Iran Begins Cloud Seeding To Induce Rain Amid Historic Drought
Authorities in Iran have sprayed clouds with chemicals to induce rain, in an attempt to combat the country’s worst drought in decades. From a report: Known as cloud-seeding, the process was conducted over the Urmia lake basin on Saturday, Iran’s official news agency Irna reported. Urmia is Iran’s largest lake, but has largely dried out leaving a vast … ⌘ Read more

AI Use in ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’ Draws Fire From US Lawmaker
An anonymous reader shares a report: The use of AI in the latest Call of Duty has prompted a US lawmaker to call for regulations to prevent artificial intelligence from taking jobs away from human workers. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who represents a large swathe of Silicon Valley, took aim at Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 after buyers noticed the pop … ⌘ Read more

Take-Two CEO Says Consoles Aren’t Going Away, But Gaming is Moving Toward PCs
Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, which operates publishing labels including GTA-maker Rockstar Games and 2K, said on Monday that although gaming consoles are not going away, the industry is moving toward PCs in the next decade. From a report: “I think it’s moving towards PC and business is moving towards open … ⌘ Read more

UK Cyber Ransom Ban Risks Collapse of Essential Services
The UK government has been warned that its plan to ban operators of critical national infrastructure from paying ransoms to hackers is unlikely to stop cyber attacks and could result in essential services collapsing. From a report: The proposal, announced by the Home Office in July, is designed to deter cyber criminals by making it clear any attempt to blackmail … ⌘ Read more

Global Web Freedoms Tumble
Global internet freedom declined for a 15th consecutive year, according to Freedom House’s annual report. Semafor: “Always grim reading,” this year’s is particularly sobering, Tech Policy Press noted, with the lowest-ever portion of users living in countries categorized as “free.” Conditions declined in 27 of the 72 countries assessed, with those in Kenya – where anti-corruption protests were quelled, in part, by a seve … ⌘ Read more

Why Hotel-Room Cancellations Disappeared
Hotel cancellation policies have transformed over the past seven years. Travelers once could cancel reservations up until the day before check-in without penalty. That flexibility has largely vanished.

The shift began around 2018 when third-party travel-booking sites deployed “cancel-rebook” strategies, the Atlantic writes. These platforms would monitor hotel rates after securing initial reservati … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic CEO Says He’s ‘Deeply Uncomfortable’ With Unelected Tech Elites Shaping AI
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s uneasy about how much power a handful of tech leaders – including himself – have over the future of artificial intelligence. From a report: “I think I’m deeply uncomfortable with these decisions being made by a few companies, by a few people,” Amodei told Anderson Cooper … ⌘ Read more

Florida Bill Would Require Cursive Instruction in Elementary Schools
An anonymous reader shares a report: Elementary-school students would have to learn how to write in cursive, under a bill set to be vetted by a House committee next week. Sen. Erin Grall, R-Vero Beach, filed a similar proposal (SB 444) on Monday. The House Student Academic Success Subcommittee is set to review the measure (HB 127) on Nov. … ⌘ Read more

Bezos Returns To CEO Role With AI Startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has founded an AI startup called Project Prometheus and will serve as its co-chief executive. This is his first formal operational role since stepping down as chief executive of Amazon in July 2021. The company has raised $6.2 billion in funding, The New York Times reports, partly from Bezos. The funding makes Project Prometheus one of the most wel … ⌘ Read more

iPadOS 26.2 Beta 3 Adds New Drag and Drop Multitasking Functionality
In the initial version of iOS 26, Apple removed Slide Over and Split View multitasking in favor of a new window-based multitasking system. A replacement for Split View was available in an added tiled mode, but Slide Over was entirely gone.

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How Should the Linux Kernel Handle AI-Generated Contributions?
Linux kernel maintainers “are grappling with how to integrate AI-generated contributions without compromising the project’s integrity,” reports WebProNews:

The latest push comes from a proposal by Sasha Levin, a prominent kernel developer at NVIDIA, who has outlined guidelines for tool-generated submissions. Posted to the kernel mailing list, these … ⌘ Read more

next-20251117: linux-next
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Bitcoin Erases Year’s Gain as Crypto Bear Market Deepens
655”Just a little more than a month after reaching an all-time high, Bitcoin has erased the more than 30% gain registered since the start of the year…” reports Bloomberg:

The dominant cryptocurrency fell below US$93,714 on Sunday, pushing the price beneath the closing level reached at the end of last year, when financial markets were rallying following Presiden … ⌘ Read more

More Tech Moguls Want to Build Data Centers in Outer Space
“To be clear, the current economics of space-based data centers don’t make sense,” writes the Wall Street Journal.

“But they could in the future, perhaps as soon as a decade or so from now, according to an analysis by Phil Metzger, a research professor at the University of Central Florida and formerly of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. … ⌘ Read more

Apple Exploring Touch-Sensitive Layers Built Into Official iPhone Cases
Apple is developing official iPhone cases that act like secondary touch interfaces for future devices, claims a new rumor out of China.

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According to known Weibo-based leaker Instant Digital, Apple is looking to make protective cases for its Pro models that directly integrate touch-based … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Executives Discuss How AI Will Change Windows, Programming – and Society
“Windows is evolving into an agentic OS,” Microsoft’s president of Windows Pavan Davuluri posted on X.com, “connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere.”

But former Uber software engineer and engineering manager Gergely Orosz was unimpressed. “Can’t see any re … ⌘ Read more

Chinese Astronauts Return From Their Space Station After Delay Blamed on Space Debris Damage
“Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation’s space station Friday,” reports the Associated Press, “after more than a week’s delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from being hit by space debris.”

The team left their Shenzhou-20 spacecraft i … ⌘ Read more

Rust in Android: More Memory Safety, Fewer Revisions, Fewer Rollbacks, Shorter Reviews
Android’s security team published a blog post this week about their experience using Rust. Its title? “Move fast and fix things.”

Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yields durable and compounding gains. This year we look … ⌘ Read more

6.18-rc6: mainline
Version:6.18-rc6 (mainline)Released:2025-11-16Source:linux-6.18-rc6.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more

Deaths Linked to Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Rose 17% in England in 2024
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Guardian:

The number of deaths linked to superbugs that do not respond to frontline antibiotics increased by 17% in England last year, according to official figures that raise concerns about the ongoing increase in antimicrobial resistance.

The figures, released by the UK H … ⌘ Read more

“A partir de 17 de novembro, os estudantes vão parar as suas escolas em protesto como último aviso ao governo. Vamos mostrar que não consentimos que vendam o nosso futuro, e que estamos dispostos a parar as nossas escolas e não ser governáveis por quem está a condenar a nossa vida.

Dia 22 de novembro, se o governo nada tiver feito, convocamos toda a sociedade a sair às ruas, lado a lado para exigir o futuro a que todos temos direito e marchar até à Assembleia da República em Lisboa.”

#CriseClimática #GreveClimática #Lisboa

https://greveclimaticalisboa.org/2025/10/o-nosso-futuro-nao-esta-a-venda-marcha-22-nov/

V Novom Sade súťažili mladí slovenskí recitátori
V priestoroch Verejnej mediálnej ustanovizne Rádio-televízie Vojvodiny v Novom Sade sa v sobotu (15. novembra) konala 51. Rozhlasová súťaž mladých recitátorov. Akciu zorganizovala rozhlasová redakcia programu v slovenskom jazyku RTV. Na tohtoročnom podujatí vystúpilo 51 recitátorov zo 17 slovenských obcí vo Vojvodine a súťažili v piatich kategóriách – prednes poézie žiakov nižších ročníkov základných škôl, prednes poézi … ⌘ Read more

My sweet old lady Alice passed away on Wednesday at the age of 17. ⌘ Read more

Teenager accused of attacking homeless woman faces court
A 17-year-old boy accused of attacking a homeless woman sleeping outside of an Adelaide library will remain behind bars until at least December. ⌘ Read more

Just lost my companion of 17 years. ⌘ Read more

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Project Struggles Toward Billion-User Ambition With 17.5 Million Sign-Ups
Sam Altman’s Tools for Humanity has verified around 17.5 million people through its iris-scanning Orb device. The company has set a goal of reaching 1 billion users, so it is less than 2% of the way there. The startup has raised $240 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, … ⌘ Read more

6.18-rc5: mainline
Version:6.18-rc5 (mainline)Released:2025-11-09Source:linux-6.18-rc5.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more

The state of the Rust dependency ecosystem
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Fwupd 2.0.17 Released With More Hardware Support & Features
Days after the Linux Vendor Firmware Service celebrated 135 million firmware downloads, a new version of the Fwupd utility is now available for firmware updating systems and peripherals under Linux… ⌘ Read more

systemd-appd Is A New Component Being Planned By Flatpak Developers
Given this week’s release of Flatpak 1.17 for app sandboxing, open-source developer Sebastian Wick published a blog post on Tuesday around the latest Flatpak developments and a look ahead at some of the feature development planned. Arguably most significant of that is the plans for systemd-appd… ⌘ Read more

‘No one is entitled!’ MAGA congressman shames SNAP recipients for ‘life choices’
Alexander Willis,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

Stephan: This is the heartless Republican scum the Americans in Florida’s 6th District chose to represent them.

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As 42 million Americans go without federal food assistance, including 16 million children, Rep. Randy Fine … ⌘ Read more

agent-shell 0.17 improvements + MELPA
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6.18-rc4: mainline
Version:6.18-rc4 (mainline)Released:2025-11-02Source:linux-6.18-rc4.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more

„Tu stojím, inak nemôžem…”
K Pamiatke reformácie

Lutherovi a jeho spolupútnikom trvalo dva týždne, kým sa z Wittenbergu na voze dopravili do vzdialeného západonemeckého Wormsu. Luther sa pred snem postavil 17. apríla 1521 popoludní a bol odhodlaný diskutovať. Na sneme ho čakal sám cisár Karol V. spolu s radcami a zástupcami Ríma, v sprievode mnohých vplyvných mužov nemeckej ríše. Pred Luthera postavili všetky zozbierané spisy a knihy a nekompromisne sa opýtali, či je autorom niektorej z nic … ⌘ Read more

6.18-rc3: mainline
Version:6.18-rc3 (mainline)Released:2025-10-26Source:linux-6.18-rc3.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more

We had some gray soup with the occasional fine rain with strong wind gusts. Despite the bad forecast we took the train to Geislingen/Steige and strolled up to the Helfenstein castle ruin. All the colorful leaves were so beautiful, it didn’t matter that the sun was behind thick layers of clouds.

We then continued to the Ödenturm (lit. boring tower). By then the wind had picked up by quite a bit, just as the weatherman predicted. We were very positively surprised that the Swabian Jura Association had opened up the tower. Between May and October, the tower is typically only manned on Sundays and holidays between 10 and 17 o’clock. But yesterday was Saturday and no holiday. The lovely lady up there told us that they’re currently experimenting with opening up on Saturday, too, because there are some highly motivated members responsible for the tower.

We were the very first visitors on that day. Last Sunday, when the weather lived up to the weekday’s name, they counted 128 people up in the tower. Very impressive.

The wind gusts were howling around the tower. Luckily, there are glass windows. So, it was quite pleasant up in the tower room. Chatting with the tower guard for a while, we got even luckier: the sun came out! That was really awesome. The photos don’t do justice. As always, it looked way more stunning in person.

Thanks to all the volunteers who make it possible to enjoy the view from the thirty odd meters up there. That certainly made our day!

After signing the guestbook we climbed down the staircase and returned to the station and headed back. The train even arrived on time. What a great little trip!

https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-die-burgruine-helfenstein-und-den-oedenturm-2025-10-25/

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.17
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Grab the 17 Different iPhone 17 Default Wallpapers
The iPhone 17 series is now in the wild, and along with the new iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Air, we have new default wallpapers for those devices too. Depending on the device model, you’ll find some star-like designs for the standard model, or futuristic glassy designs that spell out “AIR” or … Read More ⌘ Read more

How a human ‘jumping gene’ targets structured DNA to reshape the genome
Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human genome—comprising about 17% of the genome. It is commonly called a “jumping gene” or “retrotransposon” because it can “retrotranspose” (move) from one genomic location to another. ⌘ Read more

6.18-rc2: mainline
Version:6.18-rc2 (mainline)Released:2025-10-20Source:linux-6.18-rc2.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more

The AI bubble is 17 times bigger than the dot-com bust
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Meta convinces Blue Owl to cut $30B check for its Hyperion AI super cluster
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Building an Agent That Leverages Throwaway Code
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Something Weird Is Happening to Earth’s Magnetic Field
Passant Rabie,  Science Reporter  -  Gizmodo

Stephan: It isn’t clear to even scientists exactly what this change in Earth’s magnetic field is going to cause, but clearly it will be something dramatic.

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The Majority AI View
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The Majority AI View
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Marc Benioff: I no longer believe National Guard is needed for SF
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Republicans use deepfake video of Chuck Schumer in new attack ad
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150 rokov od úmrtia Daniela Koléniho
V dnešný deň, 17. októbra 1875, v Kulpíne zomrel Daniel Koléni (4. novembra 1800, Myjava, Slovensko – 17. októbra 1875, Kulpín, Srbsko). Stalo sa to päť mesiacov po tom ako v máji toho istého roku 1875 položil základný kameň nového kulpínskeho chrámu. V bežnom roku si pripomíname tiež aj 225 rokov od narodenia Daniela Koléniho. Daniel Koléni (Kolényi) bol tretím kulpínskym evanjelickým farárom a tento zbor viedol až 43 rokov. Pred príchodom do … ⌘ Read more

Why Autonomous Infrastructure is the future: From intent to self-operating systems
Executive summary: We’re at an inflection point where AI-generated code meets AI-managed infrastructure, creating truly self-sustaining systems. This convergence transforms infrastructure from static pipelines to autonomous systems that build, govern, heal, and optimize themselves. Organizations have… ⌘ Read more