Roy Schestowitz

• YouTube Resolves Issue That Briefly Impacted Video Streaming Globally https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-10-15/youtube-down-for-thousands-of-users-in-the-us-downdetector-shows    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:16:21

• Over 600,000 Users Report Losing Access to Google's Video Platform https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/youtube-down-right-now-over-600000-users-report-losing-access-googles-video-platform-1748185    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:16:40

• KDE Plasma 6.5 FIRST LOOK : The Most Requested Feature is FINALLY Here! (22 Years Later) https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=TrFGHrMPyCw    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:18:12

• Github as an opening for abuse https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=tdakCS6kF8E    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:18:35

• The First 7 Things to do on Ubuntu 25.10 https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=t6PanXYaaLg    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:19:07

• 5 Features That Made GhosTTY My Favorite Linux Terminal https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=ouZ7wMYHqVA    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:19:23

• Do I Do Any "Real Work" On My Linux PC? https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=zKhL3FRMW0c    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:19:36

• Ubuntu 25.10 — What’s New in This Release https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=UJHN0ONDnrs    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:19:55

• Scrolling Window Managers: Greatest Thing Ever Created? https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=N_phrNKs3PI    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:21:03

• Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka overview https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=iJG0fNC3Omk    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:21:19

• 18 Reasons Zorin OS 18 is the PERFECT Windows 10 Replacement https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=9SXUuPgw4JY    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:21:42

• KDE Plasma 6.5 refines every part of the Linux Desktop! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=2hf7TtqHVA0    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:21:58

• GhostBSD 25.02 Quick Overview https://www.yewtu.be/shorts/zPeGGyw7wzQ    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:22:51

• How to install Jagex Launcher on Kubuntu 24.04 https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2025/10/how-to-install-jagex-launcher-on.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:24:17

• How to install Lightworks on Kubuntu 24.04. https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2025/10/how-to-install-lightworks-on-kubuntu.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:24:46

• copyright http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/tdm-exceptions-not-just-three-step-test.html?showComment=1760433029004#c9039810000045610857    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:36:09

• Blue Jays in World Series gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/10-22.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:37:58

• Using delta chat keys with notmuch (by ~seifferth) gemini://tilde.club/~seifferth/blog/delta-chat-keys.pdf    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:38:42

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1452.jpg    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:39:24

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1802.jpg    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:39:29

• Fast past 🏁 gemini://freeshell.de/f1/2025-10-22_Fast_past.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:40:14

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-23.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:40:33

• Techrights: "We're going to revisit this theme some more in the coming days."    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:42:07

• Anon: Can you find the old articles about the early days of MSFT Azure which included a lot of data loss?    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:42:26

• iophk: wired does not link to Texas A&M but instead to an unauthoritative page at Microsoft Github. This relates to the observation about Stanford. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-models-social-media-cognitive-decline-study/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:43:31

• Outsourcing, as usual    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:43:44

• "First, as I said, we haven't (yet?) seen mass layoffs except from the federal government! but the rate at which businesses are hiring is very low by historical standards, not far above its level during the 2008-2009 financial crisis" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-us-economy-is-in-worse-shape care to enlighten him?    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:44:23

• Action Replay II – Cheating allowed? http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/action-replay-ii-cheating-allowed.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:48:04

• Codeberry http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/iddqd-and-royal-mail-v-codeberry-claim.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:48:28

• 2025-10-18 [Older] IDDQD and Royal Mail v Codeberry: Claim succeeds in addresses database claim

   

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:49:15

• hologram http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/commercially-ghoulish-or-ghostly-stan.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:49:58

• Gccrs after libcore https://lwn.net/Articles/1040197/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 02:59:45

• Enhancing FineIBT https://lwn.net/Articles/1039633/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 03:01:04

• "The 6.18 merge window has come to an end, bringing with it a total of 11,974 non-merge commits, 3,499 of which came in after LWN's first-half summary. The total is a little higher than the 6.17 merge window, which saw 11,404 non-merge commits. There are once again a good number of changes and new features included in this release." https://lwn.net/Articles/1041004/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 03:01:38

• A new API for interrupt-aware spinlocks https://lwn.net/Articles/1039374/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 03:02:05

• Last-minute /boot boost for Fedora 43 https://lwn.net/Articles/1041078/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 03:02:54

• "IBM is stupid. And if you work there you're stupid too. And probably really depressed. Su-ks to be you." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k84sx1qr    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 03:35:24

• The Stallmanist Manifesto https://thestoicprogrammer.substack.com/p/the-stallmanist-manifesto    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 04:28:40

• "AI" bubble, bye bye. "Meta didn’t respond to an Investopedia request for comment in time for publication." https://www.investopedia.com/meta-is-laying-off-600-workers-in-its-ai-division-what-you-need-to-know-11835104    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 04:36:44

• "Axios first reported the cuts, which will affect Meta’s Fundamental AI Research, or FAIR unit, as well as product-related AI and AI infrastructure units." https://virginiabusiness.com/meta-ai-layoffs-600-jobs-fair/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 04:38:57

• This will get more pundits talking about the "Hey Hi" bubble https://www.neowin.net/amp/meta-cuts-600-ai-jobs-from-fair-and-other-ai-divisions/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 04:40:28

• AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/btrfs_almalinux/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 06:26:40

• Rembrandt https://www.dw.com/en/rembrandt-paintings-to-be-offered-as-shares-on-a-public-stock-exchange/a-74351973    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 06:37:07

• Hegseth's plane diverted to UK due to crack in windshield https://www.dw.com/en/hegseth-s-plane-diverted-to-uk-due-to-crack-in-windshield/a-74375821    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 06:37:57

• highly effective HIV antibody https://www.dw.com/en/german-researchers-find-highly-effective-hiv-antibody/a-74363818    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 06:38:29

• Certified Lawyers Should Know Better (Than to Intimidate Us With Man Who Drives on Motorcycle Through a Really Bad Storm Between Distant Cities, Then Collects Photos of Our Home) http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/23/Certified_Lawyers_Should_Know_Better_Than_to_Intimidate_Us_With.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 07:32:31

• Microsoft's Graveley, a Serial Strangler of Women, Pays People on Motorcycle (Dressed Like Hells Angels) to Drive in Heavy Rain From London to My Home's Doorstep http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/23/Microsoft_s_Graveley_a_Serial_Strangler_of_Women_Pays_People_on.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 07:48:56

• Sending Rough Men to My Home on a Motorcycle on Behalf of Americans Who Attack Women, Then Taking Photos and Sharing Them Around (an Overt Breach of Confidence) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/10/23/another-breach-of-confidence/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 07:49:17

• MARVEL Cosmic Invasion set for launch on December 1 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/marvel-cosmic-invasion-set-for-launch-on-december-1/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/marvel-cosmic-invasion-set-for-launch-on-december-1/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:39:08

• SNES styled fantasy RPG Kingdoms of the Dump will launch November 18 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/snes-styled-fantasy-rpg-kingdoms-of-the-dump-will-launch-november-18/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:39:25

• "Late-Night Hosts Object to Trump 'Going Hulk Smash' on the White House" https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/late-night-hosts-donald-trump-the-white-house-destruction-1235451910/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:39:40

• "Further | Utter Desecration: Walking Wrecking Balls, All Of 'Em | Opinion" https://www.commondreams.org/further/utter-desecration-walking-wrecking-balls-all-of-em    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:39:51

• "Trump Is Waging War on His Own Country" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-is-waging-war-on-his-own-country/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:40:01

• iophk: the shutdown itself is the actual goal... https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/10/22/repub/shutdown-on-day-22-sets-record-as-second-longest-in-us-history-with-no-sign-of-a-deal/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:40:17

• RV There Yet? is the latest co-op hit on Steam with plans to get it Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/rv-there-yet-is-the-latest-co-op-hit-on-steam-with-plans-to-get-it-steam-deck-verified/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/rv-there-yet-is-the-latest-co-op-hit-on-steam-with-plans-to-get-it-steam-deck-verified/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:40:46

• RV There Yet? is the latest co-op hit on Steam with plans to get it Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/rv-there-yet-is-the-latest-co-op-hit-on-steam-with-plans-to-get-it-steam-deck-verified/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:41:08

• Cult of the Lamb becomes a bit more of a farming sim with the new Woolhaven DLC trailer | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/cult-of-the-lamb-becomes-a-bit-more-of-a-farming-sim-with-the-new-woolhaven-dlc-trailer/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:44:23

• The Farmer Was Replaced is a satisfying way to learn a little programming with automation | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-farmer-was-replaced-is-a-satisfying-way-to-learn-a-little-programming-with-automation/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:50:59

• Microsoft = sociopaths https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-xbox-recommend-ai-for-layoff-aftermath    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:51:56

• Craft unique cards with stickers in the cute deck-builder My Card Is Better Than Your Card! | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/craft-unique-cards-with-stickers-in-the-cute-deck-builder-my-card-is-better-than-your-card/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:54:26

• Tingus Goose is one of the weirdest games I've ever seen | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/tingus-goose-is-one-of-the-weirdest-games-ive-ever-seen/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:55:05

• Steam gets personal with a recommendations calendar to help you find games | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/steam-gets-personal-with-a-recommendations-calendar-to-help-you-find-games/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 08:55:35

• "Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative uses input from copyright holders to update its list of notorious piracy markets." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-groundhog-day-recycled-arguments-plague-ustrs-notorious-markets-review/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:03:07

• Software Patents ☛ https://opensource.com/article/18/3/patent-grant-mit-license | Source: OpenSource.com    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:03:24

• "It’s a mere 4 years, 3 months and 22 days since a weird Australian developer and his brother contacted me to ask if I would be interested in speaking to UK competition regulators about Apple’s continuing holding back the Web (which I’d long been moaning about on Twitter)" ☛ https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/4-years-3-months-and-22-days/ | Source: Bruce Lawson    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:04:31

• "The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has declared both mobile tech giants meet the legal threshold for "strategic market status" (SMS) under the UK's Digital Markets" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/google_apple_sms_uk/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:04:42

• "Anti-monopoly is a governing philosophy that broadly views concentrations of power as a threat to freedom, recognizing that tyranny comes in many guise" ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/shielding-americans-from-corporate-tyranny/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:04:48

• "The incident marked at least the third time in the past five years that Amazon Web Services’ Northern Virginia facilities contributed to a widespread [Internet] outage." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/10/amazon-web-services-outage-consequences/684648/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:05:50

• "The crimes aren’t minor. Thieves often use heavy machinery to break into vaults covered by metal plates weighing up to 1,600 pounds." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/copper-wire-theft-from-att-vault-in-l-a-cripples-phone-and-emergency-services/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:05:56

• "Iranian prisons are notoriously overcrowded and suffer unsanitary conditions." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/three-women-die-in-qarchak-prison-due-to-denial-of-medical-care-says-rights-group/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:06:40

• "I grew up hearing my dad talk about Martin Luther King’s time in St. Augustine." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-time-that-martin-luther-king | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:06:45

• "This led to The Guardian offering readers the option to donate on a one-off or recurring basis." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-dependant-on-page-views-to-drive-revenue/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:08:45

• "U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles granted a preliminary injunction" ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/10/22/judge-orders-immediate-return-of-books-removed-from-5-dod-schools/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:09:21

• "The latest announcement appears to apply to those working for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and adds to a list that was started some time ago." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/newspeak-comes-to-the-department-of-energy/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:09:40

• "Hegseth's spokesman, Sean Parnell, announced the “next generation” of the Pentagon press corps with more than 60 journalists who had agreed to the new policy." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-10-22/after-others-departed-pentagon-announces-new-press-corps-filled-with-conservative-news-outlets | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:10:11

• "With the terrible Windows 11, and with the fiasco of EOLing Windows 10, we should remind ourselves that Microsoft was always a shady, nepo-baby company." ☛ https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/how-did-microsoft-start/ | Source: Michał Sapka    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:10:38

• "A high-severity vulnerability in the popular Rust library Async-tar could allow attackers to smuggle archive entries and execute arbitrary code remotely." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/tarmageddon-flaw-in-popular-rust-library-leads-to-rce/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:10:52

• "In this article, we’ll put Rust and C++ side by side, not to crown a universal winner, but to explore where each shines" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/rust-vs-c-a-modern-take-on-performance-and-safety/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:11:08

• "Uprising tackles many themes with a mastery I just couldn’t believe." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/i-need-to-talk-about-tron-uprising/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:11:22

• "In a new report, and an exclusive interview with Dark Reading at its Predict conference in Manhattan in early October" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/russia-cracks-down-low-level-hackers | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:11:41

• "480:1 ratio compared to average employee? Must be all that 'leadership' juice" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/microsoft_nadella_pay/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:11:53

• "China has launched a raft of new questionnaires for US semiconductor businesses in an effort to discover data on the companies' activities in China" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-wants-us-semiconductor-companies-to-submit-sensitive-data-as-part-of-probe-anti-dumping-investigation-requests-sales-and-profit-data | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:12:07

• "Take Back CTRL is EFF's new website to give you insight into the ways that technology has become the veins and arteries of rising global authoritarianism." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/its-time-take-back-ctrl | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:12:20

• "The company operates Spectrum cable TV and broadband service, which was once a huge growth engine." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-10-22/charter-spectrum-layoffs-1200-workers-cut | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:12:39

• "Yet a widely cited 2019 paper showed that algorithms could learn to collude tacitly, even when they weren’t programmed to do so." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-game-theory-of-how-algorithms-can-drive-up-prices-20251022/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:13:30

• "The automaker turned out to be significantly wrong about that." ☛ https://electrek.co/2025/10/20/tesla-heading-into-multi-billion-dollar-iceberg-of-own-making/ | Source: Electrek    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:13:56

• "There's so much demand right now that we can't meet it all" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/datacenter_jet_engines/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:14:14

• "Fast, loud, and anything but elegant, these “bridging power” units come from vendors like ProEnergy" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers-turn-to-ex-airliner-engines-as-ai-power-crunch-bites | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:14:25

• Government" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2025/10/government-shutdown-takes-toll-on-air-traffic-controllers/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:14:52

• "Communities are already feeling the squeeze. In Newton County, Georgia, a single Meta-owned center accounts for about 10 percent of all water use." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ai-zuckerberg-tech-regulation-data-security/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:20:51

• "We moved into our new 28,000 sq ft headquarters in December 2023, and have since introduced several measures both to lower our emissions and to streamline reporting them." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/sustainable-solutions-with-raspberry-pi-making-our-office-greener/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:21:00

• "The book, Nobody’s Girl, was finished only months before Giuffre died." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/epstein-accuser-virginia-giuffre-nobodys-girl-memoir-1235450724/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:23:38

• Overpopulation ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20189827 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:24:02

• "Their research, dubbed 'Dragged into the Rabbit Hole,' alleges TikTok's ongoing failure to address its systemic design risks affecting children and young people." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20189619 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:26:16

• "But this is a group effort. The Next Move is powered by the small-but-mighty team from Renew Democracy Initiative." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/a-movement-not-a-one-man-show | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:26:30

• "Jackson is little known today outside the legal world, where, says John Q. Barrett, a legal scholar at St. John’s University at work on a Jackson biography" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nuremburg-world-war-ii-battle-turned-courtroom-eloquent-lawyer-lead-allies-victory-180987465/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:28:22

• "Vigorous participation took place across more than 100 Michigan communities, stretching from southeast Michigan all the way into the Upper Peninsula" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/10/22/jon-king-michigans-no-kings-moment-shows-we-the-people-still-means-something/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:28:36

• "fails gracefully" ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/drawing-an-ascii-tie-fighter-for-post-quantum-cryptography | Source: Seth Michael Larson    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:29:05

• "Back in September, we introduced the new provisioning flow on Arduino Cloud, starting with the UNO R4 WiFi." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/10/22/provision-configure-and-deploy-all-from-your-phone/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:30:04

• "It’s easy to blame the tech, but the real issue are the engineers who only considered a narrow spectrum of potential faces." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/failures-in-face-recognition.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:30:14

• "GM is the latest automaker to lean in to generative AI-based assistants that promise to respond to driver requests in a more natural-sounding way." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/gm-is-bringing-google-gemini-powered-ai-assistant-to-cars-in-2026/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:30:25

• "Detroit-based automotive giant General Motors just dropped big news." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/gemini-is-coming-to-gm-cars/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:33:12

• "as always, there’s a caveat. And it’s one that photographers, videographers, and anyone else protective of their images should pay attention to." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/social-media/new-facebook-feature-lets-ai-loose-on-your-camera-roll-should-you-opt-in | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:33:30

• "To exploit this vulnerability" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/cisa_windows_smb_bug/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:34:20

• "Normally when we write about a malware operation being disrupted, it's because it has been shut down by law enforcement." ☛ https://www.fortra.com/blog/cybercriminals-turn-each-other-story-lumma-stealers-collapse | Source: Fortra LLC    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:34:35

• "The Akira ransomware group, in particular, has accelerated its growth, exploiting outdated or improperly patched systems with speed and precision." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/ransomware-targets-apac-region/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:36:08

• "In an update on Tuesday, city officials explained that the system used to pay water bills and property taxes was taken down by the cyberattack" ☛ https://therecord.media/cyber-incidents-texas-tennessee-indiana | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:37:29

• Windows TCO: "The attackers also gained access to the networks of two government agencies in South America and a university in the U.S." ☛ https://www.security.com/blog-post/toolshell-china-zingdoor | Source: Broadcom Inc    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:39:36

• Windows TCO: "Security researchers now say more Chinese crews - likely including Salt Typhoon" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/salt_typhoon_sharepoint_attacks/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:39:41

• "It’s no accident that US political operatives have been singling out Bluesky as a target for political control and retribution for months" ☛ https://werd.io/trump-administrations-arrival-on-bluesky-highlights-growing-pains-for-open-networks/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:45:42

• "YouTube likely has data on this, and realizes that users struggle to leave Shorts once they start scrolling." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-shorts-daily-timer-rolling-out/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:45:58

• "A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but low-quality social media content experience a kind of “brain rot” that may be familiar to anyone who has spent too long doomscrolling on X or TikTok" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/ai-models-social-media-cognitive-decline-study/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:46:14

• "Our research shows that the first 'like' serves as a critical cue, encouraging users to both like and click on ads. However, additional likes enhance the liking rate without significantly increasing clicks." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-clicks.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:46:30

• "I mean, look at this bullshit right here. Look at it. It’s a crime scene. You can get the entire wikipedia database by pushing one button." ☛ https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/10/21/raised-shields/ | Source: Exple.Tive.Org    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:47:00

• "The PyTorch Foundation, the Linux Foundation-based open source AI organization, today announced that it will become the host of Ray, the popular open source distributed computing framework for scaling AI and Python applications." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/ray-comes-to-the-pytorch-foundation/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:49:48

• "Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone" ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/ | Source: Anil Dash    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:50:02

• "That last bullet requires a bit more context. But more advanced accessibility practitioners can tease some other signals from the noise: [...]" ☛ https://adrianroselli.com/2025/10/openai-aria-and-seo-making-the-web-worse.html | Source: Adrian Roselli    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:50:20

• "OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released their own browser called Atlas, and it actually is something new: the first browser that actively fights against the web." ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/ | Source: Anil Dash    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:53:29

• "it feels like even folks at OpenAI struggled to find compelling use cases." ☛ https://thejollyteapot.com/2025/10/22/not-my-kind-of-web-browser/ | Source: Nicolas Magand    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:53:53

• "ChatGPT Atlas is a Mac-only web browser with a variety of ChatGPT-enabled features. You can bring up a chat panel next to a web page, which will automatically be populated with the context of that page." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/21/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:54:04

• "More Thoughts" ☛ https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/21/220913.html | Source: Numeric Citizen    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:54:21

• "From the initial download, install up to a few visited websites and prompts. Here’s my hot take. Nice icon. Nice onboarding, but with a few typical sets of questions (default browser, import current bookmarks). Minimalistic browser window." ☛ https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/21/hot-take-on-chatgpt-atlas.html | Source: Numeric Citizen    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:54:56

• "He addresses the issue directly by name, with a good single-sentence explanation of the problem: [...]" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/openai-ciso-on-atlas/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:03:28

• "Indirect prompt injection can occur when an AI model or agent handles content like a web page or image and then treats that content as if it were part of its instructed task." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/openai_defends_atlas_as_prompt/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:03:42

• "intentional harassment." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/openai-requested-memorial-attendee-list-in-chatgpt-suicide-lawsuit/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:03:53

• "The letter reflects deep and accelerating concerns over projects undertaken by technology giants like Google, OpenAI, and Meta Platforms that are seeking to build artificial intelligence capable of outperforming humans on virtually every cognitive task." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-superintelligence-ban-open-letter-future-of-life-harry-meghan-tech-leaders/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:08:19

• "In a recent study, researchers from Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute found that they could successfully backdoor AI models of different sizes using just 250 poisoned documents." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/only-250-documents-poison-any-ai-model | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:08:36

• "This blog post focuses on the design antipatterns that create these vulnerabilities, with concrete examples demonstrating successful RCE across three different agent platforms." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/10/22/prompt-injection-to-rce-in-ai-agents/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:09:00

• "In August, a California family filed the first wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Scam Altman, alleging that the company’s ChatGPT product had “coached” their 16-year-old son into committing suicide in April of this year." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/openai-suicide-safeguard-wrongful-death-lawsuit-1235452315/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:09:27

• "When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds" ☛ https://www.404media.co/the-aws-outage-bricked-peoples-2-700-smartbeds/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:13:11

• "Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technology" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/aws-cloud-outage-long-tail/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:13:28

• "As a psychologist, I have been studying such experiences for more than 15 years. Awakening experiences are sometimes viewed as mysterious and random, but I have found that, to a large degree, they can be explained." ☛ https://theconversation.com/how-higher-states-of-consciousness-can-forever-change-your-perception-of-reality-265151 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:16:04

• "The mother’s complaint is one of seven that have been filed to the FTC alleging that ChatGPT had caused people to experience incidents that included severe delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-complaints-chatgpt-ai-psychosis/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:18:44

• "We were able to measure seven different PFAS in this study, and found that individual compounds had specific associations with offspring brain structure" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/forever-chemicals-in-mothers-blood-linked-to-brain-changes-in-their-kids | Source: Science Alert    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:18:56

• "Although many internet users made the situation out to be humorous or lighthearted, Kendra’s story made evident the grave consequences of AI psychosis and platforming a mental health crisis." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/ai-and-tiktok-arent-your-friends/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:19:08

• "The study focused on TikTok-use in France." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/tiktok-rabbit-holes-still-drive-youth-towards-suicidal-content-amnesty-international-france-finds/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:19:26

• "Charlotte was out for the day so I moved my office and sat in the kitchen with the dog." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/a-change-of-scenery | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:21:19

• "I’ve been in the market for a mechanical keyboard kit that would give me a numpad. Maybe I’ve been spoiled by my Apple //e and Commodore 128, or it’s becoming tedious using the regular number row when doing my weekly reconciling." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/96-percent-key-keyboard-layouts/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:21:31

• "Named X-BAT, the aircraft will be powered by Shield AI’s Hivemind, AI-enabled autonomy software that’s designed to fly platforms in communications-denied, degraded, and limited environments." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/military/shield-ai-vtol-fighter-jet-design | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:21:44

• "The engineering curriculum is based on the assumption that math (especially calculus) and science (especially physics) are (1) the foundations of engineering, and therefore (2) the prerequisites of engineering education." ☛ https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2025/10/22/the-foundation-fallacy/ | Source: Allen Downey    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:22:18

• "The discussion was moderated by Sareeta Nundloll Goundan, President of the PMI Mauritius Chapter and Managing Director of SSL Consulting Services." ☛ https://sysadmin-journal.com/re-skilling-for-the-future-my-experience-at-the-pmi-mauritius-conference-2025/ | Source: Ish Sookun    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:22:29

• "This is the first in a series about technical pre-sales engineering, at least as it pertains to someone like me working in the IaaS space." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/pre-sales-engineering/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:25:44

• "In today’s article, I want to explore three fundamental sources for sustaining your growth as an engineering leader." ☛ https://makemeacto.substack.com/p/three-sources-for-personal-and-professional | Source: Sergio Visinoni    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:26:01

• "But there are caveats. More than 50 of the studies we reviewed did not draw on a clear theoretical framework of motivation, and some used methods that we found were weak or inappropriate." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ai-students.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:26:24

• "How to find related items? Here are recipes based on really simple formulas. If you pay attention, this technique is used all over the web (like on Amazon) to personalize the user experience and increase conversion rates" ☛ https://alexn.org/blog/2012/01/16/cosine-similarity-euclidean-distance/?pk_campaign=rss | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:28:10

• "There are a couple of significant takeaways from this interview. First is the public acknowledgment by a senior NASA official that the space agency’s current timeline of a 2027 landing is completely untenable." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/nasas-boss-just-shook-up-the-agencys-plans-to-land-on-the-moon/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:28:26

• "Founded in 1939 as a West Coast lab for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), NASA Ames was built to close the US gap with Germany in aeronautics research." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/22/1125378/nasa-ames-research-center-archives/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:28:40

• "As we noted last week, SpaceX has a mountain to climb to develop NASA's Human Landing System (HLS). After a slew of unplanned explosions, the company achieved two sub-orbital missions for its monster rocket - impressive, but still more than 200,000 miles (322,000 km) from the Moon." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/spacex_is_behind_schedule_so/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:29:00

• "In interviews with FedScoop, recipients of now-rescinded EPA grants mourned their projects and the lost opportunities to address real environmental challenges. They also warned of a slippery slope that comes with drastic cuts to science and technology." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/doge-epa-grant-cuts-science-research-pollution/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:29:14

• "On the joy of making arbitrary small rules for yourself which you can break at will but which also might help you steer your own obstinate behavior a bit more in a direction you like" ☛ https://anniemueller.com/posts/make-rules-break-rules | Source: Annie Mueller    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:29:51

• "Nothing Ever Works" ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2025/10/22/everything-is-broken/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:30:09

• "I’ve already hinted at some of the practical steps you could take to tackle your own ego. I’m hesitant to give more advice, because I’m very much a beginner myself." ☛ https://kedara.eu/ahamkara-the-ego-machine | Source: Ruben Verweij    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:30:24

• "lack of shared data and procedures create barriers" ☛ https://www.airforcetimes.com/air/2025/10/22/us-europe-fly-the-same-jets-but-cant-always-fix-each-others-study/ | Source: Air Force Times    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:39:28

• "One of the best ways to learn something new is to write down something you’ve learned about it regularly." ☛ https://harrisoncramer.me/15-go-sublteties-you-may-not-already-know/ |    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:40:00

• "In my decade-plus of maintaining my dotfiles, I’ve written a lot of little shell scripts. Here’s a big list of my personal favorites." ☛ https://evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wrote-that-i-use-all-the-time/ | Source: Evan Hahn    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:40:20

• "Wrong. ed(1) is Turing complete. Because: [...]" ☛ https://aartaka.me/advanc-ed.html | Source: Artyom Bologov    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:40:41

• "It’s no secret that I love Zig, and it’s also no secret that my favorite GUI framework by far is Qt." ☛ https://dayvster.com/blog/why-zig-+-qt-feels-like-doing-the-impossible-right/ | Source: Dayvi Schuster    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:40:51

• "At the AIxCC competition at DEF CON 33 earlier this year, teams competed against each other to find vulnerabilities in provided Open Source projects by using (their own) AI powered tools." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/22/aixcc-curl-details/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:40:59

• "The surveys data frame included in the package provides metadata for the different data files available from the IPEDS website" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/the-use-of-sat-act-for-college-admissions/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:41:16

• "According to the American scholarship, SLAPP is something different than an ‘ordinary’ attack to free speech: SLAPPs aim to shut down critical speech by intimidating critics and draining their resources, undermining their active public engagement." ☛ https://www.ecpmf.eu/slapp-the-background-of-strategic-lawsuits-against-public-participation/ | Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:46:24

• [Old] "The present briefer was developed based on a study that the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights commissioned to the Aberdeen University." ☛ https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/brochures-and-leaflets/impact-slapps-human-rights-and-how-respond | Source: UN Human Rights    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:46:40

• "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP suit) refers to lawsuits brought by individuals and entities to dissuade their critics from continuing to produce negative publicity." ☛ https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/slapp_suit | Source: Cornell Unviersity    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:47:08

• "A cornerstone of healthy and thriving democracies is a pluralistic democratic debate that ensures that citizens can actively participate in the democratic debate." ☛ https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/democracy-eu-citizenship-anti-corruption/democracy-and-electoral-rights/protecting-journalists-and-human-rights-defenders-strategic-lawsuits-against-public-participation_en | Source: European Commission    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:51:57

• "A cornerstone of healthy and thriving democracies is a pluralistic democratic debate that ensures that citizens can actively participate in the democratic debate." ☛ https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/democracy-eu-citizenship-anti-corruption/democracy-and-electoral-rights/protecting-journalists-and-human-rights-defenders-strategic-lawsuits-against-public-participation_en    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:52:37

• [Old] "Strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP suits, are civil claims brought against people or organizations who voice opinions publicly." ☛ https://theconversation.com/what-is-a-slapp-suit-legal-experts-explain-how-these-lawsuits-suppress-free-speech-251098 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:53:10

• [Old] "SLAPPs are effective because even a meritless lawsuit can take years and many thousands of dollars to defend. To end or prevent a SLAPP, those who speak out on issues of public interest frequently agree to muzzle themselves, apologize, or “correct” statements." ☛ https://anti-slapp.org/what-is-a-slapp |    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:53:15

• "Strategic legal actions against public participation (SLAPPs) have featured frequently in the news recently." ☛ https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/business-management/slapps-and-reputational-risks |    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:53:24

• "We often spend the French autumn school holidays back in our hometown, Budapest, Hungary — and this year, the timing worked out perfectly for me to attend an event of the Budapest C++ Meetup." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/10/22/trip-report-budapest-cpp | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:54:56

• "Digital sovereignty in Europe was another of the focus areas at the conference." ☛ https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366632938/OpenInfra-Summit-Europe-Digital-sovereignty-in-the-face-of-political-tension | Source: Computer Weekly    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:55:09

• [Old] "Over 38% of the global OpenInfra community is in Europe, where the concerns around digital sovereignty are at an all-time high" ☛ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/openinfra-summit-europe-agenda-features-open-source-innovation-in-ai-digital-sovereignty-and-workload-migration-302495029.html | Source: PR Newswire    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:55:25

• [Old] "The world has changed, and open source needs regional resiliency and action to ensure vital software technologies continue to be developed in the open" ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/13/openinfra-foundation-opens-regional-hubs-in-europe-and-asia/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:55:41

• "Let’s get this out of the way first: installing a “WordPress security plugin” doesn’t make your site secure." ☛ https://remkusdevries.com/how-to-do-wordpress-security/ | Source: Remkus de Vries    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:56:20

• "Now, I have a more complicated script and I’ve moved the processing of the script to Gitlab’s CI/CD." ☛ https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/blog-stats/ | Source: Matthew Weber    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:56:27

• "After the initial v8.0 a year ago, Valkey 9.0 is the second major release for this open-source, Redis-compatible data store" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/valkey-9-0-in-memory-data-store-brings-atomic-slot-migrations/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:58:05

• "For all those reasons, these applications feel less like new browsers to me" ☛ https://tylersticka.com/journal/ai-browsers-ad-nauseam/ | Source: Tyler Sticka    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:58:31

• "While Signal isn’t perfect and certainly has some dependencies on centralized infrastructure" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/22/musk-exploits-aws-outage-to-unfairly-slam-signal-promote-his-shittier-chat-software/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:00:43

• "Mobian is the official Debian derivative aimed at Arm-powered mobile devices." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/mobian_trixie/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:01:19

• "If you love hunting for bugs or simply enjoy seeing how development happens, you can jump in right now." ☛ https://ostechnix.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-daily-builds-available/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:02:12

• "Going from one major release of Ubuntu to another. Should be a simple affair, shouldn't it?" ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-upgrade-adventures.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:02:20

• "The Fedora Council, a top-level community leadership and governance body responsible for stewardship of the Fedora Project as a whole" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/fedora-opens-the-door-to-ai-tools/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:03:31

• "In the recent months, there has been a noticeable shift away from the Windows desktop, as well as from macOS, to Linux, driven by various frustrations" ☛ https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/ | Source: マリウス    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:04:02

• "Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 7.8" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12607 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:05:41

• "I am even more pleased that this is really gaining momentum in the network stack: [...]" ☛ https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/openbsd-78/ | Source: Rafael Sadowski    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:05:49

• "Today, we’re going to do our best to educate you on how to think about, measure, and choose your storage based on the real workloads that you need to get through." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/understanding-storage-performance-metrics/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:06:22

• "Hibernation can take a while. As the RFC says, on Anjum's machine it takes about 20 seconds." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/linux_hibernation_patch/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:08:50

• "The obvious reason for this is that we want to switch to the new kernel under controlled, attended conditions when we'll be able to take immediate action" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NoKernelUpdatesWithoutReboot | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:09:00

• "This isn’t a move towards isolation, with true sovereignty requiring more than just local data centers." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/path-digital-sovereignty-why-open-ecosystem-key-europe | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:17:26

• "This article explores how llm-d, an open source project co-developed with the leading AI vendors (Red Hat, Google, IBM, etc.) and integrated into Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.0" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/tokens-caches-how-llm-d-improves-llm-observability-red-hat-openshift-ai-3.0 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:17:59

• "Finally, document any external dependencies (databases, load balancers, and so on) your cluster is using." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/migrate-suse-rancher-rke1-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:18:24

• "Alibaba Damo Academy and Canonical today announce a new collaboration to bring the Ubuntu operating system to the latest XuanTie C930 processor." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/alibaba-damo-academy-and-canonical | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:19:21

• "We’re really looking forward to sharing some of the work we have done in the robotics space this year" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/roscon-2025 | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:19:33

• "Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/canada-fines-cybercrime-friendly-cryptomus-176m/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:20:38

• "Aquaculture" ☛ https://therevelator.org/aquaculture-environmental-harms/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:21:11

• "The future that the Trump administration envisions for public schools is more patriotic, more Christian and less “woke.” Want to know how that might play out? Look to Oklahoma." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-oklahoma-public-schools | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:22:40

• "If you are a doctor, nurse or other front-line medical provider who has recently left your position at a VA hospital or clinic, we want to hear from you." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/help-propublica-report-on-leaving-veterans-affairs | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:22:49

• Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive but Risks Side Effects ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/magazine/testosterone-women-health-sex-libido-menopause.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:26:52

• Richard Stallman: "Chatbots are Bullshit Generators" https://www.heise.de/en/news/Richard-Stallman-Chatbots-are-Bullshit-Generators-10800522.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:28:03

• Fedora Opens the Door to Hey Hi (AI) Tools, Demands Disclosure and Oversight ☞ https://linuxiac.com/fedora-opens-the-door-to-ai-tools/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:31:18

• Ubuntu upgrade adventures, a rollercoaster with mostly down ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-upgrade-adventures.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:31:41

• The use of SAT/ACT for college admissions ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/the-use-of-sat-act-for-college-admissions/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:32:40

• AIxCC curl details ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/22/aixcc-curl-details/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:32:55

• Inside the archives of the NASA Ames Research Center ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/22/1125378/nasa-ames-research-center-archives/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:33:45

• Pre-sales engineering ☞ https://rubenerd.com/pre-sales-engineering/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:34:16

• 96% keyboard layouts ☞ https://rubenerd.com/96-percent-key-keyboard-layouts/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:35:07

• TikTok ‘rabbit holes’ still drive youth towards suicidal content, Amnesty International France finds ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/tiktok-rabbit-holes-still-drive-youth-towards-suicidal-content-amnesty-international-france-finds/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:35:40

• 'Forever Chemicals' in Mothers' Blood Linked to Brain Changes in Their Kids ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/forever-chemicals-in-mothers-blood-linked-to-brain-changes-in-their-kids    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:36:19

• Open letter calls for prohibition on superintelligent AI, highlighting growing mainstream concern ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-superintelligence-ban-open-letter-future-of-life-harry-meghan-tech-leaders/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:37:08

• Failures in Face Recognition ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/failures-in-face-recognition.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:38:17

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:38:31

• Provision, configure, and deploy, all from your phone ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/10/22/provision-configure-and-deploy-all-from-your-phone/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:38:41

• China wants US semiconductor companies to submit sensitive data as part of probe — 'anti-dumping' investigation requests sales and profit data ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-wants-us-semiconductor-companies-to-submit-sensitive-data-as-part-of-probe-anti-dumping-investigation-requests-sales-and-profit-data    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:40:09

• TARmageddon Flaw in Popular Rust Library Leads to RCE ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/tarmageddon-flaw-in-popular-rust-library-leads-to-rce/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:40:42

• Why The Guardian is no longer dependent on page views to drive revenue ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-dependant-on-page-views-to-drive-revenue/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 11:41:11

• Internet in Spaaaaace ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/10/22/internet-in-spaaaaace/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:27:03

• VNNIC resource delegation review update ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/10/22/vnnic-resource-delegation-review-update/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:27:30

• Online Doctors Africa: Healthcare on credit, a directory of doctors, starting in Zim ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/10/online-doctors-africa-healthcare-credit/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:28:35

• Opinion | What Michigan communities need most from Rural Health Transformation Program ☞ https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-what-michigan-communities-need-most-from-rural-health-transformation-program/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:28:57

• Organised crime is winning Australia’s war on tobacco ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/organised-crime-is-winning-australias-war-on-tobacco/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:29:22

• Hoover-affiliated historian calls fascism fears a ‘category error’ amid No Kings protests ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/10/22/hoover-affiliated-historian-calls-fascism-fears-a-category-error-amid-no-kings-protests/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:30:40

• Modernization with purpose: How federal health agencies can align tech with mission ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-insights/2025/10/modernization-with-purpose-how-federal-health-agencies-can-align-tech-with-mission/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:31:19

• Protest against abortion law amendments in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/22.10.2025-protest-against-abortion-law-amendments-in-latvia.a619310/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:31:31

• Leptospirosis still spreading in Latvia more than usual ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/22.10.2025-leptospirosis-still-spreading-in-latvia-more-than-usual.a619385/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:31:40

• Cruise ships as floating hotels: South Korean city showing strain of hosting Apec summit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/use-of-cruise-ships-show-south-koreas-struggle-to-host-global-leaders    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:32:29

• North Korea fires ballistic missiles as Convicted Felon prepares for Asia trip ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-towards-east-south-korea-says    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:32:40

• South Korea to count same-sex couples as spouses in census for first time ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-count-same-sex-couples-as-spouses-in-census-for-first-time    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:33:14

• Foreigners visiting some S. Korean cities like Busan must declare lodging ahead of Apec summit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/foreigners-visiting-some-s-korean-cities-like-busan-must-declare-lodging-ahead-of-apec-summit    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:33:33

• 11 cases of South Koreans kidnapped in Thailand up to September 2025: Report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/11-cases-of-south-koreans-kidnapped-in-thailand-so-far-in-2025-report    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:33:47

• Cambodian scam rings moving operations to Thailand: South Korea report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodian-scam-rings-moving-operations-to-thailand-south-korean-report    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:34:02

• North Korea tested ‘cutting-edge’ weapons system, KCNA reports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-tested-cutting-edge-weapons-system-kcna-reports    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:34:14

• Malaysia Airlines flight from KL to Sarawak experiences sudden loss of cabin pressure ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/sudden-loss-of-cabin-pressure-on-malaysia-airlines-flight-from-kl-to-sarawak    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:34:53

• Malaysia school stabbing: Teen, 14, charged with murder of schoolmate ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-teen-charged-with-murder-of-schoolmate-at-bandar-utama-school    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:35:06

• Indonesian police monitoring possible spread of radical groups to Batam ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesian-police-monitoring-spread-of-radical-groups-in-batam    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:35:27

• Vietnam-Malaysia-Singapore offshore wind project to complete first phase by 2034, Malaysia DPM says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnam-malaysia-singapore-offshore-wind-project-to-complete-first-phase-by-2034-malaysia-dpm    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:36:19

• China, Pooh-tin and the S-Word ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/world/china-xi-succession-japan-prime-minister.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:37:51

• China’s five-year plans date back to Mao. A new one has the world’s attention. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2025/1022/China-s-five-year-plans-date-back-to-Mao.-A-new-one-has-the-world-s-attention    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:38:12

• China raises ‘stern protest’ with Australia after midair incident ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-raised-stern-protest-with-australia-after-midair-incident    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:38:22

• Beijing to celebrate 80th anniversary of Japanese handover of Taiwan to Chinese rule ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-to-hold-celebration-for-contested-taiwan-retrocession-anniversary    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:45:23

• Taiwan, China, World War Two and its aftermath ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Taiwan-China-World-War-Two-and-its-aftermath1    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:45:37

• The economic reality facing China as leaders huddle ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/the-economic-reality-facing-china-as-leaders-huddle    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:45:55

• Malaysia seeks foreign partnerships to develop rare earth sector ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-seeks-foreign-partnerships-to-develop-rare-earth-sector-state-media-reports    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:46:20

• How to run I/O workloads on OpenShift Virtualization VMs ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/22/how-run-io-workloads-openshift-virtualization-vms    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:48:14

• New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Necesse - 2025-10-22 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2025-10-22-edition/index.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:48:43

• PenTesting 101: Using TheHarvester for OSINT and Reconnaissance ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/using-theharvester/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:50:30

• Fedora-based Ultramarine GNU/Linux 42 Released ☞ https://linuxiac.com/fedora-based-ultramarine-linux-42-released-with-wsl-gpu-acceleration/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:50:51

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1042911/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:51:06

• Oracle – AUR Helper Wrapper ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/oracle-aur-helper-wrapper/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:52:51

• 14 Best Free and Open Source RAW Processing Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rawtools/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:52:58

• Ntfy Desktop – fully featured desktop client for ntfy ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ntfy-desktop-fully-featured-desktop-client-ntfy/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:53:05

• Falco – cloud native runtime security tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/falco-cloud-native-runtime-security-tool/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:53:13

• Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Internet Radio ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/raspberry-pi5-desktop-mini-pc-internet-radio/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:53:22

• Forkgram – Unofficial Telegram Messenger ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/forkgram-unofficial-telegram-messenger/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:53:32

• 7 Best Free and Open Source Web Based Genome Browsers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-web-based-genome-browsers/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:53:39

• PRQL – modern language for transforming data ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/prql-modern-language-transforming-data/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:53:56

• OpenICE – data transparency project ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/openice-data-transparency-project/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:54:06

• AlmaLinux 10.1 launches with Btrfs filesystem support ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/almalinux-101-launches-with-btrfs-filesystem-support/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:56:18

• Slopwatch: Surveillance Giant Google News is Promoting Fake 'Articles' About Fake Xubuntu, Fake Articles About Replacing backdoored Windows With GNU/Linux ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/22/Slopwatch_Google_News_is_Promoting_Fake_Articles_About_Fake_Xub.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:57:39

• Ubuntu 25.10: Top New Features ☞ https://www.debugpoint.com/ubuntu-25-10-features/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:58:41

• ROG Xbox Ally runs better on GNU/Linux than the backdoored Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/rog-xbox-ally-runs-better-on-linux-than-the-windows-it-ships-with-new-test-shows-up-to-32-percent-higher-fps-with-more-stable-framerates-and-quicker-sleep-resume-times    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:59:07

• VirtualBox 7.2.4 Released with Initial 6.18 Kernel Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/10/virtualbox-7-2-4-released-with-initial-6-18-kernel-support/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 12:59:17

• Q4OS 6.2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/q4os    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:10:27

• ChromeOS 16404.45.0 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/chromeos    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:10:35

• KDE GNU/Linux 20251022 released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kdelinux    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:10:43

• Silicon Labs SixG301 Series 3 SoCs Target Zigbee, Matter, and Thread Development ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/silicon-labs-sixg301-series-3-socs-target-zigbee-matter-and-thread-development/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:11:42

• AlmaLinux 10.1-beta1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/alma    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:11:53

• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” Daily Builds Are Now Available for Download ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-resolute-raccoon-daily-builds-are-now-available-for-download    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:12:11

• SuperTuxKart 1.5 Released with Improved Graphics + More ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/supertuxkart-1-5-released    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:13:29

• VirtualBox 7.2.4 Released (But Won’t Install on Ubuntu 25.10) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/virtualbox-7-2-4-release-libxml2-error-ubuntu-25-10    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:13:38

• A Heartfelt Farewell to Dr. Cable Green ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2025/10/22/a-heartfelt-farewell-to-dr-cable-green/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:14:49

• Toluwaleke Ogundipe: GSoC Final Report: Printing in GNOME Crosswords ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/anonymoux47/2025/10/22/gsoc-final-report-printing-in-gnome-crosswords/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:19:06

• How To Install Avidemux on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-avidemux-linux-mint-22/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:22:10

• How To Install Next.js on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-next-js-manjaro/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:22:21

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:22:42

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

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:22:47

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

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:22:56

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

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:23:19

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

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:23:43

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

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:23:55

• You May Not Be on The Best Antidepressant For You. Here's How to Check. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/you-may-not-be-on-the-best-antidepressant-for-you-heres-how-to-check    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:24:51

• KDE Plasma 6.5 Released! How to Install it in KUbuntu 25.10 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/10/kde-plasma-6-5-released-how-to-install-it-in-kubuntu-25-10/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:25:10

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

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:25:24

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

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:25:53

• LibreOffice and Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2025: The results ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/22/libreoffice-and-google-summer-of-code-2025-the-results/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:27:28

• Oregon State University Teaches "White Rage" as Computer Science ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/oregon-state-university-teaches-white    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:27:51

• F-Droid Says The Bible is Safe For Work... for Now ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/f-droid-says-the-bible-is-safe-for    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:27:59

• Reddit is suing Perplexity and Hey Hi (AI) data scraping firms for using its data without permission ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/22/reddit-suing-perplexity-ai-data-scraping-firms-using-data-without-permission/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:28:29

• Lizzo Faces Copyright Suit Over Unreleased ‘Good Jeans’ Track — Plaintiff Says the Artist’s Reps ‘Acknowledge’ the Unauthorized Sample ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/22/lizzo-lawsuit-jeans-track/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:28:53

• Looking for Assad: is Syria's ousted President hiding out as a mechanic… or under a hijab? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20251022-looking-for-assad-is-syria-s-ousted-president-hiding-out-as-a-mechanic-or-under-a-hijab    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:29:26

• Jailed Journalists Andrzej Poczobut and Mzia Amaglobeli Awarded 2025 Sakharov Prize ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/sakharov-prize-2025-andrzej-poczobut-mzia-amaglobeli-/33566711.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:29:53

• Smuggler balloons from Belarus disrupt flights, affect 4,000 passengers at Vilnius Airport ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2722074/smuggler-balloons-from-belarus-disrupt-flights-affect-4-000-passengers-at-vilnius-airport    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:30:19

• Lithuanian haulers slam border closures with Belarus as unnecessarily disruptive ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2722315/lithuanian-haulers-slam-border-closures-with-belarus-as-unnecessarily-disruptive    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:30:45

• How will Convicted Felon’s new Russian oil sanctions shift the war? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/fastthinking/how-will-trumps-new-russian-oil-sanctions-shift-the-war/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:31:07

• As Suspicious Drones Plague Germany, Officials Are Unsure How to Respond ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/world/europe/germany-drones-defense-russia.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:31:20

• Lithuania to denounce travel agreement with Russia ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2722270/lithuania-to-denounce-travel-agreement-with-russia    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:31:31

• OpenLogic is a Microsoft proxy, just like contemporary OSI ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/participate-in-the-2026-state-of-open-source-survey http://techrights.org/wiki/OpenLogic/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:33:10

• "Dragging out this war" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/22/dragging-out-this-war | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:34:00

• What Are Gripen Fighter Jets and Why Does Ukraine Want Them From Sweden? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/world/europe/ukraine-gripen-fighter-jets-sweden-saab.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:34:07

• Russian APT Switches to New Backdoor After Malware Exposed by Researchers ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/russian-apt-switches-to-new-backdoor-after-malware-exposed-by-researchers/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:42:57

• Hundreds of trucks still wait on Latvian-Russian border despite electronic queue ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/22.10.2025-hundreds-of-trucks-still-wait-on-latvian-russian-border-despite-electronic-queue.a619420/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:43:05

• EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.24 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/easyos-excalibur-series-version-7024-released.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:43:23

• Amid a devastating war, art restorers race to preserve Ukraine’s heritage ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2025/1022/ukraine-war-art-restoration    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:43:41

• 'Vile' Russian Attack On Ukraine Kills 7, Including 2 Children ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-chemical-plant-kyiv/33566126.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:43:56

• In Ukraine’s Kharkiv, a nursery school hit by a Russian drone ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251022-in-ukraine-s-kharkiv-a-nursery-school-hit-by-a-russian-drone    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:44:06

• Sweden and Ukraine eye export deal for up to 150 fighter jets ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251022-sweden-and-ukraine-eye-export-deal-for-up-to-150-fighter-jets    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:44:15

• Russia holds nuclear drills, Ukraine seeks Swedish fighter jets ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251022-russia-holds-nuclear-drills-ukraine-seeks-swedish-fighter-jets    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:44:25

• Russian drones and missiles kill 6 in Ukraine, including a mother and her young daughters ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251022-russian-drones-and-missiles-kill-6-in-ukraine-including-a-mother-and-her-young-daughters    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:44:37

• Polish civilians prepare for possible Russian attack ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251022-polish-civilians-prepare-for-possible-russian-attack    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:44:47

• Europe must ensure long-term public support for Ukraine, expert says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251022-europe-must-ensure-long-term-public-support-for-ukraine-expert-says    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:44:58

• DA calls for arms trade transparency after SA tech found in Russian attack drones ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/industry/industry-industry/da-calls-for-arms-trade-transparency-after-sa-tech-found-in-russian-attack-drones/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:45:13

• Mix libinput evdev and synaptics drivers ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/mix-libinput-evdev-and-synaptics-drivers.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:45:49

• Gunnar Wolf: LLM Hallucinations in Practical Code Generation — Phenomena, Mechanism, and Mitigation ☞ https://gwolf.org/2025/10/llm-hallucinations-in-practical-code-generation-phenomena-mechanism-and-mitigation.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:48:16

• Krita Monthly Update - Edition 31 ☞ https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/monthly-update-31/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:50:52

• US mulls curbs on exports to China made with US software, sources say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/US-mulls-curbs-on-exports-to-China-made-with-US-software-sources-say    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:55:43

• China has another lever to pull in showdown with Convicted Felon: Factory lines ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-has-another-lever-to-pull-in-showdown-with-trump-factory-lines    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:55:54

• On the front line of Taiwan’s front line with China: A cautious opening to tourists ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/on-the-frontline-of-taiwans-frontline-with-china-a-cautious-opening-to-tourists    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:56:16

• Chinese companies unveil a swathe of breakthrough chipmaking innovations at tradeshow — chipmaking lithography tools, software design tools☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/chinese-companies-unveil-a-swathe-of-breakthrough-chipmaking-innovations-at-tradeshow-chipmaking-lithography-tools-software-design-tools-and-resists-all-on-display-as-the-nation-pursues-self-sufficiency    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:56:55

• China's supercomputer breakthrough uses 37 million processor cores to model complex quantum chemistry at molecular scale — Sunway fuses Hey Hi (AI) and quantum science ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/supercomputers/china-supercomputer-breakthrough-models-complex-quantum-chemistry-at-molecular-scale-37-million-processor-cores-fuse-ai-and-quantum-science    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:57:04

• The economic reality facing China as party leaders huddle ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/22/the-economic-reality-facing-china-as-party-leaders-huddle/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:57:25

• In China’s dangerous interceptions, see the breakdown of peaceful world order ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/in-chinas-dangerous-interceptions-see-the-breakdown-of-peaceful-world-order/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:57:51

• Chinese fentanyl kingpin ‘Brother Wang’ recaptured in Cuba after escaping from Mexico ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/chinese-fentanyl-kingpin-brother-wang-recaptured-in-cuba-after-escaping-from-mexico/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:58:06

• China Found Something Fascinating on the Far Side of the Moon ☞ https://futurism.com/space/china-chondrite-asteroid-water-moon    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:58:28

• Valkey 9.0 Adds Multi-Database Clusters, Supports 1 Billion Requests Per Second ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/valkey-9-release/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 13:58:52

• Niko Matsakis: Move, Destruct, Forget, and Rust ☞ https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/10/21/move-destruct-leak/?utm_source=atom_feed    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:00:07

• Niko Matsakis: Explicit capture clauses ☞ https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/10/22/explicit-capture-clauses/?utm_source=atom_feed    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:01:29

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 622 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/10/22/this-week-in-rust-622/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:03:37

• Scripts I wrote that I use all the time ☞ https://evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wrote-that-i-use-all-the-time/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:04:20

• Destination Linux 439: backdoored Windows Wild 'n Out, Ubuntu Questing Quokka, Fedora Fights Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://destinationlinux.net/439    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:06:26

• Seven Million People Unite at Peaceful No Kings Protests to Defend Our First Amendment Rights ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/seven-million-people-unite-at-peaceful-no-kings-protests-to-defend-our-first-amendment-rights    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:07:57

• Seems like BS, as other evidence suggests the opposite ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-suggests-covid-mrna-vaccines-help-fight-cancer-too    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:09:05

• Paul Krugman is Wrong About the Scope of Mass Layoffs in the United States ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/23/Paul_Krugman_is_Wrong_About_the_Scope_of_Mass_Layoffs_in_the_Un.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:09:32

• Broadcom unveils WiFi 8 chips for access points and clients ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/22/broadcom-unveils-wifi-8-chips-for-access-points-and-clients/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:09:59

• How to Install and Configure Polybar on GNU/Linux ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/how-to-install-and-configure-polybar-on-linux/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:10:52

• "With every passing day, IBM HR brings every US IBM employee closer and closer to the unemployment line with every layoff and PIP. While you collaborate to collect unemployment, your job is sent to India with modified fake titles and false descriptions for the incompetents there to collaborate and justify their "do nothing" jobs." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k857zkc7    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:14:28

• "This week Jonathan talks to Robert Wolff about DevEco! How did this developer group come to be, and what is its purpose? What are the lessons learned about building communities and working with others? Watch to find out!" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/floss-weekly-episode-852-sir-this-is-a-wendys/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:18:57

• "terrorism" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/22/navalny-s-terrorism-a-women-s-advocacy-group-dies-and-trump-denies-wsj-report | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:19:18

• Dihydroxyacetone Man slaps sanctions on Russia's top oil firms, says talks with Putin 'don't go anywhere' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251022-trump-slaps-sanctions-on-russia-s-top-oil-firms-says-talks-with-putin-don-t-go-anywhere    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:19:39

• Putin wasn't 'honest' with Convicted Felon, treasury chief says as US imposes massive sanctions ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251022-putin-wasn-t-honest-with-trump-treasury-chief-says-as-us-imposes-massive-sanctions    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:19:50

• Drones Attack Kyiv For Second Night In A Row After US, EU Impose Sanctions On Russian Energy Sector ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-sanctions-trump-putin-oil-rosneft-lukoil/33567454.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:20:03

• US Imposes 'Substantial' Sanctions On Russian Oil Companies Over Putin's 'Refusal To End Senseless War' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-oil-war-bessent-trump-putin-sanctions/33567131.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:20:15

• ASUS Adds Amston Lake Atom x7000RE Based Models to Its backdoored Windows 11 IoT Lineup ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/asus-adds-amston-lake-atom-x7000re-based-models-to-its-windows-11-iot-lineup/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:20:40

• "Clown Computing" Does Not Mean Safety ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/22/Cloud_Computing_Does_Not_Mean_Safety.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:21:03

• Worrying and Amusing Stories of "Clown Computing" Gone Awry ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/22/Worrying_and_Amusing_Stories_of_Clown_Computing_Gone_Awry.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:21:10

• "Clown Computing" Was Always a Joke, But This Week Was the Punchline (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/22/Cloud_Computing_Was_Always_a_Joke_But_This_Week_Was_the_Punchli.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:21:17

• Zelensky Says Russian Strike on School Shows Putin Isn’t Serious About Ukraine Talks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/world/europe/russia-ukraine-putin-trump.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:21:39

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Imposes Sanctions on Russian Oil Companies as His Frustration With Putin Mounts ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/trump-sanctions-russia-ukraine.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:21:52

• In a Reversal, Convicted Felon Will Not Meet With Putin in Coming Weeks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-putin-ukraine-meeting.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:22:03

• "How Trump’s planned meeting with Putin on European soil unraveled within days" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/22/from-summit-to-no-summit | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:22:33

• "Putin’s historic prisoner swap with the West" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/22/tumbling-into-a-new-cold-war | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:22:42

• How Distroless Containers Defend Against [Microsoft] npm Malware Attacks ☞ https://cloudnativenow.com/contributed-content/how-distroless-containers-defend-against-npm-malware-attacks/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:23:36

• Broadway Musicians Ready to ‘Strike Immediately,’ Potentially Shutting Down Several Major Shows ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/21/broadway-musicians-strike-imminent/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:24:10

• U.S. Strikes 2nd Boat in Pacific as Anti-Drug Operation Expands ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/trump-drug-boat-strike-colombia.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:24:35

• As US targets drug boats, Venezuelans wonder whether Maduro might be next ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2025/1022/venezuela-nicolas-maduro-trump-regime-change    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:24:48

• Two killed by US strike on alleged drug-trafficking boat in Pacific Ocean ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251022-two-killed-by-us-strike-on-alleged-drug-trafficking-boat-in-pacific-ocean    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:24:58

• Malaysia wrestles over online identity checks as suspect in school killing charged with murder ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-wrestles-over-online-identity-checks-as-suspect-in-school-killing-charged-with-murder    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:25:30

• Lack of international model law for neurotechnology and neurodata raises privacy concerns ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/lack-of-international-model-law-for-neurotechnology-and-neurodata-raises-privacy-concerns/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:25:56

• Louvre director admits 'insufficient' camera coverage after heist ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251022-louvre-director-admits-insufficient-camera-coverage-after-heist    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:26:26

• Facebook could be accessing your photos: here's how to stop it ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/facebook-privacy-settings-aTEZc6r6TaeH    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:26:52

• China says raised ‘stern protest’ with Australia after mid-air incident over South China Sea ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/22/china-says-raised-stern-protest-with-australia-after-mid-air-incident-over-south-china-sea/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:27:59

• A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe, by Richard Stallman ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe_by_Richard_S.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:28:21

• Jon Chiappetta: Solving a Final Remaining Performance Impact with Mutli-Threaded Operation by using Connection-State Mapping in the Highly-Modified OpenVPN Source Code [Implementation] ☞ https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/solving-a-final-remaining-performance-impact-with-mutli-threaded-operation-by-using-connection-state-mapping-in-the-highly-modified-openvpn-source-code-implementation/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:29:16

• Fedora Council approves AI-assisted contributions policy ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1042947/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:32:29

• Sounds Like Fedora is Ready to Become Less of a Slave of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (GitHub) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Sounds_Like_Fedora_is_Ready_to_Become_Less_of_a_Slave_of_Micros.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:33:08

• LLM slop is not code, IBM is heading in a really bad direction ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/22/how-spec-driven-development-improves-ai-coding-quality    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 14:34:17

• "What Happened To Running What You Wanted On Your Own Machine?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/what-happened-to-running-what-you-wanted-on-your-own-machine/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:11:21

• "The cool thing about building your own computer is that you don’t have to adhere to industry norms of form and function. You can build whatever chunky, awesome thing your heart desires, and that’s precisely what [Rahmanshaber] did with the MutantC cyberdeck." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/handheld-pc-build-is-pleasantly-chunky/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:12:21

• UK’s MAST Upgrade Tokamak Stabilizes Plasma With Edge Magnetic Fields ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/uks-mast-upgrade-tokamak-stabilizes-plasma-with-edge-magnetic-fields/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:12:44

• Travel magazine TTG closes print title to focus on digital and events growth ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/b2b/travel-magazine-ttg-closes-print-title-to-focus-on-digital-and-events-growth/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:14:06

• How affiliate content opens paths to new revenue opportunities ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishing-services-content/how-affiliate-content-opens-paths-to-new-revenue-opportunities/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:15:37

• The Americas' Axis of Affinity: US coercion, influence, and the ghosts of gunboat diplomacy ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251022-the-americas-axis-of-affinity-us-coercion-influence-and-the-ghosts-of-gunboat-diplomacy    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:17:08

• Weight Loss Isn't Essential For Reversing Prediabetes, New Study Shows ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/weight-loss-isnt-essential-for-reversing-prediabetes-new-study-shows    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:17:58

• Peanut Allergies Drop Steeply After Doctors Change Advice, Evidence Shows ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/peanut-allergies-drop-steeply-after-doctors-change-advice-evidence-shows    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:18:07

• Mosquitoes Have Started Appearing in One of The Last Places on Earth Without Them ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mosquitoes-have-started-appearing-in-one-of-the-last-places-on-earth-without-them    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:18:20

• Hidden Near-Earth Asteroid Discovered Lurking in The Sun's Glare ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hidden-near-earth-asteroid-discovered-lurking-in-the-suns-glare    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:18:36

• The Hidden Risks of Bubble Tea Are More Serious Than You Think ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-hidden-risks-of-bubble-tea-are-more-serious-than-you-think    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:19:04

• The World's Most Popular Pain Relief Drug May Induce Risky Behavior ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-most-popular-pain-relief-drug-may-induce-risky-behavior    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:19:19

• Human Trials Bring Us Closer to Breathing Through Our Butts ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/human-trials-bring-us-closer-to-breathing-through-our-butts    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:19:33

• Mysterious Glow Detected in Space Could Be Dark Matter Destroying Itself ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-glow-detected-in-space-could-be-dark-matter-destroying-itself    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:19:54

• Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil asks appeals court to block arrest efforts against him ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/columbia-activist-mahmoud-khalil-asks-appeals-court-to-block-arrest-efforts-against-him/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:20:44

• Nuclear power at heart of new Japan prime minister’s energy policy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/nuclear-power-at-heart-of-new-japan-prime-ministers-energy-policy    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:21:19

• Japan’s new PM is preparing large economic stimulus to tackle inflation: Sources ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japans-new-pm-is-preparing-large-economic-stimulus-to-tackle-inflation-sources-say    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:21:46

• Australia tells Hey Hi (AI) chatbot companies to detail child protection steps ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-tells-ai-chatbot-companies-to-detail-child-protection-steps    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:23:26

• Connect, Discuss, Inspire: Dive Deep with Special Interest Groups ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/10/connect-discuss-inspire-dive-deep-with-special-interest-groups/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:24:36

• Thunderbird on KDE Plasma | Fine-Tuning File Dialogs ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2025/10/22/thunderbird-on-kde-plasma-fine-tuning-file-dialogs/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:26:32

• "One such device is an old Belgacom TV Box. Instead of using the ubiquitous LCD screen, it uses a VFD display for its user interface, and [Jean] has taken control of it with the ESPTimeCastVFD project." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/esp32-invades-old-tv-box-forecast-more-than-just-channels/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:27:05

• G.M. Previews Talking Cars, Cheaper Batteries and Other New Tech ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/business/general-motors-ai-self-driving.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:28:38

• Meta Cuts 600 Jobs at Hey Hi (AI) Superintelligence Labs ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/meta-plans-to-cut-600-jobs-at-ai-superintelligence-labs.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:29:37

• S. Korean intelligence identifies suspect behind murder of undergrad in Cambodian scam compound ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korean-intelligence-identifies-main-suspect-behind-murder-of-undergrad-in-cambodian-scam-compound    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:30:09

• MariaDB launches unified cloud database platform for agentic Hey Hi (AI) development ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/22/mariadb-launches-unified-cloud-database-platform-agentic-ai-development/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:31:47

• Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio sign statement urging suspension of AGI development ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/22/geoffrey-hinton-yoshua-bengio-sign-statement-urging-suspension-agi-development/ http://techrights.org/n/2024/02/02/The_Great_LLM_Delusion_Part_VI_Hype_Agent_Geoff_Hinton_Would_Ne.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Nobel_Prize_in_Economics_Does_Not_Exist_It_s_Propaganda_From_Sv.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:32:55

• "Nobel" Exploited Posthumously for "AI" Hype, Now They Do the Same With "Quantum" http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/10/Nobel_Exploited_Posthumously_for_AI_Hype_Now_They_Do_the_Same_W.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:33:27

• Meta lays off 600 Hey Hi (AI) workers to streamline its Superintelligence Labs unit ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/22/meta-lays-off-600-ai-workers-looks-streamline-superintelligence-labs/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:35:13

• Hundreds of Power Players, From Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, Just Signed a Letter Calling for Prohibition on Development of Hey Hi (AI) Superintelligence ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/steve-wozniak-steve-bannon-letter-ai-superintelligence    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:36:09

• Kapo-berg Firing Hundreds of Hey Hi (AI) Developers After Hiring Spree ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zuckerberg-firing-hundreds-ai-developers    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:36:30

• OpenAI Faces New Allegations in Teen’s Death ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-new-allegations-teen-death    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:36:56

• Dihydroxyacetone Man pick to lead federal watchdog agency withdraws after offensive text messages revealed ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/10/trump-pick-to-lead-federal-watchdog-agency-withdraws-after-offensive-text-messages-were-revealed/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:38:10

• An update on the ongoing lawsuit on the mass firings at the CFPB ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2025/10/an-update-on-the-ongoing-lawsuit-on-the-mass-firings-at-the-cfpb/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:38:21

• OpenBSD 7.8 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1042909/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:39:52

• Understanding Type-Based Alias Analysis in C and C++ ☞ https://www.kdab.com/understanding-type-based-alias-analysis-in-c-and-c/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:40:59

• Top Free Alternatives to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Word You Should Try in 2025 ☞ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/5-free-alternatives-to-microsoft-word/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:03:45

• InterDigital hit with ex parte AASI from UK High Court in Amazon case ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/interdigital-hit-with-ex-parte-aasi-from-uk-high-court-in-amazon-case/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:05:53

• Wilus Wi-Fi patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/10/22/wilus-wi-fi-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:06:41

• Dominion Harbor entity, Bunker Hill, EV patent monopoly prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/10/22/dominion-harbor-entity-bunker-hill-ev-patent-prior-art-found    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:07:32

• Why children keep dying from toxic Indian cough syrup ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/why-children-keep-dying-from-toxic-indian-cough-syrup    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:08:15

• Supreme Court on Patents Fall 2025 ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/supreme-court-patents.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:09:15

• Go to the branch ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/what-to-do-online-banking-app-down-aIZBo7n8voob    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:10:09

• webctrl.cgi/Blue Angel Software Suite Exploit Attempts. Maybe CVE-2025-34033 Variant ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32410    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:15:25

• Hong Kong schoolchildren urged to get vaccinated as 2 severe paediatric flu cases recorded in 2 days ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/22/hong-kong-schoolchildren-urged-to-get-vaccinated-as-2-severe-paediatric-flu-cases-recorded-in-2-days/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:16:00

• The Sword in the Stone ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1096/the-sword-in-the-stone    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:16:19

• Styria: The collective that wants to make Syria laugh ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20251022-syria-collective-stand-up-comedy-festival-styria    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:17:32

• GIGABYTE Hey Hi (AI) TOP ATOM – An NVIDIA GB10 desktop Hey Hi (AI) supercomputer with 1 petaFLOP AI, 10GbE, 128GB RAM ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/23/gigabyte-ai-top-atom-an-nvidia-gb10-desktop-ai-supercomputer-with-1-petaflop-ai-10gbe-128gb-ram/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:18:47

• SECO Pi Vision 10.1 CM5 – An IP66-rated, 10.1-inch HMI solution based on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/22/seco-pi-vision-10-1-cm5-an-ip66-rated-10-1-inch-hmi-solution-based-on-raspberry-pi-compute-module-5/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:19:27

• Merlin Confirms Multimillion-Dollar Default Judgment Push Against Triller, Which Is Focused on ‘Regaining Compliance by December’ Amid NASDAQ Listing Woes ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/22/merlin-triller-lawsuit-default-judgement-push/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:21:43

• Former Proprietary Chaffbot Company Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-researcher-mental-health    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:25:12

• TTAB Dismisses Section 2(d) Opposition to HABANA BRISA: not Confusable with HAVANA TAN! for Sun Care Preparations ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/ttab-dismisses-section-2d-opposition-to.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:26:00

• Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perplexity-theft.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:26:39

• Tinkercad In Color ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/tinkercad-in-color/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:41:13

• AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/aws-outage-amazon-fired-workers-ai    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:41:46

• KDE Plasma 6.5 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1042936/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:42:47

• KDE Gear 25.12 release schedule ☞ https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2025/10/kde-gear-2512-release-schedule.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:43:48

• Arduino Alternative Microcontroller Boards for Your DIY Projects in the Post-Qualcomm Era ☞ https://itsfoss.com/arduino-alternative-microcontroller-boards/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:45:20

• Kitchen Bench Splash Guard Powered By Arduino ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/22/kitchen-bench-splash-guard-powered-by-arduino/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:45:48

• Several wind park projects on hold in Latvia's border area ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/22.10.2025-several-wind-park-projects-on-hold-in-latvias-border-area.a619320/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:46:34

• Does technology reduce our sense of security? ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/commentary/22.10.2025-does-technology-reduce-our-sense-of-security.a619312/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:46:54

• Solarium commission urges reversal on Convicted Felon’s cyber cuts ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/10/solarium-commission-urges-reversal-on-trumps-cyber-cuts/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:47:26

• Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in TP-Link’s Omada Gateways ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-vulnerabilities-patched-in-tp-links-omada-gateways/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:47:47

• Fencing and Pet Company Jewett-Cameron Hit by Ransomware ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fencing-and-pet-company-jewett-cameron-hit-by-ransomware/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:48:49

• Oracle Releases October 2025 Patches ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/oracle-releases-october-2025-patches/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:52:44

• Hackers Earn Over $520,000 on First Day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-earn-over-520000-on-first-day-of-pwn2own-ireland-2025/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:52:57

• Domestic rice production key as Taiwan negotiates US trade deal ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/domestic-rice-production-key-as-taiwan-negotiates-us-trade-deal/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:53:32

• From the World Cup to the Olympics, the US must put security and resilience first ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/from-the-world-cup-to-the-olympics-the-us-must-put-security-and-resilience-first/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:56:13

• US ‘slipping’ on cybersecurity, annual Cyberspace Solarium Commission report concludes ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/cyberspace-solarium-commission-report-budget-workforce-cuts/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:56:24

• Fuel truck explodes in Nigeria and kills dozens ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20251022-fuel-truck-explodes-in-nigeria-and-kills-dozens    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:56:48

• France's Heist of the Century ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20251022-france-s-heist-of-the-century    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:57:22

• SBOMs in the Era of the CRA: Toward a Unified and Actionable Framework ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/10/22/sboms-in-the-era-of-the-cra-toward-a-unified-and-actionable-framework/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 16:58:53

• Pakistan helped create the Taliban. Now, their clash threatens regional security. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2025/1022/pakistan-afghanistan-taliban-ceasefire-india    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:00:47

• Taiwan plans deeper military ties with US to bolster security ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-plans-deeper-military-ties-with-us-to-bolster-security    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:01:00

• Over 10,000 police deployed for Asean Summit security in Kuala Lumpur ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/over-10000-police-deployed-for-asean-summit-security-in-kuala-lumpur    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:01:17

• Taiwan is courting Maga influencers to get Convicted Felon’s attention ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-is-courting-maga-influencers-to-get-trumps-attention    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:01:39

• Windows TCO ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/catastrophic-jaguar-land-rover-cyberattack-to-cost-uk-economy-at-least-usd2-5-billion-5-000-independent-organizations-decimated-by-supply-chain-fallout    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:02:17

• UN report finds women still excluded from formal peace processes ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/un-report-finds-women-still-excluded-from-formal-peace-processes/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:02:51

• Rights group claims Ecuador security forces have restricted public assembly ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/rights-group-claims-ecuador-security-forces-have-restricted-public-assembly/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:03:41

• Louvre director admits 'insufficient' security and says she offered to resign after jewel heist ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20251022-louvre-director-admits-insufficient-security-and-says-she-offered-to-resign-after-jewel-heist    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:03:59

• I turned Kali Linux into a home networking multi-tool https://www.xda-developers.com/i-turned-kali-linux-into-a-home-networking-multi-tool/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:14:54

• "Jury's still out on Microsoft's optimization." https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/rog-xbox-ally-runs-better-on-linux-than-the-windows-it-ships-with-new-test-shows-up-to-32-percent-higher-fps-with-more-stable-framerates-and-quicker-sleep-resume-times    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:15:25

• "After 30 years with Linux, I decided to try Windows 11. Here's a list of everything that went wrong." https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-ditched-linux-for-windows-11-for-one-week-and-found-9-big-problems/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:16:07

• "Hibernation can take a while. As the RFC says, on Anjum's machine it takes about 20 seconds. The proposed change is simple: it adds a mechanism to cancel the process by pressing the power button. The thing is that for reasons Anjum goes on to explain, this is trickier than it sounds." https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/linux_hibernation_patch/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:16:29

• "I recently made the switch from Linux on all my ex-Windows devices, and I couldn’t be happier, especially since I’d been holding onto Windows 10 for far too long. For me, Windows 10 always felt much better than Windows 11, but at the end of the day, the operating system itself has never been the main thing." https://www.makeuseof.com/these-apps-made-switching-from-windows-to-linux-painless/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:17:37

• The ‘death’ of Windows 10 led to record growth for Zorin OS Linux https://www.pcworld.com/article/2949760/the-death-of-windows-10-led-to-record-growth-for-zorin-os-linux.html    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:18:01

• Intel Nova Lake To Boast 6th Gen NPU As Per Early Linux Kernel Patch https://wccftech.com/intel-nova-lake-to-boast-6th-gen-npu-as-per-early-linux-kernel-patch/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:18:34

• This Tool Let Me Use Google Translate in the Linux Terminal https://www.howtogeek.com/this-tool-let-me-translate-in-the-linux-terminal/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:19:09

• Try this new Linux security threat scanner to keep your system safe - you'll thank me https://www.zdnet.com/article/try-this-new-linux-security-threat-scanner-to-keep-your-system-safe-youll-thank-me/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:19:58

• Upgrading your Windows laptop? I built my own Linux machine in minutes (and you can, too) https://www.zdnet.com/article/upgrading-your-windows-laptop-i-built-my-own-linux-machine-in-minutes-and-you-can-too/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:20:49

• Linux Running on ASUS ROG Ally X Is Seen Running Games with Higher Framerates Than Windows in Performance Power Mode https://www.thefpsreview.com/2025/10/22/linux-running-on-asus-rog-ally-x-is-seen-running-games-with-higher-framerates-than-windows-in-performance-power-mode/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:22:30

• 🖼️ xkcd #3158 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3158.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:25:39

• 🔤SpellBinding — AGIRYUT Wordo: SPOOK gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-23.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:26:08

• "How does 31536 compare to 315360? The larger amounts are pretty meaningless, unless you can relate say 31536 to 86400 and guess that's maybe a third of a day, or so?" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/10/23/duration-shorthand.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:26:59

• "My car has a digital clock, but it doesn't have a tablet or other smart controls. When I need to change the time, I have to input a complicated set of button presses into the radio. Of course, I always forget what that combination is, so in recent years, I've taken to simply leaving the clock on whatever time it's set at." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202510/20251023-daylight-savings-time.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:27:54

• OpenBSD 7.8 out now, and you're not seeing double, 9front releases 'Release' https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/openbsd_78_and_9front_release/    

posted Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 17:44:12