As we considered our 2023 development plans, we wanted to formalize our gut instincts on the state of Kubernetes deployments into numbers backed by research.
The rapid adoption of the cloud has broadened the horizons for businesses embarking on a digital transformation journey, and organizations are swiftly taking the leap to cloud-native applications that are built using microservices and run on platforms like Kubernetes. These applications are designed to run on cloud-based infrastructure, making them
First up in the news: Looks like the end for Mycroft, Proton offers Drive for everybody, MidnightBSD takes on helloSystem, Fedora 38 now with full Flathub access, new Transmission, Android 14 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new releases, and systemd is the future;
In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;
Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.
In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;
Linux 6.2 was released a few days ago, and as usual we point our readers to the LWN coverage of the merge window (part 1 and part 2), or the traditional KernelNewbies page or alternatively the embedded focused CNX Software coverage.
When the compressed and uncompressed kernel images overlap At least on ARM32, there seems to be many working addresses where the compressed kernel can be loaded in RAM.
Convenience
A lot has been made of VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer, also known as “sane descriptor handling”. It’s an extension that revolutionizes how descriptors can be managed not only in brevity of code but in performance.
That’s why
ZINK_DESCRIPTORS=dbis now the default wherever it’s supported.Gains
But what does this gain zink (and other users), other than being completely undebuggable if anything were to break*?
* It won’t, trust me.One nicety of descriptor buffers is performance. By swapping out descriptor templates for buffers, it removes a layer of indirection from the descriptor update path, which reduces CPU overhead by a small amount. By avoiding the need to bind different descriptor sets, GPU synchronization can also be reduced.
In zink terms, you’ll likely notice a small FPS increase in cases that were extremely CPU-bound (e.g., Tomb Raider).
A look into the new job-scheduling model with Mali GPUs, their support in the new PanCSF DRM driver, and what it means as the rest of the ecosystem also moves to firmware-assisted scheduling.
Social media addiction is a huge problem in many parts of the world.
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the now old-stable 1.20 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!
This release only contains bug fixes. It should be safe to update from 1.20.x.
Highlighted bugfixes:
- audio: channel-mix: allow up to 64 channels instead of up to 63 channels
- AOM AV1 encoder timestamp handling improvements
- AV1 video codec caps handling improvements in aom plugin, isomp4 and matroska muxers/demuxers
- avvidenc: fix bitrate control and timestamps off FFmpeg-based video encoders
- h264parse: fix missing timestamps on outputs when splitting a frame
- rtspsrc: more workarounds for servers with broken control uri handling
- playbin3: fix issue with UDP streams, making sure there's enough buffering
- qmlglsrc: Fix deadlock when stopping and some other fixes
- qtmux: fix default timescale unit for N/1001 framerates
- v4l2h264dec: Fix Raspberry Pi4 will not play video in application
- vtdec: Fix non-deterministic frame output after seeks
- wasapi2src: Fix loopback capture on Windows 10 Anniversary Update
- macOS, iOS: Fix Xcode 14 ABI breakage with older Xcode
- cerbero: Fix some regressions for CentOS in the 1.20 branch
- cerbero: Fix setuptools site.py breakage in Python 3.11
- Fix gst-libav build against FFmpeg from git
- gobject-introspection annotation fixes for bindings
- Miscellaneous bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements
- Performance improvements
This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.17.0 and Istio 1.17.1.
This release includes security fixes included in Go 1.20.1 (released 2023-02-14) for the
crypto/tls,mime/multipart,net/http, andpath/filepathpackages.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install GIMP on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t know, GIMP is a powerful, flexible, and customizable image editing software that is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Installing Google Chrome on Ubuntu 22.10 / Ubuntu 22.04 Linux is a straightforward process.
Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to program a reboot on Linux. This post will also help newbies to learn some Crontab and use it for more complex tasks. Scheduling a reboot can be a fairly simple task to do, but occasionally, it can take us surprised.
In this article I will help you how to set DRBD on Ubuntu Server 22.04. DRBD is a Distributed and Replicated* storage system wich can be used for high availability computer clusters or can be used to create larger storage pools defined by software.
This step by step guide explains how to use LVM export and import commands to move a Volume Group from one machine to another in Linux.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Neofetch on Linux Mint 21.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Cortex on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know,
Guide on how to install some AUR packages like Google Chrome by cloning the Google Chrome package at the local Arch Linux machine via the Git clone instruction.
Practical guide on how to reset or modify the Linux Mint password by resetting the root password or modifying the user passwords using the "GNU GRUB" boot menu.
Comprehensive tutorial on utilizing the umount command to unmount a mounting filesystem using the different aspects of exercising the umount command in Linux.
With our devices becoming more and more connected to the world and with the increasing number of files to keep stored and accessible from outside
As I've mentioned in the past I keep a work-log, or work-diary, recording my activities every day.
I have a bunch of standard things that I record, but one thing that often ends up happening is that I make references to external bug trackers, be they Jira, Bugzilla, or something else.
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that is often used as a cache or database. It provides high performance, scalability, and support for a wide range of data structures. Installing and configuring Redis on Debian is a relatively straightforward process.
JavaScript arrays are a fundamental data structure used in web development. They allow developers to store and manipulate lists of data in a single variable. In this article, we will explore what arrays are, how to create them, and how to manipulate them in JavaScript.
Setting up an SSH tunnel on Linux can be a useful way to protect your online privacy and security. An SSH tunnel encrypts your internet traffic and routes it through a secure tunnel to a remote server, making it virtually impossible for anyone to intercept or read your data
Autossh is a utility that allows you to automatically restart SSH tunnels if they are disconnected or interrupted. This can be particularly useful if you need to maintain a persistent connection to a remote server over an SSH tunnel. In this article, we will explain how to install and use Autossh on Linux.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Python on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t know,
3 Easy Method To Restart Ubuntu Server There are various ways to restart your Ubuntu server. In this post, we will discuss mainly 3 easy ways to restart the Ubuntu server.
How To Check Your Ubuntu Version It is always good to check the version of Ubuntu while working to avoid any conflicts with the other apps or repositories.
As you may be aware, Valve has released a new Steam client version not too long ago with many changes, including the release of the new Big Picture Mode that is inspired by the Steam Deck’s interface.
Create multiplayer games in an instance (pun intended) with the new MultiplayerSpawner and MultiplayerSynchronizer nodes. Check out the key concepts, and get started with a quick tutorial on how to make a simple game using Godot multiplayer features!
As the stable release is imminent, release candidates become more frequent to validate the last minutes fixes we had to make.
List Of Best Internet-Based Browser Games In 2023 There are plenty of amazing games that you can play on Internet browsers.
Seems like I’ve been doing a lot of SteamDeck writing lately. It’s well overdue. I have a backlog of things that I need to clear out that are all partially done.
I might need to create another zpool. Or perhaps move a drives/zpool from one host to another. In this post: FreeBSD 13.1 Background I am combining two hosts (slocum and r720-01) into one new host (r730-01). I have been moving jails from those hosts.
The most relevant changes delivered include:
- dav1d 1.1.0
- git 2.39.2
- mozjs 102.8.0 (used to power gnome-shell)
- PHP 8.1.16
- poppler 23.02.0
- samba 4.17.5
- Ruby 3.2 is now the default
- Python 3.11 modules are being shipped (the default python3 interpreter is still version 3.10)
- openssl 3.0.8
- binutils 2.40
- mutter 3.43+2: fix regression of 3.43 regarding window focus being ‘weird’
Some maintenance operations plus a missing configuration rollback caused a 20 minutes certificate error on our reference server. In the lines below you will find a detailed explanation of what happened. Impact Our reference server was providing an wrong/ outdated certificate for around 20 minutes.
When developing new openQA tests you will have to run a lot of verification and debug test runs. This is why I typically encourage people to do all openQA testing on their own instances, to prevent spamming of the production instances.
“Wow!” — my reaction when I first saw the brand new logo for Flathub.
Technologies like application and API connectivity€ accelerate the development and delivery of business solutions so you can spend more time innovating and driving competitive differentiation.€ As a modern application developer, you can use these features to develop skills that will set you apart from your competitors and increase the efficiency of your work.€
Red Hat Application Foundations offers a comprehensive set of components to help developers develop and modernize application software. It€ is designed to help build, deploy, and operate applications with security in mind and at scale across the hybrid cloud.
You can use the technology with applications that run on-premises or in the cloud. When combined with Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Application Foundations creates a platform that streamlines execution across the entire application life cycle.
This article presents quick tutorials, guides, and solution patterns that can help you gain a deeper understanding of the following technologies:
- Application and API connectivity
- Data transformation
- Service composition and orchestration
- Real-time messaging and data streaming
Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)!
The F38 Beta freeze is in place. The current F38 Beta target is the early target date (2023-03-14).
I have weekly office hours most Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time). Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information.
TrueNAS SCALE 22.12.1 open storage, codenamed Bluefin, comes with 250 bug fixes for everyone looking for the best NAS solutions.
The second point release update to Kubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) is out now. This contains all the bug-fixes added to 22.04 since its first point release in August 2022. Users of 22.04 can run the normal update procedure to get these bug-fixes.
Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Released The second point release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is now available for download with a few updates and improvements.
Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense Rev2 is a new revision of the Nano 33 BLE Sense machine learning board with basically the same functionality but some sensors have changed along with some other modifications "to improve the experience of the users".
KC12 is a mini PC powered by either an Intel Core i5-1240P or Core i7-1260P Alder Lake-P hybrid processor with up to 64GB DDR4, SATA and NVMe storage options, HDMI and DisplayPort for up to four 4K displays, as well as two 2.5GbE networking interfaces.
Public Knowledge has the pleasure of inviting you to a multifaceted program focused on training and developing the next generation of tech policy experts and public interest advocates that reflects the diversity of voices and experiences in our society.
APITable is a free open-source and self-hosted API-oriented low-code platform for building collaborative apps and better than all other Airtable open-source alternatives.
We recently shipped import maps in Firefox 108 and this article is the first in a series that describes what they are and the problems they can solve. In this first article, we will go through the background and basics of import maps and follow up with a second article explaining more details of import maps.
Background: JavaScript Modules
If you don’t know JavaScript modules, you can read the MDN docs for JavaScript Modules first, and there are also some related articles on Mozilla Hacks like ES6 In Depth: Modules and ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive. If you are already familiar with them, then you are probably familiar with static import and dynamic import. As a quick refresher: [...]
At least five workers are dead in northern China after a sprawling coal mine collapsed under a landslide on Thursday (Feb. 23). The accident happened in the Inner Mongolia province, the country’s top coal-producing region. Reports from Chinese state media indicate more than 40 workers remain missing.
Sylvia Shawcross Now I know I promised last time that I might tell you the tragic tale of the Luna moth during its larval development but it is such a dreadfully sad story and given the woebegotten way the world is, I just couldn’t bring myself to subject readers to such a thing right now.
JJ Starky Some protests are torrid affairs. Others can prove enlightening. The march last Saturday in the heart of Oxford was the latter. Attendees rocked up nearly 2 hours before the scheduled meet, poised with their homemade placards, ready to dissent.
Where the Universe came from.
Not your typical kind of photography.
The edge we needed.
Stanford’s renowned computer science department has evolved significantly since its creation in 1965, and continues to develop in response to concerns about diversity, ethics and a changing technological landscape.
At least year’s CES, Lenovo revealed a behemoth of a laptop sporting an enormous 17.3-inch screen with an ultra-wide 21:10 aspect ratio. Believe it or not, even larger laptops predate it, including a 21-inch monster that Acer put out back in 2017.
What are the implications of US semiconductor policy for global semiconductor supply chains and the competition for primacy in an industry critical to the economy and global security?
Profumo joins the Atlantic Council to share his perspective on the implications of Russia’s war in Ukraine for Europe, Italy, and the continent’s defense sector, how Leonardo has responded to the ongoing invasion, and its most recent expansion within the space sector.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February of last year, experts at various€ outlets warned shipments of wheat could be cut off, which could spur shortages of the grain. The shortages would then lead to higher prices for pantry staples, from
Makers of plant-based milk in the US might soon have to rethink their packaging to make it clear how their products differ from dairy milk.
The milk wars may soon come to an end. In draft guidelines released this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said that soy and other plant-based milk substitutes can continue to be labeled milk.
Bon appétit!
We're making ourselves sicker.
Fortinet provides clarifications following ‘sensationalized reports’ related to exploitation attempts targeting the FortiNAC vulnerability CVE-2022-39952
Dole was forced to shut down systems in North America due to a ransomware attack, which has reportedly led to salad shortages in some grocery stores.
CSF 2.0 blueprint offered up for public review
Interviewing Bruce Schneier in episode 444 of the Cyberlaw Podcast
Dariy Pankov faces up to 47 years in prison on charges linked to credential sales and offering access to the NLBrute malware.
A ransomware attack on multinational agricultural giant Dole plc has caused salad shortages after the company was forced to shut down production facilities in the U.S. Dole disclosed the ransomware attack in a brief statement on Wednesday, saying it moved quickly to contain the threat and engaged outside cybersecurity experts...
Security researchers at€ Apple Inc. enterprise management firm€ Jamf Holding Corp.€ today detailed a€ largely undetected family of malware that infects pirated macOS applications to mine cryptocurrency secretly. The malware uses XMRig, an open-source command line cryptomining tool commonly used for legitimate purposes, for nefarious intent.
The Ukraine war has inspired a defensive cyber effort that government officials and technology executives describe as unprecedented.
The highly anticipated strategy document aims to deliver security improvements to the broader digital ecosystem.
Cybercriminals are delivering stealthy cryptojacking malware to Macs using pirated apps and they could use the same method for other malware.
A Russian malware developer behind the NLBrute brute-forcing tool has been extradited to the United States from Georgia.
Puesh Kumar, director of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response, discusses how the DOE fends off hackers.
The majority of $234 million stolen in the attack was already laundered. The recent movements involved funds that were dormant for 4.5 years.
Their notice indicates that neither patients nor HHS has been notified as yet.
There’s little doubt that the individuals involved in ATW are pro-West. And some of what is reported about them is consistent with what a spokesperson had told DataBreaches in an April 2022 interview.
AgainstTheWest (“ATW”) had a history on Twitter and Telegram that was replete with drama as members left or split or fought, and as accounts were canceled by platforms.
When the Breached forum opened in early 2022, ATW, who had been on Raid Forums prior to its seizure, joined.
A mysterious and unidentified group of hackers has sought to paralyse the computer networks of almost 5,000 victims across the US and Europe, in one of the most widespread ransomware attacks on record. The hacking unit, initially nicknamed the Nevada Group by security researchers, began a series of attacks that started around three weeks ago by exploiting an easily fixed vulnerability in a piece of code that is ubiquitous in cloud servers. The Financial Times contacted several victims identified from the publicly available information. Most declined to comment, saying they had been asked by law enforcement to do so. They include universities in the US and Hungary, shipping and construction groups in Italy and manufacturers in Germany.
Pankov, a citizen and resident of Russia, was taken into custody by Georgian authorities in the Republic of Georgia, on October 4, 2022, and extradited to the United States pursuant to a request from the United States. Pankov appeared before United States Magistrate Christopher P. Tuite on February 21, 2023, in Tampa, Florida and was ordered detained pending trial.
Amsterdam’s cyber crime police team has arrested three young men as part of a major investigation into hacking, data theft, blackmail and money laundering involving the private details of tens of millions of people.
The Good Guys is the latest company to reveal that some of its customer leaked in a historical data breach at My Rewards.
According to The Good Guys' notification, the breach occurred at My Rewards, known at the time of the breach as Pegasus Group, a provider of loyalty program software and services.
The Good Guys said only limited data leaked in the breach: names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, and in some cases, an encrypted password and date of birth if the customer had provided it.
An investigation into the leak of 23 million items of personal data, including that of the relatives of Vice President Lai Ching-te (è³´æ¸â¦Ã¥Â¾Â·) and Secretary-General of the National Security Council Wellington Koo (顧ç«â¹Ã©âºâ), has concluded the hacker responsible was a Chinese national.
In October 2022, an individual using the alias “OKE” listed over 23 million personal data records for sale online that were reportedly Taiwan Household Registration Office records, though the office denied it was the source. The data included people’s ID codes, birthplaces, educational backgrounds, phone numbers, addresses, and names.
Persons with a valid passport will not have to get a mandatory electronic identification (eID) card yet, the Saeima confirmed in the final reading on February 23.
Since the Federal Trade Commission didn't sue in time, the deal went through. But will FTC Chair Lina Khan keep trying to attack Amazon for its bigness?
The Connectivity Standards Alliance is back in the news this week with the launch of a new working group focused on data privacy, which we’re super pumped about.
It has long been a concern that North Korea’s nuclear posturing would goad or frighten its neighbours into developing their own nuclear capability.
To express support for Ukraine and condemn Russian war against it, on Friday February 24, a rally took place at the Freedom Monument in Rīga, organized by the Civic Alliance of Latvia. Several thousand people had gathered, Latvian Radio reported.
Speaker of the Saeima (Parliament of Latvia) Edvard Smiltēns€ and the Speakers of the Parliaments of Estonia, Lithuania and Poland issued a Joint Declaration February 24 in which they reaffirmed their full solidarity with the people of Ukraine, condemned in the strongest possible terms Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and underlined that the victory of Ukraine is the only way to restore peace in Europe.
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Latvia's citizens and businesses have donated 104 thousand euros to Ukraine on average each day, contributing a total of €38 million,€ the charity platform Ziedot.lv said on February 24.
Latvian State President Egils Levits on February 24 released a video message marking one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. A translation is reproduced below.
On February 24, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation (LATO) is holding a discussion titled€ “Standing by Ukraine Against Russia’s Aggression”.
On the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, cybersecurity companies summarize the cyber operations they have seen and their impact.
750 cyber specialists have participated in Defence Cyber Marvel 2 (DCM2), the biggest military cyberwarfare exercise in Western Europe.
On the 26th of September last year, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was sabotaged. Despite months of investigations from multiple countries involving deep-sea diving expeditions and sonar detection, no culprit has been found.
On the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Greenpeace campaigners in the U.S. and offices around the world are warning of the rapid expansion of fossil fuel projects and multiple conflicts that could follow as a result. The past year has seen nations worldwide united in condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and attempted illegal annexations.
Since the dawn of the atomic age, Russia (ex-Soviet Union) and the United States have been locked in an intense geopolitical and military competition, resulting in various new technological and military developments over the last seven decades. The United States was the first to acquire atomic weapons, followed by the Soviet Union.
Any Russian diplomats (or spies) who have got tired of the view of a death's head Putin from their embassy windows will no doubt be delighted that they now have a new sight to while away the hours between justifications of genocide and the spreading of gonzo propaganda.
Latvia has completely eliminated the military technology€ of Soviet times, gradually replacing it with more modern equipment, the National Armed Forces (NBS) Commander Leonīds Kalniņš€ said in an interview with Latvian Television February 24.
The Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism, Re:Baltica, has a new story available in English that outlines who in Latvia are the few public supporters€ of Russian war crimes, and what action law enforcement has taken with respect to their views.
In an extraordinary session before its scheduled sitting on February 23, the Saeima€ considered and approved a€ draft decision€ prepared by the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Saeima to mark€ the anniversary of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
Russians in Moscow and other cities brought flowers to Ukrainian poets and held one-person pickets with antiwar slogans to mark the first anniversary of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian media and rights groups reported at least a dozen detentions on Friday. OVD-Info, a legal aid group that tracks political arrests, said at least eight people were detained in Yekaterinburg after they brought flowers to the city’s monument to victims of political repression. The Kremlin’s sweeping crackdown on dissent has spiked to unprecedented levels since the start of the war. Russians all across the country actively protested during the first week of the invasion, but large rallies quickly fizzled after thousands of demonstrators were detained.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he plans to present to other Group of Seven countries a set of “new ideas” for sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine when he hosts an online G-7 summit later in the day to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the invasion. Kishida, as this year’s G-7 president, told a news conference Friday that he also planned to call on other countries to stop providing military support for Russia. Kishida will host a teleconference with other G-7 leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later Friday.
Ukraine’s leader has pledged to push for victory in 2023 as he and other Ukrainians marked the somber first anniversary of the Russian invasion. On a day of commemorations, reflection and tears, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy captured the national mood of resilience Friday in the face of Europe’s biggest and deadliest war since World War II. Zelenskyy said Ukrainians proved themselves to be invincible during “a year of pain, sorrow, faith and unity.” Ukrainians wept at memorials for their tens of thousands of dead. At a funeral in northeastern Ukraine, a friend bid farewell to a soldier buried as people around the country looked back and also at the clouded future.
Which is more destructive to personal liberty, a government that engages in secret acts of war or a public and news media that are indifferent to it?
“Autocrats only understand one word: no, no, no. No you will not take my country, no you will not take my freedom, no you will not take my future… A dictator bent on rebuilding an empire will never be able to ease the people’s love of liberty.
In his State of the Union Address on February 7, President Joe Biden once again told Ukraine that "America…will stand with you as long as it takes." In case the world didn’t hear, Biden moved to a more dramatic stage and repeated the words.
Lula's return to office in Brazil heralded a renewed commitment to environmental stewardship. But steps mu
The West’s sanctions on Russia’s oil trade have benefited India hugely. In less than a year, the government has saved an estimated $4 billion by ramping up Russian oil imports.
The world’s largest crypto exchange Binance is facing intense scrutiny as of late, and the pressure doesn’t seem to be letting up.
A toxic relationship.
Encountering the Wild Where We Are This evening I was relieved to see her take flight. It was after dusk, and she had been very still in her sound sleep all day. Her eyelids were shut tight over her huge yellow eyes as the wind tousled her long, brown shawl of striped feathers. T
“Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet”. –€ Carl Sagan, Astrophysicist €
Each month the International Dark-Sky Association features an IDA Advocate from the worldwide network of volunteers who are working to protect the night in a feature called ‘Monthly Star.’
It didn’t take long after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022€ for Western sanctions to come crashing down on Moscow—volley after punitive volley of economic constraints, all designed to hobble Russia and its citizens from transacting on the world market.
What to know about the former Mastercard chief executive officer's surprise nomination to lead the World Bank.
The White House yesterday (Feb. 23) announced that the US is nominating Ajay Banga to succeed David Malpass as World Bank president.
US homes have recorded the largest fall in value since the global financial crisis.
Google, a company once known for its lavish and borderline absurd in-office perks like endless free meals and snacks, massages, yoga classes, and designated recreation areas, has fallen on hard times. Now, the most standard of office equipment will apparently be in short supply for some of the tech giant’s workers.
Honda and Toyota announced that they had fully met the salary and bonus demands set out by the national automobile workers’ union on Wednesday, as the country’s largest automakers attempt to adjust wages in line with last year’s record inflation.
According to data published on February 24€ by Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia€ (CSB),€ 65.2€ thousand persons€ aged€ 15–74€ (incl.) were unemployed in 2022.
A group of European parliamentarians says the Philippines’ chances of retaining special trading incentives, including zero tariffs for a wide array of products, will be boosted if it decides to release a long-detained opposition leader and rejoin the International Criminal Court. When asked in a news conference in Manila on Friday if the release of former Sen. Leila de Lima and a decision to rejoin the ICC could help the Philippines retain the incentives under the so-called Generalized Scheme of Preferences, or GSP Plus, they said that would be a strong indication of the Philippines' willingness to uphold human rights that is required for the trading incentives to continue.
State labor officials are investigating an Illinois-based pharmaceutical company’s decision to abruptly close all of its operations, including its out-of-state locations in New Jersey, New York and Switzerland, and to lay off hundreds of workers with almost no warning. The Chicago Tribune reports that Gurnee-based Akorn Operating Co. told its 400 workers on Wednesday that it planned to file for bankruptcy and that they would be laid off within 24 hours. CEO Douglas Boothe told employees that the company made the move after failing to find a buyer. An Illinois Department of Labor spokesperson said Thursday that the agency is investigating the situation because Akorn didn’t file the required 60-day notice of mass layoffs or plant closures until Wednesday.
Everyday Robots was the brainchild of X, Alphabet's "moonshot" research and development factory.
Dapper Labs Inc. announced Thursday that the company is laying off 20% more of its employees as part of a restructuring plan less than four months after the company behind the NBA Top Shot nonfungible token marketplace said it was cutting 22% of staffers.
Ericsson is planning to cut 8,500 workers, or about eight percent of its 105,000-strong workforce.
The layoffs are said to be coming worldwide mostly in the first half of this year, and some possibly into the next.
"The way headcount reductions will be managed will differ depending on local country practice," CEO Borje Ekholm wrote in a memo to staff Friday, which was first reported by Reuters.
"In several countries the headcount reductions have already been communicated this week."
These layoffs include the 1,400 jobs the Stockholm-based biz on Monday said it would ditch in Sweden. We're told this is all part of a roughly $900 million cost-slashing drive for the year, which was announced at an investor day in December.
Annual headline inflation of 7.76% is down 0.12% compared to the last half of January, but still well above the central bank's target of 3%.
The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge rose last month at its fastest pace since June, an alarming sign that price pressures remain entrenched in the US economy and could lead the Fed to keep raising interest rates well into this year.
Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of US economic activity, jumped 1.8% last month, the Commerce Department said.
TikTok is pushing back against the European Union for not informing the company that they were banning the app on all government devices. The EU also took steps to ban the Chinese-owned app on staff’s personal devices with corporate access, amid concerns that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is accessing user data.
The European Commission has banned staff from using TikTok on their corporate and personal devices amid growing concerns about patent company ByteDance Ltd.’s links to the Chinese government.
On Thursday, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen spoke to a national organization that convenes investors, telling them that Meta was an unwise place to put their money —specifically the version of Meta under the direction of Mark Zuckerberg.
Russia's covert operations are prioritizing quantity over quality but researchers say the approach isn't working.
A woman who sued Marilyn Manson for sexual assault says in a new legal filing that the allegations were untrue and that she was "manipulated" by Manson's ex-girlfriend,
Facebook jail is about to get less crowded. Under a new set of policies revealed this Thursday, parent company Meta says it’s now harder for users to wind up with their Facebook accounts suspended for lesser violations of its rules.
From Blankenship v. NBCUniversal, LLC (4th Cir.), decided Wednesday by Chief Judge Roger Gregory, Judge Paul Niemeyer, and District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles (E.D. Va.): Following an unsuccessful campaign for one of West Virginia's U.S. Senate seats,
The Vol. 262 and 263 Managing Editors of the Arts & Life section speak on the importance of objective art journalism.
In 1973, The Stanford Daily became independent from the University — but it wasn’t always that way. Here’s the story of how The Daily gained independence.
Vol. 262 and 263 Editor in Chief of The Stanford Daily Sam Catania '24 introduces a special anniversary issue of The Daily.
Legal Director and Board Chair Andrew Bridges '76 discusses the meaning of independence in practice along with recalling his experience as a Daily staffer.
How do leaders role model prioritizing emotional and mental well-being for our teams? It’s a question I ask myself often in my role with talent and culture at KPMG US.
We are gearing up for the second U.S. Summit for Democracy from March 29-30, and are excited to share our progress to date.
Signed by twenty organizations and released on February 13, the manifesto gathered the support of many civil society organizations in Iran.
This week, the Supreme Court is hearing two cases that could upend the way we’ve come to understand freedom of speech on the internet. Both Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh ask the court to reconsider how the law interprets Section 230, a regulation that protects companies from legal liability...
Netflix just can’t seem to decide on the best way to keep users using the platform. The streaming service is reportedly cutting monthly subscription costs in over three dozen countries across the world, with some discounts being as much as half of the current monthly subscription.
Google’s dominance in the mapping space is facing a probe by the U.S. Department of Justice. Officials are reportedly looking into whether the tech giant is breaking antitrust laws on its Google Maps app.
Google is following the Facebook playbook and threatening to cut off access to news in Canada unless lawmakers agree to gut legislation aimed at making tech companies pay publishers for their content.
As part of ongoing deterrence activities, Unified’s Portal is introducing the most comprehensive tracker of Litigation Investment Entities (LIEs).
Canadian copyright lobby groups effort to persuade the government to restrict fair dealing has often focused on a particular use case: the course pack. For many years, course packs were used by university and college professors to pull together a customized collection of reading materials for their courses.
The report that Google is conducting a national test that removes links to Canadian news sites for a small percentage of users sparked a predictable reaction as politicians who were warned that Bill C-18 could lead to this, now want to know how it could happen. None of this week's developments should come as a surprise. Bill C-18 presents Google and Facebook with a choice: pay hundreds of millions of dollars primarily to Canadian broadcasters for links to news articles or stop linking.
When Kris Kashtanova attempted to copyright their comic book€ Zarya of the Dawn, the United States Copyright Office originally granted them the rights.
Law from the dawn of the dawn of the AI age.
AI-created images lose US copyright protections in a legal test for the new technology.
Let's see what xn--gckvb8fzb complains about...wants things to be available via HTTP, thinks gemini makes getting content harder, does admit that the modern web sucks, but never says what the suck is. Hmm. Well. One could demand that books be written in English, in addition to the other languages the author might use, so that the English speaker need not go to the trouble of learning something else. Entitled, much? Realistically, new works will continue to be written in not-English, just as new materials will continue to be made available over not-web.
I haven't posted for a while about amateur radio adventures, not because I abandoned it, but because I have been very busy trying to learn Morse code. I feel that CW operation is the big next step I need to take. It has proved much more challenging than I expected to learn morse code, so I've already spent many lunch breaks work on it, and I am estimating it will be another few weeks at least before I can operate. It is not really challenging to learn the characters, so much, as it is to learn the sounds well enough that I can copy without pausing frequently or missing a bunch of characters. I switch back and forth between using some Koch training software, and then practicing straight key work in my radio's practice mode, and then trying to transcribe signals I am hearing on 20m. I'm aiming for 10 wpm, which is slow enough to be practical for a beginner, but fast enough not to be boring. So far I can hear around 12 letters pretty well (no numbers yet) but each time I learn a new letter, it interrupts my flow, and the accuracy drops about 30 or 40 percent. Fortunately, there are plenty of CW signals coming in on 20m to listen to, though about two-thirds of them are too fast for me to try to copy.
I saw someone described as "battling depression". That's a poor analogy. There's no battle. It's more "sitting down while depression pours shit over you".
It helps me to visualise it as a separate entity that's deliberately harming me. It's uncomfortable to acknowledge it as part of me. But I wonder if it's healthy to divide myself into bits. Occasionally I can be detached enough that there's a third part of me, watching the depression making everything impossibly difficult.
I bought a 1TB card for the Raspberry Pi. I have an old one, a model 1B. A week ago I used an old 16 GiB card with a version of Debian Buster on it, upgraded it to Bullseye, and deleted all the stuff I felt was unnecessary. It took me a very long time. All I really wanted was to have it run `mpd` (a music server).
TIL I can easily create favicons on the command line.
But, alas, the internet giveth and the internet taketh way. I can't find the page, where I first found out about `convert`, probably some Stack Exchange site. So, I’m sorry, no attribution.
For the following examples I’ll be using the “Black Star” Unicode glyph (`U+2605`): âËâ¦
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.