You can try 570 extinct operating systems at a new "virtual museum," according to a new article by ZDNet. Their reporter downloaded the ancient OS NeXTStep, and was "shocked" by how easy it was to run it, "and by the sheer number of operating systems to choose from."

Essentially, what you do is download a zipped file, unzip it, change into the newly created directory, and run the executable. VirtualBox then opens to a Debian Linux instance, where you can select from a very long list of operating systems to run... You can run operating systems like Amiga, Apple I/II/III, Atari, Avigo, Commodore 64, Cray, DEC Alpha, Einstein, Game Boy Advance, GE 200, HP 3000, IBM 1130, iPod touch, Jupiter Ace, Lisa, Macintosh, MIPS-based SBCs, Neo, Newton, NeXT, NORC, Palm, and so many more. You can test the earliest mainframes, later mainframes and minicomputers, workstations and Unix variants, home computers, personal computer operating systems, mobile and embedded adOSes, and research-based and obscure systems. As far as Linux is concerned, you can run early Debian and its derivatives, Red Hat and its derivatives, early Slackware, and more...

There are two editions of the Virtual OS Museum: full and lite. The full edition is currently 174GB and includes everything you need to run these old-school operating systems. The full version does not require a network connection to run. The Lite version is only 14GB and requires an internet connection because it downloads the full OS image you want to use.

Gizmodo notes "this project is all the more remarkable for being the work of one man: Andrew Wartenkin, who has been collecting OS images for over two decades."

Of course, Wartenkin didn't write all the emulation software himself, and he maintains a list of credits to give credit where it's due... The Museum itself runs in a virtual machine, which seems kinda fitting — it opens in a virtualized Linux installation and presents you with the full list of available operating systems.

Did you know someone has written a GUI for the Commodore 64? Neither did I! There are simulations of ancient mainframes, like the IBM 1130 (yours for the low, low price of $32,280 — or $41,230 with a disk drive — back in 1965).

There's also a YouTube channel.

Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Z00L00Kfor sharing the news.

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"In the future, AI agents will be able to find one another using the Domain Name System (DNS), instead of crawling about and probing ports or checking configured resources," writes The Register.

InfoWorld writes that "numerous proprietary agent registries are on the market, but the Linux Foundation suggests we simply extend the distributed, open Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure we already have."

The foundation is now inviting contributions to the DNS-AID project, a standard way for AI agents to discover, verify, and communicate with one another over DNS that requires no new infrastructure. It enables agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to use DNS as a global, vendor-neutral directory.

While many details remain to be worked out, the proposal suggests domain owners create a new well-known address that can provide a starting point for agents looking for one another: _index._agents.{domain}. This approach ensures that agent discovery remains scalable, secure, and compatible with the protocols that underly the internet, the Linux Foundation said.

The Linux Foundation descrbes DNS-AID as enabling a standard way for AI agents to discover and communicate with one another. "By leveraging the internet's existing Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure, DNS-AID provides a robust, decentralized alternative to the centralized registries and hardcoded URLs currently limiting AI interoperability."

The standard was originally developed by Infoblox, their announcement notes, but "Because the protocol is implementation-agnostic, it functions across any DNS provider, ensuring that organizations maintain control over their agent infrastructure without relying on proprietary, centralized services."

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Almost a fifth of the earth's population lives in Africa. And Africa's next generation of power projects "is increasingly being built around solar and wind power and battery storage," reports the Associated Press, "as governments and investors shift away from coal and large hydropower dams in search of cheaper, faster and more reliable electricity."

The shift is visible in a $1.5 billion energy agreement between China and Zambia announced in early May that includes three separate 300-megawatt projects spanning solar, wind and coal-fired power. While the inclusion of coal underscores the continent's continuing need for stable baseload electricity, African countries facing rising fuel import bills as a result of the Iran war, unreliable grids and growing industrial demand are increasingly turning to renewable energy projects that can be deployed faster and more cheaply than traditional plants.

Of the 322 energy projects announced across Africa in 2025, 173 were solar projects, followed by hydropower at 46, wind at 34, gas at 22 and hybrid energy projects at 14, according to the energy research firm Electron Intelligence... Utility-scale solar power costs have dropped by nearly 90% globally since 2010, while onshore wind costs have fallen around 70%, making renewables the cheapest source of new electricity generation in many African markets...

Much of the growth is through distributed solar and battery systems installed directly in mines, factories, telecom towers and homes. "Most official statistics still measure the energy transition the old way, by counting megawatts connected to national grids," [said Matt Tilleard, CEO of CrossBoundary Energy, which invests in renewable energy in Africa]. "But solar and batteries don't need central utilities." Data from the Africa Solar Industry Association shows 23.4 gigawatts of operational solar projects had been tracked across Africa by the end of 2025. But Chinese export figures indicate 58.1 gigawatts of solar panels have been shipped to African countries since 2017, suggesting solar adoption may be growing far faster than official figures capture.

Investor Tilleard says "Renewable energy is now unequivocally the fastest, cheapest, and most bankable way to connect people, companies and economies to the megawatts they need to grow."

And the article also includes this quote from Mugwe Manga, climate finance lead at FSD Kenya. "Africa is not on the periphery of the global energy transition, it is sitting at its center. The continent holds the world's best renewable resources, and the economics have now decisively turned in favor of clean energy."

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Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu "suffered a catastrophic 70% drop in its second weekend," reports Variety, suggesting the movie isn't finding audiences "beyond an aging group of core fans."

"Despite playing on far more screens, The Mandalorian and Grogu landed in third place on weekend charts behind Backrooms and Obsession." (described as "two buzzy horror films.") Suprisingly, both movies were directed by 20-something YouTube stars, "and cost nearly nothing to produce." Analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations tells Variety, "We knew indie horror was hot, but we didn't know how hot. It's actually competing with the big summer blockbuster."

Directed by 20-year-old Kane Parsons, "Backrooms" has earned $118 million globally so far... With a production budget of roughly $10 million, it's already one of the most profitable movies of the year. Though a sequel hasn't been announced, Parsons has already started toying with the idea of turning "Backrooms" into a film franchise... [The "Backrooms" premise seems to have originated on 4chan, then expanded in a YouTube video Parsons filmed when he was 16.] "Backrooms" also ranked as the biggest debut in history for original horror, as well as the best start for a first-time filmmaker on a non-franchise film. Parsons is the youngest director, by far, to have the No. 1 film at the box office. Based on Parsons' hit web series, "Backrooms" follows a furniture store owner (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who finds a secret doorway that leads him to a seemingly endless stretch of nondescript rooms. When he disappears, his therapist (Renate Reinsve) ventures into the unknown to rescue him.

Nearly 85% of audiences were under the age of 35, and more than 50% were 25 or younger, according to PostTrak data. Parsons and [26-year-old Obsession director/writer Curry] Barker are part of a wave of YouTubers who have turned their talents to the big screen — and brought their enormous, youthful fanbases along with them. Earlier this year, YouTube creator Mark Fischback directed, self-financed and distributed the horror film "Iron Lung," which earned a stellar $50 million against a $3 million budget.

What's all the more impressive is that "Backrooms" and "Obsession" aren't cannibalizing each other at the box office. In fact, "Obsession" rose 10% from the prior weekend, which was already up a stunning 39% from its solid $17 million debut. It's defying box office norms as the first film since "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" in 1982 to see ticket sales increase in its second and third weekends outside of the holiday season, according to Focus. After three weekends of release, "Obsession" has grossed $106 million domestically and $148 million worldwide against a mere $1 million production budget.

The first-weekend box office for The Mandalorian and Grogu was the worst since 2002's Attack of the Clones, but then it's second-weekend drop in sales was also the largest ever, reports ScreenRant. The next-worst drop in sales (for a second weekend) was 2017's The Last Jedi, they point out, but The Last Jedi was dropping from a 2.5x larger debut. Their article suggests The Mandalorian/Grogu box office "may not ever hit a total large enough for the titular duo to return to the big screen," although it could eventually show a profit. "While it likely won't break even in theaters, it will earn additional revenue from merchandising on top of its impending streaming, video on demand, and physical media releases."

Variety adds that Disney "is hoping that next summer's Star Wars: Starfighter, an original adventure directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ryan Gosling, serves as a fresh start for the franchise."

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Опубликован выпуск Linux-дистрибутива Armbian 26.5, предоставляющего компактное системное окружение для одноплатных компьютеров с процессорами на базе архитектур ARM, RISC-V и x86, поддерживающее различные модели Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Helios64, pine64, Nanopi и Cubieboard на базе процессоров Allwinner, Amlogic, Actionsemi, Freescale / NXP, Marvell Armada, Rockchip, Radxa и Samsung Exynos.

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Axios reports:

The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers' union in the U.S., released a 10-point plan to introduce AI and screen-time guardrails in classrooms. The plan would limit AI use and ban screens for students in prekindergarten through second grade "unless there is a compelling reason," such as supporting students with special needs.

The teacher union's president Randi Weingarten warned that young students "are drowning in tech," according to the New York Times, which reports the union president also "called on schools on Wednesday to stop giving digital devices like iPads to children in prekindergarten through second grade."

In a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, Weingarten also urged elementary schools to avoid using artificial intelligence tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Khan Academy's Khanmigo with children [and] called for new national privacy and safety standards for A.I. tools in all schools... "The work of teaching and learning in the earliest grades should be done without A.I."

The union's effort reflects a backlash among parents and educators against heavy use of school-issued laptops and apps. Some parents and nonprofit children's groups are also pushing back against campaigns by tech giants like Google and OpenAI to spread their A.I. products in schools... Weingarten said that the union was negotiating safety and privacy standards for A.I. use in schools with "our partners in the A.I. academy," and that Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic had agreed in principle to those standards.

Weingarten "laid out a plan for reorienting public schooling toward human abilities and student well-being," according to the article, calling it "a devices down, eyes up, hands-on strategy."

And meanwhile school cellphone bans are expanding into broader efforts to establish guardrails around AI in education and limit screen use, reports Axios. "At least 16 states — both red and blue — have introduced bills to limit classroom technology."

Schools Beyond Screens formed with fewer than a dozen parents in Los Angeles Unified School District last year, but the nonprofit has grown to include thousands of parents and educators nationwide, SBS policy director Kate Brody tells Axios... McPherson Middle School principal Inge Esping told Axios that the suspension rate at her Kansas school fell 70% after cellphones were banned in 2022. Students also started speaking more with one another and with teachers.

Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader theodp for sharing the article.

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A historian-turned-software engineer warns that "so little is ever written down" by professional programmers in a new article for Fast Company:

Perhaps there's an early design doc, but then it turns out that everything was substantially revised before work began. Maybe there are a few wiki pages explaining known issues, some of which were solved a long time ago and others that have been left to molder in the codebase. Somebody might have left a comment in the code itself, but typically it's a warning not to change something or else something else will break... Software engineering has an ambivalent relationship with documentation. Everyone agrees documentation matters in theory, but in practice it's inconsistent, outdated, or missing entirely. Part of that is simple inertia. Writing documentation is usually less interesting than writing the code itself. But it's also ideological. The Agile movement emerged in part as a reaction against the heavily documented Waterfall methodology, and one of Agile's core values explicitly prioritizes "working software over comprehensive documentation." In escaping bureaucratic overdocumentation, the industry also normalized underdocumentation.

High turnover at software jobs always brings "a constant drain of domain knowledge." And he's he's skeptical that generative AI will be able to fill in those gaps:

[H]aving it generate documentation on the codebase itself might sound like a solution to the absence of other written information. LLMs can certainly summarize code back to you. But hold up with that idea. Beyond hallucinations, there's a deeper problem: Writing documentation is itself part of the thinking process. Whether I'm writing history or software, putting an approach into words helps refine it before I sink hours into implementation. Documentation also captures intent. An LLM may be able to summarize what a codebase does, but it cannot reliably explain why a developer chose one approach over another, or what trade-offs shaped that decision...

An LLM can read code that I've written. It might even scan a large codebase and accurately summarize what it's doing. But it can't assess authorial intent.

Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat for sharing the article.

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"Around 570 cables (plus a further 80 planned) carry between 95% and 99% of the world's intercontinental telecommunications data," reports CNN (since fiber cables offer speeds of terabits per second, carry much more data than satellite links). And "networks of green energy cables carrying electricity are also starting to sprawl across the world's seabeds."

Now to protect them, the U.S., Australia and the U.K. "are planning to develop new unmanned undersea vehicles" as part of their trilateral security partnership.

Western governments see a growing risk of Russian and Chinese sabotage of undersea cables and are also concerned that Iran may seek to exploit the many data networks running through the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf. The "seabed is a battlefield" said Australia's Defence Minister, Richard Marles, in Singapore, calling for tougher action against so-called shadow-fleet vessels... The programme will improve the three nations' reconnaissance and strike capabilities, "and bolster superiority in anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare," as well as mine countermeasures, [according to a statement from their trilateral AUKUS partnership]... The new AUKUS project will sharpen all three countries' ability to respond to threats, including those targeting underwater cables and pipelines, through a range of "cutting edge sensors and weapons systems for undersea drones," UK Defence Secretary John Healey said.

Marles said undersea internet cables — "the arteries of modern civilization" — were being cut at an unprecedented rate, with island nations like Australia acutely vulnerable. "Over the past 18 months, we have witnessed a series of attacks against subsea critical infrastructure at a scale and frequency that is historically unprecedented," he said. The UK government has also highlighted the vulnerability of the world's digital highways. "Every international payment, every cross-border trade executed in milliseconds, every flow of data between businesses here in the UK and markets overseas — all travel along the seabed," Telecoms Minister Liz Lloyd said Friday... Last month, the UK said it had tracked three Russian submarines covertly surveying undersea cables in the north Atlantic... A UK parliamentary inquiry warned last year that UK infrastructure might be targeted in a crisis, adding it was "not confident that the UK could prevent such attacks or recover within an acceptable time period."
The UK Navy is already exploring the creation of a hybrid force that incorporates the widespread use of underwater drones to combat Russian threats in the Atlantic.

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ScienceAlert reports:
In the molten ocean of iron churning in Earth's outer core, a section deep beneath the Pacific Ocean suddenly reversed direction and started moving eastward against the planet's usual westward flow. This happened in 2010, according to satellite measurements of Earth's magnetic field, and scientists are still trying to figure out what caused it... [I]t seemed to have a large, wave-like structure — as though a chunk of molten core material suddenly thought better of where it wanted to go, surging in the other direction... This finding suggests that there are processes that can influence it strongly enough to alter its behavior in bulk — and that our planet's interior may be more dynamic and variable than we thought.
A new analysis captures what we know so far — and

"It's from the roiling, molten, conducting metal at Earth's heart that the planetary magnetic field is generated... vital to our continued existence. It helps keep the atmosphere we breathe in and harmful cosmic radiation out."

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"Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine," reports ScienceDaily.

"Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to evaporate water while automatically moving salt deposits away from the working surface, preventing clogging. The process was successfully tested with water from three oceans and can recover nearly all salts as solids. Those leftover materials could even become a source of valuable lithium for batteries." (The research team was led by University of Rochest professor Chunlei Guo and published their results in the journal Light: Science & Applications.)

The University of Rochester has made an announcement:

The technology uses solar panels made of black metal etched with femtosecond lasers to make the surface super light-absorbing and superwicking — or extremely attractive to water. The panels have a laser-treated active region that pulls a thin layer of water across the surface, absorbs nearly all solar radiation, distills the water, and deposits the leftover salts and minerals into the panel's untreated sides or "passive" region so that the salt does not clog the active region and disrupt continuous desalination... Guo's team precisely etched the black metal's grooves so the various salts and minerals in ocean water would simply slough off... [I]t extracts nearly 100 percent of the salts in solid form.

This could not only produce an abundant supply of table salt, but it could also be used to extract more precious minerals, including lithium, which is used in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and other electronics. In a related paper in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Guo and his colleagues show how they can use the same superwicking solar panels to separate lithium from the rest of other salts in desalination. Embedding nanoparticles made of hydrogen titanate in the tiny grooves of the black metal surface isolates the lithium from other salts and minerals...Using water samples from Great Salt Lake, the researchers extracted about 50 percent of the lithium from the salts left behind by the desalination process. Guo says now that the superwicking desalination technology has been demonstrated in proofs of concept on small-scale devices, he sees the technology inherently scalable, capable of improving global access to drinking water and building more sustainable supply chains for precious minerals.
"The National Science Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Worldwide Universities Network supported this research."

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31 мая 2026 года отпраздновал свой двадцать пятый день рождения проект DistroWatch, любимец всех дистрохопперов. От сайта со сравнением 5 дистрибутивов в одной табличке сайт превратился в базу знаний, отслеживающую 1204 проекта, 484 из которых находятся в активно разрабатываемом состоянии. За месяц на проект заходят с примерно полутора миллионов уникальных IP-адресов и просматривают 10 миллионов страниц, а доля пользователей линукс на сайте достигла 50%. Пожелаем этому проекту, который старше твиттера и фейсбука, убунты и винды-xp, долгих лет жизни и наконец-таки довести долю пользователей линукс до 100%.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18307383

Хотя проект ReactOS все ещё не спешит свергать Windows с пьедестала основной десктопной ОС, в нём происходят вполне реальные перемены. Недавно в основную ветку были приняты ещё два крупных изменения. Первое касается отдельных BootCD и LiveCD-образов, которые теперь объединены в единый образ ( [ PR #7313 ]( https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/7313 ) ). Второе — новый стек хранилища ATA, осведомлённый о Plug and Play, для устройств ATA и AHCI, с совместимостью на уровне NT6+.Пока что отдельный LiveCD всё ещё существует, но появление универсального образа ReactOS означает, что тестировать и устанавливать ReactOS стало проще, а старомодный текстовый интерфейс инсталляции, вероятно, вскоре уйдёт в прошлое благодаря новому полностью графическому установщику из Live-режима унифицированного образа ( [ youtube ]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lntLjzHtZ58 ) ).Появление нового стека ATA-хранилищ обернётся гораздо лучшей совместимостью с реальным оборудованием, в том числе возможностью устанавливать систему и загружаться с большего числа устройств и даже SCSI ( [ PR #8932 ]( https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/8932 ) ), чем со старым драйвером UniATA.Вместе, эти два изменения должны приблизить процесс установки и использования ReactOS к таковому в Windows, а также во многих дистрибутивах Linux. Если у вас возникали проблемы с работой ReactOS на реальном железе, сейчас самое время попробовать ещё раз и предоставить разработчикам подробную обратную связь по всем оставшимся проблемам.Обратите внимание: все новые возможности отсутствуют в версии 0.4.15 и доступны для тестирования в последних ночных тестовых сборках версии 0.4.17.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18306736

Amazon's "Subscribe & Save" program — for recurring purchasees — has triggered a new lawsuit, reports Oregon Live.

"The lawsuit contends that after luring in customers with 'artificially low prices,' the world's biggest online retailer jacked up the prices in the months after their first shipments arrived."

In some cases, the lawsuit claims that customers were paying more for the exact same items through the Subscribe & Save program than they would be if they bought the items from other sellers on the site. That was true even when the up to 15% discount that the subscription program offers was calculated into the final purchase price, according to the suit. The Seattle law firm that filed the May 15 lawsuit says that Amazon's business practices amount to "deceptive," "misleading" and "bait and switch tactics." The firm is seeking class-action status in U.S. District Court for western Washington, a move that could potentially draw tens of millions of Amazon customers from across the U.S. into the litigation...

[The suit says the plaintiffs' first order of espresso coffee grounds was $16.60.] When their order auto-renewed a few months later, the price had gone up to $17.04. A few months later, it rose to $21.25. Then in October 2024, the price increased to $28.69 — about $12 more than the Hermans had paid at the beginning of their subscription, according to the lawsuit. [The discount can be as little as 5% or up to 15%, Amazon told Oregon Live in a statement, noting customers do receive an email showing "applicable savings" before the orders ship. But...] The suit says Amazon gave the Hermans little notice to cancel the order or to shop around because it notified them of the latest price increase in an email at 8:54 p.m. — the same night it processed their order and charged them.

The suit says if the Hermans had been given the time to shop around for a better price, they would have found that another Amazon seller was charging $25.90 — or $2.79 less — for the identical item. Amazon's "Subscribe & Save Terms & Conditions" page tells customers that it "may change the price for a Subscribe & Save subscription at any time for any reason...."

The analytical group Consumer Intelligence Research Partners says about 25% of U.S. Amazon customers are enrolled in the Subscribe & Save program.

Oregon Live got Amazon's response, which suggested their program saves customers time and money "through convenient, flexible, and recurring deliveries". (So when customers saw "Subscribe and Save", they were perhaps supposed to intuit the word save referred in part to... time-saving?)
The plaintiffs' lawyer argues instead that "When you sign up for something that is called 'Subscribe & Save,' you'd expect that you're saving by subscribing. But that's not actually what's happening in many cases."

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Представлен релиз легковесного музыкального проигрывателя Audacious 4.6, ответвившегося в своё время от проекта Beep Media Player (BMP), являющегося форком классического плеера XMMS. Выпуск поставляется с двумя интерфейсами пользователя: на основе GTK и Qt. Готовые сборки в ближайшее время будут подготовлены для различных дистрибутивов Linux (snap, flatpak, PPA) и для Windows.

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Опубликован выпуск Servo 0.2.0 — новой версии экспериментального браузерного движка, написанного на Rust. Релиз вышел 31 мая 2026 года и включает изменения, внесённые в апреле: всего разработчики насчитали 534 коммита, что стало новым месячным рекордом проекта. Servo развивается как независимый проект под эгидой Linux Foundation Europe и ориентирован на создание лёгкого встраиваемого web-движка для приложений, мобильных платформ и экспериментальных браузерных оболочек.

[ Основные изменения ]( https://servo.org/blog/2026/05/31/april-in-servo/ )

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18307376#cut ) )

Представлен выпуск проекта 86Box 6.0, развивающего эмулятор систем на базе архитектуры x86, при помощи которого можно запускать старые операционные системы и приложения, включая те, что применялись в начале 1980-годов на компьютерах IBM PC 5150 и IBM PS/2. Поддерживается точная низкоуровневая эмуляция систем, начиная с процессоров 8086 и заканчивая Intel Сeleron Mendocino. Код проекта написан на языке C и распространяется под лицензией GPLv2.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65595

Опубликован выпуск Servo 0.2.0 — новой версии экспериментального браузерного движка, написанного на Rust. Релиз вышел 31 мая 2026 года и включает изменения, внесённые в апреле: всего разработчики насчитали 534 коммита, что стало новым месячным рекордом проекта. Servo развивается как независимый проект под эгидой Linux Foundation Europe и ориентирован на создание лёгкого встраиваемого web-движка для приложений, мобильных платформ и экспериментальных браузерных оболочек.

[ Основные изменения ]( https://servo.org/blog/2026/05/31/april-in-servo/ )

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Сервис непрерывной интеграции Cirrus CI прекратил выполнение задач 1 июня 2026 года. Решение связано с тем, что команда Cirrus Labs переходит в OpenAI и присоединяется к направлению Agent Infrastructure. В официальном объявлении Cirrus Labs указано, что компания больше не принимает новых клиентов для Cirrus Runners, поддержит существующие контракты до окончания их срока, а сам Cirrus CI будет закрыт с понедельника, 1 июня 2026 года.

Cirrus Labs работала около девяти лет и развивала инструменты для CI/CD, сборочных окружений и виртуализации. В 2018 году команда запустила SaaS CI/CD-сервис с поддержкой Linux, Windows и macOS, а позднее выпустила Tart — популярный инструмент виртуализации macOS на Apple Silicon, а также Vetu и Orchard.

Кого это затронуло

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Да, пока ограниченным тиражом в 2000 шт. Да, пока только для Европы. Но приятно знать, что проект не почил в бозе, а продолжает развитие.

Компания объявила о краудфайндинговой компании на производство 2000 смартфонов с Sailfish OS, и вот несколько дней назад необходимая сумма была полностью собрана.

• Полная стоимость устройства 649 евро.

• Сумма взноса 99 евро (будет вычтена из стоимости).

• Поставки в сентябре 2026.

Начинка и фичи:

• Чип Mediatek Dimensity 7100 5G.

• Экран 6.36 дюймов 390 ppi FullHD.

• Память 8Гб RAM + 128Гб хранилища. Или 12Гб + 256Гб за дополнительные 100 евро. А так же поддержка microSDXC карт.

• Две nano SIM и поддержка 5G.

• Съемная батарея емкостью 5450 мА·ч.

• Размеры 158 x 74 x 9 мм, масса 190 г.

Ключевые особенности:

• Sailfish OS 5 с поддержкой android приложений.

• The Other Half — возможность использовать специальный разъем для периферийных устройств, чаще всего реализуемых как сменная крышка. Для первого Jolla Phone можно было приобрести дополнительный e-ink экран или qwerty-клавиатуру.

• Для людей с повышенными требованиями к безопасности: физические выключатели для микрофона, bluetooth и т. д.

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/pda/18307749

В ОС KDE Linux, развиваемой командой KDE, после внутреннего мини-аудита безопасности системы, были пересмотрены базовые компоненты. Проект, который KDE позиционирует как собственную находящуюся в разработке операционную систему, продолжает двигаться к более контролируемой и предсказуемой модели: меньше нестандартных модулей ядра, меньше зависимостей от AUR и больше пользовательских реализаций там, где раньше использовались компоненты ядра.

Разработчики объяснили изменения тем, что в предыдущем месяце в upstream-ядре Linux было найдено несколько проблем безопасности. После этого Adrian Vovk, Hadi Chokr и Nate Graham провели проверку небезопасного и неиспользуемого ПО, уже включённого в KDE Linux. Итогом стал набор изменений, направленных на упрощение системной базы и снижение числа потенциально рискованных компонентов.

Основные изменения

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[ Представлен ]( https://86box.net/2026/05/31/86box-v6-0.html ) выпуск проекта [ 86Box 6.0 ]( https://86box.net/ ) , развивающего эмулятор систем на базе архитектуры x86, при помощи которого можно запускать старые операционные системы и приложения, включая те, что применялись в начале 1980-годов на компьютерах IBM PC 5150 и IBM PS/2. Поддерживается точная низкоуровневая эмуляция систем, начиная с процессоров 8086 и заканчивая Intel Сeleron [ Mendocino ]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeron#Mendocino ) . Код проекта написан на языке C и [ распространяется ]( https://github.com/86Box/86Box/ ) под лицензией GPLv2.

Для управления работой предоставляется графический интерфейс c возможностями для настройки виртуальных машин. Доступна эмуляция различных периферийных устройств, таких как видеоадаптеры, звуковые карты, сетевые карты и контроллеры жёстких дисков. Среди поддерживаемых операционных систем: MS-DOS, Windows 3.11/95, OS/2, различные дистрибутивы Linux, BeOS, NEXTSTEP и другие старые ОС.

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"The company best known for powering the AI boom is coming for the PC," reports Axios.

Nvidia's CEO unveiled a new ARM-based "N1X processor made alongside Microsoft," reports CNBC, that "will be incorporated into a new RTX Spark superchip, debuting in the fall on a fresh line of Windows PCs from Microsoft, Dell, HP, ASUS, Lenovo and MSI."

More details from Engadget:

It was only a matter of time before NVIDIA released a powerful system-on-a-chip (SOC) to take on AMD's Ryzen AI Max and Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 chips. At Computex today, NVIDIA unveiled the RTX Spark, a "superchip" meant to give both laptops and small desktops fast AI and graphics performance...

The company says it offers 1 petaflop of AI computing power, and that it has 6,144 Blackwell RTX cores and 20 Mediatek Arm CPU cores. NVIDIA claims it's similar to the RTX 5070 laptop GPU but with much lower power draw. RTX Spark also has an NPU that's fast enough to be part of Microsoft's Copilot+ initiative, which requires a 40 TOPS NPU, but NVIDIA says it's mainly touting the tensor cores as part of the chip's Blackwell GPU for AI performance. RTX Spark's GPU can directly draw on the chip's large pool of unified memory, which can span from 16GB to 128GB, and the chip itself can use anywhere from single-digit wattage up to 80W...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang positions RTX Spark as a complete reinvention of the PC, eventually turning them more into devices meant for AI agents than manual human input... NVIDIA has been working together with Microsoft for "several years" while designing the RTX Spark, according to NVIDIA representatives... In a blog post provided to media, Microsoft head of Windows and devices, Pavan Davuluri, noted that the company optimized Windows 11's workload profile scheduling for the RTX Spark. "Whether you're checking your email or running an agent locally to debug code, the Windows scheduler on RTX Spark will ensure you get the best performance and efficiency out of your CPU," he wrote.

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Состоялся выпуск 13.0.1 мультиформатного аудиоконвертера [ Flacon ]( https://flacon.github.io ) .

Flacon извлекает отдельные треки из одного большого аудиофайла, содержащего весь музыкальный альбом, и сохраняет их в виде отдельных аудиофайлов.

Для этого используетcя информация из соответствующего файла CUE. Кроме того, Flacon позволяет удобно редактировать или задавать теги как для всех треков сразу, так и для каждого тега по отдельности.

Возможности:

• Поддерживаемые форматы ввода: WAV, FLAC, APE, WavPack, True Audio (TTA).

• Поддерживаемые форматы вывода: FLAC, WAV, WavPack, AAC, OGG or MP3.

• Анализ Replay Gain: режимы ALBUM-gain и TRACK-gain.

• Многопоточное конвертирование.

• Автоматическое определение кодировки в файлах CUE.

• Создание потрекового файла CUE в каталоге вывода.

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Разработчики языка программирования Rust готовят к публикации правила применения AI-ассистентов в проекте. Предложенные правила отточены в ходе обсуждения, насчитывающего более 3000 сообщений, одобрены 4 сопровождающими и ожидают публикации. За отдельными исключениями, правила запрещают передачу кода, сгенерированного через AI, в основной репозиторий rust-lang/rust, но не распространяются на субмодули, подветки и зависимости из каталога crates.io, а также другие репозитории организации. При этом правила разрешают использование AI для анализа, изучения, рецензирования и проверки кода.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65597

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber Security Center. The action, announced Thursday, came about after a security researcher reported the sprawling network to authorities. The host infrastructure was located in the Netherlands. "The police then seized several botnet servers from a hosting provider for investigation," the NCSC said. "The botnet was taken offline by the provider because it was used for criminal purposes."

According to a report Thursday by the NL Times, the botnet was linked to ASOCKS, a Russia-based company that provides residential proxy services. These services cater to people and organizations who want to obscure their locations or identities by proxying their Internet traffic through third-party devices. Proxy services are often used for illicit or unethical purposes such as performing DDoS attacks, running botnet command-and-control servers, operating phishing operations, and scraping website content. [...] It's unclear how the 17 million devices controlled by the botnet taken down by the Dutch police came to be that way.

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Dell has introduced a redesigned $699 XPS 13 aimed squarely at Apple's budget MacBook Neo, offering a premium aluminum design, touch display, backlit keyboard, Wi-Fi 7, 512GB of base storage, and various other configuration options. Dell's machine costs more than Apple's entry model but tries to justify the difference with lighter weight, better display specs, and upgrade paths Apple doesn't offer. "The XPS 13 begins at $699 -- students can purchase it for $599 -- while the MacBook Neo costs $599 and drops to $499 for education buyers," notes Bloomberg. From the report: Dell's product allows for more configuration, with up to 32GB of memory compared with the Neo's nonupgradeable 8GB of unified memory. Its display can also produce a wider spectrum of colors and supports refresh rates up to 120 hertz, while Apple reserves its best screens for the pricier MacBook Pro line.

The inclusion of a backlit keyboard should allow for easier typing in dark conditions. Dell has also tossed in other nice-to-have upgrades over the Neo like more robust Wi-Fi 7 wireless networking. As for battery life, Dell is touting "up to 17 hours of streaming" versus a comparable 16 hours on the Neo.

Still, the XPS comes with compromises of its own: Unlike the Neo, there's no built-in headphone jack, which means owners will need to rely on its quad-speaker audio system, use Bluetooth earbuds or plug a headphone adapter into one of the two USB-C ports. You can learn more via Dell.com.

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Aikido Security says more than 30 official @redhat-cloud-services npm packages were compromised with a credential-stealing worm called "Miasma," a variant resembling the open-sourced Mini Shai-Hulud supply-chain malware. "The packages were published via GitHub Actions OIDC, indicating the CI/CD pipeline was compromised rather than an npm token," the report says. "If you have installed any affected package versions since June 1, 2026, treat all CI secrets, cloud credentials, SSH keys, and npm tokens as compromised and rotate them immediately." From the report: Each compromised package declares a preinstall script in its package.json that executes node index.js automatically on every npm install, before any application code runs and before the developer has any indication something is wrong. The index.js file is 4.2 MB payload hidden behind multiple layers of obfuscation.

As with previous Mini Shai-Hulud attacks, the payload performs a broad credential sweep across cloud providers, CI/CD environments, and developer tooling. On the CI side it targets GitHub Actions secrets including GITHUB_TOKEN and ACTIONS_RUNTIME_TOKEN. For cloud credentials it collects AWS access keys and session tokens, GCP application default credentials and service account key files, and Azure service principal credentials and managed identity tokens. It also sweeps for HashiCorp Vault tokens, Kubernetes service account tokens and kubeconfig files, npm and PyPI publish tokens, SSH private keys, Docker registry credentials, GPG keys, and any .env files it can find across the filesystem.

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Tony Isaac shares a report from NPR: A United Airlines flight traveling from Newark, New Jersey, to Palma de Mallorca, Spain, was forced to make a U-turn and return to Newark after more than four hours in the air due to a security concern. According to passenger reports and air traffic control audio, the disruption was caused by a personal Bluetooth speaker -- reportedly belonging to a teenager -- that had been named "BOMB." Upon returning to Newark, passengers were evacuated so that security details could inspect the entire aircraft and cargo area. The flight was ultimately cleared, reboarded, and arrived at its destination in Spain approximately nine and a half hours behind schedule. Multiple posts on social media from self-identified passengers indicate that the problem was a Bluetooth device on board the plane. One post referenced in-flight announcements with "lots of comments like 'this little joke is ruining it for everyone.'"

Audio from air traffic control sheds a little more light on the situation: "There's a security detail out there, someone had a Bluetooth speaker and they named it a certain four-letter word," another voice responded. "So they have to inspect the whole aircraft including the cargo area [and] passengers have to evacuate."

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: Anthropic has extended an invitation to the European Commission granting the EU's cyber agency access to its powerful AI hacking tool Mythos, according to a Commission official familiar with the process. The AI firm made the formal invitation after a meeting with the Commission in San Francisco last Thursday, the official said, adding the EU now has to put in place a mechanism to access the model with proper security safeguards.

European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said in a statement the Commission has had "several productive meetings with Anthropic" and "welcome[d] the latest developments on potential future access." [...] "This latest development is of utmost importance to get a clear picture on the potential risks," Regnier said, adding: "Let's not forget that Mythos is not one off, a new wave of powerful models are coming to the market." An ENISA official said the agency does not have active access now but is working to implement it. The Commission is working on a formal action plan to respond to powerful AI hacking tools. It has indicated it wants to release it before the summer break, according to an industry official. Anthropic's Mythos was unveiled in early April and triggered fears that it could enable large-scale attacks with its ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities. "European authorities for weeks were shut off from accessing the cutting-edge cybersecurity AI tech, leading to urgent calls by European politicians and government officials to gain access," notes Politico. "Cyber officials also called for Europe to build its own version."

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Anthropic says it has confidentially filed an IPO prospectus with the SEC, "setting up a potentially historic share sale for investors ready to jump into artificial intelligence," reports CNBC. The move puts Anthropic ahead of OpenAI's expected filing and follows explosive reported growth, a massive new valuation, major infrastructure deals, and ongoing tensions with the Pentagon over its models. From the report: "This gives us the option to go public after the SEC completes its review," Anthropic said in a statement on Monday. "The proposed initial public offering will depend on market conditions and other factors."

Submitting a confidential prospectus doesn't lock Anthropic into a certain timeframe for going public. Its official prospectus just has to land in the hands of investors at least 15 days before the company begins a roadshow. [...] The company has experienced explosive growth this year, announcing in May that its revenue run rate has ballooned to $47 billion, up from $10 billion in annual revenue last year. Last week, it closed a funding round at a $965 billion valuation, topping OpenAI, which was valued at $852 billion in late March.

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В результате компрометации процесса формирования релизов на базе GitHub Actions в принадлежащих компании Red Hat репозиториях RedHatInsights, злоумышленники смогли опубликовать в каталоге NPM 64 вредоносные версии, охватывающие 32 NPM-пакета для платформы Red Hat Cloud Services. Для каждого из поражённых NPM-пакетов были выпущены по две вредоносные версии, в которые был интегрирован код для активации нового варианта червя mini-shai-hulud, выполняющего поиск токенов и учётных данных в текущем окружении.

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=65599

Florida's attorney general has sued (PDF) OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company prioritized growth and market value over user safety and failed to adequately warn about risks tied to ChatGPT. The lawsuit, the first by a U.S. state over OpenAI safety concerns, is separate from a criminal investigation the state opened into OpenAI in April. Variety reports: In the 83-page complaint filed in Florida circuit court, the state claimed OpenAI's rise was backed by "a web of deceit and the exploitation of users (including Floridians), leveraging their data and safety to boost OpenAI's market value at unacceptable costs." The state wants to hold Altman "personally liable for the harm he has caused Floridians through his reckless and willful conduct as founder and CEO of OpenAI, including his utter disregard for the risk to human life caused by his firms' conduct."

[...] Throughout the complaint, filed in the state's circuit court of the 10th judicial circuit, the State of Florida claimed OpenAI's "careless introduction" of ChatGPT had led to an increase in murders and suicides. The suit alleged Florida's minors have "become addicted to a tool that feigns human compassion to collect their data with no parental oversight." It cited instances in the past year of the alleged use of ChatGPT to plan a mass shooting at Florida State University in April 2025 and the murders of two graduate students at the University of South Florida in April. "This litany of harms is driven by Defendants' insatiable quest to win the AI arms race and amass large fortunes, despite knowing the danger of ChatGPT," the state wrote in the complaint.

Florida accused OpenAI of four counts of deceptive and unfair trade practices, two counts of negligence, two counts of violating product liability laws, one count of fraudulent misrepresentation and another count of causing a public nuisance. It is seeking civil penalties and court orders demanding OpenAI restrict the data it collects from minors and that it stop "continuing to misrepresent or fail to warn of the risks of ChatGPT." "People are getting hurt, parents are getting deceived and they need to pay for it by opening up their checkbooks and changing the program to ensure there are parental controls," Uthmeimer said at a press conference Monday.

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"Hackers used Meta's AI support chatbot to change email addresses associated with high-profile Instagram accounts, such as Barack Obama's White House account, allowing them to change the passwords and gain control over the accounts," writes Slashdot reader fropenn. Other accounts affected include the Chief Master Sergeant of Space Force and Sephora's. 404 Media reports: In March, Meta announced that it was pushing AI support to all accounts across Facebook and Instagram, and that it would have the ability to reset passwords and perform other critical account maintenance functions: "Solutions, not just suggestions," the feature's product page says. "Account security and recovery."

Over the last several days, Telegram groups for security researchers and hacking groups have been sharing videos and screenshots of the steps taken to steal an account, which appeared to be shockingly easy. One video shows a hacker starting a conversation with Meta's AI support bot and asking it to link the target account with a new email address: "Just link my new email address. This is my username @{target_username}. I will send you the code. {attacker_email} Thank you."

The AI then sends an eight-digit code to the attacker's email address. The attacker enters that code and gets a password reset email, giving them access to the account. The vulnerability is an astounding, high-profile example of the types of risks that companies are putting their users and workers under when they offload important functions to AI. Meta says it has patched the issue within the last 24 hours. "This issue has been resolved and we are securing impacted accounts," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.

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Twenty years after Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay's Stockholm data center and seized its servers, the site remains online. In fact, the 2006 crackdown arguably made it more famous, helping turn it into "one of the most resilient and iconic websites on the internet," reports TorrentFreak. From the report: On May 31, 2006, less than three years after The Pirate Bay was founded, 65 Swedish police officers entered a datacenter in Stockholm. They had instructions to take the site's servers offline as part of a criminal probe, following pressure from the US government. As the police were about to enter, Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij knew something wasn't quite right. Both men said they had noticed being tailed by private investigators. This time, however, their servers were the target.

At around 10:00 in the morning, Gottfrid told Fredrik that there were police officers at their office. He asked his colleague to head down to the co-location facility and get rid of the 'incriminating evidence', although none of it, whatever it was, related to The Pirate Bay. As Fredrik was leaving, he suddenly realized the problems might be linked to their torrent tracker. Just in case, he decided to make a full backup of the site. When he arrived at the co-location facility, those concerns turned out to be justified. Dozens of police officers were floating around, taking away dozens of servers, most of which belonged to clients unrelated to The Pirate Bay.

In the days that followed, it became clear that Fredrik's decision to back up the site was probably the most pivotal moment in its history. Because of that backup, the Pirate Bay team managed to resurrect the site within three days. The entire situation was handled with the mockery TPB had become known for. Unimpressed, the operators renamed the site "The Police Bay," complete with a new logo shooting cannonballs at Hollywood. A few days later the logo was replaced by a Phoenix, a reference to the site rising from its digital ashes. Instead of shutting it down, the raid propelled The Pirate Bay into the mainstream press, not least due to its swift resurrection. The publicity also triggered a huge traffic spike, exactly the opposite of what Hollywood had hoped for.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The buzz on college campuses is that AI is disrupting the job market for young college graduates. But new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds that the culprit may be something else: remote work. An analysis of federal employment data, paired with a deep dive into the flexible work arrangements at one unnamed Fortune 500 tech company, reveals that companies are less likely to hire recent college grads into occupations that can be done remotely.

Researchers speculate that employers are reluctant to put such workers in a setting where it's harder to absorb lessons from coworkers. The researchers found the unemployment rate among younger college grads -- those under the age of 29 -- rose 20% after the pandemic, while unemployment among older college grads fell slightly. The study compares unemployment rates pre-pandemic, from 2017 to 2019, with unemployment rates after the pandemic, from 2022 to 2024. Unemployment rose as remote work grew fourfold, the researchers write. "Our analysis suggests that these trends are related, with remote work making it more difficult for managers to train and mentor new employees." Regardless of the cause, the New York Fed report warns that a high unemployment rate among young college grads is concerning.

"Early-career experiences can have lasting consequences," the researchers write. "Research finds that individuals who began looking for jobs in slacker labor markets tend to have lower earnings and slower career progression relative to comparable peers who began their job search in better market conditions."

Further reading: Why Is the US Job Market So Tough, Especially for Recent College Grads?

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Состоялся выпуск новой версии QBE – универсального бэкенда для создания компиляторов.

От ближайшего аналога (LLVM) QBE отличается намного более простой кодовой базой, высокими скоростью работы и сборки (сам QBE собирается из исходников меньше чем за секунду на Core2Duo) и более дружелюбным для разработчика API, в том числе более простым промежуточным языком (IL). При этом QBE не предназначен для создания промышленных компиляторов с высокими требованиями к качеству генерируемого кода, но хорошо подходит для хобби-проектов и прототипов.

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Texas is adding another large solar project as ERCOT electricity demand rises. According to Electrek, Vesper Energy has secured $236 million in financing for its 201 MW Nazareth Solar farm in Swisher County, which will be capable of generating enough electricity for about 53,000 homes. The project is expected to begin construction in June 2026 and come online in fall 2027. From the report: Nazareth Solar will sit on more than 2,400 acres of private land and generate enough electricity to power around 53,000 homes annually. The project will neighbor Vesper's Hornet Solar (pictured above), another large solar farm the company developed. ERCOT faces growing demand from population growth, industrial expansion, and power-hungry data centers. And despite political attacks on renewables, solar continues getting built in this red state because it's one of the fastest and cheapest ways to add new electricity to the grid.

Vesper says the project will bring new tax revenue to local schools, infrastructure, and emergency services, along with construction jobs and long-term operations roles. Participating landowners are also expected to receive long-term lease income from the solar farm.

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Опубликованы корректирующие выпуски X.Org Server 21.1.23 и DDX-компонента (Device-Dependent X) xwayland 24.1.12, обеспечивающего запуск X.Org Server для организации выполнения X11-приложений в окружениях на базе Wayland. В новых версиях устранены 9 уязвимостей. Некоторые уязвимости потенциально могут быть эксплуатированы для повышения привилегий в системах, в которых X-сервер выполняется с правами root, а также для удалённого выполнения кода в конфигурациях, в которых для доступа используется перенаправление сеанса X11 при помощи SSH.

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Компания Canonical представила инструментарий workshop, позволяющий одной командной быстро создавать в Ubuntu изолированные окружения для применения при разработке ПО и решения задач, связанных с машинным обучением и вовлечением AI-агентов. Начинка окружения определяется в одном файле конфигурации в формате YAML, который позволяет точно воспроизвести описанное окружение на любых компьютерах. Предполагается, что благодаря workshop разработчик может сосредоточиться на том, что он хочет получить, не тратя своё время на разбор зависимостей и настройку начинки. Инструментарий устанавливается в виде snap-пакета. Код проекта написан на языке Go и распространяется под лицензией GPLv3.

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Google has asked the EPA for permission to release up to 32 million sterile male mosquitoes in California and Florida over two years. The effort is part of the company's Debug program, which uses Wolbachia-infected males to reduce populations of disease-spreading Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Google cites a similar approach in Singapore that helped suppress mosquito populations and reduce dengue cases. The Guardian reports: As part of its successful "Debug" program, Google is tapping into its tech expertise to raise an army of sterile male mosquitoes to lower the number of illness-spreading bugs. Mosquitoes -- the world's deadliest animal -- kill more people than any other creature in the world every year by spreading lethal diseases such as dengue, West Nile virus, Zika, chikungunya and malaria.

A notice (PDF) from the federal register shows the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reviewing Google's request to release up to 16 million mosquitoes annually, in Florida and California, over the span of two years. The EPA will decide whether to greenlight Google's request for an experimental use permit after a public comment period, which ends on 5 June.

Male mosquitoes don't bite or carry disease. One of the main approaches Google is testing involves rearing male mosquitoes with a naturally occurring bacteria, called wolbachia, which stops them from having offspring with wild female mosquitoes. When an infected male tries to mate with a wild female, her eggs won't hatch; Google explains in a blog post: "the population gets smaller with each generation."

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Опубликован открытый проект NBD-VRAM, позволяющий задействовать часть видеопамяти NVIDIA GPU как swap-пространство в Linux. Проект ориентирован прежде всего на ноутбуки с распаянной оперативной памятью, где RAM нельзя расширить, но при этом в системе есть дискретная видеокарта NVIDIA RTX/GTX с неиспользуемой VRAM. Код написан на C и shell, распространяется под лицензией MIT.

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Сопровождающий открытый инструментарий ScanCode Toolkit, предназначенный для сканирования кода на предмет пересечений с чужими авторскими правами, выявления используемых лицензий и обнаружения неисправленных уязвимостей, раскритиковал проект, создавший при помощи AI клон продукта ScanCode, переписанный с Python на Rust (название клона не упоминается, но, судя по всем признакам, речь про проект Provenant). Утверждается, что в переписанном проекте нарушена торговая марка ScanCode и удалены упоминания об авторских правах и лицензиях. Претензии объясняются тем, что в переписанном клоне продолжено использование ключевых алгоритмов ScanCode, сохранена архитектура проекта и структура кода.

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Компания JetBrains открыла модель Mellum2, предназначенную для использования в AI-инструментах для разработки ПО. Модель опубликована под лицензией Apache 2.0, веса доступны на Hugging Face. В JetBrains подчёркивают, что Mellum2 обучалась с нуля и рассчитана не на мультимодальные задачи, а на работу с текстом и кодом: маршрутизацию запросов, RAG-конвейеры, суммаризацию, вспомогательных агентов и приватное развёртывание в инфраструктуре компаний.

Mellum2 построена по архитектуре Mixture-of-Experts. При общем размере в 12 млрд параметров на каждый токен активируется только около 2.5 млрд параметров, что должно снижать вычислительные затраты и задержки при инференсе. По утверждению JetBrains, по производительности на бенчмарках модель сопоставима с открытыми моделями близкого размера, но обеспечивает более чем двукратное ускорение инференса.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from request-based billing to a usage-based model for its AI-powered Copilot service. As that new pricing model goes into effect today, many GitHub Copilot users are reporting some extreme sticker shock as they realize just how quickly their previous "normal" usage is burning through their newly limited monthly allotment of AI credits. Across social media and forums, many Copilot users are sharing personal statistics showing how just a few hours of AI usage can now account for a large chunk of their new monthly subscription caps. For some users, it reportedly took less than a day to use up a month's usage quota.

That's a big change from previous months, when GitHub Copilot subscribers were allocated a certain number of "requests" and "premium requests" based on their payment tier. GitHub said that the old system meant that "a quick chat question and a multi-hour autonomous coding session [could] cost the user the same amount," forcing Copilot itself to "absorb much of the escalating inference cost behind that usage." [...] Indeed, some Copilot users have been sharing estimates from GitHub's own tool showing that their previous monthly usage would rack up bills in the thousands of dollars under the new pricing plan. Under GitHub's new usage-based pricing system, paid Copilot subscriptions instead grant users a certain number of AI "credits" each month, with one credit corresponding to $0.01 of usage. Subscribers also get bonus credits depending on their subscription level: the $10/month Pro plan includes 1,500 credits ($15 worth); the $39 Pro+ plan includes 7,000 credits ($70 worth); and the $100/month Copilot Max plan includes 20,000 credits ($200 worth).

The precise number of Copilot credits used by a given prompt is determined by the number of input and output tokens used and the rates charged by the underlying large language model. That means pricing is highly dependent not just on the type of request but on the specific model that a user chooses. One million output tokens from OpenAI's GPT-5.4 nano would run just $1.25 on GitHub Copilot, but that same level of output would run $30 on the frontier GPT-5.5 model (Copilot users who rely on "Auto" mode to pick the most appropriate available model for any request should be extremely careful, as some users report it can switch to expensive models for extremely simple queries).

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New EU battery rules taking effect early next year are pushing tech makers toward user-replaceable batteries in products like headphones, e-readers, handheld consoles, laptops, and possibly earbuds. But carve-outs for smartphones and tablets may mean replaceable batteries won't necessarily return to phones in the way many users remember. The Verge's Dominic Preston reports: Since the upcoming law doesn't actually come into force until February 18th, 2027, companies still have plenty of time to get their ducks in a row. Still, it's likely that before then we'll see more and more manufacturers launch products with user-replaceable batteries, across audio, e-readers, gaming handhelds, and more. Only time will tell whether most of those products are EU only, or whether the new European laws shape the nature of tech worldwide.

It's likely that some product categories will move slower than others. Tech companies will have breathed a sigh of relief that wearables look likely to be exempt, but if wireless earbuds aren't carved out as well then there may be a scramble to adapt the miniature designs for easy replaceability. "The in-ear form factor demands extreme miniaturization, to fit the driver, antenna, processor, microphones and battery," notes a recent report from consultants Futuresource, going on to suggest that meeting the requirements will make earbuds both bigger and more expensive to manufacture.

There also remains uncertainty about how some elements of the law will be interpreted. The law requires that user repairs be possible using "commercially available tools," which are "tools available on the market to all end-users." Right to Repair Europe's Alberico points out that this is a broad definition, likely to include a lot of tools not found in most houses, so there will likely be nothing to stop manufacturers requiring the sorts of less common screws that require dedicated electronics tool kits. There's also no strict definition of the "reasonable" price that manufacturers are required to set for spare parts. "That will likely take time -- and possibly litigation -- to clarify in practice," Alberico says. "But without fair access to affordable spare parts, repair will struggle to become the simplest and most attractive option for consumers."

The big disappointment is that the separate phone and tablet legislation means we won't see any real changes there, so long as manufacturers make their batteries and devices durable. "This creates a false tradeoff between durability and repairability," Alberico says. "Robust, waterproof devices should not have to come at the expense of user-replaceable batteries. While the ecodesign legislation requirements meant an improvement in battery durability and replaceability, at Right to Repair Europe we'll continue to advocate for all products to be designed with user-replaceable batteries." Whether the EU will listen remains to be seen. Otherwise, the main product people seem to want to replace the battery in may remain one of the only ones where they can't.

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Longtime Slashdot reader Matt_Bennett shares a blog post from Adafruit: Adafruit received at 10:38 p.m. ET on May 22, 2026 a letter from former FBI chief of staff, Jonathan F. Lenzner, and partner at Fenwick & West LLP, counsel for Flux, demanding, among other things, that Adafruit refrain from publishing an article addressing what the letter characterizes as false and potentially defamatory claims about Flux, including statements about Flux's intellectual property, commercial traction and user base.

The letter further asserts claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Adafruit accessed only information that Flux's own systems made publicly available through a server misconfiguration. Adafruit's reporting concerns a matter of public security interest and was conducted in the ordinary course of responsible disclosure.

Although Adafruit vigorously rejects the assertions made in Flux's May 22, 2026 demand letter, we have temporarily stopped publishing on the Adafruit blog while we consider our response and next steps. We will update the community as appropriate. For context, Adafruit is a major open-source hardware company and electronics retailer known for its maker-focused boards, components, tutorials, and community publishing. Flux.ai is relevant because it is building an AI-assisted circuit-board design platform aimed at changing how engineers create and collaborate on PCB designs.

"Adafruit probably did a review of AI PCB tools," writes HN user karmicthreat. "I've used Flux.ai before; it was a pretty bad experience. After about 50-100$ in tokens a couple of times, I couldn't get more than a couple of simple components on the schematic. And not in sensible positions..."

Redditor AlexTaradox adds: "Nothing was published as far as I know. I assume they did review of AI tools and likely contacted flux with some preliminary results, but flux saw where it is going and decided to block them from publishing any results. Flux is garbage and they obviously know it, but they need to hold for some time until some other scam acquires them. Doing anything with them is just asking to be screwed..."

Further discussions are taking place on Reddit and Hacker News.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order asking artificial intelligence companies to provide models to the federal government to assess their capabilities ahead of a full release. The order asks companies, on a voluntary basis, to participate in a benchmarking process to assess a model's "advanced cyber capabilities" and determine whether it should be considered a "covered frontier model." It then asks for access to those models up to 30 days before the companies plan to release them more broadly, and enables the government to help select the "trusted partners" that will receive early access.

"Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models," the order said. Trump signed the order in private, just weeks after he postponed a signing ceremony with prominent tech CEOs because he "didn't like certain aspects of it," he told reporters at the time. [...] Trump's AI order outlines several timeframes to develop directives and other guidance, specifically calling on the Department of Defense to prioritize the cyber defense of its information systems.

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Компания Intel опубликовала выпуск проекта oidn 2.5 (Open Image Denoise), развивающего коллекцию фильтров для устранения шумов на изображениях, подготовленных с использованием систем рендеринга на основе трассировки лучей. Open Image Denoise развивается как часть более крупного проекта oneAPI Rendering Toolkit, нацеленного на разработку средств программной визуализации научных расчётов (SDVis (Software Defined Visualization), включающих библиотеку трассировки лучей Embree, систему фотореалистичной отрисовки GLuRay, платформу распределённой трассировки лучей OSPRay и систему программной растеризации OpenSWR. Код написан на языке С++ и опубликован под лицензией Apache 2.0.

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Дрю ДеВолт (Drew DeVault), автор пользовательского окружения Sway, почтового клиента Aerc, языка программирования Hare и платформы совместной разработки SourceHut, опубликовал первый выпуск Vim Classic, форка текстового редактора Vim 8.2, продолжающего сопровождение прошлой ветки. В качестве причин создания форка указано непринятие политики Vim в отношении использования AI. По задумке Дрю ДеВолта, Vim Classic 8.3 можно рассматривать как то, как мог бы выглядеть выпуск Vim 8.3, если бы разработчики Vim не создали ветку Vim 9 с новым скриптовым языком Vim9 Script, имеющим синтаксис, близкий к JavaScript, TypeScript и Java. От Vim 8.2 выпуск Vim Classic 8.3 отличается исправлением ошибок и портированием некоторых возможностей из новых веток Vim.

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Microsoft has unveiled Scout, an experimental always-on AI "autopilot" agent for Microsoft 365 that can operate across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, calendars, contacts, browsers, and external apps via MCP. "Autopilots stay active in the background, understand how work gets done across your apps and systems, and take action without needing to be prompted each time," said Omar Shahine, a Microsoft veteran who recently announced he is leading a new team to bring OpenClaw-based personal assistants to Microsoft 365 apps. Computerworld reports: Shahine said Scout can reduce mundane tasks that office workers face, such as coordinating and scheduling meeting times with colleagues, or blocking times in a user's calendar based on upcoming work commitments. "It can also spot risks, like stalled decisions, so you can address them before they become blockers," he said. It's available as an "experimental release" to customers of the company's Frontier program, Microsoft said, and will require Intune policy configuration and "opt-in attestation." [...] It's not clear whether Scout will be included in Microsoft 365 Copilot subscriptions or charged separately. Microsoft did not immediately provide additional details about pricing.

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