Pranksters Redirect Bitly’s Links in X Posts for Trump, McDonald’s and Burger King
“A massive link-hijacking scheme has turned corporate social media archives into bizarre and offensive redirects,” reports the New York Post:
Posts from high-profile accounts — including fast-food giants McDonald’s and Burger King, as well as President Donald Trump — are getting hacked, with over decades-old links sud … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4-rc3 Released: “The Usual Noise All Over”
The third weekly release candidate of Linux 7.4 is now available for testing… ⌘ Read more
Quick #Magic update on last night’s rare Saturday Night session: we played 2 games, and although I “affected” both of them with my two shiny new Star Trek decks, I did not manage to win either.
In the first game (which had 5 players), my modified Federation Fleet deck held up fairly well, even against 2 discard decks (including one headed by the dark lord Sauron himself) and a dragon deck, but in the end, it lost to the aforementioned Sauron and his army of orcs.
For the second game (which only had 3 players), my modified We Are the Borg deck also did well, assimilating a handful of my opponent’s creatures (despite my Borg Queen being sidelined for most of the game), but it just couldn’t stand up to a modified Landing Party deck (which dropped a Scute Swarm, Exploration, and a 6th land by round 2, giving it 32 Scute Swarms by round 5, plus a handful of other creatures, and 3 starships - talk about superior firepower!).
Maybe next time my decks will do better (or I’ll figure out what cards to replace to make them better) - the whole set technically just released this weekend, so it’s still early days for tweaking.
@shinyoukai@twtxt.net Some days more than others… But I think I’m going to stick with it for now, and just try to be better about maintaining good backups (so if I have to nuke the OS from orbit again, I can get everything back up-and-running quicker).
I used Ubuntu and other Debian distros for years (and still do on my servers), but I got tired of always being behind on major software releases and wanted to run something a little more “cutting edge” on my main laptop. So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised when it makes me bleed… 🙃
Siri Glitches Ruin Reviewer’s Test of Apple’s New ‘HomeView’ Smart Speaker
Apple has started selling its new HomeView smart speaker, a 7-inch square-with-rounded-corners screen equipped with a built-in camera. It pairs with your iPhone or iPad to offer personalized content from your email or text messages, using facial recognition to identify each family member.
But in a video report, one Wall Street J … ⌘ Read more
GTA 6’s Upcoming Launch Celebrated by Wendy’s, YouTube, the City of Miami, and 20% of America’s Workforce
Fast food restaurant Wendy’s drew an image of their redheaded mascot in the style of GTA, posting it on social media with the message “Our ride-or-dies are gonna love what we have in the works,” and the date 11/19/26.
That’s how widespread the hype has become for Thursda … ⌘ Read more
Huawei Set To Challenge Tesla Powerwall with New, 20 kW Home Battery
“Huawei believes its new Luterra S2 is more than just a home backup battery,” reports Electrek:
This high-tech Huawei home battery pack hopes to hold back Tesla’s latest Powerwall with silicon carbide technology, AI-powered energy management baked in, and enough modular storage to keep even large homes bright and warm when the rest of … ⌘ Read more
Bill Gates Has Earned Billions Investing in Climate-Polluting Landfills, Reports ProPublica
Environmental activist Bill Gates has “quietly accumulated a $29 billion stake in America’s No. 2 landfill operator, Republic Services,” reports ProPublica, in a new 5,000-word investigation. But inspectors from America’s Environmental Protection Agency “have repeatedly found methane — a highly … ⌘ Read more
Rust Leaves Top 10 in TIOBE Index, Making Room for Go
“In November’s edition of the TIOBE Index, Rust has dropped out of Top 10,” writes I-Programmer, noting that Rust ceded the #10 position to Go. “At the same time, another Google-originated language, Dart, has entered the top 20 ousting Julia after only one month.”
TIOBE explains Dart’s popularity is mainly being driven by Flutter, Google’s framework for building … ⌘ Read more
AMD Posts Linux Patches For Capacity Aware Scheduling On Hybrid CPUs
On Saturday a new set of Linux kernel driver patches were posted by AMD for enabling Capacity Aware Scheduling on AMD heterogeneous/hybrid processors… ⌘ Read more
How Will AI Affect Open Source Development?
This week the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) announced it would broaden its AI security resources, including a new guide to finding and fixing vulnerabilities using AI, “from preparing and sandboxing AI to validating, fixing, and preventing issues.” The guide “stresses that AI-generated patches should never be trusted without automated tests and human review. … ⌘ Read more
IBM Talks Up Their New Ability For Handling ARM64 Guest VMs on s390 Hardware
One of the biggest surprises this year was IBM collaborating with Arm for “dual architecture” hardware. In addition to the IBM s390 hardware side, this “dual architecture” support for running ARM64 instructions on s390 also requires Linux KVM virtualization support with patches we’ve seen the past number of months and initial code merged for Linux 7.4… ⌘ Read more
AMD ARG “AMD Root Guest” Linux Patches Coming In 2027
A new feature of EPYC 9006 “Venice” server processors that isn’t yet brought up in the public Linux software support is AMD Root Guest (ARG). The initial patches are expected in Q1’2027 for further enhancing the AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing experience… ⌘ Read more
ASUS Ascent QN10 Mini PC Powered By Snapdragon X2 Elite Seeing Linux Support
In addition to a number of laptops powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 beginning to see Linux support, there’s now a X2 Elite powered mini PC seeing Linux patches too… ⌘ Read more
Italy Fines Meta €805m Over Accessing Android Users’ Photos with Facebook App
The Associated Press reports:
Italy announced an €805 million ($887 million) fine against Meta on Saturday for using photos and videos from Android users’ galleries on Facebook without specific consent or adequate disclosure…
Investigators found that the feature was enabled by default and that Facebook requested ga … ⌘ Read more
Did Alice Jensen’s Megaspeed Bypass America’s Controls on Exporting Nvidia Chip to China?
In three years “Megaspeed International” went from from inactive Chinese gaming subsidiary “to one of Asia’s biggest buyers of cutting-edge semiconductors from the US,” reports CNN.
“It is incredibly hard to look at this and not see a Chinese state-sponsored network for bypassing US export contr … ⌘ Read more
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50th Anniversary of ‘Star Wars’ Celebrated with iMax 70mm Re-Release, Special Events, New Movie
“Lucasfilm and Disney have restored the original Star Wars (1977) and will release the film in multiple formats, including Imax 70mm [starting February 19], as part of the franchise’s 50th anniversary celebrations,” reports Deadline.
The original film will also be displayed in i … ⌘ Read more
Bitcoin Plummets 24% in 46 Days as Crypto Falls on Rising Inflation
October 3: $84,680
Today: $64,108
Bitcoin dropped 24.2% in 46 days. And it “fell more than 4% on Friday to $68,500,” reports Fortune, “wiping out gains built over the past three months and casting doubt on whether its bear market was ever really over.”
The asset also faces weaker investor appetite, according to crypto analytics provider CryptoQu … ⌘ Read more
America Officially Loses Its Measles-elimination Status After Continued Spread of the Disease
Reuters reports:
The Pan American Health Organization has revoked the United States’ measles-elimination status, ending a 26-year run after determining the country failed to halt continuous transmission of the highly contagious virus for more than a year, the Wall Street Journal reported o … ⌘ Read more
Manjaro Linux Moves Toward Independent Community Governance
Arch-based Manjaro Linux “has announced that Manjaro Project e.V. is now officially registered as a non-profit in Germany,” reports Linuxiac, “and is therefore a legally separate entity from the commercial Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG… after months of internal wrangling over who was in charge of the project, who had access to the infrastructure and who didn’t, … ⌘ Read more
Quick #Caturday update: Max tired of his claim and went to take a nap, so Shadow found his way into the box after all.
@david@daiwei.me Thank you, he is. ❤️
EFF Criticizes US Government’s Use of AI For Evaluating Senior Health Insurance Requests
“When we need medical care, we expect decisions about our treatment to be made by our doctors, not a tech company’s algorithm,” writes the EFF newsletter EFFector.
But in January America’s federal government launched a program called WISeR that uses AI to evaluate authorization requests for certain p … ⌘ Read more
Hundreds of Fake Accounts Defended Jensen Huang On Social Media
The Washington Post reports on something peculiar about support for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang online after he’d told the world he’d been unfaithful to his wife (before reports of his second extramarital affair):
Joining the chorus online were voices of seemingly everyday people: a chef, a stock trader, a Hebrew teacher and several environmental acti … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Expands Drone Deliveries, and Gets Noise Complaints. ‘Like a Swarm of Bees’
“In August, Amazon announced it was expanding its airborne shipping to suburban areas in nearly 500 U.S. cities,” reports the Chicago Sun-Times, “including the Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland and Boise, Idaho, metro areas.” And on Tuesday Amazon cut the ribbon on its new drone delivery center Tuesday 24 miles south of … ⌘ Read more
Was America’s Nationwide Grounding of Aircraft Caused By Its New AI System?
America’s nationwide grounding of flights on Friday happened “amid growing scrutiny… of a new AI-powered air traffic management system” deployed by America’s Federal Aviation Administration, reports Texas news station KXAN.
Ironically, the system is called SMART — but the outage happened “following warnings” from members of th … ⌘ Read more
Linus Torvalds Wonders If Linux’s AI-Prompted Patch Flood Has Peaked
The Register writes that “The worst of the patchpocalypse may be behind us, according to Linus Torvalds.” In his weekly kernel update post, Torvalds said Linux 7.4 rc2 was a big release partly because it contained code he’d left out of rc1 because he’d been busy and it was already the largest such release in kernel history.
But Torvalds s … ⌘ Read more
Redox OS Gets Golang Working, GIMP Ported & Simplified AI Policy
The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system is now out with its October development summary that highlights recent software ports, progress on NUMA, and other enhancements made to this from-scratch platform… ⌘ Read more
Australian STEM Videogame Challenge Canceled Due To AI
PC Gamer reports:
The Australian STEM Videogame Challenge, a “free national videogame development competition for students,” has confirmed that the rise of generative AI means this year’s event will be the last…
Speculation as to the cause of the program’s cancellation focused primarily on the presence of AI in entries: Another self-proclaimed judge said the prob … ⌘ Read more
Basic Support For The Apple M5 Expected To Land For Linux 7.5
Very basic support for the Apple M5 SoC base model is expected to be merged for the Linux 7.5 kernel now that it’s been queued into the “apple-soc/dt-7.5” Git branch… ⌘ Read more
Red Hat Working To Improve Memory Tiering For QEMU VMs To Save RAM
Red Hat engineers are working through a few possible approaches to enhance memory tiering for QEMU-based virtual machines to help in conserving memory. Ultimately they are after leveraging NVMe SSDs in more scenarios for QEMU VMs to save on RAM usage given today’s sky high memory pricing… ⌘ Read more
Intel Begins Linux Kernel Enablement For Coral Rapids & Razor Lake
Along with Intel posting initial GCC compiler patches for Coral Rapids and Razor Lake processors, the first Linux kernel patch for these future Intel server and desktop/laptop processors have also arrived… ⌘ Read more
Rugged Emdoor Laptops Beginning To See Improved Linux Support
Emdoor that is a leading manufacturer of rugged laptops and tablets used by various industries is beginning to see improved Linux support thanks to a new platform driver being developed… ⌘ Read more
Ex-Nvidia CEO Misled Company Leaders On Affair With Chinese Businesswoman
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled several of the company’s leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld, about the nature of his relationship with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang, with whom he had an affair, according to two peopl … ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.9 Finally Allows XWayland To Run On-Demand, New Wobbly Windows Presets
This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue following a week of exciting developments toward the KDE Plasma 6.9 desktop… ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 2 Delivers Updated OpenSSL, Bug Fixes
FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 1 debuted last week for this updated operating system bringing improved laptop/desktop hardware support, experimental cross-building of base packages on Linux and macOS, updated LLVM/Clang compiler, updated OpenZFS file-system support, and other improvements. Released overnight was FreeBSD 15.2 Beta 2… ⌘ Read more
SteamVR 2.19.3 Beta and SteamOS 0.5.9 Beta for Steam Frame released
Valve released both SteamVR 2.19.3 Beta for all VR gamers, and SteamOS 0.5.9 Beta for Steam Frame as well. Here’s all that’s new and improved.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental fixes ArcheAge Chronicles, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Deep Rock Galactic
Valve pushed out a small update for Proton Experimental, fixing issues in a few specific games.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/proton-experimental-fixes-archeage-chronicles-warhammer-40-000-darktide-deep-ro … ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.22 brings improved support for ARM64, MSXML and address space randomisation
The Wine 11.22 development release is out now for this compatibility layer, continuing to bring more improvements to run Windows software on Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/wine-11-22-brings-improved-support-for-arm64-msxml-and-address … ⌘ Read more
SteamOS 3.10.0 Preview brings HDMI 2.1 VRR, FRL, and ALLM for AMD and improvements for NVIDIA
Valve released SteamOS 3.10.0 Preview which brings a pretty big set of features, especially if you’re on an AMD GPU and now improved NVIDIA support too.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/steamo … ⌘ Read more
gq} and gqG. They're real lifesavers.
(I’ve been a bit quiet lately, because I was still absorbed by this. 😅 Kept writing/extending that story from different angles and the whole thing grew from 120 to 260 pages. 📜 I think I’ll give it a rest now. 😅)
I forgot to post a #magic update earlier in the week, so here it is:
Despite having 5 players, we managed to get 3 games in:.
Game 1 was a “Battle of the Jaces” with 3 of us running variations on the Jace precon from Reality Fracture. In the end, one of the Jaces won, but it wasn’t mine (I was still 1-2 turns from victory).
For game 2, I ran my modified Warhammer 40k Forces of the Imperium deck, but it also lost to (yet another) Jace.
Finally, in game 3, my (still unlisted) Marvel Avengers deck lived up to its name, avenging my previous defeats thanks to the timely intervention of Doctor Strange (aka Jodah).
@arne@uplegger.eu It was indeed a tiny little bit quieter at work. ;-)
@arne@uplegger.eu Nur zu, kann ich sehr empfehlen.
Amazon’s Plan to Index the World’s Online Shopping Data
Amazon is considering a “World Product Graph” that would index information about products sold across the internet in an effort to keep shoppers and AI agents from turning to Google, Reddit or other sources for product research. The proposed database could also improve Amazon’s AI shopping assistant by addressing inaccurate or incomplete answers and allowing it to u … ⌘ Read more
GET /v2/instances API whereby ?tags= filter no longer works. This API is marked as "deprecated" on their API docs website, but not removed. The trigger was my own software/services performing VM claned using this API call and filter that no longer works all of a sudden. More to come on this soon™ -- I'll have to write this up as a longer blog post I think 🤔 #VultrCloud #API
For those of you that are used/customers of casn.run:
cas.run was down from 13 November 16:32 UTC until 14 November 02:12 UTC, after the server it runs on was deleted by mistake. We restored it from the nightly backup taken on 12 November at 17:00 UTC, so anything you changed between then and the outage (a new token, service or setting) needs doing again. We’re sorry for the disruption. Paid accounts have been credited a month.
Windows 0-Day Dropped By Disgruntled Researcher Hands Hackers System Rights
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nightmare Eclipse, the pseudonym of a researcher with an ongoing, very public beef with Microsoft, has dropped yet another Windows zero-day. On Tuesday, Nightmare Eclipse disclosed SignDrop, a vulnerability that gives local users full System rights on some versions of Windo … ⌘ Read more
‼️ At 16:32:54 UTC 13 Nov to 01:12 UTC 14 Nov the infamously known Mills DC suffered an ~8h40m long incident that impacted all Ingress to my infra as well as several other services such as cas.run and mbox.blue. The cause is Vultr Cloud deciding between the 8th Nov 2026 and 13th Nov 2026 to break their GET /v2/instances API whereby ?tags= filter no longer works. This API is marked as “deprecated” on their API docs website, but not removed. The trigger was my own software/services performing VM claned using this API call and filter that no longer works all of a sudden. More to come on this soon™ – I’ll have to write this up as a longer blog post I think 🤔 #VultrCloud #API