Компания Oracle опубликовала плановый выпуск обновлений своих продуктов (Critical Patch Update), нацеленный на устранение критических проблем и уязвимостей. В апрельском обновлении устранена 481 уязвимость.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65265

Опубликовано: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:10:33 GMT
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Решили купить 3D-принтер. Зашли на форумы и сразу спор.Одни кричат: покупать готовый принтер. Только собрав аппарат из профиля и винтиков, поймёшь суть. Другие смеются и указывают на «закрытые коробки»: печатают прямо из упаковки, пока владелец самоделки собирает экструдер. Блогеры показывают таймлапсы сборки Voron под бодрую музыку. Друзья-инженеры пугают сгоревшими платами и бесконечными калибровками.У каждого своя правда. Для одних важен результат — готовая деталь. Для других сам принтер — бесконечный проект, чёрная дыра для времени и денег.В статье обзор рынка 2024–2026 годов, скрытые расходы и пошаговый алгоритм выбора: с расчётами времени и денег. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1026320/

Эндрю Ланн (Andrew Lunn), мэйнтейнер 9 подсистем, отвечающий за сетевые драйверы в ядре Linux, опубликовал набор патчей, удаляющих из ядра все драйверы для Ethernet-адаптеров с интерфейсами ISA и PCMCIA. Отмечается, что ранее старые драйверы не требовали особых усилий по сопровождению, но с появлением продвинутых AI-инструментов и систем fuzzing-тестирования, используемых новичками для выявления ошибок в ядре, нагрузка на сопровождающих увеличилась.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65266

Проект Fedora рассматривает возможность введения статуса проверенного участника (Fedora Verified), который позволит выделить разработчиков, имеющих вклад в развитие проекта и заслуживающих определённых привилегий, таких как возможность участия в принятии решений. До 5 мая проект поводит опрос целесообразности введения особого статуса. Основное причиной обсуждаемых изменений является неопределённость в вопросе, кто может принимать участие голосованиях, проводимых в сообществе.

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NASA's Curiosity rover has identified a diverse set of organic molecules on Mars, including a nitrogen-bearing compound similar in structure to DNA precursors. The finding strengthens the case that ancient organic material can survive in the Martian subsurface, though it does not prove past life because the compounds could also come from geology or meteorites. Phys.org reports: The study was led by Amy Williams, Ph.D., a professor of geological sciences at the University of Florida and a scientist on the Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rover missions. Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012 to find evidence that ancient Mars had conditions that could support microbial life billions of years ago; the Perseverance rover, which landed in 2021, was sent to look for signs of any ancient life that might have formed.

Among the 20-plus chemicals identified by the experiment, Curiosity spotted a nitrogen-bearing molecule with a structure similar to DNA precursors -- a chemical never before spotted on Mars. The rover also identified benzothiophene, a large, double-ringed, sulfurous chemical often delivered to planets by meteorites. "The same stuff that rained down on Mars from meteorites is what rained down on Earth, and it probably provided the building blocks for life as we know it on our planet," Williams said. The findings have been published in the journal Nature Communications.

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Опубликовано: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:39:42 GMT
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В комментариях к "серверу точного времени" (https://habr.com/ru/articles/1023414) предлагали вдобавок к NTP и GPS подключить еще и DCF77, как еще один источник времени.И я таки сделал это, хоть и в виде отдельной железки, а поскольку техника тут аналоговая - были свои нюансы.В качестве справки: DCF77 - это радиостанция, передающая точное время от атомных часов, собственно, это ее основное назначение. Расположена в Европе, в Германии, неподалеку от Франкфурта. Вещает на длинных волнах на всю Европу, захватывая в том числе часть exUSSR. Передает сигнал, содержащий информацию о времени и дате, UTC+1/UTC+2 в зависимости от "летнего времени". Также передает местную погоду и может быть использована как средство оповещения, но нас это мало касается. Рабочая частота 77.5 кГц - поэтому и "DCF77".Её сигнал может быть использован для автонастройки электронных часов, для чего выпускаются недорогие модули, которые можно встраивать в различные устройства, там, в Европе. А вот у нас это всё работает довольно плохо. Проблема простая: расстояние. Несмотря на большую мощность передатчика и хорошее распространение длинных волн на большие расстояния - 2000 км это 2000 км. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1026588/

21 апреля состоялся выпуск очередной версии драйвера NTFS-3G FUSE. В основном этот выпуск посвящён исправлениям ошибок.

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Эндрю Ланн (Andrew Lunn) [ разослал серию исправлений ]( https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260421-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v1-0-69517c689d1f@lunn.ch/ ) , чтобы начать удаление ряда сетевых драйверов эпохи ISA и PCMCIA из ядра Linux. Он подробно рассказывает о возникшей в последнее время нагрузке на обслуживание из-за искусственного интеллекта/фаззинга:

«До недавнего времени эти старые драйверы не требовали большого обслуживания. Теперь все больше новичков используют искусственный интеллект, а разработчики fuzzers находят проблемы, что увеличивает нагрузку на разработчиков. Исправлять эти старые драйверы бессмысленно, если не ясно, есть ли у них пользователи.

Все это устройства ISA и PCMCIA Ethernet, в основном прошлого века, пара устройств 2001 или 2002 годов выпуска. Маловероятно, что они все еще используются. Однако удаляйте их по одному патчу за раз, чтобы их можно было восстановить, если у кого-то все еще есть оборудование, работают современные ядра и он хочет взять на себя обязанности сопровождающего драйверов».

Эта серия исправлений удаляет старые драйверы 3com, AMD, SMSC, Cirrus, Fujitsu, Xircom и 8390 Ethernet, что в свою очередь, облегчает работу ядра на 27,6 тыс. строк кода.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/kernel/18272397

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US military's massive $1.5 trillion budget request for the next fiscal year includes what Pentagon officials described as the largest investment in drone warfare and counter-drone technology in US history. The proposed spending on drone and autonomous warfare technologies within the FY2027 budget proposal for the US Department of Defense would surpass most countries' defense budgets and rank among the top 10 in the world for military spending, ahead of countries such as Ukraine, South Korea, and Israel.

Specifically, the Pentagon is requesting $53.6 billion to boost US production and procurement of drones, train drone operators, build out a logistics network for sustaining drone deployments, and expand counter-drone systems to defend more US military sites. The funding request is budgeted under the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG), an organization established in late 2025 that would see a massive budget increase after receiving about $226 million in the 2026 fiscal year budget.

[...] Another $20.6 billion would help purchase one-way attack drones and drone aircraft developed through the US Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, which is building drone prototypes capable of teaming up with human-piloted fighter jets. Part of this funding would also go toward defensive systems for countering small drones and the US Navy's Boeing MQ-25 drone designed to perform midair refueling of carrier-borne fighter aircraft to extend their strike ranges. Such drone-related spending even rivals the entire budget of the US Marine Corps. But the Pentagon has not said that it is creating a dedicated drone branch of the US military similar to the standalone Space Force.

Pentagon officials emphasized that most of the money would go toward procuring drone and autonomous warfare technologies that already exist, and is largely separate from additional funding that would bolster US domestic manufacturing capacity to build such weapon systems. "That $70 billion is all going into existing systems and technologies," said Hurst. "The industrial base support is entirely separate." "The evolution we've seen in the battlefield is this evolution of technologies in the timeframe of weeks, not the typical years we see with our defense production," said Lt. Gen. Steven Whitney, director of force structure, resources, and assessment for the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a Pentagon press briefing. "So it's really critical we work with industry to get that capability fielded."

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Журналисты тематического издания NotebookCheck обратили внимание на ситуацию с антипиратской защитой Denuvo, включённой в технический состав нашумевшей игры Pragmata.

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CATL unveiled a new wave of EV battery tech, "including a lighter battery pack rated for a 1,000-km (621-mile) driving range and an upgraded fast-charging battery that can go from 10 percent to 98 percent in under seven minutes," reports Interesting Engineering. From the report: The launches were made during a 90-minute event in Beijing ahead of the Beijing Auto Show, where automakers are expected to showcase next-generation EVs and connected technologies. CATL said its latest Qilin battery -- a high-energy-density pack often paired with nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) cells for long range and improved space efficiency -- can deliver a 1,000-km (621-mile) driving range. It is designed to deliver long range while reducing battery pack weight.

The company said the product is aimed at automakers facing tighter efficiency rules in China and other markets. It also rolled out an upgraded Shenxing battery -- CATL's fast-charging lithium iron phosphate (LFP) pack -- that targets one of the biggest barriers to EV adoption: charging time. CATL said the pack can recharge from 10 percent to 98 percent in less than seven minutes.

The new Shenxing battery marks a significant improvement over CATL's previous version, which charged from 5 percent to 80 percent in 15 minutes, according to Financial Times. [...] The company also announced plans to begin mass delivery of sodium-ion batteries in the fourth quarter. Sodium-ion technology is seen as a lower-cost alternative that could reduce dependence on lithium, cobalt, and nickel.

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Опубликовано: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:01:10 GMT
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Сразу прошу лояльно отнестись к моей, местами чрезмерной эмоциональности, но, видит Бог, я держалась как могла. Уже несколько взрослых, умных и уважаемых экспертов попытались меня переубедить, что к 35 году грядет «передел мира», где массово живые специалисты будут заменяться роботами... Данные фигуры меня особенно повеселили: персонаж 1, персонаж 2. Мой симбиоз сумбурных мыслей, вперемешку с истерическим смехом и желанием послать в Туево-Кукуево, поутих, внимаю к последней чакре самообладания и начинаю «изливать» свою позицию. Крах будет, он обязательно будет, но не из-за роботов! Безуспешные попытки запугивания полной ИИ-изацией или толпами роботов, которые с каждым этапом будут забирать всё больше рабочих мест, лишь форсируют приобретение успокоительных, т. к. повсеместно образовавшийся «хаос» ещё не лишает нас обязанностей, которые всё так же нужно исполнять. Но новоиспечённые тенденции уже дают хорошенький крен, начиная от сломанной системы трудоустройства и заканчивая большим процентом выгорания на работе специалистов, на которых «свалились» горы новых обязанностей. Далее к «вам» я буду обращаться не к конкретному субъекту, это скорее собирательный образ того злодея, который сеет в массы панику и раздор. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1026572/

A satirical but working tool called Malus uses AI to create "clean room" clones of open-source software, aiming to reproduce the same functionality while shedding attribution and copyleft obligations. "It works," Mike Nolan, one of the two people behind Malus, who researches the political economy of open source software and currently works for the United Nations, told 404 Media. "The Stripe charge will provide you the thing, and it was important for us to do that, because we felt that if it was just satire, it would end up like every other piece of research I've done on open source, which ends up being largely dismissed by open source tech workers who felt that they were too special and too unique and too intelligent to ever be the ones on the bad side of the layoffs or the economics of the situation." 404 Media reports: Malus's legal strategy for bypassing copyright is based on a historically pivotal moment for software and copyright law dating back to 1982. Back then, IBM dominated home computing, and competitors like Columbia Data Products wanted to sell products that were compatible with software that IBM customers were already using. Reverse engineering IBM's computer would have infringed on the company's copyright, so Columbia Data Products came up with what we now know as a "clean room" design.

It tasked one team with examining IBM's BIOS and creating specifications for what a clone of that system would require. A different "clean" team, one that was never exposed to IBM's code, then created BIOS that met those specifications from scratch. The result was a system that was compatible with IBM's ecosystem but didn't violate its copyright because it did not copy IBM's technical process and counted as original work.

This clean room method, which has been validated by case law and dramatized in the first season of Halt and Catch Fire, made computing more open and competitive than it would have been otherwise. But it has taken on new meaning in the age of generative AI. It is now easier than ever to ask AI tools to produce software that is identical in function to existing open source projects, and that, some would argue, are built from scratch and are therefore original work that can bypass existing copyright licenses. Others would say that software produced by large language models is inherently derivative, because like any LLM output, it is trained on the collective output of humans scraped from the internet, including specific open source projects.

Malus (pronounced malice), uses AI to do the same thing. "Finally, liberation from open source license obligations," Malus's site says. "Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch. The result? Legally distinct code with corporate-friendly licensing. No attribution. No copyleft. No problems." Copyleft is a type of copyright license that ensures reproductions or applications of the software keep it free to share and modify.

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Реестр отечественного программного обеспечения Минцифры пополнился мобильной операционной системой (ОС) AQOS разработчика «Аквариус», следует из протокола заседания Экспертного совета по программному обеспечению на сайте министерства. Компания подала заявку в конце января 2026 года и получила одобрение 17 апреля.

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Google announced two new tensor processing units (TPUs) for the "agentic era," with separate processors dedicated to training and inference. "With the rise of AI agents, we determined the community would benefit from chips individually specialized to the needs of training and serving," Amin Vahdat, a Google senior vice president and chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, said in a blog post. Both chips will become available later this year. CNBC reports: After years of producing chips that can both train artificial intelligence models and handle inference work, Google is separating those tasks into distinct processors, its latest effort to take on Nvidia in AI hardware. [...] None of the tech giants are displacing Nvidia, and Google isn't even comparing the performance of its new chips with those from the AI chip leader. Google did say the training chip enables 2.8 times the performance of the seventh-generation Ironwood TPU, announced in November, for the same price, while performance is 80% better for the inference processor.

Nvidia said its upcoming Groq 3 LPU hardware will draw on large quantities of static random-access memory, or SRAM, which is used by Cerebras, an AI chipmaker that filed to go public earlier this month. Google's new inference chip, dubbed TPU 8i, also relies on SRAM. Each chip contains 384 megabytes of SRAM, triple the amount in Ironwood. The architecture is designed "to deliver the massive throughput and low latency needed to concurrently run millions of agents cost-effectively," Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, wrote in a blog post.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Gates Foundation opened an external review earlier this year into its engagement with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the philanthropic group said on Tuesday. The foundation has been mired in controversy due to Chairman Bill Gates' association with Epstein. A release of emails in January by the U.S. Justice Department also showed communication between Epstein and the Gates Foundation's staff.

"Early this year, Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman commissioned an external review to assess past foundation engagement with Epstein, and our current policies for vetting and developing new philanthropic partnerships," the foundation said in a statement. "That review is underway, and we expect the board and management will receive an update this summer," it added. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news earlier on Tuesday, said Suzman told staff in a memo, "this is a challenging time for our organization in many ways, but it also highlights the critical importance of taking the tough actions now." The WSJ also reports that the Gates Foundation will eliminate up to 500 jobs, or about 20% of its staff, by 2030. It said the foundation has a 2026 budget of about $9 billion, but plans to cap operating expenses at $1.25 billion.

Further reading: The Bill Gates-Epstein Bombshell - and What Most People Get Wrong

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Longtime Slashdot reader mmarlett writes: The Atlantic has a long article on the story of missing scientists recently featured here on Slashdot. In short, it is an incoherent conspiracy theory that spreads wide and far, not paying any attention to boundaries of time, space, or area of expertise. "Which is all to say that another piece of flagrant nonsense has ascended to the highest levels of U.S. politics and media," writes the Atlantic's Daniel Engber. "To call it a conspiracy theory would be far too kind, because no comprehensive theory has been floated to explain the pattern of events. But then, even the phrase pattern of events is imprecise, because there is no pattern here at all. Given all the people who could have been roped into this narrative but weren't, any hope of finding meaning falls away. Barring any dramatic new disclosures, the mystery of the missing scientists has the dubious honor of being a sham in every way at once."

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Bloomberg reports that a small group of unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic's restricted Mythos model through a mix of contractor-linked access and online sleuthing. Anthropic says it is investigating and has no evidence the access extended beyond a third-party vendor environment or affected its own systems. From the report: The users relied on a mix of tactics to get into Mythos. These included using access the person had as a worker at a third-party contractor for Anthropic and trying commonly used internet sleuthing tools often employed by cybersecurity researchers, the person said. The users are part of a private Discord channel that focuses on hunting for information about unreleased models, including by using bots to scour for details that Anthropic and others have posted on unsecured websites such as GitHub. [...] To access Mythos, the group of users made an educated guess about the model's online location based on knowledge about the format Anthropic has used for other models, the person said, adding that such details were revealed in a recent data breach from Mercor, an AI training startup that works with a number of top developers.

Crucially, the person also has permission to access Anthropic models and software related to evaluating the technology for the startup. They gained this access from a company for which they have performed contract work evaluating Anthropic's AI models. Bloomberg is not naming the company for security reasons. The group is interested in playing around with new models, not wreaking havoc with them, the person said. The group has not run cybersecurity-related prompts on the Mythos model, the person said, preferring instead to try tasks like building simple websites in an attempt to avoid detection by Anthropic. The person said the group also has access to a slew of other unreleased Anthropic AI models.

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Sony AI's autonomous table-tennis robot Ace has become the first robot to compete against top-level human players. Reuters reports: Ace, created by the Japanese company Sony's AI research division, is the first robot to attain expert-level performance in a competitive physical sport, one that requires rapid decisions and precision execution, the project's leader said. Ace did so by employing high-speed perception, AI-based control and a state-of-the-art robotic system. There have been various ping-pong-playing robots since 1983, but until now they were unable to rival highly skilled human competitors. Ace changed that with its performances against human elite-level and professional players in matches following the rules of the International Table Tennis Federation, the sport's governing body, and officiated by licensed umpires.

The project's goal was not only to compete at table tennis but to develop insights into how robots can perceive, plan and act with human-like speed and precision in dynamic environments. In matches detailed in the study, Ace in April 2025 won three out of five versus elite players and lost two matches against professional players, the top skill level in the sport. Sony AI said that since then Ace beat professional players in December 2025 and last month. "The success of Ace, with its perception system and learning-based control algorithm, suggests that similar techniques could be applied to other areas requiring fast, real-time control and human interaction -- such as manufacturing and service robotics, as well as applications across sports, entertainment and safety-critical physical domains," said Peter Durr, director of Sony AI Zurich and leader for Sony AI's project Ace.

The findings have been published in the journal Nature.

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Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from the BBC: The Trump family's World Liberty crypto venture is being sued by one of its billionaire backers over allegations of extortion. Justin Sun has accused World Liberty of an "illegal scheme" to seize his WLFI tokens, a cryptocurrency issued by the company. Sun alleges the firm, co-founded by U.S. President Donald Trump and his son Eric Trump, has "frozen" all of his tokens and stripped him of his right to vote on governance issues.

[...] Sun alleged that those running World Liberty, including another co-founder, Chase Herro, are using it as a "golden opportunity to leverage the Trump brand to profit through fraud." In his complaint, filed on Tuesday in a San Francisco federal court, Sun argues that initial promises to give token-holders the option to trade the currency in future "were false and misleading." While the tokens at large became tradeable, Sun said World Liberty has blocked him from being able to sell a single one, and is now threatening to "burn" his - deleting them entirely. WLFI said in a post on X: "Does anyone still believe @justinsuntron? Justin's favorite move is playing the victim while making baseless allegations to cover up his own misconduct. Same playbook, different target. WLFI isn't the first. We have the contracts. We have the evidence. We have the truth. See you in court pal."

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump's expansive rollback of protections will make the situation worse. The 27th annual air quality report from the American Lung Association (ALA) released on Wednesday evaluates pollution across the country by grading levels of ground-level ozone -- also known as smog -- as well as year-round and short-term spikes in particle pollution, commonly referred to as soot. The report analyzed quality-assured data collected between 2022 and 2024. It found that 33.5 million children in the US -- 46% of those under 18 -- live in areas that received a failing grade for at least one measure of air pollution. The report also found that 7 million children, or 10% of all children in the US, live in communities that failed all three measures.

The report further found that communities of color are disproportionately exposed to unhealthy air. As a result, they are more likely to live with one or more chronic health conditions that make them more vulnerable to pollution, including asthma, diabetes, and heart disease. Although people of color make up 42.1% of the US population, they represent 54.2% of those living in counties with at least one failing grade, the report noted. It also found that a person of color is 2.42 times more likely than a white person to live in a community that fails all three pollution measures. Smog remains the most widespread pollutant affecting Americans' health. Between 2022 and 2024, 38% of the US population -- approximately 129.1 million people -- were exposed to ozone levels that put their health at risk. This marks the highest number recorded in the ALA's report in six years, and a 3.9 million increase from the previous year.

Several factors contributed to these unhealthy pollution levels, including extreme heat, drought and wildfires which have exposed a growing share of the population to harmful ozone, the report said. The regions most affected by high ozone levels include south-western states from California to Texas, as well as much of the midwest. This is mainly driven by smoke from Canada's 2023 wildfires crossing into the US, along with high temperatures and weather patterns that favored ozone formation in 2023 and 2024 -- particularly in southern states. More broadly, the report found that climate change is intensifying ozone pollution by boosting precursor emissions and creating atmospheric conditions such as higher temperatures and lower wind speeds that allow pollutants to build up and ozone to form. Another growing source of pollution: datacenters. The report notes how they rely on regional electricity grids where fossil fuels like methane gas and coal still account for a large portion of generation. Many datacenters also use dozens of large diesel-powered backup generators, which emit carcinogenic particulate matter.

"Children's lungs are still developing," said Will Barrett, assistant vice-president of the ALA's Nationwide Clean Air Policy. "For their body size, they're breathing more air. And also, kids play outdoors, they're more active, they're breathing in more outdoor air [...]. So, air pollution exposure in children can contribute to long-term developmental harm to their lungs, new cases of asthma, increased risks of respiratory illness and other health considerations later in life."

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Не связанный с компанией Microsoft энтузиаст реализовал инструментарий WSL9x (Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux), позволяющий запускать современные ядра Linux внутри ядра Windows 95/98/ME. Проект даёт возможность в одной системе бок о бок выполнять приложения для Linux и Windows 9x, по аналогии с тем как прослойка WSL позволяет работать с Linux-приложениями в современных версиях Windows. Поддерживается запуск только консольных Linux-программ. Код компонентов WSL9x написан на Си и ассемблере и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65270

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Опубликовано: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:02:03 GMT
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Давайте немного пофантазируем. Вы встаете утром, приходите на кухню, а робот уже протягивает вам чашку любимого кофе и вешалку с подходящей одеждой, попутно в пассивно-агрессивной форме напоминая, что легли спать вы в три часа ночи. На кухне уже убрано, собака выгуляна. Сказка, а не жизнь.Но чтобы так описать свое утро могли не только редкие технологические инноваторы, нужно не просто разработать железку, которая выполняет все эти действия. Надо преодолеть сопротивление новому, недопонимание и некорректное восприятие робота людьми. И здесь есть проблема.В IEEE Spectrum опубликовали отчет об интересном полевом эксперименте, согласно которому после личного опыта взаимодействия с роботами меняется их восприятие: роботу готовы доверить больше задач. Но все сложнее, если копать глубже. Кажется, именно в этом и кроется основная проблема внедрения роботов. Мы начинаем относиться к ним, как к людям, приписывая чувства и намерения. Это ломает все. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ru_mts/articles/1026442/

alternative_right writes: A new technology has been proposed that could fundamentally solve the issue of smartphones overheating during high-spec gaming or extended video streaming. Researchers at KAIST have discovered the principle of processing signals using the minute vibrations of magnets (spin waves) instead of electrons. This method significantly reduces heat generation and power consumption while enabling instantaneous frequency switching within the several GHz range. This breakthrough is expected to pave the way for smart devices with less heat and longer battery life, as well as ultra-low-power, high-speed computing. Professor Kab-Jin Kim from the Department of Physics said: "This study is a case that proves we can implement and control the nonlinear dynamics of magnons -- the principle of information processing using magnetic vibrations -- in actual nano-devices, which had previously only been proposed in theory. It will serve as an important foundation for the development of a new information processing paradigm using spin waves instead of electrons."

The findings have been published in the journal Nature Communications.

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Доступен выпуск проекта Nuitka 4.0, развивающего компилятор для трансляции скриптов на языке Python в представление на языке C, которое затем можно скомпилировать в исполняемый файл, использующий libpython для обеспечения максимальной совместимости с CPython (используются штатные средства CPython для управления объектами). Обеспечена полная совместимость с актуальными выпусками Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4 - 3.13. По сравнению с CPython скомпилированные скрипты демонстрируют в тестах pystone повышение производительности на 335%. Код проекта распространяется под лицензией Apache.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65271

21 апреля состоялся крупный выпуск QEMU версии 11.0 — свободной программы с открытым исходным кодом для эмуляции аппаратного обеспечения различных платформ.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18272555#cut0 ) )

QEMU включает в себя эмуляцию процессоров Intel x86 и устройств ввода-вывода. Может эмулировать 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, AMD64 и другие x86-совместимые процессоры; ARM, MIPS, RISC-V, PowerPC, SPARC, SPARC64 и частично m68k. Работает на Syllable, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, FreeDOS, Linux, Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Mac OS X, QNX, Android и др. Подробности можно посмотреть [ на странице Википедии ]( https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU ) и [ на странице проекта ]( https://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page ) .

15 апреля Фонд СПО признал лицензию ONLYOFFICE несовместимой с лицензией AGPLv3. Поводом для разбирательства послужил конфликт вокруг проекта Euro-Office - европейского форка пакета ONLYOFFICE. В марте 2026 года создатели Euro-Office удалили из лицензии AGPLv3 некоторые дополнительные пункты, которые ONLYOFFICE добавил в 2021 году. Эти пункты, в частности, требовали от всех производных продуктов сохранять оригинальный логотип ONLYOFFICE. Разработчики ONLYOFFICE посчитали, что удаление этих требований является нарушением лицензии, и пригрозили судебными исками.

Юрист Фонда СПО Кшиштоф Севич (Krzysztof Siewicz) выступил с официальным разъяснением, встав на сторону Euro-Office. Он заявил, что дополнительные требования ONLYOFFICE выходят за рамки, разрешенные AGPLv3.

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18273131#cut0 ) )

Опубликовано: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:51:03 GMT
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Добрый день коллеги. Я думаю многие, кто читает эту статью, сталкивались с проблемой найти визуально красивый пульт для управления основными функциями в системах автоматизации.Несколько дней поизучав дизайн zigbee пультов и радио канальных брелоков я наткнулся на интересный сегмент недорогих USB пультов от 500р, которые все обошли стороной. Поговорим подробнее как их можно внедрить в системы управления не только презентациями, но и чем угодно, начиная от ламп и штор в "умном доме" заканчивая управлением станками. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1026190/

Представлен релиз проекта QEMU 11.0.0. В качестве эмулятора QEMU позволяет запустить программу, собранную для одной аппаратной платформы на системе с совершенно иной архитектурой, например, выполнить приложение для ARM на x86-совместимом ПК. В режиме виртуализации в QEMU производительность выполнения кода в изолированном окружении близка к аппаратной системе за счёт прямого выполнения инструкций на CPU и задействования гипервизора Xen или модуля KVM в Linux, или модуля NVMM в NetBSD.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65269

Ancient Slashdot reader hwstar shares a report from The Conversation: For the first time ever, more than 50 nations will gather next week in Colombia to hash out how to wind down and end their dependence on coal, oil and gas. The history-making conference was planned before the Iran war. But this year's energy crisis has greatly raised the stakes. [...] Around 80% of the trapped oil was destined for the Asia-Pacific. Faced with dwindling supply, the region's governments are implementing emergency measures such as sending workers home, banning government travel, rationing fuel and cutting school hours. The problem is especially bad in the Pacific. Many island nations use diesel for power generation. In response, leaders declared a regional emergency.

[...] But the real difference from half a century ago is that fossil fuel alternatives are ready for prime time. Since the 1970s, the price of solar panels has fallen 99.9%, while the cost of wind has fallen 91% since 1984. Battery prices have fallen 99% since 1991. [...] This year's oil shock shows signs of creating an unplanned social tipping point -- a threshold for self-propelling change beyond which systems shift from one state to another. Climate scientists warn of climate tipping points which amplify feedback and accelerate warming. But social scientists also point to positive tipping points -- collective action that rapidly accelerates climate action.

[...] The routine burning of coal, oil and gas is the primary driver of the climate crisis. The world's highest court last year made clear nations have obligations to stop burning fossil fuels. But fossil fuels have barely been mentioned in 30 years of global climate negotiations, due in part to blocking efforts by big fossil fuel exporters and lobbyists. Frustrated by slow progress, a coalition of nations has bypassed global climate talks to discuss how to actually phase out fossil fuels. The first of these summits will take place next week. More than 50 nations will gather in Santa Marta, Colombia, to discuss a potential standalone treaty to manage fossil-fuel phaseout while protecting workers and financial systems.

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Опубликовано: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:04:40 GMT
Канал: Все статьи подряд / Программирование микроконтроллеров / Хабр

Представьте, что вы начали слушать новый альбом любимой группы, а за стеной активизировался сосед с перфоратором. Примерно так же «чувствуют себя» компоненты на плате смартфона, контроллера или роутера, которые соседствуют с высокочастотным тактовым генератором. Чем выше скорость передачи данных — тем сильнее шум соседского перфоратора: электромагнитные помехи. Обычно помогает экранирование или фильтрация определенных частот, но у этих способов есть свои недостатки и ограничения. Есть более элегантное решение — тактовый генератор с распределенным спектром (ТГРС). Мощность генератора остается прежней, а вот шум удается заметно снизить. Меня зовут Павел Кириченко, я автор курса «Схемотехника для начинающих» и ведущий инженер по разработке SoC в YADRO. В статье разберемся, как спроектировать ТГРС для последовательного интерфейса и рассмотрим два подхода к его архитектуре: с переменным коэффициентом деления и c фазовым интерполятором. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/yadro/articles/1024718/

В браузерном движке Gecko выявлена уязвимость (CVE-2026-6770), позволяющая формировать уникальные идентификаторы для отслеживания открытия из одного браузера разных сайтов. Проблема проявляется во всех браузерах на основе Firefox, включая Tor Browser, и работает даже в режиме приватного просмотра. Идентификаторы действуют в рамках текущего процесса браузера и сбрасываются после перезапуска браузера. Уязвимость устранена в выпусках Firefox 150/140.10.0 и Tor Browser 15.0.10.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65272

Не секрет, что Intel в последнее время планомерно сокращаёт свою вовлечённость в опенсорс. Из ~1.3 тысячи репозиториев компании на гитхабе 903 уже имеют статус архивированных, а последняя волна закрытий была в декабре прошлого года (см.: [ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-OSS-Projects-Ended-2025 ]( https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-OSS-Projects-Ended-2025 ) ).Теперь же сворачивающий свою опенсорсную деятельность Интел добрался и до собственно проповедования преимуществ опенсорса: в компании не осталось сотрудников, которые бы этим занимались, и сам репозиторий с материалами был сдан в архив.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18273288

Опубликовано: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:26:12 GMT
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Это окончание статьи о REPL на Vim. Содержит пару простых примеров применения разработки автора - работа на Ruby с Sinatra и работа с Git. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1026138/

Опубликовано: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:24:00 GMT
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Это вторая часть публикации. В первой мы разобрали основные настройки редактора, позволяющие сделать процесс набора программы более удобным. Здесь рассмотрим плагины и скрипты для запуска программ на разных языках из редактора Vim. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025124/

Опубликовано: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:20:30 GMT
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Статья о том, как своими руками в Vim сделать универсальный (т.е. работающий для разных языков программирования) REPL (от англ. read-eval-print loop — цикл “чтение — вычисление — вывод”), да и просто сделать этот редактор более удобным. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1022400/

Опубликовано: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:01:46 GMT
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Некоторое время назад я осознал, что мне недостаточно стандартных возможностей тех паяльников, которые у меня есть. И решил перейти на более продвинутый вариант, который некоторому кругу уже известен — паяльник Alientek T80P. Собственно говоря, весь рассказ далее будет о нём. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/1025162/

Опубликовано: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:01:32 GMT
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Сегодня беспроводные системы распространены повсеместно, и количество беспроводных устройств и сервисов продолжает расти. Разработка полноценной радиочастотной системы — это комплексная задача, требующая междисциплинарного подхода, при этом наиболее важной ее частью является аналоговый радиочастотный интерфейс. Однако наличие интегрированных радиочастотных приемопередатчиков, таких как AD9361, значительно упрощает решение радиочастотных задач в подобных проектах. Эти приемопередатчики обеспечивают цифровой интерфейс для цепочки аналоговых радиосигналов и позволяют легко интегрировать их с ASIC или FPGA для обработки в основной полосе частот. Процессор основной полосы частот (BBP) позволяет обрабатывать пользовательские данные в цифровой среде между конечным приложением и приемопередающим устройством. Конструкцию процессора основной полосы частот также легко спроектировать с помощью инструментов системного моделирования, таких как Simulink. Однако начинающему пользователю может быть трудно понять и дополнить эту часть головоломки системы связи. Эта статья представляет собой скромную попытку спроектировать и реализовать простой радиочастотный процессор основной полосы частот для системы беспроводной связи. Проект реализован на платформе AD-FMCOMMS2-EBZ и Xilinx® ZC706 с использованием эталонной конструкции FPGA AD9361.В первом разделе этой статьи подробно описаны общие принципы проектирования процессора основной полосы частот. Этот раздел представляет собой в основном теоретическое введение в тему. Во втором разделе рассматривается фактическая аппаратная реализация процессора основной полосы частот на базе эталонной платы FPGA AD9361 от Analog Devices. Отмечается, что основная цель разработки — максимально упростить конструкцию и продемонстрировать быструю передачу данных по беспроводной связи в лабораторных условиях. Использование радиочастотного спектра сопряжено с соблюдением нормативных требований и другими последствиями. Читать далее]]>

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025692/

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday the EV maker plans to use Intel's next-generation 14A manufacturing process to make chips at its Terafab project, an advanced AI chip complex Musk has envisioned in Austin. The contract would mark Intel's first major customer for the technology, a breakthrough for the chipmaker which has struggled to stand up its contract manufacturing business essential for taking on top rival TSMC. Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan has said that the company would exit the chip manufacturing business altogether if it failed to secure an external customer.

Intel has previously said it was in discussions with large customers about 14A, but has not yet disclosed a major external customer. It declined to comment on Musk's remarks. [...] "Given that by the time Terafab scales up, 14A will be probably fairly mature or ready for prime time," Musk said. "14A seems like the right move, and we have a great relationship with Intel," he said. Ben Bajarin, head of technology consultancy Creative Strategies, said that Intel's 14A technology could "turn out to be a bigger deal for Intel than folks thought." "It's important to have multiple partners as early design partners to help clean the pipe and work through needed learnings at the leading edge. They will definitely have scale, so a great first non-Intel customer," Bajarin said.

Seaport Research Partners analyst Jay Goldberg said Musk's vote of confidence in Intel's technology outweighed the unknowns about the Terafab project. "Having a customer is more important than the timing," he said. Goldberg said that Musk's lofty estimates of how many chips its robots could one day require may or may not materialize, but even making chips for Tesla's existing businesses would be a significant win for Intel. "It's not equivalent to Apple or Nvidia" in terms of chip volumes, Goldberg said. "But it's a real customer. It can be real volumes."

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Опубликовано: 2026-04-23T14:48:48+00:00

Финалист премии «Почетный Академик ВРАЛ-2025» математик Алексей Савватеев известен спорными высказываниями за пределами сферы своей компетенции. Например, он неоднократно защищал гомеопатию: ведь его знакомым она помогала.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Squ80KJ1q6o

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: New York is suing Coinbase and Gemini, two of the newest players in the prediction market industry, arguing that the companies' unregulated and unlicensed platforms are illegal gambling operations. Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit, filed Tuesday in state court in Manhattan, seeks to bar the companies' platforms from operating in the state unless and until they obtain licenses from the state Gaming Commission.

"Gambling by another name is still gambling, and it is not exempt from regulation under our state laws and Constitution," James said in a statement. "Gemini and Coinbase's so-called prediction markets are just illegal gambling operations, exposing young people to addictive platforms that lack the necessary guardrails." Both companies began as cryptocurrency trading platforms before branching into the prediction space, which has been dominated by Kalshi and Polymarket.

[...] New York's lawsuit alleges that the Coinbase and Gemini are seeking "to avoid the legal and financial consequences" of the state's close regulation of gambling "by offering what is quintessentially wagering under the guise of offering 'event contracts' on a 'prediction market.'" By operating without licenses, the lawsuit says, Coinbase's and Gemini's prediction market businesses aren't paying the same taxes as licensed casinos and mobile sportsbooks, which are taxed by the state at a rate of approximately 51% of gross revenues. In addition, the lawsuit says, Coinbase and Gemini allow users as young as 18, while state law prohibits wagering by anyone under 21.

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Опубликован дистрибутив Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon", который отнесён к выпускам с длительным сроком поддержки (LTS), обновления для которых формируются в течение 15 лет (5 лет - общедоступные, плюс ещё 10 лет для пользователей сервиса Ubuntu Pro). Установочные образы созданы для Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, UbuntuKylin (редакция для Китая), Ubuntu Unity, Edubuntu и Ubuntu Cinnamon.

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Microsoft plans to offer voluntary buyouts for the first time. According to CNBC, "about 7% of U.S. employees are eligible," with the program being "available to U.S. workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or higher." Further details will be provided on May 7. From the report: Last year Microsoft removed some costs through multiple rounds of layoffs. As of June 2025, the company had 228,000 employees. "Our hope is that this program gives those eligible the choice to take that next step on their own terms, with generous company support," Amy Coleman, Microsoft's executive vice president and chief people officer, wrote in a memo viewed by CNBC.

Additionally, Microsoft is adjusting the way it doles out stock to employees for annual rewards. The company will no longer make managers tie stock directly to cash bonuses. This way, "managers have more flexibility to meaningfully recognize high performance," Coleman wrote. The company is also simplifying the review process for managers, so they can choose from five pay options for employees instead of nine.

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In a recent town hall meeting reported by Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple CEO Tim Cook named the troubled 2012 launch of Apple Maps as his "first really big mistake" in the role. "The product wasn't ready, and we thought it was because we were testing more of local kind of stuff," Cook told staff. MacRumors reports: Reflecting on the debacle, Cook said it was "valuable," noting that he expressed regret to users at the time and suggested they use competing navigation apps instead.

"We apologized for it, and we said, 'Go use these other apps. They're better than ours.' And that was some humble pie," Cook said. "But it was the right thing for our users. And so it's an example of keeping the user at the center of the decisions that we made." Cook added: "Now we've got the best map app on the planet. We learned about persistence, and we did exactly the right thing having made the mistake."

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The French government agency that handles the issuing and management of citizens' identity documents, including national IDs, passports, and immigration documents, confirmed Wednesday that it experienced a data breach. In an announcement, the Agence Nationale des Titres Securises (ANTS) said the data stolen in the breach could include full names, dates and places of birth, mailing and email addresses, and phone numbers on an undisclosed number of citizens. ANTS said the investigation to determine how the breach happened and its impact is ongoing, and people whose data was affected are being notified.

ANTS, which said it detected the attack on April 15, did not specify how many people were affected by the breach. But some reporting suggests millions may have had some of their personal information stolen. According to Bleeping Computer, a hacker has advertised the stolen data on a hacking forum, claiming to have a database with 19 million records. The hacker's forum post referenced the same kind of stolen information as mentioned in ANTS' announcement and was published before ANTS publicly disclosed the breach on April 20.

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Meta is reportedly cutting about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 8,000 jobs, while closing thousands of open roles it had intended to fill. "We're doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we're making," said Janelle Gale, Meta's chief people officer. The company had almost 79,000 employees at the start of the year. Quartz reports: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has poured resources into building out AI capabilities, directing spending toward model development, chatbot products, and the engineering talent to support them. Meta set its 2026 capital expenditure guidance at $115 billion to $135 billion, almost double the $72 billion it spent in 2025. Employees have been encouraged to use AI agents internally for tasks such as writing code.

The early disclosure, Gale explained, was prompted by the fact that information about the cuts had already made its way into press reports before the company was ready to announce. "I know this is unwelcome news and confirming this puts everyone in an uneasy state, but we feel this is the best path forward, given the circumstances," she wrote.

According to the memo, severance for affected workers in the United States will cover 18 months of COBRA health insurance premiums, along with a base pay component of 16 weeks that increases by two weeks for each year of service. Departing employees will have access to job placement assistance and, where applicable, help navigating immigration status. Packages outside the U.S. will vary by country. Meta cut between 10% and 15% of its Reality Labs workforce in January, shut down several VR game studios, and shed about 700 positions across at least five divisions in March.

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OpenAI released its new GPT-5.5 model today, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer." The Verge reports: OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 "excels" at tasks like writing and debugging code, doing research online, making spreadsheets and documents, and doing that work across different tools. "Instead of carefully managing every step, you can give GPT-5.5 a messy, multi-part task and trust it to plan, use tools, check its work, navigate through ambiguity, and keep going," according to OpenAI. The company also notes that GPT-5.5 will have its "strongest set of safeguards to date" and can use "significantly fewer" tokens to complete tasks in Codex. GPT-5.5 is rolling out on Thursday for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise ChatGPT tiers and Codex, with GPT-5.5 Pro coming to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users.

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