Microsoft Updates Six Windows’ Apps. ‘Photos’ Gets Watermarks for Copilot Images (Off by Default)
Microsoft dropped “massive” updates for six stock Windows apps, reports the “Microsoft enthusiast” site Neowin.

Here’s some of their more interesting highlights for Clock, Media Player, Calculator, Voice Recorder, Photos, and Paint:

The Photos app (version 2026.11060.2004.0):

AI wat … ⌘ Read more

UK Scientists See Little Evidence for Claims Smartphones Are Rewiring Kids’ Brains
UK’s Members of Parliament (MP) were “looking for proof that smartphones and social media are rotting children’s brains,” writes The Register — but they got “a less satisfying answer from neuroscientists on Wednesday: nobody can really prove it.”

Appearing before the Science, Innovation and Technology Commit … ⌘ Read more

As ‘Disclosure Day’ Premieres, Steven Spielberg Says He Believes Aliens Really Have Visited Earth
Steven Spielberg grants that his 1977 UFO film Close Encounters was “speculative,” writes the Associated Press, but “Disclosure Day, he insists, is the real deal.”

“It’s my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction,” Spiel … ⌘ Read more

Will Meta’s $14 Billion Bet on AI Ever Pay Off?
“A year after spending over $14 billion to bring in Alexandr Wang and a group of his top Scale AI engineers to revamp its artificial intelligence efforts, Meta is at least back on the map in AI,” reports CNBC, “though it’s still far behind OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in the market.”

Wang’s big accomplishment was the delivery of the Muse Spark AI model in April, marking Meta’s firs … ⌘ Read more

Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot
Phoronix reports:

The AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits [last] Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Copilot.

Gert Wollny has been among the few open-source developers … ⌘ Read more

How America’s Energy Department is Building a National Platform for Doing Science with AI
America’s Energy Department “wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI,” reports Communications of the ACM:

It is called the Genesis Mission, and the idea is to connect the country’s 17 national laboratories, their supercomputers, scientific datasets, and a growing layer o … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1 Released: New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED For Panther Lake, Faster Arc Graphics
Linus Torvalds just released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel and it’s coming a half-day early thanks to his travel plans… ⌘ Read more

Blizzard Sues To Take Down Another Private World of Warcraft Server, Project Ascension
“Blizzard Entertainment is continuing its crusade against private World of Warcraft servers,” reports the gaming news site Aftermath:

The company filed a new lawsuit on Friday in a California court against the makers of Project Ascension, alleging copyright infringement, Digital Millennium Copyright A … ⌘ Read more

Bitcoin Has Lost Nearly Half Its Value in 11 Months
The price of bitcoin dropped 13% down to $64,394 just in June — but there’s more bad news, reports CNBC.” “Bitcoin has lost nearly half its value since reaching a record high above $123,000 in July 2025.”

While previous bitcoin selloffs were often followed by large rebounds in price, the latest decline may prompt some investors to revisit why they own bitcoin in the first pla … ⌘ Read more

Revised AVX-512 xor_gen() Implementation For Linux RAID Yielding More Performance Gains
A few days back I wrote about Google’s Eric Biggers spearheading an AVX-512 implementation of xor_gen() as the Linux kernel function used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5/RAID6. That initial implementation was yielding up to 41% better performance while a new implementation has now been posted for scoring some additional victories… ⌘ Read more

pkgcli As PackageKit’s Modern, Nicer Command Line Interface
Open-source developer Matthias Klumpp wrote a blog post today outlining his recent work developing pkgcli, a new and modern command-line interface (CLI) around the PackageKit package management abstraction layer… ⌘ Read more

Four LTS Java Versions Get End-of-Support in a Three-Year Window (2029-2032)
Simon Ritter joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and spent time working in both Java development and consultancy. He’s now written an opinion piece for InfoWorld warning that “Between 2029 and 2032, every currently supported long-term support (LTS) version of Java will reach end-of-support within a single three-year window … ⌘ Read more

UK Police Officer Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence
The Sunday Times reports:

A criminal investigation has begun after a police officer allegedly used AI to create evidential material in a “number of cases”. Derbyshire Constabulary said an officer was being investigated over an allegation of suspected perverting the course of justice. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed it was engaging with defence lawyers … ⌘ Read more

How Author Dave Eggers Avoids Smartphones, Internet Access, and Flock Cameras
A few weeks ago on a bike ride “inspiration struck” for Dave Eggers, reports SFGate…

Without a pen and paper handy, he was stuck texting the idea to himself. The problem? Eggers doesn’t own a smartphone. “It takes 20 minutes to write a sentence,” Eggers said… It’s a funny predicament for Eggers, given that he’s arguab … ⌘ Read more

Wine-Staging 11.11 Released With 289 Patches Atop Upstream
Following Friday’s exciting release of Wine 11.11 with Wayland driver improvements, Wine-Staging 11.11 is now available for this experimental/testing derivative that continues carrying nearly 300 patches atop the upstream codebase… ⌘ Read more

In today’s #caturday image, Emperor Maximilian the First tries to teach his subjects how to play Sequence, despite never having read the rules himself…

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Amazon CEO’s Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models
The Wall Street Journal reports:

The Trump administration’s decision to halt all foreign use of Anthropic’s most capable AI models was prompted by conversations between Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy and U.S. officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, people familiar with the matter said.

Researchers at Am … ⌘ Read more

Shutterstock ‘Evolves’ Into ‘Human-Led, AI-Powered Creative Platform’
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes:
Shutterstock has unveiled what it calls a “human-led, AI-powered” creative platform that combines its massive library of [human] contributor-created content with AI image and video generation, AI editing, conversational search, prompt enhancement, and automated model selection tools. The company says the goa … ⌘ Read more

GM Updates 250,000 EVs with Vehicle-to-Grid Firmware, Announces Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Batteries
“Battery breakthroughs will lessen AI’s demand on the electricity grid,” argues The Washington Post’s editoral board, arguing that GM’s latest moves “offer a fresh reminder that resource constraints can be solved by innovation.”

Or As Fortune put it, “America’s electric grid is buck … ⌘ Read more

Vim Classic 8.3 Launched as an AI-Free Vim Fork
This month saw the release of Vim Classic 8.3, the first stable version of a new long-term support fork of Vim maintained without generative AI tools. Linuxiac reports:

The release is based on Vim 8.2.0148 and includes selected bug fixes and patches backported from later upstream Vim releases. Vim Classic was first announced by [SourceHut’s CEO/founder] Drew DeVault in March 20 … ⌘ Read more

Arch Linux Malware Incident: Malicious Commits Found in 1,579 Packages
More than 1,500 user-contributed packages in the Arch Linux User Repository “AUR” were infected with malware, reports Phoronix:

The last message in the thread over this security incident is noting that Arch Linux developers have deleted all the malicious commits they are aware of. Cited was this list that puts the number of malware-af … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Investigated By Coalition of America’s State Attorneys General
“A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI,” reports the Wall Street Journal, citing “people familiar with the matter.”

OpenAI was served Friday with a subpoena seeking documents related to a broad range of its activities and impact on users, including advertising, user engagement and retention, hand … ⌘ Read more

Schwedisches Königspaar feiert Goldene Hochzeit ⌘ Read more

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Mamonogurai no Boukensha | Авантюрист, пожирающий демонов | Monster Eater [2026] [11 of 12] [WEBRip] [1080p] [RUS + JAP]
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[Yameii] Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring - S01E10 [English Dub] [CR WEB-DL 1080p H264 AAC] 30E770AB
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New UK Referendum Would Flip ‘Brexit’ Result of a Decade Ago, Poll Finds
It’s the 10-year anniversary of Britain’s “Brexit” vote withdrawing from the European Union.
But a new UK poll “shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain’s departure,” reports Bloomberg:

Fifty-two percent of Britons think the UK should rejoin the EU, according to an Ipsos survey of 1,137 British … ⌘ Read more

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[Trix] Mistress Kanan is Devilishly Easy S01E11 WEBRip 1080p AV1 Opus | Kanan-sama wa Akumade Choroi カナチョロ Is Easy as Hell! (Weekly)
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[SubsPlease] Shunkashuutou Daikousha - Haru no Mai - 12 (720p) [5B5B8EC3].mkv
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