Check Your Mac Security Update Status with SilentKnight
Basically every Mac user is familiar with the process of updating MacOS system software to install updates for their operating system, which typically arrive as point releases (like 15.6) or major version releases (like 26). But did you know that MacOS will also periodically install security updates and anti-malware updates to Gatekeeper, MRT, and Xprotect? … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/24/check-your-mac-secur … ⌘ Read more
‘Destructive’ swans in the crosshairs as California allows hunting
Hunters will soon be allowed to kill mute swans as part of an effort to cull the “destructive, non-native” species statewide, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. ⌘ Read more
Rust Clone of Core Utils Breaks Ubuntu Updates
Ubuntu 25.10 dropped the battle tested GNU Core Utils, in favor of the untested, incomplete “uutils”. ⌘ Read more
I finally took a closer look at OpenRouter today, added some credits, and used it with the Kilo Code VS Code extension to vibe code (or at least guide the LLM to code) a bit on the wedding website I’m building for next year. I used the Grok Code Fast 1 model most of the time. Furthermore, I also switched this blog’s AI plugins to use Mistral Small 3.2 for summary generation and image caption generation. ⌘ Read more
Cloud Native Sustainability Month 2025: A global community movement for greener tech
Following the success of previous years, CNCF’s Sustainability Month is back — bigger and greener than ever. Organized by the TAG Operational Resilience community, this month-long global initiative brings together practitioners, developers, and advocates to explore… ⌘ Read more
Virtual reality can help people understand and care about distant communities
For many of us, climate change feels like a distant threat—damage that will happen in the future somewhere far away to people we know little about. A new Stanford University-led study reveals how virtual reality can close that distance, enabling users to explore faraway places, develop a sense of attachment to those places, and care more about how a warming world is wreaking havoc on people’s lives. ⌘ Read more
ICE Is Mounting a Mass Surveillance Campaign on American Citizens
Autumn Billings , Assistant Editor - reason
_Stephan: In every country ruled by an authoritarian dictator, one of the hallmarks of such societies is the surveillance of the citizenry, to control any resistance to the leader’s authority. Well, now that reality has come to the United States. I’m not sure how I will get to my daughter’s wedding. I have been warned not to fly or go through any g … ⌘ Read more
We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
Nicole Foy, ProPublica Ancil Payne Fellow - ProPublica
_Stephan: The Trump Gestapo is becoming more and more aggressive and racist. If your skin color is anything other than White, I advise you to get one of those [passport cards.](https://govplus.com/solutions/passp … ⌘ Read more
Looks like ICE recruits are a hot mess
Lisa Needham, Staff Writer - Daily Kos
Stephan: Creating the Trump Gestapo is turning out to be harder than one might think, but one option, which Trump is playing, is just to reduce the qualifications and integrity of the people you recruit, as this article describes. Of course, it helps to have a corrupt Gestapo leader, say someone like Tom Homan.
Released:2025-10-24 ⌘ Read more
Gene variant that protects against norovirus spread with arrival of agriculture, prehistoric DNA reveals
The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter vomiting, researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University report after analyzing DNA from over 4,300 prehistoric individuals and cultivating “mini guts.” ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP related Workshop at the Linux Day Torino 2025
Nicolas Vial will host the Quale sistema alternativo per il vostro cellulare? talk with a workshop that will demonstrate how to install and use XMPP for free from F-DROID, but will also give away free QR codes for Monocles Chat from [Google Play](https://play. … ⌘ Read more
1 in 3 US nonprofits that serve communities lost government funding in early 2025
About one-third of U.S. nonprofit service providers experienced a disruption in their government funding in the first half of 2025. ⌘ Read more
Africa’s air links are poor: Can the G20 push for more direct flights to improve tourism and trade?
In Africa, less than one in five continental airline routes are direct. Air connections are decided by factors like trade levels, diplomatic relations, and whether there’s enough demand to make a route financially worthwhile. Because there are so few direct connections in Africa, getting from one country to another often requires travelers to fly to Europe or the Middle East and transit there. This increases … ⌘ Read more
CNCF embraces LFX Self Service for calendar management
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has experienced remarkable growth since its inception, welcoming its first project, Kubernetes, on March 10, 2016. By 2025, the CNCF proudly supports over 200 active projects, generating thousands of meetings… ⌘ Read more
6.6.114: longterm
Version:6.6.114 (longterm)Released:2025-10-23Source:linux-6.6.114.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.6.114.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.114 ⌘ Read more
Bending biogenic crystals naturally without external forces
From creating flexible gadgets to better medicines, the art of bending crystals is reshaping technology and health, and at the University of Houston a crystals expert makes it look almost like a magic trick. ⌘ Read more
Highlights from CNCF’s first Open Observability Summit
It’s about time open observability had its own industry-wide, vendor-neutral event. This year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) finally made it happen with the inaugural Open Observability Summit, bringing together contributors, practitioners, and end users for… ⌘ Read more
Climate change is turning global wildfires into monsters
Predicting bushfires is difficult at the best of times. But as climate change wreaks havoc with our world’s weather systems it’s getting harder and more important to get right. ⌘ Read more
Trump’s Unprecedented Actions Deepen Asymmetric Divides
, - Public Religion Research Institute
_Stephan: As we saw last Saturday, over seven million Americans turned out in protest of the fascist coup being carried out by dictator Trump, his docile Republican congress members, and authorized by the fascist Supreme Court majority. We are getting there, but research shows that to end authoritarian coups, 3.5% of the population must turn out repeatedly in nonviolent d … ⌘ Read more
‘RIP free and fair elections’: Critics aghast as another red state OKs election-rigging
Brad Reed, Common Dreams Staff Writer - Raw Story | Common Dreams
_Stephan: The Republican Party in all the Red States is doing everything it can to rig the election, just as I have been telling you since Dictator Trump was elected by Americans. These state politicians are fascists who want to dismantle democracy in the United States and guarantee th … ⌘ Read more
Trump Said He Wouldn’t Touch the East Wing. Then He Tore It All Down.
Luke Broadwater, Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan: How symbolic, just as Trump and the Republican Party and the Supreme Court majority are destroying democracy in the United States, so Trump is destroying the White House you have known and seen all your life. Simultaneously, he is telling his administration to give him $230 million in tax dollars of your money and mine, because th … ⌘ Read more
Pentagon names new press corps from far-right outlets after reporter walkout
Eric Berger, Contributing Journalist - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: It is no longer going to be possible to believe or trust any media coverage coming out of the Pentagon, as this British article reports, because the free press has been replaced by fascist media reporters. Essentially, the United States has become the media equivalent of Russia or North Korea.
, revealing the bodies to be soldiers of diverse backgrounds who may have fought in the Battle of Mursa around 260 CE. The multidisciplinary investigation, published in PLOS ONE, provides new insight into how the Roman Empire recruited armies from ethnically diverse backgrounds. ⌘ Read more
next-20251023: linux-next
Version:next-20251023 (linux-next)Released:2025-10-23 ⌘ Read more
Geochemical research could help identify microbial activity in Earth’s rock record and perhaps in Martian sediments
Because oxygen-bearing sulfate minerals trap and preserve signals from Earth’s atmosphere, scientists closely study how they form. Sulfates are stable over billions of years, so their oxygen isotopes are seen as a time capsule, reflecting atmospheric conditions while they were evolving on early Earth—and possibly on its planetary neighbor Mars. ⌘ Read more
More Australian-grown coffee on the horizon amid local bean boom
The Australian coffee industry is growing as new varieties become available and local demand increases. ⌘ Read more