Funniest picture of your cat? I’ll start. ⌘ Read more
Possible Setback For Linux x86_64 Laptops: Prominent Developer Joins Qualcomm
Back in early September we reported on a Linux hardware enablement leader planning to leave Red Hat. Hans de Goede has been a longtime contributor to improving Intel/AMD Linux desktop/laptop hardware support and in fact an x86 platform drivers subsystem maintainer. We now found out where this lead Linux x86 driver developer ended up: Qualcomm… ⌘ Read more
Verizon To Cut About 15,000 Jobs
Verizon is planning to cut roughly 15,000 jobs, looking to reduce costs as it contends with increased competition for wireless service and home internet, according to WSJ, which cites people familiar with the matter. From the report: The cuts, the largest ever for the carrier, are set to take place in the next week, the people said. The majority of the reduction is expected to be made through layoffs. Verizon … ⌘ Read more
Happy 14th birthday! ⌘ Read more
A Python function I use to build project files from my Ultisnips snippets ⌘ Read more
Africa experiencing worst outbreak of cholera in 25 years, Africa CDC says ⌘ Read more
Reddit Cofounder Had a Bad Feeling About Giving Data To Sam Altman
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian said he had serious doubts a decade ago about sharing the platform’s data with Sam Altman. Ohanian recounted on the “Brew Markets” podcast that between 2015 and 2016, Altman asked Reddit to let him “aggressively scrape” the site’s content. Altman had recently helped Reddit raise $50 million in a Series B round … ⌘ Read more
I just love this little smooshy face ☺️ ⌘ Read more
The Incredible Evolution Of AMD EPYC HPC Performance Shown In The Azure Cloud
Last week the Microsoft Azure HBv5 instances reached general availability as powered by the custom EPYC 9V64H CPUs with HBM3 memory. These very interesting EPYC processors for memory bandwidth intensive workloads were announced last year while have finally reached GA with jaw-dropping results for software able to take advantage of the 6.7 TB/s memory bandwidth thanks to the HBM memory. The Azure HBv5 benchmarks last week showed how th … ⌘ Read more
France Fully Lifts Travel Ban on Telegram Founder Durov
An anonymous reader shares a report: France has lifted its travel ban on Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who is under investigation over illegal content on his messaging app, judicial sources close to the case said Thursday. The entrepreneur, 41, was detained in Paris in 2024 and is under formal investigation by French authorities over the platform’s alleged complic … ⌘ Read more
Cagent Comes to Docker Desktop with Built-In IDE Support through ACP
Docker Desktop now includes cagent bundled out of the box. This means developers can start building AI agents without a separate installation step. For those unfamiliar with cagent: it’s Docker’s open-source tool that lets you build AI agents using YAML configuration files instead of writing code. You define the agent’s behavior and tools, and cagent… ⌘ Read more
When I realize my personal API key has been running in production for 6 months ⌘ Read more
Linux Looks To Remove SHA1 Support For Signing Kernel Modules
Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week are seeking to remove SHA1 support for signing of kernel modules. This is part of the larger effort in the industry for moving away from SHA1 given its vulnerabilities to hash collisions and superior hashing algorithms being available… ⌘ Read more
This guy has been coming to my garage the last month or so. Finally got to meet him and put out food. ⌘ Read more
Russian army crumbles as Pokrovsk assault becomes “death sentence” for soldiers ⌘ Read more
China’s EV Market Is Imploding
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Chinese electric car has become a symbol of the country’s seemingly unstoppable rise on the world stage. Many observers point to their growing popularity as evidence that China is winning the race to dominate new technologies. But in China, these electric cars represent something entirely different: the profound threats that Beijing’s meddling in markets poses to both China … ⌘ Read more
I lost all three cats to a fire last night ⌘ Read more
Google To Allow ‘Experienced Users’ To Install Unverified Android Apps
Google says it will build a new “advanced flow” to allow experienced users to install Android apps from unverified developers, easing up on restrictions it proposed in late August. The company said earlier that Android would block such installations starting next year. The new flow will include clear warnings about security risks but wil … ⌘ Read more
MCP Horror Stories: The WhatsApp Data Exfiltration Attack
This is Part 5 of our MCP Horror Stories series, where we examine real-world security incidents that highlight the critical vulnerabilities threatening AI infrastructure and demonstrate how Docker’s comprehensive AI security platform provides protection against these threats. Model Context Protocol (MCP) promises seamless integration between AI agents and communication platforms like WhatsApp, enabling automated message… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA CUDA 13.0 U2 Brings DGX Spark Performance Improvements
CUDA 13.0 Update 2 is now available as the latest incremental improvement to NVIDIA’s compute stack… ⌘ Read more
Apple Begins Selling Some Third-Party Accessories in ‘Dark Cherry’ Color
Apple has teamed up with a handful of accessory makers to offer charging stands, cables, a power bank, a laptop sleeve, and more in a Dark Cherry color.
The range of Dark Cherry accessories were added to Apple’s online store this week in the U.S. and many other countries, with delivery and in-store pickup available.
Participating brand … ⌘ Read more
Ukraine confirms use of Flamingo missiles in strikes on Crimea, Zaporizhzhia, targets inside Russia ⌘ Read more
Iceland Deems Possible Atlantic Current Collapse A Security Risk
Iceland has formally classified the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security threat, warning that a disruption could trigger a modern-day ice age in Northern Europe and destabilize global weather systems. The move elevates the risk across government and enables it to strategize for worst-case scenarios. Reut … ⌘ Read more
When I absolutely need a connection for my demo and my hotspot won’t work ⌘ Read more
Superquiz, Friday, November 14
Trivia buffs, test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz. ⌘ Read more
Seven men charged after investigation into child sexual exploitation in Bristol ⌘ Read more
Poppy sitting on the couch like he pays the mortgage ⌘ Read more
NATO Flexes Airpower as US B-52 Practices Strike Runs Near Russia’s Doorstep ⌘ Read more
Ancient silver goblet preserves oldest known image of cosmic creation
The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ago imagined the creation of the cosmos looked like ⌘ Read more
When the intern tells me he just tweaked a little thing ⌘ Read more
Brazil cried his first day home. Second day (2nd pic) was… different 😹😼 ⌘ Read more
Hack Club has been handling children’s data for 4 years without a privacy policy
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RadeonSI OpenGL Mesh Shader Support Is Now Completed For Mesa 26.0
For next quarter’s Mesa 26.0 release, the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver will present OpenGL mesh shaders support. It’s been a long journey from the GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension being crafted and merged to wiring up the Mesa driver support while now it’s in place for the AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver… ⌘ Read more
Woman charged with murdering partner’s mother in Sydney home
The 50-year-old was charged following an autopsy of Irene Selmes, 84, which allegedly showed she had suffered significant injuries before her death. ⌘ Read more
Intel Now Confirms Nova Lake Will Support AVX10.2 & APX Extensions
Recently when Intel contributed Nova Lake support for LLVM/Clang and the GCC compiler support there was not any AVX10 or APX support contrary to rumors and expectations. Intel has now published a new programming reference manual where they now confirm Nova Lake will in fact support AVX10.2 and APX… ⌘ Read more
Green falls short of Shield century
Cameron Green is given out lbw on 94 in Western Australia’s clash with Queensland. ⌘ Read more
Editor’s Note: Security Human Validation
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: Even though we had several levels of security already installed, SR has been experiencing so many hacking attacks that it was getting difficult to publish it because the attacks kept screwing up the application we use to produce SR. So Beth Alexander, my wonderful web manager of many years, consulted with security specialists, and they told her we needed to add a human verification first … ⌘ Read more
Who sacked Gough Whitlam? Take the Brisbane Times Quiz
Test your knowledge of current events and earth-shattering anniversaries with the weekly trivia challenge. ⌘ Read more
Canonical To Now Provide Up To 15 Years Commercial Support For Ubuntu LTS Releases
Canonical announced today the expansion of the legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro to provide total coverage of Ubuntu LTS releases up to 15 years… ⌘ Read more
Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory
Dave Levitan, Climate Science Writer - MIT Technology Review
_Stephan: ”king” Trump, his administration, and his Congressional vassals are doing nothing about preparing for the ongoing climate change crisis, whose crescendo is estimated to be about 14 years from now. Instead, they seek to entrap the United States in carbon energy to serve the oligarchs who have funded Trump and the Republican Congr … ⌘ Read more
Private hospital fails in bid to block new medical centre
Work is expected to start in January on a new medical centre across the road from Queensland’s largest private hospital, which lost its Supreme Court appeal this week to stop it being built. ⌘ Read more