North Sydney Boys student Tasered after brandishing knife at school
The 15-year-old armed himself with a large knife after an altercation with another student, forcing the prestigious selective school into lockdown as police responded. ⌘ Read more
The State Of The Vulkan Renderer For Wayland’s Weston 15.0 Compositor
With the upcoming release of Weston 15.0, this Wayland reference compositor will finally feature a Vulkan renderer. For those curious about its potential, a presentation recently outlined the current state of this Vulkan code path… ⌘ Read more
CNCF and SlashData Survey Finds Cloud Native Ecosystem Surges to 15.6M Developers
New research reveals 15.6 million developers now use cloud native technologies, with backend and DevOps professionals leading adoption Key Highlights: ATLANTA, KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON NORTH AMERICA – November 11, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® … ⌘ Read more
Syriens Präsident beim US-Präsidenten: Ein historischer Besuch
Ahmed al-Scharaa trifft sich mit Donald Trump in Washington. Vor 15 Jahren war er noch Häftling im berüchtigten US-Gefängnis Abu Ghraib im Irak. mehr… ⌘ Read more
Denmark to ban social media for children under 15 – DW ⌘ Read more
Why hurricanes rarely kill in Cuba
Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared toward Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated—1 of every 15 Cubans. The storm had already smashed into Jamaica, the most powerful to ever strike the island, causing landslides, power failures and deaths. ⌘ Read more
Scientists Edit Gene in 15 Patients That May Permanently Reduce High Cholesterol
A CRISPR-based drug given to study participants by infusion is raising hopes for a much easier way to lower cholesterol, reports CNN:
With a snip of a gene, doctors may one day permanently lower dangerously high cholesterol, possibly removing the need for medication, according to a new pilot study published Sat … ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 5 Released With Build Fixes For Google & Azure Clouds
FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 had been expected this weekend but instead a fifth beta release of FreeBSD 15.0 was deemed warranted… ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net yeah I should probably update. Version 0.15.1@31958f89 2025-06-29T20:35:20+10:00 go1.23.1
Deals: Early Black Friday Pricing on M4 MacBook Air for $749 (25% Off) & More
Amazon continues to offer wildly great deals on the M4 MacBook Air, with the 13″ model starting at $749 (down from $999), and the 15″ starting at $949 (down from $1199), with the $250 discount available on other models with more RAM and SSD storage as well. The base model 13″ is a whopping 25% … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/11/07/deals-early-black-friday-pricing-on-m4-macb … ⌘ Read more
Denmark’s Government Aims To Ban Access To Social Media For Children Under 15
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Denmark’s government on Friday announced an agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under 15, ratcheting up pressure on Big Tech platforms as concerns grow that kids are getting too swept up in a digitized world of harmful content and commercial int … ⌘ Read more
Video Games’ Hottest New Platform is an Old One
Web-based video games are experiencing an unexpected revival as the broader $189 billion industry stagnates. Sales for browser-based titles like GeoGuessr and chess were expected to triple from 2021 to 2028, reaching $3.09 billion, according to Google and Kantar. Playgama hosted more than 15,000 new web games in the first half of 2025, exceeding the combined total from 2021 throug … ⌘ Read more
Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-millisecond reads and 15 GB/s uploads
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Deals: $250 Off M4 MacBook Air, Starting at $749 (All-time Low!)
Amazon is cutting $250 off the price of all M4 MacBook Air models, starting at $749 for the 13″ MacBook Air, and $949 for the 15″ MacBook Air. These are all-time low prices and tremendous deals on fantastic Apple laptops, and probably match whatever upcoming Black Friday deals are to be expected. It’s exceptionally rare … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/11/05/deals-250-off-m4-macbook-air-starting-at-749-al … ⌘ Read more
MacOS Sequoia 15.7.2 & MacOS Sonoma 14.8.2 Updates Released
MacOS Sequoia 15.7.2 and macOS Sonoma 14.8.2 are available as software updates for Mac users who are not running the macOS Tahoe operating system. Safari 26.1 is also available as an update for these versions of MacOS. These are security updates for macOS Sonoma and Sequoia, and the updates do not include new features or … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/11/04/macos-sequoia-15-7-2-macos-sonoma-14-8-2-updat … ⌘ Read more
Antarctic glacier’s alarming retreat is the fastest ever seen
Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise ⌘ Read more
Watch Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Free on November 15 & 16 via Apple TV
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is a holiday season classic, and Apple is making it free to watch on their Apple TV service for a weekend in the middle of November. Specifically, on Saturday November 15, and Sunday November 16, 2025, you’ll be able to tune in and enjoy the Thanksgiving Charlie Brown special for free … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/11/01/watch-charlie-brown-thanksgiving … ⌘ Read more
Java’s Swing is allegedly in “maintenance mode”, so I doubt it’s a good idea to use it for new programs. For example, I very much doubt that it will ever support Wayland.
The replacement is supposed to be JavaFX, but that’s not included in JREs – anymore! It used to be, now it’s not, even though it’s well over 15 years old now.
This whole thing (“Java GUIs”) appears to have stagnated a lot. Probably because everything is web stuff these days …
https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javafx/faq-javafx.html#6
ProcessOne: AI Bots Can’t Use WhatsApp Anymore. So… Who Are They Going to Talk To?
Meta just closed the gates on AI chatbots. I think this is an early warning.
Starting January 15, 2026, [WhatsApp will ban all third-party general-purpose AI chatbots from its platform](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18 … ⌘ Read more
Prezentácia knihy „Kulpín – dejiny, matrika, rodokmene”
Udalosť, ktorá zanechala stopu
V stredu 15. októbra 2025 sa v priestoroch Mestskej knižnice v Bratislave – Galéria Artotéka uskutočnilo podujatie, pod záštitou Združenia dolnozemských Spolkov – Podvečery, ktoré výrazne obohatilo genealogickú a historickú komunitu na Slovensku. Združenie Spolkov dolnozemských Slovákov pripravilo prezentáciu knihy „KULPÍN – dejiny, matrika, rodokmene”, ktorá je výsledkom dlhoro … ⌘ Read more
One of my 15 year old boys passed unexpectedly ⌘ Read more
Deals: AirTags 4-pack for $65, M4 MacBook Air from $799
Amazon is slashing $200 off the price of all M4 MacBook Air models, with prices starting at $799 for the 13″ Air, and $999 for the 15″ Air model. These are absolutely fantastic Mac laptops and are also staff favorites around here. 13″ M4 MacBook Air ($200 off) 13″ M4 MacBook Air 16GB / 256GB … Read More ⌘ Read more
Check Your Mac Security Update Status with SilentKnight
Basically every Mac user is familiar with the process of updating MacOS system software to install updates for their operating system, which typically arrive as point releases (like 15.6) or major version releases (like 26). But did you know that MacOS will also periodically install security updates and anti-malware updates to Gatekeeper, MRT, and Xprotect? … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/24/check-your-mac-secur … ⌘ Read more
PEP 8107: 2026 Term Steering Council election
This document describes the schedule and other details of the 2025 election for the Python steering council, as specified in PEP 13. This is the steering council election for the 2026 term (i.e. Python 3.15). ⌘ Read more
5.15.195: longterm
Version:5.15.195 (longterm)Released:2025-10-19Source:linux-5.15.195.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-5.15.195.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.195 ⌘ Read more
Goodnight, sweet prince. My best friend of 15 years. I’ll miss you. ⌘ Read more
What’s your go-to strategy for giving engineers access to production?
I’ve been in this field for almost 15 years, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen two companies handle this the same way
Some other places just hand out just-in-time database access with short-lived credentials, others rely on rigid role-based permission, and others go all in on anonymized data dumps or shadow environments to avoid prod access altogether
What’s your go-to when it comes to giving access to engineers to access production app … ⌘ Read more
New M5 Chip Comes to iPad Pro, MacBook Pro 14″, & Apple Vision Pro
Apple has updated the iPad Pro lineup, MacBook Pro 14″, and Apple Vision Pro, to feature the all new M5 chip. These are basically spec-bump updates focused on the new M5 chip architecture, with no new hardware redesign or major new features or changes otherwise. The new M5 chip architecture is apparently notably faster with … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/15/new-m5-chip-comes-to-ipad- … ⌘ Read more
Automating stateful apps with Kubernetes Operators
Member post originally published on the Middleware blog by Keval Bhogayata, covering Automating Stateful Apps with Kubernetes Operators. If you’ve ever had issues with scaling databases or automating upgrades in Kubernetes, Operators can help by saving… ⌘ Read more
next-20251015: linux-next
Version:next-20251015 (linux-next)Released:2025-10-15 ⌘ Read more
Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools
Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards, - ProPublica
_Stephan: A successful democracy requires a literate, numerate, educated citizenry. Everyone, going back to the Athenians of the fifth century BCE, has recognized this. That is why I have been closely following what the Trump Republican fascist coup has been doing to public education. It is getting worse and worse, as this article describ … ⌘ Read more
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo, Staff Writers - Politico
Stephan: There is a very serious crisis in the United States involving male culture and psychology. It involves both men and boys; they are overwhelmingly White and Republican. Read this article, and you will see what these men and boys actually say amongst themselves. It is horrifying.
![Various blue, green and gray chat bubbl … ⌘ Read more
‘Bombshell!’ Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning
Travis Gettys, Senior Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: Even the most respected “originalist” scholar is now on record against Trump and his Republican coup are trying to do with their dismantling of American democracy. Since this is the scholar the Supreme Court majority cites over and over, as this article describes, it will be very revealing to see how they n … ⌘ Read more
GOP spreads increasingly desperate and dangerous lies to shirk blame for their shutdown
Emily Singer, Staff Writer - Daily Kos
_Stephan: Today I listened to one Republican congress member after another claiming that the coming Saturday “No King” rallies are really “Hate America” rallies, and I thought how cowardly do you have to be to say something that dishonest and stupid about rallies that will involve millions of American who actu … ⌘ Read more
When I run a test and it opens 15 tabs in my browser ⌘ Read more
France : un squatteur et 65 millions d’otages
La situation actuellement en France est complètement coincée. Au fur et à mesure que le temps passe, plusieurs choses se mettent en place avec une quasi-impossibilité de retour en arrière. D’un côté, nous avons un Macron adulescent dont l’ego surdimensionné ne le laissera jamais démissionner. Cet ego étant plus important que tout le reste, il […] ⌘ Read more
10 Popular (and Weird) Ancient Foods
Many foods cherished by our ancestors continue to find a place on tables worldwide. From the staple presence of bread to the remarkable status of beer, countless ancient delights have withstood the test of time. But other foods have faded into oblivion and been mostly uneaten for centuries. Whether due to animal extinction or shifting […]
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