Stunning breakthrough: Japanese scientist creates cure for kidney disease in cats ⌘ Read more
is my existing cat being mean to my new cat? ⌘ Read more
Japan eyes nuclear subs after U.S. gives OK to S. Korea ⌘ Read more
Bacteria use sugar-fueled currents and molecular gearboxes to move without flagella
New studies from Arizona State University reveal surprising ways bacteria can move without their flagella—the slender, whip-like propellers that usually drive them forward. ⌘ Read more
Goose turns 13 today! ⌘ Read more
‘Stratospheric’ AI Spending By Four Wealthy Companies Reaches $360B Just For Data Centers
“Maybe you’ve heard that artificial intelligence is a bubble poised to burst,” writes a Washington Post technology columnist. “Maybe you have heard that it isn’t. (No one really knows either way, but that won’t stop the bros from jabbering about it constantly.)”
“But I can confidently tell you that the m … ⌘ Read more
Hundreds of dolphins found dead in Amazon lake were in water hotter than a jacuzzi, study finds ⌘ Read more
Ryzen AI Software 1.6.1 Advertises Linux Support
Ryzen AI Software as AMD’s collection of tools and libraries for AI inferencing on AMD Ryzen AI class PCs has Linux support with its newest point release. Though this “early access” Linux support is restricted to registered AMD customers… ⌘ Read more
An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions (1958) [pdf]
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My kitten won’t leave me old cat alone. Advice? ⌘ Read more
Ukrainian drones hit electricity substation in northern Russia, governor says ⌘ Read more
Ukraine estimates its long-range weapon production at over $30 billion in 2026 ⌘ Read more
Bean’s only 7 months old and she’s already more majestic than I’ll ever be ⌘ Read more
Bro really went :3 (=^･ω･^=) ⌘ Read more
Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Facebook Dating, which debuted in 2019, has become a surprise hit for the company. It lets people create a dating profile free in the app, where they can swipe and match with other eligible singles. It has more than 21 million daily users, quietly making it one of the most popular online dating service … ⌘ Read more
AMD Sends Out Initial GNU Binutils Patch For AMD Zen 6 - Confirms New AVX-512 Features
AMD has begun their open-source compiler enablement upstreaming effort for Zen 6 processors! The first “Znver6” patch was sent out on Friday in preparing for new instructions to be found with these next-generation AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors… ⌘ Read more
Meet Bruno: He looks like he owns the whole alley, and honestly, he might. ⌘ Read more
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s absence sets off alarm bells in Moscow ⌘ Read more
oneDNN 3.10 Continues Preparing For Future Intel CPUs With AVX 10.2
Released one Friday was the newest version of oneDNN as this library started off by Intel and now officially under the UXL Foundation umbrella for serving as building blocks for deep learning software… ⌘ Read more
So sweet paws…😍 ⌘ Read more
‘Putin Must Know Nuclear War Can Never Be Won’ – NATO’s Mark Rutte ⌘ Read more
Linux Kernel Patches & Device Tree Additions For PCIe M.2 Connectors
On ACPI-enabled systems Linux users can enjoy PCIe M.2 connected peripherals that “just work” without any extra fuss. But for those relying on Device Tree (DT) handling by the kernel, new patches from Qualcomm are working on representing PCIe M.2 connectors within DT files… ⌘ Read more
Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity
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Qt Merges Wayland Color Management “color-management-v1”
The Qt toolkit has merged support for Wayland’s color-management-v1 protocol to replace the former xx-color-management-v4 protocol shipped by this open-source toolkit. The change was merged for Qt 6.11 development but also back-ported for the Qt 6.10 series… ⌘ Read more
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KDE Plasma 6.6 Shaving Off 100MB Of Memory Use, Fixing DrKonqi Crash Reporter Crashing
KDE developers were off to a busy start for the month of November. A lot of feature activity continues happening for Plasma 6.6 while a lot of bug fixing is still going on for Plasma 6.5 and related KDE components… ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 5 Released With Build Fixes For Google & Azure Clouds
FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 had been expected this weekend but instead a fifth beta release of FreeBSD 15.0 was deemed warranted… ⌘ Read more
Lawmakers are ditching Congress at a record pace
Stef W. Kight , Hans Nichols , Andrew Solender, Staff Writers - Axios
Stephan:
_Tuesday’s election is, I predict, is just the first phase of a trend that is going to restructure Congress. It is not going to be just political parties; it is also going to be a generational change. My hope is that the Democrats, in spite of all the Republican election rigging, are still going to take the majority in both the House and Senate … ⌘ Read more
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Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study
Phoebe Weston, Biodiversity Staff Writer - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: We are beginning to see more and more reports about the effects of climate change. The fact that we have a President, a Vice President, and an entire party – the Republicans – that think climate change is a hoax, is a major reason why the 2040 is going … ⌘ Read more
BREAKING: Supreme Court Blocks Order Requiring Trump to Pay SNAP Benefits
Aaron Parnas, Commentator - The Parnas Perspective
_Stephan: The Supreme Court literally made its ruling on SNAP as I was preparing SR. Here it is. It is just more gray area, and I am increasingly concerned that millions of American families are not going to be able to have a family Thanksgiving dinner. The sheer nastiness of “king” Trump’s attempt to starve tens of millions o … ⌘ Read more
Federal judge prohibits Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland
Conrad Wilson, Reporter - Oregon Public Broadcasting
_Stephan: Here is some good news about “king” Trump’s attempt to become America’s Viktor Orban, end democracy, and use the National Guard as a Gestapo. U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, delivered her final order banning Trump from using the military in Portland, Oregon, on Friday and said: No Trump, you don’t get to do … ⌘ Read more
Unesco Adopts Global Standards On ‘Wild West’ Field of Neurotechnology
Unesco has adopted the first global ethical standards for neurotechnology, defining “neural data” and outlining more than 100 recommendations aimed at safeguarding mental privacy. “There is no control,” said Unesco’s chief of bioethics, Dafna Feinholz. “We have to inform the people about the risks, the potential benefits, the alterna … ⌘ Read more
A rats to riches story: Larry the Downing Street cat finds place in TV spotlight
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Trump gives Hungary one-year exemption from Russian energy sanctions ⌘ Read more
In his defense he had no idea this would happen guys. ⌘ Read more
This year India has been both a victim of Donald Trump’s trade war and a participant in a shooting war with nuclear-armed Pakistan. Its economy has barely noticed ⌘ Read more
LXQt 2.3.0 released
LXQt, the other Qt desktop environment, released version 2.3.0. This new version comes roughly six months after 2.2.0, and continues the project’s adoption of Wayland. The enhancement of Wayland support has been continued, especially in LXQt Panel, whose Desktop Switcher is now enabled for Labwc, Niri, …. It is also equipped with a backend specifically for Wayfire. In addition, the Custom Command plugin is made more flexible, regardless of Wayland and X11. ↫ LXQt 2.3.0 release announcement T … ⌘ Read more
WINE gaming in FreeBSD Jails with Bastille
FreeBSD offers a whole bunch of technologies and tools to make gaming on the platform a lot more capable than you’d think, and this article by Pertho dives into the details. Running all your games inside a FreeBSD Jail with Wine installed into it is pretty neat. Initially, I thought this was going to be a pretty difficult and require a lot of trial and error but I was surprised at how easy it was to get this all working. I was really happy to get … ⌘ Read more
If there was any reason to miss the game of your life… this would be it. RIP ⌘ Read more
Spins influence solid oxygen’s crystal structure under extreme magnetic fields, study finds
Placing materials under extremely strong magnetic fields can give rise to unusual and fascinating physical phenomena or behavior. Specifically, studies show that under magnetic fields above 100 tesla (T), spins (i.e., intrinsic magnetic orientations of electrons) and atoms start forming new arrangements, promoting new phases of matter or stretching a crystal lattice. ⌘ Read more
Lego Unveils First-Ever Star Trek Set
New submitter semper_statisticum shares a report from the Independent: Lego is releasing its first-ever Star Trek-inspired model – with an incredible recreation of the signature ship from the ‘80s TV series. Made from 3,600 pieces, the [first-ever] Star Trek inspired Lego set is of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, the spaceship that serves as the main setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation … ⌘ Read more