The central bankers of the world want to curb inflation by putting a serious crimp in demand, and it looks like they may get what they want – sort of – in 2023 when it comes to datacenter infrastructure.
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Keeping your house plants alive using open hardware, searching for apps in multiple package formats at once, processing and analysing smartwatch data, working out who is using all the bandwidth on your network, and building a minimal Linux ISO to play Doom.
Linux offers a couple of easy ways to record commands you type so that you can review or rerun them.
Do you know that Linux kernel-supported system calls and features are architecture dependent? Do you know that Linux kernel supports several hardening configuration options to secure your system?
Let’s take a look at the process to get insight into supported system calls and features and to assess how secure a system is and its runtime activity.
If your Arch Linux computer supports Bluetooth but you’re not using it, it’ll just be wasting power. Instead of turning it off whenever you boot your computer, disable the Bluetooth service instead.
Here's how to ensure a mouse click or keyboard tap wakes your Linux PC.
Kubernetes storage is a way to manage persistent data in a Kubernetes environment. Kubernetes storage can be used to store data that is independent of a container's life cycle. Kubernetes provides different types of storage, such as local storage, network-attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN) and object storage solutions.
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5, versioned 5.27.4.
Plasma 5.27 was released in February 2023 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds three weeks' worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include...
Linux may not have evolved (yet!) into the mainstream desktop operating system its advocates had hoped for, but fans of free software have never had it so good. Dell, Lenovo, HP, Purism, and System76 all sell excellent Linux-based hardware. Time-travel back to 2012 to shout the good news and you'll have trouble convincing even the Linux faithful that the future is even brighter than they're dreaming.
Yet here we are. For the past six weeks, I've been working on a System76 Pangolin laptop without ever giving a thought to the fact that I am not using Windows. Everything just works. The operating system is integrated with the hardware. The hardware is outstanding (more on that below), and I am hard-pressed to find anything to complain about.
>Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC): 4 priorities for 2023
Digital transformation: How to teach the language of change
Linux Mint is a community-centric Linux distribution that has gained a loyal following over the years thanks to its focus on providing a user-friendly operating system that puts the needs of its users first. At the heart of Linux Mint is the Cinnamon desktop environment, which provides an intuitive and modern interface that makes it easy for users to get things done.
In exciting news for the Linux Mint community, Clement Lefebvre, the project lead for Linux Mint, has recently announced that the Cinnamon desktop environment will receive a refresh and new features in the upcoming 21.2 “Victoria” release. So let’s see what it is about.
Merging the technology of the past with the AI of the present, this Furby-based project acts as the cute mouthpiece of OpenAI's ChatGPT service.
The Tor Project Inc., the nonprofit team behind the anonymity-protecting Tor Browser, and commercial virtual private network provider Mullvad VPN AB have teamed up to launch the privacy-preserving Mullvad Browser.
On Monday, the Tor Project and Mullvad VPN, two organizations focused on user privacy, released a new privacy-focused web browser called Mullvad Browser. The browser is free to download and works on Windows, MacOS and Linux. There's also a Firefox extension in beta you can download.
"The mass surveillance of today is absurd," Jan Jonsson, Mullvad VPN's CEO, said in a news release. "The Mullvad Browser is all about providing more privacy alternatives to reach as many people as possible and make life harder for those who collect data from you."
We are very glad to announce the 4.2.0 version of E-Maj.
E-Maj is a PostgreSQL extension which enables fine-grained write logging and time travel on subsets of the database.
This new release is mainly a technical version. In particular, for the emaj extension, the support of postgres versions prior v11 has been removed; and the Emaj_web client is now compatible with PHP 8.
Xeact continues to dominate the front-end ecosystem. Every facet of the industry has been forever changed by Xeact, and we are all better for it. Today I have the momentous pleasure of introducing the newest version of Xeact: version 0.70.0. This allows you to track stateful values using the new
useState
hook.
This week, I went to the tinyML Summit in Burlingame, Calif. TinyML, or running small machine learning models on constrained devices, is one of the most exciting technologies I’ve encountered.
Tony O'Dell updated the fez module to be a comprehensive CLI interface to create, manage, maintain, and to release the Raku modules to the fez ecosystem.
Move ahead with your Rust learning and familiarize yourself with Rust programs' variables and constants.
One of the weirdest we've found yet.
The first of us.
A more complete understanding of nonrandom segregation will shed light on how speciation occurs.
Research on so-called selfish genetic loci is providing scientists with greater insight into the biology of chromosome segregation and inheritance.
The experimental device, known as MAGENTA, forces muscles to contract, simulating natural movement.
An implantable device stimulates muscle contraction and prevents muscular atrophy in mice.
Some of the foundational studies in the field were neither ethical by today’s standards nor replicable. But we can do better.
Iran's Education Ministry says it will no longer provide educational services to students who do not follow dress codes, including wearing a head scarf, as the authorities continue to tighten regulations in the face of mass unrest over government instrusions into the daily lives of Iranians.
The University of Michigan recently earned the top spot for the second year in a row in the Consortium of Social Science Associations’ 2023 College & University Rankings, which decides how much federal funding is allocated to universities that conduct social and behavioral science research and development.
A Citizen Convention€ concluded that some forms of assistance in dying should be legal for French citizens who request it.
This one’s a bit melodramatic, but it’s been forced into my mind again recently. Chances are, you can relate.
I feel like I’ve always been surrounded by family or medical issues, only to recover and have the next one hit. It’s been a fixture of my life from childhood. Insofar as there’s never a good time bad things to happen, they also seem to happen at the most inopportune of times.
The detection was confirmed in a backyard mixed flock in Le Sueur County of south-central Minnesota.
Democrats in the Minnesota Legislature are moving to fortify the state's status as a refuge for abortion patients from restrictive states.
Political activist and Nobel winner Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin pioneered X-ray crystallography to discover the molecular structures of penicillin and insulin.
Veterans’ advocacy groups have sued the U.S. Department of Defense seeking records of toxic conditions at an air base in Uzbekistan blamed for causing cancer and other illnesses among American troops who served there in support of the war in Afghanistan. The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court in Connecticut. It accuses military officials of withholding information about hazardous materials — including uranium, chemical weapons and asbestos — that were on the Karshi-Khanabad Air Base during U.S. operations there from 2001 to 2005. A spokesperson says the Pentagon cannot comment because of litigation. The Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School is representing the plaintiffs.
Mmmm!
A ton of controversy.
A concerning discovery.
A Microsoft employee lost her job after being a part of the company for over 25 years. She called layoffs an 'emotional rollercoaster' and added that the last few months have impacted everyone in one way or another.
Apple is cutting a small number of roles within its corporate retail teams in a streamlining effort.
Apple is reportedly slashing some roles in its corporate retail division in its first known round of job cuts since the current economic downturn began.
The Linux Foundation Janssen Project, a low-code digital ID software platform developed in partnership with Gluu, has been adjudged as a digital public good (DPG) following a review by the Digital Public Good Alliance (DPGA).
After recent supply chain attacks and with ever increasing security automation especially the software inventory management becomes more and more important. Governments and other regulated industries now require publishing a so called Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) to software products.
SUSE has just released the third prototype of ALP, named “Piz Bernina” (the highest mountain in the Swiss Alps).€ The new prototype has a strong focus on security and demonstrates an innovative concept with confidential computing and a zero-trust approach.€
Brian Krebs is reporting that the UK's National Crime Agency is setting up fake DDoS-for-hire sites as part of a sting operation: [...]
A severe vulnerability in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin is being exploited to inject malware into vulnerable websites.
Microsoft is boosting the security of OneNote users by blocking embedded files with extensions that are considered dangerous.
Western Digital shuts down several of its services after discovering a network security breach.
Western Digital Corp., the maker of computer storage devices, said this morning it's looking into a “network security incident” after it discovered a breach of some of its systems by an unauthorized third party.
Consumer loan provider TMX Finance is informing over 4.8 million individuals that their personal information was stolen in a data breach.
Europe, the United States and Australia seem to be the most impacted by the 3CX supply chain hack, according to data from two cybersecurity firms.
While victims targeted in the latest RedGolf campaign are yet to be determined, the new attacks are more likely to have been launched to facilitate intelligence gathering efforts, a report from Recorded Future showed. Such RedGolf attacks involved the use of the GhostWolf infrastructure that has 42 IP addresses for KEYPLUG command-and-control, as well as the utilization of PlugX and Cobalt Strike.
Samsung fab personnel reportedly used ChatGPT to optimize operations and create presentations, leaking confidential data to the third-party AI.
When computer science students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Software Research returned to campus in the summer of 2020, there was a lot to adjust to.€ Beyond the inevitable strangeness of being around colleagues again after months of social distancing, the department was also moving into a brand-new building: the 90,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art…
Some who criticise the tags police made protesters wear during Hong Kong’s first authorised protest in about two years seek to “endanger national security,” or “hijack” such rallies, the city’s security chief has claimed. The tags have been compared to “dog leashes” or “Jewish labels,” in reference to oppression in Nazi Germany.
The facade of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia€ was damaged in an apparent act of vandalism on Sunday night or€ € Monday morning, Latvian Television reported.
On Friday, March 31, 400 days had passed since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. On that evening, another convoy with aid, this time from Latvian entrepreneurs organization Uzņēmēji mieram (Entrepreneurs for Peace), headed to Ukraine.
Starting in April, several courts in Rīga will view cases against fourteen Latvian residents for breaching European Union (EU) sanctions by producing content for Russian state propaganda channels, Latvian Television's broadcast "De Facto" reported on April 2.
California law enforcement seized 54 so-called ghost guns last year from people who can’t legally own firearms, a 38% jump in the number of the hard-to-trace weapons seized since 2021. The ghost guns, which are illegally homemade firearms without a serial number, were part of nearly 1,500 guns seized statewide last year through a unique California program called the Armed and Prohibited Persons System, known as APPS. The California registry cross-matches databases to find people who legally purchased weapons but are now banned from ownership. T
The head of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee said on April 3 that there was "overwhelming" support in the United States to continue supplying aid to Ukraine in its fight against Russia, despite vocal opposition from a hard-right faction of his own Republican Party.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused some $2.6 billion worth of damage to the country's heritage and cultural sites, the UN said on April 3.
One-fifth of foreigners living in Lithuania, mostly Russian and Belarusian citizens, exercised their right to vote in local elections in March.
A technical delegate from Romania pulled the Ukrainian flag off the shoulders of Danylo Zamorylo, the winner of the boxing tournament in Lithuania’s Kaunas on Saturday.
Germany’s military revamp announced at the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has barely been implemented. This was due to both Ukraine’s successful resistance to the aggression and the entrenched pacifism in German politics, Roderich Kiesewetter, German MP of the opposition Christian Democratic Union and a former colonel in the Bundeswehr, tells LRT.lt.
"As of tomorrow, Finland will be a full member of the Alliance," Jens Stoltenberg said.
Finland is set become the 31st member state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Tuesday, after the Turkish Parliament ratified Finland’s membership bid last week.
A woman has been detained by Russian police as a suspect in the assassination of a prominent Russian war blogger at a St. Petersburg cafe, while the Kremlin has alleged that the Ukrainian special services may have been involved in the planning of the bombing, which injured 32 people.
Hashim Thaci has pleaded not guilty as the war crimes and crimes against humanity trial of Kosovo's ex-president and three other former Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) leaders kicked off in The Hague on April 3.
German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck arrived in Kyiv for political talks on April 3, accompanied by a small business delegation.
Ukraine's military has disputed claims by Wagner that the Russian mercenary force has captured the center of battle-devastated Bakhmut, and a U.S. official denied the fight for the eastern Ukrainian city was over as Washington said more [weasponry] was on the way to Kyiv.
Belarusian authorities should drop all charges and immediately release Nasta Lojka, a prominent Belarusian human rights defender who faces up to 12 years in prison because of her activism, a group of seven Belarusian and international human rights organizations said on April 3.
Most deaths were caused by airstrikes, heavy artillery strikes and while in detention.
A West Point graduate, Hun Manet also has a masters degree in economics from New York University.
Finland will join NATO on April 4, a step that will make Finland safer and the alliance stronger, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on April 3.
Poland says it has already transferred some of its promised MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, after fellow NATO member Slovakia announced it had shipped an initial batch of its own. "
Amnesty International reported Monday that authorities in El Salvador are “systematically committing human rights violations” as a result of the country’s aggressive new anti-gang policies. The crackdown, which began in March 2022, has resulted in the detention of 66,000 people as well as 132 deaths in state custody.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) last week criticized two immigration enforcement bills before the Texas state legislature that would expand the state’s ability to enforce immigration laws, a matter usually left to the US federal government.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Saturday called on Thailand’s government to ensure Christian Chinese asylum seekers are not returned to China amidst persecution and threats of torture and serious harm.
The Guardian, Washington Post, and Der Spiegel have last week published “bombshell” revelations about Russian cyberwarfare based on leaked documents, but have produced only one single, rather innocuous leaked document between them (in the Washington Post), with zero links to any. Where are these documents and what do they actually say?
On March 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow. The meeting, at which the two leaders “reaffirm[ed] the special nature of the Russia-China partnership" may be a crucial moment in the emergence of the new multipolar world that is challenging US hegemony.
On March 29, the Senate voted to repeal two Authorizations for the Use of Military Force, (AUMF’s), one passed in 1991 and another in 2002. The repeal now goes to the House. But those Authorizations are irrelevant to the present; they apply only to the Iraq war.
New ‘Hack the Pentagon’ website helps DoD organizations launch bug bounty programs and recruit security researchers.
Junta troops torched homes after a battle with local pro-democracy militia, locals said.
Azerbaijan has arrested four people in connection with the attempted assassination of a member of parliament who was shot and wounded last week, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on April 3.
The Czech and Slovak prime ministers on April 3 urged the European Union to exert "targeted pressure" on the Kremlin by sticking to sanctions imposed after Russia had invaded Ukraine last year.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has arrived in Romania to underscore Berlin's support for its NATO ally, where he said that, like Bucharest, it will continue to back Ukraine in its battle against Russia's full-scale invasion, and he also met with Moldovan President Maia Sandu in the Romanian capital.
Verdict: Misleading
Pacific island nations face a balancing act as China and U.S. compete for regional influence.
The "highly successful businessman" referred to the Bloomberg v ZXC case to try to prove his right to anonymity.
TalkTV did not breach the Broadcasting Code by having ex-Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries interview her former boss and prime minister Boris Johnson, Ofcom has ruled.
"The first tipping point is not far."
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will travel to Russia's Kaliningrad region on April 5 for talks on the Moscow-held Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant plant in southern Ukraine.
So, it turns out there has not been a proper solar farm update since this one, back when we finally got the planning permission.
Some of the globe's biggest oil producers are cutting back. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and others are saying they'll dial back supplies of crude to the global economy by a million barrels a day. That could send prices higher — or at least keep them from sliding to where they hurt the budgets of oil-producing countries. Russia is extending its own cuts, too. Higher prices could help Moscow weather Western sanctions over Ukraine. But much depends on the global economy and whether demand for oil rebounds strongly in coming months.
Oil prices surged on Monday after Saudi Arabia and other OPEC+ oil producers announced a surprise round of output cuts, a potentially ominous sign for global inflation just days after a slowdown in US price data had boosted market optimism.
Binance’s pile of legal woes keeps on growing.
OPEC+ announced it will cut oil output by about 1.16 million barrels per day (bpd) in a surprise move that initially sent crude prices jumping as much as 8%.
Virtually the maximum depth any fish could survive.
Indawgyi Lake is a UNESCO-designated wildlife sanctuary and world cultural heritage site
The Census Bureau has published two population estimates that say cities are losing people fast. But factoring in the margins of error on their data changes the story entirely.
Lithuania’s population may shrink by one-third, to 1.78 million people, by 2100, according to the latest population projections issued by Eurostat.
Latvian Agriculture Minister Didzis à  mits (United List)€ is unconvinced that human actions are having a significant detrimental effect on the climate, according to evidence presented by the Re:Check fact-checking project, based upon à  mits' own public statements on the subject.
The tax office is writing to 135,000 customers to encourage them to file self-assessment forms online
Find out if your local bank branch will be shutting its doors
A court in Dubai has rejected the appeal of a British financier fighting extradition to Denmark, where he is accused of orchestrating a $1.7 billion tax fraud. Hedge fund trader Sanjay Shah is accused of masterminding a scheme that ran from 2012 to 2015 in which foreign businesses pretended to own shares in Danish companies and claimed tax refunds for which they were not eligible. He was arrested in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, last year. The lower court had said documents implicated him in fraud and money laundering, allegations he has denied. It was not immediately clear when he would be extradited. His lawyers could not immediately be reached for comment.
Sharply rising interest rates and the rapid surge in population growth post-pandemic is magnifying Australia’s housing shortage and affordability woes.
As foreign takeovers swirl, a hidden super-profit is being levied by electricity network providers costing Australians $1bn a year.
Mortgage holders will be hoping for some interest rate relief from the Reserve Bank after 10 hikes in a row.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand will take another step into deep waters with a record 11th straight hike of the official cash rate this week. The central bank has been on an inflation-fighting path since October 2021, when it made the first rise of the longest tightening cycle in its history.
Victoria’s public sector workers will receive annual wage increases of 3 per cent under an updated policy. Industrial Relations Minister Tim Pallas on Tuesday announced the increase from 1.5 per cent each year to a funded annual increase of 3 per cent.
Last year, financial institutions operating in Lithuania earned a profit of 468 million euros, the highest since the country regained independence. This year, profits are expected to be even higher, reaching around 1 billion euros.
The rose-tinted view of globalization holds that free trade maximizes profits, efficiency, and economic growth by leveraging the power of comparative advantage.
Data published by the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia (CSB) on April 3 show that, compared to February€ 2022, in February€ 2023 industrial production output€ reduced by 2.2€ % (according to calendar adjusted data at constant prices).
The rich are getting richer under the Inflation Reduction Act.
It's a call for humility and perspective, a reminder to superimpose the messy world on your clean lines. Even with this benediction, modeling is forever prone to the cardinal sin of insisting that complex reality can be reduced to "a perfectly spherical cow of uniform density on a frictionless plane."
In 2023, the world is reeling from continued economic uncertainty. Across all sectors and audiences, there is an emerging focus on profitability, de-risking decision-making, and navigating fast-changing needs. Of course, we must take market conditions seriously, but we must also look strategically to the future.
Federal prosecutors in Switzerland are reviewing the government-backed merger between UBS and Credit Suisse. The move comes after Swiss financial authorities issued an emergency ordinance (Notverordnung) that bypassed the need for a shareholder vote to approve the deal.
Former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's center-right GERB party has finished with small lead over the pro-European We Continue the Change -- Democratic Bulgaria coalition, based on final results from the April 2 elections, but control of parliament will remain uncertain until seats are allocated.
In March, Hong Kong police imposed strict rules on public procession as the city saw a protest against a government policy for the first time in at least years.
The number of arrests and convictions since the implementation of the national security law in Hong Kong is “very small,” the city’s justice chief has said. Speaking on a Commercial Radio programme on Sunday, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam said fewer than 250 people had been arrested over national security offences.
If successful, the potentially transformative move would offer students who earn money from the University, a group of approximately 5,000 students primarily composed of master’s and Ph.D. students, the right to join the nationally-affiliated Stanford Graduate Workers Union (SGWU).
In addition to showing that DOJ has developed additional evidence to substantiate suspicions they used to get a warrant to search Trump's beach resort, WaPo describes Jack Smith's team collecting the kind of evidence that might be used to charge individual documents as violations of the Espionage Act.
PETTERI ORPO, the chairperson of the National Coalition, will take first stab at forming a new ruling coalition after leading his party to a narrow win in the parliamentary elections, with a 20.8-per-cent share of the popular vote.
Orpo is fundamentally faced with the question, how far right to take Finland?
In a historic move, Finland is set to become a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Tuesday, April 4th, according to a statement released by the President's Office. President Sauli Niinistö will travel to Brussels and participate in an official membership ceremony held at NATO headquarters.
The illusion of a cohesive Israel, an Israel that is a miraculous success, exists only in the minds of privileged Israeli and some diaspora Jews. Some European politicians may also believe this to be the case, having been convinced by Jews in their countries. But it was never the case.
Public denunciations of government critics have led to previous arrests under a draconian security law.
The error has paralyzed propaganda apparatus with fear about the potential fallout, sources say.
Hong Kong’s security chief has criticised Ming Pao over a “misleading” comic strip about the government’s plan to spend HK$5.2 billion on a new communications system. However, legislative documents appear to contradict Secretary for Security Chris Tang’s complaint.
Zhang Hai has been an outspoken critic of the government since the start of the pandemic in Wuhan.
Last week and this, I've been serializing my Large Libel Models? Liability for AI Output€ draft. For some earlier posts on this (including €§ 230, disclaimers, publication, and more), see€ here; one particular significant point is at Communications Can Be Defamatory Even If Readers Realize There's a Considerable Risk of Error.
Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was taken into custody last week in Russia on espionage charges widely seen as politically motivated, has appealed against his detention.
Before his capture by the Taliban, the "danger tourist" was complaining about the soy in his food while boarding a flight to Afghanistan.
Republican senators are standing up to a major threat to the nation.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed the repeal of the state’s right-to-work law March 24, reversing legislation which allowed employees in unionized workplaces to opt out of paying union dues and fees. Twenty-six states currently have right-to-work laws in place, though they remain hotly contested, especially among organized labor advocates.
Successful completion of the very first European patent administration certification cycle
According to civil justice statistics, the number of new patent cases being filed at the first-instance UK High Court is continuing to decline. 2022 saw just 35 new patent actions, a 30% decrease compared to the previous year.
Its been a while since my last post, but i have a good excuse! I am now the father of a nearly two month old son. Its... time consuming. At least by now my wife and i have somewhat lived in to our new roles and everything is somewhat back to normal. We even manage to get a decent amount of sleep per day ;-)
I'm still alive and well. Life is just kind of happening, all at once it seems. Somehow winter break turned out to be not much of a break, and now here we are with cherry blossoms fogging our windows. The bloom has lifted all of our spirits lately. It feels nice to thaw.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.