Marco Rubio on UFO whistleblowers: ‘why make something up?’
The US Secretary of State is adamant that the UFO phenomenon deserves to be taken a lot more seriously. Rubio, who is one of the more prominent figure… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA Linux Engineer Raises Point Around Unifying DRM Driver-Side API
One of the NVIDIA presentations at the recent XDC2025 developer conference was not around the NVIDIA driver itself but the ongoing fragmentation that’s happening within the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem and arguing the need for unifying more driver-side APIs for supporting different Linux DRM clinets… ⌘ Read more
Anthropic’s report smells a lot like bullshit
Article URL: https://djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45944296
Points: 511
# Comments: 165 ⌘ Read more
PureAudio Lotus DAC5 & Other PureAudio Hardware Supported For Linux 6.18
As part of this week’s sound subsystem fixes ahead of today’s Linux 6.18-rc6 kernel release is adding some quirks for supporting the PureAudio Lotus DAC5 and other PureAudio audio hardware… ⌘ Read more
Ukraine to import gas from Greece as Zelenskiy seeks €2 billion to cover winter energy needs ⌘ Read more
Friday was the single worst day of my life. ⌘ Read more
Britain to announce ‘most significant’ change to asylum rules in years, setting Europe’s longest route to settlement ⌘ Read more
Just adopted a 7 year old cat ⌘ Read more
‘Holy Winamp! Opera Puts a Music Visualizer Inside Its Browser’
An anonymous reader shared this report from PC World:
It won’t whip the llama’s ass, but Opera has added a Spotify visualizer to its latest iteration of its free Opera One browser. Known as Sonic, the visualizer will be part of Opera’s Dynamic Themes, which use the WebGPU standard to employ a dynamic theme that runs in the background of the … ⌘ Read more
‘More Bark Than Bite’ – White House Accused of Watering Down Russia Oil Sanctions With Lukoil Concession ⌘ Read more
Mac Pro Reportedly on ‘Back Burner’ and ‘Largely Written Off’ at Apple
Apple’s high-end Mac Pro desktop computer is currently “on the back burner,” according to the latest word from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
In his [Power On newsletter today](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-16/apple-s-iphone-road-map-iphone-air-2-iphone-18-mac-pro-future-tes … ⌘ Read more
Could C# Overtake Java in TIOBE’s Programming Language Popularity Rankings?
It’s been trying to measure the popularity of programming languages since 2000 using metrics like the number of engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. And “The November 2025 TIOBE Index brings another twist below Python’s familiar lead,” writes TechRepublic. “C solidifies its position as runner-up, C++ and Java lose … ⌘ Read more
Greece pledges to ‘never accept, never recognise’ northern Cyprus ‘independence’ ⌘ Read more
Definitely an orange ⌘ Read more
Zelenskyy sets out plan to reboot state companies ⌘ Read more
I just want to use this old (bitmap?) font ⌘ Read more
After 23 years together I think we’re at the end and I can’t stand it ⌘ Read more
Copy-and-Paste Now Exceeds File Transferring as the Top Corporate Data Exfiltration Vector
Slashdot reader spatwei writes: It is now more common for data to leave companies through copying and pasting than through file transfers and uploads, LayerX revealed in its Browser Security Report 2025. This shift is largely due to generative AI (genAI), with 77% of employees pasting data into AI … ⌘ Read more
Russia loses eyes over Crimea, fuel, military echelon, troop concentration—all in Ukraine’s four-target operation ⌘ Read more
We love you Ludo ⌘ Read more
Waveshare Pairs RISC-V ESP32-P4 and ESP32-C6 for Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, and PoE Support
Waveshare has released the ESP32-P4-WIFI6-POE-ETH, a compact development board built around the ESP32-P4 along with an ESP32-C6 wireless module. The design combines Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, Ethernet, and optional PoE power delivery in a single platform aimed at multimedia processing, display and camera applications, and general embedded development. Like the earlier W … ⌘ Read more
Google Begins Aggresively Using the Law To Stop Text Message Scams
“Google is going to court to help put an end to, or at least limit, the prevalence of phishing scams over text message,” reports BGR:
Google said it’s bringing suit against Lighthouse, an impressively large operation that allegedly provides tools customers can buy to set up their own specialized phishing scams. All told, Google estimates that … ⌘ Read more
Banana Pi Previews Its First SOPHGO BM1688-Based Compute Module
Banana Pi has previewed the BPI-SM9 16-ENC-A3, a compact deep learning compute module built around the SOPHGO BM1688 processor. The module is described as targeting low-power AI workloads, hardware video acceleration, and mixed-precision neural inference across microservers, edge systems, industrial platforms, and AIoT devices. The BM1688 datasheet does not appear to be available on the […] ⌘ Read more
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UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ‘discretionary’ ⌘ Read more
OAK 4 D and OAK 4 S Standalone Edge Vision Cameras with PoE and 48MP Imaging
Luxonis has opened early access preorders for the OAK 4 D and OAK 4 S, two standalone edge-processing cameras designed for computer vision tasks. Both systems provide a 48MP RGB sensor with optional autofocus or wide-angle variants, USB 3 and PoE connectivity, IP67-rated enclosures, and on-device inference capabilities. Both devices are built around the RVC4 […] ⌘ Read more
A Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough?
The dream of quantum computers has been hampered by the challenge of error correction, writes the Harvard Gazette, since qubits “are inherently susceptible to slipping out of their quantum states and losing their encoded information.”
But in a newly-published paper, a research team “combined various methods to create complex circuits with dozens of error correction layers” that “suppresses erro … ⌘ Read more
AirPods libreated from Apple’s ecosystem
Article URL: https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941596
Points: 507
# Comments: 120 ⌘ Read more
Murder trial hears recording of Ontario couple taunting younger boy, sees images of cuts on his feet ⌘ Read more
Sergey Lavrov was one of Vladimir Putin’s top allies on the world stage. And then, he was gone ⌘ Read more
Fear Drives the AI ‘Cold War’ Between America and China
A new “cold war” between America and China is “pushing leaders to sideline concerns about the dangers of powerful AI models,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “including the spread of disinformation and other harmful content, and the development of superintelligent AI systems misaligned with human values…”
“Both countries are driven as much by fear as by hope of … ⌘ Read more
Mexico’s new generation takes to the streets, accusing leaders of protecting cartels ⌘ Read more
My foster got adopted and I can’t stop crying ⌘ Read more
EV Sales Are Still Rising. They Have Not Slumped
“Media headlines suggesting some slowdown in EV sales are simply incorrect,” writes the site Electrek, “and leave out the bigger picture that gas car sales actually are dropping…”
Over the course of
the last two years or so, sales of battery electric vehicles, while
continuing to grow, have posted lower year-over-year percentage
growth rates than they had in years prior. … ⌘ Read more
At least nine people killed over past 24 hours across Ukraine in Russian attacks ⌘ Read more
Mom said she’d move away if we got a cat. ⌘ Read more
Shot After Surrender: Russia Allegedly Executes Ukrainian POWs in Zaporizhzhia ⌘ Read more
While Meta Crawls the Web for AI Training Data, Bruce Ediger Pranks Them with Endless Bad Data
From the personal blog of interface expert Bruce Ediger:
Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a user
agent string of
meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)
was hitting my blog’s machine at an unreasonable rate.
… ⌘ Read more
13+ years wasn’t enough time ⌘ Read more
S-400 launchers and radars hit by SBU drones in Russia’s Novorossiysk, source says - Satellite Images Show Huge Losses for Ruzzia | Many S-400 Gone ⌘ Read more
Servo 0.0.2 Released For Those Wanting To Try Out This Example Rust Web Browser
Released minutes ago was the Servo 0.0.2 web browser engine update. Along with this new Rust-based web engine release is also the “servoshell” in tow for the example implementation built around this open-source codebase… ⌘ Read more
Sony Killed This Game in 2024. Three Developers Reverse-Engineered It Back to Life
An anonymous reader shared this post from the gaming news site Aftermath:
Concord, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Firewalk Studios’ Overwatch-like shooter, was live for just two weeks before it was pulled offline. Though Concord certainly had some dedicated players, it didn’t have many — which is why it … ⌘ Read more
Russia loses eyes over Crimea, fuel, military echelon, troop concentration—all in Ukraine’s four-target operation ⌘ Read more
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
Look who paid a visit! ⌘ Read more
Why Solarpunk Is Already Happening In Africa
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a Substack post by economist/entrepreneur Skander Garroum:
You know that feeling when you’re waiting for the cable guy, and they said ‘between 8am and 6pm, and you waste your entire day, and they never show up? Now imagine that, except the cable guy is ‘electricity,’ the day is ‘50 years,’ and you’re one of 600 million people. At some point, yo … ⌘ Read more
Zelenskyy: Russia has missed yet another deadline to capture Pokrovsk and Kupiansk ⌘ Read more
I created my first colorscheme ⌘ Read more
Sky News Arabia accused of whitewashing genocide ⌘ Read more