oVirt 4.5.7 Released After Two Years With New OS & CPU Support
The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years. While Red Hat had started the oVirt open-source project for which their Red Hat Virtualization platform is based, since they shifted that to maintenance mode to focus on the Red Hat OpenShift platform and stopped contributing to oVirt, it’s been up to the open-source community to keep it going… ⌘ Read more

Britain Awards Wind Farm Contracts That Will Power 12 Million Homes
The UK government has awarded guaranteed electricity prices to offshore wind projects totaling 8.4 GW in a bid to revive wind development, attract nearly $30 billion in private investment, and stabilize energy costs. The New York Times reports: On Wednesday, the British government said that it would provide guaranteed electricity prices … ⌘ Read more

Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash
After spending years pushing digital payments to combat tax evasion and money laundering, European Union ministers decided in December to ban businesses from refusing cash. The reversal comes as 12% of European businesses flatly refused cash in 2024, up from 4% three years earlier.

Over one in three cinemas in the Netherlands no longer accept notes and coins. Cash usage across the euro … ⌘ Read more

Intel Compute Runtime Updated With Initial Crescent Island & Nova Lake S Support
The Intel Compute Runtime 26.01.36711.4 was published today as their first release of 2026 for this open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL support across their range of graphics hardware going back to Tiger Lake. Notable with this new Compute Runtime release is having now production-ready Panther Lake support while also introducing early support for next-generation hardware… ⌘ Read more

Meta Closes Three VR Studios As Part of Its Metaverse Cuts
Meta is shutting down three acquired VR studios as part of Reality Labs layoffs and a strategic pivot away from VR content toward AI-powered smart glasses. UploadVR reports: Meta shut down Twisted Pixel Games (Deadpool VR), Sanzaru Games (Asgard’s Wrath), and Armature Studio (Resident Evil 4 VR). […] Twisted Pixel Games was founded in 2006 and mostly ma … ⌘ Read more

GCC 16 Compiler Steps Closer To Release With Algol 68 Frontend, AMD Zen 6, C++20 Default
GCC 16 as this year’s major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection should be out in the typical March~April timeframe if all goes well. Today the GCC 16 compiler transitioned to its final stage “stage 4” of development with a focus exclusively on documentation and regression fixing… ⌘ Read more

Elon Musk: X’s New Algorithm Will Be Made Open Source in Seven Days
“We will make the new ð algorithm…open source in 7 days,” Elon Musk posted Saturday on X.com. Musk says this is “including all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users,” and “This will be repeated every 4 weeks, with comprehensive developer notes, to help you understand what changed.”

Some context f … ⌘ Read more

Warner Bros Rejects Revised Paramount Bid, Sticks With Netflix
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Warner Bros Discovery’s board unanimously turned down Paramount Skydance’s latest attempt to acquire the studio, saying its revised $108.4 billion hostile bid amounted to a risky leveraged buyout that investors should reject. In a letter to shareholders on Wednesday, Warner Bros’ board said Paramount’s … ⌘ Read more

2ª parte começa com Cotrim e, bingo, ele acha que é o candidato que representa Sá Carneiro e Passos Coelho. Primeiro critica Seguro por não querer governar, depois admite que um Presidente não governa.

Jorge Pinto sobre desistências diz o que sempre disse.

AF é mais directo para dizer o mesmo: não desiste.

CM acha isto tudo muito estranho.

Seguro quer responder mas Ventura interrompe para dizer que a candidatura do Jorge Pinto é ridícula (ou outro adjectivo semelhante)… e esta mini-ronda acaba assim, voltando-se ao verdadeiro tema desta ronda: o tipo de presidente que eles querem ser, mas indo para António Filipe… por isso parece que o Jorge Pinto perde a sua oportunidade de responder à “pergunta a sério”. (Mais tarde ele queixa-se disso).

CMartins critica os candidatos da direita toda com a questão da nacionalidade, ou do pacote laboral. Critica JPinto ao apoiar Seguro, que é criticado por se ter colocado a favor de Passos e a Troika.

André Pestana justifica a sua candidatura, destaca o apoio que tem. Distingue-se de CM e AF por terem participado na Geringonça.

Humberto Correia insiste na sua tecla: o maior problema é a habitação, vai obrigar o governo a construir 100.000 habitações sociais por ano, via magistratura de influência.

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Patches Posted For Bringing Rock Band 4 PS4 / PS5 Guitar Support To Linux
Following Linux 6.19 adding support for CRKD guitar controllers, new patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are bringing some additional guitar controllers to Linux. This latest work is around enabling the Rock Band 4 guitars for the PlayStation 4 and PS5 consoles to work under Linux… ⌘ Read more

SpaceX Lowering Orbits of 4,400 Starlink Satellites for Safety’s Sake
“Starlink is beginning a significant reconfiguration of its satellite constellation focused on increasing space safety,” announced Michael Nicolls, Starlink’s vice president of engineering:

“We are lowering all Starlink satellites orbiting at ~550 km to ~480 km (~4400 satellites) over the course of 2026. The shell lowering is being tig … ⌘ Read more

Box64 v0.4 Improves Support For DRM Protected Games, Steam Is Now More Stable
While Fex-Emu has been getting a lot of attention lately for being Valve-sponsored and powering the upcoming Steam Frame, Box64 continues making progress as another great open-source project for running x86_64 Linux binaries on AArch64 Linux as well as an eye on other architectures like RISC-V… ⌘ Read more

AMD Closes in on Intel in Latest Steam Hardware Survey
AMD’s share of processors among Steam users climbed to 47.27% in December 2025, a 4.66% jump in a single month that continues the company’s steady encroachment on Intel’s once-dominant position in the gaming CPU market. Intel held roughly 77% of the Steam Hardware Survey five years ago, and that lead has eroded considerably as AMD broke the 40% threshold in the third qua … ⌘ Read more

1. 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.

1. a nova lei do lobbying é suficiente? - todos acham que a transparência que a nova lei traz é um passo no sentido certo mas não suficiente, à excepção de AF (e talvez CM?). Mas MM distingue transparência de devassa, insinuação e suspeita - os últimos três degradando a democracia (diz que não é uma crítica directa a nenhum dos outros candidatos, mas sabemos bem a quem cabe o barrete). AV critica a posição do PCP sobre a nova lei do lobbying. AF diz que não tem vergonha de ser do PCP, e tem a mesma posição do partido: acha que a lei o que faz é legalizar o tráfico de influências, o problema têm sido as opções políticas, que devem ser mais escrutinadas.
   

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2.2) é preciso clarificar a hierarquia dentro do Ministério Público?: todos acham que há coisas a corrigir na justiça, PR não legisla mas pode influenciar (lançar debates, etc.)… AS primeiro falará com o PGR, depois logo vê; CM diz que PR não legisla mas pode lançar debates sobre a justiça (e segurança); GM diz “claro que sim” e vem com a conversa tipo AV, “há muitos anos que este problema existe e ainda não foi feito nada”, mas desta vez para atacar os outros, “há aqui candidatos que tiveram responsabilidades políticas e não fizeram nada”, sendo que ele não desmente todos os outros em relação ao facto do PR não legislar, e a competência desta clarificação pertence ao parlamento. CF diz que “sim, é preciso clarificar”, dá o exemplo de ter feito alguma coisa - uma pergunta a um juíz, que recebeu como resposta “isso é interferência política no poder legislativo”, ainda que esse juíz tenha ameaçado processar CM pela sua crítica às afirmações do referido juíz (num caso de violência doméstica). Enfim, no fundo continuam todos de acordo ainda que há quem tente tirar benifícios eleitorais do tempo em antena atacando os outros. MM (bem) diz que não é acusado de nada e responde à pergunta em vez de ligar à provocação do GM.

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‘Results Were Fudged’: Departing Meta AI Chief Confirms Llama 4 Benchmark Manipulation
Yann LeCun, Meta’s outgoing chief AI scientist and one of the pioneers credited with laying the groundwork for modern AI, has acknowledged that the company’s Llama 4 language model had its benchmark results manipulated before its April 2025 release. In an interview with the Financial Times, LeCun said the … ⌘ Read more

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club

Steps to world domination:

1. “Invent” “AI” (by using other people’s data).
   
2. Get people hyped about it and ideally hooked on it.
   
3. Only provide it as a cloud service. But hey, if you want to, you can run it locally!
   
4. Buy all hardware available on the market, so that nobody but you can build more systems.
   
5. All PCs of consumers and competitors are too weak now and can’t be upgraded anymore.
   
6. Everybody depends on your cloud service! Win!
   

All of that is possible because corporations don’t have a “conscience” in capitalism. Nobody forces the RAM manufacturers to sell all their stuff to just one or two buyers, but since the only goal of that manufacturer is to make money, they do it.

‘IPv6 Just Turned 30 and Still Hasn’t Taken Over the World, But Don’t Call It a Failure’
Three decades after RFC 1883 promised to future-proof the internet by expanding the available pool of IP addresses from around 4.3 billion to over 340 undecillion, IPv6 has yet to achieve the dominance its creators envisioned. Data from Google, APNIC and Cloudflare analyzed by The Register shows less tha … ⌘ Read more

IceWM 4.0 Improves Alt-Tab Window Switcher, Alpha Blending + 32-bit RGBA Default
For fans of the IceWM X11 window manager, the project kicked off 2026 by releasing IceWM 4.0… ⌘ Read more

SDL 3.4 Released With Many New APIs, Better Emscripten & Native PNG Support
Kicking off the new year for Linux gaming and cross-platform gaming at large is the release of the SDL 3.4 library. SDL is part of the Steam runtime and continues to be widely-used for abstracting software/hardware for creating more portable games and other applications… ⌘ Read more

UK Company Sends Factory With 1,000C Furnace Into Space
A UK-based company has successfully powered up a microwave-sized space factory in orbit, proving it can run a 1,000C furnace to manufacture ultra-pure semiconductor materials in microgravity. “The work that we’re doing now is allowing us to create semiconductors up to 4,000 times purer in space than we can currently make here today,” says Josh Western, CEO of Space … ⌘ Read more

OpenCV 4.13 Brings More AVX-512 Usage, CUDA 13 Support, Many Other New Features
OpenCV 4.13 is out this New Year’s Eve in providing the latest open-source computer vision (CV) capabilities. OpenCV 4.13 brings a wide variety of enhancements to this widely-used computer vision library… ⌘ 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

Despite a Record Year, Airlines Are Grappling With Big Challenges
The global airline industry is on track to post an all-time profit high of nearly $40 billion in 2025, according to trade group IATA, surpassing the pre-pandemic 2019 figure of $26 billion, but carriers are still managing a net margin of just 4% – roughly $7.90 per passenger. Economist adds: Not everything has been in the ascent. European and N … ⌘ Read more

Nepal To Scrap ‘Failed’ Mount Everest Waste Deposit Scheme
A scheme to encourage climbers to bring their waste down from Mount Everest is being scrapped – with Nepalese authorities telling the BBC it has been a failure. From the report: Climbers had been required to pay a deposit of $4,000, which they would only get back if they brought at least 8kg (18lbs) of waste back down with them. It was hoped it would begin to … ⌘ Read more

Life in a Shrinking Japan
Japan’s demographic transformation is no longer a distant forecast but an accelerating reality, and the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research now estimates the country’s population will fall to roughly 100 million by 2050 – more than 20 million fewer people than today.

The share of residents aged 65 and over stood at 29.4% as of September and is expected to reach 37.1% by midcentury. The dependenc … ⌘ Read more

The tt URLs View now automatically selects the first URL that I probably are going to open. In decreasing order, the URL types are:

1. markdown media URLs (images, videos, etc.)
   
2. markdown or plaintext URLs
   
3. subjects
   
4. mentions
   

I might differentiate between mentions of subscribed and unsubscribed feeds in the future. The odds of opening a new feed over an already existing one are higher.

Rob Pike Angered by ‘AI Slop’ Spam Sent By Agent Experiment
“Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades….” read the email. “With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village.

“IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default … ⌘ Read more

Fish 4.3 Brings Scripting & Interactivity Improvements, Enhanced Terminal Support
Fish 4.3 is out today as the newest update to this user-friendly command line shell. Fish 4.0 released at the beginning of this year in porting the codebase from C++ to Rust and now before closing out 2025 they have out Fish 4.3… ⌘ Read more

Mesh Networks Are About To Escape Apple, Amazon and Google Silos
After more than two decades of promises and false starts in the mesh networking space, the smart home standards that Apple, Amazon and Google have each championed are finally set to escape their respective brand silos and work together in a single unified network.

Starting January 1, 2026, Thread 1.4 becomes the Thread Group’s only certified sta … ⌘ Read more

Driverless Future Gains Momentum With Global Robotaxi Deployments
The global push to put autonomous taxis on public roads is accelerating as ride-hailing companies and technology firms advance from pilot programs toward limited commercial rollouts in cities across China, the United States, Europe and the Middle East.

WeRide and Uber launched Level 4 fully driverless robotaxi operations in Abu Dhabi in Novemb … ⌘ Read more

Fix On The Way For One Of The Linux 6.19 Regressions: 52.4% Scheduler Regression
The Linux 6.19 kernel has been a bit bumpy in the scheduler department but at least one fix is on the way for addressing fallout… ⌘ Read more

Ruby 4.0 Released With Ruby Box Experimental Feature, ZJIT Compiler
The past several years we have seen new releases of the Ruby programming language implementation for Christmas (25 December). This year is no different with Ruby 4.0 having been released this morning… ⌘ Read more

How a Power Outage In Colorado Caused US Official Time To Be 4.8 Microseconds
Tony Isaac shares a report from NPR: The U.S. government calculates the country’s official time using more than a dozen atomic clocks at a federal facility northwest of Denver. But when a destructive windstorm knocked out power to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) laboratory in Boulder on Wednesd … ⌘ Read more

Alphabet Acquires Data Center and Energy Infrastructure Company Intersect For $4.75 Billion
Alphabet is acquiring Intersect for $4.75 billion to accelerate data center and power-generation capacity as AI infrastructure demand surges. CNBC reports: Alphabet said Intersect’s operations will remain independent, but that the acquisition will help bring more data center and generation capaci … ⌘ Read more

Larry Ellison Pledges $40-Billion Personal Guarantee For Paramount’s Warner Bros Bid
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has personally guaranteed $40.4 billion to shore up Paramount’s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, trying to ease financing doubts as Warner Bros weighs a rival offer from Netflix. Reuters reports: Paramount said the amended terms do not change the $30-per-share all-cash offer eve … ⌘ Read more

Lua 5.5 Released With Declarations For Global Variables, Garbage Collection Improvements
Five years after releasing Lua 5.4, Lua 5.5 debuted today as the newest version of this lightweight and embeddable scripting language… ⌘ Read more

Welcome To America’s New Surveillance High Schools
Beverly Hills High School has deployed an AI-powered surveillance apparatus that includes facial recognition cameras, behavioral analysis software, smoke detector-shaped bathroom listening devices from Motorola, drones, and license plate readers from Flock Safety – a setup the district spent $4.8 million on in the 2024-2025 fiscal year and considers necessary given the scho … ⌘ Read more

Darktable 5.4 RAW Photography Software Reaches Parity Between X11 & Wayland
Darktable 5.4 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source RAW photography software. Besides improving camera support, UI enhancements, and more the Wayland support has been improved with Darktable. With today’s Darktable 5.4 release, the Wayland support should be on par with the X11 support… ⌘ Read more

Is America’s Tech Industry Already Facing a Recession?
America’s unemployment rate for tech jobs rose to 4% in November, and “has been steadily rising since May,” reports the Washington Post (citing data from the IT training/certifications company CompTIA).

Between October and November, the number of technology workers across different industries fell 134,000, while the number of people working in the tech industry decline … ⌘ Read more

The phone situation
I need to write something about this or I’ll burst.

I have a new phone. It’s an old iPhone SE 2022. Yes, I know. Evil,
evil Apple. Won’t someone please think of the privacy issues? Right,
well, Apple has at least better reputation about these things than
Google does, but we’ll come to that.

It feels like I’m betraying the FLOSS cause. I feel horrible, although
probably not just because of this.

Let’s recap:

• My main phone has been a de-googled (not even microG) Fairphone 4
  with CalyxOS. CalyxOS … ⌘ Read more

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3 - maioria absoluta volta a acontecer? - AF “Mais importante que previsões é preciso um presidente claro e de confiança, aproveita para criticar o voto útil, Seguro responde com apelo ao voto útil, diz que sem voto útil a segunda volta é com Marques Mendes. Continuam a discutir sobre quem tem hipóteses e se o voto útil é bom ou mau, AF vai aproveitando para mostrar que ele defenderia coisas (boas) que Seguro não defende.

4 - financiamento para ajudar a Ucrânia - Seguro a favor de eurobonds, acusa AF de não condenar a invasão da Rússia à Ucrânia, AF desmente (e volta a condenar), Seguro faz-se de sonso, debate desce de nível.

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Considerações pessoais: AF claramente mais preparado para ser presidente, e seria melhor presidente. Único problema dele em relação a Seguro é mesmo que há clubismo e voto útil que vai dar muitos votos a Seguro em detrimento da esquerda (incluindo AF)

‘Subscription Captivity’: When Things You Buy Own You
A reporter at Mother Jones writes about a $169 alarm clock with special lighting and audio effects. But to use the features, “you need to pay an additional $4.99 per month, in perpetuity.”

“Welcome to the age of subscription captivity, where an increasing share of the things you pay for actually own you.”

What vexes me are the companies that sell physical products for a hef … ⌘ Read more

#ptpol #debate #presidenciais

1 - #LMM e nomes de clientes - ambos acham que é preciso transparência

2 - suspensão de mandato - #Cotrim não pode, #Ventura já suspendeu

3 - TC lei da nacionalidade - Cotrim tem pena que TC tenha chumbado, mas gosta da lei e quer que avance sem os problemas constitucionais, Ventura insiste na lei toda mesmo a parte anticonstitucional

4 - EUA quer extrema-direita na EU - Ventura é pró-Trump, Cotrim concorda com Trump numas coisas e discorda noutras

5 - última sondagem - Cotrim acha que Ventura é só alarido (e amigo de pedófilos), Ventura tem orgulho de estar em primeiro lugar em todas as sondagens

6 - pensões - Cotrim quer pensões privadas, Ventura quer subir pensões ao nível do salário mínimo, “cortando nas gorduras” (gostava de ver essa proposta de lei… e de qq forma, isso não é medida presidencial - não que ele queira ser presidente). Na palavra final, Cotrim apela o voto dos eleitores do Chega nele em vez de Ventura

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Considerações pessoais: asco. Um mau, outro inqualificável. Não me surpreende que discutem eleitorado, mas preocupa-me que esse eleitorado exista. Não me interpretem mal, se isto fosse a segunda volta obviamente que sem qualquer dúvida seria Cotrim a ter o meu voto, mas… ew.

Vulkan 1.4.337 Debuts With Long Vector & 3D ASTC Compression Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.337 released a short time ago as what could be the last Vulkan API spec update of 2025 depending upon how much time the working group takes off or not around the holidays. In any case, it’s a nice holiday treat with the new VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_3d and VK_EXT_shader_long_vector extensions… ⌘ Read more

OpenZFS 2.4 Released With Faster Encryption Performance, Many Other Improvements
OpenZFS 2.4 is out as stable in time for the holidays! The big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release is now available for FreeBSD and Linux systems to continue advancing the open-source ZFS file-system support… ⌘ Read more

Kdenlive 25.12 Video Editor Brings New Docking System, Menu Restructuring
In addition to the release this week of OpenShot 3.4, released today is a major update to another popular open-source video editing application: Kdenlive. The Kdenlive 25.12 release brings many improvements to help with editing of any year-end / holiday videos… ⌘ Read more

Warner Bros Discovery Board Rejects Rival Bid From Paramount
Warner Bros Discovery’s board spurned Paramount Skydance’s $108.4 billion hostile takeover bid on Wednesday, calling the offer “illusory” as it accused the studio giant of misleading shareholders about its financing. From a report: Paramount has been in a race with Netflix to win control of Warner Bros, and with it, its prized film and televisio … ⌘ Read more

3 - o país quer um presidente mais interventivo: Seguro diz que vai sê-lo se for eleito. Cotrim também. Cotrim diz que Seguro não tem conhecimento ao pormenor ou técnico. Cotrim parece querer um Presidente que se tenta substituir ao Primeiro Ministro (alguém lhe devia perguntar com que poderes/como faria isso). Seguro aponta isto mesmo, que Cotrim quer ser Primeiro-Ministro sombra. Seguro fala da sua experiência governativa, Cotrim da sua experiência profissional. Cotrim diz que os problemas do país se resolvem com menos escalões de IRS (mais uma medida para o governo e a AR, que no máximo um presidente poderá chumbar se a proposta atacar o princípio constitucional à progressividade…)

4 - EUA e segurança - Cotrim acha mau o Trump querer financiar a extrema-direita na Europa, e querer mandar em todo o continente Americano. Seguro concorda e acha que Eiropa precisa de mais autonomia.

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Considerações pessoais: ambos os candidatos são maus, Cotrim claramente pior. Tanta gente critica a candidatura do Vieira por ser uma candidatura no gozo, mas candidatos como o Cotrim ou Ventura, que o que querem é ser primeiro-ministro em vez de fazer o que é o trabalho de um presidente, esses sim estão a gozar connosco: e parece que há muita gente que vai ao engano votar neles.