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What Happens After the Death of Social Media?
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-15 12:22:01
"These are the last days of social media as we know it," argues a humanities lecturer from University College Cork exploring where technology and culture intersect, warning they could be come lingering derelicts "haunted by bots and the echo of once-human chatter..."
"Whatever remains of genuine, human content is increasingly sidelined by algorithmic prioritization, receiving fewer interactions than the engineered content and AI slop optimized solely for clicks... "
In recent years, Facebook and other platforms that facilitate billions of daily interactions have slowly morphed into the internet's largest repositories of AI-generated spam. Research has found what users plainly see: tens of thousands of machine-written posts now flood public groups — pushing scams, chasing clicks — with clickbait headlines, half-coherent listicles and hazy lifestyle images stitched together in AI tools like Midjourney... While content proliferates, engagement is evaporating. Average interaction rates across major platforms are declining fast: Facebook and X posts now scrape an average 0.15% engagement, while Instagram has dropped 24% year-on-year. Even TikTok has begun to plateau. People aren't connecting or conversing on social media like they used to; they're just wading through slop, that is, low-effort, low-quality content produced at scale, often with AI, for engagement.
And much of it is slop: Less than half of American adults now rate the information they see on social media as "mostly reliable" — down from roughly two-thirds in the mid-2010s... Platforms have little incentive to stem the tide. Synthetic accounts are cheap, tireless and lucrative because they never demand wages or unionize. Systems designed to surface peer-to-peer engagement are now systematically filtering out such activity, because what counts as engagement has changed. Engagement is now about raw user attention — time spent, impressions, scroll velocity — and the net effect is an online world in which you are constantly being addressed but never truly spoken to.
"These are the last days of social media, not because we lack content," the article suggests, "but because the attention economy has neared its outer limit — we have exhausted the capacity to care..." Social media giants have stopped growing exponentially, while a significant proportion of 18- to 34-year-olds even took deliberate mental health breaks from social media in 2024, according to an American Psychiatric Association poll.) And "Some creators are quitting, too. Competing with synthetic performers who never sleep, they find the visibility race not merely tiring but absurd."
Yet his 5,000-word essay predicts social media's death rattle "will not be a bang but a shrug," since "the model is splintering, and users are drifting toward smaller, slower, more private spaces, like group chats, Discord servers and federated microblogs — a billion little gardens."
Intentional, opt-in micro-communities are rising in their place — like Patreon collectives and Substack newsletters — where creators chase depth over scale, retention over virality. A writer with 10,000 devoted subscribers can potentially earn more and burn out less than one with a million passive followers on Instagram... Even the big platforms sense the turning tide. Instagram has begun emphasizing DMs, X is pushing subscriber-only circles and TikTok is experimenting with private communities. Behind these developments is an implicit acknowledgement that the infinite scroll, stuffed with bots and synthetic sludge, is approaching the limit of what humans will tolerate....
The most radical redesign of social media might be the most familiar: What if we treated these platforms as public utilities rather than private casinos...? Imagine social media platforms with transparent algorithms subject to public audit, user representation on governance boards, revenue models based on public funding or member dues rather than surveillance advertising, mandates to serve democratic discourse rather than maximize engagement, and regular impact assessments that measure not just usage but societal effects... This could take multiple forms, like municipal platforms for local civic engagement, professionally focused networks run by trade associations, and educational spaces managed by public library systems... We need to "rewild the internet," as Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon mentioned in a Noema essay.
We need governance scaffolding, shared institutions that make decentralization viable at scale... [R]eal change will come when platforms are rewarded for serving the public interest. This could mean tying tax breaks or public procurement eligibility to the implementation of transparent, user-controllable algorithms. It could mean funding research into alternative recommender systems and making those tools open-source and interoperable. Most radically, it could involve certifying platforms based on civic impact, rewarding those that prioritize user autonomy and trust over sheer engagement.
"Social media as we know it is dying, but we're not condemned to its ruins. We are capable of building better — smaller, slower, more intentional, more accountable — spaces for digital interaction, spaces..."
"The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect. We built these systems, and we can certainly build better ones."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/050241/what-happens-after-the-death-of-social-media?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-15 12:22:01
"These are the last days of social media as we know it," argues a humanities lecturer from University College Cork exploring where technology and culture intersect, warning they could be come lingering derelicts "haunted by bots and the echo of once-human chatter..."
"Whatever remains of genuine, human content is increasingly sidelined by algorithmic prioritization, receiving fewer interactions than the engineered content and AI slop optimized solely for clicks... "
In recent years, Facebook and other platforms that facilitate billions of daily interactions have slowly morphed into the internet's largest repositories of AI-generated spam. Research has found what users plainly see: tens of thousands of machine-written posts now flood public groups — pushing scams, chasing clicks — with clickbait headlines, half-coherent listicles and hazy lifestyle images stitched together in AI tools like Midjourney... While content proliferates, engagement is evaporating. Average interaction rates across major platforms are declining fast: Facebook and X posts now scrape an average 0.15% engagement, while Instagram has dropped 24% year-on-year. Even TikTok has begun to plateau. People aren't connecting or conversing on social media like they used to; they're just wading through slop, that is, low-effort, low-quality content produced at scale, often with AI, for engagement.
And much of it is slop: Less than half of American adults now rate the information they see on social media as "mostly reliable" — down from roughly two-thirds in the mid-2010s... Platforms have little incentive to stem the tide. Synthetic accounts are cheap, tireless and lucrative because they never demand wages or unionize. Systems designed to surface peer-to-peer engagement are now systematically filtering out such activity, because what counts as engagement has changed. Engagement is now about raw user attention — time spent, impressions, scroll velocity — and the net effect is an online world in which you are constantly being addressed but never truly spoken to.
"These are the last days of social media, not because we lack content," the article suggests, "but because the attention economy has neared its outer limit — we have exhausted the capacity to care..." Social media giants have stopped growing exponentially, while a significant proportion of 18- to 34-year-olds even took deliberate mental health breaks from social media in 2024, according to an American Psychiatric Association poll.) And "Some creators are quitting, too. Competing with synthetic performers who never sleep, they find the visibility race not merely tiring but absurd."
Yet his 5,000-word essay predicts social media's death rattle "will not be a bang but a shrug," since "the model is splintering, and users are drifting toward smaller, slower, more private spaces, like group chats, Discord servers and federated microblogs — a billion little gardens."
Intentional, opt-in micro-communities are rising in their place — like Patreon collectives and Substack newsletters — where creators chase depth over scale, retention over virality. A writer with 10,000 devoted subscribers can potentially earn more and burn out less than one with a million passive followers on Instagram... Even the big platforms sense the turning tide. Instagram has begun emphasizing DMs, X is pushing subscriber-only circles and TikTok is experimenting with private communities. Behind these developments is an implicit acknowledgement that the infinite scroll, stuffed with bots and synthetic sludge, is approaching the limit of what humans will tolerate....
The most radical redesign of social media might be the most familiar: What if we treated these platforms as public utilities rather than private casinos...? Imagine social media platforms with transparent algorithms subject to public audit, user representation on governance boards, revenue models based on public funding or member dues rather than surveillance advertising, mandates to serve democratic discourse rather than maximize engagement, and regular impact assessments that measure not just usage but societal effects... This could take multiple forms, like municipal platforms for local civic engagement, professionally focused networks run by trade associations, and educational spaces managed by public library systems... We need to "rewild the internet," as Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon mentioned in a Noema essay.
We need governance scaffolding, shared institutions that make decentralization viable at scale... [R]eal change will come when platforms are rewarded for serving the public interest. This could mean tying tax breaks or public procurement eligibility to the implementation of transparent, user-controllable algorithms. It could mean funding research into alternative recommender systems and making those tools open-source and interoperable. Most radically, it could involve certifying platforms based on civic impact, rewarding those that prioritize user autonomy and trust over sheer engagement.
"Social media as we know it is dying, but we're not condemned to its ruins. We are capable of building better — smaller, slower, more intentional, more accountable — spaces for digital interaction, spaces..."
"The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect. We built these systems, and we can certainly build better ones."
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/050241/what-happens-after-the-death-of-social-media?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Выпуск PortableGL 0.99, реализации OpenGL 3 на языке Си
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2025-09-15 12:44:03
После полутора лет разработки подготовлен выпуск проекта PortableGL 0.99, развивающего программную реализацию графического API OpenGL 3.x, написанную целиком на языке Си. Теоретически PortableGL может быть использован в любых приложениях, принимающих текстуру или фреймбуфер в качестве входных данных. Код оформлен в виде одного заголовочного файла и распространяется под лицензией MIT.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63879
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-15 12:44:03
После полутора лет разработки подготовлен выпуск проекта PortableGL 0.99, развивающего программную реализацию графического API OpenGL 3.x, написанную целиком на языке Си. Теоретически PortableGL может быть использован в любых приложениях, принимающих текстуру или фреймбуфер в качестве входных данных. Код оформлен в виде одного заголовочного файла и распространяется под лицензией MIT.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63879
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AI Triggers 70% Collapse in Fresh Graduate Hiring at India's IT Giants That Employ 5.4 Million
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2025-09-15 13:22:01
India's IT services industry saw entry-level hiring collapse by 70% between fiscal years 2023 and 2024, as the country's four largest IT exporters reduced fresh graduate recruitment from 225,000 to 60,000. Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys shed a combined 38,000 employees in fiscal 2024, marking the sector's first workforce contraction in decades.
Studies indicate generative AI could automate 30-40% of junior developer and tester tasks. The proportion of employees under 30 at Infosys declined from 81% in 2010 to a projected 53% by fiscal 2025. India adds 8-9 million people to its workforce annually while the IT sector projects just 50,000 net new jobs per year from fiscal 2026-28. The graduate unemployment rate exceeds 13%, nearly triple the national average.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/0718258/ai-triggers-70-collapse-in-fresh-graduate-hiring-at-indias-it-giants-that-employ-54-million?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-09-15 13:22:01
India's IT services industry saw entry-level hiring collapse by 70% between fiscal years 2023 and 2024, as the country's four largest IT exporters reduced fresh graduate recruitment from 225,000 to 60,000. Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys shed a combined 38,000 employees in fiscal 2024, marking the sector's first workforce contraction in decades.
Studies indicate generative AI could automate 30-40% of junior developer and tester tasks. The proportion of employees under 30 at Infosys declined from 81% in 2010 to a projected 53% by fiscal 2025. India adds 8-9 million people to its workforce annually while the IT sector projects just 50,000 net new jobs per year from fiscal 2026-28. The graduate unemployment rate exceeds 13%, nearly triple the national average.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/0718258/ai-triggers-70-collapse-in-fresh-graduate-hiring-at-indias-it-giants-that-employ-54-million?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Выпуск Cloud Hypervisor 48.0 с запретом принятия кода, сгенерированного AI
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-15 13:44:03
Представлен релиз гипервизора Cloud Hypervisor 48.0, созданного на основе компонентов проекта Rust-VMM, развиваемого при участии Intel, Alibaba, Amazon, Google и Red Hat. Rust-VMM написан на языке Rust и позволяет создавать специфичные для определённых задач гипервизоры. Cloud Hypervisor является одним из таких гипервизоров, который предоставляет высокоуровневый монитор виртуальных машин (VMM), работающий поверх KVM и оптимизированный для решения задач, свойственных для облачных систем. Код проекта доступен под лицензиями Apache 2.0 и BSD.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63881
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-15 13:44:03
Представлен релиз гипервизора Cloud Hypervisor 48.0, созданного на основе компонентов проекта Rust-VMM, развиваемого при участии Intel, Alibaba, Amazon, Google и Red Hat. Rust-VMM написан на языке Rust и позволяет создавать специфичные для определённых задач гипервизоры. Cloud Hypervisor является одним из таких гипервизоров, который предоставляет высокоуровневый монитор виртуальных машин (VMM), работающий поверх KVM и оптимизированный для решения задач, свойственных для облачных систем. Код проекта доступен под лицензиями Apache 2.0 и BSD.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63881
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Утечка документации и кода, связанного с работой Великого китайского фаервола
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2025-09-15 15:44:03
В открытый доступ попало около 600 ГБ данных, связанных с работой Великого китайского фаервола (GFW, Great Firewall of China), применяемого для фильтрации интернет-трафика в КНР. В архиве присутствует около 500 ГБ rpm-пакетов из закрытого репозитория repo.geedge.net, разнообразная документация по работе и устройству, а также сжатые (zstd) архивы с содержимым git-репозитория с кодом (63 ГБ, включая код DPI-систем для инспектирования трафика), документацией (50 ГБ, более 100 тысяч документов) и записями из системы отслеживания ошибок Jira (2.7 ГБ). Информация доступна для загрузки напрямую или через торренты.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63884
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-15 15:44:03
В открытый доступ попало около 600 ГБ данных, связанных с работой Великого китайского фаервола (GFW, Great Firewall of China), применяемого для фильтрации интернет-трафика в КНР. В архиве присутствует около 500 ГБ rpm-пакетов из закрытого репозитория repo.geedge.net, разнообразная документация по работе и устройству, а также сжатые (zstd) архивы с содержимым git-репозитория с кодом (63 ГБ, включая код DPI-систем для инспектирования трафика), документацией (50 ГБ, более 100 тысяч документов) и записями из системы отслеживания ошибок Jira (2.7 ГБ). Информация доступна для загрузки напрямую или через торренты.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63884
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'If We Want Bigger Wind Turbines, We're Gonna Need Bigger Airplanes'
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2025-09-15 16:22:02
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this article from IEEE Spectrum:
The world's largest airplane, when it's built, will stretch more than a football field from tip to tail. Sixty percent longer than the biggest existing aircraft, with 12 times as much cargo space as a 747, the behemoth will look like an oil tanker that's sprouted wings — aeronautical engineering at a preposterous scale.
Called WindRunner, and expected by 2030, it'll haul just one thing: massive wind-turbine blades. In most parts of the world, onshore wind-turbine blades can be built to a length of 70 meters, max. This size constraint comes not from the limits of blade engineering or physics; it's transportation. Any larger and the blades couldn't be moved over land, since they wouldn't fit through tunnels or overpasses, or be able to accommodate some of the sharper curves of roads and rails.
So the WindRunner's developer, Radia of Boulder, Colorado, has staked its business model on the idea that the only way to get extralarge blades to wind farms is to fly them there... Radia's plane will be able to hold two 95-meter blades or one 105-meter blade, and land on makeshift dirt runways adjacent to wind farms. This may sound audacious — an act of hubris undertaken for its own sake. But Radia's supporters argue that WindRunner is simply the right tool for the job — the only way to make onshore wind turbines bigger. Bigger turbines, after all, can generate more energy at a lower cost per megawatt. But the question is: Will supersizing airplanes be worth the trouble...?
Having fewer total turbines means a wind farm could space them farther apart, avoiding airflow interference. The turbines would be nearly twice as tall, so they'll reach a higher, gustier part of the atmosphere. And big turbines don't need to spin as quickly, so they would make economic sense in places with average wind speeds around 5 meters per second compared with the roughly 7 m/s needed to sustain smaller units. "The result...is more than a doubling of the acres in the world where wind is viable," says Mark Lundstrom [Radia's founder and CEO].
The executive director at America's National Renewable Energy Laboratory Foundation points out that one day blades could just be 3D-printed on-site — negating the need for the airplane altogether. But 3D printing for turbines is still in its earliest stages.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/0224231/if-we-want-bigger-wind-turbines-were-gonna-need-bigger-airplanes?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
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2025-09-15 16:22:02
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this article from IEEE Spectrum:
The world's largest airplane, when it's built, will stretch more than a football field from tip to tail. Sixty percent longer than the biggest existing aircraft, with 12 times as much cargo space as a 747, the behemoth will look like an oil tanker that's sprouted wings — aeronautical engineering at a preposterous scale.
Called WindRunner, and expected by 2030, it'll haul just one thing: massive wind-turbine blades. In most parts of the world, onshore wind-turbine blades can be built to a length of 70 meters, max. This size constraint comes not from the limits of blade engineering or physics; it's transportation. Any larger and the blades couldn't be moved over land, since they wouldn't fit through tunnels or overpasses, or be able to accommodate some of the sharper curves of roads and rails.
So the WindRunner's developer, Radia of Boulder, Colorado, has staked its business model on the idea that the only way to get extralarge blades to wind farms is to fly them there... Radia's plane will be able to hold two 95-meter blades or one 105-meter blade, and land on makeshift dirt runways adjacent to wind farms. This may sound audacious — an act of hubris undertaken for its own sake. But Radia's supporters argue that WindRunner is simply the right tool for the job — the only way to make onshore wind turbines bigger. Bigger turbines, after all, can generate more energy at a lower cost per megawatt. But the question is: Will supersizing airplanes be worth the trouble...?
Having fewer total turbines means a wind farm could space them farther apart, avoiding airflow interference. The turbines would be nearly twice as tall, so they'll reach a higher, gustier part of the atmosphere. And big turbines don't need to spin as quickly, so they would make economic sense in places with average wind speeds around 5 meters per second compared with the roughly 7 m/s needed to sustain smaller units. "The result...is more than a doubling of the acres in the world where wind is viable," says Mark Lundstrom [Radia's founder and CEO].
The executive director at America's National Renewable Energy Laboratory Foundation points out that one day blades could just be 3D-printed on-site — negating the need for the airplane altogether. But 3D printing for turbines is still in its earliest stages.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/0224231/if-we-want-bigger-wind-turbines-were-gonna-need-bigger-airplanes?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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simdjson 4.0.0 и 4.0.1
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-15 17:44:04
12 и 13 сентября состоялись выпуски 4.0.0 и 4.0.1 высокопроизводительной, SIMD-оптимизированной, библиотеки [ simdjson ]( https://simdjson.org ) .
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/development/18081250#cut ) )
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-15 17:44:04
12 и 13 сентября состоялись выпуски 4.0.0 и 4.0.1 высокопроизводительной, SIMD-оптимизированной, библиотеки [ simdjson ]( https://simdjson.org ) .
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/development/18081250#cut ) )
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Google Shifts Android Security Updates To Risk-Based Triage System
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2025-09-15 19:22:01
Google has restructured Android's decade-old monthly security update process into a "Risk-Based Update System" that separates high-priority patches from routine fixes. Monthly bulletins now contain only vulnerabilities under active exploitation or in known exploit chains -- explaining July 2025's unprecedented zero-CVE bulletin -- while most patches accumulate for quarterly releases.
The September 2025 bulletin contained 119 vulnerabilities compared to zero in July and six in August. The change reduces OEM workload for monthly updates but extends the private bulletin lead time from 30 days to several months for quarterly releases. The company no longer releases monthly security update source code, limiting custom ROM development to quarterly cycles.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/1444225/google-shifts-android-security-updates-to-risk-based-triage-system?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
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2025-09-15 19:22:01
Google has restructured Android's decade-old monthly security update process into a "Risk-Based Update System" that separates high-priority patches from routine fixes. Monthly bulletins now contain only vulnerabilities under active exploitation or in known exploit chains -- explaining July 2025's unprecedented zero-CVE bulletin -- while most patches accumulate for quarterly releases.
The September 2025 bulletin contained 119 vulnerabilities compared to zero in July and six in August. The change reduces OEM workload for monthly updates but extends the private bulletin lead time from 30 days to several months for quarterly releases. The company no longer releases monthly security update source code, limiting custom ROM development to quarterly cycles.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/1444225/google-shifts-android-security-updates-to-risk-based-triage-system?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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'USB-A Isn't Going Anywhere, So Stop Removing the Port'
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2025-09-15 20:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a column: After nearly 30 years of USB-A connectivity, the market is now transitioning to the convenient USB-C standard, which makes sense given that it supports higher speeds, display data, and power delivery. The symmetrical connection is also smaller and more user-friendly, as it's reversible and works with smartphones and tablets. I get that USB-C is inevitable, but tech brands should realize that the ubiquitous USB-A isn't going anywhere soon and stop removing the ports we need to run our devices.
[...] It's premature for brands to phase out USB-A when peripheral brands are still making compatible products in 2025. For example, Logitech's current wireless pro gaming mice connect using a USB-A Lightspeed dongle, and most Seagate external drives still use USB-A as their connection method. The same can be said for other memory sticks, keyboards, wireless headsets, and other new devices that are still manufactured with a USB-A connection.
I have a gaming laptop with two USB-A and USB-C ports, and it's a constant struggle to connect all my devices simultaneously without needing a hub. I use the two USB-A ports for my mouse and wireless headset dongles, while a phone charging cable and portable monitor take up the USB-Cs. This setup stresses me out because there's no extra space to connect anything else without losing functionality.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/1510250/usb-a-isnt-going-anywhere-so-stop-removing-the-port?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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2025-09-15 20:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a column: After nearly 30 years of USB-A connectivity, the market is now transitioning to the convenient USB-C standard, which makes sense given that it supports higher speeds, display data, and power delivery. The symmetrical connection is also smaller and more user-friendly, as it's reversible and works with smartphones and tablets. I get that USB-C is inevitable, but tech brands should realize that the ubiquitous USB-A isn't going anywhere soon and stop removing the ports we need to run our devices.
[...] It's premature for brands to phase out USB-A when peripheral brands are still making compatible products in 2025. For example, Logitech's current wireless pro gaming mice connect using a USB-A Lightspeed dongle, and most Seagate external drives still use USB-A as their connection method. The same can be said for other memory sticks, keyboards, wireless headsets, and other new devices that are still manufactured with a USB-A connection.
I have a gaming laptop with two USB-A and USB-C ports, and it's a constant struggle to connect all my devices simultaneously without needing a hub. I use the two USB-A ports for my mouse and wireless headset dongles, while a phone charging cable and portable monitor take up the USB-Cs. This setup stresses me out because there's no extra space to connect anything else without losing functionality.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/1510250/usb-a-isnt-going-anywhere-so-stop-removing-the-port?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Anthropic Finds Businesses Are Mainly Using AI To Automate Work
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2025-09-15 20:22:01
Businesses are overwhelmingly relying on Anthropic's AI software to automate rather than collaborate on work, according to a new report from the OpenAI rival, adding to the risk that AI will upend livelihoods. From a report: More than three quarters (77%) of companies' usage of Anthropic's Claude AI software involved automation patterns, often including "full task delegation," according to a research report the startup released on Monday. The finding was based on an analysis of traffic from Anthropic's application programming interface, which is used by developers and businesses.
[...] On the whole, Anthropic found businesses primarily use Claude for administrative tasks and coding, the latter of which has been a key focus for the company and much of the AI industry. Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI developers have released more sophisticated AI tools that can write and debug code on a user's behalf.
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2025-09-15 20:22:01
Businesses are overwhelmingly relying on Anthropic's AI software to automate rather than collaborate on work, according to a new report from the OpenAI rival, adding to the risk that AI will upend livelihoods. From a report: More than three quarters (77%) of companies' usage of Anthropic's Claude AI software involved automation patterns, often including "full task delegation," according to a research report the startup released on Monday. The finding was based on an analysis of traffic from Anthropic's application programming interface, which is used by developers and businesses.
[...] On the whole, Anthropic found businesses primarily use Claude for administrative tasks and coding, the latter of which has been a key focus for the company and much of the AI industry. Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI developers have released more sophisticated AI tools that can write and debug code on a user's behalf.
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AI's Economic Boost Isn't Showing Up in US GDP, Goldman Says
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2025-09-15 21:22:02
AI is transforming corporate America, yet the boom remains understated in government growth statistics, according to Goldman Sachs. From a report: Analysts at Goldman pointed to the scale of the boom in a Saturday note: "Revenue at US companies providing AI infrastructure has risen by $400 billion since 2022, which at first glance seems to suggest that AI has been a meaningful driver of economic growth recently." But official numbers tell a different story.
AI technology has lifted real US economic activity by about $160 billion since 2022, or 0.7% of GDP, the analysts calculated. Yet only around $45 billion, or 0.2% of GDP, of AI-spurred growth has been recorded in official statistics. That leaves roughly $115 billion uncounted, according to the analysts. That gap highlights the difference between what companies report and what the government measures due to the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis method for calculating growth.
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2025-09-15 21:22:02
AI is transforming corporate America, yet the boom remains understated in government growth statistics, according to Goldman Sachs. From a report: Analysts at Goldman pointed to the scale of the boom in a Saturday note: "Revenue at US companies providing AI infrastructure has risen by $400 billion since 2022, which at first glance seems to suggest that AI has been a meaningful driver of economic growth recently." But official numbers tell a different story.
AI technology has lifted real US economic activity by about $160 billion since 2022, or 0.7% of GDP, the analysts calculated. Yet only around $45 billion, or 0.2% of GDP, of AI-spurred growth has been recorded in official statistics. That leaves roughly $115 billion uncounted, according to the analysts. That gap highlights the difference between what companies report and what the government measures due to the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis method for calculating growth.
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Библиотека libxml2 осталась без сопровождающего
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2025-09-15 21:44:03
Ник Велнхофер (Nick Wellnhofer) объявил об уходе с поста сопровождающего библиотеку libxml2. Ник принимал участие в разработке libxml2 с 2016 года, был добавлен в число сопровождающих в 2022 году и с того времени оставался практически единственным активным разработчиком. После ухода Ника проект остался без сопровождения.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63886
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2025-09-15 21:44:03
Ник Велнхофер (Nick Wellnhofer) объявил об уходе с поста сопровождающего библиотеку libxml2. Ник принимал участие в разработке libxml2 с 2016 года, был добавлен в число сопровождающих в 2022 году и с того времени оставался практически единственным активным разработчиком. После ухода Ника проект остался без сопровождения.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63886
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Apple Ships iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26 With 'Liquid Glass' UI Overhaul
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2025-09-15 22:22:01
Apple released iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26 today, introducing Liquid Glass, a translucent design language that represents the biggest visual redesign since iOS 7 in 2013. The new interface elements dynamically refract and reflect background content across all three platforms. iOS 26 requires iPhone 11 or later and second-generation iPhone SE or newer. iPadOS 26 runs on the same hardware as iPadOS 18 except the 7th-generation iPad. macOS Tahoe 26 supports all Apple silicon Macs, the 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro, 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro, 2020 and later iMac, and 2019 and later Mac Pro. The transparent menu bar on macOS increases perceived display size.
iOS 26's adaptive Lock Screen time display resizes around notifications and Live Activities. Desktop icons, folders, app icons and widgets support light, dark, tinted, and clear appearances across all systems. iOS 26 adds Visual Intelligence for on-screen content analysis through screenshot button combinations. Live Translation operates across Messages, FaceTime and Phone on all platforms, translating text and audio in real-time on-device. The Camera app received streamlined navigation and lens cleaning hints for iPhone 15 and later models.
iPadOS 26 brings Mac-style windowing and multitasking. Apps support free-form placement and menu bars. The Phone app and new Apple Games app arrived on iPad. macOS gained the Phone app through Continuity, including Call Screening and Hold Assist features. Spotlight executes hundreds of actions without opening applications and automatically assigns quick keys to frequent actions. Apple Intelligence expands across all systems. The Shortcuts app gained intelligent actions for text summarization and image generation. The Wallet app tracks orders across platforms, while Apple Music introduced AutoMix for song transitions.
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2025-09-15 22:22:01
Apple released iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26 today, introducing Liquid Glass, a translucent design language that represents the biggest visual redesign since iOS 7 in 2013. The new interface elements dynamically refract and reflect background content across all three platforms. iOS 26 requires iPhone 11 or later and second-generation iPhone SE or newer. iPadOS 26 runs on the same hardware as iPadOS 18 except the 7th-generation iPad. macOS Tahoe 26 supports all Apple silicon Macs, the 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro, 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro, 2020 and later iMac, and 2019 and later Mac Pro. The transparent menu bar on macOS increases perceived display size.
iOS 26's adaptive Lock Screen time display resizes around notifications and Live Activities. Desktop icons, folders, app icons and widgets support light, dark, tinted, and clear appearances across all systems. iOS 26 adds Visual Intelligence for on-screen content analysis through screenshot button combinations. Live Translation operates across Messages, FaceTime and Phone on all platforms, translating text and audio in real-time on-device. The Camera app received streamlined navigation and lens cleaning hints for iPhone 15 and later models.
iPadOS 26 brings Mac-style windowing and multitasking. Apps support free-form placement and menu bars. The Phone app and new Apple Games app arrived on iPad. macOS gained the Phone app through Continuity, including Call Screening and Hold Assist features. Spotlight executes hundreds of actions without opening applications and automatically assigns quick keys to frequent actions. Apple Intelligence expands across all systems. The Shortcuts app gained intelligent actions for text summarization and image generation. The Wallet app tracks orders across platforms, while Apple Music introduced AutoMix for song transitions.
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A Third of UK Firms Using 'Bossware' To Monitor Workers' Activity, Survey Reveals
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2025-09-15 22:22:01
A third of UK employers are using "bossware" technology to track workers' activity with the most common methods including monitoring emails and web browsing. From a report: Private companies are most likely to deploy in-work surveillance and one in seven employers are recording or reviewing screen activity, according to a UK-wide survey that estimates the extent of office snooping.
The findings, shared with the Guardian by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), are based on responses from hundreds of UK managers and suggest there has been a recent growth in computerised work surveillance. In 2023, less than a fifth of people thought they were being monitored by an employer, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found. The finding that about a third of managers report their organisations are monitoring workers' online activities on employer-owned devices is probably an underestimate, as roughly the same proportion said they don't know what tracking their organisations do.
Many monitoring systems are aimed at preventing insider threats and safeguarding sensitive information as well as detecting productivity dips. But the trend appears to be causing unease. A large minority of managers are opposed to the practice, saying it undermines trust with staff and invades their personal privacy, the CMI found.
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2025-09-15 22:22:01
A third of UK employers are using "bossware" technology to track workers' activity with the most common methods including monitoring emails and web browsing. From a report: Private companies are most likely to deploy in-work surveillance and one in seven employers are recording or reviewing screen activity, according to a UK-wide survey that estimates the extent of office snooping.
The findings, shared with the Guardian by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), are based on responses from hundreds of UK managers and suggest there has been a recent growth in computerised work surveillance. In 2023, less than a fifth of people thought they were being monitored by an employer, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found. The finding that about a third of managers report their organisations are monitoring workers' online activities on employer-owned devices is probably an underestimate, as roughly the same proportion said they don't know what tracking their organisations do.
Many monitoring systems are aimed at preventing insider threats and safeguarding sensitive information as well as detecting productivity dips. But the trend appears to be causing unease. A large minority of managers are opposed to the practice, saying it undermines trust with staff and invades their personal privacy, the CMI found.
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Выпуск мобильной платформы /e/OS 3.1
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2025-09-15 22:44:03
Представлен выпуск мобильной платформы /e/OS 3.1, сфокусированной на конфиденциальности пользовательских данных. Платформа основана Гаэлем Дювалем (Gaël Duval), создателем дистрибутива Mandrake Linux. Проект поддерживает 253 модели смартфонов и формирует сборки прошивок для наиболее популярных из них. На базе смартфонов OnePlus, Fairphone, Teracube и Pixel подготовлены собственные редакции устройств, распространяемые с предустановленной прошивкой /e/OS под брендами Murena One, Murena 2, Murena Fairphone 4/5, Murena Teracube 2e, Murena Pixel 5/7 и Murena SHIFTphone 8.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63887
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2025-09-15 22:44:03
Представлен выпуск мобильной платформы /e/OS 3.1, сфокусированной на конфиденциальности пользовательских данных. Платформа основана Гаэлем Дювалем (Gaël Duval), создателем дистрибутива Mandrake Linux. Проект поддерживает 253 модели смартфонов и формирует сборки прошивок для наиболее популярных из них. На базе смартфонов OnePlus, Fairphone, Teracube и Pixel подготовлены собственные редакции устройств, распространяемые с предустановленной прошивкой /e/OS под брендами Murena One, Murena 2, Murena Fairphone 4/5, Murena Teracube 2e, Murena Pixel 5/7 и Murena SHIFTphone 8.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63887
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Toxic Fumes Are Leaking Into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers
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2025-09-15 23:22:01
Toxic fumes from jet engines are leaking into aircraft cabins at an accelerating rate, reaching 108 incidents per million departures in 2024 compared to 12 in 2014, a Wall Street Journal investigation found. The fumes contain neurotoxins and carbon monoxide that have caused brain injuries in crew members. JetBlue flight attendant Florence Chesson suffered permanent neurological damage after inhaling engine oil vapors in 2018, diagnosed by neurologists as equivalent to an NFL linebacker's concussion.
The surge is driven by Airbus A320 aircraft, particularly the A320neo model introduced in 2016. WSJ reports Airbus loosened maintenance requirements under airline pressure despite knowing the changes would increase incidents. The FAA received over 700 fume event reports from major U.S. airlines in 2024. Most commercial jets except Boeing's 787 use a "bleed air" system that pulls cabin air through engines.
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2025-09-15 23:22:01
Toxic fumes from jet engines are leaking into aircraft cabins at an accelerating rate, reaching 108 incidents per million departures in 2024 compared to 12 in 2014, a Wall Street Journal investigation found. The fumes contain neurotoxins and carbon monoxide that have caused brain injuries in crew members. JetBlue flight attendant Florence Chesson suffered permanent neurological damage after inhaling engine oil vapors in 2018, diagnosed by neurologists as equivalent to an NFL linebacker's concussion.
The surge is driven by Airbus A320 aircraft, particularly the A320neo model introduced in 2016. WSJ reports Airbus loosened maintenance requirements under airline pressure despite knowing the changes would increase incidents. The FAA received over 700 fume event reports from major U.S. airlines in 2024. Most commercial jets except Boeing's 787 use a "bleed air" system that pulls cabin air through engines.
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Джонатан Риддел прекратил участие к разработке KDE
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2025-09-15 23:44:03
Джонатан Риддел (Jonathan Riddell) объявил об уходе из числа разработчиков KDE. Джонатан был вовлечён в разработку KDE с 2000 года. Также он известен как создатель дистрибутива KDE Neon и бывший лидер проекта Kubuntu. Решения принято из-за разногласий, возникших при обсуждении вопросов распределения прибыли, прав работников и структуры управления в компании Tech Paladin, созданной бывшими сотрудниками Blue Systems после закрытия данной компании. Джонатан написал, что он потерял друзей, коллег, работу, карьеру и семью, пытаясь сделать что-то хорошее для сообщества, и теперь попробует в себя в роли цифрового кочевника, сёрфящего на волне на краю света.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63888
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2025-09-15 23:44:03
Джонатан Риддел (Jonathan Riddell) объявил об уходе из числа разработчиков KDE. Джонатан был вовлечён в разработку KDE с 2000 года. Также он известен как создатель дистрибутива KDE Neon и бывший лидер проекта Kubuntu. Решения принято из-за разногласий, возникших при обсуждении вопросов распределения прибыли, прав работников и структуры управления в компании Tech Paladin, созданной бывшими сотрудниками Blue Systems после закрытия данной компании. Джонатан написал, что он потерял друзей, коллег, работу, карьеру и семью, пытаясь сделать что-то хорошее для сообщества, и теперь попробует в себя в роли цифрового кочевника, сёрфящего на волне на краю света.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63888
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Humble Bundle: заплати сколько хочешь за коллекцию обучающих курсов по Godot Engine!
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2025-09-15 23:44:04
На площадке Humble Bundle появилась коллекция полезных курсов по разработке игр на движке Godot Engine. Всего в продаже 30 обучающих курсов, каждый из которых актуален на 2025-й год и рассчитан на последнюю версию Godot Engine 4.
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18080660#cut0 ) )
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2025-09-15 23:44:04
На площадке Humble Bundle появилась коллекция полезных курсов по разработке игр на движке Godot Engine. Всего в продаже 30 обучающих курсов, каждый из которых актуален на 2025-й год и рассчитан на последнюю версию Godot Engine 4.
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18080660#cut0 ) )
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President Calls for Six-Month Corporate Reporting Cycle, Citing Cost Savings
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2025-09-16 00:22:01
President Donald Trump called Monday for companies to report earnings every six months instead of quarterly. Trump posted on social media that semi-annual reporting would save money and let managers focus on running companies. The SEC mandated quarterly reports in 1970. Trump made similar comments in 2018 that prompted SEC public comment but no regulatory changes.
Critics argue quarterly reporting increases costs and encourages short-term thinking. Supporters say frequent disclosures maintain investor trust and reduce market manipulation risks.
Further reading: The Renewed Bid To End Quarterly Earnings Reports.
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2025-09-16 00:22:01
President Donald Trump called Monday for companies to report earnings every six months instead of quarterly. Trump posted on social media that semi-annual reporting would save money and let managers focus on running companies. The SEC mandated quarterly reports in 1970. Trump made similar comments in 2018 that prompted SEC public comment but no regulatory changes.
Critics argue quarterly reporting increases costs and encourages short-term thinking. Supporters say frequent disclosures maintain investor trust and reduce market manipulation risks.
Further reading: The Renewed Bid To End Quarterly Earnings Reports.
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Hard Drive Shortage Intensifies as AI Training Data Pushes Lead Times Beyond 12 Months
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2025-09-16 00:22:01
Lead times for high-capacity hard drives have exceeded 52 weeks as AI workloads drive unprecedented demand for warm storage that sits between fast SSDs and offline tape archives, according to TrendForce. Western Digital notified customers of price increases across its entire hard drive portfolio citing demand for "every capacity" in its product line.
The shortage stems from AI infrastructure requirements including training datasets, model checkpoints and inference logs that consume petabytes of storage space. These files are too large for primary SSD storage but must remain accessible for quick retrieval. Hard drive manufacturers have not significantly expanded production capacity in approximately a decade. Cloud service providers are evaluating QLC SSDs for cold data storage despite costs remaining four to five times higher per gigabyte than mechanical drives. Memory suppliers are developing SSD products specifically for this intermediate storage tier.
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2025-09-16 00:22:01
Lead times for high-capacity hard drives have exceeded 52 weeks as AI workloads drive unprecedented demand for warm storage that sits between fast SSDs and offline tape archives, according to TrendForce. Western Digital notified customers of price increases across its entire hard drive portfolio citing demand for "every capacity" in its product line.
The shortage stems from AI infrastructure requirements including training datasets, model checkpoints and inference logs that consume petabytes of storage space. These files are too large for primary SSD storage but must remain accessible for quick retrieval. Hard drive manufacturers have not significantly expanded production capacity in approximately a decade. Cloud service providers are evaluating QLC SSDs for cold data storage despite costs remaining four to five times higher per gigabyte than mechanical drives. Memory suppliers are developing SSD products specifically for this intermediate storage tier.
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Microsoft's Office Apps Now Have Free Copilot Chat Features
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2025-09-16 01:22:01
Microsoft is adding the free Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents to Office apps for all Microsoft 365 business users today. From a report: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote are all being updated with a Copilot Chat sidebar that will help draft documents, analyze spreadsheets, and more without needing an additional Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
"Copilot Chat is secure AI chat grounded in the web -- and now, it's available in the Microsoft 365 apps," explains Seth Patton, general Manager of Microsoft 365 Copilot product marketing. "It's content aware, meaning it quickly understands what you're working on, tailoring answers to the file you have open. And it's included at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 users."
While this free version of Copilot will rewrite documents, provide summaries, and help create slides in PowerPoint, the $30 per month, per user Microsoft 365 Copilot license will still have the best integration in Office apps. The Microsoft 365 Copilot license is also not limited to a single document, and can reason over entire work data.
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2025-09-16 01:22:01
Microsoft is adding the free Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents to Office apps for all Microsoft 365 business users today. From a report: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote are all being updated with a Copilot Chat sidebar that will help draft documents, analyze spreadsheets, and more without needing an additional Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
"Copilot Chat is secure AI chat grounded in the web -- and now, it's available in the Microsoft 365 apps," explains Seth Patton, general Manager of Microsoft 365 Copilot product marketing. "It's content aware, meaning it quickly understands what you're working on, tailoring answers to the file you have open. And it's included at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 users."
While this free version of Copilot will rewrite documents, provide summaries, and help create slides in PowerPoint, the $30 per month, per user Microsoft 365 Copilot license will still have the best integration in Office apps. The Microsoft 365 Copilot license is also not limited to a single document, and can reason over entire work data.
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TikTok Deal 'Framework' Reached With China
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2025-09-16 01:22:01
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the U.S. and China have reached a tentative "framework" agreement on TikTok's U.S. operations, with Presidents Trump and Xi set to finalize details Friday. "It's between two private parties, but the commercial terms have been agreed upon," he said. The update comes two days before TikTok parent company ByteDance faces a Sept. 17 deadline to divest the platform's U.S. business or potentially be shut down in the country. The deadline may need to be pushed back yet again to get the deal signed. CNBC reports: Both President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Friday to discuss the terms. Trump also said in a Truth Social post Monday that a deal was reached "on a 'certain' company that young people in our Country very much wanted to save."
Bessent indicated the framework could pivot the platform to U.S.-controlled ownership. China's lead trade negotiator, Li Chenggang, confirmed the framework deal was in place and said the U.S. should not continue to suppress Chinese companies, according to Reuters.
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2025-09-16 01:22:01
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the U.S. and China have reached a tentative "framework" agreement on TikTok's U.S. operations, with Presidents Trump and Xi set to finalize details Friday. "It's between two private parties, but the commercial terms have been agreed upon," he said. The update comes two days before TikTok parent company ByteDance faces a Sept. 17 deadline to divest the platform's U.S. business or potentially be shut down in the country. The deadline may need to be pushed back yet again to get the deal signed. CNBC reports: Both President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Friday to discuss the terms. Trump also said in a Truth Social post Monday that a deal was reached "on a 'certain' company that young people in our Country very much wanted to save."
Bessent indicated the framework could pivot the platform to U.S.-controlled ownership. China's lead trade negotiator, Li Chenggang, confirmed the framework deal was in place and said the U.S. should not continue to suppress Chinese companies, according to Reuters.
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Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records To the Government For Warrantless Searching
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2025-09-16 02:22:02
404 Media: A data broker owned by the country's major airlines, including American Airlines, United and Delta, is selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples' movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE, and many other agencies, according to a new contract and other records reviewed by 404 Media.
The contract provides new insight into the scale of the sale of passengers' data by the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), the airlines-owned data broker. The contract shows ARC's data includes information related to more than 270 carriers and is sourced through more than 12,800 travel agencies. ARC has previously told the government to not reveal to the public where this passenger data came from, which includes peoples' names, full flight itineraries, and financial details.
"Americans' privacy rights shouldn't depend on whether they bought their tickets directly from the airline or via a travel agency. ARC's sale of data to U.S. government agencies is yet another example of why Congress needs to close the data broker loophole by passing my bipartisan bill, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act," Senator Ron Wyden told 404 Media in a statement.
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404 Media: A data broker owned by the country's major airlines, including American Airlines, United and Delta, is selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples' movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE, and many other agencies, according to a new contract and other records reviewed by 404 Media.
The contract provides new insight into the scale of the sale of passengers' data by the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), the airlines-owned data broker. The contract shows ARC's data includes information related to more than 270 carriers and is sourced through more than 12,800 travel agencies. ARC has previously told the government to not reveal to the public where this passenger data came from, which includes peoples' names, full flight itineraries, and financial details.
"Americans' privacy rights shouldn't depend on whether they bought their tickets directly from the airline or via a travel agency. ARC's sale of data to U.S. government agencies is yet another example of why Congress needs to close the data broker loophole by passing my bipartisan bill, the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act," Senator Ron Wyden told 404 Media in a statement.
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How California Reached a Union Deal With Tech Giants Uber and Lyft
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2025-09-16 02:22:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: In roughly six weeks, three California Democrats, a labor head and two ride-hailing leaders managed to pull off what would have been unthinkable just one year prior: striking a deal between labor unions and their longtime foes, tech giants Uber and Lyft. California lawmakers announced the agreement in late August, paving a path for ride-hailing drivers to unionize as labor wanted, in exchange for the state drastically reducing expensive insurance coverage mandates protested by the companies. It earned rare public support from Gov. Gavin Newsom and received final approval from state lawmakers this week.
The swift speed of the negotiating underscores what was at risk: the prospect of yet another nine-figure ballot measure campaign or lengthy court battle between two deeply entrenched sides, according to interviews with five people involved in the talks. Their accounts shed new light on how the deal came together: how the talks started, who was in the room, and the lengths they went to in order to turn around such a quick proposal -- from taking video meetings while recovering from surgery to the unexpected aid of one lawmaker's newborn baby.
"This was really quite fast," said Ramona Prieto, Uber's chief policy expert in Sacramento. "It wasn't like this was months of negotiating." The landmark proposal is only the second time a state has reached such a framework for Uber and Lyft drivers, after Massachusetts did so in 2024. And unlike Massachusetts, it came together without reverting to a ballot fight. California already saw its most expensive ballot measure effort to date in 2020, when Uber and Lyft spent more than $200 million backing an initiative to bar app-based workers from being classified as traditional employees, known as Proposition 22. Its passage sparked a legal challenge from labor leaders that wasn't resolved until July 2024, when California's Supreme Court affirmed the ballot measure's constitutionality. [...]
But the compromise still faces hurdles ahead. A recent lawsuit has raised fresh scrutiny of how the deal came together and what truly motivated it. Further criticism from those left out of the negotiating room is putting dealmakers on the defense as they try to sell it more widely. Plus, the final deal isn't what some labor leaders hoped when they first set out to strengthen drivers' rights in 2019. [...] And while the deal allows gig workers to unionize, that doesn't guarantee the necessary 10 percent of the state's 800,000 ride-hailing drivers actually will. Many who drive for Uber and Lyft do so part-time, and labor leaders acknowledge the challenge of organizing a disparate population that doesn't have a space to meet one another.
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2025-09-16 02:22:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: In roughly six weeks, three California Democrats, a labor head and two ride-hailing leaders managed to pull off what would have been unthinkable just one year prior: striking a deal between labor unions and their longtime foes, tech giants Uber and Lyft. California lawmakers announced the agreement in late August, paving a path for ride-hailing drivers to unionize as labor wanted, in exchange for the state drastically reducing expensive insurance coverage mandates protested by the companies. It earned rare public support from Gov. Gavin Newsom and received final approval from state lawmakers this week.
The swift speed of the negotiating underscores what was at risk: the prospect of yet another nine-figure ballot measure campaign or lengthy court battle between two deeply entrenched sides, according to interviews with five people involved in the talks. Their accounts shed new light on how the deal came together: how the talks started, who was in the room, and the lengths they went to in order to turn around such a quick proposal -- from taking video meetings while recovering from surgery to the unexpected aid of one lawmaker's newborn baby.
"This was really quite fast," said Ramona Prieto, Uber's chief policy expert in Sacramento. "It wasn't like this was months of negotiating." The landmark proposal is only the second time a state has reached such a framework for Uber and Lyft drivers, after Massachusetts did so in 2024. And unlike Massachusetts, it came together without reverting to a ballot fight. California already saw its most expensive ballot measure effort to date in 2020, when Uber and Lyft spent more than $200 million backing an initiative to bar app-based workers from being classified as traditional employees, known as Proposition 22. Its passage sparked a legal challenge from labor leaders that wasn't resolved until July 2024, when California's Supreme Court affirmed the ballot measure's constitutionality. [...]
But the compromise still faces hurdles ahead. A recent lawsuit has raised fresh scrutiny of how the deal came together and what truly motivated it. Further criticism from those left out of the negotiating room is putting dealmakers on the defense as they try to sell it more widely. Plus, the final deal isn't what some labor leaders hoped when they first set out to strengthen drivers' rights in 2019. [...] And while the deal allows gig workers to unionize, that doesn't guarantee the necessary 10 percent of the state's 800,000 ride-hailing drivers actually will. Many who drive for Uber and Lyft do so part-time, and labor leaders acknowledge the challenge of organizing a disparate population that doesn't have a space to meet one another.
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Internet Archive Ends Legal Battle With Record Labels Over Historic Recordings
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2025-09-16 03:22:02
The Internet Archive has reached a confidential settlement with Universal Music Group and other major labels, "ending a closely watched copyright battle over the nonprofit's effort to digitize and stream historic recordings," reports the San Francisco Chronicle. From the report: The case (PDF), UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Internet Archive, targeted the Archive's Great 78 Project, an initiative to digitize more than 400,000 fragile shellac records from the early 20th century. The collection includes music by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, and has been made available online for free public access. Record labels including Universal, Sony Music Entertainment and Capitol Records had sought $621 million in damages, arguing the Archive's streaming of these recordings constituted copyright infringement.
The Internet Archive, based in San Francisco's Richmond District, describes itself as a digital library dedicated to providing "universal access to all knowledge." Its director of library services, Chris Freeland, acknowledged the settlement in a brief statement. "The parties have reached a confidential resolution of all claims and will have no further public comment on this matter," he wrote.
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2025-09-16 03:22:02
The Internet Archive has reached a confidential settlement with Universal Music Group and other major labels, "ending a closely watched copyright battle over the nonprofit's effort to digitize and stream historic recordings," reports the San Francisco Chronicle. From the report: The case (PDF), UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Internet Archive, targeted the Archive's Great 78 Project, an initiative to digitize more than 400,000 fragile shellac records from the early 20th century. The collection includes music by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, and has been made available online for free public access. Record labels including Universal, Sony Music Entertainment and Capitol Records had sought $621 million in damages, arguing the Archive's streaming of these recordings constituted copyright infringement.
The Internet Archive, based in San Francisco's Richmond District, describes itself as a digital library dedicated to providing "universal access to all knowledge." Its director of library services, Chris Freeland, acknowledged the settlement in a brief statement. "The parties have reached a confidential resolution of all claims and will have no further public comment on this matter," he wrote.
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Vibe Coding Has Turned Senior Devs Into 'AI Babysitters'
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2025-09-16 04:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Carla Rover once spent 30 minutes sobbing after having to restart a project she vibe coded. Rover has been in the industry for 15 years, mainly working as a web developer. She's now building a startup, alongside her son, that creates custom machine learning models for marketplaces. She called vibe coding a beautiful, endless cocktail napkin on which one can perpetually sketch ideas. But dealing with AI-generated code that one hopes to use in production can be "worse than babysitting," she said, as these AI models can mess up work in ways that are hard to predict.
She had turned to AI coding in a need for speed with her startup, as is the promise of AI tools. "Because I needed to be quick and impressive, I took a shortcut and did not scan those files after the automated review," she said. "When I did do it manually, I found so much wrong. When I used a third-party tool, I found more. And I learned my lesson." She and her son wound up restarting their whole project -- hence the tears. "I handed it off like the copilot was an employee," she said. "It isn't."
Rover is like many experienced programmers turning to AI for coding help. But such programmers are also finding themselves acting like AI babysitters -- rewriting and fact-checking the code the AI spits out. A recent report by content delivery platform company Fastly found that at least 95% of the nearly 800 developers it surveyed said they spend extra time fixing AI-generated code, with the load of such verification falling most heavily on the shoulders of senior developers. These experienced coders have discovered issues with AI-generated code ranging from hallucinating package names to deleting important information and security risks. Left unchecked, AI code can leave a product far more buggy than what humans would produce.
Working with AI-generated code has become such a problem that it's given rise to a new corporate coding job known as "vibe code cleanup specialist." TechCrunch spoke to experienced coders about their time using AI-generated code about what they see as the future of vibe coding. Thoughts varied, but one thing remained certain: The technology still has a long way to go. "Using a coding co-pilot is kind of like giving a coffee pot to a smart six-year-old and saying, 'Please take this into the dining room and pour coffee for the family,'" Rover said. Can they do it? Possibly. Could they fail? Definitely. And most likely, if they do fail, they aren't going to tell you. "It doesn't make the kid less clever," she continued. "It just means you can't delegate [a task] like that completely." Further reading: The Software Engineers Paid To Fix Vibe Coded Messes
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2025-09-16 04:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Carla Rover once spent 30 minutes sobbing after having to restart a project she vibe coded. Rover has been in the industry for 15 years, mainly working as a web developer. She's now building a startup, alongside her son, that creates custom machine learning models for marketplaces. She called vibe coding a beautiful, endless cocktail napkin on which one can perpetually sketch ideas. But dealing with AI-generated code that one hopes to use in production can be "worse than babysitting," she said, as these AI models can mess up work in ways that are hard to predict.
She had turned to AI coding in a need for speed with her startup, as is the promise of AI tools. "Because I needed to be quick and impressive, I took a shortcut and did not scan those files after the automated review," she said. "When I did do it manually, I found so much wrong. When I used a third-party tool, I found more. And I learned my lesson." She and her son wound up restarting their whole project -- hence the tears. "I handed it off like the copilot was an employee," she said. "It isn't."
Rover is like many experienced programmers turning to AI for coding help. But such programmers are also finding themselves acting like AI babysitters -- rewriting and fact-checking the code the AI spits out. A recent report by content delivery platform company Fastly found that at least 95% of the nearly 800 developers it surveyed said they spend extra time fixing AI-generated code, with the load of such verification falling most heavily on the shoulders of senior developers. These experienced coders have discovered issues with AI-generated code ranging from hallucinating package names to deleting important information and security risks. Left unchecked, AI code can leave a product far more buggy than what humans would produce.
Working with AI-generated code has become such a problem that it's given rise to a new corporate coding job known as "vibe code cleanup specialist." TechCrunch spoke to experienced coders about their time using AI-generated code about what they see as the future of vibe coding. Thoughts varied, but one thing remained certain: The technology still has a long way to go. "Using a coding co-pilot is kind of like giving a coffee pot to a smart six-year-old and saying, 'Please take this into the dining room and pour coffee for the family,'" Rover said. Can they do it? Possibly. Could they fail? Definitely. And most likely, if they do fail, they aren't going to tell you. "It doesn't make the kid less clever," she continued. "It just means you can't delegate [a task] like that completely." Further reading: The Software Engineers Paid To Fix Vibe Coded Messes
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Robinhood Plans To Launch a Startups Fund Open To All Retail Investors
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2025-09-16 04:22:01
Robinhood has filed with the SEC to launch "Robinhood Ventures Fund I," a publicly traded fund designed to give retail investors access to startup shares before IPOs. TechCrunch reports: While the current version of the application is public, Robinhood hasn't filled in the fine-print yet. This means we don't know how many shares it plans to sell, nor other details like the management fee it plans to charge. It's also unclear which startups it hopes this fund will eventually hold. The paperwork says it "expects" to invest in aerospace and defense, AI, fintech, robotics as well as software for consumers and enterprises.
Robinhood's big pitch is that retail investors are being left out of the gains that are amassed by startup investors like VCs. That's true to an extent. "Accredited investors" -- or those with a net worth large enough to handle riskier investments -- already have a variety of ways of buying equity in startups, such as with venture firms like OurCrowd. Retail investors that are not rich enough to be accredited have more limited options. There are funds similar to what Robinhood has proposed, including Cathy Wood's ARK Venture Fund, a mutual fund which holds stakes in companies like Anthropic, Databricks, OpenAI, SpaceX, and others. [...] This new closed-end "Ventures Fund I" is a more classic, mutual fund-style, approach. As to when Robinhood's new fund will be available we don't know that either yet.
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2025-09-16 04:22:01
Robinhood has filed with the SEC to launch "Robinhood Ventures Fund I," a publicly traded fund designed to give retail investors access to startup shares before IPOs. TechCrunch reports: While the current version of the application is public, Robinhood hasn't filled in the fine-print yet. This means we don't know how many shares it plans to sell, nor other details like the management fee it plans to charge. It's also unclear which startups it hopes this fund will eventually hold. The paperwork says it "expects" to invest in aerospace and defense, AI, fintech, robotics as well as software for consumers and enterprises.
Robinhood's big pitch is that retail investors are being left out of the gains that are amassed by startup investors like VCs. That's true to an extent. "Accredited investors" -- or those with a net worth large enough to handle riskier investments -- already have a variety of ways of buying equity in startups, such as with venture firms like OurCrowd. Retail investors that are not rich enough to be accredited have more limited options. There are funds similar to what Robinhood has proposed, including Cathy Wood's ARK Venture Fund, a mutual fund which holds stakes in companies like Anthropic, Databricks, OpenAI, SpaceX, and others. [...] This new closed-end "Ventures Fund I" is a more classic, mutual fund-style, approach. As to when Robinhood's new fund will be available we don't know that either yet.
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'Meta Ray-Ban Display' Glasses Design, HUD Clips Leak
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2025-09-16 05:22:01
A leaked Meta video revealed upcoming "Meta Ray-Ban Display" smart glasses with a monocular HUD and sEMG wristband control, set to debut at Connect 2025 for around $800. Despite past hesitation, it looks like EssilorLuxottica has agreed to co-brand after Meta invested $3.5 billion in the company, taking a 3% stake. UploadVR reports: Meta's HUD glasses with the sEMG wristband will in fact be Ray-Ban branded, a leaked video which also depicts the HUD and wristband in action reveals. A quickly removed unlisted video on Meta's YouTube channel showed what will soon be Meta and EssilorLuxottica's full lineup:
- The regular Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
- The recently-launched Oakley Meta HSTN glasses.
- The rumored Oakley Meta Sphaera glasses, with eye protection and a centered camera.
- The rumored monocular heads-up display (HUD) glasses controlled by Meta's long-in-development sEMG wristband, which are labeled as "Meta Ray-Ban" with the word "Display" underneath. The smart glasses are expected to be made official during the Meta Connect 2025 keynote at 5pm PT on Wednesday.
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2025-09-16 05:22:01
A leaked Meta video revealed upcoming "Meta Ray-Ban Display" smart glasses with a monocular HUD and sEMG wristband control, set to debut at Connect 2025 for around $800. Despite past hesitation, it looks like EssilorLuxottica has agreed to co-brand after Meta invested $3.5 billion in the company, taking a 3% stake. UploadVR reports: Meta's HUD glasses with the sEMG wristband will in fact be Ray-Ban branded, a leaked video which also depicts the HUD and wristband in action reveals. A quickly removed unlisted video on Meta's YouTube channel showed what will soon be Meta and EssilorLuxottica's full lineup:
- The regular Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
- The recently-launched Oakley Meta HSTN glasses.
- The rumored Oakley Meta Sphaera glasses, with eye protection and a centered camera.
- The rumored monocular heads-up display (HUD) glasses controlled by Meta's long-in-development sEMG wristband, which are labeled as "Meta Ray-Ban" with the word "Display" underneath. The smart glasses are expected to be made official during the Meta Connect 2025 keynote at 5pm PT on Wednesday.
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FTC Probes Whether Ticketmaster Does Enough To Stop Resale Bots
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2025-09-16 06:22:01
The FTC is investigating whether Ticketmaster is doing enough to prevent bots from illegally reselling tickets on its platform, with a decision on the matter coming within weeks, according to Bloomberg (paywalled). Reuters reports: The 2016 law prohibits the use of bots and other methods to bypass ticket purchase limits set by online sellers. As part of the probe, FTC investigators are assessing whether Ticketmaster has a financial incentive to allow resellers to circumvent its ticket limit rules, according to the report. A settlement is also possible, Bloomberg reported. If the FTC pursues a case and Live Nation loses, the company could face billions of dollars in penalties, as the law permits fines of up to $53,000 per violation.
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2025-09-16 06:22:01
The FTC is investigating whether Ticketmaster is doing enough to prevent bots from illegally reselling tickets on its platform, with a decision on the matter coming within weeks, according to Bloomberg (paywalled). Reuters reports: The 2016 law prohibits the use of bots and other methods to bypass ticket purchase limits set by online sellers. As part of the probe, FTC investigators are assessing whether Ticketmaster has a financial incentive to allow resellers to circumvent its ticket limit rules, according to the report. A settlement is also possible, Bloomberg reported. If the FTC pursues a case and Live Nation loses, the company could face billions of dollars in penalties, as the law permits fines of up to $53,000 per violation.
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AMD прекратил разработку Vulkan-драйвера AMDVLK в пользу драйвера RADV из Mesa
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2025-09-16 09:44:03
Инженеры из компании AMD объявили о прекращении разработки проекта AMDVLK, развивавшего открытый драйвер для графического API Vulkan, построенный поверх библиотеки AMD PAL (Platform Abstraction Library), абстрагирующей доступ к аппаратному обеспечению и интерфейсам операционной системы. Изначально AMDVLK был создан компанией AMD для проприетарного набора драйверов AMDGPU-PRO, но затем был переведён в разряд открытых проектов.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63890
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2025-09-16 09:44:03
Инженеры из компании AMD объявили о прекращении разработки проекта AMDVLK, развивавшего открытый драйвер для графического API Vulkan, построенный поверх библиотеки AMD PAL (Platform Abstraction Library), абстрагирующей доступ к аппаратному обеспечению и интерфейсам операционной системы. Изначально AMDVLK был создан компанией AMD для проприетарного набора драйверов AMDGPU-PRO, но затем был переведён в разряд открытых проектов.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63890
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Альянс AOMedia анонсировал видеокодек нового поколения AV2
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2025-09-16 09:44:03
Альянс Open Media (AOMedia), курирующий разработку формата кодирования видео AV1, анонсировал публикацию в конце года открытого стандарта и эталонной реализации для нового формата кодирования видео AV2. Новый стандарт рассматривается не только как продолжение развития видеокодека AV1, но и как основа будущего технологического стека AOMedia. Разработка AV2 ведётся уже несколько лет и первая предварительная реализация была предложена два года назад и вошла в состав выпуска библиотеки.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63889
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2025-09-16 09:44:03
Альянс Open Media (AOMedia), курирующий разработку формата кодирования видео AV1, анонсировал публикацию в конце года открытого стандарта и эталонной реализации для нового формата кодирования видео AV2. Новый стандарт рассматривается не только как продолжение развития видеокодека AV1, но и как основа будущего технологического стека AOMedia. Разработка AV2 ведётся уже несколько лет и первая предварительная реализация была предложена два года назад и вошла в состав выпуска библиотеки.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63889
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Re: Я живой. Обсуждение микроблоги против форумов
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ake(ake, 1) — shaos
2025-09-16 10:02:34
Кажется, старый сервер tgistation сменил владельца, т.к. сейчас по адресу, на который указывает tgistation.ru, находится какой-то сокращатель ссылок с другим доменом.
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ake(ake, 1) — shaos
2025-09-16 10:02:34
Кажется, старый сервер tgistation сменил владельца, т.к. сейчас по адресу, на который указывает tgistation.ru, находится какой-то сокращатель ссылок с другим доменом.
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STATS 2025-09-15
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root(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 11:11:02
TOP10 VISITORS:
[1] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=1 up=25.1MB (40%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[2] Google point=0 web=1126 up=13.5MB (21%)
[3] TikTok point=0 web=337 up=8.4MB (13%)
[4] PetalBot point=3 web=946 up=5.5MB (8%) <--- PetalBot
[5] Amazon point=0 web=153 up=4.9MB (7%)
[6] BLEXBot point=0 web=39 up=2.1MB (3%)
[7] 217.114.158.x point=26 web=0 up=1.0MB (1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[8] Facebook point=0 web=18 up=0.1MB (<1%)
[9] 104.193.195.x point=0 web=3 up=0.1MB (<1%)
[10] 171.224.181.x point=0 web=1 up=0.1MB (<1%)
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 61MB
spnet.stats
root(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 11:11:02
TOP10 VISITORS:
[1] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=1 up=25.1MB (40%) <--- ake (6/hr)
[2] Google point=0 web=1126 up=13.5MB (21%)
[3] TikTok point=0 web=337 up=8.4MB (13%)
[4] PetalBot point=3 web=946 up=5.5MB (8%) <--- PetalBot
[5] Amazon point=0 web=153 up=4.9MB (7%)
[6] BLEXBot point=0 web=39 up=2.1MB (3%)
[7] 217.114.158.x point=26 web=0 up=1.0MB (1%) <--- fox (1/hr)
[8] Facebook point=0 web=18 up=0.1MB (<1%)
[9] 104.193.195.x point=0 web=3 up=0.1MB (<1%)
[10] 171.224.181.x point=0 web=1 up=0.1MB (<1%)
TOTAL TRAFFIC: 61MB
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fheroes2 1.1.11: настройка произвольных существ на карте и заклинаний в городах, улучшение интерфейса в бою и событий на карте
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 14:44:04
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/games/18082397#cut0 ) )
Одним из главных изменений в новой версии стало расширение возможностей редактора карт. Теперь картостроителям доступна настройка заклинаний в гильдии магов. В городах можно [ выбирать ]( https://i.servimg.com/u/f85/20/25/62/08/spells10.png ) , какие конкретные заклинания будут доступны игрокам. Это открывает новые горизонты для настройки баланса и помогает сделать игру ещё более уникальной. Кроме того, появилась возможность [ запретить ]( https://i.servimg.com/u/f85/20/25/62/08/ban_sp10.png ) появление отдельных заклинаний в гильдии, что даёт ещё больше контроля над магической стороной игры.
Также в редакторе появилась возможность гибче настроить объект «случайное существо». Вместо того чтобы полагаться на случай, теперь можно выбрать из [ списка ]( https://i.servimg.com/u/f85/20/25/62/08/monste11.png ) , какие монстры могут появиться для охраны. Это поможет создавать более разнообразные и интересные карты, но при этом позволяя автору контролировать круг возможных существ. Кроме того, это повысит реиграбельность карт движка fheroes2.
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/games/18082397#cut1 ) )
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 14:44:04
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/games/18082397#cut0 ) )
Одним из главных изменений в новой версии стало расширение возможностей редактора карт. Теперь картостроителям доступна настройка заклинаний в гильдии магов. В городах можно [ выбирать ]( https://i.servimg.com/u/f85/20/25/62/08/spells10.png ) , какие конкретные заклинания будут доступны игрокам. Это открывает новые горизонты для настройки баланса и помогает сделать игру ещё более уникальной. Кроме того, появилась возможность [ запретить ]( https://i.servimg.com/u/f85/20/25/62/08/ban_sp10.png ) появление отдельных заклинаний в гильдии, что даёт ещё больше контроля над магической стороной игры.
Также в редакторе появилась возможность гибче настроить объект «случайное существо». Вместо того чтобы полагаться на случай, теперь можно выбрать из [ списка ]( https://i.servimg.com/u/f85/20/25/62/08/monste11.png ) , какие монстры могут появиться для охраны. Это поможет создавать более разнообразные и интересные карты, но при этом позволяя автору контролировать круг возможных существ. Кроме того, это повысит реиграбельность карт движка fheroes2.
( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/games/18082397#cut1 ) )
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Re: [Творчество] Делимся своими рукотворными картинками
ping.local
artur(ping,3) — artur
2025-09-16 15:45:55
Это я возвращался с места работы и вместо хода по прямой решил пройти через местный небольшой полесок, изобилующий оврагами и деревьями. А на фотке прибрежный помост у озера.
ping.local
artur(ping,3) — artur
2025-09-16 15:45:55
Это я возвращался с места работы и вместо хода по прямой решил пройти через местный небольшой полесок, изобилующий оврагами и деревьями. А на фотке прибрежный помост у озера.
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Phoenix - атака на чипы DDR5, приводящая к искажению содержимого памяти
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 15:44:03
Исследователи из Швейцарской высшей технической школы Цюриха совместно с инженерами из компании Google разработали новую технику атаки класса Rowhammer - Phoenix (CVE-2025-6202), позволяющую обойти применяемый в чипах DDR5 механизмы защиты TRR (Target Row Refresh), предотвращающий искажение ячеек памяти из-за потери заряда. Опубликован прототип эксплоита, позволяющий изменить содержимое определённого бита в оперативной памяти и добиться повышения своих привилегий в системе. Демонстрация атаки проведена на ПК с процессором AMD на базе микроархитектуры Zen 4 и DDR5-памятью SK Hynix, на котором выполнялись типичные для десктопа задачи.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63891
lor.opennet
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 15:44:03
Исследователи из Швейцарской высшей технической школы Цюриха совместно с инженерами из компании Google разработали новую технику атаки класса Rowhammer - Phoenix (CVE-2025-6202), позволяющую обойти применяемый в чипах DDR5 механизмы защиты TRR (Target Row Refresh), предотвращающий искажение ячеек памяти из-за потери заряда. Опубликован прототип эксплоита, позволяющий изменить содержимое определённого бита в оперативной памяти и добиться повышения своих привилегий в системе. Демонстрация атаки проведена на ПК с процессором AMD на базе микроархитектуры Zen 4 и DDR5-памятью SK Hynix, на котором выполнялись типичные для десктопа задачи.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63891
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OpenAI's First Study On ChatGPT Usage
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2025-09-16 18:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Today, OpenAI's Economic Research Team went a long way toward answering that question, on a population level, releasing a first-of-its-kind National Bureau of Economic Research working paper (in association with Harvard economist David Denning) detailing how people end up using ChatGPT across time and tasks. While other research has sought to estimate this kind of usage data using self-reported surveys, this is the first such paper with direct access to OpenAI's internal user data. As such, it gives us an unprecedented direct window into reliable usage stats for what is still the most popular application of LLMs by far. After digging through the dense 65-page paper, here are seven of the most interesting and/or surprising things we discovered about how people are using OpenAI today. Here are the seven most interesting and surprising findings from the study:
1. ChatGPT is now used by "nearly 10% of the world's adult population," up from 100 million users in early 2024 to over 700 million users in 2025. Daily traffic is about one-fifth of Google's at 2.6 billion GPT messages per day.
2. Long-term users' daily activity has plateaued since June 2025. Almost all recent growth comes from new sign-ups experimenting with ChatGPT, not from established users increasing their usage.
3. 46% of users are aged 18-25, making ChatGPT especially popular among the youngest adult cohort. Factoring in under-18 users (not counted in the study), the majority of ChatGPT users likely weren't alive in the 20th century.
4. At launch in 2022, ChatGPT was 80% male-dominated. By late 2025, the balance has shifted: 52.4% of users are now female.
5. In 2024, work vs. personal use was close to even. By mid-2025, 72% of usage is non-work related -- people are using ChatGPT more for personal, creative, and casual needs than for productivity.
6. 28% of all conversations involve writing assistance (emails, edits, translations). For work-related queries, that jumps to 42% overall, and 52% among business/management jobs. Furthermore, the report found that editing and critiquing text is more common than generating text from scratch.
7. 14.9% of work-related usage is dealt with "making decisions and solving problems." This shows people don't just use ChatGPT to do tasks -- they use it as an advisor or co-pilot to help weigh options and guide choices.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/2151235/openais-first-study-on-chatgpt-usage?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 18:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Today, OpenAI's Economic Research Team went a long way toward answering that question, on a population level, releasing a first-of-its-kind National Bureau of Economic Research working paper (in association with Harvard economist David Denning) detailing how people end up using ChatGPT across time and tasks. While other research has sought to estimate this kind of usage data using self-reported surveys, this is the first such paper with direct access to OpenAI's internal user data. As such, it gives us an unprecedented direct window into reliable usage stats for what is still the most popular application of LLMs by far. After digging through the dense 65-page paper, here are seven of the most interesting and/or surprising things we discovered about how people are using OpenAI today. Here are the seven most interesting and surprising findings from the study:
1. ChatGPT is now used by "nearly 10% of the world's adult population," up from 100 million users in early 2024 to over 700 million users in 2025. Daily traffic is about one-fifth of Google's at 2.6 billion GPT messages per day.
2. Long-term users' daily activity has plateaued since June 2025. Almost all recent growth comes from new sign-ups experimenting with ChatGPT, not from established users increasing their usage.
3. 46% of users are aged 18-25, making ChatGPT especially popular among the youngest adult cohort. Factoring in under-18 users (not counted in the study), the majority of ChatGPT users likely weren't alive in the 20th century.
4. At launch in 2022, ChatGPT was 80% male-dominated. By late 2025, the balance has shifted: 52.4% of users are now female.
5. In 2024, work vs. personal use was close to even. By mid-2025, 72% of usage is non-work related -- people are using ChatGPT more for personal, creative, and casual needs than for productivity.
6. 28% of all conversations involve writing assistance (emails, edits, translations). For work-related queries, that jumps to 42% overall, and 52% among business/management jobs. Furthermore, the report found that editing and critiquing text is more common than generating text from scratch.
7. 14.9% of work-related usage is dealt with "making decisions and solving problems." This shows people don't just use ChatGPT to do tasks -- they use it as an advisor or co-pilot to help weigh options and guide choices.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/2151235/openais-first-study-on-chatgpt-usage?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Online Marketplace Fiverr To Lay Off 30% of Workforce In AI Push
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 18:22:01
Fiverr is laying off 250 employees, or about 30% of its workforce, as it restructures to become an "AI-first" company. "We are launching a transformation for Fiverr, to turn Fiverr into an AI-first company that's leaner, faster, with a modern AI-focused tech infrastructure, a smaller team, each with substantially greater productivity, and far fewer management layers," CEO Micha Kaufman said. Reuters reports: While it isn't clear what kinds of jobs will be impacted, Fiverr operates a self-service digital marketplace where freelancers can connect with businesses or individuals requiring digital services like graphic design, editing or programming. Most processes on the platform take place with minimal employee intervention as ordering, delivery and payments are automated.
The company's name comes from most gigs starting at $5 initially, but as the business grew, the firm has introduced subscription services and raised the bar for service prices. Fiverr said it does not expect the job cuts to materially impact business activities across the marketplace in the near term and plans to reinvest part of the savings in the business.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/2344215/online-marketplace-fiverr-to-lay-off-30-of-workforce-in-ai-push?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 18:22:01
Fiverr is laying off 250 employees, or about 30% of its workforce, as it restructures to become an "AI-first" company. "We are launching a transformation for Fiverr, to turn Fiverr into an AI-first company that's leaner, faster, with a modern AI-focused tech infrastructure, a smaller team, each with substantially greater productivity, and far fewer management layers," CEO Micha Kaufman said. Reuters reports: While it isn't clear what kinds of jobs will be impacted, Fiverr operates a self-service digital marketplace where freelancers can connect with businesses or individuals requiring digital services like graphic design, editing or programming. Most processes on the platform take place with minimal employee intervention as ordering, delivery and payments are automated.
The company's name comes from most gigs starting at $5 initially, but as the business grew, the firm has introduced subscription services and raised the bar for service prices. Fiverr said it does not expect the job cuts to materially impact business activities across the marketplace in the near term and plans to reinvest part of the savings in the business.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/2344215/online-marketplace-fiverr-to-lay-off-30-of-workforce-in-ai-push?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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UK's MI5 'Unlawfully' Obtained Data From Former BBC Journalist
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 18:22:01
Bruce66423 shares a report from The Guardian: MI5 has conceded it "unlawfully" obtained the communications data of a former BBC journalist, in what was claimed to be an unprecedented admission from the security services. The BBC said it was a "matter of grave concern" that the agency had obtained communications data from the mobile phone of Vincent Kearney, a former BBC Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent. The admission came in a letter to the BBC and to Kearney, in relation to a tribunal examining claims that several reporters in Northern Ireland were subjected to unlawful scrutiny by the police. It related to work carried out by Kearney for a documentary into the independence of the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI). Kearney is now the northern editor at Irish broadcaster RTE.
In documents submitted to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), MI5 conceded it obtained phone data from Kearney on two occasions in 2006 and 2009. Jude Bunting KC, representing Kearney and the BBC, told a hearing on Monday: "The MI5 now confirms publicly that in 2006 and 2009 MI5 obtained communications data in relation to Vincent Kearney." He said the security service accepted it had breached Kearney's rights under article 8 and article 10 of the European convention on human rights. They relate to the right to private correspondence and the right to impart information without interference from public authorities. "This appears to be the first time in any tribunal proceedings in which MI5 publicly accept interference with a journalist's communications data, and also publicly accept that they acted unlawfully in doing so," Bunting said. He claimed the concessions that it accessed the journalist's data represented "serious and sustained illegality on the part of MI5." Bruce66423 comments: "The good news is that it's come out. The bad news is that it has taken 16 years to do so. The interesting question is whether there will be any meaningful consequences for individuals within MI5; there's a nice charge of 'malfeasance in public office' that can be used to get such individuals into a criminal court. Or will the outcome be like that of when the CIA hacked the US Senate's computers, lied about it, and nothing happened?"
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/16/007218/uks-mi5-unlawfully-obtained-data-from-former-bbc-journalist?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 18:22:01
Bruce66423 shares a report from The Guardian: MI5 has conceded it "unlawfully" obtained the communications data of a former BBC journalist, in what was claimed to be an unprecedented admission from the security services. The BBC said it was a "matter of grave concern" that the agency had obtained communications data from the mobile phone of Vincent Kearney, a former BBC Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent. The admission came in a letter to the BBC and to Kearney, in relation to a tribunal examining claims that several reporters in Northern Ireland were subjected to unlawful scrutiny by the police. It related to work carried out by Kearney for a documentary into the independence of the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI). Kearney is now the northern editor at Irish broadcaster RTE.
In documents submitted to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), MI5 conceded it obtained phone data from Kearney on two occasions in 2006 and 2009. Jude Bunting KC, representing Kearney and the BBC, told a hearing on Monday: "The MI5 now confirms publicly that in 2006 and 2009 MI5 obtained communications data in relation to Vincent Kearney." He said the security service accepted it had breached Kearney's rights under article 8 and article 10 of the European convention on human rights. They relate to the right to private correspondence and the right to impart information without interference from public authorities. "This appears to be the first time in any tribunal proceedings in which MI5 publicly accept interference with a journalist's communications data, and also publicly accept that they acted unlawfully in doing so," Bunting said. He claimed the concessions that it accessed the journalist's data represented "serious and sustained illegality on the part of MI5." Bruce66423 comments: "The good news is that it's come out. The bad news is that it has taken 16 years to do so. The interesting question is whether there will be any meaningful consequences for individuals within MI5; there's a nice charge of 'malfeasance in public office' that can be used to get such individuals into a criminal court. Or will the outcome be like that of when the CIA hacked the US Senate's computers, lied about it, and nothing happened?"
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/16/007218/uks-mi5-unlawfully-obtained-data-from-former-bbc-journalist?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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Google Releases VaultGemma, Its First Privacy-Preserving LLM
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robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 18:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The companies seeking to build larger AI models have been increasingly stymied by a lack of high-quality training data. As tech firms scour the web for more data to feed their models, they could increasingly rely on potentially sensitive user data. A team at Google Research is exploring new techniques to make the resulting large language models (LLMs) less likely to 'memorize' any of that content. LLMs have non-deterministic outputs, meaning you can't exactly predict what they'll say. While the output varies even for identical inputs, models do sometimes regurgitate something from their training data -- if trained with personal data, the output could be a violation of user privacy. In the event copyrighted data makes it into training data (either accidentally or on purpose), its appearance in outputs can cause a different kind of headache for devs. Differential privacy can prevent such memorization by introducing calibrated noise during the training phase.
Adding differential privacy to a model comes with drawbacks in terms of accuracy and compute requirements. No one has bothered to figure out the degree to which that alters the scaling laws of AI models until now. The team worked from the assumption that model performance would be primarily affected by the noise-batch ratio, which compares the volume of randomized noise to the size of the original training data. By running experiments with varying model sizes and noise-batch ratios, the team established a basic understanding of differential privacy scaling laws, which is a balance between the compute budget, privacy budget, and data budget. In short, more noise leads to lower-quality outputs unless offset with a higher compute budget (FLOPs) or data budget (tokens). The paper details the scaling laws for private LLMs, which could help developers find an ideal noise-batch ratio to make a model more private. The work the team has done here has led to a new Google model called VaultGemma, its first open-weight model trained with differential privacy to minimize memorization risks. It's built on the older Gemma 2 foundation and sized at 1 billion parameters, which the company says performs comparably to non-private models of similar size.
It's available now from Hugging Face and Kaggle.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/16/000202/google-releases-vaultgemma-its-first-privacy-preserving-llm?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 18:22:01
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The companies seeking to build larger AI models have been increasingly stymied by a lack of high-quality training data. As tech firms scour the web for more data to feed their models, they could increasingly rely on potentially sensitive user data. A team at Google Research is exploring new techniques to make the resulting large language models (LLMs) less likely to 'memorize' any of that content. LLMs have non-deterministic outputs, meaning you can't exactly predict what they'll say. While the output varies even for identical inputs, models do sometimes regurgitate something from their training data -- if trained with personal data, the output could be a violation of user privacy. In the event copyrighted data makes it into training data (either accidentally or on purpose), its appearance in outputs can cause a different kind of headache for devs. Differential privacy can prevent such memorization by introducing calibrated noise during the training phase.
Adding differential privacy to a model comes with drawbacks in terms of accuracy and compute requirements. No one has bothered to figure out the degree to which that alters the scaling laws of AI models until now. The team worked from the assumption that model performance would be primarily affected by the noise-batch ratio, which compares the volume of randomized noise to the size of the original training data. By running experiments with varying model sizes and noise-batch ratios, the team established a basic understanding of differential privacy scaling laws, which is a balance between the compute budget, privacy budget, and data budget. In short, more noise leads to lower-quality outputs unless offset with a higher compute budget (FLOPs) or data budget (tokens). The paper details the scaling laws for private LLMs, which could help developers find an ideal noise-batch ratio to make a model more private. The work the team has done here has led to a new Google model called VaultGemma, its first open-weight model trained with differential privacy to minimize memorization risks. It's built on the older Gemma 2 foundation and sized at 1 billion parameters, which the company says performs comparably to non-private models of similar size.
It's available now from Hugging Face and Kaggle.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/16/000202/google-releases-vaultgemma-its-first-privacy-preserving-llm?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
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An Unresponsive Public Is Undermining Government Economic Data
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2025-09-16 18:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Anyone who surveys the public, from marketers to pollsters, struggles nowadays to get people to answer their questions. That phenomenon afflicts crucial government data, making it harder for policymakers and investors to know the true state of the economy. Falling survey participation is an important reason the flagship jobs report released every month by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, part of the Labor Department, has undergone such big revisions recently.
This has rippled into the political sphere. On Aug. 1, President Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a particularly large downward revision to jobs for May and June that owed partly to late responses from survey participants. The White House and top administration officials increased their attacks on the BLS last week after the agency published an annual revision suggesting the U.S. added 911,000 fewer jobs over the 12 months through March. The BLS blamed the initial overestimate partly on response rates.
[...] One hypothesis is known as survey fatigue: People are being asked to answer too many questionnaires. Jonathan Eggleston, a senior economist at the U.S. Census Bureau, found in a 2024 study that recent participants in that agency's monthly and annual surveys, which are voluntary, were less likely to answer the 2020 census by mail, phone or online, without a knock on the door. Another is the rise of cellphones with caller ID. In the days of landlines, people had to pick up the phone to know who was calling. These days, many decline to answer callers they don't recognize.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/16/0619228/an-unresponsive-public-is-undermining-government-economic-data?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.
bot.slashdot
robot(spnet, 1) — All
2025-09-16 18:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Anyone who surveys the public, from marketers to pollsters, struggles nowadays to get people to answer their questions. That phenomenon afflicts crucial government data, making it harder for policymakers and investors to know the true state of the economy. Falling survey participation is an important reason the flagship jobs report released every month by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, part of the Labor Department, has undergone such big revisions recently.
This has rippled into the political sphere. On Aug. 1, President Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a particularly large downward revision to jobs for May and June that owed partly to late responses from survey participants. The White House and top administration officials increased their attacks on the BLS last week after the agency published an annual revision suggesting the U.S. added 911,000 fewer jobs over the 12 months through March. The BLS blamed the initial overestimate partly on response rates.
[...] One hypothesis is known as survey fatigue: People are being asked to answer too many questionnaires. Jonathan Eggleston, a senior economist at the U.S. Census Bureau, found in a 2024 study that recent participants in that agency's monthly and annual surveys, which are voluntary, were less likely to answer the 2020 census by mail, phone or online, without a knock on the door. Another is the rise of cellphones with caller ID. In the days of landlines, people had to pick up the phone to know who was calling. These days, many decline to answer callers they don't recognize.
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The Mac App Flea Market
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2025-09-16 19:22:01
A search for "AI chat" in the Mac App Store returns dozens of applications sporting black-and-white icons nearly identical to ChatGPT's official logo. OpenAI's ChatGPT desktop application isn't available through the Mac App Store and can only be downloaded from the company's website. The copycat applications use various combinations of "AI," "Chat," and "Bot" in their names, including "AI Chat Bot : Ask Assistant," "AI Chatbot: Chat Ask Assistant," and dozens of similar variations. One application named itself "Al Chatbot" using a lowercase L instead of a capital I in "AI." Additional lookalike icons mimicking Claude, Grok, and Gemini applications also appear in search results.
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2025-09-16 19:22:01
A search for "AI chat" in the Mac App Store returns dozens of applications sporting black-and-white icons nearly identical to ChatGPT's official logo. OpenAI's ChatGPT desktop application isn't available through the Mac App Store and can only be downloaded from the company's website. The copycat applications use various combinations of "AI," "Chat," and "Bot" in their names, including "AI Chat Bot : Ask Assistant," "AI Chatbot: Chat Ask Assistant," and dozens of similar variations. One application named itself "Al Chatbot" using a lowercase L instead of a capital I in "AI." Additional lookalike icons mimicking Claude, Grok, and Gemini applications also appear in search results.
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MBAs Cost More and Are Less Profitable as ROI Falls
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2025-09-16 20:22:02
Getting an MBA in the US has gotten a little more expensive and a little less profitable, according to a Bloomberg analysis of salary and tuition data. From the report: This year's update of Bloomberg's Business School ROI Calculator, based on surveys of more than 9,500 students and alumni, projects a typical return on investment of 12.3% a year for the decade after graduation. That's down from 13.3% last year. The S&P 500 index, by comparison, returned 14.6% over the decade ending Aug. 31.
The main reason for the decline: This year's respondents reported 6.2% better pre-MBA salaries than last year's, while projected postdegree earnings increased only 1.7%. In other words, the MBA pay edge -- the compensation boost graduates get for the degree -- shrank. In the broader US workforce, the average high-skilled worker's earnings rose 4.7% in the year ended July 31, Federal Reserve data show.
Other factors didn't help: The increase in pre-MBA salaries meant students were forgoing more income during their studies. Tuition and other expenses increased 2.4%, some of that financed with bigger loans at higher rates. In all, the typical total investment to get an MBA in the US rose 6.8%, to almost $300,000.
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2025-09-16 20:22:02
Getting an MBA in the US has gotten a little more expensive and a little less profitable, according to a Bloomberg analysis of salary and tuition data. From the report: This year's update of Bloomberg's Business School ROI Calculator, based on surveys of more than 9,500 students and alumni, projects a typical return on investment of 12.3% a year for the decade after graduation. That's down from 13.3% last year. The S&P 500 index, by comparison, returned 14.6% over the decade ending Aug. 31.
The main reason for the decline: This year's respondents reported 6.2% better pre-MBA salaries than last year's, while projected postdegree earnings increased only 1.7%. In other words, the MBA pay edge -- the compensation boost graduates get for the degree -- shrank. In the broader US workforce, the average high-skilled worker's earnings rose 4.7% in the year ended July 31, Federal Reserve data show.
Other factors didn't help: The increase in pre-MBA salaries meant students were forgoing more income during their studies. Tuition and other expenses increased 2.4%, some of that financed with bigger loans at higher rates. In all, the typical total investment to get an MBA in the US rose 6.8%, to almost $300,000.
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Zoom CEO Latest Executive To Forecast Shortened Workweeks From AI Adoption
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2025-09-16 20:22:02
AI will enable three to four-day workweeks, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan told The New York Times, joining Microsoft's Bill Gates, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon in predicting shorter schedules. Yuan also acknowledged AI will eliminate some positions, particularly entry-level engineering roles where AI can write code, but argued new opportunities will emerge managing AI agents. Gates previously suggested two to three-day weeks within 10 years during a February appearance on The Tonight Show.
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2025-09-16 20:22:02
AI will enable three to four-day workweeks, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan told The New York Times, joining Microsoft's Bill Gates, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon in predicting shorter schedules. Yuan also acknowledged AI will eliminate some positions, particularly entry-level engineering roles where AI can write code, but argued new opportunities will emerge managing AI agents. Gates previously suggested two to three-day weeks within 10 years during a February appearance on The Tonight Show.
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Apollo Explores Sale of Internet Pioneer AOL
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2025-09-16 21:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Apollo is exploring a sale of early internet darling AOL after receiving inbound interest in the business, according to people familiar with the matter. Any deal could value AOL at around $1.5 billion, the people said. It is also possible the talks won't result in any deal, they cautioned.
Apollo bought AOL in 2021 as part of a $5 billion deal to acquire that business and Yahoo from Verizon. AOL generates around $400 million in annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the people familiar with the matter said. Its main business lines include software for internet privacy and protection, and the AOL.com website and email domain.
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2025-09-16 21:22:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: Apollo is exploring a sale of early internet darling AOL after receiving inbound interest in the business, according to people familiar with the matter. Any deal could value AOL at around $1.5 billion, the people said. It is also possible the talks won't result in any deal, they cautioned.
Apollo bought AOL in 2021 as part of a $5 billion deal to acquire that business and Yahoo from Verizon. AOL generates around $400 million in annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the people familiar with the matter said. Its main business lines include software for internet privacy and protection, and the AOL.com website and email domain.
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Выпуск fheroes2 1.1.11, открытого движка Heroes of Might and Magic 2
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2025-09-16 21:44:03
Доступен выпуск проекта fheroes2 1.1.11, который воссоздаёт движок игры Heroes of Might and Magic II с нуля. Код проекта написан на C++ и распространяется под лицензией GPLv2. Для запуска игры требуются файлы с игровыми ресурсами, которые можно получить из оригинальной игры Heroes of Might and Magic II. В составе проекта поставляется скрипт для автоматической загрузки и извлечения ресурсов из демоверсии игры, которых достаточно для полноценной работы.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63892
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2025-09-16 21:44:03
Доступен выпуск проекта fheroes2 1.1.11, который воссоздаёт движок игры Heroes of Might and Magic II с нуля. Код проекта написан на C++ и распространяется под лицензией GPLv2. Для запуска игры требуются файлы с игровыми ресурсами, которые можно получить из оригинальной игры Heroes of Might and Magic II. В составе проекта поставляется скрипт для автоматической загрузки и извлечения ресурсов из демоверсии игры, которых достаточно для полноценной работы.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63892
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Perceived Importance of College Hits New Low
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2025-09-16 22:22:02
Gallup: Americans have been placing less importance on the value of a college education over the past 15 years, to the point that about a third (35%) now rate it as "very important." Forty percent think it is "fairly important," while 24% say it is "not too important."
When last asked to rate the importance of college in 2019, just over half of U.S. adults, 53%, said it was very important, but that was already lower than the 70% found in 2013 and 75% in 2010. Meanwhile, the percentage viewing college as not too important has more than doubled since 2019 and compares with just 4% in 2010. The views of parents of children under age 18 in the Aug. 1-20 poll are similar to the national average, with 38% rating college as very important, 40% somewhat important and 21% not too important.
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2025-09-16 22:22:02
Gallup: Americans have been placing less importance on the value of a college education over the past 15 years, to the point that about a third (35%) now rate it as "very important." Forty percent think it is "fairly important," while 24% say it is "not too important."
When last asked to rate the importance of college in 2019, just over half of U.S. adults, 53%, said it was very important, but that was already lower than the 70% found in 2013 and 75% in 2010. Meanwhile, the percentage viewing college as not too important has more than doubled since 2019 and compares with just 4% in 2010. The views of parents of children under age 18 in the Aug. 1-20 poll are similar to the national average, with 38% rating college as very important, 40% somewhat important and 21% not too important.
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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford Tells Borderlands 4 Critics To 'Code Your Own Engine,' Calls It a Game For 'Premium Gamers'
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2025-09-16 22:22:02
Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has responded to Borderlands 4 performance complaints by calling the game "a premium game made for premium gamers." Pitchford claimed customer service reports for performance issues represent "less than one percent of one percent" of players and told critics to "code your own engine and show us how it's done, please."
The game holds a Mixed rating on Steam despite reaching 300,000 concurrent players Sunday, a franchise record. Gearbox recommends DLSS and frame generation for 60+ fps at 1440p even on powerful hardware. Pitchford compared running the game on older hardware to driving "a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor."
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2025-09-16 22:22:02
Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has responded to Borderlands 4 performance complaints by calling the game "a premium game made for premium gamers." Pitchford claimed customer service reports for performance issues represent "less than one percent of one percent" of players and told critics to "code your own engine and show us how it's done, please."
The game holds a Mixed rating on Steam despite reaching 300,000 concurrent players Sunday, a franchise record. Gearbox recommends DLSS and frame generation for 60+ fps at 1440p even on powerful hardware. Pitchford compared running the game on older hardware to driving "a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor."
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Nature Editorial Calls for Rail Renaissance as Networks Mark 200 Years
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2025-09-16 23:22:01
Nature's editorial board urged governments on Tuesday to reverse decades of rail disinvestment as railways mark their 200th anniversary September 27, citing transport sector emissions that grew 1.7% annually from 1990-2022 and now generate one-quarter of global CO2. Rail produces one-fifth the emissions of cars per passenger kilometer yet carries just 8.4% of EU passenger traffic versus 73% for automobiles.
The journal called for broader investment criteria beyond narrow profitability metrics and noted only one-third of countries have incorporated transport into their Paris Agreement commitments. Global rail freight fell from 38% to 24% between 1980-2017 while US networks shrank from 400,000 to 200,000 kilometers since 1914. Africa operates 87,000 rail kilometers continent-wide compared to India's 65,000 kilometers in one-tenth the area. Transport emissions must decline 3% yearly to meet net-zero targets.
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2025-09-16 23:22:01
Nature's editorial board urged governments on Tuesday to reverse decades of rail disinvestment as railways mark their 200th anniversary September 27, citing transport sector emissions that grew 1.7% annually from 1990-2022 and now generate one-quarter of global CO2. Rail produces one-fifth the emissions of cars per passenger kilometer yet carries just 8.4% of EU passenger traffic versus 73% for automobiles.
The journal called for broader investment criteria beyond narrow profitability metrics and noted only one-third of countries have incorporated transport into their Paris Agreement commitments. Global rail freight fell from 38% to 24% between 1980-2017 while US networks shrank from 400,000 to 200,000 kilometers since 1914. Africa operates 87,000 rail kilometers continent-wide compared to India's 65,000 kilometers in one-tenth the area. Transport emissions must decline 3% yearly to meet net-zero targets.
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Релиз Firefox 143
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2025-09-16 23:44:03
Состоялся релиз web-браузера Firefox 143 и сформированы обновления прошлых веток с длительным сроком поддержки - 140.3.0 и 115.28.0. На стадию бета-тестирования переведена ветка Firefox 144, релиз которой намечен на 14 октября.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63880
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2025-09-16 23:44:03
Состоялся релиз web-браузера Firefox 143 и сформированы обновления прошлых веток с длительным сроком поддержки - 140.3.0 и 115.28.0. На стадию бета-тестирования переведена ветка Firefox 144, релиз которой намечен на 14 октября.
https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=63880