Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers
An investigation has uncovered a sprawling network of hidden cameras in Chinese hotel rooms that livestream guests – including couples having sex – to paying subscribers on Telegram. Over 18 months, the BBC identified six websites and apps on the messaging platform that claimed to opera … ⌘ Read more
ML-LIB: Machine Learning Library Proposed For The Linux Kernel
Sent out today as a request for comments (RFC) by a Linux kernel engineer employed by IBM is a machine learning library for the Linux kernel. The intent is on plugging in running ML models to the Linux kernel that could be used for system performance optimizations and various other purposes… ⌘ Read more
AI.com Sells for $70 Million, the Highest Price Ever Disclosed for a Domain Name
Kris Marszalek, the co-founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com, has paid $70 million for the domain AI.com – the highest price ever publicly disclosed for a website name, according to the deal’s broker Larry Fischer of GetYourDomain.com.
The entire sum was paid in cryptocurrency to an undisclosed seller … ⌘ Read more
Big Tech’s $1.1 Trillion Cloud Computing Backlog
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft each reported hundreds of billions in RPO (remaining performance obligations) – signed contracts for cloud computing services that can’t yet be filled and haven’t yet hit the books. Collectively, the big three cloud providers reported a $1.1 trillion backlog of revenue.
[ It's been over a year, holy cow, time flies. We definitely have to pick up on that tradition again, that's for sure.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Sauna is awesome – if it wasn’t for other people. 🤣 A little mökki in Finland with a private sauna, that would be it.
KPMG Pressed Its Auditor To Pass on AI Cost Savings
An anonymous reader shares a report: KPMG, one of the world’s largest auditors of public and private companies, negotiated lower fees from its own accountant by arguing that AI will make it cheaper to do the work, according to people familiar with the matter. The Big Four firm told its auditor, Grant Thornton UK, it should pass on cost savings from the rollout of AI and threat … ⌘ Read more
VRR Improvements Merged To GNOME 50 For Lower Latency, Wayland Commit Timing
While just missing out on the recent Mutter 50 beta release, merged today to Mutter Git ahead of next month’s GNOME 50 desktop release are some improvements to the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support… ⌘ Read more
The Bizarre Enhancement Claims Rocking Ski Jumping
German newspaper Bild reported in January that some ski jumpers have been injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid ahead of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics – the theory being that temporarily enlarged genitalia would yield looser-fitting suits when measured by 3D scanners, and those looser suits could act like sails to produce longer jumps.
A study published last … ⌘ Read more
@shinyoukai@yume.laidback.moe I don’t have a use for it, just curious, why did you fork it?
Pushing The Intel Panther Lake CPU Performance Further On Linux
Earlier this week I published the first Linux benchmarks of Intel’s much anticipated Panther Lake with the Core Ultra X7 358H 16-core 18A processor. The Panther Lake SoC showed very nice generational gains especially with much better performance-per-Watt and the Intel Arc B390 graphics are also fascinatingly fast while continuing to be backed by open-source drivers. In today’s article are more Panther Lake Linux benchmarks on the CPU side in … ⌘ Read more
Europe Accuses TikTok of ‘Addictive Design’ and Pushes for Change
TikTok’s endless scroll of irresistible content, tailored for each person’s tastes by a well-honed algorithm, has helped the service become one of the world’s most popular apps. Now European Union regulators say those same features that made TikTok so successful are likely illegal. From a report: On Friday, the regulators released a preliminary d … ⌘ Read more
AMD Introduces New GPU Target To AMDGPU LLVM: GFX1170 “RDNA 4m”
In addition to their ongoing AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end work for upcoming GFX1250 and recently the GFX13 target for their graphics IP, today AMD compiler engineers introduced a new “GFX1170” target to the LLVM codebase that is also called RDNA 4m… ⌘ Read more
New Linux Patches Allow Preserving Apple Mac Backlight Brightness Across Reboots
A nice, overdue usability improvement is on the way for those using Apple Macs under Linux. Finally there will be the ability to preserve the same backlight brightness across reboots under Linux… ⌘ Read more
Canada Unveils Auto Industry Plan in Latest Pivot Away From US
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a sweeping plan to shore up the country’s auto industry and accelerate its electric vehicle transition, the latest in a series of moves to reduce Canada’s deep economic dependence on the United States as American tariffs continue to batter the sector.
The plan includes financial incentives for carmak … ⌘ Read more
“DHEI” Proposed For Linux To Help Cloud-Native Orchestrators & High Frequency Traders
Sent out today as a request for comments is a new patch series for Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI). DHEI aims to provide run-time adjustments to kernel behavior around CPU isolation for helping with latency-sensitive tasks. The expressed goal is for helping cloud-native orchestrators and high frequency trading platforms dynamically re-partition CPU resources without downtime… ⌘ Read more
GTK Developers Working On Session Saving Support & Better Accessibility This Year
GTK toolkit developers met in Brussels once again for their annual hackfest during FOSDEM week… ⌘ Read more
Qualcomm QUPv3 Firmware Upstreamed For Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux Users
One of the headaches right now when dealing with the Snapdragon X Elite on Linux is that for a majority of the devices you need to fetch firmware files from the Windows 11 on ARM partition as the necessary firmware bits for Linux use aren’t upstreamed to linux-firmware.git. That has gradually improved over time from the qcom-firmware-extract making the process easier to more firmware bits eventually being added to linux-firmware.git… ⌘ Read more
Why This Is the Worst Crypto Winter Ever
Bitcoin has fallen roughly 44% from its October peak, and while the drawdown isn’t crypto’s deepest ever on a percentage basis, Bloomberg’s Odd Lots newsletter lays out a case that this is the industry’s worst winter yet. The macro backdrop was supposed to favor Bitcoin: public confidence in the dollar is shaky, the Trump administration has been crypto-friendly, and fiat currencies are under perceiv … ⌘ Read more
CIA Has Killed Off The World Factbook After Six Decades
The CIA has shut down The World Factbook, one of its oldest and most recognizable public-facing intelligence publications, ending a run that began as a classified reference document in 1962 and evolved into a freely accessible digital resource that drew millions of views each year.
The agency offered no explanation for the decision. Originally titled The National … ⌘ Read more
Google Confirms AirDrop Sharing is Coming To Android Phones Beyond Pixels
Google’s Quick Share-AirDrop interoperability, which has been exclusive to the Pixel 10 series since its surprise launch last year, is headed to a much broader set of Android devices in 2026.
Eric Kay, Google’s Vice President of Engineering for the Android platform, confirmed the expansion during a press briefing at the company’s … ⌘ Read more
The European Commission Is Testing an Open Source Alternative To Microsoft Teams
The European Commission is preparing to trial a communications platform built on Matrix, the open source messaging protocol already used by the French government, German healthcare providers and European armed forces, as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams.
Signal currently serves as the backup tool but has proven to … ⌘ Read more
3mdeb Talks Up AMD openSIL & Open-Source Firmware Efforts For Confidential Compute
Engineers Michał Żygowski and Piotr Król of open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb presented at FOSDEM in Brussels on open-source for confidential compute infrastructure. With Intel not making strides to fully open-up their FSP package, the talk was centered around the modern AMD open-source firmware efforts led by their openSIL initiative for open-source CPU silicon initialization to replace AGESA in the Zen 6 timeframe… ⌘ Read more
Court Rules That Ripping YouTube Clips Can Violate the DMCA
A federal court in California has ruled that YouTube creators who use stream-ripping tools to download clips for reaction and commentary videos may face liability under the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions – a decision that could reshape how one of the platform’s most popular content genres operates.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi of the … ⌘ Read more
It was so great going to the sauna again, we were looking forward to that the whole week. :-) It’s been over a year, holy cow, time flies. We definitely have to pick up on that tradition again, that’s for sure.
We attended two Aufguss sessions, the first and last one in our four hour visit. Unfortunately, we didn’t make it to the other two, because the crazy people already occupied the entire sauna 15 minutes before the start. Yeah, no.
Now, the bellies are stuffed with kebabs. Yum! Let’s see how often I wake up tonight to rehydrate.
Also transfering interesting radio recordings I found on the used MiniDiscs to FLAC.
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Haven’t watched it to the end yet, but @lyse might like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EarBm4tfMXs
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de You’re right, that’s neat. I also saw Pask’s take on that which he referenced. I don’t know if I will ever attempt anything like that. Can’t imagine to succeed in that mission.
NASA Will Finally Let Its Astronauts Bring iPhones To the Moon
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has announced that astronauts on the upcoming Crew-12 and Artemis II missions will be allowed to carry iPhones and other modern smartphones into orbit and to the Moon – a reversal of long-standing agency rules that had left crews relying on a 2016 Nikon DSLR and decade-old GoPros for the historic lunar flyby.
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GNU Nettle 4.0 Released With SLH-DSA Support
The GNU Nettle cryptographic library is out with a major new update that introduces support for SLH-DSA, the post-quantum signature scheme selected by NIST for the FIPS 205 standard… ⌘ Read more
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@lyse Found some numbers now, they’re saying it was around 10cm in 3-4 hours. I don’t know, felt like more. 😂 The forecast wasn’t really good either, now that I think about it. They said there’s going to be some snow, okay, fine, but then, boom.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I see. Yeah, if you gotta have to tediously plow through, it feels deeper. And sometimes it actually is.
We had super thick fog this morning. It rolled in extremely quickly, maybe 15 minutes at most. Visibility was below 50 meters. Looked cool from inside.
Musk Predicts SpaceX Will Launch More AI Compute Per Year Than the Cumulative Total on Earth
Elon Musk told podcast host Dwarkesh Patel and Stripe co-founder John Collison that space will become the most economically compelling location for AI data centers in less than 36 months, a prediction rooted not in some exotic technical breakthrough but in the basic math of electricity su … ⌘ Read more
Ardour 9.0 Audio Workstation Released With Multi-Touch GUI, Many New Features
Ardour 9.0 is out today as the latest major feature release to this leading open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software for musicians, recording engineers, and other audio editing needs… ⌘ Read more
Automattic and the Internet Archive Team Up To Fight Link Rot
Automattic and the Internet Archive have released a free, open-source WordPress plugin that automatically detects broken outbound links on a site and redirects visitors to archived Wayback Machine copies instead of serving them a 404 error.
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer, which launched last fall and is available on WordPress.org, run … ⌘ Read more
Intel Xe Linux Driver Will No Longer Block D3cold For All Battlemage GPUs
Merged a year ago to the Linux kernel’s Xe graphics driver was a change to disable D3Cold across all Battlemage GPUs. This was done due instability issues around the D3cold to D0 power state transition. Finally with the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle that restriction is being loosened with restoring D3cold support with Battlemage GPUs aside from a specific NUC… ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.6 as Its AI Tools Rattle Software Markets
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4.6, its most capable model yet, at a moment when the company’s AI tools have already spooked markets over fears that they are disrupting traditional software development and other sectors.
The new model improves on Opus 4.5’s coding abilities, the company said – it plans more carefully, … ⌘ Read more
Debian’s CI Data No Longer Publicly Browseable Due To LLM Scrapers / Bot Traffic
LLM scrapers for AI are even hungry for Debian’s continuous integration “CI” data. Due to the ongoing abuse of the open web by LLM scrapers, the Debian CI infrastructure is restricting the publicly accessible data with their web server resources being hammered by bots/scrapers… ⌘ Read more
Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs
Western Digital this week laid out a roadmap that stretches its 3.5-inch hard drive platform to 14 platters and pairs it with a new vertical-emitting laser for heat-assisted magnetic recording, a combination the company says will push individual drive capacities beyond 140 TB in the … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production
Amazon plans to use AI to speed up the process for making movies and TV shows even as Hollywood fears that AI will cut jobs and permanently reshape the industry. From a report: At the Amazon MGM Studio, veteran entertainment executive Albert Cheng is leading a team charged with developing new AI tools that he said will cut costs and streamline the cre … ⌘ Read more
“When we get to thinking of everything in terms of profit and survival value, then the shapes of scratches on the floor cease to have magic.” - Alan Watts
Spotify Plans To Sell Physical Books
Spotify is planning to let premium subscribers in the U.S. and U.K. buy hardcovers and paperbacks directly through its app starting this spring, partnering with Bookshop.org to handle pricing, inventory and fulfillment.
The Swedish streaming company, which entered the audiobook market in 2022, will also introduce a feature called Page Match that lets users scan a page from a physical book or e-reader … ⌘ Read more
Intel Arc B390 Graphics Performance On Linux With Panther Lake
Yesterday was our first look at the Intel Panther Lake Linux performance with the Core Ultra X7 358H and focused on the CPU performance. In today’s benchmarking is a look at the very exciting Xe3 graphics found with the top-tier Panther Lake models: the Arc B390 Graphics with 12 Xe cores. ⌘ Read more
FBI Couldn’t Get Into Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
The FBI has been unable to access a Washington Post reporter’s seized iPhone because it was in Lockdown Mode, a sometimes overlooked feature that makes iPhones broadly more secure, according to recently filed court records. 404Media: The court record shows what devices and data the FBI was able to ultimately access, and whi … ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu To Support The SpacemiT K3 As One Of The First RISC-V RVA23 SoCs
Canonical and SpacemiT announced today that Ubuntu Linux will be officially supported on SpacemiT’s new K3 RISC-V SoC. What makes the K3 interesting is being one of the first available RISC-V RVA23 designs… ⌘ Read more
Kalshi Claims ‘Extortion,’ Then Recants in Feud Over User Losses
Kalshi, the largest U.S. prediction market, accused a small data startup called Juice Reel of “extortion” after a stock analyst used the company’s transaction-level data to argue that prediction market users lose money faster than gamblers on traditional betting apps – then walked the allegation back hours later.
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Krita 6.0 Beta Released - Using Qt6 & Wayland Color Management Support
The first beta release of Krita 6.0 is now available for this featureful digital painting program. Krita 6.0 is re-based against the Qt6 toolkit while Krita 5.3 Beta is also being released at the same time for those sticking to Qt5… ⌘ Read more
NetBSD’s Kernel Supports Lua Scripting But Don’t Look For Rust In There Anytime Soon
For those not fond of the increasing use of the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel or FreeBSD’s considerations for Rust in its kernel, you can perhaps find refuge within NetBSD. One of the NetBSD developers has explained why you likely won’t be finding Rust code within the NetBSD kernel anytime soon… ⌘ Read more
China Has Seized Sony’s Television Halo
Sony announced last month that it plans to pass control of its home entertainment division – including the two-decade-old Bravia television brand – to Chinese electronics group TCL through a joint venture in which TCL would hold a 51% stake. The Japanese company was long ago overtaken in sales by South Korea’s Samsung and LG and now holds just 2% of the global television market. Sony s … ⌘ Read more
Also the short documentary ‘John Was Trying to Contact Aliens’ was really heartfelt and great. Didn’t know the story of John Shepherd yet. Discovered some great music thanks to this short film. Inkl. Harmonia
Enjoying the show Resident Alien with Alan Tudyk.