Roy Schestowitz

• legalizing euthanasia https://www.dw.com/en/uruguay-passes-law-legalizing-euthanasia/a-74376809    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 00:57:16

• Titan sub imploded due to engineering flaws — NTSB report https://www.dw.com/en/titan-sub-imploded-due-to-engineering-flaws-ntsb-report/a-74376583    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 00:58:01

• Paris Agreement has curbed deadly heating, but not by enough https://www.dw.com/en/paris-agreement-has-curbed-deadly-heating-but-not-by-enough/a-74371177    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 00:58:38

• Student Journalists At Indiana University https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/21/brazen-censorship-against-student-journalists-at-indiana-university/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 00:59:35

• Chris Hedges on Journalism, Censorship and Empire https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/20/chris-hedges-on-journalism-censorship-and-empire/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 00:59:51

• Crisis without Coverage: Rwanda, the Congo, and the Unhoused https://www.projectcensored.org/crisis-coverage-rwanda-congo-unhoused/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:00:17

• Censorship is Chaos Disguised as Order https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/16/censorship-is-chaos-disguised-as-order/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:00:39

• Now just 9 active capsules short of 3.2k gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:03:04

• Some Linux stuff for October (bad batteries, good Zauri) gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2025_10_01.txt    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:04:01

• Some fancy stats! 📊 gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~freezr/pebcak/index.gmi    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:04:37

• Microsoft’s Profit Demands Reportedly Spark Layoffs and Studio Closures https://www.operationsports.com/microsofts-profit-demands-reportedly-spark-layoffs-and-studio-closures/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:06:47

• Xbox insider reveals truth behind layoffs and axed games as Microsoft set impossible goals https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/23/xbox-insider-reveals-truth-behind-layoffs-axed-games-microsoft-set-impossible-goals-24507815/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:07:07

• Microsoft Has Reportedly Pushed Xbox Studios to Deliver a 30% Profit Margin, Allegedly Leading to All Those Layoffs, Canceled Projects, Price Rises, and the End of Exclusives https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-has-reportedly-pushed-xbox-studios-to-deliver-a-30-profit-margin-allegedly-leading-to-all-those-layoffs-canceled-projects-price-rises-and-the-end-of-exclusives    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:07:28

• Aggressive Profit Targets Prompt Xbox Layoffs, Price Increases, and Budget Cuts https://www.techpowerup.com/342187/aggressive-profit-targets-prompt-xbox-layoffs-price-increases-and-budget-cuts    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:08:40

• Microsoft has reportedly set unrealistic profit targets for Xbox https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/microsoft-has-reportedly-set-unrealistic-profit-targets-for-xbox/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:09:30

• "With H1B Visas now costing $100k each, it seems that the RAs and PIPs have stopped or been delayed. There was talk of an RA in Sept/Oct this year...but it seems that was put on hold for now. It's cheaper to keep what they have on-shore than risk replacing them at $100k each (plus salary) - or not being able to replace them at all..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k857zkc7    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:10:35

• "...you would have thought that Alvind and the McKinsey crooks would have cooked up some scheme to ensure that IBM never pays for those $100K visas. After all, Alvind's purpose is to shut down all US offices and transfer the jobs to India. But as they say, man proposes, God disposes. Is God acting via Trump ?"    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:10:59

• "Chatbots sind Bullshit-Generatoren" https://www.heise.de/news/Richard-Stallman-Chatbots-sind-Bullshit-Generatoren-10798837.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:13:14

• the Nation’s Elders and Disabled are About to be Stiffed https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/of-tariffs-and-social-security-the-nations-elders-and-disabled-are-about-to-be-stiffed/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:20:12

• Weak. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/opt-out-october-daily-tips-protect-your-privacy-and-security    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:29:29

• "A little more than 2 months after Debian, we’re finally releasing Mobian Trixie as our new stable release! We’re also taking this opportunity to start rotating the PGP/GPG keys we’re using for signing both our images and package archive." https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2025/10/new-stable-rotating-keys/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:31:40

• Announcing AnduinOS 1.4 https://news.anduinos.com/post/2025/10/17/announcing-anduinos-14    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:32:52

• ‘Newspeak’ Comes to the Department of Energy https://www.truthdig.com/articles/newspeak-comes-to-the-department-of-energy/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:37:49

• Energy Ministry sees 96% of private-sector energy investment going toward renewables https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/private-sector-energy-investment-renewables/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:38:23

• Energy of the future: Solar takes off to the final frontier https://www.dw.com/en/energy-of-the-future-solar-takes-off-to-the-final-frontier/a-74291852    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:38:59

• Half of Dutch fearing higher bills due to energy transition plans https://nltimes.nl/2025/10/15/half-dutch-fearing-higher-bills-due-energy-transition-plans    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:39:13

• US Judge Dismisses Youth Activists' Lawsuit Challenging Cheeto Mussolini's Energy Policies https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-10-15/us-judge-dismisses-youth-activists-lawsuit-challenging-trumps-pro-fossil-fuel-energy-policies    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:39:36

• OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Cheeto Mussolini Administration Natural Gas Evangelist https://www.truthdig.com/articles/openais-new-energy-chief-is-a-trump-administration-natural-gas-evangelist/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:39:59

• As Brazil Readies for COP30 Climate Talks, Finance Ministers Offer Plan for $1.3 Trillion in Yearly Finance https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-15/as-brazil-readies-for-cop30-climate-talks-finance-ministers-offer-plan-for-1-3-trillion-in-yearly-finance    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:40:36

• Lawsuit Challenging Cheeto Mussolini on Fossil Fuels https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/montana/articles/2025-10-15/judge-dismisses-young-climate-activists-lawsuit-challenging-trump-on-fossil-fuels    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:41:15

• NATO War-Games Climate Collapse https://www.truthdig.com/articles/nato-war-games-climate-collapse/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:41:43

• Countering Cheeto Mussolini, Pacific Islanders are Leading on Climate Change https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/16/countering-trump-pacific-islanders-are-leading-on-climate-change/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:42:13

• International deal to cut shipping emissions falters under U.S. pressure https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/imo-shipping-emissions-9.6942459    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:42:40

• Cheeto Mussolini Cuts and Climate Change Compound Worry in Alaska After Typhoon Disaster https://truthout.org/articles/trump-cuts-and-climate-change-compound-worry-in-alaska-after-typhoon-disaster/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:45:45

• Scientists are testing a surprising approach to fighting hunger in one of the poorest places on Earth https://www.vox.com/climate/465060/madagascar-military-coup-environmental-problems-fishery-coral-reef    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:46:09

• Most animals on this island nation are found nowhere else on Earth. And now they’re vanishing. https://www.vox.com/climate/464953/madagascar-lemurs-chameleons-endangered-animals    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:46:42

• Saudi Arabia: Spate of Executions of Child Offenders https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/20/saudi-arabia-spate-of-executions-of-child-offenders    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:49:29

• Pentagon now resembles Saudi Arabia for journalists https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/in-trump-s-america-the-pentagon-now-resembles-saudi-arabia-for-journalists-20251019-p5n3j1.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:49:59

• Turkey sees rise in school dropouts, union warns https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-sees-rise-in-school-dropouts-union-warns-312740    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:50:56

• How IGP Leaks Put IXP Route Servers in the DDoS Shooting Range https://labs.ripe.net/author/mw/how-igp-leaks-put-ixp-route-servers-in-the-ddos-shooting-range/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:54:33

• Zulip is The Best Open-Source Slack Alternative You Can Install on Your Server https://www.maketecheasier.com/zulip-open-source-slack-alternative/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:54:54

• Ann Arbor District Library https://www.michigandaily.com/news/ann-arbor/aadl-announces-plans-to-acquire-the-ann-arbor-observer/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:55:58

• How Elon Musk Ruined Twitter https://jacobin.com/2025/10/enshittification-doctorow-musk-twitter-internet/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:57:14

• 'Another Reason to Quit Facebook' https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/another-reason-quit-facebook-brits-furious-meta-axes-messenger-desktop-app-15-december-1749119    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 01:57:47

• Stable Clonezilla live 3.3.0-33 Released https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/news/2025/10/stable-clonezilla-live-333-33-released/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:00:59

• Run Raspberry Pi’s PIXEL Desktop on a PC or Mac – an Exton modified Build 251019 with Refracta Snapshot (so you can create your own Raspberrypi Debian 12 Pixel system) https://www.exton.se/run-raspberry-pis-pixel-desktop-on-a-pc-or-mac-an-exton-modified-build-251019-with-refracta-snapshot-so-you-can-create-your-own-raspberrypi-debian-12-pixel-system/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:01:50

• AgarimOS 20251021 is out https://sourceforge.net/projects/agarimos/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:03:19

• grocery prices keep creeping up https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-inflation-rate-september-2025-9.6946556    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:07:14

• Help! I am a woman and need more sleep than a man https://www.dw.com/en/help-i-am-a-woman-and-need-more-sleep-than-a-man/a-74375568    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:09:55

• Germany news: School students lag behind in science and math https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-school-students-lag-behind-in-science-and-math/live-74379117    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:10:20

• FreePascal webdev gopher://gopher.linkerror.com:70/0/phlog/2025/20251023    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:13:37

• Society's task gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-10-23-task.txt    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:14:10

• "If you define a day or "1d" in shorthand as 86400 seconds, then you are done! However this definition ignores various annoyances. At least for now some (Earth) days may be longer the 86400 seconds (or not, if the leap second is smeared in behind the scenes), which will not bother most calculations." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/10/24/day.gmi    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:15:08

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1803.jpg    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:15:34

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1453.jpg    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:15:39

• French PM Lecornu survives dual no-confidence votes https://www.dw.com/en/french-pm-lecornu-survives-dual-no-confidence-votes/a-74383601    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:23:15

• nuclear power https://www.dw.com/en/can-nuclear-power-curb-shipping-s-huge-carbon-footprint/a-74335799    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:23:52

• Talc, asbestos and cancer: What is the connection? https://www.dw.com/en/talc-asbestos-and-cancer-what-is-the-connection/a-74395879    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:24:40

• Just to re-classify another thing as "AI" and fake growth in "AI" https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/copilot_exchange_server/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:38:34

• "I've tried using various AI tools and models over the past couple of years, but honestly it feels like it gives me a false sense of confidence. Plus, the time I supposedly save building things gets eaten up debugging, correcting, improving the AI-generated slop. Am I using the tools wrong or are others finding the same thing?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679390    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:45:15

• "AI ruins your flow. That's the biggest problem. I sit here and wait for Claude to do something. Then I get distracted by social media. No these things don't actually work if you study human psychology: Switching to another work task (what for like a minute?)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679390    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:45:55

• "allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%--AI tooling slowed developers down." https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 02:47:06

• It's all buzzwords now (re-classifying old things as "new" and thus "growing": "booming demand for cloud services, as artificial intelligence adoption rises." https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/ibms-slowing-cloud-growth-eclipses-upbeat-third-quarter-results/amp_articleshow/124751571.cms    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 03:28:05

• "Love how AK brags every qtr about the "huge and growing AI and hybrid cloud backlog". Yeah right! ISC forecasts by sales is TOTAL BS!!!!! Just put AI or cloud in the product title..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k86vt8ew    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 03:28:10

• They call old stuff "AI"; smokescreen for shareholders https://www.crn.com/news/ai/2025/ibm-9-5-billion-ai-book-of-business-drives-q3-growth-across-company-s-software-hardware-and-consulting-segments    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 03:29:40

• Poland became Europe's surprise economic success story https://www.dw.com/en/how-poland-became-europe-s-surprise-economic-success-story/a-74375281    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 03:32:09

• Proprietary systems https://www.dw.com/en/outage-at-amazon-cloud-service-unit-causes-major-disruption/a-74421381    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 03:33:30

• What is methane? https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane/a-69919651    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 03:34:53

• Tiny chip restores vision, hope for those with sight loss https://www.dw.com/en/tiny-chip-restores-vision-hope-for-those-with-sight-loss/a-74439974    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 03:35:44

• Iran's Gen Z cornered by crackdowns, sanctions and conflict https://www.dw.com/en/iran-s-gen-z-cornered-by-crackdowns-sanctions-and-conflict/a-74440288    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 03:36:15

• Six surprising places solar power is taking off https://www.dw.com/en/six-surprising-places-solar-power-is-taking-off/a-74291852    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 03:47:25

• anti-deforestation law https://www.dw.com/en/eu-commission-suggests-easing-anti-deforestation-law/a-74445916    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 03:48:16

• North Macedonia votes amid EU membership stalemate https://www.dw.com/en/north-macedonia-votes-amid-eu-membership-stalemate/a-74385416    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 03:49:04

• dead at 29 https://www.dw.com/en/chess-world-mourns-grandmaster-daniel-naroditsky-dead-at-29/a-74444154    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 03:54:40

• Heroes of Magic - Cards will give poker the roguelike deck-builder treatment | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/heroes-of-magic-cards-will-give-poker-the-roguelike-deck-builder-treatment/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 07:18:42

• The Jackbox Party Pack 11 has arrived with a whole new set of games | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-jackbox-party-pack-11-has-arrived-with-a-whole-new-set-of-games/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-jackbox-party-pack-11-has-arrived-with-a-whole-new-set-of-games/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 07:31:11

• Fedora Linux project agrees to allow AI-assisted contributions with a new policy | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/fedora-linux-project-agrees-to-allow-ai-assisted-contributions-with-a-new-policy/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 07:33:27

• Get some quality spooky games in the Dark Pictures - Little Nightmares Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/get-some-quality-spooky-games-in-the-dark-pictures-little-nightmares-humble-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 07:55:36

• Arrowhead focus on fixing up all the issues with HELLDIVERS 2 getting a big bug-squashing patch | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/arrowhead-focus-on-fixing-up-all-the-issues-with-helldivers-2-getting-a-big-bug-squashing-patch/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 07:56:05

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-24.gmi    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 08:13:05

• Embark Studios confirm rollout of Denuvo Anti-Cheat for THE FINALS | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/embark-studios-confirm-rollout-of-denuvo-anti-cheat-for-the-finals/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/embark-studios-confirm-rollout-of-denuvo-anti-cheat-for-the-finals/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 08:18:27

• MicroProse reveal Dungeon Holdem a mixture of poker and dungeon crawling that looks ace | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/microprose-reveal-dungeon-holdem-a-mixture-of-poker-and-dungeon-crawling-that-looks-ace/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 08:18:56

• PAYDAY 2 is going to live again with a new team and new updates | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/payday-2-is-going-to-live-again-with-a-new-team-and-new-updates/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 08:28:57

• Krafton (PUBG, Subnautica, inZOI) becoming an "AI-First" company | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/krafton-pubg-subnautica-becoming-an-ai-first-company/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 09:07:20

• Amazon Luna cloud gaming relaunched, with Prime Gaming merged in and a new AI game | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/amazon-luna-cloud-gaming-relaunched-with-prime-gaming-merged-in-and-a-new-ai-game/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 09:07:51

• There aren't enough Allen keys in the world... | "Der er ikke unbrako-nøgler nok i verden... | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/der-er-ikke-unbrako-noegler-nok-i-verden    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:16:51

• "Argentina and Rural America’s Awakening - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/argentina-and-rural-americas-awakening    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:17:02

• "iTWire - Delinea teams up with Microsoft to deliver identity security solutions in the Microsoft security store" https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/delinea-teams-up-with-microsoft-to-deliver-identity-security-solutions-in-the-microsoft-security-store.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:17:34

• "Kash's "lockbox in a vault...in a cyber place where no one can see or search these files"" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/22/kashs-lockbox-in-a-vault-in-a-cyber-place-where-no-one-can-see-or-search-these-files/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:25:00

• "Is There a Bottom? - Robert Reich" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/is-there-a-bottom    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:25:13

• "The Anti-Trump Movement Is Growing. Where Is Labor?" https://jacobin.com/2025/10/no-kings-trump-labor-unions/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:25:29

• "Patriotism Against Authoritarianism" https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-no-kings-patriotism-protest/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:25:38

• "Shutdown likely to halt food benefits for 42 million in just days • Michigan Advance" https://michiganadvance.com/2025/10/22/repub/shutdown-likely-to-halt-food-benefits-for-42-million-in-just-days/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:25:51

• "North Dakota SNAP funding in jeopardy with government shutdown • North Dakota Monitor" https://northdakotamonitor.com/2025/10/21/north-dakota-snap-funding-in-jeopardy-with-government-shutdown/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:26:28

• "‘Hopeless’: Utahns say shutdown’s pause on food stamp funding carries a steep cost • Utah News Dispatch" https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/10/22/utahn-no-food-assistance-funding-government-shutdown/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:27:24

• "Trump tears down White House wing to build a ballroom" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-10-22/trump-tears-down-a-white-house-wing-for-his-ballroom    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:27:38

• "200-year alliance at risk: Colombian ambassador to US tells AFP Trump threats 'unacceptable'" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2348460.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:28:10

• Fairy tale that Norway is the best at climate change reduction | "Eventyrfortelling at Norge er best på klimakutt | Lars Egelands blogg" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://larsegeland.com/2025/10/23/eventyrfortelling-at-norge-er-best-pa-klimakutt/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:29:26

• "Chat Control 2 – lägg ner!" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/10/22/chat-control-2-lagg-ner/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:29:50

• "‘Temu level shit’: Why Trump’s White House makeover has outraged historians and experts" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-22/temu-level-shit-why-trumps-white-house-makeover-has-outraged-historians-and-experts.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:31:30

• "Trump’s ballroom blitz sparks chorus of disgust: ‘The perfect symbol’" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/trump-white-house-ballroom-reaction    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:31:53

• "Europe's Plan to Ditch US Tech Giants is Built on Open Source - and It's Gaining Steam" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/22/126221    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:32:45

• "Tom the Dancing Bug: The President Trumps all over Chagrin Falls, USA" https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-president-trumps-all-over-chagrin-falls-usa.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:32:59

• "Trump's GOP Death Panel in Progress" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/23/trumps-gop-death-panel-in-progress/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:33:14

• IDG fails to mention GNU/Linux even once https://www.pcworld.com/article/699203/best-laptops-under-500.html http://techrights.org/wiki/IDG/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:33:36

• "Saudi Arabia’s MBS to meet with Trump" https://www.semafor.com/article/10/22/2025/saudi-arabias-mbs-to-meet-with-trump    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:34:35

• "Hamtramck mayor faces tough questioning at nomination hearing to become ambassador to Kuwait • Michigan Advance" https://michiganadvance.com/2025/10/23/hamtramck-mayor-faces-tough-questioning-at-nomination-hearing-to-become-ambassador-to-kuwait/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:34:58

• "State officials say they weren’t notified about Friday’s live-fire test, though the Marine Corps claims it sent advance notice to California agencies." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-23/why-motorists-not-warned-artillery-i-5    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:35:45

• "Russian military planes violated Lithuania’s airspace, president says" https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/10/23/russian-military-planes-violated-lithuania-s-airspace-president-says    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:36:06

• "Russian aircraft enter airspace of NATO member Lithuania" https://www.dw.com/en/russian-military-aircraft-enter-airspace-of-nato-member-lithuania/a-74477897    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:36:16

• A: Strict ID requirements for social media and the Swedish Cyber ​​Police | "S: Strikta ID-krav för sociala media och Nätpolis" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/10/23/s-strikta-id-krav-for-sociala-media-och-natpolis/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:36:49

• iophk: rephrased, microsoft is itself a growing problem throughout Africa https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/10/microsoft-africa-ai-cyber-threats/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:37:12

• "Russia’s ‘human safari’ in southern Ukraine is a warning to the world" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russias-human-safari-in-southern-ukraine-is-a-warning-to-the-world/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 10:37:44

• Atorvastatin ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-transparency-atorvastatin-prescription-explainer | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:34:11

• "They were the sort of disturbing discoveries that anyone taking generic medication would want to know." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-hides-drug-names-contaminated-factories | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:34:27

• Western Media Use ‘Peace’ Prize to Fuel War Propaganda https://fair.org/home/western-media-use-peace-prize-to-fuel-war-propaganda/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/10/Nobel_Exploited_Posthumously_for_AI_Hype_Now_They_Do_the_Same_W.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Nobel_Prize_in_Economics_Does_Not_Exist_It_s_Propaganda_From_Sv.shtml    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:36:29

• "Several AI have already made deals with Reddit, including OpenAI, which signed on the dotted line last year to use Reddit’s trove of data to train its large language models." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/22/reddit-suing-perplexity-ai-data-scraping-firms-using-data-without-permission/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:37:23

• "Plagiarism has become one of the trickiest issues in the modern world. With access to various sources of information, people are more likely to use the found information without proper referencing." ☛ https://itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/plagiarism-in-it-and-the-fight-against-it.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:37:39

• "Lee claimed that Oxylabs UAB, a data scraping business based in Lithuania, AWM Proxy, a former Russian botnet, and SerpApi, which advertises real-time access to scraped Google search results, represent textbook examples of this sort of illegal behavior." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/reddit_sues_perplexity/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:37:53

• "Then OpenAI’s ChatGPT came along, kicking off an artificial intelligence revolution." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perplexity-theft.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:38:03

• "A decision by Canal+ to target public DNS resolvers to reinforce pirate site blocking, ended with a French court ordering Cloudflare and Google to deny access to list of streaming sites." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-resists-piracy-blocks-u-s-govt-opposes-eu-intermediary-obligations-251022/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:38:29

• "In the modern piracy ecosystem, sites and domains have become disposable, but "brands" often survive. This phenomenon is highlighted by the MPA's latest DMCA subpoena request, which hunts the "ghosts" of already defeated operations." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-targets-zombie-pirate-brands-including-fmovies-cuevana-and-aniwave/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:38:46

• "In the modern piracy ecosystem, sites and domains have become disposable, but "brands" often survive. This phenomenon is highlighted by the MPA's latest DMCA subpoena request, which hunts the "ghosts" of already defeated operations." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-targets-zombie-pirate-brands-including-fmovies-cuevana-and-aniwave/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:38:59

• "U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen in San Jose, California, denied Google’s motion to dismiss the so-called tying claim." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/yelp-can-proceed-with-additional-tying-claim-in-antitrust-case-against-google/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:40:12

• "strategic market status." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/google-and-apple-face-extra-uk-scrutiny-over-strategic-role-in-mobile-platforms/articleshow/124744585.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:40:23

• "Pretty soon it may be easier to list the significant markets in which Apple is still able to exercise complete control over iOS app distribution." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/app-store-china-uk/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:40:56

• "Apple lost a UK lawsuit Thursday, which accuses the US tech giant of abusing the dominant position of its App Store, with claimants seeking more than 1.5 billion pounds ($2 billion) in damages." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/apple-loses-2-billion-uk-lawsuit-over-app-store-monopoly-9506403#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:41:17

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/22/spotifys-discover-weekly-lists-hit-with-a-deluge-of-ai-slop/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:42:23

• "The combined entity would employ around 25 000 people across Europe, the companies said in a statement." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/europe-firms-agree-satellite-merger-to-counter-starlink/273245/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:42:58

• "Airbus, Thales and Italy's Leonardo said they aimed "to strengthen Europe's strategic autonomy in space" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-europe-satellite-powerhouse-rival-musk.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:43:08

• "I do not believe for one second that working 9-9-6 or any of this shit makes for great companies or success." ☛ https://json.blog/2025/10/22/shoot-your-into-the-fucking.html | Source: Jason Becker    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:43:31

• "Beyond economics, we found that judgments about excessive wealth are also shaped by deeper moral intuitions." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-wrong-money-deep-seated-values.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:43:46

• "People are pissed. On Tuesday night, just hours after the raid, several hundred people flooded a Broadway intersection downtown, just above City Hall" ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:44:04

• "Amazon has invented a new kind of labor travesty: the chickenized reverse centaur." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/traveling-salesman-solution/#pee-bottles | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:44:28

• "This letter gets right to the heart of debates about children's right to play and their right to the street." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-children-play-streets-alleys-pavements.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:44:43

• "As a longtime Pitchfork reader, it’s actually refreshing that the site has never had comments, ever." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/10/22/pitchfork-doesnt-need-comments/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:45:10

• "In Cambodia, they hit hard. Nearly $7 million marked for the country’s media development evaporated overnight." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/independent-media-cambodia-usaid-budget-cuts/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:45:23

• "It also noted that Aranca's article had been awarded the association's 2024 Investigative Journalism Award." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/journalist-asuman-aranca-sentenced-to-prison-over-report-on-high-profile-murder-case-312780 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:45:41

• "This time, I felt the opposite: joy, excitement, relief. October is one of the best months in Pennsylvania, and it was a beautiful day for NKD." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/us-dispatch-no-kings-day-protest-asserts-the-power-of-free-speech-and-assembly/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:46:18

• "A Washington, D.C., resident who protested while playing the “Imperial March” theme from “Star Wars” sued members of the National Guard and the city’s police force in federal court on Thursday" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/protester-who-played-star-wars-song-sues-after-arrest-in-washington.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:46:46

• "The group said in a court filing that Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection commander overseeing the federal enforcement effort in Chicago" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-10-23/top-trump-official-defied-court-order-on-tear-gas-during-chicago-crackdown-protesters-say | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:47:20

• "terrorists and extremists." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/cards/russia-s-terrorists-and-extremists-list-is-now-sweeping-up-journalists-and-academics-soon-navalny-donors-could-face-life-in-prison | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:47:35

• Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/traveling-salesman-solution/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:48:07

• "The layoffs were in Meta’s so-called Superintelligence Labs, which is the umbrella name for the company’s A.I. efforts. The division has around 3,000 employees, though the exact number of workers was unclear." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/meta-plans-to-cut-600-jobs-at-ai-superintelligence-labs.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:52:26

• "Tech enthusiasts and really anyone with hobbies have had it rough over the last couple of decades." ☛ https://techtea.io/articles/2025/tech-optimism/ | Source: TechTea    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:52:41

• "There is a lot to be mad about, these days." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/10/23/woke-up-angry/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:52:57

• "Assuming the above photo is legitimate, and of course nowadays who knows, McDonald’s says it will be rounding cash change to the nearest five cents." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/change-is-good-so-dont-change-my-change/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:53:21

• "Diminishing returns or not, we're hooked on growth." ☛ https://www.datagubbe.se/llmfix/ | Source: Carl Svensson    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:53:52

• "Utunen further noted that a recent study found the Saimaa ringed seal is Finland's only native mammal." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20190053 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:55:38

• "The HTS is the ideal technology to be deployed for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) as propulsion in water requires high magnetic fields in a compact package, and HTS technology is capable of enabling a more powerful, silent, and efficient MHD drive." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/military/stealthy-submarines-no-rotating-components-pump-tech | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:56:12

• "In the last probably five, six years, sales really dropped because everyone buys everything on the internet" ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/business/campus-student-bike-shop-closes-following-owners-death/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:56:31

• "California residents bought more than 124,700 zero-emission vehicles or plug-in hybrids from July 1 to Sept. 30, marking the highest quarterly sales of clean vehicles since the state began tracking those numbers in 2008, according to the California Energy Commission." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-23/record-ev-sales-california-q3-2025 | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:56:43

• "After serving a federal prison sentence for violating anti-money-laundering laws and US sanctions, former [cryptocurrency] exchange CEO Changpeng Zhao has been pardoned by US president Donald Trump." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trump-pardons-cz-binance/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:57:37

• "Bitcoin, the pioneer and most well-known cryptocurrency, is infamous for its extreme volatility. Many investors have suffered significant losses when markets crash unexpectedly." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cryptos-back-fca-lifts-uk-ban-bitcoin-linked-investments-experts-warn-dont-rush-1749641 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:59:34

• seized   

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:59:52

• "The seized bitcoin, stored in 25 wallets, are worth more than $14 billion, and were valued at nearly $15 billion on the day of the announcement." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/us-crypto-bust-hope-battle-against-cybercrime-syndicates | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 11:59:59

• "My epic rail journey to some of the continent’s most creative and edgy cities mimics a cruise – I hop on and off, eat too much and soak up the culture" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/oct/23/train-tour-europe-cool-northern-capitals-london-vilnius-berlin-warsaw-amsterdam | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:00:15

• "Deep-sea mining is capturing the attention of governments and industry. But what is the true cost of this 'clean energy' transition?" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-true-deep-sea.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:01:13

• "And now that cycle will continue uninterrupted for the foreseeable future." ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2025/10/22/e-o-wilson-land-between-the-rivers-preserve-is-a-place-that-time-forgot/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:01:25

• "the fundamental right to a clean and healthy environment." ☛ https://arkansasadvocate.com/2025/10/21/university-students-seek-to-safeguard-arkansas-natural-resources-through-ballot-initiative/ | Source: Arkansas Advocate    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:01:37

• "At the end of the interview, Goodall turns directly to the camera" ☛ https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/10/letter-from-the-editor-a-sip-of-whiskey-a-shot-of-hope-jane-goodalls-final-challenge-to-us-all.html | Source: Michigan News    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:01:50

• "The results of the poll, conducted in September, suggest that as AI reshapes work, communication and culture, it’s also sparking anxieties about how the growing energy demands could further harm the environment." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-10-23/what-americans-think-about-the-environmental-impact-of-ai-according-to-a-new-poll | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:02:19

• "don’t have water to drink, let alone to sustain their crops." ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1284629/cyprus-dam-levels-at-just-11-pct/ | Source: Greece    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:02:36

• "By virtually every key metric, efforts to fight climate change are going too slowly, according to findings by a coalition of climate groups. In some cases, things are moving in the wrong direction." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/new-report-finds-efforts-to-slow-climate-change-are-working-just-not-fast-enough/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:02:54

• "That means these animals are so rare that they no longer serve a function in Florida’s marine ecosystem." ☛ https://www.vox.com/climate/465829/florida-coral-reef-extinction | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:03:10

• "The experiment would blend interests of corn, sorghum and soybean farmers and address goals of renewable energy enthusiasts." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/10/23/kansas-economic-conference-awash-in-ideas-for-transforming-states-water-policy/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:03:32

• "Divers off the coast of Sapientza Island in southern Greece have launched a determined effort to remove “ghost nets” – abandoned fishing gear that silently strangles marine ecosystems." ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/environment/1284693/greek-divers-haul-up-ghost-nets-destroying-marine-life/ | Source: Greece    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:04:21

• "Melania Trump's legal battle with journalist Michael Wolff is getting uglier ... and Wolff says he can't wait to ask Melania and President Donald Trump about Jeffrey Epstein under oath." ☛ https://www.tmz.com/2025/10/22/journalist-suing-melania-trump-wants-ask-about-epstein/ | Source: TMZ    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:04:55

• "Journalist and author Michael Wolff has filed a lawsuit against First Lady Melania Trump, accusing her of shutting down questions relating to her and Jeffrey Epstein." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/michael-wolff-melania-trump-epstein-lawsuit-b2850417.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:05:11

• "The face-off between the two individuals started from comments Wolff made about Melania Trump’s involvement with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/who-is-michael-wolff-journalist-sues-melania-trump-after-1b-threat-over-epstein-comments-101761161656134.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:05:46

• "There is no court in the land that would allow that kind of corruption to go on, and I have no idea why the state of Georgia does" ☛ https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/10/22/prominent-clean-energy-advocate-accused-of-stealing-georgia-power-trade-secrets-at-public-meeting/ | Source: The Georgia Recorder    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:07:13

• "US state negotiators are battling over how to manage dwindling water resources in the Colorado River Basin, a lifeline for over 40 million people spanning across seven states and two countries." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/water-conflict-scarcity-upper-basin-lower-basin-drought-agriculture-california-rights-allocation/a-74468546 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:08:41

• "The demolition of the East Wing is a symbol of a system that long ago stopped caring about the kind of blatant graft that Trump loves." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/white-house-demolition-trump-corruption/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:10:37

• " firing artillery rounds over a civilian highway posed unacceptable risks to public safety" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-broken-minds-of-the-anti-anti | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:11:01

• "If things had gone even slightly differently, it stands to reason that federal immigration agents and/or armed troops could be rolling through the city by now." ☛ https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/san-francisco-national-guard-troops-immigration-daniel-lurie-marc-benioff/ | Source: San Francisco, California    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:11:24

• "At the second Mesopotamia Water Forum, Isa highlighted the severe water crisis in northern Syria" ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/ecology/mercenaries-cut-off-water-as-syria-s-crisis-deepens-81843 | Source: ANF News    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:11:46

• "Sen. Elizabeth Warren encapsulated this message during her speech at the Boston rally, saying that “standing up to a wannabe dictator — that is patriotism." ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/465779/democrats-resistance-liberal-no-kings-energy-midterms-protest-stop-trump | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:12:11

• "At the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps, attended by Vice President Vance, live-fire artillery rounds were fired over Interstate 5 in California" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-vice-president-just-proved-he | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:12:44

• "Russian Government Now Actively Managing Cybercrime Groups" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/russian-government-now-actively-managing-cybercrime-groups-security-firm/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:13:31

• "ESET noted that the attacks targeted companies that supply military equipment, some of which is currently deployed in Ukraine" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/north-korea-lazarus-attacks-drone-companies/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:13:47

• "ESET researchers tracking the campaign have identified at least three organizations Lazarus has struck so far, all located in Central and Southeastern Europe." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/lazarus-group-hunts-european-drone-manufacturing-data | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:14:01

• "One exception to the industry-wide lethargy is the engineering team that designs the Signal Protocol" ☛ https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/why-signals-post-quantum-makeover-is-an-amazing-engineering-achievement/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:14:50

• "Where is your data on the [Internet]? I mean, outside the places you've consciously provided it" ☛ https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-synthient-threat-data/ | Source: Troy Hunt    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:14:59

• [Old] "Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs, was asked whether he could guarantee that French citizen data would never be transmitted to U.S. authorities without explicit French authorization." ☛ https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/07/22/microsoft-cant-keep-eu-data-safe-from-us-authorities/ | Source: Forbes    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:15:43

• "In fact, the [Internet] is a bit of a data-harvesting beast. Your data and activity are continuously being tracked." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/free-internet-was-a-gift-turns-out-its-bait/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:16:02

• "The claimant, Lanuszka, was dismissed after her employer recorded that she spent just over an hour browsing websites such as Amazon and Very over a two-day period. Her employer claimed this amounted to gross misconduct." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/worker-fired-shopping-online-lunch-break-wins-14000-judge-says-boss-used-spyware-sack-her-1749631 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:16:47

• "In September 2025, the UK Government announced that everyone in the UK should have mandatory Digital ID cards to prove their right to work." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/say-no-to-digital-id/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:17:54

• "The plaintiffs, which include the parents of four children, aimed specifically at its Chromebook laptops, Chrome web browser and suite of education applications, referred to as Google Workspace for Education." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-takes-up-google-bid-to-toss-suit-over-student-data-tracking/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:20:10

• "Under new rules introduced earlier this year, visitors seeking to get a Russian phone number are required to register on a government services portal" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/22/new-rules-keep-tourists-from-buying-russian-sim-cards-operators-complain-a90901 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:21:02

• "The activity targets remote digital advertising workers who have contract or part-time positions and may actively look for work while they currently have a job." ☛ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/vietnamese-actors-fake-job-posting-campaigns/ | Source: Google    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:21:34

• "A coroner has now raised a 'major concern' about the spread of these so-called challenges on TikTok, and accused the platform of 'disseminating these challenges quite happily' - making them 'easily accessible' to impressionable youngsters." ☛ https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/boy-12-dies-bedroom-tiktok-10595429 | Source: StokeonTrentLive    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:23:04

• "Chiara Puglielli and Anne Craanen, the authors of the research paper, used SimilarWeb to identify a common group of sites that shared content, audiences, keywords and referrals." ☛ https://www.404media.co/deepfake-tools-spread-on-social-media-research/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:23:12

• "This Dispatch concludes with an analysis of proposed European and North American policies to combat SIIA tools." ☛ https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/the-ecosystem-of-nonconsensual-intimate-deepfake-tools-online/?ref=404media.co |    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:23:18

• "Amazon has suffered major AWS outages before. But the timing and impact of this one comes just months after an eyebrow-raising personnel decision by the e-commerce giant." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/aws-outage-amazon-fired-workers-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:24:11

• "It’s a notable new development, considering Zuckerberg has personally led an aggressive hiring spree earlier this year" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zuckerberg-firing-hundreds-ai-developers | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:24:24

• "Meta has laid off around 600 engineers from its Artificial Intelligence (AI) division in a surprising move that has sent shockwaves through the tech industry. The job cuts, announced on 22 October 2025" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meta-layoffs-ai-shock-zuckerberg-axes-600-engineers-says-ai-still-future-1749549 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:24:38

• "The company announced the cuts in a memo from its chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, who was hired in June as part of Meta's $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI." ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/meta-layoffs-ai.html | Source: CNBC    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:24:56

• "The layoffs were announced by Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang in an email to employees, who gave the usual excuse that smaller teams get more work done." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/22/meta-lays-off-600-ai-workers-looks-streamline-superintelligence-labs/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:25:13

• "A quick search on social media reveals that slop continues to find its way into users’ Discover Weekly, which are personalized playlists that refresh every Monday to serve them new music based on their listening habits." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-slop-invading-spotify-discover-weekly-playlists | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:26:31

• "I agree that harm caused by developers who use AI (whether forced or not) needs mitigation." ☛ https://hidde.blog/teaching-llms-or-companies/ | Source: Hidde de Vries    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:28:18

• "Nine months ago I added an infinite-nonsense honeypot to poison LLM scrapers." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/10/exterminate-all-rational-ai-scrapers-redux-redux/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:36:38

• "The announcement of Anthropic’s new smallish Claude model, Haiku 4.5, came with people running it through their favourite benchmarks." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/haiku-4-5-playing-text-adventures | Source: Chris    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:38:21

• "GitLab today announced the release of GitLab 18.5, delivering new specialised agents, security insights that cut through the noise, and a "reimagined interface that keeps the AI teammate always in view"." ☛ https://itwire.com/business-it-news/business-software/gitlab-releases-18-5-with-intelligence-that-%e2%80%98moves-software-development-forward%e2%80%99.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:38:43

• "Reddit is now in a big legal fight against AI that could set precedents, filing a federal lawsuit against Perplexity AI and three other entities for allegedly harvesting the social platform's vast repository of conversations without explicit permission from Reddit." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/reddit-sues-perplexity-shocking-ai-data-scraping-scandal-1749609 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:41:55

• "Three of those companies -- SerpApi; a Lithuanian startup, Oxylabs; and a Russian company, AWMProxy -- sold data to AI companies such as OpenAI and Meta, according to the lawsuit." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/reddit-sues-perplexity-for-scraping-data-to-train-ai-system/articleshow/124744633.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:42:17

• "The episode has ignited fresh alarm about whether commercially deployed companion AIs are safe for minors, and whether xAI's moderation and parental controls are adequate." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/outraged-mum-blasts-elon-musks-ai-grok-after-it-told-her-kids-send-nudes-furious-parents-1749640 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:42:35

• "Electricity prices have been going up pretty dramatically over the past year. In some places, they’re rising by double-digit percentages, and they’re projected to rise even further." ☛ https://www.vox.com/technology/465749/electricity-costs-ai-data-centers-speculation | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:42:45

• "Conservative activist Robby Starbuck sued Google on Wednesday, alleging the tech giant's artificial intelligence systems generated "outrageously false" information about him." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/conservative-activist-sues-google-over-ai-generated-statements/articleshow/124753340.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:43:00

• "The government has proposed compulsory declarations by all social media users when posting AI-generated or modified content, with the platforms told to deploy technical measures to verify these." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-content-on-social-media-may-be-labelled-to-fight-rising-tide-of-deepfakes-misinformation/articleshow/124746743.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:43:11

• "RRA makes a lot of submissions to government inquiries. And a number of these turn out to have made-up references. Just like someone wrote them with a chatbot: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/23/anti-renewables-group-uses-ai-in-government-inquiry-submissions/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:43:25

• "Whenever someone suggests using an LLM to summarize a piece of text, I cringe: We'll never know what it possibly messed up without reading the actual text ourselves. What a time-saver! But, you know, search results are so 2023." ☛ https://www.datagubbe.se/fatmike/ | Source: Carl Svensson    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:43:37

• "The choice was also entirely consistent with a another move the Cuomo campaign made Wednesday night." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/cuomo-racist-sid-rosenberg-ai-video | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:43:54

• "This intersection seems primed for exploitation, especially if you consider combining different techniques we’ve seen as of late like weaponizing LLM agents and shipping malicious code that only runs in end-users’ browsers." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/ai-browsers-frontier-security/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:44:10

• "Our fellow terminally online readers probably have seen this video, which originated on Chinese social media." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-the-chinese-creator-who-imitates-ai-slop/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:44:43

• "And yet, AI bias is present and affects how these models respond to questions in ways that matter right now." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/ai_model_bias_inevitable/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:44:55

• "But compared with some other AI companies, it’s less clear how OpenAI will generate revenue from most of these endeavors." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/openai-chatgpt-atlas-web-browser/684662/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:45:10

• "Serious F5 Breach - Schneier on Security" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/serious-f5-breach.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:45:44

• "Office Online Server provides browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for customers who want to keep things on-prem without having to roll out the full desktop applications." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/microsoft_office_online_server/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:45:56

• "The campaign, which has been running since 2021, surged in 2025, with the number of malicious videos tripling compared to previous years" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/youtube_ghost_network_malware/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:46:08

• "It's the second IT outage affecting the airline this year." ☛ https://abcnews.go.com/US/alaska-airlines-grounds-flights-nationwide-due-outage/story?id=126817147 | Source: ABC    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:46:20

• "Alaska is the fifth largest US airline and flies 44 million passengers each year to 120 destinations in five countries, accoring to its website." ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/23/us/alaska-airlines-it-outage | Source: CNN    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:47:11

• "a temporary ground stop is in place." ☛ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/alaska-airlines-grounds-flights-amid-it-outage/ | Source: Seattle Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:48:24

• "There has been a history of computer problems disrupting flights in the industry, though most of the time the disruptions are only temporary." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/alaska-airlines-hawaiian-airlines-seattle-alaska-horizon-air-b2851294.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:48:39

• "A new study by investigators from Harvard and Mass General Brigham examined 13,547 older women, comparing their step counts over a one-week period against their mortality and cardiovascular disease rates over the next decade." ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/4000-counts-for-a-lot/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:49:03

• "Smartphones are not the enemy, doom scrolling is." ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/smartphones-are-not-the-enemy/ | Source: Thomas Rigby    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:49:25

• "Brooks began neglected his own health, forgoing food and sleep in order to spend more time talking with the chatbot and emailing safety officials throughout North America about his dangerous findings." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-researcher-mental-health | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:49:40

• "While the camera’s lens was shattered, and some of the electronic hardware inside was rattled around and disconnected, the SD card survived completely “undamaged,” the documents said." ☛ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/titanic-sub-sd-card | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:49:59

• "Intel’s tick-tock isn’t coming back, and everything else I just learned" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/805652/intel-q3-2025-earnings-18a-panther-lake-ai-gpus-annual | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:51:18

• "Yubico, the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, unveiled new Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) prototypes and expanded digital identity capabilities at the recent Authenticate conference" ☛ https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/yubico-showcases-post-quantum-cryptography-digital-identity-innovation.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:51:32

• "The arrangement will include Anthropic buying as many as one million Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), which are integrated circuits custom-designed by Google, according to the San Francisco-based startup." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-announces-massive-ai-chip-deal-with-google/articleshow/124774562.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:53:07

• "Employers make hiring decisions based on return on investment, not on your personal expenses" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/i-have-bills-pay-could-cost-you-salary-negotiation-hiring-coach-warns-heres-what-say-1749629 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:54:08

• "This fall, for the first time at Illinois Tech, I'm teaching Introduction to Theory of Computation." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/10/ai-and-intro-theory.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:54:49

• "Thorn (Þ, þ) is a letter broadly pronounced as þe digraph th, like in þe English word the. It was replaced by þe letter Y when movable typesetting kit was imported from The Low Countries to England." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/bring-back-the-letter-thorn/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:55:14

• "Kubrick would look at it for about five minutes and then he'd go back and he'd start adjusting the model lights again." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/video-technique/matt-damon-reveals-how-stanley-kubrick-was-obsessed-with-studying-8x10in-stills-of-a-model-film-set-when-shooting-his-horror-film-classic-the-shining-the-level-of-artistry-insanity-and-obsession-is-just-so-beautiful | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:56:08

• "Kubrick would look at it for about five minutes and then he'd go back and he'd start ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/video-technique/matt-damon-reveals-how-stanley-kubrick-was-obsessed-with-studying-8x10in-stills-of-a-model-film-set-when-shooting-his-horror-film-classic-the-shining-the-level-of-artistry-insanity-and-obsession-is-just-so-beautiful | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:56:24

• "Today, after a tough week clearing the place to meet a short-notice exchange deadline, I handed over the keys. After more than five decades, No. 11 is no longer ours. My heart breaks, but my memories are forever." ☛ https://colly.com/journal/number-11 | Source: Simon Collison    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:56:37

• "Coffee is one of my favourite þings, to which þose of you who’ve read my blog for more þan five minutes can likely attest." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/the-time-i-reduced-my-caffeine-intake/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:56:49

• "Years later, Schulz reflected on that experience as a defining moment in his life — one that enabled him to project his own fragile emotions through the downtrodden world view of good ol’ Charlie Brown, the comic strip’s main character." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/10/23/how-a-wwii-vet-created-one-of-the-most-beloved-comic-strip-characters/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:57:24

• DeepSeek and Qwen Hey Hi (AI) Models Now Available as Ubuntu Snaps ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/deepseek-qwen-ubuntu-snaps    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 12:58:52

• Serious F5 Breach ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/serious-f5-breach.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:00:07

• AI Browsers: Living on the Frontier of Security ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/ai-browsers-frontier-security/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:00:28

• Mirror journalists back strike action over redundancies and Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/mirror-journalists-back-strike-action-over-redundancies-and-ai/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:31:49

• Massive strike in New Zealand as 100,000 demand better pay and conditions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/massive-strike-in-new-zealand-as-100000-demand-better-pay-and-conditions    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:32:18

• Colombian president accuses US of 'executions' in Caribbean, Pacific ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251023-colombian-president-accuses-us-of-executions-in-caribbean-pacific    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:32:34

• Broadway Musicians Announce Tentative Agreement, Averting a Strike — And Hundreds of Shows Cancellations ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/broadway-musicians-announce-tentative-agreement/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:36:52

• Dihydroxyacetone Man says he will inform Congress of plans to strike land-based cartel targets in Venezuela ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/us-news/trump-says-he-will-inform-congress-of-plans-to-strike-land-based-cartel-targets-in-venezuela/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:37:09

• "When software encoders reached the public in the mid nineteen nineties, developers quickly integrated MP3 support into media players like Winamp and MusicMatch." ☛ https://machaddr.com/blog/articles/2025-10-23-mp3-visionaries/ | Source: André Machado    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:37:58

• "There are only two public API constructs associated with context values: [...]" ☛ https://rednafi.com/go/avoid-context-key-collisions/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:38:31

• "The challenge: Use every new trick in the “book of Java” to simulate as many particles as possible, cpu only and maybe, just maybe, beat rust?" ☛ https://dgerrells.com/blog/how-fast-is-java-teaching-an-old-dog-new-tricks | Source: David Gerrells    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:38:41

• "TL;DR: {rixpress} lets you build multi-language data pipelines (R, Python, Julia) where each step runs in its own reproducible environment." ☛ https://brodrigues.co/posts/2025-10-23-rixpress_cran.html | Source: Bruno Rodrigues    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:39:27

• "You are given an array of integers, @ints and an integer, $x." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/form-formation.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:39:54

• "When NaN is included in a arithmetic expression, the result will always be NaN — that tracks, right? Anything math’d against the very concept of “not a number” can’t result in a number: [...]" ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/nan-the-not-a-number-number-that-isnt-nan/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:40:18

• "Since functional programming’s move into the mainstream, many developers have embraced concepts like higher-order functions." ☛ https://citizen428.net/blog/ocaml-module-functors/ | Source: Michael Kohl    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:40:33

• "One of the most impactful effects of professionalizing open source maintenance is that as professionals we can invest into upholding a set of standards that make our projects safer and more reliable." ☛ https://words.filippo.io/standard-of-care/ | Source: Filippo Valsorda    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:40:42

• "The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs" ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/21/ask-the-chefs-who-owns-our-knowledge/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:41:13

• "Judges Henry T. Wingate and Julien Xavier Neals, who sit on the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of Mississippi and District of New Jersey, respectively" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/perplexity-chatgpt-error-ridden-orders-federal-judges/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:41:36

• "What’s going on, Internet? To the outrage of the Firefox community across the web" ☛ https://flamedfury.com/posts/disable-ai-in-firefox/ | Source: Flamed Fury    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:42:13

• "Through thick and thin, I have been a long-time die-hard Firefox user." ☛ https://ratfactor.com/cards/librewolf | Source: Dave Gauer    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:42:26

• "The Universe Browser is believed to have been downloaded millions of times. But researchers say it behaves like malware and has links to Asia’s booming cybercrime and illegal gambling networks." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/universe-browser-malware-gambling-networks/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:42:48

• "This time I am back with another update and I here is the official list of the 110 operating systems that have run curl." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/23/on-110-operating-systems/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:42:57

• "Welcome to the September 2025 development and community update." ☛ https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/monthly-update-31/ | Source: Krita    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:47:18

• "If you are not familiar with it, Pangolin lets users securely expose local web services to the [Internet] without opening ports or dealing with complex firewall rules." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/pangolin-reverse-proxy-moves-to-dual-licensing-with-new-enterprise-edition/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:47:28

• "I impulse ordered the new Pebble smartwatch as soon as it was announced." ☛ https://baty.blog/2025/10/pebble-core-2-duo-smartwatch/ | Source: Jack Baty    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:48:18

• "Post about a 3D printing problem — any 3D printing problem" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/10/24/convert-a-cheap-air-fryer-into-a-high-performance-3d-printer-filament-dryer/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:50:14

• "The new release adds official images for the NanoPi R3S, R3S LTS, R76S, and M5 boards." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-18-adds-nanopi-r3s-r76s-and-m5-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:50:28

• "I would just be laughing at this except I worry about getting stuck with a GM rental car." ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/10/23/general-motors-doubles-down-on-removing-carplay/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:51:13

• "In a Decoder interview with The Verge’s Nilay Patel, published Wednesday" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/transportation/804562/gm-apple-carplay-android-auto-gas-cars-mary-barra | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:51:24

• "As of today, October 22nd, 2025, Canonical has published the first working daily build ISO images of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS" ☛ https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-resolute-raccoon-daily-builds-are-now-available-for-download | Source: 9to5Linux    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:52:44

• "The other improvement that seemed especially interesting to us was that the OpenBSD TCP/IP stack is now multithreaded." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/openbsd_78_and_9front_release/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:54:10

• "Most of today has been me making and editing and rendering and uploading this roughly 50 minute intro video to how I program a complex strategy game in C++!" ☛ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2025/10/23/c-strategy-game-programming-ridiculous-space-battles-code-video-1/ | Source: Positech Games    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:55:07

• "This means that progressively rolling out a kernel update (and rebooting things) to our important, visible core servers requires multiple people-visible reboots of machines, instead of one big downtime when everything is rebooted." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/StagedRolloutDrawbacksForUs | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:55:53

• "Yes but it depends on how you define the verb “to optimize”." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/10/is-it-worth-it-to-optimize-images-for-your-site/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:56:05

• "I think there is one answer for why this is a good idea in general and otherwise complex to do, although you can argue about it, and then a second historical answer based on how mount points were initially implemented." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/MountPointsExistenceWhy | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:57:03

• "Why? Because why not. And also because I can. Oh, and free speech and anti-censorship and all that jazz." ☛ https://flower.codes/2025/10/23/onion-mirror.html | Source: Zach Flower    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:57:14

• "Unfortunately, as it was the end of the day yesterday when I got back from a video shoot, I had the folder on the external drive open, and not the folder where I copy the files to on my NAS." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/recovering-videos-my-sony-camera-i-stupidly-deleted | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:57:37

• "Why Self-host?, Advanced ZFS Dataset Management, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Minimal pkgbase jails / chroots, WSL-For-FreeBSD" ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/634 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:58:21

• Steinar H. Gunderson: Modern perfect hashing ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-10-23-21-23_modern_perfect_hashing.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 13:59:30

• C++ Strategy Game Programming: Ridiculous Space Battles code video #1 ☞ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2025/10/23/c-strategy-game-programming-ridiculous-space-battles-code-video-1/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:02:01

• Slop Coding’s Real Problem Isn’t Bugs—It’s Judgment ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vibe-codings-real-problem-isnt-bugs-its-judgment/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Vibe_Coding_Doesn_t_Work.shtml    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:03:26

• UPC is illegal and should not exist, but EPO corruption breed this abuse of the EU courts ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/upc-denies-abbott-second-injunction-against-sinocare/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:04:14

• International Semiconductor Group Wi-Fi 6 patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/10/22/international-semiconductor-group-wi-fi-6-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:04:29

• "The validity of a couple of second medical use pharma patents may hinge on the correct interpretation of those paragraphs in G2/21." ☞ http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/patentees-own-post-published-data.html?showComment=1761244035243#c8546938165546879328    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:05:15

• 2025 Economics Nobel: What the Industrial Revolution Teaches About Patent Policy ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/economics-industrial-revolution.html fake award http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/06/Nobel_Prize_in_Economics_Does_Not_Exist_It_s_Propaganda_From_Sv.shtml    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:07:29

• Three new stable kernels for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1043081/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:07:51

• 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 Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:08:19

• Why We Support Richard Stallman and You Probably Should Too (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/23/Why_We_Support_Richard_Stallman_and_You_Probably_Should_Too.shtml    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:10:12

• Some Large German Media Covers Richard Stallman's Talks in Germany Earlier This Week (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/22/Some_Large_German_Media_Covers_Richard_Stallman_s_Talks_in_Germ.shtml    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:10:19

• Ruby 3.3.10 Released ☞ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/10/23/ruby-3-3-10-released/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:12:38

• 105: A Fully Patched ShroomOS ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24452    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:19:58

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

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:20:17

• Migration toolkit for applications 8: Bringing modernized applications to market faster ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/migration-toolkit-applications-8-bringing-modernized-applications-market-faster    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:42:46

• California Energy Commission Chair praises energy transition in Climate Week keynote speech ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/10/22/california-energy-commission-chair-david-hochschild-praises-energy-transition-in-climate-week-keynote-speech/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:43:26

• More mobile settings: keyboard & wired network ☞ https://vizZzion.org/blog/2025/10/more-mobile-settings-keyboard-wired-network/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:44:07

• Hardening your home lab ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/hardening-your-home-lab/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:49:55

• Mozilla Open Policy & Advocacy Blog: Behind the Manifesto: Standing up for encryption to keep the internet safe ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/10/21/behind-the-manifesto-standing-up-for-encryption-to-keep-the-internet-safe/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:50:38

• How to Upgrade RHEL 9 to RHEL 10 Step-by-Step Guide ⚓ https://www.linuxtechi.com/upgrade-rhel-9-to-rhel-10-step-by-step-guide/ ䷉ Source: LinuxTechi | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.linuxtechi.com/upgrade-rhel-9-to-rhel-10-step-by-step-guide/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:52:07

• "Canonical Academy" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/introducing-canonical-academy | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:53:54

• "This development follows the July 2025 launch of the EBC7700 single board computer." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/eswin-computing-canonical-mini-dtx-mainboard | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:54:05

• "October 23, 2025 – Today Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced an optimized, pre-installed Ubuntu image for RUBIK Pi 3 – a powerful AI developer board built on Dragonwing QCS6490." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/rubik-pi-3-thundercomm-canonical | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:54:22

• She Worked on Tsunami Alerts. Then She Was Fired. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/climate/tsunami-warnings-alerts-noaa.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:55:02

• More KMS offloading, with overlay planes ☞ https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2025/10/23/more-kms-offloading.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:55:52

• YouTube Launches Hey Hi (AI) Detection Tool to Battle Deepfakes—(But No Guarantees) ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/22/youtube-launches-ai-detection-tool-to-battle-deepfakes/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:56:38

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1043027/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 14:57:56

• Exposing OpenShift networks using BGP ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/23/exposing-openshift-networks-using-bgp    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 15:42:25

• DietPi 9.18 Adds NanoPi R3S, R76S, and M5 Support ☞ https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-18-adds-nanopi-r3s-r76s-and-m5-support/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 15:42:43

• Btrfs support coming to AlmaLinux 10.1 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1043029/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 15:43:48

• Stasis – modern Wayland idle manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/stasis-modern-wayland-idle-manager/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 15:44:02

• mpls – Markdown Preview Language Server ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mpls-markdown-preview-language-server/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 15:45:51

• 'Linux' Foundation Uses LLM Slop to Promote Abusive Monopolist Microsoft in Linux.com (Again), Rendering It a Linux-Hostile Slopfarm ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/23/Linux_Foundation_Uses_LLM_Slop_to_Promote_Microsoft_in_Linux_co.shtml    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 15:51:30

• 8 Best Free and Open Source Photo Metadata Editors ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/photometadataeditors/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 15:51:41

• sshmate – simplify interactions with SSH servers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sshmate-simplify-interactions-with-ssh-servers/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 15:51:51

• Quirinux – Devuan-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/quirinux-devuan-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 15:52:23

• The Tradeoff between Silence and Power with Mini PCs ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tradeoff-between-silence-power-mini-pcs/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 15:52:41

• Qlipmon – clipboard manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/qlipmon-clipboard-manager/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 15:52:54

• fokus – focus timer and stopwatch ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fokus-focus-timer-stopwatch/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 15:53:04

• KDE Unleashes Plasma 6.5 ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/KDE-Unleashes-Plasma-6.5    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 15:56:32

• "The OpenBSD list often has more messages on it." https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=176130020530905&w=2    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:04:52

• AI companies steal publisher traffic then undermine trust by getting answers wrong ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/ai-companies-steal-publisher-traffic-then-undermine-trust-by-getting-answers-wrong/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:05:32

• How To Deploy a Local Hey Hi (AI) via Docker ☞ https://thenewstack.io/how-to-deploy-a-local-ai-via-docker/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:06:27

• Scientists Reveal Surprising New Advice on How to Avoid Constipation ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-surprising-new-advice-on-how-to-avoid-constipation    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:06:49

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

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:09:12

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

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:09:44

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

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:10:22

• How To Install SoftEther VPN Server on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-softether-vpn-server-almalinux-10/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:10:49

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

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:11:01

• How To Install Reflector on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-reflector-manjaro/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:11:17

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

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:11:37

• Outcome and conclusions of the VI Latin American LibreOffice Congress ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/23/outcome-and-conclusions-of-the-vi-latin-american-libreoffice-congress/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:12:23

• Maintenance release: Godot 3.6.2 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-3-6-2/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:12:48

• Cox v. Sony Music Amicus Briefs Flurry Continues — SoundExchange, A2IM, Former Lawmakers, Copyright Officials, and Others Weigh In ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/cox-v-sony-music-amicus-briefs-2/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:21:34

• Lithuania protests airspace violations by Belarus following smuggler balloon incidents ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2723053/lithuania-protests-airspace-violations-by-belarus-following-smuggler-balloon-incidents    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:21:59

• ‘No talks with Belarus’ about stopping smuggler balloons, says Lithuanian PM ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2723104/no-talks-with-belarus-about-stopping-smuggler-balloons-says-lithuanian-pm    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:22:09

• Smuggler balloons are domestic issue, not NATO matter, Lithuanian envoy says ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2723239/smuggler-balloons-are-domestic-issue-not-nato-matter-lithuanian-envoy-says    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:22:20

• LazyLinux 6.17.4 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/lazylinux    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:24:01

• Quarkos 24.04-r4 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/quarkos    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:24:08

• FOSS Weekly #25.43: NebiOS Linux, GNOME Enhancements, LMDE 7, COSMIC Beta Review and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-43/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:24:43

• DietPi 9.18 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/dietpi    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:25:08

• HydraPWK 2025.03 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/hydrapwk    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:25:16

• "Russian military planes violated Lithuania’s airspace, president says" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/10/23/russian-military-planes-violated-lithuania-s-airspace-president-says | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:26:16

• "Lukoil and Rosneft account for half of Russia’s oil exports. Now both are under U.S. sanctions." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/cards/trump-goes-there | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:26:43

• Oil Price Jumps on Convicted Felon’s Russia Sanctions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/business/oil-prices-russia-sanctions.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:26:55

• The White House Wrecking Ball ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/world/the-white-house-trump-russia-sanctions-israel.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:27:29

• E.U. Approves Sweeping Sanctions Targeting Russian Gas and Crypto ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/world/europe/eu-russia-sanctions.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:27:42

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Sanctions on Russian Oil Sector Ratchet Up Economic War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/trump-sanctions-russian-oil.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:27:52

• Kazakhstan says it is tightening control of airspace after drone explodes over its territory ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Kazakhstan-says-it-is-tightening-control-of-airspace-after-drone-explodes-over-its-territory    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:28:03

• China state oil majors suspend Russian oil buys due to sanctions, sources say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-state-oil-majors-suspend-russian-oil-buys-due-to-sanctions-sources-say    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:28:13

• North Korea’s Kim Jong Un says military ties with Russia will ‘advance non-stop’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-says-military-ties-with-russia-will-advance-non-stop    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:28:23

• EU’s plans to ban Russian gas: countries and institutions clash over timeline and extent ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2723188/eu-s-plans-to-ban-russian-gas-countries-and-institutions-clash-over-timeline-and-extent    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:28:36

• New US sanctions on Russia are a ‘game changer’ – Lithuanian president ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2723260/new-us-sanctions-on-russia-are-a-game-changer-lithuanian-president    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:28:49

• Dihydroxyacetone Man pardon's Binance founder Chanpeng Zhao ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20251023-trump-pardon-s-binance-founder-chanpeng-zhao    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:29:01

• Ex-L3Harris executive accused of selling trade secrets to Russia ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ex-l3harris-executive-accused-of-selling-trade-secrets-to-russia/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:29:16

• Spencer in Eurasianet on Russia’s creation of a digital iron curtain ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/insight-impact/in-the-news/spencer-in-eurasianet-on-russias-creation-of-a-digital-iron-curtain/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:29:34

• How Moldova’s democracy succeeded against Russian interference ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-moldovas-democracy-succeeded-against-russian-interference/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:29:52

• How the new US sanctions on Russian oil will impact energy markets ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/how-the-new-us-sanctions-on-russian-oil-will-impact-energy-markets/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:30:14

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s sanctions on Russian energy are a massive step toward peace ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/opinion/trumps-sanctions-on-russian-energy-companies-is-a-massive-step-toward-peace/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:30:26

• EU adopts 19th package of sanctions against Russia ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2491    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:32:30

• EU adopts 19th package of sanctions against Russia ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2491    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:34:26

• EU announces new sanctions on Russia oil, gas, and cryptocurrency ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/eu-announces-new-sanctions-on-russia-oil-gas-and-cryptocurrency/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:35:00

• Kenyan Police Rescue Citizens Bound For Russian Battlefield ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/10/kenyan-police-rescue-citizens-bound-for-russian-battlefield/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kenyan-police-rescue-citizens-bound-for-russian-battlefield    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:35:24

• Can Europe Agree on Turning Frozen Russian Assets Into Cash for Ukraine? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/world/europe/russia-frozen-assets-european-union.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:35:41

• The U.S. and Europe Are Trying New Ways to Pressure Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/world/europe/russia-oil-sanctions-prices.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:36:20

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s peaceful way to end the war in Ukraine ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/1023/Dihydroxyacetone Man-s-peaceful-way-to-end-the-war-in-Ukraine    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:36:38

• China says it opposes new US sanctions on Russian oil over Ukraine war ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-opposes-new-us-sanctions-on-russian-oil-for-ukraine-war    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:36:47

• Hungarians March In Budapest At Rival Political Rallies On Anniversary Of 1956 Revolt ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-rally-orban-magyar-uprising-budapest-ukraine/33568791.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:38:26

• Lithuania Summons Russian Diplomat Over Airspace Violation By Two Military Planes ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/lithuania-russia-ukraine-airspace-violation-nauseda-sukhoi/33568796.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:38:54

• Zelensky calls for EU decision on frozen Russia assets as soon as possible ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251023-zelensky-calls-for-eu-decision-on-frozen-russia-assets-as-soon-as-possible    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:39:05

• REPLAY: Ukrainian President Zelensky addresses reporters after EU Summit ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251023-replay-ukrainian-president-zelensky-addresses-reporters-after-eu-summit    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:39:14

• Zelensky urges EU to use frozen Russian assets to arm and rebuild Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251023-zelensky-urges-eu-to-use-frozen-russian-assets-to-arm-and-rebuild-ukraine    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:39:29

• No deal in Brussels as Belgium holds out on frozen Russian assets ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251023-no-deal-in-brussels-as-belgium-holds-out-on-frozen-russian-assets    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:39:54

• EU leaders task Commission with Ukraine funding plan, eye frozen assets loan ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251023-eu-russian-assets-ukraine    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:40:07

• The CRINK: Inside the new bloc supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/russia-tomorrow/the-crink-inside-the-new-bloc-supporting-russias-war-against-ukraine/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:40:26

• Russia’s ‘human safari’ in southern Ukraine is a warning to the world ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russias-human-safari-in-southern-ukraine-is-a-warning-to-the-world/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:41:01

• Introducing silicon-optimized inference snaps ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-releases-inference-snaps    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:45:05

• Putin Calls U.S. Sanctions ‘Unfriendly Act’ and Says Russia Won’t Bend ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/world/europe/russia-trump-oil-sanctions.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:46:03

• Dihydroxyacetone Man sanctions Russian oil. His position on ending the war remains fluid. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/1023/russia-trump-sanctions-ceasefire    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:46:14

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

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:46:29

• "I took a Russian passport to live" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/23/i-took-a-russian-passport-to-live | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:46:58

• "Putin’s Budapest cope, fallout from new U.S. sanctions on Russian oil, and new war crimes allegations" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/24/putin-s-budapest-cope-fallout-from-new-u-s-sanctions-on-russian-oil-and-new-war-crimes-allegations | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:47:24

• $2,000 awarded for Proxense authentication patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/10/23/2000-awarded-for-proxense-authentication-patent-prior-art    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:48:07

• China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/china-releases-ubios-standard-to-replace-uefi-huawei-backed-bios-firmware-replacement-charges-chinas-domestic-computing-goals    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:48:20

• US, EU Ramp Up Sanctions On Key Russian Oil Firms As Convicted Felon Cancels Putin Summit ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-sanctions-trump-putin-oil-rosneft-lukoil/33567454.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:49:00

• Putin says Russian response to Ukrainian use of Tomahawks would be 'overwhelming' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251023-putin-says-russian-response-to-ukrainian-use-of-tomahawks-would-be-overwhelming    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:50:31

• When does Putin feel the pinch? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20251023-when-does-putin-feel-the-pinch    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:50:42

• Dihydroxyacetone Man is 'sick and tired of being lied to' by Putin, analyst says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20251023-trump-is-sick-and-tired-of-being-lied-to-by-putin-analyst-says    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:50:53

• US voices concern over Chinese support for Russia’s Ukraine invasion ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/us-voices-concern-over-chinese-support-for-russias-ukraine-invasion/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:51:33

• Date bug affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1043103/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Who_Will_be_Held_Accountable_for_Breaking_Ubuntu_by_Imposing_Ru.shtml    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:53:05

• SuperTuxKart 1.5 Released! New Skins, Egg Hunts, & Supersampling ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/10/supertuxkart-1-5-new-skins-egg-hunts-supersampling/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:53:32

• North Korea says tested new weapon system ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-tested-cutting-edge-weapons-system-kcna-reports    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:55:09

• Jonathan Blandford: Crosswords 0.3.16: 2025 Internship Results ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/2025/10/23/crosswords-0-3-16-2025-internship-results/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:55:35

• Mozilla Addons Blog: Announcing data collection consent changes for new Firefox extensions ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/10/23/data-collection-consent-changes-for-new-firefox-extensions/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 16:59:57

• Infostealer Targeting Android Devices, (Thu, Oct 23rd) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32414    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:00:24

• Matthias Clasen: SVG in GTK ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/gtk/2025/10/23/svg-in-gtk/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:01:24

• DRM: the Android App Keeps Crashing ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/spotify-lossless-is-rolling-out-to-sonos-users-but-the-android-app-is-crashing/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:06:14

• Breaking Free from Abusive Software Relationships ☞ https://jxself.org/breaking-free.shtml    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:06:45

• A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/world/americas/trinidad-bodies-us-strike-venezuela.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:08:56

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

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:09:08

• Attacks in Lake Chad Basin Show Boko Haram on the Rise Again ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/10/attacks-in-lake-chad-basin-show-boko-haram-on-the-rise-again/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=attacks-in-lake-chad-basin-show-boko-haram-on-the-rise-again    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:09:24

• Rights group urges Afghanistan authorities to end media censorship ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/rights-group-urges-afghanistan-authorities-to-end-media-censorship/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:10:04

• Who’s buying your digital past? Lithuanian start-up investigated for trading personal data ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2721051/who-s-buying-your-digital-past-lithuanian-start-up-investigated-for-trading-personal-data    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:10:34

• Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/technology/meta-layoffs-user-privacy.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:10:53

• Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/critics-at-large/art-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:11:30

• Taking a Spin on Bluefin’s Immutable GNU/Linux ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/taking-a-spin-on-bluefin-immutable-linux/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:11:58

• China’s consumers are in a years-long funk, will anything get them to spend? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-consumers-are-in-a-years-long-funk-will-anything-get-them-to-spend    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:13:17

• US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/financial-management/2025/10/us-hits-38-trillion-in-debt-after-the-fastest-accumulation-of-1-trillion-outside-of-the-pandemic/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:13:43

• Lithuanian parent group fails to prove govt overstepped with Covid-19 school restrictions ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2723363/lithuanian-parent-group-fails-to-prove-govt-overstepped-with-covid-19-school-restrictions    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:16:40

• Mammography map developed in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/23.10.2025-mammography-map-developed-in-latvia.a619537/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:16:51

• "After the Show, Where Do the Earth Songs Go?" ☛ https://therevelator.org/earth-songs/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:17:31

• Slopwatch: Surveillance Giant Google News and Slopfarms That Relay Nonsense From LLMs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/23/Slopwatch_Google_News_and_Slopfarms_That_Relay_Nonsense_From_LL.shtml    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:20:33

• Google Locks Down Manhattan Campus Due to Bed Bug Infestation ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/google-manhattan-bed-bugs    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:21:59

• The odo CLI is deprecated: What developers need to know ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/23/odo-cli-deprecated-what-developers-need-know    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:22:43

• Red Hat (IBM) pays this publishers to push buzzwords and puff pieces for it https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/23/red-hat-aims-new-developer-lightspeed-ai-features-application-migration/ then it links to the paid-for puff https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-october-24-2025-red-hat    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:24:45

• More buzzwords than subtance from Red Hat-sponsored sites https://techstrong.ai/building-with-ai/red-hat-delivers-distributed-computing-platform-for-running-ai-applications/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:26:23

• M5Stack Cardputer-Adv ESP32-S3 computer gains improved antenna, larger 1,750 mAh battery, ES8311 audio codec ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/23/m5stack-cardputer-adv-esp32-s3-computer-gains-improved-antenna-larger-1750-mah-battery-es8311-audio-codec/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:27:21

• "Compared to the old 8-bit Arduinos" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/10-cent-microcontroller-makes-music/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:27:43

• France issues new arrest warrant against Syria's ex-leader Assad for chemical attacks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251023-france-issues-new-arrest-warrant-against-syria-s-ex-leader-assad-for-chemical-attacks    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:28:41

• Phishing Cloud Account for Information, (Thu, Oct 23rd) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32416    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:31:27

• Mistake in AI-generated Community Note sparks controversy about anti-Dihydroxyacetone Man protest ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251023-anti-trump-protest-error-ai-generated-community-note    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:32:08

• The Observer signs deal to appear on Hey Hi (AI) news platform Particle ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-observer-signs-deal-to-appear-on-ai-news-platform-particle/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:32:57

• u-blox MAX-M10N GNSS module supports Low Energy Accurate Positioning (LEAP) mode, firmware upgrades ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/24/u-blox-max-m10n-gnss-module-supports-low-energy-accurate-positioning-leap-mode-firmware-upgrades/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:33:40

• Your Brain Makes Food Choices Before You Even Know What You're Looking at ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-brain-makes-food-choices-before-you-even-know-what-youre-looking-at    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:34:03

• Elevating women’s voices and leadership in the humanitarian reset ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/elevating-womens-voices-and-leadership-in-the-humanitarian-reset/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:34:44

• Apple Loses $2 Billion App Store Lawsuit in the UK—Tech Giant Vows Immediate Appeal ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/apple-loses-2-billion-app-store-lawsuit-in-the-uk/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:35:05

• OpenAI Makes Bizarre Demand of Family Whose Son Was Allegedly Killed by Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-demand-family-son-killed    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:35:48

• Appalling blame-shifting https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/10/microsoft-africa-ai-cyber-threats/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/11/Ron_Wyden_Microsoft_Should_be_Held_Accountable_for_Security_Bre.shtml    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:37:20

• Two Recent Section 2(d) Oppositions Sustained by the TTAB ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/two-recent-section-2d-oppositions.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:38:06

• Secret Plans Reveal Amazon Plot to Replace 600,000 Workers With Robot Army ☞ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-replace-workers-robots    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:38:29

• Opinion | Michigan’s literacy reform should include nonpublic school teachers ☞ https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-michigans-literacy-reform-should-include-nonpublic-school-teachers/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:45:10

• Political scientists emphasize need for pro-democracy coalitions at launch of Democracy Action Lab ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/10/23/political-scientists-emphasize-need-for-pro-democracy-coalitions-at-launch-of-democracy-action-lab/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:45:54

• Worker Falls Into Nuclear Reactor, Drinks a Little “Cavity Water” ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/worker-nuclear-reactor-michigan    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:47:03

• Ruth A. Lawrence, Doctor Who Championed Breastfeeding, Is Dead at 101 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/health/ruth-a-lawrence-dead.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:47:33

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s GOP Death Panel in Progress ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/23/trumps-gop-death-panel-in-progress/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:47:48

• Food assistance to ‘pause’ for 1.4M in Michigan due to federal shutdown ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/food-assistance-to-pause-for-1-4m-in-michigan-due-to-federal-shutdown/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:48:04

• CMS recalls nearly 3,000 employees to manage open enrollment amid shutdown ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/cms-recalls-nearly-3000-employees-to-manage-open-enrollment-amid-shutdown/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:48:38

• Latvian Junior Doctors Association gets new head ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/23.10.2025-latvian-junior-doctors-association-gets-new-head.a619486/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:48:54

• Latvian health authorities remind public about flu vaccination ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/23.10.2025-latvian-health-authorities-remind-public-about-flu-vaccination.a619535/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:49:07

• Latvia's biggest hospitals at least €8 million short ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/23.10.2025-latvias-biggest-hospitals-at-least-eur8-million-short.a619557/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:49:18

• 'Businesses employ two children in place of one adult at same cost' ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/businesses-employ-two-children-in-place-of-one-adult-at-same-cost-312815    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:49:45

• What to Know About the Billion-Dollar Scam Center Industry ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/world/asia/scam-centers-myanmar-cambodia.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:50:13

• South Korea halts tours in parts of DMZ ahead of Convicted Felon visit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-halts-tours-in-parts-of-dmz-ahead-of-trump-visit    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:50:45

• South Korea plans to stop calling incinerating of plastic ‘recycling’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-plans-to-stop-calling-incinerated-plastic-recycling    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:51:17

• Cambodian police arrest 57 South Koreans accused of cyberscams ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodian-police-arrest-57-south-koreans-accused-of-cyberscams    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:51:35

• Relocation of S. Korea presidential office diverted police from Itaewon before fatal crush: Audit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/relocation-of-s-korea-presidential-office-diverted-police-from-itaewon-before-fatal-crush-audit    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:57:42

• South Korea’s wage gap hits record as more seniors take low-paid part-time jobs ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-wage-gap-hits-record-as-more-seniors-take-low-paid-part-time-jobs    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:58:08

• S. Korea’s ex-first lady embroiled in new scandal: She sat on throne at Gyeongbokgung Palace ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-koreas-ex-first-lady-embroiled-in-new-scandal-she-sat-on-throne-at-gyeongbokgung-palace    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:58:35

• ‘S. Korea has regained its footing,’ says President Lee Jae Myung, 10 months after martial law crisis ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korea-has-regained-its-footing-says-lee-jae-myung-10-months-after-martial-law-crisis    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:59:14

• Tigers in trouble as Malaysian big cat numbers dwindle ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/tigers-in-trouble-as-malaysian-big-cat-numbers-dwindle    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 17:59:44

• Malaysia identified as main recipient of imported electronic waste from US: Report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-identified-as-main-recipient-of-imported-electronic-waste-from-us-report    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:00:23

• Schools to enforce spot checks to curb mobile phone use: Malaysia’s Education Minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/schools-to-enforce-spot-checks-to-curb-mobile-phone-use-malaysias-education-minister    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:01:03

• China’s BRI Revealed as Economic, Environmental Threat ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/10/chinas-bri-revealed-as-economic-environmental-threat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chinas-bri-revealed-as-economic-environmental-threat    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:04:09

• ‘Brother Wang,’ Accused of Being Drug Cartel Fixer, Is Arrested in Cuba ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/world/americas/cuba-chinese-man-mexico-drugs.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:04:34

• Taiwan and its offshore islands near the Chinese coast ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Taiwan-and-its-offshore-islands-near-the-Chinese-coast    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:04:54

• China courts Taiwanese worshippers in religious charm offensive, study shows ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-courts-taiwanese-worshippers-in-religious-charm-offensive-study-shows    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:05:02

• Taiwan wary China's new economic plan could include sensitive frontline islands, sources say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-wary-chinas-new-economic-plan-could-include-sensitive-frontline-islands-sources-say    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:05:12

• Dihydroxyacetone Man considering China export ban on items made with or containing U.S. software ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/trump-considering-china-export-ban-on-items-made-with-or-containing-u-s-software-sweeping-restriction-to-hit-hard-in-response-to-beijings-rare-earth-embargo-in-major-trade-war-escalation    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:05:51

• European think tank suggests punitive DUV machine export ban following China's latest round of rare earth export controls ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/eu-considers-duv-export-ban    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:06:02

• China seeks semiconductor and Hey Hi (AI) self-reliance in ambitious new 5-year plan — Beijing also wants to increase domestic spending and reduce reliance on exports ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-seeks-semiconductor-and-ai-self-reliance-in-ambitious-new-5-year-plan-beijing-also-wants-to-increase-domestic-spending-and-reduce-reliance-on-exports    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:08:53

• Hong Kong records first fatal case of chikungunya fever, health authorities says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/23/hong-kong-records-first-fatal-case-of-chikungunya-fever-health-authorities-says/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:09:16

• Researchers track surge in high-level Smishing Triad activity ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/unit-42-chinese-language-phishing-operation-smishing-triad/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:09:47

• Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/science-of-sound    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:10:21

• KDE Plasma 6.5 Released: Let Me Walk You Through What's New ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/kde-plasma-6-5-release/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:16:02

• Court orders journalist Ercüment Akdeniz’s release after eight months in detention ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/court-orders-journalist-ercument-akdenizs-release-after-eight-months-in-detention-312812    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:16:53

• BIND Updates Address High-Severity Cache Poisoning Flaws ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/bind-updates-address-high-severity-cache-poisoning-flaws/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:17:30

• Exploitation of Critical Adobe Commerce Flaw Puts Many eCommerce Sites at Risk ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/exploitation-of-critical-adobe-commerce-flaw-puts-many-ecommerce-sites-at-risk/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:17:39

• Lanscope Endpoint Manager Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/lanscope-endpoint-manager-zero-day-exploited-in-the-wild/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:18:19

• Mobile Security: Verizon Says Attacks Soar, AI-Powered Threats Raise Alarm ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/mobile-security-verizon-says-attacks-soar-ai-powered-threats-raise-alarm/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:18:50

• Domestic rice supply key as Taiwan negotiates US trade deal ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/domestic-rice-production-key-as-taiwan-negotiates-us-trade-deal/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:20:44

• With Petro and Convicted Felon at odds, what’s next for the US-Colombia relationship? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/with-petro-and-trump-at-odds-whats-next-for-the-us-colombia-relationship/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:21:10

• Terror groups diversify to find steady flow of illicit financing ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/national-security/terror-groups-diversify-to-find-steady-flow-of-illicit-financing/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:22:00

• China must gird up for ‘high winds and rough waves’, says top-level party conclave ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-must-gird-up-for-high-winds-and-rough-waves-says-top-level-party-conclave    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:22:32

• UN warns of deepening crises for women and girls in Democratic Republic of Congo ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/un-warns-of-deepening-crises-for-women-and-girls-in-democratic-republic-of-congo/    

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

• Dihydroxyacetone Man's Attempt to Roll Back Key Civil Rights-Enforcement Tool ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/trumps-attempt-to-roll-back-key-civil-rights-enforcement-tool    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:27:06

• Moldova’s ongoing legal disputes with investors could jeopardize its EU hopes ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/moldovas-ongoing-legal-disputes-with-investors-could-jeopardize-its-eu-hopes/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:27:59

• Hackaday Superconference Communicator Badge ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/announcing-the-2025-hackaday-superconference-communicator-badge/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:30:07

• "One of the hardest parts of a project — assuming it makes it that far — is finishing it up in an aesthetically pleasing manner" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/2025-component-abuse-challenge-nail-your-next-decal/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:30:44

• These Two Existing Drugs May Boost Brain Health, Scientists Say ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/these-two-existing-drugs-may-boost-brain-health-scientists-say    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:31:06

• Drugs That Lower Cholesterol May Also Reduce Dementia Risk, Says Huge New Study ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/drugs-that-lower-cholesterol-may-also-reduce-dementia-risk-says-huge-new-study    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:31:56

• Bizarre Crystals in Titan's Lakes Could Break a Fundamental Rule of Chemistry ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-crystals-in-titans-lakes-could-break-a-fundamental-rule-of-chemistry    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:32:07

• New Zealand Teen Loses Part of His Bowel After Swallowing Nearly 200 Magnets ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-zealand-teen-loses-part-of-his-bowel-after-swallowing-nearly-200-magnets    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:32:24

• World's Most Expensive Coffee Is Chemically Different Because It's Literally Poop ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-most-expensive-coffee-is-chemically-different-because-its-literally-poop    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:32:40

• Exceptionally Preserved 'Dinosaur Mummies' Reveal First-Known Reptile Hooves ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/exceptionally-preserved-dinosaur-mummies-reveal-first-known-reptile-hooves    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:33:09

• Millions of Buildings Threatened by Rising Seas This Century, Study Warns ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/millions-of-buildings-threatened-by-rising-seas-this-century-study-warns    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:33:21

• Financialized landlords are targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods across Canada ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/financialized-landlords-are-targeting-black-and-arab-neighbourhoods-across-canada/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:34:08

• A Logical Clock That Pretends To Be Analog ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/a-logical-clock-that-pretends-to-be-analog/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:36:01

• Rights group criticizes new EU-Uzbekistan agreement amid continuing human rights violations ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/rights-group-criticizes-new-eu-uzbekistan-agreement-amid-continuing-human-rights-violations/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:36:46

• Myanmar scam centre raid sends hundreds fleeing to Thailand ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/over-600-flee-myanmar-scam-centre-to-thailand-after-crackdown-thai-official    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:37:07

• What Is Meaningful Connectivity? ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/10/what-is-meaningful-connectivity/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:37:26

• Meta Lays Off 600 Employees as Wang Overhauls Hey Hi (AI) Unit ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/22/meta-lays-off-600-employees-as-wang-overhauls-ai-unit/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:38:01

• Jonesing For The Next Disruptor ☞ https://www.datagubbe.se/llmfix/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:38:29

• Meta Allows Deepfake That Irish Presidential Election Is Canceled to Go Viral ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-irish-deepfake    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:40:05

• TerraMaster Launches F2-425 Plus and F4-425 Plus NAS with defective chip maker Intel N150 and Triple M.2 Slots ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/terramaster-f4-425-plus-launch/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:40:29

• Researchers Find Severe Vulnerabilities in Hey Hi (AI) Browser ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/researchers-severe-vulnerabilities-ai-browser-comet    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:40:53

• Recording Academy’s ‘Grammy House Giza’ Event and Additional Concerts In Motion Despite Lawsuit Challenging Pyramids Performances ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/grammy-house-giza-confirmed/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:41:59

• Universal Music Triumphs in Dutch Streaming Royalty Lawsuit ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/23/universal-music-triumphs-in-dutch-streaming-royalty-lawsuit/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:42:30

• Michigan: Gotion battery plant plan is dead after years of controversy ☞ https://bridgemi.com/business-watch/michigan-gotion-battery-plant-plan-is-dead-after-years-of-controversy/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:43:23

• Keep An Eye On Your Air-Cooled Engine ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/keep-an-eye-on-your-air-cooled-engine/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:43:40

• Extreme Quantization ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/making-the-smallest-and-dumbest-llm-with-extreme-quantization/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:44:05

• Automatically Serving Up Canned Cat Food ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/automatically-serving-up-canned-cat-food/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:44:48

• "It is possible that the final Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release to be powered by Linux kernel 6.20, which should arrive in early or mid-April 2026, but I think it would be smarter for Canonical to adopt the latest LTS (Long-Term Support) kernel series for Resolute Raccoon, which is expected to be Linux kernel 6.18." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-resolute-raccoon-daily-builds-are-now-available-for-download    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:45:49

• "Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) version 7 is available now. For people who like Debian more than Ubuntu and Linux Mint's Cinnamon more than anything, this is the perfect choice." https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-43/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:48:48

• Just some mindless Linux bashing to sell DRM prison https://www.makeuseof.com/best-windows-10-alternative-isnt-linux-its-modified-windows-11/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:50:07

• Windows issues presented as "Linux" https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/j/agenda-ransomware-deploys-linux-variant-on-windows-systems.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:51:29

• Linux Foundation pushing dodgy scams https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2025/10/254605-hedera-coo-and-linux-foundation-decentralized-trust-share-insights-on-hiero-project/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:52:37

• Proprietary https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/nordvpn-breaks-ground-with-linux-based-vpn-app-for-amazons-new-gen-fire-tv-stick    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:53:05

• ROG Xbox Ally X Performance Tests Reveal Major Improvement On Linux Over Windows https://twistedvoxel.com/rog-xbox-ally-x-performance-tests-major-improvement-on-linux-over-windows/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:53:53

• Asus ROG Xbox Ally X is being held back by Windows – running Linux boosts game performance https://www.theshortcut.com/p/asus-rog-xbox-ally-x-is-being-held-back-by-windows-as-running-linux-boosts-performance    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:54:19

• Actiphy™ Inc. Unveils New Version of ActiveImage Protector™ 2022 with Support for Linux KVM Virtualization Technology https://aijourn.com/actiphy-inc-unveils-new-version-of-activeimage-protector-2022-with-support-for-linux-kvm-virtualization-technology/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:55:04

• NAP, free visual and media framework, now dazzles anywhere https://cdm.link/nap-08/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:56:58

• So much for Xbox full screen experience, it looks like the ROG Xbox Ally X might get much better performance on Linux with faux-SteamOS operating system Bazzite https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/handheld-gaming-pcs/so-much-for-xbox-full-screen-experience-it-looks-like-the-rog-xbox-ally-x-might-get-much-better-performance-on-linux-with-faux-steamos-operating-system-bazzite/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:57:22

• People Are Turning This $1,000 Windows Handheld Into A Super Steam Deck And Getting Way Better Performance https://kotaku.com/rog-xbox-ally-x-bazzite-steamos-linux-performance-2000638543    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:57:45

• Xbox ROG Ally X Sees Up to 32% Higher FPS on Linux vs. Windows Among Other Benefits https://tech4gamers.com/xbox-rog-ally-higher-fps-linux-vs-windows/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:58:20

• "The MutantC V5 is a new handheld device that comes with a keyboard and joystick and is a slider smartphone. The device can also be connected to an external monitor, and sensors and actuators can be used." https://www.notebookcheck.net/MutantC-An-open-source-modular-Linux-handheld-designed-to-be-customizable-for-various-tasks.1145241.0.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 18:59:50

• Fedora council approves policy allowing AI-assisted contributions https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/fedora_agrees_policy_allowing_ai_assisted_code_contribs/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 19:00:08

• 5 pitfalls of dual-booting Windows and Linux that I wasn’t prepared for https://www.xda-developers.com/5-pitfalls-of-dual-booting-windows-and-linux-that-i-wasnt-prepared-for/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 19:01:11

• Linux supercharges the ROG Xbox Ally X — higher FPS, smoother performance, and a big win for handheld gaming https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/linux-supercharges-the-rog-xbox-ally-x-higher-fps-smoother-performance-and-a-big-win-for-handheld-gaming    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 19:01:38

• ROG Xbox Ally X runs faster on Linux than Windows, early testing reveals https://www.techspot.com/news/109968-microsoft-xbox-ally-x-handheld-runs-better-linux.html    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 19:01:53

• "The earliest vinyl LP in Esperanto is usually reckoned to be the 1964 release Ni Kantu en Esperanto. It is the first LP mentioned in the Laŭjara katalogo de muzikaj diskoj en Esperanto and the Esperanto Wikipedia’s list of Esperanto music albums, among other sources." gemini://gem.eomuziko.com/blog/en/posts/litovaj-popolaj-kantoj-kaj-dancoj/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 19:36:01

• improwizacja gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/poetry/2025-10-24-powrót-improwizacja.gmi    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 19:36:25

• 🔤SpellBinding: ADFILWN Wordo: HEWER gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-24.gmi    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 19:36:57

• "You should visit my treasure portal page.. guys! there is a gemini & gopher user, who really impressed me & made me excited again. He is a programmer, but he likes to make interactive programs & social platforms like forums." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2720    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 19:38:48

• "Regarding today's quantumn announcement, it seems some investors have misunderstood exactly what we announced. Some seem to think we can do away with the mighty quantumn hardware and replace it with AMD chips 🤦‍♂️" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8a0scw8    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 20:27:04

• "And it's working. IBM stock tanked 7% after announcing quarterly earnings (typical). But there's been enough AI and Quantum in the news driving up that sector that IBM stock price recovered all the loss and gained another 5%. So the smokescreen is working..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8a0scw8    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 20:27:30

• "Yes of course you can run cobol.ai on that system Z mainframe." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8a0scw8    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 20:27:48

• "And it's back... $300 two days later. 🎰" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k86vt8ew    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 20:28:19

• Target is eliminating 1,800 corporate jobs as it looks to reclaim its lost lustre https://www.inkl.com/news/target-is-eliminating-1-800-corporate-jobs-as-it-looks-to-reclaim-its-lost-lustre    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 20:30:50

• Toys “R” Us Canada affected by data breach hitting personal data https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/10/23/toys-r-us-canada-data-breach/    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 20:31:53

• chaos oracle and ai gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/oracle    

posted Friday, October 24, 2025 at 20:35:07