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Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela - President Trump has yet to make a decision, but his advisers are pressing a range of objectives — from attacking drug cartels to seizing oil fields — to try to justify ousting Nicolás Maduro. ⌘ Read more
Flower likened to ‘cancer’ for environment still sold at nurseries
The colourful flowers of gazanias might attract you to buy them at a nursery but it is worth considering whether you are getting an invasive weed causing havoc to our landscapes. ⌘ Read more
Python Software Foundation Running Out of Money
After turning down $1.5 Million from the US Government as an act of DEI Virtue Signalling, the Python Software Foundation reveals that they have a $1.4 Million deficit, with only 6 months of money left. ⌘ Read more
Iranian man found dead after posting video burning Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s portrait. Family rejects suicide claim ⌘ Read more
Announcing Vitess 23.0.0
The Vitess team is excited to release Vitess 23.0.0 — the latest major version of Vitess — bringing new defaults, better operational tooling, and refined metrics. This release builds on the strong foundation of version 22… ⌘ Read more
Charm’s Fantasy: Build AI agents with Go. Multiple providers, multiple models, one API
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Benchmarking The AMD EPYC 9V64H: Azure HBv5’s Custom AMD CPU With HBM3
Nearly one year ago Microsoft announced the HBv5 virtual machines powered by a custom-designed AMD 4th Gen EPYC processor with high bandwidth memory (HBM3). Finally today the Azure HBv5 series is reaching general availability for those with memory-intensive HPC applications and other workloads. Microsoft kindly provided Phoronix with HBv5 access in advance to begin testing these new VMs with the AMD EPYC 9V64H CPUs featuring HBM memory, so … ⌘ Read more
Man spent 200 days building a solar-powered explorer yacht that can run forever
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Voting behavior in elections strongly linked to future risk of death
Voting behavior in elections is strongly linked to the future risk of death, and is likely a stronger determinant of health than education—considered a key influence on health—suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. ⌘ Read more
German government approves largest minimum wage increase in its history ⌘ Read more
Who knew the scruffy little kitten who begged to come home with me would turn out to be so majestic? ⌘ Read more
The fascinating story of the ultimate cosmic law
How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the most important numbers in the universe ⌘ Read more
Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund Announced For Long-Term Support To Rust Developers
The Rust Foundation announced today the creation of the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund as a new means of providing consistent, transparent, and long-term support for developers that make the Rust programming language possible… ⌘ Read more
Russia’s Oil Exports Plunge to Lowest Level in Months After US Sanctions ⌘ Read more
This cat at my university ⌘ Read more
We’re closing in on how genetics may influence your PCOS risk
In the largest genetic analysis of polycystic ovary syndrome to date, scientists have identified new variants linked to the condition, which could help us treat it more effectively ⌘ Read more
China sentences infamous Myanmar scam mafia members to death ⌘ Read more
YouTube AI error costs creator his channel over alleged link to Japanese account
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America’s electric car market runs out of juice with sales plunging much as 80%
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Zelenskyy: stopping Putin requires both US and Europe ⌘ Read more
Linux 6.19 Will Finally Support Intel’s Adaptive Sharpness Filter “CASF” With Lunar Lake
Going all the way back to early 2024, Intel Linux engineers have been working on supporting an Adaptive Sharpening Filter new to Lunar Lake. While Lunar Lake later launched in September 2024, the Linux patches for this feature remained under review and discussion. Besides the Intel driver implementation itself for Lunar Lake and newer, it also ushers in a new DRM sharpness property to help standardize such functionality … ⌘ Read more
My Bubba kitty passed this morning ⌘ Read more
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Open Container Initiative “OCI” Runtime Spec v1.3 Released With FreeBSD Support
The Open Container Initiative unveiled today the OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 update for this standard around operating system process and application containers. This runtime specification continues to evolve for outlining the configuration, execution environment, and lifecycle of a container. Notable with the v1.3 revision is introducing official FreeBSD support… ⌘ Read more
RBC’s open source voyage: Bridging cloud innovation and community through CNCF and FINOS
At Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), our cloud journey is intrinsically linked with our commitment to open source. Joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) extends and compliments our membership with the Fintech Open Source Foundation… ⌘ Read more
Why CNCF TAGs are the core of cloud native innovation (and where to find them at KubeCon Atlanta)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 is just around the corner in Atlanta. While you’re mapping out your schedule for co-located events like Observability Day and Platform Engineering Day, don’t forget to connect with the groups… ⌘ Read more
Bringing data center observability into the cloud native world
When people talk about cloud-native observability, the conversation usually revolves around applications, containers, and microservices. However, under those layers lies an equally critical foundation: The physical data center. Servers, storage systems, and networks ultimately host every… ⌘ Read more
Ukraine’s Navy Reports Hitting Elite Russian Unit on Black Sea Rig; HUR Destroys Air Defense in Crimea ⌘ Read more
MIPS64EL & ARMEL Architectures Dropped In Debian Unstable/Experimental
The ARMEL and MIPS64EL architectures have been dropped from Debian unstable and experimental. This is the end of the road for these aging ARM and MIPS targets in the Debian world… ⌘ Read more
COP30: Can Brazil summit get climate negotiations back on track?
Expectations are low for the UN climate conference in Belém, Brazil, but the host’s pragmatic approach could help make progress on implementation ⌘ Read more
When the project manager tells me “it’s just a quick little fix” ⌘ Read more