Direktorin der UN-Klimakonferenz: Die Frau für gute Stimmung – und klare Worte
Über Erfolg und Misserfolg der UN-Klimakonferenz wird auch das Geschick ihrer Direktorin Ana Toni entscheiden. Leichtfallen wird Toni das nicht. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Chinas Emissionen stagnieren: Dreckschleuder und Klimachampion der Welt
Ermutigende Zahlen zum Start der Weltklimakonferenz: Die Treibhausgasemissionen Chinas sind seit 18 Monaten gleich – oder fallen sogar. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Intel Releases New CPU Microcode, Publishes 30 New Security Advisories
It’s “Patch Tuesday” and Intel is out with new CPU microcode for Linux users in addition to making public 30 new security advisories that affect a range of Intel products… ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: First release candidate of Smack 4.5 published
The Smack developers are happy to announce the availability the first release candidate (RC) of Smack 4.5.0.

The upcoming Smack 4.5 release contains many bug fixes and improvements. Please consider testing this release candidate in your integration stages and report back any issues you may found. The more people are actively testing release candidates, the less issues will remain in the actual release.

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Firefox 145 Drops Support For 32-bit Linux
BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla has released Firefox 145.0, and the standout change in this version is the official end of support for 32-bit Linux systems. Users on 32-bit distributions will no longer receive updates and are being encouraged to switch to the 64-bit build to continue getting security patches and new features. While most major Linux distributions have already moved past 32-bit … ⌘ Read more

Deutschland auf der UN-Klimakonferenz: Abgeordnete durfte wegen „Pali-Tuch“ nicht in Veranstaltung
Linkenpolitikerin Charlotte Neuhäuser wollte ein Event im deutschen Pavillon beim Klimagipfel besuchen, wurde aber wegen ihrer Kufiya abgewiesen. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Terminal Latency on Windows
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Blow to Putin’s military budget. Russian oil exports decline – Bloomberg ⌘ Read more

Cradle of humanity is still revealing new insights about our origins
The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ⌘ Read more

Hayne and the hordes: Ex-High Court judge queues for mushroom event
Even a former top judge can’t resist the mushroom murders case. ⌘ Read more

Far-right figure who visited ‘motherland’ Germany is close to forming national party
Sydney man Jack Eltis said the National Socialist Network “was about 90 per cent” of the way to forming state and national parties. ⌘ Read more

Controversial planning laws could divert vital funding from booming suburbs
The tax is intended to be spent building roads, public transport and schools in growing suburbs. Changes mean the money could be spent anywhere. ⌘ Read more

Famous football club at centre of ‘corruption’, ‘conflict-of-interest’ claims
The role of a high-ranking CFMEU official is under serious scrutiny after construction firms ploughed sponsorship money into the club. ⌘ Read more

Sydney water rat’s bid to buy one of last RiverCat ferries torpedoed
The owner of a large boat shed on Parramatta River has been fighting for the past year to retain a piece of the city’s maritime history. ⌘ Read more

Are Perth’s flies getting worse? Yes – but they’re not nearly as bad as they could be
It’s that time of the year again, and experts say West Australians must get used to the new buzzy normal as temperatures continue to heat up. ⌘ Read more

Children to be tried as adults in youth justice overhaul
Offenders as young as 14 face life in jail under Premier Jacinta Allan’s plan to enforce “adult time for violent crime”, including home invasions, carjackings, and armed robbery. ⌘ Read more

Contributing to Open-Source Should Be Required, Like Jury Duty
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Linux Proposal Aims To Overcome Kernel Limitation Affecting Various Gaming Peripherals
The Linux kernel’s Human Interface Devices (HID) subsystem has an existing architectural limitation that there is just up to one battery per HID device. But with modern devices – especially among various gaming peripherals – there can be more than one battery when considering earbuds with a battery for each earbud, multi-device wireless receivers, etc. A proposal was raised today to address this limitation… ⌘ Read more

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AI’s $5 Trillion Cost Needs Every Debt Market, JPMorgan Says
The furious push by AI hyperscalers to build out data centers will need about $1.5 trillion of investment-grade bonds over the next five years and extensive funding from every other corner of the market, according to an analysis by JPMorgan. From a report: “The question is not ‘which market will finance the AI-boom?’ Rather, the question is ‘how will financings … ⌘ Read more

At-home hypnosis relieves menopausal hot flushes
Hot flushes could be relieved by listening to recordings that induce hypnosis from home, rather than having to venture to a clinic ⌘ Read more

Cache-Friendly, Low-Memory Lanczos Algorithm in Rust
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Weave (YC W25) is hiring a founding ML engineer
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Thousands of Serbs have protested vowing to stop a $500 million luxury project linked to US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law. Belgrade has fast-tracked the plan despite anger over corruption and a historical legacy ⌘ Read more

Entscheidung des Landgerichts München I: KI darf nicht kostenlos mit Liedtexten trainieren
Es gilt als Piloturteil: KI-Anbieter OpenAI hat mit seinem Chatbot ChatGPT unter anderem die Urheberrechte von Herbert Grönemeyer verletzt. mehr… ⌘ Read more

The iPad Pro at 10: a Decade of Unrealized Potential
The iPad Pro went on sale ten years ago, launching with a 12.9-inch screen that Apple believed would redefine computing through size alone. The company initially resisted making the device a laptop replacement and maintained strict limitations on multitasking, browser capabilities, and app installation. Over the past decade, Apple reversed course. The iPad Pro gained US … ⌘ Read more

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Lage der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung: Renten sollen 2026 um 3,7 Prozent steigen
Im kommenden Jahr können Rent­ne­r:in­nen auf höhere Überweisungen hoffen. Aber auch für die Bei­trags­zah­le­r:in­nen rückt die erste Beitragserhöhung näher. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Streit um Heizungszuschüsse: Verband stellt Zahlen zu Wärmepumpenförderung richtig
In der Diskussion über das Heizungsgesetz wird suggeriert, dass der Staat einen zweistelligen Milliardenbetrag für Wärmepumpen zahlt. Das ist falsch. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Palantir in Baden-Württemberg: Grüne protestieren
Das grün regierte Bundesland will die Polizeisoftware Palantir einsetzen. Protest, auch aus den eigenen Reihen, kommt ungelegen für Wahlkämpfer Özdemir. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Canadian Conservative leader struggles to unify party divided over Trump-style politics ⌘ Read more

Weihnachtsmarkt in Magdeburg: Auf der Kippe wegen Sicherheitsmängel
Für den Weihnachtsmarkt in Magdeburg gibt es noch keine Genehmigung. Die Oberbürgermeisterin wendet sich hilfesuchend an die Landesregierung. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Parlamentswahlen im Irak: Frustriert von Korruption und Missmanagement
Der Irak wählt ein neues Parlament. Viele im Land sind unzufrieden und boykottieren die Wahlen, einige sehen darin die einzige Chance auf Veränderung. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Apple’s $230 iPhone Sock
Apple has launched the iPhone Pocket, a knitted bag designed to hold iPhones. The limited edition collaboration with Japanese designer Issey Miyake costs $229.95 for the crossbody version. A shorter version is priced at $149.95. Apple said the 3D-knitted design was inspired by “a piece of cloth” and was born from the idea of creating an additional pocket for any iPhone and small everyday items. Yoshiyuki Miyamae, design direc … ⌘ Read more

I used Gemini (the Google AI) twice at work today, asking about Google Workspace configuration and Google Cloud CLI usage (because we use those a lot). You’d think that it’d be well-suited for those topics. It answered very confidently, yet completely wrong. Just wrong. Made-up CLI arguments, whatever. It took me a while to notice, though, because it’s so convincing and, well, you implicitly and subconsciously trust the results of the Google AI when asking about Google topics, don’t you?

Will it get better over time? Maybe. But what I really want is this:

• Good, well-structured, easy-to-read, proper documentation. Google isn’t doing too bad in this regard, actually, it’s just that they have so much stuff that it’s hard to find what you’re looking for. Hence …
  
• … I want a good search function. Just give me a good fuzzy search for your docs. That’s it.
  

I just don’t have the time or energy to constantly second-guess this stuff. Give me something reliable. Something that is designed to do the right thing, not toy around with probabilities. “AI for everything” is just the wrong approach.

Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow
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Nachruf auf Micha Brumlik: Ein Linker mit präzisen, tiefenscharfe Analysen
Wie wenige verstand Micha Brumlik es, Tagespolitisches mit theoretischen Reflexionen zu verbinden. Zum Tod des jüdisch-deutschen Intellektuellen. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Intel Core Ultra 7 255H Linux CPU Performance
Lenovo recently sent over their new ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 laptop for review under Linux. My Linux review on that ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 laptop will be coming up in the near future along with some other benchmarks from that premium mobile workstation. But with this being the first time I’ve had an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H “Arrow Lake H” device at Phoronix, here are some standalone benchmarks looking at the CPU performance of that 16-core mobile processor compared to vario … ⌘ Read more

Trump says ‘no one knows what magnets are’ during bizarre Oval Office exchange - Yahoo News UK ⌘ Read more

Adopted this 5 month old rescue yesterday ⌘ Read more

VMS/XDE: an OpenVMS x86 development environment for Linux and Windows/WSL
VMS/XDE is an OpenVMS x86 development environment for Linux and WIndows (via WSL). It provides a familiar user experience for OpenVMS developers working in Linux and Windows yet offers 100% binary and file system compatilibilty with OpenVMS. VMS/XDE includes OpenVMS V9.2-3 user, supervisor and executive mode operating system environments and a set of x86 native compilers and layered pro … ⌘ Read more

Plasma Mobile 6.5 keeps improving
As part of the KDE Plasma 6.5 release, we also got a new release of Plasma Mobile. As there’s a lot of changes, improvements, and new features in Plasma Mobile 6.5, the Plasma Mobile Team published a blog post to highlight them all. The biggest improvement is probably the further integration of Waydroid, a necessary evil to run Android applications until the Plasma Mobile ecosystem manages to become a bit more well-rounded. Waydroid can now be managed straight fro … ⌘ Read more

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Project Struggles Toward Billion-User Ambition With 17.5 Million Sign-Ups
Sam Altman’s Tools for Humanity has verified around 17.5 million people through its iris-scanning Orb device. The company has set a goal of reaching 1 billion users, so it is less than 2% of the way there. The startup has raised $240 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, … ⌘ Read more

Docker Engine v29: Foundational Updates for the Future
This post is for Linux users running Docker Engine (Community Edition) directly on their hosts. Docker Desktop users don’t need to take any action — Engine updates are included automatically in future Desktop releases. Docker Engine v29 is a foundational release that sets the stage for the future of the Docker platform. While it may… ⌘ Read more

Aquaporin gene duplication followed by mutation in European eels restores broad solute permeability
Common ancestor eels lost the aquaporin gene encoding proteins with broad solute permeability. Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo have now found that recent gene duplication events in the European eel (Anguilla species) have restored aquaporin proteins with broad solute permeability. ⌘ Read more

Urteil zu Gema und ChatGPT: Meine Angst, meine Wut, meine Liebe – und mein Text!
Wer Songtexte nachlesen will, kann das auf Plattformen tun, die dafür Gebühren an die Gema gezahlt haben. Das muss auch für ChatGPT gelten. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Gedanken am Sterbebett: Weniger Abstand zwischen Leben und Tod
Über verkrampfte Begegnungen am Sterbebett, letzte Gedanken übers Berghain und Gespräche mit geliebten Menschen, die schon im Jenseits sind. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Im Kampfgebiet um Deutungshoheit: Das Schweigen der Sydney Sweeney
Wie Sydney Sweenys Auftritt in einem Werbespot zu einem Lehrstück für ideologische Sortierung wurde. mehr… ⌘ Read more

Drawing Text Isn’t Simple: Benchmarking Console vs. Graphical Rendering
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Samsung Brings Generative AI-Powered Bixby To Its TVs
Samsung is rolling out new conversational AI across its 2025 TVs that lets users ask questions about what’s on the screen and beyond it. From a report: First announced in September, the generative AI update is rolling out now with support for several languages. Vision AI Companion is based on an upgraded, generative AI-based version of Samsung’s virtual assis … ⌘ Read more