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

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

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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

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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

U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October
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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

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

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

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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

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Neovim vs Emacs | Roundtable w/ TJ DeVries, DistroTube, Greg Anders & Joshua Blais
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Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage ⌘ Read more

BBC director general and CEO resign over Trump documentary edit
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Drilling Down on Uncle Sam’s Proposed TP-Link Ban
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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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Ask HN: How do you get over the fear of sharing code?
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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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Afghanistan, Geheimdienste und Aufstieg: Keiner im Kontrollgremium außer Konstantin
Singende KI, Helene Fischer, Karneval, nur Knallchargen reden mit Russland. Und die knarzigen Knatterdiesel von Volkswagen beschäftigen uns immer noch. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Neurodiverse Professionals 25% More Satisfied With AI Tools and Agents
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:

Neurodiverse professionals may see unique benefits from artificial intelligence tools and agents, research suggests. With AI agent creation booming in 2025, people with conditions like ADHD, autism, dyslexia and more report a more level playing field in the workplace thanks to generative … ⌘ Read more

Luxusflüge besteuern: Staaten wollen bei COP30 für Vorhaben werben
Premium- und Privatjetflüge stärker besteuern, um den Klimaschutz zu finanzieren: Für diese Idee wollen einige Länder beim Weltklimagipfel werben. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Beisetzung toter Geisel: Kaddish für Itay
Nach 760 Tagen ist der israelische Soldat Itay Chen seiner Familie tot zurückgegeben worden. Der Riss durchs Land zeigte sich bei seiner Trauerfeier. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Ahmed al-Scharaa in Washington: Normalisierung, ja – aber nicht ohne Bedingungen
Westliche Regierungen sollten sich für Syrien öffnen, doch auch auf Minderheitenschutz und Demokratie pochen. Damit kann man ihnen aber nicht trauen. mehr… ⌘ Read more

UN-Klimakonferenz in Brasilien startet: Amibitionierte Action-Agenda
Die COP verhandelt wieder über die Rettung des Weltklimas. Streit dürfte es um Gelder für Klimafolgenanpassung geben. Die wichtigsten Knackpunkte. mehr… ⌘ Read more

About KeePassXC’s Code Quality Control
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16-bit Data Pointers on RV32
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The Linux Kernel Looks To “Bite The Bullet” In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
Two patches queued into the Linux kernel’s build system development tree, kbuild-next, would enable the -fms-extensions compiler argument everywhere for allowing GCC and LLVM/Clang to use the Microsoft C Extensions when compiling the Linux kernel. Being in kbuild-next these patches will likely be submitted for the Linux 6.19 kernel merge window next month but remains to be seen if there will be any last minute objections to this c … ⌘ Read more

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The Principles of Diffusion Models
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America’s FAA Grounds MD-11s After Tuesday’s Crash in Kentucky
UPDATE (11/9): America’s Federal Aviation Administration has now grounded all U.S. MD-11 and MD-11F aircrafts after Tuesday’s crash “because the agency has determined the unsafe condition is likely to exist or develop in other products of the same type design,” according to an emergency airworthiness directive obtained by CBS News.

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Eindrücke vom 33. „Open Mike“ Berlin: Bloß nicht die Finger verbrennen!
Neues vom Sparzwang, der auch das Literaturfestival „Open Mike“ erfasst hat. Am Wochenende ist es im Berliner „Silent Green“ über die Bühne gegangen. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Erfolg für Wald­schüt­ze­r: Nestlé verzichtet auf Papier aus nordschwedischen Wäldern
Der Lebensmittelkonzern will kein Holz mehr von Europas größtem Waldbesitzer SCA kaufen. Umweltschützer hoffen, dass weitere Unternehmen folgen. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Führungskräfte im Journalismus: Weniger Journalistinnen als Chefs als noch vor zwei Jahren
Der Anteil von Journalistinnen in Führungspositionen ist erneut gesunken. In Regionalredaktionen sind nur knapp 22 Prozent der Führungskräfte Frauen. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Grüner von Notz kritisiert Union: „Das ist ein politischer Fehler und eine Dummheit“
Wer kontrolliert die Geheimdienste? Die Union lehnte die Linken-Kandidatin Clara Bünger ab. Der Grüne Konstantin von Notz hält das für einen Fehler. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Rust Is Coming To Debian’s APT Package Manager
A maintainer of Debian’s Advanced Package Tool (APT) “has announced plans to introduce hard Rust dependencies into APT starting May 2026,” reports the blog It’s FOSS.

The integration targets critical areas like parsing .deb, .ar, and tar files plus HTTP signature verification using Sequoia. [APT maintainer Julian Andres Klode] said these components “would strongly benefit from m … ⌘ Read more

Sprites mods - Kid-cam firmware modding
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Shutdown in den USA: Supreme Court blockiert Finanzierung von Lebensmittelmarken
Dem SNAP-Programm für Bedürftige fehlt nach einer Entscheidung des Obersten Gerichtshof das Geld. Über tausend Flüge fielen am Freitag und Samstag aus. mehr… ⌘ Read more

AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is
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The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra
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