Microsoft Bets on Influencers To Close the Gap With ChatGPT
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft, eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America to push a message to young consumers that might be summed up as: Our AI assistant is as cool as ChatGPT. Microsoft could use the help. The company recently said its family of Copilot assistants attracts 1 … ⌘ Read more
Dataset reveals the factors affecting retail and charitable food supplies after Hurricane Harvey
Texas and Louisiana withstood the worst of Hurricane Harvey, which unleashed cataclysmic rain in August of 2017 that killed over 100 people from flooding. After the flood, grocery stores and pantries struggled not only to remain open but to keep fresh food on the shelves. ⌘ Read more
AI may blunt our thinking skills – here’s what you can do about it
There is growing evidence that our reliance on generative AI tools is reducing our ability to think clearly and critically, but it doesn’t have to be that way ⌘ Read more
Rechte Buchmesse „Seitenwechsel“: Ihre Waffen bleiben andere
In Halle fand die erste rechte Buchmesse statt. Nazis und Coronaleugner, Rentnerinnen und missverstandene Freigeister ließen sich das Programm schmecken. mehr… ⌘ Read more
Mieterschutz bremst Kaufpreise: Leere Wohnungen sind bis zu 33 Prozent teurer
Unvermietete Wohnungen sind beim Kauf deutlich teurer als vermietete. Das ist ein Zeichen für wirksamen Mieterschutz. Und Anreiz für Spekulant:innen. mehr… ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: On Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
Signal improved its protocol to prepare encrypted messaging for the quantum era.
They call the improvement “Triple Ratchet” (or SPQR = Signal Post-Quantum Ratchet).
[Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets\ \ We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security … ⌘ Read more
Russia’s Tuapse port hit again — ship burns, pier damaged, Russian officials scramble to rewrite reports ⌘ Read more
Rechtsruck in Tschechien: Rassist leitet Prags Parlament
Tomio Okamura hetzt gegen Geflüchtete und will Tschechien aus der EU führen. Als Teil der Regierung übernimmt er jetzt den drittwichtigsten Posten. mehr… ⌘ Read more
Can openSUSE Tumbleweed Compete With CachyOS Performance?
Last week when delivering some CachyOS benchmarks against Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 on the Framework Desktop with AMD Ryzen AI Max+, a few Phoronix readers wrote in with the question or belief that openSUSE Tumbleweed would better perform against CachyOS given the distribution’s select x86_64-v3 packages and other advantages. As it’s been a while since running any benchmarks of the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed, here are those benchmarks now in the mi … ⌘ Read more
Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape
Visa and Mastercard are nearing a settlement with merchants that aims to end a 20-year-old legal dispute by lowering fees stores pay and giving them more power to reject certain credit cards, WSJ reports, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: Under terms being discussed, Visa and Mastercard would lowe … ⌘ Read more
Help Define the Future of Development – Take the Docker State of Application Development Survey 2025
Welcome to the fourth annual Docker State of Application Development survey! Please help us better understand and serve the application development community with just 20 minutes of your time. We want to know where you’re focused, what you’re working on, and what is most important to you. Your thoughts and feedback will help us build… ⌘ Read more
Falco Links Real-Time Detection with Forensic-Level Analysis in the Cloud Native Stack
New integration connects Falco alerts to Stratoshark’s forensic tools, delivering Wireshark-style visibility into system call and audit log data Key Highlights ATLANTA—KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON NORTH AMERICA, Nov. 10, 2025 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which… ⌘ Read more
COP30 in Brasilien: Ich will zur Klimakonferenz – aber ich kann nicht
Euritha Tjan A Way ist Journalistin aus Suriname. Zur Klimakonferenz kann sie nicht – es gibt keine Förderung. Warum das ein Problem ist. mehr… ⌘ Read more
Hi, I’m Sponge and I’m silly ⌘ Read more
Firefox 145 Binaries Available - Aside From 32-bit Linux Being Removed
Firefox 145 release binaries are now available. Most notable with this release is what’s not there: the 32-bit Linux builds are no more… ⌘ Read more
Sahra Wagenknecht: BSW-Chefin gibt Vorsitz ihrer Partei ab
Seit Tagen wurde spekuliert, ob Parteigründerin Sahra Wagenknecht weitermacht. Jetzt sorgt die Chefin des „Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht“ für Klarheit. mehr… ⌘ Read more
Hegseth says six people killed in two new US attacks on alleged drug boats ⌘ Read more
Menschen mit Behinderung: Sichtbar für alle
Erst hat sie sich zurückgehalten, jetzt steht Linn Bade im Rampenlicht. Auch, weil sie andere Menschen mit Behinderung ermutigen will. mehr… ⌘ Read more
Lost My Boy Two Years Ago And Wanted To Share a Video of Him I Found! ⌘ Read more
Superquiz, Tuesday, November 11
Trivia buffs, test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz. ⌘ Read more
Entsetzen in Indonesien: Diktator Suharto posthum zum Nationalhelden erklärt
Proteste konnten die umstrittene Aktion seines Ex-Schwiergesohns Prabowo Subianto und dessen konservativer Regierung nicht verhindern. mehr… ⌘ Read more
Neue Zahlen zu rechter Gewalt: Mehr Gewalt gegen Geflüchtete
Im dritten Quartal 2025 registrierten die Behörden fast 200 Angriffe auf Asylsuchende. In Magdeburg fuhr ein Mann ein syrisches Kleinkind an. mehr… ⌘ Read more
Thailand suspends Trump-brokered peace deal with Cambodia ⌘ Read more
What’s the Best Ways for Humans to Explore Space?
Should we leave space exploration to robots — or prioritize human spaceflight, making us a multiplanetary species?
Harvard professor Robin Wordsworth, who’s researched the evolution and habitability of terrestrial-type planets, shares his thoughts:
In space, as on Earth, industrial structures degrade with time, and a truly sustainable life support system must have the capa … ⌘ Read more
Schlechte Bezahlung von Hebammen: „Zwei Kreißsaalteams haben schon als ganze gekündigt“
Seit November regelt ein neuer Vertrag die Vergütung von Hebammen. Ursula Jahn-Zöhrens vom Deutschen Hebammenverband sieht darin große Probleme. mehr… ⌘ Read more
Recursive DNS
I think I did not blog about it, but I switched back to a self-hosted AdGuard Home instance quite some time ago from NextDNS. To reduce my number of subscriptions, but also to increase my control over important infrastructure I use. ⌘ Read more
Bezirksbürgermeister von Neukölln: Hikel will nicht weitermachen
Weil er zu wenig Rückhalt in seiner eigenen Partei sieht, zieht Martin Hikel eine erneute Kandidatur überraschend zurück. Neuköllns SPD sucht nun neu. mehr… ⌘ Read more
Teenage Russian street musician jailed over anti-Kremlin songs is detained as she leaves jail ⌘ Read more
Victoria ranked as worst state for doing business – again
High taxes and red tape have contributed to the state’s lowly position in the Business Council of Australia rankings, but one tech entrepreneur has leapt to Victoria’s defence. ⌘ Read more
POLYVAL Work Bringing More Performance Gains To Linux Crypto Subsystem
Whenever seeing Linux kernel mailing list patches from Google engineer Eric Biggers it tends to be about performance optimizations to the Linux kernel’s cryptography subsystem. That was once again the case on Sunday with the newest patch series providing some nice gains… ⌘ Read more
I nearly cried over how much she trusts me ⌘ Read more
Tencent Proposes Semantics-Aware vCPU Scheduling For Over-Subscribe KVM Linux VMs
Tecent engineers have been working on addressing long-standing inefficiencies within the Linux kernel scheduler code around over-subscribed virtualized environments… ⌘ Read more
DOJ tells Republicans that Epstein files even worse for Trump than they thought: report
Carl Gibson, Staff Writer - AlterNet
_Stephan: We do not have a functioning Congress in large measure because the Republican members are trying to protect “king” Trump from what the release of the complete Epstein files will reveal about him. That’s why Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz), has yet to be sworn into office. Over 800,000 citizens in A … ⌘ Read more
WA knife laws under scrutiny after machete attack
WA knife laws are under scrutiny after teenagers were caught up in a machete attack in Perth’s northern suburbs. ⌘ Read more
Fire rips through Chinese restaurant after gas stove left on
Fire has ripped through a well-loved Chinese restaurant in Perth after a gas stove was left on in the kitchen. ⌘ Read more
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
Jesse Drucker, Investigative Tax Reporter - The New York Times
Stephan: The federal minimum wage for 2025 remains at $7.25 per hour. Elon Musk just got a one trillion dollar pay deal, a number so large most Americans could not even write it – $1,000,000,000,000, (one followed by 12 zeros).
_Why? Because the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) minimum has not changed since 20 … ⌘ Read more
‘Not gonna happen!’ Trump official says Thanksgiving travel about to ‘slow to a trickle’
Alexander Willis, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: I have been thinking about what is coming in Thanksgiving, unless major good news changes occur in the next few days. Families will not be able to gather together because air travel, as described in this article, declines “to a trickle.” And what where will millions of Americans get the food for a c … ⌘ Read more
Anzeige gegen Studentenverbindung: Ehrenlose Burschis sollen illegales Duell gefochten haben
In Marburg sollen sich Burschenschaftler ein illegales Fechtduell um die Ehre geliefert haben. Ihre Begründung liest sich lächerlich. mehr… ⌘ Read more
EU-Lateinamerika-Gipfel: Bitte kein Wellengang
Der EU-Lateinamerika-Gipfel wäre ideal gewesen, das Vorgehen der USA im Pazifik zu thematisieren. Doch viele Europäer kuschten vor Donald Trump. mehr… ⌘ Read more
Trump’s dollar delusion: how trade war risks ending the US’s ‘exorbitant privilege’
Eduardo Porter, Contributing Economic Analyst - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: For as long as you have been alive the U.S. dollar has been the world’s benchmark currency. Now, some in “king” Trump’s administration seem to want that to end. This report in The Guardian, a British publication, describes what is going on, and is almost entirely being missed or not d … ⌘ Read more
Energiewende und Klimaschutz: „Wir dürfen nichts unversucht lassen“
Unter Obama hat Steven Chu die Energiewende der USA mitgestaltet, jetzt zerstört Trump sie. Ein Gespräch über Klimaflüchtlinge, Kernkraft und Kompromisse. mehr… ⌘ Read more
Samsung Galaxy XR vs. Apple Vision Pro
Samsung recently came out with the Galaxy XR, its first mixed reality headset. The Galaxy XR competes with the Apple Vision Pro, so we thought we’d pick one up to see how it compares to Apple’s headset.
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In person, it’s hard to mist … ⌘ Read more
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
When rift lakes dry up it can cause earthquakes and eruptions
Lake Turkana in Kenya, known as the cradle of humanity, has shrunk in recent millennia – and the loss of water has led to increased seismic activity, which could have impacted our ancient ancestors ⌘ Read more
AI power use forecast finds the industry far off track to net zero
Several large tech firms that are active in AI have set goals to hit net zero by 2030, but a new forecast of the energy and water required to run large data centres shows they’re unlikely to meet those targets ⌘ Read more
One of Australia’s worst pests is on the march to the Pilbara. But we have a ‘unique’ chance to stop them
A new study predicts that without containment efforts, cane toads will infest up to 75 per cent of the Pilbara within three decades. ⌘ Read more
Whitlam’s revenge?
A rear-ending on the back page. ⌘ Read more