Roy Schestowitz

• 2026: 40000 layoffs at Microsoft due to AI/Satya https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf9gxedy "It's going to be a bloodbath."    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 03:46:54

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-01-20.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 03:51:38

• "One of the great things about the FOSS world is that if you have a specific computer problem...someone probably already wrote a utility to fix it." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/canfood/phlog/2026-01-19    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 03:52:36

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1541.jpg    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 03:53:09

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1891.jpg    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 03:53:14

• T H R E E - D E E (cont., 4ofx) gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260119_3d4 "GOOGOOGOO over Punter protocol. Start the download before bedtime and before the end of any BBS session time limit (while tying up the phone line) and hopefully the file writes to the 5.25" floppy successfully. At least there is no upload/download ratios."    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 03:54:19

• "I remember I have one CRT scope, a Tektronix 620 X-Y monitor, which I borrowed from a friend a while back, for some vector graphics experiments. It is rather long — about two feet from front to back, so it is a rather inconvenient form factor." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260119-0.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 03:55:10

• "When my wife and I visited the United Kingdom in 2023, we flew on an Airbus A380 with British Airways. The flight was packed: 485 passengers filled the double decks, and 22 crew members operated the aircraft and staffed the cabin." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202601/20260119-groups.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 03:55:59

• "I posted this on my blog, which conveniently cross-posts to gopher via the Writefreely blog platform I'm using." gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/gemlog/20260119-roku-at-a-hotel.gmi Using a Roku at a Hotel gopher://smallweb.space:70/0/using-a-roku-at-a-hotel    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 03:57:02

• "Of 60 students, 57 decided not to use any chatbots. For 30 of them, I managed to ask them to explain their choices. For the others, I unfortunately did not have the time. After the exam, I grouped those justifications into four different clusters. I did it without looking at their grades." gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 03:58:18

• "For a while now we've been talking about moving our Discord server community to IRC. I've been running a server, @kyonshi@dice.camp has been running a server, we networked them, and so on. I really like how the use of web apps like The Lounge have been helping us get there." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-01-19-grenzland    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 03:59:01

• "This oneness, mind you, is authentic 100% bonafide Greek-brand and therefore Western oneness, not the fake Eastern sort, nor the kind you might get from licking a toad." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/01/20/acme-brand-oneness.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 04:00:10

• "My dad worked for IBM in storage sales and, when he got cancer, they boosted his quota to 300% more that his career best quarter and when he only hit 250% they fired him to get him off the payroll and out of their insurance pool" https://x.com/politicalmath/status/2013473866148937735    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 06:47:58

• "Dad got another job with a better company and was still making sales a week before he passed away ... The main point is that IBM is an evil company filled with evil people and it should be burned to the ground"    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 06:48:38

• Ghostship is a new Super Mario 64 PC port from HarbourMasters | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/ghostship-is-a-new-super-mario-64-pc-port-from-harbourmasters/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 07:58:20

• KDE Plasma 6.7 will have a global push-to-talk feature | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/kde-plasma-6-7-will-have-a-global-push-to-talk-feature/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 07:58:46

• From the devs of Minami Lane, their next game Milki Delivery is a cosy delivery game | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/from-the-devs-of-minami-lane-their-next-game-milki-delivery-is-a-cosy-delivery-game/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 07:59:26

• Tile Tactics is a roguelike tower defense game where everything is a tile and you gamble for new tiles | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/tile-tactics-is-a-roguelike-tower-defense-game-where-everything-is-a-tile-and-you-gamble-for-new-tiles/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:02:10

• Walaber announced precision-driving physics sim 4x4 in a Furniture Store | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/walaber-announced-precision-driving-physics-sim-4x4-in-a-furniture-store/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:02:52

• Get some indie legends in the latest Fanatical game bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/get-some-indie-legends-in-the-latest-fanatical-game-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:03:46

• Draft code submitted to KDE Plasma turns it into a full VR desktop | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/draft-code-submitted-to-kde-plasma-turns-it-into-a-full-vr-desktop/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:05:15

• From Project Zomboid modders - the survival-horror Dandelion Void will have multiplayer | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/from-project-zomboid-modders-the-survival-horror-dandelion-void-will-have-multiplayer/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:05:34

• "Discount" https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/beep-2    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:11:04

• 45 people spent a day in a 50-square-meter shelter – the electricity went out and the cold set in | "45 ihmistä vietti vuorokauden 50-neliöisessä väestönsuojassa – sähköt katkeilivat ja kylmä tuli | HS.fi" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&u=https://www.hs.fi/helsinki/art-2000011757166.html    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:11:45

• "AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/01/18/0037250    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:11:55

• "Time to Unplug the American Century and Restart the Machine" https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/19/time-to-unplug-the-american-century-and-restart-the-machine/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:12:08

• "Saudi Arabia becomes world’s second-largest aid donor" https://www.semafor.com/article/01/19/2026/saudi-arabia-becomes-worlds-second-largest-aid-donor    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:12:20

• "How Trump has battled universities over antisemitism and DEI" https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0118/trump-universities-harvard-dei-antisemitism    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:12:32

• "Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:12:45

• "A short history of Appalachia's model towns and what they tell us for the future" https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/01/19/a-short-history-of-appalachias-model-towns-and-what-they-tell-us-for-the-future/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:12:58

• Trade war over IT between the EU and the US? | "Handelskrig om IT mellan EU och USA?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/01/19/handelskrig-om-it-mellan-eu-och-usa/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:13:27

• How to be anonymous on social media | "Så är du anonym på sociala media" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/01/19/sa-ar-du-anonym-pa-sociala-media/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:13:55

• "Putin invited to join Trump’s new ‘Board of Peace,’ Kremlin says" https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/01/19/putin-invited-to-join-trump-s-new-board-of-peace-kremlin-says    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:15:47

• "Putin Invited to Join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ - The Moscow Times" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/19/putin-invited-to-join-trumps-board-of-peace-a91712    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:15:56

• "Greenland: Europe must stand strong against Trump's tariffs threats" https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2026/01/europes-reckoning-over-greenland-has-arrived    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:16:07

• "NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/nvidia-contacted-annas-archive-to-secure-access-to-millions-of-pirated-books/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:16:43

• "A year later, the pattern continues. Now, it’s the work of Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian." ☛ https://copyrightlately.com/mondrian-public-domain-controversy/ | Source: CopyrightLately    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:16:58

• "Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips have been around since the release of the TPM 1.2 specification more than 20 years ago" ☛ https://sigma-star.at/blog/2026/01/tpm-on-embedded-systems-pitfalls-and-caveats/ | Source: Sigma Star gmbh    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:17:39

• "Oosthuysen said fibre deployments are taking longer than anticipated, with rural areas and smaller towns remaining the most difficult to connect." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/why-south-africas-internet-boom-isnt-driving-an-economic-boom/276444/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:18:06

• "Through detailed explanations of the role that slavery played in every region of early America, you learn that Delaware passed a law prohibiting free Black people from moving to the state." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/slavery-museums-black-history-lynching/685660/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:18:42

• "you should not say you want to abolish ICE." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/abolish-ice-democrats-defund-police/685665/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:18:57

• "Did the ICE agent kill Ms. Good because he feared her? Or did he kill her because she didn’t fear him?" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/renee-good-last-words.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:19:24

• "A Time to Break Silence (Declaration Against the Vietnam War)" ☛ https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm?ref=werd.io |    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:19:58

• "Remembering Beyond Vietnam on MLK Day" ☛ https://werd.io/remembering-beyond-vietnam-on-mlk-day/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:20:14

• "Okay, it’s the old playbook to silence us." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/19/1131384/what-its-like-to-be-banned-from-the-us-for-fighting-online-hate/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:20:36

• "Media reports said the unauthorized broadcast lasted around 10 minutes." ☛ https://therecord.media/iran-state-television-reported-hack-opposition | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:20:46

• "It’s an image that will knock you sideways: As snow falls, an elderly man wearing nothing but blue boxers and white Crocs with his hands restrained behind his back is forced out of his home by ICE agents." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-st-paul-chongly-scott-thao-saly-hmong-us-citizen-arrest | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:22:03

• "Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, however, was not surprised" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/todd-blanche-justice-department-renee-good/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:22:24

• "The report addressed the conduct of several countries, including Iran." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/un-condemns-alarming-global-execution-increase/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:22:39

• "To address inequality – and out of growing concern for how automation might displace workers – King became an early advocate for universal basic income." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/01/19/martin-luther-king-jr-was-ahead-of-his-time-in-pushing-for-universal-basic-income/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:22:58

• [Old] "The lawsuit states that the potential of ICE raids is sending a "chilling effect" across immigrant worshippers at Quaker services." ☛ https://meidasnews.com/news/quaker-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-ice-church-raids | Source: Arena Group    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:23:15

• "During a surprise performance in New Jersey, the musician condemned the deployment of federal agents in American cities and remembered the woman killed in Minneapolis" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-19/bruce-springsteen-speaks-out-against-ice-and-dedicates-a-song-to-renee-good.html | Source: El País    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:23:30

• "Pakistan’s government has stepped up the use of in absentia convictions and arrest warrants against Pakistani journalists living overseas since late 2025" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/01/harassed-at-home-convicted-abroad-pakistan-steps-up-prosecution-of-overseas-journalists/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:23:56

• "debanking." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/jamies-choice | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:25:27

• "The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to immediately release freelance documentary photographer Navid Zarrehbin Irani, and to halt the systematic harassment and intimidation of journalists in Iran." ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/01/bahai-photographer-arrested-in-iran-amid-internet-blackout/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:25:37

• "The biggest increases were seen in materials related to tools for bypassing [Internet] restrictions, which jumped 1,235% to more than 93,000 items, the regulator, Roskomnadzor, told the Vedomosti business daily on Monday." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/19/russia-blocks-record-13m-web-pages-in-2025-a91719 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:25:49

• "small Wikipedia edits punch above their weight" ☛ https://citizenlab.ca/london-pr-firm-rewrites-wikipedia-for-governments-and-billionaires/ | Source: Citizen Lab    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:26:26

• "The firm in question is Portland Communications, whose founder Tim Allan is now the director of communications for Keir Starmer." ☛ https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-01-14/london-pr-firm-rewrites-wikipedia-for-governments-and-billionaires | Source: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:26:36

• "The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee passed six public safety communications bills onto the full Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/lawmakers-advance-six-public-safety-communications-bills/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:27:00

• "As Europe’s longstanding alliance with the US falters, its push to become a self-sufficient AI superpower has become more urgent." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/europe-race-us-deepseek-sovereign-ai/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:27:11

• "It's just that you couldn't find a bigger culture clash between top-down and bottom-up if you invested a billion euros on a 27-nation research project." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/open_sources_new_mission_rebuild/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:27:21

• [Old] "But on closer examination, the “young people are screwed” narrative is only true enough to be dangerous." ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/are-young-people-screwed-by-the-economy |    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:28:16

• "Research conducted by Censuswide among 4,295 CFOs, CISOs, CIOs, and CEOs worldwide found the majority of organizations (70 percent) do not see traditional ERP as the future." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/erp_survey_rimini_street/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:28:26

• "This week has been dominated by the $800 utilities bill that came in the mail, which follows up last month's $600 bill." ☛ https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/weeknote-3/ | Source: Small Cypress    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:28:54

• "Most sites in Montana hit all-time, or near-record amounts of precipitation in December when an atmospheric river released a deluge across the state." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydro-power/tale-of-two-snowpacks-water-supply-report-shows-elevation-matters/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:29:35

• "The turbines harm air quality and increase the risk of cancer, asthma and respiratory diseases." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/19/epa-elons-methane-powered-xai-datacenter-illegally-generating-electricity.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:29:51

• "China's population fell by 3.39 million in 2025, marking a fourth year of decline." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51435008/chinas-population-drops-for-fourth-year-as-fewer-babies-born | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:30:22

• "Global fertility decline has made reproduction a site of reactionary family policies and moralized childlessness." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/01/birth-rates-children-pronatalism-gender/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:30:35

• "The danger, then, lies not in this single decision but in the cumulative effects of US disengagement over time" ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/hybrid-risks-rise-as-us-withdraws-from-international-organisations/ | Source: The Strategist    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:31:40

• "As Washington increasingly adopts a more transactional approach to defence in Europe, the threat to those states on the border with Russia increases." ☛ https://neweasterneurope.eu/2026/01/19/zero-margins-model-shows-europes-long-odds-in-a-baltic-war/ | Source: New Eastern Europe    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:32:56

• "The U.S. military is obligated by law, and by every tradition of American decency, to refuse to follow illegal orders." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/us-military-trump-greenland/685677/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:33:21

• "Nearly 60 years ago, in a sermon entitled “The Drum-Major Instinct,” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2026/01/19/martin-luther-king-jr-once-warned-of-the-drum-major-instinct-it-threatens-our-nation-today/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:34:35

• "After testing its new age-detection system in Britain over the last year, TikTok will start rolling out the tech across Europe in the next few weeks" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/18/tiktok-plans-more-age-check-restrictions-eu/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:34:58

• "A socialist attorney who practiced labor law in Berlin, Fraenkel fled Nazi Germany in 1938, eventually settling in Chicago." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ice-and-the-dual-state-regime/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:35:26

• "Greenland? - Robert Reich" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/greenland | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:36:11

• "While mainstream news sources are often hesitant to draw cause and effect between two suspiciously timed events, it was too overt even for them" ☛ https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-99/ | Source: Molly White    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:36:23

• "Well, I have news for American business leaders: You will not do OK." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/big-business-should-end-its-faustian | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:37:11

• "We are now facing an aggressor in the East - Russia - and an aggressor in the West - the United States." ☛ https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/stop-normalizing-fascism | Source: Carole Cadwalladr    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:37:24

• "It is estimated that as many as 70 per cent of Labour MPs would support a crackdown." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/19/starmer-says-we-need-to-do-more-to-protect-children-from-so/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:38:29

• "But this was not the only incident to generate controversy." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-19/they-dont-even-bother-using-subliminal-messages-trump-administrations-nazi-references-spark-outrage.html | Source: El País    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:39:00

• Anon: no phone any more when the power goes https://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/392bcb3c-d0bf-4d08-81bd-e79a7fb6976f    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:39:40

• "... btw there were some links about how powerful the astroturfing in Wikipedia is ... these recent decades"    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:40:07

• Techrights wrote many articles already about how "modern" landlines won't work when things fail. Andy later repeated those same arguments.    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:40:54

• Anon: "They're not landlines then. Landlines are self-powered over the wires connected to them and that is separate from the power grid."    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:41:38

• "They might be surrogates for landlines but still SIM-based."    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:42:21

• But not to have missed a key point, "modern" landline must have power, must have router, must have internet... they can thus fail to some many levels    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:43:34

• "That quiet accumulation of saved credentials feels harmless until you stop considering what’s actually at stake." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/how-to-delete-saved-passwords-in-google-chrome/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:45:04

• "Modern single sign on specifications such as OIDC and SAML and systems built on top of them are fairly complex things with a lot of moving parts." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebSSOVsX509Certificates | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:45:16

• "And yet, it must be stressed that ChatGPT Health enables the user to connect one's own medical records with it" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/chatgpt-health-security-safety-concerns | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:46:02

• "Schools across the U.S. are rolling out AI-powered surveillance technology, including drones, facial recognition and even bathroom listening devices." ☛ https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/12/16/ai-bathroom-monitors-welcome-to-americas-new-surveillance-high-schools/ | Source: Forbes    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:46:13

• Windows TCO: "Cybersecurity is no longer an ICT issue alone, it is a governance and risk issue" ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/01/why-cybersecurity-data-protection-and-safe-ai-training-must-be-central-to-board-induction-in-zimbabwes-digital-economy/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:50:00

• Windows TCO: "The cyber arm of the UK's sigint specialists at GCHQ specifically highlighted local authorities, including regional governments" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/dont_underestimate_prorussia_hacktivists_warns/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:51:21

• Windows TCO: "Cyble’s Annual Threat Landscape Report for 2025 documents a cybercrime environment that remained volatile" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/cyble-2025-threat-landscape-ransomware-report/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:51:45

• "The code is open source, so I had a look at how the front page algorithm works." ☛ https://atharvaraykar.com/lobsters/ |    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:52:33

• "Maybe, then, 2016 is the year we finally lost touch with reality." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/2016-nostalgia-trend-donald-trump-1235500808/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:52:45

• "code is law." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/billionaire-solipsism/#sirius-cybernetics | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:53:03

• "While I agree that the [Internet] ≠ social media, it’s a take on why we’re better without “social media” at all." ☛ https://tangiblelife.net/web-social-networks-social-web | Source: Steve Ledlow    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:53:22

• "What has been very interesting over the recent period, given the social unrest in Iran, is the drop off in social media activity and chat bot activity focused on Scotland, elections and independence" ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/global/europe/2026/01/19/hands-full-at-home-iran-is-seen-slowing-cyber-attacks-on-uk/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:53:42

• "Britain's Gambling Commission said on Monday that ‍Meta Platforms" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-turning-a-blind-eye-to-illegal-gambling-ads-uk-gambling-commission-says/articleshow/126706003.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:54:15

• [Old] "I will leave it as an excercise to the reader to point out why this would earn an F." ☛ https://nxdomain.no/~peter/chatgpt_writes_pf.conf.html | Source: Peter N M Hansteen    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:54:53

• "It all sounds pretty dystopian: [...] " ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-powered-surveillance-in-schools.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:55:03

• "In this post, I want to provide an update on the agentic designs I’ve seen (from building agents, using the latest AI products, and talking to other folks in agent-valley) and break down how the architecture has evolved yet again over the past few months" ☛ https://blog.sshh.io/p/building-multi-agent-systems-part-c0c | Source: Shrivu Shankar    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:55:23

• "I’ve been saying it to my family for a long time now, but wall-e dystopia is rather quickly approaching us." ☛ https://tangiblelife.net/the-end-of-thinking | Source: Steve Ledlow    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:55:42

• "Google doesn’t make it easy to disable AI Overviews in its search results, but you do have a few options if you want to avoid the AI summaries." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3023297/dont-like-googles-ai-answers-heres-how-to-get-rid-of-them.html | Source: PC World    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:56:14

• "that does the exact same as rm -rf ~. It can now execute this simply by running go test." ☛ https://martinalderson.com/posts/why-sandboxing-coding-agents-is-harder-than-you-think/ | Source: Martin Alderson    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:56:27

• "The reverse centaur. That’s where Big AI is the human part, and you’re just the horse part." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2026/01/17/discourse-datcourse/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:56:40

• "The amount of engineering effort, domain knowledge in general, and familiarity with a project's codebase in particular now likely matter more than ever." ☛ https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/grounded-take-on-agentic-coding/ | Source: Ivan Velichko    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:56:51

• "This aligns well with how I feel about LLMs. I think anyone who cares about computing and the impacts it has on society has a vested interest in seeing that AI does not become centralized." ☛ https://doug.pub/2026/01/18/ai-software-development-and-centralization.html | Source: Doug Jones    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:57:03

• "The International Labour Organisation (ILO) released its Employment and Social Trends 2026 report last week." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/warning-that-ai-could-hit-first-time-jobseekers-hardest/276423/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:57:26

• "Gmail has supported templates for years, but I’d always dismissed them as something meant for sales emails or canned support replies." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/gmail-feature-fixed-least-favorite-part-of-email/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:57:49

• "This phenomenon seems to be most-pronounced when the thing you’re using a single eye to looking at something small and pointlike (like an LED)" ☛ https://danq.me/2026/01/19/peripheral-vision/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:58:23

• "the liver through oral exposure, as well as the liver and lungs through inhalation exposure" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/19/silicone-bakeware-might-be-bad-for-your-liver/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:58:37

• "Using the Tandy 102 for work is a magical experience. If you're a writer, it's almost guaranteed to help you write more and faster." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/technology-mindset-shift/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:59:14

• "Before the exam, I copy/pasted my questions into some LLMs and, yes, the results were interesting enough." ☛ https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html | Source: Lionel Dricot    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 08:59:45

• "The aurora is forecast at a level eight on the Kp scale. The scale, which measures the aurora's intensity, ranges from zero to nine." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/space/sun-solar-flare-aurora-northern-lights-b2903514.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:00:36

• "Perhaps the least reliable network today is one connecting things in deep space." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/19/tolerating-delay-with-dtn/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:01:36

• "When my blog became about Essays, it may not surprise anyone to learn that within months I basically stopped blogging. Thankfully I’ve been off that trip for a long time. I’m a blogger, not an essayist, after all." ☛ https://bjhess.com/posts/blogging-in-a-stream | Source: Barry Hess    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:04:15

• "Most of the websites I follow in my web reader are personal sites like blogs. With that said, recently I subscribed to my local council’s news web page." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/19/local-news-open-web | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:04:25

• "The tale of the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the place where hits go to die—in some cases, over and over again. Let’s talk about the chart through the lens of its two most iconic artists." ☛ https://tedium.co/2026/01/19/billboard-bubbling-under-hot-100-chart-history/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:05:07

• iophk: btw RPi (and other SBC) prices are likely to jump again due to "AI" wasting all the available RAM currently on the market    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:12:18

• "The Unicode standard allows for certain (visually) identical characters to be represented in different ways. " ☛ https://nick.groenen.me/posts/%C3%A4-and-%C3%A4-are-not-the-same-character/ | Source: Nick Groenen    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:21:56

• "RApiDatetime provides a number of entry points for C-level functions of the R API for Date and Datetime calculations." ☛ https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/19/#rapidatetime_0.0.11 | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:22:18

• "I’m not saying you should write stuff this way, nor am I claiming it is the best way to write C all the time." ☛ https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/c-habits-for-me.html |    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:24:11

• "While I do not think that Futhark is the right language in which to do the experiment, I would like to see what it would be like for a language to fully exploit the array-function correspondence." ☛ https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-01-16-are-arrays-functions.html | Source: Futhark Programming Language    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:31:24

• "The web is the only major software platform without a native dependency manifest. The web runs on URLs and runtime resolution; npm runs on filesystems and build steps." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/19/importmap-lock.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:32:51

• "One product manager suggested I upskill some of the other designers on the programme who are less familiar with the Prototype Kit." ☛ https://adamsilver.io/blog/design-in-code-get-praise/ | Source: Adam Silver    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:33:12

• "An IEEE 64-bit binary floating point number is an integer v in the range [252, 253) times a power of two: f = v × 2e." ☛ https://research.swtch.com/ftoa | Source: Russ Cox    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:33:28

• "These are all equivalent definitions, using the convention that a boolean condition is 1 for true, 0 for false: [...]" ☛ https://research.swtch.com/fp-proof | Source: Russ Cox    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:33:40

• "A floating point number f has the form f=m·2e where m is called the mantissa and e is a signed integer exponent." ☛ https://research.swtch.com/fp | Source: Russ Cox    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 09:33:55

• "The Internet promised easy access to every book ever written. Why can’t we have nice things?" ☛ https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/the-dream-of-the-universal-library |    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:04:26

• "Akademik Kiril Popov" ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/risc-v-eur-1-retro-computer-soldering-workshop-at-high-school-of-mathematics-in-plovdiv/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:04:47

• "Here is another annual blog post breaking down code contributions to PostgreSQL itself (not ecosystem projects) by principal author." ☛ https://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/01/who-contributed-to-postgresql.html | Source: Robert Haas    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:05:08

• "Some web feeds, especially those published on news websites, are updated several times a day with new entries." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/19/announcing-artemis-roll-up | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:05:33

• "It's not just about your blogrolls either, as you can choose to make them public." ☛ https://chrishannah.me/miniroll/ | Source: Chris Hannah    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:05:48

• "So, when you jump on a bus at the last second and don't have a valid ticket, be sure to forget the app and use a contactless card reader instead." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20205117 | Source: YLE    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:06:24

• "My setup stayed static for some time, but my most recent iteration ended up letting me down and I had to change it again." ☛ https://ntietz.com/blog/3d-printing-my-laptop-ergonomic-setup/ | Source: Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:07:44

• "The trick, of course, is a pair of photo-sensitive resistors. A pair of motors turns the robot until one of the sensors detects light, then moves it forward." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/19/robot-sees-light-with-no-cpu/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:07:54

• "Finally got my Xteink ironically after hearing you slag it on Upgrade. So I flashed it with the community-made firmware, which by all accounts is better." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/01/if-the-future-of-e-readers-is-getting-weird-im-here-for-it/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:08:26

• MX-25.1 “Infinity” ISOs now available! https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-25-1-infinity-isos-now-available/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:09:28

• "The MX Linux team has announced an update to the distribution's 25.x series." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12706 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:09:57

• "During the month of December they updated their FreeBSD driver compatibility layer against FreeBSD 15.0 that released at the start of the month." ☛ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-December-2025 | Source: Phoronix    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:11:10

• "I can watch people play videogames on YouTube (I do actually like Twitch too, but only when the “live” aspect is additive, which isn’t usually)." ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2026/01/18/the-breakaway-moment/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:11:49

• "One of the surprises of TCP and UDP is that when your program listens for incoming TCP connections or UDP packets" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/TCPUDPListeningOnAddress | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:13:58

• "How to config your machine to send mail by terminal/console, on OpenBSD, on SMTP server with a required authentication?" ☛ https://doc.huc.fr.eu.org/en/sys/openbsd/smtpd-config-auth/ | Source: Stéphane Huc    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:14:51

• "Running a mail server on the public [Internet] means dealing with a constant stream of brute-force attempts." ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/geoip-aware-firewalling-with-pf-on-freebsd/ |    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:15:11

• "While starting this post I realized I have been maintaining personal infrastructure for over a decade!" ☛ https://linderud.dev/blog/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026/ | Source: Morten Linderud    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:15:46

• "The plan is to duplicate my router virtual machine from my Beelink EQ12 to my Mini-ITX server. For that I need more ports. For more ports I bought the NIC above." ☛ https://dbushell.com/2026/01/19/self-hosted-update-winter-2026/ | Source: David Bushell    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:16:10

• [Old] "Greytrapping at nxdomain.no, also known as bsdly.net and a few other domain names, has been a long running experiment." ☛ https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html | Source: Peter N M Hansteen    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:16:29

• "I came across a recent article on making Linux system calls from a Wine process." ☛ https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/01/19/ | Source: Chris Wellons    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:17:21

• "We start with four disks of equal size: [...]" ☛ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-unequal-linux-raid | Source: Vincent Bernat    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:17:40

• "The conference is scheduled to take place June 25 to 27 in Nuremberg, Germany." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/01/19/submit-an-osc-presentation/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:24:57

• "We reached out to Loughborough University School of Design and Creative Arts because there is a real need for non-code contributions in the open source ecosystem." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/showcasing-open-design-in-action-loughborough-university-design-students-explore-open-source-projects | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:25:25

• "The MultiCM Flasher is designed for programming up to seven Compute Modules in parallel, with support for mixed module generations using a single firmware image." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/multicm-flasher-enables-parallel-programming-of-raspberry-pi-compute-modules/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:26:15

• "The CMX0 supports both Compute Module 5 Lite and eMMC variants, with a microSD card socket provided for Lite modules. Compute Module 4 is not supported." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/bentoio-cmx0-io-carrier-board-adds-low-profile-platform-for-raspberry-pi-cm5/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:26:24

• "ESP32-E22 integrates tri-band Wi-Fi 6E support across the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz bands, marking Espressif’s first product to enable operation in the 6 GHz spectrum." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-e22-debuts-with-tri-band-wi-fi-6e-and-dual-mode-bluetooth/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:26:34

• San Francisco Mourns Its Beloved Alligator, Claude ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/claude-alligator-san-francisco-funeral.html    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:27:04

• Scientists Uncover Secret Landscape Hiding Miles Below Antarctica’s Ice ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/hidden-landscape-antarctica-ice    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:27:35

• Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrid About Those Disposable Coffee Cups You’ve Been Slurping ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/disposable-coffee-cups-microplastics    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:27:54

• Buttigieg, Booker Lead Midterm Democratic Health Care Push ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/politics/democrats-health-care-booker-buttigieg.html    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:28:25

• Former Yoon administration staff linked to alleged North Korea drone intrusion ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/former-yoon-staffers-linked-to-alleged-north-korea-drone-intrusion    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:29:01

• Over 3 million South Koreans opt out of life-sustaining treatment ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/over-3-million-south-koreans-opt-out-of-life-sustaining-treatment    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:29:19

• Recent studies suggest South Korean students are rethinking Seoul universities, STEM and medicine ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/recent-studies-suggest-south-korean-students-are-rethinking-seoul-universities-stem-and-medicine    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:29:37

• Greece acquits 24 humanitarian workers following 7 years of proceedings ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/greece-acquits-24-humanitarian-workers-following-7-years-of-proceedings/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:30:12

• Malaysian rapper Namewee claims trial for possessing ED drug, meth ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-rapper-namewee-claims-trial-for-possessing-ed-drug-meth    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:31:20

• Malaysia’s Defence Ministry launches probe into ‘yeye’ culture across all military branches ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-defence-ministry-launches-probe-into-yeye-culture-across-all-military-branches    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:31:42

• Malaysian PM Anwar given clean bill of health after routine check-up ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-pm-anwar-given-clean-bill-of-health-after-routine-check-up    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 13:32:23

• Gartner Inc. layoffs https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfcggk5w    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:13:54

• "and IBM becomes a walking corpse" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfcgmcs8    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:14:41

• 🔤SpellBinding — GIKLNWR Wordo: FORGE gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-20.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:19:36

• "I've been working with a friend[fn:01] to get a second version of the gateway prototype we made a few years ago[fn:02]. This time we aim for a little freedom and without the design restraints we had at the time." gopher://fatelectron.net:70/0/phlog/20260119.org    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:21:36

• Boxing gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/boxing    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:22:14

• 🖼️ xkcd: Aurora Coolness #3196 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3196.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:24:16

• Uniform API server access using clientcmd ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01/19/clientcmd-apiserver-access/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:28:04

• Neuroscience professor talks interdisciplinary learning in a curious world ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/01/19/neuroscience-professor-talks-interdisciplinary-learning-in-a-curious-world/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:47:13

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s health under scrutiny: Speculation, signals and silence ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260120-trump-health-under-scrutiny-speculation-signals-and-silence    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:47:32

• Bridge Lunch Break to discuss the state of Michigan’s nursing homes ☞ https://bridgemi.com/events/bridge-lunch-break-to-discuss-the-state-of-michigans-nursing-homes/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:47:43

• From the Community | Stanford forces graduate workers to choose between degrees and medical care ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/01/18/from-the-community-stanford-forces-graduate-workers-to-choose-between-degrees-and-medical-care/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:48:01

• Fewer electric injuries recorded last year than before ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/19.01.2026-fewer-electric-injuries-recorded-last-year-than-before.a630521/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:48:26

• Latvia makes big improvements in child health provision ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/20.01.2026-latvia-makes-big-improvements-in-child-health-provision.a630538/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:48:36

• North Korea’s Kim sacks vice-premier, rails against ‘incompetence’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-fires-vice-premier-inspects-machinery-plant-before-key-party-congress    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:49:02

• Man in South Korea kills mentally ill brother, attacks mother with dementia ‘due to financial hardship’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/man-in-south-korea-kills-mentally-ill-brother-attacks-mother-with-dementia-due-to-financial-hardship    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:49:29

• Caught littering in Malaysia? This is what community service punishment will look like ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/caught-littering-in-malaysia-this-is-what-community-service-punishment-will-look-like    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:50:03

• China factory explosion death toll rises to 9 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-factory-explosion-death-toll-rises-to-9    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:50:45

• China’s birth rate falls to lowest on record despite nationwide policies to curb decline ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/19/chinas-birth-rate-falls-to-lowest-on-record-despite-nationwide-policies-to-curb-decline/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:51:28

• China vows to boost flagging demand in 2030 economic plan ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/20/china-vows-to-boost-flagging-demand-in-2030-economic-plan/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:51:54

• Pushed around by China, Australia is not a serious middle power ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/pushed-around-by-china-australia-is-not-a-serious-middle-power/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:52:43

• China hacked our mobile carriers. So why is the Pentagon still buying from them? ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/01/china-hacked-our-mobile-carriers-so-why-is-the-pentagon-still-buying-from-them/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:53:09

• Record opposition to climate action in UK national newspapers in 2025 ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/record-opposition-to-climate-action-in-uk-national-newspapers-in-2025/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:54:15

• Independent set to take over running Standard website ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/independent-set-to-take-over-running-standard-website/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:54:42

• More than 8,000 chain stores in the US closed up shop in 2025 — heralding a ‘retail apocalypse’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/01/20/lifestyle/more-than-8000-chain-stores-in-the-us-closed-up-shop-in-2025/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:55:09

• Intense 'Darkwaves' Can Cast Ocean in Shadow For Months, Scientists Discover ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/intense-darkwaves-can-cast-ocean-in-shadow-for-months-scientists-discover    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:55:38

• Positive Thinking May Help You Get More Out of Your Vaccines ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/positive-thinking-may-help-you-get-more-out-of-your-vaccines    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:55:51

• Polar Storms on Jupiter And Saturn Reveal Deep Atmospheric Differences ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/jupiters-and-saturns-distinct-polar-storms-could-reveal-what-hides-within    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:56:46

• A Common Pain Relief Drug Could Have Anti-Cancer Properties ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-common-pain-relief-drug-could-have-anti-cancer-properties    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:56:59

• A Single Molecule May Explain How Blood Flow in The Brain Triggers Dementia ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-single-molecule-may-explain-how-blood-flow-in-the-brain-triggers-dementia    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:57:12

• One Change to Your Reading Habit Fights Stress And Misinformation ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-change-to-your-reading-habit-fights-stress-and-misinformation    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:57:23

• Cutting Gluten Can Lead to Weight Loss, But Not For The Reason You'd Think ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cutting-gluten-can-lead-to-weight-loss-but-not-for-the-reason-youd-think    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:57:36

• Aurora Watch in Effect as Severe Solar Storm Slams Into Earth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/aurora-watch-in-effect-as-severe-solar-storm-slams-into-earth    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:57:50

• Something About Brazil's Oldest People May Reveal Missing Clues on Longevity ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/something-about-brazils-oldest-people-may-reveal-missing-clues-on-longevity    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:58:04

• Penguins May Be Adapting to a Rapidly Warming Climate, But at a Cost ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/penguins-may-be-adapting-to-a-rapidly-warming-climate-but-at-a-cost    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 14:58:13

• South Korea’s Lee calls for improved drone detection to avoid provoking North Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-lee-calls-for-improved-drone-detection-to-avoid-provoking-north-korea    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:05:21

• IBM layoffs by "appraisals": "Well some people unfortunately will be placed into a fully rigged nonsensical “review” process that’s impossible to fight or escape. The best advice in that situation: start applying for other jobs immediately—the minute you hear it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfcgmcs8    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:16:51

• "can employees discuss Alvind's and Krabanaugh's reviews please? With stack ranking, of course. It should provide much entertainment to the public and Wall Street to see if these crooks are meeting their goals."    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:17:20

• Capgemini plans to cut up to 2,400 jobs in France https://m.economictimes.com/tech/information-tech/capgemini-plans-to-cut-up-to-2400-jobs-in-france/amp_articleshow/126790920.cms    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:23:21

• Windows 11 January update causes shutdown problems, emergency fix rolled out https://www.techlusive.in/news/windows-11-january-update-causes-shutdown-problems-emergency-fix-rolled-out-1641032/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:26:24

• CRIF case shows: Public registries are increasingly being misused ☞ https://noyb.eu/en/crif-case-shows-public-registries-are-increasingly-being-misused    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:42:38

• Police are using ‘zombie’ court orders to shut down social movements ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/police-using-zombie-court-orders-to-shut-down-social-movements/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:43:23

• Two new stable kernels for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1054993/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:43:55

• Announcing Istio 1.28.3 ☞ https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.28.x/announcing-1.28.3/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:44:35

• European Patent Office (EPO) Industrial Actions Formally Start in Two Hours ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Industrial_Actions_Formally_Start_in.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:44:47

• CJEU to decide if authorisation for human drug precludes SPC for veterinary use ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/cjeu-to-decide-if-authorisation-for-human-drug-precludes-spc-for-veterinary-use/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:45:10

• Rakudo Weekly 2026.03 Lamentable ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/01/19/2026-03-lamentable/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:45:46

• Craig Small: WordPress 6.9 for Debian ☞ https://dropbear.xyz/2026/01/19/wordpress-6-9-for-debian/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:47:46

• Call for testing: syslog-ng 4.11 is coming ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-call-for-testing-411-is-coming/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:48:29

• Jonathan Almeida: Test sites for browser developers ☞ https://jonalmeida.com/blog/browser-test-sites/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:48:50

• London PR Firm Rewrites Wikipedia for Governments and Billionaires ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/london-pr-firm-rewrites-wikipedia-for-governments-and-billionaires/ http://techrights.org/o/2022/10/07/nat-friedman-wikipedia-spam/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:49:50

• Open-Source Community Tackling Y2K38 Epoch ☞ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/01/20/os-community-tackling-y2k38-epoch/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:50:30

• Jonathan Dowland: FOSDEM 2026 ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/fosdem/2026/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:50:56

• Now with MQTTS ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/19/now-with-mqtts/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:54:15

• All the new things — RouteViews in 2025 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/01/19/all-the-new-things-routeviews-in-2025/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:54:40

• An in-depth look at the Software Catalog and Templates ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/19/depth-look-software-catalog-and-templates    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:55:14

• IBM is Outsourcing Red Hat's Fedora to Slop to 'Save Money' ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/IBM_is_Outsourcing_Red_Hat_s_Fedora_to_Slop_to_Save_Money.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:55:40

• Tomas Tomecek: Ambient Code followup: PR merged ☞ https://blog.tomecek.net/post/ambient-code-merged/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:56:20

• Andreas Schneider: Some 🌳💞 for RPM Spec ☞ https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2026/01/20/some-tree-love-for-rpm-spec/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:56:52

• IP addresses through 2025 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/01/20/ip-addresses-through-2025/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:57:11

• Surveillance plane which crashed was airworthy, says Indonesian official ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/crashed-surveillance-plane-was-airworthy-says-indonesian-official    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:57:34

• CNAF’s discriminatory scoring algorithm: 10 new organisations join the case before the Conseil d’État in France ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/cnafs-discriminatory-scoring-algorithm-10-new-organisations-join-the-case-before-the-conseil-detat-in-france/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:58:01

• Vincent Bernat: RAID 5 with mixed-capacity disks on GNU/Linux ☞ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-unequal-linux-raid    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:59:05

• Setup Arch GNU/Linux KVM Guest via archinstall 3.0.15-2 ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/01/setup-arch-linux-kvm-guest-via.html    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 15:59:42

• Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1054992/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:07:17

• Photoshop Installer Runs on GNU/Linux Despite Adobe Not Giving a Damn For Years ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/photoshop-installer-runs-on-linux/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:07:54

• Linux Gamers Are Finally Getting Their Own Browser ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/opera-gx-linux-announcement/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:09:31

• Personal infrastructure setup 2026 ☞ https://linderud.dev/blog/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:09:40

• Isoken Ibizugbe: Mid-Point Project Progress ☞ https://isokenibizugbe.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/mid-point-project-progress/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:10:33

• Hellen Chemtai: Internship Highlights at Outreachy: My Journey with Debian OpenQA ☞ https://hellenchemtai.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/internship-highlights-at-outreachy-my-journey-with-debian-openqa/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:10:59

• Firefox Nightly: Introducing Mozilla’s Firefox Nightly .rpm package for RPM based linux distributions! ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/01/19/introducing-mozillas-firefox-nightly-rpm-package-for-rpm-based-linux-distributions/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:11:25

• Indirect prompt injection in Surveillance Giant Google Gemini enabled unauthorized access to meeting data ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/19/indirect-prompt-injection-google-gemini-enabled-unauthorized-access-meeting-data/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:13:51

• Weaponized Invite Enabled Calendar Data Theft via Surveillance Giant Google Gemini ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/weaponized-invite-enabled-calendar-data-theft-via-google-gemini/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:14:03

• Francesco Paolo Lovergine: A Terramaster NAS with Debian, take two. ☞ https://lovergine.com/a-terramaster-nas-with-debian-take-two.html    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:15:08

• Adam Williamson: CI and LLM review on Fedora Forge with Forgejo Actions ☞ https://www.happyassassin.net/posts/2026/01/19/ci-and-llm-review-on-fedora-forge-with-forgejo-actions/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:16:07

• pgBackRest 2.58.0 Released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgbackrest-2580-released-3216/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:17:12

• Haas: Who contributed to PostgreSQL development in 2025? ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1055033/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:17:27

• pgmetrics 1.19 released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgmetrics-119-released-3213/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:17:55

• As Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Stuffs backdoored Windows With AI, New Update Prevents Users From Turning Off Their PCs Entirely ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-update-prevent-shutdown    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:18:22

• Microsoft issues an urgent fix following a problematic security update ☞ https://hackwarenews.com/microsoft-issues-an-urgent-fix-following-a-problematic-security-update/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:18:44

• CAFC Affirms TTAB: SAZERAC STITCHES Confusable With SAZERAC for Houseware Store Services ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2026/01/cafc-affirms-ttab-sazerac-stitches.html    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:19:28

• Arrests Made for Murder at Amazon Facility ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/arrests-murder-amazon-facility    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:19:58

• Sahil Dhiman: Conferences, why? ☞ https://blog.sahilister.in/2026/01/conferences-why/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:20:29

• Russell Coker: Furilabs FLX1s ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/01/19/furilabs-flx1s/ "a phone running a modified version of Debian"    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:21:36

• Ubuntu's Snap Store is Under Siege from Scammers, and The Gates are Open ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/snap-store-under-siege/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:22:15

• deepin 25.0.10 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/deepin    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:22:42

• 4MLinux 51.0 (beta) available ☞ https://distrowatch.com/4mlinux    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:22:56

• Fedora Community Blog: 2 Weeks Left: The Flock 2026 CFP Ends Feb 2 ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/flock-2026-cfp-2-weeks-left/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:23:35

• Learning to teach better by observation: What I did on my sabbatical ☞ https://computinged.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/learning-to-teach-better-by-observation-what-i-did-on-my-sabbatical/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:24:03

• How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on GNU/Linux ARM64 Devices ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/install-onlyoffice-desktop-editors-on-linux-arm64/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:24:41

• Late Night GNU/Linux – Episode 369 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-369/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:25:25

• The Ice Curtain ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/19/the-ice-curtain    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:25:55

• Last year Latvia banned 1,764 from entering over security concerns ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/19.01.2026-last-year-latvia-banned-1764-from-entering-over-security-concerns.a630589/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:26:04

• TV3: recent arrests made in connection with pro-Russia network in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/19.01.2026-tv3-recent-arrests-made-in-connection-with-pro-russia-network-in-latvia.a630515/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:29:46

• Police look into alleged charity fraud in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/19.01.2026-police-look-into-alleged-charity-fraud-in-latvia.a630497/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:29:58

• Taiwan’s drone program is far too small ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/taiwans-drone-program-is-far-too-small/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:30:16

• Over 5,000 homes without power in Kyiv after Russian strikes on energy grid ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260120-over-5-000-homes-without-power-in-kyiv-after-russian-strikes-on-energy-grid    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:30:38

• New Russian Strikes Leave Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power In Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-strikes-utilities-ukraine-electricity-zelenskyy/33654651.html    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:32:49

• Russia Continues Targeting Ukraine's Energy As Kyiv Looks To Shift Electricity Eastward ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-target-ukraine-energy-amid-cold-weather/33653692.html    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:33:00

• Slim adds 2 Russian fields in the Gulf of Mexico to his expanding oil portfolio ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/rssian-fields-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:33:22

• China, Russia conclude BRICS+ naval drills in South Africa amid controversy ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/china-russia-conclude-brics-naval-drills-in-south-africa-amid-controversy    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:33:35

• Russia's Far East buried in snow, transport disrupted in China and Japan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/russias-far-east-buried-in-snow-transport-disrupted-in-china-and-japan    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:33:55

• Lithuania says contraband balloon situation improving, but crisis not over ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2812070/lithuania-says-contraband-balloon-situation-improving-but-crisis-not-over    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:34:16

• Belarusian opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya to relocate from Lithuania to Poland ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2811078/belarusian-opposition-leader-tsikhanouskaya-to-relocate-from-lithuania-to-poland    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:34:37

• IBM Sued for Discrimination. Again. ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ibm-sued-for-discrimination-again    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:35:43

• C++26 Reflection 💚 QRangeModel ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/c26-reflection-qrangemodel    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:36:52

• Iran Mulls Return Of Internet As Extent Of Deadly Crackdown Slowly Leaks Out ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-punishments-khamenei-trump/33653138.html    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:37:51

• Iran crackdown: 'Can a government willing to kill its own people be trusted to reform?' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/iran-crackdown-can-a-government-willing-to-kill-its-own-people-be-trusted-to-reform    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:38:11

• Hey Hi (AI) SPAM sponsored by IBM to cover IBM ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/19/ibms-newest-consulting-service-pairs-human-experts-digital-workers-scale-enterprise-ai/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:39:30

• Experts Concerned That Hey Hi (AI) Progress Could Be Speeding Toward a Sudden Wall ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/experts-concerned-ai-progress-wall    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:40:10

• Australia passes tougher laws on guns, hate crimes after Bondi shooting ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australias-lower-house-passes-tougher-gun-control-laws-in-response-to-bondi-mass-shooting    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:40:40

• Malaysia wins appeal in lawsuit by family of murdered Mongolian woman Altantuya ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-wins-appeal-in-lawsuit-by-family-of-murdered-mongolian-woman-altantuya    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:40:59

• Washington state proposes new 3D-printed gun controls ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/washington-state-proposes-new-3d-printed-gun-controls-with-blocking-features-and-blueprint-detection-algorithm-proposal-would-carry-sentences-of-five-years-in-prison-usd15-000-fine-for-violation    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:45:39

• Islamic State Says It Targeted Chinese Nationals In Deadly Kabul Restaurant Blast ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/china-afghanistan-islamic-state-bombing-attack-taliban/33654631.html    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:46:10

• Qt 6.5 Reaches End-of-Support in April 2026 ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.5-reaches-end-of-support    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:46:38

• Taiwan detains journalist over alleged bribery to obtain military information for China ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/taiwan-detains-journalist-over-alleged-bribery-to-obtain-military-information-for-china/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:46:59

• Uganda police deny arresting opposition candidate amid clash over election credibility ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/uganda-police-deny-arresting-opposition-candidate-amid-clash-over-election-credibility/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:47:22

• Nat. security case against political commentator to move to higher court, raising max. penalty to 7 years’ jail ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/20/sedition-case-against-political-commentator-to-move-to-higher-court-raising-max-penalty-to-7-years-jail/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:47:52

• Hackers disrupt Iran state TV to broadcast exiled crown prince ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260120-hackers-disrupt-iran-state-tv-to-broadcast-exiled-crown-prince    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:48:17

• Syrian govt says 120 Islamic State detainees escaped prison ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/syrian-govt-says-120-islamic-state-detainees-escaped-prison    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:48:48

• Dihydroxyacetone Man threatens France 200% tariffs if Macron refuses to join Board of Peace ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260120-trump-threatens-france-200-tariffs-if-macron-refuses-to-join-board-of-peace-1    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:49:08

• Disarming the compliant won’t make South Africa safer ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/disarming-the-compliant-wont-make-south-africa-safer/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:49:43

• 42,000 Impacted by Ingram Micro Ransomware Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/42000-impacted-by-ingram-micro-ransomware-attack/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:50:39

• New Reports Reinforce Cyberattack’s Role in Maduro Capture Blackout ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-reports-reinforce-cyberattacks-role-in-maduro-capture-blackout/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:50:57

• ‘SolyxImmortal’ Information Stealer Emerges ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/solyximmortal-information-stealer-emerges/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:51:22

• Jordanian Admits in US Court to Selling Access to 50 Enterprise Networks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/jordanian-admits-in-us-court-to-selling-access-to-50-enterprise-networks/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:52:15

• TP-Link Patches Vulnerability Exposing VIGI Cameras to Remote Hacking ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/tp-link-patches-vulnerability-exposing-vigi-cameras-to-hacking/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:52:35

• 2-channel GMSL camera adapter board supports Raspberry Pi 5 and NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano/NX ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/19/2-channel-gmsl-camera-adapter-board-supports-raspberry-pi-5-and-nvidia-jetson-orin-nano-nx/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:53:08

• We have some nice EPO stories coming up, delayed for effect    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:53:42

• Bedrock RAI300 fanless industrial PC is powered by an AMD Ryzen Hey Hi (AI) 9 HX 370 mobile Hey Hi (AI) SoC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/19/bedrock-rai300-fanless-industrial-pc-is-powered-by-an-amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-370-mobile-ai-soc/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:54:14

• Raspberry Pi Hey Hi (AI) HAT+ 2 review – A 40 TOPS Hey Hi (AI) accelerator tested with Computer Vision, LLM, and VLM workloads ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/20/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2-review-a-40-tops-ai-accelerator-tested-with-computer-vision-llm-and-vlm-workloads/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:54:39

• ASEAN will not certify Myanmar election or send observers, Malaysia says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/asean-will-not-certify-myanmar-election-or-send-observers-malaysia-says    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:55:15

• pgmoneta 0.20 ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgmoneta-020-3215/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:56:21

• Anthropic’s official Git MCP server hit by chained flaws that enable file access and code execution ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/20/anthropics-official-git-mcp-server-hit-chained-flaws-enable-file-access-code-execution/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:57:03

• Could Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Convince You to Buy Something? ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/could-chatgpt-convince-you-to-buy-something.html    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:57:45

• ‘What journalism should do’: Express health editor on assisted dying campaign ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/express-assisted-dying-campaign-give-us-our-last-rights-british-journalism-awards/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:58:43

• Colourful northern lights light up skies over Lithuania – photos ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2812101/colourful-northern-lights-light-up-skies-over-lithuania-photos    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 16:59:54

• Hong Kong sees 55% surge in job applications from US academics amid Convicted Felon’s university crackdown – report ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/20/hong-kong-sees-55-surge-in-job-applications-from-us-academics-amid-trumps-university-crackdown-report/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:00:36

• Being positive about tech right now ☞ https://rubenerd.com/being-positive-about-tech-right-now/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:01:55

• One Year In: Defending the Constitution Under a Second Convicted Felon Administration ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/one-year-in-defending-the-constitution-under-a-second-trump-administration    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:02:17

• WisMesh 1W Booster Starter Kit targets high-power Meshtastic solutions ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/20/wismesh-1w-booster-starter-kit-targets-high-power-meshtastic-solutions/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:02:51

• China’s trade with North Korea recovers to near pre-pandemic levels ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-trade-with-north-korea-recovers-to-near-pre-pandemic-levels    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:03:21

• Hong Kong visitor numbers up 12% in 2025, but lag pre-pandemic levels ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/20/hong-kong-visitor-numbers-up-12-in-2025-but-lag-pre-pandemic-levels/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:03:35

• Inventor Building AI-Powered Suicide Chamber ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-powered-suicide-chamber    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:04:13

• How To Install RabbitMQ on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-rabbitmq-debian-13/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:04:56

• How To Install LibreWolf Browser on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-librewolf-browser-linux-mint-22/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:05:13

• How To Install Nagios on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nagios-debian-13/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:05:26

• How to Install OpenJDK 17 on Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-openjdk-17-on-arch-linux/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:05:56

• How to Install Homebrew on Ubuntu (26.04, 24.04, 22.04) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-homebrew-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:06:11

• How To Install LibreOffice on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-libreoffice-fedora-43/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:06:31

• How to Add and Manage Sudo Users on Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-add-and-manage-sudo-users-on-arch-linux/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:06:51

• How To Install Miniconda on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-miniconda-fedora-43/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:07:11

• How to Install OpenSSH on Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-openssh-on-arch-linux/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:07:29

• How To Install InvoicePlane on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-invoiceplane-fedora-43/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:07:50

• How To Install Homebrew on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-homebrew-debian-13/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:08:04

• GNU/Linux Still up (statCounter Says to 6%) in Bosnia And Herzegovina ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/GNU_Linux_Still_up_statCounter_Says_to_6_in_Bosnia_And_Herzegov.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:08:49

• LinuxSecurity and Linuxiac Are Still Slopfarms, Even Anthony Pell Does It ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/19/LinuxSecurity_and_Linuxiac_Are_Still_Slopfarms_Even_Anthony_Pel.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:09:10

• Founder of GNU/Linux (RMS) Speaks in US University (College) This Week ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/19/Founder_of_GNU_Linux_RMS_Speaks_in_US_University_College_This_W.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:09:22

• Slopfarms in Surveillance Giant Google News (at Least Three Today) With Fake 'Articles' About "Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/19/Slopfarms_in_Google_News_at_Least_Three_Today_With_Fake_Article.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:09:31

• If You Don't Want "Linux" to Become "Windows", Then Follow GNU (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/19/If_You_Don_t_Want_Linux_to_Become_Windows_Then_Follow_GNU.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:09:41

• 12 Best Free and Open Source Frontends for mpv ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-front-ends-mpv/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:09:59

• Proslenkey – application launcher ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/proslenkey-application-launcher/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:10:41

• 15 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux CRM Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/crm/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:11:24

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:11:56

• Hancho – build system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hancho-build-system/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:12:07

• dodo – fast and configurable PDF viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dodo-fast-configurable-pdf-viewer/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:12:27

• 7 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux HTML Editors ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/htmleditors/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:12:48

• Wine Patches Enable Adobe Photoshop Installation On GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.ghacks.net/2026/01/20/wine-patches-enable-adobe-photoshop-installation-on-linux/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:13:22

• Linux vs backdoored Windows 11 : Proton PC Gaming GPU Benchmarks on Bazzite ☞ https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/bazzite-gpu-gaming-benchmarks/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:14:23

• Cobra – library for creating powerful modern CLI applications ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cobra-library-creating-powerful-modern-cli-applications/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:16:08

• UnCSS – removes unused CSS from stylesheets ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/uncss-removes-unused-css-stylesheets/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:16:20

• Beartype – static type checking ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/beartype-static-type-checking/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:16:50

• vcs2l – fork of vcstool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/vcs2l-fork-vcstool/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:17:00

• Add Punycode to your Threat Hunting Routine, (Tue, Jan 20th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32640    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:18:17

• Waveshare ESP32-C6-GEEK – A USB flash drive-like ESP32-C6 development board ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/20/waveshare-esp32-c6-geek-a-usb-flash-drive-like-esp32-c6-development-board/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:18:49

• EnviroGo ESP32-S3 wearable environmental monitor features 7 sensors (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/20/envirogo-esp32-s3-wearable-environmental-monitor-features-7-sensors/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:19:00

• Most serious allegation against Mail struck out ahead of Prince Harry privacy trial ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/most-serious-allegation-against-mail-struck-out-ahead-of-prince-harry-privacy-trial/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:19:47

• Prince Harry complains of ‘terrifying intrusion’ by Daily Mail publisher ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/prince-harry-daily-mail-privacy-latest/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:20:19

• Digital Omnibus Report V2: Analysis of Select GDPR and ePrivacy Proposals by the Commission ☞ https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-report-v2-analysis-select-gdpr-and-eprivacy-proposals-commission    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:21:04

• Chinese drill sparks talk of ‘decapitation’ strike on Taipei ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-drill-sparks-talk-of-decapitation-strike-on-taipei    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:21:28

• Calls to free pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai go against rule of law, says Hong Kong’s top judge ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/19/calls-to-free-pro-democracy-tycoon-jimmy-lai-go-against-rule-of-law-says-hong-kongs-top-judge/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:22:08

• The "Alicante Mafia" - Part VI - More Strikes Planned at the EPO, Starting This Month ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/20/The_Alicante_Mafia_Part_VI_More_Strikes_Planned_at_the_EPO_Star.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:22:19

• Malicious Chrome Extension Crashes Browser in ClickFix Variant ‘CrashFix’ ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/malicious-chrome-extension-crashes-browser-in-clickfix-variant-crashfix/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:22:55

• APT-Grade PDFSider Malware Used by Ransomware Groups ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/apt-grade-pdfsider-malware-used-by-ransomware-groups/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:23:09

• Spyware Document Pool ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/spyware-document-pool/ Spyware is one of the most serious threats to fundamental rights    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:23:51

• CentOS 10-20260119 ready, but IBM ensures nobody will use it ☞ https://distrowatch.com/centos    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:24:34

• LF truly turned it into a worthless spam site https://www.linux.com/news/jan26-training-promo/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:25:26

• Gedit Text Editor Released 49.0 with Much Faster Big File Loading ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/gedit-49-0-faster-big-file/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:25:54

• Easy Effects 8.1.0 Released with Crusher Plugin & Many Improvements ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/easy-effects-8-1-0-released-with-crusher-plugin-many-improvements/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:26:41

• KDE Has A New Infinite Whiteboard Tool Work-In-Progress ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/kde-has-a-new-infinite-whiteboard-tool-work-in-progress/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:27:36

• Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: Ubuntu ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/orange-pi6-plus-single-board-computer-running-linux-ubuntu/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:28:32

• Lip Gloss – style definitions for nice terminal layouts ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lip-gloss-style-definitions-terminal-layouts/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:28:43

• cview – terminal-based user interface toolkit ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cview-terminal-based-user-interface-toolkit/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:28:55

• Want to try Linux? Just install Ubuntu or Fedora https://www.howtogeek.com/want-to-try-linux-just-install-ubuntu-or-fedora-first/ both poor choice, but YMMV    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:32:10

• Opera's gamer‑centric browser is coming to Steam Deck and Linux — raising questions about whether Windows is losing its grip on PC gaming https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/opera-gx-the-gamer-centric-browser-is-coming-to-linux-raising-questions-about-windows    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:32:37

• How to run Windows apps on Linux with Wine - it's easy https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-run-windows-apps-on-linux-with-wine/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:34:06

• Linux 6.19 hits speed bump before final release https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/138019/linux-6-19-hits-speed-bump-before-final-release/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:34:35

• Microsoft way of thinking https://itsfoss.com/news/photoshop-installer-runs-on-linux/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:35:40

• Adobe Photoshop spotted running on Linux with a Windows compatibility layer fix — Creative Cloud's most killer apps could escape Microsoft and Apple exclusivity https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/adobe-photoshop-running-on-linux-with-wine-fix    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:36:14

• I abandoned Photoshop for this free alternative on Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/abandoned-photoshop-free-alternative-linux/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:37:30

• "The Linux founder noted this week that RC6 is slightly larger than usual. While he isn’t too worried about this, he did say that “the slightly larger size does make me think that my plan to do an extra RC8 remains reasonable.”" https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-signals-likely-delay-for-final-linux-619-release/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:38:10

• Buzzword-dropping nonsense https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/surfshark-adds-post-quantum-encryption-on-mac-linux-and-android-more-support-coming-soon    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:38:38

• Steam Deck now synonymous with "Linux"? https://www.pcguide.com/news/steam-deck-running-photoshop-could-soon-be-possible-thanks-to-new-adobe-creative-cloud-fix-for-linux/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:39:13

• I paid $48 for this Linux distro to save 48 hours of work—and it was worth it https://www.howtogeek.com/why-zorin-os-pro-is-worth-paying-for/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:41:17

• Your modern Linux desktop is too busy: Why I went back to basics with MATE https://www.howtogeek.com/why-mate-is-the-best-desktop-environment-for-retro-computing/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:41:33

• This 2.6 pound laptop has a 2.8K 120 Hz display, 99 Wh battery, and Linux or Windows options https://liliputing.com/this-2-6-pound-laptop-has-a-2-8k-120-hz-display-99-wh-battery-and-linux-or-windows-options/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:42:02

• Immutable Linux desktops finally cured my upgrade anxiety https://www.xda-developers.com/immutable-linux-desktops-finally-cured-my-upgrade-anxiety/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:42:29

• Version 1 of TDF Community Bylaws ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/20/version-1-of-tdf-community-bylaws/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:47:00

• IBM Red Bait OpenShift selling slop ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/20/deploy-oracle-sqlcl-mcp-server-openshift    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:48:25

• MOAR slop ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/20/transform-complex-metrics-actionable-insights-ai-quickstart    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:49:16

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1055152/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:49:59

• Ignacy Kuchciński: Digital Wellbeing Contract: Conclusion ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/ignapk/2026/01/20/digital-wellbeing-contract-conclusion/    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 17:50:37

• "`Gpu1` is a GPU without a framebuffer, the pixels are generated just in time to display like the arcade machine and game console from the 80s and 90s." gemini://gmi.noulin.net/2026-01-20-gpu1.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 18:10:12

• "A month ago I set myself the task of getting to Inbox Zero. Despite that, I'm grateful to those who immediately sent messages to the inbox in question with supportive advice, including my indefatigable correspondent, Lionel Dricot (dit Ploum)." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2026-01-20_success-inbox-zero.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 18:11:11

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