Roy Schestowitz

• Archaeologists Discover Earliest Evidence of Humans Using Tools to Make Fire ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologists-discover-earliest-evidence-of-humans-using-tools-to-make-fire    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:03:44

• New Species of Tiny Pumpkin Toadlet Discovered in Brazil's Cloud Forests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-species-of-tiny-pumpkin-toadlet-discovered-in-brazils-cloud-forests    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:03:56

• The Cause of Alzheimer's May Be Coming From Within Your Mouth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-cause-of-alzheimers-may-be-coming-from-within-your-mouth    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:04:09

• Sperm Donor With Rare Cancer-Risk Gene Fathers Nearly 200 Children ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/sperm-donor-with-rare-cancer-risk-gene-fathers-nearly-200-children    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:04:26

• Veritasium's 'Elements of Truth' Board Game Is Live on Kickstarter ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/veritasiums-elements-of-truth-board-game-is-available-on-kickstarter    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:04:40

• New Cancer Therapy Offers Hope For 'Incurable' Leukaemia in Early Trial ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-cancer-therapy-offers-hope-for-incurable-leukaemia-in-early-trial    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:04:51

• NASA Confirms It Has Lost Contact With Mars Orbiter MAVEN ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-confirms-it-has-lost-contact-with-mars-orbiter-maven    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:05:02

• US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for the third straight time ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20251210-us-federal-reserve-cuts-interest-rates-for-the-third-straight-time    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:05:47

• Like so many things, the traditional Christmas posada costs more this year ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/the-traditional-christmastime-posada/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:06:09

• "LLMs Are Less Intelligent Than Crows" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/10/why-llms-are-less-intelligent-than-crows/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:06:36

• Danish Intelligence Report Raises Concerns About Shifts in US Policy Under Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/world/europe/danish-intelligence-concerns-about-us.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:06:47

• Does the Job of C.E.O. or Private Investor Come First? Intel’s Chief Is Juggling That Question. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/technology/lip-bu-tan-intel-ceo-investor.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:07:04

• Meta’s New Hey Hi (AI) Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/technology/meta-ai-tbd-lab-friction.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:07:23

• China starts list of government-approved Hey Hi (AI) hardware suppliers: Cambricon and Huawei are in, Nvidia is not ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/china-starts-list-of-government-approved-ai-hardware-suppliers-cambricon-and-huawei-are-in-nvidia-is-not    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:07:44

• King Gizzard Responds to Being Impersonated by Hey Hi (AI) on Spotify ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/king-gizzard-responds-impersonated-ai-spotify    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:08:21

• Lawsuit Challenges Park Service Passes Featuring Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/climate/lawsuit-park-service-passes-trump.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:09:00

• Illinois restricts immigration arrests in public venues, permits lawsuits for constitutional violations ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/illinois-restricts-immigration-arrests-in-public-venues-permits-lawsuits-for-constitutional-violations/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:09:52

• Atölye BİA hosts workshop on 'International right to information access and tools' ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/atolye-bia-hosts-workshop-on-international-right-to-information-access-and-tools-314382 "The workshop addressed how national freedom of information laws can be effectively utilized by journalists in investigative reporting"    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:10:14

• Taiwan Invokes National Security Law to Protect TSMC Trade Secrets ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/business/taiwan-tsmc-trade-secrets.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:10:33

• Louvre Heist Was Caught on Film, Officials Say, Rebutting Earlier Account ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/world/europe/louvre-heist-camera-delay.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:10:46

• Michael Anton and the Secret National Security Strategy ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/10/michael-anton-and-the-secret-national-security-strategy/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:11:07

• Cambodia takes Thailand border conflict issue to UN Security Council, seeks urgent intervention ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-takes-thailand-border-conflict-issue-to-un-security-council-seeks-urgent-intervention    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:11:19

• User reports claim December backdoored Windows 11 security update fixes AMD GPU hanging and driver crashing ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/user-reports-claim-december-windows-11-security-update-fixes-amd-gpu-hanging-and-driver-crashing    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:11:50

• Rights group urges China, Hong Kong to respect press freedom after deadly fire ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/rights-group-urges-china-hong-kong-to-respect-press-freedom-over-latest-fire-incident/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:12:08

• UN troubled by Hong Kong clampdown after deadly Tai Po fire ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/10/un-troubled-by-hong-kong-clampdown-after-deadly-tai-po-fire/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:12:28

• Beijing protests ‘political’ UK sanctions on 2 Chinese cyber firms ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/10/beijing-protests-political-uk-sanctions-on-2-chinese-cyber-firms/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:12:53

• 'Welcome to hell': Sarkozy discusses prison stay, far-right rapprochement in new book ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251210-welcome-to-hell-sarkozy-discusses-prison-stay-far-right-rapprochement-in-new-book    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:13:06

• SANDF Cyber Command issues festive season cybersecurity warning ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/cyber-defence/sandf-cyber-command-issues-festive-season-cybersecurity-warning/    

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

• The 10 key reforms that can close America’s cybersecurity gaps ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/effective-us-cybersecurity-strategy-key-steps-op-ed/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:13:44

• Research claims legacy .NET proxy behavior creates fresh path to remote system compromise ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/10/research-claims-legacy-net-proxy-behavior-creates-fresh-path-remote-system-compromise/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:14:37

• Intel, AMD Processors Affected by PCIe Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/intel-amd-processors-affected-by-pcie-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:15:11

• SAP Patches Critical Vulnerabilities With December 2025 Security Updates ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sap-patches-critical-vulnerabilities-with-december-2025-security-updates/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:15:32

• Fortinet Patches Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fortinet-patches-critical-authentication-bypass-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:15:49

• CISA looks for ‘deep engagement’ with innovators via new platform ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/12/cisa-looks-for-deep-engagement-with-innovators-via-new-platform/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:16:19

• All Latvian council chairpersons to be vetted by January ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/10.12.2025-all-latvian-council-chairpersons-to-be-vetted-by-january.a625761/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:16:30

• VIDEO: Riga Security Forum 2025 closing event ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/video/10.12.2025-video-riga-security-forum-2025-closing-event.a625783/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:16:44

• Shortage of tech talent threatens growth prospects ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/employment/10.12.2025-shortage-of-tech-talent-threatens-growth-prospects.a625802/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:17:01

• IBM layoffs. "Yeah it was very bizarre ending...I had to ask them what to do. Then there's the dreaded pizza box dropped off by UPS. Won't even let us drop off at our own office. No statement no nothing. I assume they won't even mail a statement. Will we even get our W-2's mailed or they won't even do that either?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbj39ej9    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:24:19

• "Alvind and Krapanaugh got played for like the f@t fools that they are. Alvind should be deported for another overpaid blunder and Krapanaugh should learn to use an effin calculator. What a couple of stupid apes." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kby7g8nk    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:28:04

• "while I agree, Arvind is a useless buff00n, There should a purge of the DEs, STSMs and Seniors. These id1ots have no vision. How do you expect these incompetent to integrate any company, since they have proven there uselessness and incompetency to deliver any viable product. I recently was assigned to an organization that in the last 10 years did not deliver a viable product. All were a bust."    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:29:00

• "Why are my H1–B Visa posts being deleted ?"    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:29:31

• "Agreed - We can call out Alvind and the PipChumps out on their greed but we can’t mention H1-B Visas and how they are a disease ? What the Truck ?"    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:29:39

• Pi 5 NAS With Custom Carbon Fibre Panels, Made on the Makera Z1! ☞ https://www.the-diy-life.com/pi-5-nas-with-custom-carbon-fibre-panels-made-on-the-makera-z1/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:31:49

• Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chaim-soutine-still-lifes    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:32:29

• A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-thousand-and-one-nights-in-italy    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:32:42

• Tails 7.3.1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:33:16

• Is Helium the Browser Brave Was Meant to Be? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/helium-browser/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:33:48

• Scam Altman Says Caring for a Baby Is Now Impossible Without Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-caring-baby-impossible-without-chatgpt how about caring for one's sister instead of sexually molesting her? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/technology/sam-altman-sister-lawsuit.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:34:44

• Police Admit They’re Using Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot to Generate “Sketches” of Suspects ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/police-chatpgt-composite-sketch    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:35:39

• Framework puts Dell and Fashion Company Apple on blast over egregious RAM prices ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/framework-puts-dell-and-apple-on-blast-over-egregious-ram-prices-modular-laptop-maker-will-be-forced-to-increase-memory-prices-but-wont-gouge-customers-like-other-vendors    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:36:17

• Beacon AM62L – A compact (38x28mm), low-power dual-core Cortex-A53 System-on-Module (SoM) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/10/beacon-am62l-a-compact-38x28mm-low-power-dual-core-cortex-a53-system-on-module-som/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:36:42

• AMD Ryzen Embedded 8840U COM Express Type 6 Compact module takes up to 128GB DDR5 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/10/amd-ryzen-embedded-8840u-com-express-type-6-compact-module-takes-up-to-128gb-ddr5/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:37:04

• ICS Patch Tuesday: Vulnerabilities Fixed by Siemens, Rockwell, Schneider ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ics-patch-tuesday-vulnerabilities-fixed-by-siemens-rockwell-schneider/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:37:38

• Volumetric Display With Lasers And Bubbly Glass ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/10/volumetric-display-with-lasers-and-bubbly-glass/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:38:04

• Outgoing legislative president calls on newly elected lawmakers to help gov’t tackle Tai Po fire aftermath ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/10/outgoing-legislature-president-calls-on-newly-elected-lawmakers-to-help-govt-tackle-tai-po-fire-aftermath/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:38:27

• Award-Winning Photo Reveals Secret of Strange Spider's 'Shrink-Wrap' Web ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/award-winning-photo-reveals-secret-of-strange-spiders-shrink-wrap-web    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:39:06

• 2026 Global Partner Program Announcement ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2025/12/2026-global-partner-program/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:40:08

• Shares of Oracle slide 10% on revenue miss and rising capital expenditures ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/10/shares-oracle-slide-10-revenue-miss-rising-capital-expenditures/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/Oracle_s_Debt_Continues_Rising_to_All_Time_Highs_The_Slop_Bubbl.shtml    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:40:51

• 52Pi UPS Gen 6 UPS for Raspberry Pi 4/5 supports up to 4x external battery packs, PikaPython scripting ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/10/52pi-ups-gen-6-ups-raspberry-pi-hat-supports-up-to-4x-external-battery-packs-pikapython-scripting/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:45:27

• r730-01 ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2025/12/10/r730-01-3/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:45:52

• Your elected leaders: Roopinder Singh Perhar, APNIC EC Secretary ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/10/your-elected-leaders-roopinder-singh-perhar-apnic-ec-secretary/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:46:06

• Introducing Network Vulnerability Detection in DASH ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/11/introducing-network-vulnerability-detection-in-dash/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:46:16

• Google Still Promotes Plagiarism From WebProNews and Prolific Slopfarms ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Google_Still_Promotes_Plagiarism_From_WebProNews_and_Prolific_S.shtml    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:46:26

• EU will investigate Surveillance Giant Google over how it uses online content for Hey Hi (AI) training ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/09/eu-will-investigate-google-uses-online-content-ai-training/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:46:49

• Google CEO Says We’re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as Hey Hi (AI) Puts Society Through the Woodchipper ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-pichai-ai-labor    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:47:14

• US may require visa-free travellers to submit social control media, family data ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251211-us-may-require-visa-free-travelers-to-submit-social-media-family-data-trump-free-speech-privacy-tourism    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:47:31

• Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/pentagon-boat-strike-survivors.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:47:54

• Myanmar junta air strike on hospital kills 31, says on-site aid worker ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-junta-air-strike-on-hospital-kills-31-on-site-aid-worker    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:48:06

• American Oversight Demands Navy Account for Reported Deletion of Footage Following Deadly October Boat Strike ☞ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-demands-navy-account-for-reported-deletion-of-footage-following-deadly-october-boat-strike/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:49:16

• New DroidLock threat gives attackers near-total control of Android phones ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/10/new-droidlock-threat-gives-attackers-near-total-control-android-phones/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:49:43

• What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/what-the-warner-bros-sale-means-for-the-art-of-movies    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:49:55

• Inside Convicted Felon’s Artless Takeover of the Kennedy Center ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/inside-trumps-artless-takeover-of-the-kennedy-center    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:50:27

• Brace for Disaster as the Washington Post Launches an AI-Generated Podcast ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/disaster-washington-post-ai-generated-podcast    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:51:24

• [Podcast] Going dark: Measurement when the Internet hides the detail ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/11/podcast-going-dark-measurement-when-the-internet-hides-the-detail/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:51:37

• VLC 3.0.22: Dark Mode, Game Music, and Smoother Playback ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/12/vlc-3-0-22-dark-mode-game-music-and-smoother-playback/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:52:28

• China holds 'emergency meetings' to discuss Nvidia H200 purchases following export rule change, report claims — ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba asked to assess demand ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-weighs-import-limits-on-nvidias-h200-after-us-export-rules-relaxed    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:52:51

• Addiction economy: Can regulators rein in social control media platforms? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20251210-addiction-economy-can-regulators-rein-in-social-media-platforms    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:53:06

• 1962’s “Pretty Little Baby” Was the Biggest Song on Fentanylware (CheeTok) In 2025 ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/09/tiktok-year-end-wrap-global-artist-of-2025/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:53:20

• Controlling culture ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/10/tiktok-music-podcast-tiktok-in-the-mix/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:53:51

• "I think I need to write something about how I want to use Status. My Kinetic Energy game has it, just like Traveller. And I also have the empire, and techno feudalism." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-12-11-status    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:59:10

• sitting hunchedly, grumbling, looking downward harumphedly gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2756    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 01:59:40

• Do you browse the Geminispace with a GUI, TUI, or CLI client? gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/AskGemini/35401    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 02:00:53

• "just deal with this 1% and their loyal hands in bolshevyk way no exceptions" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaqde57v    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 03:06:28

• "California loses jobs for fourth straight month as tech layoffs continue"    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 03:06:57

• "US jobless claims hit four-year high — 44,000 more Americans file for benefits"    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 03:07:48

• MSN: "211,000 US job cuts hit a 20-year worst as Microsoft trims more"    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 03:08:17

• "Seattle labor market contracts 35% as tech layoffs mount, shifting power from employers to job seekers"    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 03:08:40

• "The Atlantic on Hey-Hi finances" Techrights reader on https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2025/12/nvidia-ai-financing-deals/685197/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 05:15:22

• At least he said "hey hi"    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 05:15:34

• Twitter followers are mostly spam/bots, so people who boast about such numbers are typically 1) liars and 2) they know they lie about it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-62571733 https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-musk-bots/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 07:23:32

• If a million people "like" something you post but nobody comments, how can that not be bot activity?    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 07:26:26

• If a million people "see" something you post but nobody "likes" it, how can that not be bot activity?    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 07:26:42

• If a million people "follow" you but only a few dozen "see" what you post, you're a bots-boosted faker    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 07:27:35

• The likes of spamnil, the click-fraudster who is defended by other click-fraudsters (they're afraid they're next to be 'exposed')    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 07:28:17

• AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/11/ai_superintelligence_fantasy/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 07:46:15

• Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment is out now | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/pop-os-24-04-lts-with-the-cosmic-desktop-environment-is-out-now/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:48:50

• System76 Launches First Stable Release of COSMIC Desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS https://9to5linux.com/system76-launches-first-stable-release-of-cosmic-desktop-and-pop_os-24-04-lts    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:49:40

• Kitten Space Agency is the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/kitten-space-agency-is-the-spiritual-successor-to-kerbal-space-program/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:50:42

• The huge Project Zomboid build 42 finally gets multiplayer just in time for the holidays | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-huge-project-zomboid-build-42-finally-gets-multiplayer-just-in-time-for-the-holidays/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:51:00

• Fantasy city-builder with huge battles Songs of Syx gets a major upgrade with a focus on war | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/fantasy-city-builder-with-huge-battles-songs-of-syx-gets-a-major-upgrade-with-a-focus-on-war/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:51:21

• Dog merging roguelike deckbuilder Dogpile is out now and it's wonderful | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/dog-merging-roguelike-deckbuilder-dogpile-is-out-now-and-its-wonderful/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:51:46

• "Password Complexity is a Lie – Here’s What Actually Keeps You Safe" https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/Password-Complexity-is-a-Lie-%E2%80%93-Here%E2%80%99s-What-Actually-Keeps-You-Safe:d    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:52:30

• "Trump Signs Executive Order To Combat State AI Regulation" https://werd.io/trump-signs-executive-order-to-combat-state-ai-regulation/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:52:41

• "Donald Trump Will Piss Away the Western Order Investing in Jared Kushner's Imagined Business Savvy" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/11/donald-trump-will-piss-away-the-western-order-investing-in-jared-kushners-imagined-business-savvy/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:52:52

• NAFTA / USMCA == Patents https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/trump-has-failed-to-fix-nafta    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:53:05

• "The US Is Looking More Like Putin’s Russia Every Day" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/putin-russia-trump-autocracy/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:53:16

• "Barron Trump and Andrew Tate relationship explained in a new report that outlines their Zoom conversations, views on Romanian charges, dating advice given to Barron, and their growing connection through Tate associate Justin Waller."    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:53:55

• "The report also covers Tate’s past issues, legal cases, and his long link with the Trump family." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/barron-trump-and-andrew-tate-relationship-explained-who-is-justin-waller-and-what-has-he-revealed-heres-tate-familys-long-link-with-the-trumps-zoom-call-presidents-son-romania-case-dating-advice-associate/articleshow/125923636.cms    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:54:04

• "Opinion writing about last month’s National Guard shooting in Washington, DC, serves as the latest example of US corporate media’s role in whitewashing US foreign policy." ☛ https://fair.org/home/media-opinion-on-dc-shooter-avoided-reality-that-violence-abroad-can-come-home/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:55:31

• Orban ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/12/12/trump-denies-offering-orban-20bn-financial-shield | Source: Insight Hungary    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:56:11

• "Inspiring young innovators in Belfast use creativity and tech to tackle period poverty and support their community." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/celebrating-the-community-irioluwa-michelle-jedidiah-and-inioluwa/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:56:31

• Tucson ☛ https://therevelator.org/shade-equity-solutions/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:56:47

• Talking point - what have you been playing lately? | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/talking-point-2-what-have-you-been-playing-lately/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/talking-point-2-what-have-you-been-playing-lately/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:58:39

• Paradox have hopefully fixed the Vulkan performance in Crusader Kings III | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/paradox-have-hopefully-fixed-the-vulkan-performance-in-crusader-kings-iii/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:58:49

• Monster Hunter Wilds is set for some big performance upgrades | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/monster-hunter-wilds-is-set-for-some-big-performance-upgrades/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:59:06

• GOG Winter Sale arrives with lots of discounts and Warhammer: Dark Omen returns | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/gog-winter-sale-arrives-with-lots-of-discounts-and-warhammer-dark-omen-returns/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 09:59:14

• KDE 🎄 Gear 25.12 ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.12.0/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:22:56

• "KDE has released Gear 25.12, a holiday-season update that brings improvements across its applications and tools. Here’s what’s more important to note." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-gear-25-12-apps-collection-delivers-holiday-updates-across-apps-and-tools/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:23:25

• KDE brings new features to Dolphin, Kate text editor, Photos, and other apps https://www.howtogeek.com/kde-brings-new-features-to-dolphin-kate-text-editor-photos-and-other-apps/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:23:54

• KDE Gear 25.12 Software Suite Released with Many Improvements for KDE Apps https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-25-12-software-suite-released-with-many-improvements-for-kde-apps    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:24:15

• "It finally happened! We have an early Christmas present. Powered by Linux kernel 6.17 and built on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS has arrived, marking the first stable release of the COSMIC desktop environment and closing more than three years of development at System76." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/pop_os-24-04-lts-launches-with-cosmic-desktop-1-0-stable/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:25:59

• Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released with New COSMIC Desktop ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/pop_os-24-04-lts-stable-release    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:26:23

• "If you’re ambitious enough, or maybe just crazy enough, there eventually comes a time when you realize you’ve reached the limits of current potential, and must create something completely new if you’re to go further." ☛ https://blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder/ | Source: System76    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:27:11

• "This year, System76 turned twenty. For twenty years we have shipped Linux computers. For seven years we’ve built the Pop!_OS Linux distribution. Three years ago it became clear we had reached the limit of our current potential and had to create something new. Today, we break through that limit with the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment."    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:27:16

• Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1050129/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:28:01

• "Pop!_OS 24.04, a major new version of System76's desktop Linux distribution, has been released. Based on Ubuntu's latest long-term support version, Pop!_OS 24.04 is the project's first stable version that ships the COSMIC desktop environment, developed in-house: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12663 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:28:19

• Thunderbird 146 Update Migrates Logins to AES + More ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/thunderbird-146-login-migration    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:29:56

• Solus 4.8 ‘Opportunity’: An Independent Distro Struts Its Stuff ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/12/solus-4-8-opportunity-an-independent-distro-struts-its-stuff/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:30:55

• Krita 5.2.14 Rolls Out Enhanced Touch Controls and New Color Picker ☞ https://linuxiac.com/krita-5-2-14-rolls-out-enhanced-touch-controls-and-new-color-picker/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:32:26

• "Nearly three months after the previous 5.2.13 update, Krita, a popular open-source, cross-platform digital painting app, has just released version 5.2.14, marking the final bugfix update in the 5.2 series."    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:32:32

• "The color picker has been improved to make it look, feel and function better. The most important change is for touchscreens: you can now press the screen with one finger and hold it in the same spot to bring up the color picker. This is enabled by default in all input profiles."    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:33:46

• "If it doesn't happen for you, either reset your canvas input settings to the defaults or manually assign the One Finger Hold gesture like this: [...]" ☛ https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/krita-5.2.14-released/ | Source: Krita    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:33:52

• Ubuntu’s New Telemetry Tool Will ‘Phone Home’ Monthly ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-insights-telemetry-26-04-lts    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:42:23

• "The winter 2025 issue of the Free Software Bulletin is now online! You can read more about these topics in the articles below: [...]" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2025-free-software-bulletin-issue-47-now-available | Source: FSF    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:43:29

• numr – text calculator for natural language expressions ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/numr-text-calculator-natural-language-expressions/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:43:55

• meow – renders text using your existing Neovim configuration ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/meow-renders-text-existing-neovim-configuration/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:44:12

• Hourglass – simple time keeping application ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hourglass-simple-time-keeping-application/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:44:22

• TTDL – Terminal ToDo List ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ttdl-terminal-todo-list/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:44:40

• Flyway – database migration tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/flyway-database-migration-tool/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:46:52

• sftpman-iced – GUI tool for sshfs and SFTP filesystems ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sftpman-iced-gui-tool-sshfs-sftp-filesystems/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:47:01

• Crycco – documentation generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/crycco-documentation-generator/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:47:21

• lumus – read PDF files directly in your terminal ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lumus-read-pdf-files-terminal/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:47:31

• Jujutsu – powerful version control system for software projects ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/jujutsu-powerful-version-control-system/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:47:40

• Nicolino – tiny static site generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nicolino-tiny-static-site-generator/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:47:59

• Topiary – uniform formatter for simple languages ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/topiary-uniform-formatter-simple-languages/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:48:08

• Termagotchi – terminal-based Tamagotchi simulation ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/termagotchi-terminal-based-tamagotchi-simulation/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:48:37

• "actual King Gizzard songs that ripped off their entire lyrics and sound, accumulating tens of thousands of streams while remaining on the streaming service for weeks without detection." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/king-gizzard-responds-impersonated-ai-spotify | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:49:15

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/12/trending-libraries-are-refocusing-on.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:49:36

• "Pablo Pablo had been living in the U.S. since 2012, complying with every rule ICE handed him." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/11/ordered-to-absolutely-not-deport-man-to-guatemala-ice-does-it-anyway.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:49:58

• "Except someone also mentioned that that particular font might be good to use because it’s allegedly easier to read for dyslexic people." ☛ https://crumbles.blog/posts/2025-12-11-presentation-fonts.html | Source: Daphne Preston-Kendal    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:50:10

• "The best way to respond to fear and intimidation tactics is to show we’re not afraid." ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/how-weve-resisted-ice-street-lessons-from-chicago/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:50:26

• "Contained in the 200+ page opinion [PDF] is a small footnote that points to an inanimate co-conspirator to the litany of lies served up by federal law enforcement in defense of its unconstitutional actions: [...]" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/11/chatgpt-is-pitching-in-to-help-federal-officers-misrepresent-confrontations-with-protesters/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:50:54

• "We’re now in a day and age where if we post a pencil drawing, most people are not going to acknowledge it" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/police-chatpgt-composite-sketch | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:51:10

• Setting up distributed compilations with sccache ☞ http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/setting-up-distributed-compilations-with-sccache/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:52:36

• KDE Ni! OS ☞ https://cukic.co/2025/12/11/kde-ni-os    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:52:46

• SmartOS 20251211 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/smartos    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:53:49

• pearOS 2025.12 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/pearos    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:53:57

• LLM Slop About GNU/Linux Still Seems Scarce ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/LLM_Slop_About_Linux_Still_Seems_Scarce.shtml    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:54:23

• Tails 7.3.1 Anonymous GNU/Linux OS Released with Tor Browser 15.0.3 and Tor 0.4.8.21 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-3-1-anonymous-linux-os-released-with-tor-browser-15-0-3-and-tor-0-4-8-21    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:55:36

• The Fairbuds XL were already good. We made them better. ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/12/11/the-fairbuds-xl-were-already-good-we-made-them-better/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:56:10

• Forbes ranks Japan PM Takaichi 3rd on list of world’s most powerful women ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/forbes-ranks-japan-pm-takaichi-3rd-on-list-of-worlds-most-powerful-women    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:56:28

• Forbes also gets bribes to "rank" things https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/13/Forbes_Already_Stopped_Being_a_News_Sites_Now_It_s_a_Spam_and_P.shtml    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:56:57

• UP Squared Pro TWL Hey Hi (AI) Dev Kit Review – defective chip maker Intel N150 + Hailo-8L accelerator tested on Ubuntu 24.04 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/11/up-squared-pro-twl-ai-dev-kit-review-intel-n150-hailo-8l-accelerator-tested-on-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:58:16

• zur – AUR helper ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zur-aur-helper/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:59:44

• MDNS Scanner – scan networks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mdns-scanner-scan-networks/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 10:59:53

• Tyr – intelligent file organization powered by machine learning ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tyr-intelligent-file-organization-machine-learning/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:00:10

• Blarock – simple music player ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/blarock-simple-music-player/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:00:18

• "Multiple crises confront our information and communication systems today, including oligarchic media ownership, the collapse of local journalism, and state threats to media companies." ☛ https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/political-economy-of-us-media-system/ | Source: Roosevelt Institute    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:05:21

• "Local journalists worked around the clock to cover community responses to a militarized and sometimes violent presence in neighborhoods in and around the city." ☛ https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/12/11/solutions-journalism-ice-raids/index.html | Source: Northwestern University    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:05:31

• “Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.” ― Julian Assange    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:10:28

• “Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.”    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:10:54

• “You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.”    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:10:59

• There is no such thing as "minimum wage" in YouTube, so influencers who wrongly assumed they can "do this for a living" are living in fantasy land    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:23:02

• "There's a whole greedflation-denial cottage industry that insists that rising prices are either the result of unknowable" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/nothing-personal/#instacartography | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:54:45

• [Old] "Efforts to pass legislation restricting Internet “spam”" ☛ https://theonion.com/anti-spam-legislation-opposed-by-powerful-penis-enlarge-1819566490/ | Source: The Onion    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:55:18

• "China has called on the Netherlands to move quickly to resolve the dispute surrounding Nexperia" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-presses-netherlands-to-resolve-nexperia-dispute-as-supply-concerns-grow | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:55:46

• "A massive wave of public comments just told the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO): don’t shut the public out of patent review." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/thousands-tell-patent-office-dont-hide-bad-patents-review | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:56:08

• "The risk posed by stablecoins is that if for whatever reason their value falters, investors may cash out, causing a larger collapse in which the companies sell off their holdings" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/1211/cryptocurrency-stablecoins-regulation-systemic-risk | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:56:45

• "Last week, the monitor overseeing PJM filed a complaint with the nation’s top electric utility regulator" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/12/data-centers-power-energy-blackouts/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:56:56

• "The U.S. Navy just completed a demonstration of Meteomatics’ Meteodrones, successfully launching and recovering automated weather drones from moving vessels in the Mississippi Sound." ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2025/12/11/meteomatics-navy-weather-drones/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:57:35

• "Two years before hosting a meeting with Elon Musk in Dubai, Emirati logistics CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem asked Jeffrey Epstein to connect him with the Tesla head, newly released emails show" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/12/epstein-musk-sulayem-island-emails/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 11:58:26

• "My latest Globe and Mail op-ed begins by noting that digital sovereignty has emerged as the watchword driving Canada’s digital policy agenda" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/12/the-catch-22-of-canadian-digital-sovereignty/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:00:11

• "Like it or not, we are going to need a pretty broad coalition to pry Trump and his cast of bootlickers and crooks out of power. If it takes getting a bunch of otherwise objectionable legislators from Indiana on board, I’m prett okay with that." ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/broad-coalitions-mean-were-not-gonna-agree-on-everything | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:00:39

• "While families grapple with the social media ban, Australia is about to dial up the volume on increased measures to further regulate the internet through the impending industry codes." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-12-social-media-australia-forthcoming-restrictions.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:01:01

• "should advocates pursue state and local reforms, or bet on a high-stakes legal battle that could radically rewrite the rules of campaign finance nationwide?" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/super-pac-contributions-lawsuit-maine/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:01:18

• "It had been an assumption of Hitler’s since the 1920s that Germany would at some point fight the United States" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/12/11/why-hitler-declared-war-on-the-united-states/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:17:58

• "Austrian lawmakers on Thursday voted by a large majority to approve a law banning headscarves in schools for girls under 14" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/austria-approves-school-headscarf-ban-for-girls-under-14/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:18:08

• "Analysts estimate that it could take years for Russia to occupy the area by force, and would likely cost the Kremlin hundreds of thousands of additional casualties." ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russias-insistence-on-a-defenseless-ukraine-betrays-putins-true-intentions/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:18:19

• "Over 550,000 people have petitioned Parliament to repeal the Online Safety Act (OSA), making it one of the largest public expressions of concern about a UK digital law in recent history." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/joint-briefing-petition-debate-on-repealing-the-online-safety-act/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:47:50

• "Last month, the European Commission released the Digital Omnibus. Some early media coverage, including commentary arguing that both the Commission and civil society misunderstand the package, frames the debate around competitiveness and burdens." ☛ https://www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-digital-omnibus-must-be-rejected-by-lawmakers-here-is-why/ | Source: Tech Policy Press    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:48:02

• "Danes je nov dan identified the amendments as a violation of constitutional rights as these tools cause unrestricted invasions of privacy, abuse of personal data, loss of dignity, threats to safety, and freedoms of expression, assembly, and association." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/how-danes-je-nov-dan-helped-stop-dangerous-spyware-in-slovenia/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:48:13

• "Proponents of the law lament that attention has been taken away from protecting children." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/moving-past-chat-control-to-solutions-that-truly-protect-kids-and-privacy/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:48:39

• "Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)." ☛ https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5713/trump-administration-wants-your-dna-and-social-media | Source: Privacy International    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:48:53

• "I got a tip yesterday from an anonymous US army officer that the US government was about to break new ground in authoritarian dumbassery. The officer had logged into his work computer in the morning, and got a popup: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/10/department-of-defense-goes-to-war-by-ai-chatbot/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:50:17

• "In a way, Cory’s focus is as much about how big companies treat employees as it is about AI. Companies that only care about money will use AI to justify layoffs." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/12/10/reverse-centaurs.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:50:29

• "This, obviously, does not meaningfully challenge Maiberg’s reporting, as it is Instagram generating these page titles specifically for Google whether users like it or not." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/generative-clickbait/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:50:48

• "Amid controversy over its ability to generate content with copyrighted characters, OpenAI has struck a three-year deal with Disney to license more than 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters for use in Sora videos and ChatGPT Images." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/11/disney_openai_video_image_generation_deal/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:51:07

• "That might genuinely be how Iger thinks getting into bed with OpenAI will play out, but when you take an honest look at what Sora AI is and how Disney’s past experiments with generative AI have gone, it’s clear that this is all going to end very, very stupidly." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/842992/disney-openai-sora-ai-slop-partnership | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:51:41

• "After the hype of the launch, OpenAI added an “opt-in” policy to Sora that was meant to prevent users from violating the rights of copyright holders." ☛ https://www.404media.co/disney-invests-1-billion-in-the-ai-slopification-of-its-brand/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:51:56

• "A central contribution of this guidance is its clear distinction between safety and security in the AI era." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-cybersecurity-guidance-critical-infrastructure-op-ed/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:52:35

• "An EO that punishes states for attempting to introduce trust and oversight into the ecosystem will actually have the inverse intended effect." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/12/ai-executive-order-could-deepen-trust-crisis-not-solve-it/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:53:04

• "A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT stoked a troubled man’s paranoid delusions, leading him to murder his elderly mother and then kill himself." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-sued-murder-suicide | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:53:41

• "The US government is run by petty morons that are threatened by a font." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/using-calibri-on-gov-sites | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:54:28

• "Both Yu and Qiu are co-owners of Beijing Huanyu Tianqiong, one of the Chinese tech companies that international security advisories specify as being fronts for Salt Typhoon activity." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/11/salt_typhoon_cisco_training/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:54:42

• "According to Walter, the gang slunk back into the shadowy digital underground for most of 2025 after Telegram banned it multiple times." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/11/cybervolk_ransomware_is_back/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:55:02

• "This is the first protocol we’ve added in over 20 years." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/12/video-exchange-email-support/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:56:52

• "It’s the least I can do. We’re in a national emergency. It’s my small way of fortifying you for what you’re going through. And thanking you for your activism." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-my-doctor-told-me-and-how-i | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:57:45

• "As we creep closer to the end of the year, I like to look back on the most popular posts on the blog, highlighting what you found the most connect with." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/12/revisiting-my-most-popular-guest-post.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:59:37

• "Read that which excites you, and you start to find that you are getting excited about reading itself." ☛ https://joshblais.com/blog/reading-in-a-distracted-world/ | Source: Joshua Blais    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 12:59:47

• "Start with a page now. Go pick up a book that’s been collecting dust. Build a system that makes reading easier and remove the distractions that make it an afterthought."    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 13:00:02

• "It highlights persistent structural pressures on schools that make high-quality Holocaust education harder to deliver." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-12-pupils-accidentally-stumble-unverified-holocaust.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 13:00:23

• "The Internet has considerable text and video on how to solve math competition problems that machine learning systems can train on." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/12/learning-mathematical-process.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 13:00:59

• "This presentation covered three interconnected deep learning concepts appearing in spatial data science work." ☛ https://jakubnowosad.com/posts/2025-12-15-agforum-talk/ | Source: Jacob Nowosad    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 13:01:08

• "Bridge to the Moon" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/sixty-years-ago-when-instruments-were-played-in-space-for-the-first-time-it-was-jingle-bells-all-the-way-180987851/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 13:01:26

• "the first proper breakthrough" ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neandertal-fire-making-tools-flint-iron | Source: Science News    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 13:01:38

• "I discovered the Johnny Decimal System a short while ago, thanks to a great write-up I stumbled across by Kristof Zerbe." ☛ https://afranca.com.br/johnny-decimal-system/ | Source: Andre Franca    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 13:02:27

• "It is a noble calling, and so my hat goes off to all of you." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-nftc-awards-for-epistemic-excellence | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 13:02:37

• "The site defaults to picking up the user's preferences, but there's also a toggle in the footer which switches between auto, forced-light and forced-dark. Here's an animated demo: [...]" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/dark-mode/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 13:02:48

• "I’d posted the commodore pet startup chime before without comment, but last weekend’s goings-on at World of Commodore 2025 have made me revisit it." ☛ https://scruss.com/blog/2025/12/11/commodore-pet-startup-sound-again/ | Source: Stewart C Russell    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 13:03:24

• "What makes the Pebble Index 01 actually interesting isn’t the hardware minimalism (though that’s refreshing)." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/11/repebble-creates-an-open-source-99-voice-recorder-ring-you-can-hack/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 13:03:34

• "With the VIRTIO 1.4 specification for I/O devices expected to be published soon, here are the most prominent changes." ☛ https://blog.vmsplice.net/2025/12/whats-new-in-virtio-14.html | Source: Stefan Hajnoczi    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 13:28:50

• "The Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) is a NASA and Italian Space Agency payload that flew in the Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander." ☛ https://destevez.net/2025/12/first-analysis-of-the-lunar-gnss-receiver-experiment-data/ | Source: Daniel Estévez    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 13:29:04

• Business Insider just now: "The year the Big Tech job market cracked"    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 14:30:10

• "Today Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced the immediate availability of Java 25 across Google Cloud’s serverless portfolio, including Cloud Run, App Engine" ☛ https://canonical.com/blog/java-25-now-available-on-google-cloud-serverless | Source: Canonical    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 14:31:10

• "I was recently playing with Pyodide, the WebAssembly Python runtime. I wanted to have my main code import a utility file. Something like this: [...]" ☛ https://evanhahn.com/pyodide-relative-imports/ | Source: Evan Hahn    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 14:31:39

• "The recent post #54 reviewed a number of earlier posts on r-ci, our small (but very versatile) runner for continunous integration (CI) with R." ☛ https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/12/11/#056_r-ci_with_r-devel | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 14:32:00

• pgAdmin 4 v9.11 Released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgadmin-4-v911-released-3192/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:32:59

• Harnessing the potential of 5G with Kubernetes: a cloud-native telco transformation perspective ☞ https://canonical.com//blog/harnessing-the-potential-of-5g-with-kubernetes-a-cloud-native-telco-transformation-perspective    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:34:11

• "For this example, we'll build a small Gift Tracker backed by SQLite." ☛ https://perladvent.org/2025/2025-12-12.html | Source: Perl    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:38:20

• "Closures in this instance are programming language constructs that includes data alongside instructions that are not directly related to their input (arguments) and their results (return values)." ☛ https://thephd.dev/the-cost-of-a-closure-in-c-c2y | Source: JeanHeyd Meneide    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:38:53

• "There's an old compiler-building tutorial that has become part of the field's lore: the Let's Build a Compiler series by Jack Crenshaw (published between 1988 and 1995)." ☛ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/revisiting-lets-build-a-compiler/ | Source: Eli Bendersky    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:39:03

• "When the method was eventually removed, lots of code broke." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/deprecate-like-you-mean-it | Source: Chris    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:39:18

• "The solution is distributed compiling, using multiple computers to share the work." ☛ https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/setting-up-distributed-compilations-with-sccache/ | Source: David Edmundson    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:39:36

• "For example: [...]" ☛ https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/12 | Source: AdventOfCode    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:39:47

• "I'm easily a better programmer than these clankers, which is sort of comforting, but what they lack in sophistication they make up for in sheer relentlessness." ☛ https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2025/12/11/retrofuture/ | Source: Johan Halse    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:39:58

• "These reviews can create quick, informal mentorship where one person spots a cleaner abstraction and another catches an edge case before it slips through." ☛ https://www.zolkos.com/2025/12/10/fizzys-pull-requests.html | Source: Rob Zolkos    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:40:09

• "We go through a hatch in the floor, climb down a ladder and reach a server rack which - of course - is broken." ☛ https://yordi.me/advent-of-code-2025-day-11/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:41:00

• "Because creating a custom entity was not quite so straight forward as I'd hoped, I wanted to share how I did it." ☛ https://garrit.xyz/posts/2025-12-11-custom-entities-in-home-assistant | Source: Garrit Franke    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:41:47

• "So, instead of shipping with a known issue, the team restarted the entire release process to ensure the fix was included, resulting in this updated build. According to devs, the goal remains the same: keep the amnesic, privacy-focused system as secure and up to date as possible for users who rely on it for anonymous communication." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-3-1-launches-after-security-issue-delays-release/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:43:32

• "Today, we are releasing 7.3.1 instead of 7.3 because a security vulnerability was fixed in a software library included in Tails while we were preparing 7.3. We started the release process again to include this fix." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_3_1/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:43:50

• "So, instead of shipping with a known issue, the team restarted the entire release process to ensure the fix was included, resulting in this updated build. According to devs, the goal remains the same: keep the amnesic, privacy-focused system as secure and up to date as possible for users who rely on it" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-3-1-launches-after-security-issue-delays-release/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:44:02

• "In my previous article on colours, I dove into the practical side of the new colour features for developers who primarily copy and paste values from a design file into their editor." ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/a-pragmatic-guide-to-modern-css-colours-part-two/ | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:46:06

• "An additional thing I wanted to implement – again, for the next version of my blog’s theme – was an “alt text viewer”." ☛ https://danq.me/2025/12/11/css-lightbox-with-alt-text-viewer/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:46:18

• "Maybe it has happened to you that you wanted to write some formulas in HTML to display on a website" ☛ https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/12/ | Source: Markup from Hell    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:46:29

• "Are you an image vendor or a hobbyist looking to distribute your own custom Raspberry Pi OS image through Raspberry Pi Imager?" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/how-to-add-your-own-images-to-imager/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:46:39

• "Now that Nvidia GPUs run on the Raspberry Pi, I've been putting all the ones I own through their paces." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/benchmarking-nvenc-video-transcoding-on-pi | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:47:34

• "After releasing version 580.105 of its stable display driver for 64-bit Linux systems in early November" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/nvidia-releases-linux-driver-580-119-with-fixes-for-vulkan-and-egl-apps/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:48:07

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

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:54:44

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 629 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/12/10/this-week-in-rust-629/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 15:57:51

• How to Install Java 25 on Debian 13 ☞ https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-install-java-25-on-debian-13/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:19:55

• Ubuntu ShipIt scuttled by oligarch once he MONOPOLISED the distros https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/Valve_s_SteamOS_Microsoft_Canonical_s_Ubuntu_and_Other_Platform.shtml    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:21:43

• How to Install Odoo 19 on Ubuntu 24.04 ☞ https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-install-odoo-19-on-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:22:41

• "I have a problem with a zpool. To be clear, this really isn’t a problem. I’m not aware of any I/O throttling etc. It is just something I would like to change." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/12/11/copying-everything-off-a-zpool-destroying-it-creating-a-new-one-and-copying-everything-back/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:23:11

• "In addition to all of the ZFS improvements Klara delivered in 2025, the community has also been very active, contributing many other features that will be under the Christmas tree for OpenZFS users this year." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-community-contributions-2025/ | Source: Klara    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:23:21

• "FreeBSD 15 release, moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, ZFS Boot Environments explained, and more..." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/641 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:24:06

• "The main private alternative to this is to self host a "cloud" service on your own hardware, be it a virtual machine on a VPS or a physical device in your home." ☛ https://lecaro.me/20251203-maybe-we-do-not-need-a-server.html |    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:24:29

• "The following packages may require manual intervention due to the upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0: [...]" ☛ https://archlinux.org/news/net-packages-may-require-manual-intervention/ | Source: ArchLinux    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:24:53

• "Google Cloud and Canonical work together to solve this with Deep Learning VM Images, which use Ubuntu Accelerator Optimized OS as the base OS." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-to-launch-a-deep-learning-vm-on-google-cloud | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:25:22

• "The MCUs are based on an Arm Cortex-M33 CPU running at 160 MHz and equipped with 704 KB of SRAM." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/renesas-releases-dual-band-wi-fi-6-and-bluetooth-le-mcus-on-cortex-m33-architecture/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:26:39

• "The Base Uno and Base Duo share a common architecture built around Nordic’s nRF52840 microcontroller" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/muzi-unveils-launches-modular-base-board-system-for-meshtastic-mesh-networking/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:26:56

• "Now, I've traded the immediate firefight for a more proactive battlefield as a manager within Red Hat Product Security" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/incident-responder-security-steward-my-journey-understanding-red-hats-open-approach-vulnerability-management | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:27:21

• "Teams often find themselves juggling hardware requests, managing multiple versions of the same model, and trying to deliver performance that actually holds up in production." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/solving-scaling-challenge-3-proven-strategies-your-ai-infrastructure | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:27:31

• Hamas Committed War Crimes in 2023 Attack on Israel, Amnesty International Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/world/middleeast/amnesty-international-hamas-war-crimes-israel.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:29:04

• ICC sentences Sudan militia leader to 20 years for atrocities committed during civil war ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/icc-sentences-sudan-militia-leader-to-20-years-for-atrocities-committed-during-civil-war/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:29:25

• "Earlier this year, we invited you to join us in celebrating online choice, and to take a stand for independence and control in your digital life" ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/open-what-you-want-choice-survey/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:30:10

• Paid-for propaganda that disgraces the term "research" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/key-considerations-2026-planning-insights-idc    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:31:21

• Just buzzwords from Chris Wright https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/accelerating-open-source-development-ai    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:31:50

• And MOAR buzzwords https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/demystifying-llm-d-and-vllm-race-production    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:32:06

• Fake journalism, puff piece about IBM Red Hat, paid for by IBM https://www.forbes.com/sites/victordey/2025/12/08/open-source-and-orchestration-will-define-enterprise-ai-leadership-in-2026/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/13/Forbes_Already_Stopped_Being_a_News_Sites_Now_It_s_a_Spam_and_P.shtml    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:33:51

• Red Hat then links to its own paid-for piece https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-december-12-2025-red-hat    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:33:57

• Fake, paid-for "ladders" or rankings https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/2025/crn-s-2025-products-of-the-year    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:35:00

• Unify OpenShift Service Mesh observability: Perses and Prometheus ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/11/unify-openshift-service-mesh-observability-perses-and-prometheus    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:36:06

• Russia’s insistence on a defenseless Ukraine betrays Putin’s true intentions ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russias-insistence-on-a-defenseless-ukraine-betrays-putins-true-intentions/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:37:12

• The US proposal for "free economic zone" in Ukraine's east 'is a trap', analyst says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251211-the-us-proposal-for-free-economic-zone-in-ukraine-s-east-is-a-trap-analyst-says    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:37:25

• Commissioner Kos: Press Point after informal ministerial meeting in Lviv ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_3033    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:37:47

• Joint Statement between Commissioner Marta Kos and Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Taras Kachka ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_3030    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:38:56

• Russian cargo jet grounded 16 years in Upper Peninsula may soon fly again ☞ https://bridgemi.com/quality-life/russian-cargo-jet-grounded-16-years-in-upper-peninsula-may-soon-fly-again/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:39:13

• Zelensky says US still pushing territorial concessions from Ukraine as part of peace plan ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251211-zelensky-says-us-still-pushing-territorial-concessions-from-ukraine-part-peace-plan    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:39:23

• Frozen assets debate: 'this is no time for legal niceties', analyst says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251211-frozen-assets-debate-this-is-no-time-for-legal-niceties-analyst-says    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:39:35

• NATO chief Rutte warns allies to step up defence spending or be Russia's next target ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251211-nato-chief-rutte-warns-allies-step-up-defence-spending-russia-next-target    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:39:47

• Zelensky Says Revised U.S. Plan Still Calls for Ukraine to Leave Donbas ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/world/europe/trump-ukraine-european-leaders.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:39:58

• Russia Warns Poland Over Arrest of a Researcher Wanted by Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/world/europe/russia-threat-poland-archaeologist.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 16:40:09

• "Euroclear" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/12/12/russia-s-central-bank-sues-belgian-clearinghouse-euroclear-over-frozen-assets-as-e-u-weighs-reparations-loan-to-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:00:22

• "Russia’s flagship airline" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/11/how-ukrainian-and-belarusian-hackers-wreaked-havoc-on-russia-s-flagship-airline-and-exposed-its-role-in-the-war | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:00:42

• Ridiculous attack on person A sharing a gift with person B. What next? Banning flea markets? https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/12/12/customs-council-agrees-to-levy-customs-duty-on-small-parcels-as-of-1-july-2026/ via psydruid    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:02:01

• If you pay with cash, are you a criminal, EU?    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:02:22

• Former Latvian bank owner Antonov arrested in France ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/11.12.2025-former-latvian-bank-owner-antonov-arrested-in-france.a626075/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:02:30

• NATO's Rutte warns allies they are Russia's next target ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251211-nato-s-rutte-warns-allies-they-are-russia-s-next-target    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:02:40

• US, Japan conduct joint air exercise after China-Russia patrols ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/11/us-japan-conduct-joint-air-exercise-after-china-russia-patrols/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:03:13

• Former Snoras bank owners detained in France on Lithuanian arrest warrant ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2772238/former-snoras-bank-owners-detained-in-france-on-lithuanian-arrest-warrant    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:03:44

• In Stark Warning, NATO's Rutte Says Alliance Is 'Russia's Next Target' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/nato-rutte-warning-russia-target/33620771.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:03:56

• "Russian lawmakers draft new repressive laws targeting citizens abroad convicted on political charges" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/11/russian-lawmakers-draft-new-repressive-laws-targeting-citizens-abroad-convicted-on-political-charges | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:04:39

• U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/climate/unep-climate-report-trump-administration.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:05:41

• Chronology of contraband balloon ‘hybrid attack’ – here’s what you should know ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2771303/chronology-of-contraband-balloon-hybrid-attack-here-s-what-you-should-know    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:05:54

• Lithuania seeks EU, US backing to pressure Minsk over smuggler balloons - PM ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2772120/lithuania-seeks-eu-us-backing-to-pressure-minsk-over-smuggler-balloons-pm    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:06:05

• CAFC Upholds TTAB's Grant of Counterclaim for Cancellation: Applicant Proved Priority Through Assignment of Common Law Mark After Proceeding Commenced ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/cafc-upholds-ttabs-grant-of.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:06:56

• Federal Judge Tosses MF Doom Estate’s Temu Trademark Suit — Dismissal Motion Hearing Scheduled In Twenty One Pilots’ Similar Complaint ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/10/mf-doom-temu-lawsuit-dismissed/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 17:07:12

• What I Look For in SLOP PRs ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/10/What-I-Look-For-in-AI-Assisted-PRs/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:33:27

• Introducing mrva, a terminal-first approach to CodeQL multi-repo variant analysis ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/11/introducing-mrva-a-terminal-first-approach-to-codeql-multi-repo-variant-analysis/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:34:30

• Martin Thompson: The Hacklore Letter and Privacy ☞ https://lowentropy.net/posts/hacklore-privacy/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:35:16

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.92.0 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/11/Rust-1.92.0/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:36:21

• KOL479 | Co-Ownership Revisited: Property Rights, Exclusion, Contracts, and Edge Cases, with Nick Sinard ☞ https://stephankinsella.com/as_paf_podcast/kol479-co-ownership-revisited-sinard/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:36:51

• Trike prototype #1 disassembly ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202512/trike-prototype-1-disassembly.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:37:39

• Trampolines and live music: Carnival mood at Thai evacuation camp can’t mask villagers’ anxiety ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/in-thai-ruling-party-stronghold-on-cambodian-border-tedium-and-nationalism-reigns    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:38:17

• Civil society urges the ICO to investigate the Home Office’s failing eVisa system ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/civil-society-urges-the-ico-to-investigate-the-home-offices-failing-evisa-system/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:38:48

• Microsoft attacking the "Linux" brand https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-google-openai-and-anthropic-join-forces-to-form-agentic-ai-alliance-according-to-report-organization-backed-by-the-linux-foundation-is-set-to-create-open-source-standards-for-ai-agents see https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/To_Linus_Torvalds_the_Microsoft_Linux_Foundation_is_Increasingl.shtml    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:39:57

• "sadly this is what IBM has become under evil Alvind and his Pipmunks - a censor of the truth. H1B visas for computer professionals and consultants need to be stopped and banned outright in the US as we have so many unemployed Americans. Let the H1B crooks go to Canada and China to find jobs. No one wants them here except global corporations who thrive on slave wages and labor." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kby7g8nk    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:43:01

• She Studied Mosquitoes to Prevent Malaria. Then She Lost Her Job at U.S.A.I.D. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/science/malaria-usaid-mosquitoes.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:50:13

• Killer Whales Find an ‘Unlikely Friend’ in Dolphins ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/science/orcas-dolphins-fish.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:50:32

• 'Dihydroxyacetone Man's foreign policy toward Venezuela unclear, with actions edging dangerously close to red line' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251212-trump-s-foreign-policy-toward-venezuela-unclear-with-actions-edging-dangerously-close-to-red-line    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:50:45

• Digital skills should receive the same amount of attention at school as reading, mathematics, and science latest Eurobarometer reveals ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_3023    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:51:38

• Affordable Care Act Subsidies Are Set to Expire ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/briefing/senate-health-care-indiana-voting-map.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:51:56

• Batam customs office uncovers new way to smuggle used clothing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/batam-customs-office-uncovers-new-way-to-smuggle-used-clothing    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:52:22

• Blood donations especially welcome ahead of holidays in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/11.12.2025-blood-donations-especially-welcome-ahead-of-holidays-in-latvia.a625921/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:52:38

• Ninety per cent of Latvia's flu vaccines used up ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/11.12.2025-ninety-per-cent-of-latvias-flu-vaccines-used-up.a625943/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:52:47

• 2 dead after collapse at South Korea library construction site ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/one-dead-two-missing-after-collapse-at-south-korea-library-construction-site    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:53:01

• North Korea’s Kim Jong Un lauds sending troops overseas, vows to root out ‘evil’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-lauds-sending-troops-overseas-in-2025-kcna-says    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:53:15

• ‘Make her ugly so she wouldn’t see other men’: Man in South Korea under probe for scalding Thai wife ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/make-her-ugly-so-she-wouldnt-see-other-men-man-in-south-korea-under-probe-for-scalding-thai-wife    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:53:36

• Malaysia’s prosecution drops appeal against acquittal of ex-PM Najib’s wife Rosmah ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-prosecution-drops-appeal-against-acquittal-of-ex-pm-najibs-wife-rosmah    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:53:50

• Malaysia to provide cash aid to Indonesian students affected by floods ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-provide-cash-aid-to-indonesian-students-affected-by-floods    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:54:07

• Visualize Performance Co-Pilot data with geomaps in Grafana ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/11/visualize-performance-co-pilot-data-geomaps-grafana    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:55:06

• Wide Range of Malware Delivered in React2Shell Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/wide-range-of-malware-delivered-in-react2shell-attacks/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:55:39

• Rust 1.92.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1050125/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:55:58

• Ballerburg SDL – classical castle combat game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ballerburg-sdl-classical-castle-combat-game/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:56:41

• Installing Ubuntu on the Orange Pi 5 Max with eMMC and NVMe ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/installing-ubuntu-on-the-orange-pi-5-max-with-emmc-and-nvme.58119/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:57:15

• phoronix = Microsoft EEE every day! https://www.phoronix.com/linux/Microsoft    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 18:59:51

• NVIDIA 580.119.02 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Various Bug Fixes ☞ https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-580-119-02-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-various-bug-fixes    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:01:25

• Upstreaming of the AAEON UP board IO expansion Linux kernel driver ☞ https://bootlin.com/blog/upstreaming-of-the-aaeon-up-board-io-expansion-linux-kernel-driver/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:02:27

• "Linux-powered device [...] two together with a USB cable" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/12/consider-this-pocket-machine-for-your-iphone-backups/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:02:58

• Counterfactual Scenario Analysis with ahead::ridge2f ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/counterfactual-scenario-analysis-with-aheadridge2f/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:04:10

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1050117/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:04:34

• Pre-settlement for plagiarism ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-announces-first-ai-deals-with-publishers/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:05:39

• Up to 16-core AMD EPYC Embedded 2005 Series Zen 5 processors support up 28 PCIe Gen5 lanes, offer 10-year availability ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/11/up-to-16-core-amd-epyc-embedded-2005-series-zen-5-processors-support-up-28-pcie-gen5-lanes-offer-10-year-availability/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:07:47

• Japan, US defence chiefs agree China radar incident damaging ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-us-defence-chiefs-agree-china-radar-incident-damaging    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:15:48

• Mexico Approves 50% Tariffs on Many Chinese Imports ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/world/americas/mexico-tariffs-china.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:15:57

• Radioactive pendant found on passenger at China airport, described as ‘talisman’ from friend ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/radioactive-pendant-found-on-passenger-at-china-airport-described-as-talisman-from-friend    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:16:22

• Demon Slayer movie screening not extended in China amid dispute with Japan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/demon-slayer-movie-screening-not-extended-in-china-amid-dispute-with-japan    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:16:49

• China keeps buying sushi, Japan’s cars as Pooh-tin keeps spat in check ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-keeps-buying-sushi-japans-cars-as-xi-keeps-spat-in-check    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:17:01

• China urges Mexico to reverse 50% tariffs ‘as soon as possible’ ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/china-mexico-50-tariffs/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:17:14

• The Tor Project is Making a Switch to Rust, Ditches C ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/tor-rust-rewrite-progress/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:17:38

• Electric Piano Restoration ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/11/extremely-rare-electric-piano-restoration/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:18:40

• Scientists Explain Why You Wake Up Minutes Before Your Alarm ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-explain-why-you-wake-up-minutes-before-your-alarm    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:19:02

• Man Accused in Charlie Kirk Killing Makes First Court Appearance in Person ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/us/charlie-kirk-assassination-suspect-hearing.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:19:17

• Ford’s Car of the Future, Hatched in a Skunk Works Near Los Angeles ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/business/ford-electric-vehicles-china.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:19:41

• London news website publishes misleading ‘AI-generated fiction’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/ai-local-news-london/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:20:12

• One Critical Factor Predicts Longevity Better Than Diet or Exercise, Study Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-critical-factor-predicts-longevity-better-than-diet-or-exercise-study-says    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:20:37

• Your Blood Type Affects Your Risk of Early Stroke, Study Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-blood-type-affects-your-risk-of-early-stroke-study-reveals    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:20:56

• 'Ozempic' For Cats Is Coming, And Vets Are Testing It on Overweight Pets ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ozempic-for-cats-is-coming-and-vets-are-testing-it-on-overweight-pets    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:21:19

• Mars Has a Surprising Influence on Earth's Climate, Scientists Discover ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mars-has-a-surprising-influence-on-earths-climate-scientists-discover    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:21:32

• New Blood Pressure Guidelines Mean You Could Now Have Hypertension ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-mean-you-could-now-have-hypertension    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:22:24

• Microplastics Can Spread Dangerous Pathogens, Scientists Warn ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-can-spread-dangerous-pathogens-scientists-warn    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:22:33

• UPC is illegal and these fake, phony awards get given by the PR mill of Team UPC ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/arnold-ruess-takes-trophy-for-upc-firm-of-the-year/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:23:59

• UPC is still illegal and JUVE is still paid to promote this illegality ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/the-price-war-for-upc-work/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:24:39

• Licensing a PONZI SCHEME https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/banks/11.12.2025-latvian-central-bank-issues-first-two-crypto-licences.a625959/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:25:48

• "DO NOT WORRY!!! Because THIS Ponzi scheme is OK!! The OTHERS are NOT!!"    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:26:23

• Ecuador criticized for freezing indigenous and environmental group bank accounts ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/ecuador-criticized-for-freezing-indigenous-and-environmental-groups-bank-accounts/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:26:56

• Pakistan’s ex-spy chief jailed for 14 years in rare military rebuke ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/pakistans-ex-spy-chief-jailed-for-14-years-in-rare-military-rebuke    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:27:12

• Qt Creator 18.0.1 released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-18.0.1-released    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:29:43

• Pakistan’s Ex-Spy Chief Sentenced to Prison After Court-Martial ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/world/asia/pakistan-isi-hameed-court-martial-prison.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:31:14

• Disney Agrees to Bring Its Characters to OpenAI’s Sora Videos ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/business/media/disney-openai-sora-deal.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:31:31

• Hype and spam!! ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251211-time-magazine-names-architects-of-ai-as-its-person-of-the-year-for-2025 See http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/10/Nobel_Exploited_Posthumously_for_AI_Hype_Now_They_Do_the_Same_W.shtml and http://techrights.org/n/2024/02/02/The_Great_LLM_Delusion_Part_VI_Hype_Agent_Geoff_Hinton_Would_Ne.shtml    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:32:33

• Ponzi BOOSTERS, for pay! ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/11/nvidias-future-forward-take-ai-semiconductor-boom-gsaawards/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/28/Circular_Financing_in_NVidia_NVidia_Pays_Its_Clients_to_Buy_Fro.shtml    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:33:16

• Another AI-Powered Children’s Toy Just Got Caught Having Wildly Inappropriate Conversations ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/another-ai-toy-inappropriate    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:34:15

• McDonald’s Issues Extremely Weird Response to Its Disastrous Hey Hi (AI) Ad ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:34:47

• Time Magazine Deploys Hey Hi (AI) “Ask Me Anything” Box That Covers Up Its Actual Journalism and Can’t Be Closed ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/time-magazine-ai-chatbot    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:35:27

• Project to Resurrect Dead Grandmas Sparks Controversy ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dead-grandma-2wai-ai    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:35:41

• Reddit files lawsuit against Australia’s social control media ban ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/reddit-files-lawsuit-against-australias-social-media-ban    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:39:29

• Indonesia repatriates drug trafficking convicts to the Netherlands ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/indonesia-repatriates-drug-trafficking-convicts-to-the-netherlands/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:39:58

• Sonos Scores a Critical Judgment Against SoundExchange — But Everything’s Now Riding on SoundExchange’s Appeal Against SiriusXM ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/11/soundexchange-sonos-lawsuit/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:40:34

• Intel fails to get EU antitrust ruling overturned in longstanding 16-year AMD competition case — chipmaker sees $1.2 billion fine reduced to $278 million ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-fails-to-get-eu-antitrust-ruling-overturned-in-longstanding-16-year-amd-competition-case-chipmaker-sees-usd1-2-billion-fine-reduced-to-usd278-million    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:41:09

• Louvre Heist Was Filmed Live, but the Guards Weren’t Watching ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/world/europe/louvre-heist-camera-delay.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:41:31

• America Is Entering Its Third Civil War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/opinion/trump-europe-security-strategy.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:41:42

• Kristi Noem Testifies Before House Panel Amid Immigration Crackdown ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/us/politics/noem-house-hearing-immigration-crackdown.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:41:53

• Bulgarian PM Zhelyazkov Resigns After Mass Protests Against Tax Hikes, Corruption ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/33620656.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:42:06

• ECOWAS declares state of emergency as coups threaten rule of law ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/ecowas-declares-state-of-emergency-as-coups-threaten-rule-of-law/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:42:49

• OpenSSF 2025 Annual Report Is Live: A Year of Global Growth, Security Wins, and Community Momentum ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/12/11/openssf-2025-annual-report-is-live-a-year-of-global-growth-security-wins-and-community-momentum/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:45:18

• China’s Hey Hi (AI) use for cyber espionage shifts cyber focus from detection to trust ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-ai-use-for-cyber-espionage-shifts-cyber-focus-from-detection-to-trust/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:45:39

• IBM Patches Over 100 Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ibm-patches-over-100-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:45:59

• Unpatched Gogs Zero-Day Exploited for Months ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/unpatched-gogs-zero-day-exploited-for-months/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:46:16

• Pierce County Library Data Breach Impacts 340,000 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/pierce-county-library-data-breach-impacts-340000/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:46:30

• Former Accenture Employee Charged Over Cybersecurity Fraud ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/former-accenture-employee-charged-over-cybersecurity-fraud/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:51:57

• Europeans see strong benefits from EU membership and call for a more assertive Union ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_3032    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:52:17

• "As technology marches on, gear that once required expensive lab equipment is now showing up in devices you can buy for less than a nice dinner." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/11/amiibo-emulator-becomes-pocket-2-4-ghz-spectrum-analyzer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:53:15

• After Australia, Which Countries Could Be Next to Ban Social Control Media for Children ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/world/australia/social-media-ban-australia-europe-china-usa.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:53:48

• "Cycloidal drives have an entrancing motion, as well as a few other advantages – high torque and efficiency, low backlash, and compactness among them. However, much as [Sergei Mishin] likes them" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/11/designing-a-simpler-cycloidal-drive/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:54:23

• "If you get a chance to visit a computer history museum and see some of the very old computers, you’ll think they took up a full room." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/11/step-into-my-particle-accelerator/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:54:45

• "There are a million and one MIDI controllers and synths on the market, but sometimes it’s just more satisfying to make your own. [Turi Scandurra] very much went his own way when he put together his Diapasonix instrument" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/11/diy-synth-takes-inspiration-from-fretted-instruments/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:54:58

• "Apple were still in their period in the doldrums waiting for Steve Jobs to return with his NeXT, while other would-be challengers such as IBM’s OS/2 or Commodore’s Amiga were sinking into obscurity" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/11/jennys-daily-drivers-haiku-r1-beta5/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:55:22

• Surveillance: Shazam Can Now Tell You the Most Popular Moment of a Song ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/11/shazam-can-now-tell-you-the-most-popular-moment-of-a-song/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:55:48

• iWave Systems iG-RainboW-G69M TI AM62L OSM Size-S system-on-module powers Raspberry Pi-sized SBC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/11/iwave-systems-ig-rainbow-g69m-ti-am62l-osm-size-s-system-on-module-powers-raspberry-pi-sized-sbc/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:56:24

• Managing SIEM Log Collectors at Scale with Ansible and Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Actions – Part 1 ☞ https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/12/11/managing-siem-log-collectors-at-scale-with-ansible-and-github-actions-part-1/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:58:35

• AIs Exploiting Smart Contracts ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/ais-exploiting-smart-contracts.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:59:08

• The syslog-ng Insider 2025-12: logrotation; release RPM; nightly RPM ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-insider-2025-12-logrotate-rhel-rpm/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 19:59:47

• Can Proprietary Chaffbot Company Respond After Surveillance Giant Google Closes the Hey Hi (AI) Technology Gap? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/technology/openai-google-ai-technology-gap.html    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:00:08

• UK-based sports publisher cuts 60 staff due to Surveillance Giant Google updates ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-based-sports-publisher-cuts-60-staff-due-to-google-updates/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:00:35

• Warrant requirements, Democratic worries could factor into spy law renewal debate ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/warrant-requirements-democratic-worries-could-factor-into-spy-law-renewal-debate/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:01:01

• Google Patches Mysterious Chrome Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-patches-mysterious-chrome-zero-day-exploited-in-the-wild/    

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

• Migrant smuggling laws: European Commission found in breach of transparency rules ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/migrant-smuggling-laws-european-commission-found-in-breach-of-transparency-rules/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:02:20

• EDRi-gram, 11 December 2025 ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-11-december-2025/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:02:33

• More than 400 civilians killed in fighting in eastern Congo ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20251211-more-than-400-civilians-killed-in-fighting-in-eastern-congo    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:02:55

• The Forrest Dump Administration wants your DNA and social control media ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5713/trump-administration-wants-your-dna-and-social-media    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:03:19

• Malaysian police must accept reports without conditions, says Home Minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-police-must-accept-reports-without-conditions-says-home-minister    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:04:01

• Is the US interested in Venezuela's oil? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20251211-is-the-us-interested-in-venezuela-s-oil    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:04:17

• Disney, Proprietary Chaffbot Company strike landmark deal to let fans create AI-generated videos ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20251212-disney-openai-deal-ai-generated-videos    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:04:38

• Internet shutdowns in armed conflict: a typology of harms ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/publication/internet-shutdowns-typology-of-harms/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:05:13

• Connectivity as a weapon of war: how internet shutdowns harm civilians in armed conflict ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/connectivity-as-a-weapon-of-war-how-internet-shutdowns-harm-civilians-in-armed-conflict/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:05:28

• ‘PyStoreRAT’ malware uses fake developer tools on Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub to infect backdoored Windows systems ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/11/pystorerat-malware-uses-fake-developer-tools-github-infect-windows-systems/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:05:58

• How Bad Is It?: Three Political Scientists Say America Is No Longer a Democracy ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/how-bad-is-it-three-political-scientists-say-america-is-no-longer-a-democracy    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:07:26

• “Youth as merchandise”: Iraqi mercenaries in Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/podcast/youth-as-merchandise-iraqi-mercenaries-in-ukraine/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:07:48

• ChatGPT chatbot’s jaw-dropping response when asked about its alleged role in murder-suicide case ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/12/11/us-news/chatgpt-chatbots-shocking-response-to-alleged-role-in-murder-suicide/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:08:41

• Purism Liberty Phone Exists vs. Delayed T1 Phone ☞ https://puri.sm/posts/purism-liberty-phone-exists-vs-delayed-t1-phone/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:09:07

• "Like the UP TWL, the UP Squared Pro TWL Intel N150 SBC is preloaded with Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS installed on a 64GB (62.6GB) eMMC flash, and ships with 8GB of RAM." https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/11/up-squared-pro-twl-ai-dev-kit-review-intel-n150-hailo-8l-    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:11:13

• "Like the UP TWL, the UP Squared Pro TWL Intel N150 SBC is preloaded with Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS installed on a 64GB (62.6GB) eMMC flash, and ships with 8GB of RAM." https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/11/up-squared-pro-twl-ai-dev-kit-review-intel-n150-hailo-8l-accelerator-tested-on-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:11:36

• "Last year, I started the "12 days of Tuxmas" series and introduced 12 feature changes, gifts (ebooks) for our readers, to make them get more out of what we do here on It's FOSS, which is to help more people use Linux and explore open source software." https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-50/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:12:02

• "While many Linux users like to try out new distros, especially those new to Linux, Debian and its derivatives have consistently given me what I need. Here are the reasons I've never felt the need to    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:12:20

• "While many Linux users like to try out new distros, especially those new to Linux, Debian and its derivatives have consistently given me what I need. Here are the reasons I've never felt the need to distro-hop." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-why-i-dont-need-to-distro-hop-thanks-to-debian/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:12:36

• Canonical Prepares Native AMD ROCm Support for Ubuntu https://www.techpowerup.com/343911/canonical-prepares-native-amd-rocm-support-for-ubuntu    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:13:03

• Canonical to package AMD ROCm directly in Ubuntu https://videocardz.com/newz/canonical-to-package-amd-rocm-directly-in-ubuntu    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:13:26

• "I’ve tried pretty much every major Linux distro out there, and I have my own list of distros I’d trust on most PCs. But gaming is a whole different category altogether. There are several distributions specifically designed for gaming, and they are structurally very different from each other." https://www.makeuseof.com/bazzite-isnt-the-best-linux-gaming-option-anymore/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:16:51

• "The newest version of the Linux kernel offers two years of long-term support, plus upgrades to the slab memory allocator, security hardening and more." https://thenewstack.io/linux-6-18-all-about-the-new-long-term-support-linux-kernel/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:18:38

• Slop in CLI. WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!1 https://www.zdnet.com/article/geminis-command-line-tool-is-a-productivity-game-changer-and-its-free-how-i-use-it/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:20:19

• "Overwatch 2 has launched the big Season 20 update but unfortunately for Linux / SteamOS fans, it comes with some really annoying crash bugs." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/overwatch-2-with-season-20-has-some-very-annoying-crash-bugs-on-linux-steamos/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:20:41

• 8 most Windows-like Linux distros - if you're ready to ditch Microsoft https://www.zdnet.com/article/most-windows-like-linux-distros/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:21:09

• When I Get Stressed, I Just Repeat “Linux” to Myself https://www.radioworld.com/tech-and-gear/radio-it-management/when-i-get-stressed-i-just-repeat-linux-to-myself    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:21:37

• Zorin OS vs. AnduinOS: How to pick the right Windows-like Linux distro for you https://www.zdnet.com/article/zorin-vs-andruin-linux-windows-distro/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:22:21

• Why are you happy, SJVN? Money from LF Microsoft? https://thenewstack.io/rust-goes-mainstream-in-the-linux-kernel/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:24:18

• Instead of doing what's good for Linux the "LF" does what's good to those who pay LF to do to Linux.    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:25:28

• "This release also ships with the Mozilla Thunderbird 140.5.0 email client and Linux kernel 6.12.57 LTS." https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-3-1-anonymous-linux-os-released-with-tor-browser-15-0-3-and-tor-0-4-8-21    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:25:53

• Creating User-Friendly Installers Across Operating Systems https://hackaday.com/2025/12/11/creating-user-friendly-installers-across-operating-systems/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:28:53

• Retro gaming handheld with Android and Linux dual OS just got launched by Abxylute with an introductory offer https://www.pcguide.com/news/retro-gaming-handheld-with-android-and-linux-dual-os-just-got-launched-by-abxylute-with-an-introductory-offer/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:29:38

• "Looking for a Linux distribution that delivers more power and control? If you're new to Linux, only one of these may be right for you." https://www.zdnet.com/article/opensuse-versus-manjaro-linux-distros-compared-new-experienced-users/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:31:21

• 🔤SpellBinding — CEHLQUS Wordo: TAILS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-12.gmi    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:42:36

• "I've been playing guitar for a long time, but there are periods within that for me. I started back in 2007, when my Guitar Hero 2 save got wiped, my progress was lost, and I figured, _if I'm going to do this, why not play the actual guitar?_" gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/12-12.gmi    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:43:32

• "If you’re a Halfway to Mars completionist you’ll know that I have had more exposure to more “dye” puns than I could ever stomach normally (and I mostly had the guy spiffing up my glider), so you’re not getting any here." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:44:50

• Bad Joke gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/12/12/bad-joke.gmi    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:45:56

• VERY busy day https://news.tuxmachines.org/browse/latest.shtml    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:52:06

• "Anybody have any idea the percentage of IBMers are retirement eligible per site?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kca2ddbp    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:55:38

• "What to you think of Confluent stock, a purchase, a buy or a pass. Or smoke and mirrors." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kca59cmq    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 20:56:46

• Premier League football matches can be crime hotspots https://theconversation.com/premier-league-football-matches-can-be-crime-hotspots-but-community-sports-centres-have-the-opposite-effect-271483    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 22:09:01

• neuroscience https://theconversation.com/can-entrepreneurship-be-taught-heres-the-neuroscience-250695    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 22:09:24

• Colombia https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-12-08/threats-armed-men-and-bodyguards-are-facts-of-life-for-activists-in-colombias-amazon    

posted Friday, December 12, 2025 at 22:10:02