All That Cheap Chinese Stuff Is Now Europe’s Problem
President Trump’s closure of the de minimis customs loophole in May – which previously allowed Chinese packages valued under $800 to enter the U.S. duty-free – has redirected a flood of cheap goods toward Europe, where similar exemptions for packages under $175.8 in the EU and $180 in the UK remain intact.
The shift has been swift: exports of low-value Chinese packages to … ⌘ Read more
Cryptsetup 2.8.2 Released With BitLocker Clear Key Support
Cryptsetup 2.8.2 released on Thursday for this open-source utility used for setting up disk encryption with dm-crypt on Linux systems, including for LUKS volumes, TrueCrypt, BitLocker, and other formats… ⌘ Read more
Browser Extensions With 8 Million Users Collect Extended AI Conversations
An anonymous reader shares a report: Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting complete and extended conversations from users’ AI conversations and selling them for marketing purposes, according to data collected from the Google and Microsoft pages hosting them.
Security firm Koi discovered the eight ex … ⌘ Read more
Coursera Acquires Udemy For $930 Million
Coursera announced on Wednesday that it will acquire rival online learning platform Udemy in an all-stock deal that values the combined company at $2.5 billion, a move that brings together two of the largest U.S.-based players in an industry that has struggled since pandemic-era enrollment highs faded. Under the terms of the agreement, Udemy shareholders will receive 0.8 shares of Coursera for … ⌘ Read more
Intel Compute Runtime 25.48.36300.8 Brings More Performance Optimizations & Xe3 Fixes
Intel this week released their last planned feature update to their open-source Compute Runtime for 2025. The Intel Compute Runtime 25.48.36300.8 delivers the latest OpenCL and Level Zero performance optimizations, Xe3 workarounds, and other fixes for those on Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware… ⌘ Read more
Google’s Real Estate Listings ‘Experiment’ Sends Zillow Shares Down More Than 8%
Google’s data partner HouseCanary has begun displaying home listings directly in search results in select markets, sending Zillow’s shares tumbling more than 8% yesterday as investors weighed whether the search giant might eventually cut into the portal business that Zillow dominates.
The experiment places property de … ⌘ Read more
Firefox Survey Finds Only 16% Feel In Control of Their Privacy Choices Online
Choosing your browser “is one of the most important digital decisions you can make, shaping how you experience the web, protect your data, and express yourself online,” says the Firefox blog. They’ve urged readers to “take a stand for independence and control in your digital life.”
But they also recently polled 8,000 adu … ⌘ Read more
Cable Channel Subscribers Grew For the First Time In 8 Years Last Quarter
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, research analyst MoffettNathanson released its “Cord-Cutting Monitor Q3 2025: Signs of Life?” report. It found that the pay TV operators, including cable companies, satellite companies, and virtual multichannel video programming distributors (vMVPDs) like … ⌘ Read more
Mesa 26.0 Lands Initial Support For Adreno Gen 8 - Including For The Snapdragon X2
The newest Mesa 26.0-devel code as of today has landed initial support for Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics into the Freedreno Gallium3D driver. The Adreno Gen 8 graphics so far are most notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop SoC with its X2-85 GPU as well as the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with Adreno 840 graphics… ⌘ Read more
Selby holds off spirited Trump to win third UK title
Mark Selby holds off a spirited Judd Trump fightback to win 10-8 and claim his third UK Championship title in York. ⌘ Read more
Live: Wall Street closes in on fresh record ahead of expected Fed rate cut, ASX poised to slip
Expectations of a rate cut pushed Wall Street higher, while the ASX looks unlikely to follow that positive lead. Follow the day’s events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog. ⌘ Read more
Linux GPIB Drivers Declared Stable - 53 Years After HP Introduced The Bus
Merged to the mainline Linux kernel last year was GPIB drivers in the kernel’s “staging” area. GPIB is the General Purpose Interface Bus launched by HP back in 1972 for lab equipment and more. After a year of cleaning up the code in the kernel’s staging area, for Linux 6.19 the GPIB drivers have been promoted out of the staging area and into the Linux kernel proper. The Linux kernel now has stable driver support for this 8 Mbyte/s parallel … ⌘ Read more
Quiz: How well do you remember your December history?
From the world’s first traffic lights to a Sesame Street legend — how well will you do on our history quiz? ⌘ Read more
Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more
Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more
Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more
Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more
Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more
Breaking: Person in potentially life-threatening condition after wall collapses
Paramedics received reports a wall collapsed at an industrial site in Brisbane’s West End at about 8:30am. ⌘ Read more
WA government pledges $14.8m for domestic violence refuges across state
The WA government commits $14.8 million towards family and domestic violence refuges across the state, with one provider saying it will help support women facing “life and death” situations. ⌘ Read more
Solus Linux 4.8 Released With Python 2 Finally Removed, Abandons Solus Software Center
In addition to the releases today of updated Endeavour OS and CachyOS, Solus 4.8 is out as the latest version of another desktop Linux distribution popular with enthusiasts… ⌘ Read more
Police seize $8.4m in assets after alleged illicit tobacco raids in the NT
Police have seized about $8.4 million in assets, including two cars and a jet ski, and almost 1 million cigarettes, following an operation targeting the NT’s illicit tobacco trade. ⌘ Read more
Common Desktop Environment “CDE” 2.5.3 Released After Two Years
Two years and one week since the prior point release, Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 is now available as the latest iteration of this Unix desktop environment built around the Motif toolkit. CDE has been open-source for more than a decade now but its development not exactly brisk. But for those resisting the likes of Wayland and other modern display tech – especially with KDE announcing today Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-exclusive – CDE 2.5.3 is now avail … ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive In Dropping X11 Session Support
KDE developers announced they are going “all-in on a Wayland future” and with the Plasma 6.8 desktop it will become Wayland-exclusive. The Plasma X11 session is going away… ⌘ Read more
Ozone Hole Ranked As 5th Smallest In More Than 30 Years
Scientists report that the Antarctic ozone hole in 2025 is the fifth-smallest since 1992, thanks largely to decades of global restrictions on ozone-depleting chemicals under the Montreal Protocol. ABC News reports: The ozone hole reached its greatest one-day extent for 2025 in early September, measuring 8.83 million square miles, about 30% smaller than the largest … ⌘ Read more
Memtest86+ 8.0 Released With Support For Latest Intel & AMD CPUs
Since the 2022 release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used RAM testing utility, this open-source software has continued advancing nicely after a decade hiatus. Released on Sunday night was memtest86+ 8.0 as the latest iteration of this popular RAM tester for enthusiasts… ⌘ Read more
Fark me 🤦♂️ I woke up quite late today (after a long night helping/assisting with a Mainframe migration last night fork work) to abusive traffic and my alerts going off. The impact? My pod (twtxt.net) was being hammered by something at a request rate of 30 req/s (there are global rate limits in place, but still…). The culprit? Turned out to be a particular IP 43.134.51.191 and after looking into who own s that IP I discovered it was yet-another-bad-customer-or-whatever from Tencent, so that entire network (ASN) is now blocked from my Edge:
+# Who: Tentcent
+# Why: Bad Bots
+132203
Total damage?
$ caddy-log-formatter twtxt.net.log | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n -k 1 | head -n 5
61371 43.134.51.191
402 159.196.9.199
121 45.77.238.240
8 106.200.1.116
6 104.250.53.138
61k reqs over an hour or so (before I noticed), bunch of CPU time burned, and useless waste of my fucking time.
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
PHP 8.5 Released With New Pipe Operator, New URI Extension & Clone With
PHP 8.5 is out today as the annual major feature release for this popular scripting language… ⌘ Read more
As Windows Turns 40, Microsoft Faces an AI Backlash
Microsoft’s push to transform Windows into an “agentic OS” that allows AI agents to control PCs is drawing user backlash similar to the Windows 8 controversy, as the company marks the operating system’s 40th anniversary this week, writes Tom Warren, a reporter at The Verge who has been covering Microsoft for nearly two decades. Windows chief Pavan Davuluri announced the ag … ⌘ Read more
Apple Sees Record October in China With Strong iPhone 17 Demand
Apple had a bumper month for iPhone sales in China in October, with sales jumping 37% compared to a year earlier on strong demand for iPhone 17 models, according to data from research firm Counterpoint.
One in every four sm … ⌘ Read more
Harvard Has Almost Half a Billion Dollars in Crypto
An anonymous reader shares a report: Harvard is ramping up its holdings in cryptocurrency. The nation’s oldest university reported a $443 million investment in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust in the third quarter. The school now holds 6.8 million shares of the exchange-traded fund, up from 1.9 million in the second quarter.
The digital currency amounts to a little less than … ⌘ Read more
Slovensko bez hraníc č. 8
Úrad pre Slovákov žijúcich v zahraničí (ÚSŽZ) predstavil nové, novembrové vydanie spravodajcu Slovensko bez hraníc, ktoré prináša aktuálne informácie o činnosti úradu, významných udalostiach a aktivitách krajanov na všetkých kontinentoch. Najnovšie číslo (8/2025) je dostupné vo formáte pdf na webovej stránke ÚSŽZ. ⌘ Read more
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Abstract of a working paper [PDF] published by NBER: This paper examines the impact of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union (Brexit) in 2016. Using almost a decade of data since the referendum, we combine simulations based on macro data with estimates derived from micro data collected through our Decision Maker Panel survey. These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with … ⌘ Read more
Valve Rejoins the VR Hardware Wars With Standalone Steam Frame
Valve is ready to rejoin the VR hardware race with the Steam Frame, a lightweight standalone SteamOS headset that can run games locally or stream wirelessly from a PC using new “foveated streaming” tech. It’s set to launch in early 2026. Ars Technica reports: Powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor with 16 GB of RAM, the Steam Frame sports a 216 … ⌘ 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
iOS 26.2 Available Next Month With These 8 New Features
Apple released the first iOS 26.2 beta last week. The upcoming update includes a handful of new features and changes on the iPhone, including a new Liquid Glass slider for the Lock Screen’s clock, offline lyrics in Apple Music, and more.
In a recent [press release](https://www.apple.com/ie/newsroom/20 … ⌘ Read more
EasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / Kirigami
EasyEffects is the open-source application formerly known as PulseEffects that transitioned to using native PipeWire filters for providing simple audio effects on the Linux desktop. EasyEffects makes it easy to apply different audio effects like bass enhancer, compressor, pitch shift, reverberation, and many more. With this week’s release of EasyEffects 8.0, the user interface has been rewritten in Qt / QML / Kirigami rather than GTK4… ⌘ Read more
Massive Delhi Blast Hours After 2,900 kg Explosives Found In Faridabad. 8 Dead ⌘ Read more
Prince William flies 8,800 kms on a private jet to receive climate award in Brazil. ⌘ Read more
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Ironclad 0.7.0 and 0.8.0 released, adds RISC-V support
We’ve talked about Ironclad a few times, but there’s been two new releases since the 0.6.0 release we covered last, so let’s see what the project’s been up to. As a refresher, Ironclad is a formally verified, hard real-time capable kernel written in SPARK and Ada. Versions 0.7.0 and 0.8.0 improved support for block device caching, added a basic NVMe driver, added support for x86’s SMAP, switched from KVM to NVMM for Ironcla … ⌘ Read more
Mac OS 7.6 and 8 for CHRP releases discovered
For those of us unaware – unlikely on OSNews, but still – for a hot minute in the second half of the ’90s, Apple licensed its Mac OS to OEMs, resulting in officially sanctioned Mac clones from a variety of companies. While intended to grow the Mac’s market share, what ended up happening instead is that the clone makers outcompeted Apple on performance, price, and features, with clones offering several features and capabilities before Apple … ⌘ Read more
SLogic16U3 USB3 Logic Analyzer Combines Compact Design with 3.2 Gbps Bandwidth
The SLogic16U3 is a next-generation USB3 logic analyzer designed for engineers and hobbyists seeking high-speed signal analysis in a small form factor. Measuring just 40 × 40 × 10 mm, it provides sampling rates of 800 M @ 4 channels, 400 M @ 8 channels, and 200 M @ 16 channels over a USB 3.0 […] ⌘ 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
Bulletproof fabric laced with carbon nanotubes is stronger than Kevlar
A sheet of fabric that is three times stronger than Kevlar could stop a bullet despite being just 1.8 millimetres thick, thanks to the addition of carbon nanotubes that keep its molecules aligned ⌘ Read more
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@lyse it hasn't happened yet. It is this coming Saturday.
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@bender@twtxt.net Hm, are we talking about different dates or are there different timezone offsets for this timezone abbreviation? With EDT being UTC-4, 2025-11-02T12:00:00Z is Sunday at 8:00 in the morning local time for you. Or were did I mess up here? :-?
@prologic@twtxt.net You want me to submit a reply with “I probably won’t show up”?
Cul-de-sac effect: Why Mediterranean regions are becoming more prone to extreme floods in a changing climate
In May 2023, Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region experienced devastating, if not unprecedented, floods that caused widespread damage to infrastructure, homes, businesses, and farmland. Seventeen people lost their lives, and the disaster caused an estimated €8.5 billion in damages. The persistent rainfall and resulting landslides and flooding displaced tens of thousands of residents, leaving a deep ma … ⌘ Read more