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Allbirds' Move To AI Has Echoes of the Dot-Com Frenzy

robot — 2026-04-20 21:22:02

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg, written by writer Austin Carr: Allbirds is pivoting to artificial intelligence. The San Francisco brand, whose wool running shoes were once the sneaker du jour among the tech crowd, announced last week that it was expanding into AI computing infrastructure. The bizarre strategic shift was immediately greeted with a surprising frenzy on Wall Street, where shares of Allbirds soared 582% last Wednesday before dropping the next day. [...] Of course, the absurdity of Allbirds' situation echoed familiar Silicon Valley tropes -- from the endless startup pivots of the 2010s to the more recent boom-and-bust cycles of arbitrarily valued crypto coins. But it immediately reminded me of the marketing ploys of the dot-com crash. After all, some of the more iconic fails ended up being retailers such as Pets.com, Webvan, etc., riding the web wave with little to show for it beyond terrible margins.

One particular comparison from that period stands out as relevant to Allbirds: Zap.com. The holding company behind it, Zapata Corp., had a long and convoluted history, but was essentially selling fish-oil products by the time it decided to reinvent itself as an internet portal. It amassed a variety of web properties -- in media, e-commerce, gaming and so on -- and even once tried to acquire the search engine Excite. Spoiler alert: Zap flopped. Jen Heck, then a young employee at one of Zap's up-and-coming portfolio entities, remembers how quickly the hype of that web 1.0 turned to hell. As absurd as Zapata's pivot sounds today, it seemed feasible during the excitement of the internet revolution. "We went from like, 'Wow, this life thing is just so easy,' to it all ending so suddenly," Heck recalls. The ones who survived that tech bubble, she says, actually had differentiated products and the right creative thinkers building them -- and weren't just cynically jumping on the latest hot trend. "'Internet' was the magic word then, and 'AI' is the magic word now," Heck says.

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NSA Using Anthropic's Mythos Despite Blacklist

robot — 2026-04-20 20:22:01

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Axios reports that the NSA is using Anthropic's restricted Mythos Preview model despite the Pentagon insisting the company poses a "supply chain risk." Axios reports: The government's cybersecurity needs appear to be outweighing the Pentagon's feud with Anthropic. The department moved in February to cut off Anthropic and force its vendors to follow suit. That case is ongoing. The military is now broadening its use of Anthropic's tools while simultaneously arguing in court that using those tools threatens U.S. national security.

Two sources said the NSA was using Mythos, while one said the model was also being used more widely within the department. It's unclear how the NSA is currently using Mythos, but other organizations with access to the model are using it predominantly to scan their own environments for exploitable security vulnerabilities.

Anthropic restricted access to Mythos to around 40 organizations, contending that its offensive cyber capabilities were too dangerous to allow for a wider release. Anthropic only announced 12 of those organizations. One source said the NSA was among the unnamed agencies with access. The NSA's counterparts in the U.K. have said they have access to the model through the country's AI Security Institute. Anthropic's CEO met with top U.S. officials on Friday to discuss "opportunities for collaboration," according to a White House spokesperson, "as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling this technology."

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Будущее робототехники в 2026 году: какие тренды уже меняют рынок

BotHabr — 2026-04-20 19:35:05

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Опубликовано: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:44:13 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Робототехника / Хабр

Робототехника уже вышла за пределы узкой индустриальной ниши. По данным IFR (1, 2, 3), стоимость годовых установок промышленных роботов достигла рекордных 16,7 млрд долларов. В 2024 году в мире установили 542 076 промышленных роботов, а действующий парк вырос до 4 663 698 единиц. Одновременно продажи профессиональных сервисных роботов приблизились к 200 тыс. штук. Быстрее всего росли логистика, уборка и медицина.В России тема тоже перестала быть теоретической. По данным Минпромторга и Росстата, к концу 2024 года парк промышленных роботов в стране достиг 20 864 единиц, а плотность роботизации в обрабатывающей промышленности выросла с 19 до 29 роботов на 10 тыс. сотрудников. Цель на 2030 год — войти в топ-25 стран по плотности роботизации. Отдельно министерство сообщало, что внутреннее производство промышленной робототехники в 2024 году выросло в 4,5 раза — до 7,6 млрд рублей (1, 2).Ближайшие годы будут определять не общие разговоры о «роботах будущего», а несколько конкретных сдвигов. Это ИИ, который начинает управлять физическими действиями робота, переход к более универсальным системам, тактильные датчики и мягкие захваты, цифровые двойники — виртуальные модели оборудования или линии, — а также новые требования к безопасности, киберзащите и ответственности. В статье разберём главное по порядку. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/sberbank/articles/1025678/

От PLC к своему HMI и AI-анализу

BotHabr — 2026-04-20 19:35:01

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Опубликовано: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:42:53 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

В первой статье и второй статье мы заставили крутиться PMSM-мотор под управлением комплекта P-NUCLEO-IHM03, внедрив в прошивку поддержку FDCAN. Чтобы превратить DIY-проект в нечто более серьезное, нам нужен верхний уровень: наглядный интерфейс, интеграция с индустриальными стандартами и, конечно, немного магии современных LLM для диагностики.Сегодня мы построим распределенную систему управления, где OpenPLC берет на себя логику, Node-RED — визуализацию, а AI-агент — роль инженера-диагноста. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025712/

Robots Beat Human Records At Beijing Half-Marathon

robot — 2026-04-20 19:22:01

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The winning runner at a Beijing half-marathon for humanoid robots finished the race today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds -- significantly faster than the human world record of 57 minutes recently set by Jacob Kiplimo. [...] [T]he winning time is a massive improvement over last year's race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes.

The Associated Press reports that this year's winner was built by Chinese smartphone maker Honor. It seems the winning robot wasn't actually the fastest, as a different Honor robot finished in 48 minutes and 19 seconds. But that one was remote controlled -- the 50:26 robot was autonomous and won due to weighted scoring. About 40% of participating robots competed autonomously, while the remaining 60% were remote controlled, according to Beijing's E-Town tech hub. Not all of them did as well as Honor's robots, with one robot falling at the starting line and another hitting a barrier.

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Разбор рынка HATS: почему «бинауральные головы» стоят как подержанная машина

BotHabr — 2026-04-20 18:35:02

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Опубликовано: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:42:26 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

Если вы хоть раз гуглили бинауральную запись, то натыкались на странную вещь: искусственная голова с микрофонами стоит — от нескольких тысяч до миллионов рублей.И это довольно быстро вызывает диссонанс.С одной стороны — идея выглядит почти тривиально: два микрофона, размещённые в «ушах».С другой — ценник, как у сложного лабораторного оборудования.Интуитивно ожидаешь уровень «два хороших микрофона». На практике — подержанная машина.Рынок HATS — один из немногих в аудиоиндустрии, где цены растут быстрее, чем меняются технологии.Отсюда возникает простой вопрос:что это вообще за рынок и за что там платят?Я как раз разбирался в этом, пока делал свою «Голову Бинго», и заодно разложил по полочкам:— из чего складывается цена — почему разброс такой большой — и почему между «игрушкой» и «лабораторией» почти ничего нет Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025664/

LXQt 2.4.0

robot — 2026-04-20 17:44:04

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После 6 месяцев разработки представлен релиз среды рабочего стола LXQt 2.4.0 (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment), продолжающей развитие проектов LXDE и Razor-qt.

Интерфейс LXQt следует идеям классической организации рабочего стола, но привносит современное оформление и приёмы, увеличивающие удобство работы. LXQt позиционируется как лёгкое, модульное, быстрое и удобное окружение, вобравшее лучшие черты LXDE и Razor-qt. Код размещён на GitHub и поставляется под лицензиями GPL 2.0+ и LGPL 2.1+.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/linux-general/18271226#cut ) )

Inferno64

robot — 2026-04-20 17:44:04

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Тихо и незаметно вышла распределенная операционная система Inferno64 – современная переработка классической ОС Inferno, ориентированная на 64-битные платформы (amd64/arm64) и запуск в том числе поверх Linux.

Проект позиционируется как «распределённая вычислительная среда нового поколения»: система объединяет разнородные устройства (старые ноутбуки, телефоны, десктопы) в единую peer-to-peer вычислительную сеть. В основе лежит классическая модель Inferno с файловым представлением ресурсов и протоколом 9P.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18271204#cut ) )

Расширяем проект на микроконтроллерах с OpenPLC

BotHabr — 2026-04-20 17:35:02

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Опубликовано: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:28:10 GMT
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В предыдущей статье мы подключили CAN bus к STM32-IHM03, настроили базовую коммуникацию и запустили управление PMSM-двигателем. Теперь пришло время расширить проект — добавить в него периферийный микроконтроллер в качестве удалённого I/O-узла и организовать логику управления с помощью OpenPLC.В этой статье мы рассмотрим, как подключить Raspberry Pi Pico W по Modbus RTU к одноплатному компьютеру Orange Pi, запрограммировать микроконтроллер в среде OpenPLC Editor на языке контактно-релейных схем (LD) и удаленно управлять реле по Modbus. Попутно разберёмся с настройкой шилда RS485 CAN HAT, адресацией пинов и регистров. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025660/

Videos Catch Amazon Delivery Drones Dropping Packages From 10 Feet in the Air

robot — 2026-04-20 16:22:01

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There's been a few complaints about Amazon's drone delivery service. "The automated mailmen are dropping off packages from 10 feet in the air," reports the New York Post, "rendering the contents of each box susceptible to crashing and smashing."
One example? Tamara Hancock filmed a drone delivering a bottle of Torani flavoring syrup to her home in Arizona (as a test of how Amazon handled fragile items). It was delivered it in a plastic bottle — not glass — but the massive drone drops the drone from so high that the impact cracked the bottle's cap. (In the video Hancock opens her delivery to find leaked flavoring syrup "everywhere.")

The delivery was hard to film, Hancock says, because "If the drone sees me in the back yard, it will not drop, because it is worried about hurting humans or animals." The Post notes Amazon's "AI-charged fleet" of drones are "Outfitted with industry-leading 'sense and avoid' technology, the aerodynamic machines are equipped to drop off eligible items, weighing a maximum of five pounds, at designated areas in 60 minutes or less."
The high-tech, however, apparently does not ensure gentle landings. Collisions, including a recent crash-and-burn into a Texas building, as well as several mid-flight malfunctions in rainy weather, have abounded since the drones' inaugural launch....

Tasha, a separate Amazon user, spotted the drone plunging a package near the paved driveway of a neighbor's yard. Unfortunately, its propellers caused other, previously delivered parcels to blow away, sending one into the street... In a statement to The Post, Amazon said it apologized for one of the "rare instances when products don't arrive as expected."
Amazon's drone fleet has been running since late 2024, the Post adds, and are now offering "ultra-fast" shipping in U.S. states including Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Kansas and Texas.
The machines do seem massive. I'm surprised neighbors aren't complaining about the noise...

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Profanity 0.18.0

robot — 2026-04-20 15:44:04

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Тихо и незаметно вышла новая версия консольного XMPP клиента Profanity, написанная на языке C.

Новые возможности:

• Этот выпуск можно собрать только с помощью Meson. Поддержка Autotools была удалена.

• Добавлена поддержка подсветки при проверке орфографии [ (#2132) ]( https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/pull/2132 ) .

• Реализована поддержка асинхронного вызова внешнего редактора [ (#2145) ]( https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/pull/2145 ) и [ (#1888) ]( https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/issues/1888 ) .

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/internet/18271082#cut ) )

Опубликована среда рабочего стола LXQt 2.4.0

robot — 2026-04-20 15:44:03

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После 6 месяцев разработки представлен релиз среды рабочего стола LXQt 2.4.0 (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment), продолжающей развитие проектов LXDE и Razor-qt. Интерфейс LXQt следует идеям классической организации рабочего стола, но привносит современное оформление и приёмы, увеличивающие удобство работы. LXQt позиционируется как легковесное, модульное, быстрое и удобное окружение, вобравшее лучшие черты LXDE и Razor-qt. Код размещён на GitHub и поставляется под лицензиями GPL 2.0+ и LGPL 2.1+. Появление готовых сборок ожидается для Ubuntu (LXQt по умолчанию предлагается в Lubuntu), Arch Linux, Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia, FreeBSD, ROSA и ALT Linux.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65246

Embox v0.7.0

robot — 2026-04-20 14:44:04

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20 апреля 2026 года вышла новая версия свободной операционной системы реального времени Embox.

Embox предназначена для встраиваемых систем. Главной идей является использование ПО для Linux без Linux. ОС является POSIX-совместимой и кроссплатформенной (ARM, MIPS, x86, RISC-V, Microblaze, SPARC, PowerPC, E2K), имеет аналог ./configure; make; make install, поддерживает C++. Есть поддержка ряда файловых систем: FAT, ext2/3/4, поддержка сетевого, графического и остальных системных стеков. Доступны популярные ЯП: Python, Lisp TCL, Ruby, Lua, JS, Scheme.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18271027#cut ) )

Выпуск Bcachefs 1.38.0. Дистрибутив NASty для развёртывания NAS на базе Bcachefs

robot — 2026-04-20 12:44:03

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Кент Оверстрит (Kent Overstreet) опубликовал выпуск файловой системы Bcachefs 1.38.0. Выпуск охватывает два пакета: bcachefs-kernel-dkms с модулем ядра, собираемым при помощи системы DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support), и bcachefs-tools с запускаемой в пространстве пользователя утилитой bcachefs, реализующей команды для создания (mkfs), монтирования, восстановления и проверки ФС. Пакеты собраны для Debian, Ubuntu и ожидаются для Arch Linux, Fedora, openSUSE и NixOS. DKMS-модуль поддерживает работу с ядрами Linux, начиная с 6.16.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65244

Zoom Partners With Sam Altman's Iris-Scanning Company To Offer Callers Verifications of Humanness

robot — 2026-04-20 12:22:01

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Zoom "has partnered with World, Sam Altman's iris-scanning identity company (previously known as Worldcoin), " reports Digital Trends, "to add real-time human verification inside meetings."

Zoom is now inviting organizations to join the beta version of the rollout, which Digital Trends says "lets hosts confirm that every face on the call belongs to a real person, not an AI-generated imposter. "

For those wondering how World's Deep Face technology works, it includes a three-step process. It cross-references a signed image from a user's original Orb registration, a live face scan from the device, and the frame of the video that's visible to the other participants in the meeting. Only when the three samples match does a "Verified Human" badge appear next to the user's name...

Hosts can also make Deep Face verification mandatory for joining meetings, preventing unverified participants from joining entirely. Mid-call, on-the-spot checks are also possible...

[ Read more of this story ]( https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/04/20/066225/zoom-partners-with-sam-altmans-iris-scanning-company-to-offer-callers-verifications-of-humanness?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.

Ремонт блока питания с Power Delivery. 470 граммов электроники

BotHabr — 2026-04-20 12:35:02

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Опубликовано: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:00:39 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

Не люблю писать о ремонте техники, так как обычно это рутина. Самые частые аппаратные проблемы — это старение, перегревы, перегрузки, намокание и тому подобное. Но тут коллега принес блок питания, который покупался для тестов устройств с Power Delivery, со словами: «Два раза зарядил телефон и блок питания перестал работать». AOHi GaN 140W, весом 470 граммов (!), с относительно небольшими габаритами. Мне кажется, что за такую стоимость он должен был прослужить немного дольше. Я его решил разобрать только для того, чтобы доказать, что там просто свинцовая пластина, а блок питания самый обычный. Спойлер: нет. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/selectel/articles/1023912/

KDE Gear 26.04

robot — 2026-04-20 11:44:03

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Сообщество KDE представило выпуск KDE Gear 26.04 — новый выпуск комплекта пользовательских приложений, развиваемых в рамках проекта KDE. Нынешний релиз стал юбилейным: в 2026 году проект отмечает 30 лет, и разработчики отмечают, что в одном выпуске сошлись как давно устоявшиеся программы вроде Okular, KOrganizer и Kdenlive, так и сравнительно молодые проекты, включая NeoChat, Merkuro и AudioTube.

Планируется, что пакеты KDE Gear 26.04 будут постепенно поступать в репозитории дистрибутивов и магазины приложений, включая Flathub и Snapcraft; полный исходный код уже опубликован на серверах проекта.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/kde/18268550#cut ) )

Не просто OpenBMC: как мы сделали свой BMC

BotHabr — 2026-04-20 11:35:04

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Опубликовано: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:00:05 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Системное программирование / Хабр

Привет, Хабр! Летом мы рассказывали о сложном, но очень интересном пути в создании UEFI-загрузчика для серверных продуктов компании OpenYard. Теперь хочется перейти к его постоянному спутнику ― BMC, без которого сегодня трудно представить полноценную серверную платформу. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/openyard/articles/1024534/

STATS 2026-04-19

root — 2026-04-20 11:11:02

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TOP20 VISITORS:

[1] ClaudeBot point=4 web=1204 up=24.5MB (32%) <--- ClaudeBot
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Brave Browser Introduces 'Origin', a Pay-Once 'Minimalist' Browser

robot — 2026-04-20 09:22:02

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The Brave browser "has introduced Brave Origin, a stripped-down version of its browser that removes built-in monetization features like Rewards and other extras tied to its business model," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli"

The stripped-down browser is available either as a separate browser download or as an upgrade to the existing Brave install, unlocked through a one-time purchase that can be activated across multiple devices. The idea is simple on paper: pay once, and you get a cleaner, more minimal browsing experience without the add-ons that fund Brave's ecosystem. What makes the move unusual is the pricing model itself. While paying to support a browser is not controversial, charging users specifically to remove features raises questions about whether those additions are seen as value or clutter.

The situation gets even stranger on Linux, where Brave Origin is reportedly available at no cost, creating an uneven experience across platforms and leaving some users wondering why they are being asked to pay for something others get for free.

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Выпуск системы управления контентом Joomla 6.1

robot — 2026-04-20 09:44:03

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Состоялся релиз свободной системы управления контентом Joomla 6.1. Joomla предоставляет такие возможности, как инструменты для управления пользователями и медиа-файлами, поддержка создания многоязычных вариантов страниц, система управления рекламными кампаниями, адресная книга пользователей, голосования, встроенный поиск, система категоризации ссылок и учёта переходов, WYSIWYG-редактор, система шаблонов, управление новостными потоками, XML-RPC API для интеграции с другими системами, кэширование страниц и коллекция дополнений. Код проекта написан на языке PHP и распространяется под лицензией GPLv2.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65242

Избран новый лидер проекта Debian

robot — 2026-04-20 09:44:03

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Объявлены результаты ежегодных выборов лидера проекта Debian. В голосовании приняли участие 347 разработчиков, что составляет 33% от всех участников, имеющих право голоса (в прошлом году явка составила 35.1%, в позапрошлом 35.8%, исторический максимум в 2000 году - 62.25%, минимум в 2016 году - 27.56%). В этом году в выборах участвовал только один кандидат на пост лидера. Прошлый лидер, Андреас Тилле (Andreas Tille), не стал выставлять свою кандидатуру на третий срок.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65243

Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Successfully Reuses Booster - But Loses Satellite

robot — 2026-04-20 07:22:02

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SpaceNews reports:

Blue Origin's New Glenn suffered a malfunction of its second stage on the rocket's third flight April 19, stranding its payload in an unrecoverable "off-nominal" orbit and dealing the company a setback as it seeks to increase its flight rate... AST SpaceMobile had planned to launch 45 to 60 satellites this year for its D2D constellation, but BlueBird 7 is the first to launch since BlueBird 6 launched on an Indian LVM3 rocket in December.

AST SpaceMobile still expects to have 45 satellites in orbit by the end of the year, the article notes. (In an earnings call in March, AST SpaceMobile's CEO had promised they'd soon start "stacking" satellites, "batched in groups of either three, four, six or eight in a single launch.") He'd added that "To support our launch cadence during 2026, we expect the New Glenn booster to be reused every 30 days or less..."

There's some good news there, SpaceNews points out, since today saw the first successful reflight of a New Glenn first stage rocket:

The booster, called "Never Tell Me The Odds" by Blue Origin, touched down on the company's landing platform, Jacklyn, in the Atlantic Ocean nearly nine and a half minutes after liftoff. The booster launched NASA's ESCAPADE Mars mission on the NG-2 flight in November. However, the booster reuse on NG-3 was only partial since the stage's biggest component, its BE-4 engines, was new. "With our first refurbished booster we elected to replace all seven engines and test out a few upgrades including a thermal protection system on one of the engine nozzles," Dave Limp, chief executive of Blue Origin, said in an April 13 social media post. "We plan to use the engines we flew for NG-2 on future flights."

The satellite will now be "de-orbited", AST SpaceMobile said in a statement. (They added that "The cost of the satellite is expected to be recovered under the company's insurance policy.")

Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the news.

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Voyager 1 is Running Out of Power. NASA Just Switched Part of It Off

robot — 2026-04-20 04:22:01

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After 49 years of space travel, Voyager 1 "is running out of power," reports NPR:

The spacecraft runs on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator — a device that converts heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. It carries no solar panels, no rechargeable batteries. Just the slow, steady release of nuclear warmth, which diminishes by about 4 watts each year. After nearly five decades, that decline has become critical.

During a routine maneuver in late February, Voyager 1's power levels fell unexpectedly, bringing the probe dangerously close to triggering an automatic fault-protection shutdown — a self-preservation response that would have forced engineers into a lengthy and risky recovery process. The team needed to act first. On April 17, mission engineers sent a sequence of commands to deactivate the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, known as the LECP, which is one of Voyager 1's remaining science instruments. The LECP has measured ions, electrons, and cosmic rays originating from both our solar system and the galaxy beyond it, helping scientists map the structure of interstellar space in a way no other instrument could...

Voyager 1 now carries two operational science instruments: one that listens for plasma waves, and one that measures magnetic fields. Engineers believe the latest shutdown could buy the mission roughly another year of breathing room. The team is also developing a more sweeping power conservation plan they informally call "the Big Bang" — a coordinated swap of several powered components all at once, trading older systems for lower-power alternatives. If testing on Voyager 2, planned for May and June 2026, goes well, the same procedure will be attempted on Voyager 1 no sooner than July. If it works, there is even a slim chance the LECP could once more continue to work.
The engineers say they hope to keep at least one instrument operating on each spacecraft into the 2030s. It would leave both still reporting from places no machine has ever gone before.111
Voyager 1 is now 15 billion miles from Earth, the article points out. (Radio signals take 23 hours to arrive...)
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot for sharing the article.

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Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Predicts Humankind Won't Survive Another 50 Years

robot — 2026-04-20 02:22:02

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Live Science spoke with physicist David Gross, who today received the $3 million "Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics". He was part of a trio that won the 2004 physics Nobel prize for research that helped complete the Standard Model of particle physics. But when asked if physics will reach a unified theory of the fundamental forces of nature within 50 years, Gross has a surprising answer. "Currently, I spend part of my time trying to tell people... that the chances of you living 50 [more] years are very small."
Cold War estimates for a 1% chance of nuclear war each year seem low, Gross says. "The chances are more likely 2%. So that's a 1-in-50 chance every year."

David Gross: The expected lifetime, in the case of 2% [per year], is about 35 years. [The expected lifetime is the average time it would take to have had a nuclear war by then. It is calculated using similar equations as those used to determine the "half-life" of a radioactive material.]
Live Science: So what do you suggest as remedies to lower that risk?

Gross: We had something called the Nobel Laureate Assembly for reducing the risk of nuclear war in Chicago last year. There are steps, which are easy to take — for nations, I mean. For example, talk to each other. In the last 10 years, there are no treaties anymore. We're entering an incredible arms race.

We have three super nuclear powers. People are talking about using nuclear weapons; there's a major war going on in the middle of Europe; we're bombing Iran; India and Pakistan almost went to war. OK, so that's increased the chance [of nuclear war]. I would really like to have a solid estimate — it might be more, and I think I'm being conservative — but a 2% estimate [of nuclear war] in today's crazy world.
Live Science: Do you think we'll ever get to a place where we get rid of nuclear weapons?
Gross: We're not recommending that. That's idealistic, but yes, I hope so. Because if you don't, there's always some risk an AI 100 years from now [could launch nuclear weapons], but chances of [humanity] living, with this estimate, 100 years, is very small, and living 200 years is infinitesimal. So [the answer to] Fermi's question of "Where are the civilizations, all the intelligent organisms around the galaxy, and why don't they talk to us?" is that they've killed themselves...

There are now nine nuclear powers. Even three is infinitely more complicated than two. The agreements, the norms between countries, are all falling apart. Weapons are getting crazier. Automation, and perhaps even AI, will be in control of those instruments pretty soon... It's going to be very hard to resist making AI make decisions because it acts so fast.

He points out that with the threat of climate change, "people have done something," even though "It's a much harder argument to make than about nuclear weapons.

"We made them; we can stop them."

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Is the Iran War Driving a Surge of Interest in Electric Cars?

robot — 2026-04-20 00:22:03

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In October and through November, America's EV sales reached their lowest point since 2022 after government subsidies expired, remembers Time. "But first-quarter data for 2026 shows that used EV sales were 12% higher than the same time last year and 17% higher than the previous quarter.

"One factor likely helping push buyers toward these cars is high gas prices, which recently topped $4.00 a gallon for the first time in four years," they write — but it's not just in the U.S. Instead, they argue the conflict "is driving a global surge of interest in electric vehicles..."

In the U.K., electric car sales reached a record high, with 86,120 vehicles sold in March... The French online used-car retailer Aramisauto reported its share of EV sales nearly doubled from February 16 to March 9, rising to 12.7% from 6.5%, while sales of fueled models dropped to 28% of sales from 34%, and sales of diesel models dropped to 10% from 14%. Germany's largest online car market, mobile.de, told Reuters that the share of EV searches on its website has tripled since the start of March — from 12% to 36%, with car dealers receiving 66% more enquiries for used EVs than in February.
South Korea reported that registrations for electric vehicles more than doubled in March compared to the prior year, due in part to rising fuel prices and government subsidies... In New Zealand, more than 1,000 EVs were registered in the week that ended on March 22, close to double the week before, making it the country's biggest week for electric vehicle registrations since the end of 2023, according to the country's Transport Minister, Chris Bishop.

In America, Bloomberg also reports 605 high-speed EV charging stations switched on in just the first three months of 2025, "a 34% increase over the year-earlier period," according to their analysis of federal data. A data platform focused on EV infrastructure tells Bloomberg that speedier and more reliable chargers are convincing more drivers to go electric and use public plugs.

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Pancreatic Cancer MRNA Vaccine Shows Lasting Results In Early Trial

robot — 2026-04-19 23:22:01

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NBC News reports on a 16-person clinical trial of "personalized messenger RNA vaccines" which use the immune system to fight cancer cells. "The goal is not to eliminate existing tumors, but instead to stamp out lingering, undetected cancer cells, and later any new cells that form before they can cause a recurrence."
Patients still have surgery to remove tumors. After that, the mRNA vaccines are personalized for each individual using genetic material taken from their unique tumor cells. In the clinical trial, after getting the vaccine, the patients also received chemotherapy, which is standard post-op treatment for operable pancreatic cancer... [The article notes that less than 13% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer live for more than five years, making it "one of the deadliest cancers."]
[E]xperts have long believed that people with pancreatic cancer could not generate an immune response against tumors. But after nine doses of the personalized vaccine, [clinical trial participant Donna] Gustafson is one of eight people in the 16-person Phase 1 trial who did just that, producing an army of immune cells called T cells that seek out and destroy tumor cells... [Dr. Vinod Balachandran, a vaccine center director who is leading the trial, said] it was unclear whether the immune response would last and lead to the patients living longer... New data collected during the trial's six-year follow-up period shows that it may. Those findings will be presented Monday at the American Association for Cancer Research's annual meeting in San Diego. Six years after treatment, Gustafson and six others who responded to the treatment are still alive...

More research is still needed. Genentech and BioNTech, the two drugmakers behind the vaccine, have already launched a larger Phase 2 clinical trial... Another team is working on an off-the-shelf vaccine that targets a protein called KRAS that is present in as many as 90% of pancreatic cancers. In a small, early trial, about 85% of the participants mounted an immune response to the protein.

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Motorola Sues Social Media Platforms and Creators in India

robot — 2026-04-19 22:22:01

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"Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators," reports TechCrunch, "over posts it alleges are defamatory..."
The lawsuit, filed in a Bengaluru court and obtained by TechCrunch, names platforms such as X, YouTube, and Instagram along with dozens of content creators, and seeks takedown of the content as well as broader restraint on what it describes as false or defamatory material related to the company's devices. In its over 60-page filing, Motorola has sought a permanent injunction restraining the defendants from publishing or sharing what it describes as false or defamatory content about its products, including reviews, videos, comments, and boycott campaigns.
The complaint cites hundreds of posts across platforms, including videos alleging device issues and phones catching fire. But it is also targeting unfavorable product reviews and user commentary that the company alleges are false or defamatory. In a statement after publication, a Motorola spokesperson said it had initiated legal action "in the interest of public safety" against what it described as demonstrably false claims that its devices had exploded or caught fire.

One online creator told TechCrunch "they expect more such legal action in the future, as evolving rules around online content increase liability for creators and platforms — a trend reflected in recently proposed changes to India's IT rules aimed at tightening oversight of online content."
A Motorola spokesperson "said the company did not seek to suppress legitimate reviews or criticism and was reviewing the scope of the proceedings, adding that it apologized to creators affected inadvertently."

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Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant

robot — 2026-04-19 22:22:01

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"Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports the Associated Press. "All without a warrant."

The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices. The state is allowed more than 250 queries a month using the tool, which allows officers to track a device's location over long stretches of time and enables them to see what Fog calls "patterns of life," according to company documents from 2022. It can help them deduce where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit, according to privacy experts... Traditionally, police must obtain a warrant from a judge to access cellphone location information — a process that can take days or weeks. And while cellphone users may be aware that they are sharing their location through apps such as Google Maps, critics say few are aware that such information can make its way to police...

Other agencies in Nevada have been known to use technology similar to Fog. In 2013, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department acquired something known as a cell-site simulator that mimics cellphone towers and can sweep up signals from entire areas to track individuals, with some models capable of intercepting texts and calls. Police have not released detailed information about the technology since then.

"Police in other states have said the technology (and its low price tag) has helped expand investigatory capacity," the article adds.

But it also points out that Fog Data Science has a web page letting individuals opt out of all their data sets.

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Astra Migration

robot — 2026-04-19 20:44:03

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«Группа Астра» объявляет о коммерческом релизе нового продукта — Astra Migration, инструмента для автоматической миграции с ОС Windows на ОС Astra Linux. Продукт позволяет переводить на отечественную ОС более 100 рабочих мест параллельно, ускоряя процесс миграции в десятки раз по сравнению с ручным переходом. Astra Migration [ уже доступен для оформления заказа ]( https://astra.ru/software-services/application-software-astra-group/migration/ ) и призван решить одну из ключевых задач российского ИТ-рынка — массовый и управляемый переход организаций на отечественное программное обеспечение.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/russia/18270434#cut ) )

Первая публичная демонстрация Astra Migration состоится [ 20 апреля 2026 года на стенде «Группы Астра» в рамках конференции АКПО-Конф. ]( https://stream.kontur.ru/landings/228eb724-b5ac-4793-95d2-74f9ebc8f3da )

HP Will Discontinue 'HP Anyware' Remote Desktop, Trusted Zero Clients

robot — 2026-04-19 20:22:01

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kriston (Slashdot reader #7,886) writes:

HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued.
"Maintenance and support for customers and partners with multi-year terms will continue until 31 October, 2029," a href="https://anyware.hp.com/hp-anyware-end-of-life">according to HP's announcement.

But HP is also announcing the planned End of Life for Anyware Trust Center and Trusted Zero Clients, with support now limited to setup and troubleshooting, no new updates or patches, and support ending in a little over six months on October 31, 2026. While for Desktop Access customers — Tera2 Zero Clients and PCoIP Management Console — "the previously announced EOL date remains December 31, 2029," sales have already ended for other customers. HP Anyware renewals are available for purchase through October 31 of 2027, but with a maximum one year term, with support ending October 31, 2028.

HP says the decision "enables us to focus our resources on product categories where we can deliver the greatest customer value and drive long-term innovation."

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Disney Creates Its Own IMAX for 'Avengers: Doomsday' After Losing Screens to 'Dune: Part 3'

robot — 2026-04-19 19:22:02

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Ahead of December's release of Avengers: Doomsday, Disney has unveiled "Infinity Vision," reports Kotaku, which they describe as "a new theater-going experience that will be certain to transform your pedestrian $15 night out into an exotic $43 one." (Though those prices appear to be estimates...)

Disney's announcement calls it "a new certification for premium large format (PLF) theaters," helping ticket-buyers find "a huge screen with the sharpest, clearest color and sound," including laser projection "for superior brightness and clarity ") and "premium audio formats for fully immersive sound".

Light on specifics, Disney says they will be certifying premium large format theaters for the Infinity Vision experience, highlighting laser projection and immersive audio quality. The new program will begin in the summer for a theater run of 2019's Avengers: Endgame ahead of Doomsday's holiday release.

Now you might be thinking: Giant screen? Booming audio? That sounds an awful lot like IMAX. The most consumer-recognized premium movie-going screen is the coveted throne for big blockbuster events, from Avatar to One Battle After Another. Unfortunately for Doomsday, IMAX screens are already booked for the holiday season by Dune: Part Three, the anticipated return to Arrakis, where Timothée Chalamet's Muad'Dib will begin to go worm-mode. Locked out of the popular choice for doubling your ticket price, Disney appears to have made up a new one...

Disney says they aim to certify 75 theaters in the United States and 300 internationally for the Infinity Vision program.

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ICMP-туннель на уровне ядра Linux: передаём TCP/UDP-трафик через эхо-запросы

BotHabr — 2026-04-19 18:35:04

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Опубликовано: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:46:18 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Системное программирование / Хабр

Недавно я наткнулся на статью о том, что в ICMP-пакеты можно вставлять произвольные данные. Сразу возникла мысль: а почему бы не попробовать загнать весь трафик через ICMP (да, о существовании ICMP-туннеля я тоже ничего не знал). Так появился проект — ICMP?туннель на уровне ядра, который: Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025264/

Как я убрал чаты из оформления заявок на бетонном заводе: Bitrix24, 1С и отдельное приложение

BotHabr — 2026-04-19 18:35:01

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Опубликовано: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:26:46 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / DIY или Сделай сам / Хабр

Хотел бы рассказать про один проект, где я участвовал сразу в двух ролях: и как разработчик, и как аналитик. Это не история про идеальную архитектуру и не кейс в духе "сделали красиво с первого раза". Скорее наоборот: через боль и страдания, несколько не самых очевидных решений и пара довольно проблемных мест. Но в итоге что-то да получилось.На старте у нас был бетонный завод с полностью самописной 1С. В ней жила вся управленческая часть, но менеджеров туда лишний раз не пускали. Поэтому начали внедрять Bitrix24, чтобы менеджеры работали в CRM, а всё, что нужно, дальше уже делалось в 1С.Сначала идея выглядела достаточно прямой. На стороне 1С отдельный разработчик настраивал приём и передачу данных. Я на стороне Bitrix24 поднимал API-часть: получать контрагентов и номенклатуру, передавать обратно заявки и отправлять их в 1С при переходе на нужную стадию. Между менеджером и заводом оставались операторы: они проверяли заявку, и только потом она уходила в производство. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025276/

Удалённое выполнение кода в форке почтового сервера qmail от проекта Sagredo

robot — 2026-04-19 13:44:03

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В развиваемом проектом Sagredo форке почтового сервера qmail выявлена уязвимость (CVE-2026-41113), позволяющая добиться удалённого выполнения произвольных команд на сервере с правами пользователя qmailr. Уязвимость вызвана отсутствием экранирования спецсимволов в имени хоста, возвращаемого DNS-сервером при определении MX-шлюза, в сочетании с передачей полученного имени в команду popen без должного разделения и фильтрации аргументов при вызове shell. Уязвимость устранена в выпуске 2026.04.07. В открытом доступе опубликован инструментарий для эксплуатации уязвимости.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65241

[Перевод] Структуры данных на практике. Глава 12: Кучи и очереди с приоритетом

BotHabr — 2026-04-19 12:35:02

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Опубликовано: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:13:43 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр

«Плохие программисты беспокоятся о коде. Хорошие программисты беспокоятся о структурах данных и их взаимосвязях», — Линус ТорвальдсСпоры о планировщикеНаша команда вела спор о структурах данных. Нам нужен был планировщик задач операционной системы реального времени, способный:Вставлять новые задачи с приоритетом (O(log n))Запрашивать задачу с наибольшим приоритетом (O(1))Удалять задачу с наибольшим приоритетом (O(log n))Кто-то предложил: «Давайте используем отсортированный массив». Но вставка будет занимать O(n) — придётся сдвигать элементы.Кто-то ещё сказал: «Возьмём связанный список». Однако поиск наибольшего выполняется за O(n) — необходимо сканировать весь список.Третий вспомнил о двоичном дереве поиска. Но из Главы 9 мы уже знаем, что BST ужасно ведут себя с кэшем.Споры продолжались, пока кто-то не упомянул двоичные кучи. Покончить с разногласиями позволили результаты бенчмарка Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1016636/

Выпуск криптографической библиотеки LibreSSL 4.3

robot — 2026-04-19 12:44:03

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Разработчики проекта OpenBSD представили выпуск переносимой редакции пакета LibreSSL 4.3.0, в рамках которого развивается форк OpenSSL, нацеленный на обеспечение более высокого уровня безопасности. Проект LibreSSL ориентирован на качественную поддержку протоколов SSL/TLS с удалением излишней функциональности, добавлением дополнительных средств защиты и проведением значительной чистки и переработки кодовой базы. Выпуск LibreSSL 4.3.0 рассматривается как экспериментальный, в котором развиваются возможности, которые войдут в состав OpenBSD 7.9. Следом сформирован выпуск LibreSSL 4.3.1, в котором исправлена проблема со сборкой.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65240

Remembering Zip Drives - the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s

robot — 2026-04-19 12:22:01

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Back in the 1990s, floppy disks "had a mere capacity of 1.44MB," remembers XDA Developers, "which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about."

Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while we got "superfloppy" formats that were physically larger and had more capacity, those were pretty unwieldy as portable storage. Enter 1994, when a company called Iomega introduced its variant of a "superfloppy", the Zip drive... [T]he initial capacity introduced in 1994 reached a whopping 100MB, which was huge number when put up against the traditional floppy disk. Zip drives also had major performance benefits, with read speeds that could average 1.4MB/s, as opposed to the comparatively sluggish 16kB/s speeds of a traditional floppy disk, as well as a seek time of around 28ms seconds, whereas a floppy disk averaged 200ms. Zip drives weren't quite as fast as desktop HDDs, but for portable storage, this was a huge step forward...

[I]n 1998, Iomega introduced the Zip 250 disks, which increased the capacity to 250MB, and, already in the new millennium, we got the Zip 750, which took that further to 750MB... It was an appealing enough proposition that big computer manufacturers like Dell started including a Zip drive in some of their PCs. Even Apple included Zip drives in some of its Power Macintosh models from the mid-to-late 90s. However, things started to shift towards the end of the decade as other portable formats rose to prominence, most notably CDs and USB flash drives.

Despite their initial success, it didn't take long for users to start noticing a major drawback of Zip drives: many times, they would just fail. It wasn't necessarily related to age or any particular misuse of the disks, it just happened. It was a big enough phenomenon that it became known as the "click of death", and once it happened, your drive was gone. The problem was estimated by Iomega to affect around 0.5% of Zip drives, but while that sounds like a small number, when you sell products by the thousands, it becomes fairly widespread. It was a big enough issue that, in September 1998, a class action lawsuit was filed against Iomega for the common problems. Some of the complaints in that lawsuit were eventually dismissed by the court of Delaware, but others were not, and once the public became aware of the problems with Zip drives, it was hard for the brand to make a comeback.
It didn't help that this happened around the same time as formats such as CDs were becoming more popular... And eventually, USB flash drives became the most popular way to carry data around since they were smaller and offered much faster speeds... Eventually, after seeing its profits plummet by the mid-2000s, Iomega was sold to a company called EMC in 2008, and in 2013, EMC and Lenovo formed a joint venture that took over Iomega's business and removed all of the Iomega branding from its products.
The article does note that "as late as 2014, some aviation companies were still using Zip drives to distribute updates for navigation databases." Are there any Slashdot readers who still remember their own Zip drive experiences?
Share your memories in the comments of that once-so-trendy storage technology from the 1990s...

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STATS 2026-04-18

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TOP20 VISITORS:

[1] 216.244.66.x point=0 web=165 up=13.1MB (33%)
[2] AhrefsBot point=0 web=746 up=4.6MB (11%)
[3] PetalBot point=1 web=497 up=3.1MB (7%) <--- PetalBot
[4] Amazon point=1 web=129 up=3.1MB (7%) <--- Amazon
[5] 37.252.14.x point=144 web=0 up=2.4MB (6%) <--- ake (6/hr)
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[7] ClaudeBot point=0 web=48 up=1.3MB (3%)
[8] 217.114.158.x point=25 web=0 up=1.1MB (2%) <--- fox (1/hr)
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[11] TikTok point=0 web=54 up=0.8MB (2%)
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[20] 178.150.14.x point=0 web=1 up=0.3MB (<1%)

TOTAL TRAFFIC: 39MB

Счётчик воды для Home Assistant из датчика протечки Tuya

BotHabr — 2026-04-19 10:35:02

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Опубликовано: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:10:24 GMT
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После реализации в прошлой статье многотарифного учёта электроэнергии в квартире, было решено реализовать и учёт расхода воды.В продаже есть несколько уже готовых решений, которые могут подключаться к Home Assistant, передавать данные сразу в Водоканал и другие компании ЖКХ. Но стоимость устройств начинается от 3000 руб, а если стояки с подачей холодной и горячей воды разнесены далеко, то придётся покупать 2 датчика и бюджет проекта заметно вырастает.Поэтому в рамках данной статьи расскажу, как реализовать счетчик расхода воды на базе дешевого датчика Tuya (около 450 руб.) и настроить отображение данных в Home Assistant. Также реализуем подсчёт общего объёма водоотведения и сигнализацию о возможном затоплении. Схема применима к счётчикам, которые создают импульсный сигнал по типу Геркон. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025148/

Duolingo CEO Says They've Stopped Tracking Employees' AI Use for Performance Reviews

robot — 2026-04-19 08:22:01

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Last May Duolingo's stock peaked at $529.05. But while the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and 50 million daily active users, today its stock price has dropped more than 81%, to $100.51.

And there's been other changes, reports Entrepreneur:

In April 2025, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn made headlines after writing a memo calling the company "AI-first." In the memo, von Ahn announced that the language-learning platform would track employees' AI use in performance reviews. Now, a year later, von Ahn is backtracking and rethinking how he measures employee performance. He told the Silicon Valley Girl podcast earlier this month that Duolingo no longer considers AI use in performance reviews.

The change arose after employees started to ask, "Do you just want us to use AI for AI's sake?" von Ahn explained. "We said no, look — the most important thing in your performance is that you are doing whatever your job is as well as possible. A lot of times, AI can help you with that, but if it can't, I'm not going to force you to do that," von Ahn said on the podcast. He felt as though the company was "trying to push something that in some cases did not fit" instead of "being held accountable for the actual outcome." The CEO is, however, still sticking to other "constructive constraints" he introduced in the April 2025 memo, including stopping contractor hiring in cases where AI can assume their workload...
Von Ahn also mentioned that a few months ago, Duolingo had a day dedicated to vibe coding, or prompting AI to create an app without manually writing a single line of code. Every single person at the company, from engineers to human resources professionals, had to vibe code an app. Vibe coding has made an impact at the company. One of Duolingo's latest offerings, a course teaching users how to play chess, arose when two people vibe-coded the first prototype of it, the CEO said. Neither of them knew how to play chess or program, but they managed to use AI to create the whole chess curriculum and a prototype of the app in about six months last year. Now chess is Duolingo's fastest-growing course, according to von Ahn. "At this point, we have seven million daily active users that are learning chess," the CEO said on the podcast.

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SpaceX, Blue Origin Compete For 'Artemis III' Mission

robot — 2026-04-19 06:22:01

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After Artemis II's astronauts returned to earth, "NASA has Artemis III in its sights," reports the Associated Press:

In a mission recently added to the docket for next year, Artemis III's yet-to-be -named astronauts will practice docking their Orion capsule with a lunar lander or two in orbit around Earth. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin are racing to have their company's lander ready first. Musk's Starship and Bezos' Blue Moon are vying for the all-important Artemis IV moon landing in 2028. Two astronauts will aim for the south polar region, the preferred location for [NASA Administrator Jared] Isaacman's envisioned $20 billion to $30 billion moon base. Vast amounts of ice are almost certainly hidden in permanently shadowed craters there — ice that could provide water and rocket fuel.
The docking mechanism for Artemis III's close-to-home trial run is already at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The latest model Starship is close to launching on a test flight from South Texas, and a scaled-down version of Blue Moon will attempt a lunar landing later this year.

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DIY: Экранчик для «умного дома»

BotHabr — 2026-04-19 05:35:01

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Опубликовано: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:53:35 GMT
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Есть такая штука, как "дисплей покупателя" - это тот самый экран на кассе, где пишут сколько денег вы должны заплатить. И есть такое народное развлечение - делать из этих экранов всякое разное - ну например, "часы или метеостанцию" (с)Фишка тут в том, что можно приобрести их б/у за копейки, и получить при этом винтажный газоразрядный экран, приятного зеленого или синего цвета. Пусть алфавитно-цифровой - для часов этого более чем достаточно. Поскольку сервер времени я себе уже сделал - дай-ка, думаю, и эту штуку попробую освоить, будут часы с синхронизацией по NTP. А еще можно приспособить их для полезного дела - показывать температуру воды в котле, например - чтобы не бегать смотреть на основные экраны "умного дома", и не хвататься за телефон.Итак, под руку попался Wincor Nixdorf BA64-2: 2 строки по 20 символов, газоразрядный, аккуратный черный корпус. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025130/

New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer

robot — 2026-04-19 03:22:01

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"A trailer has been released for the first film to star an authorised generative AI version of a major Hollywood actor," writes The Guardian:

Val Kilmer was cast in western As Deep As the Grave before his death in April 2025. Production delays meant he never shot any scenes, but the creative team worked with UK-based company Sonantic to create an AI speaking voice based on his old recordings. His estate and daughter Mercedes collaborated with the film-makers on the visual deepfake of the actor. Kilmer, who was diagnosed with throat cancer, was also assisted by technology for his cameo in 2022's Top Gun: Maverick...
Writer-director Coerte Voorhees confirmed that Kilmer is seen for around an hour of the film's running time... Voorhees has said that the production followed Sag-Aftra [union] guidelines, and that Kilmer's estate — which provided archival material for them to use — was compensated financially.

"Kilmer's likeness can be seen portraying Father Fintan, a Catholic priest and Native American spiritualist," adds The Hollywood Reporter. But the AV Club calls it "ghoulish puppet show time."

"Having your AI Val Kilmer puppet whisper 'Don't fear the dead, and don't fear me' in a movie trailer is a bold choice..."

He is accompanied (per Variety) by a whole host of disclaimers, caveats, and explanations offered by writer-director Coerte Voorhees and his associates: Kilmer deeply wanted to be in the movie, but was too sick to do so. His family endorses and supports his inclusion. He was a big fan of technology, including, presumably, its use in turning his own image into a digital avatar to then shove into movies...

The fact is, of course, that nobody would be paying a fraction of this attention to As Deep As The Grave — about early female archeologist Ann Axtell Morris — if it weren't now being used as the stage on which Voorhees was very publicly accepting the dare to go full-on ghoulish with AI tech.

"The filmmakers said they hoped they were showing Hollywood how to use the technology in a positive way..." notes Australia's ABC News. But their articles add that "Some have called the trailer 'terrifying' and 'disgusting' on social media."
Mashable writes:
"Very fitting that this trailer includes a scene where a corpse is unceremoniously yanked out of the ground," read one of the top comments on As Deep as the Grave's trailer at time of writing... [O]nline commenters have labelled it disgusting and disrespectful, not only for digitally reanimating Kilmer but also for the damaging precedent As Deep as the Grave's use of AI could set for the film industry as a whole.

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Old Cars 'Tell Tales' by Storing Data That's Never Wiped

robot — 2026-04-19 02:22:01

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Slashdot reader Bismillah shared this report from ITNews:

Research and development engineer Romain Marchand of Paris headquartered Quarkslab obtained a telematic control unit (TCU) from a salvage yard in Poland... Marchand tore down the TCU, which is based on a Qualcomm system on a chip, and extracted the Linux-based file system from the Micron multi-chip package (MCP) which contained NAND-based non-volatile storage memory. The non-volatile storage contained sensitive information, including system configuration data and more importantly, logs that revealed the vehicle's GPS positions over time.

None of that information was encrypted, Marchand told iTnews, which made it possible to collect and retrieve sensitive data of interest. What's more, the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) logs with GPS positions covered the BYD's full journey from the factory in China to its operational life in the United Kingdom, and to its final wrecking in Poland, Marchand explained in an analysis... The issue is not restricted to BYD, and Marchand added that the hardware architecture of the Chinese car maker's TCU is broadly similar to what can be found in other brands.

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Fewer US College Students Major in CS. More Choose Data Science, Engineering

robot — 2026-04-19 01:22:01

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"From 2008 to 2024, the number of four-year computer science degrees granted rose about fivefold..." reports the Washington Post. Then in 2025 CS suddenly dropped from the fourth-largest undergraduate major to sixth, they report (citing data from the nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse, which compiles numbers from 97% of U.S. universities.

The 54,000-student drop was "the biggest one-year drop of any major discipline going back to at least 2020." But what major are they choosing instead?

Sarah Karamarkovich, a research associate with the National Student Clearinghouse, pointed to an explanation from the data that we had overlooked. Enrollments in two interdisciplinary majors, data analytics and data science, topped a combined 35,000 in the fall of 2025. That was up from a few hundred when those disciplines were broken out into their own majors in 2020. Those relatively new categories reflect colleges' zeal to create specialized majors, including in AI, data science, robotics and cybersecurity. Some of those disciplines may be counted in the national enrollment data as computer science. Others are not.

The numbers suggest that some of the disappearing computer science majors didn't flee so much as they splintered into related disciplines.... The 8 percent decline in computer science majors last fall was nearly mirrored by a 7.3 percent increase in engineering majors, according to the National Student Clearinghouse data. Within engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering major enrollments increased by the largest absolute amounts — a jump of 11 percent and 14 percent, respectively.

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US Congress Fails to Pass Long-Term FISA Extension, Authorizes It Through April 30

robot — 2026-04-19 00:22:01

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Yesterday the U.S. Congress approved "a short-term extension" of a FISA law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets, reports CNN — but only until April 30. Republican congressional leaders had sought an 18-month extension, but "failed to secure" the votes after "clamoring from some of their members for reforms to protect Americans' privacy."

The warrantless surveillance law, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was set to expire on Monday night. Members are hoping the additional time will allow them to come to agreement without ending authorization for the intelligence gathering program, which permits US officials to monitor phone calls and text messages from foreign targets... There was an hour of suspense in the Senate Friday morning when it appeared possible that Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, a longtime critic of FISA 702, might block the House-passed extension. But ultimately, he said his House colleagues had assured him "this short-term extension makes reform more likely, and expiration makes reform less likely," and so he chose not to object....

House Republican leaders believed Thursday night they had struck a deal with conservative holdouts who harbor deep and longstanding concerns that a key piece of the law infringes on Americans' privacy rights. But in a pair of after-midnight votes, more than a dozen rank-and-file Republicans rejected the long-term reauthorization plan on the floor, which was the result of days of tense negotiations among leadership, lawmakers and the White House.

The law allows authorized US officials to gather phone calls and text messages of foreign targets, but they can also incidentally collect the data of Americans in the process. Senior national security officials have for years said the law is critical for thwarting terror attacks, stemming the flow of fentanyl into the US and stopping ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure. Civil liberties groups on the left and the right, meanwhile, argue the surveillance authority risks infringing on Americans' privacy.

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Я хотел починить стиральную машину. В итоге пришлось проектировать свой разделительный трансформатор

BotHabr — 2026-04-19 00:35:01

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Опубликовано: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:15:54 GMT
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У меня дома сломалась стиральная машина. Я решил попробовать починить ее сам. Но очень быстро выяснилось, что в России почти невозможно купить новую плату управления, а для диагностики нужен не только осциллограф, но и мощный разделительный трансформатор. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025112/

Выпуск GhostBSD 26.1

robot — 2026-04-19 00:44:03

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Представлен релиз десктоп-ориентированного дистрибутива GhostBSD 26.01, построенного на базе FreeBSD 15 и предлагающего сборки с пользовательскими окружениями Gershwin, MATE и Xfce. По умолчанию в GhostBSD применяется файловая система ZFS. Поддерживается как работа в Live-режиме, так и установка на жесткий диск (используется собственный инсталлятор ginstall, написанный на языке Python). Загрузочные образы сформированы для архитектуры x86_64.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65239

30 WordPress Plugins Turned Into Malware After Ownership Change

robot — 2026-04-18 23:22:01

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Wednesday BleepingComputer reported that more than 30 WordPress plugins "have been compromised with malicious code that allows unauthorized access to websites running them."

A malicious actor planted the backdoor code last year but only recently started pushing it to users via updates, generating spam pages and causing redirects, as per the instructions received from the command-and-control (C2) server. The compromise affects plugins with hundreds of thousands of active installations and was spotted by Austin Ginder, the founder of managed WordPress hosting provider Anchor Hosting, after receiving a tip about one add-on containing code that allowed third-party access.

Further investigation by Ginder revealed that a backdoor had been present in all plugins within the EssentialPlugin package since August 2025, after the project was acquired in a six-figure deal by a new owner.... "The injected code was sophisticated. It fetched spam links, redirects, and fake pages from a command-and-control server. It only showed the spam to Googlebot, making it invisible to site owners," explained Ginder.

"WordPress.org's v2.6.9.1 update neutralized the phone-home mechanism in the plugin," Ginder writes in a blog post. "But it did not touch wp-config.php. The SEO spam injection was still actively serving hidden content to Googlebot.

"And here is the wildest part. It resolved its C2 domain through an Ethereum smart contract, querying public blockchain RPC endpoints. Traditional domain takedowns would not work because the attacker could update the smart contract to point to a new domain at any time."

This has happened before. In 2017, a buyer using the alias "Daley Tias" purchased the Display Widgets plugin (200,000 installs) for $15,000 and injected payday loan spam. That buyer went on to compromise at least 9 plugins the same way.... The WordPress plugin marketplace has a trust problem... The Flippa listing for Essential Plugin was public. The buyer's background in SEO and gambling marketing was public. And yet the acquisition sailed through without any review from WordPress.org.

WordPress.org has no mechanism to flag or review plugin ownership transfers. There is no "change of control" notification to users. No additional code review triggered by a new committer. The Plugins Team responded quickly once the attack was discovered. But 8 months passed between the backdoor being planted and being caught.

Thanks to Slashdot reader axettone for sharing the news.

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