для одноплатных компьютеров с процессорами на базе архитектур ARM, RISC-V и x86, поддерживающее различные модели Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi и Cubieboard на базе процессоров Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa и Samsung Exynos.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63836

TOP10 VISITORS:

[1] 37.252.14.x point=143 web=0 up=24.7MB (37%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[2] ChatGPT point=2 web=1007 up=20.1MB (30%) <--- ChatGPT
[3] PetalBot point=2 web=983 up=5.8MB (8%) <--- PetalBot
[4] Amazon point=0 web=134 up=3.0MB (4%)
[5] Google point=0 web=311 up=2.5MB (3%)
[6] TikTok point=0 web=201 up=2.4MB (3%)
[7] ClaudeBot point=0 web=74 up=0.9MB (1%)
[8] 217.114.158.x point=24 web=0 up=0.8MB (1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[9] Facebook point=0 web=39 up=0.4MB (<1%)
[10] BLEXBot point=0 web=16 up=0.3MB (<1%)

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Спустя семь лет разработки представлена версия LKRG 1.0.0. LKRG (Linux Kernel Runtime Guard) - модуль ядра Linux, предназначенный для проверки целостности ядра во время его работы и для обнаружения попыток использования уязвимостей.

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После месяца работы и более 100 коммитов была выпущена версия Tatuin v0.23.0 с двумя новыми провайдерами: iCal и CalDAV. Первый работает только для чтения, а второй поддерживает полный рабочий процесс.

Tatuin – TUI для агрегации различных провайдеров задач в одном приложении, позволяющее создавать/редактировать задачи, просматривать их и отмечать, как выполненные.

На данный момент поддерживаются следующие провайдеры: Todoist, Obsidian, GitLab TODO, GitHub Issues, iCal, CalDAV.

[ Homepage ]( https://github.com/panter-dsd/tatuin )

[ v0.23.0 changes ]( https://github.com/panter-dsd/tatuin/milestone/6?closed=1 )

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18072774

Спустя более года с прошлого обновления сформирован релиз среды рабочего стола Budgie 10.9.3. Пользовательское окружение образуют поставляемые раздельно компоненты с реализацией рабочего стола Budgie Desktop, набором пиктограмм Budgie Desktop View, интерфейсом для настройки системы Budgie Control Center (форк GNOME Control Center) и хранителем экрана Budgie Screensaver (форк gnome-screensaver). Код проекта распространяется под лицензией GPLv2. Для ознакомления с Budgie можно использовать такие дистрибутивы, как Ubuntu Budgie, Fedora Budgie, Solus, GeckoLinux и EndeavourOS.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63838

Представлен релиз FreeType 2.14.0, модульного шрифтового движка, предоставляющего единый API для унификации обработки и вывода шрифтовых данных в различных векторных и растровых форматах. Код проекта написан на языке Си и распространяется под BSD-подобной лицензией FreeType.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63840

Вышел релиз Budgie 10.9.3. Основные новшества — адаптация к изменениям в GNOME 49 и подготовка к поддержке Wayland.

Budgie — это модульное пользовательское окружение, включающее в себя такие компоненты, как:

• Budgie Desktop — основной рабочий стол;

• Budgie Desktop View — система отображения иконок;

• Budgie Control Center — центр настроек, основанный на форке GNOME Control Center;

• Budgie Screensaver — хранитель экрана, созданный на основе gnome-screensaver.

Проект распространяется под лицензией GPLv2, а ознакомиться с Budgie можно в дистрибутивах вроде Ubuntu Budgie, Fedora Budgie, Solus, GeckoLinux и EndeavourOS.

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Сегодня увидела свет библиотека YAFL версии 0.40.12.

YAFL — это библиотека, написанная на Си, содержащая несколько алгоритмов [ Калмановской фильтрации ]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter ) и биндинги к Python, распространяемая под лицензией Apache-2.0.

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Специалисты компании GitGuardian зафиксировали масштабную целенаправленную атаку на пользователей GitHub. В результате злоумышленники получили доступ к 327 аккаунтам, через которые было внедрено вредоносное поведение в 817 репозиториев. Они подменяли GitHub Actions — автоматизированные скрипты, используемые в процессе CI/CD — вставляя вредоносные обработчики, собирающие чувствительную информацию.

В ходе атаки произошла утечка как минимум 3325 секретов, включая ключи доступа к сервисам PyPI, GitHub, NPM, DockerHub и различным облачным хранилищам. Данные передавались через переменные окружения, используемые в процессе автоматической сборки и тестирования проектов.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/security/18073550#cut ) )

TOP10 VISITORS:

[1] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=24.9MB (45%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[2] ChatGPT point=2 web=425 up=10.8MB (19%) <--- ChatGPT
[3] PetalBot point=2 web=864 up=5.1MB (9%) <--- PetalBot
[4] TikTok point=0 web=351 up=4.1MB (7%)
[5] Amazon point=0 web=152 up=3.0MB (5%)
[6] BLEXBot point=0 web=283 up=2.3MB (4%)
[7] ClaudeBot point=0 web=77 up=0.9MB (1%)
[8] 217.114.158.x point=24 web=0 up=0.8MB (1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[9] Google point=1 web=89 up=0.8MB (1%) <--- Google
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Дмитрий Брант (Dmitry Brant) из организации Wikimedia представил порт драйвера ftape для современных ядер Linux. Драйвер перестал обновляться в 2000 году и был исключён из ядра 2.6.20 в 2006 году из-за проблем при работе на многоядерных системах. Для возобновления возможности компиляции и работы драйвера в дистрибутивах с современными ядрами Linux потребовалась его переработка с учётом изменений внутренних API и подсистем ядра, произошедших за последние 20 лет.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63841

После года разработки вышла очередная версия фреймворка для построения распределенных решений на языке Golang - Ergo Framework 3.1

Ergo Framework – это реализация идей, технологий и шаблонов проектирования из мира Erlang на языке программирования Go. Он построен на акторной модели, сетевой прозрачности и наборе готовых компонентов для разработки. Это значительно упрощает создание сложных и распределенных решений, обеспечивая при этом высокий уровень надежности и производительности.

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Cybersecurity company ESET thought they'd discovered the first AI-powered ransomware in the wild, which they'd dubbed "PromptLock". But it turned out to be the work of university security researchers...

"Unlike conventional malware, the prototype only requires natural language prompts embedded in the binary," the researchers write in a research paper, calling it "Ransomware 3.0: Self-Composing and LLM-Orchestrated." Their prototype "uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally" (using the Ollama API) to "generate malicious Lua scripts on the fly." Tom's Hardware said that would help PromptLock evade detection:

If they had to call an API on [OpenAI's] servers every time they generate one of these scripts, the jig would be up. The pitfalls of vibe coding don't really apply, either, since the scripts are running on someone else's system.

The whole thing was actually an experiment by researchers at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering. So "While it is the first to be AI-powered," the school said in an announcement, "the ransomware prototype is a proof-of-concept that is non-functional outside of the contained lab environment."

An NYU spokesperson told Tom's Hardware a Ransomware 3.0 sample was uploaded to malware-analsys platform VirusTotal, and then picked up by the ESET researchers by mistake:

But the malware does work: NYU said "a simulation malicious AI system developed by the Tandon team carried out all four phases of ransomware attacks — mapping systems, identifying valuable files, stealing or encrypting data, and generating ransom notes — across personal computers, enterprise servers, and industrial control systems." Is that worrisome? Absolutely. But there's a significant difference between academic researchers demonstrating a proof-of-concept and legitimate hackers using that same technique in real-world attacks. Now the study will likely inspire the ne'er-do-wells to adopt similar approaches, especially since it seems to be remarkably affordable.
"The economic implications reveal how AI could reshape ransomware operations," the NYU researchers said. "Traditional campaigns require skilled development teams, custom malware creation, and substantial infrastructure investments. The prototype consumed approximately 23,000 AI tokens per complete attack execution, equivalent to roughly $0.70 using commercial API services running flagship models."
As if that weren't enough, the researchers said that "open-source AI models eliminate these costs entirely," so ransomware operators won't even have to shell out the 70 cents needed to work with commercial LLM service providers...
"The study serves as an early warning to help defenders prepare countermeasures," NYU said in an announcement, "before bad actors adopt these AI-powered techniques."

ESET posted on Mastodon that "Nonetheless, our findings remain valid — the discovered samples represent the first known case of AI-powered ransomware."

And the ESET researcher who'd mistakenly thought the ransomware was "in the wild" had warned that looking ahead, ransomware "will likely become more sophisticated, faster spreading, and harder to detect.... This makes cybersecurity awareness, regular backups, and stronger digital hygiene more important than ever."

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A research team just discovered older mice have more of the protein FTL1 in their hippocampus, reports ScienceAlert.

The hippocampus is the region of the brain involved in memory and learning. And the researchers' paper says their new data raises "the exciting possibility that the beneficial effects of targeting neuronal ferritin light chain 1 (FTL1) at old age may extend more broadly, beyond cognitive aging, to neurodegenerative disease conditions in older people."

FTL1 is known to be related to storing iron in the body, but hasn't come up in relation to brain aging before... To test its involvement after their initial findings, the researchers used genetic editing to overexpress the protein in young mice, and reduce its level in old mice. The results were clear: the younger mice showed signs of impaired memory and learning abilities, as if they were getting old before their time, while in the older mice there were signs of restored cognitive function — some of the brain aging was effectively reversed...

"It is truly a reversal of impairments," says biomedical scientist Saul Villeda, from the University of California, San Francisco. "It's much more than merely delaying or preventing symptoms." Further tests on cells in petri dishes showed how FTL1 stopped neurons from growing properly, with neural wires lacking the branching structures that typically provide links between nerve cells and improve brain connectivity...

"We're seeing more opportunities to alleviate the worst consequences of old age," says Villeda. "It's a hopeful time to be working on the biology of aging."
The research was led by a team from the University of California, San Francisco — and published in Nature Aging..

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