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Альянс открытых медиа AOMedia 30 июля [ представил Open Audio Renderer 1.0 ]( https://aomedia.org/press%20releases/AOMedia-Publishes-Open-Audio-Renderer_OAR_v1-Advancing-Open-Spatial-Audio/ ) — эталонную реализацию системы воспроизведения пространственного звука в формате IAMF. Исходный код проекта [ опубликован на GitHub ]( https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/oar ) под лицензией BSD-3-Clause-Clear.

OAR не является новым звуковым кодеком. Формат [ IAMF ]( https://aomedia.org/specifications/iamf/ ) описывает упаковку, передачу и структуру иммерсивной звуковой сцены, а рендерер преобразует содержащиеся в ней дорожки и метаданные в сигнал, подходящий для конкретного оборудования слушателя. Таким образом, одна и та же запись может воспроизводиться через обычную стереосистему, многоканальную акустику домашнего кинотеатра или наушники.

Рендерер поддерживает три способа представления звука:

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30 июля состоялся [ выпуск свободного гипервизора Xen 4.22 ]( https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/xen-project-releases-xen-4.22-strengthening-open-source-virtualization-for-cloud-embedded-and-automotive-systems-1 ) . Новая версия расширяет поддержку современных процессоров x86, развивает виртуализацию систем на базе Arm и закладывает основу для будущего запуска гостевых систем на RISC-V. Исходный код Xen распространяется под лицензией GPLv2, архивы выпуска и цифровые подписи [ доступны на сервере проекта ]( https://downloads.xenproject.org/release/xen/4.22.0/ ) .

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Разработчик GNOME Майкл Катандзаро [ объявил об отказе от сопровождения централизованного учёта уязвимостей ]( https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/07/20/some-changes-to-gnome-security-tracking/ ) . С 1 ноября 2026 года он перестанет принимать новые сообщения, в течение ноября завершит обработку ранее зарегистрированных вопросов, а 1 декабря окончательно сложит с себя эти обязанности. Катандзаро подчёркивает, что в настоящее время « [ сейчас никто другой не отслеживает проблемы безопасности GNOME ]( https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/07/20/some-changes-to-gnome-security-tracking/#moving-on ) ».

( [ читать дальше... ]( https://www.linux.org.ru/news/gnome/18349565#cut ) )

A production company and filmmaker are suing Netflix for $105 million, alleging the streamer lost a stolen drive containing an unencrypted master copy of the unreleased Nicolas Cage film Fortitude, which they claim damage its exclusivity and market value. Netflix denied responsibility for the lost film but said it takes content security seriously and has offered to monitor piracy sites for unauthorized copies. CBS News reports: The complaint filed on Wednesday in California district court alleges that the film's associate producer, Daniel Haido, hand-delivered an unencrypted master copy of the film to Netflix so the company could screen it as a potential buyer. Haido verbally instructed the employee to delete the files after the screening, according to the suit. A little over a week after the screening, Netflix emailed the filmmakers to say the drive had been stolen, the plaintiffs allege. "Someone stole a good amount of drives from our office desks this past week," a Netflix executive wrote in the email, according to the suit.

The complaint notes the movie, entitled "Fortitude," took over seven years to make and cost $45 million. It tells the story of a secret mission called Operation Fortitude during World War II that was orchestrated to mislead the Nazis about the Allied invasion of Europe. The film stars Nicolas Cage as Dusko Popov, a real-life spy during World War II, as well as Sir Ben Kingsley and Ron Perlman.

The plaintiffs said studios will now be dissuaded from buying the rights to the movie, knowing that a version of it could be released by a third party for free. "The film's value depended in significant part on its exclusivity as an unreleased, first-to-market work," the complaint states. "By losing control of the film, Netflix destroyed that exclusivity and materially, if not completely, impaired the film's marketability."

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Поздравляю всех системных администраторов.

Желаю чтобы у вас всегда были понятные логи и легкочитаемые скрипты. Чтобы аптайм серверов на Linux был большим и чтобы зарплата была немаленькой.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: LinkedIn, a social network awash with long AI-generated posts from executives and other corporate workers, has introduced a new button that users can click to flag if a post "seems like AI slop," according to 404 Media's own tests. If you have been anywhere near LinkedIn in the past couple of years, you have undoubtedly seen users posting blatantly AI-generated missives. Often these posts take some sort of news event, and opine on how this relates to thought leadership, or some other LinkedIn brainrot term. It's also pretty wild the button specifically uses the term "AI slop" and not, say, "It seems this was generated with AI."

[...] After publication of this piece, Hari Srinivasan, chief product officer at LinkedIn, wrote their own post about the button. "AI slop is a top priority for all of us. We really care about this. People come to LinkedIn to connect with real people and share their real perspectives, ideas and expertise. Here are a few more changes to keep it that way," he wrote.

The button in part will help LinkedIn tune its own models for identifying AI slop. "We are ramping up a series of new and improved classifiers that identify if a post is AI-slop or generally low-quality content. This will reduce the amount of AI slop you might see in suggested content and content from outside your network," the post said. "We are ramping the ability for members to tell us if they believe a post or comment seems like AI slop. Slop is hard to define and the definition changes; this lets us tune our models and make better feeds." Srinivasan also said LinkedIn is removing the AI-powered "enhance your post" feature with another that "proofreads your words, but does not change your voice."

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Google says AI-assisted workflows helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs across versions 149 and 150, more than the previous 23 releases combined. The company is also testing twice-weekly security updates and "dynamic patching," which could apply most fixes without requiring users to restart the entire browser. "By leveraging Chrome's multi-process architecture, dynamic patching sequentially replaces background child processes (like the Renderer and GPU) with updated binaries on the fly," says Google in a blog post. PiunikaWeb reports: Alongside dynamic patching, Google is rolling out smarter background updates during periods of minimal user disruption. Starting with Chrome 150 on macOS, the browser takes advantage of the operating system's windowless state. If all Chrome windows are closed but the app remains running in the background, the browser will quietly auto-restart to apply pending updates.

For enterprise environments, IT admins can continue to manage fleet-wide deployments through Chrome Enterprise Core or enforce update prompts using the RelaunchNotification policy. Google's long-term vision is a browser that remains continuously protected in the background without interrupting your daily browsing session. In the meantime, you can manually trigger pending updates by clicking the update prompt in the top-right corner of Chrome.

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Проект Arch Linux объявил о приостановке передачи бесхозных пакетов новым сопровождающим в репозитории AUR (Arch User Repository). В качестве причины называется возобновление атак по подстановке вредоносного кода в пакеты, оставшиеся без сопровождения. Для захвата пакетов атакующие использовали предоставляемую в AUR возможность принимать сопровождение над пакетами, оставшимися без сопровождающих и имеющими статус "orphaned".

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New York has sued prediction-market platform Kalshi, alleging it operates an "illegal gambling operation" without state authorization. "No matter what they call themselves, prediction markets like Kalshi are gambling platforms, plain and simple," said New York Attorney General Letitia James in a press release announcing the lawsuit. "By ignoring our laws, Kalshi is running an illegal operation and harming New Yorkers in the process." CNBC reports: In a case filed in a Manhattan state court (PDF), the lawsuit claims that Kalshi accepts wagers as a gambling business in disregard for the state's constitution and laws by not being registered with the New York State Gaming Commission. Governor Kathy Hochul in the press release said the state is taking the action to stop what it views as illegal behavior and bring the company into compliance with New York law. The lawsuit is seeking a permanent injunction against Kalshi.

The suit by the state is also seeking a total restitution to users who have placed trades on the platform, a $100,000 penalty for each attempt to offer sports wagering, and another penalty three times the amount the company has gained while allegedly operating in violation of New York law. The state estimates that could total $36 billion.

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alternative_right shares a report from Axios: Google has basically stopped sending people to websites (including our site) for answers and information. Instead, it's using AI to answer them on its platform, in its words. Chartbeat data shared with Axios shows Google Search traffic to publishers fell 34% over the past year. That pain is regressive. Over the past two years, small publishers lost 60% of referrals from search overall, medium publishers 47%, large publishers 22%.

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Google has integrated its Nano Banana 2 image generator into Google Earth, allowing users to place AI-generated events and objects onto real satellite imagery. The company says its AI-generated images contain invisible watermarks detectable through Gemini or Lens, but the BBC found those safeguards and some third-party detection tools can be fooled into labeling manipulated Google Earth images as real. From the report: A collapsed Eiffel Tower, a sinkhole swallowing the Great Pyramid of Giza and Russian tanks in Ukraine's capital were among the images BBC Verify was able to create when testing the feature, which was rolled out on Thursday. Google has not yet responded to questions based on BBC Verify's tests, but in a social media post the company said they "take misinformation seriously" and that "we prevent image creation on harmful topics and are continually updating our protections."

AI and misinformation expert Henk van Ess has highlighted the risks this feature poses, creating fake images of a non-existent nuclear power plant in Iran, a refugee camp on the US-Mexico border and a fake hospital in Gaza with a bomb crater next to it. He said Google was allowing "invented" imagery to be "welded to genuine coordinates, drawn on genuine imagery." "The forgery does not have to look convincing on its own. It inherits the credibility of the map it was born on," van Ess added.

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Компания Google сообщила о намерении реализовать в Chrome механизм динамического применения патчей, позволяющий устранять уязвимости без необходимости полного перезапуска браузера. Идея в том чтобы вносить изменения на лету в исполняемые файлы и последовательно заменять дочерние процессы, такие как процессы отрисовки и взаимодействия с GPU.

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Представитель компании Huawei сообщил о желании передать в состав Mesa новый драйвер к развиваемому данной компанией GPU. Проблема в том, что компания Huawei намерена лишь частично открыть проект - код Vulkan-драйвера на базе Mesa Vulkan Runtime и низкоуровневые компоненты, использующие промежуточное представление NIR, решено открыть, но бэкенд для трансляции промежуточного представления NIR в машинный код GPU хотят поставлять в виде бинарного блоба, что бы не раскрывать информацию об архитектуре набор команд GPU (GPU ISA).

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Cyberattacks targeting municipal water systems have been reported in at least seven states this week, prompting the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency to warn utilities nationwide that hackers are trying to disrupt critical water infrastructure. In a public service announcement Thursday, the agencies said water and wastewater utilities have reported incidents to the FBI, with some malicious activity degrading water operations. The announcement does not name the states.

The warning comes after hackers targeted more than 30 municipal water facilities in Minnesota in an attack that had hallmarks of Iranian meddling, according to a law enforcement official. It is still under investigation. A spokesperson for Minnesota's information technology services agency said Thursday there was no indication the breaches contaminated any municipal water supplies. The federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a separate alert that some larger attacks on water infrastructure had "resulted in boil water notices and sustained manual operations," though it did not say where.

[...] The federal advisory said the malicious cyber actors, or MCAs, targeted specific brands of control systems used by municipal water utilities, though the FBI and the EPA urged operators of all systems to take precautions. [...] The agencies said the hackers remotely accessed internet-facing devices, changed IP addresses and passwords, and caused utilities to lose monitoring and control capabilities. The federal advisory calls on system operators to remove programmable logical controllers, or PLCs, from direct internet exposure by putting them behind secure gateways and firewalls; use strong passwords; and limit communications between authorized control system devices through access control lists.

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Sony says it will proceed with ending PlayStation disc sales in January 2028 despite petitions, boycott threats, and concerns about digital ownership and the disappearance of the secondhand market. PCMag reports: After Sony's recent earnings call, an investor Q&A session saw analysts ask about its controversial decision to end disc production across all of its consoles. The company hadn't publicly commented since its announcement and had reduced activity on social accounts and other marketing channels. Sony's chief financial officer, Lin Tao, broke that silence during the Q&A. "There are various reasons we made this decision," she said through an interpreter. "The biggest being that the digitalization of content overall has been progressing. That's the big factor. It's not just for PlayStation, but for all kinds of content, digitalization is progressing. "And so when we think about the future, and we put in a lot of thought and time, and we cautiously considered this, and we came to this conclusion, and we're going to cautiously move this forward," Tao said.

"We have received various opinions, and people have strong views, and we understand that the community has put forth those views to us," said Tao. [...] Tao says Sony wants to "consider" the emotions of disgruntled customers, especially as titles are "connected to people's fond memories in many cases." Tao also alluded to the possibility of future measures to lessen the blow for anyone unhappy with the decision, but it appears Sony hasn't yet finalized what those may be. "In the future digital ecosystem, how do we engage the gamers is something that we would like to continue to explore," she said.

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More than 81% of Australian children ages 10 to 15 were still using social media three months after the country's under-16 ban took effect, with roughly half saying platforms never checked their age. Reuters reports: In a study published on Friday, eSafety also found most children aged between 10 and 15 were using social media just as frequently in March as they had before the ban came into force on December 10 last year, while parental awareness of their habits decreased. Children's continued social media use took place even as account ownership declined to 42% from 52%, with "statistically significant" reductions across YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok in particular, the report said.

"Most under-16s who had social media accounts before commencement were able to either retain them or create new ones at the three-month mark, with social media platforms' failure to implement effective age assurance measures cited as the main reason," eSafety said in a statement [...] Before the ban, nearly 86% of children surveyed reported using at least one age-restricted platform. Three months later, that figure remained above 81%, the report said. About 58% of teenagers reported using social media daily or more often, barely down from roughly 60% before the ban, it found. The report showed minimal change in "sports and physical activity, arts and music, spending time with friends and family, and attendance at community events."

Around half the children who retained their accounts said platforms had not checked their age, the most common reason they were able to stay on the services. Others said their accounts listed them as aged 16 or older or that age-checking systems had incorrectly determined they were older. The findings broadly matched snapshot data eSafety published in late March.

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Major record labels including Universal, Sony, and Warner have proposed excluding AI-generated songs from official charts unless they are "substantially human made," properly labeled, legally produced, and free from manipulation concerns. The Verge reports: The proposal goes quite a bit further than a labeling proposal put forth by the RIAA, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), SAG-AFTRA, and others. That would create a set of standardized labels for AI-generated and AI-assisted music. The labels' proposal would require songs be clearly labeled, but it would also keep them off international charts unless they met specific criteria, including being "substantially human made."

To be eligible, the songs would also have to respect the terms of service of whatever AI service was used, the model would have to have the rights to any data it was trained on, and "not raise stream or chart manipulation concerns." What sort of concerns and what constitutes "substantially human made" are currently vague. Sony Music, UMG, and Mom+Pop Music did not immediately respond to a request for clarification. The IFPI has thrown its weight behind the labels' proposal, though no charting organization has signaled any immediate plan to adopt the rules [...].

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Опубликован очередной еженедельный отчёт о разработке KDE, в котором представлена порция изменений для ветки KDE Plasma 6.8, релиз которой запланирован на 14 октября. Среди недавних изменений.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that drew global attention this month, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The new breakouts were uncovered during the company's publicly announced investigation into how one of its agents escaped what was meant to be a contained testing environment this month, the two people said, and OpenAI is now looking into those instances as well. One of the sources said that the escapes were limited in nature and that none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network.

An OpenAI spokesperson referred to a statement issued by the company on Tuesday that said it was reviewing "broader activity from our models" in addition to the Hugging Face intrusion. The discovery of additional rogue behavior at OpenAI, even if limited in nature, could feed growing appetite for regulation coming out of the White House and elsewhere. The expanded investigation by OpenAI was launched shortly before its primary rival, Anthropic, disclosed that its models were also responsible for a series of break-ins that led to breaches at three other companies dating back to April, according to the two sources and a third source familiar with the matter. The recent discovery of other past breakouts at OpenAI has not previously been reported.

AI safety experts said the new disclosures paint a portrait of a group of cutting-edge labs whose ability to develop dangerous autonomous hacking agents outstrips their ability to keep them under control. "We have a whole industry where the people designing, developing and putting out these tools aren't keeping up themselves to responsibly develop these things and keep them safe," said Maurice Chiodo, a mathematician who works at Cambridge University's Center for the Study of Existential Risk. Reuters could not establish exactly how many incidents OpenAI investigators found or the timings or circumstances under which they occurred. The three sources said OpenAI and outside experts were examining log data from earlier in the year in a bid to understand what took place.

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"Space.com and The Guardian are reporting that the Falcon 9 upper stage leftover from the launch of the Firefly Blue Ghost-1 lander on Jan. 15, 2025 is due to impact the Moon on Aug. 5, 2026," writes longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot. From a report: Onboard the same flight was the Hakuto-R Mission 2, called Resilience, a robotic lunar lander developed by the Japanese company ispace. According to a new study by an international team, the resulting impact plume may briefly be bright enough to see against the dark sky near the moon's edge. That means it might be visible to moongazers with sufficiently sensitive telescopes. This head-on collision of the errant stage is expected to occur near the Einstein and Bell craters near the western lunar limb. It may well be visible to ground and space-based assets.

Using special physics simulations to model the impact, William Jo, a graduate research assistant at the University of Texas, Austin and colleagues predict the debris plume from the impact will have the central ejecta spike reaching roughly 47 miles to over 60 miles (75 kilometers to 100 kilometers) altitude. "Our calculations suggest the plume should be several orders of magnitude brighter than the dark-sky background for the first few minutes after impact," Jo told Space.com. "So the plume should be visible, though I'd stress this is a single nominal case. The real one will look different, and the numbers are on the optimistic side. But the point worth making is that the flash isn't really the story here." Jo emphasized that there's great slam-dunk science to be had. "Watching this one gives us a rare chance to open up ejecta-plume science and calibrate those models against a real event, which matters for every future thing we deliver to the moon," Jo said.

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15 июля 2026 года Линус Торвальдс жёстко высказался против попыток объявить разработку ядра Linux территорией, свободной от искусственного интеллекта. В [ сообщении в списке рассылки linux-media ]( https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-%3Dwi4zC%2BZe8e%2Bp3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg%40mail.gmail.com/ ) он заявил, что Linux «не относится к анти-ИИ-проектам», а несогласные с этим могут воспользоваться предоставляемой свободным ПО возможностью и создать собственное ответвление проекта — либо просто покинуть его. Письмо было отправлено 14 июля в 20:06 по тихоокеанскому времени, что соответствует 15 июля по UTC.

Спор возник в обсуждении возможной интеграции системы учёта патчей Patchwork с [ Sashiko ]( https://sashiko.dev/ ) — открытым агентным средством рецензирования изменений ядра Linux. Система отслеживает общедоступные списки рассылки, анализирует поступающие патчи при помощи языковых моделей и пытается обнаруживать архитектурные ошибки, проблемы безопасности, управления ресурсами и параллельного выполнения. Код Sashiko передан Linux Foundation и распространяется под Apache 2.0, а работу публичного сервиса и расходы на используемые модели оплачивает Google.

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The U.S. company Meteomatics has created an automated weather-monitoring system that uses drones to collect atmospheric data at multiple altitudes before returning to recharge and upload their findings. The so-called Meteobase, which consists of a base station on the ground with a drone that can be launched and recovered automatically, "is highly weather resistant and keeps the drone at a comfortable temperature," reports The Guardian. "It can send out one data-gathering mission a day, or multiple flights to monitor fog, icing, an advancing weather front, or other fast-changing conditions." The report says the reusable drones could offer a cheaper, more controllable alternative to helium weather balloons, especially for tracking rapidly changing conditions.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: We are a month away from the initial rollout of Google's Android developer verification system, and the company contends this policy does not impinge on the platform's open nature. Still, the restrictions will be a big change, and there are still some unanswered questions. An issue that has come up repeatedly in the run-up to verification is what will happen to devs who can't verify because of where they live. It turns out that Google has a cryptic answer for that buried in an FAQ. Developer verification will soon block the installation of apps from unverified developers on any Android device running Google services, which is functionally all Android phones outside Russia and China. Developers who want to keep releasing software, even if it's not in the Play Store, have to provide Google with their ID and pay a small fee.

But what if you're an Android developer living in a sanctioned nation? Currently, the U.S. sanction list includes Iran, Cuba, North Korea, and occupied areas of Ukraine. Given the current uncertain state of US foreign policy, that list could change in the future. Google doing any business with developers in those places is a thorny issue, and it seems like the company has decided to just leave them hanging. A rather lengthy FAQ a few levels deep on the Google developer site addresses various issues around dev verification. Smack in the middle is this: "How does this program impact developers in sanctioned countries? Devices in sanctioned countries will be excluded from Android developer verification checks. This allows any developer to continue distributing apps in these regions without verification, though users there won't benefit from the enhanced security benefits of the program."

[...] A Google spokesperson has expanded on the FAQ and confirmed to Ars that people living in sanctioned nations will not be allowed to go through the verification process. That means they will not be able to effectively distribute software through any channel internationally. Today, someone making an app in, say, Cuba can distribute it freely around the world, as well as at home. Anyone can install it and see their work in action after tapping through a few sideloading alerts. In the coming months, that will no longer be the case. These unverified apps will only be easily installable in the sanctioned countries where verification doesn't exist.

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Electric vehicles have historically been "notorious" for losing their resale value, reports CNBC. But this year prices for used EVs in the U.S. "are up 5.1% from January to June 2026, according to a Recurrent analysis published this month."

The trend continued into the second half of the year: Prices are up 7% year to date through mid-July, it said. Recurrent compared EVs according to the same make and model year across 108 combinations and weighted price growth according to inventory volume. "Used EVs are appreciating, which almost never happens," according to an e-mailed Recurrent statement about the analysis. Other auto analysts found a similar trend...

Price growth for used EVs has been broad-based, said Stephanie Valdez Streaty, the director of industry insights at Cox Automotive, a market research firm. Twenty-one of the 25 used EV models with the highest sales volume increased in price between January and June this year, she said... [T]he price growth for used EVs this year has been all the more surprising because it has happened despite a high supply of used EVs hitting the market — which, all else being equal, would generally cause prices to fall, experts said...

There are several factors juicing consumer demand for used EVs, experts said. Among them are high gasoline prices due to the Iran war, which have pushed more consumers to consider fuel-efficient options, experts said... Overall affordability is another big factor, against a backdrop of inflation that has remained above policymakers' target of 2% for five or so years, auto experts said. The dynamic has pushed more consumers toward the used car market more broadly.

Two interesting statistics from the article:

"Used EV sales were up 20% in June versus a year earlier, while sales of new EVs were down about 28%, according to Cox Automotive data."

New EVs accounted for 5.4% of total new-vehicle sales in June, while the market share for used EVs was just 2.4%, according to Cox Automotive data.

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"GitHub and the Python Package Index (PyPI) have introduced new policies meant to boost supply chain security," reports SecurityWeek, "by preventing the fast propagation of poisoned package versions and the poisoning of old and long-stable releases."

To prevent the fast delivery of malicious code through the immediate fetching of brand-new releases, GitHub has introduced a Dependabot cooldown, where the automation tool waits for at least three days after a release has been published before opening a pull request. "Waiting a few days before adopting a new release gives maintainers, security researchers, and automated scanners time to spot a malicious version and get it pulled before it ever reaches your pull requests," GitHub explains.

The three-day cooldown only applies to non-security version bumps, and the behavior can be modified through the configuration option in the dependabot.yml. "Three days as the default balances two goals: it pushes you past the window where most of these attacks live, and it doesn't hold your dependencies back longer than necessary," GitHub notes.
And the Python Package Index (PyPI) "now rejects new files being uploaded to releases that are older than 14 days," according to a recernt blog post from the Python Software Foundation's security developer-in-residence Seth Larson:

This restriction was put in place to prevent old and long-stable releases from being poisoned in case publishing tokens or workflows of PyPI projects were compromised... The discussion of this behavior began during PEP 740 (Digital Attestations) back in January 2024. The discussion was restarted in March 2026 after the popular packages LiteLLM and Telnyx were compromised. These packages were compromised due to a "mutable reference" in these projects' usage of the Trivy GitHub Action...

To quantify how disruptive this change would be to existing workflows, the PyPI database was queried for projects that have published new files to old releases... [O]nly 56 projects of 15,000 had published a [Python] 3.14-compatible wheel more than 14 days after a release was available. This topic was brought to the Packaging Summit at PyCon US 2026 by PyPI Safety & Security Engineer, Mike Fiedler. The rough consensus of the discussion was that the summit attendees thought it was "acceptable to require users to bump to the next version" to support new Python versions. With the data and consensus in hand, Seth moved forward with a patch to reject new files on old releases which was merged July 8th, 2026.

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Servo создаётся как лёгкий и встраиваемый движок для отображения веб-содержимого в сторонних приложениях. Проект не следует воспринимать как полностью готовую замену Firefox или Chromium: поставляемая вместе с ним оболочка Servoshell прежде всего предназначена для демонстрации возможностей движка и его тестирования. При этом разработчики постепенно улучшают совместимость с настоящими сайтами и формируют стабильный интерфейс для внедрения Servo в другие программы.

В версии 0.4.0 заметно улучшилось отображение сайтов. Разработчики отмечают более правильную компоновку страниц Lichess, а усовершенствованная поддержка вариативных шрифтов сделала значительно читабельнее интерфейсы Zulip и Speedtest. Google Photos и некоторые другие сложные веб-приложения уже работают в Servo, тогда как Google Maps и OpenStreetMap отображаются достаточно хорошо, но пока сохраняют проблемы с интерактивными элементами. Сравнительные снимки Servo 0.3.0 и 0.4.0 опубликованы в [ официальном отчёте проекта ]( https://servo.org/blog/2026/07/31/june-in-servo/ ) .

Основные изменения Servo 0.4.0:

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MariaDB напомнила пользователям MySQL Galera Cluster о приближении окончания поддержки проекта. Обслуживание всех актуальных версий сборки Galera для MySQL, включая исправления ошибок и выпуск готовых пакетов, завершится 30 сентября 2026 года. Новые возможности кластеризации после этой даты будут разрабатываться только для MariaDB Galera Cluster.

Основой нынешних публикаций стало не новое объявление: [ первоначальное заявление MariaDB ]( https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/upgrade-now-announcing-mysql-galera-cluster-in-place-migration-to-mariadb-galera-cluster/ ) было опубликовано 1 декабря 2025 года. Тогда вице-президент компании по управлению серверными продуктами и один из основателей MariaDB Макс Метхер сообщил о появлении способа миграции с MySQL Galera Cluster на MariaDB Galera Cluster с «почти нулевым временем простоя». Одновременно он объявил дату окончания поддержки и пояснил: «Мы сосредоточиваем все инновации и разработку новых функций исключительно на MariaDB Galera Cluster».

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[ Представлен ]( https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-7-3-has-been-released/27033 ) выпуск Incus 7.3 — открытой системы управления системными и прикладными контейнерами, а также виртуальными машинами. Релиз опубликован 31 июля 2026 года. Исходный код проекта распространяется под лицензией Apache 2.0; Incus развивается сообществом Linux Containers как ответвление LXD, созданное прежними сопровождающими проекта.

Одним из главных нововведений стала возможность совместного использования графического процессора несколькими виртуальными машинами. Новый тип устройства native-context задействует virtio-gpu и virglrenderer, предоставляя гостевым системам аппаратное 3D-ускорение без полного проброса отдельной видеокарты. В отличие от PCI passthrough, при котором GPU целиком закрепляется за одной машиной, новая схема позволяет обслуживать несколько ВМ одновременно. Пока полноценные драйверы имеются только для Linux: виртуальные машины с Windows при такой конфигурации будут работать без ускорения. ( [ документация ]( https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/reference/devices_gpu/ ) )

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Long-time Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The northern German City of Hamburg is currently in the process of replacing one of its bridges in one single gigantic piece. The new replacement weighs 3700 metric tons and was carefully moved into place over a stretch of 500 meters, requiring extreme patience and precision maneuvering. Some places leave only 40 cm of room to neighbouring buildings.

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Лоис Фолтан (Lois Foltan) из компании Oracle подтвердила, что реализация предложения JEP 401 ("Value Classes and Objects") будет интегрирована в основной репозиторий OpenJDK и запланирована для включение в релиз JDK 28, намеченный на март 2027 года, в качестве отключённой по умолчанию экспериментальной функции.

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Представлен релиз операционной системы NetBSD 11.0, поддерживающей 61 системную архитектуру и 16 семейств CPU. Помимо переносимости и поддержки большого числа аппаратных платформ, операционная система NetBSD предлагает такие возможности, как гипервизор NVMM, межсетевой экран NPF, пакетный менеджер pkgin, репозиторий пакетов pkgsrc, механизм контроля целостности veriexec, режим W^X (страницы памяти не могут быть одновременно доступны на запись и исполнение), поддержка ФС ZFS, система шифрования дисков cgd. Установочные образы (640 МБ) подготовлены для 59 архитектур (пропущены epoc32 и ia64).

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Apple's stock "fell just shy of 10% on Friday," reports Yahoo Finance, "after CEO Tim Cook warned about the impact of the global memory shortage on the company's business."

During Apple's third quarter earnings call, Cook said the company paid significantly more for memory in the quarter and expects that to further increase in the current period. And while Apple is able to offset some of that price jump, it won't be able to tackle it all... The CEO said that iPhone and Mac sales outpaced Apple's own expectations and that a lack of flexibility in the supply chain is making it more difficult to keep up with demand.

Yahoo Finance cited an investment analyst who predicts overall gross margins for Apple's iPhone could drop from 38% to 34.5%. But another analyst sees a scenario where Apple "raises iPhone prices, unit growth will slow, and as unit growth slows, so will user growth, which we think ultimately will slow Services growth." (Still, Yahoo Finance predicts Apple's new leasing program "could help address those concerns.")

Apple has another controversial option, according to the blog 9to5Mac:

Bloomberg reports that US senators from both sides of the aisle are urging Apple CEO Tim Cook to commit by August 21 to not using memory chips from Chinese suppliers CXMT and YMTC....

Apple is not required to obtain U.S. government approval to purchase chips from the companies, but doing so without the administration's support could expose it to significant political ramifications. Which is why, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal ahead of Apple's recent price hikes, Tim Cook said that "everything needs to be on the table," adding that "we should look at all supply...." More recently, the Journal reported that Apple's use of Chinese memory chips could extend beyond China, with the company seeking the administration's blessing to use components from CXMT and YMTC in products sold elsewhere outside the US. The report also detailed Micron's efforts to persuade the administration to reject Apple's request, arguing that allowing Chinese suppliers into Apple's supply chain could undermine domestic memory production...

[Bloomberg's reported that U.S. lawmakers warned] other companies could follow Apple's lead, potentially undermining domestic memory production and planned investments in states such as Indiana, Idaho, New York, and Virginia... [T]he senators sought details about any information Apple has shared with CXMT during the component qualification process, noting that the transfer of controlled technical information to advanced chipmaking facilities in China may require a Commerce Department license.

The blog MacRumors notes that Apple has already increased prices for Macs and iPads in June because of surging memory prices. Apple CEO Tim Cook said Thursday "we did it because we're in what I would characterize as a 100-year flood on memory pricing with exponential increases in memory prices."

Cook did not comment on whether Apple plans to raise iPhone prices when the iPhone 18 Pro models and first foldable launch this September, but multiple analysts believe prices will go up. Cook said Apple is expecting to pay higher memory costs in the September quarter, though Apple will be able to partially offset it with lower costs on some non-memory components and a stockpile of inventory.
Sky News points out that "It was Tim Cook's final earnings appearance before his retirement after 15 years at the helm of the company."

Apple, which recently topped Nvidia as the most valuable listed company, has been largely spared the volatility in share price seen by chipmakers and big spenders on artificial intelligence. Apple continues to generate cash without the huge investment spending that its Wall St peers are dealing with "and that showed across most parts of the operation," said Thomas Monteiro, an analyst at Investing.com.

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Проект NetBSD [ объявил ]( https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released ) о выпуске NetBSD 11.0 — девятнадцатой крупной версии свободной Unix-подобной операционной системы. Релиз состоялся 1 августа 2026 года. Готовые образы и исходный код размещены в [ официальном каталоге загрузки ]( https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0/ ) , а подробное описание изменений приведено на [ странице выпуска ]( https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html ) .

Главным нововведением стала первая в стабильной ветке NetBSD поддержка 64-разрядной архитектуры RISC-V. Система может работать в QEMU, а также на одноплатных компьютерах VisionFive 2 и PINE64 STAR64 с процессорами StarFive JH7110. Реализована поддержка VirtIO-устройств, PCIe, сетевых и дисковых контроллеров, виртуального звука, генератора случайных чисел и датчиков температуры. Добавлена и начальная поддержка систем на базе Allwinner D1. Полный перечень изменений для архитектур приведён в [ официальном анонсе ]( https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html#ports ) .

Заметно расширена совместимость с программами для Linux. Подсистема [ compat_linux ]( https://man.netbsd.org/compat_linux.8 ) , позволяющая запускать некоторые Linux-бинарники без отдельной виртуальной машины, получила поддержку epoll, реализованную поверх kqueue, очередей сообщений POSIX и системных вызовов statx, readahead, close_range, waitid, renameat2, clone3, sync_file_range, syncfs и inotify. В ядре также появился совместимый с Linux системный вызов [ memfd_create ]( https://man.netbsd.org/memfd_create.2 ) , а в procfs — интерфейсы sysvipc и self/limits.

Основные изменения NetBSD 11.0:

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NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back images of honeycomb-like textures called polygonal fractures, each one about 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 8 centimeters) across. NASA reports:

The mission has spotted small patches of these geometric shapes several times before, but nothing at the scale discovered in Valle Grande. In a 360-degree panorama that the rover captured on June 19 and 20, the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days, or sols, of the mission, the polygonal shapes spread in all directions for as far as the rover can see... "[T]his sea of polygons took our breath away," said the mission's project scientist, Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California... Some of the polygons that the mission has spotted in the past clearly formed as mud cracks, though a variety of processes can contribute to their honeycomb textures, including cycles of warm and cold temperatures or compression that squeezed water out of the sediment when the surface was buried.

These newly discovered polygons are among the many surprises Curiosity has trundled across since landing on Mars 14 years ago, on Aug. 5, 2012. Besides sulfur crystals, shiny meteorites, and other interesting geologic features, the rover has made major discoveries about the ancient Martian environment — most importantly, that it had the water, chemistry, and nutrients to support microbial life.

Billions of years ago, lakes and streams dappled the lower foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain that Curiosity has been ascending since 2014. The rover has previously uncovered chemistry left over from Mars' watery history, including carbon-based molecules believed to be precursors to RNA and DNA, two nucleic acids that carry genetic information. Scientists have no way of knowing whether these organic molecules were created by biologic or geologic processes — either path is possible — but their discovery reconfirmed that ancient Mars had the right chemistry to support life.

Dark, pebble-sized rocks also litter the area, NASA writes in a blog post, saying it's a "still-to-be-resolved question" as to whether they're bits of Mars that "floated" down from higher in the sediment layers, or "were ejected from distant impacts outside of Gale crater, or are meteorites from beyond Mars altogether."

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"An itch.io game bundle put together by Necrosoft Games and The United Videogame Workers-CWA union is a new way gamers can show their support for developers who have been let go amidst the ongoing video game industry labor crisis," writes Kotaku.

Launched Thursday, it's already raised $57,859 from 3,984 contributors. (Average contribution size: $14.52)

The bundle is pay-what-you-want with a minimum purchase price of $10, offering DRM-free PC versions of games including A Short Hike, SkateBIRD, and my favorite game in the pack, Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure ... The bundle will be available through August 13.

The gaming blog Rock Paper Shotgun shares more details, starting with this quote from the bundle's page on itch.io:

"Reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the last two years, and the jobs they could fill are disappearing as CEOs try to replace them with AI. It's hard for companies to adjust to the new shape of the game industry, but even harder for the people they should be employing... To address this in some small way, we have created a bundle with almost 150 games. The proceeds of this bundle will go toward a hardship fund for those experiencing layoffs."

Games industry workers currently out of work or under-employed can apply to this fund, which is distributed by the United Videogame Workers, to help out with basic necessities like food and rent. As a note, this is only available to US and Canada-based devs, but there's an FAQ explaining who can apply for the fund.

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The Washington Post looks at giant tech companies "feeding every available dollar into the cash-incinerating maw of AI machines." They warn "Tech superstars that once had oodles of cash left over at the end of each year are now flipping into the red..."

[While optimists expect] huge corporate profits and a society-wide boost to wealth and well-being...
questions about that AI vision are now growing more urgent: When, if ever, will this payoff arrive? And what will the fallout be for Americans if the titanic investment doesn't quickly deliver? "This AI thing better work out because if it doesn't ... we're going to have a problem," said Torsten Slok, chief economist at investment firm Apollo Global Management. AI costs and doubts are spreading. The U.S. stock market has swooned this summer over fear of the AI bubble going bust...

The AI gamble sweeping up American fortunes is led by tech companies splurging on hulking data centers packed with computer chips and equipment needed to develop sophisticated AI models and deliver them to customers. In investor calls in the past week, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon pointed to soaring AI-related sales and business deals. Advertisers are using the technology to tailor marketing pitches and corporations and start-ups are buying access to chatbots and other AI software to boost productivity... But this spending can only continue if AI generates an even larger avalanche of new revenue to pay for it all. Financial results released over the past week show that the AI titans' mammoth costs are largely swamping the sales boost from the technology. At Google, for every dollar of cash its business generated in the past three months, $1.15 went out the door to pay for AI computer chips and equipment, land for AI data centers and other big-ticket purchases. The company is covering the difference partly by borrowing money and selling more of its stock. Next year, five leading AI companies — Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle — are projected to have negative free cash flow, which measures the cash left over after paying expenses and AI infrastructure costs. The figures, based on investment analyst projections compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence, show a stunning reversal for what have been some of the world's most cash-generating corporations...

The companies remain profitable by standard financial accounting measures that spread out the costs of their AI infrastructure spending over many years... Pessimists see a bet so gargantuan that it cannot possibly pay off. The pessimists are growing louder. The Bank for International Settlements, a typically measured institution in Switzerland that advises government bankers around the world, recently warned there was risk of "economy-wide recessions" if the AI boom falters. That could mean pain for workers and communities across the United States. "I'm not saying AI is going to go away, it's just not clear to me these guys are going to make money on it," said Christopher Wood, global head of equity strategy at investment bank Jefferies who has correctly predictedpast financial bubbles.

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"A hardware wallet is supposed to be the safest place to keep Bitcoin," writes The Street, since it never connects to the internet, its keys never leave the device, and "the whole point is that an attacker would need to physically hold it to steal anything."

The problem is that anyone who can reproduce the recovery seed doesn't need to possess the COLDCAR, Nerds.xyz points out. More from The Street:

[The recovery seed] is supposed to come from a hardware random number generator producing 128 bits of entropy, a number so large that guessing it is computationally impossible. It wasn't. According to Block's engineering team a single code change on March 1, 2021 caused the firmware to silently fall back to a software-based generator instead of the hardware one. On Mk3 devices the effective search space collapsed to roughly 40 bits. Coinkite has confirmed that figure and called it preliminary. The gap between 128 bits and 40 bits is not a matter of degree. It is the difference between a lock that cannot be picked and one that can be brute-forced by anyone with rented cloud computing....

Chainalysis found the attacker went after the largest balances first, pulling more than $30 million in the opening ten minutes. Within about 25 minutes, roughly 594 BTC had moved out of some 500 single-signature wallets. One victim lost around $1.8 million... Coinkite has shipped fixed firmware, but with a warning that matters more than the patch itself. Updating does not repair an existing seed. A seed created with weak entropy stays weak forever. Affected users have to generate an entirely new wallet on updated hardware and move their coins to it.
By Saturday morning Galaxy research was tracking 1,158.66 BTC, worth roughly $75.1 million, taken from 2,673 addresses, according to the article. And "The Coldcard exploit is ONGOING," Galaxy Research posted an hour ago on X.com. "Move Coldcard single-sig funds to safe locations immediately!"

We have reported ~600 addresses we believe to be hackers holding funds stolen from Coldcard-generated weak entropy addresses to federal investigators, industry compliance firms, and cross-industry cyber investigators.

Thanks to Slashdot reader BrianFagioli for sharing the news.

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CNN tells the unfortunate tale of hedge fund Situational Awareness, "founded in 2024 by German-born Leopold Aschenbrenner when he was in his early 20s."

Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI employee, founded the hedge fund on the premise that "AI will be the dominant driver of global market returns over the next decade," according to the firm's site... Aschenbrenner managed to turn hundreds of millions of dollars into tens of billions of dollars over the course of roughly two years... That streak ended on Thursday, though, when the fund was forced to sell the bulk of its public holdings to a bigger rival after many of its investments went south.

But that's only part of the story. The fund employed a risky strategy of borrowing money to purchase stocks. When the investments appreciate, the payoff can be massive. But when the investments sour, the losses can be catastrophic. The downturn in AI stocks over the course of this month, like chip makers and cloud computing providers, hit the hedge fund extra hard. It was forced to sell off many investments at a steep discount to rival hedge fund Citadel in what Aschenbrenner reportedly compared to a "bank run" in a letter to investors.

"Critics pointed out that Aschenbrenner had no experience running money prior to launching his fund in July 2024, calling him more lucky than smart," writes CNBC:

Some noted that his early work experience was at the doomed crypto firm FTX, where he helped now-disgraced founder Sam Bankman-Fried run a charity out of a Bahamas penthouse. Others on Wall Street, including former traders at global investment banks, noted that in light of reports Situational Awareness used as much as 400% leverage, the collapse wasn't shocking.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Situational Awareness "also used options to amplify its returns. That meant that even small declines in individual names could have big impacts on Situational's portfolio."

And so, as the New York Post put it, "The celebrated crystal ball of the 'Nostradamus of AI' hasn't merely gone cloudy — it has rolled off the table and shattered on the parlor floor."
Wall Street breathed a huge sigh of relief last week as an AI-focused hedge fund called Situational Awareness reportedly sold most of its portfolio — reportedly down 67% last month on the backfiring of debt-fueled bets on chipmakers and assorted artificial-intelligence firms — to billionaire Ken Griffin's Citadel...
The prevailing sentiment was best summed up by a veteran Wall Street sage who has seen a lot of flameouts in his day. Let's just say he wasn't impressed by Leopold Aschenbrenner, the 25-year-old German-born "Nostradamus" figure who is the founder of Situational Awareness... "Just your typical leveraged Âidiot who was right until he was wrong," the source said, adding that the implosion is a "one-off..."

[Another trusted source] felt there was room for conversation: "A significant issue. Not viewed as systemic right now. I wonder if that changes as more problems arise." Indeed, the fact is that most of Wall Street is closely monitoring the Situational Awareness situation because they were holding many of the same positions as ÂAschenbrenner. Another top hedge fund manager I won't name tells me he has been getting crushed on similar investments in chipmakers essential to the AI supply chain, as well as other companies feeding off this technology.

Thanks to Slashdot reader joshuark for sharing the news.

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New York has finalized new rules that will govern social media apps in the state starting on January 25, 2027. The law prohibits social media platforms from sending notifications to minors between midnight and 6 a.m. without parental consent. And minors "will only be shown content from other accounts they follow or otherwise select in a set sequence, such as chronological order," rather than "the default algorithmically personalized feeds... unless they get parental consent for an addictive feed." (Social media companies "must offer at least one alternative method for age assurance besides providing a government-issued ID," the announcements points out, and any information used to determine age "must not be used for any other purpose and must be deleted or de-identified immediately after its intended use.")

But meanwhile, the EFF writes that a committee in the U.S. Senate is considering the SCREEN ACT, "a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online services to verify users' ages before they can access any sexually explicit content. If this bill passes, it will force millions of adult internet users to give up their anonymity, privacy, and security before they access lawful speech."

Unlike many state-age verification laws — which have been harmful in their own right — the SCREEN Act has no requirement that a significant portion of the website consist of sexually explicit content that is harmful to minors. The bill requires nearly any service hosting even a single piece of sexually explicit content to verify the ages of its users. The result is that the bill would apply not only to adult content sites like PornHub or OnlyFans, but also streaming services like Netflix, and social media platforms like Reddit, Discord, or Bluesky, if they host any adult content...

Under the SCREEN Act, the "bouncer" will be a digital age-verification service that captures your personal information and saves it to a database for an unspecified amount of time. The consequences of the bill won't be limited to minors. If websites and apps are expected to reliably identify teenagers, adults will be asked to prove they are adults. Even worse, the SCREEN Act is a privacy and data security nightmare. One provision of the bill requires services to take reasonable steps to protect the data collected and to not maintain for longer than is necessary. But these are terribly weak protections that impose no meaningful collection, use, or retention limits on services collecting people's private information...

The SCREEN Act also targets virtual private network (VPN) users and providers. The bill requires covered websites to verify users' ages based on their IP addresses unless the service can determine that the user is outside the United States, and specifically requires age verification on traffic coming from known VPN addresses. In practice, this discourages the use of VPNs and proxy servers, which millions of people rely on for legitimate purposes such as protecting personal privacy, securing public Wi-Fi connections, safeguarding journalists and activists, and preventing data tracking...

The SCREEN Act creates onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize the data security and privacy of all internet users.

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Разработчики Arch Linux вновь ограничили работу пользовательского репозитория AUR из-за распространения вредоносных пакетов. На фоне продолжающегося инцидента из проекта ушёл Мортен Линдеруд, известный под псевдонимом Foxboron, — разработчик Arch Linux, сопровождающий пакетов и участник команды безопасности. События произошли практически одновременно, однако подтверждений прямой связи между ними нет.

Новая кампания, по данным независимого [ расследования IFIN ]( https://discourse.ifin.network/t/new-aur-attack-prompts-adoption-lock/698 ) , началась 29 июля 2026 года с компрометации пакета openconnect-sso. Злоумышленники использовали в том числе механизм «усыновления» оставшихся без сопровождающего пакетов: после получения контроля в сборочные сценарии AUR добавлялись вредоносные файлы и команды. Уже 30 июля участник команды Arch Linux Робин Кандо [ объявил ]( https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general%40lists.archlinux.org/message/DRDEU3JUSC72CB265XHXPFA3DFSLXPBP/ ) , что возможность усыновления пакетов временно отключена:

«Из-за текущего наплыва вредоносных усыновлений пакетов и последующих коммитов через AUR усыновление пакетов сейчас отключено, пока мы разбираемся с ситуацией».

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The Hill published the thoughts of Gleb Tsipursky, Ph.D., who serves as the CEO of the future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts:

A recent EnhancV survey of 1,000 full-time U.S. workers subject to new or stricter return-to-office policies found that 72% suspect these mandates are really a voluntary attrition strategy — a strategy by their own employers to make them quit their jobs. A full 46% admit to the practice of coffee-badging. Thirty-six percent have applied for a new job while sitting at their current office desk. Thirty-six percent have started a side hustle since the mandate was announced, in anticipation of being let go or quitting. Those numbers do not prove that employees reject collaboration. They show that many employees no longer trust the official story...

The central mistake in many in-office mandates is the assumption that proximity automatically produces commitment. It does not. A worker who spends two hours commuting to sit on video calls with colleagues in other cities is not experiencing culture. That worker is experiencing theater. When executives describe the office as a cure-all, many employees experience lost time, higher costs and lower autonomy. The policy's defining feature becomes its credibility gap. Research keeps undercutting the belief that more office time automatically means better performance. A University of Pittsburgh analysis of S&P 500 firms found that return-to-office mandates reduced employee satisfaction without improving firm performance or firm value....

Baylor University's reporting on office mandates and brain drain found that firms with mandates faced greater turnover among women, senior employees, managers and high-skilled workers, while job vacancy duration increased and hiring rates declined. In other words, the people with the most options are often the first to leave. The employees who remain may not be the most committed — they may simply be the least mobile... Attendance can be mandated, but commitment cannot. When leaders confuse the two, they do not rebuild workplace culture. They create a room full of people planning their exit.

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The blog Linuxiac reports:

Linux has crossed a major milestone in North America, with the open-source operating system now accounting for 10.65% of desktop usage in the region, according to Statcounter's latest figures for July 2026. The result places Linux firmly in double-digit territory for the first time in Statcounter's North American desktop operating system statistics.

For comparison, Statcounter recorded Linux at 5.52% in June 2026, so the share nearly doubled in one month... However, the sharp monthly increase needs context. Statcounter's June figures included an "Unknown" category that accounted for 9.24% of North American desktop usage. Its reduction seems to have coincided with Linux's rise, possibly indicating better identification of previously unclassified traffic...

Statcounter is not the only major web measurement platform showing Linux with a substantial presence on North American desktops. Cloudflare Radar data, filtered to desktop HTTP traffic from North America over the previous 28 days, also places Linux at a notably high level [9.4%].
StatCounter's data also shows Linux with an even larger market share of 11.87% in just the United States — and a 14.73% market share in India. Linux's market share in other world regions:

Asia 7.17%
Africa 5.71%
Europe 5.49%
South America 4.35%
China 2.12%

And here's how the Linux market share on other countries compare to India and the U.S.

India 14.73%
United States 11.87%
Germany 7.24%
UK 6.18%
Canada 3.83%
Australia 3.55%

Linux's surge could be due to its use in automation or headless browser workloads, Linuxiac points out. But another possibility is "growing frustration with Windows hardware requirements, advertising, account integration, telemetry, and forced interface changes has pushed some users to explore alternatives..."

"For now, the safest conclusion is that Linux has surpassed 10% of measured desktop web usage in North America according to Statcounter, not necessarily 10% of the region's installed desktop computer base."

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"Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could have an atmosphere," reports CNN, "making it potentially suitable for life."

Called LHS 1140b, the object is about five times the mass of our planet, or a "super-Earth." This planet orbits around its star in the "Goldilocks zone," also known as the habitable zone, meaning its surface temperature is not too hot or too cold for liquid water to exist... "It appears to be consistent with Earth, meaning it might have an iron core and a silicate mantle, plus some sort of low-density component, which is probably a combination of water and, now we know, an atmosphere," [said Collin Cherubim, a planetary scientist and lead author of a paper on the finding, published July 16 in the journal Science]... If further observations confirm the findings, LHS 1140b would mark the first discovery of an atmosphere on a rocky planet in the habitable zone of another star...

There is no evidence of life or a life-supporting atmosphere on LHS 1140b now, but Cherubim said he believes it's a formidable candidate for potential signatures of extraterrestrial life. "I think it's the best place to look for life outside the solar system at this point," he said. "It's mostly rocky, it's at the right temperature to support liquid water on the surface, and it has an atmosphere — those are the three key ingredients we look for..." Confirming the existence of an atmosphere on a rocky planet orbiting a red dwarf would be particularly exciting, Cherubim said, because the possibility of that happening is an open question in astronomy. "Can rocky planets have atmospheres around red dwarfs? This is the first bona fide yes," he said. "It's kind of a sigh of relief for a lot of us. But the jury's still out. Maybe this is a weird planet, and it's an oddball, or maybe it's the first of many. We don't know yet."

Now "The James Webb Space Telescope is going to look at it," Cherubim told CNN, and "Hubble's going to look at it. Basically, everybody who can see it is going to be training their eyes on it."

Michaël Gillon, research director of the Astrobiology Research Unit at Belgium's University of Liège warned CNN that no definitive proof exists that LHS 1140b possesses a substantial atmosphere. But if the detection of helium can be confirmed, the implications would be profound. "Until now, we had only limited evidence for atmospheres on temperate rocky exoplanets. Demonstrating that LHS 1140 b has retained a substantial atmosphere over billions of years would show that at least some habitable zone Super-Earths around red dwarfs can survive the intense early activity of their host stars."

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"A major scientific review is challenging the idea that more protein is always better," reports ABC News:

The review, led by pathologist and biomedical researcher Dudley Lamming and published in the journal Cell Press Blue, examined more than 350 studies involving humans, mice, insects, yeast, and other organisms. The review found that eating less protein, or less of certain amino acids that make up protein, may turn on body processes linked to healthier aging, as well as metabolism, the process by which the body turns food and drinks into energy...

For adults who already get enough, eating more protein may offer little benefit, while some research suggests that eating less protein could support healthier aging... Lamming reviewed the effect of reducing protein in many body processes. One of the processes involves a hormone called FGF21. "There's an increase in a hormone called FGF21 that promotes energy expenditure [when protein intake is reduced]," Lamming said. "It essentially increases thermogenesis in your adipose tissue, so you don't just store fat, but actually burn it as fuel." This may help explain why some studies connect lower-protein diets with less body fat, better blood sugar control and a healthier metabolism. Eating less protein may also affect signals that tell cells when to grow, repair damage or recycle old cell parts. These jobs may play a role in aging.

However, protein restriction is not the same as protein deficiency. The goal is not to deprive the body of an essential nutrient. Instead, the research raises the possibility that avoiding unnecessary excess could benefit some people who already consume enough... Before reaching for another high-protein product, a better question may be: How much protein does my body actually need?

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30 июля 2026 года компания 3mdeb представила [ Dasharo 0.9.0 ]( https://blog.3mdeb.com/2026/2026-07-30-msi-pro-b850p-v090-release/ ) для материнской платы MSI PRO B850-P WIFI. Разработчики называют выпуск первой открытой прошивкой для современной настольной платформы AMD Ryzen: вместо традиционного проприетарного UEFI в ней используются coreboot 25.12, AMD openSIL и открытая реализация UEFI EDK II.

Впрочем, поддержка процессоров пока ограничена семейством AMD Phoenix на архитектуре Zen 4. Прошивка предназначена для настольных APU Ryzen 8000G — в частности, Ryzen 7 8700G, Ryzen 5 8600G и младших моделей. Тестирование проводилось с Ryzen 5 8600G. Процессоры Ryzen 7000 Raphael, Ryzen 9000 Granite Ridge и модели X3D не поддерживаются и с этой версией не загрузятся: для них необходимы другие ветки openSIL, которые AMD пока не опубликовала.

Dasharo 0.9.0 предоставляет привычный интерфейс UEFI с изменяемым порядком загрузки и автоматическим обнаружением установленных операционных систем. Заявлена загрузка Ubuntu 26.04 LTS и Windows 11 25H2, поддерживаются NVMe, USB, встроенная графика, проводная сеть и Wi-Fi 7. Прошивку можно восстановить или заменить штатным образом MSI при помощи кнопки Flash BIOS и USB-накопителя.

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29 июля 2026 года представлен [ NethSecurity 8.8.0 ]( https://community.nethserver.org/t/nethsecurity-8-8-0-geoblocking-alerts-metrics-emergency-cli-tool/28170 ) — крупное обновление свободного Linux-дистрибутива для создания межсетевых экранов и сетевых шлюзов. Новая версия переведена с OpenWrt 24.10.5 на OpenWrt 25.12.5, что принесло обновления ядра, сетевого стека, VPN-компонентов и системных библиотек, а также устранило множество уязвимостей.

NethSecurity представляет собой производную от OpenWrt, ориентированную прежде всего на малые и средние организации. Система предоставляет веб-интерфейс для управления межсетевым экраном, несколькими подключениями к интернету, DPI, фильтрацией угроз и VPN на базе IPsec, OpenVPN и WireGuard. Исходный код проекта [ доступен на GitHub ]( https://github.com/NethServer/nethsecurity ) под лицензией GPLv2 или более поздней; готовые установочные образы выпускаются для архитектуры x86-64.

Главным внутренним изменением стал переход с пакетного менеджера opkg на apk, используемый также в новых версиях OpenWrt. Для администраторов, работающих только через веб-интерфейс, переход должен пройти практически незаметно, но команды установки и управления пакетами через терминал теперь отличаются. В основу системы положено ядро Linux 6.12, OpenVPN обновлён до версии 2.7.4, а реализация IPsec strongSwan — до 6.0.3. Разработчики также заявляют об улучшении совместимости с оборудованием, стабильности и общей защищённости системы.

Основные пользовательские изменения:

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Эмулятор пользовательских приложений системы команд Эльбрус (qemu-e2k) обновился до версии 1.2. Скорректирован список неподдерживаемых операций.

Эмулятор qemu-e2k обеспечивает возможность, используя операционную систему семейства Linux запускать прикладные программы для операционных систем семейства Linux в машинных кодах Эльбрус (e2k) на компьютере архитектуры x86-64.

Эмулятор qemu-e2k (release 1.2) соответствует срезу версии 11.0.1 из основного репозитория проекта.

Версия qemu-e2k (release 1.2) поддерживает работу с приложениями, собранными под платформу Эльбрус версий системы
команд elbrus-v2 - elbrus-v6. По умолчанию задаётся версия системы команд elbrus-v6.

Версия qemu-e2k (release 1.2) имеет следующие ограничения:

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"When a group of teenagers set out to hike British Columbia's famed Howe Sound Crest Trail in early July, Google Maps suggested the trek would take about five hours," reports SFGate.

"Instead, the hike stretched deep into the night, leaving the group exhausted, dehydrated, injured and in need of a helicopter rescue..."

Although the approximately 18-mile route with a 6,000-foot elevation gain can be completed by experienced trail runners in a day, search and rescue officials generally recommend hikers treat it as a two-day backpacking trip. The teenagers, all 17 years old, believed Google Maps' estimate that the route would take about five hours. The printed directions they were carrying, which were shared publicly by Lions Bay Search and Rescue, gave simple instructions for two legs of the trail, but didn't account for the terrain or elevation. "[Google Maps] is calculating the time that you're walking a straight road on pavement," [said Maria Masiar, training officer and search manager with Lions Bay Search and Rescue]. "When you get into outdoor terrain, that no longer holds true."

Expecting only a short outing, each hiker carried about half a liter of water and limited food. There are no reliable water sources along the trail, meaning hikers must carry enough supplies for the entire route. As the group climbed, they began suffering from dehydration and muscle cramps but continued onward despite falling dramatically behind schedule. Eventually, the group made the decision to turn back and abandon making it to the end of the trail — and as the sun began to set and the group started to descend, fatigue took its toll. According to Masiar, members of the group had already stumbled and fallen several times while trying to race the coming dark, and only one hiker had a headlamp. Eventually, another hiker slipped about 10 feet off a boulder, injuring his tailbone badly enough that he could no longer continue. Search and rescue crews responded, ultimately evacuating him by helicopter.

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В связи с большой сложностью разработки подрядчиком выступит Collabora.

В наше время Microsoft достигла больших успехов в развитии подсистемы драйверов в разделении на ядерную и пользовательскую часть. Это открывает возможность взаимодействия RADV и ядерной части драйвера AMD.

Перенос драйвера с одной операционной системы на другую и так крайне сложная задача, тут её усложняет отсутствие документации на работу с ядерным драйвером.

В начале 2024 Faith Ekstrand написал утилиту для перехвата данных при обращении к драйверу AMD. После анализа вызовов WDDM 2.0 им был написан базовый драйвер. На основе этой работы Collabora смогла доработать драйвер, и теперь он может запускать некоторые игры, включая Counter-Strike 2.

От переводчика:
Ау, авторы реактоси, Габен вам современный драйвер принес :))

https://www.linux.org.ru/news/hardware/18351163

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026, reports Phoronix, "and they point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use."

Back in March Steam on Linux hit a record high of 5.33%, dropped to 4.52% in April, landed at 3.99% in May, and then in June was at 3.69%. The just-published numbers for July put Steam on Linux use at 4.01%, as an improvement over the prior two months but still well off the percentage highs of March and April...

The July data puts SteamOS Holo as powering around 22% of Steam on Linux gaming systems. That's also with the Steam Machine now shipping, in addition to the Steam Deck.

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