Roy Schestowitz

• A targeted attack mimics communication from company CEO to steal funds ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/cyber-security/a-targeted-attack-mimics-communication-from-company-ceo-to-steal-funds/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 02:58:32

• Russ Reveals An Uncleared Sample On ‘Losin’ Control’ Cost Him $850,000 to License ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/08/russ-uncleared-sample-losin-control-cost/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 02:59:14

• Kevin Fenzi: Flock to fedora 2025 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/06/09/flock-to-fedora-2025/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:00:01

• The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 235: Teresa Scassa on the Alberta Clearview Hey Hi (AI) Ruling That Could Have a Big Impact on Privacy and Generative Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/law-bytes-podcast-episode-235/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:00:33

• Chinese Hackers and User Lapses Turn Smartphones Into a ‘Mobile Security Crisis’ ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-hackers-and-user-lapses-turn-smartphones-into-a-mobile-security-crisis/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:00:59

• Fentanylware (TikTok) FOMO cruft https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/25/how-addison-rae-went-from-tiktok-to-the-pop-charts    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:01:39

• UMich terminates plainclothes security contracts on campus ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/news-briefs/umich-terminates-plainclothes-security-contracts-on-campus/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:03:03

• Eateries, entertainment premises could lose licence over conduct ‘contrary’ to national security ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/09/eateries-entertainment-premises-could-lose-licence-over-conduct-contrary-to-national-security/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:03:52

• Micron balks at court order to share 73 pages of sensitive data with China's banned YMTC chipmaker — Micron strives to protect IP from Chinese chip firm on the entity list ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/micron-seeks-reversal-of-court-order-to-share-73-pages-of-sensitive-data-with-chinas-banned-ymtc-chipmaker-micron-strives-to-protect-ip-from-chinese-chip-firm-on-the-entity-list    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:04:17

• New York State Ticketing Resale Restrictions Suddenly Stalled—One Manager Fumes: ‘They Protected Profiteers Exploiting the System’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/09/new-york-state-ticketing-resale-restrictions-stalled/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:04:58

• Italian referendums on citizenship, labour laws fail due to low turnout ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250609-italian-referendums-on-citizenship-labour-laws-fail-due-to-low-turnout    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:05:16

• Mexico’s first-ever judicial elections draw international scrutiny over low turnout, process flaws ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexicos-first-ever-judicial-elections-draw-international-scrutiny-over-low-turnout-process-flaws/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:05:34

• Human Rights Watch rebukes use of Pakistan blasphemy laws to expropriate land, persecute religious minorities ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/human-rights-watch-rebukes-use-of-pakistan-blasphemy-laws-to-expropriate-land-persecute-religious-minorities/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:06:07

• "Thousands of Microsoft Layoffs: What Could They Mean? A good start" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwxxd7yz    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:08:13

• "I'm noticing more and more that people, especially young developers, are not testing their code properly. They'll run code quality tools and use that to say their code is good quality. They rely on unit tests instead of actually testing their code by hand or writing full functional test cases." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwq2abfy    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:09:02

• Seems like https://betanews.com just suffered a major data loss and restored the site from a week-old backup!    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:16:43

• A Red Hat decision (IBM) https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka-to-remove-the-gnome-on-xorg-x11-session    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:20:04

• "How does Dune: Awakening connect to the Dune books and films? It's the same world, but an alternate timeline where Paul Atreides was never born. Here Lady Jessica had a daughter, which pushed things in a different direction." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/dune-awakening-is-out-now-and-works-well-on-linux-desktop-but-rough-on-steam-deck/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:20:33

• "Linux kernel 6.15 is starting to appear in the stable repositories of various distributions, including openSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux." https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-14-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-15    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:21:03

• OSI scandals again. We'll kick off the series soon.    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 03:25:33

• GNU/Linux up in Ecuador https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/ecuador/#monthly-200902-202506    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 06:47:40

• "YottaDB | Rock Solid. Lightning Fast. Secure." https://yottadb.com/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 07:19:36

• US Government software... now hosted by... Microsoft? http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/11/GitHub_is_Proprietary_Controlled_by_Microsoft_and_GPL_Violation.shtml "FOIA" https://www.hardhats.org/foia.html "WorldVistA - Browse /FOIA VistA VivitA at SourceForge.net" https://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista/files/FOIA%20VistA%20VivitA/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 07:20:15

• "How about quit shuffling people virtually and physically to cause distractions and disruptions that prevent them from focusing on the important and being enabled to deliver results?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jx0qkjv6    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 07:53:34

• IBM got rid of lots of talented people in the past few decades, and the division that was tasked to provide managed IT services was split off into Kyndryl. IBM at this point is a legacy server builder and software developer...they no longer have any dedicated staffing or competence in operating a managed IT service. They sold it all for cash.    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 07:54:14

• "This is only the beginning. This is what happens when you lose all the talented people." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jx906kfe    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 07:54:22

• "IBM got rid of lots of talented people in the past few decades, and the division that was tasked to provide managed IT services was split off into Kyndryl. IBM at this point is a legacy server builder and software developer...they no longer have any dedicated staffing or competence in operating a managed IT service. They sold it all for cash."    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 07:54:28

• "IBM + Corporate Bro ads for Watsonx Orchestrate . Looks like the geniuses at IBM marketing thought they hit the jackpot by teaming up with Corporate Bro to shill Watsonx Orchestrate." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jxbzgy30    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 07:57:01

• "Good luck to IBM Technology thinking that Bro can charm Fortune 500 C-suite execs into buying that piece of cr-p with his frathouse energy. Things must be DESPERATE" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jxbzgy30    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 07:57:07

• "Google is clearly ramping up their war against private and self-hosted media consumption." https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/youtube-considers-this-software-harmful:5    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:19:06

• And deep inside Techrights is rather happy they do this as people will realise what we said for ages was not baseless. Stop relying on third parties to host your content. They don't give a damn about you. They don't give a damn about you. They don't give a damn about you. Get it?    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:20:43

• "Stellar Blade from SHIFT UP Corporation has been rated Steam Deck Verified by Valve ahead of the release on June 11th." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stellar-blade-gets-steam-deck-verified-ahead-of-release/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:28:07

• "This is great. Valve released a new Beta for Desktop and Steam Deck that brings Steam Input improvements for various controllers." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-beta-improves-controller-support-for-8bitdo-ultimate-2-wireless-8bitdo-pro-2-and-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:28:19

• "Dune: Awakening from Funcom has officially arrived, and thankfully it does work rather nicely on Desktop Linux." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/dune-awakening-is-out-now-and-works-well-on-linux-desktop-but-rough-on-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:28:33

• "The latest release of the Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer has been released, with version 2.6.2 bringing assorted improvements. It's mainly a maintenance release so there's no big new features." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/direct3d-to-vulkan-layer-dxvk-v2-6-2-released/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:29:06

• "After a big graphics overhaul last year, the co-op base-building exploration adventure Necesse is set for the big 1.0 in October. The date has been set for October 9th, and it's going to come with some huge new features for the game." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/base-building-co-op-exploration-adventure-game-necesse-hits-1-0-in-october/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:31:09

• iophk: YT blocks FOSS videos regularly. https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/youtube-considers-this-software-harmful:5 ("YouTube Considers This Software "Harmful or Dangerous"")    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:32:16

• "LA man tells soldiers painful truth: "The president laughs at you"" https://boingboing.net/2025/06/09/los-angeles-man-lectures-national-guard-soldiers-with-painful-truth-our-president-laughs-at-you-video.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:32:36

• "California sues Trump administration for deploying National Guard to Los Angeles: "Unprecedented power grab"" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-national-guard-california-lawsuit-gavin-newsom/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:32:52

• "How Can Pete Hegseth Invade California without a Babysitter?" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/09/how-can-pete-hegseth-invade-california-without-a-babysitter/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:33:03

• "No, Trump Voters Did Not Vote for This" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/09/no-trump-voters-did-not-vote-for-this/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:33:16

• "Will Trump and Musk Bring the Whole MAGA Coalition Down With Them?" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/maga-break-up-trump-musk/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:33:29

• "George Takei believes democracy will survive the 'Klingon president'" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-06-10/george-takei-it-rhymes-with-takei-memoir-coming-out-incarceration-camps    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:33:47

• "Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:34:48

• "From the devs of Spiritfarer, At Fate's End is an action-adventure game where you fight the ones you love and your skill tree is your family tree." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/at-fates-end-is-the-next-game-from-the-spiritfarer-team/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:35:30

• "Ubuntu isn't the only Linux distribution planning a big change, as Manjaro KDE Plasma also now plans to move to Wayland." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/manjaro-kde-plasma-plans-move-to-wayland-by-default/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:36:30

• "The Canonical Desktop Team have announced that starting with Ubuntu 25.10, they're going all-in with GNOME on Wayland." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/ubuntu-25-10-goes-all-in-with-wayland-dropping-support-for-gnome-on-xorg/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:36:56

• "The first-person open-world factory building game Satisfactory just had a massive v1.1 update" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/the-massive-satisfactory-1-1-update-is-out-now-with-controller-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:37:32

• GPL mentioned at about 7 minutes in https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/we've-started-a-foundation-to-bring-back:a ("We've started a foundation to bring back ownership")    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:39:06

• "Introducing the people helping turn right to own into a serious issue; meet Keith!" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/introducing-the-people-helping-turn:e    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:39:17

• "Gavin Newsom Blasts Trump 'Weakness' After Arrest Threat" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gavin-newsom-trump-arrest-la-national-guard-1235360428/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:39:36

• "Trump has unleashed something terrifying in the US – that even he may be powerless to control" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/donald-trump-protests-los-angeles-national-guard-unleashed-terrifying    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:39:48

• "LA police not told of Marines' deployment to protests" https://www.axios.com/2025/06/10/la-protests-marines-newsom    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:39:59

• "Trump Gets His Police State With Troop Deployment in Los Angeles" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-police-state-troop-deployment-los-angeles-1235360655/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:40:14

• "Lest We Forget The Horrors" https://chriscoyier.net/2025/06/10/lest-we-forget-the-horrors/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:40:29

• "How much more on fire could they be? Waymo." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/how-much-more-on-fire-could-they-be-waymo/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:40:41

• "Thermal Runaway" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/thermal-runaway/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:40:53

• "The ‘Long-Term Danger’ of Trump Sending Troops to the LA Protests" https://www.wired.com/story/trump-marines-national-guard-la-protests/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:41:04

• CISA and CIA ("therecord") misrepresent Microsoft as an authority https://therecord.media/microsoft-cisa-zero-day-turkish-defense-org see http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/25/CISA_Has_a_Microsoft_Conflict_of_Interest_Problem_CISA_Cannot_A.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2024/06/29/linuxsecurity_com_became_an_anti_Linux_spam_site.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:41:49

• "Why Is It That Even Proven Facts Can't Change Some People's Minds?" https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/why-is-it-that-even-proven-facts-cant-change-some-peoples-minds    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:42:27

• "FFRF co-sponsors ‘No Kings’ Day of Action: How to participate — Freedom From Religion Foundation" https://ffrf.org/news/releases/ffrf-co-sponsors-no-kings-day-of-action-how-to-participate/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:42:42

• "Travel ban: Trump’s one trick for blocking entire groups of immigrants" https://www.vox.com/policy/416131/trump-travel-ban-harvard-immigration-green-card    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:42:53

• "The White House Is Delighted With Events in Los Angeles" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-national-guard-los-angeles-hegseth/683104/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:43:03

• "The Protests Are Just Starting" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/06/la-protests-ice-immigration-trump/683105/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:43:15

• "Trump orders return to old, Confederate-linked names for 7 Army sites" https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/06/10/trump-orders-return-to-old-confederate-linked-names-for-7-army-sites/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 08:43:26

• techdirt gets paid by microsoft to promote proprietary crap for microsoft. very, very stupid. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/10/daily-deal-the-2025-total-microsoft-sql-server-bundle/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:22:40

• The government is given the right to declare a state of emergency without consulting the Riksdag | "Regeringen får rätt att utlysa undantagstillstånd utan att fråga riksdagen" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/06/10/regeringen-far-ratt-att-utlysa-undantagstillstand-utan-att-fraga-riksdagen/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:23:11

• "Swedish households 501 billion kronor worse off – and Trump's to blame" https://www.thelocal.se/20250610/swedish-households-501-billion-kronor-worse-off-and-trumps-to-blame    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:23:35

• "Kyiv confirms authenticity of photo showing Ukrainian POW with ‘Glory to Russia’ carved into stomach" https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/10/kyiv-confirms-authenticity-of-photo-showing-ukrainian-pow-with-glory-to-russia-carved-in-stomach    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:23:55

• "The Families Wanted Boeing to Face Real Accountability" ☛ https://fair.org/home/the-families-wanted-boeing-to-face-real-accountability/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:26:43

• "Latin American Election" ☛ https://fair.org/home/when-media-tell-us-who-won-a-latin-american-election-start-to-ask-questions/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:26:59

• "Windows operating systems" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/patch-tuesday-june-2025-edition/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:27:39

• kharkiv ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/11/russian-overnight-drone-strike-on-ukraine-s-kharkiv-kills-two-injures-60 | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:29:38

• telegram ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/10/telegram-denies-allegations-that-contractors-handling-its-servers-have-ties-to-russian-intelligence | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:32:09

• zelensky ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/10/possessed-maniacs-with-their-shaheds-zelensky-condemns-russian-attack-damaging-historic-kyiv-cathedral | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:38:44

• society ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/10/sorry-society-doesn-t-develop-like-this | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:39:41

• https://cybershow.uk/ is offline. Again. Server migration.    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:40:41

• andy's site is offline again but this is not because of anything other than them moving to another webhost, andy told us    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:42:15

• Techrights served 500k requests in 11 hrs - i.e. since midnight. Techrights can do articles this afternoon. Seems to have attracted big crowds due to particular topics being covered.    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:42:54

• Belarus ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/10/secret-patients | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 10:43:14

• "anti-corruption" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/10/meduza-joins-other-independent-outlets-and-anti-corruption-foundation-to-host-third-annual-fundraiser-for-russian-political-prisoners | Source: Meduza    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 11, 2025 AT 10:46:52

• "authenticity" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/10/kyiv-confirms-authenticity-of-photo-showing-ukrainian-pow-with-glory-to-russia-carved-in-stomach | Source: Meduza    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 11, 2025 AT 10:47:12

• patriot ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/10/israeli-interior-ministry-says-country-did-not-send-patriot-missile-systems-to-ukraine-contradicting-ambassador-s-earlier-statement | Source: Meduza    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 11, 2025 AT 10:47:33

• "I’d try to get back into regular blogging" ☛ https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2025/06/10/rfk-jr-guts-acip-to-pack-it-with-antivaxxers/ |    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 11, 2025 AT 10:48:08

• ukrainian drone ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/10/one-dead-after-ukrainian-drone-strikes-gas-station-in-russia-s-belgorod | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:24:25

• "laundering" fake money ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/10/u-s-charges-founder-of-crypto-company-evita-with-laundering-500-million-for-russian-clients | Source: Meduza http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/05/Just_Because_Common_Currencies_Including_the_US_Dollars_Are_Con.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:24:57

• odesa ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/10/russian-drone-strike-on-ukraine-s-odesa-kills-two-damages-maternity-hospital | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:33:15

• fining ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/10/russian-regions-begin-fining-residents-for-posting-drone-strike-footage | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:37:13

• "As part of its mission to promote openSUSE across Asia" ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/06/10/osas-cfh/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:42:44

• My Experience at GeekFaeries 2025 ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1079/my-experience-at-geekfaeries-2025    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:43:36

• Hidden Operating Systems in Chips vs. Secure, Auditable OSes: A Cybersecurity Comparison ☞ https://puri.sm/posts/hidden-operating-systems-in-chips-vs-secure-auditable-oses-a-cybersecurity-comparison/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:44:37

• SlugChess – chess with Fog-of-War and shuffled officers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/slugchess-chess-fog-war-shuffled-officers/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:45:27

• "The Kdenlive team has just released v25.04.2, the second maintenance release in its 25.04 series, including multiple bug fixes and usability improvements." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kdenlive-25-04-2-video-editor-brings-subtle-workflow-enhancements/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:46:25

• Kdenlive 25.04.2 released ☞ https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.04.2/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:46:46

• Ubuntu 24.10 Support Ends July 10th – Upgrade Soon ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-24-10-oracular-oriole-eol-july-2025    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:47:21

• "Beyond stability improvements, the update also irons out some workflow quirks. For instance, applying a Studio Fade Out at the end of a clip no longer creates an unwanted new clip, and joining two clips with pitch adjustment won’t accidentally delete one of them." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/audacity-3-7-4-patches-critical-crashes-and-rendering-issues/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:47:57

• Audacity 3.7.4 Improves Effect Preview, Studio Fade Out, and Waveform Rendering ☞ https://9to5linux.com/audacity-3-7-4-improves-effect-preview-studio-fade-out-and-waveform-rendering    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:50:23

• Ubuntu 25.10 Going to Remove Xorg Session for GNOME ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/ubuntu-2510-remove-xorg/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:51:05

• UPERFECT Unify B5 Portable Monitor 1080P Display Review ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/uperfect-unify-b5-portable-monitor-1080p-display-review/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:51:46

• GNOME Foundation News: GNOME Has a New Infrastructure Partner... PROPRIETARY! ☞ https://foundation.gnome.org/2025/06/10/gnome-has-a-new-infrastructure-partner-welcome-aws/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:52:25

• "GNOME itself is preparing to drop Xorg support entirely in version 49. By making the switch now, Ubuntu aims to give users and developers a full interim release cycle (before 26.04 LTS) to adapt, reducing fragmentation and smoothing the transition ahead of the next long-term support version." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-joins-the-movement-x11-officially-being-phased-out/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:53:01

• Ubuntu 25.10 Drops Support for GNOME on Xorg ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-25-10-dropping-xorg-support    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:53:24

• Three stable kernel updates ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1024714/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:53:50

• Culling Bad RSS Feeds of Bad Sites (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/10/Culling_Bad_RSS_Feeds_of_Bad_Sites.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:54:04

• If 'Microsoft v Techrights' is Dealt With by a 'Microsoft Court' (or a Court Outsourced to Microsoft) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/10/If_Microsoft_v_Techrights_is_Dealt_With_by_a_Microsoft_Court_or.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:55:18

• Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot ☞ https://rys.io/en/179.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 11:56:05

• Red Hat surfing silly hype waves and promoting bad practices: "Vibe coding is the act of interacting with an AI prompt to produce usable code, often despite not having the technical prowess to code independently." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/can-you-vibe-code-without-knowing-how-code | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:06:51

• More promotion of buzzwords and hype that lacks real substance ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-scale-without-price-tag-why-enterprises-are-turning-models-service | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:07:17

• "Most travel plans start with a handful of tabs. A map here, a few guides there. Then a flurry of bookings, logins and maybe a PDF form you’re supposed to sign with your finger." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/travel-features/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:07:58

• "Securing Spark is key to maintaining enterprise business continuity" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/apache-spark-security-start-with-a-solid-foundation | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:09:18

• Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” to Remove the GNOME on Xorg (X11) Session ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka-to-remove-the-gnome-on-xorg-x11-session    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:14:39

• "Radxa’s UFS/eMMC Module Reader is a compact USB 3.0 adapter for flashing OS images, accessing firmware, and transferring large files." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-ufs-emmc-module-reader-and-storage-solution-enables-fast-flashing-and-scalable-embedded-storage/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:16:33

• "We're pleased to share highlights from the 2025 Code Club annual survey report, showcasing another year of incredible achievements." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/discover-the-incredible-impact-of-code-club-the-code-club-annual-survey-report-2025/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:16:43

• DXVK 2.6.2 Improves Support for Rocketbirds 2, Red Orchestra: Ostfront, and More ☞ https://9to5linux.com/dxvk-2-6-2-improves-support-for-rocketbirds-2-red-orchestra-ostfront-and-more    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:28:50

• Linux Kernel 6.14 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to GNU/Linux Kernel 6.15 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-14-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-15    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:29:02

• ROC-RK3506J-CC Board Integrates RK3506J and Dual LAN Support ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/roc-rk3506j-cc-board-integrates-rk3506j-and-dual-lan-support/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:29:43

• "The bill’s amendments have made compliance even harder" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/despite-changes-ab-412-still-harms-small-developers | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:31:21

• "Stability AI is opposing the claim" ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/getty-legal-action-against-ai-photo-firm-is-day-of-reckoning-start-of-trial-hears/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:31:35

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/apple_macos_26_last_intel_support/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:32:22

• "But let’s be real for a minute." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/06/the-uk-is-training-400k-civil-servants-on-ai-should-zimbabwe-even-bother/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:50:48

• "The Norwegian oil profits, after all, mostly went into a sovereign wealth fund that has become the largest in the world, from which generations of Norwegians will benefit." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/10/platform-work-redux/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:51:16

• "One of the nuttiest parts of this is that the affiant — the guy who cited the threat of doxing as proof of intimidation and then doxed himself" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/10/banging-on-a-gate-pam-bondi-found-a-cyber-investigator-who-doesnt-check-phone-logs/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:51:43

• "I don’t know about all of that. What I do know is that if you are looking for negative role models for masculine virtue, there is an easy way to find them." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bunch-of-cowards | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:52:22

• "The assault on and arrest of California labor leader David Huerta during the brutal immigration crackdown in Los Angeles this weekend is part of a broader attack on unionized workers by Donald Trump’s deportation machine." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/06/trump-immigration-crackdown-unions-labor/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:52:43

• "The idea that cops were just reacting to protester provocation is absurd. Cops occupied intersections in an attempt to split the protest, then occasionally charged the protest lines that surrounded them to force the crowds to temporarily retreat." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/los-angeles-protest-police-riot/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:54:04

• "An error occurred during a connection to cybershow.uk. SSL peer has no certificate for the requested DNS name."    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:57:25

• "The investigation revealed that the assassination was carried out by three men." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/malta-jails-two-men-for-life-for-role-in-journalists-murder/a-72863275 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:58:20

• "Since 1865, we’ve held fast in our belief in the liberating power of simply telling people the truth" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/160th-anniversary-olmsted-nation-history/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 12:58:40

• "US Vice President JD Vance appeared to advocate for deporting a popular fashion blogger who criticised his dressing style in the past." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/jd-vances-deportation-threat-to-fashion-critic-who-mocked-his-style-8632910#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:24:57

• "In its 29-page report, HRW claimed that individuals and communities affiliated with religious minorities are denied equality before the law." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/human-rights-watch-rebukes-use-of-pakistan-blasphemy-laws-to-expropriate-land-persecute-religious-minorities/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:25:07

• "While debates over freedom of expression in Việt Nam remain ongoing, many nations have enshrined this right in their foundational legal documents, from East Asia to Europe." ☛ https://www.thevietnamese.org/2025/06/freedom-of-expression-in-viet-nam-part-5-lessons-from-international-legal-frameworks/ | Source: The Vietnamese Magazine    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:25:50

• Provided more English translations and interpretations, this series will go on and on https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/11/Abuse_Inside_the_Polish_Patent_Office_UPRP_Part_VIII_Illegal_Wo.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:34:10

• "Appeasing bullies never works. Not only does it reveal your willingness to abandon principles, but bullies will never be satisfied — they’ll always demand more." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/10/columbias-capitulation-backfired-spectacularly-as-trump-admin-threatens-its-accreditation/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:34:45

• "The executive orders themselves are not law but kickstart the process that could result in future changes to legislation, instructing key players to submit proposals and changes within a set amount of days." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/drones/i-read-trumps-new-drone-orders-so-you-dont-have-to-these-5-changes-could-seriously-impact-aerial-photo-and-video | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:35:24

• "Patel never hinted Cisco has given any consideration to job cuts in its engineering corps, although the switch slinger did make two rounds of cuts last year" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/cisco_wants_ai_coding_assistants/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:35:40

• Nowadays when a company like "Cisco" says or blurts out "AI" many people hear "slop" or "jobs to India" instead. The term was all along distorted too much.    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:36:48

• "A Senate bill re-introduced this week threatens security and free speech on the [Internet]." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/oppose-stop-csam-protecting-kids-shouldnt-mean-breaking-tools-keep-us-safe | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:36:57

• "There clearly is a ways to go in establishing a user-friendly way" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/irs-direct-file-released-as-free-software | Source: FSF    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:37:33

• It's not even AI, it's just slop with false label, "hey hi" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/what-does-ai-cost-no-one-knows/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:38:15

• "Kumekawa begins with the ship’s prehistory: the decisions and commissions that led to its being built." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/cargo-ships-empty-vessel/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:44:07

• "During recent protests in Los Angeles, fires triggered “thermal runaway” in several Waymo robotaxis’ lithium-ion battery packs." ☛ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-waymo-car-fires-in-recent-los-angeles-protests-caused-the-robotaxis/ | Source: Scientific American    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:44:26

• "With the Belgian government changing the way solar panels are (not) financed again, I wondered whether they’re still a worthy investment." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/06/are-solar-panels-really-worth-it/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:44:50

• "The rapid growth in the number of data centers across the US has seen a corresponding rise in local pushback against them." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/a-political-battle-is-brewing-over-data-centers/ | Source: Wired http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/08/Europe_Needs_to_Move_Away_From_GAFAM_The_Sooner_the_Better.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:45:31

• "the National Post versions of CP articles to better understand the content, scale, and scope of these edits." ☛ https://breachmedia.ca/national-post-rewrote-wire-stories-to-push-pro-israel-narrative-analysis-find/ | Source: Breach Media    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:46:13

• "New records released today reveal that Kemi Badenoch’s party accepted £50,000 in January from Neil Record, the chair of Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) – the UK’s foremost climate science denial group." ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/06/10/conservatives-kemi-badenoch-ditched-net-zero-2050-commitment-while-receiving-250000-from-oil-investors-and-climate-deniers/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:46:52

• Overpopulation ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250610/denmarks-total-population-exceeds-six-million | Source: The Local DK    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:47:23

• "What is happening in Los Angeles with the National Guard" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-06-10/no-kings-protests-june-14-trump | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:48:59

• "oversees HR policies and personnel systems" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/judge_doge_opm_records/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:49:16

• "overhaul of a department that in 40 years" ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/10/1118229/pentagon-gutting-ai-test/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:49:52

• "fight against what he sees as a worrying and potentially costly" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/google-tiktok-shareholder-lawsuit-ban/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:50:19

• "Stage confirmed the strategy in an interview with newspaper Politiken" ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250610/why-denmark-wants-to-cut-use-of-microsoft-products-at-key-ministry | Source: The Local DK http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/05/Scandinavia_Saying_Goodbye_to_Microsoft.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:51:04

• "openly fascist Blue-and-Black Movement" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20166941 | Source: YLE    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 13:51:28

• "The case in the Federal Court was brought by the nation's peak Jewish body" ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/sydney-islamic-preachers-sermons-were-antisemitic-court-told/6yrcr496e | Source: SBS    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:01:21

• "The constitutional implications here are important." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/10/california-sues-trump-over-unprecedented-federal-seizure-of-state-national-guard/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:01:48

• "Now another 700 Marines are being added to this bed-less, toilet-less mess." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/09/trump-administration-sends-marines-to-site-of-anti-ice-protests/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:02:24

• "used by the Kremlin to expand its influence in several countries" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/06/09/2025/russias-wagner-to-leave-mali | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:02:40

• "Until ICE moved in Los Angeles was, in fact, remarkably peaceful." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-finally-know-what-american-carnage | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:03:12

• "We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved" ☛ https://www.thewrap.com/gavin-newsom-demands-trump-remove-national-guard-from-la-immigration-protests-breach-of-state-sovereignty/ | Source: The Wrap    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:03:30

• "Call it unfair. It’s the cold, hard political reality." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/i-resisted-putin-in-russia-heres | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:04:09

• "These devices enable firearms to fire up to 900 bullets per minute." ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/06/10/states-sue-to-block-trump-administration-plan-to-distribute-machine-gun-conversion-devices/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:04:32

• "The president also encouraged a violation of regulations." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/silence-generals/683106/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:05:12

• "unilateral action, taken without consultation with local leaders" ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/06/09/lawmakers-condemn-trumps-use-of-guard-active-duty-troops-in-la/ | Source: USMC    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:05:55

• Confidentiality ☛ https://unixwinbsd.site/en/freebsd/2025/06/07/installation-configuration-tor-onion-freebsd/ | Source: UnixBSDSHell    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:06:28

• "The race for super-apps is intensifying in the Middle East." ☛ https://restofworld.org/2025/middle-east-super-apps/ | Source: Rest of World    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:07:00

• "Many people who focus on information security, including myself, have long considered Telegram suspicious and untrustworthy." ☛ https://rys.io/en/179.html | Source: Michał Woźniak    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:07:10

• "Walker is among the five U of M students who were interviewed in the report" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/06/09/university-of-michigan-denounced-for-using-private-investigators-to-surveil-student-protesters/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:07:51

• "And, of course, there’s not really such a thing as anonymised data. It’s notoriously easy to de-anonymise a data set." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/10/doctors-against-data-abuse-bma-and-rcgp-protest-nhs-ai-data-handover/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:08:09

• "As a result, there’s been some speculation that the cars were burned to destroy evidence. There’s likely more to it than that—and that the cars weren’t torched to destroy evidence as much to punish collaborators" ☛ https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-weaponization-of-waymo | Source: Brian Merchant    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:08:26

• "synonyms, phrases, or typos" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2809427/microsoft-edge-taps-local-ai-to-supercharge-your-search-history.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:08:48

• "A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP)" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:09:09

• "It used to be so simple." ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/how-digital-identities-challenge-traditional-espionage/ | Source: The Strategist    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:09:38

• "The hardcore option is to rely on no outside services at all, not even for multi-factor authentication." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OwnIdentityProviderIssues | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:10:30

• "The researcher also found an old-school username recovery form that worked without Javascript, which allowed them to check if a recovery email or phone number was associated with a specific display name using 2 HTTP requests" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/google_brute_force_phone_number/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:10:49

• "in the name of preventing fraud, waste, and abuse is like claiming we need safer roads while removing guardrails from bridges" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/trump_cybersecurity_eo_digital_ids/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:11:22

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/sensitive-information-stolen-in-sensata-ransomware-attack/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:13:06

• Windows TCO ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/software-supply-chain-attacks-have-surged/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:13:15

• "It's gotten so bad that playlists curators are now labelling their videos "No AI" — though there's no stopping them from simply lying, of course" ☛ https://futurism.com/youtube-playlists-no-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:14:01

• "Glyph makes the point that LLMs reduce code review to a non enjoyable part. For me code review is a fact of life and part of the job. That's just what we do as programmers." ☛ https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/10/genai-criticism/ | Source: Armin Ronacher    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:14:13

• "I enjoyed lis­tening to a recent talk by Scott Aaronson with the irre­sistible title How Much Math Is Knowable?, and it got me thinking about the space-time tradeoff in com­puter pro­gramming" ☛ https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/smallest-possible/ | Source: Robin Sloan    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:15:11

• "However, it’s unclear to me how strongly you might attribute these two types of disaster to the AI language model." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-first-big-ai-disaster/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:15:54

• "Even if Apple still lags behind in terms of building advanced AI, the company is publishing AI research at a steady clip." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/apple-wwdc-ai-announcements/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:17:25

• "This means that Apple currently provides support for these versions of macOS: macOS Sequoia, macOS Sonoma (macOS 14), and macOS Ventura (macOS 13)." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/673939/this-is-how-long-macs-and-macbooks-last.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:17:45

• Microsoft layoffs. "Wait till teflon Lloyd Adams gets his DEI hooks into your workforce. MSFT will look like SAP’s chromosome resume parade…" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwxxd7yz    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:25:14

• The corrupt, lousy, sloppy media now participates in GAFAM's effort to paint layoffs as something they clearly are not, in this case "buyout" https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/google-offers-buyout-why-is-the-tech-giant-paying-employees-to-leave-11749644063779.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:26:50

• "When I first had the idea for this blog post, I thought only North America had a set of “never to connect” phone numbers." ☛ https://gregoryhammond.ca/blog/never-to-connect-phone-numbers-a-project/ | Source: Gregory Hammond    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:27:57

• "So a part of this is inevitable, people are going to complain about new designs no matter what because the most powerful feature of software design is familiarity." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/everyone-says-they-want-opinionated-design-until-they-get-it/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:28:21

• "As of yesterday, Apple’s iOS feature page indicated Canadian cycling directions were only available in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. The list has grown substantially today, adding: [...]" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/blog/apple-maps-cycling-canada/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:28:56

• "Apple is also warning users that another long-standing feature will be deprecated in macOS 27." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2809452/if-you-still-use-time-capsule-to-back-up-your-mac-the-clock-is-ticking-on-support.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:30:32

• "This article is here to help fill in the gaps and give you a clearer view of what the end of Windows 10 really means." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/end-of-windows-10-dont-worry-be-happy/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:31:01

• "A decision is imminent in three of the four cases that will determine whether individual health information for legal reproductive care remains protected by a 2024 federal rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/06/09/repub/will-hipaa-protections-continue-for-abortion-care-courts-to-soon-decide/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:34:09

• Nazi company accuses of someone who turns down Wayland of being a nazi. News at IBM...    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:34:47

• "That high risk of irritation came from both using multiple active ingredients at the same time, such as hydroxy acids, as well as applying the same active ingredient unknowingly over" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-06-10/advice-in-teen-tiktok-beauty-videos-can-lead-to-skin-damage | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:35:06

• "They're not less lethal if they're used lethally" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/what-tear-gas-does-to-the-human-body/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:35:30

• "corporate practices." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/06/investors-unitedhealth-group-care-denial-insurance/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:35:45

• "They found in states with the most permissive laws evidence of 6,029 more child deaths due to firearms than would have been expected based on the existing demographic trends" ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/06/youth-gun-deaths-rise-in-states-that-relaxed-laws/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:36:02

• "Once again, I used my Debian KDE laptop to "light tag" the castle. I connected it to a projector and used it to "paint" artwork directly onto the castle walls." ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1079/my-experience-at-geekfaeries-2025 | Source: David Revoy    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:36:51

• "In contrast, surrounding talented students with other top performers enhances academic achievement and boosts motivation." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/ending-honors-classes-punishes-student-success/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:37:30

• "Located between England and Ireland, the Isle of Man is now a self-governing crown dependency of the United Kingdom, but back in 798, it was settled by Vikings" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1000-year-old-gold-bracelet-fragment-found-british-isle-dates-when-vikings-ruled-land-180986761/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:38:06

• "This is us metaphorically closing our eyes." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-09/trumps-nasa-cuts-would-destroy-decades-of-science-and-wipe-out-its-future | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:38:55

• "oh please, another "Roadmap" and the associated hype, I remember Roadmap 2015 and all the hype surrounding it. Roadmap 2015 was just as successful as the Hindenburg and Titanic. Quantum is just another "1890s parlor trick", just like Watson was, conjured up by a dying, irrelevant company." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jxejzvnw    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:40:08

• "Oh really? How about IBM's fab technology that Intel has partnered with to help their failing fabs? Remember how Alvind hyped it? Another Research smoke and mirrors failure but took time to find it's a hoax and now they pulled a new Quantum rabbit!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jxddy831    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:40:46

• "Same id--t from Research that is hyping quantum now for 2029. People have a short memory and trust what they cannot understand. See the Emperor's New Clothes fairytale." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jxddy831    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:41:21

• "To Hoek, this makes all the difference. Rather than describing how an object maintains its momentum if no forces are impressed on it, Hoek says the new reading shows Newton meant that every change in a body's momentum" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/weve-been-misreading-a-major-law-of-physics-for-nearly-300-years | Source: Science Alert    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:42:10

• "To be clear, it’s not a practical advance: The process requires exponentially more energy than a million-qubit quantum computer." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-quantum-algorithm-factors-numbers-with-one-qubit-20250609/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:42:40

• More false promises nobody will remember in 4 years: "It hopes to make the computer available to users via the cloud by 2029." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/10/1118297/ibm-large-scale-error-corrected-quantum-computer-by-2028/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:43:17

• "taking a step back first" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/ibm-cracks-code-for-building-fault-tolerant-quantum-computer/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:43:36

• "Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/sly-and-the-family-stone-20-essential-songs-79782/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:44:20

• "Everyday People" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/09/sly-stone-revolutionary-funk-rock-musician-dies-at-82/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:44:31

• "I don't think I've ever felt more tension in the room during a live performance than when I was standing five feet in front of Sly Stone" ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2025/06/09/sly-stone-scariest-show/ | Source: Anil Dash    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:45:07

• "making the mistake of underestimating volatility is more dangerous than overestimating it." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/do-stonks-go-up | Source: Chris    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:46:06

• "Then also, blogging in more minimalist ways (like Bearblog) without ads and popup banners and newsletter modals feels more organic, a kind of original expression not filtered through editorial constraints and SEO optimizations." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/is-blogging-romantic/ |    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:47:11

• "Sometime during our time together, I felt a wave of nostalgia roll in. A quiet one. The kind you feel not for what is gone, but for what you’re lucky to still have." ☛ https://lubieniebieski.pl/posts/2025/06/conversations/ | Source: Adam Nowak    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:52:25

• "Instead of opting into a single architecture up front with escape hatches for every need that breaks the mold, you’re opting in to the request/response cycle of the web’s natural grain, and deciding how to respond on a case-by-case basis." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/web-as-urls-not-documents/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:52:38

• "I suspect most of you read my posts via RSS, because you’re awesome. But for the few of you who check out the website: firstly, thank you too! And secondly, I’ve added Ouro Kronii under the Fan section of the sidebar" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/ouro-kronii-is-on-the-sidebr/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:52:53

• "Gitea is a free, lightweight, universal and official Open Source system. Gitea covers Git hosting, team collaboration, CI/CD and code review." ☛ https://unixwinbsd.site/en/freebsd/2025/06/08/gitea-git-freebsd-insall-configuration/ | Source: UnixBSDSHell    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:53:41

• "Recursion in Forth isn't as straitforward as you would think. The obvious: [...]" ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2025/06/09.2 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:53:54

• "When I hacked my kindle and was planning to turn it into a dashboard, I had an interesting idea: Could I use Zig on this legacy device?" ☛ https://samkhawase.com/blog/zig-kindle-gdb/ |    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:54:19

• "This method is genuinely useful for me. I’m "poppin' paper" off my stack this evening by completing this write-up and it feels good!" ☛ https://ratfactor.com/cards/project-stack | Source: Dave Gauer    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:54:52

• "I have been writing quite a few Bazel rules recently" ☛ https://fzakaria.com/2025/06/10/bazel-knowledge-diagnostic-messages-only-on-failure | Source: Farid Zakaria    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:55:08

• "I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source." ☛ https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/06/10/how-to-compile-a-c-program/ | Source: Julia Evans    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:55:22

• "Argparse is the straightforward standard library module for handling command line arguments" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/ArgparseAndNestedGroups | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:56:22

• "The board has two UEXT connectors, first is connected to the board with 3.3V signals, the second UEXT operates with 5V devices." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/new-open-source-hardware-board-uext-3-to-5v-converter-allows-5v-devices-and-sensors-to-be-connected-to-uext-boards-with-3-3v-levels/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 14:59:47

• "The launcher proved to be a success and it throws the drone a good six feet up, where its motors can take over to achieve flight. Now, NickFPV’s viewers won’t see his poor throws." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/10/toss-launching-drones-is-hard-this-automatic-launcher-does-it-better/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:00:05

• "U.S. consumer protection (or what’s left of it after several devastating Supreme Court rulings and Trump executive orders) is on life support." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/10/the-u-s-army-embraces-right-to-repair-at-least-superficially/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:00:39

• Raspberry Pi 5 Test Bench with Real-Time Stats & RGB Load Monitor ☞ https://www.the-diy-life.com/raspberry-pi-5-test-bench-with-real-time-stats-rgb-load-monitor/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:02:08

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-06-11.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:15:07

• "I'm playing on a desktop PC running Fedora 42. I have enough faith in Valve's Proton that I don't check for compatibility before trying games." gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/steam_next_fest_(june_2025)_—_day_1.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:20:47

• "Cold porridge is really nice. I want to have something to bring to work for breakfast, and this works excellently. Some people call it "overnight oats", but I don't, since I can't have oats." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2633    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:21:38

• 🔤SpellBinding — CIZPRSO Wordo: DETUR gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-06-11.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:27:42

• a light caress gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/a_light_caress    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:28:26

• Steam Next Fest (June 2025) — Day 2 gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/steam_next_fest_(june_2025)_—_day_2.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:29:34

• They locked me into an psychiatric institution again. gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2634    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:30:46

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1321.jpg    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:31:25

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1671.jpg    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:31:31

• commence project "yeet broadband?" gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-06-11    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:37:17

• Code Execution Flaws Haunt Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Commerce ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/code-execution-flaws-haunt-adobe-acrobat-reader-adobe-commerce/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:43:34

• How Scammers Are Using [chatbots] Hey Hi (AI) to Steal College Financial Aid ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/how-scammers-are-using-ai-to-steal-college-financial-aid/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:44:14

• Hackers Stole 300,000 Crash Reports From Texas Department of Transportation ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-stole-300000-crash-reports-from-texas-department-of-transportation/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:44:37

• "This blog has been a static site powered by Jekyll for over 13 years" ☛ https://blog.pecar.me/autogenerating-og-image-with-jekyll | Source: Anže Pečar    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:45:32

• "Google has proposed a set of application programming interfaces (APIs)" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/11/mozilla_worries_googles_browser_ai/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:45:51

• "Ukraine and Moldova are set to take a major symbolic step" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-legal-win-russia-oligarchs-roaming-zone/33438145.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:46:26

• "The option is on by default" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250610065042 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:47:29

• "Compressing files is a quick and easy way to archive and group files." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/learn-how-to-archive-files-in-linux-with-tar | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:47:47

• How To Install MySQL on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mysql-almalinux-10/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:49:07

• How To Install MySQL Workbench on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mysql-workbench-almalinux-10/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:49:30

• How To Install Plex Media Server on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-plex-media-server-fedora-42/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:49:43

• How To Install MariaDB on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mariadb-almalinux-10/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:50:08

• How To Install Shotcut Video Editor on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-shotcut-video-editor-linux-mint-22/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:50:34

• Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/xlibre_new_xorg_fork/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:51:41

• Wayland is backed and developed by the company that worked with Hitler. Now it's projecting.    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:52:10

• Man Command on GNU/Linux with Examples ☞ https://idroot.us/man-command-linux/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:53:47

• How To Install Docker Swarm on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-docker-swarm-fedora-42/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:54:30

• How To Install pgAdmin on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-pgadmin-opensuse/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:54:45

• How To Install NumPy on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-numpy-fedora-42/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:54:58

• How To Manage GNU/Linux Users via the GUI and Terminal ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-manage-linux-users-via-the-gui-and-terminal    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:55:44

• Learn How to Archive Files in GNU/Linux with TAR ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/learn-how-to-archive-files-in-linux-with-tar    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:55:57

• Gemini Protocol Turns Six in 10 Days From Now ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/10/Gemini_Protocol_Turns_Six_in_10_Days_From_Now.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:56:18

• Piggybacking the reputation of another body/buddy while taking bribes from Microsoft to lobby for Microsoft agenda and openwashing ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/investing-in-open-source-sustainability-osi-supports-open-forum-europes-eu-sovereign-tech-fund-proposal    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:57:37

• LibreOffice for End User Privacy – TDF’s Annual Report 2024 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/10/libreoffice-for-end-user-privacy-tdfs-annual-report-2024/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 15:59:07

• "r u ok", r-bloggers.com? What does this have to do with "R"? https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/is-your-website-built-for-llms-why-analytics-needs-to-rethink-the-funnel/ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/exceptionally-and-on-a-more-personal-note-otherwise-i-may-get-buried-alive/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:03:24

• Speech-to-text with Whisper and Red Bait Hey Hi (AI) Inference Server ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/10/speech-text-whisper-and-red-hat-ai-inference-server    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:03:59

• Docker Desktop 4.42 Ships with Native IPv6, MCP Toolkit Integration ☞ https://linuxiac.com/docker-desktop-4-42-ships-with-native-ipv6-mcp-toolkit-integration/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:05:00

• DXVK 2.6.2 Brings Targeted Fixes for VR, defective chip maker Intel GPUs, and Game-Specific Bugs ☞ https://linuxiac.com/dxvk-2-6-2-brings-targeted-fixes-for-vr-intel-gpus-and-game-specific-bugs/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:05:19

• 20 Years of the Open Invention Network ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1024718/ Not the solution to anything http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/29/Disinformation_and_Marketing_Spam_From_and_For_OIN_GAFAM_s_and_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:06:33

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1024713/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:06:50

• Luca Ciavatta: Virtual Machines. VMware Workstation Pro and Alternatives in 2025 ☞ https://cialu.net/virtual-machines-vmware-workstation-pro-and-alternatives-in-2025/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:07:44

• Fedora Community Blog: GSOC Summer 2025 – ExplainMyLogs ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/gsoc-summer-2025-explainmylogs/ "This blog post is a brief documentation of my journey for Surveillance Giant Google Summer Of Code – 2025 with the Fedora Community."    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:08:35

• Niede Guidon, 92, Archaeologist Who Preserved Prehistoric Rock Art, Dies ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/science/niede-guidon-dead.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:09:04

• The surprising resilience of a smiling salamander and some old buried seeds ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Points-of-Progress/2025/0610/us-mexico-south-africa-eu    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:09:20

• Ending honors classes punishes student success ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/ending-honors-classes-punishes-student-success/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:15:38

• 'We can't continue to allow people to retreat from science' - John Kerry ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250610-we-can-t-continue-to-allow-people-to-retreat-from-science-john-kerry-speaks-at-un-ocean-conference    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:16:07

• Rare cancer diagnoses surge dramatically among millennials, Gen X ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/06/10/health/rare-cancer-diagnoses-surge-dramatically-among-millennials-gen-x/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:17:15

• Seasonal heat waves are typical in India, but this year is off to an ‘above normal’ start ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2025/0610/heat-wave-northern-India    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:17:49

• UMich community discusses public health and vaccine hesitancy following RFK Jr. remarks on vaccines ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/umich-community-discusses-public-health-and-vaccine-hesitancy-following-rfk-jr-remarks-on-vaccines/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:18:25

• Sudanese doctors on mission to rebuild Mycetoma Research Centre ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/science/20250610-sudanese-doctors-on-mission-to-rebuild-mycetoma-research-centre    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:18:57

• Tatiana Clouthier on ICE raids, fear and the Mexican workforce ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/politics/tatiana-clouthier-on-ice-raids-fear-mexican-workforce/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:19:16

• U.N. Agency Suspects North Korea Is Building New Uranium-Enrichment Site ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-uranium.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:19:35

• Satellite images show damaged North Korean warship moved to a port for repair: Report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/satellite-images-show-damaged-north-korean-warship-moved-to-a-port-for-repair-report-says    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:20:12

• Fire near South Korea’s Jogye temple contained, treasures spared, officials say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/fire-near-south-koreas-jogye-temple-contained-treasures-spared-officials-say    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:20:39

• South Korea appoints ex-trade chief Yeo Han-koo as new trade minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-appoints-ex-trade-chief-yeo-han-koo-as-new-trade-minister    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:21:08

• South Korea’s new President Lee Jae-myung asks citizens to recommend Cabinet members ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-new-president-lee-jae-myung-asks-citizens-to-recommend-cabinet-members    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:21:16

• Fatal bus crash in Malaysia: ‘I’m sorry, the brakes stopped working,’ says driver ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/fatal-bus-crash-in-malaysia-im-sorry-the-brakes-stopped-working-says-driver    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:22:08

• Malaysian fatal bus crash: Driver has 18 summonses, say officials ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-fatal-bus-crash-driver-has-18-summonses-say-authorities    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:22:27

• Chinese carriers in Pacific show country’s ‘expansionist’ aims, Taiwan says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-carriers-in-pacific-show-countrys-expansionist-aims-taiwan-says    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:23:53

• China Sends Two Aircraft Carriers Into the Pacific for the First Time ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/world/asia/china-aircraft-carriers.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:24:14

• U.S. and China Agree to Stick to Prior Trade Truce After Tensions Escalated ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/business/economy/us-china-trade-deal.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:24:38

• Beijing woos US influencers with free trip to show ‘real China’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/beijing-woos-us-influencers-with-free-trip-to-show-real-china    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:24:58

• Taiwan indicts 4 suspected spies for China in case reaching presidential office ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/taiwan-indicts-presidents-aide-on-charge-of-spying-for-china    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:29:54

• Residential building explosion in Fujian kills two, injures five ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/residential-building-explosion-in-fujian-china-kills-two-injures-five    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:30:05

• Vital chipmaking software access restored to China — shift follows high-level call between Presidents Convicted Felon and Pooh-tin Jinping ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/vital-chipmaking-software-access-restored-to-china-shift-follows-high-level-call-between-presidents-trump-and-xi-jinping    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:30:16

• Hong Kong to issue T1 typhoon signal as early as Wednesday morning after hottest day of year ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/10/hong-kong-to-issue-t1-typhoon-signal-as-early-as-wednesday-morning-after-hottest-day-of-year/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:30:34

• 2 Chinese aircraft carriers seen in Pacific for first time, Japan says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/10/two-chinese-aircraft-carriers-seen-in-pacific-for-first-time-japan-says/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:31:01

• Taiwan lawmakers approve higher military pay ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/10/taiwan-lawmakers-approve-higher-military-pay/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:31:23

• Hong Kong raises T1 storm signal as tropical cyclone closes in ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/11/hong-kong-raises-t1-storm-signal-as-tropical-depression-closes-in/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:31:47

• Australia and the EU should work with the South Pacific on Hey Hi (AI) SLOP ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-and-the-eu-should-work-with-the-south-pacific-on-ai/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:32:32

• It would be erroneous to claim that because Google/Gulag has SLOP in its "search results" page it is now all about propaganda because prior to that Google already presented an intentionally biased set of results. The concept of "search" was very misleading for ages. It's about control over people.    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:34:12

• SkyRoof ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/10/skyroof-a-new-satellite-tracker-for-hams/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:35:12

• Make GIMP 3.0.x Flatpak Follow System Color Scheme (Light or Dark) ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/gimp-respect-system-color-scheme/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:35:39

• GNU/Linux Grows at Windows' Expense and Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Trolls Infest and Maliciously Target Articles About It ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/09/GNU_Linux_Grows_at_Windows_Expense_and_Microsoft_Trolls_Infest_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:36:03

• Computers Got Smaller, So GNU/Linux Got Bigger ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/09/Computers_Got_Smaller_So_GNU_Linux_Got_Bigger.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:36:11

• TuxCare Announces Support for AlmaLinux 9.2 ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/TuxCare-Announces-Support-for-AlmaLinux-9.2    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:36:47

• Getting To Know the GNU/Linux Filesystem — Demystify the directories ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/getting-to-know-the-linux-filesystem-demystify-the-directories    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:37:33

• FSF Blogs: IRS tax filing software released to the people as free software ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/irs-direct-file-released-as-free-software    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:39:40

• FSF Events: Community meetup: Software Freedom Day ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/community-meetup-software-freedom-day    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:39:51

• Setting Up Terraform: Installation and Configuration ☞ https://tecadmin.net/terraform-setup/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:40:15

• Ubuntu 25.10 to drop support for X11 in GNOME ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1024758/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:42:03

• The IKEA VIDJA floor lamp is extremely bright ☞ https://rubenerd.com/the-ikea-vidja-floor-lamp-is-extremely-bright/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:47:50

• "Former Chicago Cop Eric Tabb Pleads Guilty to Aggravated Battery" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-police-eric-tabb-guilty-plea-battery | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:48:20

• "Dozens of Musk-Connected Staff Remain at DOGE" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-elon-musk-trump-staffers-tracker-update | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:48:54

• PCLinuxOS Recent Updates: ☞ https://www.pclinuxos.com/?p=5986    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:49:50

• illumos – Unix operating system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/illumos-unix-operating-system/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:50:15

• Pigment extracts color palettes from your images ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pigment-extracts-color-palettes-images/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:51:01

• Wifite is a Python script for auditing wireless networks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wifite-python-script-auditing-wireless-networks/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:51:24

• "School Threats Laws" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/school-threats-laws-georgia-new-mexico | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:52:14

• "The administrative complaint, which the EPA filed last June under the Biden administration, involved the GEO Group’s use of a disinfectant called Halt at the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in California." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-legal-complaint-geo-group-trump | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:52:33

• 20 Best Free and Open Source File Sharing Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-file-sharing-tools/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:53:41

• Magnanimous is a simple and fast static website generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/magnanimous-simple-fast-static-website-generator/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:53:51

• XBomb is a minesweeper game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xbomb-minesweeper-game/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:54:11

• Orange menu entries fixed in QV ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202506/orange-menu-entries-fixed-in-qv.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:55:00

• BetaNews is STILL in a week-old site state. So they probably lost EVERYTHING since then. Wow.    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 16:56:02

• EPO leaks today and tomorrow... Poland again    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:01:48

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration Holds Trade Talks With China as Fight Over Rare Earths Escalates ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/business/economy/china-us-trade-talks.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:02:51

• Why the Government’s Plan for Warrantless Access to Internet Subscriber Information Will Lead to Millions of Disclosure Demands Each Year ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/why-the-governments-plan-for-warrantless-access-to-internet-subscriber-information-will-lead-to-millions-of-disclosure-demands-each-year/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:04:13

• wobbly letters ☞ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/wobbly-letters    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:05:03

• Vulnerabilities Exposed Phone Number of Any Surveillance Giant Google User ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilities-exposed-phone-number-of-any-google-user/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:05:36

• Dave Townsend: What would you say you do here? ☞ https://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/2025/06/what-would-you-say-you-do-here/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:06:45

• How to use Splunk as an event source for Event-Driven Ansible ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/10/how-use-splunk-event-source-event-driven-ansible    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:08:16

• IBM and Microsoft finalise control over GNOME, with Amazon and AWS (also Google) joining in ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:13:45

• Human rights organizations demand release of Egypt activist Ibrahim Metwally ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/human-rights-organizations-demand-release-of-egyptian-activist-ibrahim-metwally/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:14:44

• SCOTUS: Pairing RADesign’s Discovery Rule with Jem’s Laches Defense ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/46305.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:24:35

• Between labs and algorithms: can patent monopoly law’s research exemption learn something from the TDM exception in copyright monopoly law? ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/06/10/between-labs-and-algorithms-can-patent-laws-research-exemption-learn-something-from-the-tdm-exception-in-copyright-law/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:24:59

• TTABlog Test: Is PIZZACCIA Merely Descriptive of Pizza and Cheese? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/06/ttablog-test-is-pizzaccia-merely.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:26:14

• This is paid-for spam from Red Hat. Red Hat basically pays Web sites to write a bunch of lousy puff pieces about Red Hat. This is not helping journalism; it discredits the whole occupation.☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/10/thecube-insights-red-hat-ai-rhsummit/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:28:50

• Open source Switch 2 adapter brings M.2 NVMe SSD to Nintendo's latest console — MicroSD Express and NVMe share a similar pinout that could even theoretically support an eGPU ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/open-source-switch-2-adapter-brings-m-2-nvme-ssd-to-nintendos-latest-console-microsd-express-and-nvme-share-a-similar-pinout-that-could-even-theoretically-support-an-egpu    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:29:06

• Turkey among the 10 worst countries for workers' rights ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-among-the-10-worst-countries-for-workers-rights-308227    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:29:32

• Generating Plasma ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/10/generating-plasma-with-a-hand-cranked-generator/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:32:35

• Oscilloscopes ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/10/two-bits-four-bits-a-twelve-bit-oscilloscope/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:32:56

• GNOME is GAFAM https://www.phoronix.com/news/AWS-Sponsoring-GNOME-Cloud    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:33:22

• Slopfarm Catastrophe ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/11/Slopfarm_Catastrophe.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:33:56

• They Say I'm Mr. Bombastic ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/09/They_Say_I_m_Mr_Bombastic.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:34:06

• $30+ Orange Pi R2S octa-core RISC-V router board features 2x 2.5GbE, 2x GbE, 2x USB ports ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/10/30-orange-pi-r2s-octa-core-risc-v-router-board-features-2x-2-5gbe-2x-gbe-2x-usb-ports/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:35:42

• Former Patent Examiner Takes IP Australia to Federal Court Over Alleged ‘Abusive Management Practices’ ☞ https://blog.patentology.com.au/2025/06/former-patent-examiner-takes-ip.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:36:26

• Court of Appeal implements CJEU ruling in Janssen’s dispute with INPI ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/court-of-appeal-implements-cjeu-ruling-in-janssens-dispute-with-inpi/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:36:55

• Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part VII: Washing Their Hands After Corruption and Abuse (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/10/Abuse_Inside_the_Polish_Patent_Office_UPRP_Part_VII_Washing_The.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:39:23

• UPC is illegal and Brexit also meant that it was doubly illegal, so the EU system for patent basically operate via illegal kangaroo courts now ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/06/11/upc-after-brexit-the-united-kingdoms-salty-sea-voyage/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:41:02

• Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part VIII: Illegal Working Conditions ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/11/Abuse_Inside_the_Polish_Patent_Office_UPRP_Part_VIII_Illegal_Wo.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:41:18

• Videocard ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/10/using-a-videocard-as-a-computer-enclosure/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:42:12

• Marie Curie ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/10/what-marie-curie-left-behind/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:42:34

• Cyberdeck ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/10/back-to-the-future-lunchbox-cyberdeck/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:42:51

• Physicists Actually Made The 'World's Smallest Violin' For a Serious Reason ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-actually-made-the-worlds-smallest-violin-for-a-serious-reason    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:43:13

• Most People Develop Diverticulosis in Their Gut by 80 … So What Is It? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/most-people-develop-diverticulosis-in-their-gut-by-80-so-what-is-it    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:43:36

• First Evidence of a Sauropod's Last Meal Shows How They Ate Their Food ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-evidence-of-a-sauropods-last-meal-shows-how-they-ate-their-food    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:46:43

• Shallow Holes in Our Ancestor's Teeth Might Not Be a Disease as Thought ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/shallow-holes-in-our-ancestors-teeth-might-not-be-a-disease-as-thought    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:46:54

• Common Psychiatric Medications May Increase Risk of ALS ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/common-psychiatric-medications-may-increase-risk-of-als    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:47:24

• Confirmed: People Really Do Tend to Look Like Their Dogs ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/confirmed-people-really-do-tend-to-look-like-their-dogs    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:47:49

• The World's Largest Organism Is Slowly Being Eaten ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-largest-organism-is-slowly-being-eaten    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:48:28

• Emperor Penguins Disappearing Faster Than Worst Estimates, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/emperor-penguins-disappearing-faster-than-worst-estimates-study-finds    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 17:48:46

• Japan's ruling coalition to pledge cash handouts in election campaigns, sources say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/japans-ruling-coalition-to-pledge-cash-handouts-in-election-campaigns-sources-say    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:22:15

• 1.5TB of James Webb Space Telescope data dumped on the internet — new searchable database is the largest window into our universe to date ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/1-5tb-of-james-webb-space-telescope-data-dumped-on-the-internet-new-searchable-database-is-the-largest-window-into-our-universe-to-date    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:22:49

• Everyone at the Table: Shaping the Internet Through Collaboration ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/06/everyone-at-the-table-shaping-the-internet-through-collaboration/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:23:15

• Newsom Says Convicted Felon Is Destroying U.S. Democracy in Speech on L.A. Protests ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/newsom-speech-trump-la-protests.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:24:26

• ESP32 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/10/supercon-2024-repurposing-esp32-based-commercial-products/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:25:42

• European Sustainable Energy Week: 'Powering a fair and competitive green transition' https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_1470    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:28:03

• Windows TCO ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32032 latest back doors now ready to install http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:29:44

• OctoSQL Vulnerability Data, (Sun, Jun 8th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32026    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:30:38

• Hong Kong leader defends new national security conditions for restaurant licence ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/10/hong-kong-leader-defends-new-national-security-conditions-for-restaurant-licence/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:32:00

• UMich visiting scholar arrested, charged with smuggling roundworm material ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/news-briefs/umich-visiting-scholar-arrested-charged-with-smuggling-roundworm-material/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:32:45

• Exploited Vulnerability Impacts Over 80,000 Roundcube Servers ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/exploited-vulnerability-impacts-over-80000-roundcube-servers/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:33:25

• Adapter allows users to connect an M.2 NVMe SSD to a microSD Express card slot ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/10/adapter-allows-users-to-connect-an-m-2-nvme-ssd-to-a-microsd-express-card-slot/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:33:56

• $7 NearLink WS63E board supports Wi-Fi 6, BLE, and SparkLink Low Energy (SLE) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/10/7-nearlink-ws63e-board-supports-wi-fi-6-ble-and-sparklink-low-energy-sle/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:34:27

• GitLab’s revenue outlook comes up short and its stock gets hammered ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/10/gitlabs-revenue-outlook-comes-short-stock-gets-hammered/ http://techrights.org/o/2023/07/29/writing-about-github-and-gitlab-state-today/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:35:57

• pg_dumpbinary v2.20 released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pg_dumpbinary-v220-released-3084/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:36:48

• powa-archivist 5.0.3 is out! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/powa-archivist-503-is-out-3085/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:36:59

• European Union Unveils Fresh Sanctions on Russia, Including a Nord Stream Ban ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/world/europe/european-union-sanctions-russia.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:38:00

• qdEngine development is now complete, playtest your games! ☞ https://www.scummvm.org/news/20250610/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:38:10

• Russian Lawmakers Authorize Creation Of National Messaging Service ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-sovereign-internet-super-app-tech/33439093.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:38:35

• EU Targeting Deal To Lower Oil Price Cap For Russia By G7 Summit Next Week ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-deal-lower-oil-price-cap-russia-g7-summit/33439187.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:38:52

• Baltics need to show strength to deter Russia, says Estonian president ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2585472/baltics-need-to-show-strength-to-deter-russia-says-estonian-president    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:39:44

• EU unveils 18th round of sanctions against Russia ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250610-eu-unveils-18th-round-of-sanctions-against-russia    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:40:23

• Statement by High Representative/Vice-President Kallas with President von der Leyen on the 18th package of sanctions against Russia ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_1469    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:40:43

• Statement by President von der Leyen with HR/VP Kallas on the 18th package of sanctions against Russia ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_1471    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:41:21

• Microsoft Patch Tuesday Covers WebDAV Flaw Marked as ‘Already Exploited’ ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-covers-webdav-flaw-marked-as-already-exploited/ http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:41:44

• Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 66 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited zero-day ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-june-2025/ http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:42:17

• With Sirens Screeching and Explosions in the Sky, Kyiv Struggles to Sleep ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/world/europe/russia-drone-attack-ukraine-kyiv.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:42:46

• U.S. Teacher Seized by Russia Is Located in Prison ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/world/europe/stephen-hubbard-russia-ukraine.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:42:59

• Zelenskyy Urges 'Concrete Action' As Massive Russian Air Attack Hits Odesa Maternity Ward ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelensky-concrete-action-russia-massive-air-attack-ukraine/33438846.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:43:28

• Russian Drone Strikes Hit Kharkiv, Killing 2 ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-kharkiv-drone-attack/33439659.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:43:52

• Moscow claims it will end war in Ukraine after NATO pulls out of Baltic states ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2586477/moscow-claims-it-will-end-war-in-ukraine-after-nato-pulls-out-of-baltic-states    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:44:13

• Russia court sentences ex-policemen to 14 years for graffiti and communication with Ukrainian group ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/russia-court-sentences-ex-policemen-to-14-years-for-graffiti-and-communication-with-ukrainian-group/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:44:43

• Kyiv and Odesa hit in deadly Russian drone attacks on Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250610-kyiv-and-odesa-hit-in-deadly-russian-drone-attacks-on-ukraine    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:44:58

• Russia and Ukraine complete second round of ongoing prisoner swap ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250610-russia-and-ukraine-complete-second-round-of-ongoing-prisoner-swap    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:45:09

• Modern Ukraine’s national journey can be traced on Kyiv’s central square ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/modern-ukraines-national-journey-can-be-traced-on-kyivs-central-square/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:45:34

• Five questions (and expert answers) about the new EU sanctions plan for Nord Stream and Russian banks and oil ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/experts-react/new-eu-sanctions-on-nord-stream-and-russian-banks-and-oil/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:46:00

• How did Latvian firms exposed to Russia adapt to trade sanctions? ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/commentary/10.06.2025-how-did-latvian-firms-exposed-to-russia-adapt-to-trade-sanctions.a602623/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:46:22

• Vapourware https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/quantum-computing/ibm-is-building-a-large-scale-quantum-computer-that-would-require-the-memory-of-more-than-a-quindecillion-of-the-worlds-most-powerful-supercomputers-to-simulate see http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/IBM_s_CEO_Has_Become_a_Stochastic_Buzzword_Generating_Machine.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:47:31

• European boost to Ukraine defense may come too late if US drops support, analyst fears ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250610-european-boost-to-ukraine-defense-may-come-too-late-if-us-drops-support-analyst-fears    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:48:07

• Ukrainian innovations are redefining the role of drones in modern war ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukrainian-innovations-are-redefining-the-role-of-drones-in-modern-war/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:48:29

• IBM sponsored SPAM. Publishers that take bribes do this. https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/10/ibm-reveals-roadmap-worlds-first-large-scale-fault-tolerant-quantum-computer-2029/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:48:59

• Ubuntu's Homegrown Git Alternative bzr is Being Removed from Launchpad https://news.itsfoss.com/bazaar-eol-launchpad/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:50:26

• "Ubuntu is following Fedora’s lead in adopting Wayland." https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-25-10-wayland-only/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/11/Wayland_Shows_the_IBM_Red_Hat_Way_of_Doing_Things.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:52:12

• Apple tries to contain itself with lightweight Linux VMs for macOS https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/apple_tries_to_contain_itself/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:54:45

• "It was the same for us when we got started. But this mysterious filesystem isn’t that mysterious after all; we just need some explanation to go along with the directory names." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/getting-to-know-the-linux-filesystem-demystify-the-directories    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:55:21

• "Here's how to save money, reduce e-waste, and extend the life of your old hardware at the same time." https://www.zdnet.com/article/want-to-save-your-old-computer-try-one-of-these-8-linux-distros-for-free/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:55:48

• OpenVPN DCO Added to Linux Kernel for Built-In Speed and Security https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250610119145/en/OpenVPN-DCO-Added-to-Linux-Kernel-for-Built-In-Speed-and-Security    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:56:15

• "Cloud Operations" means outsourcing, which is very dangerous for many reasons and isn't cheap like advertised https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/elf-based-malware-targets-cloud/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:57:32

• SiFive and Red Hat Collaborate on Enterprise Linux for RISC-V https://embeddedcomputing.com/technology/open-source/risc-v-open-source-ip/sifive-and-red-hat-collaborate-on-enterprise-linux-for-risc-v    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:57:55

• Fraud and charlatan Zemlin, who does not even use Open Source, floating fake numbers again https://diginomica.com/kubecon-china-open-source-9-trillion-asset-says-linux-foundations-zemlin-what-about-ai    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:58:56

• "Think of it like an SSH server waiting for someone to connect. A systemd service runs in the background, and you'll likely not directly interact with it." https://www.xda-developers.com/why-i-use-systemd-on-linux/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 18:59:31

• "If you're looking to use Linux as a gaming OS, there are some things you should take into consideration." https://www.zdnet.com/article/4-ways-to-level-up-your-gaming-on-linux-starting-with-the-right-distro/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:01:15

• How to create a Linux bash script - and what you can do with it https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-create-a-linux-bash-script-and-what-you-can-do-with-it/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:01:58

• F5 Networks (FFIV) Secures Sensitive Data and Streamlines Compliance with New FIPS Offering on Red Hat Enterprise Linux https://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/F5+Networks+%28FFIV%29+Secures+Sensitive+Data+and+Streamlines+Compliance+with+New+FIPS+Offering+on+Red+Hat+Enterprise+Linux/24917365.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:02:44

• Paywalled again https://www.techrepublic.com/resource-library/guide/how-to-optimize-apt-package-manager-on-debian-based-linux-distributions/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:03:05

• LF promoting the Ponzi scheme https://www.streetinsider.com/PRNewswire/Open+Source+Summit+Europe+and+AI_dev+Open+Source+GenAI+%26amp%3B+ML+Summit+Europe+Reveal+2025+Speaker+Lineup+Showcasing+Global+Open+Source+and+AI+Innovation/24919234.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:03:58

• The Ongoing BcacheFS Filesystem Stability Controversy https://hackaday.com/2025/06/10/the-ongoing-bcachefs-filesystem-stability-controversy/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:04:30

• F5 integrates NGINX Plus with Red Hat Linux for FIPS compliance https://in.investing.com/news/company-news/f5-integrates-nginx-plus-with-red-hat-linux-for-fips-compliance-93CH-4869790    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:05:44

• OpenVPN DCO Added to Linux Kernel for Built-In Speed and Security https://www.01net.it/openvpn-dco-added-to-linux-kernel-for-built-in-speed-and-security/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:06:20

• Proprietary attack vector on "real" GNU/Linux https://www.xda-developers.com/i-tried-multiple-linux-distros-on-wsl-these-are-the-best-5/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/22/The_Evolution_of_Microsoft_s_War_on_GNU_Linux.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:07:52

• This is not FAIR, this is Microsoft interference https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/linux-foundation-unveils-decentralized-wordpress-plugin-manager/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:10:28

• Swallowing the competition https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/09/sorry-docker-macos-26-adds-native-support-for-linux-containers    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:11:24

• "In this how-to we’ll look at the cp command which copies files and directories. We’ll look at some arguments that we can add to get the most out of this command." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-copy-files-and-directories-in-the-linux-terminal    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:14:26

• "PowerTOP is a Linux tool created by Intel to monitor and diagnose power usage by running apps and services. It's best used for devices with internal batteries" https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-powertop-is-the-most-powerful-linux-tool/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:14:59

• "Yes, Linux can be installed and run on MacBook computers, especially on older models with Intel processors, but chances are you will have no sound out of the box and only a dummy output, so here’s how to fix it." https://9to5linux.com/how-to-fix-dummy-output-no-sound-issue-on-macbook-computers-running-linux    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:16:01

• AMD’s Next-Gen Zen 6 “EPYC Venice” CPUs Surface Up at Linux Kernel Patch, Revealing New CPU IDs https://wccftech.com/amd-zen-6-epyc-venice-cpus-surface-up-at-linux-kernel/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:16:38

• Mutual Aid gemini://whither.smol.pub/1749655623    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:27:27

• Itsen palvelu gemini://sampsa.smol.pub/itsen-palvelu    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:27:47

• He is lying just to shill his expensive GPUs as "hey hi chips" (false marketing) https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/in-the-last-10-years-ai-has-advanced-1-million-times-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-hails-incredible-speed-of-industry-change    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:35:54

• Bribed coverage (fake article) for and by IBM https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/10/scaling-generative-ai-thecube-three-insights-ibmthink/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:36:20

• Zuckerface selling a fraud as ‘Superintelligence’ (he means plagiarism, which does not even do AI) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/meta-new-ai-lab-superintelligence.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:37:06

• As more troops enter Los Angeles, dueling narratives over how to keep the peace ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0610/california-marines-national-guard-trump-newsom    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:37:54

• Cheeto said he'd end the war in Ukraine, instead started yet another war... inside his own country. Popcorn time?    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:38:33

• UMich community reacts to expanded reproductive rights in Michigan ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/government/umich-community-reacts-to-expanded-reproductive-rights-in-michigan/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:39:14

• What we learned reviewing one of the first DKLs23 libraries from Silence Laboratories ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/06/10/what-we-learned-reviewing-one-of-the-first-dkls23-libraries-from-silence-laboratories/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:39:43

• Kenya dispatch: activist’s death in police custody sparks national outcry ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/kenya-dispatch-activists-death-in-police-custody-sparks-national-outcry/ "humorous posts critiquing governance and police conduct, particularly on X (formerly Twitter)"    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:42:10

• Amazon unveils plans for nuclear-powered data centers despite federal scrutiny ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0610/Amazon-nuclear-data-centers    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:42:32

• Is the Federal Communications Commission Out of Commission? ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/is-the-federal-communications-commission-out-of-commission/ Microsoft lobby https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:43:30

• AMD supercomputers take gold and silver in latest Top500 as Chinese HPC remains shrouded in secrecy ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/supercomputers/amd-supercomputers-take-gold-and-silver-in-latest-top500-as-chinese-hpc-remains-shrouded-in-secrecy    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:44:24

• A Killer Within Easy Reach ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/health/paraquat-pesticides-suicide-suriname.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:44:41

• Warp Takes Your Terminal to Light Speed and Beyond ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/06/warp-takes-your-terminal-to-light-speed-and-beyond/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:45:09

• Destination Linux 422: Rustification of Linux, Arch wants Sponsors, VirtualBox to the rescue & more ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-422/ https://destinationlinux.net/422    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:45:48

• Linux Matters Nerdy Day Trips ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/57/    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:46:35

• The Achingly Simple Lesson That Democrats Seem Determined Not to Learn ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/opinion/democrats-liberal-podcasters.html    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:46:57

• German intelligence chief warns Russia may deploy ‘little green men’ in Baltics ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2586404/german-intelligence-chief-warns-russia-may-deploy-little-green-men-in-baltics    

posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at 19:47:22