Work After Work: Notes from an Unemployed New Grad Watching the Job Market Break
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Water levels below 3% in dam reservoirs for Iran’s second city, say reports ⌘ Read more
From his first day home to six months later! ⌘ Read more
Mysterious holes in Andean mountain may be an Inca spreadsheet
Thousands of holes arranged in a snake-like pattern on Monte Sierpe in Peru could have been a monumental accounting device for trade and tax ⌘ Read more
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Apple Explores New Satellite Features for Future iPhones
In 2022 the iPhone 14 featured emergency satellite service, and there’s now support for roadside assistance and the ability to send and receive text messages.
But for future iPhones, Apple is now reportedly working on five new satellite features, reports LiveMint:
As per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is building an API that would allow developers to add sat … ⌘ Read more
Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine ⌘ Read more
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Linux 6.18-rc5 Released: “Small And Boring”
As we work toward the stable Linux 6.18 kernel release expected around the end of December, out today is the Linux 6.18-rc5 test kernel… ⌘ Read more
6.18-rc5: mainline
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Is VIM still valid in this era of LLM agents ? ⌘ Read more
My resident kitty is so patient with my foster. He’s a good uncle ⌘ Read more
Doctor who joked about gassing Jews let off with warning ⌘ Read more
Password to Louvre video surveillance system was ‘Louvre’, according to employee
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Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned in the US. But Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway
“For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby,” reports the Wall Street Journal:
Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, … ⌘ Read more
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Timber, I’m not gonna lie, I kinda hated you. At the same time I am surprised to find how gutted I am now … ⌘ Read more
Italy pushes for EU army as Rome-Moscow diplomatic rift deepens ⌘ Read more
Sedliacka pec, srdce dolnozemského domu
V dolnozemských slovenských domoch mala osobitné miesto sedliacka pec. Bola nielen veľmi praktickým zariadením na pečenie chleba, koláčov a iných dobrôt, ale aj symbolom tepla, domova a rodinnej súdržnosti. Okolo nej sa odohrával každodenný život – od ranných raňajok až po zimné večery. Okolo pece bývala lavica, kde sa dalo zohriať premrznuté telo, a „kucov”, úzky priestor medzi pecou a stenou, v ktorom sa deti rady hriali a neraz aj zasp … ⌘ Read more
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
New York Times: Those Deported to El Salvador Were Beaten, Shackled, and Sexually Abused ⌘ Read more
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
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
Thousands of people in Ukraine engaged in efforts to stabilize power system – Zelensky ⌘ Read more
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
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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What a reporter found when she investigated US military strikes on Venezuelan drug boats ⌘ Read more