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Was the Moon-Forming Protoplanet ‘Theia’ a Neighbor of Earth?
Theia crashed into earth and formed the moon, the theory goes. But then where did Theia come from? The lead author on a new study says “The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner Solar System. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors.”

Though Theia was completely destroyed in th … ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.18-rc7 Released With Late Hardware Improvements
Linux 6.18-rc7 just arrived in the Git tree as the newest weekly test build leading up to Linux 6.18 stable hopefully debuting next Sunday, 30 November… ⌘ Read more

Wayland Protocols 1.46 Released With New Experimental Additions
Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR… ⌘ Read more

6.18-rc7: mainline
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Cryptologist DJB Criticizes Push to Finalize Non-Hybrid Security for Post-Quantum Cryptography
In October cryptologist/CS professor Daniel J. Bernstein alleged that America’s National Security
Agency (and its UK counterpart GCHQ) were attempting to influence NIST to adopt weaker post-quantum cryptography
standards without a “hybrid” approach that would’ve also included pre-quantum EC … ⌘ Read more

The art, vs the artist 😼 ⌘ Read more

Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal
“Three years ago, Google removed JPEG XL support from Chrome, stating there wasn’t enough interest at the time,” writes the blog Windows Report. “That position has now changed.”

In a recent note to developers, a Chrome team representative confirmed that work has restarted to bring JPEG XL to Chromium and said Google “would ship it in Chrome” once long-term ma … ⌘ Read more

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Mozilla Announces ‘TABS API’ For Developers Building AI Agents
“Fresh from announcing it is building an AI browsing mode in Firefox and laying the groundwork for agentic interactions in the Firefox 145 release, the corp arm of Mozilla is now flexing its AI muscles in the direction of those more likely to care,” writes the blog OMG Ubuntu:

If you’re a developer building AI agents, you can sign up to get early acces … ⌘ Read more

Chlieb náš každodenný
Chlieb je symbolom jedla, symbolom prežitia. Vôňa chleba je vôňou vôní. Je to pravôňa nášho tuzemského života, vôňa harmónie, pokoja a domova. V dejinách ľudstva chlieb sa postupne stal univerzálnym ochrancom života, používa sa vo všetkých obradných úkonoch. O chlebe a stravovaní našich predkov sa môžeme viac dozvedieť z knihy Rudolfa Bednárika Slováci v Juhoslávi i (Slovenská akadémia vied, Bratislava, 1966). V stati Charakteristika stravy čítame: Chlieb býva spravi … ⌘ Read more

What will be the variable in these lines. I got this error: undefined variable ⌘ Read more

Caught ya! ⌘ Read more

One Company’s Plan to Sink Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground
Long-time Slashdot reader jenningsthecat shared this article from IEEE Spectrum:

By dropping a nuclear reactor 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) underground, Deep Fission aims to use the weight of a billion tons of rock and water as a natural containment system comparable to concrete domes and cooling towers. With the fission reaction occurring far below the s … ⌘ Read more

You need to lose weight, you fatso. ⌘ Read more

pyright: Import “Numpy” cannot be resolved. ⌘ Read more

Could High-Speed Trains Shorten US Travel Times While Reducing Emissions?
With some animated graphics, CNN “reimagined” what three of America’s busiest air and road travel routes would look like with high-speed trains, for “a glimpse into a faster, more connected future.”

The journey from New York City to Chicago could take just over six hours by high-speed train at an average speed of 160 mph, cutting … ⌘ Read more

GoBlog not only has a new README file on the repository (replacing the old, cluttered, incomplete documentation) but also has a new share button implementation. No more relying on third-party services for that basic functionality! ⌘ Read more

Our Cat With Cancer Just Found Two Tiny Reasons to Smile Again ⌘ Read more

Microsoft and GitHub Preview New Tool That Identifies, Prioritizes, and Fixes Vulnerabilities With AI
“Security, development, and AI now move as one,” says Microsoft’s director of cloud/AI security
product marketing.

Microsoft and GitHub “have launched a native integration between Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security that aims to address what one e … ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA Preps 1.6Tb/s Networking For Linux 6.19
NVIDIA has a number of Linux kernel patches on the way to the Linux 6.19 kernel in preparing for 1.6 Tb/s networking on NVIDIA-Mellanox hardware… ⌘ Read more

We got lucky that the two kitties we got were instantly best buds. Otto and Ziggs. ⌘ Read more

Engineers are Building the Hottest Geothermal Power Plant on Earth - Next to a US Volcano
“On the slopes of an Oregon volcano, engineers are building the hottest geothermal power plant on Earth,” reports the Washington Post:

The plant will tap into the infernal energy of Newberry Volcano, “one of the largest and most hazardous active volcanoes in the United States,” according to t … ⌘ Read more

** Sticker party, November **
Some random thoughts including how the band Imagine Dragons is kinda like Metal for kids; distributing apps, even without involving Apple at all, is deeply annoying on macOS; Pokemon ZA is fun, but I think that I’m a turn-based girlie at heart; my partner has been playing a lot of Tears of the Kingdom lately, it has been a lot of fun for me to watch, and hair-pullingly frustrating for our nearly 10 year old who has strong opinions about the correct order of operations in that game; I wrote, but am cu … ⌘ Read more

She was abandoned at my apartment complex ⌘ Read more

When I rewrite my entire GitHub profile README ⌘ Read more

His uncle bought him a catnip plant… ⌘ Read more

How the Internet Rewired Work - and What That Tells Us About AI’s Likely Impact
“The internet did transform work — but not the way 1998 thought…” argues the Wall Street Journal. “The internet slipped inside almost every job and rewired how work got done.”

So while the number of single-task jobs like travel agent dropped, most jobs “are bundles of judgment, coordination and hands-on work,” and in … ⌘ Read more

When I need to remember a password I haven’t used in years ⌘ Read more

Linux Patches Improve Intel Nested VM Memory Performance Up To ~2353x In Synthetic Test
AWS engineers have been working on Linux kernel improvements to KVM’s VMX code for enhancing the unamanged guest memory when dealing with nested virtual machines. The improved code addresses some correctness issues as well as delivering wild performance improvements within a synthetic benchmark… ⌘ Read more

A perfect loaf ⌘ Read more

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

Google Looks To Bring JPEG-XL Support Back To Chrome / Chromium
Back in 2022 was the surprising decision by Google that they were going to deprecate JPEG-XL image support in Chrome. By the end of 2022 they went ahead and removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium to the frustration of many web developers and end-users interested in this image format. Now though as we get ready to roll into 2026, Google engineers are looking at bringing back JPEG-XL support to the Chrome web browser… ⌘ Read more

I farted while she was on my lap (just seconds after this, she got up and puked) ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Warns Its Windows AI Feature Brings Data Theft and Malware Risks, and ‘Occasionally May Hallucinate’
“Copilot Actions on Windows 11” is currently available in Insider builds (version 26220.7262) as part of Copilot Labs, according to a recent report, “and is off by default, requiring admin access to set it up.”

But maybe it’s off for a good reason…besides t … ⌘ Read more

Extinct animals in Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age make it a must-watch
From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like ‘killer koalas’, the visuals in this documentary are simply astounding ⌘ Read more

I never knew how much I loved cats until my girls came into my life 🥹 ⌘ Read more

Amazon Kicks Off Black Friday Sale With Major Discounts on Apple Accessories, TVs, and More
Black Friday deals have begun, and Amazon is one of the best places you can find steep discounts on numerous products this week. We’ve already collected all of the best Apple-related deals you’ll find at Amazon (and other retailers) in our [Apple Black Friday Deals](https://www.macrumors.com … ⌘ Read more

Amazon’s AI-Powered IDE Kiro Helps Vibe Coders with ‘Spec Mode’
A promotional video for Amazon’s Kiro software development system took a unique approach, writes GeekWire. “Instead of product diagrams or keynote slides, a crew from Seattle’s Packrat creative studio used action figures on a miniature set to create a stop-motion sequence…”

“Can the software development hero conquer the ‘AI Slop Monster’ to u … ⌘ Read more

Adopted a cat from the shelter… ⌘ Read more

Lost my boy Jango today, 2 years just feels too short. ⌘ Read more

Did Bitcoin Play a Role in Thursday’s Stock Sell-Off?
A week ago Bitcoin was at $93,714. Saturday it dropped to $85,300.

Late Thursday, market researcher Ed Yardeni blamed some of Thursday’s stock market sell-off on “the ongoing plunge in bitcoin’s price,” reports Fortune:

“There has been a strong correlation between it and the price of TQQQ, an ETF that seeks to achieve daily investment results that correspond to three … ⌘ Read more

GCC Steering Committee Allows New Language Front-End To Land For GCC 16
Joining Ada, C/C++, COBOL, D, Fortran, Go, Modula-2, Objective-C/Objective-C++ and Rust is now another programming language expected to be added for the GCC 16 compiler release due out in the new year… ⌘ Read more

PHP 8.5 Brings Long-Awaited Pipe Operator, Adds New URI Tools
“PHP 8.5 landed on Thursday with a long-awaited pipe operator and a new standards-compliant URI parser,” reports the Register, “marking one of the scripting language’s more substantial updates… “

The pipe operator allows function calls to be chained together, which avoids the
extraneous variables and nested statements that might otherwise be
inv … ⌘ Read more

Professor pauses lesson to play with the cat, in Turkey ⌘ Read more

if anyone use vim9-stargate: where is the Human-abc? I don’t understand nothing about it ⌘ Read more

‘The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming’
In a 2023 pitch to investors, a “well-financed, highly credentialed” startup named Stardust aimed for a “gradual temperature reduction demonstration” in 2027, according to a massive new 9,600-word article from Politico. (“Annually dispersing ~1 million tons of sun-reflecting particles,” says one slide. “Equivalen … ⌘ Read more

California bans declawing cats under new law ⌘ Read more

Meta Plans New AI-Powered ‘Morning Brief’ Drawn From Facebook and ‘External Sources’
Meta “is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized daily briefing powered by the company’s generative AI technology” reports the Washington Post. They cite records they’ve reviwed showing that Meta “would analyze Facebook content and external sources to push custom updates to its users. … ⌘ Read more

RISC-V Testing Lapse Resulted In Wrong MIPS RISC-V Vendor ID Landing In Linux 6.18
An interesting anecdote from this week’s batch of RISC-V fixes for the Linux 6.18 kernel exposed that the MIPS RISC-V/JEDEC vendor ID was wrong for code merged at the start of the kernel cycle. The testing hadn’t caught it either as the QEMU emulation also ended up inadvertently using the wrong vendor ID too… ⌘ Read more