Python Software Foundation has bigger spine than big tech
Back in January 2025, the Python Software Foundation applied for a $1.5 million grant from the US government’s National Science Foundation, under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosystems program, to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI. After a lot of paperwork, their application was approved, but upon receiving the contractual agreement, the Python Software Foundation decided to b … ⌘ Read more
Python Says Discriminatory DEI Policies More Important Than $1.5 Million Dollars
The Python Software Foundation has turned down a $1.5 Million Dollar grant from the US government, as it would require them to cease discriminatory Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion practices. ⌘ Read more
The $4.1 million question: How did the BOM get its new website so wrong?
The Bureau of Meteorology claims it spent $4.1 million on a website and app redesign, as part of a broader $866 million, seven-year technology transformation dubbed “Robust”. Users are not pleased with the outcome. ⌘ Read more
Sinking Indian megacities pose ‘alarming’ building damage risks
Sinking land is quietly destabilizing urban infrastructure in India’s largest cities, putting thousands of buildings and millions of people at risk, according to Virginia Tech scientists. ⌘ Read more
Ukraine destroys Russian Buk air defense system worth $45 million, military says ⌘ Read more
Why Your social.org Files Can Have Millions of Lines Without Any Performance Issues
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‘This Is Astounding’: Overnight, Millions More Americans Could Be Labeled Obese
, - Sttudy Finds
_Stephan: The other day, I published a lengthy academic study showing that Americans have shorter lives, and are less healthy in general than populations in other developed countries. Now another study has just been published showing that research data has redefined obesity. It turns out that Americans, under the new research data, have gone from 42 … ⌘ Read more
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Eric Berger, Reporter - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: How is it possible that the richest country in the world has tens of millions of its people facing lack of food issues? What kind of country is the United States, and why is adequate food not driving tens of millions into the streets in nonviolent demonstrations. W … ⌘ Read more
Unpicking the genetics of fibromyalgia sheds new light on its causes
Fibromyalgia, which causes chronic pain all over the body, is poorly understood, but two studies – made up of millions of participants – are helping us get to the roots of the condition ⌘ Read more
Docker + E2B: Building the Future of Trusted AI
Trusted Software Starts Here The era of agents is here. Some teams are experimenting, others are just getting started, and a few are already running agents in production. But one challenge stands out: trust. Trust that your agents will act securely. Over 20 million developers already rely on Docker to build and ship software safely… ⌘ 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
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
Trump’s EV retreat is a huge win for his No. 1 trade rival
Allison Morrow, Reporter - CNN
_Stephan: Because Trump, his vassals, and the Republican Party think climate change is not real, and just a “con”, America is going backwards, while China is being handed world leadership of the EV transition. It is just one of a dozen other trends reducing the geopolitical stature and economic success of the United States. Yet millions of Americans still don’t get what Trump … ⌘ Read more
Oregon State University Teaches “White Rage” as Computer Science
OSU’s Computer Science program — which had a $1 Million Dollar grant for “Gender-Inclusive Open Source” — teaches about “White Supremacy” and “Reparations” instead of programming. ⌘ Read more
The ‘3.5% rule’: How a small minority can change the world
David Robson, Reporter - BBC (U.K.)
_Stephan: I have been telling you since Trump became President for the second time, and began his fascist coup, assisted by the loyal incompetents he appointed to his administration, and the Republican Party at the state and Congressional level, that the only thing that will change this is millions of Americans nonviolently demonstrating. I hope you were one of the people o … ⌘ Read more
Internet still struggling after mammoth Amazon outage
Millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa in a global outage. ⌘ Read more
Internet still struggling after mammoth Amazon outage
Millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa in a global outage. ⌘ Read more
A seed bank in England marks 25 years of preserving the world’s plant diversity
Deep underground beneath the Sussex countryside in southern England, millions of seeds are kept frozen in a vault built to withstand fire, flooding, and any other disaster. ⌘ Read more
Cloud services outage knocks out websites globally
Potentially millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa in a global outage. ⌘ Read more
Cloud services outage knocks out websites globally
Potentially millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa. ⌘ Read more
Cloud services outage knocks out websites globally
Potentially millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa. ⌘ Read more
Trump’s immigration crackdown weighs heavy on the US labor market
PAUL WISEMAN and GISELA SALOMON, Reporters -
_Stephan: Dictator Trump’s ignorance and nastiness, expressed daily in his ongoing fascist Republican Party coup, is severely impacting the U.S. labor market and the wellbeing of millions, including you and what you have to pay for groceries, clothes, and anything else made overseas, as this article describes. Did you think this moron even knows tha … ⌘ Read more
Cloud services outage knocks out websites globally
Potentially millions of users have been left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa. ⌘ Read more
Worldwide AWS outage affects hundreds of millions ⌘ Read more
Millions of US Families Could Soon Go Hungry Thanks to Trump-GOP Government Shutdown
Brett Wilkins, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: As the organizational programs and agencies that have maintained the wellbeing of the United States are being dismantled by dictator Trump and his Republican Congress, funds are being cut, the healthcare system is in chaos, public education is becoming a disaster, and on and on. But now these MAGAT mo … ⌘ Read more
MAGA Media Wages Asymmetric Warfare
PRRI Research Staff, - PRRI
_Stephan: As you can see from the chart that heads this research report, in spite of the millions who turned out for the nonviolent “No Kings” demonstrations, there are still large number of Americans, particularly MAGAT supporters, i.e., Republican voters, who still do not comprehend what is happening to the United States, or maybe they are so racist, resentful, and ignorant they don;t care of support what Trump, his adm … ⌘ Read more
Scaling Postgres to the next level at OpenAI
TIL OpenAI uses (used?) one primary write instance for their PostgreSQL cluster with dozens of read replicas. This powers the core ChatGPT service which has hundreds of millions of users and, needless to say, is a critical backbone to it.
The talk implies they shard now, but the whole video emphasises all the optimizations they did in order to support their workload through a single primary. It isn’t mentioned at what time they switched to sharding, but it’s heavily implied that … ⌘ Read more
This clear scale shows how American democracy is in terminal decline
Martina Moneke, Contributing Writer - Raw Story | Common Dreams
_Stephan: Day by day, as I watch the dismantlement of our democracy, and see aspiring dictator Trump’s revenge arrests and court cases against former colleagues, I realize that nothing is going to stop this except tens of millions of Americans nonviolently out in the street on Saturday, and every Saturday thereafter, and … ⌘ Read more
Nearly 900 mn poor people exposed to climate shocks, UN warns
Nearly 80% of the world’s poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a “double and deeply unequal burden,” the United Nations warned Friday. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Immersive Esports: The Technology Behind Competitive Gaming
Esports has outgrown local tournaments and now runs on global platforms linking millions of players and fans, powered by immersive esports technology. Communities form around games, teams, and streamers, blending competition, entertainment, and social connection. At this scale, reliability and low latency are non-negotiable to keep matches fair and audiences engaged during spikes.
High-spe … ⌘ Read more
Dinosaur fossil rewrites the story of how sauropods got long necks
A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier than previously thought ⌘ Read more
CO2 levels in Earth’s atmosphere jumped by a record amount in 2024
The global average concentration of CO2 surged by 3.5 parts per million to reach 423.9 ppm last year, fuelling worries that the planet’s ability to soak up excess carbon is weakening ⌘ Read more
Analysis of 4.4-million-year-old ankle exposes how earliest ancestors moved and evolved
For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to understand the transition from our earliest ancestors to modern humans. ⌘ Read more
GOP spreads increasingly desperate and dangerous lies to shirk blame for their shutdown
Emily Singer, Staff Writer - Daily Kos
_Stephan: Today I listened to one Republican congress member after another claiming that the coming Saturday “No King” rallies are really “Hate America” rallies, and I thought how cowardly do you have to be to say something that dishonest and stupid about rallies that will involve millions of American who actu … ⌘ Read more
France : un squatteur et 65 millions d’otages
La situation actuellement en France est complètement coincée. Au fur et à mesure que le temps passe, plusieurs choses se mettent en place avec une quasi-impossibilité de retour en arrière. D’un côté, nous avons un Macron adulescent dont l’ego surdimensionné ne le laissera jamais démissionner. Cet ego étant plus important que tout le reste, il […] ⌘ Read more
Retired Finnish intelligence detective spent tens of millions from lottery winnings to fight Russian espionage | Article in Ukrainian |Yle Novyny ⌘ Read more
Lunduke Journal Grew to Over 11 Million Views in September
While the Big Tech-sponsored “Tech News” appears to be buying “views”. ⌘ Read more
Lunduke Journal Had Over 11 Million Views in September
September was an absolutely wild month for The Lunduke Journal. ⌘ Read more
Zelensky: If Putin wants to seize eastern Ukraine, he has to bury million of his soldiers ⌘ Read more
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $966 million in latest talc cancer case | CNN Business ⌘ Read more
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $966 million after jury finds company liable in talc cancer case ⌘ Read more
Russia loses one million tons of fuel in September alone as strikes and sanctions converge ⌘ Read more
Relief for fruit producers as SA declared free from brown rugose virus
More than a year since South Australia’s $230 million tomato and capsicum sector was plunged into turmoil by the first discovery of the tomato brown rugose fruit virus in Australia, the state has been declared free of the exotic disease. ⌘ Read more
Ukraine disables 40% of one of Russia’s largest oil refineries processing 17.5 million tons annually ⌘ Read more
Éoliennes, taxes anti-Shein, FiDA : profiteurs de connivence
Un article de Henry Bonner Des économistes ou chefs d’entreprises promettent plus de croissance à l’avenir, comme solution aux déficits. Ainsi, le patron des E. Leclerc affirme par exemple : « Il faut investir pour notre croissance : l’éducation, les nouvelles mobilités, la transition énergétique, la transition numérique, la décarbonation, les 2,5 millions de logements sociaux à construire… » […] ⌘ Read more