LoongArch LA32 Target Proposed For The GCC Compiler
While LoongArch 64-bit is already part of the GCC compiler for the past several years, LoongArch 32-bit is now being proposed for the GNU Compiler Collection… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA Connects AI GPUs to Early Quantum Processors
“Quantum computing is still years away, but Nvidia just built the bridge that will bring it closer…” argues investment site The Motley Fool, “by linking today’s fastest AI GPUs with early quantum processors…”

NVIDIA’s new hybrid system strengthens communication at microsecond speeds — orders of magnitude faster than before — “allowing AI to stabilize and train qu … ⌘ Read more

Precision genetic engineering points to a future of sustainable agriculture
As Earth’s climate warms and changes, sustainable agricultural practices are critical for feeding a rapidly growing population. Can we genetically engineer crops to adapt to drought and other effects of a warming climate? ⌘ Read more

Totally-eclipsing binary UZ Draconis inspected with TESS
Astronomers from Keele University in the UK have utilized NASA’s planet-hunting TESS telescope to investigate a totally-eclipsing binary known as UZ Draconis. Results of the new observations, published October 31 on the arXiv pre-print server, put more constraints on the properties of this system. ⌘ Read more

Nach Dokumentation über Kapitol-Sturm: BBC-Chef muss gehen
Nach der Kritik an der Trump-Berichterstattung treten bei der BBC zwei Führungskräfte zurück. Die weltbekannte Rundfunkanstalt steckt in der Krise. mehr… ⌘ Read more

US-Shutdown: US-Senat stimmt für Kompromissvorschlag
Der US-Senat hat einen ersten Schritt zur Beendigung des Regierungsstillstands gemacht. Nun muss der Vorschlag weitere Hürden im Kongress nehmen. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Energiewende: Weiter Streit ums Heizungsgesetz in der Koalition
CSU-Chef Markus Söder besteht darauf, das Gebäudeenergiegesetz „abzuschaffen“. Umweltminister Carsten Schneider will Subventionierungen beibehalten. mehr… ⌘ Read more

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Mädchen, die Tic Tac Toe hörten: Girlpower-Regel Nr. 3: Sei stark
Wie haben Girl Groups junge Frauen beeinflusst? „No Scribes“ heißt Paula Fürstenbergs, Alisha Gamischs und Raphaëlle Reds Stück über eine solche Band. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Done ✅ Will be available on this pod as soon as the publish workflow finished successfully.

@bender@twtxt.net yeah it wasn’t so much of a browser thing, more of a security/abuse thing. If you upload large media, we downsize/downscale it, etc.

Die Wahrheit: Langsam durch die Dunkelheit
Die lustige Tierwelt und ihre ernste Erforschung (229): Fünf bemerkenswerte Haiarten, die meist harmlos ihre Meeresrunden ziehen. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Spanien: Staatsanwaltschaft stoppt Kampagnen für Leihmutterschaft
Obwohl Leihmutterschaft in Spanien verboten ist, werben Unternehmen immer wieder dafür. Dagegen hat eine Frauenorganisation geklagt – mit Erfolg. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Weltklimakonferenz COP30 in Brasilien: Klimaanpassung als Chance
Die Grünen wollen, dass sich Deutschland in Belém stärker mit Entwicklungsländern verbündet – auch, um unabhängiger von autoritären Regimes zu werden. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Rust Foundation Announces ‘Maintainers Fund’ to Ensure Continuity and Support Long-Term Roles
The Rust Foundation has a responsibility to “shed light on the impact of supporting the often unseen work” that keeps the Rust Project running. So this week they announced a new initiative “to provide consistent, transparent, and long term support for the developers who make the Rust p … ⌘ Read more

Patches Proposed For Radeon GCN 1.1 GPUs To Use AMDGPU Linux Driver By Default
For those still using an AMD GCN 1.1 “Sea Islands” GPU like the Radeon R9 290/390 series, HD 7790 / 8870, or other Radeon Rx 200 / Rx 300 series GPUs, there is an exciting early Christmas present this year. Timur Kristóf of Valve’s Linux graphics driver team sent out the patch series on Sunday for enabling the GCN 1.1 GPUs to use the newer AMDGPU driver on Linux by default in place of the existing “Radeon” driver. This can mean … ⌘ Read more

Typhoon exposes centuries-old shipwreck off Vietnam port
Severe coastal erosion caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi exposed a centuries-old shipwreck in Vietnam, providing a narrow window to salvage what experts say could be a historically significant find. ⌘ Read more

Bezos’s Blue Origin postpones rocket launch over weather
Blue Origin, the space company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, was forced Sunday to postpone the anticipated launch of its New Glenn rocket due to unfavorable weather conditions. ⌘ Read more

Nonprofit Releases Thousands of Rare American Music Recordings Online
The nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation is making thousands of historic songs accessible to the public for free through a new partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara. The songs represent “some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression,” according to the … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net just store and host. All modern browsers render WebP just fine.

@bender@twtxt.net The only problem with uploading is the procesing. Do you expect any server-side processing of the WebP or just store and host?

@prologic@twtxt.net well, uploading and rendering, yes. Not a priority, of course. Just an item for a list somewhere.

What Happens When Humans Start Writing for AI?
The literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa society argues “the replacement of human readers by AI has lately become a real possibility.

“In fact, there are good reasons to think that we will soon inhabit a world in which humans still write, but do so mostly for AI.”

“I write about artificial intelligence a lot, and lately I have begun to think of myself as writing for Al as well, … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net That we can do easily. Just supporting tendering .webp inline eight? 🧐

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Rust Coreutils 0.4 Released With Better GNU Compatibility & Faster Performance
Rust Coreutils continues moving fast on their goal “toward full GNU compatibility” with the GNU Coreutils. The uutils project announced Rust Coreutils 0.4 this evening with better compatibility, performance optimizations, and other improvements… ⌘ Read more

Apple Explores New Satellite Features for Future iPhones
In 2022 the iPhone 14 featured emergency satellite service, and there’s now support for roadside assistance and the ability to send and receive text messages.

But for future iPhones, Apple is now reportedly working on five new satellite features, reports LiveMint:

As per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is building an API that would allow developers to add sat … ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.18-rc5 Released: “Small And Boring”
As we work toward the stable Linux 6.18 kernel release expected around the end of December, out today is the Linux 6.18-rc5 test kernel… ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is as long as I see you on IRC, bouncer or not, I don’t worry. Weird, isn’t it? Glad you are OK, Winter’s coming!

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Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned in the US. But Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway
“For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby,” reports the Wall Street Journal:

Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, … ⌘ Read more

A Plan for 5-10%* Faster Free-Threaded JIT by Python 3.16
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Python Foundation Donations Surge After Rejecting Grant - But Sponsorships Still Needed
After the Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million grant because it restricted DEI activity, “a flood of new donations followed,” according to a new report. By Friday they’d raised over $157,000, including 295 new Supporting Members paying an annual $99 membership fee, says PSF executi … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net i am split between registrars .. isnic is only managed by the country registrar. the others i have at regular reseller

I am not dead. promise.

Ironclad 0.7.0 and 0.8.0 released, adds RISC-V support
We’ve talked about Ironclad a few times, but there’s been two new releases since the 0.6.0 release we covered last, so let’s see what the project’s been up to. As a refresher, Ironclad is a formally verified, hard real-time capable kernel written in SPARK and Ada. Versions 0.7.0 and 0.8.0 improved support for block device caching, added a basic NVMe driver, added support for x86’s SMAP, switched from KVM to NVMM for Ironcla … ⌘ Read more

Mac OS 7.6 and 8 for CHRP releases discovered
For those of us unaware – unlikely on OSNews, but still – for a hot minute in the second half of the ’90s, Apple licensed its Mac OS to OEMs, resulting in officially sanctioned Mac clones from a variety of companies. While intended to grow the Mac’s market share, what ended up happening instead is that the clone makers outcompeted Apple on performance, price, and features, with clones offering several features and capabilities before Apple … ⌘ Read more

Blue Origin Livestreams Attempt to Launch Unique “EscaPADE’ Mission to Mars
Blue Origin is livestreaming the launch of its New Glenn rocketreports CNN, “where they will investigate why the barren red planet began to lose its atmosphere billions of years ago.” By observing two Mars locations simultaneously, this mission can measure how Mars responds to space weather in real time — and how the Marti … ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has completed work to build FreeBSD without requiring root privilege. We have implemented support for all source release builds to use no-root infrastructure, eliminating the need for root privileges across the FreeBSD release pipeline. This work was completed as part of the program commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency. ↫ FreeBSD Foundation blog This is gre … ⌘ Read more

Afrikanische Comics im Museum: Superheldinnen kämpfen gegen den doppelten Tod
Die Ausstellung „Sheroes“ im Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt am Main zeigt die große Vielfalt afrikanischer Comics und ihrer spezifischen Perspektiven. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Zeitreise: Nach eigenen Wünschen durch die Traumwelt wandern
Ein Freund aus der Zukunft zeigt unserer Kolumnistin, wie man Träume streamt. Dabei braucht es kaum eigene Fantasie, sondern das richtige Abo an. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Christian Dürr über Bruch der Ampel: „Es war richtig, Nein zu sagen“
Die liberale Demokratie funktioniert nicht ohne die FDP – findet ihr Vorsitzender Christian Dürr. Das Ende der Ampel bereut er trotzdem nicht. mehr… ⌘ Read more

‘AI Slop’ in Court Filings: Lawyers Keep Citing Fake AI-Hallucinated Cases
“According to court filings and interviews with lawyers and scholars, the legal profession in recent months has increasingly become a hotbed for AI blunders,” reports the New York Times:

Earlier this year, a lawyer filed a motion in a Texas bankruptcy court that cited a 1985 case called Brasher v. Stewart. Only the case doesn’t e … ⌘ Read more

Iconic Andean monument may have been used for Indigenous accounting
Sediment analysis and drone photography of the iconic South American monument of Monte Sierpe (aka “Band of Holes”) support a new interpretation of this mysterious landscape feature as part of an Indigenous system of accounting and exchange. ⌘ Read more

Neovim vs Emacs | Roundtable w/ TJ DeVries, DistroTube, Greg Anders & Joshua Blais
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Acme: A User Interface for Programmers (1994)
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Lost Unix v4 Possibly Recovered on a Forgotten Bell Labs Tape From 1973
“A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years,” reports The Register. And the software librarian at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum, Al Kossow of Bitsavers, believes the tape “has a pretty good chance of being recoverable.”

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Kulturboom in der Ukraine: Kosaken und Luftschutzkeller
In der Ukraine laufen Oper und Theater im Krieg weiter – unter besonderen Bedingungen. Zu Besuch in zwei Spielstätten in Odessa und Mykolajiw. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Zugang zu Bildung für Geflüchtete: Stillstand, der Spuren hinterlässt
Das deutsche Bildungssystem betrachtet die Bildung Geflüchteter als deren Bringschuld – nicht als gemeinsame Verantwortung. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Value classes are the new data classes
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