Ainda na minha saga de leitura de sondagens (sim, há malucos para tudo…):
Nas “letras pequininas”, isto é, naquilo que é depositado na ERC e só porque a Lei manda, lê-se na sondagem do ISCTE de Dezembro que o número de “votos simulados” que três das possibilidades tiveram foram: Cardoso, 1 voto (0.1%), Joana Amaral Dias, 9 votos (1.0%), Jorge Pinto, 10 votos (1.1%). Estes valores a cru são depois ponderados e distribuídos, o que é normal… o que não se entende é o resultado depois da ponderação.
Em princípio, a ponderação distribui, e portanto devia dar mais para toda a gente, mas na realidade não foi isso que foi parar à comunicação social… Porquê? Ora, no documento para os resultados ponderados, eles começam por pegar na tabela de votos por ponderar, para depois fazer a ponderação. Saber como a ponderação foi feita é coisa que não vamos descobrir neste toot - lamento - mas é que o documento em questão é um documento de 66 páginas, que apresenta os dados por ponderar na página 33, e depois apresenta as páginas 34 e seguintes todas em branco… o que também me leva a perguntar se a ERC faz o mínimo de validação dos documentos que lhe são entregues.
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Verizon Offers $20 Credit After Nationwide Outage Stranded Users in SOS Mode For Hours
Verizon is offering affected customers a $20 account credit following a nationwide network outage on Wednesday that left users across the US unable to connect, forcing phones into SOS mode for roughly ten hours before the carrier restored service around 10:15PM ET.
Customers will receive a text message w … ⌘ Read more
Cerebras Scores OpenAI Deal Worth Over $10 Billion
Cerebras Systems landed a more than $10 billion deal to supply up to 750 megawatts of compute to OpenAI through 2028, according to a blog post by OpenAI. CNBC reports: The deal will help diversify Cerebras away from the United Arab Emirates’ G42, which accounted for 87% of revenue in the first half of 2024. “The way you have three very large customers is start with one very large … ⌘ Read more
JPMorgan Warns 10% Credit Card Rate Cap Would Backfire on Consumers and Economy
JPMorgan Chase’s chief financial officer Jeremy Barnum pushed back hard on Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s proposed 10% cap on credit card interest rates, calling the measure “very bad for consumers” and “very bad for the economy” during a call with reporters.
The proposed one-year cap, which Trump has said he wan … ⌘ Read more
Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices
Meta has begun laying off more than 1,000 employees from its Reality Labs division as the company redirects resources away from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI wearables and smartphone features. The cuts amount to roughly 10% of Reality Labs’ 15,000-person workforce, according to an internal post from CTO Andrew Bosworth reviewed by … ⌘ Read more
Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to “triple your crypto,” according to a thread on Reddit. The Betterment acco … ⌘ Read more
Meta Plans To Cut Around 10% of Employees In Reality Labs Division
Meta plans to cut roughly 10% of staff in its Reality Labs division, with layoffs hitting metaverse-focused teams hardest. Reuters reports: The cuts to Reality Labs, which has roughly 15,000 employees, could be announced as soon as Tuesday and are set to disproportionately affect those in the metaverse unit who work on virtual reality headsets … ⌘ Read more
US President Calls for 10% Credit Card Interest Cap, Banks Push Back
President Donald Trump revived a campaign pledge Friday night by calling for a one-year, 10% cap on credit card interest rates, a proposal that banking groups immediately opposed despite the industry’s heavy donations to his 2024 campaign and support for his second-term agenda.
Trump posted on Truth Social that he hoped the cap would be in … ⌘ Read more
Nova Lake & Crescent Island Support Lands In The Intel Graphics Compiler
Released this morning is the Intel Graphics Compiler “IGC” 2.27.10 that comes with initial support for next-generation Nova Lake and Crescent Island Xe3P hardware… ⌘ Read more
Budgie 11 Desktop Being Developed With The Qt6 Toolkit
With Budgie 10.10 released this weekend, Budgie desktop developers have provided an update around Budgie 11 desktop development… ⌘ Read more
Personal Info on 17.5 Million Users May Have Leaked to Dark Web After 2024 Instagram Breach
An anonymous reader shared this report from Engadget:
If you received a bunch of password reset requests from Instagram recently, you’re not alone. As reported by Malwarebytes, an antivirus software company, there was a data breach revealing the “sensitive information” of 17.5 million Instagra … ⌘ Read more
China Tests a Supercritical CO2 Generator in Commercial Operation
“China recently placed a supercritical carbon dioxide power generator into commercial operation,” writes CleanTechnica, “and the announcement was widely framed as a technological breakthrough.”
The system, referred to as Chaotan One, is installed at a steel plant in Guizhou province in mountainous southwest China and is designed to recover … ⌘ Read more
Nature-Inspired Computers Are Shockingly Good At Math
An R&D lab under America’s Energy Department annnounced this week that “Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex mathematical problems that underpin scientific and engineering challenges.”
Phys.org publishes the announcement from Sandia National Lab:
In a paper published in Nature M … ⌘ Read more
Four More Tech Bloggers are Switching to Linux
Is there a trend? This week four different articles appeared on various tech-news sites with an author bragging about switching to Linux.
“Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop,” quipped the Verge’s senior reviews editor, who finally “got fed up and said screw it, I’m installing Linux.
They switched to CachyOS — just like this writer for the videogame magazine Escapist: … ⌘ Read more
AI-Powered Social Media App Hopes To Build More Purposeful Lives
A founder of Twitter and a founder of Pinterest are now working on
“social media for people who hate social media,” writes a Washington Post columnist.
“When I heard that this platform would harness AI to help us live more meaningful lives, I wanted to know more…”
Their bid for redemption is West Co. — the Workshop for Emotional and Spiritual … ⌘ Read more
AI Fails at Most Remote Work, Researchers Find
A new study “compared how well top AI systems and human workers did at hundreds of real work assignments,” reports the Washington Post.
They add that at least one example “illustrates a disconnect three years after the release of ChatGPT that has implications for the whole economy.”
AI can accomplish many impressive tasks involving computer code, documents or images. That has prompt … ⌘ Read more
Budgie 10.10 Released: Officially Migrated From X11 To Wayland
The Budgie 10.10 desktop has been officially released in marking the open-source project’s transition from X11 to Wayland… ⌘ Read more
Amazon Plans Massive Superstore Larger Than a Walmart Supercenter Near Chicago
Amazon “has submitted plans for a large-format store near Chicago that would be larger than a Walmart Supercenter,” reports CNBC:
As part of the plans, Amazon has proposed building a one-story, 229,000-square-foot building [on a 35-acre lot] in Orland Park, Illinois, that would offer a range of products, such as grocerie … ⌘ Read more
China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Breaks Nuclear Fusion Limit Thought to Be Impossible
“Scientists in China have made a breakthrough with fusion energy that could finally overcome one of the most stubborn barriers to realising the next-generation energy source,” reports the Independent:
A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said its experimental nuclear reactor, dubbed the ‘artificial Sun’, a … ⌘ Read more
Meta Announces New Smartglasses Features, Delays International Rollout Claiming ‘Unprecedented’ Demand’
This week Meta announced several new features for “Meta Ray-Ban Display” smartglasses:
- A new teleprompter feature for the smart glasses (arriving in a phased rollout)
- The ability to send messages on WhatsApp and Messenger by writing with your finger on any surface. (A … ⌘ Read more
Medical Evacuation from Space Station Next Week for Astronaut in Stable Condition
It will be the first medical evacuation from the International space station in its 25-year history. The Guardian reports:
An astronaut in the orbital laboratory reportedly fell ill with a “serious” but undisclosed issue. Nasa also had to cancel its first spacewalk of the year… The agency did not identify th … ⌘ Read more
More US States Are Preparing Age-Verification Laws for App Stores
Yes, a federal judge blocked an attempt by Texas at an app store age-verification law.
But this year Silicon Valley giants including Google and Apple “are expected to fight hard against similar legislation,” reports Politico, “because of the vast legal liability it imposes on app stores and developers.”
In Texas, Utah and Louisiana, parent advo … ⌘ Read more
Mageia 10 Alpha Released - 32-bit ISOs Still Available
The first alpha release of Mageia 10 is now available for this Linux distribution who’s lineage traces back to Mandriva and before that the legendary Mandrake Linux… ⌘ Read more
How the Free Software Foundation Kept a Videoconferencing Software Free
The Free Software Foundation’s president Ian Kelling is also their senior systems administrator. This week he shared an example of how “the work we put in to making sure a program is free for us also makes it free for the rest of the world.”
During the COVID-19 pandemic, like everyone everywhere, the FSF increased its videoconferen … ⌘ Read more
Grand Frais, ADP : la concurrence au profit des consommateurs
Un article de Henry Bonner Le fond d’investissement Apollo, un groupe américain, rachète 70 % des parts de Prosol, le principal opérateur de la chaîne de supermarchés Grand Frais. Le succès de l’enseigne, du point de vue de la rentabilité et de la croissance, vient de la qualité des produits et de la gestion des […] ⌘ Read more
Dell Pro Max GB10 vs. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Framework Desktop For Llama.cpp, OpenCL & Vulkan Compute
Over the past number of weeks the Dell Pro Max with GB10 has been undergoing a lot of testing at Phoronix. This NVIDIA GB10 powered mini PC with its 20 Arm cores (10 x Cortex-X925, 10 x Cortex-A725) and Blackwell GPU offers a lot of combined compute potential for AI and other workloads. In this article is a look at how the Dell Pro Max with GB10 competes with AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” within the Framew … ⌘ Read more
Are Hybrid Cars Helping America Transition to Electric Vehicles?
America’s electric car subsidies expired at the end of September, notes Bloomberg. Yet in those last three months, “while fully electric cars and trucks made up 10% of all auto sales in the US… another 15% of transactions were for hybrid vehicles.”
The EV market is slowing in the U.S., but analysts expect hybrid sales to continue accelerati … ⌘ Read more
- a ronda de perguntas específicas a cada um:
AV, quer a foto do presidente em salas de serviços públicos? - não, mas queria a bandeira Portuguesa lá, e acabar com as bandeiras LGBTQs e os dias de orgulho gay e lésbico, e ter o dia do orgulho nacional;
AF, ia à bola com Putin ou Zelensky? - nenhum
AS, convidava o ACosta para um conselho de estado? - claro, é o presidente do Conselho Europeu
CM, escolheria qual dos outros candidatos presentes para representar um monólogo num ciclo de peças de teatro em Belém? - nenhum, quer é discutir a Presidência da República
GM, viajaria de submarino com MM ou AV? - ninguém, que viajar de submarino é só para profissionais
CF, se falhar para PR, tentará para Presidente do Benfica? - não
JP, semana dos 4 dias no Palácio de Belém? - fomentaria esse debate
MM, quem seria melhor futuro comentador político, Montenegro ou Passos Coelho? - não faço ideia
Comentário pessoal: Uff! Comentar isto cansa - mas também tenho de dizer que acho que este foi talvez o mais importante e informativo debate até hoje, ainda que o possa ser enquanto “consolidador” para quem viu os anteriores. Espero que no debate com todos na TV tenham menos perguntas planeadas, e mais tempo para cada pergunta, até porque são mais três candidatos a responder.
ronda de perguntas sim ou não
renovar garantias com EUA sobre Lajes? - AV “em vez disso quero outras coisas” (sem sim, nem não); AF diz que EUA já não está a cumprir; AS diz sim; CM e JP querem Lajes sem EUA; GM diz que não é o momento adequado - mas há que exigir que se cumpra o já acordado; CF tem medo que EUA queiram mexer; MM concorda com GM e CF, discorda de CM e JP;
tem ligações com maçonaria? - ninguém tem
cargo de representante da república para as regiões autónomas ainda faz sentido? - CF diz não; JP diz sim; MM diz que isso é para o Parlamento responder; AV critica MM por não se meter em temas do parlamento neste tema mas meter-se noutros, e depois diz não ao cargo; AF relembra que em 2004 a figura era consensual, e que os motivos não mudaram (portanto sim, faz sentido); AS tb não sabe responder a perguntas de sim ou não, fala sobre as regiões autónomas, não responde nem sim nem não. CM diz que no parlamento defendeu a sua existência, mas que isso é matéria do parlamento e não da PR; GM diz que apesar de ser da competência AR a sua opinião é que o modelo evolua para deixarmos de ter a figura.
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Some of Your Cells Are Not Genetically Yours
Every human body contains a small population of cells that are not genetically its own – cells that crossed the placenta during pregnancy and that persist for decades after birth. These “microchimeric” cells, named after the lion-goat-serpent hybrid of Greek mythology, have been found in every organ studied so far, though they are exceedingly rare: one such cell exists for every 10 … ⌘ Read more
JPMorgan Says Javice Firms Billed Millions Just for ‘Attendance’
JPMorgan Chase is now fighting to avoid paying $10.2 million in disputed legal charges racked up by Charlie Javice, the convicted founder of student-finance startup Frank, after court filings revealed her defense team billed more than $5 million simply for attending her fraud trial – including on days when court wasn’t even in session.
A previously se … ⌘ Read more
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ÁLBUNS MAIS DESCARREGADOS NO BANDCAMP DA ADC
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- V/A - 25.12
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- IdiossINcrasias - Vol 1 (Floating Ashes + Kokori)
- Resonant - Ecos (de estilhaços planetários endossomáticos)
- The Dreams Never End - Alma Partida
- Turning Point - Porque a Lua se Quebrou
- V/A - ADC Sampler 2024
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Can Colossal’s Genetically Engineered Animals Ever Be the Real Thing?
Colossal Biosciences, the Texas-based startup now valued at more than $10 billion that has attracted investments from Paris Hilton, Peter Jackson and Tom Brady, claimed earlier this year to have resurrected the dire wolf – an animal that disappeared at the end of the last ice age – but a group of leading canid experts concluded the c … ⌘ Read more
Shotcut 25.12 Released With 10-bit Video CPU Pipeline, Linear Color Processing
December happens to be a busy month for video editor releases in the open-source world. This month there’s been the release of Flowblade 2.24, OpenShot 3.4, Kdenlive 25.12, and now there is Shotcut 25.12 before closing out the month and year… ⌘ Read more
How Windows 10 Earned Its Good Reputation While Planting the Seeds of Windows 11’s Problems
Windows 10’s formal end-of-support arrived in October, and while the operating system is generally remembered as one of the “good” versions of Windows – the most widely used since XP – many of the annoyances people complain about in Windows 11 actually started during the Windows 10 era, ArsTe … ⌘ Read more
Americans Are Watching Fewer New TV Shows and More Free TV
Americans are settling into streaming habits that should worry Hollywood executives, as new Nielsen data analyzed by Bloomberg reveals that not a single new original series cracked the top 10 most-watched streaming shows in 2025 – the first time this has happened since Nielsen began publishing streaming data in 2020.
The shift extends beyond origi … ⌘ Read more
‘I Switched To eSIM in 2025, and I am Full of Regret’
Google’s Pixel 10 series arrived this year as the company’s first eSIM-only lineup in the United States, forcing users who wanted to review or buy the new phones to abandon their physical SIM cards entirely. Ryan Whitwam, a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, made the switch and now regrets it, he says. “In the three months since Google forced me to give up my phys … ⌘ Read more
Eiffage, voitures : rentes et dégâts du tout-électrique
Un article de Henry Bonner Le groupe de construction Eiffage entre au CAC 40, l’indice des actions de la Bourse de Paris. Le titre grimpe depuis environ 10 ans, suite à une chute lors de la crise de 2008, avec l’effondrement de la construction de logements. Les résultats du troisième trimestre montrent la performance pour […] ⌘ Read more
There Was Some Good News on Green Energy in 2025
Yes, greenhouse gas emissions kept rising in 2025, writes Bloomberg (alternate URL here). And the pledges of various governments to lower greenhouse gases “are nowhere near where they need to be to avoid catastrophic climate change…”
But in 2025, “there were silver linings too.”
The world is decarbonizing faster than was expected 10 years ago and investment into the clean e … ⌘ Read more
44% Of GNOME Core Apps Are Written In C, 13% In JavaScript & 10% In Rust
GNOME developer Sophie Herold has shared some interesting end-of-year code stats for the GNOME project. The “GNOME” codebase is up to 6,692,516 lines of code at the end of 2025 with 1,611,526 lines of that being from GNOME apps. Where the data gets interesting is on the programming language breakdown in different areas… ⌘ Read more
Rocket Crashes in Brazil’s First Commercial Launch
The first-ever commercial rocket launched at Brazil’s Alcantara Space Center crashed soon after liftoff late earlier this week, dealing a blow to Brazilian aerospace ambitions and shares of South Korean satellite launch company Innospace. From a report: The rocket began its vertical trajectory as planned after liftoff [Monday] at 10:13 p.m. local time (0113 GMT) but fell … ⌘ Read more
New Linux Patches Improve exFAT Read Performance Via Multi-Cluster Mapping
For those using Microsoft’s exFAT file-system under Linux for the likes of flash drives and SD cards, a new patch series posted today aims to enhance the read performance. The new patches are shown to improve performance by about 10% while also heaving lower overhead… ⌘ Read more
QEMU 10.2 Released With IO_uring Support For Helping Allow For Greater Performance
As a wonderful gift to open-source Linux virtualization users this Christmas Eve is the release of the QEMU 10.2 emulator… ⌘ Read more
Snadragon X Elite Laptop Performance On Linux Ends 2025 Disappointing
As part of my various end-of-year benchmarking comparison articles for looking at the performance evolution of Linux is a fresh look at the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop experience when using Ubuntu 25.10 with the latest X1E Concept packages, which includes taking the X1 Elite optimized kernel to the latest Linux 6.18 stable series. Unfortunately, there are significant performance regressions observed compared to a few months ago … ⌘ Read more
Micro QuickJS Engine Compiles & Runs JavaScript With As Little As 10kB Of RAM
Very talented open-source developer Fabrice Bellard who already is well known for his work on QEMU, the Tiny C Compiler, and FFmpeg, has another accomplishment: Micro QuickJS. The Micro QuickJS JavaScript engine can compile and run JavaScript programs with as little as 10 kB of RAM… ⌘ Read more
End of year review: 0.5/10.0, and that’s because I got a domain name, lol
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Hey EU friends 👋 wtf happened to the EU Internet today for about 40 minutes or so?
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de From 2:50 PM to 3:23 PM AEST (+10 UTC) there was an outage. Everything went “up” on Down Detector, my EU region went offline, numerous sites were unavailable, and so on. Basically everything to/from the EU appeared to basically go kaput.
Google Launches CO2 Battery Plants for Long-Duration Storage of Renewable Energy
In July Google promised to scale the CO2 batteries of “Energy Dome” as a long-duration energy storage solution. Now IEEE Spectrum visits its first plant in Sardinia, where 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide power a turbine generating 20 MW over 10 hours — storing “large amounts of excess renewable energy until it’s … ⌘ Read more
James Webb Space Telescope Confirms 1st ‘Runaway’ Supermassive Black Hole
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Space.com: Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 million times larger than the sun, rocketing through space at a staggering 2.2 million miles per hour (1,000 kilometers per second). That not … ⌘ Read more
Mageia 10 Planning For April Release While Still Maintaining 32-bit Support
The Mageia development team recently met to solidify their plans for releasing Mageia 10 as the next major release of this LInux distribution with its roots that trace back to the days of Mandrake Linux… ⌘ Read more