Chinese Reusable Booster Explodes During First Orbital Test
schwit1 shares a report from CNN: A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to orbit but failed in its historic attempt to re-land the rocket booster Wednesday – the first such trial by a Chinese firm as the country’s growing commercial space sector races to catch up with American rivals like SpaceX. The rocket entered orbit as … ⌘ Read more

AES-GCM Optimizations Land In Linux 6.19 - Benefiting AMD Zen 3, AVX-512 CPUs Too
Google engineer Eric Biggers who is known for his many Linux crypto subsystem performance optimizations has seen his latest pull requests land in Linux 6.19. Notable among them are some AES-GCM optimizations benefiting AMD Zen 3 processors and separately AVX-512 processors also benefit too from this latest round of optimization work… ⌘ Read more

LandSpace Could Become China’s First Company To Land a Reusable Rocket
China’s private launch firm LandSpace is preparing the debut flight of its Zhuque-3 rocket, aiming to become the country’s first to land a reusable orbital-class booster using a Falcon-9-style return profile. Ars Technica reports: Liftoff could happen around 11 pm EST tonight (04:00 UTC Wednesday), or noon local time at the Jiuquan … ⌘ Read more

Live: Debate to determine future of Hobart AFL stadium
The future of Hobart’s proposed AFL stadium is set to be decided by a vote in Tasmania’s upper house of parliament, which begins today. Follow live. ⌘ Read more

How a gas cloud killed thousands in world’s worst industrial disaster
It started with a cloud of gas in the dead of night, silently submerging the city in a toxic soup. By morning on December 3, 1984, an Indian city awoke to a nightmare. ⌘ Read more

Can you guess how far it is to these Australian islands? Harder than you think
Do you know how far away Heard Island is? What about Christmas Island? Try your hand at today’s quiz. ⌘ Read more

Steam On Linux Hits An All-Time High In November
Steam’s November 2025 survey shows Linux gaming climbed to its highest share in a decade “thanks to the success of the Steam Deck, the underlying Steam Play (Proton) software, and now further excitement thanks to the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame,” writes Phoronix’s Michael Larabel. From the report: A decade ago in the early Steam days the initial use was around 3% an … ⌘ Read more

Thinking about doing Advent of Code in my own tiny language mu this year.

mu is:

• Dynamically typed
  
• Lexically scoped with closures
  
• Has a Go-like curly-brace syntax
  
• Built around lists, maps, and first-class functions
  

Key syntax:

• Functions use fn and braces:
  

fn add(a, b) {
    return a + b
}

• Variables use := for declaration and = for assignment:
  

x := 10
x = x + 1

• Control flow includes if / else and while:
  

if x > 5 {
    println("big")
} else {
    println("small")
}

while x < 10 {
    x = x + 1
}

• Lists and maps:
  

nums := [1, 2, 3]
nums[1] = 42

ages := {"alice": 30, "bob": 25}
ages["bob"] = ages["bob"] + 1

Supported types:

• int
  
• bool
  
• string
  
• list
  
• map
  
• fn
  
• nil
  

mu feels like a tiny little Go-ish, Python-ish language — curious to see how far I can get with it for Advent of Code this year. 🎄

Intel Gaudi 3 Driver Support Already Rejected For Linux 6.19
Last night Intel finally posted their Gaudi 3 accelerator open-source driver support for the mainline Linux kernel with hopes of getting that long-delayed AI accelerator support into the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel. But as I pointed out, the pull request was coming unusually late for being such a large set of patches and would face an uphill battle to make it for the Linux 6.19 merge window. Sure enough, the pull request was already rejected an … ⌘ Read more

$3.4b Coomera Connector stage one to open after construction cracks probed
Motorists will be able to use the first 4-kilometre stretch of the new Coomera Connector as an alternative to the busy Pacific Motorway from Tuesday. ⌘ Read more

Intel Finally Posts Open-Source Gaudi 3 Driver Code For The Linux Kernel
The good news is that Intel tonight posted a pull request for open-source Gaudi 3 accelerator support for the mainline Linux kernel! The bad news is that it’s coming quite late in the product cycle, much later than the former excellent Habana Labs open-source track record, and their hopes of squeezing this code into the Linux 6.19 kernel may be dashed… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Damn. That was stupid of me. I should have posted examples using 2026-03-01 as cutoff date. 😂

In my actual test suite, everything uses 2027-01-01 and then I have this, hoping that that’s good enough. 🥴

def test_rollover():
    d = jenny.HASHV2_CUTOFF_DATE
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d - timedelta(days=7), TEXT)) == 7
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d - timedelta(seconds=3), TEXT)) == 7
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d - timedelta(seconds=2), TEXT)) == 7
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d - timedelta(seconds=1), TEXT)) == 7
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d, TEXT)) == 12
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d + timedelta(seconds=1), TEXT)) == 12
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d + timedelta(seconds=2), TEXT)) == 12
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d + timedelta(seconds=3), TEXT)) == 12
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d + timedelta(days=7), TEXT)) == 12

(In other words, I don’t care as long as it’s before 2027-01-01. 😏😅)

Are There More Linux Users Than We Think?
“By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market,” writes ZDNet’s Steven Vaughan-Nichols:

In StatCounter’s latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, “unknown” accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS/2? Unl … ⌘ Read more

(cont.) CM continua a desmanchar o discurso de AV (ou vai fazendo entre interrupções). Está bem, claro, e meteu AV nervoso, mas pena é que já perdemos 14 minutos e ainda não se fez nada a não ser falsr do que o AV quiz trazer para aqui

1. Patriarca de LX critica a normalização do discurso de ódio - AV não vê nada de mal com o discurso de ódio e volta a falar daquilo que quiz logo desde o minuto zero. Catarina Martins diz que obviamente tem razão o discurso de ódio ser um problema, o RASI confirma, há uma ligação directa com a extrema direita. AV chama censura à regulação das redes sociais, e que a CMartins não pode dizer que defende as mulheres porque está do lado de Gaza. CMartins fala de censura quando AV processou CMartins (e perdeu) por ela ter dito que ele era racista (que é) num debate. AV começa na berraria, Gaza e burcas e cenas, mas CMartins explica como defende os direitos humanos. Mais berraria e tal.
   
2. Jornalista pergunta a AV mais uma coisa, AV em vez de responder diz várias coisas que são más (segundo ele) em CM para ver se ela não tem tempo para corrigir cada uma delas. Vendo que não tem tempo, CM fala antes do problema das notícias falsas, e pede que as pessoas tenham cuidado e não caiam em notícias falsas (em sequência das mentiras de AV)

DNA samples found near Toyah Cordingley burial site scrutinised
The former nurse accused of the 2018 murder of Toyah Cordingley was 3.7 billion times more likely than not to have contributed to a DNA sample found on a stick where she was buried, his trial has heard. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Your gitea thinks the LICENSE file in the yarn repository is SSPL-1.0 instead of GNU AGPL 3.0,
and I can’t help but giggle at that

UK To Tax Electric Cars by the Mile Starting 2028
The UK government will levy a pay-per-mile tax on electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles starting April 2028, UK’s finance minister Rachel Reeves announced, a measure designed to offset some of the fuel duty revenue that will disappear as drivers shift away from petrol and diesel cars. Electric vehicles will be charged 3 pence per mile and plug-in hybrids 1.5 pence per mile, pa … ⌘ Read more

Zlib-ng 2.3.1 Released With More CPU Performance Optimizations
Zlib-ng 2.3.1 is out today as the first stable release in the v2.3 series for this Zlib replacement that carries a variety of performance optimizations for speedier compression/decompression… ⌘ Read more

GNU C Library Sees Up To 12.9x Improvement With New Generic FMA Implementation
Just a few days ago I wrote about the Glibc math code seeing a 4x improvement on AMD Zen by changing the used FMA implementation. Merged overnight was a new generic FMA implementation for the GNU C Library and now yielding up to a 12.9x throughput improvement on AMD Zen 3… ⌘ Read more

Common Desktop Environment “CDE” 2.5.3 Released After Two Years
Two years and one week since the prior point release, Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 is now available as the latest iteration of this Unix desktop environment built around the Motif toolkit. CDE has been open-source for more than a decade now but its development not exactly brisk. But for those resisting the likes of Wayland and other modern display tech – especially with KDE announcing today Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-exclusive – CDE 2.5.3 is now avail … ⌘ Read more

Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 Released - “Exclusively Open-Source” With RADV
With the great upstream support for AMD Radeon graphics in the Linux kernel and Mesa, most desktop users / gamers / enthusiasts are best off just using the latest code shipped by their distributions or via the enthusiast-supported third-party archives/repositories. But for those on older enterprise Linux distributions, Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 was recently released for shipping that packaged AMD Linux graphics driver st … ⌘ Read more

When the manager says we’re “doing agile” and I haven’t seen a single sprint review in 3 months ⌘ Read more

Heather Croall reflects on 11 years leading Australia’s biggest arts festival
After returning from the UK to direct the Adelaide Fringe in 2015, Heather Croall has seen the festival’s ticket sales pass the 3-million mark and box office sales reach nearly $30 million. ⌘ Read more

Affordability crisis triggers surge in outback NSW land values
The combined value of land in NSW passes $3 trillion for the first time, as the affordability crisis sees property prices skyrocket in remote towns. ⌘ Read more

Inflation jumps to 3.8pc in October, up from 3.6pc in September
Inflation jumps to 3.8pc in October, up from 3.6pc in September, according to new complete monthly data from the ABS. ⌘ Read more

LMM continua a dar casos concretos sobre a sua opinião e como o presidente pode actuar em matéria de corrupção. Termina a repetir que Ventura é candidato de legislativas e não presidenciais. Ventura responde como respondeu num debate anterior falando a sua posição nas sondagens- não funciona com LMM que tem tido melhores resultados, mas Ventura diz que não, referindo a sondagem falsa com que tem inundado as redes sociais na última semana (a CNE não devia fazer alguma coisa quanto a isso?). Parece que o debate vai-se ficar por aqui em vez de entrar pelos temas a sério das presidenciais, mas realmente com uma pessoa como o Ventura não dá muito para falar a sério.

1. pergunta final: o que mais o preocupa do seu opositor: LMM diz AV não tem soluções, AV diz que LMM é o responsável por haver lesados do BES (WTF)
   

Este debate teve mais 5 minutos porque jornalista não o conseguiu terminar

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Resumo/opinião pessoal: sem surpresas, AV é o piorio, LMM melhor que AV, muito barulho

AI Could Replace 3 Million Low-Skilled Jobs in the UK By 2035, Research Warns
Up to 3 million low-skilled jobs could disappear in the UK by 2035 because of automation and AI, according to a report by a leading educational research charity. The Guardian: The jobs most at risk are those in occupations such as trades, machine operations and administrative roles, the National Foundation for Educational … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Probably wouldn’t help, since almost every request comes from a different IP address. These are the hits on those weird /projects URLs since Sunday:

    1 IP  has  5 hits
    1 IP  has  4 hits
   13 IPs have 3 hits
  280 IPs have 2 hits
25543 IPs have 1 hit

The total number of hits has decreased now. Maybe the botnet has moved on …

Amazon Pledges Up To $50 Billion To Expand AI, Supercomputing For US Government
Amazon is committing up to $50 billion to massively expand AI and supercomputing capacity for U.S. government cloud regions, adding 1.3 gigawatts of high-performance compute and giving federal agencies access to its full suite of AI tools. Reuters reports: The project, expected to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1 … ⌘ Read more

1. desistir da campanha - deixem-se disso
   
2. corrupção no SNS - #Cotrim diz que há corrupção no SNS, #JorgePinto diz que não, mas que o SNS tem problemas e que têm de ser resolvidos, aponta exemplo de proposta do Cotrim enquanto deputado que a DECO alertaria aumentaram a desregulação do SNS. Cotrim fica picado porque não concorda que o SNS é uma coisa importante e até o quer trocar por saúde privada. JPinto diz que a constituição é para cumprir
   
3. clima - é mesmo uma emergência? Um jornalista perguntar isto é triste. JPinto confirma que é uma urgência - e também que estamos a perder oportunidades de negócio. Cotrim diz que o Pinto tem contradições (imputado ao Pinto coisas q o outro nega, uma atrás da outra). Cotrim diz que o bem estar humano está acima q combater as alterações climáticas (como se esse combate não fosse necessário para o bem estar humano!). Acha que a cena do clima só se resolve com “Inovação tecnológica” (o método mágico que devemos todos acreditar que vai aparecer um dia).
   
4. pacote laboral e greve - Cotrim acha que o pacote é bom e necessário, mas greve é legítima. Trickledown economy. JPinto diz que já temos muita precariedade e desigualdade, e o pacote piora essas cenas. Tem propostas alternativas que levariam a + salário
   

#ptpol #debate #presidenciais2026

1/n

Obesity Jab Drug Fails To Slow Alzheimer’s
Drug maker Novo Nordisk says semaglutide, the active ingredient for the weight loss jab Wegovy, does not slow Alzheimer’s – despite initial hopes that it might help against dementia. From a report: Researchers began two large trials involving more than 3,800 people after reports the medicine was having an impact in the real world. But the studies showed the GLP-1 drug, which is already … ⌘ Read more

Napster Said It Raised $3 Billion From a Mystery Investor. But Now the ‘Investor’ and ‘Money’ Are Gone
An anonymous reader shared this report from Forbes:

On November 20, at approximately 4 p.m. Eastern time, Napster held an online meeting for its shareholders; an estimated 700 of roughly 1,500 including employees, former employees and individual investors tuned in. Th … ⌘ Read more

1. defesa - entrevistadora diz que GeM mudou de conversa, ele diz que não. Ele diz que não é mudança ou contradição. A Clara pergunta como não, ele diz “porque não”, e depois acrescenta “mas vamos antes falar do que CM anda para aí a dizer”. Ela pergunta-lhe se mudou de ideias. Ele diz que quem mudou de ideais foi ela. Ela dá exemplos das contradições dele, ele diz não não, então ela dá mais exemplos (e com isso explica a sua posição), e até diz o que outros presidentes fizeram bem ou mal, e o que ela faria igual ou diferente. “A sua resposta é cínica”, responde GM aparentemente porque CM nem sempre apoiou os mesmos investimentos em defesa que ele, ao que ela responde que realmente não, dando o exemplo do “investimento” no hoje famoso negócio dos submarinos.
   

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Considerações pós-debate: sem surpresas, CM pareceu-me boa candidata, GM mau candidato - que confirmou também a trapalhice e falta de preparação.

3/3

1. democracia - GM é contra os candidatos que querem mudar o regime “para outro que não sabe o que é”. E contra escutas ilegais. CM diz que GM não ser claro no que quer do código laboral tb é um descrédito à democracia. Tb é mau a falta de habitação e a injustiça fiscal que temos. GM vai tendo posições diferentes ao longo do tempo. GM tem a palavra, fala… e não diz nada.

2. poderes presidenciais - GeM diz que só usa os poderes que o Presidente tem (duh.) CMartins dá exemplos de qdo esses poderes foram usados bem e mal.

3. habitação - CM diz que GeM não explica o que quer. GeM quer uma “Economia não estatizada” e depois diz isso várias vezes de maneiras diferentes mas não explica como isso resolve o problema da habitação. CM pergunta “isso é o quê?” Ele diz que são “menos taxas, menos burocracias”. A CM: “mas como?” GeM diz que é tudo muito lento por culpa da burocracia.

2/3

Glibc Math Code Sees 4x Improvement On AMD Zen By Changing FMA Implementation
Merged this week to the GNU C Library “glibc” code is dropping the ldbl-96 FMA implementation from this library as in doing so they found a 4x improvement to throughput and latency on AMD Zen 3 hardware… ⌘ Read more

How Two Janitors Made One of the Year’s Most Charming RPGs
Adam Marshall spent more than a decade developing Kingdoms of the Dump while working as a custodian at a school in suburban Philadelphia, cleaning floors and hauling trash bags from 3 PM to 11 PM before coming home to work on his turn-based role-playing game until 5 or 6 AM. The game, which Bloomberg has called “one of the year’s most charming RPGs,” came out … ⌘ Read more

Google’s New Nano Banana Pro Uses Gemini 3 Power To Generate More Realistic AI Images
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google’s meme-friendly Nano Banana image-generation model is getting an upgrade. The new Nano Banana Pro is rolling out with improved reasoning and instruction following, giving users the ability to create more accurate images with legible text and mak … ⌘ Read more

Tokyo Court Finds Cloudflare Liable For Manga Piracy in Long-Running Lawsuit
A Tokyo court ruled that Cloudflare is liable for aiding manga piracy after failing to act on infringement notices and continuing to cache and serve content for major piracy sites, awarding about $3.2 million in damages. TorrentFreak says the decision sets a significant precedent in Japan, suggesting CDN providers can face … ⌘ Read more

1. (cont.) António Filipe quer estabilidade, mas uma outra estabilidade que LMM, AF quer estabilidade na vida das pessoas (salário, saúde, habitação, direitos) e diz como.

2. quem tem melhores condições para ser um bom presidente? LMM acha que tem mais condições porque acha que tem mais experiência política. Quer ambição económica em Portugal, enviando mais mensagens ao parlamento (para usarmos mais IA e etc…). AF diz que realmente não temos uma melhor economia… Por opções políticas das coisas que o LLM defende como as privatizações (uma das coisas que faria era tentar parar o actual plano de privatização da TAP). LMM diz que a TAP tem de ser privatizada porque tem de crescer e só privatizando pode crescer, AF diz “não se aprendeu com o erro do passado”.

3. a deriva para o anti-democrático: LMM diz que vai ser intransigente. AF diz que usaria todos os instrumentos que a constituição conferem ao presidente (e parece ainda mais intransigente).

4. EU, NATO, ONU: AF quer que Portugal tenha voz, LMM diz que o último acordo da NATO foi muito bom. LMM tenta dizer que AF é pró-Putin, AF diz que não e que é e sempre foi contra a invasão Russa, LMM finge que não houve.

FIM: para mim AF mostrou seriedade, LMM mostrou falta dela nalgumas matérias

#ptpol #debate #presidencial 2

Hoje o debate é na #SIC, e suponho que muito mais civilizado. Vamos ouvir…

1. ontem na #TVI o debate começou com atraso para termos de gramar com publicidade. Hoje não SIC é pior, temos de levar com vários minutos do #NunoRogeiro, personagem que não se percebe como ainda tem quem o deixe falar…

2. E começa o debate com a questão da greve geral. Marques Mendes diz que não há drama. Espera que haja acordo entre governo, entidades patronais e UGT (e o resto das centrais sindicais? A CGTP?) António Filipe diz que LMM está preocupado com a Greve Geral, ele está preocupado com o pacote laboral. (Com um o pacote passaria, o outro vetaria). LMM imita Seguro e diz que o António Filipe está na eleição errada, só que não se compara. E LMM aproveita para criticar a CGTP e a defender a UGT - o que vai contra a sua conversa que seria um presidente de diálogos e consensos.

3. 25 de Novembro, António Filipe não iria às celebrações enquanto Presidente - porque essa celebração é para menorizar o 25 de Abril. LMM diz que o 25 de Novembro é uma data “igualmente importante”, e que no 25 de Novembro “o PCP perdeu” (re-escrevendo ou tentando reescrever a história).

4. maior desafio e prioridade: LMM diz estabilidade (fazendo com que se aprovem OE)

#LMM x #AntónioFilipe

Google Launches Gemini 3, Its ‘Most Intelligent’ AI Model Yet
Google released Gemini 3 on Tuesday, launching its latest AI model with a breakthrough score of 1501 Elo on the LMArena Leaderboard alongside state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks including 91.9% on GPQA Diamond for PhD-level reasoning and 37.5% on Humanity’s Last Exam without tool usage. The model is available starting today in the Gemi … ⌘ Read more

A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers
Researchers at the University of Vienna extracted phone numbers for 3.5 billion WhatsApp users by systematically checking every possible number through the messaging service’s contact discovery feature. The technique yielded profile photos for 57% of those accounts and profile text for 29 percent. The researchers checked roughly 100 million numbe … ⌘ Read more

Apple Releases Third macOS Tahoe 26.2 Public Beta
Apple today provided public beta testers with the third beta of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.2 update for testing purposes. The public beta comes a day after Apple provided the beta to developers.

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After signing up for beta testing on Apple’s beta site, public beta testers can download the updates using the Software Update section in the System Settings app.

ma … ⌘ Read more

GIMP 3.2 RC1 Brings More UI/UX Improvements, Proper SVG Export
Last year GIMP developers expressed a goal of releasing GIMP 3.2 within one year of GIMP 3.0. With GIMP 3.0 having released in March, it looks like their GIMP 3.2 release goal will become a reality with the GIMP 3.2-RC1 debuting today… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Mitigated the Largest Cloud DDoS Ever Recorded, 15.7 Tbps
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Security Affairs: On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a single Australian endpoint. Azure’s global protection network filtered the traffic, keeping servic … ⌘ Read more

An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week
fjo3 shares a report from TheWrap: There are already at least 175,000 AI-generated podcast episodes on platforms like Spotify and Apple. That’s thanks to Inception Point AI, a startup with just eight employees cranking out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from localized weather reports and pollen trackers to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk’s as … ⌘ Read more

Git 2.52 Released With More Preparations Toward Git 3.0
Git 2.52 is out today as the newest feature release of this distributed revision control system and in working toward Git 3.0 that will hopefully release by the end of 2026… ⌘ Read more

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VKD3D-Proton 3.0 Released: Big Update To Direct3D 12 On Vulkan With FSR4 Support
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve just announced VKD3D-Proton 3.0 as a major update to this Direct3D 12 implementation atop the Vulkan API that is used by Valve’s Steam Play (Proton)… ⌘ Read more

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